Dew Drop – June 14, 2017 (#2500)

Top Links

• Visual Basic and Cross-Platform: Mobile Apps with VB, Xamarin, and .NET Standard! (Klaus Löffelmann)
• Viva, Visual Basic! Or, Does VB Have a Future? (Michael Domingo)
• Creating your own Tag Helpers | Code Conversations (Maria Naggaga)
• Embedding Xamarin.Forms into a Xamarin Native App #TheFuture (James Montemagno)

Web & Cloud Development

• Theming in ASP.NET Core Extended (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• angular-auth-oidc-client Release, an OpenID Implicit Flow client in Angular (Damien Bowden)
• Real World RxJS Marble Testing Revealed (Dave M. Bush)
• Resolving ASP.NET Core Startup class from the DI container (Filip W.)
• Deploy a PHP with Couchbase Application as Docker Containers (Nic Raboy)
• Node.js 8: The First Week (Tierney Cyren)
• React v15.6.0 (Flarnie Marchan)
• Calling Web Services with HttpWebRequest, WebClient and HttpClient (Peter Vogel)
• Node v8.1.1 (Current) (Anna Henningsen)
• Alpha Testers Wanted for Progressive Web App Tools for VS Code (John Papa)
• Build a photogallery app with auto tagging using AWS Rekognition and Couchbase – Part 2 (Laura Czajkowski)
• Node 8 and npm@5 release: What’s new? (Prosper Otemuyiwa)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• WPF Tip #13 – Extended WPF Toolkit – ColorCanvas with MVVMLight, Binding and EventToCommand (Me)
• Xamarin Stable Release: 15.2.3 Xamarin.VS Servicing Release (Bri Brothers)
• Boosting Your Productivity with MFractor (Gerald Versluis)

Visual Studio & .NET

• DevOps and Visual Studio (Grant Fritchey)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 is available on Windows Update, WSUS, and MU Catalog (Jamshed Damkewala)
• .NET Framework 4.7 and Exchange Server (The Exchange Team)
• Logging with Log4Net and Common Logging (Matthew Groves)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Making a Business Case for Agile (Ben Linders)
• Where’s the Ops in DevOps? Part 1 (DevOpsGuys)
• Demystifying Build Configurations (Jon Goldberger)
• Nested teams add depth to your team structure (Katie Sipos)
• Accelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 3 (Pratap Lakshman)

Mobile & IoT

• Have Web Standards on Mobile Caught Up to Phonegap in 2017? Pt. 2 (Raymond Camden)
• New eBook: Getting Started Making Games (Becky Young)
• Accessing Salesforce Data with NativeScript (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Talk: ASP.NET Core Futures Roadmap (Damian Edwards & David Fowler)
• #MSBuild 2017 Revisited: AI/ML (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 199 | Azure CosmosDB with Microsoft’s Rimma Nehme (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 100: Role Reversal (Dinishika Weerarathna)
• The Amp Hour #347 – Re-scoping the problem (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Functional Geekery Episode 98 – Scott Wlaschin (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – SQL Q and A at SQLIntersection Spring 2017 (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Modern Dad’s Father’s Day Favorites! (Phil Nickinson)
• Tuesdays with Corey: The Magic of Scheduled Maintenance | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• AFH 069: Dynamic Teams with Allison Pollard and Barry Forrest (Ryan Ripley)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Joel Asks About Remote Work As A Junior Developer (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Microsoft joins Cloud Foundry Foundation (Corey Sanders)
• Webinar: Bring Mobile Apps and Games to the Living Room’s 10-foot Experience (Serena McIntire)

Database

• How to implement a SQL formatting standard using SQL Prompt v8 (Louis Davidson)

PowerShell

• Adding Send as permissions for an Office 365 Group with PowerShell (Martina Grom)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft releases additional updates to protect against potential nation-state activity (Adrienne Hall)
• Will Microsoft ever be as ‘cool’ as Apple? (Cale Hunt)
• OneDrive Files On-Demand now available for Windows Insiders and Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15223 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• The Best Programming Languages for Each Situation, Part 3 (Gabriele Tomassetti)
• Verizon now officially owns Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns (Jacob Kastrenakes)
• How to grade programming assignments on GitHub (Vanessa)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-06-14 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-06-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2361 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1868 (Mike Gunderloy)

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