Dew Drop – February 14, 2018 ? (#2665)

Top Links

• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17095 now available (Clint Rutkas)
• New and Updated Offline Books (Michael Blome)
• How to Convert a Portable Class Library to .NET Standard and Keep Git History (James Montemagno)
• Humanitarian Toolbox allReady (HT Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 95 – Access all files from an Azure Storage Blob Container (Michael Crump)
• Optimising ASP.NET Core apps in Docker – avoiding manually copying csproj files (Andrew Lock)
• Developing Games with React, Redux, and SVG – Part 3 (Bruno Krebs)
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: SQL Server Isolation Level (Carl Rippon)
• Fun with React: A Quick Overview (John Willoughby)
• The Blueprint for Developers to Get Started with Machine Learning (Janakiram MSV)
• New reference architecture for Jenkins on Azure (Larry Brader)
• Creating a Blogging App Using Angular & MongoDB: Show Post (Roy Agasthyan)
• How to implement content negotiation in ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• Validating JSON with JSON Schema (Peter Vogel)
• How to use Jupyter Notebooks and pandas to analyze data (Tine)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Sneak Peek at the New 2018 Volume 1 Controls in Xamarin (Syncfusion Xamarin Team)
• Grids in Xamarin Forms Made Simple (Charlin Agramonte)
• Loading a page (or anything!) from a XAML string in Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
• Suave scroll-less lists in Xamarin.Forms (Marcos Cobeña Morián)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Memory management as the operating system sees it (Oren Eini)
• Introducing AsyncUtilities (Bar Arnon)
• Quiz: How ref returns work in C# 7.2 (Andrea Angella)
• How to Copy Visual Studio Code with Syntax Highlighting to Other Applications (Dave Johnson)
• Visual Studio 15.6 Preview 4 Sharpens F# Functionality (Jeff Martin)
• .NET Framework February 2018 Security and Quality Rollup (Rich Lander)
• When to Create a New C# Class Definition (K. Scott Allen)
• Async / Await in C# – Videos and Resources (Tim Corey)
• Accessing Visual Studio Previews in Azure (Phil Lee)
• Profiling an app on a server. What options do you have? (Alexey Totin)
• Infrastructure as Code (Peter Groenewegen)
• Machine Learning in .NET – Help us build the right experience! (Olia Gavrysh)
• One user scenario to rule them all (Sergey Teplyakov)
• BlueMilk is Ready for Early Adopters (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Fundamentals of the CD/CI Pipeline (Ben Putano)
• Functional Programming Makes Your Code Not OO…And That’s It (Erik Dietrich)
• Continuously Deploying a Golang Application Using Travis CI (Nic Raboy)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Alexa Skills with Azure Functions and Couchbase (Matthew Groves)
• Solving “What the Bug?” with the Visual Studio App Center Crashes Service (Miguel Cervantes)
• Error handling in RxJava/RxKotlin (Aanand Shekhar Roy)
• Building an Awesome Login Screen with NativeScript (TJ VanToll)
• Using the Actor Model and Akka.NET for IoT Systems (Jason Roberts)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Windows Central Podcast 82: PWAs are cool (Zac Bowden)
• ngAir 148 – Angular Universal with Jason Jean and Mark Pieszak (Justin Schwartzenberger)
• AiA 176: NG Dynamic Forms with Udo Schöfer (Charles Max Wood & Joe Eames)
• ID10T Podcast – Danai Gurira (Chris Hardwick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 238 | Geek Out: SpaceX Falcon Heavy (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 123: Top 5 things to know when getting admin access (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Interview With Beatris Mendez Gandica, Program Manager at Microsoft | GALs (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• RunAs Radio – The Intranet in 2018 with Susan Hanley (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Software Engineering Daily – Machine Learning Deployments with Kinnary Jangla (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Olympics, Statistics & Raising Your Average Performance (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Coding Live on Stream – DevChatter (Brendan Enrick)

Database

• New Interactive Command Line Tool MSSQL-cli for SQL Server (Rajendra Gupta)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to Connect to SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine from SSMS on On-Premise Machine (Pinal Dave)
• Setting up global replication of your Azure Cosmos DB database using the Azure portal (Abhijit Jana)

MS Teams

• Microsoft to integrate Chalkup’s classroom collaboration tech into Teams (Mary Jo Foley)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft To-Do now works with Microsoft Flow (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17093 and Project Honolulu Technical Preview 1802 (Dona Sarkar)
• Amazon Music for Windows 10 available now from Microsoft Store (Megan Hodel)
• Windows Analytics now helps assess Meltdown and Spectre protections (Terry Myerson)
• Making Light of the “Dark Web” (and Debunking the FUD) (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-14 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2527 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2034 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Linkbait 36 (Peter-Paul Koch)

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