Dew Drop – November 2, 2017 (#2595) – 10th Anniversary Edition

It’s the 10th anniversary of link posts here on the Morning Dew! No fanfare, dancers or Blue Angels to be seen, but there is gratitude aplenty. Thanks to everyone who has followed along all these years. My own little “read it later” list has grown over time. Even after 10 years it still serves its original purpose for me – to keep me motivated to learn the latest and greatest dev tools and technologies out there. I hope it has helped some of you in your dev journeys as well. Cheers! – Alvin

Top Links

• Version 5.0.0 of Angular Now Available (Stephen Fluin)
• C++/WinRT is now included the Windows SDK (Andrew Pardoe)
• Modernize existing .NET apps with Windows Containers and Azure (Cesar de la Torre)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17025 (Clint Rutkas)

Web & Cloud Development

• Creating A Direct-Click DOM Event Plug-in In Angular 4.4.6 (Ben Nadel)
• Shared Localization in ASP.NET Core MVC (Damien Bowden)
• Data Visualization With DataTables.js and Highcharts.js (George Martsoukos)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 44 – Deploying Azure Logic App through Visual Studio 2017 (Michael Crump)
• Publishing a Web App to an Azure VM from Visual Studio (Justin Clareburt)
• Google Announces Improvements to Firebase (Janet Wagner)
• Azure Durable Functions: Making Serverless Last (Mary Branscombe)
• App Service Certificates now supports public certificates (.cer) (mksunitha)
• TypeScript 2.6 Adds Strict Parameter Contravariance and More (Sergio De Simone)
• Debugging Tricky HTTP Problems with Fiddler and Charles (Simon Timms)
• Can VS Code Do Emmet? (Burke Holland)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Custom Entry Validation in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)

Visual Studio & .NET

• CMake Support in Visual Studio – Import Your CMake Cache (Will Buik)
• xunit.runner.wpf 1.0.51 – XUnit Gui written in WPF (Kevin Pilch)
• .NET Has a Fresh, New Site (.NET Team) – Try the in-browser tutorial too!
• Entity Framework Code First Model Cache (Derek Comartin)
• Deeper Dive Into EF Core 2 – Part 2 (Dustin Horne)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Customize Your Agile Approach: Start With Results You Want (Johanna Rothman)
• The Definition of Done, Done-Done and Really Done (Gil Zilberfeld)
• VSTS Update – Oct 30 and Oh my – some dashboard candy that is life changing (Brian Harry)
• Code Reuse is Not a Good Goal (Erik Dietrich)

Mobile & IoT

• Android Architecture Components: Room — Relationships (Paulina Szklarska)
• How To Build An Ionic App With A Graphcool Backend – Part 3 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• Kotlin From Scratch: Exception Handling (Chike Mgbemena)
• Experimenting with multiplayer ARCore and ARKit: jump in with sample code (Jimmy Alamparambil)
• Mixed Reality momentum continues in the Modern Workplace and Microsoft HoloLens expands to 29 new markets (Lorraine Bardeen)
• Exploring control flow in Kotlin (Rashi Karanpuria)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – SQL Server DevOps with Kevin Cunnane and Eric Kang (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• AiA 161: Upgrading Angular (Joe Eames, Alyssa Nicoll, Charles Max Wood, Ward Bell & Aaron Frost)
• What’s New in MSBuild | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2017 – Ask Me Anything! with Jernej Kavka and Daniel Chambers (F#, C# .NET Core) (Sophie Belle)
• Developer on Fire Episode 283 | Duane Newman – Socially Engaged (Dave Rael)
• RadioTFS – All About Bob with Mikael Krief (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Get Intelligent Insights for Improving Azure SQL Database Performance | Azure Friday (Rob Caron & Seth Juarez)
• Deploy & Code In Minecraft (Sam McNeill)

Community & Events

• Why I cancelled my ReactiveConf talk (Peggy Rayzis)
• Connect with developers around the world on the GitHub Community Forum (Barbara Kozlowski)
• Community Spotlight: Brendan Forster (David Neal)
• Happy 9th, Small Basic! (Greg Duncan)
• Q&A with MVP Andy Mallon: ‘I’m never going to make everyone happy, but I’d like to make as many groups of people happy as possible.’ (MVP Award Program)
• Geek of the Week: President of Cosplay Philadelphia SiddeeQah Love (Yali Perez)

Database

• Script to Drop and Delete Offline SQL Server Databases and Data Files (Eli Leiba)
• SQL Server 2017 and Azure Data Services – The ultimate hybrid data platform (Rohan Kumar)
• RavenDB 4.0 book update is available (Oren Eini)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams: The Developer Story (Sahil Malik)

Miscellaneous

• Razer Phone is a sharp Android smartphone for gamers (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-11-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-11-02 (Dan Rigby)
• The Ultimate List of Software Developer Blogs (Mitch Tabian)
• The Morning Brew #2456 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1965 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #362 (Pedro Botelho)

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