Dew Drop – August 15, 2017 (#2542)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Released (John Montgomery)
• Announcing .NET Core 2.0 (Rich Lander)
• Announcing .NET Standard 2.0 (Immo Landwerth)
• New for Visual Basic: .NET Standard Class Libraries and the dotnet CLI! (Anthony D. Green)
• Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
  

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Web & Cloud Development

• How to Upgrade NgRX to 4.x (Dave M. Bush)
• Azure Functions Tools released for Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 (Donna Malayeri)
• Me on React: an old dog with new tricks (Remy Sharp)
• What’s New In 2.1.0 – URL Rewrite Administration (IIS Team)
• Launch – AWS Glue Now Generally Available (Randall Hunt)
• The SDK ‘Microsoft.Net.Sdk.Web’ specified could not be found (Andrew Lock)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• WPF Tip #18 – Extended WPF Toolkit – Using the CheckedListBox Control (Me)
• Xamarin.Mac and netstandard2 (Chris Hamons)
• Xamarin Stable Release: 15.3 (Bri Brothers)
• Adding Storage to Mobile Apps with OneDrive for Business (Mayur Tendulkar)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Practical C# – Sequence Equality (Andrea Angella)
• F# and .NET Core Roadmap Update (Phillip Carter)
• Mastering Visual Studio 2017 (Dirk Strauss)
• Using ES2017 Async Functions (Eric Windmill)
• The Visual Studio 2017 Color Theme Editor is Finally Available! (Greg Duncan)
• Like-operator in Entity Framework Core 2.0 (Gunnar Peipman)
• How Visual Studio’s Private Gallery Helps Us Create a Better Product (Mark Miller)
• CRUD Operation With JSON File Data In C# (Mukesh Kumar)
• Accessibility improvements in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 (Dante Gagne)
• CMake Support in Visual Studio: Customizing your Environment (Will Buik)
• Akka.NET v1.3 is Now Available on .NET 4.5 and .NET Standard 1.6 (Aaron Stannard)
• Managing warnings in the C++ Core Guidelines Checker (Andrew Pardoe)
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.0 (Diego B. Vega)
• Using .NET Core 2.0 SDK on Travis (Jon Skeet)
• .NET Core 2.0 Changes – 4 Key Things to Know (Matt Watson)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Creating Agile HR, Part 6: the Agile Compensation System (Johanna Rothman)
• ebook deal of the week: Agile Project Management with Kanban (Kim Spilker)
• Code Unit Testing – 5 Essential Tips You Can’t Neglect (Leah Grantz)
• Testing Automation: The Big Picture (Jason Roberts)
• Git vulnerability with submodules (Edward Thomson)
• Keep track of GitHub issues using a Postman collection (Harendra Singh)

Mobile & IoT

• Universal iOS Apps with React Native (Adrian Hall)
• AlexaDev Tuesday: A Simplified Approach To Coding Skills For Echo Show (April Hamilton)
• Unity for Xbox One X (Oli Williams)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Kent Alstad on Leadership (David Giard)
• InfoQ Podcast: Jez Humble on Making Continuous Delivery Work and Responding to Discrimination in Tech (Jez Humble)
• Windows Central Podcast 61: Are Surface devices unreliable? (Zac Bowden)
• .NET Core 2.0 Released! (Beth Massi)
• Gone Mobile 55: Embeddinating .NET Everywhere with Jonathan Peppers (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• JSJ 274: Amazon Voice Services and Echo Skills with Terrance Smith (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood & Joe Eames)
• App Service Domains | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
• Functional Geekery Episode 104 – Debasish Ghosh (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 204: Hans Dorsinville (Maurice Cherry)
• Partially Derivative Podcast – Art-ificial Intelligence (Chris Albon, Jonathon Morgan & Vidya Spandana)
• Software Engineering Daily – QA Testing with Jonathan Alexander (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Plate’s Cave and Defeating Biases (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Philly .NET Meetup – Azure DevOps (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
• Swift creator Chris Lattner joins Google Brain after Tesla Autopilot stint (Darrell Etherington)
• 10 Questions with Michael Gourlay (James Ashley)
• Our Culture and Values at Auth0 (Kim Maida)
• Congratulations Team X.GLU – The 2017 Imagine Cup Champions! (MVP Award Program)
• NativeScript Developer Day—Announcing the Final Speaker Lineup (TJ VanToll)

Database

• Using SQL Server sqlcmd scripting variables (Daniel Farina)
• SQL SERVER – Database Files Initial Size Changing Automatically (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• New Tools in Windows Device Portal for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Hirsch Singhal)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-15 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2405 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1909 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: Aug 14, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)

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