Dew Drop – February 13, 2018 (#2664)

Top Links

• Announcing ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4 (Daniel Roth)
• Publishing #MVVMLight V5.4.1 with .NET Standard support (Laurent Bugnion)
• Peter Marcu – Raspberry Pi and Arm 32 | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Kathy Hickman & Rich Lander)
• A New Feedback System Is Coming to docs.microsoft.com (Rob Eisenberg)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 94 – Customize an Azure Functions Endpoint in Seconds (Michael Crump)
• Preventing Azure Resource Deletion or Unexpected Changes using Locks (Abhijit Jana)
• AWS SDK for Go 2.0 – Generated Marshalers (Ben Powell)
• Docker for Windows Desktop 18.02 with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Carl Fisher)
• Expert Opinions: Five Reasons for Enterprises to choose Angular (Jason Beres)
• Build Go apps for Azure with the Go SDK, now generally available (Josh Gavant)
• Creating a Blogging App Using Angular & MongoDB: Home (Roy Agasthyan)
• An Angular 5 Tutorial: Step by Step Guide to Your First Angular 5 App (Sergey Moiseev)
• Certificate pinning in Azure API Management (Vlad Vinogradsky)
• Azure Redis Cache geo-replication is now generally available (Ye Gu)
• Azure IoT SDKs released new Long-Term Support branch (Yi Zhong)
• Dependency Injection in Vue.js with good-injector-vue (Peter Kuhn)
• Blazor Now an Official Microsoft .NET and WebAssembly Project (David Iffland)
• FiddlerCore and Brotli compression (Eric Lawrence)
• Managing WebJobs with the Kudu API (Mark Heath)
• Scrolling Letters Animation (Mary Lou)
• Contributing to LUIS with Microsoft/Recognizers-Text – Part 3 (Matthew Shim)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms – The Fundamentals (Joe Meyer)
• Add a Search Bar to Your Xamarin Apps in iOS 11 (Brad Umbaugh)
• Wireless Deployment of Xamarin apps to your iOS devices (Steven Thewissen)
• Rough Notes on UWP and webRTC (Mike Taulty)

Visual Studio & .NET

• URL Matching in C# (Camilo Reyes)
• Best Practice: Declare Variables as Constants (Peter Vogel)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Should you trust those agile charts? (Michael Dougherty)
• BDD Done easy – The three levels of BDD (Chris Matts)
• Investing In You (Jason Roberts)
• Key Development Techniques for Building Microservice-Based Solutions (Dave Nicolette)
• Post 2- Value Stream Mapping for ALM Ranger’s VSTS Extensions Work Stream (Hamid Shahid)
• Apple’s Software “Problem” and “Fixing” It (via twitter) (Steven Sinofsky)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Discover tools for Android data migration and improve your app retention (Sean McQuillan & Prateek Tandon)
• Customizing Ionic Apps for Web & Mobile (Simon Grimm)
• Looking for Buddybuild Alternatives? Try App Center (James S. White)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Blockchain with Zeyad Rajabi (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• .NET Rocks! – Amazon Machine Learning with Kesha Williams (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Merge Conflict 84: Accidental Web Developer Podcast (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• InfoQ Podcast: Rich Mironov on Product Development Trends (Rich Mironov)
• Last week in Azure: Living the serverless life, Kubernetes, and more (Rob Caron)
• AFH 086: Talking Scrum with Steve Porter (Ryan Ripley)
• SmartHotel360 Demo App Mixed Reality | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Brady Gaster)
• Video: How to use WPF with Powershell and create Metro Design GUI (Damien Van Robaeys)
• Revision Path 229: Danielle Beecham (Maurice Cherry)
• no dogma podcast #89 – Mark Eisenberg, Breaking the Monolith (Bryan Hogan)
• Software Engineering Daily – Box Kubernetes Migration with Sam Ghods (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Microsoft again ranked one of the world’s most ethical companies (Laurent Giret)
• Update: Mozilla Will Re-File Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality (Denelle Dixon)
• The women who inspire women to pursue careers in STEM (Emily Maryatt)
• 20+ Excellent Things To Do In Philly This Week, February 12-19 (Jillian Wilson)

Database

• Using Managed Service Accounts with SQL Server (John Martin)
• SQL SERVER – Script Level Upgrade for Database ‘master’ Failed Because Upgrade Step ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’ – Error: 5041: MODIFY FILE Failed (Pinal Dave)
• Introducing JOIN Queries in Couchbase Mobile (Priya Rajagopal)

Miscellaneous

• ebook deal of the week: Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out (Includes Current Book Service), 2nd Edition (Microsoft Press)
• Announcing: Windows Defender ATP support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 (Rob Lefferts)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-13 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2526 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2033 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #390 (Pedro Botelho)
• Interesting links of the week (02/05 – 02/11, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Daily Links 13 Feb 2018 (Malcolm Jack)

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