Dew Drop – April 20, 2018 (#2708)

Top Links

• 3 new extensions for Visual Studio extenders (Mads Kristensen)
• Containers for Existing .NET Apps Part 1 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Using Xamarin.Forms Inside Visual Studio Mac Extensions (Matthew Robbins)
• Rider 2018.1 is released! (Ekaterina Zharova)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to quickly refer all available Azure services? (Abhijit Jana)
• Functional Programming with JavaScript Object Arrays (Ed Charbeneau)
• What are Higher-Order Components in React? (Kingsley Silas)
• Scalable, Flexible Networking Included in Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 (Nicola Kabar)
• Choosing cameras in JavaScript with the mediaDevices API (Phil Nash)
• ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview on VSTS (Adam Storr)
• Designing very large (JavaScript) applications (Malte Ubl)
• Introducing sonarwhal v1: The linting tool for the web (Anton Molleda)
• TSDoc: A TypeScript Source Code Documentation Format (Dylan Schiemann)
• Introducing the Vault Operator for Kubernetes (Haseeb Tariq)
• Jasper meets RabbitMQ (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Service Fabric 6.2 Release (Service Fabric Team)
• Is Enumerating Resources on a Website “Hacking”? (Troy Hunt)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• MVVM Light UITableViewCell bindings with Xamarin.iOS (Mark Allibone)
• Overview of Chart in Xamarin.Forms Part 1 (Prabakaran Ramasamy)
• Xamarin Android: asymmetric encryption without any user input or hardcoded values (Marco Siccardi)
• Building multi-window dispatcher agnostic view-model (Pedro Lamas)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Review pull requests from within Visual Studio (Sarah Guthals)
• Using Entity Framework DbContext with Dependency Injection (Matthew Jones)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• 12th State of Agile Report Published (Ben Linders)
• Vertical Slice Architecture (Jimmy Bogard)
• Introducing GitHub Learning Lab: A new way to level up on GitHub (Cynthia Rich)
• What Product Owners Should Not Do (Allan Kelly)
• How to Effectively Manage a Remote Team (Arina Katrycheva)
• Release Flow: How We Do Branching on the VSTS Team (Edward Thomson)
• Performance Engineering: The What, Why, and How’s Explained (John Julien)
• New survey explores the changing landscape of teamwork (Lori Wright & Natalie McCullough)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• 6 Dialog Management Resources to Build Advanced Alexa Skills (Justin Jeffress)
• Publishing Your Product’s Capabilities to Alexa (Dylan Miller)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Using resource tokens with Azure Cosmos DB | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Kathy Hickman)
• Monitor Your App’s Health with App Center Analytics & Crash | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• ID10T Podcast – Antonio Banderas (Chris Hardwick)
• Rocket 171: Nintendo Labo is Here (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 132: What can technologists learn from superheroes (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Moving your Data Warehouse to the Cloud | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady)
• How Windows, Windows Store, Xbox & Surface moved their 350gig source repo into Git hosted on VSTS (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Windows Weekly 566: The Queen of RTOS and Microsoft Delays Redstone 4 Windows 10 Update – What The Tech Ep. 397 (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – Catching up with Martin (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Hanselminutes – A history of the Windows 95 Start Button and User Research at Microsoft with Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem (Scott Hanselman)
• Software Engineering Daily – Bitcoin Debates with Roger Ver (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – 2 Reasons Your Habits Aren’t Sticking (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Satya Nadella makes Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Get The Most Out of KalamazooX (Jim Holmes)
• UXify 2018 – The Future is Today (Jim Ross)
• Faces of Unity: Sarah Stumbo (Jon Men)
• New Middle East Galleries Open With Giant Festival At The Penn Museum, April 21-22 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

• Import Data Using SSIS and Transposing Columns to Rows (Balamurugan Loganathan)
• SQL SERVER – FIX: Unable to Create Distribution Database on a UNC Share – Configure Distribution (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2017 on SUSE Enterprise Linux Server offer (John ‘JG’ Chirapurath)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17650 for Skip Ahead (Dona Sarkar)
• Geniuses Are Lazy — and You Should Be Too (Pratap Ranade)
• OneNote On Windows 10 – The One App For The Future (Sam McNeill)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2568 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2080 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-04-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #408 (Pedro Botelho)

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