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Dew Drop – December 13, 2018 (#2859)

Top Links

Unit testing receives major updates in ReSharper and Rider 2018.3 EAP (Matthias Koch)
How To Publish A Blazor Component To Nuget Gallery (Ankit Sharma)
Developing Tizen Samsung Galaxy Watch Apps with .NET and C# – Getting Started (Jason Roberts)
New Azure DevOps Work Item Experience in Visual Studio 2019 (Dan Hellem)

Web & Cloud Development

Using Magic Email Links To Authenticate Users With Firebase 5.7.0 In Angular 7.1.2 (Ben Nadel)
Why TypeScript with React? (Carl Rippon)
JavaScript and Web Development InfoQ Trends Report (Dylan Schiemann)
Razor Components for a JavaScript-Free FrontEnd in 2019 (Ed Charbeneau)
Using React Hooks to Manage and Organize Application State (Jeremiah Billmann)
Simple ASP.NET CORE 2.2 app +Vue JS (Jicking D. Bebiro)
Why You Should Use AWS to Build Cloud-Native Applications (Manthan Bhavsar)
Gravatar Directive in Angular (Michael Karén)
PhpStorm 2018.3.2 Release Candidate (Roman Pronskiy)
Amazon Announces an AWS Well-Architected Tool to Review Workloads against Best Practices (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
Developing Modern Apps with Symfony and React (Olususi Oluyemi)
Dark mode now available! (Andrew Lock)
#MachineLearning – Free Ebook [A Developer’s Guide to Building AI Applications] from Anand Raman and Wee Hyong Tok (Bruno Capuano)
Ember 3.6 Released (Melanie Sumner, Kenneth Larsen, Chris Garrett)
In 2019, Put a Platform-as-a-Product Strategy in Place (Michael Coté)
Performance comparison of video coding standards: an adaptive streaming perspective (Joel Sole, Liwei Guo, Andrey Norkin, Mariana Afonso, Kyle Swanson & Anne Aaron)
What is Blazor? Your Guide to Getting Started (Simon Timms)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Handling User Interaction Using Xamarin Forms (XF) (Jamie Dixon)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio Code November 2018 (Visual Studio Code Team)
CSLA .NET Version 4.9 New Features (Rockford Lhotka)

Design, Methodology & Testing

5 Key Factors to Achieve Agile Testing in DevOps (Denise Rigoni)
Doubling Delivery Without Multiplying Staff With Lean (Ben Linders)
Hidden Business Rules in Legacy Code (Dave Nicolette)
Using Date Version Numbers for Assemblies in TeamCity (Derek Comartin)
Surging – Remote Teams Working Together in Person for a Week to Make Magic. (Joe Mellin)
Git 2.20 Brings Improved Workflows and Performance (Sergio De Simone)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

How to Design Visual Components for Voice-First Alexa Skills (Jaime Radwan)
How to install Redis on a Raspberry Pi using Docker (Dave Johnson)
Send Timely Information to Your Alexa Skill Customers with the ProactiveEvents API (June Lee)
Ionic’s Hot Take: Edge Moves to Chromium (Mike Hartington)
Flutter Challenge : 3D Bottom Navigation Bar (Deven Joshi)
Using SQLite in Flutter (Raouf Rahiche)
Just in time for — NativeScript 5.1 (TJ VanToll)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – State of Mobile Development Panel from DevReach (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
GCast – Creating a Chatbot in the Azure Portal (David Giard)
Amazon Developer Podcast, Episode 1: Developing Mobile Games Today – Opportunities, Tips & Tricks (Mario Viviani)
4 ways to create an SQL Database in Azure (Frank Boucher)
Complete Developer Podcast – Objections to Unit Testing (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Syntax Podcast – Not a Clip Show – Episode 100! (Wes Bos)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 155: Data Science (Carlos L. Chacon)
Developer on Fire Episode 399 | Barry Stahl – Optimizing Impact (Dave Rael)
Worst Tech of 2018 – What The Tech Ep. 422 (Paul Thurrott)
SE-Radio Episode 349: Gary Rennie on Phoenix (Nate Black)
LearnAI: LUIS – Notes from the Field | AI Show and LearnAI: Adding Bing Search to Bots | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
Azure Podcast Episode 258 – Live from KubeCon 2018 (Sujit D’Mello)
The Developer Show — TL;DR 136 and The Developer Show — TL;DR 137 and The Developer Show — TL;DR 138 (Timothy Jordan)

Community & Events

How Fast Are We Going Now: PKS Ecosystem at KubeCon 2018 (Dormain Drewitz)
Five Questions For… Seong Park at MongoDB (Jon Collins)
Why STEM Education in Secondary School Spells Success For Future Tech Startups (Lillian Pierson)
Ignite Series: IT Girl (Heather Newman)

Database

Working with SQL Server Functions and .NET (Artemakis Artemiou)
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014 SP2 Latest Cumulative Update (MS Downloads)

SharePoint

Announcing SharePoint page management and approvals (Chris McNulty)

PowerShell

PowerShell Basics: Finding Your Way in the PowerShell Console (Michael Bender)

Miscellaneous

Free Pluralsight This Weekend (Jason Gaylord)
Developer Marketing Best Practices: Make Your Landing Page Developer-Worthy (Yolanda Fintschenko)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #2235 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-12-13 (Dan Rigby)
Today in Tech – Thursday, Dec 13, 2018 (Dirk Strauss)

The Geek Shelf

Concurrency in C# Cookbook: Asynchronous, Parallel, and Multithreaded Programming (Stephen Cleary)

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Dew Drop – December 6, 2018 (#2854)

Top Links

Take C# 8.0 for a spin (Mads Torgersen)
Visual Studio IntelliCode supports more languages and learns from your code (Mark Wilson-Thomas)
Honest Review of Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 (Michael Shpilt)
IntelliCode for TypeScript/JavaScript (Sana Ajani)
The Future of Mobile Development: Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Preview (David Ortinau)

Web & Cloud Development

Using The “Definite Assignment Assertion” To Define Required Input Bindings In Angular 7.1.1 and Strict Mode Settings In JavaScript Are Scoped To The Script Tag (Ben Nadel)
Finishing Our To-Do App with the Kendo UI TimePicker (Alyssa Nicoll)
DRY Switching with CSS Variables: The Difference of One Declaration (Ana Tudor)
Practical ASP.NET Core SignalR Overview (Derek Comartin)
WebStorm 2018.3.1 is available (Ekaterina Prigara)
Containerizing N-Tier MVC .Net Framework Application with Docker (Jeeva Subburaj)
Building a Redux-like State Manager for React (Joshua Jahans)
PhpStorm 2018.3.1 is released (Roman Pronskiy)
Tiny Angular pipe to make any function memoizable (Yevhen Lubianov)
Cost oriented programming in the cloud (Oren Eini)
Responsive Masterpages with Aurelia-UX (Andreas Wänqvist)
Learning to teach: Mutually enhanced learning and teaching for artificial intelligence (Emily Maryatt)
Upgrade to version 2 of the Google Drive Activity API (Jeremy S. Meredith)
Kubernetes and GKE for developers: a year of Cloud Console (Maks Osowski)
How HP Transformed Its Architecture with Microservices (Ruslan Mursalzade)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Monkey See – Xamarin Sample App (Charles Petzold)
Xamarin Tizen Networking: Under the covers of HTTP/2 in .NET (Damian Duldulao)
Xamarin forms – Switch custom font on Style Trigger (Glenn Versweyveld)
Shell, Visual and CollectionView: New features in Xamarin.Forms 4.0 (Luis Matos)
Xamarin.Essentials.Interfaces released (Ryan Davis)
Up and Running with Syncfusion, Xamarin, and Visual Studio in 3 Steps (Tres Watkins)
Creating Bindable Path Controls in UWP (Diederik Krols)

Visual Studio & .NET

Using Roslyn C# Completion Service programmatically (Filip W.)
First Look at Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 (Jeff Martin)
Detection of code styles and naming with ReSharper (Maarten Balliauw)
Visual Studio Code C++ extension: October 2018 update and a simplified Insiders program (Marian Luparu)
.NET Framework December 5, 2018 Preview of Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019 (Tara Overfield)
Announcing .NET Core 2.2 for Red Hat Platforms (Bob Davis)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Agile Retrospectives Bingo Released (Ben Linders)
Step 1. Identify users: top 10 actions to secure your environment (Debbie Seres)
Poking the DevOps hornet’s nest! (Willy-Peter Schaub)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

React Native or Electron: Why? (Steve Tibbett)
Ionic 4 + AppSync: Add ElasticSearch to GraphQL API – Part 6 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
Better Android Apps Using MVVM with Clean Architecture (Abhishek Tyagi)
Flare Integration in Flutter (Prateek Sharma)
What’s on the NativeScript Roadmap for 2019? (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – The Source Control of Windows with Ed Thomson and Jill Campbell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
GCast – Azure Durable Functions (David Giard)
Building Web APIs Part 2 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Syntax Podcast – The State of JavaScript 2018 (Wes Bos)
Distributed .NET Core – Episode 1 (Piotr Gankiewicz)
The Changelog 326: The insider perspective on the event-stream compromise (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Complete Developer Podcast – The Importance of Boundaries (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Developer on Fire Episode 397 | Ben Scheirman – Screencasting Magic (Dave Rael)
Retail Reference Implementations | IOT Developer Show | Season 3 (Gerald M.)
Domain-Driven Design & Event Storming, with Jakub Pilimon (Michael Coté)
Software Engineering Daily – RapidAPI: API Marketplace with Iddo Gino (Jeff Meyerson)
SE-Radio Episode 348: Riccardo Terrell on Concurrency (Felienne)

Community & Events

Webinar – Best Practices for Building Async APIs with ASP.NET Core (Maarten Balliauw)
Women Who Code, FTW: How This Non-Profit Empowers Teamwork With Trello (Rani Shah)

Database

How to Retry SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Control Flow Tasks (Dinesh Asanka)
Announcing Kaggle integration with Google Data Studio (Minhaz Kazi & Megan Risdal)
Working with SQL Server Stored Procedures and .NET (Artemakis Artemiou)
Azure SQL Database “Step By Step” Tutorials (Arun Sirpal)
Advent of Code 2018 – Day 5 (Alchemical Reduction) (Wayne Sheffield)

Miscellaneous

This guide can help you buy the right device for the holidays (Athima Chansanchai)
The 3Es of Running Successful Developer Contests (Jovita Dsa)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #2230 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-12-06 (Dan Rigby)
Today in Tech – Thursday, Dec 06, 2018 (Dirk Strauss)

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Dew Drop – December 5, 2018 (#2853)

Top Links

Making every developer more productive with Visual Studio 2019 (John Montgomery)
Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI at Microsoft Connect(); 2018 (Kevin Gallo)
Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.2, available today! (Damian Edwards)
Connect(); 2018 Xamarin Announcements (Joseph Hill)
Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18290 available now! (Clint Rutkas)
Announcing .NET Core 2.2 and Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks (Rich Lander)
Announcing .NET Foundation Open Membership (.NET Foundation Team)
You’re Investing In .NET, and so Are We. Pivotal Is Now a Corporate Sponsor of The .NET Foundation. (Richard Seroter)
Flutter 1.0: Google’s Portable UI Toolkit (Tim Sneath)

Web & Cloud Development

Architecting Blazor (and Integrating JavaScript) (Peter Vogel)
Managing State in Functional React Components with useState (Carl Rippon)
Setup Visual Studio 2019 Development VM in Microsoft Azure Cloud (Chris Pietschmann)
Angular Console (Daniel Muller)
Simplifying Kubernetes with Docker Compose and Friends and Docker App and CNAB (Gareth Rushgrove)
Wiring TypeScript Into React (Gil Fink)
A gentle introduction into change detection in Angular (Max Koretskyi)
A20-Upgrading to Angular 7 and ASP.NET Core (Mitul Suthar)
PhpStorm 2017.3.7 and PhpStorm 2018.1.7 are released (Roman Pronskiy)
Type Safe Message Dispatch in TypeScript (David Karapetyan)
Chrome Developer Tools – Easy Web Debugging You Need to Know (Dirk Strauss)
Customize Microsoft Translator’s Neural Machine Translation to translate just the way you want: Custom Translator now in General Availability (MS Translator Team)
Announcing Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) (Patrick Chanezon)
Service Fabric Mesh Preview Refresh Release (Service Fabric Team)
Linux users can now install Postman as a snap (Stacee)
Hummingbird: Building Flutter for the Web (Yegor Jbanov)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Bring Your WPF and WinForms Apps to .NET Core 3 with Telerik UI for WPF and WinForms (Rossitza Fakalieva)

Visual Studio & .NET

Progress Announces Support for Visual Studio 2019, .NET Core 3.0, the .NET Foundation and More and Telerik and Kendo UI Controls Compatible with the Latest Visual Studio 2019 Preview (Sara Faatz)
Capture Android Screen Video from Visual Studio (Peter Freeman Foot)
Announcing WPF, WinForms, and WinUI are going Open Source (Scott Hanselman)
Customizing and building Windows Forms (Morten Nielsen)
Packaging a .NET Core app with the Desktop Bridge (Oren Novotny)
LLBLGen Pro v5.5 feature highlight: Window functions and LLBLGen Pro v5.5 feature highlight: query batching (Frans Bouma)
Announcing ML.NET 0.8 – Machine Learning for .NET (Cesar de la Torre)
Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.2 (Diego B. Vega)
Announcing Live Share for C++: Real-Time Sharing and Collaboration (Nick Uhlenhuth)
Introduction to Material Design in WinForms Apps (Nilay Vishwakarma)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Linking your GitHub commits with Azure Boards (Aaron Bjork)
New Azure Pipelines announcements – VS Code extension, GitHub Releases, and more (Jeremy Epling)
Coupling in Programming: What This Means and How Not to Get Burned (Eric Goebelbecker)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android codelab courses are here! (Jocelyn Becker)
New Alexa Smart Home Developer Tools Enable Seamless Voice Control of Any Device and Any Feature – New Toggle, Mode, and Range Capabilities are Generally Available in the Smart Home Skill API (Brian Crum)
Jewelbots — Exploring new products (Sara Chipps)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 107 – Season 3 Wrap (Matthew Groves)
JavaScript Variable Declaration: var vs. let vs. const (Bill Ahern)
What’s New in C# 8.0 | Microsoft Connect(); 2018 (Mads Torgersen)
Azure API Management for serverless applications (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
STEM Everyday: #112 | Changing the Narrative for what Scientists Actually Look Like | feat. Sara MacSorley (Chris Woods)
RunAs Radio – Traditional and Modern Device Management with Jeremy Moskowitz (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Developer Tea – Bad Bugs – Avoiding Burnout When Solving Elusive Problems (Jonathan Cutrell)
Microsoft Connect(); Keynote #2 – Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)

Community & Events

Modern Workplace Conference Paris: MVPs Organize an Office365 and SharePoint Extravaganza (MVP Award Program)
Must-See Talks from AngularConnect 2018 (Sam Julien)
The future of software intelligence: fireside chat (Hamel Husain)
Welcome Wagon: Community and Comments on Stack Overflow (Julia Silge & Jason Punyon)
Hostility In Open Source Is Good Because Too Much Collaboration Leads To Monoculture (Malte Ubl)
.NET Foundation Changes (Miguel de Icaza)
Microsoft’s Latest Open Source Announcements: Why Should You Care? (Sara Faatz)

Database

Indexed View Creation And Underlying Indexes (Erik Darling)
Advent of Code 2018 – Day 2 (Inventory Management) (Wayne Sheffield)
Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK Version 3.0 now in public preview and Azure Cosmos DB Developer experience updates December 2018 (Deborah Chen)

Miscellaneous

paint.net 4.1.5 is now available! (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #2229 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-12-05 (Dan Rigby)
Today in Tech – Wednesday, Dec 05, 2018 (Dirk Strauss)

The Geek Shelf

App Inventor 2: Create Your Own Android Apps (David Wolber & Hal Abelson)

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