Top Links
- Hello WebAssembly (Miguel de Icaza)
 - .NET and WebAssembly – Is this the future of the front-end? (Scott Hanselman)
 - Multilingual (Localization) Plugin for Xamarin (Charlin Agramonte)
 - Build your own VPN with Microsoft Azure #OSS (Cheng Bin Tham)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- An Introduction To Programming In Go By Caleb Doxsey (Ben Nadel)
 - Angular Configuration using ASP.NET Core settings (Damien Bowden)
 - Easy JavaScript Part 4: What is the arguments object in a function? (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Working with Environment Variables in Node.js (Dominik Kundel)
 - Taking Advantage of the Angular Material Datepicker (Miles Malerba)
 - JavaScript-Based Animations Using Anime.js, Part 4: Callbacks, Easings, and SVG (Monty Shokeen)
 - ASP.NET Core: Converting C# enums to JavaScript (Gunnar Peipman)
 - ES proposal: Optional catch binding (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - DZone Refcard #244 – Getting To Know Google Compute Engine And How To Use It (David Posin)
 - How to change the Tomcat port from 8080 to 80 in a Dockerfile (Donovan Brown)
 - Uploading Files to Azure Data Lake Using a .NET App (Ambily Kavumkal Kamalasanan)
 - Creating a Custom .NET Activity Pipeline for Azure Data Factory (Feodor Georgiev)
 - Microsoft details updates to the Bing Maps Web Control (Jack Wilkinson)
 - Azure with Scott Guthrie: Azure Security Center and Role Based Access Controls (Jeff Martin)
 - Docker Containers at Scale with Azure Web App on Linux (Jeremy Likness)
 - How to choose a cloud provider (Jesse Anderson)
 - Azure Service Bus .NET Standard Client GA (Justin Conway)
 - Logic Apps solution for Log Analytics (OMS) strengthens Microsoft iPaaS monitoring capability in Azure (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Live XAML Previewer In Xamarin.Forms and Consuming RESTful Services In Xamarin.Forms – Part One (Umair Hassan)
 - Monitor your Xamarin Forms application with Mobile Center (Pam Lahoud)
 - Creating The Instagram UI In Xamarin.Forms and Improving Xamarin.Forms Startup Performance (Adam Pedley)
 - Xamarin Preview: XCode 9 Beta 5, iOS 11, MacOS 10.13 Support – Preview 4 (Bri Brothers)
 - CloudRail’s Universal API Now Supports Xamarin (Eric Carter)
 - Implementing Localization with Xamarin.Forms using Resx files (Bryan Anthony Garcia)
 - App wrapping a website with Xamarin (Tim Klingeleers)
 - Text-To-Speech with Windows 10 IoT Core & UWP on Raspberry Pi Part 2 (Andrej Tozon)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Mastering Visual Studio 2017 – Book Review and Set Conditions for Exception in Visual Studio 2017 (Abhijit Jana)
 - C++ Core Guidelines Checker in Visual Studio 2017 (Andrew Pardoe)
 - EncryptValidate – My First NuGet Package (Dirk Strauss)
 - .NET Standard 2.0 Has Been Finalized (Abel Avram)
 - Roslyn tricked me again (Michał Komorowski)
 - Win32: How to get the refresh rate for a window (Rick Brewster)
 - C++17 Features And STL Fixes In VS 2017 15.3 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Introduction To Microsoft’s Coco Framework For Blockchain Applications – Part One (Akshay Deshmukh)
 - Dependency Injection – Part 3 (Implicit Vs Explicit Dependencies) (Gaurav Gahlot)
 - Five and a Half Ways to Motivate Work-From-Home Employees (Geoffrey James)
 - Inclusive Design Principle: Be Consistent (Heydon Pickering)
 - Frameworks Are Like Radio Stations (Jurgen Appelo)
 - Coding: A Hobby for the Waste-Adverse (Pamela Fox)
 - Message in Test section of VSTS Team Project: “You can’t create test cases without a test plan. Click here to create a test plan.” (Trevor Hancock)
 
Mobile & IoT
- How IoT could benefit from Bluetooth’s new mesh specs (Skip Ashton)
 - Integrating React Native, TypeScript and MobX (Adrian Hall)
 - Next-generation Dex Compiler Now in Preview (James Lau)
 - Azure IoT Developer Kit Ready for Pre-Order (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Using your ad units correctly when you have multiple store apps (Shreyas Ganesh Narayanaswamy)
 - Parsing Hex Strings in Swift (Steve Tibbett)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 054 – J Wolfgang Goerlich on Encryption Frameworks (Matthew Groves)
 - MS Dev Show – That Conference 2017 – Part 1 (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
 - InfoQ Podcast: Jessica Kerr on Productivity, Slack Chatbots, Yak Shaving, & Why Diversity Matters for Innovation (Jessica Kerr)
 - Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 241 #OTP (Richard Hay)
 - Xamarin Podcast: Contributing to Xamarin.Forms, C# 7, Input Validation, Android’s BottomNavigationView, and more! (Pierce Boggan)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Business agility and the Agility Ladder | Jens Broos (Vasco Duarte)
 - The Married Gamers Presents Episode 425: Being Rashanii (Chris Brown)
 - Developer on Fire Episode 260 | Matthew Renze – Voice For Data Science (Dave Rael)
 - Merge Conflict 58: Dealing with Rejection (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
 - TWC9: Brewing the News, .NET Standard 2.0 is done, .NET Conf, Eye Typing and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Christina Warren)
 - Episode 232: Azure Container Instances | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Sean McKenna, Thiago Almeida & Chris Risner)
 - Developer Tea – Plate’s Cave and Defeating Biases (Jonathan Cutrell)
 
Community & Events
- Akka.NET has Joined the .NET Foundation (Aaron Stannard)
 - Public Speaking Transformed My Life…and Can Change Yours Too (Cory House)
 - 10 Questions with Chad Carter (James Ashley)
 
Database
- SQL Server: Why is it taking so long to take a database offline? (Paula DiTallo)
 - SQL SERVER – How to Clear Plan Cache with Database Scoped Configuration? and SQL SERVER – SQL Agent Not Starting. The EventLog Service has Not Been Started (Pinal Dave)
 - RavenDB 4.0: Maintaining transaction boundary integrity in a distributed cluster (Oren Eini)
 - How to Drop All Your Indexes – Fast (Brent Ozar)
 
PowerShell
- Creating A Data Volume In Windows PowerShell (Kishore Chowdary)
 
Miscellaneous
- Introducing the Windows Console Colortool (Craig Loewen)
 - Why I Love Microsoft Teams (David Branscome)
 
More Link Collections
- Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-14 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Morning Brew #2404 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #1908 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Weekly C# Digest Issue #167 (Jakub Chodounsky)
 - F# Weekly #33, 2017 – Hello WebAssembly (Sergey Tihon)
 - See What These Tech Experts Have To Say On The Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
 - Collective #340 (Pedro Botelho)
 - Last Week on Channel 9: August 7th – August 13th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
 - Azure Weekly: Aug 14, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
 
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