Top Links
- Announcing New Innovations to Help Every Developer Achieve More with Microsoft Azure (Scott Guthrie)
 - Announcing ASP.NET 2.0.0-Preview1 and Updates for .NET Web Developers (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
 - Build 2017: Microsoft announces comprehensive platform of tools and services to help developers with AI (Suzanne Choney)
 - Emma writes again, thanks to a prototype watch that’s raising hope for Parkinson’s disease (Bill Briggs)
 - A fresh update to Visual Studio 2017 and the next preview (John Montgomery)
 - Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 (Rich Lander)
 - Visual Studio for Mac: now generally available (Miguel de Icaza)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Exceptions Are For Programmers, Error Responses Are For Users (Ben Nadel)
 - Speed Up Your ASP.NET MVC Application with Doughnut Hole Caching (Peter Vogel)
 - PhpStorm 2017.2 Early Access Program is Open (Anna Lebedeva)
 - Why Should You Be Using Redux With Angular? (Danier Estévez)
 - Getting Started with Vue.Js (Gabriel Manricks)
 - Secure you ASP.NET Core MVC and Web API app using Google (Jon Hilton)
 - Azure Cloud Shell – Creating Storage Account (CLI 2.0) (Alexandre Brisebois)
 - Application Insights integration with Functions now in preview (Chris Anderson)
 - Azure Functions API development updates (Matthew Henderson)
 - Adding WebApi & OAuth Authentication to an Existing Project (Mitchel Sellers)
 - Working with Windows Containers and Docker: Into your Stride (Nicolas Prigent)
 - Release of SDK 2.6.204 and Runtime 5.6.204 for Windows, and a preview of what’s next (Service Fabric Team)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Xamarin Stable Release: 15.2 (Bri Brothers)
 - Things I Think Are Cool: Event to Command Behavior (Matthew Soucoup)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- 24 New Extensions for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 (Terrence Dorsey)
 - Delivery Plans now included with Visual Studio Team Services basic access level (Aaron Bjork)
 - Tuples in C# 7.0 (Ammar Shaukat)
 - Garbage collection in C# (Jakub Chodounský)
 - Azure Function Tools for Visual Studio 2017 (Andrew B. Hall)
 - Continuous Delivery with Containers – Say Goodbye to IIS Express and LocalDB, with Visual Studio 2017, Docker and Windows Containers (Graham Smith)
 - Python support is now stable in Visual Studio 2017 (Steve Dower)
 - Configure Microsoft Graph applications in the latest Visual Studio 2017 Preview (Ji Eun Kwon)
 - New benefits for Visual Studio subscribers and Dev Essentials members (Shawn Nandi)
 - Build Intelligent Apps Faster with Visual Studio and the Data Science Workload (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
 - Unity game development with Visual Studio for Mac (Jb Evain)
 - CMake support in Visual Studio – what’s new in 2017 15.3 update (Will Buik)
 - Announcing General Availability of the New Build Editor (Adity Agarwal)
 - C++ at Microsoft Build 2017 (Eric Battalio)
 - Linux C++ improvements for cross-platform code sharing and type visualization (Marc Goodner)
 - C++17 Features In VS 2017.3 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
 - Prefer Custom Exceptions to Framework Exceptions (Steve Smith)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Unit Testing and the Future: Announcing the Test Adapter for Google Test (Augustin Popa)
 - What is Git Undo Last Commit? How to Rewrite History — Version History, That Is (Angela Stringfellow)
 - Announcing git graph and advanced filters to visualize commit history (Atin Bansal)
 - Keeping Track of Your Code’s Performance with CodeTrack (Greg Duncan)
 - FakeIt Series 5 of 5: Rapid Mobile Development with Sync-Gateway (Laura Czajkowski)
 
Mobile & IoT
- Building your first React Native app on Windows (Adrian Hall)
 - Announcing Azure IoT Edge (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Azure IoT: Get your toes wet or take a deep dive (Matthew Calder)
 - HoloLens: FBX Loading c++ (Pete D.)
 - Progress NativeScript UI 2.0 is Live with Support for NativeScript 3.0 (Rob Lauer)
 - Experiments with HoloLens, Bot Framework, LUIS and Speech Recognition (Davide Zordan)
 - Cortana Skills Kit empowers developers to build intelligent experiences for millions of users (Gurpreet Singh Pall)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Deploying Apps using Chef with Robb Schiefer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Accelerate Your Development Process With Automation (Infragistics Podcast, Ep 5) (Infragistics Team)
 - Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 193 | Vesa Juvonen on New SharePoint Framework Capabilities Announced at Build (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
 - Developer on Fire Episode 233 | Ted Neward – Philosophy for Programmers (Dave Rael)
 - Build and Deploy Web Apps from Azure CLI 2.0 (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
 - Becoming a software developer – episode XVI (Piotr Gankiewicz)
 
Community & Events
- Satellite and Universe: better together deal (Brittany Walker)
 - AI Announcements at the Build Day 1 keynote (Jennifer Marsman)
 - 10+ Ways To Celebrate Love Your Park Week In Philly, May 13-21 (Jillian Wilson)
 - Presentation Translator, a Microsoft Garage project, Demonstrated at Build Conference (Microsoft Translator)
 - Windows Server for Developers: News from Microsoft Build 2017 (Erin Chapple)
 
Data
- SQL Server vNext (SQL Server 2017) SSIS Scale Out Feature (Rajendra Gupta)
 - Validate Integer and Decimal Values in SQL Server (Bhavesh Patel)
 - CosmosDB: The New DocumentDB NoSQL Database in Microsoft Azure (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Serving AI with Data: A Summary of Build 2017 Data Innovations (Joseph Sirosh)
 
PowerShell
- Announcing PowerShell for Visual Studio Code 1.0! (David Wilson)
 
More Link Collections
- Windows App Developer Links – 2017-05-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-05-11 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Morning Brew #2338 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #1843 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Collective #313 (Pedro Botelho)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 T-SQL Fundamentals (3rd Edition): Itzik Ben-Gan: 9781509302000: Books ISBN: 150930200X  |