Dew Drop – March 22, 2018 (#2689)

Top Links

• Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 Preview 1 (Miguel de Icaza)
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 2 (Christine Ruana)
• dotCover 2018.1: Better continuous testing and more! (Alexey Totin)
• Cross platform code coverage arrives for .NET Core (Shayne Boyer)

Web & Cloud Development

• JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks and Futures, Oh Yes! (Alyssa Nicoll)
• SparkyTestHelpers: AspNetMvc (Brian “Sparky” Schroer)
• Deploy a Dockerized ASP.NET Core Application to Kubernetes on Azure Using a VSTS CI/CD Pipeline: Part 2 (Graham Smith)
• Vue.js Live: Code a Front-End App (Joel Bankhead)
• Columnstore support in Standard tier Azure SQL Databases (Kevin Farlee)
• The next generation of Azure Alerts has arrived (Kiran Madnani)
• PhpStorm 2018.1 Release Candidate is available (Maxim Kolmakov)
• Integration and End-to-end Tests Made Easy with Node.js and MongoDB (Mikhail Angelov)
• Putting Things in Context With React (Neal Fennimore)
• Short Walks: Using AppSettings.json in ASP.NET Core (Paul Michaels)
• RESTful API with Spark Kotlin (BinHong Lee)
• Troubleshooting Webtasks: Using the CLI (Bobby Johnson)
• Node v9.9.0 (Current) (Myles Borins)
• Improve Your Debugging Skills with Chrome DevTools (Peter Milchev)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Pre-Release: Xamarin.Forms 2.5.1.392594-pre3 and Pre-Release: Xamarin.Forms 3.0.0.296286-pre2 (David Ortinau)
• Debugging Xamarin Open Source Frameworks: Xamarin.Forms Part 1 (Jon Goldberger)
• Thu, 22: Charles with Android, VirtualBox’ HD size & UWP debugging (Marcos Cobeña Morián)
• #XfQaD: Limit maximum lines of Label and indicate text truncation (Marco Siccardi)

Visual Studio & .NET

• TFVC Windows Shell Extension for VSTS and TFS 2018 (Matthew Mitrik)
• Entity Framework Core and NHibernate: Understand the Similarities and Differences (Ricardo Peres)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The What, Where, and Why of Continuous Load Testing (Chelsea Frischknecht)
• Stop cherry-picking, start merging, Part 8: How to merge a partial cherry-pick (Raymond Chen)
• Positive Reinforcement in Code Reviews (Steve Smith)
• Database Deployments with Automatic Rollbacks using Octopus Deploy and EF Core Migrations (Tomas Lycken)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Build your next iOS and Android game with $2,500+ of gaming services (David Holladay)
• Securing a React Native App with Server-side Authentication (Divyanshu Maithani)
• Alexa Skill Recipe: Making the Most of Devices That Support Display (Amit Jotwani)
• #WinML – #GamingML created for #Windows10 gamers (#Unity3D and #Hololens V2 included!) (Bruno Capuano)
• LG opens webOS source code once again (Jules Wang)
• Unity VR developers love Oculus Go (Sarah Stumbo)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The Ethics of Big Data with Cathy O’Neil (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Experimentation using Notebooks in Azure ML with remote compute [Part 3/4] | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
• Updates to server management with Project “Honolulu” and PowerShell Core (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Syntax Podcast – 20 Easy Win Performance Tips (Wes Bos)
• AAWP Insight #249: Usability Matters (Matt Lacey)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Normalize Your Database (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Space Blaster – Building an Endless Runner in Unity3D Part 2 (Twitch Stream) (Dustin Davis)
• Developer on Fire Episode 323 | Don Syme – Languages and Stories (Dave Rael)
• Building Literate Machines with Dr. Adam Trischler (Emily Maryatt)
• Episode 10: Five Things–Why TypeScript is for You | Five Things (John Papa)
• Mixer Overview for Developers | Level Up (Katie Stone Perez)
• 2FD 070: Money for Meaning, Death Regrets, Breaking Fear and Cheap Movies (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• SQL Server Radio – Nick the Optimizer (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• IoT Minute Episode 74: The Cyberwar Continues (Rob Tiffany)

Community & Events

• Microsoft Inspire – What’s the opportunity for you? (Katharine Bale)
• The Bigger-Than-Ever Philly Wine Week Returns March 22-29 (Kristina Jenkins)
• Launching the Netflix Public Bug Bounty Program (Sunil Agrawal, Scott Behrens, Dave King, Astha Singhal, Patrick Thomas, Andy Hoernecke & Madan Sriraman)

Database

• RavenDB Security Review: Nonce reuse (Oren Eini)
• Managing db schema changes without downtime (Sam Saffron)
• Why Multiple Plans for One Query Are Bad (Brent Ozar)
• Working with tabs and spaces in SSMS (Day 34) (Wayne Sheffield)

SharePoint

• Building Office 365/SharePoint Applications with Aurelia (Magnus Danielson)

PowerShell

• DSC Resource Kit Release March 2018 (Katie Keim)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17627 for Skip Ahead (Dona Sarkar)
• Build a Google Analytics Slack Bot with Python (Greg Schwartz)
• Pocket Casts Comes to the Microsoft Store (Paul Thurrott)
• On the Intersection of Software and Regulation (Steven Sinofsky)
• Google Chrome’s next update will finally block autoplay videos that have sound (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2549 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2059 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-03-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Stackify Posts Index (Ricardo Peres)

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