Dew Drop – April 12, 2018 (#2703)

Top Links

• Announcing .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 (Rich Lander)
• New Xamarin.Forms XAML IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2017 (Pierce Boggan)
• Xamarin.Forms Styling with CSS (Sam Basu)
• How we doubled Mono’s Float Speed (Miguel de Icaza)

Web & Cloud Development

• WebStorm 2018.1.1 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Model binding form posts to immutable objects (Damien Guard)
• Time to Upgrade from GCM to FCM (Jen Person)
• List Rendering and Vue’s v-for Directive (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Jasper Command Line App Support you Wish Your Framework Already Had (Jeremy D. Miller)
• First 5 things to try if you’re new to Postman (Joyce)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• MVX=0F: A first MvvmCross Application (MVX+1 days of MvvmCross) (Nick Randolph) – Nick’s post links are still broken. Check out his blog’s main page here.
• Monitoring Android Activity Lifecycle Events: Return of Current Activity Plugin (James Montemagno)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Create New Git Repository While Creating New Project in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Rider 2018.1 brings file ordering to F# projects (Maarten Balliauw)
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 Preview 2 (Diego B. Vega)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Does Your Agile Lead to Agility? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Agile Development & Remote Teams – 6 Powerful Productivity Hacks You Should Know (Tanya Kumari)
• On-premise Blue-Green deployments with TFS 2018 Update 2 (Matteo Emili)
• SOLID Design Principles Explained – The Liskov Substitution Principle with Code Examples (Thorben Janssen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Discover How Customers Engage With Your Alexa Skill Using the New Intent Request History API (Shiraz Datta)
• Tips for Building Echo Button Skills with the Gadgets Skill API (Beta) (Cami Williams)
• Looking Back at the NativeScript-Vue Webinar and Where to Go Next (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Practical Test Driven Development with John Callaway and Clayton Hunt (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Syntax Podcast – Preventing and Dealing with Burnout in Web Development (Wes Bos)
• Episode 13: Five Things About Web Performance | Five Things (Burke Holland)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 131: Big Data Solutions in the Cloud (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Developer on Fire Episode 329 | James Long – Seeking Deep Knowledge (Dave Rael)
• ‘What in the world am I doing here?’ Amanda Finney’s journey from the White House to Microsoft (Candace Whitney-Morris)
• 2FD 073: Mini Retirements, $1 Meals, Sabbaticals From the Workforce, Protecting Your Wealth, Work as an Option (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• Tales from the Crypt(ography) Lab with Dr. Kristin Lauter (Emily Maryatt)
• Build a Customized Site Search Instance using Bing Custom Search API | AI Show and Bing Entity Search API | AI Show and Use Bing AI to tap into the world of knowledge | AI Show (Seth Juarez)

Community & Events

• ProgressNEXT—A Conference for the Telerik and Kendo UI Developer (Sasha Krsmanovic)
• Going to Build 2018? You Need This (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Regional Director (Redux) (Troy Hunt)

Database

• F# – Azure Cosmos DB – Using the Graph API with Cosmos DB driver (Timothé Lariviere)
• Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB database and the SQL API (John Miner)
• Best practices for securing your Google Cloud databases (Ian Maddox)
• Checking for temporary table existence (Wayne Sheffield)

PowerShell

• Get-WinEvent cmdlet tip to filter noise (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• Shapes Editor using Polygon for Small Basic (Steve Todman)
• Background Updating Progressive Web Apps (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft partners with Lightstream Studio to bring customization tools to Mixer streamers (Sarah Perez)
• Google to launch new Gmail design in the coming weeks (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2562 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2074 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-04-12 (Dan Rigby)

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