Dew Drop – January 15, 2018 (#2643)

Top Links

• What’s New in Prism for Xamarin.Forms 7.0 (Brian Lagunas)
• Navigation and search updates in ReSharper 2017.3 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Interactive Line Editing in .NET (Miguel de Icaza)
• Functions as Data: Functional Programming in C# (Ed Charbeneau)

Web & Cloud Development

• Steps in Creating Simple But Dynamic Powerful Web App using ASP.NET Core MVC connected to a Database (Deanil Vicente)
• Creating A Jump-To-Anchor Fragment Polyfill In Angular 5.2.0 (Ben Nadel)
• Uploading Nest camera video to Azure Storage (Den Delimarsky)
• Freebie: “Scribbler” Website Template (HTML, Sketch) (Amie Chen)
• Web Safe Fonts To Use In HTML and CSS (Bogdan Sandu)
• Adding Useful Information to ASP.NET Core Web API Serilog Logs (Carl Rippon)
• HTTP Response Headers in ASP.NET Core (Dino Esposito)
• Dockerizing .NET Apps with Microsoft’s Build Images on Docker Hub (Elton Stoneman)
• ASP.NET WebForms Can Do Friendly’s Too! (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• .NET Core 2.0, Angular 4 and MySQL. Part 1 and .NET Core 2.0, Angular 4 and MySQL. Part 2 (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 78 – Copy Azure Storage Blobs and Files via C# (Michael Crump)
• TypeScript 2.4: Dynamic import() Expressions and Code-Splitting a TypeScript Application with import() and webpack (Marius Schulz)
• LTFN 1: Intro to TensorFlow (Josh Varty)
• How to Automatically Generate Video Sub-Title in Another Language (Frank Boucher)
• Introducing client-go version 6 (K. Barnard)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Segmented Bar Control in Xamarin Forms (Rendy Del Rosario)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Did you know – Now you can duplicate Line of Code without losing your clipboard content within Visual Studio? (Abhijit Jana)
• C#: Favorite Features through the Years (David Pine)
• BenchmarkDotNet v0.10.12 (Andrey Akinshin)
• Maximize the Performance of Your .NET Application With This Optimization Guide (Jared Nance)
• Why don’t context menus respect the UI state for keyboard accelerators? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Error trying to run NUnit tests in Visual Studio 2017: ‘Unable to fetch source Information for test method’ (Iris Classon)
• The 2018 DZone Guide to DevOps – Culture and Process, Vol. V (DZone)
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Gunnar Peipman)
• Stop answering your own questions (Camille Fournier)
• GitHub Knows (David Humphrey)
• Build Extensible CI/CD Pipelines with Spinnaker and Kubernetes (Janakiram MSV)
• The newest apps on GitHub Marketplace (Marc Campbell)
• Working on Your First GitHub Issue (Steve Gordon)

Mobile & IoT

• Alexa Skill Teardown: Decoding Dialog Management with Pet Match (Justin Jeffress)
• Exploring the new Android Architecture Components (Part 1) (Sahil Goel)
• Logging in Android (Todor Kostov)
• Why the Raspberry Pi is Safe from the Meltdown and Spectre Exploits (David Cassel)
• VectorDrawable Gradients – Part2 (Mark Allison)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• InfoQ Podcast: Architecting a Modern Financial Institution with Vitor Olivier, Thoughts on Immutability, CI/CD, FP (Vitor Olivier)
• Remote debug Azure Functions written in Java using VS Code | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
• Xamarin Podcast: Android 8.1, Xamarin Device Manager, and Visual Studio versions 15.5 & 15.6 (Pierce Boggan)
• TWC9: Surviving Being Hit By a Car, Visual Studio 2017 15 Preview 2, RedShirt Dev Tour Europe, and more Previe | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• NSScreencast #318 – System Preferences and NSScreencast #319 – Setting Up the Terminal (Ben Scheirman)
• Developer on Fire Episode 304 | Nate Walkingshaw – Human-Centered (Dave Rael)
• Merge Conflict 80: It’s Your Fault We Couldn’t Name This Episode (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Software Engineering Daily – The Gravity of Kubernetes with Jeff Meyerson and Software Engineering Daily – The Gravity of Kubernetes and Software Engineering Daily – FluentD with Eduardo Silva (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Deconstructing The Lies We Tell Ourselves (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Webinar: Learning Advanced Angular Component Concepts (Infragistics Team)

Database

• SQL Server 2017 CU3 adds optimizer row goal information in query plans (Erik Darling)
• SQL SERVER – What Does SET NOEXEC Do? and SQL SERVER – FIX: Number Data Type from Oracle Linked Sever Shown in Scientific Notation and How to Get Top N Records Per Group? – Ranking Function – Interview Question of the Week #156 (Pinal Dave)
• Using Your Own SQL Queries For Tables With Modern Data Sources In SSAS 2016+ And Azure Analysis Services (Chris Webb)
• Changing Case (Day 12) and The SSMS Super Clipboard (Day 13) and Object Explorer Drag-N-Drop (Day 14) (Wayne Sheffield)

SharePoint

• Building SharePoint Literacy (Joanne Klein)
• Typescript design patterns for Sharepoint Framework Part 1 – Factory method (Luis Valencia)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Core 6.0: Generally Available (GA) and Supported (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• How to copying a SSH key from Windows to a Subsytem (Donovan Brown)
• Chmod/Chown WSL Improvements (Craig Wilhite)
• Top Programming Languages In 2018 (Mahesh Chand)
• How to find author from Flickr URL with Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
• Streamlining Data Breach Disclosures: A Step-by-Step Process (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-15 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-15 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2505 (Chris Alcock)
• Learn More About Microsoft OneNote, MDM Authority, ASP.Net And More On This Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #2013 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #189 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Reading Notes #311 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #382 (Pedro Botelho)
• F# Weekly #2, 2018 – Don Syme will help Xamarin team to make F# better for mobile and cloud users (Sergey Tihon)
• Azure Weekly: Jan 15, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.01.12 (Willy-P. Schaub)

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