Dew Drop – September 19, 2017 (#2564)

Top Links

• 7 More Lesser-known Debugging Tactics for Visual Studio (Kaycee Anderson)
• Introducing Twilio Studio, the Fastest Way to Build With Twilio (Benjamin Stein)
• CCleanup: A Vast Number of Machines at Risk (Edmund Brumaghin)
• .NET Rocks! – Migrating to .NET Core 2 with Jeremy Likness (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web & Cloud Development

• Creating an extension method for attaching key-value pairs to scope state using ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
• SignalR Group messages with ngrx and Angular (Damien Bowden)
• ASP.NET Core Web API Attributes (David Pine)
• Angular Version 5 Release was Delayed (Dor Moshe)
• OData Using ASP.NET Web API 2 (El Mahdi Archane)
• Create Interactive Charts Using Plotly.js, Part 1: Getting Started (Monty Shokeen)
• Top Tips for Getting the Most out of Kendo UI Grid for Angular (Tsvetomir Tsonev)
• Twilio Functions Now Supports npm (Chris Corcoran)
• Fixing a bug in TensorBoard (David Humphrey)
• What is a Default Parameter in a Function? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• #LogicApps – Introduction and main differences with Microsoft Flow #MSFlow (Bruno Capuano)
• Bots: Beyond the Button (Matthew Calder)
• The end of Framework Churn (Max Lynch)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Announcing the Windows Premium Ads Publishers Program (Anusha Subramanian)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Writing Concurrent Programs Using F# Mailbox Processors (Rachel Reese)
• Productive C# – Inferred Tuple Element Names (Andrea Angella)
• Convert Json to C# (and More) with quicktype (James Montemagno)
• New dotnet new (Greg Duncan)
• Conditional TargetFrameworks for Multi-Targeted .NET SDK Projects on Cross-Platform Builds (Rick Strahl)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Common MSBuild properties and items with Directory.Build.props (Thomas Levesque)
• Best Prototyping Tools and Resources for Designers in 2017 (Bogdan Sandu)
• VSTS Update – Sept 15 and VSTS in Canada (Brian Harry)
• Project navigation for the way you work (Jamie Kite)
• ebook deal of the week: Visual Models for Software Requirements (Kim Spilker)
• The Test Data Generator functor (Mark Seemann)

Mobile & IoT

• MVP for Android Apps (David Starr)
• AlexaDev Tuesday: Tips To Drive Alexa Skill Engagement (April Hamilton)
• How To Build An Ionic App With A Graphcool Backend – Part 1 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• [AVS Tech Series] The Basics of Amazon Alexa Developer Tools and Services (Ted Karczewski)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• InfoQ Podcast: Twitter’s Yao Yue on Latency, Performance Monitoring, & Caching at Scale (Yao Yue)
• SSW TV – JavaScript is Awe-Ful | Katie McLaughlin at DDD Sydney 2017 (Sophie Belle)
• Revision Path 209: Frances Liddell (Maurice Cherry)
• Dream.Build.Play September Update | .GAME (MrAndyPuppy & Stacey Haffner)
• Virtual Machine Planned Maintenance | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Software Engineering Daily – Deep Learning Systems with Milena Marinova (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – DCR: Traits of a Great Developer – Expanding Perspective (Jonathan Cutrell)
• SE-Radio Episode 303: Zachary Burt on Freelancing as a Career Option (Felienne)
• Functional Geekery Episode 108 – David Christiansen (Steven Proctor)

Community & Events

• What C# Corner Can Do For You (Mahesh Chand)
• Philly .NET Meetup – Azure Machine Learning and Philly .NET – .NET Conf Viewing party (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
• Conferences for Introverts. Part 7: Media (Alan Mendelevich)
• Microsoft holding Windows Mixed Reality event on October 3 (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• History of Women in Software Engineering (Justin Boyer)
• 25+ Sensational Things To Do In Philly This Week, September 18-24 (Michael Butler)
• I’m Hiring at Microsoft (Rob Eisenberg)
• Event planning made easier with Office (Office 365 Team)

Database

• Seamless Monitoring and Reporting for SQL Server (Scott Murray)
• RavenDB 4.0 Python client beta release (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Satya Nadella Rewrites Microsoft’s Code (Harry McCracken)
• Google Chrome Will Block Autoplaying Video With Sound Next Year (Ryan Whitwam)
• Pepe’s creator is sending takedown notices to far-right sites (Adi Robertson)
• Windows 10 Tip: Set up family features on your Windows 10 PC (Elana Pidgeon)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-19 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2424 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1934 (Mike Gunderloy)

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