Dew Drop – September 13, 2018 (#2802)

Top Links

• ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview2 now available (Sourabh Shirhatti)
• A (Belated) Welcome to C# 7.3 (Mads Torgersen)
• Announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 2 (Rich Lander)
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.2 Preview 2 and the preview of the Cosmos DB provider and spatial extensions for EF Core (Diego B. Vega)
• Announcing ML.NET 0.5 (Cesar de la Torre)

Web & Cloud Development

• JavaScript callbacks are highly underrated (Burke H✪lland)
• Publish Angular 6 App To Firebase (Manav Pandya)
• AWS : Simple Queue Service (SQS) (Sacha Barber)
• Learn ASP.NET: 30 Tutorials, Resources, Websites (Sagar Arora)
• CancellationTokens and Aborted ASP.NET Core Requests (K. Scott Allen)
• Microsoft Bot Framework: Adding A New Dialog (David Giard)
• How Security Center and Log Analytics can be used for Threat Hunting (Ajeet Prakash)
• Ansible Tower 3.3 Available Now (Chris Short)
• Use AI to streamline healthcare operations (David Starr)
• Upgrading Nancy to Version 2 (Derek Comartin)
• A Breakdown of Blazor Project Types (Ed Charbeneau)
• New Price Drops for App Service on Linux (Jennifer Lee)
• Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate’s Implementation – Sagas (Jimmy Bogard)
• Let’s Encrypt certificate renewal without downtime (Mark Sta Ana)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Tip – Add Easter Eggs to UWP with Key Combos (Alex Dunn)
• Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Device Customization using OnIdiom (Nick Randolph)
• Tips for Building Adaptive Apps with Xamarin.Forms – Part 3 (Kelley Ricker)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Speeding up solution load and formatting inspections – ReSharper 2018.2 (Alexander Kurakin)
• Using Inedo’s ProGet to Manage Infragistics NuGet Packages (Sarah Roman)
• Using .NET Core, Tuple Deconstruction, and NPoco For Performant SQL Access (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Advanced | Flow of the Week: Sending Pull Request review reminders using MS Flows (Jyoti Pandey)
• Four Principles for Successful Standards (Peter Ritchie)
• Self-Deprecation Needs to (Maurice Hayward)
• Sometimes Less is More (Dave Nicolette)
• Boat Anchor – The Daily Software Anti-Pattern (Matthew Jones)
• How to Create Your Custom Artifacts for DevTest Labs (Frank Boucher)
• Are You the Barrier to Innovation? (Robert Zazueta)
• Multi-Year Developer Survey Reveals Evolving Practices and Foreshadows Further Change (Sebastian Holst)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Announcing Optional Account Linking: Customers Can Now Use Your Alexa Skill without Linking Accounts (Mohit Mittal)
• Introducing the Newest Alexa Champions (Glenn Cameron)
• Announcing Extension-less XCUITest Support in Visual Studio App Center Test for iOS 12 (Glenn Wester)
• Multiplayer Connected Games: First steps forward (Brandi House)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Node and IoT with Suz Hinton (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GCast – Azure Media Services – Closed Captioning (David Giard)
• Syntax Podcast – 11 Habits of Highly Effective Developers (Wes Bos)
• The Changelog 314: Kubernetes brings all the Cloud Natives to the yard (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Acing the Internal Interview (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 146: SQL Trail Speakers (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Developer on Fire Episode 373 | Thorsten Ball – Interpreters, Compilers, and Writing (Dave Rael)
• 2FD 094: Affordable World Travel (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• Women in Business & Technology Podcast 029 – Achieving clarity through coaching with Tenshey CEO Maggie Chan Jones (Sonia Dara & Colleen O’Brien)
• Software Engineering Daily – Orchestrating Kubernetes with Chris Gaun (Jeff Meyerson)
• Azure Podcast Episode 246 – South Central US outage discussion (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• 15 Female Mathematicians Whose Accomplishments Add Up (Joan Vos MacDonald)
• Meet the Developer: Introducing Mark “Context Is Everything” Downie (Yolanda Fintschenko)
• TechBash 2018 (Oct 2-5) – Don’t miss Scott Hunter’s .NET keynote! (TechBash Team)

Database

• Retrieve the column causing an error in SQL Server Integration Services (Koen Verbeeck)
• How to make SQL Server Wildcard Searches Faster (Susantha Bathige)
• Capturing SQL Server Integration Services Package Errors Using OnError Event Handlers (Bhavesh Patel)
• MAXDOP and Azure SQL DB (Arun Sirpal)
• SQL SERVER – Microsoft Azure – Unable to Find Higher Tier Series Virtual Machine to Upgrade (Pinal Dave)
• Cosmos DB on Azure Government (Steve Michelotti)
• 14 Things I Wish I’d Known When Starting with MongoDB (Phil Factor)

SharePoint

• Content Type Filters in Modern SharePoint (Joanne Klein)

PowerShell

• How to list all App Services within an App Service plan using PowerShell (Benjamin Perkins)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18237 (Dona Sarkar)
• How Programmers Can Improve Their Salaries – Typemock Newsletter (Leah Grantz)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2663 (Chris Alcock)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-09-13 (Dan Rigby)

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