Dew Drop – November 15, 2017 (#2604)

Top Links

• Working with Rider’s built-in terminal (Maarten Balliauw)
• .NET Framework November 2017 Security and Quality Rollup and .NET Core November 2017 Update (Rich Lander)
• Xamarin Preview Release: 15.5 Preview 4 (Brendan Zagaeski)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 51 – Debug Azure Functions with Visual Studio Code (Michael Crump)

Web & Cloud Development

• Supporting Azure Functions and WebJobs (Thomas Ardal)
• How to Create Simple Button Fades With CSS (Craig Campbell)
• Docker Enterprise Edition Certified as Kubernetes Conformant (Daniel Hiltgen)
• Angular Ionic and Angular CLI (Dave M. Bush)
• Single-Page Applications With ngRoute and ngAnimate in AngularJS (Dogacan Bilgili)
• Angular 5 Release: What’s New? (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• Defending Angular Applications with a Content Security Policy (Tsvetomir Tsonev)
• The bare minimum a distributed system developer should know about: HTTPS Negotiation (Oren Eini)
• IIS: File API Enhancements (IIS Team)
• Creating a custom xUnit theory test DataAttribute to load data from JSON files (Andrew Lock)
• Simplifying function expressions and the function statement (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Announcing TensorFlow Lite (TensorFlow Team)
• Level up your Postman game to land your dream job (Joyce)
• Updates on Netflix’s Container Management Platform (Netflix Technology Blog)
• Razor Pages Model NullReferenceException (Steve Smith)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Step Bar in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
• [BOOK] Xamarin.Forms Essentials (Gerald Versluis)
• Coding iOS Apps with Visual Studio and Xamarin (but No Mac?) (David Ramel)

Visual Studio & .NET

• #VS2017 – Sample ConsoleApp to initialize missions in #Minecraft with Xml #ProjectMalmo (Bruno Capuano)
• Mediatr Custom Behavior: Logging (Scott Banwart)
• Did you know – You can check all the installed Common Language Runtime (CLR) Versions in your machine? (Abhijit Jana)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Fake Agile (Jurgen Appelo)
• Coupling and Testability (David Bernstein)
• 7 steps to become a UI/UX designer (Nicole Saidy)
• How to Build a User-Centric Information Architecture Without Endless Debate (Paul Boag)
• Microspeak: FCIB (Raymond Chen)
• GitHub: Build on your workflow with four new Marketplace apps (Marc Campbell)

Mobile & IoT

• AlexaDev Tuesday: Proving Alexa Skill Content Is Public Domain (April Hamilton)
• Java 8 for Android Development: Stream API and Date & Time Libraries (Jessica Thornsby)
• Publish GameMaker Studio 2 Games to Amazon Fire (Part 2) (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
• PerceptionColor/Depth/InfraredFrameSources–Access to Camera Streams (Mike Taulty)
• Introducing the Query Interface in Couchbase Mobile 2.0 (Priya Rajagopal)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Machine Learning & Lie Detection with Jennifer Marsman (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Windows Central Podcast 72: Samsung’s Mixed Reality headset (Zac Bowden)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 225 | The day the internet disappeared, Azure CDN & Blob goodness, Office 365 APIs going away and Viso Online! (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Webinar Recording | Build Better Games with Unity and Microsoft Azure (Courtney Witmer)
• RunAs Radio – SQL Q and A from SQLIntersection Fall 2017 (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• TechDays Sweden 2017 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Software Engineering Daily – Fiverr Engineering with Gil Scheinfeld (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Focus Week: 3 Focus Factors (Jonathan Cutrell)
• The Developer Show — TL;DR 088 (Timothy Jordan)

Community & Events

• DevOps @ Connect(); 2017 (Brian Harry)
• Minecraft: Education Edition reaches a milestone of two million users and releases new Hour of Code tutorial (Deirdre Quarnstrom)
• Strengthening our culture of inclusion (Kathleen Hogan)

Database

• Retrieving and Updating JSON Objects in SQL Server 2016 (Peter Vogel)
• SQL Server Management Studio Import Wizard Improvements (Rajendra Gupta)
• SQL Server DateTime Best Practices (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – The Description for Event ID 18456 From Source MSSQLSERVER Cannot be Found (Pinal Dave)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-767 Implementing a SQL Data Warehouse (Kim Spilker)

MS Teams

• Authorize guest access in Microsoft Teams (MS Docs)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-11-15 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-11-15 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2465 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1974 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 14 Nov 2017 (Malcolm Jack)

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