Dew Drop – August 16, 2017 (#2543)

Top Links

• Exploring refit, an automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Standard (Scott Hanselman)
• Updates in Visual Studio 2017 based on your UserVoice suggestions (Mark Wilson-Thomas)
• Toolkits, Toolkits, Toolkits! (Clint Rutkas)
• Announcing the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (Steve Roberts)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Upgrade NgRX to 4.x (Dave M. Bush)
• WebStorm 2017.2.2 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• 5 Common Myths Around Moving to Docker (Megan Rees Ahigian)
• Azure Functions with Couchbase Server (Matthew Groves)
• Node v8.4.0 (Current) (Anna Henningsen)
• Scaling Azure Functions with Durable Functions (Chris Pietschmann)
• Managing your resources with Azure Cloud Shell (Corey Sanders)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• LiveXAML and Xamarin.Forms (Tomasz Cielecki)
• Reducing App File Size In Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Android and F# are at last friends (Sam Williams)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Picking up New Project Template right from the Start Page in Visual Studio 2017 (Abhijit Jana)
• Practical C# – Sequence Equality (Andrea Angella)
• How to use the C++ Core Guidelines Checker outside of Visual Studio (Andrew Pardoe)
• Working with JSON in C# & VB (Graeme Grant)
• Global query filters in Entity Framework Core 2.0 (Gunnar Peipman)
• .NET Core 2.0: Everything you need to know (Simon Bisson)
• Changes to Project Templates and Code Wizards in 15.3 (Augustin Popa)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Create Gradient-Filled Objects With the Blend Tool in Adobe Illustrator (Creative Cloud Team)
• CodeIt.Right Rules Explained, Part 8 (Erik Dietrich)
• How to View Usability Study Results in Indigo Studio (Infragistics Team)
• Evolving API Pagination at Slack (Michael Hahn)
• GitHub – Introducing embedded code snippets (Lexi Galantino)

Mobile & IoT

• How to Setup Android Emulator using Android Studio (Karan Rustagi)
• Bringing Your User Profile Store to Mobile with NativeScript and Angular (Nic Raboy)
• #Hololens – Getting Started with #MixedRealityToolkit #MRToolkit (Bruno Capuano)
• Designing Skills for Echo Show: Choosing the Right List Template (Martha Kang)
• Scaffold Your Next Mobile App with a NativeScript Template (Sebastian Witalec)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Design Patterns: Adapter and Façade | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Technology and Friends Episode 496: Oren Eini on RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Building Visual Studio Code Extensions with Sean McBreen | Code Conversations (Jon Galloway & Maria Naggaga)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 207 | Microsoft AI Part 2: Bot Framework with Paul Stubbs (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• ngAir 126 – Managing Code for Multiple Apps and Teams with Jeff Whelpley and Gleb Bahmutov (Justin Schwartzenberger)
• Functional Geekery Episode 104 – Debasish Ghosh (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Azure and Azure Stack with Aidan Finn (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Talk Python to Me #125 – Django REST framework and a new API star is born (Michael Kennedy)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Azure Container Instances with WINDOWS containers (RicksterCDN)
• Enterprise HDInsight Monitoring with Operations Management Suite | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• SE-Radio Episode 300: Jonathan Stark on Mobile App Development (Nate Black)
• Are Microservices and APIs Becoming SOA 2.0? (Bob Rhubart)
• Software Engineering Daily – Building Developer Communities with Juan Pablo Buriticá (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Webinar: Publish Your Android APK on Amazon (Serena McIntire)
• Live Webinar: Take your .NET Skills from the Desktop to Android and iOS (Mark Smith)
• So Your Tech Event Needs Money? (Sam Basu)
• Microsoft acquires Cycle Computing for its high-performance cloud computing expertise (Tom Krazit)
• Three Hidden Takeaways from Code.org’s AP Computer Science News (Tracey Welson-Rossman)

Database

• Additional SERVERPROPERTY properties in SQL Server (Ahmad Yaseen)
• What If Week: SQL Server Code Review (Erik Darling)

PowerShell

• PSSwagger – Automatically generate PowerShell cmdlets from OpenAPI (f.k.a Swagger) specification (Manikyam Bavandla)
• Rapidly deploy Serverless Azure Functions using PowerShell (Doug Finke & Albert Duan)

Miscellaneous

• Surface Laptop Core i7 in Burgundy and Cobalt Blue are now available in the U.S. (Daniel Rubino)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-16 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2406 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1910 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The week in .NET – .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston, and links! (Bertrand Le Roy)

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