Dew Drop – February 20, 2018 (#2668)

Top Links

• TWC9: Build Registration, Microsoft Startups, 5 Things About Docker, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• Ready for Prime Time: .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0 Have Arrived (Rick Strahl)
• The State of .NET in 2018 (Ed Charbeneau, John Bristowe & Sam Basu)
• .NET Rocks! – Talking C# with Bill Wagner and Jon Skeet (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web & Cloud Development

• Replacing jQuery With Vue.js: No Build Step Necessary (Sarah Drasner)
• How to move Azure Resources from one Azure Subscription to another? (Abhijit Jana)
• Cookie Authentication With ASP.NET Core 2.0 and Authentication Using Twitter in ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Ankit Sharma)
• How to check the version of .NET Core on an Azure App Service and What is the current .NET version on an Azure App Service (Benjamin Perkins)
• AKS: Azure Kubernetes Service – Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Jessica Deen)
• .NET Core 2.0, Angular 4 and MySQL. Part 6 (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Code an App With GraphQL, React Native and AWS AppSync: the Back-End (Nader Dabit)
• Reading and Writing HTML with Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
• Creating a Blogging App Using Angular & MongoDB: Edit Post (Roy Agasthyan)
• Ready to Learn Bootstrap 4? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Using Jekyll And OpenAPI To Evolve My API Documentation And Storytelling (Kin Lane)
• Shipping system fonts to GitHub.com (Chris Coyier)
• TypeScript 2.7: Numeric Separators (Marius Schulz)
• On Migrating Los Techies to Github Pages (Derek Greer)
• Bootstrap 4 Released (Darren West)
• Go 1.10 is released (Brad Fitzpatrick)
• Building Microservices with .NET Core 2.0 – Book Review (Carl Rippon)
• Scheduled task to automatically delete Fiddler HTTPS interception certificates and W3C Server Timing Header and API (Daniel Fisher)
• Fun with Vue: A Quick Overview (John Willoughby)
• LTFN 6: Weight Initialization (Josh Varty)
• Kubernetes RFC (Michael Richardson)
• Kubernetes – Part 2 of n, creating our first POD (Sacha Barber)
• Top 5 OWASP Resources No Developer Should Be Without (Sarah Vonnegut)
• The Windows Subsystem for Linux From Web Developer Perspective (Tatu Tamminen)
• Serverless Microservice: The API (Jason Farrell)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Building An F# Redux Store For C# Xamarin Apps (Thomas Bandt)
• AdMob In Xamarin.Forms – Display Google Ads In Your Mobile App (Adam Pedley)
• Tool for previewing XAML – LiveXAML makes your life a little bit easier (Daniel Hindrikes)
• XamaWIN – Add Safe Area to your iPhone X Apps in Xamarin.Forms (Joe Meyer)
• Xamarin UITest – Streamlined Back Door Calls (Martyn Wiggins)
• Extend Xamarin.Forms Controls Functionality with Behaviors (Matt Soucoup)
• Simplifying Number Data Entry in Xamarin Applications (Pavel Pavlov)
• Microsoft is turning off push notifications for Windows Phone 7.5 and 8.0 (Zac Bowden)
• Creating human-friendly texts on UWP with Humanizer (Diederik Krols)
• Why can’t I deploy my UWP app with .Net Standard 2.0 to a Mobile device or emulator? – Windows Store Developer Solutions (Rob Caplan)
• UWP Tip #16 – UWP Community Toolkit – Part 13, the Loading… Control (Me)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Procedural Generation with Unity and C# (Lance Talbert)
• Dapper Extensions Reloaded: Version 3.1.2 (Peter Kuhn)
• Analyzing distribution of Mono GC collections (Andrey Akinshin)
• #Net – Learning C # using only a browser (Bruno Capuano)
• Abstract class isomorphism (Mark Seemann)
• Debugging third-party code with Rider – now in Mono! (Matt Ellis)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• A quick look at the new SonarQube tasks for TFS and VSTS (Matteo Emili)
• Custom Build Task in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) (Gouri Sohoni)
• Book recommendations in the test of time (Oren Eini)
• Add DevOps Project Tile to Azure Portal Dashboard (Donovan Brown)
• How to build a DevOps roadmap to kickstart your digital transformation journey (DevOpsGuys)
• The Many Levels Of Concurrency (Erik Darling)
• Testing APIs Using Postman (Gary Liu)
• “Run-From-Zip” with Cake Kudu Client (Mattias Karlsson)
• Warden 2.0 (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Is Your Company’s Culture Stale? (Shawn Murphy)
• Accessing Configuration in .NET Core Test Projects (Rick Strahl)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Some asynchronous options on Android (David Blanc)
• Cross-platform applications – PhoneGap/Cordova, Xamarin, PWAs and now Flutter (Nick Randolph)
• Emerging App Security Regulations: Are You Compliant? (Gabriel Torok)
• How to Maintain an Engaging Voice-First Experience Using Third-Party APIs (Justin Jeffress)
• Building Your App On App Center (Jesse Liberty)
• Developing for ARKit 1.5 update using Unity ARKit Plugin (Jimmy Alamparambil)
• Announcing NativeScript-Vue 1.0 (TJ VanToll)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Mr. Robot Disassembled with Ryan Kazanciyan on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers (Scott Hanselman)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 070 – Tim Wingfield on API Design (Matthew Groves)
• MS Dev Show – Windows App Publishing Project with Stefan Wick (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• AFH 087: Why Agile Isn’t Working with John Cutler (Ryan Ripley)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 257 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Coding Blocks .NET 75 – Clean Architecture – Make Your Architecture Scream (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Maria Naggaga – Interactive learning with Try .NET | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Kathy Hickman, Rich Lander & Maria Naggaga)
• CodeNewbie S3:E4 – What should developers know about online privacy? (Laura Kalbag) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 314 | Jim Holmes – Breaking Bad Dynamics (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #380 – Just Terrestrial and Space Things (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Merge Conflict 85: All I Want To Do Is Multi-Target (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Functional Geekery Episode 120 – Lisa Passing (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 230: Ronia Peguero (Maurice Cherry)
• Talk Python to Me #151 – Gradual Typing of Production Applications (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Engineering Daily – Streaming Architecture with Ted Dunning (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Thinking, Acting & Marshmallows and Developer Tea – What Are You Creating? (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Weekly Dev Tips 018: Repository Tip – Encapsulate Query Logic (Steve Smith)
• Azure Podcast – Episode 216 – HDInsights, Big Data & Open Source (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Get Inspired and Build Skills at Alexa Dev Days – New Dates Added! (Akersh Srivastava)
• Interview with Skype Bots Succinctly Author Ed Freitas (Graham High)
• Microsoft shares details on what’s next for the Windows Insider Program (Andy Weir)
• Remembering The Dawn of the Open Source Movement (David Cassel)
• What Does a Developer Advocate Do? (Lorna Mitchell)

Database

• Non-Standard Delimiters for Columns and Rows Using SQL Server Bulk Insert (Tim Smith)
• Getting Started with DevOps and SQL Server (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL Server Operations Studio (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
• Developing Applications with Go and NoSQL (Nic Raboy)
• SQL SERVER – Patch Rule Failure: Not Clustered or the Cluster Service is Up and Online and How to Get VLF Count and Size in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #161 and SQL SERVER – Improve Index Rebuild Performance by Enabling Sort In TempDB (Pinal Dave)
• Using a gMSA with SQL Server (Wayne Sheffield)
• CROSS JOIN for fun (Jen McCown)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Framework Generator Updated to v1.4.1: Inspecting the Changes (Andrew Connell)
• Microsoft Flow condition syntax for SharePoint columns and Microsoft Flow: Update SharePoint columns (Joanne Klein)

PowerShell

• PowerShell code to wait for a background process to finish before continuing on with a script (Dan Sheehan)
• Iron Scripter Prequels: Puzzle 6 and Iron Scripter 2018 prequel: Puzzle 5 – a commentary (Richard Siddaway)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 on Arm: It will be more limited and here’s how, reveals Microsoft (Mary Jo Foley)
• UW and Microsoft researchers achieve random access in large-scale DNA data storage (Paul G. Allen School News)
• Deprecation notice: Removing anonymous gist creation (Chad Humphries)
• Funko Unveils Mister Rogers POP Figure (Charlie Ridgely)
• AIVA — The Artificial Intelligence Composer (Chris Ward)
• Surface Pro Reloaded: What Software I’m Using for Programming (Michael Szul)
• Developer Platforms Must Listen Better to Developers to Grow: Study (Todd R. Weiss)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-19 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-19 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-20 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2530 and The Morning Brew #2531 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2036 and Double Shot #2037 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: Feb 19, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.02.16 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Last week in Azure: Azure SDK for Go GA, and more (Rob Caron)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #194 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #7, 2018 – Announced Open FSharp 2018 (Sergey Tihon)
• Interesting links of the week (02/12 – 02/18, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Friday’s Here – Check Out Your New Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #316 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #391 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)

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