Dew Drop – November 21, 2017 (#2608)

Top Links

• Large C# and VB solutions load significantly faster in 15.5 update (Viktor Veis)
• .NET Rocks! – GitHub Beyond Your Browser with Phil Haack (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Overview of Visual Studio 2017 and Updates for .NET Developers (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
• The First C# Advent Calendar (Matthew Groves)

Web & Cloud Development

• Creating An Input-Driven AutoFocus Directive In Angular 5.0.2 (Ben Nadel)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 54 – Getting a .NET Core WebAPI Project Ready for Docker (Michael Crump)
• Multi-arch All The Things (Phil Estes)
• Test-driven React.js Development: React.js Unit Testing with Enzyme and Jest (Alonso Ayala Ortega)
• Azure Advisor – your personalized best practices service got better (Jan Kalis)
• New – Interactive AWS Cost Explorer API (Jeff Barr)
• Introducing the Amazon DynamoDB DataMapper for JavaScript – Developer Preview (Jonathan Eskew)
• Marvin.JsonPatch 2.0.0 Released (Kevin Dockx)
• Performant Animations Using KUTE.js: Part 2, Animating CSS Properties (Monty Shokeen)
• Jenkins on Azure update – ACI experiment and AKS support (Pui Chee Chan)
• Planning an ASP.NET MVC Application: Working with Data (Sara Faatz)
• Autoscaling Pub/Sub Consumers (Igor Maravić)
• Recreating the Apple Watch Breathe App Animation (Geoff Graham)
• Introducing TensorFlow Feature Columns (TensorFlow Team)
• Containerizing a web application (Jan Egil Ring)
• Introducing Support for Generating Ruby SDKs in Amazon API Gateway (Jingyi Chen)
• Using Gists for General Purpose Web Pages with Markdown (Rick Strahl)
• Progressive WebApps – the future? (Stefan)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Forms 101: Useful Plugins in Xamarin Forms (Devlin Duldulao)
• UWP Tip #10 – UWP Community Toolkit – Part 8, 2 Developer Tools (Me)
• Running Xamarin UITest Repl Outside of Tests (Martyn Wiggins)
• How can I find the installation directory for my UWP application? (Raymond Chen)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Avoid Repeated Execution of LINQ Queries in C# (Srinath M S)
• 5 C# Evolutions You May Not Know (ahd Ben kheder)
• #VS2017 – Commands with the basic movements for an #Minecraft Agent with #ProjectMalmo (Bruno Capuano)
• .NET (Micro)ORM fetch benchmark results and the fine details (Frans Bouma)
• New DirectX 12 features in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Jacques van Rhyn)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Why agile transformations fail, and how to prevent it (Ben Linders)
• Package Management adds nuget.org upstream source (Alex Mullans)
• Migrate From TFS To VSTS (Mahesh Chand)
• It has never been a better time to migrate from TFS to VSTS! (Rogan Ferguson)
• Understanding Distance for a Geographically Distributed Team (Johanna)
• GitHub: Introducing Team discussions (Katie Sipos)
• ebook deal of the week: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice (Kim Spilker)

Mobile & IoT

• Android Architecture Components: Room — Migration (Paulina Szklarska)
• Google Play Referrer API: Track and measure your app installs easily and securely (Neto Marin)
• Intro to Shaders and Surfaces with GameMaker Studio 2 (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
• Regarding Mobile Apps with Hard-coded API Keys (Twilio Team)
• Challenges in HoloLens Application Development (Vinothkumar Arputharaj)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Connect(); & Mile of Music with Jared Kuehn (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Technology & Friends – Oren Eini on RavenDB (David Giard)
• Herding Code 225: Glitch with Jenn Schiffer and Daniel X Moore (Jon Galloway)
• Windows Central Podcast 73: SteamVR is here! (Zac Bowden)
• Functional Geekery Episode 115 – Sam Williams (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 218: Cyrus Henderson (Maurice Cherry)
• Women in Business & Technology Podcast – Julia White’s journey to the cloud (Colleen O’Brien & Sonia Dara)
• Dream.Build.Play November Update | Level Up (MrAndyPuppy & Stacey Haffner)
• IoT Minute Episode 65: Interview with the Father of the Internet of Things (Rob Tiffany)
• Software Engineering Daily – Incident Response with Emil Storlarsky (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Making it easier to contribute to Netflix OSS (Travis McPeak & Andrew Spyker)
• Melinda Gates wrote a moving op-ed about sexual harassment (Nicole Gallucci)
• PAX Unplugged’s Debut is a Celebration of Tabletop Gaming and Its Evolution (Yali Perez)

Database

• Remote Desktop Tools for Mac and Linux Machines to Connect to SQL Server (Sadequl Hussain)
• Overview of Basic Configuration Options for SQL Azure (Vitor Montalvao)
• SQL Server – DBCC CHECKTABLE (Arun Sirpal)
• Updated Stack Overflow Database Dump Importer v1.4 (Brent Ozar)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams in Education: Impacting our future (Matt Soseman)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 Tip: Edit any URL in your Microsoft Edge Favorites (Elana Pidgeon)
• Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which is Faster? (Nick Nguyen)
• Microsoft is experimenting with making Windows 10 search more Apple-like (Tom Warren)
• This Whiskey Brand Got Matthew McConaughey to Deliver 4,500 Turkeys (Zoë Henry)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-11-21 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-11-21 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2469 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1978 (Mike Gunderloy)

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