Dew Drop – September 6, 2017 (#2555)

Top Links

• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 16278 and Mobile Emulator Build 15240 Released (Clint Rutkas)
• C# 7.1 – Everything You Need To Know (Daniel Crabtree)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 11 – Access Cloud Shell from within Microsoft Docs (Michael Crump)
• Explore iOS 11 Previews Today (Miguel de Icaza)

Web & Cloud Development

• Using Abstract Classes As Dependency-Injection Tokens For Swappable Behaviors In Angular 4.2.3 (Ben Nadel)
• Creating the First Screen with Angular Material (Aaron Marisi)
• Creating a rolling file logging provider for ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Andrew Lock)
• PhpStorm 2017.2.3 is released (Anna Lebedeva)
• Thinking in JavaScript (Dave M. Bush)
• Simplifying Content Projection in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Taking Control of ASP.NET Identity Table Names (Mitchel Sellers)
• Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS in a IIS / ASP.NET environment (Patrick Smacchia)
• Introducing the Azure CLI (Mark Heath)
• Templates for Launching Your Twilio Functions Faster (Donnie Wang)
• Deep Dive Into the Go Type System (Gigi Sayfan)
• Consuming a WebAPI Service With .NET Core 2.0 (Jeremy Clark)
• Postman is a quickstart for QuickBooks Online API endpoints (Joyce)
• How I Got Started with Azure Machine Learning (Kathi Kellenberger)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• UWP Community Toolkit Prepares for Windows Fluent Design (Jeff Martin)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio Team Services Encryption at Rest (Aaron Hallberg)
• Visual Studio 2017 can now decide whether to enable Lightweight Solution Load (Kunal Chowdhury)
• IEnumerable inspections and quick-fixes in ReSharper and Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• .NET Core DLL Hell Is Here. Can .NET Core 2.0 Save Us? (Matt Watson)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Using an Agile Approach to Scope Software Projects (Christina Lynch)
• Wiki supports HTML tags, anchor links, and much more (Sandeep Chadda)
• Continuously Deploying a Node.js Application Using CircleCI (Nic Raboy)
• DZone Refcardz – Continuous Testing 101 (Christopher Springstead)
• Using Test Hub in VSTS to run Automated Tests on Web applications (Gouri Sohoni)
• Working Through Roadblocks – A Guide for New Programmers (Steve Smith)

Mobile & IoT

• Looking to the future of mixed reality – Part I (Dioselin Gonzalez)
• Announcing Alexa Skill Management API, Alexa Skills Kit Command-line Interface and Events in Alexa Skills Kit and Getting started with the Alexa Skill Management API and the Alexa Skills Kit Command-line interface (Kenny Mathers)
• Generating a barcode in a NativeScript application (Емил Табаков)
• Dropdown alternatives for better (mobile) forms (Zoltan Kollin)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• RunAs Radio – Thinking IT Cloud with Tim Warner (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Partially Derivative Podcast – The End Of An Era (Chris Albon, Jonathon Morgan & Vidya Spandana)
• Becoming a software developer – episode XXIV (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Azure Log Analytics (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Software Engineering Daily – Car and IoT Security with Chris Craig (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Interview w/ Rachel Nabors (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Find out more about database DevOps at an event near you (Hannah Mumby)
• 10 Questions with Nate Turley (James Ashley)
• Discover database DevOps at Microsoft Ignite (Mary Robbins)

Database

• SQL SERVER – How to Get Updated Link for Code and Database Samples?sample (Pinal Dave)
• Distributed work assignment in RavenDB 4.0 (Oren Eini)
• How Much Can One Column Change A Query Plan? Part 1 (Erik Darling)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Framework v1.2 and SPFx Extensions RC0 (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• The Future of Programming (Peter Vogel)
• Conducting the Technical Interview (Brandon Gregory)
• Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 16278 (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-06 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2420 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1925 (Mike Gunderloy)

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