Dew Drop – October 19, 2017 (#2585)

Top Links

• C# 7.0 and 7.1 support in ReSharper – Throw expressions (Maarten Balliauw)
• Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 makes it easy to modernize your desktop application and make it store ready (Stefan Wick)
• Adobe XD CC: A New High-Performance UWP App for UI/UX Design (Michael S. Scherotter)
• .NET Rocks! – SpaceX BFR 2.0 Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web & Cloud Development

• Free .NET Core eBook, including ASP.NET Core and EF Core (Andrew Lock)
• Easy JavaScript Part 12: What are the Call and Apply Methods? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Working with Angular and its technology stack in .NET (Edward Charbeneau)
• IBM Open-Sources WebSphere Liberty Code (Darren West)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 36 – Quickly Renew or Revoke Azure Functions Keys (Michael Crump)
• Mozilla brings Microsoft, Google, the W3C, Samsung together to create cross-browser documentation on MDN (Ali Spivak)
• Azure Event Grid now supports Event Hubs as a destination (Dan Rosanova)
• Documenting the Web together (Erika Doyle Navara)
• 21 new open-source solutions available from Google Cloud Launcher (Quan To)
• Continuous Deployment of Cloud Services with VSTS (Oren Novotny)
• Twilio Authenticator SDK Now Supports Offline Authentication with TOTP (Simon Thorpe)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Get Fluent with the XAML Controls Gallery (Greg Duncan)
• Xamarin Preview: Xcode 9.1 Beta 2, iOS 11.1 Support – Preview 1 (Brendan Zagaeski)
• Xamarin Live Player – VS 2017 version 15.4 & 15.5 Awesomeness (James Montemagno)
• Plugin and Permission Changes with iOS 11 (John Miller)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Step-back while debugging with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2017 (Abhijit Jana)
• Create a .NET Core 2 application on Linux with Visual Studio Code and How to install NuGet Package in Visual Studio Code Linux Ubuntu (Benjamin Perkins)
• Porting to Entity Framework Core (Derek Comartin)
• The Ultimate .NET Experiment – open source project (Konrad Kokosa)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• You Have No Excuse for Dead Code (Erik Dietrich)
• Visio Online and Visio’s new cloud innovations help you unlock creativity (Visio Team)

Mobile & IoT

• Here’s everything you can do in Windows Mixed Reality right now (Cale Hunt)
• Kotlin From Scratch: Abstract Classes, Interfaces, Inheritance, and Type Alias (Chike Mgbemena)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 249 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – Agile DC Executive Summit – Amber King (Bob Payne)
• #Podcast – NTN 39 – Overview of Agile today, #Agiles2017 experience and more … (Bruno Capuano)
• The Xamarin Show Episode 31: Android App Signing & Packaging (James Montemagno)
• Syntax Podcast – Tasty Treats – Rems VS Ems, Remote Work, Making Money, Getting good at Design + more! (Wes Bos)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The critical importance of retrospectives | Samantha Webb (Vasco Duarte)
• Developer on Fire Episode 279 | Fred George – Making Sure the Right Decisions Are Made (Dave Rael)
• Software Engineering Daily – Interviewing.io with Aline Lerner (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Interview w/ Kristen Gallagher (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Doubling Bug Bounty rewards (Brent Johnson)
• News from Adobe MAX 2017: Photoshop, Surface, and the future of creativity (Jason Gregory)

Data

• Compare SQL Server Table Join Performance for INT vs BIGINT vs GUID Data Types (Ben Snaidero)
• SQL SERVER – How to Find Stored Procedure Execution Count and Average Elapsed Time? (Pinal Dave)
• Enabling data science for the majority (Aditya Parameswaran)
• Processing Datasets with Algorithmia (Ed Blankenship)

PowerShell

• Writing and Archiving Custom Metrics using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Tools for PowerShell (Steve Roberts)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-10-19 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-10-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2446 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1956 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #358 (Pedro Botelho)

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