Dew Drop – May 2, 2018 (#2716)

Top Links

• Announcing Babylon.js v3.2 (David Catuhe)
• The Programmer’s Hindsight – Caching with HttpClientFactory and Polly Part 2 (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Build 2018: Seattle Coffee | Microsoft Build 2018 (Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon, James Montemagno, Matthew Pew & Bryan Liston)
• The 3 improvements to Dev Center you should know about (Dev Center Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• Create new Azure App Service using Cloud Explorer in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• React drop down data binding (Carl Rippon)
• 8 Free JavaScript Image Cropping Scripts & Plugins (Jake Rocheleau)
• Best practices using Azure Resource Manager templates (Peter Groenewegen)
• HTML5 Boilerplate 6.1.0 Released (Rob Larsen)
• The benefits of application state normalization in Angular (Vamsi Vempati)
• Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS (Parker Moore)
• #AI – Real-time audio translation using #CognitiveServices (Bruno Capuano)
• Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web (Ben Fried)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Taking a Screenshot in Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
• XamaWIN – Cross-Platform Grouped Radio Buttons in Xamarin.Forms (Joe Meyer)
• Easy tricks to boost the native Android integration of your cross-platform apps (Robin-Manuel Thiel)

Visual Studio & .NET

• The Logical Disaster of Null (Rob Conery)
• LLBLGen Pro v5.4 has been released! (Frans Bouma)
• Null Is Evil. What’s the Best Alternative? Null. (Carlos Schults)
• Learning from Source Code (Emily Maryatt)
• Read config data in .Net Core Test project: .Net Core quick posts part IV (Neel Bhatt)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How to be an Empathetic Leader (Gaurav Aggarwal)
• It’s Not About Custom Applications; It’s About Clean Data (Michael Szul)
• 9 Tips for Simplifying Your Code Documentation (Peter Morlion)
• Announcing the DevOps Resource Center (Sam Guckenheimer)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Getting started with Google ARCore on Android (Team Novoda)
• Implementing Voice Control with the Media Session API on Amazon Fire TV (Shweta Kapil)
• How ARCore enables you to create brand new types of user interaction (Part III) (Mauricio Vergara)
• Windows IoT accelerates the intelligent edge with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update (Rushmi Malaviarachchi)
• Use the New Fallback Intent to Respond Gracefully to Unexpected Customer Requests (Shiraz Datta)
• Amazon GameOn Is Free until June 1! (Tess Selim)
• Raspberry Pi Plex Server (Tyler Winegarner)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Yet Another Podcast #182: OzCode (Jesse Liberty)
• On the Road to Build: Azure IoT Edge updates | Internet of Things Show and On the Road to Build: Azure IoT Hub updates | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 000 | HashiCorp Terraform with Microsoft Azure (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• RunAs Radio – SQL Q and A from SQLIntersection Spring 2018 (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Jon Skeet Answers Your Questions IRL (Sarah Caputo)
• Software Engineering Daily – Building Datadog with Alexis Le-Quoc (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Randomizing live w/ Max Hawkins (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Microsoft Build apps for Android and iOS updated for 2018 conference (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Retiring as a Microsoft MVP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Welcoming SymbolSource To The .NET Foundation! (Daniel Jacobson)
• Join The 2018 Developer Circles Community Challenge (Chukwuemeka Afigbo)
• Auth0 Welcomes Vittorio Bertocci to the Team (Jennifer O’Brien)
• Historic Tall Ships Cruise Into Penn’s Landing for Sail Philadelphia 2018, May 24-28 (Kelly Bucci)
• Introducing Twilio Developer Evangelist Layla Porter (Layla Porter)
• How to watch Flutter at Google I/O 2018 (Martin Aguinis)
• Microsoft Build: Come for the tech, stay for the party (Microsoft Azure Team)

Database

• Overview of SQL Server Table-Valued Functions sys.dm_exec_cursors and sys.dm_db_log_info (Jayendra Viswanathan)

SharePoint

• Azure Information Protection Usage Rights and SharePoint Permissions (Joanne Klein)

Miscellaneous

• Supporting Jetty for Java in Visual Studio Code (Xiaokai He)
• Windows 10 virtual desktops are a window management feature, not a security feature (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2576 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET Tips and Tricks ( Visual Studio , Azure, VS Code ) from Daily .NET Tips – March & April 2018 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-05-02 (Dan Rigby)
• Azure Weekly: May 1, 2018 – Build Conference Next Week! (Chris Pietschmann)

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