Dew Drop – August 20, 2018 (#2785)

XL edition today after a week off.

Top Links

• Save the Date – .NET Conf (.NET Team)
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 (John Montgomery)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17733 available now! (Clint Rutkas)
• Join LEAD this October at TechBash 2018 (Greg Ross)
• Blazor: Modern Web development with .NET and WebAssembly (Daniel Roth)

Web & Cloud Development

• Generate Useful Documentation for Your Web API Project (Peter Vogel)
• DZone Refcard #236 – Introduction to Docker Monitoring (Eric Carter & Apurva Dave)
• 10 AWS Lambda Use Cases to Start Your Serverless Journey (Rohit Akiwatkar)
• React vs. Angular vs. Vue.js: A Complete Comparison Guide (Ankit Kumar)
• Creating Vue.js Client Side – Preparing Project and Project Structure Overview (Code Maze)
• Is Active Route Tag Helper for ASP.NET MVC Core with Razor Page support (Damien Bowden)
• WebStorm 2018.2.1 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• 2 New Tools to help with AngularJS to Angular Migrations (Elana Olson)
• ReactiveUI v8.6.3 released (Glenn Watson)
• Upgrade a Dockerized ASP.NET Core Application to the Latest Version of .NET Core (Graham Smith)
• Azure SignalR Messaging with .Net Core Console App Server and Client (Jeeva Subburaj)
• Pushing Node.js to Azure While You Make Your Coffee (John Papa)
• Reactive functor (Mark Seemann)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 150 – Use the Mac Touch Bar to launch the Azure Portal (Michael Crump)
• Server-Sent Events and ASP.NET Core – You may need keep alives (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Where’s Progress? Fall Lineup of .NET & JavaScript Conferences & Events (Sara Faatz)
• Azure Service Fabric Troubleshooting Guides (Service Fabric Team)
• Seeding Related Entities in EF Core 2.1’s HasData() (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ASP.NET Core 2.2 First Look – Global Routing (Dispatcher) (Steve Gordon)
• .NET Core Lambda Deployment task enhancements in the AWS Tools for VSTS (Steve Roberts)
• What’s New in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (Steve Smith)
• Integrate Jest into an Angular application and library (Tim Deschryver)
• Angular Testing with Headless Chrome (Todd Palmer)
• Angular Console — The UI for the Angular CLI (Victor Savkin)
• Changing the behavior of a 3rd party Angular Component (Vijay Dharap)
• Using Active Directory Authenticate with Web API from Xamarin (Jason Farrell)
• ESLint v5.4.0 released (ESLint Team)
• How to Map Application Layers to Cloud-Native Workloads (Janakiram MSV)
• Update and Customize Queries on Your Cloud Firestore Data for Actions on Google (Mandy Chan)
• WebAssembly is here! (Marco Trivellato)
• Newman v4.0 (shamasis)
• NgRx: Parameterized selectors (Tim Deschryver)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Introducing macOS Platform Support for Syncfusion Xamarin Controls (Rajasekar B.)
• How to refresh the UI in Xamarin without stop debugging Xamarin live reload (Anirudha)
• Custom renderers VS Effects in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
• ReactiveUI – ReactiveUI v8.4.1 released and ReactiveUI v8.5.1 released and Deprecating ReactiveList and ReactiveUI v8.6.1 released (Rodney Littles, II)
• Xamarin Forms Tips Part 3: Change Randomly A View’s Color At Run-time (Damien Doumer)
• Dynamically changing the status bar appearance in Xamarin.Forms (Evgeny Zborovsky)
• Bootstrap Series – Xamarin.Forms in ReactiveUI with Xamvvm (Joe Meyer)
• Using Your WinForms/WPF Code to Vote for .NET Core 3.0 Features (Jonathan Allen)
• Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio and Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and SDK Versions and Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms with MvvmCross (Nick Randolph)
• Xamarin Forms MediaElement (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Migrating the Silverlight Toolkit TreeView control into the UWP and the Uno Platform and Under the hood : an introduction to Uno Platform (Uno Platform)
• Windows Community Toolkit 4.0 Released – DataGrid Is Ready For Your Production Apps (Me)
• A faster way to add image assets to your Xamarin.iOS project in Visual Studio 2017 (Marco Siccardi)
• Drawing shapes with Windows Composition in UWP (Diederik Krols)
• Windowing UWP Applications and New UWP and Win32 Application Distribution Models (Jonathan Allen)
• Integrating Cognitive Service Speech in UWP apps (Marco Minerva)

Visual Studio & .NET

• NuGet.org starts repo-signing packages (Ricardo Minguez)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2018.2 Release Candidate (Alexander Kurakin)
• Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 for web developers (Angelos Petropoulos)
• Can I Port My Windows Desktop Application to .NET Core? Find Out and Prepare Today! (Me)
• Python in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 (Dan Taylor)
• Optimizing C# Struct Equality with IEquatable and ValueTuples (James Montemagno)
• Announcing F# 4.5 (Phillip Carter)
• Advisory serializing/deserializing a CultureAwareComparer with .NET Framework 4.6+ (Rich Lander)
• Interview with the C# Boss – Mads Torgersen (Suprotim Agarwal)
• August 2018 .NET Framework Security and Quality Rollup (Tara Overfield)
• Save with the Unity Pro & Visual Studio Professional Bundle (Jb Evain)
• Visual Studio Code July 2018 (VS Code Team)
• Advanced Installer 15.2 (Caphyon)
• Rider 2018.2 Release Candidate (Alexander Kurakin)
• How does my app allocate to LOH? Find out with dotMemory 2018.2! (Alexey Totin)
• Null pointers: an opportunity, not an exception – code smells series (Dino Esposito)
• #MLNET – New version 0.4, news Improvements in Text analysis using Word Embedding (Bruno Capuano)
• .NET Core 2.1 August Update (Jamshed Damkewala)
• Code completion improvements in Rider 2018.2 EAP and Generating a GUID in Rider, colored parameter info, custom runtime arguments in Rider 2018.2 EAP (Maarten Balliauw)
• A Visitor functor (Mark Seemann)
• Introducing Driver Module Framework (Microsoft Devices Team)
• Upgrading an existing .NET project files to the lean new CSPROJ format from .NET Core (Scott Hanselman)
• Moving APIs to .NET Core and Three Tips for Console Applications in .NET Core (K. Scott Allen)
• Running a .NET Core Generic Host App as a Windows Service (Steve Gordon)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• TDD iOS Network API Call with Xcode XCTest (Alfian Losari)
• Unit Testing vs Integration Testing: What’s the Difference? (Leah Grantz)
• Reporting on Unit Tests with VSTS Containerized Apps (Jason Farrell)
• Tutorial: How to deploy an app to production with an actual button (Anisha Gupta)
• The Best Design Books and eBooks Every Designer Should Read (Eva Jobard)
• Striking a balance between Quantitative and Qualitative data (Glenn Block)
• Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate’s Implementation – Document Example (Jimmy Bogard)
• Code Coverage API plugin: 1.0 Release (Shenyu Zheng)
• The Alchemy of Indigo.Design UI Kits (Stefan Ivanov)
• Measuring Aggregate Complexity in Software Applications (Steve Smith)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Cordova browser 5.0.4 Released! (Chris Brody)
• Announcing the Alexa Auto Software Development Kit (SDK) (Adam Foster)
• Create Regions in Android Studio (Danish Amjad)
• Flutter and UI Automation (Paul Hammant)
• Visual Studio App Center Test: Android 9 Pie Support, 3000+ Real Devices, Improved Test Notifications and More (Glenn Wester)
• Hear It from a Skill Builder: How to Create a Persona for Your Alexa Skill (Jennifer King)
• Microsoft, Amazon release preview of Alexa and Cortana collaboration (Jennifer Langston)
• How I Built & Launched an App in 2 Weeks to 40,000 Users with Ionic (Matt Kremer)
• Top 5 Mobile App Security Failures and How To Prevent Them (Brian C. Reed)
• 4 Principles of Conversational Voice Design (Cami Williams)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 094 – Jeremy Miller on Lamar (Matthew Groves)
• .NET Rocks! – Building Hololens Apps using Unity with Jimmy Engstrom and .NET Rocks! – AI for Earth with Jennifer Marsman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends – Jon Skeet on Making StackOverflow More Inclusive and Technology & Friends – Jayson Street on Patching Humans (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 278 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Improved User Experience in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) & Azure DevOps Projects demo | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Building games with Unity and Azure | On .NET (Brian Peek & Cecil Phillip)
• Going real-time with ASP.NET Core SignalR and the Azure SignalR Service | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Anthony Chu)
• TWC9: CosmosDB JavaScript SDK Updates, Linux on ASE, Underwater Data Center Webcams, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
• Vuejs : Build Your First Crypto Web App | Nuxtjs | Vue Material | Axios (MTechViral)
• FlexLayout for Xamarin.Forms Explained | The Xamarin Show and Merge Conflict 110: The Future of App Development and Merge Conflict 111: The Three Equals of a Struct (James Montemagno)
• .NET Standard and Xamarin.Forms for the .NET Developer | The Xamarin Show (Laurent Bugnion & James Montemagno)
• Syntax Podcast – The React Episode (Wes Bos)
• Visual Studio Code Markdown Preview (Michael Szul)
• Developer on Fire Episode 366 | Heather Wilde – Natural Leader (Dave Rael)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Meet the Vue Vixens (Ed Charbeneau)
• Gone Mobile 74: Exploring the Uno Platform with Jérôme Laban (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
• FreeCodeFriday – Episode 11 and FreeCodeFriday – Episode 12 (Jason Bock)
• Talk Python to Me #174 – Coming into Python from another Industry (part 2) (Michael Kennedy)
• Women in Business & Technology 027 – Designing understanding with Chineasy Founder ShaoLan (Sonia Dara & Colleen O’Brien)
• MVP Elijah Manor talks us through npm on the Ch9’s Five Things show! (MVP Award Program)
• Flutter: Download Large Files (Pdf, Json, Image etc) With Progress % (MTechViral)
• Hanselminutes – Teaching Programming to kids (and everyone else) with Ben Wheeler and Hanselminutes – Container Catharsis with Laura Frank Tacho (Scott Hanselman)
• Software Engineering Daily – Stripe Engineering with Raylene Yung and Software Engineering Daily – WebAssembly Future with Steve Klabnik and Software Engineering Daily – WebAssembly Engineering with Ben Smith and Thomas Nattestad (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Kendra Little joins Redgate as SQL Server evangelist (Alice Smith)
• Attend A .NET Conf Event Near You! (Jayme Singleton)
• Game-Changing New Waterfront Attraction Cherry Street Pier To Open In Philly This Fall (Kelly Bucci)
• Re-Introducing Twilio Developer Evangelist Lizzie Siegle (Lizzie Siegle)
• How to Engage Communities, Tell Diverse Stories, and Find Your Creative Circle with Sundance Ignite Filmmaker Crystal Kayiza (Project 1324)
• Meet the Developer: Introducing Marc “Challenge the Mainstream” Clifton (Yolanda Fintschenko)

Database

• Creating Indexes with SQL Server Management Studio (Jayendra Viswanathan)
• SQL Server Management Studio 17.x Important Features (Rajendra Gupta)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to Remove Replication Publication – Could not Delete the Subscription at Subscriber ‘SubServer’ in Database ‘SubDB’ and Which is Faster – INSERT INTO SELECT or SELECT INTO? – Interview Question of the Week #187 (Pinal Dave)
• Increase PowerShell available commands in a SQL Server Agent Job step (Pablo Echeverriav)

PowerShell

• Help us Run PowerShell.org! (Don Jones)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 149 – Use PowerShell to quickly see if your Deployment Slot Swapped Successfully (Michael Crump)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft quietly makes ‘Your Phone’ Android app available to mainstream Windows 10 users (Mary Jo Foley)
• Announcing Windows Admin Center Preview 1808 and Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17741 (Dona Sarkar)
• Public Speaking – Talk Structure (Hadi Hariri)
• Building the Ultimate Developer’s Walking Desk (Mark Miller)
• Building the Ultimate Developer PC 3.0 – The Parts List for my new computer, IronHeart (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft’s undersea data center now has a webcam with fish swimming past 27.6 petabytes of data (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2646 and The Morning Brew #2647 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2152 and Double Shot #2159 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #220 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #32, 2018 – ML.NET 0.4, Rethinking Compilers & Actors in clusters and F# Weekly #33, 2018 – Announcing F# 4.5 & VS 15.8 (Sergey Tihon)
• Friday Five: Azure Firewall, PASS Summit, And More (MVP Award Program)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-08-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Reading Notes #341 (Frank Boucher)
• eBooks, posters and recent articles (Willy-Peter Schaub)

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