Dew Drop – November 17, 2017 (#2606)

Top Links

• Spend more time working on the interesting stuff (Shawn Nandi) – A nice round-up of dev productivity tools announcements from this week.
• Test Experience Improvements (Kendra Havens, Nick Uhlenhuth & Pratap Lakshman)
• UPDATE – Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance (Updated for ASP.NET Core 2) and UPDATE – Microservices and Docker containers: Architecture, Patterns and Development guidance (Updated for .NET Core 2.0) (Cesar de la Torre)
• Badass Terminal: FCU WSL Edition (oh-my-zsh, powerlevel9k, tmux, and more!) (Jessica Deen)
• Announcing the Windows Compatibility Pack for .NET Core (Immo Landwerth)

Web & Cloud Development

• Simple APIs With Microsoft Flow And Azure Functions (Aaron Powell)
• Upgrading ASP.NET Libraries to .NET Standard (Daniel Crabtree)
• Understanding Sets With JavaScript (Alberta Williams)
• Editing the W3C HTML5 spec (Bruce Lawson)
• A Look at Angular Alongside Vue – Learning Materials (John Papa)
• How to Build Simple Chat Apps with JavaScript, Node.js and Twilio (Peter Mbanugo)
• Swarm Orchestration in Docker Enterprise Edition (Vivek Saraswat)
• Facebook: Changes to our Developer Offerings (Ming Li)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Custom Controls in Xamarin.Forms (Matthew Robbins)
• Advanced UWP: Communicating with Apps (Darren West)
• Xamarin: Tooling Choices (Chris Williams)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Rider’s F# plugin is now open source (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Improving the debugging experience for std::function (Eric Mittelette)
• AutoMapper extensions for Microsoft DI 3.2.0 released and AutoMapper 6.2.1 Released (Jimmy Bogard)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Tackling Technical Debt using NDepend (Derek Comartin)
• Introducing security alerts on GitHub (Miju Han)
• Release Gates: Releases with continuous monitoring built in (Shashank Bansal)

Mobile & IoT

• Getting your Android app ready for Autofill (Wojtek Kalicinski, Akshay Kannan & Felipe Leme)
• React Native v/s iOS- Comparing the development in both platforms (Rahul Verma)
• Xbox analytics report update in Dev Center (Dev Center Team)
• Kinecting to IoT (Greg Duncan)
• How to make a Collapsible Custom ActionBar in NativeScript (Jen Looper)
• HoloLens Tracking of an Immersive Headset (or “Manual Spatial Anchoring”) (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Hanselminutes – Moving Across Technology Stacks with Kamilah Taylor (Scott Hanselman)
• This Week on Windows: Surface Book 2 available today, Black Friday deals and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• Rocket 149: Get Yourself a Bentley (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Software Engineering Daily – Training the Machines with Russell Smith (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Focus Week: Listener Question (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 204 – Back to Cloud Services (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Meet Sean Perkins, Developer Expert for NativeScript (Jen Looper)
• Participate in the 2017 Go User Survey (Steve Francia)
• Life as a GitHub Intern: the Making of GitHub Field Day (Vanessa)
• New Meetup Group – Philly Azure (Tim Ferro)

Database

• Deploy SQL Server Integration Services SSIS Projects Using C# (Nat Sundar)
• RavenDB 4.0 Release Candidate 2 is out (Oren Eini)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams: Sorry, I was talking on mute. (Matt Soseman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux (Peter Bright)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17040 for PC (Dona Sarkar)
• Never coded before? Get started here, and be ready for your first dev job. (Matthew Calder)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-11-17 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-11-17 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2467 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1976 (Mike Gunderloy)

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