Dew Drop – May the 4th, 2018 (#2718)

Top Links

• Version 6 of Angular Now Available (Stephen Fluin)
• Modeling the Card Game War in C# Part 1 – Background and Rules (Matthew Jones)
• What are JetBrains Annotations – and how to get them? (Maarten Balliauw)
• F# Tooling Support for AWS Lambda (Norm Johanson)

Web & Cloud Development

• Why Responsive Web Design? (Chris Love)
• Azure Functions Recipes (Anthony Chu)
• Announcing first-class support for CloudEvents on Azure (Corey Sanders)
• The Ember.js Times – Issue No. 45 (Kenneth Larsen, Sivakumar Kailasam, Amy Lam, Jen Weber & Jessica Jordan)
• Build a Vue.Js E-Commerce App with ButterCMS Headless Backend (Jean-Sebastien Tremblay)
• DOWNLOAD: Free eBook, “Azure Quick Start Guide for .NET Developers” (Kurt Shintaku)
• Adding Salt to Hashing: A Better Way to Store Passwords (Dan Arias)
• Introducing Asylo: an open-source framework for confidential computing (Nelly Porter, Jason Garms & Sergey Simakov)
• Getting started with TypeScript — Installation Steps (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Creating RazorPage apps using the CLI (Shayne Boyer)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Preview Release: 15.7 Preview 6 (Bri Brothers)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Create local git repository in Visual Studio – Quick way (Abhijit Jana)
• In Parameters in C# 7.2 – Productive C# (Andrea Angella)
• Beginning C# 7 Programming with Visual Studio 2017, co-author Benjamin Perkins (Benjamin Perkins)
• The Evolution of C#: What’s Changed and What’s Ahead (Ricardo Peres)
• Avoiding deadlocks when cancelling a thread pool callback, part 1: External callback data (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Choose the author email for web-based commits (GitHub Team)
• Introducing the GitHub Changelog (Camila Cano)
• Archiving your code (Evgeny Zborovsky)
• Is Entrepreneurship Getting Harder? 5 Ways to Be Successful in the Digital Age (Rhett Power)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Instead of MacOS and iOS Convergence, Expect Declarative APIs from Apple (Eric Carter)
• 8 Best Practices for Designing Premium Experiences for Alexa Skills (Paul Cutsinger)
• How to Build an Alexa Skill with In-Skill Purchasing and Make Money with Your Alexa Skills through In-Skill Purchasing (Now Generally Available) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• First Steps with Azure IoT DevKit (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Announcing new SDK versioning in Google Play services and Firebase (Doug Stevenson)
• GameMaker Basics: VFX (Nathan Ranney)
• Using Raspberry Pis to Collect Manufacturing Data (Gary Eastwood)
• Introducing Google Maps Platform (Google Maps Platform Team)
• 5 Simple Steps to Get a Clean ARM Template (Frank Boucher)
• Swift Community-Hosted Continuous Integration (Nicole Jacque & Mishal Shah)
• Playing Pokemon via SMS in Swift Using Vapor and Twilio (Sam Agnew)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• mssql-cli, an open source and cross-platform CLI for SQL Server | Data Exposed (Seth Juarez)
• Lifting App State with Geoffrey Huntley | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Azure Podcast Episode 227 – Azure SRE (Sujit D’Mello)
• Low-Priority VM Scale Set (VMSS) | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• On the Road to Build: Azure Sphere | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Best practices Using Azure Resource Manager Templates (Frank Boucher)
• Rocket 173: A Lawyer Solution (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Meta Cast Episode 130 – Customer Feedback (Josh Anderson)
• Flutter: Build Age Calculator App with Animation (MTechViral)
• StarTalk Radio – #ICYMI – NBA – Evolution of the Game, with Julius Erving, Rasheed Wallace, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Hanselminutes – Building Web Applications for the next Billion Users with Ire Aderinokun (Scott Hanselman)
• Developer Tea – Secondary Tools (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Windows Central Podcst 89: Andromeda Talk (Zac Bowden)

Community & Events

• Philly .NET Meetup – Jumpstart Blockchain for .NET Developers and Philly .NET Meetup – ASP.NET Core WebAPI and Middleware (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
• Contributing to the Microsoft ASP.NET Documentation (Steve Gordon)
• 6 Things Successful Women in STEM Have in Common (Laura Sherbin)
• The 2018 South Street Spring Festival And Maifest Fills 10 Blocks With Non-Stop Fun (Kelly Bucci)
• Personal mission statement (Matt Lacey)
• What to Expect From Microsoft BUILD 2018 (Richard Hay)
• Sasha >>= Sela >>= Google (Sasha Goldshtein)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Split Comma Separated Value String in a Column Using STRING_SPLIT (Pinal Dave)
• Tutorial: Get Started with Couchbase Lite 2.0 as an embedded NoSQL Database in a Swift App (Priya Rajagopal)
• RavenDB 4.1 features: SQL Migration Wizard (Oren Eini)
• Using T-SQL to Detect Golden Crosses and Death Crosses (Rick Dobson)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Admin Center SDK – Public Preview Release (Daniel Lee)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17661 (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2578 (Chris Alcock)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-05-04 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #412 (Pedro Botelho)

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