Dew Drop – October 24, 2017 (#2588)

Top Links

• Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Sprint 124 – what’s new? | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Open Sourcing the Java Debugger for Visual Studio Code (Xiaokai He)
• Beautiful Android Launch Screens (James Montemagno)
• Update on Microsoft’s Symbol Server (Andy Luhrs)
• MakeCode for Minecraft makes learning to code super fun (Ben Ryon)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Publish Your Vue.js Component on NPM (Anthony Gore)
• Implementing custom policies in ASP.NET Core using the HttpContext (Damien Bowden)
• ASP.NET Core and F# with Giraffe (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• SerializationException with new Reliable Actor projects in Visual Studio 2017 (Service Fabric Team)
• Connect a Web App to a SQL Database with the Azure CLI (Mark Heath)
• Uploading Files in Razor Pages (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 38 – Create a JSON Schema to be used in a Azure Logic Apps (Michael Crump)
• Truffle 4.0 beta 2 now available on Azure (Cale Teeter)
• Painless JSON Parsing With Swift Codable (Shashikant Jagtap)
• Controlling the Number of Outgoing Connections From HttpClient (.Net Core or Full Framework) (Tim Omta)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.iOS UITextField Shaker NuGet Announcement! (Alex Dunn)
• Service Release: Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0.18342 (David Ortinau)
• UWP Games Power Up with Fall Creator’s Update (Jacqueline Bieringer)
• Xamarin Preview Release: 15.5 Preview 2 (Brendan Zagaeski)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# 7.0 and 7.1 support in ReSharper – Default literal (Maarten Balliauw)
• Remote tasks in Visual Studio (Marc Goodner)
• Our GitHub samples are now live – learn how to implement ErrLog.IO in your favourite framework. (Matthew Proctor)
• No Source? No PDB? No Problem, ILSpy! (Greg Duncan)
• A closer look at the complexity analysis of finding the k’th smallest element in two sorted arrays (Raymond Chen)
• .NET Core Performance Profiling with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier 2018 (Rich Lander)
• paint.net 4.0.20 and .NET 4.7 (Rick Brewster)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Toward a principles-based process (Dave Nicolette)
• Opinion Time: Should Code Reviews Include Manual Testing? (Matthew Jones)
• Pre-orders open for my new ebook! (Nick Chamberlain)

Mobile & IoT

• Customize Lists on Alexa (Kenny Mathers)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Razor Pages with Ryan Nowak (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• InfoQ Podcast: Andrea Goulet & M. Scott Ford on the Marriage of Communication & Code (Andrea Goulet & M. Scott Ford)
• InfoQ Podcast: Julien Viet on Reactive Programming with Eclipse Vert.x, Including 3.5.0, History, and Future Plans (Julien Viet)
• Merge Conflict 68: Throw Some XAML In It (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• .NET Rocks! – Git Source Control for Everyone with Dmitry Lyalin and Ed Thomson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Defrag Tools #186 – Time Travel Debugging – Advanced | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Functional Geekery Episode 112 – Micheal Sperber (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 214: Sibyl Edwards (Maurice Cherry)
• no dogma podcast #83 – Steve Elliot, When to Rearchitect (Bryan Hogan)
• NativeScript Developer Day – Sessions on NativeScript App Architecture (Rob Lauer)
• Developer Tea – How To Navigate Communication Problems – Listener Question from Enrico (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Talks and Highlights From cppcon 2017! | C9::GoingNative (Steve Carroll & Augustin Popa)

Community & Events

• Xamarin App Dev Conversations @ Ignite (Sam Basu)
• Ask the team that built SQL Server 2017 anything on October 25, 2017 (Travis Wright & Tobias Ternstrom)
• 25 Awesome Things To Do In Philly This Week, October 23-29 (Dan Van Wert)
• Philly Free Streets Returns With Miles Of Car-Free Streets This Saturday, October 28 (Grace Dickinson)
• Kalahari Breaks Ground on Wisconsin Dells Convention Center Expansion (Kalahari Meetings)
• Join the Alexa Voice Service at AWS re:Invent for Technical Workshops & Breakout Sessions (Ted Karczewski)
• Do Something Awesome with Have I Been Pwned and Win a Lenovo ThinkPad! (Troy Hunt)
• Power, Management, and Harassment: It’s a Cultural Problem (Johanna Rothman)

Database

• SQL Server 2017 Automatic Query Tuning (Rajendra Gupta)
• Transactional replication to Azure SQL Database is now generally available (Xiaochen Wu)

PowerShell

• Configuring a Hyper-V Host with PowerShell DSC (Part 1) (Charity Shelbourne)
• Defending Against PowerShell Attacks (Lee Holmes)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 Tip: Bring your stories to life with the reimagined Photos app (Elana Pidgeon)
• Windows 10 Fall Creators Update phased rollout approach (John Cable)
• Mixer now available with the Minecraft 1.2.5 beta (Matt Salsamendi)
• Why is Python hard on Windows? You tell me! (Michael Kennedy)
• Microsoft 365 security and management features available in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Rob Lefferts)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2449 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1959 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #302 (Frank Boucher)
• Interesting links of the week (10/16 – 10/21, 2017) (Mike Eaton)
• Last Week on Channel 9: October 16th – October 22nd, 2017 (Greg Duncan)

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