Dew Drop – September 28, 2017 (#2571)

Top Links

• Call and value tracking come to Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 24 – Add logic to your Testing in Production sites with PowerShell (Michael Crump)
• Further adventures with a Rider plugin for Cake (Matt Ellis)
• The Book of the Runtime – The internals of the .NET Runtime that you won’t find in the documentation (Scott Hanselman)
• Time Travel Debugging is now available in WinDbg Preview (James Pinkerton)

Web & Cloud Development

• Javascript Testing Frameworks: The Best to Test JS Code (Bogdan Sandu)
• Next.js 3.0 Release: What’s New? (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• What is This in JavaScript? (Wissam Abirached)
• Version Gotcha When Using Enzyme with React (Scott Banwart)
• How to configure log4net on Azure App Service (Benjamin Perkins)
• How to know when an Azure Function is running in a Staging slot (Frank Boucher)
• Azure Function Proxies – Part 1: Represent heterogenous service operations into a single API (Toon Vanhoutte)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Stable Release: Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0.280 (David Ortinau)
• Beautiful Xamarin – Facebook Clone in Xamarin.Forms (Michael Ridland)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio Gets Quantum Language (Kay Ewbank)
• C# Tools to Help with Your Code Quality (Erik Dietrich)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 7, Summary (Johanna Rothman)
• Is CI part of a basic developer setup? (Dave Nicolette)
• The Best User Experience is the Simple User Experience (Rob Bazinet)
• Respawn 1.0.0 released (Jimmy Bogard)

Mobile & IoT

• Create a Bitcoin Price Index Watcher Application for Android (Sylvain Saurel)
• Write Better Code Using Kotlin’s Require, Check and Assert (Jeremy Sherman)
• How to Migrate Your Alexa Skill to the Updated Smart Home Skill API (BJ Haberkorn)
• Alexa Skill Learning Journey (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing Alexa Gadgets: New Tools for Developers to Create Fun and Interactive Voice Experiences—Sign Up to Stay Tuned (Karen Yue)
• Introducing the Next Generation of Alexa-Enabled Devices and New Opportunities for Alexa Skills Developers (Kenny Mathers)
• Solving the Marketing Icon issue in iTunes Connect (Bryan Anthony Garcia)
• NativeScript Marketplace – Discover High Quality Plugins, Templates, and Tools (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Social Presentations with Mark Rendle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Angular and .NET Core | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Webinar Recording | Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks Webinar (Courtney Witmer)
• Syntax Podcast – The Command Line for Web Developers (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 217 | Ignite 2017: Azure Functions with Donna Malayeri (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Developer on Fire Episode 273 | Sara Ford – Human Connection (Dave Rael)
• Episode 31: Exploring Jobs In Game Development | Level Up (Katie Stone Perez)
• Windows Insider Podcast – Be a hero in your org with Windows Insider for Business (Michael Niehaus & The Windows Insider Team)
• Software Engineering Daily – Alerting and Metrics with Clement Pang (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2017 – Ask Me Anything! with Adam Cogan and Richard Campbell (Sophie Belle)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Primitive Data Types (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• VIDEO: Microsoft Translator Facilitates Multilingual Conversations in the Classroom (Microsoft Translator Team)

Community & Events

• 10 Questions with Roland Smeenk (James Ashley)
• Celebrate open source this October with Hacktoberfest (Lee Reilly)

Database

• Microsoft Flow and SQL Server Integration Example ()
• SELECT…INTO Enhancements in SQL Server 2017 ()
• SQL SERVER – What Are Ghost Records and How to Clean Them Up? (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17004 for PC (Skip Ahead) (Dona Sarkar)
• Amazon announces second-gen Echo with better audio, new design, and lower price and Amazon announces $20 Echo Buttons for gaming with Echo (Mikah Sargent)
• Using VS Code to Debug Java Applications (Xiaokai He)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-28 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2431 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1941 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #352 (Pedro Botelho)

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