Dew Drop – July 14, 2017 (#2520)

Top Links

• Rider Release Candidate: performance, refactorings, Unity and more! (Maarten Balliauw)
• MFractor 3.1 for Visual Studio Mac out now (Matthew Robbins)
• Announcing Postman 5.0 – Pro features for free! (Abhinav Asthana)
• Introduction to MSBuild in .NET Core with Nate McMaster | Code Conversations (Jon Galloway & Maria Naggaga)

Web & Cloud Development

• Creating custom password validators for ASP.NET Core Identity (Andrew Lock)
• Real-World Angular Series – Part 6: Reactive Forms and Custom Validation (Kim Maida)
• Development time IIS support for ASP.NET Core Applications (Sourabh Shirhatti)
• Minimal ASPNET Core Web API (Steve Smith)
• NgRx: Patterns and Techniques (Victor Savkin)
• Implementing Two-factor authentication with IdentityServer4 and Twilio (Damien Bowden)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Using MvvmCross with Xamarin.Forms — Part 1 (Martijn van Dijk)
• Xamarin: From Zero to Certified (Jason Hill)
• Xamarin.Basics – Ad Hoc iOS Builds, Part 2a: Publishing in HockeyApp (Alex Dunn)
• Prism in Xamarin Forms Step by Step (Part. 1) (Charlin Agramonte)
• Free Tools: Ultimate UI for Xamarin Toolbox and Control Configurators (Infragistics Team)
• Xamarin – Build on iOS from Windows Command Prompt/MSBuild (Martyn Wiggins)
• Turning Events into Commands (Matthew Leibowitz)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Reviewing Resin: Part III (Oren Eini)
• Persisting the “Find All references” results in Visual Studio 2017 (Abhijit Jana)
• Practical C# – Readonly Auto Properties and Practical C# – Generalized Async Return Types in C# 7 (Andrea Angella)
• CodeIt.Right Rules Explained, Part 7 (Erik Dietrich)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The Value of Software and the Single Responsibility Principle (Troy Lightfoot)
• Managing Crowdsourced Testing (Ben Linders)
• Git Questions – How and When do I Merge or Rebase? (Gary Hockin)
• Microservices and Enterprise Architecture: When Two Worlds Meet (Thomas Jardinet)

Mobile & IoT

• iOS UserNotifications in Swift (Sam Agnew)
• How To Manage State In Ionic Apps With MobX – Part 1 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• How to Control Your Entertainment Devices with the Smart Home Skill API (BJ Haberkorn)
• Announcing Ionic 3.5.2 (Dan Bucholtz)
• Introducing the Official NativeScript Plugin Seed (TJ VanToll)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Gone Mobile 53: Xamarin.Forms Update with David Ortinau (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• Setting up SQL Server High-Availability between Windows and Linux with SQL Server 2017 | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• Getting Started with Windows Template Studio (keantonc & Rosshe)
• StarTalk Radio – #ICYMI: Extended Classic: The Physics of the Tour de France (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Windows Weekly 526: Live from Inspire (Paul Thurrott)
• RadioTFS – Oh Dark Thirty with Colin Dembovsky (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Azure Network Watcher (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Azure Podcast Episode 187 – CosmosDB (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Find out how humans and machines are collaborating at the 2017 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit (Alyssa Hughes)
• Defending Net Neutrality: Millions Rally to Save the Internet, Again (Denelle Dixon)
• 10 Questions with Dwight Goins (James Ashley)
• Join free webinar on “Step by Step Getting Started with Angular 4” (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Xbox at gamescom 2017 (Will Tuttle)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Setup Rule: Microsoft .NET Application Security. The computer cannot access the Internet (Pinal Dave)
• What I Love About the Stack Overflow Database (Brent Ozar)
• Migrating to Azure SQL Database (Gavin Payne)

Miscellaneous

• New Office Insider update now rolling out on the Slow ring for Windows 10 (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16241 for PC & Build 15230 for Mobile and Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 16237 (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2383 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1888 (Mike Gunderloy)

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