Dew Drop – March 30, 2018 (#2695)

Top Links

• XAML preview tool window for WPF in Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• Microsoft puts more eggs in cloud leader Scott Guthrie’s basket, moving core Windows development and some AI teams to his group (Tom Krazit)
• From Windows to the Cloud (Tim Sneath)
• Tips for Publishing Your WinForms/WPF Apps to the Microsoft Store (Todor Vyagov)

Web & Cloud Development

• Building a Video Chat App with Twilio Programmable Video and React (Brian Kimokoti)
• Differences between Azure Functions v1 and v2 in C# (Damien Guard)
• How to deploy an Angular application to GitHub (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Vue.js Kanban Board: The Development Process (Steve Hobbs)
• The Comprehensive Guide to JavaScript Design Patterns (Marko Mišura)
• Browser Link in .Net Core: A nice example of SignalR (Neel Bhatt)
• Azure Cloud Deployments with Octopus (Rob Pearson)
• Create Service Fabric Clusters from Visual Studio now available (Cristy Gonzalez)
• HttpRequestException with git pull from GitHub (Maxime Rouiller)
• Aurelia Release Notes – Late March 2018 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Twilio support for Apple Business Chat coming soon (Ari Sigal)
• Converting a Ghost blog to a Progressive Web App (Dean Hume)
• A First Look at Bootstrap 4: Navigation Bars (Dino Esposito)
• Ember 3.0 and Beyond with Co-creator Tom Dale (Dylan Schiemann)
• Spantastic text styling with Spans (Florina Muntenescu)
• API design: Which version of versioning is right for you? (Martin Nally)
• A Pelican Tutorial: Static, Python-Powered Blog with Search & Comments (Maxime Laboissonniere)
• Node v9.10.1 (Current) (Myles Borins)
• Kubernetes 1.10 Delivers Stable API Aggregation (Patricio Robles)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Sound-Effect Audio with Xamarin.Forms (Wallace McClure)
• Technical Bulletin: Xcode 9.3 (Brendan Zagaeski)
• Sharing SVG icons across platforms in Xamarin Forms (Rendy Del Rosario)
• Colorful Xamarin Apps Built with Telerik UI (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• Third Experiment with Image Classification on Windows ML from UWP (on HoloLens in Unity) (Mike Taulty)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Learn C# Online with Try.NET (Andrea Angella)
• Pathfinding with Unity and C# (Lance Talbert)
• Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension March 2018 update (RongLu)
• Nullable types arithmetic and null-coalescing operator precedence (Sergey Teplyakov)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Calling Your Own Shots (Rob Conery)
• The Financial Implications of Technical Debt (Erik Frederick)
• DZone Refcardz – Introduction to DevOps Analytics (Matt Werner)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How to Enable Alexa to Switch Context Mid-Conversation with Dialog Management (Justin Jeffress)
• 25 of My Favorite Tips, Tricks, and Upcoming Features in GameMaker Studio 2 (Alejandro Hitti)
• The Writing and Rewriting of EloCute: A NativeScript-Vue Story (Jen Looper)
• Building a Better Light Timer (John M. Wargo)
• Colour Wheel – Part 2 (Mark Allison)
• Making phone calls in Swift with Twilio (Sam Agnew)
• Swift 4.1 Released! (Ted Kremenek)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Azure IoT Hub features for device management | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & Cameron Tomisser)
• Azure + Visual Studio + Xamarin = Great Mobile Apps (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Azure Podcast Episode 222 – Azure Portal Update (Sujit D’Mello)
• The Notch Invades Android – What The Tech Ep. 394 and Windows Weekly 563: Hello, God. It’s Me, Paul (Paul Thurrott)
• Continuous Delivery Everywhere with App Center Distribute | The Xamarin Show | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• ID10T Podcast – Ed Helms #4 (Chris Hardwick)
• Rocket 168: There Were Other Complications (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Announcing the winners of the Dream.Build.Play challenge | Level Up (Kathy Hickman & James Montemagno)
• Software Engineering Daily – ShapeShift with Erik Voorhees (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Misunderstood Truths About Statistics (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Women in Business & Technology 018 – Tackling maker spaces and hackathons with Xyla Foxlin (Colleen O’Brien & Sonia Dara)

Community & Events

• .NET Foundation March Update (.NET Foundation Team)
• Nerd Nite No. 83: Microtubules, Guantanamo and and Smedley Butler (Nerd Nite Philly Team)

Database

• Extract Hot Fix Details from a SQL Server CU KB Articles (Jeffrey Yao)
• Parallelism in SQL Server Execution Plan (Ahmad Yaseen)
• SQL SERVER – Mirroring Error 1456 – The ALTER DATABASE Command Could not be Sent to the Remote Server Instance (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB Security Report: Inconsistent Use of KDF and Master Key (Oren Eini)
• Secure your backups, not just your data! (Aruna Somendra)

Miscellaneous

• Python in Visual Studio Code – March 2018 Release (Dan Taylor)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17634 for Skip Ahead (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #2065 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-03-30 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #402 (Pedro Botelho)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.30 (Martin Woodward)

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