Day: July 5, 2017

Top Links

• Debugging the BotBuilder SDK (Eric Dahlvang & Matthew Shim)
• .NET Core solution management via the command line interface (Joseph Woodward)
• .NET Rocks! – WebAssembly and Blazor with Steve Sanderson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Why I joined Microsoft (Ashley McNamara)

Web & Cloud Development

• Is it really safe to start using CSS Grid Layout? (Rachel Andrew)
• CSS is Awesome (Brandon Smith)
• Upload an Image as a File in Angular (Dave M. Bush)
• 20 Best HTML5 Game Templates of 2017 (Eric Dye)
• How to Convert a jQuery Plugin Into a WordPress Plugin (Gaurav Sharma)
• ASP.NET Core Demystified – Routing in MVC (Matthew Jones)
• Microsoft Cognitive Custom Vision Service .Net Core Angular 4 Application (Part Two) (Michael Washington)
• When you use the Polly circuit-breaker, make sure you share your Policy instances! (Andrew Lock)
• 3 Things That Make Go Different (Gigi Sayfan)
• ebook deal of the week: Microsoft Azure Security Infrastructure (Kim Spilker)
• Password Strength Indicators Help People Make Ill-Informed Choices (Troy Hunt)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin and Artificial Intelligence (Adam Pedley)
• Xamarin.Tip – PCL Profile Problems (Alex Dunn)
• Implementing value converters with IValueConverter for Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
• Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 1 – Overview (Jesse Liberty)
• Set Up Android Device for Xamarin Android Development (Asfend Yar)
• New ColumnSpacing and RowSpacing properties for Grid (Fons Sonnemans)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Building And Debugging the dotnet new Templating Engine in Visual Studio (Chad Ramos)
• Practical C# – Expression Bodied Members in C# 7 (Andrea Angella)
• Here’s how to change Codelens Indicator style in Visual Studio (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Pure times in F# (Mark Seemann)
• Emulating the C# using keyword in C++ (Raymond Chen)
• CodeSmith Generator 8.0 has Arrived! (Eric J. Smith)
• “Open In..” About Everything… (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft Press Round-Up for July 2017 (Kim Spilker)
• Automating .NET Core deployments to different platforms with Cake (Jeremy Lindsay)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Exploring a Scrum Team’s Journey: The 5 Stages of Being Awesome (Nagesh Sharma)
• Deploy Visual Studio Test Agent Task – Test Machine Rebooting Scenarios (Deepak.Singhal)
• Civil discourse: try some with your beer this 4th of July! (Kim Scott)
• 4 Ways to Try to Be a Better Team Leader (Michele Ferracin)

Mobile & IoT

• Improving App Startup Time on Android with Webpack + V8 Heap Snapshot (Ivan Buhov)
• Custom Collection View Layouts with tvOS: Part 1 (Nick Teissler)
• AlexaDev Tuesday: Coding Alexa Skills for Echo Show (April Hamilton)
• Now is a good time to move to Mobile Center (Jan Tourlamain)
• Code a Real-Time NativeScript App: SQLite (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Boris Hristov on Technical Presentations (David Giard)
• Windows Central Podcast 55: Surface Mini (Zac Bowden)
• AFH 071: Advanced Scrum with Ryan Ripley [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• RunAs Radio – Improving Help Desk Using PowerShell with David das Neves (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Agile Uprising Podcast – TDD Guided by ZOMBIES with James Grenning (Ryan Lockard)
• Programming An Evolving Neural Network In C# w/ Unity3D (Frank La Vinge)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 202 | Azure and AWS News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The Amp Hour #350 – An Interview with Zach Dunham (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Functional Geekery Episode 100 – Mark Allen (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 198: Lisa Welchman (Maurice Cherry)
• Partially Derivative Podcast – The Fourth Of AI (Chris Albon & Vidya Spandana)
• Software Engineering Daily – Culture Fit with Ammon Bartram (Jeff Meyerson)

Community / Events

• Xamarin Events Happening in July (Jayme Singleton)
• Topics for PowerShell Summit 2018 (Richard Siddaway)
• Nerd Nite No. 76: Comic Book Sidekick Jack Monroe, 1969’s Hurricane Camille, Joke-Telling Robot, Plus the Return of SKELETOR! (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• 10 UX Designers to Follow on Instagram for Inspiration (Sheena Lyonnais)

Database

• What are the most useful open source SQL Server projects on GitHub? (Andy Novick)
• SQL Server Management Studio Productivity Tips (Sergey Gigoyan)
• SQL SERVER – ALTER Column from INT to BIGINT – Error and Solutions (Pinal Dave)
• Creating the SSIS Catalog (Tim Mitchell)
• RavenDB 4.0: Unbounded results sets and RavenDB 4.0 on Mac OSX (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Custom Error Page (Domyoung Kim)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 Tip: Keep your apps organized with virtual desktops (Elana Pidgeon)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-04 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-04 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-05 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2375 and The Morning Brew #2376 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1879 and Double Shot #1880 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #287 (Frank Boucher)
• The week in .NET – Links! (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Azure Weekly: July 3, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)

The Geek Shelf