Dew Drop – November 14, 2017 (#2603)

Top Links

• Offline ASP.NET Core apps with service workers (Mads Kristensen)
• Adding Sound to a Xamarin.Forms App (Adrian Stevens)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 50 – Create an Azure Functions project with Visual Studio Code (Michael Crump)
• Rider 2017.2.1 is available (Alexander Kurakin)

Web & Cloud Development

• Sanity Check: Shared Style Urls Are Only Compiled Into Angular 5.0.1 Once (Ben Nadel)
• Using VS Code and Node to Write HTML with Style (Baked-in)! (Graham Murray)
• Angular Ionic and Angular CLI (Dave M. Bush)
• Single-Page Applications With ngRoute and ngAnimate in AngularJS (Dogacan Bilgili)
• How to use jQuery plugins with conflicting names on the same page in ASP.NET web application (Kapil Khandelwal)
• Beginning ReactJS with TypeScript – Part III. Setting Up Local Workspace from GitHub Repo (Manish H. Patil)
• Top ASP.NET Performance Counters and How to Monitor Them (Matt Watson)
• Node.js: Learn from the guy who wrote the book—actually, 14 of them! (Matthew Calder)
• Service Fabric 6.0 Second Refresh Release for Windows Server Standalone, Azure and .NET SDK (Service Fabric Team)
• Get Started With Vue Router (Chinedu Izuchukwu)
• Simplifying function expressions and the function statement (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers (Judy DeMocker)
• Locking Down Your Website Scripts with CSP, Hashes, Nonces and Report URI (Troy Hunt)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Project references to multi-targeted projects (Nigel Sampson)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Putting a Hex on Visual Studio (Greg Duncan)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Creating Work item form extensions in Visual Studio Team Services (Mohit K Bagra)
• Testing standards (Anne van Kesteren)
• DevOps at Microsoft – lots of videos (Brian Harry)
• Coupling and Testability (David Bernstein)
• Test batching options with VSTest task (Kavipriya A)
• ebook deal of the week: Microsoft Project 2016 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• How to Build a User-Centric Information Architecture Without Endless Debate (Paul Boag)
• Exposing False Confidence in Your Tests (Steve Poling)

Mobile & IoT

• Handling Changes in Orientation in Your NativeScript App (Jen Looper)
• GameMaker Blog Series: Written for Developers, by Developers (Serena McIntire)
• IoT Worker Shortage Could Impact IoT Adoption Through 2022 (Todd R. Weiss)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Docker Tools for .NET Core with Kendra Havens (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Stack Overflow Podcast # 121 – Another Ducking Episode (Jess Pardue)
• InfoQ Podcast: Josh Evans on DevOps at Netflix (Josh Evans)
• Revision Path 217: Raven Covington (Maurice Cherry)
• AiA 163: Finding a Job with Charles Max Wood (Charles Max Wood)
• JSJ 287: Blockchain and JS with Ari Lerner (Aimee Knight, AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
• The Amp Hour #367 – Not Reely An Issue (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Interview with Ashley McNamara, Principal Developer Advocate at Microsoft | GALs (Golnaz Alibeigi & Cameron Tomisser)
• no dogma podcast #84 – Mark Seemann, Dependency Rejection, Part 1 (Bryan Hogan)
• Software Engineering Daily – Serverless Event-Driven Architecture with Danilo Poccia (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• 25+ Amazing Things To Do In Philly This Week, November 13-19 (Dan Van Wert)
• 15+ Things We’re Psyched To Do In Philly During The Holidays (Grace Dickinson)
• Microsoft Connect(); 2017 Live Stream – Watch Here! (Greg Ross)
• Geeks Give Back: Help us raise more than $1 million for STEM education (John Cook)
• The Cliffs of Insanity: Dramatic Shifts in Technologies on Stack Overflow (Julia Silge)

Database

• Free Database Unit-Testing Framework for SQL Server (Haroon Ashraf)
• MySQL Setup in Docker for Mac (Arun Chandrasekaran)

Miscellaneous

• If Microsoft doesn’t embrace ‘Movies Anywhere’ its Movies & TV service is dead (Daniel Rubino)
• Black Friday Deals: Xbox One S Lowest Price Ever At $189, Gold & Xbox Game Pass For $1 Each, Up To 65% Off Games, Accessories & More (Larry Hryb)
• Announcing the top Black Friday deals from Microsoft and our partners (Yusuf Mehdi)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-11-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-11-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2464 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1973 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: Nov 13, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Interesting links of the week (11/06 – 11/12, 2017) (Michael Eaton)
• Reading Notes #304 (Frank Boucher)

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