Dew Drop – January 26, 2018 (#2652)

Top Links

• OzCode V4 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Important Updates regarding Azure Tools for Visual Studio Code V2 (Brady Gaster)
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: Profiling and Monitoring (Carl Rippon)
• First Look: Xamarin Android Device Manager Preview (Nina Vyedin)

Web & Cloud Development

• Step by Step creating Custom Pipe in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 2018.1 EAP, 181.3007: better support for dynamic imports, new in TypeScript support (Ekaterina Prigara)
• TypedRouting for ASP.NET Core MVC 2 (Filip W.)
• Azure Storage for Serverless .NET Apps in Minutes (Jeremy Likness)
• Refactor your code to functional style with PhpStorm 2018.1 (Kirill Smelov)
• Beginner’s Guide to Angular 4: HTTP (Roy Agasthyan)
• Defining JSON Messages with JSON Schema (Peter Vogel)
• 5 Crazy Easy Things You Can Tweak Now for Better SEO (Liza Wilde)
• Postman’s API search continues to evolve (Belinda)
• Evolving the Slack API (Brenda Jin)
• Jasper’s Extension Model (Jeremy D. Miller)
• ​Bank of America Gives its Corporate Customers an API (Patricio Robles)
• Cognitive Services and Availability of SDKs for the latest Bing Search APIs (Ronak Shah)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Fix Xamarin Form compilation errors (Corrado Cavalli)
• #XfQaD: Using ProgressRing for UWP and keep a single activity indicator API in Xamarin.Forms (Marco Siccardi)
• Grabbing a Photo & Calling Azure Vision API from ‘Pure UWP’ Code (Mike Taulty)
• Xamarin Preview Release: 15.6 Preview 3 and Xamarin Release: 15.5.5 Servicing Release (Bri Brothers)
• The Challenge of UWP Apps in the Enterprise (Jeff Martin)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Open Source Book: Programming the Blockchain in C# (Chris Pietschmann)
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.5 is now available (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Ref returns and ref locals in C# 7.0 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Good news! we have .NET Core 2.0 Lambdas (Dror Helper)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Software Configuration Management: Patterns, Best Practices, and Tools for Agile and DevOps (Ben Putano)
• Cross Functional Collaboration FTW With Trello, Bitbucket, and Confluence (Brian Cervino)
• Multiple issue and pull request templates (Bryan Clark)
• Using VSCode as your git editor (Eric Williams)
• When Teams Don’t Finish Work in a Sprint: 3 Tips to Seeing and Finishing Work (Johanna Rothman)
• Encryption’s unfortunate, unavoidable, and unfix-able gap – and how to fill it (Sebastian Holst)
• All Code Is Disposable, Just As It Should Be (Matthew Jones)
• Microsoft Garage’s ‘Ink to Code’ helps turn your app sketches into quick prototypes (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

Mobile & IoT

• Android Wear SDK and Emulator Update (Hoi Lam)
• How to Code a Bottom Navigation Bar for an Android App (Chike Mgbemena)
• Add Auth to Your Native iOS App in 20 Minutes (Jordan Melberg)
• Debugging with GameMaker Studio 2 (Alejandro Hitti)
• Speed Up Your Development with NativeScript Sidekick Debugging (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Hanselminutes – From F# to JavaScript and beyond with Fable and Alfonso Garcia-Caro (Scott Hanselman)
• Extending Xamarin.Forms with Behaviors with Matthew Soucoup | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Rocket 159: Christina Loves To Buy (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Changing Careers to Coding (Ed Charbeneau)
• This Week on Windows: LG gram Notebooks, Photos app updates and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• Developer Tea – 3 Times When More Code Means Better Code (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Windows Weekly 554: Every Day Magic (Paul Thurrott)

Community & Events

• Philly Azure March Meeting (Tim Ferro)
• Celebrating the tenth anniversary of International Data Privacy Day (Denelle Dixon)

Database

• Audit and Prevent Unwanted SQL Server Table Changes (John Miner)
• Using the SSMS Web Browser (Day 25) (Wayne Sheffield)
• Connecting Azure Cosmos DB with Azure Storage Explorer by using Connection String (Abhijit Jana)
• JSON Data Modeling for RDBMS Users (Matthew Groves)
• Two Code Patterns That Don’t Virtualize Well (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint

• A SharePoint Content Type DLP Policy! (Joanne Klein)

Miscellaneous

• Face Animation with Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-26 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2514 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2022 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #385 (Pedro Botelho)

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