Day: April 23, 2018

Top Links

• Help us plan the future of .NET! (Aditi Dugar)
• HttpClientFactory for typed HttpClient instances in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Navigation improvements in ReSharper 2018.1 (Chris Woodruff)
• Community Books on Xamarin Development (Jayme Singleton)

Web & Cloud Development

• Connecting Your Azure Bots with QnA Maker Services and Azure Key Vault connected service in Visual Studio 2017 (Abhijit Jana)
• Four simple steps to working with Ignite UI for Angular Grid and REST Service. (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Making an AWS static website secure and Making an AWS static website EVEN MORE secure (Julian M. Bucknall)
• .NET Core 2.0, Angular 4 and MySQL. IIS Deployment (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 116 – Easily Upload and download Azure dashboards (Michael Crump)
• Unprivileged Docker Builds – A Proof of Concept (Ian Miell)
• Comma-separated parameter values in WebAPI (Damien Guard)
• Kubernetes best practices: How and why to build small container images (Sandeep Dinesh)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Forms Application For A ScrollView Multiple Circles Image (Ajith Kumar)
• Sharing context between Xamarin.Forms TabbedPages using Prism and NavigationParameters (John Taubensee)
• MVX=0 WPF/Mac: A first MvvmCross Application (MVX+1 days of MvvmCross) (Nick Randolph)
• Microsoft answers your burning questions about Fluent Design (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Preventing Security Warning Dialog Box for Projects in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Spectre diagnostic in Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 4 (Andrew Pardoe)
• BETA: Visual Studio Live Share (Kurt Shintaku)
• WordPressReader (Standard) version 1.2.0 focuses on improving performance (Marco Siccardi)
• First steps with nullable reference types (Jon Skeet)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Three Common Mistakes of the First Time Tech Lead (Patrick Kua)
• Scrubbing Sprint Zero (Ian Mitchell)
• How to use Miyamoto Musashi’s Philosophy to Become Better Software Crafter (Nikola Živković)
• The Simple Reason Why It’s Time To Ban Laptops In Meetings (Stella Garber)
• Designing Anthologies: Initial Concepts (Tyler Gaw)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Alexa Blueprints Makes You A Code Free Skills Creator (Richard Hay)
• Handling Uncaught-Exceptions in Android (Rohit Surwase)
• ImageDecoder – Animated GIF (Mark Allison)
• Introducing Constraint Layout 1.1 (Sean McQuillan)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 079 – Jeffrey Miller on Writing a Children’s Book (Matthew Groves)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 263 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Azure Podcast Episode 225 – Azure CXP (Sujit D’Mello)
• Flutter: Create Beautiful Material Splash Screen | Dart 2 (Pawan Kumar)
• ID10T Podcast – Antonio Banderas (Chris Hardwick)
• Developer on Fire Episode 332 | David McCarter (Dave Rael)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Tim Huckaby Talks Computer Vision and Mixed Reality (Ed Charbeneau)
• Microsoft Build 2018: Seattle Eats | Microsoft Build 2018 (Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon, MatthewPew, Christina Warren & Bryan Liston)
• Talk Python to Me #158 – Quantum Computing and Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Engineering Daily – Stripe Observability Pipeline with Cory Watson (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Zero Dead Ends – Why Complaining Can Hold You Back (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Diversity opportunity: “Rapid Web Development with F# and the SAFE Stack” workshop (F# Software Foundation)
• Hacking Diversity (Michael Szul)

Database

• FoundationDB Layers (Rinat Abdullin)
• Does an Index on Just The Clustering Key Ever Make Sense? (Brent Ozar)
• How to Force a Parallel Execution Plan for a Query? – Interview Question of the Week #170 (Pinal Dave)
• I’m Getting a “Cannot insert the value NULL into column ‘id’” Message in SQL (Tim Corey)

PowerShell

• PowerShell for SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional (Aaron Nelson)

Miscellaneous

• Forgiveness (David Giard)
• Is Ethical AI Ethical? (James Ashley)
• Small Basic – Draw Circle Game (Nonki Takahashi)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2569 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2081 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: Apr 23, 2018 – Azure Sphere: New Linux Powered IoT Microcontroller (Chris Pietschmann)
• Friday Five: Azure Security Center, .Net API Browswer, And More (MVP Award Program)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #203 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #16, 2018 – VS 15.7 preview 4, .NET Core 2.1 and Rider 2018.1 (Sergey Tihon)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-04-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Reading Notes #324 (Frank Boucher)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.04.20 (Willy-P. Schaub)

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