Dew Drop – July 27, 2017 (#2529)

Top Links

• The new .NET Application Architecture Guidance (Cesar de la Torre)
• dotnet sdk list and dotnet sdk latest (Scott Hanselman)
• Bot Framework – Saving State data in SQL with .NET (Eric Dahlvang & Matthew Shim)
• Fast and Easy Containers: Azure Container Instances (Corey Sanders)

Web & Cloud Development

• Getting Started With Matter.js: The Body Module (Monty Shokeen)
• 5 Steps to Create an Effective Data Visualization With JavaScript (Mustapha Mekhatria)
• A Practical Guide to Planning a MEAN Stack Application (Simon Holmes)
• Triggering an App Service Sync from External Git Repositories (Mark Heath)
• Animated Image Pieces (Mary Lou)
• Announcing the Official Release of OpenAPI 3.0 (Ron Ratovsky)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Tip – BottomNavigationView in Xamarin.Android (Alex Dunn)
• Xamarin Preview: Xcode 9 beta 4, iOS 11, macOS 10.13 support – Preview 2 and Xamarin Beta Release: 15.3 Preview 5 (Bri Brothers)
• Working UrhoSharp with Xamarin Workbooks (Greg Duncan)
• Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 5: ListView (Jesse Liberty)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Trying to set a readonly auto-property value externally (plus, a little BenchmarkDotNet) (Dan)
• Create Parameterized Queries in ADO.NET (Tim Patrick)
• Wrapping up 2017’s extended CLR Week-and-a-half with some links to other CLR trivia (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How Agile Teams Can Automate Trello To Reduce Manual Overload (Aleksandr Krutko)
• Keeping track on long running branches (Oren Eini)
• Improved user settings in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) (Whitney Jenkins)
• Introducing the “Delivery Plans” Extension for VSTS (Chris Walden)
• Code Coverage Should Not Be a Management Concern (Erik Dietrich)
• So many things I like in the new Release Editor! (Matteo Emili)
• 30 UX Design Inspiration Resources (Nick Babich)
• Quickly review changed methods and functions in your pull requests (Rob Rix)

Mobile & IoT

• Top 30 Android Development Tools (Adam Smith)
• Get Started With Firebase Authentication for iOS (Doron Katz)
• Handling Orientation Changes in React Native (Adrian Hall)
• Developer Tips: NFC Tags in App Development (Veranika Papkouskaya)
• Windows Store: video trailers, improved Store listings, advanced sales, and other new capabilities (Bernardo Zamora)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – GraphQL with Steve Faulkner (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Snack Pack 17: Building Your First .NET Core App in Visual Studio for Mac | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Syntax Podcast 004 – JavaScript Tooling (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Talk Python to Me #122 – Home Assistant: Pythonic Home Automation (Michael Kennedy)
• Developer on Fire Episode 255 | Aja Hammerly – Fun Pink Dinosaur (Dave Rael)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Developer Digest .NET Core and NativeScript (Ed Charbeneau)
• Video: Why to Avoid “Don’t Take it Personally” (Elisse Lockhart)
• Kevin Gallo Live | Windows Community Standup with Kevin Gallo July 2017 (Kevin Gallo)
• .future Podcast – Minecraft: Beyond Just Building (Lydia Winters, Josh Wulf, Victoria Bennett & Trupti Amritwar)
• Software Engineering Daily – Microsoft Developers with Jason Young and Carl Schweitzer (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Iterative Learning (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Announcing RVA JavaScript Conference 2017 (Justin Etheredge)
• Apply to Google Developers Launchpad Studio for AI & ML focused startups (Roy Glasberg)
• 10 Questions with Jason Odom (James Ashley)
• Microsoft joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation (John Gossman)

Database

• Working with Very Large Tables in SQL Server 2016 (Guy Glantser)

PowerShell

• Tip of the Day: Using PowerShell to Obtain Update Information (Shannon Gowen)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16251 for PC & Build 15235 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• Microsoft Announces the Windows Bounty Program (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-27 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-27 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2392 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1897 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The week in .NET – MIST, F# in NYC, and links (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Daily Links 26 Jul 2017 (Malcolm Jack)
• Collective #335 (Pedro Botelho)

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