Dew Drop – May 8, 2018 (#2720)

Top Links (Microsoft Build 2018, Day 1)

• Try the Latest Release of Xamarin.Forms 3.0! (David Ortinau)
• Microsoft Build 2018: New releases for Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms (Julia Liuson)
• Announcing the Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview and Introducing Visual Studio IntelliCode (Amanda Silver)
• Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 and beyond (Miguel de Icaza)
• Introducing ML.NET: Cross-platform, Proven and Open Source Machine Learning Framework (Ankit Asthana)
• Modernizing applications for our multi-sense, multi device world (Kevin Gallo)
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and version 15.8 Preview 1 (John Montgomery)
• Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 and .NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications (Rich Lander)

Web & Cloud Development

• Testing Button Click in React with Jest (Derik Whittaker)
• ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-rc1 now available (Daniel Roth)
• Creating PDF on ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman)
• Upgrade Angular 5 app to Angular 6 with Visual Studio 2017 (Talking Dotnet)
• Introducing Translator Text API V3: natively neural with advanced capabilities (Microsoft Translator Team)
• Introducing Conversational UI: Modern UI for Chatbots (Sara Faatz)
• Announcing General Availability of QnAMaker and Microsoft Conversational AI tools enable developers to build, connect and manage intelligent bots and Build a Microsoft Bot Framework bot with the Bot Builder SDK v4 (Bot Framework Team)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Root detection: Xamarin apps stop hackers before they can begin (Sebastian Holst)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Recently completed UserVoice Suggestions for Visual Studio (Eli Fessler)
• Leading digit separators, ref structs and in parameters – C# 7.2 in Rider and ReSharper (Matthias Koch)
• C# Generics – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
• Announcing: MSVC Conforms to the C++ Standard (Bat-Ulzii Luvsanbat)
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 RC 1 (Diego B. Vega)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Introducing the Checks API, a better way to connect integrations and code (Jason Warner)
• Design by Contract: Part One (Dave Nicolette)
• Introducing Indigo Design to Code Studio: Design to Developer Collaboration Redefined (Jason Beres)
• To Be a Good Tester, Just Do What No One Else Can (Matthew Heusser)
• ebook deal of the week: Software Requirements, 3rd Edition (Microsoft Press)
• SOLID Design Principles Explained – Dependency Inversion Principle with Code Examples (Thorben Janssen)
• Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 is now available (Erin Dormier)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Say Hello to Android Things 1.0 (Dave Smith)
• Ready for Production Apps: Flutter Beta 3 (Flutter Team)
• Do more at the intelligent edge with Windows 10 IoT (James Coliz)
• A new Microsoft Store revenue share is coming (Microsoft Store Team)
• Unity 2018.2 beta: What’s new (Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen)
• Microsoft and GitHub Present: A Solution for Mobile CI (Nilofer Rajpurkar)
• What’s New in Flutter Beta 3 (Tim Sneath)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Announcing .NET Core 3 with Scott Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends – Raffaele Rialdi on GDPR (David Giard)
• GeekWire Podcast, Live at Build: Cloud, AI and mixed reality with Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie and Lorraine Bardeen (Todd Bishop)
• Functional Geekery Episode 123 – Zach Tellman (Steven Proctor)
• Jim & Tonic Episode 3: Tanya Janca (Jim Bennett)
• No Dogma Podcast #95 – Ben Watson, High Performance .NET (Bryan Hogan)
• SE-Radio Episode 323: Lin Clark on WebAssembly (Matthew Farwell)
• What’s New with Cognitive Services | AI Show and What’s New with Cognitive Services Speech SDK and Speech Devices SDK | AI Show (Seth Juarez)

Community & Events

• Hello World: The Film, Take 2 (Roland Weigelt)
• 20 Fabulous Things To Do In Philly This Week, May 7-13 (Kelly Bucci)
• An AI MVP Award Category Update (MVP Award Program)

Database

• Introducing two new mixed reality business applications: Microsoft Remote Assist and Microsoft Layout (Lorraine Bardeen)
• React with .NET Core and MySQL – Preparing the Project and Creating Components (Marinko Spasojevic)
• SQL SERVER – How to Find Free Log Space in SQL Server? (Pinal Dave)
• Couchbase 5.5 Enhanced Query Plan Visualization (Denis Rosa)
• When Query Plans Lie Part 1 (Erik Darling)
• Welcome to Redgate tools for SQL Operations Studio (Santiago Arias & Alex Tercete)

MS Teams

• Microsoft announces Teams Progressive Web App (PWA) preview for Windows 10 S (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

PowerShell

• Convert *all* the things [PowerShell script to convert RAW and HEIC photos to JPEG] (David Anson)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2579 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2092 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-05-08 (Dan Rigby)
• Reading Notes #326 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #413 (Pedro Botelho)
• Interesting links of the week (04/30 – 05/06, 2018) (Michael Eaton)

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