Dew Drop – September 27, 2017 (#2570)

Top Links

• Visual Studio and Xamarin take iOS support to 11 (Joseph Hill)
• Multi-line import completion, code generation improvements in Rider 2017.2 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Firefox takes a Quantum leap forward with new developer edition (Peter Bright)
• The Book of the Runtime – The internals of the .NET Runtime that you won’t find in the documentation (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

• Debugging into ASP.NET Core 2.0 source code (Laurent Kempe)
• Learn Computer Science With JavaScript: Part 2, Conditionals (Alberta Williams)
• Web Truths: JavaScript can’t be trusted (Chris Heilmann)
• Develop (and test) a dockerized, PostgreSQL backed, ASP.NET Core microservice in less than an hour (Dror Helper)
• RxJS Advanced Tutorial With Angular & Web Speech: Part 2 (Kim Maida)
• A few notes on creating Class Libraries for ASP.NET Core (Rick Strahl)
• Building Better Forms With Kendo UI & Angular (Tara Z. Manicsic)
• React v16.0 (Andrew Clark)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 23 – Testing Web Apps in Production with Azure App Service (Michael Crump)
• Node v8.6.0 (Current) (James M Snell)
• Announcing new Azure VM sizes for more cost-effective database workloads (Luis Vargas)
• Integrating Azure Advisor Into Your Workday (Timothy Warner & Daron Yondem)
• How to know when an Azure Function is running in a Staging slot (Frank Boucher)
• OAuth2 (Jesse MacFadyen)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• 3 Reasons to Try Xamarin Previews in Visual Studio 2017 (Jimmy Garrido)
• 5 Common Pitfalls In Enterprise Mobile Development (Adam Pedley)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Latest and Greatest in Visual Studio 2017 for C++ developers (Andrew Pardoe)
• Upcoming features and enhancements in C# 7.2 (Kapil Khandelwal)
• Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0 (Phillip Carter)
• Better Performance from Async Operations (Steve Smith)
• Extracting Data with Regular Expressions (Tim Patrick)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 6, Managers Want Commitments (Johanna Rothman)
• Unit Testing Your Alexa Skill’s Lambda Functions with Postman (Martha Kang)
• “The Leadership Journey” by Jim Holmes (David Giard)
• Test Studio and the Meaning of “Do You Even Test” (Andy Wieland)
• Retrospective classic: Mad Sad Glad (Ben Linders)
• Code Documentation and Code Comments Aren’t the Same Thing (Erik Dietrich)
• ebook deal of the week: Microsoft Project 2016 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

Mobile & IoT

• Android and iOS UI Testing with Calabash (Alexander Gedevanishvili)
• Azure Event Grid vs Azure IoT Hub: Which is better for IoT? (Chris Pietschmann)
• A Mobile DevOps Retrospective Part I: 150+ Apps Later (Greg Shackles)
• Download the Community Edition for IBM Toolkit for Swift – Linux on z Systems, a no charge, fully functional, unlimited production use toolkit (Nicole Trudeau)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Windows Central Podcast 65: Andromeda OS (Zac Bowden)
• Developer Tea – DCR: Open Minded Curiosity (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Everything you need to know about SQL Server 2017 (Microsoft Mechanics)
• The Nerdist Podcast – David X. Cohen (Chris Hardwick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 215 | Ignite 2017: Live Episode from Ignite! (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• RunAs Radio – Database Reliability in 2017 with Allan Hirt (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Talk Python to Me #131 – Top 10 machine learning libraries (Michael Kennedy)
• Azure Service Fabric on Linux (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Watch Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talk company culture, more on CBS This Morning (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• UWP App Tips Recommended Video – Bringing Your WinForms/WPF Investments Forwards with UWP/.NET Standard 2.0 (Me)

Community & Events

• Interview with Xamarin.Forms Succinctly Author Alessandro Del Sole (Graham High)

Database

• SQL Authority News – SQL Server 2017 and Automatic Tuning (Pinal Dave)
• In-database Machine Learning in SQL Server 2017 (Sumit Kumar & Nellie Gustafsson)

MS Teams

• MS Teams News – Skype for Business Transitioning to Microsoft Teams (Me)
• Ignite Live Blog: Get an overview of Microsoft Teams architecture (Loryan Strant)

PowerShell

• Powershell with the Couchbase REST API (Matthew Groves)
• Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part II (Will Anderson)
• Backup SQL Server Databases in Parallel with PowerShell (Pablo Echeverria)
• PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell (Preview) is now publically available in Azure Portal (Hemant Mahawar)

Miscellaneous

• Giving you more characters to express yourself (Aliza Rosen)
• Book Review: Java 9 for Programmers (Ian Elliot)
• We know what Ataribox will cost now, but the numbers don’t add up (Adam Rosenberg)
• Windows Insiders will get new notification feature for submitted feedback (Daniel Rubino)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16299 for PC (Dona Sarkar)
• Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare now available on Windows 10 PC and Xbox One (Elana Pidgeon)
• The next perpetual release of Office (Jared Spataro)
• Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer among those praising Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s book ‘Hit Refresh’ (Kurt Schlosser)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-27 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-27 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2450 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf