Dew Drop – December 13, 2017 (#2623)

Top Links

• Unit testing improvements in Rider 2017.3 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Getting started with SignalR Alpha 2 (Radu Matei)
• Easily Create IoT Edge custom modules with Visual Studio Code (Xinyi Zhang)
• Inspiring Woman Web Series – Sara Chipps, JavaScript Developer: CEO of Jewelbots (PBS American Masters)
• Creating a .NET Standard Roslyn Analyzer in Visual Studio 2017 (Andrew Lock)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to publish your own Nuget Package – Day 12 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
• Converting 600k Lines to TypeScript in 72 Hours (Paul Draper & Ryan Stringham)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 67 – Querying documents properties with special characters in Cosmos DB (Michael Crump)
• ASP.NET Core with Couchbase: Getting Started (Matthew Groves)
• WebStorm 2017.3.1 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• PhpStorm 2017.3.1 is released (Maxim Kolmakov)
• Manipulating HTML5 Canvas Using Konva: Part 2, Basic Shapes (Monty Shokeen)
• Going Full Stack with Node.js, Vue.js, and Couchbase NoSQL (Nic Raboy)
• Easy Configuration Binding in ASP.NET Core – revisited (Rick Strahl)
• Planning an ASP.NET Web Forms Application: Controllers and Testing (Sara Faatz)
• shell.azure.com – look Mom no install! (Shayne Boyer)
• ES8 (or ES 2017) – What’s New in JavaScript? (V Keerti Kotaru)
• Book Review – Cloud Foundry: The Definitive Guide (Kay Ewbank)
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 10.0 Express (MS Downloads)
• Authentication Provider Best Practices: Centralized Login (Kim Maida)
• Node v9.3.0 (Current) (Myles Borins)
• Distributing Content to Open Connect (Mohit Vora, Andrew Berglund, Videsh Sadafal, David Pfitzner & Ellen Livengood)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.NuGet – Xamarin.Forms Dynamic Bindable StackLayout (Alex Dunn)
• Xamarin.Forms animated profile cards (Marco Kuiper)
• Updates to the Xamarin iOS Designer (John Miller)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio Code Settings (Vijay Ganesh)
• The Social Transf#ormation of Software Development (Jamie Dixon)
• Advent of Code Day 12-The Joy of Sets (Mark Heath)
• SharpCompress 0.19 – .NET Standard 2.0 (Adam Hathcock)
• Easing into .NET Core with the Windows Compatibility Pack (Jonathan Allen)
• Your quantum journey begins here with Microsoft SDK (Kunal Chowdhury)
• .NET Event Counters – When logging isn’t fast enough (Simon Timms)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Software Configuration Management Patterns (Eric Genesky)
• Testing Data-Intensive Code With Go, Part 2 (Gigi Sayfan)
• Build Respect in Organizations, Not Families, Part 4 (Johanna Rothman)
• Introducing GitHub Enterprise 2.12 (Sean Bryant)

Mobile & IoT

• AlexaDev Tuesday: International Alexa Skills With No Code Changes (April Hamilton)
• GameMaker Basics: Object Orchestration (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
• AR Studio Now in Open Beta, World Effects Rolling Out for Creators (Ficus Kirkpatrick)
• Building a CustomView -TicTacToe (Krishan Sharma)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Tech for the Holidays (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• JSJ 291: Serverless For JavaScript with Gareth McCumskey (Aimee Knight, AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Joe Eames)
• AiA 167: Deploying Angular (Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames, John Papa & Ward Bell)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 229 | AWS Invent News & Cloud Kontainer Catch-up (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• InfoQ Podcast: Dave West on the State of Scrum and the Future of Agile (Dave West)
• Steps to securing and managing your VMs in production with Azure (Microsoft Mechanics)
• RunAs Radio – SQL DevOps with Michael Upton (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• AKS cluster upgrades and managed K8s | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Software Engineering Daily – Engineering Values with Lynne Tye (Jeff Meyerson)
• Interview with Harini Gupta, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft | GALs (Soumow Atitallah & Cameron Tomisser)
• Developer Tea 3X3: Questions that Could Change the Way You Think (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Meet the NativeScript Champions (Jen Looper)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® Data-Tier Application Framework (17.4.0 GA DacFx) (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server Stored Procedure to get every Nth row of a Query Result Set (Eli Leiba)
• SQL SERVER – FIX: SQL Service Does Not Start After Promoting the Machine as Domain Controller (Pinal Dave)
• Try mssql-cli, a new interactive command line tool for SQL Server (Alan Yu)
• Tracking History in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database (Peter Vogel)

MS Teams

• Microsoft rolls out advanced calling features to Teams (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

Miscellaneous

• Why you should join the fight for net neutrality today (Hauwa Otori)
• Thoughts on Net Neutrality (Dustin Horne)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-13 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2485 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1993 (Mike Gunderloy)

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