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Dew Drop – April 20, 2018 (#2708)

Posted on April 20, 2018 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

3 new extensions for Visual Studio extenders (Mads Kristensen)
Containers for Existing .NET Apps Part 1 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Using Xamarin.Forms Inside Visual Studio Mac Extensions (Matthew Robbins)
Rider 2018.1 is released! (Ekaterina Zharova)

Web & Cloud Development

How to quickly refer all available Azure services? (Abhijit Jana)
Functional Programming with JavaScript Object Arrays (Ed Charbeneau)
What are Higher-Order Components in React? (Kingsley Silas)
Scalable, Flexible Networking Included in Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 (Nicola Kabar)
Choosing cameras in JavaScript with the mediaDevices API (Phil Nash)
ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview on VSTS (Adam Storr)
Designing very large (JavaScript) applications (Malte Ubl)
Introducing sonarwhal v1: The linting tool for the web (Anton Molleda)
TSDoc: A TypeScript Source Code Documentation Format (Dylan Schiemann)
Introducing the Vault Operator for Kubernetes (Haseeb Tariq)
Jasper meets RabbitMQ (Jeremy D. Miller)
Service Fabric 6.2 Release (Service Fabric Team)
Is Enumerating Resources on a Website “Hacking”? (Troy Hunt)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

MVVM Light UITableViewCell bindings with Xamarin.iOS (Mark Allibone)
Overview of Chart in Xamarin.Forms Part 1 (Prabakaran Ramasamy)
Xamarin Android: asymmetric encryption without any user input or hardcoded values (Marco Siccardi)
Building multi-window dispatcher agnostic view-model (Pedro Lamas)

Visual Studio & .NET

Review pull requests from within Visual Studio (Sarah Guthals)
Using Entity Framework DbContext with Dependency Injection (Matthew Jones)

Design, Methodology & Testing

12th State of Agile Report Published (Ben Linders)
Vertical Slice Architecture (Jimmy Bogard)
Introducing GitHub Learning Lab: A new way to level up on GitHub (Cynthia Rich)
What Product Owners Should Not Do (Allan Kelly)
How to Effectively Manage a Remote Team (Arina Katrycheva)
Release Flow: How We Do Branching on the VSTS Team (Edward Thomson)
Performance Engineering: The What, Why, and How’s Explained (John Julien)
New survey explores the changing landscape of teamwork (Lori Wright & Natalie McCullough)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

6 Dialog Management Resources to Build Advanced Alexa Skills (Justin Jeffress)
Publishing Your Product’s Capabilities to Alexa (Dylan Miller)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Using resource tokens with Azure Cosmos DB | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Kathy Hickman)
Monitor Your App’s Health with App Center Analytics & Crash | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
ID10T Podcast – Antonio Banderas (Chris Hardwick)
Rocket 171: Nintendo Labo is Here (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 132: What can technologists learn from superheroes (Carlos L. Chacon)
Moving your Data Warehouse to the Cloud | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady)
How Windows, Windows Store, Xbox & Surface moved their 350gig source repo into Git hosted on VSTS (Dmitry Lyalin)
Windows Weekly 566: The Queen of RTOS and Microsoft Delays Redstone 4 Windows 10 Update – What The Tech Ep. 397 (Paul Thurrott)
Radio TFS – Catching up with Martin (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
Hanselminutes – A history of the Windows 95 Start Button and User Research at Microsoft with Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem (Scott Hanselman)
Software Engineering Daily – Bitcoin Debates with Roger Ver (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – 2 Reasons Your Habits Aren’t Sticking (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

Satya Nadella makes Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
Get The Most Out of KalamazooX (Jim Holmes)
UXify 2018 – The Future is Today (Jim Ross)
Faces of Unity: Sarah Stumbo (Jon Men)
New Middle East Galleries Open With Giant Festival At The Penn Museum, April 21-22 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

Import Data Using SSIS and Transposing Columns to Rows (Balamurugan Loganathan)
SQL SERVER – FIX: Unable to Create Distribution Database on a UNC Share – Configure Distribution (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server 2017 on SUSE Enterprise Linux Server offer (John ‘JG’ Chirapurath)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17650 for Skip Ahead (Dona Sarkar)
Geniuses Are Lazy — and You Should Be Too (Pratap Ranade)
OneNote On Windows 10 – The One App For The Future (Sam McNeill)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2568 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2080 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-04-20 (Dan Rigby)
Collective #408 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node: Simon Holmes: 9781617294754: Books

ISBN: 1617294756
ISBN-13: 9781617294754

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Dew Drop – April 12, 2018 (#2703)

Posted on April 12, 2018 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Announcing .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 (Rich Lander)
New Xamarin.Forms XAML IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2017 (Pierce Boggan)
Xamarin.Forms Styling with CSS (Sam Basu)
How we doubled Mono’s Float Speed (Miguel de Icaza)

Web & Cloud Development

WebStorm 2018.1.1 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
Model binding form posts to immutable objects (Damien Guard)
Time to Upgrade from GCM to FCM (Jen Person)
List Rendering and Vue’s v-for Directive (Hassan Djirdeh)
Jasper Command Line App Support you Wish Your Framework Already Had (Jeremy D. Miller)
First 5 things to try if you’re new to Postman (Joyce)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

MVX=0F: A first MvvmCross Application (MVX+1 days of MvvmCross) (Nick Randolph) – Nick’s post links are still broken. Check out his blog’s main page here.
Monitoring Android Activity Lifecycle Events: Return of Current Activity Plugin (James Montemagno)

Visual Studio & .NET

Create New Git Repository While Creating New Project in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
Rider 2018.1 brings file ordering to F# projects (Maarten Balliauw)
Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 Preview 2 (Diego B. Vega)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Does Your Agile Lead to Agility? (Mike Cottmeyer)
Agile Development & Remote Teams – 6 Powerful Productivity Hacks You Should Know (Tanya Kumari)
On-premise Blue-Green deployments with TFS 2018 Update 2 (Matteo Emili)
SOLID Design Principles Explained – The Liskov Substitution Principle with Code Examples (Thorben Janssen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Discover How Customers Engage With Your Alexa Skill Using the New Intent Request History API (Shiraz Datta)
Tips for Building Echo Button Skills with the Gadgets Skill API (Beta) (Cami Williams)
Looking Back at the NativeScript-Vue Webinar and Where to Go Next (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Practical Test Driven Development with John Callaway and Clayton Hunt (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Syntax Podcast – Preventing and Dealing with Burnout in Web Development (Wes Bos)
Episode 13: Five Things About Web Performance | Five Things (Burke Holland)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 131: Big Data Solutions in the Cloud (Carlos L. Chacon)
Developer on Fire Episode 329 | James Long – Seeking Deep Knowledge (Dave Rael)
‘What in the world am I doing here?’ Amanda Finney’s journey from the White House to Microsoft (Candace Whitney-Morris)
2FD 073: Mini Retirements, $1 Meals, Sabbaticals From the Workforce, Protecting Your Wealth, Work as an Option (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
Tales from the Crypt(ography) Lab with Dr. Kristin Lauter (Emily Maryatt)
Build a Customized Site Search Instance using Bing Custom Search API | AI Show and Bing Entity Search API | AI Show and Use Bing AI to tap into the world of knowledge | AI Show (Seth Juarez)

Community & Events

ProgressNEXT—A Conference for the Telerik and Kendo UI Developer (Sasha Krsmanovic)
Going to Build 2018? You Need This (Paul Thurrott)
Microsoft Regional Director (Redux) (Troy Hunt)

Database

F# – Azure Cosmos DB – Using the Graph API with Cosmos DB driver (Timothé Lariviere)
Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB database and the SQL API (John Miner)
Best practices for securing your Google Cloud databases (Ian Maddox)
Checking for temporary table existence (Wayne Sheffield)

PowerShell

Get-WinEvent cmdlet tip to filter noise (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

Shapes Editor using Polygon for Small Basic (Steve Todman)
Background Updating Progressive Web Apps (Richard Hay)
Microsoft partners with Lightstream Studio to bring customization tools to Mixer streamers (Sarah Perez)
Google to launch new Gmail design in the coming weeks (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2562 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2074 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-04-12 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Vue.js 2 Web Development Projects: Learn Vue.js by building 6 web apps: Guillaume Chau: 9781787127463: Books

ISBN: 178712746X
ISBN-13: 9781787127463

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Dew Drop – February 7, 2018 (#2660)

Posted on February 7, 2018 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Microsoft Writing Style Guide Released (Palle Petersen)
A new experiment: Browser-based web apps with .NET and Blazor (Daniel Roth)
Pluralsight & Stack Overflow: Helping the World’s Developers Learn New Skills (Rachel Ferrigno)
SpaceX just launched the Falcon Heavy, its most powerful rocket, and landed 2 boosters (Miriam Kramer)
Welcoming Progressive Web Apps to Microsoft Edge and Windows 10 (Kyle Pflug)

Web & Cloud Development

Easily configuring Azure Functions with Visual Studio Code (Brady Gaster)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 92 – Part 3 – Querying an Azure Search Index (Michael Crump)
Developing Games with React, Redux, and SVG – Part 1 (Bruno Krebs)
How Application Insights recognizes returning users and efficiently send telemetry data to Azure (Patrick van Kleef)
Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: ORM Choice (Carl Rippon)
Simplifying ViewChild and ContentChild in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
Windows Weekly Dockerfile #18: Splitting Web UIs (Elton Stoneman)
Fun with Angular: A Quick Overview (John Willoughby)
New AWS X-Ray .NET Core Support (Norm Johanson)
Working with Azure Management REST APIs (K. Scott Allen)
Vue.js: Environment-Aware Code in TypeScript (Peter Kuhn)
ES proposal: String.prototype.matchAll (Axel Rauschmayer)
Avoid Namespace Clashes with Directives (Isaac Mann)
Brand Detection in Microsoft Video Indexer (Dr. Abed Asi)
Durable Messaging in Jasper (Jeremy D. Miller)
RxJS: Closed Subjects (Nicholas Jamieson)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms ultimate horizontal list guide (Daniel Causer)
Create UWP apps with VB.Net and Windows Template Studio (Matt Lacey)
Implementing Signin And Signup With Xamarin Forms And ASP.NET Identity (Houssem Dellai)
UWP Facial Detection Library (Mike Taulty)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 8.0 Features: Another Glimpse of the Future (Carlos Schults)
Updated Preview Tooling for Visual Studio 2017 (Service Fabric Team)
Rider 2017.3.1 is released (Ekaterina Zharova)
Vcpkg: introducing installation options with Feature Packages (Eric Mittelette)
The Case for Durable Workflows (Mark Heath)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How Your Schedule Can Make or Break You (Shane Parrish)
The Long Distance Product Owner (David Starr)
Eric Evans: Practicing Domain-Driven Design (Jan Stenberg)
Microspeak: POR (Raymond Chen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Know your sensors — Android Location Services (Aanand Shekhar Roy)
#Tutorial – How to build an #Amazon #AlexaSkill using Visual Studio 2017, C# and #Azure (5 on N) (Bruno Capuano)
A New Way to Learn NativeScript Layouts (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Windows Central Podcast 81: Flat Surface Revenue (Zac Bowden)
JSJ 299: How To Learn JavaScript When You’re Not a Developer with Chris Ferdinandi (AJ O’Neal, Joe Eames & Aimee Knight)
AiA 175: Angular Differs with Minko Gechev (Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames, Alyssa Nicoll, Ward Bell & Shai Reznik)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 237 | Plethora of Office 365, Azure, AWS and Space News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
017: On Design Patterns | Weekly Dev Tips (Steve Smith)
ngAir 147 – Angular in 10 Years with Jeff Whelpley (Justin Schwartzenberger)
RunAs Radio – Query Store and Automatic Tuning in SQL 2017 with Erin Stellato (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Durable Functions now available | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
SE-Radio Episode 317: Travis Kimmel on Measuring Software Engineering Productivity (Kishore Bhatia)
Software Engineering Daily – Tether, Ripple, and Blockchain Reporting with Matt Leising (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Research Bias (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

Nerd Nite #82: Public Health Disasters, eSports, Labor Law, and Marijuana Legalization (Nerd Nite Philly Team)

Database

Export SQL Server Data to Multiple Excel Worksheets with Integration Services (Nisarg Upadhyay)
Proof of Concept: Making a case to move from relational (Matthew Groves)
The Annals of Hilariously Bad Code, Part 1: Critique the Code (Erik Darling)

Miscellaneous

The creators of Game of Thrones are writing a new Star Wars film series (Bryan Bishop)
JSON for Modern C++ Reaches Version 3.1 (Sergio De Simone)
Car in Space: Elon Musk’s mannequinned Tesla on Falcon Heavy SpaceX rocket flight is instant viral ad hit (Xeni Jardin)

More Link Collections

Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-07 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2522 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2030 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook: Build applications hosted on serverless architecture using Azure Functions (9781788390828): Praveen Kumar Sreeram: Books

ISBN: 1788390822
ISBN-13: 9781788390828

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