Dew Drop – March 22, 2017 (#2445)

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Top Links

• Five Visual Studio 2017 Extensions for Web Developers (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Visual Studio Toolbox for Modern Web Development (Ed Charbeneau, Sam Basu & Robert Green)
• Adding a Let’s Encrypt Certificate to an Azure-Hosted Website (Lee Holmes)
• O-MG, the Developer Preview of Android O is here! (Dave Burke)

 

Web Development

• How to deploy an ASP.NET Core 1.1 application to an Azure App Services Web App using Visual Studio 2017 (Benjamin Perkins)
• Demystifying a few Angular2 concepts for starters (Dominique St-Amand)
• Create a Realtime Chat interface with Firebase and Angular (Jen Looper)
• How to Use Media Queries with jQuery (Learning jQuery)
• Secure an Asp.Net MVC multi-tenant Power BI Embedded hosted in an Azure Web App (Frank Boucher & James Chambers)
• Real-time chart using ASP.NET Core and WebSocket (Gunnar Peipman)
• Node v7.7.4 (Current) (Colin Ihrig)
• The Importance of 3rd Party Integrations for Postman Pro (Joyce)
• React js Tutorial – Getting Started (Ravi Kiran)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Two millions #mvvmlight downloads (Laurent Bugnion)
• Setting a custom User-Agent in the UWP WebView control (Pedro Lamas)
• Xbox Clubs API Expected to Enhance Social Features of Xbox Live (Eric Carter)
• Xamarin.Tips – Xamarin.Forms iOS Custom TableView Section Titles (Alex Dunn)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# 7–The Good Parts–Tuples (Mark Heath)
• Fast Dictionary and struct generic arguments (Oren Eini)
• Why OO Matters (in F#) (Sergey Tihon)
• How to find when a line was last changed in Visual Studio – 080 (Sara Ford)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Adding backlog levels to VSTS (Esteban Garcia)
• The Big List Of Trello Chrome Extensions (Leah Ryder)
• Work/life balance in employee intellectual property agreements (Mike Linksvayer)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using the Amazon AWS Device Farm to Test Android Apps (Deepak Vohra)
• How To Log Errors In Your Ionic 2 App With Sentry (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• How NOT to schedule repeating background tasks in Swift (Sian January)
• Code Your First Ionic 2 App: Getting Set Up (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Central Podcast 41: What OS Should the Surface Phone run? (Zac Bowden)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 185 | Richard diZerega on Developing for Microsoft Teams and Bot Framework (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The week in .NET – Happy birthday .NET with Mads Torgersen, Coypu (Bertrand Le Roy)
• RunAs Radio – Doing Deployment Right with Johan Arwidmark (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Episode 1: Taiwan – Interview with MVP, Shih-Ming Tung (董是明) | The MVP Show (Larry Larsen, Kaitlin McKinnon & Seth Juarez)
• SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2016 – Ask Me Anything! with John Bristowe (Hybrid Native) (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Brad Frost (@brad_frost, part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing the SharePoint Virtual Summit (Seth Patton)
• Now Live: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017 Results (Kevin Troy)

 

Database

• Refactor SQL Server scalar UDF to inline TVF to improve performance (Simon Liew)
• Move TFS databases with no downtime, thanks to SQL Server AlwaysOn (Matteo Emili)
• SQL SERVER – 10 Questions Where YES May Be a Wrong Answer – Performance Health Check (Pinal Dave)
• Automatically keeping ‘hotfix’ and production database schemas in sync (Feodor Georgiev)

 

Miscellaneous

• Hyper-V: How to run Ubuntu (or any Linux) on Windows (Matthew Groves)

 

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