Top Links
- Blazor 0.8.0 experimental release now available (Daniel Roth)
- Visual Studio for Mac: Publish to Azure | Visual Studio Toolbox and Visual Studio for Mac: Customize the Look and Feel | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18327 available now! (Clint Rutkas)
- Write Object-Oriented TypeScript: Inheritance (Rachel Appel)
Web & Cloud Development
- Prototypes Are Worthless, But Prototyping Is Essential (Ben Nadel)
- Strongly-typed React Redux Code with TypeScript (Carl Rippon)
- Getting Started with Razzle: An Alternative SSR Framework for React (Christian Nwamba)
- Microsoft Azure portal February 2019 update (Leon Welicki)
- Using NgRx Store with Angular (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Text Distortion Effects using Blotter.js (Mary Lou)
- Scaling Web Push Notifications with Azure Functions (Tomasz Pęczek)
- AWS X-Ray support for .NET Core is GA (Norm Johanson)
- Angular: You may not need NgRx! (Thomas Burleson)
- NEW REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE: Enterprise-grade conversational bot (Abhinav Mithal & Robert Alexander)
- What’s Coming to Golang in 2019: Modules, Generics, Better Error-Handling (David Cassel)
- How Two Operators are Continuously Patching Pivotal Cloud Foundry (Jim Thomson)
- How to: Compose HTTP(S) Requests with Fiddler (Kamen Velikov)
- Developments in Web Components I’m excited about in 2019 (Max Koretskyi)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- XAML TwoPaneView (Fons Sonnemans)
- Use NuGets for your common Xamarin (Forms) code (and automate the creation process) (Marco Siccardi)
- Showing options on top of the keyboard in Xamarin Forms (Rendy Del Rosario)
- Display A Dialog From The ViewModel (Jesse Liberty)
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# Futures: Lambda Attributes (Jonathan Allen)
- Why Learn C# (Mahesh Chand)
- Submit to the Applied F# Challenge! (Phillip Carter)
- Direct3D 11 on 12 Updates (Shawn Hargreaves)
- Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate’s Implementation – Relational Resources (Jimmy Bogard)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Manifesting Agile at Big Nerd Ranch (Daniel Ra)
- Continuous SQL Server Database Integration with Visual Studio and Azure DevOps (John Miner)
- Adding caching to Azure Pipelines (Alex Mullans)
- How to delete a TestCase from Azure DevOps boards using .NET, Flurl and the Azure DevOps Restful API (Jeremy Lindsay)
- How To Build A Daily Habit Tracker In Trello (And Reach Those Goals!) (Britt Joiner)
- I’m Only Going To Say This Once – Don’t Repeat Yourself! (Dan Pelensky)
- Hardened Apps = Harder Target = Reduced Corporate Risk (Gabriel Torok)
- Comparing the top 6 .NET continuous integration build servers (Kristoffer Strube)
- GitHub Release Radar · January 2019 (Lee Reilly)
- Better overrides, a brand new Fill Popover and faster prototyping in Sketch 53 (Sketch Team)
- How NOT to Do Time Tracking for Software Developers (Unless You Want to Kill Your Team’s Morale) (Tyler Hakes)
- 5 Ways You Might Be Failing at Software Doneness (Vlad Georgescu)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Introducing a Trusted Web Activity for Android (Peter Mclachlan)
- How to Send Media Event Notifications to Your Alexa Skill Customers with the ProactiveEvents API (Robert McCauley)
- Prototyping your first cloud-connected IoT project using an MXChip board and Azure IoT hub. (Jim Bennett)
- Swift 5 Exclusivity Enforcement (Andrew Trick)
- Your First Contribution to NativeScript: A Blog Post (Emil Tabakov)
- Enable Hands Free Logging for Your Baby Care Apps and Devices with the Baby Activity Skill API (June Lee)
- Using Cloud Storage for Firebase for hosting rich media in your Actions (Nick Felker)
- Create high-quality light fixtures in Unity (Pierre Yves Donzallaz)
- Working with Vuex in Your NativeScript-Vue Application (Rob Lauer)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Deploy AngularDart App To Firebase | Pokemon App | Easy Steps (MTechViral)
- Developer Tea – Beating Procrastination (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Azure IoT Device Agent for Windows | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
- Share (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week) | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google #39 – Minikube, with Dan Lorenc (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 289 | Microsoft! Microsoft! Microsoft! (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- Logic Apps Connector to Ethereum Blockchain Networks | Block Talk (Blocktalkadmin)
- SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 159: Power BI Dataflows (Carlos L. Chacon)
- Learning Machine Learning with .NET, PyTorch and the ONNX Runtime | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander, Jeremy Likness & Seth Juarez)
- STEM Everyday: #118 | Staying Curious, Being Excited, and Find Ways to Make the World A Little Better | feat. Mika McKinnon (Chris Woods)
- RunAs Radio – Containers in the Cloud with Corey Sanders (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Database
- SQL Server Looking into Differential Backups (Arun Sirpal)
- SQL SERVER – Availability Group Seen in SSMS but missing in Cluster Manager. What’s Wrong? (Pinal Dave)
- Couchbase – Better Scale-Out, Agility and High Availability than MongoDB (Shivani Gupta)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- What’s new in Microsoft Teams – February round up (Christopher Bryan)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Making money from Open Source Software: The problem (Oren Eini)
- Introducing Xbox Game Studios (Matt Booty)
- Become A Hero At Halo: Outpost Discovery (John Friend)
- Announcing the new Security Engineering website (Tony Rice)
More Link Collections
- Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2019-02-06 (Dan Rigby)
- Double Shot #2273 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Azure Weekly: February 5, 2019 (Chris Pietschmann)
The Geek Shelf
Xamarin in Action: Creating native cross-platform mobile apps (Jim Bennett)
Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft's Command Shell eBook: Lee Holmes: Kindle Store
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