Dew Drop – September 15, 2016 (#2329)

Top Links

• Changes to Visual Studio “15” Setup (Heath Stewart)
• Google’s Angular 2 JavaScript framework finally arrives (Paul Krill)
• Putting (my VB6) Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store – Project Centennial (Scott Hanselman)
• Apps built using the Desktop Bridge now available in the Windows Store! (Kevin Gallo)
• .NET Rocks! – ASP.NET WebForms Is Alive with Jeff Fritz (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• A look behind the JWT bearer authentication middleware in ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
• Troubleshoot your ASP.NET Core web app using logging (Jon Hilton)
• Angular, version 2: proprioception-reinforcement (Jules Kremer)
• JavaScript Unit Testing with TDD, Jasmine, and Karma (Shirley Perkins)
• Using http/2 for App Engine Local Development (Eric Bidelman)
• 3 Things You May Not Know About Twilio Programmable SMS (Greg Baugues)
• Docker + Golang = (Jérôme Petazzoni)
• Bootstrap Modal Dialog showing under Modal Background (Rick Strahl)

 

XAML

• UI for Xamarin Now Officially Supports UWP (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Big Screen Your Next App, UWP Dev on the Xbox One (Greg Duncan)
• Smooth Interaction and Motion with the Visual Layer (Michael Crump)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Understand Conditional Breakpoints in C++ (Bartlomiej Filipek)
• Desktop App Converter Base Images and Azure DNS .NET SDK sample project (MS Downloads)
• The week in .NET: .NET Core 1.0.1 – On .NET with Peachpie – Avalonia – Folk Tale (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Rx Challenge #11–Solution (Bnaya Eshet)
• New Mapping Visualization, More in UI for WinForms R3 2016 (Stefan Stefanov)
• What exactly does the msWindowLength parameter to SetThreadpoolTimer mean? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Refuting the Idea of Rewriting the Agile Manifesto (Shane Hastie)
• Rethink Leadership: Being Ordinary to Accomplish Extraordinary Results (Ben Linders)
• It’s official, Cycligent Git Tool is LIVE! (Carolyn Sullivan)
• How to Get Developers to Adopt a Coding Standard and What to do when Your Colleague Creates Spaghetti Code (Erik Dietrich)
• The Problem with Career Conversations Today (Russ Laraway)
• Paint.NET PSD Plugin v2.5.0 (CodePlex)
• Why Programmers Should Track Their Time (Even if They Don’t Charge Hourly) (Ted Bendixson)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Introducing the Azure Track in Xamarin University (Bryan Costanich)
• AT&T IoT Starter Kit with Azure IoT Suite Support (Chris Pietschmann)
• How to Build a Multi-Language Alexa Skill (Dean Bryen)
• Readying your enterprise for mobile, part 7: The finale (Neudesic Team)
• Introducing Breezy4Pi: An Easier Way to Control Your Raspberry Pi (Thomas Tibbetts)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Xamarin Show 2: Continuous Integration with Simina Pasat | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – The hard skills that Scrum Masters must be aware of | Pawel Kalinowksi (Vasco Duarte)
• Integrating Power BI Into Your Web Applications | Visual Studio Toolbox (Charles Sterling & Robert Green)
• 110 AiA Special Angular 2 Final is Released (John Papa)
• 229 JSJ Elm with Richard Feldman (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood & Jamison Dance)
• Gone Mobile 39: Serverless and Azure Functions with Donna Malayeri and Fabio Cavalcante (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• AAWP Insight #193: imaging, apps, and more (Rafe Blandford)
• Developer on Fire Episode 165 | Jed Reynolds – Space To Achieve (Dave Rael)
• Defrag: Lots of Windows 10 AU Questions, Drones, Cool Cameras and more… | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• What The Tech 325: Andrew’s Cord Cutting Experiment (Paul Thurrott)
• Desktop Bridge Update with Windows Developer CVP, Kevin Gallo and Cortana Intelligence Gallery – the hub for intelligent solutions (Seth Juarez)
• Developer Tea – The O-Word (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• The State of the Octoverse (Alyson La)
• A whole new GitHub Universe: announcing new tools, forums, and features (Chris Wanstrath)
• Eight Huge Outdoor Festivals Coming To Philly This Weekend (Jillian Wilson)
• Top Things To Get Psyched For In Philly This Fall (Kristina Jenkins)
• Watch GitHub Universe Live: September 14 and 15 (Stephanie Wills)

 

Database

• Migrate Between Azure SQL Database and SQL Server (Chris Pietschmann)
• Oracle Proposes NetBeans Move to Apache (Dave Fecak)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Playing with Datetime with Customer Data (Pinal Dave)
• Using The CubeSet() Function to Combine Selections From Multiple Slicers in Excel Power Pivot Reports (Chris Webb)
• Marten 1.0 is Here! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• SQL Prompt tip – why you should expand the wildcard (Steve Jones)

 

SharePoint

• How to Prepare Your Toolbox for the SharePoint Framework (John Liu)

 

PowerShell

• Use PowerShell to Determine the number DML operations in SQL Server Scripts (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Band: Sign a Petition to Keep the Wearable Alive (Rod Trent)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14926 for PC and Mobile (Dona Sarkar)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-09-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-09-15 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #1736 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #246 (Pedro Botelho)

 

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