Dew Drop – May 3, 2018 (#2717)

Top Links

• Announcing ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5 and Blazor 0.3.0 experimental release now available (Daniel Roth)
• Improving Rider and ReSharper code analysis using JetBrains Annotations (Maarten Balliauw)
• Why Developers Should Install WSL Today (Matt Hyon & August Banks)
• Announcing a new name for the UWP Community Toolkit: Windows Community Toolkit (Nikola Metulev)

Web & Cloud Development

• Add multiselect dropdown into your JavaScript application (Rajendran R.)
• 7 Telltale Signs You Have a Bad Web Site So You Can Eliminate Them and Get More Customers (Chris Love)
• Adding a Drop-Down List to Your Angular Application (Saravanan G.)
• What’s New in Angular 6 (Alyssa Nicoll)
• Exploring Azure App Service – Introduction (Andrew B. Hall)
• Getting my Twitter Data via Azure Logic Apps (Arun Sirpal)
• 8 Free JavaScript Image Cropping Scripts & Plugins (Jake Rocheleau)
• On Leading and Trailing Spaces in HTML Attribute Values (Louis Lazaris)
• How to Handle Routing in Angular Single Page Applications (SPAs) with JavaScript and Node.js (Maciej Treder)
• Enterprise Integration made easy in Azure (Deepa Chandramouli)
• Angular 6 Release: What’s New? (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection – Registering Multiple Implementations of an Interface (Steve Gordon)
• Bringing Screen Capture to Microsoft Edge with the Media Capture API (Angelina Gambo)
• NodeJS 10: The New, The Changed, and the Deprecated (Dan Arias)
• Ideas for Proximity Feedback with Progressive Hover Effects (Mary Lou)
• Eyes wide open – Correct Caching is always hard (Scott Hanselman)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Quick Trick: Remove Extra Separator Lines in ListView (Xamarin Forms – iOS) (Charlin Agramonte)
• Win2D 1.22.0 – IGeometrySource2D, bugfixes, and removal of 8.1 support (Shawn Hargreaves)
• Win2D and Composition Geometry APIs (Daren May)

Visual Studio & .NET

• CMake Support in Visual Studio – Code Analysis and CMake 3.11 (Will Buik)
• Managing Dependency Injection in .NET Core (Mitchel Sellers)
• How to avoid accessing freed memory when canceling a thread pool callback (Raymond Chen)
• Avoiding struct and readonly reference performance pitfalls with ErrorProne.NET (Sergey Teplyakov)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Bring your own Git Repository Code to Azure DevOps Project (Abhijit Jana)
• Should you design for addiction or for loyalty? (Michelle Manafy)
• How to Define Metrics to Reach Better Business Outcomes (Derek Huether)
• Why you need Null Object Pattern and how to implement it (Fatos Morina)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster – Part 2 (Jason Meridth)
• Running your Mixed Reality app on an ‘ordinary’ PC–using an Xbox One Controller (Joost van Schaik)
• Flutter + Redux — How to make Shopping List App? (Paulina Szklarska)
• Amazon GameOn Is Free until June 1! (Tess Selim)
• Unity 2018.1 is now available (Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Constraints Liberate with Mark Seemann (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 16: Five Things About State in React | Five Things (John Papa)
• Syntax Podcast – How to Learn New Things Quickly (Wes Bos)
• Complete Developer Podcast – SOLID Principles (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Developer on Fire Episode 335 | Neeraj Murarka – Better Ways (Dave Rael)
• The Jim and Tonic show (Jim Bennett)
• 2FD 076: Retirement Accounts, Self-Directed IRAs and World Travel (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• Updates to Microsoft Visio (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Flutter: Collapsing Toolbar Layout | Slivers | Sliver App Bar (MTechViral)
• Software Engineering Daily – WannaCry’s Gray Hat with Reeves Wiedeman (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Xamarin Developer Events in May (Jayme Singleton)
• Inclusion Doesn’t Stop at Accessibility (Matt May)
• Microsoft moves Xbox Insider community to Reddit (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Machine learning and the incredible flying robot with Dr. Ashish Kapoor (Emily Maryatt)
• A Diversity Round Table — Observations (Stephen Hays)
• A year of GitHub Desktop on Electron (Thomas Elliott)

Database

• Adding a Database to an existing SQL Server Always ON Configuration (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL SERVER – Fix Error: Invalid object name STRING_SPLIT (Pinal Dave)
• Roadmap for RavenDB 4.1 (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

• DSC Resource Kit Release May 2018 (Katie Keim)

Miscellaneous

• Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2018 Release (Dan Taylor)
• Discover the new Microsoft Translator Windows 10 app: redesigned for productivity (MS Translator Team)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2577 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2089 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-05-03 (Dan Rigby)

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