Dew Drop – September 17, 2018 (#2804)

Top Links

• TWC9: Azure DevOps Launch, .NET Conf 2018, GitHub PR Extension for VS Code, Mario Madness and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren) – Learn about Azure DevOps with a full-day workshop at TechBash 2018 next month!
• WindowsXAMLHost control (for Xaml Islands) (Nikola Metulev, Norm Estabrook & Richard Murillo)
• Xamarin.Forms Shell Spec (Jason Smith)
• Get This Fantastic Book about .NET Memory Management! (Maoni Stephens)

Web & Cloud Development

• Add React.js to your existing asp.net application (Jon Hilton)
• Building a modal in React. (Atauba Prince)
• Creating Vue.js Client Side – Details and Deleting Account Owner (Code Maze)
• Making the Jasper build faster and more reliable with Docker and other stuff and Changing Jasper’s Direction (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Convert HTML To PDF Using Angular 6 (Manav Pandya)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 157 – Part 1 Create Thumbnail Images with Azure Functions and Azure Storage (Michael Crump)
• Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend (Robin Rendle)
• QueueBatch a.k.a. batch processing in Azure Functions made even faster (Szymon Kulec ‘Scooletz’)
• ASP.NET Core 2.2 introduces API Analyzers for improved WEB API documentation (Talking Dotnet)
• Saving State Data with the Microsoft Bot Framework (David Giard)
• What I Learned Creating Guitar Dashboard: SVG, TypeScript and Music Theory. (Mike Hadlow)
• Easy Docs for Node and Python (Den Delimarsky)
• Announcing new REST API’s for Process Customization (Dan Hellem)
• Pivotal Releases Spring Cloud Data Version 1.6 Featuring a New App Hosting Tool (Michael Redlich)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• MvvmCross 6.2 (MvvmCross Team)
• Summary of NET Conf 2018 – What’s New in Xamarin Forms Part 1 (Devlin Duldulao)
• Backgrounding with Xamarin.Forms the Easy Way and Consuming RSS Feeds with Xamarin.Forms the Easy Way and Is Xamarin.Forms Shell the answer to Google’s Flutter? (Winston Gubantes)

Visual Studio & .NET

• #MLNet – Adding NuGet Packages in Preview mode from MyGet, ie: Microsoft.ML-0.6.0 Version (Bruno Capuano)
• Visual Studio 2017 15.9 Previews Expanded C++ Debugging (Jeff Martin)
• How To Check For Nulls In C# a.k.a. How To Thwart A Super Villian (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Exploring MoreLINQ Part 14 – Skipping and Slicing and Exploring MoreLINQ Part 15 – Windowing (Mark Heath)
• Entity Framework Core Tutorial (Simon Timms)
• Implementing Self-Organizing Maps with .NET Core (Nikola Živković)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Compliance in an Agile World (Ben Linders)
• A Quick Intro to DevOps in Azure (Steve Hughes)
• Debug considerations for high level system architecture (Oren Eini)
• Investigating Indecision: Why We Can’t Seem to Make Up Our Minds (Amy Rigby)
• Jenkins and Kubernetes – Secret Agents in the Clouds (Mandy Hubbard)
• Typing is not a programming bottleneck (Mark Seemann)
• So… what happened to VSTS? (Matteo Emili)
• Golden Hammer – The Daily Software Anti-Pattern (Matthew Jones)
• Testers don’t and can’t prevent bugs : Alltruism or Sense of Pride ? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Eric Evans Says DDD Isn’t Done (Thomas Betts)
• Making a hash of things – using #s in git commit messages (Tom Wright)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• 5 Tips for Using Intent History to Enhance Your Alexa Skill (Kyle O’Donnell)
• ML for Android Developers – Part 2 (Mark Allison)
• Unity Hub v1.0 is now available! (Daniel Tutino-Galletti)
• Dart: What are mixins? (Romain Rastel)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 099 – Ed Charbeneau on Blazor (Matthew Groves)
• Technology & Friends – Dan Rey on What’s New In Windows 10 (David Giard)
• Podcast: Vaughn Vernon on Developing a Domain Driven Design first Actor-Based Microservices Framework (Vaughn Vernon)
• S203 – 5 Azure Services Every .NET Developer Needs to Know (Andrew Hall & Paul Yuknewicz)
• S206 – Azure DevOps for .NET Teams (Martin Woodward)
• S205 – .NET Core Microservice Development Made Easy with Azure Dev Spaces (Lisa Guthrie)
• S204 – Azure Durable Functions for serverless .NET orchestration (Jeff Hollan)
• ASP.NET Monsters Ep 119: Azure DevOps (David Paquette, Simon Timms & James Chambers)
• S202 – AI + Machine Learning for .NET Developers (Cesar De la Torre Llorente)
• S207 – Blazor: Modern Web development with .NET and WebAssembly (Daniel Roth)
• S208 – Microservices with .NET on Service Fabric (Sudhanva Huruli & Vaclav Turecek)
• AGL 062: H. Alan Stevens on Getting Fired (John Rouda)
• NSScreencast #355 – Integrating Push Notifications – Part 1 (Ben Scheirman)
• CodeNewbie S5:E7 – What’s an Indie Hacker? (Courtland Allen) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 374 | Tom Elliott – The Right Guidance at the Right Times (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #407 – Gregory Charvat and Three New Companies (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• FreeCodeFriday – Episode 16 (Jason Bock)
• Talk Python to Me #177 – Flask goes 1.0 (Michael Kennedy)
• Flutter Advanced : Build Beautiful Material Search App or Integrate it with Any App (MTechViral)
• Software Engineering Daily – DEV Community with Ben Halpern (Jeff Meyerson)
• Merge Conflict 115: Apple Event Recap & Smart Homes 3.0 (James Montemagno)
• Developer Tea – Evaluating the Downside of Shortcuts (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Winners of the Developer Circles Community Challenge (Chukwuemeka Afigbo)
• 25 Magnificent Things To Do In Philly This Week, September 17-23 (Kelly Bucci)
• How I Became a Programmer (Michael Szul)
• Microsoft Docs and Localization Community Platform (Sergio Govoni)
• Women & Non-Binary Happy Hour at TechBash 2018 (Microsoft’s Cloud Advocates)

Database

• Faster Way to Resync Log Shipped SQL Server Database After Restore Failure (Mohammed Moinudheen)
• Create a Star Schema Data Model in SQL Server using the Microsoft Toolset (Nai Biao Zhou)
• SQL SERVER – Monitor Estimated Completion Times for Backup, Restore and DBCC Commands and SQL SERVER – Identifying Query Using TempDB (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Scipt for generating events for Azure Event Hub (Mat Stephen)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17760 (Dona Sarkar)
• Stop using GitHub as a measure of open source contributions (jzb)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2665 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2175 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #224 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• A Look at the Azure Query Editor and More on The Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #451 (Pedro Botelho)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.09.14 (Edward Thomson)

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