Top Links
- Eight things your existing ASP.NET apps should get for “free” from a good platform (Richard Seroter)
- NullableAttribute and C# 8 (Jon Skeet)
- ReSharper Ultimate 2018.3.3 bug-fix update is released! (Alexander Kurakin)
- Announcing ML.NET 0.10 – Machine Learning for .NET (Cesar de la Torre)
Web & Cloud Development
- Trying To Implement 9-Slice Scaling With SVG Components In Angular 7.2.4 (Ben Nadel)
- Introducing Transaction Support in aws-record (Alex Wood)
- NEW EXAMPLE SCENARIO: Accelerate digital image-based modeling on Azure (Paulo Marques da Costa)
- Try Device Flow with IdentityServer4 (Dominick Baier)
- Ambition and Drive to Learn Azure – Part 2 (Gregor Suttie)
- ML.NET, Azure Functions and the 4th Industrial Revolution (Howard van Rooijen)
- PhpStorm 2018.3.4 is released (Maxim Kolmakov)
- Getting Query String Parameters in JavaScript… the New Way (Michael Szul)
- Unleash the power of Forms with Angular’s Reactive Forms (Siddharth Ajmera)
- TypeScript 2.8: Mapped Type Modifiers (Marius Schulz)
- Better Tooling with the New Vue CLI (Christian Nwamba)
- Kubernetes: One Cluster or Many? (Cornelia Davis)
- Why duplication isn’t always a bad thing in micro-services (Michał Białecki)
- Ad Blockers, Brave Browser and BrainTree Credit Card Processing SDKs (Rick Strahl)
- A plan for version 8.0 and Ivy (Stephen Fluin)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Xamarin.Forms 4 – What is New? (Gerald Versluis)
- Using Xml Namespaces to optimize your imports in Xamarin.Forms (Jesus Angulo)
- Why becoming a Blogger help you grow in your career: My Personal experience as Xamarin Blogger (Leomaris Reyes)
- Customizing Your Xamarin.Forms Apps with Animations (Kelley Ricker)
- 5 Azure Offerings I ❤️ For Xamarin Development (Matthew Soucoup)
- Xamarin Preview Release: Xcode 10.2 Beta 2 (Bri Brothers)
- UWP Tip #25 – Windows Community Toolkit – Using the TabView Control (Me)
- FFImageLoading + Lottie = (Daniel Causer)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Instantiating a C# object from a string using Activator.CreateInstance in .NET (Jeremy Lindsay)
- Adapting Projects to Use C# 8 and Nullable Reference Types (Jonathan Allen)
- Using declarations in C# 8.0 (Gunnar Peipman)
- Rider 2018.3.3 bug-fix update is here! (Alexander Kurakin)
- Finding the ProgramFiles64 Folder in a 32 Bit App (Rick Strahl)
- NDepend now supports OpenCover coverage files (Tom Wright)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- The continuous quest for automation in DevOps, and the Azure ML Studio example (Matteo Emili)
- Providing environment specific configuration for JavaScript projects in a continuous deployment pipeline (Rob Erez)
- Make Your Own Azure DevOps Build Light (Tomasz Cielecki)
- Using Environment Variables in Azure DevOps Pipelines (K. Scott Allen)
- Enhancing Your Career with a Mastermind Group (Kevin Griffin)
- Pre-commit and post-deploy code reviews are dead (Aricka Flowers)
- Who is in Charge of Quality in Software Development (Jennifer Riggins & Janet Gregory)
- SOLID Principles of UX, Part 4: Data Loss and Sharing (Jessica Engstrom)
- Deploying Strategies as Choices (Karl Scotland)
- The guiding smell of wide transactions (Szymon Kulec)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Cordova iOS 5.0.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
- Best Programming Language For Android App (Mahesh Chand)
- Teaching Kids to Code with Minecraft Mods made easy using MakeCode and Code Connection and Lighting up my DasKeyboard with Blood Sugar changes using my body’s REST API (Scott Hanselman)
- Swift 5 Will Enforce Runtime Exclusive Access to Memory (Sergio De Simone)
- Elements, Keys and Flutter’s performance (Tomek Polański)
- Quick tip — sync*, a taste of the future (Remi Rousselet)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- CodeNewbie S7:E5 – What does it mean to be offline-first? (Carmen Bourlon) (CodeNewbie Team)
- Flutter: Face ID & Touch ID/Fingerprint Local Auth | AndroidX (MTechViral)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 300 #OTP (Richard Hay)
- Software Engineering Daily – Pachyderm: Data Pipelines with Joe Doliner (Jeff Meyerson)
- Merge Conflict 136: I Love PInvoke (James Montemagno)
- Developer Tea – How We Construct Software – Part Two (Beliefs and Models) (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Weekly Dev Tips 039: Better Code Reviews (Steve Smith)
- Radio TFS – Azure DevOps with Azure Greg (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
- The Amp Hour #429 – An Interview with Charles Alexanian (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 108 – Chris Woodruff on ASP.NET Core WebAPI (Matthew Groves)
- An overview of Azure Data Explorer (ADX) | Azure Friday (Rob Caron & Lara Rubbelke)
- An overview of Azure Blueprints | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
- TWC9: Microsoft Build 2019, VS Code Updates, F# Challenge, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
- Codepunk 042: Programmer Origin Stories (Bill Ahern)
- Developer on Fire Episode 410 | Adam Barr – Character (Dave Rael)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 39 (Jason Bock)
- Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Adaptive Cards with David Claux (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
- Talk Python to Me #198 – Catching up with the Anaconda distribution (Michael Kennedy)
- One Dev Question with Larry Osterman – What is the process of creating a Windows API? and One Dev Question with Larry Osterman – Why do Win32 APIs handle error codes differently? (Microsoft Developer)
- SE-Radio Episode 355: Randy Shoup Scaling Technology and Organization (Travis Kimmel)
- Ask Octopus Episode 4 – Scheduled Deployments, Multiple Teams Sharing One Project, and Channel Version Rules (Ryan Rousseau)
Community & Events
- 24 Awesome Things To Do In Philly, February 11-18 (Kelly Bucci)
- Maintainer spotlight: Rachel Green and Mark Nyon (Leithia Williams)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Cannot Drop the Assembly ‘ISSERVER’, Because it Does not Exist or You do not Have Permission (Pinal Dave)
- What Microsoft’s Open Source PostgreSQL Acquisition Portends for SQL Server (Tim Ford)
- Data modeling with indexes: Event sourcing–Part II (Oren Eini)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams Tip #3 – Get Familiar with Commands (Me)
- Introducing Surface Pro 6 Support for Microsoft Teams Rooms Devices (David Groom)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18334 (Dona Sarkar)
- Announcing Small Basic Online 1.0 – Public Preview (Ed Price)
- Microsoft Q# Coding Contest – Winter 2019 (Mariia Mykhailova)
More Link Collections
- Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2019-02-11 (Dan Rigby)
- Double Shot #2276 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Weekly C# Digest Issue #245 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- F# Weekly #6, 2019 – Submit to the Applied F# Challenge! (Sergey Tihon)
- Friday Five: Azure Truck IoT, Mastering Azure with Cloud Shell, and More Azure! (MVP Award Program)
- GameDev News – February 8, 2019 (Brian Peek)
- Reading List 222 (Bruce Lawson)
- Reading Notes #365 (Frank Boucher)
- Collective #491 (Pedro Botelho)
- Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.02.08 (Edward Thomson)
The Geek Shelf
Professional Visual Studio 2017 (Bruce Johnson)
