Dew Drop – May 9, 2018 (#2721)

Top Links

• Use Android Jetpack to Accelerate Your App Development (Chris Sells, Benjamin Poiesz & Karen Ng) – Microsoft developers will see some familiar names here.
• Join us for a hot cup o Chocolatey! (Yosef Durr)
• How to create accessible apps and immersive game experiences with new eye tracking APIs (Jacob Cohen)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17661 now available! (Clint Rutkas)

Web & Cloud Development

• Playing with the Context API in React 16.3 (Carl Rippon)
• Yes you can! develop on AWS using .NET (Dror Helper)
• Demystifying Angular Unit Tests (Jared Fineman)
• Are your Node-Based Tools Failing in Visual Studio? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Microsoft Docs: Announcing Updates to the REST API Experience (Jessie Huang)
• Why you should use Durable Functions sub-orchestrations (Mark Heath)
• The Road to React – Lesson 2: Events & Callbacks (Michelle Colón)
• Node v10.1.0 (Current) (Myles Borins)
• Web Apps making changes to FTP deployments (Thad Kittelson)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Essentials (Jim Bennett)
• Xamarin.Tip – Add Easter Eggs on Shake (Alex Dunn)
• Extended Editor in Xamarin Forms (Rendy Del Rosario)
• Xamarin Preview Release: 15.8 Preview 1 (Brendan Zagaeski)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio Live Share – An extension to collaboratively work in real time (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Visual Studio support for Windows 10 on ARM development (Marc Sweetgall)
• Modeling the Card Game War in C# Part 2 – The Code (Matthew Jones)
• F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 (Phillip Carter)
• .NET Framework May 2018 Security and Quality Rollup and .NET Core May 2018 Update (Rich Lander)
• Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension May 2018 Update – IntelliSense configuration just got so much easier! (RongLu)
• CodeIt.Right Rules Explained, Part 16 (Erik Dietrich)
• A Look at .NET Core 2.1 (Justin Boyer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Overcoming the obstacles of Agile adoption (Bhuwan Jain)
• Stack Overflow Teams Now Available (Alex Armstrong)
• Design by Contract: Part Two (Dave Nicolette)
• Introducing Indigo Design to Code Studio: Design to Developer Collaboration Redefined (Jason Beres)
• Creating a Jenkins Server for Github Projects (Margaret Staples)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Hello World, AndroidX (Alan Viverette, Kathy Kam & Lukas Bergstrom)
• What’s new in Android P Beta (Dave Burke)
• Android Studio 3.2 Canary (Android Dev Team)
• Google I/O 2018: What’s new in Android (Stephanie Cuthbertson)
• What is Android Jetpack? (Asfak Saiyed)
• Hyper-V Android emulator support (Miguel de Icaza)
• #Build – Project #Kinect for Azure (Bruno Capuano)
• Advanced Raspberry Pi traffic lights simulator (Gunnar Peipman)
• Azure IoT DevKit – External Connectivity (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Object Type Introspection in GameMaker – Part 1 (Alejandro Hitti)
• How Building for Voice Differs from Building for the Screen: Build Adaptable Voice-First Interactions (Paul Cutsinger)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Deploying an ASP.NET Core web app to Linux – Will it Deploy? Episode 7 (Rob Pearson)
• Building mobile apps with Visual Studio and Xamarin (James Montemagno)
• Past, Present, and Future of .NET (Beth Massi)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 250 | Microsoft Build 2018 News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Functional Geekery Episode 123 – Zach Tellman (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Modern Service Management with Carroll Moon (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• The Future of .NET on the Desktop (Mike Harsh, Scott Hunter & Tim Heuer)
• LearnAI-Bootcamp for Emerging AI Developers: Integrating Services with BotBuilder SDK v4 [Part 2/2] | AI Show and Project Personality Chat for Bot Developers | AI Show and Meet the New Bot Framework Emulator | AI Show (Seth Juarez)

Community & Events

• The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2018 (Chris Welch)
• Top 4 announcements from day two of Build 2018 (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Join Twilio in Urging the Senate to Restore Net Neutrality Protections (Emily Emery)
• Auth0 Joins Decentralized Identity Foundation (Jeana Tahnk)

Database

• Migrate a database from SQL Server 2008 to 2016 and use new features (Pablo Echeverria)
• Using GraphQL with Golang and a NoSQL Database (Nic Raboy)
• The May release of SQL Operations Studio is now available (Jenny Erie)

Miscellaneous

• Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad (Michel Lopez)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2580 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2093 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-05-09 (Dan Rigby)

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