Dew Drop – September 5, 2017 (#2554)

Top Links

• Create and play this holiday with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update coming Oct. 17 (Terry Myerson)
• Small Basic with Xamarin Workbooks (Katelyn Schoedl)
• Cloud Database? NoSQL? Nah, just use CSVs and CsvHelper (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 9 – Quickly Connect to Windows VMs with RDP and Azure Tips and Tricks Part 10 – Quickly Connect to a Linux VM with SSH (Michael Crump)
• Rider 2017.2 EAP brings .NET Core 2.0, MSTest, and more (Maarten Balliauw)

Web & Cloud Development

• 12 Useful AngularJS Boilerplates (Bogdan Sandu)
• Operation Not Legal in the Current State – Debugging ASP.NET Core (Dirk Strauss)
• Handling Arrays with jQuery (jQuery By Example)
• Wiki supports HTML tags, anchor links, and much more (Sandeep Chadda)
• Defensive database context for multi-tenant ASP.NET Core applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• Use Azure availability tests and load tests to analyze the decoupling needs of your system (handson). (Clemens Reijnen)
• ESLint v4.6.1 released (ESLint Team)
• Razor Pages Conventions (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• Announcing availability of BizTalk Server 2016 Cumulative Update 3 (BizTalk Team)
• TypeScript 2.5 Released, Adds Language Level Refactoring (David Iffland)
• Serverless Logic With Realm Functions (Doron Katz)
• Weekly Windows Dockerfile #5 (Elton Stoneman)
• Why Healthcare Is Moving To The Cloud (But Isn’t There Yet) (Martin Gontovnikas)
• Buidling a WebAPI Service With .NET Core 2.0 (Jeremy Clark)
• Connecting SMS To Slack With Twilio and Zapier (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• ReactJs component lifecycle methods — A deep dive (Mahesh Haldar)
• Creating a Blogging App Using React, Part 6: Tags (Roy Agasthyan)
• MadCap Idea Part 8 – Intermediate Step, REST API for Interactive Kafka Stream KTable Queries (Sacha Barber)
• ASPNET Core Razor Pages – Worth Checking Out? (Steve Smith)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Installing #mvvmlight for .NET Standard 1.0 (Laurent Bugnion)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,216 – Creating a Custom ItemTemplate in a TreeView (Sean Sexton)
• Authenticate users through Google with Xamarin.Auth (Timothé Larivière)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Building .NET apps in Visual Studio for GCP: better than ever (Ivan Naranjo)
• Smart Code Coloring with CoCo (Greg Duncan)
• Value added features with Paket (Isaac Abraham)
• Initial Task Samples with .NET Core 2.0 (just the projects) (Jeremy Clark)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• 6 Simple Tips on How to Start Writing Clean Code (Alex Devero)
• Private Git Repositories: Part 2B – Repository SSH Keys (Graham Dumpleton)
• Antipattern of the Month: Uncommitment (Ian Mitchell)
• Learn how to increase your productivity in 30 minutes (Kyle Elliott)
• Release Radar · September 2017 (Lee Reilly)
• Git forks now in public preview (Matt Cooper)
• Upgrade to MSTest V2! (Pratap Lakshman)
• Managing Release Notifications (Shashank Bansal)

Mobile & IoT

• Custom Fonts on Android with Android Support Library (Segun Famisa)
• How To Become A Complete Android Developer (Amit Shekhar)
• How to apply Shared Element Transitions in Android (Lipika Gupta)
• Faster Android Build Times (Shaishav Gandhi)
• Native Versus Hybrid Apps: Key Points to Help You Decide Which Is Right for You (Ashok Sharma)
• Introducing the Mobile Web Specialist Certification by Google Developers (Sarah Clark)
• IoT Tools for Learner, Hobbyist and Professional (Greg Duncan)
• Time for non-Time Lords – Part 4 (Mark Allison)
• Reading From a NFC Tag (Peter-John Welcome)
• At the ARCore of Tango – Getting Started and ARCore, ARKit and HoloLens – How does it compare? (Rene Schulte)
• Before You Begin: Plan Ahead to Build a Successful App (Serena McIntire)
• Performance Tuning Alexa Skills using AWS Lambda (Terren Peterson)
• Code a Real-Time NativeScript App: Social Login and Firebase (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 057 – Michael Yotive on Kotlin (Matthew Groves)
• .NET Rocks! – F# for C# Developers with Scott Wlaschin (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends – Miguel Castro on Building AngularJS Component-Based Applications (David Giard)
• InfoQ Podcast: David Marquet on the Difference Between Red-Work and Blue-Work (David Marquet)
• InfoQ Podcast: Nora Jones on Establishing, Growing, and Maturing a Chaos Engineering Practice (Nora Jones)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 243 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Coding Blocks .NET Episode 66 – Project Management Anti-patterns (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Developer on Fire Episode 266 | Dustin Ewers – Spreading Ideas (Dave Rael)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Worth Checking Out? (Ed Charbeneau)
• The Amp Hour #358 – Mergers and People Acquisitions (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Merge Conflict 61: Getting to the Core of ARCore (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Functional Geekery Episode 106 – Reid Evans (Steven Proctor)
• TWC9: Mixed Reality, .NET IL Linker, New WinDbg, Where the Surface Comes to Life and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Christina Warren & Bryan Liston)
• Revision Path 207: Angelica McKinley (Maurice Cherry)
• StarTalk Radio – Extended Classic: Cosmic Queries – Dark Mysteries of the Universe (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Software Engineering Daily – Healthcare AI with Cosima Gretton and Software Engineering Daily – Information Theory with Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman and Software Engineering Daily – Artificial Intelligence APIs with Simon Chan (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Mystery Voices and Developer Tea – Interview w/ Rachel Nabors (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Episode 234: Cosmos DB with Kirill Gavrylyuk – Last Episode! | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Thiago Almeida & Chris Risner)

Community / Events

• Ways to get involved in the local tech community (4 of 5) (Jason Haley)
• Bringing Communities Together: Xamarin MVPs Join Microsoft MVPs (Jayme Singleton)
• Bringing Communities Together: Xamarin MVPs Join the Microsoft MVP Award Program (MVP Award Program)
• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jesse Powell (Willy-P. Schaub)
• An open letter to up-and-coming women in digital design (Rebekah Cancino & Shaina Rozen)
• Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge Updates (Andrew Parsons)

Database

• Oracle NoSQL Database 4.5 Brings Big Developer Advantages (Laura Ramsey)
• SQL SERVER – How to Rename Extension of MDF File? – A Simple Tutorial and What does Keyword STATS Indicates in Backup Scripts in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #138 and SQL SERVER – Different Methods to Know COMPATIBILITY LEVEL of a Database (Pinal Dave)
• Working with the registry in SQL Server – adding trace flags to startup parameters (Wayne Sheffield)
• Should You Enforce Foreign Key Relationships in the Database? (Brent Ozar)
• Querying Multi-Structured JSON Files with U-SQL in Azure Data Lake (Melissa Coates)

SharePoint

• ebook deal of the week: Microsoft SharePoint 2016 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell to Check or Compare Values (Tim Smith)
• Checking Hypervisor status with PowerShell (Chris Miller)

Miscellaneous

• AI for everyone – How companies can benefit from the advance of machine learning (Werner Vogels)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16281 for PC (Dona Sarkar)
• Believe it or not, Microsoft’s mobile strategy is still on course (seriously) (Jason Ward)
• Microsoft reveals release date for Windows Mixed Reality headsets (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-04 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-05 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-05 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2418 and The Morning Brew #2419 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1923 and Double Shot #1924 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #170 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #36, 2017 – Voting for 2017 Community for F# Heroes is open! (Sergey Tihon)
• .NET Tips and Tricks ( Visual Studio 2017, C# 7.0) from Daily .NET Tips – August 2017 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• Azure Weekly: Sept 4, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Reading Notes #295 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #345 (Pedro Botelho)
• Hello, September! Here’s The Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: August 28th – September 3rd, 2017 (Greg Duncan)

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