Dew Drop – July 26, 2017 (#2528)

Top Links

• Flash & The Future of Interactive Content (Adobe Corporate Communications)
• Design Patterns: Observer and Publish-Subscribe | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Getting started with F# and .NET Core (Julien Blanchard)
• Visual Basic Language Specification (Microsoft Docs)

Web & Cloud Development

• In-Memory ASP.NET Core Integration Tests with TestServer (Jason Roberts)
• 5 CSS Properties That You Probably Don’t Know (Annarita Tranfici)
• Enforce TypeScript Functional Programming (Dave M. Bush)
• New Composer Update in PhpStorm 2017.2 (Gary Hockin)
• What to expect when converting Flash to HTML5 (Michael Hu)
• Getting Started With Matter.js: The Engine and World Modules (Monty Shokeen)
• Wireshark 2.4 Increases Protocol Coverage (Kay Ewbank)
• Razor Pages Commands & Events (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• Lessons Learned From Benchmarking Fast Machine Learning Algorithms (Miguel Fierro, Mathew Salvaris, Guolin Ke & Tao Wu)
• Cloud Shell’s code editor now in beta (Sachin Kotwani)
• Adobe Connect On Web Conferencing, Open Standards, and the End of the Flash Player (Jacob Rosen)
• Migrating Games from Flash to Open Web Standards on Facebook (Jakub Pudełek)
• Yep, We Should (Almost) Always Build An API (Matthew Jones)
• The End of an Era – Next Steps for Adobe Flash (John Hazen)
• Announcing the preview of App Service domain (Sunitha Muthukrishna)
• Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era (Troy Hunt)
• Best Practices for Azure based applications and Workloads (Vikram Pendse)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Get started with WPF viewer for reports, PDFs, and SSRS (Shilpa Sharma)
• WPF Tip #16 – Extended WPF Toolkit – ChildWindow & MessageBox Controls (Me)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,214 – Naming Scheme for XAML Elements (Sean Sexton)
• Xamarin.Tip – Borderless DatePicker (Alex Dunn)

Visual Studio & .NET

• New Extensions for Visual Studio 2017 (Terrence Dorsey)
• Practical C# – The Convert class (Andrea Angella)
• How to Fix NuGet Credential Prompts (Infragistics Team)
• .NET Framework July 2017 Quality Update (Rich Lander)
• XML to JSON conversion with Json.NET (Matthew Groves)
• Top 5 .NET Exceptions (Chris Walden)
• CodeRush for Roslyn, Version 17.1.6, is Available (Mark Miller)
• If there is no difference between two options, choose the one that is easier to debug (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Let the Merge Games begin! (Oren Eini)
• V2.1 of Agile Self-assessment Game released (Ben Linders)
• What’s the Difference Between a Scrum Board and a Kanban Board? (Karl Scotland)
• Creating a Project in Visual Studio Team Services (Aaron Marisi)
• User Stories Don’t Work for our Team (Dave Nicolette)
• The well-factored approach to securing ROI on your service investment: Part 2 (Ryan Murray)

Mobile & IoT

• Android Testing Support Library 1.0 is here! (Michael Amygdalidis, Stephan Linzner & Nick Korostelev)
• Short note on labelling text fields in native iOS applications (Graeme Coleman)
• Developer Tips: NFC Tags in App Development (Veranika Papkouskaya)
• Azure IoT Developer Kit Preview Started Shipping (Chris Pietschmann)
• K is for Kinvey: The NativeScript/Kinvey App Challenge (Jen Looper)
• 10 Tips for Successfully Adding Account Linking to Your Alexa Skill (Martha Kang)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Windows Insider Podcast Episode 5 (Dona Sarkar)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to succeed with Agile in the Enterprise | Hemant Khati (Vasco Duarte)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 205 | Azure news for Containers, Nested Virtualization & new VM sizes for Azure and AWS (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 106: Temporal Tables (Carlos L. Chacon)
• RunAs Radio – DevOps for Everyone with Rob England (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Azure SQL Database Elastic Pools and Elastic Jobs | Data Exposed and SQL Unplugged – July 2017 Edition | SQL Unplugged (Scott Klein)
• SE-Radio Episode 298: Moshe Vardi on P versus NP (Felienne)
• Software Engineering Daily – Startup Roundtable with Joseph Jacks and Gregory Koberger (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – Chatbots explained | Azadeh Khojandi at DDD Sydney 2017 (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – Iterative Learning (Jonathan Cutrell)
• 2017 Quarterfinals | Imagine Cup World Finals 2017 (Susan Ibach)

Community & Events

• Girl Scouts add new STEM badges in robotics, coding, and race car design (Dani Deahl)
• Making it easier to grow communities on GitHub (February Helen Keeney)
• Ionic Dev Survey says… There’s no better time to be a web developer (Max Lynch)
• 10 Questions with Julie Driver (James Ashley)

Database

• Quick Start Deployment of a SQL Server Windows Failover Cluster on Amazon AWS (Greg Robidoux)
• Tighten SQL Server security with custom server and database roles (Douglas Correa)
• SQL SERVER – Msg 1833 – File Cannot be Reused Until After the Next BACKUP LOG Operation (Pinal Dave)
• Removing sensitive data from a database (Coeo)

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell, Azure Automation, and OMS – Part I (Will Anderson)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-26 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2391 (Chris Alcock)

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