Dew Drop – August 9, 2017 (#2538)

Top Links

• Announcing the PowerShell Module Browser (Jeff Sandquist)
• Using PowerShell to check if your password has been in a breach (Rob Sewell)
• Thoughts on the Google Echo Chamber (Donna Malayeri)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 16257 and Mobile Emulator Build 15235 Released (Clint Rutkas)

Web & Cloud Development

• Embellish Your Web API Responses with Header Data (Tim Patrick)
• Angular Observable Secrets Revealed (Dave M. Bush)
• JavaScript-Based Animations Using Anime.js, Part 1: Targets and Properties (Monty Shokeen)
• Creating a Front-End for Your User Profile Store with Angular and TypeScript (Nic Raboy)
• Converting multiple C# enums to JavaScript (Gunnar Peipman)
• ASP.NET – Intro, Life Cycle & Hello World Program (Guru99)
• Passing data between Promise callbacks and ES proposal: Promise.try() (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Bringing AI to BI – Text Analytics in Azure Machine Learning (Sudarshan Raghunathan, Darren Edge & Jonathan Larson)
• Azure QuickStart Templates (Dan Usher)
• Operating Azure Stack (Daniel Savage)
• Morphing Page Transition (Mary Lou)
• Security Monitoring In Azure IaaS Resources (Thuan Nguyen)
• Logic Apps upsert logic! (Toon Vanhoutte)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Reactive Extensions And Exrin MVVM Framework In Xamarin Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Validation in Xamarin.Forms Enterprise Apps (David Britch)
• Incredible Image Tools in MFractor 3.2 (Matthew Robbins)
• Loading and Loaded in UWP (Robert Hedgate)

Visual Studio & .NET

• The innocuous code that tripped me (Oren Eini)
• Practical C# – Project References (Andrea Angella)
• OOP Concepts in C#: Code Examples and How to Create a Class (Angela Stringfellow)
• dotnet-script 0.11 out – with inline Nuget support (Filip W.)
• .NET Framework August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup (Rich Lander)
• Lazy loading images using Intersection Observer (Dean Hume)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Sprint Planning in Visual Studio Team Services (Aaron Marisi)
• VSTS Update – Aug 4 (Brian Harry)
• Examining Code Review Myths (Erik Dietrich)
• How to Take Part in a Usability Study in Indigo Studio (Infragistics Team)
• Better together with Microsoft Teams (Kyle Elliott)
• Announcing deploy to Azure app service Jenkins plugin and more (Pui Chee Chan)
• Making a Switch as a Software Developer (Rion Williams)
• The founder retreat revisited (Thomas Ardal)

Mobile & IoT

• Bring Your Existing Android App to the Amazon Appstore (Becky Young)
• How to Launch Android Emulators and iOS Simulators From the Command Line (TJ VanToll)
• Visual Studio Mobile Center: Solving a Problem with Package Restore (Kevin Ford)
• An Introduction to Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (Deepak Vohra)
• Ionic Framework: Getting Started (Prosper Otemuyiwa)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Software Engineering Daily – State of JavaScript with Sacha Greif (Jeff Meyerson)
• Design Patterns: Singleton | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• SQL Server 2017 Built-in Diagnostics | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• SQL Server and Couchbase side-by-side (video) (Matthew Groves)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 206 | Latest News from Azure, Office 365 Plus Epic Container News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• RunAs Radio – NanoServer and Containers with Jason Helmick (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• How to Control Stage Fright | Answers from James (James Whittaker & Cameron Tomisser)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Kevin Kelly (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Ways to get involved in the local tech community (2 of 5) (Jason Haley)
• An intern’s guide to the top women at Microsoft (Priscilla Samadi)
• Announcing exciting changes coming to MINECON! (Elana Pidgeon)
• 10 Questions with Michelle Ma (James Ashley)
• An Open Letter to James Damore (Kim Scott)
• Bring Your Nerdy Mind to Science on Tap Un-Tapped Quizzo! (Monica Piluso)
• Orlando Meetup: Using Protobuf in .NET (Rush Frisby)
• Even after firing an engineer, Google is facing an existential and cultural crisis (Tom Krazit)

Database

• Installing SQL Server Tools on SUSE Linux (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL Download – SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) – Performance Dashboard (Pinal Dave)
• Using Snapshot Replication with an Azure SQL Database (John Miner)
• Azure AD authentication extensions for Azure SQL DB and SQL DW tools (Mirek Sztajno)

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell, Azure Automation, and OMS – Part III (Will Anderson)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 16257 (Dona Sarkar)
• Spotify Comes to Xbox One (Mikael Ericsson)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Server (Sarah Cooley)
• Introducing the Outlook.com beta (Outlook Team)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-09 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2401 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1906 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The week in .NET – Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando, and links! (Bertrand Le Roy)

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