Dew Drop – June 15, 2017 (#2501)

Top Links

• AutoMapper 6.1.0 released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Automate Testing and Running Apps with dotnet watch (Steve Smith)
• Things I Think Are Cool: Custom XAML Markup Extensions (Matthew Soucoup)
• Tune in to Imagine Cup July 27 to see which team of student developers wins (Anthony Salcito)

Web & Cloud Development

• New Syncfusion JavaScript UI Library Preview Available on GitHub (Jacqueline Bieringer)
• 15 Best HTML5 Audio Players (Eric Dye)
• From 0 to 100 with this ASP.NET Core/AngularX Project Template (Greg Duncan)
• Using Mixins in Vue.js (Sarah Drasner)
• How To: Clone your dang website you manage via git (Tab Atkins Jr.)
• Client-side Development Frameworks (Shield UI Team)
• Get Ready for Web Bluetooth! (Jen Looper)
• What’s New and Shiny In The TypeScript Community (June 2017) (Tatu Tamminen)
• Take your web app to Azure (Brian Moore)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• VirtualGrid Optmizations, Analytics Integration and More in UI for WPF (Kalin Todorov)
• Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: navigation and modal pages (Marco Siccardi)
• 5 Ways to Boost Xamarin.Forms App Startup Time (David Ortinau)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# 7.x and 8.0: Uncertainty and Awesomeness (Erik Heemskerk)
• Visual Studio 2017 templates and the missing content (Iris Classon)
• Installation issues? Get ReSharper Ultimate 2017.1.3 (Jura Gorohovsky)
• CMake support in Visual Studio – what’s new in 2017 15.3 Preview 2 (Will Buik)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Leading Indicators in Unit Testing Implementation II on #EverydayUnitTesting (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Scrum Tapas: The Importance of Professionalism (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Managing Risks Through Scrum: Inspect and Adapt (Neeraj Bhasin)
• How Testers Can Become More Technical (Ben Linders)
• GitHub: New community tools (Kat Fukui)
• Become Your Teammates’ Rubber Duck (Matthew Jones)
• 8 Books To Improve Your Test Automation Skills (Nikolay Advolodkin)
• View tags for git repositories (Sandeep Chadda)
• What is in the latest releases of the team services extension generator? (Willy-P. Schaub)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Writing a Weather App for Android: Location (Adrian Hall)
• Swift for Windows – Download: Swift for Windows ver-1.6 (Vineet Choudhary)
• Reduce friction with the new Location APIs (Aaron Stacy)
• Setting up a HoloLens project with the HoloToolkit – June 2017 edition (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Agile Uprising Podcast – David Horowitz – Distributed Teams and Continuous Improvement (Ryan Lockard)
• .NET Rocks! – New Great Design Science with Mark Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Xamarin Show Episode 25: Unity Game Development with Visual Studio for Mac with Jb Evain (James Montemagno)
• RadioTFS Zen (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Developer on Fire Episode 243 | Joe Colantonio – Creating Options (Dave Rael)
• TPDP Episode #14: Object Storage for Application Developers (Nic Raboy)
• Becoming a software developer – episode XXI (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Joel Asks About Remote Work As A Junior Developer (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community / Events

• 10+ Ways To Celebrate Father’s Day In Philadelphia (Amy Gordon)
• Motz’s Thoughts: E3 2017 Recap (Microsoft, Sony, & Nintendo) (James Montemagno)
• Doing What You Have to Do: This #Insiders4Good Fellow is determined to solve preventable maternal mortality in Nigeria (Windows Insider)

Database

• SQL SERVER – How to Enable Lock Pages in Memory? (Pinal Dave)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Agile Data Science 2.0 – $19.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s ‘Office in the Windows Store’ release is coming June 15 and Microsoft Ventures: A look at Redmond’s latest 13 investments (Mary Jo Foley)
• Neural Network Back-Propagation Using Python (James McCaffrey)
• Nova Launcher gets a Google Now pane by jumping through hoops (Ara Wagoner)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-06-15 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-06-15 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2362 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1869 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #323 (Pedro Botelho)

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