Dew Drop – July 20, 2017 (#2524)

Top Links

• New Lights and PropertySet Interop – XAML and Visual Layer Interop, Part Two (Windows UI Team)
• Xamarin Preview: Xcode 9 beta 3, iOS 11, macOS 10.13 support – Preview 1 (Bri Brothers)
• The Classy Way to Create Objects in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• .NET Rocks! – TypeScript and Beyond with Anders Hejlsberg (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web & Cloud Development

• 5 Ways to Export from ASP.NET to Word and PDF File (Ed Charbeneau)
• Dictionary Objects in JavaScript and TypeScript (Jessica Kerr)
• Creating a jQuery Plugin for Long Shadow Design (John Negoita)
• MEAN and Cosmos DB – Part 3: Angular and Express APIs (John Papa)
• Angular 4.3 Brings New HttpClient and More (Sergio De Simone)
• Using Observables To Communicate Between Angular Components (Michael Washington)
• Faking Azure ID identity in ASP.NET Core unit tests (Gunnar Peipman)
• Shh… Secrets are Coming to Windows in Docker 17.06 (Elton Stoneman)
• Building a Restaurant Discovery Service with Postman (Andrew Broz)
• Node v8.2.0 (Current) (Jeremiah Senkpiel)
• Intro to Hoodie and React (Kyle Pennell)
• Docker Leads OCI Release of v1.0 Runtime and Image Format Specifications (Patrick Chanezon)
• A lap around Azure Functions, go serverless! (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 4: Layout and Views (Jesse Liberty)
• Pushing the Boundaries of Xamarin with Syncfusion (James Kennedy)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Reviewing Resin: Part VI – Analyzing I/O and being unfair (Oren Eini)
• Practical C# – Default Expressions in C# 7.1 (Andrea Angella)
• Using MinGW and Cygwin with Visual C++ and Open Folder (Will Buik)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Unit Testing Implementation: Leadership, Part II on #EverydayUnitTesting (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Is Your Team Wrong About Your Codebase? Prove It. Visually. (Erik Dietrich)
• Your Code Sucks, Get Over It (Lee Richardson)
• Linking Team Services (VSTS) accounts with your Azure account for Continuous Integration (Abhijit Jana)
• Switch Between git Branches Easily (Steve Smith)

Mobile & IoT

• Coding an Android App With IBM Watson Machine Learning (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• How To Manage State In Ionic Apps With MobX – Part 2 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• Affordable React Native Mobile App Development (Kateryna Boiko)
• JavaScript for Microcontrollers and IoT: Building a Sensor Hub (Sebastián Peyrott)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Syntax – Tasty Web Development Treats 003 – CSS Preprocessors and Structuring CSS (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Polymorphic Podcast – Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide (Craig Shoemaker)
• Developer on Fire Episode 253 | Kyle Scarmardo – Motivation Matters (Dave Rael)
• .future Podcast – Gaming the System (Navid Khonsari, Larry Hyrb, Rik Eberhardt, Mia Consalvo, Sherida Halatoe, Karla Zimonja & Katie Stone Perez)
• AI in the Open World | Microsoft Research (MSRVideo)
• Software Engineering Daily – Simple Programmer with John Sonmez (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – Get ready for modern DevOps – Danijel Malik (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Daw Chih asks About Over Execution (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 188 – Ready (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Interview with Go Succinctly Author Mark Lewin (Tres Watkins)
• 10 Questions with Michael Hoffman (James Ashley)
• The Do’s and Don’ts of Creating an Event Experience (Kalahari Meetings)
• A Big Change for Candor, Inc. (Kim Scott)
• Microsoft Launches the Xbox Live Creators Program (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• SQL Server 2016 ColumnStore Index String Predicate Pushdown (Ahmad Yaseen)
• Run Oracle’s Powerful Big Data Cloud Platform In Your Own Data Center (Linda Currey Post)
• SQL SERVER – Can I Delete Always On Availability Groups Initial Sync Folder? (Pinal Dave)
• Introduction to NoSQL and Polyglot Persistence (Nikola Živković)
• Recovering a SQL database via T-SQL (Lee Stevens)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Roadmap Shows Scripting Language Straddling Developer, Operations Roles (Michael Domingo)
• PowerShell for Assigning and Querying Tags in Azure (Melissa Coates)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to partners: Here’s how to sell Windows 10 Pro and 10 S (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft reveals GLAS, a gorgeous Cortana-powered thermostat (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide – Get it NOW! (John Sonmez)
• Expanding OneDrive version history support to all file types (OneDrive Team)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-20 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2387 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #333 (Pedro Botelho)

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