Dew Drop – September 26, 2017 (#2569)

Top Links

• Better JavaScript and TypeScript support in Rider 2017.2 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Announcing the public preview of PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell (Hemant Mahawar)
• How Stack Overflow Can Use Microsoft AI to Empower Every Developer (Anand Raman)
• Service Fabric 6.0 Release (Service Fabric Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 22 – Deployment Slots for Web Apps using Azure App Service (Michael Crump)
• Six ways to manage your Azure resources (Mark Heath)
• So It Goes: Sending SMS with Golang (Alaina Kafkes)
• 4 Lessons from the ‘React Patent License’ Controversy (Ariel Reinitz)
• My Intern Project: Microsoft Graph Bindings for Azure Functions (Chris Gillum)
• Microsoft Azure gets a new Logo and a Manifesto (Chris Pietschmann)
• Develop Azure Functions on any platform (Donna Malayeri)
• Exciting new things for Docker with Windows Server 17.09 (Michael Friis)
• Announcing New Azure Exams And Certification Path Recommendations for Azure Job Roles (Selina Winter)
• Bot Framework at Microsoft Ignite 2017 (Bot Framework Team)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• WPF Slow Window Loading due to Invalid SpellChecking Dictionaries (Rick Strahl)
• Xamarin.Nuget – Coming to a Nuget Package Near You (Alex Dunn)
• ActivityTask: A Helper for Async/Await on Android (Jérémie Laval)
• Xamarin.Forms: DependencyService (Almir Vuk)

Visual Studio & .NET

• TFS 2018 RC2 is available (Brian Harry)
• A Spot On Visual Studio Extension (Greg Duncan)
• .NET Framework September 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup (Rich Lander)
• Everything you need to know about F# classes in 23 view models (Sam Williams)
• F# Agent Pipeline Processing in Concurrent Applications (Stijn Moreels)
• Resource management in complex C# applications (Yacoub Massad)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• AlexaDev Tuesday: Time Management Tips For Weekend Coders (April Hamilton)
• In Defense Of Multitasking: How To Do It The Right Way (Kat Boogaard)

Mobile & IoT

• Introducing Free Alexa Skills Courses by Codecademy (Amit Jotwani)
• Microsoft Ignite 2017: Leading Innovation for IoT (Sam George)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• InfoQ Podcast: ThoughtWorks’ CTO Rebecca Parsons on Courageous Leadership and Evolutionary Architecture (Rebecca Parsons)
• SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2017 – Ask Me Anything! with Jason Taylor and Damian Edwards (.NET Core, ASP.NET Core Razor Pages) (Sophie Belle)
• Yet Another Podcast #176 – All Things Visual Studio Mac (Jesse Liberty)
• Everything you need to know about SQL Server 2017 (Microsoft Mechanics)
• AiA 157: Building Angular (Ward Bell, Alyssa Nicoll, Joe Eames & Charles Max Wood)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 214 | Ignite Short 2017: Windows Containers and Windows Linux Subsystem with Taylor Brown (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Defrag Tools #185 – Time Travel Debugging – Introduction | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• The Amp Hour #361 – An Interview with Ken Shirriff (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Functional Geekery Episode 109 – Zach Kessin (Steven Proctor)
• Interview with Beth Pan Software Engineer on the MVA Team | GALs (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• Revision Path 210: Derrick Rivers (Maurice Cherry)
• Severless Apps with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions and Navigating the Microsoft Graph with Azure Functions (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• SE-Radio Episode 304: Evgeny Shadchnev on Code Schools (Felienne)
• Software Engineering Daily – Dashboarding and Query Latency with Tom O’Neill (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Jumping into Xamarin Development with Syncfusion (Tres Watkins)
• With new Microsoft breakthroughs, general purpose quantum computing moves closer to reality (Allison Linn)
• Ignite 2017: Announcing Tools for AI-Driven Digital Transformation (Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team)
• Reality meets imagination at Microsoft Ignite (Frank X. Shaw)
• Technology for Social Impact group for nonprofit organizations worldwide announced, along with Microsoft 365 for Nonprofits (Suzanne Choney)

Database

• Remove Database from SQL Server AlwaysON Availability Group Secondary Replica (Manvendra Singh)
• How to Overcome the SQL Server Filtered Index UnMatchedIndexes Issue (Ahmad Yaseen)
• Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 7.6 for MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant v7.6 for Access and Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant v7.6 for Oracle (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Select Unique Data From a Column Exist in Two Different Table (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2017 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux offer (John ‘JG’ Chirapurath)
• New managed SQL server Integration Service hosting capability in Data Factory (SQL Server Team)
• Yes to databases in containers – Microsoft SQL Server available on Docker Store (Yuvraj Mehta)
• Introducing Microsoft Machine Learning Server 9.2 Release (Nagesh Pabbisetty)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams is replacing Skype for Business to put more pressure on Slack (Tom Warren)
• Guidance Available Now for Planning and Deploying Microsoft Teams! (David Branscome)

PowerShell

• Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part I (Will Anderson)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-26 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2429 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1939 (Mike Gunderloy)

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