Dew Drop – September 12, 2017 (#2559)

Top Links

• A significant update to the XAML Designer (Daniel Jacobson)
• Join LEAD this October at TechBash 2017 (Katie Akrop DeSantis)
• Expand your collaboration with guest access in Microsoft Teams (Lori Wright)
• .NET Rocks! – New Razor Pages with Jess Chadwick (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web & Cloud Development

• ASP.NET Core 2.0 Update: Building Your First API with ASP.NET Core (Kevin Dockx)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 14 – Generate SSH public key to log into Linux VM with Cloud Shell (Michael Crump)
• How to Build Your Own Fax Machine with Tessel, JavaScript and Twilio (Matthias Damm)
• Implementing Serverless Node.js Functions Using Google Cloud (Vignes Aruljothi)
• Localization Issue in RazorPages (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• Why is Serverless Extensibility better than Webhooks? (Bobby Johnson)
• Build a To-Do API With Node and Restify (Chinedu Izuchukwu)
• Introducing B-Series, our new burstable VM size (Corey Sanders)
• Microservices: The Good, the Bad and the Hype (Jennifer Riggins)
• Scaling Event Sourcing for Netflix Downloads, Episode 1 (Karen Casella, Phillipa Avery, Robert Reta & Joseph Breuer)
• Madcap Idea 9: Kafka Streams Interactive Queries (Sacha Barber)
• How to include scopes when logging exceptions in ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Android 8.0 Gets Even Sweeter with Oreo (Jon Douglas)
• Using Effects in Xamarin Forms (Steven Thewissen)
• Xamarin Beta Release: 15.4 Beta 1 (Adrian Murphy)

Visual Studio & .NET

• .NET Core vs .NET Framework: How to Pick a .NET Runtime for an Application (Angela Stringfellow)
• Two-phase name lookup support comes to MSVC (Andrew Pardoe)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• One Thing DevOps Does to Scrum Teams (David Starr)
• UX 101: A Basic Project Checklist (Tomas Laurinavicius)

Mobile & IoT

• Best practices to avoid security vulnerabilities in your iOS App (Shikhar Varshney)
• Return of Netduino, .NET on small hardware (Adam Patridge)
• Meet Alex Ziskind, Developer Expert for NativeScript (Jen Looper)
• Amazon Alexa Skill CLI and Management API to Streamline Development (Sergio De Simone)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• InfoQ Podcast: Denise Jacobs on Banishing Your Inner Critic (Denise Jacobs)
• Windows Central Podcast 63: The state of Windows 10 (Zac Bowden)
• Xamaron Podcast: Android Oreo Support, Xamarin Live Player Preview 2, New iOS 11 Previews, and more! (Pierce Boggan)
• The Amp Hour #359 – An Interview with Jeroen Domburg (Sprite_tm) (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Functional Geekery Episode 107 – Julie Moronuki (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 208: C. Spike Trotman (Maurice Cherry)
• Developer Tea – Introspection – Part 2 – Why & Why Not (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• New Xamarin University Webinar: Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks (Charles Petzold)
• Announcement: BizTalk Server embrace open source! (BizTalk Team)
• Proposal for StructureMap 5 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• 20 Fantastic Things To Do In Philly This Week, September 11-17 (Michael Butler)
• Travel to a Galaxy Far, Far, Away for a ‘Star Wars’ Celebration at the Kimmel Center (Monica Piluso)

Database

• What technologies are available in SQL Server to support ETL? (Tim Smith)
• Permissions to Schedule an SSIS Package from SQL Server Agent and the File System (Vitor Montalvao)
• SQL SERVER – How to Create Linked Server to SQL Azure Database? (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Manage tenant-scoped SPFx extensions across your SharePoint sites (Chris O’Brien)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-12 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-12 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #1929 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #296 (Frank Boucher)

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