Dew Drop – December 7, 2017 (#2619)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! Show 1500 – the History of .NET (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Template Studio 1.5 released (Clint Rutkas)
• Snapshot Debugging with Visual Studio 2017: Now Ready for Production (Nikhil Joglekar)
• Angular 5.1 & More Now Available (Stephen Fluin)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 64 – Using a different route prefix with Azure Functions (Michael Crump)
• Understanding Azure Event Grid (Jason Roberts)
• How an Angular project is built – Day 7 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
• Performance best practices for using Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Amit Banerjee)
• Simplifying the Management of Kubernetes with Docker Enterprise Edition (Banjot Chanana)
• Azure brings new Serverless and DevOps capabilities to the Kubernetes community (Gabe Monroy)
• Zero to App in 20 Minutes: Build Your First Chat App with Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio App Center, and Rapid (David Drobik)
• ASP.NET Core Gotchas – No. 2 (Steve Gordon)
• Comparing HTTP and HTTPS URIs (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Mocking API calls in Python (O’Brian Kimokot)
• TypeScript: A must-have in your web dev toolkit (Matthew Calder)
• Scaling Slack’s Job Queue (Saroj Yadav, Matthew Smillie, Mike Demmer & Tyler Johnson)
• Introducing the Liquid connector – transform JSON to JSON, JSON to Text, XML to JSON and XML to Text (Sumit Kumar)
• Linting Your TypeScript Project Using TSLint (Tatu Tamminen)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• XamarinForms 101: How to use Acr.UserDialogs (Devlin Duldulao)
• Navigation Bar Customization in Xamarin Forms (Rendy Del Rosario)
• Xamarin.Forms Unit Testing (Mario Jesús Galván Miranda)

Visual Studio & .NET

• A Guide to Code Coverage Tools for C# (Erik Dietrich)
• Interception in Entity Framework Core (Ricardo Peres)
• Advent of Code Day 6-Maps, Sets and Optimizations (Mark Heath)
• How can I prevent the keyboard focus rectangle from appearing on a control I created? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Trunk-Based Development or Pull Requests – Why Not Both? (Jimmy Bogard)

Mobile & IoT

• Announcing Ionic Pro for Teams (Matt Kremer)
• Getting your logos and splash screens right for Mixed Reality apps (Joost van Schaik)
• Get Your Azure Mobile Badge from Xamarin University! (Diane Lee)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Azure Security Center, Suspicious processes and JIT access | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Open Service Broker for Azure (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Syntax Podcast – Failure (Wes Bos)
• Complete Developer Podcast – DateTime Part 1: History of Time History of Time (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Developer on Fire Episode 293 | Debo Olaosebikan – Serving Billions (Dave Rael)
• .NET Foundation’s Summer Hackfest with Jon Galloway | On .NET (Jon Galloway, Cecil, Rich Lander & Cameron Tomisser)
• #ifdef MODERNIZE | #ifdef WINDOWS (Nikola Metulev)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 73: Aurelia Moser: Renaissance Woman (Richie Rump)
• Software Engineering Daily – Serverless Applications with Randall Hunt (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Webinar: Using Mobile Frameworks and Amazon to Sell In-App Items (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
• What If? (Eric Lawrence)
• Announcing the 2017 Holiday Contest: Gifts of the Magi (Jen Looper)
• The Find An MVP Power BI Report: A Dynamic Way To Promote Your Work (MVP Award Program)

Database

• Safely Dropping Unused SQL Server Indexes (Svetlana Golovko)
• Queries++ in RavenDB: Facets of information (Oren Eini)
• Using Facets in a Couchbase NoSQL Full Text Search Query (Nic Raboy)
• SQL SERVER – Fix the Error – Accessing this Server via SQL Management Objects (SMO) or Distributed Management Objects is Currently Not Permitted (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL: Capture Related Data and Return By Aggregates (Tim Smith)

Miscellaneous

• GitHub’s technology predictions for 2018 (Jason Warner)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-07 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2481 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #372 (Pedro Botelho)

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