Dew Drop – June 22, 2017 (#2505)

Top Links

• Building Xamarin.Forms Apps with .NET Standard (Pierce Boggan)
• Integrate Assembly Diff in Your Build Using JustAssembly (Tsviatko Yovtchev)
• Snack Pack 13: Source Control in Visual Studio for Mac | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• New Learning Site for NativeScript Launched (Alexander Ziskind)

Web & Cloud Development

• Using % (Percent) For In-Line Styles In Angular 4.2.3 (Ben Nadel)
• Four ways to dispose IDisposables in ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
• ASP.NET Core with Entity Framework Core – ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT and ASP.NET Core with Entity Framework Core SqlException: cannot openserver (Benjamin Perkins)
• How to Organize an Angular Application (Dave M. Bush)
• Visual Studio 2017 and Swagger: Building and Documenting Web APIs (Dennes Torres)
• How to upgrade to latest Angular CLI (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using IActionConstraints in ASP.NET Core MVC (Filip W.)
• Perks of using UI for ASP.NET MVC (Matt Millican)
• Developing with Node.js on Microsoft Azure (K. Scott Allen)
• Top Docker Tools: 51 Useful Docker Tools for Every Stage of the Development Pipeline (Angela Stringfellow)
• Build and deploy hybrid applications in Azure using Docker Enterprise Edition (Dee Kumar)
• VSCode Your Next PWA (Greg Duncan)
• Build a photogallery app with auto tagging using AWS Rekognition and Couchbase – Part 3 (Laura Czajkowski)
• Ramping up Software Deployment – A Docker Swarm Tutorial (Luke Sapan)
• Updated Chrome Debugging Tools Worth Mentioning (Rion Williams)
• Release of SDK 2.6.220 and Runtime 5.6.220 refresh for Windows (Service Fabric Team)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Track Your Fitness with a Fitbit and Xamarin (Wallace McClure)
• Xamarin.Tip – Fixing the VS for Mac Xamarin.Forms Template Android Issues (Alex Dunn)
• Why Xamarin.Forms Embedding Matters (James Montemagno)
• MFractor – A ReSharper for Xamarin.Forms(!?!) (Matthew Soucoup)
• Monetizing your app: Set your COPPA settings for your app (Vikram Bodavula)

Visual Studio & .NET

• High-performance .NET by example: Filtering bot traffic (Alexandr Nikitin)
• Serilog 2.5 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• CodeSmith Generator 8.0.0 (Blake Niemyjski)
• Visual Basic 6 to .NET Migration (Dayanandhan V.)
• Sale: Save on all certification prep books (Kim Spilker)
• protobuf-net gets proto3 support (Marc Gravell)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Leading Indicators in Unit Testing Implementation III on #EverydayUnitTesting (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Version Control in Postman (Ankit Sobti)
• Who’s Afraid of Emergent Design? (Dave Nicolette)
• Where’s the Ops in DevOps? Part 2 (DevOpsGuys)
• Should You Aim for 100 Percent Test Coverage? (Erik Dietrich)
• VSTS Sync Migration Tool Update and Bugfix (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why Delete Old Git Branches? (Steve Smith)
• Visualize the health of your CI/CD pipelines (Willy-P. Schaub)

Mobile & IoT

• Layout Managers in Android: The Basics (Adrian Hall)
• JavaScript for Microcontrollers and IoT: Part 1 (Sebastián Peyrott)
• Swift Package Manager Manifest API Redesign (Ankit Aggarwal)
• Build a Raspberry Pi Vehicle Interior Monitor – Overview (Graham Smith)
• NativeScript for the Appcelerator Titanium Developer (Rob Lauer)
• Use the Twilio Auth SDK to easily embed 2FA directly into your mobile app (Simon Thorpe)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Military Spaceplanes Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Yet Another Podcast #172 – James Montemagno on Embedding (Jesse Liberty)
• Video: 4 Devs Talk JavaScript, Fluent, and the web (Erin Sloan)
• #MSBuild 2017 Revisited: Office (Greg Duncan)
• TWC9: Build Tour Warsaw, Xbox at E3, .NET Fringe Conference, 5 Awesome #MSBuild Stories and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vlad Kolesnikov & shenchauhan)
• SQL Server Database Unit Testing in your DevOps pipeline | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 200 | The Listener Show (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• ngAir 118 – i18n and Translation with Olivier Combe and Victor Berchet (Justin Schwartzenberger)
• The week in .NET – .NET Architecture: Microservices & Containers, On .NET with Omer Raviv on OzCode, Sprache (Bertrand Le Roy)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 141 – Codeland – Interview with NYC’s first CTO (Minerva Tantoco) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 245 | BJ Burns – Lead To Learn (Dave Rael)
• RunAs Radio – DevOps in 2017 with Nicole Forsgren (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Creating Custom Tag Helper Components with Jass Bagga | Code Conversations (Jon Galloway & Maria Naggaga)
• Talk Python to Me #117 – Functional Python with Coconut (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Engineering Daily – Episode 500 with Pranay Mohan and Erika Hokanson and Software Engineering Daily – Hackathons with Lizette Chapman (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – Thinking About Serverless? Let’s Start With Azure Functions | Thiago Passos (Sophie Belle)
• Azure SQL Database Geographic Failover at Scale | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

Community & Events

• Interest in a Philly XP meetup? (Anthony Sciamanna)
• Meet Jorge Cano, Developer Expert for NativeScript (Jen Looper)
• Join us for Mission Mars: Fourth Horizon, a developers event (Kyle Elliott)
• Sentry joins the Student Developer Pack (Lee Reilly)
• Save the date: Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017 comes to Seattle on September 13th (Kyle Pflug)
• Detroit.Code() is coming soon! (Mike Eaton)
• Our commitment to Maven and the LGBTQ community (Nicole Sanchez)

Database

• Scenarios for Using Calculated Tables in SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular 2016 or Power BI Desktop – Part 2 (Koen Verbeeck)
• Dealing with the single-character delimiter in SQL Server’s STRING_SPLIT function (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – New Quality of Database Documentation – Dataedo and SQL SERVER – Unable to Restore from URL – The Specified URL Points to a Block Blob. Backup and Restore Operations on Block Blobs are not Permitted (Pinal Dave)
• Builder Day: Doing a Point-in-Time Restore in Amazon RDS for SQL Server (Tara Kizer)
• Builder Day: Doing a Point-in-Time Restore in Azure SQL DB (Brent Ozar)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Text Mining with R – $16.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• SQLskills SQL101: Practicing disaster recovery (Paul Randal)

PowerShell

• WMI subclasses (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• Constructor Dependency Injection in Go (Adam Young)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15226 for Mobile and Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16226 for PC (Dona Sarkar)
• Spotify for Windows 10 available now in the Windows Store (Tuula Rytilä)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-06-21 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-06-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-06-22 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-06-22 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2366 and The Morning Brew #2367 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1872 and Double Shot #1873 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #325 (Pedro Botelho)

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