Dew Drop – September 20, 2017 (#2565)

Top Links

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 17 – Use PowerShell with Azure Cloud Shell and Azure Tips and Tricks Part 18 – Use Tags to quickly organize Azure Resources (Michael Crump)
• Watch .NET Conf 2017! (Rich Lander)
• Announcing GitHub Desktop 1.0 (Brendan Forster)
• Swift 4.0 Released! (Ted Kremenek)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 16288 and Mobile Emulator Build 15240 Released (Clint Rutkas)

Web & Cloud Development

• Refactoring to Angular Pipes (Aaron Marisi)
• Creating an extension method for attaching key-value pairs to scope state using ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
• NgRX 4 Lazy Loading (Dave M. Bush)
• Abstracting System Time in ASP.NET Applications (Dino Esposito)
• React.js with WordPress as a Backend: WP REST API Example (Maxime LaBoissonniere)
• Develop a User Profile Store and Session Store with Node.js – Video (Nic Raboy)
• How to Call WCF Services and Create SOAP Services with ASP.NET Core (Ricardo Peres)
• How much storage space is my Progressive Web App using? (Dean Hume)
• Introducing Twilio Studio, the Fastest Way to Build With Twilio (Benjamin Stein)
• Twilio Functions Now Supports npm (Chris Corcoran)
• Use Azure App Insights to track events in your app/web part/provisioning code (Chris O’Brien)
• Ignite 2017 Preview: Coming Azure Changes (Chris Pietschmann)
• What is a Default Parameter in a Function? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Team collaboration with Postman mock servers (Joyce)
• Organic SVG Shape Morph Ideas (Mary Lou)
• Docker Official Images are now Multi-platform (Michael Friis)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Working With Multiple Windows In UWP Using MVVM (Ricardo Pons)
• Xamarin Stable Release: 15.3.5 with Xcode 9 Support (Brendan Zagaeski)
• The moving parts of Xamarin.Mac (Chris Hamons)
• Pre-release: Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0.275-pre3 (David Ortinau)
• Augment Reality with Xamarin and iOS 11 (Larry O’Brien)

Visual Studio & .NET

• TFS 2017 Update 3 RC is available (Brian Harry)
• Refactoring Data Grids with C# Extension Methods (Ed Charbeneau)
• CodeRush for Roslyn 17.1.8 is Available (Mark Miller)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Running xUnit Tests with VSTS (Scott Banwart)
• Understanding Graphs and Their Application on Software Systems (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Best Prototyping Tools and Resources for Designers in 2017 (Bogdan Sandu)
• Why Work Item rules are so important (Matteo Emili)
• How do I report an extension issue effectively? (Willy-P. Schaub)

Mobile & IoT

• Learn to create a System Keyboard on Android (Sylvain Saurel)
• Google Play Billing Library 1.0 released (Neto Marin)
• How To Build An Ionic App With A Graphcool Backend – Part 2 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• Creating Digital Signatures With Swift (Collin Stuart)
• Building Chatbot with Firebase and API.AI (Divyanshu Bhargava)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Functional Geekery Episode 108 – David Christiansen (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – The DSC Book with Missy Januszko (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Talk Python to Me #130 – 10 books Python developers should be reading (Michael Kennedy)
• Tuesdays with Corey – go TEST Scheduled Maintenance | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Profiling Live Azure Web Apps with Application Insights (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Software Engineering Daily – Brave Browser with Jonathan Sampson (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – DCR: Traits of a Great Developer – Communications Expert (Jonathan Cutrell)
• What is Small Basic – Featured Video (Ed Price)
• .NET Conf Keynote (Scott Hunter, Miguel de Icaza & Mads Torgersen)
• .NET Conf – .NET Standard and .NET Conf – Diagnostics 101 (Jon Galloway)
• .NET Conf – What’s New in ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Daniel Roth)
• .NET Conf – Bringing your WinForms/WPF investments forwards with UWP/.NET Standard 2.0 (Chris Barker & Daniel Jacobson)
• .NET Conf – What’s New in Xamarin (James Montemagno)
• .NET Conf – Beyond Mobile: Server, Games, and more with Visual Studio for Mac (Mikayla Hutchinson)

Community & Events

• Conferences for Introverts. Part 8: Speak at Conferences (Alan Mendelevich)
• Xbox chief Phil Spencer joins Microsoft’s Senior Leadership Team (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• How Much Do Developers Earn? Find Out with the Stack Overflow Salary Calculator (Julia Silge)

Database

• Getting started with source control for SQL Server (Matteo Lorini)
• More on Resumable Online Index Rebuilds in SQL Server 2017 (Aaron Bertrand)
• The importance of bringing Python to SQL Server (Coeo)
• SQL SERVER – Effective Way to Take Backup with SQL Backup and FTP 11 (Pinal Dave)
• Working with JSON in SQL Queries (Peter Vogel)

PowerShell

• PSGallery and catalog files (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16291 for PC (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-20 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2425 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1935 (Mike Gunderloy)

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