Dew Drop – April 18, 2018 (#2706)

Top Links

• Blazor 0.2.0 release now available (Daniel Roth)
• Announcing Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 (Vivek Saraswat)
• Things Every Alexa Skill Should Do: Use a Memorable Invocation Name and Utterances (Jeff Blankenburg)
• .NET Core April 2018 Update (Rich Lander)

Web Development

• Announcing the Deprecation of the Azure Tools for Visual Studio Code (Brady Gaster)
• Azure Solution Reference Architectures and Learn to interact with Azure services through code – Azure Code Samples (Abhijit Jana)
• Debugging JavaScript/TypeScript Node apps with Chrome DevTools, VS Code and WebStorm (André Pena)
• Using an IActionFilter to read action method parameter values in ASP.NET Core MVC (Andrew Lock)
• Make changes to Azure App Service setting using Postman (Benjamin Perkins)
• Running Docker on Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 (Brett Inman)
• Using Chocolatey with Azure VMs (Dan Patrick)
• How to Count Unique Items in JavaScript Arrays (Dave Johnson)
• WebAssembly apps with Blazor (Gunnar Peipman)
• Acquiring client originating IP address (with Akamai and CloudFlare support) in ASP.NET Core (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Hosting an ASP.NET Core 2 application on a Raspberry Pi (Thomas Levesque)
• React Conditional Rendering Patterns (Carl Rippon)
• Library Manager: Client-side content manager for web apps (Justin Clareburt)
• App Service and Functions hosted apps can now update TLS versions! (Oded Dvoskin)
• Glitch makes programming on the web fun again (Rob Beschizza)
• Announcing Nrwl Nx 1.0 (Victor Savkin)
• An Open Call to Storytellers: Make Something Amazing With Virtual Reality and the Open Web (Dan Brown)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Async Quiz #1 (Bnaya Eshet)
• TFS 2018 Update 2 RC2 (Erin Dormier)
• C# Array: Definition, Examples, Best Practices, and Pitfalls (Justin Boyer)
• CodeRush – New Release (v17.2.8) (Mark Miller)
• Sharing is Caring: Using Memory Mapped Files in .NET (Tom Fischer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• 7 Code Merge Tools to Make Your Life 7x Easier (Ben Putano)
• Moq: A Detailed Look at Its Code Quality (Erik Dietrich)
• An Overview of Automated Testing for Developers (John Bristowe)
• Don’t be a dick… (Swizec Teller)
• Time Blocking for Developers: How to Achieve Flow, Stop Being “Busy”, & Start Being Productive (Tyler Hakes)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• The 2018 DZone Guide to Internet of Things – Harnessing Device Data Vol. V (DZone Team)
• Microsoft’s bid to secure the Internet of Things: Custom Linux, custom chips, Azure (Peter Bright)
• Protecting WebView with Safe Browsing (Nate Fischer)
• New Developer Preview Features for Programmable Wireless (Evan Cummack)
• Enhance Your Audio Skill Visuals for Echo Show and Echo Spot (Shiraz Datta)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Docker & Kubernetes with Rita Zhang (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Windows Central Podcast 87: RS4 is late (Zac Bowden)
• Retry logic in device SDKs for Azure IoT Hub | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 247 | Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Listener Questions and Picks! (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• All Things Git Podcast – Git and GitHub for Students with Joe Nash (Edward Thomson & Martin Woodward)
• RunAs Radio – Making Email Better using OneDrive for Business with Peter Schmidt (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Developer Tea – 3 Ways to Better Cultivate Coworker Connections (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• A new challenge: Joining the “AI for Earth” team at Microsoft (Jennifer Marsman)
• Explore 160+ Modern Masterpieces At The Philadelphia Museum Of Art During Modern Times (Kristina Jenkins)
• DZone, Inc. Names Matt Tormollen New CEO (Sarah Huntington)

Database

• How to Become a Database Developer: The Definitive Guide (Ben Brumm)
• Fix WHERE clause AND/OR/NOT confusion with truth tables (Jen McCown)

PowerShell

• Integrating TeamCity with Microsoft Teams using PowerShell (Cezary Piatek)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 Tip: Five things you might not know you can do right now with your Windows 10 PC (Elana Pidgeon)
• Mark Hamill to guest star on ‘Big Bang Theory’ in ultimate nerd crossover (Jess Joho)

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