Dew Drop – July 23, 2018 (#2771)

Top Links

• Unit test coverage and continuous testing. Now in Rider! (Alexey Totin)
• The future of WebAssembly – A look at upcoming features and proposals (Colin Eberhardt)
• TWC9: Azure Cloud Shell Gets VSCode-like, Imagine Cup Finals are coming, cheap email with Azure DNS, Windows 98 PC builds and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• Fritz and Friends present The Virtual Software Architecture Workshop (Jeff Fritz)

Web & Cloud Development

• Switching to Multi-Stage Dockerfiles (Dan Clarke)
• Using Storage Explorer in the Azure Portal and Recover Azure Blob Storage Data by enabling Soft Delete and How to schedule trigger for Azure Data Factory (ADF) Pipeline? (Abhijit Jana)
• Custom directives in Angular 6 — building a Google places autocomplete (Abhishek Menon)
• Netflix Announces Polly.JS HTTP Interaction Library (Dylan Schiemann)
• AWS Step Function Serverless Applications (Gerald Bauer)
• Learn how Angular Elements transmits Component’s @Outputs outside Angular (Jia Li)
• Introducing Docker Application Guides (Jim Armstrong)
• PHP Error Handling Guide (Juliet Mendez)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 142 – Quickly edit files within Cloud Shell using Code (Michael Crump)
• Asynchronous initialization in ASP.NET Core with custom middleware (Thomas Levesque)
• ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Vs MVC: Which Will Create Better Web Apps in 2018? (Zealous System)
• Adding existing projects to an existing solution hosted on GitHub (Benjamin Perkins)
• Azure Storage Tiers explained (David Giard)
• Sara Soueidan on designing a switch control (Marco Zehe)
• Introducing BotBuilder Config for the Bot Framework (Michael Szul)
• Machine Learning with ML.NET Series (Nikola Živković)
• Building “Renderless” Vue Components (Samuel Oloruntoba)
• Update npm on Windows–Current Best Approach (David Yardy)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Hyperlink in Xamarin.Forms Label (Adam Pedley)
• Xamarin Forms Tips Part 1: Xamarin Forms Entry With Character Max Length And Counter (Damien Doumer)
• Enhance Your Xamarin.Forms App’s User Experience With Polly (Hussain N. Abbasi)
• Editor Auto Size – Xamarin.Forms (Juliano Custódio)
• Playing with WPF / Silverlight ChartView Animations (Petar Mladenov)
• Basics of Conversational UI with Telerik UI for Xamarin (Sam Basu)
• Running AI models on iOS, Android and Windows using Xamarin and Running custom vision models on a Windows device (Jim Bennett)
• Why was Small Basic 1.3 released in UWP? (And addressing the community’s concerns) (Ed Price)
• Simplified UWP View Mode Base (j2inet)

Visual Studio & .NET

• LINQ Challenge #3 Answers in C# (Mark Heath)
• Solution-wide Nuget package version handling with MsBuild 15+ (Filip W.)
• Visual Studio 2017 – Debugging Enhancements: Run To Click (Kapil Khandelwal)
• Advisory on July 2018 .NET Framework Updates (Rich Lander)
• Writing Honest Methods in C# (Yacoub Massad)
• Announcing VSCodeThemes (Jordan Schroter)
• Easy, Automated Code Coverage for .NET Core (Nathan Lowe)
• Creating a .NET Core Global Tool In <10 Minutes (Steve Desmond)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• If TDD is Zen, adding Serverless brings Nirvana (Jordi Moraleda)
• Go Unit Tests: Tips from the Trenches (Michael Sorens)
• 8 Blips, Tricks, And Stellar Trello Tips To Try This Week (Brian Cervino)
• Managing Your Personal Sprints w/ Trello (Chung Nguyen)
• Measuring Tech Performance: You’re Probably Doing It Wrong (Nicole Forsgren)
• Maintainable Architecture – Daily Forecast (Mark Allison)
• Mini book: #noprojects – A Culture of Continuous Value (Shane Hastie & Evan Leybourn)
• The Rewards and Challenges of Predictive Maintenance (Yuval Lavi)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Encapsulate iOS & Mac Asynchronous and Dependent Tasks into Cocoa Operation Subclass (Alfian Losari)
• Updating your games for modern Android (Tom Greenaway)
• A Review of iOS Development — an Android Developer’s Perspective (Ben Daniel A.)
• A quick glance on single activity approach with navigation component (Gabriel Samojło)
• NativeScript Sidekick Enterprise Cloud (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 092 – Jake Taylor on TEALS (Matthew Groves)
• Technology & Friends – Brandon Satrom on Ed Gets His Power Back (David Giard)
• InfoQ Podcast: Edith Harbaugh  of Launch Darkly on Engineering a Good Engineering Culture (Edith Harbaugh)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 274 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Codepunk 035: Virtual Friends in Real Life (Bill Ahern)
• Developer on Fire Episode 358 | Zach Supalla – Internet of Awesome (Dave Rael)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – An Augmented Reality Check (Ed Charbeneau)
• The Amp Hour #400 – Once Every Couple Months (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• FreeCodeFriday – Episode 8 (Jason Bock)
• Talk Python to Me #170 – Guido van Rossum steps down (Michael Kennedy)
• Bot Framework v4 QnA Maker Tutorial Series: Managing Endpoint Keys (Michael Szul)
• Flutter: Draggable & Drag Target | Ep 3 | Flutter Weekly Widgets | Every Sunday (MTechViral)
• StarTalk Radio – The State of Space Exploration Now, with Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Software Engineering Daily – Kubernetes in the Enterprise with Aparna Sinha (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Underestimating the Effects of Gratitude (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 238 – Serial Console (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Meet the Developer: Introducing Sacha “Try before I Buy” Barber (Yolanda Fintschenko)
• Meet Vue Vixens (Jen Looper)
• Apply for a SIGNAL 2018 Scholarship (Megan Speir)
• What to Watch for at Google Cloud Next 2018 (Nicole Henderson)

Database

• Understanding SQL Server Recompilations (Bhavesh Patel)
• How Old Version of SQL Server Running on Server? – Interview Question of the Week #183 and SQL SERVER – Quick Introduction to Startup Procedures (Pinal Dave)
• Connection handling and authentication in RavenDB 4.0 (Oren Eini)
• MongoDB 4.0 Released (Alex Giamas)
• New eBook – Data Lakes in a Modern Data Architecture (Melissa Coates)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Core now available as a Snap package (Joey Aiello)
• Integrate ServiceNow with VSTS RM pipelines using PowerShell (Tarun Arora)

Miscellaneous

• Is the company of your dreams really the perfect match? (Andrea McKeon)
• DuckDuckGo slams Google following EU antitrust decision (Makena Kelly)
• The basic Elm example that I wish I’d had (David Nimmo)
• What Is the Use of AI in Healthcare? (Rohan Agrawal)
• Windows 10 Redstone 5 changelog: All the changes so far (Zac Bowden)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2627 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2141 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: July 23, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Windows Weekly Dockerfile #23: Building Mixed .NET and .NET Core Solutions (Elton Stoneman)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #216 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #29, 2018 – Magic of Saturn, Code Prediction with NN and Happy Birthday to @sforkmann and @TRikace ! (Sergey Tihon)
• What You Missed This Week in PowerShell! (Will Anderson)
• Reading Notes #337 (Frank Boucher)
• Friday Five: MVPs with Fresh Insights on .NET Core and More! (MVP Award Program)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.20 (Edward Thomson)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)

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