Dew Drop – July 25, 2017 (#2527)

Top Links

• Building the Xamarin.Forms NuGet (David Ortinau)
• MS Paint is here to stay (Megan Saunders)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 88: Mads Torgersen (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Deploy a UWP application to a Windows 10 device from the command line with Cake (Jeremy Lindsay)

Web & Cloud Development

• JavaScript for squares: The incredible rise of TypeScript (Matt Asay)
• Customising ASP.NET Core Identity EF Core naming conventions for PostgreSQL (Andrew Lock)
• Easy JavaScript Part 2: What is the Rest Parameter in a Function? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Configuring With Composer in PhpStorm 2017.2 (Gary Hockin)
• Angular: What goes into building a UI? (Matthew Calder)
• Getting Started With Matter.js: Introduction (Monty Shokeen)
• 10 More Popular HTML5 Projects for You to Use and Study (Nona Blackman)
• Implementing IHostedService in ASP.NET 2.0 (Steve Gordon)
• Azure For Developers – Part 3: Deploying from Visual Studio (Jesse Liberty)
• What is Kestrel Web Server? How It Works, Benefits, and More (Angela Stringfellow)
• How I built a Twitter bot using Auth0 Webtasks and Data.gov (Daniel James)
• Five Tips for Protecting Cloud Resources from Internal Threats (Darren Perucci)
• Consume RESTful API Endpoints Within A Golang Application (Nic Raboy)
• Go serverless with R Scripts on Azure Function (Thomas Delteil)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Using XAML in Xamarin.Forms – Part 3: Accessing Dynamic Data (Matthew Soucoup)
• Xamarin.Tip – Borderless Picker (Alex Dunn)
• Prism in Xamarin Forms Step by Step (Part. 2) (Charlin Agramonte)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Did you know – you can just “copy the code” as well from C# Interactive Window ? (Abhijit Jana)
• TFS 2017 Update 2 RTM (Brian Harry)
• Get Started with F# as a C# developer (Phillip Carter)
• .NET Framework July 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup (Rich Lander)
• 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (Bruce Dawson)
• Top 5 .NET Exceptions (Chris Walden)
• Debug your debugging with the Debug Trace Logger (Greg Duncan)
• Have you heard about StringCollection class in .NET? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• How can I find out how many threads are active in the CLR thread pool? (Raymond Chen)
• Referencing Common Values Between Apps/Projects (Steve Smith)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Kanban Canvas v2.0 (Karl Scotland)
• Introducing Soft U2F, a software U2F authenticator for macOS (Ben Toews)
• Myers Briggs and Design Style: The Kind of Work That Makes You Happy (Sheena Lyonnais)

Mobile & IoT

• Developer Preview 4 now available, official Android O coming soon! (Dave Burke)
• How To Implement In-App Ratings For Ionic Apps On iOS (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• AlexaDev Tuesday: Royalty Free Images for Alexa Skills (April Hamilton)
• Azure IoT Developer Kit Preview Started Shipping (Chris Pietschmann)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Fluent Design with James Clarke (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Technology & Friends – Nancy Gaines on Productivity (David Giard)
• InfoQ Podcast: Debbie Madden on Forming and Maintaining Great Teams (Debbie Madden)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #113 – Frustrating Miracles (Jess Pardue)
• Windows Central Podcast 58: Fall vs Autumn (Zac Bowden)
• Gone Mobile 54: Visual Crash Reporting and Bugsee with Alex Fishman (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• Tech Wisconsin Podcast – David Pine & Steven Hicks, MKE DOT NET (Matt Cordio)
• The Amp Hour #353 – IoT Degree (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Functional Geekery Episode 101 – Adam Chlipala (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 201: Antonea Nabors (Maurice Cherry)
• Partially Derivative Podcast – The Future Of Deep Learning (Chris Albon, Jonathon Morgan & Vidya Spandana)
• DEVintersection Countdown Show on the Fundamentals of DevOps with Robert Green | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Robert Green)
• Software Engineering Daily – Software in Latin America with Mariana Costa (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – Chatbots explained | Azadeh Khojandi at DDD Sydney 2017 (Sophie Belle)
• 2017 Arrivals | Imagine Cup World Finals 2017 (Susan Ibach)

Community & Events

• Worldwide #JewelbotsBuild: Makers Unite! (Quymbee Chen)
• How to organize an amazing technical conference (David Pine)
• Milwaukee .NET Development Conference (Sept. 9) (MKE DOT NET)
• Community Standup with Kevin Gallo (Clint Rutkas)
• 10 Questions with Olivier Matis (James Ashley)
• 24+ Excellent Things To Do In Philly This Week, July 24-30 (Jillian Wilson)
• Register now for Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017 (Kyle Pflug)

Database

• Virtual Log File Monitoring in SQL Server 2017 (Aaron Bertrand)

Miscellaneous

• Paint to be Deprecated in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update but Paint 3D is Ready to Take its Place (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft to update Arrow Launcher with redesigned cards and Me avatar (Phone Arena Team)
• DungeonScript is a simple browser tool for building dungeon crawlers (Alice O’Connor)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-25 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2390 (Chris Alcock)
• Office 365 Weekly Digest | July 16 – 22, 2017 (Thomas C. Finney)
• Reading Notes #290 (Frank Boucher)

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