Dew Drop – October 31, 2017 (#2593)

Top Links

• How to filter exceptions with conditional breakpoints (Dror Helper)
• Lambda expression breakpoints and debugger watches in Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 42 – Modifying an existing API Connection with Azure Logic App (Michael Crump)
• Augmented Reality in Xamarin.Android with ARCore (Jon Dick)

Web & Cloud Development

• Adding .delay(10) To ActivatedRoute Helps Prevent Unwanted Router Behaviors In Angular 4.4.6 (Ben Nadel)
• Emulating CSS Timing Functions with JavaScript (Ana Tudor)
• Deploying ARM Templates with the Azure CLI (Mark Heath)
• Growing Pains: Migrating Slack’s Desktop App to BrowserView (Charlie Hess)
• Different remote and local resource URLs, with Service Workers! (Lea Verou)
• TypeScript for Beginners, Part 4: Classes (Monty Shokeen)
• What’s New With OData 4: OData 2 vs. OData 4 (Nishanth Kadiyala)
• What Is the Difference Between Swagger and OpenAPI? (Ryan Pinkham)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: taking control over the back buttons (Marco Siccardi)
• 3 Steps to implementing Azure Blob Storage with adhoc SAS Tokens and Xamarin (Malcolm Jack)
• Apple ARKit with Xamarin.iOS – part1 (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
• Microsoft Store app and game submission deadlines for the holiday season (Dev Center Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• NuGet Support in Visual Studio for Mac 7.2 (Matt Ward)
• Productive C# – Using Static Declaration in C# 6.0 (Andrea Angella)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The bare minimum a distributed system developer should know about: networking (Oren Eini)
• Extreme Pairing Retrospective (Ben Linders)
• Satya Nadella on Digital Transformation (2018) (JD Meier)
• Introducing new ways to work in Microsoft Project (MS Project Team)
• Moving to real time test discovery in Test Explorer (Kendra Havens)
• Keep your project boards up to date, automatically (kneemer)
• 5 Things That Actually Scare Developers (and One That Does Not) (Nora Georgieva)

Mobile & IoT

• Alexa Routines Are Here – But Without Music and AlexaDev Tuesday – Alexa Kids Skill Challenge (April Hamilton)
• Introducing Kitura 2.0 (Chris Bailey)
• Introducing the New Dev Tips Skill for Alexa Skill Builders (Jennifer King)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – AI for Developers with David Carmona (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends – Merwan Hade on Microsoft Flow (David Giard)
• InfoQ Podcast: Guy Podjarny on OSS Security, Serverless, and the Equifax Hack (Guy Podjarny)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #120 – Halloween Spooktacular with Anil Slash (Jess Pardue)
• Windows Central Podcast 70: R.I.P Kinect (Zac Bowden)
• SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2017 – Ask Me Anything! with Adam Cogan and Jake Ginnivan (React vs Angular) (Sophie Belle)
• AFH 080: Agile NYC with Joe Krebs (Ryan Ripley)
• .NET DevChat: Structuring JavaScript Code in ASP.NET MVC Apps (Ignacio Fuentes)
• Defrag Tools #187 – Ninjacat Unicorn | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Functional Geekery Episode 113 – Oskar Wickström (Steven Proctor)
• Gone Mobile 59: SkiaSharp with Matthew Leibowitz (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
• TWiG #2 [Live]: We shipped 1.0! Here’s what’s coming next (John O’Nolan)
• Revision Path 215: Timothy Bardlavens (Maurice Cherry)
• SE-Radio Episode 307: Harsh Sinha on Product Management (Bryan Reinero)
• Surface Pro with LTE Advanced – An engineer’s tour (Microsoft Mechanics)

Community & Events

• How to become a SQL Server MVP (Daniel Calbimonte)
• Professional Scrum Training for the Ghana Police Service (Martin Hinshelwood)
• 25+ Outstanding Things To Do In Philly This Week, October 30-November 5 (Dan Van Wert)
• Meet Docker Enthusiasts Near You! (Karen Bajza)
• Introducing Twilio Developer Evangelist Kelley Robinson (Kelley Robinson)
• Hey, Data Architect! Attending PASS Summit 2017? Our Team Would Like to Meet You (Matthew Calder)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 80: Autism, Romance on the Riverwalk, Dune! (Nerd Nite Team)
• Top five reasons to join us for the PASS Summit 2017 Day 1 Keynote (SQL Server Team)

Database

• Different Ways to Connect to SQL Server Using sqlcmd (Daniel Farina)
• Database Deep Dive: The NoSQL Edition (Sarah Davis)
• Rolling back database changes (Alex Yates)
• Modernize your applications across on-premise and cloud with the Microsoft Data Accelerator Program (SQL Server Team)

Miscellaneous

• ebook deal of the week: Windows Internals, Part 1, 7th Edition (Kim Spilker)
• Premium Outlook.com features now available to Office 365 subscribers (Outlook Team)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-10-31 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-10-31 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2454 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1964 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Coding4Fun October 2017 Round-up (Greg Duncan)
• Daily Links 30 Oct 2017 (Malcolm Jack)
• Interesting links of the week (10/22 – 10/29, 2017) (Mike Eaton)
• Reading Notes #303 (Frank Boucher)

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