Dew Drop – February 7, 2018 (#2660)

Top Links

• Microsoft Writing Style Guide Released (Palle Petersen)
• A new experiment: Browser-based web apps with .NET and Blazor (Daniel Roth)
• Pluralsight & Stack Overflow: Helping the World’s Developers Learn New Skills (Rachel Ferrigno)
• SpaceX just launched the Falcon Heavy, its most powerful rocket, and landed 2 boosters (Miriam Kramer)
• Welcoming Progressive Web Apps to Microsoft Edge and Windows 10 (Kyle Pflug)

Web & Cloud Development

• Easily configuring Azure Functions with Visual Studio Code (Brady Gaster)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 92 – Part 3 – Querying an Azure Search Index (Michael Crump)
• Developing Games with React, Redux, and SVG – Part 1 (Bruno Krebs)
• How Application Insights recognizes returning users and efficiently send telemetry data to Azure (Patrick van Kleef)
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: ORM Choice (Carl Rippon)
• Simplifying ViewChild and ContentChild in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Weekly Dockerfile #18: Splitting Web UIs (Elton Stoneman)
• Fun with Angular: A Quick Overview (John Willoughby)
• New AWS X-Ray .NET Core Support (Norm Johanson)
• Working with Azure Management REST APIs (K. Scott Allen)
• Vue.js: Environment-Aware Code in TypeScript (Peter Kuhn)
• ES proposal: String.prototype.matchAll (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Avoid Namespace Clashes with Directives (Isaac Mann)
• Brand Detection in Microsoft Video Indexer (Dr. Abed Asi)
• Durable Messaging in Jasper (Jeremy D. Miller)
• RxJS: Closed Subjects (Nicholas Jamieson)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Forms ultimate horizontal list guide (Daniel Causer)
• Create UWP apps with VB.Net and Windows Template Studio (Matt Lacey)
• Implementing Signin And Signup With Xamarin Forms And ASP.NET Identity (Houssem Dellai)
• UWP Facial Detection Library (Mike Taulty)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# 8.0 Features: Another Glimpse of the Future (Carlos Schults)
• Updated Preview Tooling for Visual Studio 2017 (Service Fabric Team)
• Rider 2017.3.1 is released (Ekaterina Zharova)
• Vcpkg: introducing installation options with Feature Packages (Eric Mittelette)
• The Case for Durable Workflows (Mark Heath)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How Your Schedule Can Make or Break You (Shane Parrish)
• The Long Distance Product Owner (David Starr)
• Eric Evans: Practicing Domain-Driven Design (Jan Stenberg)
• Microspeak: POR (Raymond Chen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Know your sensors — Android Location Services (Aanand Shekhar Roy)
• #Tutorial – How to build an #Amazon #AlexaSkill using Visual Studio 2017, C# and #Azure (5 on N) (Bruno Capuano)
• A New Way to Learn NativeScript Layouts (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Windows Central Podcast 81: Flat Surface Revenue (Zac Bowden)
• JSJ 299: How To Learn JavaScript When You’re Not a Developer with Chris Ferdinandi (AJ O’Neal, Joe Eames & Aimee Knight)
• AiA 175: Angular Differs with Minko Gechev (Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames, Alyssa Nicoll, Ward Bell & Shai Reznik)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 237 | Plethora of Office 365, Azure, AWS and Space News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• 017: On Design Patterns | Weekly Dev Tips (Steve Smith)
• ngAir 147 – Angular in 10 Years with Jeff Whelpley (Justin Schwartzenberger)
• RunAs Radio – Query Store and Automatic Tuning in SQL 2017 with Erin Stellato (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Durable Functions now available | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• SE-Radio Episode 317: Travis Kimmel on Measuring Software Engineering Productivity (Kishore Bhatia)
• Software Engineering Daily – Tether, Ripple, and Blockchain Reporting with Matt Leising (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Research Bias (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Nerd Nite #82: Public Health Disasters, eSports, Labor Law, and Marijuana Legalization (Nerd Nite Philly Team)

Database

• Export SQL Server Data to Multiple Excel Worksheets with Integration Services (Nisarg Upadhyay)
• Proof of Concept: Making a case to move from relational (Matthew Groves)
• The Annals of Hilariously Bad Code, Part 1: Critique the Code (Erik Darling)

Miscellaneous

• The creators of Game of Thrones are writing a new Star Wars film series (Bryan Bishop)
• JSON for Modern C++ Reaches Version 3.1 (Sergio De Simone)
• Car in Space: Elon Musk’s mannequinned Tesla on Falcon Heavy SpaceX rocket flight is instant viral ad hit (Xeni Jardin)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-07 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2522 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2030 (Mike Gunderloy)

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