Dew Drop – January 11, 2018 (#2641)

Top Links

• PowerShell Core 6.0: Generally Available (GA) and Supported! (Joey Aiello)
• Now Available: Offer Add-on Subscriptions with Automated Recurring Billing in Your UWP Apps (Dev Center Team)
• Angular 5.2 Now Available (Stephen Fluin)
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac Version 7.4 Preview (Christine Ruana)

Web Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 77 – Working with Azure Storage Explorer (Michael Crump)
• Dynamically Loading Components with Angular CLI (Chaz Gatian)
• 2017: Build Azure Year in Review (Chris Pietschmann)
• HTML 5.2 is Done, HTML 5.3 is Coming (Geoff Graham)
• Using Your Own Private Registry with Docker Enterprise Edition (Patrick Devine)
• Web. Period. (Daniel Glazman)
• ICYMI: Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework (Joe Mayo)
• Node v9.4.0 (Current) (Myles Borins)
• Introducing Container Storage Interface (CSI) Alpha for Kubernetes (K. Barnard)
• Make a Video Web Component, the Stencil Way (Prosper Otemuyiwa)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• [POLL] What CustomRenderers Or Effects Do You Create In Xamarin.Forms? (Adam Pedley)
• Consuming a RESTful Web Service in Xamarin Forms using Refit (Part 1) (Charlin Agramonte)
• Implement grouping in the Xamarin.Forms ListView (Gerald Versluis)
• My People (Shen Chauhan)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C++ Static Analysis Improvements for Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2 (Kyle Reed)
• Debugging an embedded ARM device in Visual Studio (Marc Goodner)
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview Available Today! (Pierce Boggan)
• Extending the async methods in C# (Sergey Teplyakov)
• CMake Support in Visual Studio – Test Explorer Integration, CMake 3.10 and IntelliSense Enhancements for C++ Open Folder and CMake (Will Buik)
• Defining to-do patterns in ReSharper (Maarten Balliauw)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Boost.Test Unit Testing: Dynamic Library support and New Item Template (Nick Uhlenhuth)
• Support for Continuous Delivery to Containers and TFVC in Visual Studio 15.6 Preview 2 (Ahmed Metwally)
• Saga Pattern | How to implement business transactions using Microservices – Part I (Denis Rosa)
• 9 Reasons to Slice User Stories Better (Ilia Pavlichenko)
• “Git” it together: Some tips on commit etiquette and best practices for junior developers (Jeremy Gunter)
• Long Distance Relationships, or How to Manage a Remote Team (Natallia Brych)
• Forking and Cloning from GitHub (Steve Gordon)

Mobile & IoT

• Android UI Automation: Part 2, Making It Easy (Valera Zakharov)
• Experiments with Shared Holograms and Azure Blob Storage/UDP Multicasting (Part 7) (Mike Taulty)
• Get early access to Unity 2018.1: the beta is out (Carlos Rincon)
• GameMaker Basics: Screen Shake (Nathan Ranney)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Finding a Job in Software Development with Chuck Wood (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Apache Spark Connector for Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Syntax Podcast – GraphQL? Here is what you need to know! (Wes Bos)
• Using Cognitive Search to Understand the JFK Documents | AI Show (Golnaz Alibeigi, Sonya Koptyev & Seth Juarez)
• #ifdef MIXED REALITY | #ifdef WINDOWS (Nikola Metulev)
• Radio TFS – Rubbing DevOps on 2018 with Donovan Brown (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones (Emily Maryatt)

Community & Events

• How our Communities Drive Culture (Adobe Careers)
• One Year at Microsoft (Steve Michelotti)

Database

• LiteDB: Embedded .NET NoSQL Database (Derek Comartin)
• Special offer: Save up to 60% on SQL Server 2017 learning resources (Kim Spilker)
• Issues with SQLCMD when using special characters (Daniel Farina)
• Regular Expressions (Day 10) (Wayne Sheffield)

PowerShell

• FetchRemote function to work with git in Powershell (Michael Freidgeim)
• How do I get the computer’s serial number? Consuming Windows Runtime classes in desktop apps, part 5: PowerShell (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-11 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2503 (Chris Alcock)

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