Dew Drop – August 30, 2017 (#2551)

Top Links

• Experimental: Reducing the size of .NET Core applications with Mono’s Linker (Scott Hanselman)
• React Crash Course for Beginners, Part 1 (David Gwyer)
• Share More Code with .NET Standard 2.0 (James Montemagno)
• Getting started with Rider and Unity (Matt Ellis)

Web & Cloud Development

• React and Vue Support Coming to Kendo UI (Brian Rinaldi)
• Model View Presenter, Angular, and Testing (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET Core 2 Brings (Jeff Martin)
• 4 Benefits of Migrating to ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Jonathan Danylko)
• BackboneJS: Getting Started (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• Exploring multi-stage Docker builds for Angular apps (Shayne Boyer)
• Filtering in Angular (Deborah Kurata)
• Azure Functions Visual Studio 2017 Tooling (Mark Heath)
• Developing a User Profile Store with Golang and a NoSQL Database (Nic Raboy)
• Go 1.9 Adds Parallel Compilation (Kay Ewbank)
• Announcing Azure Blob storage events preview (Chris Brooks)
• Set Up a React Environment, Part 3 and Set Up a React Environment, Part 4 (David Gwyer)
• Creating distributed workflows with Azure Durable Functions (Tamir Dresher)
• Expanding Kubernetes in the enterprise: Google Container Engine + Pivotal Container Service (Nan Boden)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• How to cook Azure Mobile Apps (node.js): Xamarin and .NET Standard (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Xamarin.Forms Maps (Adam Pedley)
• Pre-release: Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0.269-pre2 (David Ortinau)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Book Review: C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development 2e (Mike James)
• Get the Size of a File in FTP with C# (Srinath M S)
• Visual Studio extensions for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2017 (Adam Welch)
• Use all TFM’s with SDK-style projects in Visual Studio for Mac (Oren Novotny)
• Getting Started Testing .NET Core Code with xUnit.net (Jason Roberts)
• Importing raw memory dumps in dotMemory 2017.2 (Alexey Totin)
• Aligning strings within string.Format and interpolated strings (Andrew Lock)
• CodeSmith Generator 8.0.1 (Blake Niemyjski)
• Manipulating blob storage from nodeJS & .NET (Dave Voyles)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Free e-books for software architecture meetups (Simon Brown)
• Waterfall, Agile and Lean (Oh My!) (Cory Foy)
• How To Get Your Team On Board (Leah Grantz)
• The Getting Started Questions (K. Scott Allen)

Mobile & IoT

• Report: Microsoft and Amazon are preparing to integrate Cortana and Alexa (Jez Corden)
• A framework for evaluating your IoT infrastructure security (Microsoft IoT)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Functional Geekery Episode 105 – David Koontz (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Microsoft Reporting Ecosystem with David Pless (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• STEM Everyday #76: Creating a STEM Culture (Chris Woods)
• Introducing Razor Pages (Seth Juarez)
• Software Engineering Daily – Industrial IoT with Jayson Delancey (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Planning Series: Scaling and Detailing of Features (Jonathan Cutrell)
• New React & Azure Cosmos DB Videos Are HERE (Burke H✪lland)

Community & Events

• Progress Telerik UI for UWP Joins the .NET Foundation (Brian Rinaldi)
• Top Ways To Celebrate Labor Day Weekend In Philadelphia (Grace Dickinson)
• 10 Questions with Kevin Collins (James Ashley)
• An Inside Look at the Docker Captains Program (Jenny Burcio)
• Save lives with code (and The Red Cross) (Karoline Klever)
• SIGNAL London is coming! (Phil Nash)
• Enjoy Dinosaurs & Beer at The Academy of Natural Sciences on September 8! (Yali Perez)
• A Tale of Two Industries: How Programming Languages Differ Between Wealthy and Developing Countries (David Robinson)

Database

• SQL Server 2017 Graph Database Query Examples (Rajendra Gupta)
• Sql Server: How do I get the filegroup, data file name, size and path of a database? (Paula DiTallo)
• LocalDB: The Database Without a Connection String (Peter Vogel)
• Aggregate grouping with N1QL or with MapReduce (Matthew Groves)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Scripts for Obtaining File Metadata (Tim Smith)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16278 for PC (Dona Sarkar)
• Inside the Massive 711 Million Record Onliner Spambot Dump (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-30 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-30 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2415 (Chris Alcock)
• The week in .NET – Let’s Encrypt Web App Renewer, Seattle CodeCamp 2017 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Double Shot #1920 (Mike Gunderloy)

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