Top Links
- Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17061 now available (Clint Rutkas)
- Tar and Curl Come to Windows! (Craig Wilhite)
- AF_UNIX comes to Windows (Sarah Cooley)
- Application Engagement in Windows Timeline with User Activities (Shawn Henry)
- The December release of SQL Operations Studio is now available (Alan Yu)
Web & Cloud Development
- Git support in VS Code – Day 19 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 71 – Language Detection with Cognitive Service and Azure (Michael Crump)
- Building ASP.NET Core apps using Cake in Docker (Andrew Lock)
- A Basic Bot using Azure Bot Services (Arun Sirpal)
- Subcutaneous Testing against React + .Net Applications (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Introduction to Forms in Angular 4: Reactive Forms (Manjunath M)
- Integrating imperative APIs into a React application (Sriram Rao)
- Service Workers: Going beyond the page (Ali Alabbas)
- How To: Build a Bot with Twilio Studio (Donnie Wang)
- Creating Custom Estimators in TensorFlow (TensorFlow Team)
- Firefox Quantum Commits to Cross-Browser Extension Architecture (Kevin Ball)
- Using SVG to Create a Duotone Effect on Images (Lentie Ward)
- How To: Build a New Year’s Resolution Bot with Twilio Studio (Nupur Vilas Bhade)
- Developing RESTful APIs with Hapi (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: loading bundled assets in the Forms project (Marco Siccardi)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Meet ReSharper Ultimate 2017.3 (Alexander Kurakin)
- Released LINQ to Twitter v4.2.0 (Joe Mayo)
- Advent of Code Day 19–Following the Path (Mark Heath)
- 5 .NET Standard Features You Shouldn’t Miss (Ed Charbeneau)
- Devirtualization in .NET Core (Jonathan Allen)
- How does Task Manager categorize processes as App, Background Process, or Windows Process? (Raymond Chen)
- C++17 Progress in VS 2017 15.5 and 15.6 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- The married couple component design pattern (Oren Eini)
- Commented Out Code Is Junk In Your Codebase (Erik Dietrich)
- A To Z Tips For Building An Awesome Remote Team [Infographic] (Leah Ryder)
- The impact of an upgrade to Team Foundation Server 2018 (Matteo Emili)
- Simple Flowcharts and State Diagrams with WebGraphViz (Steve Smith)
Mobile & IoT
- AlexaDev Tuesday: Alexa Display Template Skill Design and Coding Deep Dive: Introduction (April Hamilton)
- Creating a Task Manager App Using Ionic: Part 1 (Roy Agasthyan)
- Ionic From Scratch: Editing Your Ionic Project (Tinashe Munyaka)
- Unity 2017.3 is here (Carlos Rincon)
- Introduction to Game Math: Bouncing a Ball (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
- Running a .NET Core Web Crawler on a Raspberry Pi (Farooq Ahmad)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- MS Dev Show – Progressive Web Apps (PWA) with Jeff Burtoft (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
- AiA 168: Angular Connect with Peter Bacon Darwin (Alyssa Nicoll, Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames, Shai Reznik & Ward Bell)
- ngAir 141 – Angular and Electron with Mark Halpin (Justin Schwartzenberger)
- GoingNative 62: C++ Unit Testing Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 | C9::GoingNative (Steve Carroll & Augustin Popa)
- JSJ 292: CosmosDB with Kirill Gavrylyuk (Charles Max Wood)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 231 | FCC, Microsoft and VMWare Cloud News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- RunAs Radio – Microsoft Analytics Stack with Andrew Brust (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- Software Engineering Daily – Managing Engineers with Ron Lichty (Jeff Meyerson)
- Developer Tea – Data Science w/ Elena Grewal (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Developer Things #2: Women in Technology with Megan Horton (Matt Watson)
Community & Events
- Microsoft Moves to End Secrecy in Sexual Harassment Claims (Nick Wingfield & Jessica Silver-Greenberg)
- A Year in Review – 2017 Edition (Den Delimarsky)
- What Developers Were Fired Up About In 2017: Top 5 Blogs on Industry Trends (Nora Georgieva)
- Participate in the Developer Economics Survey (Rob Caron)
Database
- SQL Server Clustered Columnstore Index Examples for ETL (Tim Smith)
- Overview of XEvent Profiler in SQL Server Management Studio (Rajendra Gupta)
- SQL SERVER – List Users with System Admin (sysadmin) Rights – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
- Incrementally migrate from SQLite to Room (Florina Muntenescu)
MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams: The Good, The Bad, The ‘Is it Ready?’ (Joelle Farley)
PowerShell
- Part-of-Speech Tagging with PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17063 for PC and Announcing Project Honolulu Technical Preview 1712 Build 05002 (Dona Sarkar)
- DZone Refcard – Getting Started with Scala (Hugh McKee, Seth Tisue, Ryan Knight & Nilanjan Raychaudhuri)
- Our predictions for Microsoft in 2018 (Zac Bowden)
More Link Collections
- Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-20 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #2490 (Chris Alcock)
- These were our 10 most popular stories of 2017 (Roberto Torres)
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