Top Links
- Hanselminutes – Inside the world of Star Trek’s Visual and Practical Effects with Dan Curry (Scott Hanselman)
- Building bots with Redux (William Wong & Matthew Shim)
- ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview2 now available (Damian Edwards)
- ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview2: Improvements to the Kestrel HTTP server (Sourabh Shirhatti)
Web & Cloud Development
- Angular and Internet Explorer (Todd Palmer)
- Quick tip for node modules (Remy Sharp)
- Creating Intelligent Bots Using the Microsoft Bot Framework (Jakub Kaczmarek)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Prism (John Taubensee)
- Xamarin.Tip – Expanding ViewCells (Alex Dunn)
- How to build a “Lights Out” puzzle clone with Xamarin.Forms (Marco Kuiper)
- MVX=0F: A first MvvmCross Application (MVX+1 days of MvvmCross) and Xamarin Forms gets CSS to pander to web developers (Nick Randolph)
- Word to PDF conversion in Xamarin and .NET Core (Dilli Babu N)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Enabling Add to Source Control Option for New Project Dialog in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
- Some of My Favorite Visual Studio Extensions (Thiago Loureiro)
- Leveraging Raw SQL in Entity Framework Core (Peter Vogel)
- Getting started with JetBrains Rider – A cross-platform IDE for .NET developers (Maarten_Balliauw)
- Getting the .NET Core Runtime Version in a Running Application (Rick Strahl)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- New Alexa Skill Sample: Build a Quiz & Dictionary Skill for Echo Devices with Screens (Jamie Grossman)
- Refactoring Your Java Android App to Kotlin (Justin Inácio)
- Announcing New Ways to Validate Example Phrases for Your Alexa Skills (Shiraz Datta)
- Customizing the iOS Keyboard in Your NativeScript Apps (TJ VanToll)
- Building for Amazon Fire TV: How to Choose a Framework (Peter Heinrich)
- #31DaysOfKotlin — Week 2 Recap (Sean McQuillan)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- How to copy files between Azure subscriptions from Windows, OS X or Linux – EP22 (Frank Boucher)
- Defense in depth security in Azure (Microsoft Mechanics)
- Using Azure Data Lake to analyze IoT Data | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
- Common design patterns with Azure Cosmos DB (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
- .NET Standard Revisited | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- The Xamarin Show – Azure Active Directory B2C Authentication For Mobile with Matthew Soucoup (James Montemagno)
- Rocket 170: It’s So Horrible Here (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
- Women in Business & Technology Podcast 019 – Exploring accountability with Keita Williams and Steve Petitpas (Microsoft)
- Windows Weekly 565: Ode to the Snipping Tool (Paul Thurrott)
- Catching up with JetBrains Rider – Talk Recordings (Robert Demmer)
- Software Engineering Daily – Unchained with Laura Shin (Jeff Meyerson)
- Developer Tea – 4 Principles of Great Learners (Jonathan Cutrell)
Community & Events
- Having a serious conversation about open source (Marc Gravell)
Database
- T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2017 (Koen Verbeeck)
- Working with SQL Server Extended Properties (Jayendra Viswanathan)
Miscellaneous
- It’s Time for an RSS Revival (Chris Coyier) – Don’t forget my favorite Google Reader replacement, Newsblur.
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17643 for Skip Ahead (Dona Sarkar)
- A 10-Step Guide To Making Your Best Technical Talk Yet (Matthew Jones)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2563 (Chris Alcock)
- Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-04-13 (Dan Rigby)
- Collective #406 (Pedro Botelho)
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