Dew Drop – November 22, 2016 (#2369)

Top Links

• JetBrains Rider Early Access Program is now public (Matt Ellis)
• .NET Productivity Improvements | Connect(); // 2016 (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 14965 Released (Clint Rutkas)
• Client-side debugging of ASP.NET projects in Google Chrome (Mads Kristensen)

 

Web Development

• Casting Bit Fields To Booleans Using The Node.js MySQL Driver (Ben Nadel)
• Style List Markers in CSS (Chris Coyier)
• Using Flow in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Project Wide PHP 7 Strict Types in PhpStorm 2016.3 (Gary Hockin)
• Dart Developer Summit 2016 Videos: Soundness, AngularDart 2.0, and the Fastest Growing Language at Google (Filip Hracek)
• Data Security in ASP.NET Core (koolprasad2003)
• Customizer JavaScript APIs: The Previewer (Louie R.)
• The ASP.NET Web API 2 HTTP Message Lifecycle in 43 Easy Steps (Matthew Jones)
• Develop Angular2 Application using Visual Studio Code – 1 (NguDeveloper)
• Using Google Admob In Your NativeScript Angular 2 Mobile App and Working with RESTful Data in Angular 2 and NativeScript (Nic Raboy)
• Build and Authenticate a Node Js App with JSON Web Tokens (Ado Kukic)
• Twilio Programmable Chat release with new features and pricing (Ari Sigal)
• Building the Good News SMS bot with Crocodile Dundee, Reddit and Ruby (Jarod Reyes)
• Get to Know Netflix’s Zuul (Rafael Salerno)
• Transcribing messages in BotFramework (Robin Osborne)
• How to Handle Routing in React (Roy Agasthyan)

 

XAML

• Live XAML Previewing with the Xamarin.Forms Previewer (Nina Vyedin)
• Windows Ink 1: Introduction to Ink and Pen (Michael Crump)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Making code faster: That pesky dictionary (Oren Eini)
• Writing Azure Functions in F# (James Chambers)
• Visual Studio 2017 Extensions Update (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio 2017 – New Installation Experience (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET – 2.9.6 (MS Downloads)
• 5 must-have OzCode features I use every day… (Arye Shustimuv)
• Released: GhostDoc v5.4 update (Serge Baranovsky)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How We Test Software: Chapter Three Part III—Telerik Websites Division (Anton Angelov)
• How to speed the process of defining user requirements and attaining acceptance through prototyping and design (DevToolsGuy)
• TestMethod, TestInitialize, and TestCleanup in XUnit2 (Jeff Yates)
• How To Master The Art Of Remote Team Communications (Stella Garber)
• Writing Clean Code: A Step Towards Being a Better Developer (Sushil Ale)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Resource Files in Xamarin Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Google Play services and Firebase for Android will support API level 14 at minimum (Doug Stevenson)
• Hacking the Xamarin.Forms Layout System for Fun and Profit (Michael Ridland)
• AlexaDev Tuesday – An Alexa Smart Mirror: Darian Johnson’s Hackster.io Award Winner (April Hamilton)
• Connect your things with the Azure IoT Gateway SDK (Sam George)
• Unity3D Editor Tools (Timmy Kokke)
• A Raspberry Pi2 VSTS Build Light – Part 3, why not to shrink-wrap 3D printed cases 🙂 (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Git & Bots with Sarah Sexton (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• .NET Rocks! – The Marketing of .NET with Beth Massi (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 143 “This Is Where The News Happens” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• What’s new in .NET Core 1.1? (Frank La Vigne)
• Merge Conflict 20: Lighting Talks Round 2 (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Functional Geekery Episode 75 – Eric B. Merritt (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 167: John Angelo (Maurice Cherry)

 

Community / Events

• Interning with the PhoneGap Team Pt. 2 (Sterling Gerritz)
• Free Online Workshop on Cortana Intelligence Suite: Register Now! (Matthew Calder)
• 20+ Excellent Things To Do In Philly This Week, November 21-27 (Jillian Wilson)
• Learn to Leverage Live Video Streaming at Your Event (Kalahari Meetings)
• Around The World With MVPs: Tokyo (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Who took the ‘no’ out of NoSQL? (Matt Asay)
• Microsoft’s SQL Server Next: What’s under the covers (Mary Jo Foley)
• Connect to a SQL Azure database with Power-BI (Eli Leiba)
• Script to find oldest open SQL Server transaction (Toni Pohl)
• SQL SERVER – Database Mirroring Error -The Specified Network Name is No Longer Available (Pinal Dave)
• Initial Thoughts on 2016 SP1 (Erik Darling)

 

PowerShell

• Cloning a SQL Server Login with all permissions using PowerShell (Jeffrey Yao)

 

Miscellaneous

• Here’s a first look at Epub integration in Microsoft Edge (Kit McDonald)
• Handling people’s personal data is sensitive business (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-11-22 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-11-22 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2227 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1773 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 23, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Top Ten Most Popular Developer Links for the Week of November 14, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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