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Dew Drop – February 11, 2019 (#2896)

Top Links

Eight things your existing ASP.NET apps should get for “free” from a good platform (Richard Seroter)
NullableAttribute and C# 8 (Jon Skeet)
ReSharper Ultimate 2018.3.3 bug-fix update is released! (Alexander Kurakin)
Announcing ML.NET 0.10 – Machine Learning for .NET (Cesar de la Torre)

Web & Cloud Development

Trying To Implement 9-Slice Scaling With SVG Components In Angular 7.2.4 (Ben Nadel)
Introducing Transaction Support in aws-record (Alex Wood)
NEW EXAMPLE SCENARIO: Accelerate digital image-based modeling on Azure (Paulo Marques da Costa)
Try Device Flow with IdentityServer4 (Dominick Baier)
Ambition and Drive to Learn Azure – Part 2 (Gregor Suttie)
ML.NET, Azure Functions and the 4th Industrial Revolution (Howard van Rooijen)
PhpStorm 2018.3.4 is released (Maxim Kolmakov)
Getting Query String Parameters in JavaScript… the New Way (Michael Szul)
Unleash the power of Forms with Angular’s Reactive Forms (Siddharth Ajmera)
TypeScript 2.8: Mapped Type Modifiers (Marius Schulz)
Better Tooling with the New Vue CLI (Christian Nwamba)
Kubernetes: One Cluster or Many? (Cornelia Davis)
Why duplication isn’t always a bad thing in micro-services (Michał Białecki)
Ad Blockers, Brave Browser and BrainTree Credit Card Processing SDKs (Rick Strahl)
A plan for version 8.0 and Ivy (Stephen Fluin)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms 4 – What is New? (Gerald Versluis)
Using Xml Namespaces to optimize your imports in Xamarin.Forms (Jesus Angulo)
Why becoming a Blogger help you grow in your career: My Personal experience as Xamarin Blogger (Leomaris Reyes)
Customizing Your Xamarin.Forms Apps with Animations (Kelley Ricker)
5 Azure Offerings I ❤️ For Xamarin Development (Matthew Soucoup)
Xamarin Preview Release: Xcode 10.2 Beta 2 (Bri Brothers)
UWP Tip #25 – Windows Community Toolkit – Using the TabView Control (Me)
FFImageLoading + Lottie = (Daniel Causer)

Visual Studio & .NET

Instantiating a C# object from a string using Activator.CreateInstance in .NET (Jeremy Lindsay)
Adapting Projects to Use C# 8 and Nullable Reference Types (Jonathan Allen)
Using declarations in C# 8.0 (Gunnar Peipman)
Rider 2018.3.3 bug-fix update is here! (Alexander Kurakin)
Finding the ProgramFiles64 Folder in a 32 Bit App (Rick Strahl)
NDepend now supports OpenCover coverage files (Tom Wright)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The continuous quest for automation in DevOps, and the Azure ML Studio example (Matteo Emili)
Providing environment specific configuration for JavaScript projects in a continuous deployment pipeline (Rob Erez)
Make Your Own Azure DevOps Build Light (Tomasz Cielecki)
Using Environment Variables in Azure DevOps Pipelines (K. Scott Allen)
Enhancing Your Career with a Mastermind Group (Kevin Griffin)
Pre-commit and post-deploy code reviews are dead (Aricka Flowers)
Who is in Charge of Quality in Software Development (Jennifer Riggins & Janet Gregory)
SOLID Principles of UX, Part 4: Data Loss and Sharing (Jessica Engstrom)
Deploying Strategies as Choices (Karl Scotland)
The guiding smell of wide transactions (Szymon Kulec)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Cordova iOS 5.0.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
Best Programming Language For Android App (Mahesh Chand)
Teaching Kids to Code with Minecraft Mods made easy using MakeCode and Code Connection and Lighting up my DasKeyboard with Blood Sugar changes using my body’s REST API (Scott Hanselman)
Swift 5 Will Enforce Runtime Exclusive Access to Memory (Sergio De Simone)
Elements, Keys and Flutter’s performance (Tomek Polański)
Quick tip — sync*, a taste of the future (Remi Rousselet)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CodeNewbie S7:E5 – What does it mean to be offline-first? (Carmen Bourlon) (CodeNewbie Team)
Flutter: Face ID & Touch ID/Fingerprint Local Auth | AndroidX (MTechViral)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 300 #OTP (Richard Hay)
Software Engineering Daily – Pachyderm: Data Pipelines with Joe Doliner (Jeff Meyerson)
Merge Conflict 136: I Love PInvoke (James Montemagno)
Developer Tea – How We Construct Software – Part Two (Beliefs and Models) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Weekly Dev Tips 039: Better Code Reviews (Steve Smith)
Radio TFS – Azure DevOps with Azure Greg (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
The Amp Hour #429 – An Interview with Charles Alexanian (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 108 – Chris Woodruff on ASP.NET Core WebAPI (Matthew Groves)
An overview of Azure Data Explorer (ADX) | Azure Friday (Rob Caron & Lara Rubbelke)
An overview of Azure Blueprints | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
TWC9: Microsoft Build 2019, VS Code Updates, F# Challenge, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
Codepunk 042: Programmer Origin Stories (Bill Ahern)
Developer on Fire Episode 410 | Adam Barr – Character (Dave Rael)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 39 (Jason Bock)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Adaptive Cards with David Claux (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Talk Python to Me #198 – Catching up with the Anaconda distribution (Michael Kennedy)
One Dev Question with Larry Osterman – What is the process of creating a Windows API? and One Dev Question with Larry Osterman – Why do Win32 APIs handle error codes differently? (Microsoft Developer)
SE-Radio Episode 355: Randy Shoup Scaling Technology and Organization (Travis Kimmel)
Ask Octopus Episode 4 – Scheduled Deployments, Multiple Teams Sharing One Project, and Channel Version Rules (Ryan Rousseau)

Community & Events

24 Awesome Things To Do In Philly, February 11-18 (Kelly Bucci)
Maintainer spotlight: Rachel Green and Mark Nyon (Leithia Williams)

Database

SharePoint & MS Teams

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18334 (Dona Sarkar)
Announcing Small Basic Online 1.0 – Public Preview (Ed Price)
Microsoft Q# Coding Contest – Winter 2019 (Mariia Mykhailova)

More Link Collections

Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2019-02-11 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2276 (Mike Gunderloy)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #245 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #6, 2019 – Submit to the Applied F# Challenge! (Sergey Tihon)
Friday Five: Azure Truck IoT, Mastering Azure with Cloud Shell, and More Azure! (MVP Award Program)
GameDev News – February 8, 2019 (Brian Peek)
Reading List 222 (Bruce Lawson)
Reading Notes #365 (Frank Boucher)
Collective #491 (Pedro Botelho)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.02.08 (Edward Thomson)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Visual Studio 2017 (Bruce Johnson)

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Dew Drop – January 24, 2019 (#2884)

Top Links

.NET Rocks! – UX Design for Developers with Billy Hollis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Introducing Ionic 4: Ionic for Everyone (Max Lynch)
Announcing the PowerShell Preview Extension in VSCode (Sydney Smith)
What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 (Pierce Boggan)

Web & Cloud Development

Build a Cryptocurrency Dashboard with Kendo UI – Part 1 (Alberta Williams)
Do you know how Angular transforms your code? (Alexey Zuev)
Running .NET Core React App on OSX, Docker and Zeit’s Now (Bobby Johnson)
Make Your React Apps Pop with Data Visualizations (Carl Bergenhem)
10 Lessons Learned in Enterprise Angular Development (Chaz Gatian)
Passing Javascript values to ASP.NET Core View components (Damien Bowden)
React 16.6.0 Goodies (Kingsley Silas)
Developing AWS Lambda Functions with Golang and Couchbase NoSQL (Laura Czajkowski)
Announcing the preview of OpenAPI Specification v3 support in Azure API Management (Mike Budzynski)
PhpStorm 2019.1 Early Access Program is now Open (Roman Pronskiy)
Managed Identity in Azure Government (Steve Michelotti)
Routing Your Locally Hosted Bot Using Azure Service Bus Relays (Bot Framework Team)
HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code now generally available (Jenny Jiang)
Introducing the Preview Release of .Net Teams Bot Builder v4 SDK (Andrew Clear)
WebExtensions v3 considered harmful (glazou)
Layer Motion Slideshow (Mary Lou)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

My 10-Year Challenge – WriteableBitmapEx turns 10 with v1.6 (Rene Schulte)

Visual Studio & .NET

21 New Tools and Extensions for Visual Studio 2017 (Terrence Dorsey)
What Do These …+c… Classes Do in my Memory Snapshots? (Alexey Totin)
What Was New for .NET Developers in 2018 & the Road Ahead (Damir Arh)
Correctly reading encoded text with the StreamReader in .NET (Jeremy Lindsay)

Design, Methodology & Testing

My road to an open source project: Azure Traffic Manager extension for Azure DevOps (Matteo Emili)
Pesky code review comments (Oren Eini)
How CI/CD Works (Alex Hisaka)
TeamCity 2018.2.2 is released (Julia Alexandrova)
Using containerized services in your pipeline (Matt Cooper)
GitHub Classroom now supports multiple classrooms per organization (Vanessa)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Query A GraphQL API On Android And iOS With NativeScript And Angular (Nic Raboy)
Using AWS Lambda to Bring the Space Explorer Sample Skill to Life (Jon Mongan)
Flutter State Management: setState(fn) is the easiest and the most powerful (Mellati Meftah)
Flutter Animated Series : Animated Containers (Poojã Bhaumik)
Introducing IoT Hub device streams in public preview (Reza Sherafat)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

GCast 32: Handwriting OCR with Cognitive Services (David Giard)
Best Practices for Building Async APIs with ASP.NET Core – Webinar Recording (Maarten Balliauw)
Verifying your Database Deployment with Azure DevOps | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady)
Diagnosing ASP.NET Core performance issues (Rich Lander & Mike Russo)
Syntax Podcast – The Freelance Client Lifecycle – Part 1 (Wes Bos)
Complete Developer Podcast – Learning From Failure (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Five Reasons Why You Should Check Out Cosmos DB | Five Things (Burke Holland)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 158: Gateways (Carlos L. Chacon)
The Changelog 331: GitHub Actions is the next big thing (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
Talk Pythong to Me #196 – Datalore: Hosted smart notebooks (Michael Kennedy)
Learn by Doing: A Look at Samples | AI Show (Noelle LaCharite)
Radio TFS – Welcoming 2019 with Donovan Brown (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
Software Engineering Daily – TiDB: Distributed NewSQL with Kevin Xu (Jeff Meyerson)
Azure Podcast Episode 263 – Partner Spotlight – Aqua Security (Sujit D’Mello)
App In The Cloud: The news in Xamarin.Forms with David Ortinau (Daniel Hindrikes)

Community & Events

Grow with Google Pennsylvania (Jason Gaylord)
GitHub 2018 Transparency Report (Abby Vollmer)
Google Mobile Developer Day is coming to GDC 2019 (Kacey Fahey)
Empowering people with AI with Dr. Cecily Morrison (Emily Maryatt)
Stack Overflow – Our 2019 Developer Survey is Open to Coders Everywhere! (Khalid El Khatib)
Gender gap: Women-led companies make up 8% of the GeekWire 200 startup list (Taylor Soper)

Database

Learn how to build a multithreading .NET Application to work with SQL Server (Artemakis Artemiou)
SQL SERVER – Always On Availability Group Listener Missing in SSMS but Working Fine in Failover Cluster Manager (Pinal Dave)

MS Teams

Introducing Microsoft Teams Rooms (Christian Schacht)

PowerShell

The PowerShell-Docs repositories have been moved (Sean Wheeler)
Using PowerShell to import and export Azure Blueprints (Sonia Cuff)

Miscellaneous

How to Create a Microsoft ToDo Task from a Liked Tweet using IFTTT (Jon Gallant)
Microsoft Edge mobile browser will warn users about fake news (Rachel Kraus)
Developer Marketing Resolution 3: Put Brand Awareness First (Yolanda Fintschenko)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #2264 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2019-01-24 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

The Book of F#: Breaking Free with Managed Functional Programming (Dave Fancher)

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Dew Drop – August 7, 2018 (#2782)

Top Links

Introducing Android 9 Pie (Dave Burke)
.NET Rocks! – Learning UX with Jessica Engstrom (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
PWA on Windows: File Type Association (Alan Mendelevich)
TechBash Discount Code (Jared Rhodes)

Web & Cloud Development

The best Vue.js Admin Dashboards (MadeWithVueJS)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 147 – Run TSQL on an Azure SQL database with Azure Functions (Michael Crump)
New inspections in PhpStorm 2018.2 (Anton Monakov)
Sublime Text and Sed for a winning combo on HTML tags. (Joshua Otwell)
How To Do Microservices Integration Testing in the Cloud (Alex Handy)
What’s New in Deep Learning Research: Microsoft’s TextWorld is the OpenAI Gym of Language Learning… (Jesus Rodriguez)
Learn how to orchestrate serverless functions by scraping APIs in 8 minutes (Maxime Rouiller)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Switching Your Xamarin Project to Standard Class Projects (Peter Vogel)
Xamarin Preview Release: Xcode 10 Beta 5 (Bri Brothers)

Visual Studio & .NET

Handling a new era in the Japanese calendar in .NET (Ron Petrusha)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Excluding Events from User Flows in Application Insights (Abhijit Jana)
Super SuperClasses – Code smells series (Dino Esposito)
Jealous of Your Friend’s Success? Why Healthy Competition Can Be A Good Thing (Kat Boogaard)
Why Tech Projects Fail: Management, Planning, Process (Rob Waller)
Building a Serverless CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins (Tracy Miranda)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 9 Pie: Powered by AI for a smarter, simpler experience that adapts to you (Sameer Samat)
Hear It from a Skill Builder: 4 Ways to Uplevel Your Skills for Customer Engagement (Jennifer King)
Introducing 50+ additional Text-to-Speech voices with Amazon Polly Integration (Kris Gutta)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Provisioning Kubernetes clusters on AKS using HashiCorp Terraform | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Getting Started with Visual Studio Code (Codepunk)
AFH 097: PSM II An Advanced Scrum Master Course (Ryan Ripley)
Mocking in C# Unit Tests – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – JSON, JSONP and CORS (Wes Bos)
Defrag Tools #195 – Console Command Favorites | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Cameron Tomisser)
The Amp Hour #402 – An Interview with Ben Einstein (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Revision Path 254: Goldi Gold (Maurice Cherry)
Three Devs and a Maybe 153: The Mouse in the House (Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains & Edd Mann)
Software Engineering Daily – Future Architecture with Chad Fowler (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

Meet Abbie Turner: student, chihuahua owner and Android developer (Noa Havazelet)
Mind the Product SF 2018, The Road to Sponsorship and What We Learned (Glenn Block)
26 Spectacular Things To Do In Philadelphia This Week, August 6-12 (Kelly Bucci)
Stack Overflow – Get to Know Our New Code of Conduct (Tim Post)
Investing in Lifelong Learners (Karen McCavitt)
How to Successfully Champion Your Developer Community Initiative (Colin Bish)

Database

SQL Server Function to Generate Random Numbers (Eli Leiba)
Two Important Differences Between SQL Server and PostgreSQL (Brent Ozar)
Eventing: Notification with Couchbase Functions (Matthew Groves)
SQL SERVER – Setting ARITHABORT ON for All Connecting .Net Applications (Pinal Dave)

MS Teams

Microsoft: Hit the road, Slack (Mary Jo Foley)

PowerShell

PowerShell Standard Library: Build single module that works across Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core (Steve Lee)

Miscellaneous

Redstone 5, Phone work points to…? (Steve Litchfield)
Bring your film libraries together through Movies Anywhere, now available on Xbox and Windows 10 (Athima Chansanchai)
Apple adds improved Windows Migration Utility to macOS Mojave (Nick Statt)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2638 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2149 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-08-07 (Dan Rigby)
Professional Development 7/30/2018 – 8/05/2018 (Cameron Presley)
Collective #439 (Pedro Botelho)
Interesting links of the week (07/30 – 08/05, 2018) (Michael Eaton)
Reading Notes #339 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Building Progressive Web Apps: Bringing the Power of Native to the Browser: Tal Ater: 9781491961650: Books

ISBN: 1491961651
ISBN-13: 9781491961650

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