Day: August 17, 2017

Top Links

• .NET Framework August 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup (Rich Lander)
• Episode 4: Australia – Interview with Troy Hunt | The MVP Show (Larry Larsen, Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon, Kathy Hickman & Seth Juarez)
• Roslynator for VS 2017 (Steve Smith)
• .NET Rocks! – Event Tracing for Windows with Dina Goldshtein (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web & Cloud Development

• ASP.NET Razor Pages vs MVC – How do Razor Pages fit in your toolbox? (Matt Watson)
• A Survey of 10 Popular Angular Projects for Your Web Application (Nona Blackman)
• Basics Of ASP.NET Core Using Visual Studio 2017 – Part One (Vignesh Mani)
• ASP.NET Core: Building enum provider to convert C# enums to JavaScript (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Tesco Mobile Website and The Importance of Device Testing (Robin Osborne)
• AWS Lambda vs. Azure Functions vs. Google Functions (Asaf Yigal)
• Setting up multi region API tests in Postman (BeLinda NIchols)
• How to build a conversational app using Cloud Machine Learning APIs, Part 2 (Chang Luo & Bob Liu)
• Azure: Getting Started is Easy and Free (Matthew Groves)
• 5 Common Myths Around Moving to Docker (Megan Rees Ahigian)
• Announcing the New Release of Docker Enterprise Edition (Vivek Saraswat)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Why go mobile? A quick case for Xamarin. (Graham High)
• Pre-release: Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0.266-pre1 (David Ortinau)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Getting Started with Visual Studio 2017 v15.3 and Fixing the Duplicate Content Error after Upgrading Visual Studio 2017 (Daniel Crabtree)
• Specify the C# Version to use in your Projects (Derek Comartin)
• Up Level Your Small Basic to Visual Studio (Greg Duncan)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Creating Agile HR, Part 7: Agile Feedback and Coaching (Johanna Rothman)
• Over 500 extensions in the VSTS/TFS marketplace (Brian Harry)
• Using Jenkins on the Google Container Engine (Deepak Vohra)
• Fixing a Broken Deployment Process (Colleen Stock)
• What the Singleton Pattern Costs You (Erik Dietrich)
• DZone Refcardz – Continuous Testing 101 (Christopher Springstead)
• Diagnostics everywhere! and Diagnosing slow tests (again) (Jon Skeet)

Mobile & IoT

• Building a Master Detail Pattern in React Native (Adrian Hall)
• Kotlin From Scratch: Nullability, Loops, and Conditions (Chike Mgbemena)
• Creating a Successful App: Identify Your Target Audience (Serena McIntire)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Snack Pack 18: Using Effects in Xamarin.Forms | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Syntax Podcast – Scott Tolinski Origin Story (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• AAWP Insight #227: IDOLS for all (Steve Litchfield)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Whiteboards and Code Challenges (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Developer on Fire Episode 261 | M. Scott Ford – Fix It (Dave Rael)
• One Dev Question with Raymond Chen – Why Does Ctrl+F in Outlook mean ‘Forward’ instead of ‘Find’? (keantonc & Rosshe)
• Azure Event Grid (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Software Engineering Daily – GatsbyJS with Kyle Mathews (Jeff Meyerson)
• Episode 233: Azure Event Grid with Bahram Banisadr | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Thiago Almeida & Chris Risner)

Community & Events

• Touring the US with Kendo UI and a Camper (Tara Z. Manicsic)
• New Xamarin University Webinar: Take your desktop .NET skills mobile (Mark Smith)
• Making mixed reality: a conversation with Lucas Rizzotto (Aileen McGraw)

Database

• Working with the registry from within SQL Server (Wayne Sheffield)
• Script to identify all non-indexed foreign keys in a SQL Server database (Eli Leiba)
• Where do I put the select? (Oren Eini)
• Attaching databases via a dockerfile (Andrew Pruski)
• NuoDB – Achieving Performance Through Scale-Out – Elastic Scalability (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Add Azure App Insights or Google Analytics to your SharePoint pages with an SPFx Application Customizer (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• 5 Questions for Role Clarification During Interviews (Erica Woods)
• Reacting to Trump’s Bloviating BS with Radical Candor (Kim Scott)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-17 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-17 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2407 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1911 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #341 (Pedro Botelho)

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