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Dew Drop – March 3, 2017 (#2433)

Top Links

.NET Standard Libraries in Xamarin Studio (James Montemagno)
Rider EAP update: File watchers (Maarten Balliauw)
Announcing Docker Enterprise Edition (Michael Friis)
The exact age when girls lose interest in science and math (Alanna Petroff)
Exploring the new DevOps – Azure Command Line Interface 2.0 (CLI) (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

Building microservices with ASP.NET Core (without MVC) (Filip W.)
Parsing And Serializing Large Objects Using JSONStream In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
Azure App Service Authentication in an ASP.NET Core Application (Adrian Hall)
Sensitive Configuration Data in ASP.NET Core (Derek Comartin)
Step by Step building Node.js based REST API to perform CRUD operations on MongoDB. (Dhananjay Kumar)
Different Methods of Error Handling in jQuery (Learning jQuery)
Simplifying Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET Core (Shayne Boyer)
A Step-By-Step Guide for Building Master-Detail User Interfaces with Angular (TJ VanToll)
Long live Web Essentials (Mads Kristensen)
Four Ways to Transfer Files Into Your Docker for Windows Containers (Mark Heath)
Creating Versioned APIs with Azure Functions and Proxies (Jason Roberts)
Citi Launches CitiConnect API (Eric Carter)
Create a Docker dashboard with TypeScript, React and Socket.io (Steve Hobbs)
Node v7.7.1 (Current) (Italo A. Casas)
Models, Views, and Controllers (Kim Spilker)
What is JSON? An Introduction and Guide for Beginners (Louis Lazaris)
The Real Story Behind ECMAScript 4 (Sebastian Peyrott)
Announcing Azure Stack TP3 And Why You Should Care About It (Andrew Zeller)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin Forms User Control (Adam Pedley)
A Xamarin port of the usb-serial-for-android library (Chris Miller)
Pull to Refresh Example Using Xamarin.Forms (Mario Jesús Galván Miranda)
Playing Media with Xamarin Forms (Peter Freeman Foot)
Adding Bing Maps to WinJS UWP app (Garry Pilkington)
Xamarin Alpha Release: Alpha Preview 1 (Bri Brothers)

Miscellaneous .NET

Left, Right and Mid String Functions for C# (Hannes du Preez)
Using Azure Functions and Microsoft Flow to Send Notifications for NuGet Package Downloads (Jason Roberts)
Tools, Services Supporting Visual Studio 2017 (Michael Domingo)
Visual Studio Marketplace – Publisher Pivot (Harish Kumar Agarwal)
ReSharper Ultimate 2017.1 EAP: what’s new in builds 2 and 3 (Matt Ellis)
F# Exchange 2017: Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Awesomeness? (pblasucci)
An In Depth Guide Into a Ridiculously Simple API Using .NET Core (Alex Billson)
Mimic Lazy Loading with Entity Framework 6 and Entity Framework Core 1.1 (Peter Vogel)
New StructureMap Extensions for Aspect Oriented Programming and AutoFactories (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How to clone a public GitHub repository without signing into GitHub from Visual Studio – 060 and How to change the default local location for your Git repos in Team Explorer – 061 and Introducing GitHub for Unity (Sara Ford)
Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com (Connor Sears)
Striking the Software Standardization Balance: Scale Up without the Bureaucracy and Exploring the Technical Debt In Your Codebase (Erik Dietrich)
Building an Ideal Virtual Environment for a Developer Team (Kean Graham)
Real-time feedback for students using continuous integration tools (Vanessa)
Accelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 1 (Pratap Lakshman)
Tales Of Job Burnout: How To Fix The Aftermath Of An Overachiever Attitude (Suzanne Zuppello)
Visio Online—anywhere, anytime access to your diagrams (Visio Team)
GitHub Enterprise 2.9 is here with Pull Request improvements, organization-wide Projects, and Google Cloud Platform support (Will Roden)

Other Mobile Platforms

Android Studio 2.3 (Jamal Eason)
NativeScript, iOS Provisioning and More in AppBuilder 3.7 (Todor Totev)
Using Windows IoT Remote Client (Gunnar Peipman)
Nested Routing In A NativeScript Angular Application For Android And iOS and Use A Side Drawer And Feature Rich List View In A NativeScript Angular App (Nic Raboy)
Messenger Platform 1.4 Brings Even More Tools to Build Great Experiences (Abby He)
Windows Mixed Reality dev kits shipping this month (Alex Kipman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Refactoring Code and Team with Ryan Stelly (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
AC Podcast 326: All about MWC 2017 (LG G6, BlackBerry KeyOne … Nokia 3310?!) (Daniel Bader)
Episode 120 with MVP Mikael Svenson—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Richard diZerega & Andrew Coates)
Hanselminutes – A new kind of commerce – M-Pesa, Mookh, and Africa (Scott Hanselman)
Using REST with DocumentDB (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Rocket 112: Agent G (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
SSW TV – What is the Service Fabric and Why you should care with Namit T.S, Rahul Rai and Adam Stephensen – Microsoft Ignite Australia 2017 and SSW TV – DevOps in the Open Source Arena with Peter Gatt, Chris Fowles and Danijel Malik – Microsoft Ignite Australia 2017 and SSW TV – HoloLens development for today’s developers with Lars Klint and Thiago Passos – Microsoft Ignite Australia 2017 and SSW TV – IoT in the classroom with Jourdan Templeton and Lars Klint – Microsoft Ignite Australia 2017 and SSW TV – What’s New in Visual Studio 2017 + VS Code (Sophie Belle)
Developer Tea – How the First Guideline Changes Your Behavior Drastically and Developer Tea – Not So Trivial: Things That Can Kill Your Focus (Jonathan Cutrell)
Xamarin Plugins / .NET Standard with Martijn van Dijk and Michael Ridland (Michael Ridland)
AiA MAS 007 Dylan Johnson: My Angular Story (John Papa)
Video: A Manipulative Insincerity Story (Elisse Lockhart)
Mobile Center Webinar Recording | Next Generation Code Push and More: Mobile Center for React Native Developers (Courtney Witmer)
Developer on Fire Episode 213 | Victor Ricci – Relationships (Dave Rael)
StarTalk Radio – #ICMYI – Soccer: The Art of Goalkeeping, with Hope Solo (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Becoming a software developer – episode VI (Piotr Gankiewicz)
MVP led TechDays Online: Videos! (Robin Osborne)
Inventory and Store System – Part 3 (Creating the Store UI) | .GAME (Stacey Haffner)
Azure Podcast Episode 168 – Global Apps with Azure PaaS (Sujit D’Mello)
The Joy of Coding – Episode 93 (Air Mozilla)
Web Audio | Web Hack Wednesday (Martin Beeby & Martin Kearn)

Community / Events

Xamarin University Presents: Getting Started with Xamarin for Visual Studio (Mark Smith)
The Faces Behind Microsoft Visual Studio (Paul Thurrott)
Time Flies: Fifteen years of Blogging (Shawn Wildermuth)
Announcing the Xbox Live Creators Program (Andrew Parsons)
Amazon Launches Alexa Fund Fellowship to Help University Students Create the Next Big Thing in Voice (Bertrand Vacherot)
15 Amazing Concerts Coming To Philly This March (Chris Malo)
Top Events For First Friday In Philadelphia On Friday, March 3 (Erica Minutella)
ID@Xbox announces 22 games coming to Xbox One and Windows 10 (Gabriel Nunes)
Introducing The MVP Award Blog Technical Committee! (MVP Award Program)
End To End Development–Content from Philly Code Camp (Andy Schwam)

Database

Create Custom Maps for SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS Mobile Reports (Siddharth Mehta)
Creating a many-to-many derived hierarchy in SQL Server Master Data Services (Koen Verbeeck)
Application Database Security Design – Part 1 – Authentication for SQL Server (K. Brian Kelley)
SQL SERVER – Unable to See Tables (Objects) in SSMS andSQL SERVER – Add Failover Cluster Node Fails With Error – This SQL Server Edition Does Not Support the Installed Number of Cluster Nodes (Pinal Dave)
Now available! SQL Server Premium Assurance provides six more years of product support (SQL Server Team)
Database provisioning from backups using SQL Clone (Tony Davis)

Miscellaneous

An update on our Unified Update Platform (UUP) (Bill Karagounis)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-03-02 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-03-02 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-03-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-03-03 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2291 and The Morning Brew #2292 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1816 (Mike Gunderloy)
Collective #293 (Pedro Botelho)
Learning Small Basic Links (Greg Duncan)

The Geek Shelf

Learning F# Functional Data Structures and Algorithms: Adnan Masood: 9781783558476: Books

ISBN: 1783558474
ISBN-13: 9781783558476

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Dew Drop – February 5, 2016 (#2182)

Top Links

ReSharper Ultimate 10.1 EAP Build 1 (Part 1) (Jura Gorohovsky)
Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.2 (Jb Evain)
Multitasking is Killing Your Brain (Larry Kim)
Extending Razor Views in ASP.NET Core (K. Scott Allen)
TDD: Testable is most important (Chris Pietschmann)

Web Development

Microsoft Edge Team Working on 18 New Features (Chris Love)
JavaScript Unit Test Code Coverage Using NodeJS (Dave M. Bush)
Improve your website accessibility with Vorlon.js and aXe (David Catuhe)
Debugging from the REST API Client in PhpStorm 11 (Gary Hockin)
Kendo UI: Prevent Event Bubbling in Mobile ListView (Keith Burnell)
Adding Social Sharing in a Node.js Single-Page Application (Kyle Davis)
Compose 1.6: New Compose file for defining networks and volumes (Aanand Prasad)
Docker 1.10: New Compose file, improved security, networking and much more! (Docker Core Engineering Team)
Stepping into the Cloud: Enterprise Edition (Dragana Boras)
Supercell Launches Clash of Clans Developer API in Beta (Eric Carter)
The second era of cloud platforms will dwarf the first (James Staten)
Docker Engine 1.10 Security Improvements (Jessie Frazelle)
ES6 `const` is not about immutability (Mathias Bynens)
An early look at Azure Stack and what it means for IT (Microsoft Azure Team)

XAML

Choose Time Intervals with the new RadTimeSpanPicker for WPF (Polya Pelova)
I think you’re thinking about continuum all wrong (Matt Lacey)

Miscellaneous .NET

Find Results Vs. Find Symbol Results Window in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Configuring a Basic CI Build with Team Foundation Build 2015 (Graham Smith)
C# 6 Features: Expression Bodied Methods (Joe Reynolds)
Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, 8th Edition: Suggested fix for using the projects (Kim Spilker)
Speed Up Visual Studio Build Times (Steve Smith)
An experiment to automatically detect API breaking changes in .NET assemblies and suggest a Semantic Version number (Howard van Rooijen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Getting Started with Team Foundation Build 2015 (Graham Smith)
The 13 Things That Make a Good Build System (Aneel Lakhani)
3 Tools for Choosing and Working with Color in Apps, Websites, and Print (Jason Roberts)
My Commentary On Code Comments (John Vester)
What is Strategy Deployment? (Karl Scotland)
Design trends: Flat Design 2.0 (Marc Schenker)

Other Mobile Platforms

Apache Cordova Windows 4.3.1 (Vladimir Kotikov)
Xamarin Adds Java: What Does This Mean? (Josh Anderson)
Working With OAuth2 and OpenID Connect from a Xamarin Forms Application using IdentityServer3 (Kevin Dockx)
Xamarin vs Ionic: A Mobile, Cross Platform, Shootout (Lee Richardson)
Xamarin Forms Windows Colours (Peter Freeman Foot)
Beer IoT: Visualizing sensors data using Power BI and Beer IoT: Building Universal Windows Application to monitor cooling process (Gunnar Peipman)
A Guide to Building Your First Windows App (Chris Beauchamp)
Nibs are Cool Again (Ben Scheirman)
Band 2 Development–A First Try… (Mike Taulty)
Internet of Things via Microcontrollers: Introduction (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
What is Windows Remote Arduino and What Can It Do? (Windows Apps Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Roll Through This Philly Produced STEAM Podcast (Neil Bardhan)
Episode 083 on Office 365 PNP updates with Vesa Juvonen—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake)
079 AiA Reactive Programming and Redux with Angular 2 with Rob Wormald (John Papa)
SSW TV – How to set up an awesome build process for Angular2 using Gulp and TypeScript (Sophie Belle)
Scrum Master Toolbox – Retrospectives as a Tool for System Thinking | Pedro Gustavo Torres (Vasco Duarte)
Continuous Deployment and Release Management | DevOps Fundamentals (Donovan Brown & Thiago Almeida)
The Maker Show: Episode 1 – Intro to Electronics | The Maker Show (Jeremy Foster & DrCrook)
Away From the Keyboard Episode 31: Dave Noderer and Erik Lindgren Build Community (Richie Rump)
PowerApps 102 – Creating apps from templates and PowerApps 103 – Creating apps from existing data (Scott Hanselman)
Office Dev Show – Episode 22 – Add-ins on Word for Mac | Office Dev Show (Sonya Koptyev)
The Amp Hour #285 – Something’s Serially Wrong Here (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)

Community / Events

What is a Technical Evangelist? (David Voyles)
Two years of bounties (Ben Toews)
Students can win big prizes in Microsoft’s Open Source Challenge (Openness Team)
Tanya Kraljic on designing for voice at Nuance (Mary Treseler)
Developer Contest: Show Off Your IP Messaging Hacks (Ricky Robinett)
5 More Reasons You Should Bring Your Engineers To SIGNAL (Rob Spectre)
Meet the 10 machine learning and data science startups in Microsoft’s Seattle Accelerator (Taylor Soper)
Telerik Party at /BUILD! Join Us! (Vassil Petev)

Database

Binning SQL Server Data to Reduce Column Cardinality (Dallas Snider)
NoSQL Database Comparison: MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, and Couchbase (Deepak Vohra)
SQL Server Data Tools Preview update for January 2016 (Eric S. Kang)
What to love and hate about Azure’s DocumentDB (George Saadeh)

Miscellaneous

Get Your Own Windows Insider Ninja Monkey (Rod Trent)
Learn to Code at Home! (Infographic) (Dara Monasch)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading February 4, 2016 #1035 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #2025 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1640 (Mike Gunderloy)
Windows App Developer Links – 2016-02-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-02-05 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Feb 4th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Xamarin Mobile Application Development: Cross-Platform C# and Xamarin.Forms Fundamentals (9781484202159): Daniel Hermes: Books

ISBN: 1484202155
ISBN-13: 9781484202159

del.icio.us Tags: visual studio,xamarin,java,javascript,asp.net,razor,sql server,documentdb,microsoft azure,tdd,agile,unity,cordova,angularjs,wpf,xaml,winjs,IoT,tfs

Dew Drop – June 9, 2015 (#2031)

Top Links

What’s New in Prism for Xamarin.Forms 5.7.0-Pre1 Release (Brian Lagunas)
NuGet 3.0 RC 2 Released (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
WinJS 4.0 Is Compatible with AngularJS, React, Bootstrap and Knockout (Abel Avram)
Using Visual Studio Online to Build a GitHub Hosted JavaScript Project with NPM, Bower, and Grunt (for Free) (Jeremy Likness)

Web Development

Against CSS in JS and Adders and logic gates in pure CSS (Chris Coyier)
Action filters, service filters and type filters in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 (Filip W)
The Ultimate list of CSS3 Resources, Tutorials, Tips and More and CSS3 Succinctly (Isaac Haynes)
ebook deal of the week: Node.js for .NET Developers (Kim Spilker)
Style Different Categories in Your WordPress Site Differently Using CSS (Rachel McCollin)
Bundling, minification and client-side compilation (Mads Kristensen)
Array Future, JSONFormData (Alex R. Young)
Microsoft Edge tips and tricks shown in new video, responsive images support revealed (John Callaham)
Run Azure CLI as a Docker Container: Avoid installation and setup (Khalid Mouss)
Amazon Announces AWS SDK for Go Developer Preview (Patricio Robles)
Now you can monitor “Have I been pwned?” performance on Azure in real time (Troy Hunt)
Easy AngularJS Forms with angular-formly (Ryan Chenkie)
7 Essential JavaScript Functions (David Walsh)
JavaScript Code Smells (Elijah Manor)
Secure Node Apps Against OWASP Top 10 – Injection (Scott K. Smith)

XAML

Developers: FFmpeg open-source support now available for Windows and Windows Phone apps (Athima Chansanchai)
How to build Universal Windows applications for EZ-B controller without coding at all (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

Miscellaneous .NET

Heat Margin Visual Studio Extension – Taking the Green/Yellow to the next level (Greg Duncan)
LINQ: Understanding Your Query Chain (Jeff Yates)
LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging SDK: Create Imaging Apps Easily (Dirk Strauss)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Extracting software architecture from code (Simon Brown)
How to write your very first Unit Test in Visual Studio using MSTest Framework easily ? (Abhijit Jana)
Introducing CQRS and Event Sourcing with a Demo Application (Jan Stenberg)
Unit Testing: Setup Methods or Not? (Jeremy Clark)
Design Patterns Simplified: The Bridge Pattern (John Sonmez)
Development environments, configuration management and deployment (Rachel Andrew)
The Importance of Invisible Design (Megan Louw)
How to undo (almost) anything with Git (Joshua Wehner)
Visionary Leadership: How To Be a Visionary Leader (Or at Least Look Like One) (JD Meier)

Other Mobile Platforms

Xamarin.Forms Nuggets – A Sweet and Sour Blog Series (Adam J. Wolf)
How to Use Kotlin in Your Android Projects (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
At WWDC Apple Unifies iOS, Mac, Watch OS Dev Programs (Doron Katz)
Apple iOS 9 Adds 5 Key APIs For Developers (Eric Zeman)
Put Some Cyanogen in Your Xamarin Apps (Jon Dick)
Swift 2.0 (Swift Team)
Apple to Open Source Swift Language (Alex Blewitt)
DZone Refcardz: Mobile Web Application Testing (G. Ryan Spain)
Better Apps & Faster Release Cycles Part I (Karl Krukow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Building Web Apps using TypeScript with Steve Ognibene (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Indie Dev Podcast Ep. 21 – Michael Gnade, Indie Game Stand (David Voyles)
Simple Programmer Podcast 013: I Know I’ll Never Be Happy Unless I Do Something For Myself (John Sonmez)
Scrum Master Toolbox – Agile is not about processes or recipes | Ben Linders (Vasco Duarte)
F# and MBrace with Lena Dzenisenka | .NET Fringe 2015 (Seth Juarez & Alena Dzenisenka)
Windows Developer Show OT 003 – “Gaming, Mobile Workstations, Laptop Bags” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
The Nerdist Podcast – Shane West (Chris Hardwick)
Entreprogrammers Episode 68 “Get Maid Service…” (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez & Charles Max Wood)
Debunking Azure Myths: Azure doesn’t scale out to large and complex workloads (RicksterCDN)
51 – Redacted Depricated Null | Patch And Switch (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)

Community / Events

DVLUP Challenges – Now With Reward Points (Sue Gee)

Database

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Feature Pack for Azure (MS Downloads)
Using the Transaction History in SQL Server Master Data Services (Koen Verbeeck)
My initial experience with Rust (Eric Sink)
Query Store: A flight data recorder for your database (Borko Novakovic)

SharePoint

SharePoint Publishing Content Line Spacing (Greg Galipeau)

PowerShell

#PSTip Use Shell.Application to determine which folder is open in File Explorer (Jaap Brasser)

Miscellaneous

Windows 10 Deprecated Features with Alternatives (Rod Trent)
Automate All the Things: An AutoHotKey Primer for Developers (Terrence Dorsey)
What does your audience need? (Rachel Andrew)
See a 1932 Infographic on the History of Evolution (Caitlin Schneider)
Interviewing candidates (Eric Lippert)
Is a Steven Spielberg Halo TV show still in development? (Kip Kniskern)
6 ways to motivate your employees (Pluralsight)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading June 8, 2015 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1877 (Chris Alcock)
Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (6/1-6/7) (Dara Monasch)
The Daily Six Pack: June 9, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-09 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 8th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
My weekly newsletter for HTML5, Startups, VC, and game dev (David Voyles)

The Geek Shelf

Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript (Effective Software Development Series): David Herman: 9780321812186: Books

ISBN: 0321812182
ISBN-13: 9780321812186

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