Dew Drop – August 3, 2018 (#2780)

Top Links

• ReSharper Ultimate 2018.1.4 and Rider 2018.1.4 are released! (Alexander Kurakin)
• React + TypeScript = ❤️ (Austin McDaniel)
• Unit Testing Tools in Visual Studio 2017 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Kendra Havens)
• XAML Repeater Control (Fons Sonnemans)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure DevOps: Show Me the JSON! (Brian Flynn)
• LEADTOOLS Document Viewer for Angular, Express and Electron JavaScript Frameworks (Greg Ross)
• Get Started With Pusher: Build a Chat App With Channels, PHP, and Vue.js (Jeremy McPeak)
• Building WordPress Gutenberg Blocks with Vue.js (Kevin Ball)
• VS Code extensions for the discerning developer palate (Burke Holland)
• Updates to the AWS Tools for Visual Studio Team Services (Steve Roberts)
• Forms Authentication in .NET Core (AKA Cookie Authentication) (Richard Garside)
• Building an npm search bot with WhatsApp and Twilio (Dominik Kundel)
• TypeScript 3.0 Release Improves Support for Large Projects (Dylan Schiemann)
• CORS and Vary (Eric Lawrence)
• In-Depth VuePress Tutorial: Vue-Powered Docs & Blog (Charles Ouellet)
• Google Developers Launchpad introduces The Lever, sharing applied-Machine Learning best practices (Malika Cantor)
• What is Serverless and Why Does it Matter? (Rob Lauer)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Grouped ListView with Alternate Row Color in Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
• Building Beautiful Conversational UI with Telerik UI for WPF (Vladimir Stoyanov)
• Advanced Controls for Xamarin.iOS with Syncfusion (James Montemagno)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Back to Basics – Type Conversion (Marinko Spasojevic)
• protobuf-net, August 2018 update (Marc Gravell)
• Tiered Compilation Preview in .NET Core 2.1 (Noah Falk)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Visual Studio Team Services – Gated Check-ins: How-To (Gregor Suttie)
• The Case Against Zero-Defect Software (Peter Vogel)
• Planning: Risk Management to Manage Uncertainty (Johanna Rothman)
• Feedback, the Law, and Mandated Manipulative Insincerity (Kim Scott)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• AWS IoT Device Defender Now Available – Keep Your Connected Devices Safe (Jeff Barr)
• Some Options for Deserializing JSON with Flutter (Andrew Brogdon)
• Improving quality control and rescue efforts with IoT (Justin Slade)
• JSON Web Tokens with Swift-JWT (Kye Maloy)
• What’s your text’s appearance? (Nick Butcher)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Azure IoT Inception and Vision | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Azure Podcast Episode 240 – Extreme Azure Automation (Sujit D’Mello)
• Rocket 186: Inauthentic Activity (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Radio TFS – DevOps DevOps with Wouter de Kort and Henry Been (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Hanselminutes – Learning how to be a Wizard Programmer with Julia Evans (Scott Hanselman)
• Developer Tea – Primitive Obsessions (Jonathan Cutrell)

Database

• Building SQL Server Indexes in Ascending vs Descending Order (Greg Robidoux)
• Introduction to SQL Server Express User Instances (Daniel Farina)

Miscellaneous

• iOS 12 Beta Confirms New iPad Pro With Minimal Bezels, Face ID, No Notch, Here’s What It Will Look Like (Oliver Haslam)
• If You Haven’t Changed Your Reddit Password Since 2007, Now’s the Time (Antonio Villas-Boas)
• Surface Go available now, starting at $399 (Yusuf Mehdi)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2636 (Chris Alcock)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-08-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Roundup #12: TypeScript 3, EFCore.InMemoryHelpers, HTTP Caching, Standards.REST (Derek Comartin)
• Collective #438 (Pedro Botelho)

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