Dew Drop – September 18, 2017 (#2563)

Top Links

• OzCode 3.5 EAP released with the amazing new Search (Michael Shpilt)
• Thanks for attending September’s Windows Community Standup (Clint Rutkas)
• Testing Twilio SMS Requests for .NET Applications with the Rider REST Client (Maarten Balliauw)
• A Functional Web with ASP.NET Core and F#’s Giraffe (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

• You Can Include Delimiters In The Result Of JavaScript’s String .split() Method When Using Capturing Groups (Ben Nadel)
• PhpStorm 2017.2.4 is released (Anna Lebedeva)
• Working with Angular 4 Forms: Input Validation (Igor Geshoski)
• ASP.NET Core Demystified – Razor Pages (Matthew Jones)
• WordPress to ditch React library over Facebook patent clause risk (Natasha Lomas)
• Using Queries with the Azure CLI (Mark Heath)
• Yo Team, meet Azure Container Instances (Donovan Brown)
• Build a To-Do API With Node, Express, and MongoDB (Chinedu Izuchukwu)
• Azure Functions and Lazy Initialization with Couchbase Server (Matthew Groves)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• How to MVVM that you know is compiler correct (Sam Williams)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,217 – Using Multiple HierarchicalDataTemplates in a TreeView (Sean Sexton)
• Charting in Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Xamarin.Forms: Tips for Beating the Learning Curve (David Ortinau)
• Objective-C library binding for Xamarin.iOS (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
• Xamarin.Forms Tip : Implement Show Hide Password using effects (S. Ravi Kumar)
• More Resources for Universal Windows Platform Games with Fall Xbox One Update (Clint Woon)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Transitive NuGet dependencies: .NET Core’s got your back (Erik Heemskerk)
• C# 7.1’s default value expressions enhancement: default literal expressions (Kapil Khandelwal)
• Interesting C# 7.x features – 01 (Malisa Ncube)
• How to Create a .NET Core CLI Console App as an EXE Instead of a DLL (Jon Gallant)
• Fun With Interpolated Strings (James Curran)
• The State of Entity Framework Core – Past, Present and Future (Ricardo Peres)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Agile Principles Aren’t About Process. They’re a Shift in Values and Mindset. (Tyler Hakes)
• VS Code Add-In – Git Lens – git blame annotations, code lens, and more (Eric Amodio)
• What to Do When a Peer’s Feedback Annoys You (Kim Scott)
• How to create noisy, risograph-style gradients and textures in Photoshop in 3 ways (Stefan Hürlemann)

Mobile & IoT

• The New Dagger 2 Android Injector (Amit Shekhar)
• Large Database Queries on Android (Chris Craik)
• Is your Android Library, Lifecycle-Aware? (Nishant Srivastava)
• Avoid Simulator, Emulator and Testing statistics in Visual Studio Mobile Center (Robin-Manuel Thiel)
• Scratch For The Pi (Greg Duncan)
• Kotlin Testability – Part 1 (Mark Allison)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 059 – Pete Shearer on Startups (Matthew Groves)
• Technology & Friends – Adam Freymiller on Interviewing for a Tech Job (David Giard)
• Yet Another Podcast #175 – John Papa (Jesse Liberty)
• TWC9: Ice Cream Thursday, Edge Web Summit, Ultimate C# Tools, ARKit + HoloLens and much more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Seth Juarez & Christina Warren)
• Developer on Fire Episode 270 | Mike Cohn – Agile Growth (Dave Rael)
• Azure Service Health | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• CodingBlocks.NET Episode 67 – Object Oriented Mistakes (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• The Amp Hour #360 – A Total 360 (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• StarTalk Radio – Science and the Search for the Truth, with Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Software Engineering Daily – Advertising Analytics with Jonah Goodhart and Software Engineering Daily – Spotify Event Delivery with Igor Maravic (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – DCR: Traits of a Great Developer – Grit of a Scientist and Developer Tea – DCR: Traits of a Great Developer – Expanding Perspective (Jonathan Cutrell)
• On.NET Special Episode: NET Conf teaser with Beth Massi | On .NET (Beth Massi)

Community & Events

• After This 26-Year-Old Entrepreneur Received a Condescending Message, She Responded in an Amazing and Inspiring Way (Nina Zipkin)
• Geek of the Week: Qumulo co-founder Neal Fachan should be filed under ‘startup success stories’ (Kurt Schlosser)

Database

• Book Review: Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2nd Ed (Ian Stirk)
• SQL Server IDENTITY System Function Comparison (Ahmad Yaseen)
• SQL SERVER – How to Move SQL Server Cluster to Different Domain? and How to Create Temp Table From Stored Procedure? – Interview Question of the Week #139 (Pinal Dave)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams Tip #1 – Enable Developer Preview Builds (Me)

Miscellaneous

• Bing gets a Fact Check label to help users identify fake news (Arif Bacchus)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15252 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• A week for teamwork and Teams, as well as good-natured, gaming fun with ‘Exploding Kittens’ — Weekend Reading: Sept. 15 edition (Suzanne Choney)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-18 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-18 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2423 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1933 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #172 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #38 – Ionide 3.0 & FHash (Sergey Tihon)
• Friday Five: SharePoint Customizations, The Future Of Microsoft DirectAccess, And More (MVP Award Program)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Weekly: Sept 18, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Reading Notes #297 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #349 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: September 11th – September -17th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)

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