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Dew Drop – August 31, 2017 (#2552)

Posted on August 31, 2017 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Xamarin Live Player Preview 2: Continuously Run and Debug Apps (James Montemagno)
Free ebook: Introduction to Windows Containers (Kim Spilker)
Upgrading to .NET Core and .NET Standard Made Easy (Daniel Crabtree)
The UWP Community Toolkit v2.0 (Nikola Metulev)

Web & Cloud Development

Your First Angular App: Events and Updating (Peter Vogel)
WebStorm 2017.2.3 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
Concurrent JavaScript: It can work! (Filip Pizlo)
4 Benefits of Migrating to ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Jonathan Danylko)
AWS X-Ray SDK for Go (Beta) (AWS Team)
React Crash Course for Beginners, Part 2 (David Gwyer)
Create a CI/CD pipeline to Azure Service Fabric (Ahmed Metwally)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

2000 WPF Things #1,215 – Binding a TreeView to a Hierarchical Data Source (Sean Sexton)
Prism Template Pack in Visual Studio for Mac (Dan Siegel)
Xamarin Forms ListView grouping and styling the jump list (Steven Thewissen)
Upgrade PCL to .NET Standard Class Library (Adam Pedley)
UWP News – UWP Community Toolkit 2.0 has been released (Me)

Visual Studio & .NET

Developers: Updates to Visual Studio Team Services include preview of Release Definition Editor and more (Bill Briggs)
TFS 2018 RC1 is available (Brian Harry)
Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects (Dirk Strauss)
Breakpoint Labels in Visual Studio (Steve Smith)
Concatenating Segments of an Audio File with NAudio (Mark Heath)
Diagnosing a VS-only build problem (Jon Skeet)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Merging Agile and DevOps (James Betteley & Matthew Skelton)
Grouping and Filtering Tests in Visual Studio Test Explorer (Jason Roberts)
Motivating Software Engineers 101 (7pace Team)
Understanding the Difference Between Static And Dynamic Code Analysis (Erik Dietrich)
You might not know this: Service Execution History in VSTS (Matteo Emili)
Microsoft .NET Architecture Guidance Released (Michael Stiefel)

Mobile & IoT

Kotlin From Scratch: Packages and Basic Functions (Chike Mgbemena)
#Opinion – How will #ARKit and #ARCore impact on #MixedReality (2017 is still on fire!) (Bruno Capuano)
NativeScript Licensing Explained (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Empathy Mapping with Diane Zajac-Woodie (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Xamarin Show Episode 29: Simple iOS Provisioning with fastlane (James Montemagno)
SSW TV – PowerShell on Office365 and SharePoint with Vlad Catrinescu and Adam Cogan – Digital Workplace Conference, Sydney 2017 and SSW TV – Effective Engagement and Collaboration with Christian Buckley and Adam Cogan – Digital Workplace Conference, Sydney 2017 (Sophie Belle)
Developer on Fire Episode 265 | Indi Young – Empathy In the Problem Space (Dave Rael)
Low-Priority Virtual Machines (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Software Engineering Daily – Lending Machine Learning with Ofer Mendelevitch (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

Exclusive! Q&A with MS Paint Post-Imminent Death Rumors in July (Jacqueline Bieringer)
A Personal Journey – Swetha Machanavajhala (Microsoft Accessibility Team)
5 Tech Companies With Great Parental Leave Policies (Alyssa Mazzina)
Xbox Is At PAX West 2017 (Larry Hryb)
Philly Nerd Nite No. 78: Beer History, Neutrinos, and Voting Theory (Nerd Nite Team)

Database

Using ssh to connect to Linux for the SQL Server DBA (John Grover)
SQL SERVER – How to Migrate Master Database to New Location? (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

PowerShell – How to detect bad state VMs in a Hyper-V cluster? (Ramazan Can)

Miscellaneous

How to switch to the dark mode automatically on Windows 10 (Mauro Huculak)
JSON Serialization in Python using serpy (Siddhant Goel)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-31 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-31 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2416 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1921 (Mike Gunderloy)
Coding4Fun August 2017 Round-up (Greg Duncan)
Collective #344 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Kotlin in Action: Dmitry Jemerov, Svetlana Isakova: 9781617293290: Books

ISBN: 1617293296
ISBN-13: 9781617293290

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Dew Drop – December 4, 2014 (#1908)

Posted on December 4, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Getting ready for the future with the Microsoft .NET Portability Analyzer (Scott Hanselman)
New Video: Building a Diagnostic Analyzer with Code Fix in Visual Studio 2015 (Jeremy Clark)
Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview (Jb Evain)
Building an Estimote Scavenger Hunt on iOS, Android, and Windows in C# with Xamarin (James Montemagno)

Web Development

Creating a Master/Detail Page with Backbone and TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
Using The Scope Tree As A Publish And Subscribe (Pub/Sub) Mechanism In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
ProgressBar.js : Beautiful and Responsive Progress bars (jQuery Rain)
NUnit & Visual Studio (Dave M. Bush)
The Top 5 Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make Part 3: Overusing $broadcast and $emit (Jeremy Likness)
APress Deal of the Day 4/December/2014 – Beginning ASP.NET MVC 4 (Tatworth)
Performance As A Competitive Advantage: Part 2 WalMart.com vs BestBuy.com (Chris Love)
Azure Media Indexer Version 1.1.6.7 Release Notes (Adarsh Solanki)
Debugging SendGrid’s Parsing Incoming Messages (Peter Kellner)
Applied Azure: Infographic of how “Have I been pwned?” orchestrates Microsoft’s cloud services (Troy Hunt)

XAML

SoundCloud, BandsInTown and Windows App Studio (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous .NET

My Introduction To Data Science With F# (Jonathan Wood)
NHibernate & Entity Framework Profiler 3.0 (Oren Eini)
Generics in WCF Data Contract (Dhananjay Kumar)
How do I publish apps on Xbox One? (David Voyles)
GesturePak v2.0 Public Beta (Greg Duncan)
MEF and AppDomain – Remove Assemblies On The Fly (John M. Baughman)
What happens if I don’t paint when I get a WM_PAINT message? (Raymond Chen)
Team Foundation Server Word Add-in goes OSS as a “sample” (Willy-P. Schaub)

Design / Methodology / Testing

A Kanban Canvas Example (Karl Scotland)
Why didn’t my unit tests run on the TFS build server? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Create a Standard Environment for Release Management in Azure (Martin Hinshelwood)

Other Mobile Platforms

How to detect an iOS device when working with Xamarin and Visual Studio (Mike Benkovich)
Enable the Web Inspector to Inspect Pages on iOS Safari (Ralph Whitbeck)
Cocos2d-x on Windows Devices: significant performance improvements thanks to ANGLE (Eric Mittelette)
App Store Optimization Tricks– Titles that sell! (Mickey MacDonald)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Entity Framework 7 with Julie Lerman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Amp Hour #226 – An Interview with Colin Karpfinger – Blendling Bean Brio (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
SQL Server Data Tools | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Scott Klein)
136 JSJ TrackingJS with Eduardo Lundgren (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood & AJ O’Neal)
The Changelog 133: All Things Perl With Curtis “Ovid” Poe (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
TechNet Radio: Success with Enterprise Mobility – Live Webcast Series Preview | TechNet Radio (ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Kevin Remde & BenHa)
Garage Series: A developer’s view of transitioning to the apps for Office model (Jeremy Chapman)
RiYL Episode 082: Matt Sharp (Mini) (Brian Heater)
Azure Podcast Episode 55 – Migrating to Azure Websites (Sujit D’Mello)

Community / Events

Are you ready for the Hour of Code? (Aaron Skonnard)
Geek of the Week: Pat Blake, Artist & Co-Founder of Leveler Media (Chris Urie)

Database

SQL Server Analysis Services Attribute Relationships (Scott Murray)
SQL Server Data Aggregation for Data with Different Sampling Rates (Dallas Snider)
SQL SERVER – The Basics of the SSIS Data Flow Task – Notes from the Field #057 (Pinal Dave)
INSERT INTO SELECT vs SELECT INTO (Kenneth Fisher)
How to Handle Dynamic Rowsets (Guy Glantser)
Scaling a Multi-Tenant Application with Azure DocumentDB (John Macintyre)
Article: The Definitive Guide to Database Version Control (Uri Margalit)

Miscellaneous

What’s next for Windows 10? (Mary Jo Foley)
12 essential Microsoft business apps for the iPhone (Ed Bott)
Bluetooth 4.2 will make your connected devices smarter, faster, and more secure (Rich Edmonds)
How To Avoid Common Windows Gotchas with Puppet (Rob Reynolds)
The real and complete story – Does Windows defragment your SSD? (Scott Hanselman)
What about Windows? Satya Nadella on the future of Microsoft’s operating system (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #1441 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1751 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

CSS3 Foundations: Ian Lunn: 9781118356548: Books

ISBN: 1118356543
ISBN-13: 9781118356548

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Dew Drop – May 6, 2014 (#1770)

Posted on May 6, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

*New* video series on Windows Store App development using Visual Basic on Microsoft Virtual Academy (Anthony D. Green)
.NET Framework SDKs and Downloads (.NET Team)
Twenty C# Questions Explained (MS Virtual Academy)
Your Xamarin App in the Living Room with Amazon Fire TV (Jon Dick)
(video) Sharing views (XAML) using Portable Class Libraries (Iris Classon)
GitHub – Hello World Guide (Jessica Lord)
[24 hours only] On the Day Against DRM (May 6th, 2014) all Packt eBooks for $10 for 24 hours only (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

Book Review: The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript (Ian Elliot)
First look of book: Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET by Glenn Block (Dhananjay Kumar)
Kendo UI & Dynamic Data: Solution 1 (Jesse Liberty)
PHPUnit 4 in PhpStorm 8 EAP (Maarten Balliauw)
Telerik, moving to Kendo (Peter van Ooijen)
Adding Application Notifications With Kendo UI Core (Rey Bango)
Moving Forward with CSS Shapes (Sara Soueidan)
Links with Inline SVG, Staying on Target with Events (Chris Coyier)
Cloud Power: How to scale Azure Websites globally with Traffic Manager (Scott Hanselman)

XAML

Foundbite dev finds Windows Phone 8.1 gives developers more control, enhances user experience (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
MovedCheeseException–where is StorageFolder.TryGetItemAsync in Windows Phone 8.1? (Joost van Schaik)
2000 WPF Things #1,066 – Elements Must Be Visible and Enabled to Fire Events (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

Debugging 256 GPU Threads in Visual Studio 2013 (Gaston Hillar)
Visual Studio Graphics Frame Analysis in action! (Rong Lu)
2000 C# Things #1,090 – Using Visual Studio to Verify How Floating Point Numbers Are Stored (Sean Sexton)
Missing NHibernate features in Entity Framework (Jimmy Bogard)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bliki: UnitTest (Martin Fowler)
Focus on key examples (Gojko Adzic)
Separating the UI Code from the Business Code: What’s Reasonable? (Peter Vogel)
The Mindmapping Software Advantage: Week 5 – Personal Productivity Templates (Chance Brown)
Import virtual machines or template operation of Microsoft Test Manager throws ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object’’ (Subramanyam)

Other Mobile Platforms

MS Open Tech brings a new WebSQL plugin for Apache Cordova and enhancements to the popular Contacts plugin (Olivier Bloch)
Building a delicious “hamburger” button app layout (David Washington)
Mobile Services .NET Backend: Part 1—Creating the Service and Defining the REST API (Glenn Gailey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

RavenDB Conf Videos: Mastering Date and Time Data in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Windows Phone – Getting Started With Azure Mobile Services (.NET Backend) | Windows Azure Mobile Services (Yavor Georgiev)
Part 1 – Series Introduction | Windows Phone 8.1 Development for Absolute Beginners (Bob Tabor, Matthias Shapiro & Larry Lieberman)
Hello World Podcast Episode 23: Phil Haack (Shawn Wildermuth)
The Nerdist Podcast – Jon Favreau (Chris Hardwick)
Defrag Tools: #89 – Symbol Folder Tools | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

Community / Events

Microsoft CEO Nadella expected to preside over New York City Surface Mini rollout (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

Cumulative Update – 12 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available ! (Rohit Garg)
SQL Server Debugging with WinDbg – an Introduction (Klaus Aschenbrenner)
Introducing DxConsole 2014 for SQL Server (Jonathan Allen)
SQL SERVER – How to Change Compatibility of Database to SQL Server 2014 (Pinal Dave)
Big Data Basics – Part 5 – Introduction to MapReduce (Dattatrey Sindol)
4 Lightweight Ways to Tell if a Database is Used (Kendra Little)

PowerShell

Validate File Properties with PowerShell Prior to Import into SQL Server (Tim Smith)

Miscellaneous

How Should Software Developers Prepare For The Future? (John Sonmez)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #1349 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1602 (Chris Alcock)
Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (4/28-5/5) (Dara Monasch)
Reading Notes #138 (Frank)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-06 (Dan Rigby)
Community Update 2014-05-05 – #fubumvc, #angularjs, #visualstudio and way more (Maxime Rouiller)

The Geek Shelf

Smashing Android UI: Juhani Lehtimaki: 9781118387283: Books

ISBN: 1118387287
ISBN-13: 9781118387283

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