Dew Drop – November 1, 2017 (#2594)

Top Links

• Welcome to C# 7.1 (Mads Torgersen)
• Dissecting the tuples in C# 7 (Sergey Teplyakov)
• Building Immersive Apps Using The Mixed Reality Toolkit (Senthamil Selvan)
• Introducing API Analyzer (Immo Landwerth)

Web & Cloud Development

• Fun with Single-Element CSS Spinner (Ariya Hidayat)
• Introducing new JavaScript optimizations, WebAssembly, SharedArrayBuffer, and Atomics in EdgeHTML 16 (Limin Zhu)
• Top 13 ASP.NET Core Features You Need to Know (Matt Watson)
• Kylo Ren CSS Page Preloader (Petr Urbánek)
• Optimizing ASP.NET Core Docker Image sizes (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 43 – Working with Azure Logic App using Visual Studio 2017 (Michael Crump)
• TypeScript Practical Introduction (Bruno Krebs)
• Announcing TypeScript 2.6 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Eager Execution: An imperative, define-by-run interface to TensorFlow (Asim Shankar & Wolff Dobson)
• Node v9.0.0 (Current) (James M. Snell)
• Goodbye Postman Chrome app (Joyce)
• Stateful vs. Stateless Functional Components in React (Manjunath M.)
• Take a few minutes to tell us what you need from Azure training (Matthew Calder)
• TypeScript for Beginners, Part 5: Generics (Monty Shokeen)
• Recent updates for publishing (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• A Complete Chef Infrastructure on Your Laptop (Ian Miell)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• MvvmCross 5.4 (Martijn van Dijk)
• Service Release: Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0.38779 (David Ortinau)
• UWP Community Toolkit: Driven by Microsoft, Developed by the Community (Alan Mendelevich)
• Xamarin Release: 15.4.2 Servicing Release (Brendan Zagaeski)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Back to Basic – How to iterate though an enumeration (Enum) in C# ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Another Use Case for DbContext.Add in EFCore (and a DDD win) (Julie Lerman)
• Why does upgrading my project to Unicode cause Visual Studio to use a different version of the common controls? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• CodePlex Information and Discussion – Documentation – Migrating to GitHub (CodePlex Team)
• Introducing GitHub Marketplace free trials (Corey Hobbs)
• Toward a Continuous Flow (Dave Nicolette)
• 5 DevOps Horror Stories That Will Scare Your Pants Off (Eli Lopian)
• Management malady (Eric Brechner)
• CodeIt.Right Rules Explained, Part 11 (Erik Dietrich)
• A Mobile DevOps Retrospective Part II: Automation (Greg Shackles)
• Four Imperatives for Great Customer Experiences (Jamie Brighton)
• Does Remote Work Increase Our Risk Of Impostor Syndrome? (Jessica Sillers)
• A Reasonable Approach for Getting Comfortable With Command Line (Melanie Sumner)
• Encapsulation in Objects and Applications (Steve Smith)

Mobile & IoT

• Announcing Fast Pair – effortless Bluetooth pairing for Android (Ritesh Nayak M & Ronald Ho)
• NativeScript Hallow[3.3]n Release (Alexander Vakrilov)
• A look inside: Scenario testing for Unity 2017.2 (Anastasia Smirnova)
• How To Build An Ionic App With A Graphcool Backend – Part 3 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• Git Started with Source Control and GameMaker Studio 2 (Part 1) (Becky Young)
• Flying the Kotlin Spaceship at Twilio (Berkus Karchebnyy)
• Announcing Ionic DevApp (Justin Willis)
• Mixed Reality momentum continues in the Modern Workplace and Microsoft HoloLens expands to 29 new markets (Lorraine Bardeen)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 115: The Companero Conference Retrospective (Carlos L. Chacon)
• RunAs Radio – Office 365 Hybrid with Scott Hoag (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• The MVP Show in Norway: An Interview With MVP Iris Classon (Seth Juarez)
• Improve Azure SQL Database Performance with Automatic Tuning | Azure Friday (Rob Caron & Seth Juarez)
• Software Engineering Daily – Augmented Reality with Scott Montgomerie (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2017 – Ask Me Anything! with Thiago Passos and Michele Bustamente (Containers and Microservices) (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – The Future (and Past) of Legal for Developers w/Gary Nissenbaum (part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Microsoft executive Julie Larson-Green leaving company after 25 years (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• SQL Authority News – 11 Years of Daily Blogging – 4200+ Blog Posts (Pinal Dave)
• 2018 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Registration is open (Richard Siddaway)
• MINECON Earth events in Seattle and London! (Tom Stone)

Database

• Limitations When Working with SQL Server Views (Ben Richardson)
• Script to find failed SQL Server Backups and validate re-running code was successful (K. Brian Kelley)
• What Is Estimated Subtree Cost? Query Bucks. No, Really. (Brent Ozar)
• N1QL Enhancements in Couchbase Server 5.0 (Matthew Groves)
• Book Review: Efficient R Programming (Mike James)
• Query Natural Language with Couchbase Server’s Powerful Full Text Search (Nic Raboy)

SharePoint

• What’s up with Angular (v2.x / v4.x) and the SharePoint Framework? (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Xbox One X Scorpio Edition orders may be delayed, buyers are worried (Kip Kniskern)
• Amazon Prime Video To Launch On Xbox One X And Is Available Globally On Xbox One Today (Larry Hryb)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-11-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-11-01 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2455 (Chris Alcock)

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