Dew Drop – July 18, 2017 (#2522)

For my readers who are interested in attending TechBash 2017: Friday is the last day to get tickets at a discounted rate. Come see Donovan Brown (keynote), Shawn Wildermuth, Jeff Fritz, Jeremy Clark and 30+ more world-class speakers at the Kalahari Resort in the Poconos. Plus you can hang out with me!    Get more info.

Top Links

• Announcing the F# Community Diversity Program (F# Software Foundation)
• Introducing MFractor for Visual Studio for Mac (Matthew Robbins)
• SQL Server 2017 containers for DevOps scenarios (Tony Petrossian)
• First release candidate of SQL Server 2017 now available (SQL Server Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• Avoid Problems by Creating Individual Components in Angular (Sample App Key Learnings #1) (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Anti-forgery Validation in ASP.NET Core (Dino Esposito)
• Creating a validator to check for common passwords in ASP.NET Core Identity (Andrew Lock)
• WebStorm 2017.2 released: Move symbol refactoring, import code style from ESLint, better webpack support, and more (Ekaterina Prigara)
• MapQuest Announces Release of MapQuest.js: An Interactive JavaScript Mapping Library (Jeff Medaugh)
• Async ASP.NET Core APIs: Source Code (Kevin Dockx)
• Create Your Own Angular 4 Application Shell Using PrimeNG (Michael Washington)
• Building MEAN Apps with Cosmos DB – Part 1 (John Papa)
• The best way to learn Docker for Free: Play-With-Docker (PWD) (Victor Coisne)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Progress indicator with Xamarin Forms (Gunnar Peipman)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Reviewing Resin: Part IV (Oren Eini)
• Expression – Bodied Members in C# 7.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• Revisions to previous discussion of the implementation of anonymous methods in C# (Raymond Chen)
• .NET Application Architecture Guidance (.NET Team)
• Creating a TOC Addin for Markdown Monster using .NET (Daniel Vaughan)
• #VS2017 – VSTS extension with a #GitHub collaboration chart (similar) (Bruno Capuano)
• ’17’s Where Am I (Greg Duncan)
• Rider Adds Performance Gains in RC1 (Jeff Martin)
• Updating Windows Applications and Installers for non-Admin Installation (Rick Strahl)
• 13 hours debugging a segmentation fault in .NET Core on Raspberry Pi and the solution was… (Scott Hanselman)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• 5 Things You Should Know About Immutable Objects (Roger Jin)

Mobile & IoT

• Skype for Business – App SDK for iOS (MS Downloads)
• Building Native iOS and Android Apps With Vue and NativeScript (TJ VanToll)
• Use Fingerprint Authentication In A NativeScript Angular Application (Nic Raboy)
• AlexaDev Tuesday: Managing The Alexa Interaction Model (April Hamilton)
• Announcing Creator Ionic 3 support! (And what’s coming next) (Matt Kremer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Agile Uprising Podcast – SAFe 4.5 with Dean Leffingwell (Jason Hrcsko)
• Technology & Friends – Peter Leeson on Quality (David Giard)
• Windows Central Podcast 57: Buying a new Windows Phone (Zac Bowden)
• AFH 072: Agile Product Management with John Cutler [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• SQL Server and Couchbase side-by-side (video) (Matthew Groves)
• AiA 148 What’s New in NativeScript with TJ VanToll (Alyssa Nicoll, Charles Max Wood & Ward Bell)
• DEVintersection Countdown Show on the Evolution of the Cloud with Scott Guthrie | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Cameron Tomisser)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Degree Seeking Developers (Ed Charbeneau)
• The Amp Hour #352 – Conning with Michael Ossmann (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Revision Path 200: Sarah Huny Young (Maurice Cherry)
• Developer Tea – The Value of The Third Option (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Introducing the First Alexa Accelerator Class (Emily Roberts)
• 10 Questions with Bronwen Zande (James Ashley)
• 20+ Awesome Things To Do In Philly This Week, July 17-23 (Jillian Wilson)
• Meet the team – Omer Raviv (OzCode)

Database

• Installing external R packages to use with SQL Server 2017 (Siddharth Mehta)
• SQL Server Management Studio Tips – Generating Scripts (Sergey Gigoyan)
• SQLCLR in Practice: Creating a Better Way of Sending Email from SQL Server (Darko Martinović)
• SQL SERVER – How to See Scripts Executing in sp_executesql? (Pinal Dave)
• Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) July updates (Jenny Jiang)
• Resumable Online Index Rebuild is in public preview for Azure SQL DB and Database Scoped Global Temporary Tables in public preview for Azure SQL DB (Mirek Sztajno)

PowerShell

• PowerShell $env Variables (Steve Jones)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the LinkedIn app for Windows 10 (Hermes Alvarez)
• ebook deal of the week: Windows Internals, 7th Edition, Part 1 (Kim Spilker)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-18 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-18 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2385 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1889 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: July 17, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)

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