Dew Drop – September 8, 2017 (#2557)

Top Links

• TechBash 2017 | Developer Conference Nearby (Jason Gaylord)
• Credit reporting firm Equifax says data breach could potentially affect 143 million US consumers (Todd Haselton)
• T4MVC and R4MVC – Roslyn code generators for ASP.NET Core tag helpers (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing Yarn 1.0 (Burak Yiğit Kaya, Christoph Nakazawa & Maël Nison)
• Connectivity Plugin 4.0: Important and Awesome Changes (James Montemagno)

Web & Cloud Development

• Creating A Pipe That Can Consume Component Methods In Angular 4.4.0-RC.0 (Ben Nadel)
• Unit Testing AJAX Calls to an ASP.NET MVC Controller (Peter Vogel)
• Windows Authentication in Service Fabric and ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Alessandro Avila)
• PhpStorm 2017.3 Early Access Program is Open (Anna Lebedeva)
• Getting started with Angular and Redux (Damien Bowden)
• Easy JavaScript Part 7 : Object Property Descriptors (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Updated Composer Dependencies for AWS SDK for PHP Version 3 (Kevin Stich)
• Node.js Forks Over TSC Disagreements (Susan McIntosh)
• Automatically Generating OpenAPI From A YAML Dataset Using Jekyll (Kin Lane)
• Getting Started with Windows Containers (Alina Popa)
• The Postman status bar puts your favorite features at your fingertips (Belinda)
• Writing Plugins in Go (Gigi Sayfan)
• Getting Familiar with Gulp for Workflow Automation and Hashing Password Data in Couchbase with Golang and BCrypt – Video (Nic Raboy)
• Developing RESTful APIs with Loopback (Prosper Otemuyiwa)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• WPF Tip #19 – Extended WPF Toolkit – Zoom in with the Magnifier Control (Me)
• Xamarin.Tip – Read All Contacts in iOS 2.0 (Alex Dunn)
• Bridging the Gap Between Xamarin and Excel (Michael DiFilippo)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Null checking improvements in ReSharper 2017.2 (Andrew Karpov)
• LLBLGen Pro v5.3 EAP Released! (Frans Bouma)
• Using Java and .NET Apps to Connect to an Apache Ignite Cluster (Akmal Chaudhri)
• Compressing DICOM Files with LEADTOOLS (Greg Ross)
• What are anonymous structs, and more importantly, how do I tell windows.h to stop using them? (Raymond Chen)
• Released: GhostDoc v5.7 (Serge Baranovsky)
• Dependency Injection with Visual Basic .NET – Part 2 – IoC Containers (André Obelink)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 4, Resilience, Prediction, & Feedback (Johanna Rothman)
• Stop Sprinting. Start Thinking. (John Cutler)

Mobile & IoT

• How to Submit an iOS App to the App Store (Bart Jacobs)
• Things that you’ll know about DataBinding in future (Bogdan Voiko)
• HoloLens UE4 Template 1.0 (Greg Duncan)
• Time for non-Time Lords – Part 5 (Mark Allison)
• Responding to Customer App Reviews (Serena McIntire)
• Using HoloToolkit 2017.1.0 with Unity 5.6.x (James Ashley)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Azure Event Grid with Dan Rosanova (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Hanselminutes – Making browsers faster with Mozilla and Visual Studio Live 2017 – Microsoft’s Open Source Developer Journey (Scott Hanselman)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Tatiana Maslany (TWCH) (Chris Hardwick)
• This Week on Windows: Windows Mixed Reality headsets, Microsoft Word tips and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• Mitch Muenster & Dante Gagne – Developing with Disabilities | On .NET (Kendra Havens)
• Talk Python to Me #128 – Pythonic Networks with NAPALM (Michael Kennedy)
• StarTalk Radio – #ICYMI: Cosmic Queries: Tennis Special Edition (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Software Engineering Daily – Software Engineering Daily App with Keith and Craig Holliday (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Introspection – Part 1 – Finding What You’re Best At (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Interview with PHP Succinctly Author José Roberto Olivas Mendoza (Graham High)
• Windows Community Standup on September 14th, 2017 (Clint Rutkas)
• Amazon is looking for a 2nd headquarter city, a ‘full equal to Seattle’ (Ingrid Lunden)
• 10 Questions with Stephen Hodgson (James Ashley)
• Microsoft’s developer advocacy hot streak continues (James Governor)
• Summer internships at GitHub in San Francisco (John Britton)
• Enter to Win the Developer Circles Community Challenge (Matt Terrell)
• Microsoft at PostgresOpen 2017 (Rohan Kumar)
• Conferences for Introverts. Part 4: Default to Yes (Alan Mendelevich)

Database

• How to build an Enterprise Environment in AWS for SQL Server (Pinakin Patel)
• SQL SERVER – How to Find UNIQUE Key Columns? – sp_special_columns customers (Pinal Dave)
• Stored procedure to generate HTML tables for SQL Server query output (Eli Leiba)
• RavenDB 4.0 Release Candidate Updates (Oren Eini)
• Bot conversation history with Azure Cosmos DB (Fernando Oliveira)

PowerShell

• Intelllisense in the Console (Ian Farr)

Miscellaneous

• Fake Russian Facebook Accounts Bought $100,000 in Political Ads (Scott Shane & Vindu Goel)
• Windows Defender ATP Windows 10 Fall Creators Update now open for public preview (Raviv Tamir)
• Teachers: How you can use game design – yes, game design! – in the classroom for serious learning (Suzanne Choney)
• Microsoft and Adobe announce expanded partnership (Office 365 Team)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-08 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-08 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2422 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1927 (Mike Gunderloy)

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