Dew Drop – May 1, 2017 (#2469)

Top Links

• A C# Developer’s Guide to F# and Calling F# Code in a C# Project (Connel Hooley)
• How to Send and Receive SMS Messages Using C# and ASP.NET (Twilio)
• MS Dev Show – What’s up with Docs with Den Delimarsky (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• SQL Server community-driven enhancements in SQL Server 2017 (SQL Server Tiger Team)

 

Web & Cloud Development

• HTML and shared memory (Anne van Kesteren)
• ASP.NET on OpenShift part 5: Models in the MVC (Charlotte Ellett)
• Quick Tour of WebStorm and Docker (Paul Everitt)
• TypeScript 2.3 Adds Generic Default Arguments, Async Iterators Support, and More (Sergio De Simone)
• Build Yourself a Redux (Justin Deal)
• Conditionally adding entries inside Array and object literals and Functional pattern: flatMap (Axel Rauschmayer)
• TypeScript at Slack (Felix Rieseberg)
• Using npm as a Build Tool (gablaxian)
• Introducing SpriteKit (James Tyner)
• Using the Twitter API to Tweet Repetitive Content (Jeff Reifman)
• StackExchange.Redis and Redis 4.0 Modules (Marc Gravell)
• Registering Open Generics in ASPNET Core Dependency Injection (Steve Smith)
• Migrating Wiki content from CodePlex to GitHub (Peter Freeman Foot)
• BizTalk and Azure Functions and Tactical Integration with Logic Apps (Michael Stephenson)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• 2000 WPF Things #1,206 – Changing Color of Custom Circular Progress (Sean Sexton)
• Xamarin forms – custom ListView separator without BoxView (Glenn Versweyveld)
• Fantastic Fonts in Xamarin.Forms (Matthew Soucoup)
• UWP: Working with Bluetooth devices (part 1) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• De-virtualization in CoreCLR: Part I and De-virtualization in CoreCLR: Part II (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 2017 Help Resource Available Offline (Michael Domingo)
• The Best Option for Selecting Related LINQ objects (Peter Vogel)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2017.1.2: unit testing, TypeScript, C++ fixes (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Complexity extension is now compatible with VS 2017 (Eli Shalom)
• CodeRush for Rosyln 16.2.8 is Available (Mark Miller)
• Why does the compiler generate memory operations on the full variable even though only one byte is involved? (Raymond Chen)
• Contributing to .NET for Dummies (Rion Williams)

 

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How To Make The Whole Organization Agile (Andy Cleff)
• How to download and merge commits from a remote branch on your local branch – 118 and How to deal with a merge conflict when doing a Pull from a remote branch into a local branch in Visual Studio – 119 and How to view your branches from the command line – 120 (Sara Ford)
• Pathologies of Uncohesive Code (David Bernstein)
• The Organized Chaos Approach To Scaling A Team (Dennis R. Mortensen)
• Doing the minimum (Eric Brechner)
• GitHub – Integrations moves into pre-release with new features (Stephanie Wills)
• Git LFS 2.1.0 released (Taylor Blau)
• Setup a CI/CD pipeline with package management for your Team Services extension (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cordova Android 6.2.2 Released! (Steve Gill)
• Precision Agriculture with IoT, Machine Learning, Drones, and Networking Research (Jennifer Marsman)
• Ionic and Lazy Loading Pt 1 (Mike Hartington)

 

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Matt Soucoup on What’s New in Xamarin (David Giard)
• Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 227 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Talk Python to Me #109 – MongoDB Applied Design Patterns (Michael Kennedy)
• Agile Uprising Podcast – Heart of Agile Live Show (Ryan Lockard)
• Best of Visual Studio 2017 Launch (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• InfoQ Podcast: Richard Feldman Discusses Elm and How It Compares to React.js for Front-end Programming (Richard Feldman)
• The Nerdist Podcast – TWCH Michelle Monaghan (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 248: Open Source Lessons Learned with Zeno Rocha (Adam Stacoviak)
• The Changelog 249: Open Source at Microsoft, Inclusion, Diversity, and OSCON with Scott Hanselman (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• RiYL Episode 214: R. Sikoryak (Brian Heater)
• Developer on Fire Episode 230 | John Sonmez – Bold Truth (Dave Rael)
• Merge Conflict 43: DevOps for the Solo Developer (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• StarTalk Live! Let’s Make America Smart Again (Part 2) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 65: Jo Overline’s Ugly Start (Richie Rump)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Chris Albon (Part 3 of 3) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Inventory and Store System – Part 5.2 (Finishing the Inventory & Buying Equipment) | .GAME (Stacey Haffner)
• Azure Podcast Episode 176 – Networking Discussion (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community & Events

• Welcome the New Xamarin MVPs! (Jayme Singleton)
• Start planning your Google I/O 2017 schedule! (Christopher Katsaros)
• May The 4th Be With You: Ways to Celebrate Star Wars Day (StarWars.com Team)
• May & June 2017 Speaking Engagements (Jeremy Clark)

 

Database

• Tracking SQL Server Replication Metadata Changes (Tim Smith)
• SQL server AlwaysOn Availability Group data latency issue on secondary replicas and synchronous state monitoring (Changhong Fu)
• SQL SERVER – Ghost Cleanup Getting Hung and Blocking Checkpoint Process. What’s Wrong? and What is the Initial Size of TempDB? – Interview Question of the Week #120 (Pinal Dave)
• Exam material for Microsoft Exam 70-532 Developing SQL Databases (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL Data Mask: now featuring configurable masks (Santiago Arias)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Framework Generator Updated to v1.0.2 (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• DSC Configuration Sharing (Michael Greene)

 

Miscellaneous

• Should Microsoft ditch Windows Mobile and embrace Android? (Jason Ward)
• Book Review – Learn to Program with Scratch (Lucy Black)
• Things To Ask Alexa: Star Wars Day Edition (April Hamilton)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16184 for PC + Build 15208 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• The sad disappearance of climate change information (Kevin Dangoor)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-05-01 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-05-01 (Dan Rigby)
• Reading Notes #278 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #310 (Pedro Botelho)
• Yep, we’re showing off. Coming right up with the Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Coding4Fun April 2017 Round-up and Last Week on Channel 9: April 24th – April 30, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Azure Weekly: May 1, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #152 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #17-18, 2017 – JetBrains Rider‏ adds F# support (Sergey Tihon)

 

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