Dew Drop – February 9, 2018 (#2662)

Top Links

• Hanselminutes – Quantum Computing detangled with Dr. Krysta Svore (Scott Hanselman)
• Philly .NET Meetup – Data Science, F# and Fable and Philly .NET Code Camp 2018.1 (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 4 (Christine Ruana)
• Herding Code 229: Matt Warren on .NET Internals and Open Source Contributions (K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon & Jon Galloway)

Web & Cloud Development

• Working with Azure Cosmos DB using Visual Studio Code and Add an Azure Cosmos DB trigger to an existing Azure Function app from Azure Cosmos DB Portal (Abhijit Jana)
• How to set Azure BASH to a specific Azure subscription and How to Backup/Restore an Azure App Service using BASH (Benjamin Perkins)
• Developing Games with React, Redux, and SVG – Part 2 (Bruno Krebs)
• Chrome 65 Beta: CSS Paint API and the ServerTiming API (Ian Kilpatrick)
• Adding HTTP Headers to improve Security in an ASP.NET MVC Core application (Damien Bowden)
• Give Your WordPress Blog a Voice With Our New Amazon Polly Plugin (Jeff Barr)
• Two Lesser Known Tools for Local Azure Development (Justin Clareburt)
• Back to WebSockets fundamentals in ASP.NET Core – Lifetime & Prematurely closed connections (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Using Services in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Vue.js-Plugins with TypeScript (Peter Kuhn)
• Load TypeScript Modules as You Need Them (Peter Vogel)
• TypeScript 2.6: JSX Fragment Syntax (Marius Schulz)
• A secure web is here to stay (Emily Schechter)
• Read and write to REST-enabled databases (Joyce)
• Introducing Cake Kudu Client (Mattias Karlsson)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• What’s Coming in 2018 Volume 1: Chart in Xamarin.Forms (Karthik Elumalai)
• Add Languages to Your Xamarin Apps with Multilingual App Toolkit (Cameron Lerum)
• HUD Rental Data in UWP (Matthias Shapiro)
• New Feature: Free-form pricing in Dev Center (Dev Center Team)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Razor code formatting updates in ReSharper and Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• Quick Seq tip, limit log searches to the last day by default (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• How to build Conference Passes in Your WinForms Apps (Ivan Petrov)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Jenkins vs. TeamCity vs. Bamboo (Ben Putano)
• How To Bring The Magic Of Automation To Your Trello Boards (Oscar Triscon)
• VSTS Gems- Identify flaky tests (Shmulik Ahituv)
• The Only Unit of Work That Ultimately Matters is Time (Tyler Hakes)
• Build Agents losing connection after switch to HTTPS (Matteo Emili)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Android Emulator Release Notes – Revision 27.1.7 (Android Studio Team)
• Code Size Optimization Mode in Swift 4.1 (Erik Eckstein)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Container-native developer experiences, Part 1 – Overview | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
• Translating Mobile Apps With The Multilingual App Toolkit with Cameron Lerum | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• This Week on Windows: Resume assistant from LinkedIn and Office 365, Forza and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• SmartHotel360 Demo App Backend Services | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Brady Gaster)
• Customer focus and making production visible with Raygun | The DevOps Lab (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• Developer Things #8: How to Develop More Secure Software with Steve Feldman (Matt Watson)
• Windows Weekly 556: 90% Cacao, 10% PWA (Paul Thurrott)
• Developer Tea – Research Bias (Part 3) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Announcing Influential Agile Leader, 2.0, June 7-8, 2018 (Johanna Rothman)
• 2/14 Webinar: Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Flow – Better Together by Jerry Weinstock (Charles Sterling)
• Global Diversity CFP Day Recap (Philly edition) (Pam Selle)
• Open source project trends for 2018 (Thomas Elliott)
• My first semester using GitHub at Rice University (Vanessa)

Database

• Desired State Configuration for SQL Server – Configurations (Shawn Melton)
• SQL SERVER – What is Change Pending State of in SQL Server Configuration Manager? (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• How to Backup/Restore an Azure App Service using Azure PowerShell (Benjamin Perkins)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-09 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2524 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #389 (Pedro Botelho)

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