Dew Drop – September 14, 2017 (#2561)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Windows Template Studio with Clint Rutkas (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security (Troy Hunt)
• Getting Started: Xamarin Forms with .NET Standard 2.0 (Nick Randolph)
• Get Your Apps Ready for iOS 11! (Miguel de Icaza)

Web & Cloud Development

• Tip for Porting Legacy ASP.NET Apps to ASP.NET Core (Joydip Kanjilal)
• Object-Oriented Programming With JavaScript (Alberta Williams)
• WebStorm 2017.3 Early Access Preview: new and improved refactorings, better Vue.js support, new REST Client (Ekaterina Prigara)
• .NET Framework 4.7.1 ASP.NET and Configuration features (Preeti Krishna)
• A Literal Markdown Control for ASP.NET WebForms (Rick Strahl)
• Asynchronous Recursion with Callbacks, Promises and Async. by Colin Eberhardt (Colin Eberhardt)
• Azure Help Series and Azure Help: WebApps–Copying and Exporting Connection Strings and App Settings (Jason Haley)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 16 – Deploy Jekyll Site Hosted on GitHub Pages to Azure (Michael Crump)
• Simple React Snippets (Burke H✪lland)
• API Versioning with Azure API Management (Darrel Miller)
• Web Performance Monitoring: A How to Guide for Developers (Matt Watson)
• Adding FullContact to your Auth Process For Profile Enhancement (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• Preview: Linux Containers on Windows (Rolf Neugebauer)
• Lean Startup on elmah.io – Split testing (Thomas Ardal)
• Debug live apps in Azure with the Snappoints and Logpoints preview (Nikhil Joglekar)
• #Flow – Check your Apps health in #Azure using #ApplicationInsights and MSFlow (Bruno Capuano)
• Sublime Text 3.0 (Jon Skinner)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Preview: Xcode 9 GM, iOS 11 Support – Preview 9 (Brendan Zagaeski)
• Xamawin – Changing the statusbar color in iOS (Joe Meyer)
• Predefined Xamarin UI Theme and DataGrid for LOB Mobile Applications (Rossitza Fakalieva)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Why Visual Studio keeps rebuilding my projects for no good reason (Michael Shpilt)
• Visual Studio Marketplace is moving to a new markdown parser (Divya Vaishnavi)
• Tracking Tasks in Visual Studio (Steve Smith)
• Announcing Orleans 2.0 Tech Preview 3 (Julian Dominguez)
• On-boarding your organization to the new Visual Studio Subscription (VS Team)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 5, the Product Value Team (Johanna Rothman)
• How Personality Matters in Software Development (Ben Linders)
• Related Cards & Boards: Keep Your Trello Life Connected (Brian Cervino)
• Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions (Lauren Moon)
• Introducing GitHub Enterprise 2.11 (Dirkjan Bussink)
• Understanding Cyclomatic Complexity (Erik Dietrich)
• Popular collaboration tool Trello is coming to the Windows Store (Kareem Anderson)

Mobile & IoT

• Get Your Apps Ready for iPhone X (John Daub)
• What Is the Android Activity Lifecyle? (Chinedu Izuchukwu)
• TinyNavigationHelper for Xamarin.Forms (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Code#8 : Add Firebase Push Notification in your Android App (Dharmesh Basapati)
• How to Teach Your Alexa Skill to Detect a Screen (Justin Jeffress)
• NativeScript UI 3.1 Released (Rob Lauer)
• VC Code on the Pi! (Greg Duncan)
• iPhone X Human Interface Guidelines (Apple Developer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Core 2.0 – Ready for library developers (with Sterling DB) | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Snack Pack 20: Optimized Lists with DataTemplate Selectors in Xamarin.Forms | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Syntax Podcast – Our favourite Productivity Hacks (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 112 (Air Mozilla)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Effective Communication (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Developer on Fire Episode 269 | Joe Audette – Modular Success (Dave Rael)
• Inside Coco Framework, the Foundation of Blockchain for Enterprise with Mark Russinovich (Mark Russinovich & Seth Juarez)
• Software Engineering Daily – Doing Anything with George Anders (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – A Developer’s Guide to Fluent Design | Nick Randolph at DDD Sydney 2017 (Sophie Belle)
• JSJ BONUS: Web Apps on Linux with Jeremy Likness and Michael Crump (Aimee Knight & Charles Max Wood)

Community & Events

• We Want You: Join the Twilio.org Impact Corps (Erika Balbuena)
• 25 Million Users! Celebrate With 4 New Top-Requested Trello Features (Michael Pryor)
• Microsoft Tech Summit is back – register for a free event near you! (Microsoft Azure Team)
• Finding Internships in the Tech Realm (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Making mixed reality: a conversation with Alexandros Sigaras and Sophia Roshal (Aileen McGraw)

Database

• NoSQL and Data Scalability – DZone Refcardz (Adam Fowler & Eugene Ciurana)
• SQL SERVER – How to Reach Out to Cloud – Cloud Computing with PartitionDB (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 4.0 Release Candidate (Oren Eini)
• Lessons learn when deploying multiple databases to Azure with VSTS (Frank Boucher)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams and Progressive Web Apps coming soon to the Windows Store (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

PowerShell

• The Future of PowerShell’s Desired State Configuration (Don Jones)

Miscellaneous

• How to pass our technical screening (Dave Nicolette)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16362 for PC (Skip Ahead) (Dona Sarkar)
• Minecraft for the Nintendo 3DS is available today (Nick Statt)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-14 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-14 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #1931 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 13 Sep 2017 (Malcolm Jack)
• Collective #348 (Pedro Botelho)

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