Dew Drop – April 5, 2018 (#2699)

There will be no Dew Drop tomorrow morning. I will be away at PAX East. We’ll be back on Monday, Apr. 9th.

Top Links

• Load solutions faster with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 (Viktor Veis)
• Voting now open for Windows Developer Awards 2018 (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Microsoft will invest $5 billion in IoT. Here’s why. (Julia White)
• .NET Rocks! – Productivity Tools in VS2017 with Kasey Uhlenhuth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web & Cloud Development

• Turning a WordPress Blog into a PWA (Barb Bowman)
• Create a CRUD App using Blazor and ASP.NET Core (Talking Dotnet)
• Why would you do that in CSS? (Chris Coyier)
• What Is Vue.js? (Craig Campbell)
• Revisited: Is WCF faster than ASP.NET Core? Of course not! Or is it? (Erik Heemskerk)
• Aurelia RealWorld App (Moritz Hilberg)
• Microsoft touts breakthrough in making chatbots more conversational (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Immutable Servers: Why? (Dave Nicolette)
• Underspanding spans (Florina Muntenescu)
• Node v9.11.0 (Current) (Myles Borins)
• 4 Go Language Criticisms (Sergei Peshkov)
• ECMAScript Goodies I: Check out the ES2017 Major Features (Tara Z. Manicsic)
• Add SMS Notifications to Your Rails App Using Twilio (Yechiel Kalmenson)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Debugging Xamarin Open Source Frameworks: Part 3 – Mono (Jon Goldberger)
• Use inline icons in Xamarin.Forms with SkiaSharp Iconify (Marco Kuiper)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Writing F# to implement ‘The Single Layer Perceptron’ (Dan)
• Maintaining consistent code style with formatting inspections in ReSharper 2018.1 (Matthias Koch)
• Steps to add new field with Code first approach in .Net Core (Neel Bhatt)
• Navigation improvements in Rider 2018.1 EAP (Chris Woodruff)
• Introduction of working with struct (Loïc Baumann)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• On-premise rolling deployments with TFS 2018 Update 2 (Matteo Emili)
• Lessons from inheriting another team’s codebase (Birgitta Böckeler)
• Code Coverage And Other Lies We Tell Our Selves (Gil Zilberfeld)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Alexa Skill Recipe: Making HTTP Requests to Get Data from an External API (Amit Jotwani)
• Will HTML5 be the death of native apps? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• For crying out loud, compile for native ARM! (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Episode 12: Five Things About Docker | Five Things (Burke Holland)
• Data analytics with Microsoft Azure (Microsoft Mechanics)
• SQL Data Partners Episode 130: Use Case for PowerShell (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Syntax Podcast – The Testing Show! (Wes Bos)
• Developer on Fire Episode 327 | Andrew Cook – Create Projects (Dave Rael)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Tim Huckaby Talks Computer Vision and Mixed Reality (Ed Charbeneau)
• AI for the Developing World with Dr. Ranveer Chandra and Honoring Burton Smith, a creative visionary in computing (Emily Maryatt)
• Understanding Text using Cognitive Services | AI Show (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• 2FD 072: Crush Debt, How to Invest, Debt Payoff Strategies, Investing vs. Debt Payoff, UTMA/UGMA Accounts (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• Radio TFS – This is all it is (Greg Duncan)
• Marten: Using Postgresql as a Document DB and Event Store – Webinar Recording (Robert Demmer)
• Build 2018 – Search and Rescue Challenge Launch | AI Show (Sonya Koptyev)
• SSW TV – Journey to DevSecOps! | Danijel Malik (Sophie Belle)

Community & Events

• A Recap from Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Global Summit (Ricardo Peres)
• The NEXT NativeScript Conference (Rob Lauer)

Database

• Learn How To Unit Test Your Database Changes With The DevOps Lab Show (Hamish Watson & Damian Brady)
• A flexible new way to purchase Azure SQL Database and SQL Database: Long-term backup retention preview includes major updates (Alexander (Sasha) Nosov)
• The Evolution of the DBA – Challenges, Changes and Upcoming Trends (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Typescript design patterns for Sharepoint Framework Part 4 – Singleton (Luis Valencia)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17639 for Skip Ahead (Dona Sarkar)
• Fixing Screenshots in MacOS (Miguel de Icaza)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2557 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2069 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-04-05 (Dan Rigby)

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