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Dew Drop – May 21, 2018 (#2729)

Top Links

Debugging Beyond Visual Studio – WinDbg (Al Mata, Candice Lai & Syed Mehdi)
Installing PowerShell Core on a Raspberry Pi (powered by .NET Core) (Scott Hanselman)
Calculator App in 100 Lines (Nick Randolph)
Console UWP Applications and File-system Access (Andrew Whitechapel)

Web & Cloud Development

Using the HTML Texatarea Element (Chris Love)
Microsoft Azure cloud services guide: The right tools for the job (Andy Patrizio)
Azure Cloud Shell in Visual Studio Code (Abhijit Jana)
Angular Ivy change detection execution: are you prepared? (Alexey Zuev)
Demystifying Angular Unit Tests: Part 3 (Jared Fineman)
Exploring Azure App Service – Web Apps and SQL Azure (Andrew B. Hall)
How to Make a Real-Time Sports Application Using Node.js (Jamie Munro)
CORS and MIME types (Julian M. Bucknall)
My First React Application With ASP.NET MVC (Khumana Ram)
PhpStorm 2018.1.4 is released (Maxim Kolmakov)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 124 – Creating the Azure Logic App for our IoT Button (Michael Crump)
Vue and ASP.NET Core – A New Course (Shawn Wildermuth)
Using Azure Serverless to become GDPR compliant (Tom Kerkhove)
Docker Hub vs Creating a Local Docker Registry (Vladimir Pecanac)
TypeScript 2.7: Strict Property Initialization (Marius Schulz)
Containers, Security, and Echo Chambers (Jessie Frazelle)
Kubernetes best practices: terminating with grace (Sandeep Dinesh)
Never forget type=”button” on generated buttons! (Lea Verou)
10 Reasons to Use Durable Functions (Mark Heath)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Icons with Font Awesome 5 in Xamarin Forms (Damien Doumer)
Xamarin in Action is now on the bookshelves! (Jim Bennett)
Conversational UI, Animations, More Demos in Telerik UI for WPF [New Release] (Kalin Todorov)
Xamarin.Forms, Akavache and I: storing, retrieving and deleting data (Marco Siccardi)
Startup Improvements in Xamarin.Forms on Android (Miguel de Icaza)
UWP Tip #19 – The Windows Community Toolkit (Me)
Network Resilience For Your App With Polly (Gerald Versluis)

Visual Studio & .NET

NuGet Support in Visual Studio for Mac 7.5 and .NET Core Support in Visual Studio for Mac 7.5 (Matt Ward)
New Features in C# 7.3 (Jonathan Allen)
Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Motivation and Unit Testing (Nikola Živković)
User Secrets in a .NET Core Web App and User Secrets in a .NET Core Console App (Layla Porter)
Using IntelliTest in a .NET Standard Library (Nick Randolph)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Capitalizing Software in an Agile World – Live from Agile and Beyond (Tim Zack)
Assigning Work Items to a Group in Visual Studio Team Services (Mark Meadows & Everett Yang)
On Mentorship (Arthur Kay)
Getting Started with DevOps and Continuous Delivery of Value (Wesam Darwish)
Not Just A Better Programmer – A Better You. (Rajiv Popat)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

What’s New In Android? (Brian Gardner)
Alexa Skill Recipe: Improving the Perceived Latency of API Calls Using the Progressive Response API (Akersh Srivastava)
Patterns Principles and Tools for Testing Your React (Native) Apps (Matt Dupree)
Windows MakeCode for Lego Mindstorms Launched (Kay Ewbank)
A new product badge for Microsoft Store applications (Eric Langland)
Elliptical Vector Gradients (Mark Allison)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

MS Dev Show – Windows 10 on ARM with Erin Chapple & Hari Pulapaka (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – New In ASP.NET Core 2.1 with Daniel Roth (Ed Charbeneau)
Visual Studio futures: Amanda Silver & Deborah Chen (Seth Juarez)
Agile Uprising Podcast: The State of Agile 2018 (Brad Stokes)
AFH 094: Professional Agile Coaching with Allison Pollard (Ryan Ripley)
Dart: Final Deployment to Real Database | 7/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Dart: Relationship And Joins | 6/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Dart: Data Models And Writing DB Tests | 5/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Dart: Install And Setup PostgreSQL | 4/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Dart: Writing Effective Tests | 3/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Dart: Indexing Understanding Routes | 2/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Dart: First API And Create Controller | 1/7 | Aqueduct | Backend Course and Flutter: Backdrop Widget Tutorial | Material Design 2.0 (MTechViral)
Allscripts on Call Podcast – Blockchain 201: Healthcare Use Cases (Brian Behlendorf)
CodeNewbie S4:E5 – Are you ready for a hackathon? (Kathryn Hodge) (CodeNewbie Team)
Developer on Fire Episode 340 | Kurt Mackey – Improvising Opportunity (Dave Rael)
The Amp Hour #393 – I’ve bitten myself (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Minds and Machines (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Software Engineering Daily – Voice with Rita Singh (Jeff Meyerson)
SSW TV – Full Stack RX Programming – Brendan Richards (Sophie Belle)
Merge Conflict 98: Machine Learning for Space Exploration with Paige Bailey (James Montemagno)
Developer Tea – 3 Habits of Learning Developers (Jonathan Cutrell)
Azure Podcast Episode 229 – Live from Build with Jessica Deen (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

Interview with Ionic Succinctly Author Ed Freitas (Jacqueline Bieringer)

Database

Return SQL Server Connections Information Using sys.dm_exec_connections (K. Brian Kelley)
Automating a SQL Server Database Refresh (Joe Gavin)
How to Save Costs on Non-Production SQL Server RDS Instances (Sadequl Hussain)
How to Generate Fibonacci Series for the First 1000 Values? – Interview Question of the Week #174 (Pinal Dave)
Ordering in Couchbase Functions – Part 2 (Venkat Subramanian)

SharePoint

Missing App Launcher in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint and iFrames (This content cannot be displayed in a frame) (J. Erickson)

Miscellaneous

Things you should never say when interviewing for a developer role (Isabel Nyo)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2588 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2101 (Mike Gunderloy)
Azure Weekly: May 21, 2018 – Lots of Announcements from //Build 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.05.18 (Willy-P. Schaub)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #207 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #20, 2018 – F# style guide (Sergey Tihon)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-05-21 (Dan Rigby)
Check Out This Book On Remote Desktop Services, And More On The Friday Five (MVP Award Program)

The Geek Shelf

Xamarin in Action: Creating native cross-platform mobile apps: Jim Bennett: 9781617294389: Books

ISBN: 1617294381
ISBN-13: 9781617294389

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Dew Drop – May 17, 2018 (#2727)

Top Links

Announcing TypeScript 2.9 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Building, Running, and Testing .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 2.1 in Docker on a Raspberry Pi (ARM32) (Scott Hanselman)
Xamarin.Essentials: Cross-Platform APIs for Mobile Apps (James Montemagno)
Elmish.Calculator – Calculator written using Elmish.XamarinForms (full Elmish, no XAML) (Jason Imison)

Web & Cloud Development

Diary Of A Net Developer – Learning React (Jon Hilton)
Prevent Secrets From Accidentally Being Committed to Source Control in ASP.NET Core Apps (Jason Roberts)
Custom Speech Service for Government (Steve Michelotti)
How to share Azure portal dashboard? (Abhijit Jana)
Dependency injection in Blazor (Gunnar Peipman)
AWS IoT 1-Click – Use Simple Devices to Trigger Lambda Functions (Jeff Barr)
The backdrop-filter CSS property (Robin Rendle)
New Way of Providing Shared Instance of a Service in Angular 6 (Talking Dotnet)
Security changes coming to Azure Web Apps, affecting Azure Bot Service (Azure Bot Service Team)
How to display a “new version available” for a Progressive Web App (Dean Hume)
Getting started with TypeScript — What are the basic data types in TypeScript? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Why should we care about containers for development (Shayne Boyer)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Build a Xamarin.Forms Application with MvvmCross (Nick Randolph)
Immutable Models in MVVM (Evgeny Zborovsky)
Microsoft //Build/ Recap for Xamarin Developers (Kym Phillpotts)
XF 3.0 New Feature: Create WPF Application using Xamarin.Forms (S. Ravi Kumar)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to really fail a coding interview (Oren Eini)
Improving the responsiveness of critical scenarios by updating auto load behavior for extensions (Mads Kristensen)
Analysing .NET Core applications using NDepend (Davide Zordan)
Roslyn Powered Code Weaving Middleware (Jeremy D. Miller)
Stupid C++ namespace tricks (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Don’t Be a “One-Trick Pony” Manual Tester (Alex Siminiuc)
Helping Teams Get Started (Joshua Hynes)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

New Developer Preview: Easily Use Amazon Polly Voices in Alexa Skills (BJ Haberkorn)
With Storyline, Anyone Can Create Engaging Alexa Skills with Zero Coding (Jennifer King)
Deploying to Ionic Pro using TFS and Octopus Deploy (Andy Schwam)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Windows Sets with Raymond Chen and Jason Watson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Windows Central Podcast 90: Surface Hub 2 is amazing (Zac Bowden)
Syntax Podcast – What’s New in Javascript (Wes Bos)
The Joy of Coding – Episode 139 (Mike Conley)
ngAir 161 – NgRx Jest Testing with Jesse Sanders (Justin Schwartzenberger)
Complete Developer Podcast – OWASP Top Ten (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Developer on Fire Episode 339 | Allen Holub – Ask If It’s Useful (Dave Rael)
Gone Mobile 68: Microsoft Build and Google I/O Recap (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
Python For Data Science – 2018 | Become Data Scientist (MTechViral)

Community & Events

Financing Changes to Aurelia (Matthew James Davis)
Not lost in translation with Dr. Arul Menezes (Emily Maryatt)
Developer Tooling and Framework Updates from Microsoft Build 2018 (Sam Basu)
Join the 2018.2 beta and earn the chance to win great Unity gear (Jacob Herold)

Database

Stored procedure to import files into a SQL Server FILESTREAM enabled table (Nisarg Upadhyay)
A New Approach To Handling SSRS Multi-Valued Parameters in DAX Queries (Chris Webb)
SQL SERVER – Reading Transaction Log to Identified Who Dropped a Table (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server on Linux: What You Really Need to Know (Thomas LaRock)
Back to basics: What is a HEAP table? (Daniel Janik)
Removing servers from the SSMS connection dialog (Day 36) (Wayne Sheffield)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft to launch smaller, low-cost Surface devices (Mary Jo Foley)
Update on Fight for Net Neutrality in U.S. – Senate votes to save net neutrality, now it’s up to the House (Denelle Dixon)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17672 (Dona Sarkar)
Announcing the Xbox Adaptive Controller for accessible gaming (Elana Pidgeon)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2586 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2099 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-05-17 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Raspberry Pi 3: Programming and Projects from Beginner to Expert, Jim Bosworth, eBook – Amazon.com

ASIN: B0795LBZW2

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Dew Drop – May 14, 2018 (#2724)

Top Links

Using LazyCache for clean and simple .NET Core in-memory caching (Scott Hanselman)
Uploading and sending image messages with ASP.NET Core SignalR (Damien Bowden)
How to use Roslyn with .NET Core? (Michał Komorowski)
.NET Span better performance (Bnaya Eshet)

Web & Cloud Development

Access Azure resources quickly that are used recently and Uploading files to cloud drive using Azure Cloud Shell and How to enable Azure cloud backup for Azure file shares? (Abhijit Jana)
Article: ASP.NET Core – The Power of Simplicity (Chris Klug)
Getting started with TypeScript — What is tsconfig.json configuration file? and Getting started with TypeScript — Variable declaration (Kunal Chowdhury)
Turn Sublime Text 3 into a JavaScript IDE (Lorenzo Pichilli)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 121 – Video of our talk at Build 2018 (Michael Crump)
Adding MySQL to ASP.NET Core App With Docker Compose (Vladimir Pecanac)
Introducing the Microsoft Edge DevTools Protocol (Brendyn Alexander)
Rapid Adaptation and Metalearning with Conditionally Shifted Neurons (Emily Maryatt)
Building your .APP website with NameCheap and GitHub Pages–A Visual Guide (Eric Lawrence)
Kubernetes best practices: Resource requests and limits (Sandeep Dinesh)
Fiddler capturing and decrypting traffic on a DIFFERENT network (JeKnight)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Comparing Xamarin and IONIC 3 (Devlin Duldulao)
Format Painter in WPF RichTextBox Coming in Telerik R2 2018 (Dobrin Grancharov)
How to build a SQL Connection Dialog in UWP (Diederik Krols)
Detect Application closing in UWP (Corrado Cavalli)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 – New Features (Updated) (Damir Arh)
Win a copy of C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 Blueprints (Dirk Strauss)
Accessing FitbitAPI in dotnet core and Refit (Adam Storr)
.NET Core 2.1 Global Tools and dotnet watch 2.1 (Nate McMaster)
First look of ML.NET: Microsoft Machine Learning framework for .Net (Neel Bhatt)
#MLNET – Hello World in ML.Net, Machine Learning for .Net ! (Bruno Capuano)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The Scaled Agile Framework – When it works, it works well. When it doesn’t work, it’s waterfall. (Paul Hands)
How Does Your Company Approach Continuous Improvement? (John Cutler)
Continuous Integration Logic: 4 Hidden Costs (Lee Richardson)
Elevate your telemetry from silo to valuable data source (Matteo Emili)
BuildIt Libraries using Continuous Delivery (Nick Randolph)
Where Should I Validate Data in my Application? (Tim Corey)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Alexa Fast Tips Friday: Block Explicit Songs From Amazon Music (April Hamilton)
Android Studio 3.2 Canary Brings Better Traces Support, Lint Checking, and More (Diogo Carleto)
What’s New with Request and Response Interceptors in the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js (Amit Jotwani)
Unit Testing in Android Studio Canary with Kotlin (Adrian Hall)
Unity at Microsoft Build: 7 takeaways from the show (Dustin Burg)
Dynamic VectorDrawable Sizing (Mark Allison)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

MS Dev Show – .NET Core 3 Present & Future with Scott Hunter & Mike Harsh (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 082 – Doc Norton on Experimentation (Matthew Groves)
InfoQ Podcast: Colin Eberhardt on WebAssembly (Colin Eberhardt)
Technology & Friends – Kevin Ashley on AI and basketball (David Giard)
Xamarin Podcast: Build 2018 Recap for Mobile Developers (Pierce Boggan)
Iterative development and debugging with Azure Data Factory (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Talk Python to Me #161 – Django 2.0 (Michael Kennedy)
Bots + Teams + Microsoft Graph: the perfect combo to help manage your calendar (Richard diZerega)
Building powerful desktop and MR applications with new windowing apis (Roberth Karman)
Coding Blocks.NET 81 – Understanding Complexity Theory (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Developer on Fire Episode 338 | Jonah Myerberg – Engineering Excellence (Dave Rael)
The Amp Hour #392 – An Interview with Matt Duff (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Flutter Redux: Shopping Cart App From Scratch | Redux Time Travel and Dart: Create Your First REST API in Dart | Aqueduct (MTechViral)
Software Engineering Daily – Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Chris Aniszczyk and Dan Kohn (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Problem Solving Series #3: Perspective Shifts (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

Announcing the F# Community Forums (Reed Copsey, Jr.)
Philly’s Iconic LOVE Park Officially Reopens On May 30 (Amy Gordon)
Philly’s Awesome New Elevated Rail Park Opens June 14 (Kelly Bucci)
Google I/O 2018 Summary – Day 3 (Prosper Otemuyiwa)

Database

SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 22004 – The Log File is Not Using Unicode Format and How to Find Last Full Backup Time and Size for Database? – Interview Question of the Week #173 (Pinal Dave)
RavenDB 4.1 Features: Counting my counters (Oren Eini)
Where Clustered Index Keys Dare (Erik Darling)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2583 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2096 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-05-14 (Dan Rigby)
Learn More About SQL Server’s Always Encrypted, And More On This Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #206 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #19, 2018 – F# Community Forums, Type Providers for .NET Standard and other news from Build2018 (Sergey Tihon)
Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.05.11 (Willy-P. Schaub)
Reading Notes #327 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches (9781617295096): Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks: Books

ISBN: 1617295094
ISBN-13: 9781617295096

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