Dew Drop – June 29, 2018 (#2756)

Top Links

• .NET Core and Docker (Scott Hanselman)
• Communicate the status of a background job with SignalR (Jerrie Pelser)
• Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: migrating the Forms project and MVVMLight to .NET Standard (Marco Siccardi)
• How to ‘come out’ as an LGBTQ+ ally at work (Natalie Singer-Velush)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Create Health Checks in ASP.NET Core (Derek Comartin)
• WebStorm 2018.2 EAP, 182.3458: integration with ng add, support for TypeScript 3.0, improved support for React Native (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Specializing in Node.js/Full Stack Development (John Sonmez)
• Automated Testing of Kendo UI Made Easy (Konstantin Adamu)
• Angular How-to: Share Server-side Validation (Laurie Atkinson)
• AWS Lambda Adds Amazon Simple Queue Service to Supported Event Sources (Randall Hunt)
• Service Fabric 6.2 Refresh Release (CU3) (Mikkel Mørk Hegnhøj)
• Why Kubernetes Is the New Application Server (Rafael Benevides)
• Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Private Endpoints (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• Back by Popular Demand: Official Chocolatey Package with Latest Fiddler Release (Stefan Stefanov)
• How to Build Powerful REST APIs Blazingly Fast With Node.js (Justin Headley)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Use MSBuild to Define Advanced Android VersionCode (Dean Ellis)
• #WinML – How to create a #Windows10 App using #YOLO for object detection (Bruno Capuano)

Visual Studio & .NET

• 18 New Tools and Extensions for Visual Studio (Terrence Dorsey)
• Working with the HttpClient Class (Camilo Reyes)
• Flaw in .NET Core 2.1 Postpones .NET Core 2.0 End of Life (Jeff Martin)
• .NET Core 2.1 Upgrade: But I Followed The Instructions (Mitchel Sellers)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Git 2.18 Adds Support for Git Protocol Version 2 (Sergio De Simone)
• Import an existing Git Repository in your VSTS (Abhijit Jana)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Announcing an Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python (BJ Haberkorn)
• How to Add FallbackIntent Handling to Your Alexa Skill (Franklin Lobb)
• Automating your app releases with Google Play (Nicholas Lativy)
• Free E-book: ​Modernize for Mobile Apps (Geoff Graham)
• What’s New in NativeScript Sidekick (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Azure AD Managed Service Identity | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
• Rocket 181: Dark Mode (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Hanselminutes – C++ and Browser Monoculture with Vivaldi’s Patricia Aas (Scott Hanselman)
• Software Engineering Daily – Data Engineering Automation with Mike Kim (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Choice Frameworking (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Empower Through Web Development (Blake Watson)

Database

• Benefits of using SQL Server Temporal Tables with Memory Optimized Tables – Part 4 (Ameena Lalani)
• SQL SERVER – Many BACKGROUND Threads with Command VDI_CLIENT_WORKER (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 4.1 Features: Running RavenDB embedded (Oren Eini)
• Does a Primary Key always have stats_id 1? (Wayne Sheffield)

PowerShell

• Starting a PowerShell DSL for WPF Apps (Mike Shepard)
• Windows PowerShell and the Text-to-Speech REST API (Part 5) (The Scripting Guys)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2616 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2130 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-06-29 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #428 (Pedro Botelho)

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