Dew Drop – November 14, 2016 (#2364)

Top Links

• Stateless 3.0 – A State Machine library for .NET Core (Scott Hanselman)
• Building an Etch-a-Sketch with Surface Dial (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Extensibility in Visual Studio “15”: Increasing Reliability and Performance (Tim Sneath)
• Self-taught Software Developers: Why Open Source is important to us (Michael Mavris)

 

Web Development

• How to build and launch an ASP.NET Core app from Google Cloud Shell — without ever leaving the browser (Mete Atamel)
• How to Draw Charts Using JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas (John Negoita)
• Migrating an Angular 1 App to Angular 2 – Part 2 (Kim Maida)
• Navigating A Web Application With The Angular 2 Router (Nic Raboy)
• Five Days of Azure Functions (James Chambers)
• Triggering a Microsoft Flow from an HTTP Post (Jason Roberts)
• Pitfall: not all objects can be proxied transparently (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Fluent API Libraries for Azure .NET SDK (Chris Pietschmann)
• Docker and SwarmKit – Part 5 – going deep (Gabriel Schenker)
• Ten ways to minimize Azure costs (Iris Classon)
• Brackets 1.8 is now available (Rajnish Bharti)
• Configure Docker for Windows under Parallels (Shayne Boyer)

 

XAML

• Hitchhiking the HoloToolkit-Unity, Leg 1 – Getting Set Up and Hitchhiking the HoloToolkit-Unity, Leg 2 – Input Scripts (Mike Taulty)
• Grid Panel (Christian Moser)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# Wildcard Variables (Simon Timms)
• C# 6.0 New Features (David Yardy)
• Visual Studio Extensions (Eric Potter)
• Migrating my Full Text Indexer to .NET Core (supporting multi-target NuGet packages) (Dan)
• Making code faster: The obvious costs (Oren Eini)
• C# NumberFormat Sections (Rick Strahl)
• Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) in C# via T4 (Yacoub Massad)
• .NET Core Data Access (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Is Entity Framework Core Production Ready? (Jon Hilton)
• Using conditional breakpoints to filter exceptions during debugging (Dror Helper)
• .NET Core support in the new Team Build with VSTS (Matteo Emili)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Implementing Unit Testing, Part 1 – Goals (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Dealing with the Impostor Syndrome (Ben Linders)
• VS Team Services Update – Nov 7 (Brian Harry)
• GitHub Enterprise 2.8 is now available with code review, project management tools, and Jupyter notebook rendering (Daniel Hwang)
• Low Risk vs. High Risk (Jeremy Clark)
• Areas of responsibility (Jessica Kerr)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Platform Specifics in Xamarin Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Understanding APK packaging in Android Studio 2.2 (Wojtek Kaliciński)
• How to Get Started With Android’s Native Development Kit (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Generate pdf documents using Xamarin Forms and Syncfusion in 5 easy steps (Malcolm Jack)
• Getting Started with the iOS 10 Notification Framework (Mike James)
• 3D Models: From Blender to HoloLens and HoloLens End-to-End in Unity (Pete D.)
• Adding TV Channels to Your App with the TIF Companion Library (Nick Felker & Sachit Mishra)
• json2swift: a peek under the hood (Josh Smith)
• A HoloLens airplane tracker 7–activating an aircraft by air tapping (Joost van Schaik)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 023 – Jonathan Sampson on Brave (Matthew Groves)
• Introducing Windows IoT Core | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin)
• .NET Rocks! – DC Lighting Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• RunAs Radio – PowerShell at Ten Years with Don Jones (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Episode 317 – PowerScripting Podcast – Chris Smith on the Google Cloud Tools for PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 69: SQL Server Install Checklist (Carlos Chacon Jr.)
• 237 JSJ CLls – Ember Angular and React with Tracy Lee (Aimee Knight & Charles Max Wood)
• 118 AiA Joe Eames and Charles Max Woods Angular Journeys (John Papa)
• The Amp Hour #322 – World Trade Futurity (WTF) (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Merge Conflict 19: Home Automation API Integration 2.0 (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• TWC9: MVP Reconnect, Connect(), VSTS Updates, 10k Apart Winners, Drones and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan)
• SkypeUWPAlcatelICYMI | This Week On Windows (Kathy Hickman)
• Adding a Background Script to your Edge Extension (keantonc & Rosshe)
• Microsoft Learning Tools in Office Lens, Word Desktop and Word Online (Microsoft Mechanics)
• StarTalk Radio – The “Science” of Zombies and the Walking Dead, with Robert Kirkman (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• What The Tech 331: Direct TV Now Free Apple TV (Paul Thurrott)
• Migrate Azure IaaS Solutions from ASM to ARM Using migAz, Part 1 and Migrate Azure IaaS Solutions from ASM to ARM Using migAz, Part 2 (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Rocket 96: Let’s Have A Normal Show (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Donovan Asks About Analysis Paralysis and Developer Tea – DCR: Step 7 – Interviewing and Developer Tea – DCR Step 8: Do Your Job Better Than Anyone Else (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Day 2 of MVP Summit 2016 with Yina Arenas | MVP Summit 2016 (Yina Arenas)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 41 – The New Microsoft Graph Explorer | Office Dev Show (Richard diZerega)
• The Changelog 227: Mad Science, WebTorrent, & WebRTC with Feross Aboukhadijeh (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 79 (Air Mozilla)
• Eat Your Science: The Alton Browncast #63 (Alton Brown)
• Developer on Fire Episode 181 | Tatu Tamminen – Making A Mark (Dave Rael)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 114 – What’s an Innovation Accountant? (Nick DePrey) (CodeNewbie Team)

 

Community / Events

• Join us for Microsoft Connect(); Now with Virtual Training from Xamarin University (Julia Black)
• How Do You Work Towards A More Diverse Inclusive Tech Conference? (Kin Lane)
• Proud moment- got .NET foundation coin at Microsoft MVP Summit 2016 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• MVP Reconnect: A Brand New Community for MVPs! (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Synchronizing SQL Server data using rowversion (Sergey Gigoyan)
• How to Replay a SQL Server Trace on a Different Server (Ben Snaidero)
• SQL SERVER – How to Get List of SQL Server Instances Installed on a Machine? (Pinal Dave)
• How to Find Size of All the Indexes on the Database – Interview Question of the Week #097 (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Azure SQL Database provides unparalleled performance with In-Memory technologies (Rohan Kumar)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Rust 1.13 (The Rust Core Team)
• How Did the Pollsters Get It So Wrong? (CIML Blog Team)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14965 for Mobile and PC (Dona Sarkar)
• A Letter to My Millennial Daughter (James Whittaker)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-11-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-11-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-11-14 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-11-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2220 and The Morning Brew #2221 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1769 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #262 and Collective #263 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #256 (Frank Boucher)
• We’re at it again! Check out this week’s Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Daily Links 13 Nov 2016 (Malcolm Jack)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 7th – November 12th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 10, 2016 and The Daily Six Pack: November 11, 2016 and The Daily Six Pack: November 14, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• GameDev News – Week Ending November 11, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #128 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #46, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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