Dew Drop – April 10, 2018 (#2701)

Top Links

• Announcing the Docs Markdown Extension for Visual Studio Code (Adam Kinney)
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 3 (Christine Ruana)
• Windows File Manager (WinFile) on GitHub (Josh Soref & Craig Wittenberg) – The original Windows File Manager is now open source and runs on Windows 10.
• What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 3 (Pierce Boggan)

Web & Cloud Development

• Reporting StatsD Metrics From The Browser In Angular 5.2.9 (Ben Nadel)
• Optimizing an ASP.NET Core site with Chrome’s Lighthouse Auditor (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 113 – Prevent secrets from getting out with .NET Core (Michael Crump)
• TensorFlow.js : Machine Learning in Javascript (jQuery Rain)
• Simple Swipe With Vanilla JavaScript (Ana Tudor)
• Implementing custom token providers for passwordless authentication in ASP.NET Core Identity (Andrew Lock)
• ASP.NET Core SAML Authentication with Azure AD (Christos Matskas)
• How to Count the Number of Properties of the JavaScript Object (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Functional Programming: Alternatives to the IF #Functional #JavaScript (Joel Thoms)
• PhpStorm 2018.1.1 is released (Maxim Kolmakov)
• Aurelia – Visual Studio Code Extension 1.0.0 Release (Erik Lieben)
• Creating a REST API: Handling GET Requests (Dan McGhan)
• ECMAScript Goodies II: Check out the ES2017 Minor Features (Tara Z. Manicsic)

XAML

• Xamarin Preview Release: 15.7 Preview 3 (Bri Brothers)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Spectre mitigation changes in Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 3 and MSVC now correctly reports __cplusplus and C++ code analysis: configure rules from the command line (Andrew Pardoe)
• Creating a Web Operating System in C# (Thomas Hansen)
• CMake Support in Visual Studio – Targets View, Single File Compilation, and Cache Generation Settings (Will Buik)
• Interfacing with Multithreading Patterns prior to TPL and C# 5.0 (Mark Michaelis)
• Announcing CodeLens for C++ Unit Testing (Nick Uhlenhuth)
• NuGet – Migrate to PackageReference with 3 clicks (Karan Nandwani)
• Depending on Functions Instead of Interfaces – The Navigation Problem (Scott Hannen)
• Cross-runtime .NET disassembly with BenchmarkDotNet (Andrey Akinshin)
• IntelliSense for Remote Linux Headers (Marc Goodner)
• Switching between .NET Core SDK Versions (Mark Heath)
• StyleCop code style settings and inspections (Matthias Koch)
• For best performance, use DXGI flip model (Shawn Hargreaves)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Technical Practices or Value to Customers: What to Focus on First (Andrew Fuqua)
• Microsoft To-Do now lets you divide tasks into steps (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• 6 Things Great Innovators Do Differently (Greg Satell)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Things Every Alexa Skill Should Do: “Do One Thing Really Well” (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Update on Ionic View for iOS (Max Lynch)
• Android Studio Switched to New D8 Compiler (Sergio De Simone)
• Flutter – Get Started: Install on Windows (Flutter Team)
• Announcing Flutter’s beta 2 release (Michael Thomsen)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Desktop Deployment using Squirrel with Paul Betts (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends – Kevin Leung on Building Bots (David Giard)
• Part 1 of 4: Overview of existing tools to create Azure Container Service clusters | The Open Source Show (Golnaz Alibeigi, Bryan Liston & Alena Hall)
• TWC9: Windows Developer Awards Voting Opens, AI courses from Microsoft, Serial Console Access in Azure and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
• Software Engineering Daily – Database Chaos with Tammy Butow (Jeff Meyerson)
• Revision Path 237: Shannon Boone (Maurice Cherry)
• Design Patterns: Liskov Substitution Principle – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)

Community & Events

• Our Journey with the Visual Studio Partner Program (Marissa Keller Outten)
• Pitbull To Headline Massive Annual July 4th Concert In Philadelphia (Dan Wisniewski)
• Spotlight on Engineering: Ankit Jaggi (Joyce)
• 20+ Fantastic Things To Do In Philly This Week, April 9-15 (Kelly Bucci)
• Complete our survey for a chance to win a Microsoft Surface Book! (Michael Holste)
• Coding for Conservation (Sarah Henderson)

Database

• Import Nested JSON Files to SQL Server with SSIS (Nat Sundar)
• Programming SQL Server with SQL Server Management Objects Framework (Darko Martinović)
• Azure SQL Database and Columnstore Indexes (Arun Sirpal)
• How to configure Azure SQL Database Geo-DR with Azure Key Vault (Alice Kupcik)
• Explore CosmosDB with .NET Core and MongoDB (Jeremy Likness)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Tutorial (Especially for People Who Hate PowerShell) (Ryan Palo)

Miscellaneous

• Project Zanzibar: Blurring the distinction between the digital and the physical worlds via tangible interaction in a portable implementation (Emily Maryatt)
• Windows 10 Tip: 10 things you can do in Windows Mixed Reality right now (Catherine Qin)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2560 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2072 (Mike Gunderloy)
• F# Weekly #14, 2018 – Microsoft uses​ SAFE as a form of validation for .Net core (Sergey Tihon)
• Interesting links of the week (04/02 – 04/08, 2018) (Michael Eaton)
• Collective #405 (Pedro Botelho)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-04-10 (Dan Rigby)

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