Dew Drop – August 22, 2018 (#2787)

Top Links

• ReSharper Ultimate 2018.2 hits RTM (Alexander Kurakin)
• TWC9: GitHub GLB-Director Goes OSS, F# 4.5, Alexa and Cortana Together, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• Introducing Ghost 2.0 (John O’Nolan)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17738 available now! (Clint Rutkas)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Use a jQuery DropDownList UI Component in Your Web App (Alberta Williams)
• Adding Segment client-side analytics to an ASP.NET Core application (Andrew Lock)
• Providing a Styling API for Web Components via CSS Custom Properties (Carl Rippon)
• WebStorm 2018.2.2 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Angular 6: “ng test” with Jest in 3 minutes (Evgeny Barabanov)
• Plan Your Next Party with an Angular Invite App Using Akita! (Inbal Sinai)
• Push Off Flaws, Be Less Productive: How To Stop Making Excuses (Janet Mesh)
• Azure IoT Edge – docker.sock connect: permission denied (Jared Rhodes)
• Code Your First API With Node.js and Express: Understanding REST APIs (Tania Rascia)
• Updated Slides and Code Samples for Creating Awesome Chat Bots with the Bot Framework and C# (Andy Schwam)
• Should I use Promises or Async-Await (Gokul N K)
• eBook – JavaScript for impatient programmers (Axel Rauschmayer)
• TypeScript 3.0: Exploring Tuples and the Unknown Type (Dan Arias)
• Running Redis on Windows 8.1 and Prior (Dave Nielsen)
• DoWhy – A library for causal inference (Emily Maryatt)
• Top 10 String utility methods you should know (Dart) (Jermaine Oppong)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms, Refactoring MvvmCross and Services (Nick Randolph)
• Xamarin.Android maps – adding high-resolution map images (Daniel Hindrikes)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Back to Basics – Handling Exceptions in C# (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Formatter comments and more in ReSharper and Rider 2018.2 (Matthias Koch)
• .NET Core Dllmap design document (Anna Aniol)
• ComboBox Gotcha #2 (Bonnie DeWitt)
• Multi-Targeting: Where Did My Files Go? Fixing .NET Core 2.1 SDK Issues (James Montemagno)
• .NET Core August 2018 Update (Lee Coward)
• Generate an exe for the .Net Core console apps: .Net Core Quick posts part 5 (Neel Bhatt)
• Introducing Busy Indicator in Windows Forms (Neelakandan Kannan)
• App.Config: Basics and Best Practices (Peter Morlion)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Testing for Thrown Exceptions in xUnit.net (Jason Roberts)
• What’s new in VSTS Sprint 138 Update (Alex Nichols)
• Iterations Now Supports Vertical VSTS’ “Team” Selection (Leah Copeland)
• What Is Mocking? Part 2 (Leah Grantz)
• Programming to an Interface: A Simple Explanation (Sylvia Fronczak)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Pro Pattern-Matching in Swift (Nick Teissler)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Agile Toolkit Podcast – Tammy Gretz & Wendy Jacobs – Agile2018 and Agile Toolkit Podcast – Evan Leybourn – Agile2018 (Bob Payne)
• Creating Games with Unity and Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• All Things Git Podcast – Software Freedom Conservancy with Bradley Kuhn and Karen Sandler (Edward Thomson & Martin Woodward)
• Gone Mobile 75: Easy Mobile App Builds with Dan Siegel (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
• RunAs Radio – Storage Migration Service with Ned Pyle (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Allscripts OnCall Podcast – Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Users (Julian Mitchell)
• SE-Radio Episode 335: Maria Gorlatova on Edge Computing (Edaena Salinas)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Daniel Pink (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Let’s give teachers a bigger voice (Bill Gates)
• Decency Charter for Technical Communities (Jen Stirrup)
• Learn from DevOps experts at Redgate’s SQL in the City Summits this October (Annabel Bradford)
• Men, want to increase diversity in tech? Be a mentor — Part I (Glenn Block)
• The Epic Made In America Music Festival Returns To The Benjamin Franklin Parkway, September 1 & 2 (Kelly Bucci)
• Are Women in Technology Receiving Bad Advice? (Melissa Connors)
• .NET Conf: Ways to Watch, Learn and Win (Sara Faatz)
• How do you even know this crap? (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• Customizing Sample Actions for the Google Assistant (Leon Nicholls)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Method to Generate Fixed Digit OTP Code Using Random Function (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 4.1 Features: MongoDB & CosmosDB Migration Wizards (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• 15 companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree (Courtney Connley)
• Xbox Game Pass Celebrates the End of Summer with Halo: The Master Chief Collection, a New Mobile App Beta and Offers You Won’t Want to Miss (Ben Decker)
• Announcing Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview Build 17738 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17744 (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2649 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2161 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-08-22 (Dan Rigby)

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