Dew Drop – April 25, 2016 (#2237)

Top Links

• ASP.NET Core – A More Realistic Starter Kit (Dino Esposito)
• A closer look at Windows Ink (Mollie Ruiz-Hopper)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14328 for PC and Mobile (Gabe Aul)
• Thread.Sleep in Tests Is Evil (Steve Smith)

 

Web Development

• Creating An Index Loop Structural Directive In Angular 2 Beta 14 and The Flexible Syntax Of Structural Directive Expressions In Angular 2 Beta 14 (Ben Nadel)
• Social TagHelpers for ASP.NET Core (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• Yes, I Used jQuery in my Angular2 Application (Dave Baskin)
• Install Gulp and Bower using Visual Studio 2015 in ASP.NET 5 project. (Khademul Basher)
• Implementing an ASP.NET Core RC1 Logging Provider (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Enable your Visual Studio Emulator to make https calls to your IIS Web project (Malcolm Jack)
• nginx A Practical Guide to High Performance (Nikos Vaggalis)
• Making the Switch Away from Icon Fonts to SVG: Converting Font Icons to SVG (Sara Soueidan)
• A Deep Dive Into Docker – Part 2 (Anand Akela)
• Expanded webhook events (David Celis)
• The Three D’s of Modern Web Development (Jeremy Likness)
• Build Your Own Container Using Less than 100 Lines of Go (Julian Friedman)

 

XAML

• Enabling PlayReady support on Xbox One UWP Developer Preview (Davide Zordan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Announcing NuGet 3.4.3 (Harikrishna Menon)
• A development workflow with Docker and .NET Core (Christian Jacobsen)
• The .NET of Tomorrow (Ed Charbeneau)
• Serializing JSON Data into Binary Form (Mahesh Sabnis)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile and the Theory of Constraints – Part 1 (Eric Gunnerson)
• A Question on API Design and Documentation (Howard Dierking)
• Image Editing Tools: Here’s what I use (Chris Pietschmann)
• Q&A on Achieving Impact through Engagement (Ben Linders)
• Satya Nadella on Digital Transformation (JD Meier)
• A look at the new Work Item Tracking features in VSTS (Matteo Emili)
• Global Conversion from MStest Assert to FluentAssertions (Michael Freidgeim)
• Domain-Driven Design and Microservices (Mikael Zandin)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using Swift to Build Code for Android (Sergio De Simone)
• A Side-by-Side Comparison of Mobile-App Development Solutions (Bharat Bhat)
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 11 – Table Access (Adrian Hall)
• Social Sharing with HoloLens Photos App and OneDrive Sync / Backup (Chris Pietschmann)
• .NET Micro Framework 4.4 Getting Started Guide (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 10 Core and Azure IoT Hub (Herve Roggero)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Azure Functions with Chris Anderson (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The InfoQ Podcast: Adrian Cockroft on Microservices, Terraservices and Serverless Computing (Wesley Reisz)
• Android Central 284: Your questions, our answers … (Phil Nickinson)
• Agil Toolkit Podcast – Natalie Warnert – Scrum Gathering 2016 and Agile Toolkit Podcast – Peter Green – Scrum Gathering 2016 (Bob Payne)
• RavenDB videos tutorials on YouTube (Oren Eini)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 85 – Technical Writing (Chris Mills) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 124 | James Ladd – Frank Rocks! (Dave Rael)
• Mobile Nations Weekly: All the new things! (Derek Kessler)
• Episode 203: Azure App Service Domains and SSL with Ashish Kurmi | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 39: Santosh Hari Directs Transitions (Richie Rump)
• Developer Tea – Proactive Client Communication and Developer Tea – Part 1: Performance Budget for Optimization (Jonathan Cutrell)
• StarTalk Radio – Racing Extinction with Leilani Münter (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Amazon vs. Netflix, Smartphone VR 101, and one month with the Galaxy S7 Edge (Todd Bishop)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux: Architectural Overview (Seth Juarez)

 

Community / Events

• A Protocol for Dying (Pieter Hintjens)
• Want to win a trip to Imagine Cup World Finals? Enter our Hello Cloud machine learning contest now! (Imagine Cup Student Developer Evangelism Team)
• Update on the Clear Measure journey (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Insiders can join the Windows 10 Anniversary Update Bug Bash next week (John Callaham)
• .NET Speakers to Hear (Vicky)
• Seizing New Opportunities: Technology and Women Entrepreneurs (MS in Business Team)

 

Database

• Storing passwords in SQL Server – things to know to keep the data secure (Derek Colley)
• Partition to Filegroup Mapping in SQL Server (Guy Glantser)
• SQL Server CASE Statement and CASE WHEN Examples (Mandar Mulay)
• SQL SERVER – What is WRK file in Log Shipping? and What is Difference Between HAVING and WHERE – Interview Question of the Week #068 (Pinal Dave)
• The design of RavenDB 4.0: Over the wire protocol and RavenDB 3.5 whirl wind tour: Can you spare me a server? (Oren Eini)
• SQL Queries and LinqPad (Joe Reynolds)
• MySQL Truncating Value At First Supplementary / Astral / utf8mb4 Character On INSERT And UPDATE (Ben Nadel)
• How to deploy a Master Data Services model (Siddharth Mehta)
• How to Create a Local Copy of an Azure SQL Database (Jon Gallant)
• Using a batch layer for fast(er) aggregations (Jef Claes)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell script that requires administrative privileges. (Michael Freidgeim)
• PowerShell Script – Backup Every Database In SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Survey: PowerShell DSC Composite Resources (Ravikanth C)
• Azure PowerShell Extensions Updates (Trevor Sullivan)
• Chocolatey For Business / Chocolatey Professional Coming May 2 (Rob Reynolds)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft delivers Windows 10 test build with new Start, inking, Cortana lock screen features (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft and Google agree to withdraw regulatory complaints against each other (Taylor Soper)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2079 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading April 22, 2016 #1090 (Robert Diana)
• Here’s to the weekend! #FridayFive (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #229 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #216 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: April 18th – April 24th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• GameDev News – Week Ending April 22, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Apr 22nd, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #99 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #89 (Adam J. Wolf)

 

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