Dew Drop – December 1, 2017 (#2615)

Top Links

• Introducing React Food Truck (Burke Holland)
• Performance Guide for Visual Studio in ReSharper 2017.3 (Chris Woodruff)
• Create Angular App Themes with Bootstrap 4, Sass & Kendo UI (Ed Charbeneau)
• Building Xamarin.iOS Apps in Team Services (VSTS) with Hosted macOS Agents! (James Montemagno)

Web & Cloud Development

• I Love That TypeScript Doesn’t Allow Me To Make Incorrect Assumptions About Object Usage (Ben Nadel)
• Inheritance and Extending Objects With JavaScript (Alberta Williams)
• ASP.NET Core with Couchbase: Getting Started (Matthew Groves)
• Design Patterns in JavaScript, Part 1 (Puneet Sharma)
• AWS Cloud9 – Cloud Developer Environments (Randall Hunt)
• ADL Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) supports Python & R Programming (Jenny Jiang)
• Kubernetes and containers in 2018: Buckle your seatbelts (Alex Polvi)
• 5 Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes at Scale in Production (Craig Martin)
• A Brief User Guide on Fiddler Orchestra (Tsviatko Yovtchev)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• WPF Tip #20 – Extended WPF Toolkit – IconButton Control and UWP Tip #11 – UWP Community Toolkit – Part 9, DockPanel Control (Me)
• Supercharge Your Xamarin.Mac Application Startup Time (Chris Hamons)
• A Follow-On Prague Experiment with Skeletons (Mike Taulty)
• Communication between Xamarin PCL project and Xamarin Android (iOS) project in Xamarin Forms Application (Alessandro Caliaro)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Rounding Up the Newest Extensions for Visual Studio 2017 (Terrence Dorsey)
• In Visual Studio, how do I pass arguments in debug to a console program? (Paula DiTallo)
• Creating tree view check boxes manually: Responding to clicks (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• ​7 Days of Free Stock Images (Chris Coyier)
• An unusual scenario for Release Management, part 1: testing SonarQube upgrades (Matteo Emili)
• Fixing Those Broken Windows: Dealing with Technical Debt (Pawel Lukasik)

Mobile & IoT

• Announcing More Personalized Skill Responses When Alexa Recognizes a Customer’s Voice (Developer Preview) (BJ Haberkorn)
• Build a Music App With an Android App Template (Chike Mgbemena)
• How to Update Your App for iOS 11: Drag and Drop (Doron Katz)
• Announcing Alexa for Business: Using Amazon Alexa’s Voice Enabled Devices for Workplaces (Tara Walker)
• React Native Redux Architecture Part-1 (Youbaraj Poudel)
• The Basic Parts of a Mobile App (Daniel Ra)
• Introducing the AIY Vision Kit: Add computer vision to your maker projects (Billy Rutledge)
• Kinecting Beyond Gaming (Greg Duncan)
• A Guide to Online HoloLens Tutorials (James Ashley)
• Oreo Notifications: Channels – Part 1 (Mark Allison)
• The new maker toolkit: IoT, AI and Google Cloud Platform (Mike Dory)
• Kotlin 1.2 Introduces Multi-platform Projects (Sergio De Simone)
• My NativeScript Development Workflow (TJ VanToll)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Hanselminutes – Continuous Delivery in AAA Games – Sea of Thieves with Rare (Scott Hanselman)
• This Week on Windows: Tips for traveling with your device and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• Radio TFS – Where Do Babies Come From with Ben Day (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• IoT Minute Episode 67: The Powerful Things IoT, MEAP and MDM Platforms have in Common (Rob Tiffany)
• Rocket 151: Dark Unicorn (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Windows Insider Podcast – Making technology accessible (Thomas Trombley)
• Azure Podcast Episode 206 – Kubernetes (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• 15 Awesome Events And Holiday Attractions In Philadelphia This December (Grace Dickinson)
• Get to know our Couchbase Community Meet Clinton van Blommestein (Laura Czajkowski)
• My Microsoft MVP Journey (Steve Gordon)

Database

• Different Ways to Find SQL Server Orphaned Users (Jeffrey Yao)
• SQL SERVER – Execution Failed. See the Maintenance Plan and SQL Server Agent Job History Logs for Details (Pinal Dave)
• Azure Database Migration Service Preview brings the “lift and shift” (SQL Server Team)
• Would you like to see Redgate tools inside SQL Operations Studio? (Jonathan Roberts)
• Deploy Couchbase Server in Minutes with Amazon Web Services (Nic Raboy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Edge now available for iOS and Android (Joe Belfiore)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-01 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-01 (Dan Rigby)

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