Dew Drop – February 16, 2018 (#2667)

Top Links

• Visual Studio Preview (15.6 Preview 5) now available and Windows Community Standup on February 22, 2018 (Clint Rutkas)
• Visual Studio Code is now shipping with Anaconda! (John Lam)
• Rider 2017.3 and Unity (Matt Ellis)
• OzCode 3.5 EAP new feature: Conditional Search (Michael Shpilt)

Web & Cloud Development

• Creating Reusable View Components in ASP.NET Core (Peter Vogel)
• ASP.NET Core WebHooks – Secret Values (Adam Storr)
• What’s new with AWS AppSync (Adrian Hall)
• Developing Web Apps with ASP.NET Core 2.0 and React – Part 1 (Andrea Chiarelli)
• VS Code for PHP development (Gunnar Peipman)
• Docker Compose and Kubernetes with Docker for Desktop (Mike Coleman)
• Using WordPress Content in a Native Mobile App (Rob Lauer)
• Creating a Blogging App Using Angular & MongoDB: Edit Post (Roy Agasthyan)
• Enforce SSL and use HSTS in .Net Core(2.0): .Net Core security Part I (Neel Bhatt)
• The 4 Major Tenets of Kubernetes Security (Chenxi Wang)
• Staticman for User-Generated Content on a Jekyll Static Website (Jean-Sebastien Tremblay)
• My Microservices FAQ (Jimmy Bogard)
• A Gentle and Practical Introduction to Progressive Web Apps (Raymond Camden)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Design-Time Improvements in Telerik WPF Document Controls (Borislav Ivanov)
• Xamarin 101: How to use Continuous or Infinite Scrolling in Xamarin Forms (Devlin Duldulao)
• Relative time formatting in Xamarin Forms (Rendy Del Rosario)
• Xamarin.iOS and Xcode 9.3 Web Preview (John Miller)
• Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement and Microsoft Store Policies (Dev Center Team)
• Why are there two kinds of Universal Windows apps, one for Windows 8 and another for Windows 10? (Raymond Chen)

Visual Studio & .NET

• The curse of memory fragmentation (Oren Eini)
• Where .NET Core 2.1 is Headed (Jeff Martin)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Unit Tests in the Pyramid (Martin Fowler)
• Developers ask: Can I legally use the “fluent UI” or ribbon design? (Jonathan Allen)
• How to analyze your open source project with SonarCloud and VSTS (Mikael Krief)
• Ramping Up Regression Testing Essential in DevOps Environments (Nilesh Patel)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Three Quick Tips: Signing Your iOS Apps with Visual Studio App Center Build (Daniel Adams)
• Tips & Tricks for Ionic on Desktop (Rodrigo Fernández)
• New Alexa Skills Kit Developer Console (Beta) Streamlines Development Process (Paul Cutsinger)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Shayne Boyer – Docker Tools for Visual Studio | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Shayne Boyer, Kathy Hickman & Rich Lander)
• What’s New in Azure Cosmos DB (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• NDP Episode #22: Couchbase, the Engagement NoSQL Database (Nic Raboy)
• Continuous Integration with App Center Build for Xamarin Apps | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Syncfusion | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The importance of cross-functional teams | Tanner Wortham (Vasco Duarte)
• Rocket 162: The Internet Was A Mistake (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• This Week on Windows: Amazon Music app, fifth anniversary of Surface Pro and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• StarTalk Radio – #ICYMI – The Science of Curling, with Olympians Brad Gushue and Nina Roth (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• #ifdef WINDOWS – One Developer’s Guide to the Surface Hub (Nikola Metulev)
• Windows Weekly 557: White Chocolate (Paul Thurrott)
• Code in the Classroom with Dr. Peli de Halleux (Emily Maryatt)
• Radio TFS – Anthony Borton on Conducting the Trainer Train (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Deep Learning for Music Generation – The Code | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
• Developer Tea – Thinking, Acting & Marshmallows (Jonathan Cutrell)
• AureliaCasts – Creating Compelling Aurelia Video Tutorials (Nick Shallee)

Community & Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Oren Novotny (Willy-P. Schaub)
• #Event – Less than 7 days to #Minecraft for Developers: Learning to Rock, Code and advanced #ArtificialIntelligence (Bruno Capuano)
• Q&A: MVP Chiayi Yen Is On A Mission To Make Data Science More Diverse (MVP Award Program)
• Microsoft celebrates the fifth anniversary of Surface Pro (Panos Panay)

Database

• Export SQL Server Data to Multiple Excel Worksheets using SQL Server Integration Services (Nisarg Upadhyay)
• The February release of SQL Operations Studio is now available (Alan Yu)
• What Do We Mean by Database Scalability? (Craig S. Mullins)

PowerShell

• Enabling alerts for Azure SQL database via PowerShell cmdlets (John Miner)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2529 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)

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