Dew Drop – August 21, 2018 (#2786)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Xamarin Essentials with James Montemagno (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Writing a Blazor App (David Pine)
• Bing.com runs on .NET Core 2.1! (Mukul Sabharwal)
• Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6 (Dominic Nahous)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks 151 – The Developer’s Guide to Azure August Update is now Available (Michael Crump)
• Adding Segment client-side analytics to an ASP.NET Core application (Andrew Lock)
• TensorFlow 2.0 is coming (Martin Wicke)
• Progressive Images in React (Bryce Dorn)
• HTML to PDF Conversion Using ASP.NET Core in Linux Docker (George Livingston)
• Using Angular Kendo Grid with Elastic Search and ASP.NET Core (Jared Rhodes)
• Docker Desktop Adds Kubernetes Support (Matt Campbell)
• How to be efficient with our Azure Devtest Lab deployments (Frank Boucher)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Important dates regarding apps with Windows Phone 8.x and earlier and Windows 8/8.1 packages submitted to Microsoft Store (Microsoft Store Team)
• Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Authenticating with ADAL and Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms, Refactoring MvvmCross and Services (Nick Randolph)
• Exploring New iOS 12 ARKit Capabilities With Xamarin (Larry O’Brien)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Serilog Tutorial for .NET Logging: 16 Best Practices and Tips (Matt Watson)
• What I learned by building my own VS Code extension (Atishay Jain)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Scrum master tip: Helping team members to solve impediments over solving impediments themselves (Ben Linders)
• What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline? (Dave Nicolette)
• You ain’t gonna use it! – Code smells series (Dino Esposito)
• Teaching Acceptance Test-Driven Development (Matthew Heusser)
• Not Invented Here – The Daily Software Anti-Pattern (Matthew Jones)
• Power Up Your UI Tests with API Test as Step in Telerik Test Studio (Oleg Georgiev)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Mock final and static methods on Android devices (Philip P. Moltmann)
• Code Deep Dive: Using the Display Directives in the ASK SDK for Node.js (Amit Jotwani)
• Are You Following These Top 10 App Protection Practices? (Gabriel Torok)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – That Conference 2018 (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• AiA 203: “Where To Store Angular Configurations” with Dave Bush (Charles Max Wood)
• Visual Studio Code Adaptive Cards Previewer (Michael Szul)
• Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Goal Setting (Wes Bos)
• Revision Path 256: Lisa Babb (Maurice Cherry)
• Software Engineering Daily – Build Faster with Nader Dabit (Jeff Meyerson)
• Updating Microsoft Documentation – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
• The Developer Show — TL;DR 123 (Timothy Jordan)

Community & Events

• 19 Fabulous Things To Do In Philly This Week, August 20-26 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

• Getting Sysadmin Access to SQL Server When Locked Out (Joe Gavin)
• A collection of SQL Server-related tips for the TFS Administrator (Matteo Emili)
• RavenDB 4.1 Release Candidate is out (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10’s next big feature release officially named build 1809 and Windows 10 screen snipping tool: Microsoft gives it a new name, adds delay feature (Mary Jo Foley)
• ‘Minecraft: Education Edition’ comes to Apple’s iPad, as education features expand to mainstream version of game (Frank Catalano)
• Windows 10 Tip: Use Paint 3D to edit your snips (Athima Chansanchai)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2648 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2160 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-08-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #443 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #341 (Frank Boucher)
• Interesting links of the week (08/13 – 08/19, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Professional Development 8/13/2018 – 8/19/2018 (Cameron Presley)

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