Dew Drop – December 6, 2017 (#2618)

Top Links

• Microsoft Whiteboard Preview—the freeform canvas for creative collaboration (Microsoft Whiteboard Team)
• Announcing Azure Functions Runtime preview 2 (Andrew Westgarth)
• Always Connected PCs enable a new culture of work (Terry Myerson)
• Data Points – Building UWP Apps for Local and Cloud Data Storage (Julie Lerman)

Web & Cloud Development

• Not just Bootstrap: Semantic UI – Day 5 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and Angular Concepts – Day 6 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 63 – Open an existing Azure Function in Visual Studio (Michael Crump)
• ASP.NET with Couchbase: Getting Started and Serverless Architecture with Cloud Computing (Matthew Groves)
• A different way of understanding this in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Using Docker Hub to automatically build a Docker image for ASP.NET Core apps (Andrew Lock)
• Use Power BI to build interactive visualizations based on Application Insights telemetry data (Patrick van Kleef)
• So, you learned JavaScript – what now? (Chris Heilmann)
• Sending Direct Messages using SignalR with ASP.NET core and Angular (Damien Bowden)
• HDInsight Tools for VSCode supports Azure environments worldwide (Jenny Jiang)
• Finding non-unique elements in Javascript (Michael Romanov)
• Running the Azure Functions runtime in containers on Kubernetes and more (Shayne Boyer)
• ASP.NET Core Gotchas – No. 1 (Steve Gordon)
• Book Review: The Go Programming Language (Harry Fairhead)
• Inspecting HTTP Requests With RequestBin (Jason Roberts)
• .NET WebAssembly Support an Ongoing Experiment (David Iffland)
• Announcing Core ML support in TensorFlow Lite (TensorFlow Team)
• What Can You Do with Blockchain? Here Are 4 Ideas to Consider (David Haimes)
• Introducing the Web Media Extension Package with OGG Vorbis and Theora support for Microsoft Edge (David Mebane & Jerry Smith)
• Migrating your existing .NET application to the cloud? Tell us about it! (Ankit Asthana)
• Announcing the General Availability of containerd 1.0, the industry-standard runtime used by millions of users (Patrick Chanezon)
• Animating Border (Stephen Shaw)
• Nrwl Nx Now Supports Automatic Migrations (Victor Savkin)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• XamarinForms 101: How to use Acr.UserDialogs (Devlin Duldulao)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Quick Actions in Visual Studio 2017 (Baskar rao Dsn)
• Adding an Options Dialog to a Visual Studio Extension (Jeff Fritz)
• Deep dive to async Main (Gunnar Peipman)
• Advent of Code Day 5-Mutable Arrays (Mark Heath)
• #VisualStudio – JSON Viewer, excellent extension to work with #JSON contents (Bruno Capuano)
• Tree view check boxes: The extended check box states (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• DevOps before and after F1 style (Donovan Brown)

Mobile & IoT

• Welcoming Android 8.1 Oreo and Android Oreo (Go edition) (Dave Burke)
• The (Complete) Android Splash Screen Guide (Elvis Chidera)
• Designing Fun Platforming Levels: Tips and Best Practices (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
• How to provisioning IoT devices at scale with IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• NativeScript Playground is on (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• InfoQ Podcast: Kent McDonald and Heather Mylan-Mains on Socratic Questioning (Kent McDonald & Heather Mylan-Mains)
• RunAs Radio – Azure Service Fabric with Mikkel Mork Hegnhoj (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• AiA 166: Visual Studio Code and Live Sharing with Chris Dias and PJ Meyer LIVE at Microsoft Connect 2017 (Charles Max Wood)
• JSJ 290: Open Source Software with Dirk Hohndel – VMWare Chief Open Source Officer (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood, Corey House & Joe Eames)
• STEM Everyday #81 | Lang’s Lab (Chris Woods)
• Functional Geekery Episode 117 – Eric Normand (Steven Proctor)
• Hands-on experience to provision real device with IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service | Internet of Things Show and Interview with Cierra Mcdonald, Senior Program Manager on the Xbox Advanced Technology Group | GALs (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• SE-Radio Episode 311: Armon Dadgar on Secrets Management (Matthew Farwell)
• Software Engineering Daily – Data Science Mindset with Zacharias Voulgaris (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Joshua Aziz (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Join Us to Learn How to Build Android 8.0 Oreo and iOS 11 apps with Visual Studio (Craig Dunn)
• Philly Code Camp 2018.1 – Mar 24, 2018 (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
• Announcing: 12 Days of Minecraft (Marsh Davies)
• Speaking at SQL in the City 2017, Register Now! (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Join our webcast: Keep your projects secured with the dependency graph and security alerts (Hector Alfaro)
• Why I Do What I Do (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

Database

• SQL Server Performance Impact of Querying Unnecessary Columns (Ben Snaidero)
• Creating Accessible Android Apps: Assistive Technologies (Jessica Thornsby)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to Launch SSMS Error – Cannot Find One or More Components. Please Reinstall the Application (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Prompt Gets Even Better (Steve Jones)

Miscellaneous

• Stability and Change – Why and How to adopt WaaS. (David das Neves)
• Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17046 (Dona Sarkar)
• Microsoft launches ARM-powered Windows 10 PCs with ‘all-day’ battery life (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-06 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2480 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1988 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 12 Dec 2017 (Malcolm Jack)

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