Dew Drop – February 28, 2018 (#2674)

Top Links

• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Development Cookbook (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Announcing .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 (Rich Lander)
• ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1 now available (Damian Edwards)
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 Preview 1 (Diego B. Vega)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 99 – Creating an Email Subscription with Azure Functions – Writing the Frontend (Michael Crump)
• DevOps for Bots – Rapid Development, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) with Azure Bot Service & Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) (Abhijit Jana)
• Cake on .NET Core 2.0! – A simpler Docker build for CircleCI 2.0 (Adam Hathcock)
• ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Getting started with SignalR (Andrew Stanton-Nurse)
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: Paging (Carl Rippon)
• ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Improvements for using HTTPS and ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Improvements for building Web APIs (Daniel Roth)
• ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Using ASP.NET Core Previews on Azure App Service and ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Introducing compatibility version in MVC (Glenn Condron)
• Sinon Error: Attempted to wrap undefined property ‘XYZ as function (Derik Whittaker)
• Managing and Enforcing Message Formats for Services (Peter Vogel)
• Introducing the Microsoft Machine Learning Server 9.3 Release (Nagesh Pabbisetty)
• Let’s Build a Custom Vue Router (Hassan Djirdeh)
• LTFN 7: A Quick Look at TensorFlow Optimizers (Josh Varty)
• What’s a Progressive Web Applications (PWA) and Why does my website want to be one? (Nick Randolph)
• Model Binding in GET Requests (K. Scott Allen)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• C#/XAML for HTML5 – CSHTML5 (CSHTML5 Team)
• Resilient Network Connectivity In Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Microsoft XAML Controls Gallery sample app (MS Docs)
• New Plugin for Xamarin & Multi-Target Templates for Visual Studio 2017 (James Montemagno)
• From Xamarin Insights to Visual Studio AppCenter (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Visibility.Hidden for UWP XAML apps (Rudy Huyn)
• Keep Users Engaged with SFSafariViewController and Android Chrome Custom Tabs (Joe Meyer)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Deprecating NuGet.org authentication (Anand Gaurav)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2018.1 Early Access Program kicks off (Alexander Kurakin)
• Calling All Desktop Developers: How do you interact with data? (Aditi Dugar)
• Rider 2018.1 EAP is open (Ekaterina Zharova)
• Is Visual Basic Dead? (Erik Dietrich)
• Use DbContextPooling to improve the performance: .Net Core 2.1 feature (Neel Bhatt)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Four Secrets of Leadership (Burak Bilgin)
• 9 Real-Time Code Collaboration Tools for Developers (Dennis Gaebel)
• How to Measure Lines of Code? Let’s Count the Ways (Eric Goebelbecker)
• Common Code Smells (Jeremy Morgan)
• Containers and DevOps: where are we? Some of my thoughts. (Matteo Emili)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Alexa Display Template Skill Deep Dive Part 8: Using Alexa Display Template Directives (April Hamilton)
• Storing Data Securely on Android (Collin Stuart)
• Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps (Seth Ladd)
• Announcing Capacitor 1.0.0 Alpha (Max Lynch)
• Professional Components from NativeScript UI – The Big Breakup (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Windows Central Podcast 83: Setting expectations (Zac Bowden)
• CSHTML5 in 3 minutes (CSHTML5 Team)
• RunAs Radio – Azure Data Factory with Tom Kerkhove (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Developing for IoT devices with Visual Studio | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – 3 Tips to Succeed in Agile (Bob Payne)
• JSJ 302: Evaluating Web Frameworks with Kitson Kelly (Charles Max Wood, Aimee Knight & AJ O’Neal)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 240 | New Microsoft Support for Startups along with Azure and SharePoint News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Syntax Podcast – Why Static Site Generators are Awesome (Wes Bos)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 125: You must be an engineer (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Developer Digest – Bootstrap 4, Build 2018 and Killer Robots (Ed Charbeneau)
• Windows Insider Podcast – Closing the Digital Divide (Microsoft)
• Software Engineering Daily – Bitcoin Transactions with Daniel Van Flymen (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Accepting The Unexpected (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Tell Congress that Net Neutrality Matters to Innovators (Emily Emery)
• Really, New York is the ‘official’ second headquarters of tech? In Seattle, we say not so fast (John Cook)

Database

• SQL Server: How do I pull the ASCII value for each character in a column name? (Paula DiTallo)
• SQL SERVER – How to Execute the Query Without Using Management Studio? (Pinal Dave)
• Cost Threshold for Parallelism and How to Increase it Properly (Eitan Blumin)
• How to make a Database Request (Jen McCown)

PowerShell

• Shorten your PowerShell directory path (Donovan Brown)
• Windows PowerShell and the Azure Text-to-Speech Rest API (Part 1) (The Scripting Guys)

Miscellaneous

• How to set Cortana in Microsoft Launcher as your default Android voice assistant (Daniel Rubino)
• Book Review: C Programming (Harry Fairhead)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17110 for Fast (Dona Sarkar)
• What Amazon’s acquisition of Ring means for the smart home market (Nat Levy)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-28 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-28 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2537 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2043 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Linkbait 38 (Peter-Paul Koch)

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