Dew Drop – February 5, 2018 (#2658)

Top Links

• .NET Core 2.1 Roadmap PT.1 | On .NET (Scott Hunter, Cecil Phillip, Daniel Roth, Kathy Hickman & Rich Lander)
• ASP.NET Core 2.1 roadmap (Daniel Roth)
• Entity Framework Core 2.1 Roadmap (Diego B. Vega)
• Building Xamarin.Android Apps in Team Services (VSTS) with Hosted Agents! (James Montemagno)

Web & Cloud Development

• Debugging JavaScript With A Real Debugger You Did Not Know You Already Have (Dustin Driver)
• V8 JavaScript Engine: V8 release v6.5 (V8 Team)
• ASP.NET Core Pitfalls – Redirect to Action Keeps Route Parameters (Ricardo Peres)
• Restoring And Resetting The Scroll Position On Navigation With A Polyfill In Angular 5.2.3 (Ben Nadel)
• ES proposal: numeric separators and ECMAScript 2018: the final feature set and JavaScript’s a mess – and that’s a good thing (Axel Rauschmayer)
• .NET Core 2.0 with Angular 4 and MySQL – Part 4 (Marinko Spasojevic)
• The React Toolbox – 2018 Edition (Adrian Hall)
• Securing an ASP.NET Core MVC application which uses a secure API (Damien Bowden)
• File uploads come to AngularFire (David East)
• How to dynamically create Component in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ARM Templates: Deploying Azure Functions with Application Insights (Eric Williams)
• New killer features planned for .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core 2.1 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 90 – Part 1 – Implementing Azure Search with SQL Server and ASP.NET MVC (Michael Crump)
• Vue.js with TypeScript and The joy that is Source Maps (with Vue.js and TypeScript) and Vue.js: Drawbacks of being a single and Vue.js: Deploying to Production (Peter Kuhn)
• API Is Not Just REST (Kin Lane)
• Aurelia Release Notes – Early February 2018 (Rob Eisenberg)
• LTFN 4: Intro to Convolutional Neural Networks (Josh Varty)
• REST is the new SOAP? (Mark Little)
• Introduction to TensorFlow – With Python Example (Nikola M. Živković)
• Serverless Micro Services: Getting Started and Serverless Microservice: Upload File (Jason Farrell)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Push notifications made easy in Xamarin (Rendy Del Rosario)
• Intro to Xamarin Forms with F# – Part 3 (Sam Williams)
• Lose the Cables: Make Deploying to an iOS or tvOS Device Easier (Vincent Dondain)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Learn C# Collection part 1 and C# Collection part 2 (Anirudha Gupta)
• Taming Configuration in C# (Cedd Burge)
• How Well Do You Know C#? (Damir Arh)
• Continuous Quality: Ship Better Apps Faster with Visual Studio App Center (Glenn Wester)
• .NET Core Global Tools and Gotchas (Nate McMaster)
• What Is New In .NET Core 2.1 (Mahesh Chand)
• The case of the SRWLock violation in a thread pool work item (Raymond Chen)
• .NET Core 2.1 Roadmap (Rich Lander)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Builder Design Pattern (DevIQ Team)
• The Future of Engineering at Redgate — A futurespective empathy map approach (Andrea Angella)
• Why The Hamburger Menu Should Disappear For Good (Ben Bate)
• Continuous Improvement and Custom Slots with the Dev Tips Skill (Jennifer King)
• Watch remote users interact with your prototype (Ken Rosen)
• The Many Advantages of Pair Testing (Simon Schrijver)
• Improve Tests with the Builder Pattern for Test Data (Steve Smith)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Exploring chat bots on the Amazon Alexa; to infinity and beyond (Team Novoda)
• Downloading audio files from Azure blob storage and playing them in Mixed Reality apps (Joost van Schaik)
• Getting Started with ARKit (Berta Devant)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 255 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• TWC9: Azure Event Grid Goes GA, Kubernetes on Windows 10 with Docker, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 068 – Rachel Andrew on CSS Grid (Matthew Groves)
• Azure IoT C SDK insights | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• No, You Go Podcast – Cool Adults with Sara Chipps (Sara Wachter-Boettcher, Jenn Lukas & Katel LeDû)
• The Nerdist Podcast – BIG ANNOUNCEMENT THING (Chris Hardwick, Jonah Ray & Matt Mira)
• Coding Blocks .NET 74 – Clean Architecture – The Art of Drawing Lines (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Developer on Fire Episode 310 | Sonia Gupta – Figuring It Out (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #378 – An Interview with Jason Kridner and Robert Nelson (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Dream.Build.Play February Update | Level Up (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• Talk Python to Me #149 – 4 Python Web Frameworks, Compared (Michael Kennedy)
• Windows Weekly 555: Granny Theft Auto and The State Of Apple In 2018 – What The Tech Ep. 386 (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Daily – Linkedin Resilience with Bhaskaran Devaraj and Xiao Li (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Research Bias (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• April 30th in Austin, Texas: Testing Without Mocks (Talk) (James Shore)
• #RubDevOpsOnIt (Donovan Brown)
• #Event – #Minecraft for Developers: Learning to Rock, Code and advanced AI (Bruno Capuano)
• Join me on our App Modernization roadshow throughout the Southeast! (Esteban Garcia)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Metadata For Developers (Alex Fleming)
• How Does TOP WITH TIES Work in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #159 and SQL SERVER Data Tools – SSDT for Visual Studio 2017 Installation Error 0x80070002: Error 0x80070002: Failed to Acquire Payload (Pinal Dave)
• Azure CosmosDB – Quick Start Demo App (Gregor Suttie)
• A Gentle Introduction To the Stack Overflow Schema (Erik Darling)

PowerShell

• How I created PowerShell.cool using Flow, Azure SQL DB, Cognitive Services & PowerBi (Rob Sewell)
• Iron Scripter 2018 prequel: Puzzle 4 (Richard Siddaway)

Miscellaneous

• Hot Code Replacement for Java comes to Visual Studio Code (Xiaokai He)
• How to create and navigate a directory with a single command. (Donovan Brown)
• 8 Ways to Trick Out Your Bash Experience on Mac (David Starr)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-05 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-05 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2520 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2028 (Mike Gunderloy)
• It’s That Time – Get Set For Your Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #314 (Frank Boucher)
• F# Weekly #5, 2018 – Saturn framework (new functional MVC for .NET Core) (Sergey Tihon)
• Azure Weekly: Feb 5, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #192 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.02.02 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• .NET Tips and Tricks ( Visual Studio , VS Code, Azure Cosmos DB, HoloLens) from Daily .NET Tips – Jan 2018 Links (Abhijit Jana)

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