Dew Drop – December 15, 2016 (#2384)

Top Links

• Connect(“demos”); // 2016: BikeSharing360 on GitHub (Erika Ehrli Cabral)
• Announcing Auth0 Authorization Extension v2! (Sandrino Di Mattia)
• Extended WPF Toolkit Community Edition – Release v3.0.0 (CodePlex)
• .NET Rocks! – Worldwide Energy Production Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Creating A PouchDB Playground In The Browser With JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• Pragmatic Web Error Handling in ASP.NET MVC (Dino Esposito)
• Semantic Variable Colours – New in PhpStorm 2016.3! (Gary Hockin)
• Announcing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks V1 (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• Angular 2.3.0 Released; Naming Guidelines Explained (James Chesters)
• ASP.NET Or ASP.NET Core, What To Choose? (Mahesh Chand)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: CSS: The Definitive Guide – $19.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Quick Tip for Showing JSFiddles in Your WordPress Blog (Rachel Hagerman)
• Announcing the Public Beta Release 1.4 of our Twilio Client JavaScript SDK (Rob Brazier)
• Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 2 (Tom McFarlin)
• Why RxJS Is The Hottest Way To Handle Async (Tracy Lee)
• Extending User Control of Flash with Click-to-Run (Crispin Cowan & Microsoft Edge Team)
• Writing Declaration Files for @types (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• More details about containerd, Docker’s core container runtime component (Patrick Chanezon)
• containerd – a core container runtime project for the industry (Solomon Hykes)

 

XAML

• WPF Rendering DUCE.Channel Crashes due to Image Loading (Rick Strahl)
• Windows 10, UWP and Sphero–Bringing 2D UWP Demo Code to HoloLens (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Avoid Referencing Infrastructure in Visual Studio Solutions (Steve Smith)
• Page the Doctor! When Entity Framework Paging Goes Rogue! (Rion Williams)
• CodeRush for Roslyn, v. 16.2.3 is Available (Mark Miller)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Business features vs. technical features (Oren Eini)
• A reminder to test (Remy Sharp)
• Businesses Continue to Rule Out Cloud Services (Carolyn Sullivan)
• Foundations of RESTful Architecture (Chris Smith)
• Team Services December Extensions Roundup (Joseph Bourne)
• Detecting Performance Bottlenecks with NDepend (Eric Dietrich)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Wear 2.0 Gains New APIs (Eric Zeman)
• Introducing the BikeRider Xamarin.Forms Sample App (Pierce Boggan)
• Developing mobile apps with React Native in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Swifter Swift, Swiftly (Alex Curylo)
• Introducing Azure IoT Hub Routes – A new feature that allows you to route messages to alternate endpoints (Jon Gallant)
• Playing with an Onion Omega IoT device to show live Blood Sugar on an OLED screen (Scott Hanselman)
• What else is coming in Windows 10 IoT Core with the Creators Update? (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Exploring our newest sample app, BikeSharing360 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin & Robert Green)
• Microsoft Mechanics – Step-by-step guide to building PowerApps for SharePoint (Chris McNulty)
• 242 JSJ Visual Studio and .NET with Maria Naggaga (AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
• .NET Core and Visual Studio Code (and Couchbase) (video) (Matthew Groves)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 83 (Air Mozilla)
• Programming the Microsoft Surface Dial (keantonc & Rosshe)
• Microsoft Mechanics – Introducing the Windows Companion Device Framework (Anoosh Saboori)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 55: Christina Keelan’s Happy Ending (Richie Rump)
• Interactive Spark on Azure | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• SE-Radio Episode 277: Gil Tene on Tail Latency (Robert Blumen)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Alex Asks About Getting Back Into The Game (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Philly .NET January Meeting – Stress Free Deployments (Philly .NET Team)
• Who will be crowned the last Small Basic Guru of 2016!! (Ed Price)
• Another spicy interview (Eric Lippert)

 

Database

• Presenting with SQL Server Management Studio (Andrew Pruski)
• SQL SERVER – Discovery Report – How to Find Information About Installed Features? (Pinal Dave)
• Using Azure to store and process large amounts of SQL data (John Miner)
• Previewing the Generated PostgreSQL SQL for a Query in Marten (Jason Roberts)
• Introducing Change Feed support in Azure DocumentDB (Aravind Ramachandran)
• How Realm is Better As Compared To SQLite? (Lipika Gupta)

 

PowerShell

• Generate T-SQL Scripts for all SQL Server Databases and all Objects using PowerShell (Angel Gomez)
• DSC Resource Kit Release December 2016 (Katie Keim)

 

Miscellaneous

• Interviewing for “Cultural Fit” (Don Albrecht)
• Updates to the OneNote Class Notebook add-in—read/unread indicators in Review Student Work and more (OneNote Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-15 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-15 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2244 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #272 (Pedro Botelho)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 15, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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