Top Links
- Deep-dive into .NET Core primitives: deps.json, runtimeconfig.json, and dll’s (Nate McMaster)
 - Ex-Microsoft exec Julie Larson-Green shares her secrets on building great teams (Laurent Giret)
 - Securing IIS Web Sites with Let’s Encrypt Certificates (Rick Strahl)
 - Getting Started: MvvmCross with Xamarin Forms (Part 2) (Nick Randolph)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Mastering the React Lifecycle Methods (Gigi Sayfan)
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XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- How to create Checkboxes in Xamarin Forms (Devlin Duldulao)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Hello XML, My Old Friend; I’ve Come To Encode You Again. (Rion Williams)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
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Mobile & IoT
- Alexa Display Template Skill Design & Coding Deep Dive Part 1: Sourcing Alexa Skill Content (April Hamilton)
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Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: Karl Scotland on what is Agile Strategy? (Vasco Duarte)
 - Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 232 | Looking Back at 2017 – the Show & Cloud News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
 - Why there’s no Windows TV and will Microsoft make another Band? #AskDanWindows Ep 36 (Daniel Rubino)
 - RunAs Radio – Office Macro Security with Karim El-Melhaoui (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
 - Developer Things #4: Why 20,000 Developers Love Prefix with Jason Taylor (Matt Watson)
 - Talk Python to Me #144 – Machine Learning at the Large Hadron Collider (Michael Kennedy)
 - Software Engineering Daily – Software and Entrepreneurship with Seth Godin Holiday Repeat (Jeff Meyerson)
 - Developer Tea – 2017 Year End Recap (Jonathan Cutrell)
 
Community & Events
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Database
- Mining Time Series Data by Calculating Moving Averages with T-SQL Code in SQL Server (Rick Dobson)
 - SQL SERVER – The SaveToSQLServer Method Has Encountered OLE DB Error Code 0x80004005 (Pinal Dave)
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SharePoint
PowerShell
- Different methods to write PowerShell output to a SQL table (Prashanth Jayaram)
 
Miscellaneous
- Will Windows phone fans finally get the device of their dreams? (Jason Ward)
 - The Verge 2017 tech report cards (Natt Garun)
 
More Link Collections
- Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-27 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-27 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Morning Brew #2493 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #2001 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Interesting links of the week (12/18 – 12/25, 2017) (Mike Eaton)
 
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