Dew Drop – August 2, 2017 (#2533)

Top Links

• Facebook Messenger Bot: Step-by-Step Instructions for Building a Basic Facebook Messenger Chatbot (Mehfuz Hossain)
• How to format response data as XML or JSON, based on the request URL in ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
• Configure your app to start at log-in (Andrew Whitechapel)
• Prism in Xamarin Forms Step by Step (Part. 3) (Charlin Agramonte)

Web & Cloud Development

• After 3 Months Of JavaScript Linting, It’s Pretty Much All Pain And No Gain (Ben Nadel)
• TypeScript Basics for Angular Developers (Dave M. Bush)
• Azure Container Instances: Proof Microsoft Is Innovating with Containers (Janakiram MSV)
• Introducing seven new apps to GitHub Marketplace (Jessie VanderVeen)
• Inspiration for Menu Hover Effects (Mary Lou)
• Why Developers Love Cloud Logging Services (Matt Watson)
• Develop Web Apps Entirely in Swift with the Kitura Framework for Linux on IBM z Systems (Nicole Trudeau)
• Auth0 Webtasks: The Quickest of All Quick Starts (Randall Tombaugh)
• Madcap Idea Part 7 : Registration/Login Backend (Sacha Barber)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Exrin MVVM Operations – Write Less Code (Adam Pedley)
• The Rise of Xamarin (Jacqueline Bieringer)
• Xamarin Beta Release: 15.3 Preview 6 (Bri Brothers)
• Getting Started with Telerik UI for UWP (John Bristowe)
• MFractor – Free licenses for MVPs, discounts for Certified Developers (Matthew Robbins)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Declare Out variable right at the point – Out variable in C# 7.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• .NET Framework July 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10 (Rich Lander)
• Transform Single Line Property Accessors into Expression Body Functions using a Regular Expression (Daniel Vaughan)
• Parse or TryParse? Which one should I use? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Book Review – Scaling Teams: Strategies for Building Successful Teams (Kay Ewbank)
• Confessions Of An Angry Programmer (David McCarter)
• How to Set Up a Usability Study in Indigo Studio (Infragistics Team)
• Do This, Not That. UX Dos and Don’ts if You’re Just Starting Out (Karol K)
• Roll Out Radical Candor on Your Team (Kim Scott)

Mobile & IoT

• Raspberry Pi Device Simulator for Azure IoT (Chris Pietschmann)
• Multi-material: Using custom Inspectors and Scriptable Objects for UDIM materials (Johnathan Newberry)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Git Fundamentals | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Agile Uprising Podcast – Undercover Agile! (Jason Hrcsko)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Al Gore (Chris Hardwick)
• RunAs Radio – Windows Upgrade Readiness with Steve Thomas (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Jeremy on Technology and Friends (Jeremy Clark)
• Tuesdays with Corey – Azure Container Instances | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Connecting On-premises Hadoop to Azure Data Lake Store | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• Developer Tea – 3 Lessons of Productivity (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Xamarin Events in August (Jayme Singleton)
• 10 Questions with Bruno Capuano (James Ashley)
• Joining Microsoft (Laurent Bugnion)

Database

• SQL Server function to check dynamic SQL syntax (Eli Leiba)
• Installing SQL Server Agent on SUSE Linux (Manvendra Singh)
• Migrating a Web App from ClearDB to Azure Database for MySQL (Jason Anderson)
• SQL SERVER – How to Abort Index Rebuilding After Specific Time? (Pinal Dave)
• A whole new way to see differences in SQL Compare (Jamie Wallis)
• How we did (and did not) improve performance and efficiency in Marten 2.0 (Jeremy D. Miller)

PowerShell

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

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft is building eye-tracking tech into Windows 10 (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Flash is Dead: What Technologies Might Be Next? (David Robinson)
• Owning Surface just got easier with the new Surface Plus Program (Liz Hamren)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-02 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-02 (Dan Rigby)
• The week in .NET – Nuke, Warden.NET, .NET in Bangalore, and links! (Bertrand Le Roy)
• The Morning Brew #2396 (Chris Alcock)

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