Day: March 19, 2018

Top Links

• Reducing the amount of code by switching to .NET Standard (Evgeny Zborovsky)
• Building Relationships & Providing Feedback: Top Highlights From The 2018 MVP Global Summit! (MVP Award Program)
• Push Notification Options for Mobile Apps (James Montemagno)
• Merge Conflict 89: WebAssembly + Mono == .NET In Your Browser (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)

Web & Cloud Development

• ASP.NET Core WebHooks – Running The Github Webhook Locally (Adam Storr)
• JavaScript vs. TypeScript vs. ReasonML (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Effective Code Splitting in React: A Practical Guide (Aakash N S)
• Windows Weekly Dockerfile #20: Running Your Own Registry (Elton Stoneman)
• Simplifying Azure Key Vault and .NET Core Web App (includes NuGet package) (Jeremy Lindsay)
• Free Course: Hands on ASP.NET Core 2 (Jeremy Morgan)
• Making an Azure static website secure (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Managing Azure Functions Keys (Mark Heath)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 104 – Day 4 – An end to end scenario with Azure App Service, API Apps, SQL, VSTS and CI/CD (Michael Crump)
• All About Pages In ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Shweta Lodha)
• DZone Refcard #141 – Node.js (Justin Albano & Dave Whiteley)
• Aurelia Release Notes – Mid-March 2018 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Advanced SSML for Actions on Google (Leon Nicholls)
• Introducing Skaffold: Easy and repeatable Kubernetes development (Vic Iglesias)
• Microsoft Edge Variable Fonts Demo (Geoff Graham)
• A simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts (Robin Rendle)
• Serverless Microservice: Conclusion (Jason Farrell)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Create a PWA in Xamarin.Forms with Ooui.Wasm (Adam Pedley)
• AbsoluteLayout in Xamarin Forms Made Simple (Charlin Agramonte)
• Playing with Xamarin.Forms for Web (Marcos Cobeña-Morián)
• Building Xamarin Mobile Application with Bing Web Search using Cognitive Services (Suthahar J)
• Add Cloud Storage to Xamarin Apps with Azure Blob Storage (Brandon Minnick)
• UWP Tip #17 – UWP Community Toolkit – Part 14, RSS Parser (Me)
• Re-Order ListView Items with Drag & Drop – II (Can Bilgin)
• Trace application flow easily (Corrado Cavalli)
• Remote Debugging UWP Apps on Windows 10 on ARM (Daren May)
• Make Bindings compatible with Multi-Windows. (Rudy Huyn)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Language Server Protocol support in Visual Studio for Mac 7.4 (Matt Ward)
• Building Applications for Different .NET Framework Versions (Damir Arh)
• A Few Great Ways to Consume RESTful APIs in C# (Vladimir Pecanac)
• Visual Studio Live Share for collaborative coding (Gunnar Peipman)
• WordPressReader (Standard) library is now available on Nuget (Marco Siccardi)
• Cryptography in .NET Succinctly (Dirk Strauss)
• Exploring Global Tools in .NET Core (Jeff Martin)
• Do you know the difference between strings and compiler symbols? (Sam Williams)
• Why do you teach Console Applications instead of Drag and Drop in WinForms? (Tim Corey)
• SparkyTestHelpers: DataAnnotations (Brian “Sparky” Schroer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Book Review: 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management (Patrick Kua)
• Avoiding Burnout as a Software Developer (Idris Azeez)
• Stop cherry-picking, start merging, Part 5: Exploiting the three-way merge (Raymond Chen)
• What Does Full Stack Developer Mean? (Tim Corey)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Android on Chrome OS — Implementing Drag & Drop and Android on Chrome OS — Developer Toolbox (Emilie Roberts)
• Android P Slices: the missing documentation — part 1 (Sebastiano Poggi)
• Android Architecture: Communication between ViewModel and View (Shashank Gupta)
• Loading remote video stored in Azure blob storage into a floating gaze activated video player in a Mixed Reality app (Joost van Schaik)
• First experiments with makecode and micro:bit (Damien Bowden)
• Kotlin: Mutability (Mark Allison)
• Serverless Application with Google Flutter and Lambda (Mohamed Labouardy)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Hanselminutes Technology Podcast – Fresh Air and Fresh Perspectives for Developers – Demystifying Serverless with Cecil Phillip (Scott Hanselman)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 074 – Jeffrey Miller on Neo4j (Matthew Groves)
• AAWP Insight #248: Windows 10 Mobile vs Android (Steve Litchfield)
• SmartHotel360 – Modernizing Existing Apps with Azure Service Fabric | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin & Brady Gaster)
• Coding Blocks.NET 77 – Clean Architecture – Are Microservices Truly Decoupled? (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• #codepunk 030: Diversity in Computer Science and Software Engineering (Bill Ahern)
• .NET Core and Containers | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Kathy Hickman, Rich Lander & Jeremy Likness)
• Developer on Fire Episode 322 | Ken Versaw and Dave Fancher – Software Trends (Dave Rael)
• Talk Python to Me #155 – Practical steps for moving to Python 3 (Michael Kennedy)
• Developer Tea – 3X3: Three Questions To Get Unstuck On Big Problems (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 220 – Logic Apps Update (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Our Newest AWS Community Heroes (Spring 2018 Edition) (Betsy Chernoff)
• Impressions of Microsoft MVP Summit 2018 (Toni Pohl)
• Women in Technology: Motivation and Momentum (Laura Ramsey)
• Stack Overflow Culture (Jon Skeet)
• Industry Influencers Sound Off About AR/VR and Chatbots at MVP Summit (Sara Faatz)
• Actual Rockstars of Software and Technology (Michael Szul)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Identify Version of SQL Server from Backup File and How to Find SQL Server Deprecated Features Used by the Application? – Interview Question of the Week #165 and SQL SERVER – How to Download SQL Server Native Client? (Pinal Dave)
• Azure SQL Database and Cost Threshold for Parallelism (Arun Sirpal)
• How to Deploy Your First Azure SQL DB Managed Instance Preview (Brent Ozar)
• Microsoft Announces a Public Preview of the MongoDB Aggregation Feature in Azure Cosmos DB (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• Azure SQL DB Managed Instances: Transactional Replication (Tara Kizer)
• Azure SQL DB Managed Instances: Trace Flags, Ahoy! and Azure SQL DB Managed Instances: We’re All GUIDs and Azure SQL DB Managed Instances: New Wait Stats and How to Restore a SQL Server Database into Azure SQL DB Managed Instances Redux (Erik Darling)
• Azure SQL DB Audit Logs Report Template and Specification (MS Downloads)
• Working with Tables and Indexes in Rider (Chris Woodruff)
• Learn About SSMS Output Window (John Morehouse)
• Using Couchbase Analytics for Complex and Efficient Queries in a Java Application (Nic Raboy)
• New Features in Index Service in Couchbase Server 5.5 (Venkat Subramanian)

SharePoint

• Typescript design patterns for Sharepoint Framework Part 3 – Builder (Luis Valencia)

PowerShell

• Application Insights API: Log Analytics queries using PowerShell (Iris Classon)
• Iron Scripter prequel: Puzzle 10 (Richard Siddaway)

Miscellaneous

• The importance of computer science fundamentals (Darren Kopp)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17123 for Fast and Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17623 for Skip Ahead (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-03-19 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-03-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2546 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2056 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #198 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #11, 2018 – What Languages Are Associated with the Highest Salaries Worldwide? (Sergey Tihon)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.16 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Celebrate MVPs By Checking Out The Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #319 (Frank Boucher)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Weekly: Mar 19, 2018 – Service Fabric goes Open Source (Chris Pietschmann)

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