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Dew Drop – September 27, 2017 (#2570)

Top Links

Visual Studio and Xamarin take iOS support to 11 (Joseph Hill)
Multi-line import completion, code generation improvements in Rider 2017.2 (Maarten Balliauw)
Firefox takes a Quantum leap forward with new developer edition (Peter Bright)
The Book of the Runtime – The internals of the .NET Runtime that you won’t find in the documentation (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

Debugging into ASP.NET Core 2.0 source code (Laurent Kempe)
Learn Computer Science With JavaScript: Part 2, Conditionals (Alberta Williams)
Web Truths: JavaScript can’t be trusted (Chris Heilmann)
Develop (and test) a dockerized, PostgreSQL backed, ASP.NET Core microservice in less than an hour (Dror Helper)
RxJS Advanced Tutorial With Angular & Web Speech: Part 2 (Kim Maida)
A few notes on creating Class Libraries for ASP.NET Core (Rick Strahl)
Building Better Forms With Kendo UI & Angular (Tara Z. Manicsic)
React v16.0 (Andrew Clark)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 23 – Testing Web Apps in Production with Azure App Service (Michael Crump)
Node v8.6.0 (Current) (James M Snell)
Announcing new Azure VM sizes for more cost-effective database workloads (Luis Vargas)
Integrating Azure Advisor Into Your Workday (Timothy Warner & Daron Yondem)
How to know when an Azure Function is running in a Staging slot (Frank Boucher)
OAuth2 (Jesse MacFadyen)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

3 Reasons to Try Xamarin Previews in Visual Studio 2017 (Jimmy Garrido)
5 Common Pitfalls In Enterprise Mobile Development (Adam Pedley)

Visual Studio & .NET

Latest and Greatest in Visual Studio 2017 for C++ developers (Andrew Pardoe)
Upcoming features and enhancements in C# 7.2 (Kapil Khandelwal)
Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0 (Phillip Carter)
Better Performance from Async Operations (Steve Smith)
Extracting Data with Regular Expressions (Tim Patrick)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 6, Managers Want Commitments (Johanna Rothman)
Unit Testing Your Alexa Skill’s Lambda Functions with Postman (Martha Kang)
“The Leadership Journey” by Jim Holmes (David Giard)
Test Studio and the Meaning of “Do You Even Test” (Andy Wieland)
Retrospective classic: Mad Sad Glad (Ben Linders)
Code Documentation and Code Comments Aren’t the Same Thing (Erik Dietrich)
ebook deal of the week: Microsoft Project 2016 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

Mobile & IoT

Android and iOS UI Testing with Calabash (Alexander Gedevanishvili)
Azure Event Grid vs Azure IoT Hub: Which is better for IoT? (Chris Pietschmann)
A Mobile DevOps Retrospective Part I: 150+ Apps Later (Greg Shackles)
Download the Community Edition for IBM Toolkit for Swift – Linux on z Systems, a no charge, fully functional, unlimited production use toolkit (Nicole Trudeau)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Windows Central Podcast 65: Andromeda OS (Zac Bowden)
Developer Tea – DCR: Open Minded Curiosity (Jonathan Cutrell)
Everything you need to know about SQL Server 2017 (Microsoft Mechanics)
The Nerdist Podcast – David X. Cohen (Chris Hardwick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 215 | Ignite 2017: Live Episode from Ignite! (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
RunAs Radio – Database Reliability in 2017 with Allan Hirt (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Talk Python to Me #131 – Top 10 machine learning libraries (Michael Kennedy)
Azure Service Fabric on Linux (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Watch Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talk company culture, more on CBS This Morning (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
UWP App Tips Recommended Video – Bringing Your WinForms/WPF Investments Forwards with UWP/.NET Standard 2.0 (Me)

Community & Events

Interview with Xamarin.Forms Succinctly Author Alessandro Del Sole (Graham High)

Database

SQL Authority News – SQL Server 2017 and Automatic Tuning (Pinal Dave)
In-database Machine Learning in SQL Server 2017 (Sumit Kumar & Nellie Gustafsson)

MS Teams

PowerShell

Powershell with the Couchbase REST API (Matthew Groves)
Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part II (Will Anderson)
Backup SQL Server Databases in Parallel with PowerShell (Pablo Echeverria)
PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell (Preview) is now publically available in Azure Portal (Hemant Mahawar)

Miscellaneous

Giving you more characters to express yourself (Aliza Rosen)
Book Review: Java 9 for Programmers (Ian Elliot)
We know what Ataribox will cost now, but the numbers don’t add up (Adam Rosenberg)
Windows Insiders will get new notification feature for submitted feedback (Daniel Rubino)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16299 for PC (Dona Sarkar)
Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare now available on Windows 10 PC and Xbox One (Elana Pidgeon)
The next perpetual release of Office (Jared Spataro)
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer among those praising Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s book ‘Hit Refresh’ (Kurt Schlosser)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-27 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-27 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2450 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft's Command Shell eBook: Lee Holmes: Kindle Store

ASIN: B00ARN9MEK

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Dew Drop – October 30, 2014 (#1888)

Top Links

Introducing Microsoft Health & Microsoft Band (Larry Hryb)
Microsoft Band: cross platform, yet Better Together with Windows Phone (and Cortana) (Kip Kniskern)
It Is Too Soon to Panic on AngularJS 2.0 (Shawn Wildermuth)
Steve Ballmer says Microsoft should continue to make big bets on Xbox, Nokia, Surface (Blair Hanley Frank)

Web Development

Getting the Client’s IP Address in ASP.NET vNext Web Applications (Tugberk Ugurlu)
Glimpse Version 1.9.2 for Asp.Net Released (Anthony van der Hoorn)
Can AngularJS Maintain Its Dominance? (Brian Rinaldi)
Headless JavaScript testing with RequireJS and Chutzpah in Visual Studio (Christian Jacobsen)
Check User exists in a Role in ASP.NET Identity 2.0 and Start-up code using WebActivator in MVC application and Check for duplicate items in Kendo UI ListView before adding the item from Kendo UI AutoComplete (Dhananjay Kumar)
No map is an island: Introducing a connected JavaScript Maps API experience (Gary Lewis)
Using Bootstrap 3 modal in ASP.NET MVC 5 (Kevin LaBranche)
Client-Side Excel Library CTP (Mike Dour)
Protecting against the SSL 3.0 vulnerability (Ben Ridgway)

XAML

More Modern UI for WPF examples and samples (Greg Duncan)
2000 WPF Things #1,190 – VisualChildrenCount and GetVisualChild and #1,191 – Custom Element with a Single Child Element (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

F# Community Projects (Jonathan Wood)
Another ReSharper 9 EAP build: now with ReSharper C++ (Dmitri Nesteruk)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Testing for Automotive Systems (Ben Linders)
Agile Smells Versus Agile Zombies in the Uncanny Valley (Derek Huether)
My Experiences and Guidance for Software Engineers on Beginning Your Career (Part 3 of 3) (Allen Conway)
Super simple load test trial experience (Brian Harry)
ebook deal of the week: Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (Kim Spilker)
4 Effective Ways to Iterate Design Work (Tom Kenny)
On Software Projects – Practice vs Theory vs Uncertainty (Igor Ješe)
Virtual & physical: the best of two worlds for our kanban board (Jacopo Romei)

Other Mobile Platforms

TranslateTo issue with Xamarin Forms 1.2.3 (Corrado Cavalli)
Epic Saga Chapter 3: Wherein I Try to Use Eclipse and the Android Emulator to Test My Cordova App (Glenn Gailey)
Distributing iOS Apps With iTunes Connect (Sam Berson)
TypedMVVM: Samples updated for Apache Cordova (Davide Zordan)
The fastest route between voice search and your app (Jarek Wilkiewicz)
Azure Mobile Services with AutoMapper (Jimmy Bogard)
Windows Internet of Things (Kristin Marks)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – The Future of The Service Bus at NSBConf (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 150 #OTP (Richard Hay)
Load Testing Made Easier | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Check Out the Gorgeous Halo 2: Anniversary Trailer (Xbox Wire)
What the Tech 233: One Big Unlimited Drive (Paul Thurrott)
The Nerdist Podcast – Clive Barker (Chris Hardwick)
SDU Show 64 with guest Ryan Crawcour (Greg Low)
TRAINING: AzureConf 2014 – Sessions on Azure now available on-demand (Kurt Shintaku)
RiYL Episode 077: Jillian Tamaki (Brian Header)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 213: James Lewis on Microservices (SE-Radio Team)
Azure Podcast Episode 50 – Tech Ed Europe Announcements (Sujit D’Mello)

Community / Events

Geek of the Week: Fran Wilde, Sci-Fi Author/Blogger/Podcaster (Chris Urie)
My Week at Xamarin Evolve 2014 (Charles Petzold)
‘Day in the life’ of a recent university hire (Michelle Feder)
MVPs at the Midwest Management Summit – Nov 10-12 (MVP Award Program)
Geek of the Week: GraphLab CEO Carlos Guestrin is unlocking the potential of machine learning (Todd Bishop)

Database

SQL SERVER – Beginning Table Valued Constructors – Notes from the Field #052 (Pinal Dave)
REST-enable an Oracle Database via DreamFactory API (ProgrammableWeb Team)
Sort – Is it Really a Blocking Iterator? (Matan Yungman)

PowerShell

PowerShell Community Extensions 3.2.0 Production (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Band: Read the backstory on the evolution and development Microsoft’s new smart device (Daniel Rubino)
Microsoft’s health revolution is here, starting with a $199 fitness tracker (David Pierce)
Is Microsoft setting up a whale of a 2015 second half? (Kip Kniskern)
INFO: Surface Keyboard Shortcuts (Kurt Shintaku)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, October 29, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading October 29, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1426 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1726 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-30 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

4D Cityscape Game of Thrones: Westeros Puzzle: Toys & Games

ASIN: B00DLX51HK

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Dew Drop – June 12, 2014 (#1796)

Top Links

Getting Started with Unit Testing Part 2 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
dotnetconf 2014 is coming (Kris van der Mast)
Microsoft’s plans to transition Nokia into its own brand leak online (Harish Jonnalagadda)

Web Development

Script free page – Unobtrusive JavaScript / jQuery (Saad Khan)
Cache-Busting CSS Images With Less CSS and AngularJS Code Smell: Defining $scope Methods In Directives (Ben Nadel)
How to Call a extension method from library in asp.net mvc project inside the razor view ? (Anirudha Gupta)
Copying and Pasting Excel Sheet Data to Grid ASP.NET MVC (Bharath M & Alan Sangeeth S)
Sharing Data Between Sass and JavaScript with JSON and Everything You Need to Know About the CSS will-change Property (Chris Coyier)
WebStorm 8.0.4 Bug Fix Update Available (Ekaterina Prigara)
POCO controllers in ASP.NET vNext (Filip W)
Playing audio from Node.js using Edge.js (Tomasz Janczuk)
CSS Blending — a Five-minute Introduction (Peter Gasston)
How to Create a Tiled Background Slideshow (Manoela Ilic)

XAML

Released.Free.Framework.MVVM.DevExpress (Greg Duncan)
2000 WPF Things #1,092 – An Example of Using a CommandTarget (Sean Sexton)
So you think you can draw? Explaining the WP situation with whiteboarding (Iris Classon)

Miscellaneous .NET

Asynchronous programming (Filip Ekberg)
Solved Access-Control-Allow-Origin Error in WCF REST Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
VS 2012, VS 2013 and .NET Framework Doc’s for offline installs (i.e. an ISO) (Greg Duncan)
Learning Path: Advanced Windows Store App Development Using C# (Microsoft Exam 70-485) (Mike Woodring)
C++11/14 Feature Tables For Visual Studio 14 CTP1 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
Hide your Menu (Latish Sehgal)
2000 C# Things #1,116 – Iterating Through a String Using the foreach Statement (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Timing is the Biggest Components of Success (J.D. Meier)
The Misperception of Scrum (Whitney Baker)
Comparing Coded UI Test using Visual Studio 2013 with Unified Functional Testing (a.k.a QTP) (Gouri Sohoni)
Using a Definition of Ready (Ben Linders)
DRY and SRP (Timothy Klenke)
Value is a universal language (Wes McClure)

Other Mobile Platforms

Using Telerik Backend Services to power Xamarin.Forms (Venkata Koppaka)
Android Studio 0.6.0 Released (Alec Noller)
Learning Xamarin–Part 1 Forms (Jesse Liberty)
Using Custom UIViewControllers in Xamarin.Forms on iOS (Mike Bluestein)
Xamarin – Xamarin.Forms Renderer Reference (Kevin Ford)
Swift Might Not Be As Fast As Apple Claims It To Be: First Benchmarks (Sergio De Simone)
Swift Reactions & Resources (Alex Curylo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 150 (Mark Frauenfelder)
.NET Rocks! – Building Functional Communities with Bryan Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Engadget HD Podcast 401 – 6.11.14 (Jon Turi)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 135 #OTP (Richard Hay)
SSW TV – ASP.NET vNext – Everything you need to know in 4 minutes! (SSW Team)
112 JSJ Refactoring JavaScript Apps Into a Framework with Brandon Hays (Brandon Hays, Jamison Dance, Aaron Frost, AJ O’Neal, Joe Eames & Charles Max Wood)
What the Tech 214: No Games, All Hardware (Paul Thurrott)
The Nerdist Podcast – Mitch Hurwitz (Chris Hardwick)
Nerds At Play 067: And Then There Was Anime (Melisa Snyder)
RiYL Episode 057: Ray Wylie Hubbard (Brian Heater)

Community / Events

Question on Regional Tech Get–Togethers (Bill Wagner)
Geek of the Week: Local Maker, Leslie Birch (Colleen T. Reese)

Database

SQL SERVER – SQL Server High Availability Options – Notes from the Field #032 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server 2014 In-memory OLTP Logging | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
How to Translate SQL Queries to MongoDB (Alec Noller)

PowerShell

SQL Server Video to Rename and Move a File using PowerShell (Tim Smith)

Miscellaneous

Halo 5: Guardians beta to run for 3 weeks starting December 27 (John Callaham)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, June 11, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading June 11, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1370 (Mike Gunderloy)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-12 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #1628 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

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