Dew Drop – February 23, 2018 (#2671)

Top Links

• Announcing Dart 2: Optimized for Client-Side Development (Anders Thorhauge Sandholm)
• Web framework updates in Rider 2017.3 – Angular, Vue.js, … (Maarten Balliauw)
• Azure Functions for Mobile Apps with Laurent Bugnion | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Create and Host tvOS TVML Apps with Azure and Xamarin (Adam Hartley)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Core Pitfalls – Session Storage (Ricardo Peres)
• Understanding Recursion With JavaScript (Alberta Williams)
• Trip report from ngAtlanta: Angular’s Roadmap, Inclusion, and more (Brad Green)
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: Database Round Trips (Carl Rippon)
• State Driven UI in ASP.NET Core MVC (Derek Comartin)
• Clearing site data upon sign out in ASP.NET Core (Tomasz Pęczek)
• az webapp new – Azure CLI extension to create and deploy a .NET Core or nodejs site in one command (Scott Hanselman)
• Byte Arrays and ASP.NET Core Web APIs (K. Scott Allen)
• How to JavaScript in 2018 (Tara Z. Manicsic)
• Postman 6.0 Introduces Workspaces to Improve Project Organization and Team Collaboration (Janet Wagner)
• Node v9.6.0 (Current) (Myles Borins)
• Service Fabric 6.1 Refresh Release (Service Fabric Team)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Controls – Material Form Control Updates (Alex Dunn)
• How To Localize Your Xamarin.Forms Apps (Matthew Robbins)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Targeting a specific version of the .NET Framework (Benjamin Perkins)
• Secure .Net Core applications from Click Jacking: .Net Core security Part III (Neel Bhatt)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Contract Tests Ensure Faithful Doubles (Martin Fowler)
• Ensuring componentDidMount is not called in Unit Tests (Derik Whittaker)
• Agile Transformation: Introduction & Answering Why (Part1) (Johanna Rothman)
• Designing Service Messages for Optimal Performance (Peter Vogel)
• Why the Architecture of Your Software Matters (Denisse Morelos)
• Continuous Delivery for .NET Core using Octopus Deploy and Bitbucket Pipelines (Octopus Deploy)
• GitHub – Weak cryptographic standards removed (Patrick Toomey)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How to Code a Settings Screen in an Android App (Chike Mgbemena)
• Visual Studio App Center: A Year in Review (Joe Mellin)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• This Week on Windows: Age of Empires: Definitive Edition, Resume Assistant, Mixer and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• Deploying Database changes alongside your code with SSDT projects and VSTS | The DevOps Lab (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• Building Your First Intelligent App with Xamarin and Microsoft Cognitive Services (René Ruppert)
• Cassandra API for Azure Cosmos DB (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Rocket 163: Reviewpalooza (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Dave Tillman and Zach Brown – Resilient Microservices with Steeltoe | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Kathy Hickman & Rich Lander)
• Deploying to On-Premises Servers with VSTS | The DevOps Lab (Golnaz Alibeigi & Damian Brady)
• SQL Server Radio – People Born in the 1900s are Old (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• Revision Path Bonus Episode: The Design of Black Panther (Maurice Cherry)
• Preparing for GDPR: Compliance management and information protection capabilities in Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Mechanics)
• AFH 088: Coaching Beyond the Team with Esther Derby and Don Gray (Ryan Ripley)
• Software Engineering Daily – Cloud and Edge with Steve Herrod (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – The Importance of Mental Models (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• ‘Talking With The Eyes’: This MVP Teamed Up With An Old Friend To Test Window 10’s New Eye Control Feature (MVP Award Program)
• Progress Influencers Party at MVP Summit (Sam Basu)
• Lessons learned from dabbling in open source (Spencer Schneidenbach)
• Join Us for the Amazon Developer Days at GDC 2018 (Tess Selim)

Database

• Advanced Techniques to Transform Relational Data to JSON in SQL Server 2016 (Parvathy Natraj)
• Using WITH (NOEXPAND) to Get Parallelism with Scalar UDFs in Indexed Views (Brent Ozar)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams: Limit access to only managed devices and reduce risk! (Matt Soseman)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-23 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-23 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2534 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #392 (Pedro Botelho)

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