Dew Drop – March 24, 2017 (#2447)

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Top Links

• Project Rome for Android Update: Now with App Services Support (Carmen Forsmann)
• Visual Studio 2017 can automatically recommend NuGet packages for unknown types (Scott Hanselman)
• Rider EAP 19: new .NET Core, LESS, Sass, and more (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Catch Up on Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac with Channel 9 (James Montemagno)
• Angular 4.0.0 Now Available (Stephen Fluin)

Web & Cloud Development

• How To Develop An Interactive Command Line Application Using Node.js (Nihar Sawant)
• Building a Conversational Bot with JavaScript and Node.js (Brian Rinaldi)
• Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers (Chris Coyier)
• Create a minimal ASP.NET Core 1.1 web application using the command line (Jon Hilton)
• Google Spreadsheets and JavaScript/Node.js (Sam Agnew)
• Using Azure AD with ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman)
• How to Poll Long Running Async Requests in Postman (Jon Gallant)
• Introducing New Answering Machine Detection (Andrew Jordan)
• Introduction to the Azure Portal (Chris Pietschmann)
• Strengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox (Crispin Cowan)
• Announcing Brackets 1.9 release (Rajnish Bharti)
• Save costs by scheduling Logic Apps (Toon Vanhoutte)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Forms Binding (Adam Pedley)
• Xamarin.Tips – Changing a TableView’s Separator Color (Alex Dunn)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# 7: Ref Returns, Ref Locals, and how to use them (Daniel Crabtree)
• Free eBook C# 7.0: What’s New Quick Start Complete (Jason Roberts)
• How to enable C# 7 in Visual Studio 2017 (Benjamin Perkins)
• How to fix common organizational Mistakes .NET Developers make with Microservices (George Stocker)
• My second book Loose Candy is out! (Iris Classon)
• Report from the battlefield #10 – fuck-up with AutoMapper (Michał Komorowski)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2017.1 EAP 6: dotMemory console profiler and more (Svetlana Emelyanova)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Show the User Journeys (Martin Fowler)
• Agile is King, but Continuous Integration is an Elusive Goal (Rui Miguel Ferreira)
• How to fix the “oh no! I’ve accidentally committed on master instead of a branch” – 082 (Sara Ford)
• Preparing for Continuous Delivery – DZone Refcardz (Andrew Phillips & Ben Wootton)
• Applying Hoshin Kanri at Toyota (Ben Linders)
• Analyze your data with Application Insights Analytics (Dan Hadari)
• Using Storyteller 4’s Markdown Capabilities (Jeremy D. Miller)
• FakeIt Series 3 of 5: Lean Models through Definitions (Laura Czajkowski)

Mobile Development

• Basic Unit Testing in Ionic (Max Lynch)
• Requiring Form Fields with NativeScript and Angular (Rob Lauer)
• 5 Tips for Launching Successful Apps and Games on Google Play (Adam Gutterman)
• Hello Holographic 3D World (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Episode 123 on the Excel Bot with Jakob Nielsen—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Richard diZerega & Andrew Coates)
• Hanselminutes – Lean Customer Development with Cindy Alvarez (Scott Hanselman)
• [Webinar Recording] Design Patterns: Not Just for Architects (Iveta Moldavcuk)
• AAWP Insight #211: Nearly baked Redstone 2, Maps, and more (Rafe Blandford)
• Telemetry for the Bot Framework | DevOps for the Bot Framework (Donovan Brown & Thiago Almeida)
• The MVP Show In Taiwan: An Interview With MVP Shih-Ming Tung (董是明) (MVP Award Program)
• TNDP Episode #16: The MEAN Stack for Application Development (Nic Raboy)
• Rocket 115: That is the Joke (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)

Community / Events

• Microsoft partners with IGNITE Worldwide to teach 54 High School girls how to code with Microsoft Small Basic (Ed Price)
• March Trend Exploration: Women Inspiring Women (Adobe Stock Team)

Database

• Gather Storage Subsystem Performance Metrics Using the Diskspd Utility for SQL Server Applications (Ben Snaidero)
• Use SSMS to Restore a SQL Server database on a Linux based instance from a backup on a Windows instance (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL SERVER – Jump in Identity Column After Restart (Pinal Dave)
• Five reasons to run SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 — No. 1: Security (SQL Server Team)
• Announcing R Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2015 (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
• From The Mailbag: DBCC CHECKDB And Read Only Databases (Erik Darling)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-03-24 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-03-24 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2307 (Chris Alcock)

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