Dew Drop – June 15, 2018 (#2747)

Top Links

• Announcing .NET Core 2.1 for Red Hat Platforms (Bob Davis)
• How to get Visual Studio 2017 Live Unit Testing working with NUnit tests (Mark Heath)
• More Cross-Platform APIs with Xamarin.Essentials Latest Preview (James Montemagno)
• Building a TipCalc using Platform Uno (Nick Randolph)

Web & Cloud Development

• A quick intro to Angular Ivy (Herrington Darkholme)
• Use Azure Storage from Visual Studio Code (Abhijit Jana)
• ASP.NET Core MVC Form Requests and the Browser Back button (Damien Bowden)
• A6–Building App using Angular and ASP.NET Core 2.1– Cleanup, Host on Azure, CI and CD pipeline (Mitul Suthar)
• Container Tooling for Service Fabric in Visual Studio 2017 (Cristy Gonzalez)
• Installing and Using Wireguard, obviously with containers (Jessie Frazelle)
• Picking the Best Static Site Generator for Your Next Project (Mathieu Dionne)
• Lamar 1.0: Faster, modernized successor to StructureMap (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Round up: Libraries for checking Pwned Passwords in your 7 favorite languages (Kelley Robinson)
• The Road to React – Lesson 6: ES6+ (Michelle Colón)
• Enhancing automated testing in Microsoft Edge with new WebDriver capabilities, W3C protocol support, and automatic updates (Clay Martin)
• New – Redis 4.0 Compatibility in Amazon ElastiCache (Randall Hunt)
• Swagger UI With Akka HTTP (Teena Vashist)
• Setting up Kubernetes on GKE (Jason Farrell)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Exploring a Chat UI in Xamarin Forms (Part. 1) (Rendy Del Rosario)
• Binding a FlexLayout to a Collection (David Britch)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Nullable Types and Null Coalescing Operator in C# (Debendra Dash)
• Embedding Python in a C++ project with Visual Studio (Steve Dower)
• Unity Explorer and new code inspections in Rider 2018.1 (Matt Ellis)
• How do I programmatically control the order of my program’s notification icons? (Raymond Chen)
• Getting Started with Microsoft’s Python Developer Tools (Dan Taylor)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Retrospective Smells (Ben Linders)
• How Git Changed The History of Software Version Control (Juan Buis)
• Tweak These 5-Minute Productivity Tricks To Make Your Workdays More Organized (Janet Mesh)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Getting Started With Firebase ML Kit for Android (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Top 3 Reasons Preventing Developers from Doing AR (Georgi Atanasov)
• What’s new in Unity ARKit Plugin for ARKit 2 (Jimmy Alamparambil)
• Open Source Code Samples in the NativeScript Marketplace (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Custom Vison AI on Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & Cameron Tomisser)
• Embedding Python in a C++ Project | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Xamarin.Essentials – Cross-Platform APIs for Mobile Apps | The Xamarin Show: Snack Pack (James Montemagno)
• Rocket 179: Leon is Not Hot Anymore (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Talk Python to Me #166 – Continuous deliver with Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Microsoft Women in Business & Technology Podcast 023 – Forging team and product inclusion with Glowforge CEO Dan Shapiro (Sonia Dara & Colleen O’Brien)
• Windows Analytics: New tools to help prepare for deployment and ensure PCs are up-to-date (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Windows Weekly 574: Script Kitty (Paul Thurrott)
• Hanselminutes – Tips for Teaching Programming with Dr. Neil Brown (Scott Hanselman)
• Service Fabric Extension for VS Code (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Software Engineering Daily – Digital Evolution with Joel Lehman, Dusan Misevic, and Jeff Clune (Jeff Meyerson)
• Azure Podcast Episode 233 – Live from Build 2018 – Serverless & IoT with Jeff Hollan (Sujit D’Mello)
• Voices in AI – Episode 50: A Conversation with Steve Pratt (Byron Reese)

Database

• SQL Server High Performance and Cost Savings in the Cloud with DataCore Software (Jeremy Kadlec)
• SQL SERVER – Optimal Value Max Worker Threads (Pinal Dave)

MS Teams

• New free tier for Microsoft Teams briefly appears in official documentation (Laurent Giret)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Script Analyzer 1.17.1 Released! (James W. Truher)

Miscellaneous

• About That Office 365 and JavaScript Thing (Paul Thurrott)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17692 (Dona Sarkar)
• AI powers Windows 10 April 2018 Update rollout (John Cable)
• Improved per-directory case sensitivity support in WSL (Sven Groot)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2606 (Chris Alcock)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-06-15 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #424 (Pedro Botelho)
• The Ember.js Times – Issue No. 51 (Ember)
• Roundup #7: AspNet Core Nested Applications, Blazor-State, DebugType=Embedded, Controllers as action filters (Derek Comartin)

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