Dew Drop – July 19, 2017 (#2523)

Top Links

• Working with Brushes and Content – XAML and Visual Layer Interop, Part One (Windows UI Team)
• C# 6.0 draft Language Specification (now on docs.microsoft.com) (Bill Wagner & More)
• Hands-on Introduction for Getting Started with F# in the Browser using tryfsharp.org (Jin Yun Soo)
• NuGet.org Gets a Facelift (Jon Chu)

Web & Cloud Development

• ASP.NET Core – App Building Workshop (Jon Galloway)
• What is “let” statement in JavaScript? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Autorun PHPUnit Tests in PhpStorm 2017.2 (Gary Hockin)
• PhpStorm 2017.2 is now released! (Anna Lebedeva)
• MEAN and Cosmos DB – Part 2: Node.js and Express (John Papa)
• Real-World Angular Series – Part 7: Relational Data and Token Renewal (Kim Maida)
• CSS Grid Layout Slideshow (Mary Lou)
• Enumerable and Non-enumerable Properties in JavaScript and TypeScript (Jessica Kerr)
• A guide to caching in ASP.NET Core (Paul Hiles)
• Forward incoming SMS messages to email with Node.js, SendGrid and Twilio Functions (Phil Nash)
• Saving State data with BotBuilder-Azure (Eric Dahlvang & Matthew Shim)
• Setting Up Continuous Integration for Azure Bot Service (Abhijit Jana)
• Azure For Developers – Part 1: Scratching the Surface (Jesse Liberty)
• Announcing NgRx 4 (Rob Wormald)
• On The (Perceived) Value of EV Certs, Commercial CAs, Phishing and Let’s Encrypt (Troy Hunt)
• Introducing Graph API v2.10 (Vivek Hamirwasia)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• WPF Tips Update – The Extended WPF Toolkit Has a New Home and UWP Tip #3 – UWP Community Toolkit – Part 1, What’s in the Box? (Me)
• The Xamarin.Forms Messaging Center Messed With Me (Matthew Soucoup)
• InTheHand.Forms Updates (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Visualize JSON Data Quickly Using XamCategoryChart (Valerie)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Reviewing Resin: Part V (Oren Eini)
• Why does the assignment operator in C# evaluate left to right instead of right to left? (Raymond Chen)
• Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension July 2017 Update – time to try out the new IntelliSense! (Rong Lu)
• Creating a Figure Auto-Number Addin for Markdown Monster using .NET (Daniel Vaughan)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• A Look into NASA’s Coding Philosophy (Abner Coimbre)
• Improved package support in Team Build (Alex Mullans)
• Opinion Time: Should Developers ALWAYS Build an API? (Matthew Jones)
• Building VSTS Extensions with feature flags – Part 2 (Mikael Krief)
• Managing large numbers of GitHub notifications (Mike McQuaid)
• Extending MSTest V2 (Pratap Lakshman)

Mobile & IoT

• How to Write and Deploy Custom Cloud Code for iOS (Rajeev Ranjan)
• Android Design Patterns: The Singleton Pattern (Chike Mgbemena)
• Shut the HAL Up (Jeff Vander Stoep)
• How to use Facebook Sign-In with Ionic and Firebase (Jorge Vergara)
• Designing Skills for Echo Show: Choosing the Right Template (Martha Kang)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Advanced MSBuild Extensibility with Nate McMaster | Code Conversations and Sharing MSBuild Tasks as NuGet Packages with Nate McMaster | Code Conversations (Jon Galloway & Maria Naggaga)
• Design Patterns: Strategy | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – How to pitch Scrum in your company and the 3 most important questions | Tom Taylor (Vasco Duarte)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 204 | Azure Stack, Microsoft Reorg, Microsoft 365 and More News! (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The week in .NET – Command Line Parser Library, .NET South East (Bertrand Le Roy)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 105: When is enough, enough? (Carlos L. Chacon)
• STEM Everyday #70: A Special Connection to STEM (Chris Woods)
• RunAs Radio – Self-Driving Vehicles with Mark Minasi (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Spark Performance Tuning – Part 4 | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• SE-Radio Episode 297: Kieren James Lubin on Blockchain (Kishore Bhatia)
• Software Engineering Daily – Simple Programmer with John Sonmez (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Daw Chih asks About Over Execution (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Philly .NET Meetup – .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017.3, and ReactJS and Philly .NET Meetup – Azure Container Services (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
• Kansas City Developer Conference Gains New Board Member (PRLog) – Congrats to Jeff Strauss!
• Brandywine River Museum of Art Celebrates Andrew Wyeth’s 100th Birthday With A Grand Exhibition (Grace Dickinson)
• 10 Questions with Dennis Vroegop (James Ashley)
• Casey Hudson has left Microsoft’s efforts with Windows Mixed Reality and returned to BioWare (Jez Corden)
• Announcing NativeScript Developer Day 2017 (TJ VanToll)

Database

• How Microsoft brought SQL Server to Linux (Frederic Lardinois)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services (RC) (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Count of Temporary Table Re-generations (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Drivers v4.3.0 for PHP for SQL Server released! (Meet Bhagdev)
• Documentation Contribution and Improvements (Matthew Groves)
• SQL 2016 SP1 Shows You Wait Stats in Execution Plans. Or Does It? (Brent Ozar)
• sp_BlitzCache: Eventual Compatibility With Azure (Erik Darling)
• Tableau and Azure SQL DB, a match made in the cloud (Joseph Sack)

SharePoint

• Getting started with SharePoint Framework (Gunnar Peipman)

PowerShell

• Viewing Memory in PowerShell (Brandon Wilson)
• Microsoft Transitioning Windows PowerShell 6.0 into PowerShell Core (Kurt Mackie)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft confirms full Windows 10 on ARM won’t be coming to existing phones and Office Mobile apps receive Fluent Design treatment on Windows 10 PC (Zac Bowden)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-19 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2386 (Chris Alcock)

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