Dew Drop – March 20, 2018 (#2687)

Top Links

• Announcing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5 (Daniel Roth)
• Exploring the Microsoft.AspNetCore.App shared framework in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (preview 1) (Andrew Lock)
• MS Dev Show – Blazor (.NET in WebAssembly) with Dan Roth & Steve Sanderson (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Creating Cloud-Connected Mobile Apps with Xamarin + Azure (Craig Dunn)

Web & Cloud Development

• Using Semantic UI and ASP.NET Core Together (Brady Gaster)
• Building PWAs with Vue.js (Brandon Satrom)
• Announcing improved multi-member Blockchain networks now available on Azure (Cody Born)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 105 – Day 5 – An end to end scenario with Azure App Service, API Apps, SQL, VSTS and CI/CD (Michael Crump)
• Using Message Pack with ASP.NET Core SignalR (Damien Bowden)
• Angular CLI Support In VS 2017 (Daren May)
• The Advantages of Using Kubernetes and Docker Together (Erik Dietrich)
• Integrating Jasper into ASP.Net Core (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Making an Azure static website EVEN MORE secure (Julian M. Bucknall)
• React State From the Ground Up (Kingsley Silas)
• Using Couchbase Analytics with Node.js and JavaScript (Nic Raboy)
• The Difference Between Web Access Management and Identity Management (Diego Poza)
• Introducing the ability to connect to Cloud Shell from any terminal (Erik Kuefler)
• Firebase Crashlytics graduates from beta (Jason St. Pierre)
• Kubernetes: an exciting future for developers and infrastructure engineering (James Gregory)
• LTFN 10: CIFAR-10 (Josh Varty)
• Kubernetes Part 4 of n, Singletons (Sacha Barber)
• The Vue Cookbook (Sarah Drasner)
• The brand new Security Headers Cloudflare Worker (Scott Helme)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Most common mistakes beginners make in Xamarin.Forms (Evgeny Zborovsky)
• Xamarin.Forms with Web Assembly (Frank A. Krueger)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Constraining Concurrent Threads in C# (Mark Heath)
• Collecting Collections: The Lookup Collection (Peter Vogel)
• Benefits of customized .NET Application Development (Celin Smith)
• Functors, applicatives, and friends (Mark Seemann)
• Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing! (Matt Sandy)
• Gaming with Windows ML (Cassie Hoef)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Supporting JUnit 5 in Visual Studio Code (Xiaokai He)
• Stop cherry-picking, start merging, Part 6: Replacing the temporary fix with the permanent fix (Raymond Chen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Android Architecture: Communication between ViewModel and View (Shashank Gupta)
• Enterprise Authentication Made Easier with NativeScript (TJ VanToll)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Surviving Microservices with Michele Bustamante (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Part 2 of 4: Create an Azure Container Instance with the container image | The Open Source Show (Golnaz Alibeigi, Cameron Tomisser & Alena Hall)
• ngAir 152 – Countdown to ng-conf with Joe Eames and Aaron Frost (Justin Schwartzenberger)
• Managing application permissions with PolicyServer | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander & Cameron Tomisser)
• Treehouse discussion: submitting Spark jobs using Kubernetes scheduler on AKS | The Open Source Show (Golnaz Alibeigi, Alena Hall & berndverst)
• Revision Path 234: Anthony Daniel II (Maurice Cherry)
• AFH 090: Walking the Spine Model (Ryan Ripley)
• Software Engineering Daily – The Business of Decentralization with Anthony Diiorio (Jeff Meyerson)
• Freakonomics Radio Extra: Satya Nadella Full Interview (Stephen J. Dubner)
• Video Series: Modernizing Java Apps for Developers Part 2 (Sophia Parafina)
• How to Get Help Online as a Software Developer – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)

Community & Events

• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018 Overview for .NET Developers (Jason Roberts)
• Webinar – Introducing Amazon GameOn: How to Integrate Competitive Play into Your Game (Peter Heinrich)
• Hey Progress Telerik! Send Me to Build! (Sara Faatz)

Database

• Azure SQL Managed Instances and Database Corruption (Brent Ozar)
• RavenDB Security Review: Finding and details (Oren Eini)
• SQL Operations Studio – Query Editor and Source Control (Rajendra Gupta)
• Calculating Cosmos DB Request Units (RU) for CRUD and Queries (Maxime Rouiller)
• Working with Data in Rider (Chris Woodruff)
• Index Partitioning in Couchbase Server 5.5 (Matthew Groves)

SharePoint

• Typescript design patterns for Sharepoint Framework Part 3 – Builder (Luis Valencia)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-03-20 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-03-20 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2547 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2057 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting links of the week (03/12 – 03/18, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Collective #399 (Pedro Botelho)

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