Dew Drop – February 21, 2018 (#2669)

Top Links

• Magic! (Miguel de Icaza)
• Starting 2018 with docs.microsoft.com improvements (Dan Fernandez)
• Using Octopus Deploy to deploy .NET Core applications to a Raspberry Pi (Ben Pearce)
• Working with external class libraries in Unity and Rider (Matt Ellis)

Web Development

• Getting Data from the Request Object in ASP.NET MVC and Invoking and Sharing View Components in ASP.NET Core (Peter Vogel)
• Quickly connect Azure Cosmos DB with your applications using Visual Studio Connected Services (Abhijit Jana)
• Developing Web Apps with ASP.NET Core 2.0 and React – Part 2 (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Deploy a Dockerized ASP.NET Core Application to Kubernetes on Azure Using a VSTS CI/CD Pipeline: Part 1 (Graham Smith)
• Stimulus: A JavaScript Framework for People Who Love HTML (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 96 – Getting up and started with Azure IoT MXChip (Michael Crump)
• Use CoreML And Azure To Create Simple Xamarin.iOS Apps (Prashant Cholachagudda)
• Role Based Authorization in ASP.NET Core with Azure AD Groups (K. Scott Allen)
• My Favorite Front-End Development Extensions for Visual Studio Code (Daine Mawer)
• Building Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) (Dave Voyles)
• A Gentle and Practical Introduction to Progressive Web Apps – Part 2 (Raymond Camden)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Forms Search Bar (Adam Pedley)
• Service Release: Xamarin.Forms 2.5.0.280555 (David Ortinau)
• SVGs in Xamarin.Forms & Git’s cherry picking (Marcos Cobeña Morián)

Visual Studio & .NET

• TFS 2018.1 RTM is available (Brian Harry)
• Here’s how to automatically create classes from XML in Visual Studio (Kunal Chowdhury)
• XAM’s Favourite (New) C# Features (Michael Ridland)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Integration Tests in the Pyramid (Martin Fowler)
• How you do Anything … (Dave M. Bush)
• Ditch the Repository Pattern Already (Derek Greer)
• Your Guide to Winning Arguments About Code (Erik Dietrich)
• Managing Risk is More Important Now Than Ever (Gabriel Torok)
• The Pain of Technology Innovation and How to Choose the Right Tools (Leah Grantz)
• Create a Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Golang and Jenkins (Nic Raboy)
• Cake Build Tool (Sacha Barber)
• New Things In New Ways, or Same Old Things In Old Ways? (Steven Sinofsky)
• The 7 Types of Software Developers You’ll (Probably) Work With Someday (Tyler Hakes)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How To Build An Ionic App With A Graphcool Backend – Part 5 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• Alexa Skills with Azure Functions and Couchbase (Matthew Groves)
• Create a Lightweight Raspberry Pi System with Raspbian Lite (Dave Johnson)
• Windows Insider Builds and Unity Licenses (James Ashley)
• Why I am excited about Unity in 2018 (Miguel de Icaza)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• AiA 177: Angular’s BuildTools Convergence with Alex Eagle (Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames, Alyssa Nicoll, John Papa & Ward Bell)
• JSJ 301: CSS Grids: The Future of Frontend Layout with Dave Geddes (Charles Max Wood, Aimee Knight, Cory House, AJ O’Neal, Joe Eames & Aaron Frost)
• Getting started with Azure IoT Edge development | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• ID10T Podcast – Natalie Portman (Chris Hardwick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 239 | GCP Cloud TPUs, Cloud Wars & Plans for Upcoming Conferences (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• ngAir 149 – ng-packagr with David Herges (Justin Schwartzenberger)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 124: Beyond the runbook; DR Organization (Carlos L Chacon)
• All Things Git Podcast – Git for Windows with Johannes Schindelin (Edward Thomson & Martin Woodward)
• Functional Geekery Episode 120 – Lisa Passing (Steven Proctor)
• SE Radio Episode 318: Veronika Cheplygina on Image Recognition (Felienne)
• Software Engineering Daily – Cloud Foundry Overview with Mike Dalessio (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Actions As Objects (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• How to become a Microsoft MVP (Chris Pietschmann)
• 15 Wonderful Things To Do In Philadelphia This Week, February 20-25 (Jillian Wilson)

Database

• Automate SQL Server Backup and Restore Tasks in Linux (Graham Okely)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Get the First Name From Full Name Without CHARINDEX (Pinal Dave)
• Migrating to Azure SQL Database with zero downtime for read-only workloads (Joseph Sack)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-21 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2532 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2038 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Linkbait 37 (Peter-Paul Koch)

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