Dew Drop – December 5, 2017 (#2617)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5, Visual Studio for Mac Released (John Montgomery)
• .NET Rocks! – Visual Studio Tools for AI with Seth Juarez and Paige Bailey (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• I’m Speaking on a Boat (Joseph Guadagno)
• ‘Make a Ruckus’ to Protect Net Neutrality in the U.S. (Julio Avalos)
• See What’s New in Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5 (Pierce Boggan)

Web & Cloud Development

• Handling Global Keyboard Shortcuts Using Priority And Terminality In Angular 5.0.5 (Ben Nadel)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 62 – Force HTTPS in Azure Functions (Michael Crump)
• Humpty Dumpty and Programming (Dave M. Bush)
• Get on board with cross-platform ASP.NET Core! and Ready for intermediate ASP.NET Core? and ASP.NET Core – Advanced (Matthew Calder)
• The State of .NET in 2018: Better Web Apps with ASP.NET Core (Sara Faatz)
• Azure Functions v2 C# Script Async sample with SendGrid (Tsuyoshi Ushio)
• Publishing aspnet core web app to linux (Vijay Ganesh)
• Advent of Code Day 4-Anagrams, Sets and Jasmine (Mark Heath)
• Breaking on DOM Mutations in the Microsoft Edge DevTools (Brendyn Alexander)
• Set and view SSL certificates with Postman (Joyce)
• Website Performance: Images & Compression (Mitchel Sellers)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Up and Running with Syncfusion, Xamarin, and Visual Studio in 3 Steps (Tres Watkins)
• Xamarin Development with Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5 (Nick Randolph)
• Xamarin Release: 15.5 (Brendan Zagaeski)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# REPL for .NET Core 2.0 and #load support from NuGet – dotnet-script 0.16 is out! (Filip W.)
• Keep Your C# Clean with Tidy C# Extension (Greg Duncan)
• Extend your desktop application with Windows 10 features using the new Visual Studio Application Packaging Project (Ricardo Minguez)
• Optimizing memory usage (Frans Bouma)
• Guest Posts and Advent Calendars (Dean Hume)
• ORMs for .NET Core (Jonathan Allen)
• Smart Step Into debugging in Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• .NET Value Type (struct) as a DDD Value Object (Vladimir Khorikov)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Time handling and user experience, Backup Scheduling in RavenDB as a case study (Oren Eini)
• How To Train Your Brain To Access The ‘Sweet Spot’: An Interview with Christine Carter (Janet Mesh)

Mobile & IoT

• Embedding C# in Native Android (Roy Dammarell)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Azure Location Based Services (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Last week in Azure: Location-based services, Azure Migrate, and more (Rob Caron)
• AFH 081: The Scrum Guide Gets an Update with Dave West (Ryan Ripley)
• Gone Mobile 63: Building Apps Using Visual Studio Team Services with Gopinath C H (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
• RiYL Episode 246: Simon Hanselmann (Brian Heater)
• Microsoft Research Podcast – AI and Our Future With Machines with Dr. Eric Horvitz (Emily Maryatt)
• Functional Geekery Episode 117 – Eric Normand (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 220: Gail Anderson (Maurice Cherry)
• No Dogma Podcast #85 Mark Seemann, Dependency Rejection, Part 2 (Bryan Hogan)
• IoT Minute Episode 68: A Failure to Launch? (Rob Tiffany)
• Software Engineering Daily – Secure Authentication with Praneet Sharma (Jeff Meyerson)
• Microsoft Research Podcast – Snippets from the Revolution – An Interview with Dr. Jaime Teevan (Tara Grumm)

Community & Events

• AWS .NET Team at AWS re:Invent 2017 (Norm Johanson)
• Let’s Celebrate – The Microsoft Tech Community is 100,000 Strong! (Anna Chu)
• 25+ Amazing Things To Do In Philly This Week, December 4-10 (Dan Van Wert)
• How We’re Designing Channels (Kurtis Beavers)
• Sheryl Sandberg says we need access to computer science education (Megan Rose Dickey)

Database

• Implement SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Amazon EC2 – Part 2 (Pinakin Patel)
• Different Ways to Connect to SQL Azure databases (Vitor Montalvao)
• SQL Server 2017 on Linux- Processes (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
• SQL SERVER – Msg 3743: The Database is Enabled for Database Mirroring. Database Mirroring Must be Removed Before you Drop the Database (Pinal Dave)
• Debugging data: Microsoft researchers look at ways to train AI systems to reflect the real world (John Roach)
• 10 Ways I Can Steal Your Data: eBook (Karen Lopez)

Miscellaneous

• Xbox Game Preview program: Everything you need to know (Matt Brown)
• Background Task Support in WSL (Tara Raj)
• Gartner Says Hire Programmers to Your Infrastructure and Ops Team (Yevgeniy Sverdlik)
• Microsoft is reworking the Cortana Notebook UI in Windows 10 (Zac Bowden)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-05 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2479 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1987 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: Dec 4, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Docker Retrospective: October 2017 (Elton Stoneman)
• Amazon Developer Blog Summary: December 4, 2017 (Serena McIntire)

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