October 2017 – Page 5 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – October 13, 2017 (#2581)

Posted on October 13, 2017 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Step-back while debugging with IntelliTrace (Deborah Chen)
JetBrains Rider 2017.2 is released (Jura Gorohovsky)
Introducing Gluon: a new library for machine learning from AWS and Microsoft (Ana Visneski)
Announcing TypeScript 2.6 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)

Web Development

Book Review: The New CSS Layout (Dean Hume)
Applying CSS Styles To Routable Child Views Using Simulated Encapsulation In Angular 4.4.4 (Ben Nadel)
Vue.js Crash Course: Create a Simple Blog Using Vue.js (Chinedu Izuchukwu)
Easy JavaScript Part 11: Simplifying function expressions and the function statement (Dhananjay Kumar)
WebStorm 2017.3 EAP, 173.3188: better code completion and docs for JavaScript, new refactoring (Ekaterina Prigara)
How I’m (Not) Using jQuery (Raymond Camden)
Visual Studio 2017 Service Fabric Tools 2.0 Preview (Service Fabric Team)
React Boilerplates That You Should Know Of (Bogdan Sandu)
Consolidating Multiple Identity Sources with Auth0 (Bruno Krebs)
Unifying monitoring and security for Kubernetes on Azure Container Service (Saurya Das)
Azure Functions Proxies – Part 4 – A very lightweight API Management (Toon Vanhoutte)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

MahApps.Metro MetroHeader (Jan Karger)
UWP News – UWP in FCU Supports .NET Standard 2.0 (Me)
New Map Control features in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Pablo Candelas Gonzalez)
Bring 3D Models To Life in Augmented Reality with UrhoSharp (Egor Bogatov)
Check out the new In-app ads dashboard in Windows Dev Center (Shreyas Ganesh Narayanaswamy)

Visual Studio & .NET

Writing Precompiled Azure Functions in Visual Studio 2017 (Jason Roberts)
Book Review: Secure Coding in C and C++ 2nd Edition (Mike James)
Avoiding the NullReferenceException (Derek Comartin)
Static analysis of .NET Core 2.0 applications (Patrick Smacchia)
3 Ways To Avoid An Anemic Domain Model In Entity Framework (Paul Hiles)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS On-Boarding, Part 3: Drip Campaigns (Aleksander Góra)
Top 10 Obstacles to Faster Code Reviews and Better Code Quality (Jaime Jorge)
Composite UIs for Microservices – Data Composition (Jimmy Bogard)
GitHub now works directly with AWS CodeStar (Kyle Daigle)

Mobile & IoT

Introducing Android Instant Apps SDK 1.1 (Jichao Li & Shobana Ravi)
Google Cloud Releases Public Beta of Cloud IoT Core (Martin Abbott)
Unity 2017.2 is now available (Alex Lian)
MR Schooling at the Mixed Reality Academy (Greg Duncan)
Build an Alexa-enabled Product with Streaming Media Capabilities using AVS Device SDK v1.1 (Satish Iyer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

History Tech #45 | Social Media Creating Tools (Chris Woods)
This Week on Windows: Marimekko, Surface, Middle Earth: Shadow of War and more (Elana Pidgeon)
New video: Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework (Kim Spilker)
SQL Server Radio – Help the Optimizer (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
Rocket 144: Go Oculus Go (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
Developer Tea – The Most Important Part of My Day (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

Philly .NET Meetup – React vs Angular vs Vue and Philly .NET Meetup – React Basics and Philly .NET Meetup – React Advanced and Philly .NET Meetup – React + Redux + RxJS and Philly .NET Meetup – GraphQL + Razor Pages (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ken Muse (Willy-P. Schaub)
Kendo UI Support for React & Vue Webinars (Tara Manicsic)
10 Not-To-Miss Art Exhibitions & Events In Philadelphia This October (Erica Minutella)
Announcing the Amazon Alexa Session Track at AWS re:Invent 2017 (Jen Gilbert)

Database

SSIS Package to Centrally Monitor All SQL Servers (Atul Gaikwad)
How to Do a SQL Server Architecture Review (Brent Ozar)
SQL SERVER – Msg 1038 – An Object or Column Name is Missing or Empty. For SELECT INTO Statements, Verify Each Column Has a Name (Pinal Dave)
RavenDB 4.0: Interlocked distributed operations (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Edge Preview for Android now available on Google Play (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
A conversation with Surface and Marimekko designers on the intersection of customization, design, and tech (Eric Lovelin)
WSL & Console team ch…ch…ch…chaaaaanges! (Rich Turner)

More Link Collections

Windows App Developer Links – 2017-10-13 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-10-13 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2442 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1952 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Mastering ASP.NET Core: Ricardo Peres: 9781787283688: Books

ISBN: 1787283682
ISBN-13: 9781787283688

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Dew Drop – October 12, 2017 (#2580)

Posted on October 12, 2017 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5 Preview (Christine Ruana)
.NET Standard Selector (Immo Landwerth)
BuildCast Video Player UWP Sample (MS Open Source)
Announcing Microsoft MakeCode for Minecraft Windows 10 (Seth Juarez)

Web & Cloud Development

Serverless JavaScript, OMG (Burke H✪lland)
“CSS: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition” Goes to Print (Eric Meyer)
4 ways you can deploy an ASP.NET Core app to GCP (Ivan Naranjo)
Botwin offers an interesting alternative option for routing with ASP.NET Core (Scott Hanselman)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 32 – Using Application Insights with Azure App Service (Michael Crump)
Create and Configure a VM with the Azure CLI (Mark Heath)
One person, multiple accounts (Belinda)
Build a React App With a Laravel Back End: Part 2, React (Manjunath M)
Rebuilding slack.com (Mina Markham)
Node v8.7.0 (Current) (Myles Borins)
Phone Number Authentication With Firebase (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
Exploring Data with Serverless and Vue: Filtering and Using the Data (Sarah Drasner)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Updating Xamarin.iOS Apps for the iPhone X (John Miller)
Health Care Provider Booking Platform: Proof of Concept Cross Platform App using Xamarin and Syncfusion (Malcolm Jack)
Creating Native macOS Apps with Xamarin.Forms (Bryan Anthony Garcia)
Xamarin Beta Release: 15.5 Preview 1 (Brendan Zagaeski)
Can you see me now? PhotoLab UWP Sample App (Greg Duncan)
Xamawin – Controlling the Back Button Text (Joe Meyer)

Visual Studio & .NET

15.5 Preview 1 Productivity Improvements: Structure Visualizer, Ctrl + Click Go to Definition, Faster Find All References, and More (Augustin Popa)
ADAL.NET 3.17.0 released (Jean-Marc Prieur)
How can I specify that my DLL should resolve a DLL dependency from the same directory that the DLL is in? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Visual Studio Team Services Bot (VSTS Bot) is now in Preview (J. Opdam)
VSTS Update – Oct 9 (Brian Harry)
Without Seeing Your Application’s Dependency Graph, You’re Flying Blind (Erik Dietrich)
10 Tips for Improving the Readability of Your Code (Manas Sadangi)
How To Bring Remote Teams Together Without A Big Offsite Budget (Rebecca Siler)

Mobile & IoT

Boost your Android productivity — Use Compound ViewGroups (Romit Choudhary)
SiriKit Part 4: Custom UI (John Daub)
Your Amazon Alexa device can finally tell different voices apart (Joe Maring)
ArraySlice in Swift (Marco Santarossa)
Recognize that guy? You might not, but your app could! (Matthew Calder)
Learning Kotlin: Inline functions (Rashi Karanpuria)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Many Kinds of Messaging with Clemens Vasters (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Stack Exchange Podcast #118 – What’s a Travel-Hacker, Anyway? (Jess Pardue)
Gone Mobile 57: OpenMVVM with Stanko Nikolic and Bojan Misic (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
Functional Programming in C# | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
AAWP Insight #232: Windows 10 Mobile dead? Not so fast! (Steve Litchfield)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 113: How do you start consulting? (Carlos L. Chacon)
Developer on Fire Episode 277 | Justin James – Impactful Activities (Dave Rael)
Talk Python to Me #133 – Productivity for developers (Michael Kennedy)
Jenkins Plugins for Kubernetes (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Software Engineering Daily – Blockchain Building with Daniel van Flymen (Jeff Meyerson)
Syntax Podcast – Advice for New Developers, Imposter Syndrome and Interviewing at Google (Wes Bos)
SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2017 – Ask Me Anything! with Brendan Richards and Troy Hunt (Security, Hack your Career) (Sophie Belle)
Developer Tea – Interview with Mark Engelberg (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

What Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella learned from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer about being a leader (Clare McGrane)
A more connected universe (Jason Warner)
After struggling with ‘Why us?’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella credits son with shaping who he is (Kurt Schlosser)
10 Questions with Lori Lalonde (Matthew Soucoup)

Database

Configure SQL Server on Linux to Use Windows Authentication (Daniel Farina)
SQL SERVER – RETAINDAYS Does Not Delete Backup After x Days (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server Temporal Tables (Tim Mitchell)
MongoDB Quickstart with Python: A new, free course to teach you MongoDB (Michael Kennedy)
New Features in SSMS 17.3 (Wayne Sheffield)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Professional Program Now Offers 5 Different Online Degrees (Chris Pietschmann)
What’s new in Windows Console in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Rich Turner)
What’s new in WSL in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Tara Raj)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-10-12 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-10-12 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2441 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1951 (Mike Gunderloy)
Collective #356 (Pedro Botelho)
Daily Links 11 Oct 2017 (Malcolm Jack)

The Geek Shelf

Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform: Explore Windows 10 Native, IoT, HoloLens, and Xamarin (9781484226285): Ayan Chatterjee: Books

ISBN: 1484226283
ISBN-13: 9781484226285

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Dew Drop – October 11, 2017 (#2579)

Posted on October 11, 2017 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.4 Released (John Montgomery)
Windows Developer Day – Fall Creators Update – Keynote and Windows Developer Day in London – Windows 10 Fall Creators Update SDK Availability (Kevin Gallo)
Announcing UWP Support for .NET Standard 2.0 (Immo Landwerth)
The Static Void Podcast – Developer Productivity: TechBash 2017 Conference Panel (Jess Chadwick)
CSLA .NET 20 Year Anniversary (Rockford Lhotka)

Web & Cloud Development

Launching today: The New CSS Layout (Rachel Andrew)
Distributed session with ASP.NET Core and Couchbase (Matthew Groves)
Dynamic Data in the Kendo UI Grid (Alex Hajigeorgieva)
NgRX 4 Actions – Class vs Object Literal (Dave M. Bush)
Optimize your jQuery selectors for best performance (Learning jQuery)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 31 – Setting up Email Alerts with Azure App Services (Michael Crump)
Forthcoming Npm Update Will Add Two-Factor Authentication (Alex Handy)
Monitor your Azure IoT solutions with Azure Monitor and Azure Resource Health (Ashita Rastogi)
Getting Started with Azure Event Grid Services (Barry Luijbregts)
Create collections, documentation, and more with Postman’s NEW button (Belinda)
Durable Functions and Bindings Extensibility Preview Announcement (Chris Anderson)
Self-issuing an IdentityServer4 token in an IdentityServer4 service (Filip W.)
Introducing Dialogflow, the new name for API.AI (Ilya Gelfenbeyn)
Build a React App With a Laravel RESTful Back End: Part 1, Laravel 5.5 API (Manjunath M)
Azure Function – Integrating monitoring with Application Insights (Mikael Krief)
Developing Web Apps and RESTful APIs with KeystoneJS (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
How to Receive and Respond to Text Messages in Python with Django and Twilio (Sam Agnew)
Exploring Data with Serverless and Vue: Automatically Update GitHub Files With Serverless Functions (Sarah Drasner)
Bringing WebVR to everyone with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Lewis Weaver)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin Forms UI Development Made Easy with LiveXAML (Dan Siegel)
Xamarin.Forms Updates (Wallace McClure)
Hey, who moved my… Visual Studio Emulator for Android? (Nick Randolph)
Authenticate users through Facebook using Xamarin.Auth (Timothé Larivière)
#Windows10 – Controlling a MediaPlayer Element with #SurfaceDial in a Windows Store App (Bruno Capuano)
Build and Release Five-Star Apps Faster (Mayur Tendulkar)

Visual Studio & .NET

F# support improvements in Rider 2017.2 (Maarten Balliauw)
.NET Framework October 2017 Security and Quality Rollup (Rich Lander)
.NET: Manage availability zones and more (Asir Selvasingh)
CodeIt.Right Rules Explained, Part 10 (Erik Dietrich)
Introducing Oakton — Command line parsing minus the usual cruft (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Evolutionary design still requires up front thinking (Simon Brown)
Successfully handle disruptive changes with no downtime: the TFS 2015 example (Matteo Emili)
Bob Martin: Test Contra-Variance (Andrew Morgan)
Building Trust Through Cadenced Retrospectives (Cory Foy)
If ‘Everyone is a Designer’ then why am I here? (Darian O’Reilly)
Netflix Builds a Pipeline for Polyglot Programming (Joab Jackson)
How Little Can You Do (& Still be Effective) (Johanna Rothman)
Microspeak: Gardening (Raymond Chen)

Mobile & IoT

The Google Assistant can help control your Android media apps (Android Developers)
As Kotlin Ascends, What Are Options for Visual Studio Devs? (David Ramel)
Life is Easier with NativeScript Playground (Sebastian Witalec)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Windows Central Podcast 67: Microsoft kills Groove (Zac Bowden)
RunAs Radio – SharePoint Update with Todd Klindt (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Snack Pack 22: Android SDK Manager in Visual Studio for Mac (James Montemagno)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 220 | VSTS DevOps with Donovan Brown and Gopinath Chigakkagari (Andrew Connell)
Azure Instance Metadata Service (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Software Engineering Daily – Ethereum Platform with Preethi Kasireddy (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Interview with Mark Engelberg (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

20+ Excellent Things To Do In Philly This Week, October 9-16 (Dan Van Wert)
How To Celebrate Pennsylvania Wine Month At Philadelphia Bars, Restaurants And Beyond (Kristina Jenkins)

Database

Remove SQL Server AlwaysOn Database from Primary Replica (Manvendra Singh)
How to Do a Free SQL Server Health Check (Brent Ozar)
What’s new in SQL Server Management Studio 17.3 (SQL Server Team)
SQL SERVER – 5 Don’ts When Database Corruption is Detected (Pinal Dave)
Unique constraints didn’t make the cut for RavenDB 4.0 (Oren Eini)
Book Review: Think Like a Data Scientist (Mike James)

MS Teams

Microsoft Teams: Creating The Dream Team (Eric Overfield)

PowerShell

PowerShell Output For Fast Debugging and Tracking (Tim Smith)
Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part IV (Will Anderson)

More Link Collections

Windows App Developer Links – 2017-10-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-10-11 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2440 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1950 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Learning Virtual Reality: Developing Immersive Experiences and Applications for Desktop, Web, and Mobile: 9781491922835: Computer Science Books @ Amazon.com

ISBN: 1491922834
ISBN-13: 9781491922835

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