Dew Drop – July 31, 2018 (#2777)

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 3.0 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Debugging and Contributing to MvvmCross (Nick Randolph)
• Xamarin.Forms 3 – Cheat sheet (Gerald Versluis)
• .NET Framework July 2018 Update (Tara Overfield)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 145 – Easily reset the Administrator password for an Azure SQL database (Michael Crump)
• Invoke Azure Data Factory Pipeline from another pipeline (Abhijit Jana)
• Working with Ignite UI for Angular Toolbox extension in Visual Studio Code (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 2018.1.6 is now available and What’s New in WebStorm for Angular (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Centralized exception handling and request validation in ASP.NET Core (Filip W.)
• Introducing Web Authentication in Microsoft Edge (Angelo Liao)
• Dynamic resources using the Network Information API and service workers (Dean Hume)
• Bing Maps Routing API Adds Waypoint Optimization (Patricio Robles)
• Web Assembly and Blazor: Re-assembling the Web (Rick Strahl)
• Launching Crawler.Ninja and Chrome to the future (Scott Helme)
• Let’s have a chat about Actions and Action Creators within NgRx (Tim Deschryver)
• Why No HTTPS? Questions Answered, New Data, Path Forward (Troy Hunt)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• How To Find Removable AppxPackages (Brandon Wilson)
• Telerik UI for Xamarin Controls and Cloud Services (Stefan Nenchev)
• Visual UI tests on iOS simulator using Xamarin and Appium (Sophie Tagar)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Dependency Injection – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
• MediatR 5.1 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
• How to use VS Code for your Python projects (Clément Verna)
• #MLNET – Error ‘Entry point ‘Trainers.LightGbmClassifier’ not found’ and how to fix it (Bruno Capuano)
• Common Entity Framework Problems: N + 1 (Richie Rump)
• Latest NIST Publications Reinforce Development Obligations in Securing Data (Sebastian Holst)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Why Do You Need to Unit Test If You Have a QA Team? – Part 2 (Leah Grantz)
• DevOps with Visual Studio Team Services (Jason Farrell)
• Dependency injection doesn’t strictly require frameworks – Code smells series (Dino Esposito)
• How Should Teams Review Code? (Idris Azeez)
• Serverless Testing in Production (Mark Boyd)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Best Practices to Make Your Alexa Skills Eligible for Amazon Promotion (Paul Cutsinger)
• Flutter vs. React Native: Choosing the Best Hybrid Framework for Mobile Development (Vitaly Kuprenko)
• MVVM Architecture & LiveData, ViewModel, LifeCycle Components (Gaurav Goyal)
• Supporting display cutouts on edge-to-edge screens (Megan Potoski)
• Create an Intelligent Chatbot for Cortana (Henk Boelman)
• All the reasons Flutter can make your heart flutter? Or not. (Marie Jaksman)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – C++ in 2018 with Kate Gregory (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hacker hunting and built-in protections with Microsoft Azure (Microsoft Mechanics)
• IoT In Action – Powering Energy Efficiency with Azure IoT | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Whats the deal with npm, yarn and lock files?! (Wes Bos)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 228 “Simple Programmer Edition” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• Codepunk 035: Virtual Friends in Real Life and Microsoft Bot Framework Tutorial #20: Creating Rich Cards (Michael Szul)
• The Amp Hour #401 – An Interview with Brent and Bryce Salmi (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Revision Path 253: Ida Woldemichael (Maurice Cherry)
• No Dogma Podcast #101 – Andrew Lock, .NET Core (Bryan Hogan)
• EBF onboarder for Microsoft Intune – Endpoint Zone 1807 | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson (Simon May)
• Software Engineering Daily – Jailbreaking Apple Watch with Max Bazaliy (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Announcing Trello Day: Our First Full Day Conference (And You’re Invited!) (Brian Cervino)
• Watch the live stream of the 2018 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit – Systems/Fueling Future Disruptions (Emily Maryatt)
• Auth0 Bolsters Executive Team with New VP of Engineering (Jeana Tahnk)
• 24 Amazing Things To Do In Philly This Week, July 30 – August 5 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

• How to setup and use a SQL Server Stretch Database (Douglas Correa)

Miscellaneous

• Chime in: Is the true future of Windows 10 on ARM on (gasp) phones? (Richard Devine)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #2147 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure.Source – Volume 42 (Rob Caron)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-31 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #437 (Pedro Botelho)
• Interesting links of the week (07/23 – 07/29, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Reading Notes #338 (Frank Boucher)
• The Morning Brew #2633 (Chris Alcock)

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