Dew Drop – May 19, 2017 (#2483)

Top Links

• Rider EAP 22: Xamarin iOS, unit testing improvements, compound run configurations and more (Maarten Balliauw)
• Glimpse the Future of Xamarin Forms 3.0 (David Ortinau)
• Note-taking made easier for everyone—redesigning OneNote (March Rogers)
• Razor Pages with ASP.NET Core 2 (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Web & Cloud Development

• Harnessing your IoC Container to perform application event tasks in ASP.NET MVC (Joseph Woodward)
• Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: Siren (Derek Comartin)
• Twilio Announces the General Availability of Twilio Client JavaScript SDK 1.4 (Derek Frome)
• WebStorm 2017.2 EAP, 172.2273: move symbol refactoring (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Storyteller 4.2: ASP.Net Core, Databases, Json (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How to Draw Bar Charts Using JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas (John Negoita)
• Microsoft beats Google and Amazon to announce first African data centers, kicking off in 2018 (Paul Sawers)
• Multi-level folders and folder reordering (Joyce)
• Announcing Programmable Video Group Rooms: More Participants, Video Recording, and Pricing for Scale (Rob Brazier)
• Exposing Business Logic as REST API (Soumyajit Basu)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• What Is Xamarin Live Player (Mahesh Chand)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# LINQ: Ordered Joining and Grouping Lazy Operators (Yuriy Magurdumov)

 

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Open Plan Offices Kill Productivity, According To Science (Geoffrey James)
• DevOps in Practice (Chris Walden)
• Consensual Software: How to prioritize user safety (Danielle Leong)
• Is There a Correct Way to Comment Your Code? and How to Evaluate Software Quality from Source Code (Erik Dietrich)
• Review – Professional Git (Matteo Emili)
• Continuous Delivery Tools adds support for Containers (Ahmed Metwally)

 

Mobile & IoT

• Android Wear: New complications tools and watch friendly UI library (Hoi Lam)
• How to Use Android O’s Autofill Framework (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Securing iOS Data at Rest: Protecting the User’s Data (Collin Stuart)
• What’s new in Android O? (Jerry Hildenbrand)
• Microsoft IoT Central Enables SaaS-based IoT Solutions (Chris Pietschmann)
• More on Daydream, Tango, and Developer tools for VR and AR (Clay Bavor)
• The Modern Mobile Web: State of the Union (Rahul Roy-chowdhury)
• Swift Animation Basics (Markus Mühlberger)
• The Internet of Things begins with a secure foundation today (Microsoft IoT)
• Give Your Apps Some Style with the NativeScript Theme Builder (Rob Lauer)
• Synchronizing Images Between Android and iOS with NativeScript, Angular, and Couchbase (Nic Raboy)

 

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Episode 129 on Build announcements with engineering panel—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Richard diZerega & Andrew Coates)
• Hanselminutes – Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence with Edaena Salinas Jasso (Scott Hanselman)
• SSW TV – How to Tame a Penguin – Master Linux with ASP.NET Core | Brendan Richards (Sophie Belle)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Michael Fassbender and Danny McBride and The Nerdist Podcast – Jordan Peele #2 (Chris Hardwick)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – How the bigger purpose of the organization influences the team | Khaja Mohiuddin (Vasco Duarte)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – A Monster Build Recap (Ed Charbeneau)
• Windows at Microsoft Build 2017 | This Week On Windows (Kathy Hickman)
• Cloud Gal interview (Maoni Stephens)
• Custom Domain HTTPS Support with Azure CDN (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Rocket 123: A Two-Parter, Part Two (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Software Engineering Daily – Cloud Native Projects with Dan Kohn (Jeff Meyerson)
• Talk Python to Me #112 – Geeking out in the golden years (Michael Kennedy)
• Developer Tea  – Squares Conference (feat. Anne Grundhoefer) (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community & Events

• Bot Framework presentations at Build 2017 (Bot Framework Team)
• Why we’re giving 2017.1 beta testers cool t-shirts and a chance to win a Nintendo Switch (Alex Lian)
• Six Free Blockbuster Festivals Not To Miss In Philly This Weekend (Jillian Wilson)
• Get to know the Satellite speakers (Joe Nash)
• Around The World With MVPs: ReBUILD 2017 in Nantes, France (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Visual SQL Server Performance Data Comparison with R (Jeffrey Yao)
• MySQL LIMIT & OFFSET with Examples (Guru99)
• SQL SERVER – Login Failed – Server is in Script Upgrade Mode – Deleting Collection Set “Utility Information” (Pinal Dave)
• Azure CLI 2.0: Reset Azure SQL Database Password (Chris Pietschmann)
• Masking your on-premise database with SQL Data Mask (Santiago Arias)

 

SharePoint

• Bob German on the SharePoint Framework In His Own Words (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Tip: Getting enum values as names, int and bit (Raimund AndrĂŠe)
• Tips: How to avoid redundant code and (crazy) Tips: editing scripts (Emin Atac)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-05-19 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-05-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2344 (Chris Alcock)

 

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