Dew Drop – August 25, 2017 (#2548)

Top Links

• ReSharper Ultimate 2017.2 is released (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Running unit tests on Azure Functions in Visual Studio 2017 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Go 1.9 is released (Francesc Campoy)
• FiddlerCore for .NET Standard and Fiddler Orchestra—the Future of Fiddler (Tsviatko Yovtchev)

Web & Cloud Development

• Dev Leaders Share Their Favorite ASP.NET Interview Questions (Angela Stringfellow)
• Iris Go vs .NET Core Kestrel in terms of HTTP performance (Gerasimos Maropoulos)
• Using PostgreSQL Document Databases with Azure Functions and Marten (Jason Roberts)
• Why Go is my favorite programming language (Michael Stapelberg)
• Debugging ASPNET Core Routes (Steve Smith)
• React Higher-Order Components (HOC) using TypeScript (Tatu Tamminen)
• Building an Event Driven Arch with AWS (Jason Farrell)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Clearable DatePicker in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
• UWP Tip #5 – UWP Community Toolkit – Part 3, Leveraging Code Helpers (Color, Connection, Converters and ImageCache) (Me)
• Fast & Simple Android Location Updates with Google Play services (James Montemagno)

Visual Studio & .NET

• FloodFill Objects Using C# (Hannes du Preez)
• Technical Bulletin: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4.0 Preview 1 (Brendan Zagaeski)
• Lazy Async (Derek Comartin)
• Visual Studio Test Platform – upcoming changes to data collectors (Pratap Lakshman)
• Create a Simple .NET Application on Linux (Bri Achtman)
• Entity Framework Core & Complex Projects (Mitchel Sellers)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Here’s How to Build a New Career as a Thought Leader (Amanda Abella)
• Know Your Metrics (Derek Huether)
• Easily filter review requests by team (Naomi Plasterer)
• Write It Down! (Victor Savkin)

Mobile & IoT

• Understanding the performance benefits of using ConstraintLayout (Takeshi Hagikura)
• Building the NativeScript Swipe Cards Plugins: An Ambassador Story (Jen Looper)
• Hamburger menu alternatives for mobile navigation (Zoltan Kollin)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• TWC9: Mad about Mads and C# 8.0, HoloLens Wins Award, 3D Printed Warthog and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Christina Warren)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Michael Cudlitz (Chris Hardwick)
• RadioTFS – Escaping the Cube Cage with Matt Honeycutt (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Azure Managed Applications and Cloud Foundry on Azure (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Rocket 137: All the Sad, Young Phones (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)

Community & Events

• See what’s in store at Universe (Brittany Walker)

Database

• Returning JSON from SQL Server Queries (Peter Vogel)
• Script to attach multiple SQL Server MDF files (Eli Leiba)
• Why is My Database Application so Slow? (Dan Turner)

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell 2.0 Deprecation (Joey Aiello)

Miscellaneous

• A New Real-Time AI Platform from Microsoft, and a Speech Recognition Milestone (Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team)
• Setup Integrated Terminal in VS Code to use Anaconda Python command prompt (Mitul Suthar)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-25 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-25 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2413 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1917 (Mike Gunderloy)

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