Dew Drop – November 29, 2017 (#2613)

Top Links

• An update on what’s coming next for Windows Insiders (Terry Myerson)
• Investing to grow right here at home (Brad Smith) – A major overhaul coming to Microsoft’s Redmond campus.
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 59 – FREE E-book titled The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure (Michael Crump)
• A Mobile DevOps Retrospective, Part III: Measurement, the Last Mile (Greg Shackles)

Web & Cloud Development

• Authorize Resource Tag Helper for ASP.NET Core (David Paquette)
• Four Ways to Deploy an ASP.NET Core 2 Website in Azure (Mark Heath)
• Developing and Operationalizing H2O.ai Models with Azure (Daisy Deng & Abhinav Mithal)
• It depends… [A look at the footprint of popular Node.js command-line parsing packages] (David Anson)
• Introducing Azure Automation watcher tasks public preview (Eamon O’Reilly)
• AWS PrivateLink Update – VPC Endpoints for Your Own Applications & Services and Amazon MQ – Managed Message Broker Service for ActiveMQ (Jeff Barr)
• PhpStorm 2017.3 is now released! (Maxim Kolmakov)
• New and improved Event and CSS inspection for Microsoft Edge DevTools (Clay Martin)
• Join us for an AMA on Azure Stack (Natalia Mackevicius)
• Azure Networking Tip for Developer – Subnet Calculator (Mitul Suthar)
• New Bot Connector support for ASP.NET Core 2.0 and 1.1 (Bot Framework Team)
• Redux: A Practical Tutorial (Bruno Krebs)
• New book: Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework: A Multiplatform Approach to Building Chatbots (Kim Spilker)
• Improve website performance by optimizing images (Mads Kristensen)
• Building Serverless Functions with Kotlin (Marcos Placona)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Schedule Meetings with Xamarin.Forms and the Microsoft Graph API (Mayur Tendulkar)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Beginning to Configure .NET Framework Applications with YAML (Jeff Fritz)
• NuGet package statistics (Jon Skeet)
• Configuring code formatting from code selection with ReSharper (Maarten Balliauw)
• Listing Strongly Typed Enum Options in C# (Steve Smith)
• CodeIt.Right Rules Explained, Part 12 (Erik Dietrich)
• Beware of the leaked image list when using the TVS_CHECKBOXES style (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• VSTS Update – Nov 28 (Brian Harry)
• Developers are users too — part 2 (Florina Muntenescu)
• The Mythical UX Designer – Five Common Misconceptions (Linn Vizard)

Mobile & IoT

• Delve deeper into Android development with our new course! (Jocelyn Becker)
• AlexaDev Tuesday: New Health And Fitness Skill Policy? (April Hamilton)
• Expanded Developer Preview of Notifications for Alexa Skills (BJ Haberkorn)
• Beginner’s Guide to Android Layout (Chinedu Izuchukwu)
• Sharing and Syncing Data between iOS Apps and App Extensions across devices (Priya Rajagopal)
• GameMaker Basics: Views (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
• Microsoft Graph Auth on HoloLens (Pete D.)
• NativeScript UI – What’s Next (Rob Lauer)
• Kotlin Native Adds Objective-C Interop, WebAssembly Support (Sergio De Simone)
• Introducing Amazon AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and off-line capabilities (Tara Walker)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• AiA 165: Angular Air with Justin Schwartzenberger (Charles Max Wood & Joe Eames)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to engage with Project Management in your Agile transformation | Joe Anderson (Vasco Duarte)
• JSJ 289: Visual Studio Code and Live Sharing with Chris Dias and PJ Meyer LIVE at Microsoft Connect 2017 (Charles Max Wood)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 227 | Office and SharePoint ESPC2017 News, Publicly Secret AWS Regions and Migrating VMWare to Azure (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• RunAs Radio – CosmosDB Update with Kirill Gavrylyuk (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• SE-Radio Episode 310: Kirk Pepperdine on Performance Optimization (Diomidis Spinellis)
• Software Engineering Daily – How IBM Runs Its Cloud with Jason McGee (Jeff Meyerson)
• GALs interveiw with Rachel Nabors, Program Manager at Microsoft | GALs (Soumow Atitallah & Cameron Tomisser)
• Developer Tea – How A Text Message Can Trigger Behavior Change (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Actions On Google Best Practices Video Series (Ido Green)

Community & Events

• WeWork buys Meetup for $200 million (Kif Leswing)
• Channel 9 Will Stop Accepting MVP Contributions (Mahesh Chand)
• Considerations for creating an online community (Preran Kumar)

Database

• Undetected SQL Server Data Corruption with Database Page Verify option set to NONE (Simon Liew)
• SQL Server 2016: MAX DOP at database level. (Toon Vanhoutte)
• Checking SQL Configuration with Pester & Dbatools (Andrew Pruski)
• Automatic tuning introduces Automatic plan correction and T-SQL management (Danimir Ljepava)
• Database Scoped Configurations (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)

PowerShell

• Use PowerShell to Send email from O365 Account (Chad Carroll)

Miscellaneous

• A Guide to Invoking WSL (Craig Wilhite)
• Citrix Receiver desktop app hits the Windows Store with Microsoft’s Desktop Bridge (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Coming soon to a flight near you! (Dona Sarkar)
• Microsoft and SAP announce partnership to use each other’s tech internally (Kareem Anderson)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-11-29 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-11-29 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2475 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1983 (Mike Gunderloy)

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