Dew Drop – August 1, 2018 (#2778)

Top Links

• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17723 available now! (Clint Rutkas)
• Web Assembly and Blazor: Re-assembling the Web (Rick Strahl)
• Xamarin.Forms: Filtering a ListView with a Bindable Picker (James Montemagno)
• RunAs Radio – The New Windows with Paul Thurrott (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to setup ASP.NET Core 2.1 on Linux in under 10 minutes (Daniel Crabtree)
• How to Use a jQuery Grid UI Component in Your Web App (Alberta Williams)
• The ASP.NET Core Generic Host: namespace clashes and extension methods (Andrew Lock)
• Ansible 2.6: What’s new for Azure (Ken Thompson)
• Release: TensorFlow 1.10.0-rc1 (Amit Patankar)
• JavaScript Menus for Native-Looking Applications (Per Bothner)
• Azure management groups now in general availability (Rich Thorn)
• Creating a Modal Dialog Web Component (Carl Rippon)
• 5 Tips for Developing Actions with the New Actions Console (Zachary Senzer)
• Postman Teams Now Available to Users of the Free Postman App (Janet Wagner)
• Slide Out Box Menu (Mary Lou)
• Chrome to the future (Scott Helme)
• Why No HTTPS? Questions Answered, New Data, Path Forward (Troy Hunt)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Detecting binding errors with LogWarningsToApplicationOutput in Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
• Create a Scheduling Application using Syncfusion Scheduler for Xamarin.Forms (Thangapriya)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Copying Widget across Visual Studio Team Services Dashboards (Abhijit Jana)
• Performance of Structs in C# 7.2 (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• How to Convince Your Management to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 for C# and C++ Developers (Kasey Uhlenhuth & Nick Uhlenhuth)
• NativeInts – Straightforward nint and nuint native integers, written in IL, probably second best to proper compiler support. (Harry Singleton)
• Tackling MSIX (Tim Mangan)
• Making MSIX Packages from MSIs (Nathan Ziehnert)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Scrum Mastery: 5 Steps to Improve Team Process (Stephanie Ockerman)
• > dotnet dotCover test (Alexey Totin)
• Using CodeIt.Right to Create Visual Basic Coding Standards (Carlos Schults)
• Dependency injection doesn’t strictly require frameworks – Code smells series (Dino Esposito)
• Autofac: A Detailed Look Under the Hood at Its Code Quality (Erik Dietrich)
• “Start Tracking” from the Backlog Pages of Timetracker 4.13 (Leah Copeland)
• Unified Cross-Platform Performance Metrics (Liang Shi)
• A set of tools to deal with granular VSTS migrations (Matteo Emili)
• What Escape Rooms Can Teach Us About Incentives for Software Development Teams (Tyler Hakes)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How to Test Your iOS Application on a Real Device (Kelley Robinson)
• Signing With Alexa: A DIY Experiment in AI Accessibility (Synced)
• Accelerate Skill Development Using the ASK Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (Beta) and Request Permission and Access Contact Information with the New Customer Profile API (BJ Haberkorn)
• Watching IoT Sensors with an ESP32 Board, JavaScript, Node.js and Twilio Sync (Jim Hua)
• Voice-Enabling Your Media Transport Controls with Fire App Builder 1.0.7 (Tom Johnson)
• All the reasons Flutter can make your heart flutter? Or not. (Marie Jaksman)
• One click deploy for MakeCode and the amazing AdaFruit Circuit Playground Express (Scott Hanselman)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Automate Azure Resources with Ansible | Azure Friday (Rob Caron & Lara Rubbelke)
• Meta Cast Episode 132 – Just The Right Amount of Agile Process (Josh Anderson)
• Gone Mobile 72: Succeeding with Xamarin (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
• The Changelog #308 – Biases in AI, helping veterans get jobs in software, open science (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• JSJ 324: with Kent Beck (Eric Begay)
• How to Fix All the Things with Logging + Metrics + Error Tracking | The Open Source Show (Allison Cordle)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 265 | Teams and Skype Convergence and the News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• SE-Radio Episode 332: John Doran on Fixing a Broken Development Process (Jeremy Jung)
• Developer Tea – Future Features (Are Futile) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• .NET Foundation July Update (.NET Foundation Team)

Database

• Getting Started with SQL Server 2017 Express LocalDB (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL Server Bulk Insert For Full Files, Misformatted Data and Unusual Characters (Tim Smith)
• SQL Server – Blocking a Truncate (Arun Sirpal)
• A Query That Should Be Contradicted (Erik Darling)
• DZone Refcard #269 – Understanding Data Quality (Sarah Davis)

PowerShell

• Issue with PowerShell Remote Endpoints after a Windows 10 Upgrade (Emin Atac)
• Increased Windows Modules coverage with PowerShell Core 6.1 (Steve Lee)
• WPFBot3000 – Approaching 1.0 (Mike Shepard)

Miscellaneous

• The 2018 Top Programming Languages (Stephen Cass)
• Announcing Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview Build 17723 and Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17728 (Dona Sarkar)
• Xbox Game Pass Now Available with an Annual Subscription Option (Richard Hay)
• How thinking like a recruiter can open more doors in your job search (Toyinaminia ‘Toy’ Norwood)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2634 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2148 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-08-01 (Dan Rigby)

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