Dew Drop – January 29, 2016 (#2177)

Top Links

• Apache Cordova development lands on Visual Studio Code (Ryan J. Salva)
• Interactive Coding with C# and F# REPLs (ScriptCS or the Visual Studio Interactive Window) (Scott Hanselman)
• Cordova 6.0.0 Released! (Steve Gill)
• Continuous Mobile Beta Distribution and Crash Reporting Using VS Team Services, HockeyApp, CodePush, and Cordova / PhoneGap (Chris Patterson)
• Announcing TypeScript 1.8 Beta (Bowden Kelly)
• AutoMapper 4.2.0 released (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Web Development

• Attributes Are Not Normalized In AngularJS 2 Beta 1 (Ben Nadel)
• I Hated JavaScript (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Using Gulp to Bundle, Minify, and Cache-bust (Dave M. Bush)
• 20 Useful WordPress Forms Available on CodeCanyon (Eric Dye)
• CSS goes 3D with voxel.css (Ezequiel Bruni)
• DHTMLX Little-Known Features: How To Save Login/Password in Browser (Maria)
• The Basics of Web Application Security (Martin Fowler)
• Fixing fixtures (Remy Sharp)
• Force Email to be Confirmed with Identity (Jason Gaylord)
• TypeScript – Recursive XMLHttpRequest (XHR) Call on a Sliding Interval (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

XAML

• #Xamarin – Live preview of #Xaml in #XamarinForms using #GorillaPlayer in #VisualStudio (Bruno Capuano)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# 7 Feature Proposal: Ref Returns and Locals (Bill Wagner)
• Fastest code is the one not run: Part II – Memory management (Oren Eini)
• Did you know– you can save the Output Window content directly in Visual Studio ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Kinect with Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 (Greg Duncan)
• Deploy On Premise Builds with Visual Studio Release Management vNext (Jakob)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls: TransactionScope (Ricardo Peres)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Implementation techniques for feature toggles (Martin Fowler)
• Definition of Ready (David Starr)
• Why can’t you just communicate properly? (Kyle Baley)
• 5 commonly overlooked security threats (Office Team)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• TintColor & Selected Tab Images in Xamarin.Forms iOS and Getting Started with Azure Mobile Apps’ Easy Tables (James Montemagno)
• How to price Xamarin.Forms components (Michael Ridland)
• Speeding up Test Execution with Appium (Sai Krishna)
• Coding a Cross-Platform Mobile App in Just One Day (Gaurav Verma)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 310 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ed Wilson The Scripting Guy from Microsoft (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Episode 082 on PowerApps with Chris McNulty—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake)
• Rocket 55: A Heart On for the iPad (Brianna Wu, Simone De Rochefort & Christina Warren)
• SE-Radio Episode 248: Axel Rauschmayer on JavaScript and ECMAScript 6 (Johannes Thönes)
• 078 AiA NG Beta with Brad Green, Miško Hevery, and Igor Minar (John Papa)
• MS Dev Show – Enterprise Universal Apps With Brandon H (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Developer on Fire Episode 091 | Basel Farag – Persistent Fire (Dave Rael)
• The Jetbrains Storyteller 3 Webinar is Online (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Windows Weekly 450: Sour Blonde (Paul Thurrott)
• Segmenting and Sending targeted notifications through Azure Mobile Engagement (Scott Hanselman)
• Developer Tea – Crucial Steps for Interview Preparation (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 112 – High Speed Networking (Sujit D’Mello)
• The Amp Hour #284 – An Interview with Great Scott (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)
• The Maker Show: Meet Your Makers | The Maker Show (Nick Landry, Sam Stokes, Ian Philpot, Jeremy Foster, Bret Stateham & CrC)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Hadoop Succinctly Presentation for Girl Develop It (Jennifer Wright)
• The start of MeWatt Corporation (Lino Tadros)
• Not your average app building competition: The AdMob Student App Challenge (Henry Wang)

 

Database

• Executing large scripts in SQL Server Management Studio with Insufficient Memory Failures (Sergey Gigoyan)
• SQL SERVER – 2016 Error Reasons: Msg 10778, Level 16 Foreign key relationships between memory optimized tables and non-memory optimized tables are not supported (Pinal Dave)
• How Database Administration Fits Into DevOps (Ben Linders)
• Should I Worry About Index Fragmentation? (Doug Lane)
• Marten Takes a Big Step Forward with v0.6 (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell to enable ChatOps on Windows (Matthew Hodgkins)

 

Miscellaneous

• “What would you do to revive Windows Phone?” (Chris Miller)
• New Microsoft Translator Customization Features Help Unleash the Power of Artificial Intelligence for Everyone (MS Translator Team)
• Say Hello to Windows Hello (Sam Basu)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 28, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1634 and Double Shot #1635 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #2020 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 29, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 28th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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