Dew Drop – May 21, 2018 (#2729)

Top Links

• Debugging Beyond Visual Studio – WinDbg (Al Mata, Candice Lai & Syed Mehdi)
• Installing PowerShell Core on a Raspberry Pi (powered by .NET Core) (Scott Hanselman)
• Calculator App in 100 Lines (Nick Randolph)
• Console UWP Applications and File-system Access (Andrew Whitechapel)

Web & Cloud Development

• Using the HTML Texatarea Element (Chris Love)
• Microsoft Azure cloud services guide: The right tools for the job (Andy Patrizio)
• Azure Cloud Shell in Visual Studio Code (Abhijit Jana)
• Angular Ivy change detection execution: are you prepared? (Alexey Zuev)
• Demystifying Angular Unit Tests: Part 3 (Jared Fineman)
• Exploring Azure App Service – Web Apps and SQL Azure (Andrew B. Hall)
• How to Make a Real-Time Sports Application Using Node.js (Jamie Munro)
• CORS and MIME types (Julian M. Bucknall)
• My First React Application With ASP.NET MVC (Khumana Ram)
• PhpStorm 2018.1.4 is released (Maxim Kolmakov)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 124 – Creating the Azure Logic App for our IoT Button (Michael Crump)
• Vue and ASP.NET Core – A New Course (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Using Azure Serverless to become GDPR compliant (Tom Kerkhove)
• Docker Hub vs Creating a Local Docker Registry (Vladimir Pecanac)
• TypeScript 2.7: Strict Property Initialization (Marius Schulz)
• Containers, Security, and Echo Chambers (Jessie Frazelle)
• Kubernetes best practices: terminating with grace (Sandeep Dinesh)
• Never forget type=”button” on generated buttons! (Lea Verou)
• 10 Reasons to Use Durable Functions (Mark Heath)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Icons with Font Awesome 5 in Xamarin Forms (Damien Doumer)
• Xamarin in Action is now on the bookshelves! (Jim Bennett)
• Conversational UI, Animations, More Demos in Telerik UI for WPF [New Release] (Kalin Todorov)
• Xamarin.Forms, Akavache and I: storing, retrieving and deleting data (Marco Siccardi)
• Startup Improvements in Xamarin.Forms on Android (Miguel de Icaza)
• UWP Tip #19 – The Windows Community Toolkit (Me)
• Network Resilience For Your App With Polly (Gerald Versluis)

Visual Studio & .NET

• NuGet Support in Visual Studio for Mac 7.5 and .NET Core Support in Visual Studio for Mac 7.5 (Matt Ward)
• New Features in C# 7.3 (Jonathan Allen)
• Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Motivation and Unit Testing (Nikola Živković)
• User Secrets in a .NET Core Web App and User Secrets in a .NET Core Console App (Layla Porter)
• Using IntelliTest in a .NET Standard Library (Nick Randolph)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Avoiding the Pitfalls of Capitalizing Software in an Agile World – Live from Agile and Beyond (Tim Zack)
• Assigning Work Items to a Group in Visual Studio Team Services (Mark Meadows & Everett Yang)
• On Mentorship (Arthur Kay)
• Getting Started with DevOps and Continuous Delivery of Value (Wesam Darwish)
• Not Just A Better Programmer – A Better You. (Rajiv Popat)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• What’s New In Android? (Brian Gardner)
• Alexa Skill Recipe: Improving the Perceived Latency of API Calls Using the Progressive Response API (Akersh Srivastava)
• Patterns Principles and Tools for Testing Your React (Native) Apps (Matt Dupree)
• Windows MakeCode for Lego Mindstorms Launched (Kay Ewbank)
• A new product badge for Microsoft Store applications (Eric Langland)
• Elliptical Vector Gradients (Mark Allison)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Windows 10 on ARM with Erin Chapple & Hari Pulapaka (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – New In ASP.NET Core 2.1 with Daniel Roth (Ed Charbeneau)
• Visual Studio futures: Amanda Silver & Deborah Chen (Seth Juarez)
• Agile Uprising Podcast: The State of Agile 2018 (Brad Stokes)
• AFH 094: Professional Agile Coaching with Allison Pollard (Ryan Ripley)
• Dart: Final Deployment to Real Database | 7/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Dart: Relationship And Joins | 6/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Dart: Data Models And Writing DB Tests | 5/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Dart: Install And Setup PostgreSQL | 4/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Dart: Writing Effective Tests | 3/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Dart: Indexing Understanding Routes | 2/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Dart: First API And Create Controller | 1/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Flutter: Backdrop Widget Tutorial | Material Design 2.0 (MTechViral)
• Allscripts on Call Podcast – Blockchain 201: Healthcare Use Cases (Brian Behlendorf)
• CodeNewbie S4:E5 – Are you ready for a hackathon? (Kathryn Hodge) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 340 | Kurt Mackey – Improvising Opportunity (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #393 – I’ve bitten myself (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Minds and Machines (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Software Engineering Daily – Voice with Rita Singh (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – Full Stack RX Programming – Brendan Richards (Sophie Belle)
• Merge Conflict 98: Machine Learning for Space Exploration with Paige Bailey (James Montemagno)
• Developer Tea – 3 Habits of Learning Developers (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 229 – Live from Build with Jessica Deen (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Interview with Ionic Succinctly Author Ed Freitas (Jacqueline Bieringer)

Database

• Return SQL Server Connections Information Using sys.dm_exec_connections (K. Brian Kelley)
• Automating a SQL Server Database Refresh (Joe Gavin)
• How to Save Costs on Non-Production SQL Server RDS Instances (Sadequl Hussain)
• How to Generate Fibonacci Series for the First 1000 Values? – Interview Question of the Week #174 (Pinal Dave)
• Ordering in Couchbase Functions – Part 2 (Venkat Subramanian)

SharePoint

• Missing App Launcher in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint and iFrames (This content cannot be displayed in a frame) (J. Erickson)

Miscellaneous

• Things you should never say when interviewing for a developer role (Isabel Nyo)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2588 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2101 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: May 21, 2018 – Lots of Announcements from //Build 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.05.18 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #207 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #20, 2018 – F# style guide (Sergey Tihon)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-05-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Check Out This Book On Remote Desktop Services, And More On The Friday Five (MVP Award Program)

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