Dew Drop – July 21, 2017 (#2525)

Top Links

• Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures (Scott Hanselman)
• Installing Visual Studio 2017 Made Easy (Mayur Tendulkar)
• Design Patterns: Template Method | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• What’s new in the latest ReSharper 2017.2 EAP builds? (Maarten Balliauw)

Web & Cloud Development

• Why display: contents is not CSS Grid Layout subgrid (Rachel Andrew)
• Setting Up Your React Dev Environment Easily and HTML5 Canvas: From Noob to Ninja (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Building ASP.NET Core 2.0 preview 2 packages on AppVeyor (Andrew Lock)
• The Story of our Progressive Migration from Backbone to Vue.js (Charles Ouellet)
• Real-World Angular Series – Part 8: Lazy Loading, Production Deployment, SSL (Kim Maida)
• Best Practices for Designing a Chatbot Conversational Experience (Hristo Borisov)
• Node v8.2.1 (Current) (Jeremiah Senkpiel)
• Azure For Developers – Part 2: Your First App Service (Jesse Liberty)
• MEAN and Cosmos DB – Part 4: Creating and Deploying Cosmos DB (John Papa)
• Creating a Blogging App Using React, Part 4: Update & Delete Posts (Roy Agasthyan)
• Release of Runtime Preview 5.6.26.6 for Linux (Service Fabric Team)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• MvvmCross 5.1 (Martijn van Dijk)
• Live Updates to the Xamarin Grid (David Negley)
• ReactiveUI Tutorial for Xamarin: The ViewModel (Jan Tourlamain)

Visual Studio & .NET

• PR Review: Is your error handling required? (Oren Eini)
• Turning On/Off “Structure Guide Lines” in Visual Studio 2017 and How To customize “Structure Guide Lines” Colors in Visual Studio 2017 ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Wikis are coming to Visual Studio Team Services (Gunnar Peipman)
• Crash course in async and await (Raymond Chen)
• Profile-guided optimization in .NET Core 2.0 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• How to create a Cake Addin (Derek Comartin)
• .NET Code Documentation So Easy It’s an Afterthought (Erik Dietrich)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• SUPPORT file support (Ben Balter)
• Creating a GitHub Issues Autoresponder using Webask.io (Bobby Johnson)
• Technical Leadership: Getting Started (Brenda Jin)
• Composite UIs for Microservices – A Primer (Jimmy Bogard)
• From Idea To MVP: Build A Better Product Workflow In 5 Power-Ups (Brian Cervino)

Mobile & IoT

• How To Manage State In Ionic Apps With MobX – Part 2 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• Build a Raspberry Pi Vehicle Interior Monitor – Mobile Broadband (Graham Smith)
• Image Recognition, Vuforia and the HoloLens (Greg Duncan)
• Deep Dive into NativeScript 3.1 Performance Improvements (Panayot Cankov)
• Creating Artwork and Sounds for Your Games (Serena McIntire)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Josh Doody on Resumes, Interviewing, and Negotiation (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The importance of feedback loops | Tom Taylor (Vasco Duarte)
• DEVintersection Countdown Show on the Harnessing the Power of Roslyn with Kasey Uhlenhuth | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Cameron Tomisser)
• Windows Weekly 527: The One Without the Nuts (Paul Thurrott)
• Azure Analysis Services with Azure SQL DB and Data Warehouse (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Rocket 132: I Invented Daddy Culture (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Software Engineering Daily – Reinforcement Learning with Michal Kempa (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Trying Something New (Brady Gaster)
• The GitHub Diversity Report (Chris Wanstrath)
• 10 Questions with Jesse McCulloch (James Ashley)
• Announcing the 2017 Philly Geek Award Nominees! (Mikey Il)
• Meet Scott Addie, Developer Expert for Kendo UI and UI for ASP.NET (Jen Looper)

Database

• Queries to inventory your SQL Server Agent Jobs (Rick Dobson)
• SQL SERVER – Invalid Object Name ‘master.dbo.spt_values’ in Management Studio (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Neural Network Cross Entropy Using Python (James McCaffrey)
• paint.net 4.0.17 is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-21 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-21 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2388 (Chris Alcock)

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