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Dew Drop – July 2, 2018 (#2757)

Top Links

TWC9: Azure IoT Edge Goes GA, Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Preview 3, Windows 95 Phone Concepts and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
Building Flutter QR Code Generator, Scanner, and Sharing App (Alfian Losari)
.NET Foundation June Update (.NET Foundation Team)
Interfaces for Xamarin.Essentials (Ryan Davis)

Web & Cloud Development

Node.js Isn’t The Solution You’re Looking For (Andrew Williams)
CSS Variables explained with 5 examples (Daniel Nastase)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 136 – Quickly Restore your Local Settings File for Azure Functions (Michael Crump)
A15–Building App using Angular and ASP.NET Core 2.1–Route Resolvers, Child Routes (Mitul Suthar)
Detecting that a .NET Core app is running in a Docker Container and SkippableFacts in XUnit (Scott Hanselman)
What’s coming in ASP.NET Core 2.2 (Talking Dotnet)
Creating a Hello World! Bot (MS Bot Framework V4 Preview Edition) (Michael Washington)
Scratching the Surface of Real Time Apps – Part 2 and Scratching the Surface of Real Time Apps – Part 3 (Jason Farrell)
Visual Studio Code plugin for Service Fabric Reliable Services (Sudhanva Huruli)
Query Application Insights Telemetry Data using REST API (Abhijit Jana)
HIPAA & Medical Data Security for Web Developers (Avery Phillips)
Renewing Free SSL Certificate on your site: Let’s Encrypt’s Free SSL Certificate Renewal (Part II) (Kapil Khandelwal)
RxJS: Avoiding Unbound Methods (Nicholas Jamieson)
Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Private Endpoints (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Adding RTL Support to Your PDF in Xamarin (George Livingston)
How to continuously check internet connection in Xamarin Forms (Devlin Duldulao)
TinyInsights – A library for helping developers with analytics and crash reporting (Daniel Hindrikes)
#WinML – How to create a #Windows10 App using #YOLO for object detection (2 of N) (Bruno Capuano)
Publishing times for Microsoft Store just got faster! (Microsoft Store Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

New Series – Learn to Code in C# – DevChatter (Brendan Enrick)
Changes to script debugging in Visual Studio 15.7 (Angelos Petropoulos)
Passing Data To A Worker Thread In C# and .NET (Mahesh Chand)
Announcing C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio (Marian Luparu)
Practical Introduction to Unit testing in C# and Visual Studio (Andrea Angella)
The Case For .Net Monkey Patching In 2018 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Migrating to Entity Framework Core Seed Data (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
Machine Learning with ML.NET – Solving Real-World Classification Problem (Wine Quality) (Nikola Živković)

Design, Methodology & Testing

What if we do daily scrum/stand up over Slack? (Sumit Gupta)
DZone Refcard #266 – Agile Patterns (Ian Mitchell)
How to add custom HTML to VSTS dashboard? and Creating Code Repositories from Existing one in VSTS (Abhijit Jana)
Your Application Isn’t Your Domain (Andrew Williams)
Meet Your Maker: How To Host Meaningful Meetings For Non-Managers (Lauren Moon)
Git 2.18 Adds Support for Git Protocol Version 2 (Sergio De Simone)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Building Reusable iOS Components in Swift (Kayeli Dennis)
The Ship List: Visual Studio App Center June Update (James S. White)
A New Universal Music Player (Nicole Borrelli)
Internet of Things (IoT) Messaging Architecture (Chris Pietschmann)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

InfoQ Podcast: Anastasiia Voitova on Cryptography and the Design of Cryptographic Libraries (Anastasiia Voitova)
Technology & Friends – Tobiasz Koprowski on Securing SQL Server (David Giard)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 271 #OTP (Richard Hay)
Talk Python to Me #167 – Simplifying Python’s Async with Trio (Michael Kennedy)
Developer on Fire Episode 352 | Chase Aucoin – Looking and Leaping (Dave Rael)
FreeCodeFriday – Episode 5 (Jason Bock)
Windows Weekly 576: 1803 Curious (Paul Thurrott)
Software Engineering Daily – Kademlia: P2P Distributed Hash Table with Petar Maymounkov (Jeff Meyerson)
Merge Conflict 104: Learning From Our Users (James Montemagno)
Weekly Dev Tips 025: What Good is a Repository (Steve Smith)
Azure Podcast – Episode 235 – AI, Blockchain and Big Data discussion (Sujit D’Mello)
Developer Tea – No Good Options (Jonathan Cutrell)
Why State Machines Make Your Life Easier (with Video) (Sara Faatz)

Community & Events

Interview with W3.CSS Succinctly Author Joseph D. Booth (Jacqueline Bieringer)
Congratulations, Everyone! The 2018 Annual Award Cycle Kicks Off Today! (MVP Award Program)

Database

Solving forget me requests for GDPR in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
SQL SERVER – gMSA: The Service Did Not Start Due to a Logon Failure (Pinal Dave)
RavenDB 4.1 Features: Running RavenDB embedded (Oren Eini)
Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure SQL Data Sync (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

PowerShell

Adding PowerShell Core to the Hyper Terminal (Michael Szul)
A PowerShell WPF DSL (Part 2) – Getting Control Values (Mike Shepard)
Windows PowerShell and the Text-to-Speech REST API (Part 5) (Sean Kearney)

Miscellaneous

Panos Panay tweets curious hinged picture, thanks LG Display, is he teasing the Surface Phone? (Arif Bacchus)
Mechanical Keyboards, I Just Got One, and Why You Need One Too (Jeff Fritz)
Pet Peeves in Job Interviews (Leah Grantz)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2617 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2131 (Mike Gunderloy)
30 Days – 30 .NET Tips and Tricks ( Azure, DevOps & VSTS) from Daily .NET Tips- June 2018 Links (Abhijit Jana)
Azure Weekly: July 2, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #213 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #26, 2018 – Guide to F# async and common hazards (Sergey Tihon)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-02 (Dan Rigby)
2018 mid-year link clearance (Raymond Chen)
Reading Notes #334 (Frank Boucher)
Friday Five: A Bot For Smart Homes, Windows 10 IoT Core, And More! (MVP Award Program)
Roundup #8 (Derek Comartin)
GameDev News – June 29, 2018 (Brian Peek)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.06.29 (Edward Thomson)

The Geek Shelf

C# in Depth, 3rd Edition: Jon Skeet: 0783324851632: Books

ISBN: 161729134X
ISBN-13: 9781617291340

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Dew Drop – June 27, 2018 (#2754)

Top Links

Getting started writing Visual Studio extensions (Mads Kristensen)
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 3 (Christine Ruana)
ASP.NET Core 2.2 Roadmap (Glenn Condron)
TechBash: Scott Hunter, Workshops, and other news (Andy Schwam)

Web & Cloud Development

How to start or stop multiple Azure App Services together? (Abhijit Jana)
Building ASP.NET Core apps on both Windows and Linux using AppVeyor (Andrew Lock)
Building a React Form Component with TypeScript: Submitting (Carl Rippon)
Updating ASP.NET Core Identity to use Bootstrap 4 (Damien Bowden)
ASP.NET Core Identity scaffolding (Gunnar Peipman)
How to build powerful REST APIs blazingly fast with Node.js (Justin Headley)
Handling PUT Request in React (Marinko Spasojevic)
What’s This and Can I Delete It? Examining a Default ASP.NET Core MVC Project (Matthew Jones)
A14–Building App using Angular and ASP.NET Core 2.1–Responsive Product Card and Shopping Cart (Mitul Suthar)
Chakra documentation is joining MDN web docs (Erika Doyle Navara)
Installable Web Apps: A Practical Introduction To PWAs with JavaScript and Node.js (Peter Mbanugo)
Why Is API Versioning In The Path Still The Dominant Pattern? (Kin Lane)
Function Proxies now Available in Functions Version 2.x! (Alex Karcher)
Microsoft improves facial recognition technology to perform well across all skin tones, genders (John Roach)
Triple Panel Reveal Slideshow (Mary Lou)
Locally develop and manage LUIS applications with new BotBuilder tools (Azure Bot Service Team)
HTTPS Is Easy! (Troy Hunt)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

TinyMvvm – The best MVVM library for Xamarin.Forms!? (Daniel Hindrikes)
How to Fix the dreaded ‘Version conflict’ NuGet error in your Xamarin.Android projects (Jonathan Dick)
UWPLibrary – UWP Controls that I’ve written and open sourced (Anthony Russell)

Visual Studio & .NET

Garbage collection, a memorandum on memory in C# (Carmel Eve)
Using GOTO in C# (Oren Eini)
Dynamic Binding in C# (Damir Arh)
New, experimental code analysis features in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Preview 3 (Eli Fessler)
Passing Parameters into a T4 Template (David Giard)
Book Review: .NET Core 2.0 By Example (Mike James)
The New Cross-Platform Standard: Version 2.0 (Peter Vogel)
Convert Macros to Constexpr (Augustin Popa)
.NET Core 2.1 – Upgrade You Must (Mitchel Sellers)
Announcing Template IntelliSense (Nick Uhlenhuth)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Software Architecture: the 5 Patterns You Need to Know (Peter Morlion)
How Software Developers Can Use Science to Manage Their Time (Maddy Osman)
Code Inspections? Get Over Yourself. (Melissa McEwen)
Let’s Define Legacy Code (Sarthak Makhija)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Apple Finally Ships Public Betas of iOS 12, tvOS 12, and macOS Mojave (Paul Thurrott)
AlexaDev Tuesday: Using Javascript To Write A File To S3 On The Fly (April Hamilton)
Introduction to Game Math: Bit Manipulation (Peter Heinrich)
Building an Action to Solve a Real World Problem: Part 1, Plan & Design (Jessica Dene Earley-Cha)
Decomposing Widgets: Backdrop (Matt Sullivan)
Building a Raspberry PI cluster (Miha Markic)
Sending Text Messages to Phone Contacts using NativeScript (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Agile Uprising Podcast: SAFe Demystified 2 (Brad Stokes)
Managing costs with the Azure Budgets API and Action Groups | Azure Friday (Rob Caron & Lara Rubbelke)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 261 | Azure Stack with Microsoft Technical Fellow Jeffrey Snover (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
RunAs Radio – Azure SQL Data Warehouse with Matt Usher (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Allscripts On Call Podcast – Starting Up Interoperability (Neil Farish & Angela Webster)
SE-Radio Episode 329: Andreas Stefik on Accessibility for the Visually Impaired (Felienne)
Software Engineering Daily – Shopify Infrastructure with Niko Kurtti (Jeff Meyerson)
Bot Framework v4 Chatdown Tutorial #6: JSON Rich Cards and Layouts (Michael Szul)
Developer Tea – Three Ways To Avoid Choice Paralysis (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

What being welcomed at work looks like (Natalie Singer-Velush)

Database

Handling SQL Server transactions in nested stored procedures using Savepoints (Sergey Gigoyan)

PowerShell

Get-Learning – Launching Powershell (Mike Shepard)
Azure and Windows PowerShell: Getting Information (Nicolas Prigent)

Miscellaneous

Search Small Basic Code with Bing (Nonki Takahashi)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2614 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2128 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-06-27 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook: Build applications hosted on serverless architecture using Azure Functions (9781788390828): Praveen Kumar Sreeram: Books

ISBN: 1788390822
ISBN-13: 9781788390828

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Dew Drop – June 26, 2018 (#2753)

Top Links

A New Release of Docs Authoring Pack for VS Code (Megan Bradley)
Build Real-time Applications with ASP.NET Core SignalR (Anthony Chu)
We’re Baking Have I Been Pwned into Firefox and 1Password (Troy Hunt)
What’s New In the Xamarin Android Designer (Jon Douglas)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 135 – Use Run-From-Zip without Azure Storage to deploy a site to Azure Web Apps or Functions (Michael Crump)
Pin Azure Resource details from Blades to Azure Portal dashboard (Abhijit Jana)
Building ASP.NET Core apps on both Windows and Linux using AppVeyor (Andrew Lock)
Code Deep Dive: Slots and Session Attributes in the ASK SDK for Node.js (Jennifer King)
Drawing Images with CSS Gradients (Jon Kantner)
Microsoft improves facial recognition technology to perform well across all skin tones, genders (John Roach)
How to build powerful REST APIs blazingly fast with Node.js (Justin Headley)
How to use the Global Subscription Filter on the Azure Portal? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Is JavaScript Changing Too Quickly? (SD Times)
Learning DevOps and building the ASP.NET Core Workshop and keeping it up to date (Shayne Boyer)
face-api.js — JavaScript API for Face Recognition in the Browser with tensorflow.js (Vincent Mühler)
Gain Interaction Insights Using New Analytics in the ASK Developer Console (BJ Haberkorn)
Triple Panel Reveal Slideshow (Mary Lou)
Let’s Encrypt is only a click away (Scott Helme)
How I test my NgRx selectors (Tim Deschryver)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Build Mobile Chatbots and Chat Rooms with Ease in Xamarin (Petar Marchev)
Building a “Next Entry” Effect for iOS and Android in Xamarin.Forms (Joe Meyer)

Visual Studio & .NET

Customizing C# Object Member Display During Debugging (Jason Roberts)
Working with T4 templates in Visual Studio (David Giard)
The simple case of special string types – code smells series (Dino Esposito)
Visitor as a sum type (Mark Seemann)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (Johanna Rothman)
About Unit Test Envies and What Classes to Watch out for (Leah Grantz)
7 Inspiring Templates From The Trello Community: From Productivity To Podcasts, Parenting & More (Lauren Moon)
Examples and definitions of the SOLID principles in Software Design (Harry Mumford-Turner)
A Developer’s Guide to Setting and Smashing Career Goals (Isabel Nyo)
When it Comes to Delivering Business Value, Confidence isn’t Enough (Scott Sehlhorst)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

How to Use Free 3D Models From Google Poly in Android Apps (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
How to make an Elm app Progressive (Cedd Burge)
Introducing Codeless App Events Setup as Part of New Facebook SDK (Wei Liu)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

MS Dev Show – The Latest in MS Teams with Larry Jin and Andrew Bybee (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
.NET Rocks! – ML.NET with John Alexander (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
InfoQ Podcast: Pooja Brown on Building Great Engineering Cultures (Pooja Brown)
AiA 195: Angular for Microsoft Developers with Sahil Malik (Charles Max Wood, Alyssa Nicholl & Ward Bell)
Using JFrog Artifactory with Azure Kubernetes Service | Azure Friday (Rob Caron & Lara Rubbelke)
Defrag Tools #192 – Windows Update and Windows Upgrade | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
The Amp Hour #397.9 – An Interview with Dominic Spill and #379.10 – An Interview with Jeremy Hong (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Revision Path 248: Cheryl D. Miller (Maurice Cherry)
Bot Framework v4 Chatdown Tutorial #5: Suggesting Actions (Michael Szul)
ng-conf 2018 with Brad Green (Rob Lauer)
Software Engineering Daily – Function Platforms with Chad Arimura and Matt Stephenson (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

It’s almost time! Imagine Cup 2018 Championship judges and special guest announced (Charlotte Yarkoni)
Developer Relations revelations: Conferences are a lot of work (Chris Heilmann)
Eight Event Statistics You Can Use to Help With Your Planning Efforts (Kalahari Meetings)
25 Fabulous Things To Do In Philly This Week, June 25-July 1 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

No More Service Packs for SQL Server (Rajendra Gupta)
SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Resource in Cluster – HUGE Master Database! (Pinal Dave)
Securing your data with Azure SQL Database (SQL Server Team)

PowerShell

Pre-validating Data in Delimited Files with PowerShell Prior to Importing to SQL Server (Tim Smith)
Old School PowerShell Expressions vs New (Mike Shepard)

Miscellaneous

Radio AdBlock (Tomek Rękawek)
ebook deal of the week: Begin to Code with Python (Microsoft Press)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew 2613 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2127 (Mike Gunderloy)
Azure Weekly: June 25, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-06-26 (Dan Rigby)
Professional Development 6/18/2018 – 6/24/2018 (Cameron Presley)
Interesting links of the week (06/18 – 06/24, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
Reading Notes #333 (Frank Boucher)
Collective #427 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Learning React: Kirupa Chinnathambi: 9780134546315: Books

ISBN: 0134546318
ISBN-13: 9780134546315

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