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Dew Drop – February 7, 2019 (#2894)

Top Links

5 Things You’ll Love in Xamarin.Forms 3.5 (David Ortinau)
The Elements of Highly Effective Pair Programming (Steven Solomon)
Brainstorming – Creating a small single self-contained executable out of a .NET Core application (Scott Hanselman)
Microsoft Build 2019 (May 6-8) – Seattle, WA (Build Team)

Web & Cloud Development

React v16.8: The One With Hooks (Dan Abramov)
Managing Database Transactions in Dapper (David Paquette)
Step-By-Step: Getting Started with Azure Machine Learning (Anthony Bartolo)
Getting Started with Microsoft Azure (Claudio Bernasconi)
Practical ASP.NET Core SignalR: Authorization (Derek Comartin)
WebStorm 2019.1 EAP #3: improved support for ESLint and TSLint (Ekaterina Prigara)
New Jasper Alpha for HTTP Services (Jeremy D. Miller)
VS Code Extensions for Azure Government (Steve Michelotti)
Apigee Edge for Private Cloud 4.19.01 Is Here! (Rajesh Mishra)
AutoML and the Rise of Advanced Machine Learning Platforms (Nikola Živković)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Using Custom Fonts In Xamarin.Forms (Matthew Robbins)
We worked with Xamarin for almost three years, this is what we learned (Thomas Smolders)

Visual Studio & .NET

Changes to the web and JSON editor APIs in Visual Studio 2019 (Andrew B. Hall)
Easy Ways to Redact PDFs Using C# (George Livingston)
C# Futures: Static Delegates and Function Pointers (Jonathan Allen)
Visual Studio – FIX: The ‘SqlStudio Profile Package’ Package Did Not Load Correctly (Pinal Dave)
Visual Studio Code January 2019 (VS Code Team)
Keep Those Boolean Conditionals Simple (Dave Brock)
Using VS Code for C++ development with containers (Marc Goodner)

Design, Methodology & Testing

What’s new in Azure DevOps Sprint 146 Update (Anisha Pindoria)
Posting your Test Studio Results in Slack (Deyan Kalinov)
QA in a DevOps World (Ryan Buchanan)
Personal Software Development Practices (Sean Sexton)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Quick Guide to Comparing Ionic & React Native (Matt Kremer)
Introducing Diagnostics Search and User ID support (App Center Team)
Enterprise IoT: Visualization (Hannah Schaffer)
Flutter and Web Code Sharing. A State Management demo (Mellati Meftah)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Potluck – Changing careers × Repo organization × CSS Grid × Certifications × Freelancing × Spammers × More (Wes Bos)
.NET Rocks! – Teaching Experienced Developers with Clare Sudbery (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
GCast 34: Exposing Local Web Apps with ngrok (David Giard)
Software Engineering Daily – VMware Kubernetes Strategy with Brad Meiseles (Jeff Meyerson)
How to create quicky a Lamp VM in Azure (Frank Boucher)
ID10T Podcast – Danica McKellar Returns (Chris Hardwick)
The Changelog 333: Tactical design advice for developers (Adam Stacoviak)
Agile Toolkit Podcast – Kevin Fisher – DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 (Bob Payne)
PPP 245 | What Your Meetings Say About Your Culture, with the Meeting Maven J. Elise Keith (Andy Kaufman)
Complete Developer Podcast – Asking For A Raise (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
No Dogma Podcast #114 – Kee Jeffreys, Loki Privacy Network (Bryan Hogan)
Five Ways to Build Real-Time Apps with JavaScript | Five Things (Burke Holland)
MSFT Today 2019-02-06 : Microsoft Earnings, Xbox Game Studio, Azure for Free, and More (MSFT Today)
Enhanced monitoring capabilities and tags/annotations in Azure Data Factory | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Channel 9: Sam Basu Talks Chatbots with James Montemagno (Sara Faatz)

Community & Events

Microsoft joins the OpenChain community to help drive open source compliance (David Rudin)
Putting the “human” in human computer interaction with Haiyan Zhang (Emily Maryatt)

Database

Scale SQL Server Bulk Loading On a Budget – Part 1 (Aaron Bertrand)
Reverse Engineer SQL Server Databases with Visual Studio (John Miner)
Automating T-SQL for Azure SQL Database via Logic Apps (Arun Sirpal)

Miscellaneous

Making money from Open Source Software: The dichotomy (Oren Eini)
Developer Marketing Resolution 5: Create Contests That Teach (Yolanda Fintschenko)

More Link Collections

Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2019-02-07 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2274 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 (Christian Nagel)

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Dew Drop – January 22, 2019 (#2882)

Top Links

VS Code Browser Preview Extension – A real browser preview inside your editor that you can debug. (Kenneth Auchenberg)
UWP Tip #24 – Get Started Building Windows UI XAML with XAML Studio (Me)
What’s New in the Windows Developer Docs in January 2019 (Quinn Radich)
IoT School (MS Learning)
.NET Core Podcast – The History of .NET with Richard Campbell (Jamie Taylor)
We Make It Suck Less (Inbar Yagur)

Web & Cloud Development

Microsoft launches Azure DevOps bug bounty program, $20,000 rewards on offer (Charlie Osborne)
Global Weather – Angular 7 with .Net Core 2.2 (Part 1) (Fred Song)
Experiment: Using Service Barrels As A De Facto Dependency-Injection Container In Vue.js 2.5.22 (Ben Nadel)
Continuous Integration With GitLab CI And Docker Using A Raspberry Pi (Nic Raboy)
Using Vue as a drop-in replacement for Knockout in an ASP.NET MVC project (David Paquette)
Dealing With Unprocessed Storage Queue Poison Messages in Azure Functions (Jason Roberts)
Creating a basic Stream Deck Emulator with Node.js (Carey Payette)
Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core (Part 3 – Feedback) (Andrew Lock)
Computed Side Effects in Vue.js (Andrew Rady)
Azure Service Bus Topologies of NServiceBus (Daniel Marbach)
A Better Way of Deploying a Dockerized Application to Azure Kubernetes Service Using Azure Pipelines (Graham Smith)
How To Fix ‘This Page Is Trying To Load Scripts From Unauthenticated Sources’ Chrome Error [Solutions] (Chris Love)
Securing boyet.com, part N: DONE! (Julian M. Bucknall)
My ASP.NET Core Razor Pages First Impressions and Successfully Deploying An InProcess ASP.NET Core 2.2 App To Azure (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
ASP.NET Core Razor Pages and HTTP Status Control Flow (Khalid Abuhakmeh & Bill Boga)
Intro to React Hooks (Kingsley Silas)
Setting Up Azure Key Vault with an Azure Website (Web API) (Luis Valencia)
Converting JavaScript Callbacks to Promises (Michael Szul)
Handle AtomicPay’s webhook with Microsoft Azure (Part 1/3) and Handle AtomicPay’s webhook with Microsoft Azure (Part 2/3) – invoice verification with Azure KeyVault (Marco Siccardi)
Getting started with Azure Blueprints (Sonia Cuff)
JavaScript alternative to range() function to iterate over array items (Trevor Sullivan)
Announcing Blazored and Blazored Toast! (Chris Sainty)
Introducing Syncfusion’s New Vue In-place Editor Component for Web (Easwari S)
Why You Should Learn TypeScript (Ed Charbeneau)
Freebie: Emojious Icons (AI, SVG, PNG) (Emojious)
Cookies and Consent in ASP .NET Core (Shahed Chowdhuri)
Google Authentication in Server Side Blazor (Razor Components) (Michael Washington)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

WPF with Web API and SignalR – Why and How I Use It (Roland Weigelt)
An Introduction to XAML Studio (Adam Driscoll)
Creating A Snack Bar In Xamarin Forms XAML (Damien Doumer)
Using Control Templates in Xamarin Forms (Rendy Del Rosario)
MVVMDiagramDesigner now supports grouping (Sacha Barber)
How to fix IB Compiling error in Xamarin IOS (Leomaris Reyes)
ReactiveUI Rebranding (Artyom Gorchakov)
[VS4Mac] SkiaSharp Fiddle (Javier Suárez Ruiz)
Creating Custom Controls Part 3: TimelineView (Luis Pujols)

Visual Studio & .NET

Weirdness with EF Core 2 (SQLite), .NET Standard, and .NET Framework (Jeremy Clark)
Building C# Project-based Azure Functions in Visual Studio Code (Julie Lerman)
C# ArraySegment (Mahesh Chand)
How do I get the effect of C#’s async void in a C++ coroutine? Part 3: Simpifying the boilerplate (Raymond Chen)
SQL Server and .NET Core 3.0 (Jonathan Allen)
“Stack Walking” in the .NET Runtime (Matt Warren)
Mini book: The InfoQ eMag: .NET Core (InfoQ)
Introduction to Intel® Debug Extensions for WinDbg* (Juhi B.)
Ref struct (byref-like type) and ByReference (byref-like instance field) (Konrad Kokosa)
Stopping Garbage Collection in .NET Core 3.0 (part II) (Luca Bolognese)
Why You Should Learn .net in 2019 (Robert Zhu)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Large-Scale Agile: Where Do You Want Your Complexity? (James Shore)
Some thoughts on anti-patterns (Mark Seemann)
Creating a Windows Container Build Agent for Azure Pipelines (Jakob Ehn)
Super Simple Git Tagging & Releases in Azure DevOps (James Montemagno)
Setting up relationships between work witems on Azure DevOps boards, and using .NET to read these relationships (Jeremy Lindsay)
Design Systems – DZone Refcardz (George Abraham)
Be a mentor (Den Delimarsky)
For the Love of Pipes (Jessie Frazelle)
Why Do We Need Architectural Diagrams? (Ionut Balosin)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective IT Leaders (JD Meier)
Understanding user behaviour – an introduction (Tom Wright)
How I Was Completely Wrong About Setting Up/Tearing Down Tests! (Zack DeRose)
New in TeamCity 2018.2: Simplified Installation of Plugins (Anton Arhipov)
SOLID Principles of UX, Part 1: Make Software Understandable (Jessica Engstrom)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

New Alexa Blueprints for DIY Skills (April Hamilton)
How To: Capture iOS Traffic with Fiddler (Kamen Velikov)
Using react-navigation 3.0 in React Native apps (Khoa Pham)
Android Studio 3.3: First Look (Saad A Akash)
Creating Solitaire in Flutter (Deven Joshi)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Test Automation with Arnon Axelrod (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Technology & Friends – Geisa Faustino on Teaching (David Giard)
InfoQ Podcast: Lynn Langit on 25% Time and Cloud Adoption within Genomic Research Organizations (Lynn Langit)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 297 #OTP (Richard Hay)
TWC9: Alexa Azure DevOps Skills, Hacking Your Career, ML .NET 0.9, 6502 Assembly in VS Code, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
AFH 104: Reactive vs Creative Leadership Stances (Ryan Ripley)
Monitor your Azure Data Factory pipelines proactively with alerts (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Meta Cast Episode 141 – Storytelling in Agile, Part 2 (Josh Anderson)
Visual Studio Mobile Developer Podcast: New Year – New Pod! (Matt Soucoup)
One Dev Question – What is the relationship between Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code? (Microsoft Developer)
One Dev Question – Is VSCode only good for JavaScript? (Microsoft Developer)
Coding Blocks Podcast 98 – Data Structures – Heaps and Tries (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
CodeNewbie S7:E2 – How do I level up? (Ben Orenstein) (CodeNewbie Team)
Developer on Fire Episode 407 | Sarah Withee – Open Learning (Dave Rael)
The Amp Hour #426 – An Interview with Dean Pick (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Revision Path 278: Annyce Davis (Maurice Cherry)
FreeCodeFriday – Episode 34 (Jason Bock)
Software Engineering Daily – Spot Instances with Amiram Shachar (Jeff Meyerson)
Merge Conflict 133: Indie App Marketing (James Montemagno)
Develoer Tea – High-Churn Code Should Be Your Cleanest Code (Jonathan Cutrell)
Azure Podcast Episode 262 – Operationalizing Cosmos DB (Sujit D’Mello)
Presentation: Going Pro: Lifestyle Systems for the Exceptional Developer (Cory House)
Talk Python to Me #195 – Teaching Python at Apple (Michael Kennedy)
What is a ‘Yamjam’? (Yammer Team)

Community & Events

State of the Stack 2019: A Year in Review (David Fullerton)
Ask Me Anything with Scott Gu – If Carlsberg did meetings… (Gregor Suttie)
Join us: Accelerating Gov Cloud in a Cloud Smart World – Jan. 23 (Karina Homme)
25 Great Things To Do In Philly, January 22-27 (Kelly Bucci)
It’s ‘Paul G. Allen Day’ today as Seattle mayor issues proclamation in honor of late Microsoft co-founder (Kurt Schlosser)
Amazon and Microsoft diverge on approach to housing crisis in their home region (Monica Nickelsburg)
Why Attend 21 Essential Scripts: Performance Tuning for EVERYONE? (Pinal Dave)
Call for Speakers – SQLSaturday Tampa 2019 and Call for Speakers – SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2019 (SQLAndy)

Database

Automate SQL Server Administration Tasks Using the Windows Command Prompt (Jeffrey Yao)
Relational to NoSQL – CRM Application Data Visibility (Binh Le)
Which Version of SQL Server Should You Use? (Brent Ozar)
Win Apple Watch Series 4 and Solve SQL Server Performance Problems and Does NOLOCK Really Applies No Lock? – Interview Question of the Week #209 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server Data Migration: Tools and Services (Sergio Govoni)
Test the latest features with SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition (SQL Server Team)
Azure SQL Database – Reduce the workload before initiating another service objective update (Arun Sirpal)
Real Time User Deduplication with Couchbase Eventing (Matthew Groves)
FAQs About Organizing a Data Lake (Melissa Coates)
Getting Started with PouchDB – Part 3 (Paul D. Sheriff)
CLR Strict Security in SQL 2017 (Wayne Sheffield)

MS Teams

Create a New Team in Microsoft Teams (David Giard)

PowerShell

Automatically Creating P\Invoke Signatures for PowerShell from C# Equivalents and Using the ThreadJob PowerShell Module to run background tasks in Windows Forms (Adam Driscoll)
Using WebDeploy in a CI/CD pipeline with PowerShell (Dominique St-Amand)
Parsing Text with PowerShell (1/3) (Steve Lee)

Miscellaneous

Play with Morse Code in Small Basic (1) (Nonki Takahashi)
It’s Official: Satya Nadella Confirms Cortana Defeat (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #2260 and Double Shot #2261 and Double Shot #2262 (Mike Gunderloy)
Azure Weekly: January 21, 2019 (Chris Pietschmann)
Collective #485 (Pedro Botelho)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #242 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #3, 2019 – Category Theory for (dotnet) Programmers & Fabulous 0.3 (Sergey Tihon)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2019-01-21 (Dan Rigby)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
Professional Development – 1/14/2019 – 1/20/2019 (Cameron Presley)
GameDev News – January 18, 2019 (Brian Peek)
Reading Notes #362 (Frank Boucher)
Writing a Blazor APP, Marriott Hack Takeaways, and More on the Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
Interesting links of the week (2019 #3) (Michael Eaton)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.01.18 (Edward Thomson)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft 3RA-00022 Surface Ergonomic Keyboard (MS Hardware)

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Dew Drop – January 14, 2019 (#2877)

Top Links

Stopping Garbage Collection in .NET Core 3.0 (part I) (Luca Bolognese)
Run .NET Framework Apps on a Modern Platform with an SMB Network Share? Steeltoe Makes It Easy. (David Dieruf)
.NET Standard and Multi-targeting (Corrado Cavalli)
Using the .NET Core 3.0 Preview with WPF (Kelley Ricker)

Web & Cloud Development

Bundling Scripts in ASP.NET Core and Extending the ASP.NET Core Processing Pipeline (Peter Vogel)
ASP.NET Core 2.2 – Role Based Authorization Tutorial with Example API (Jason Watmore)
Using Embedded Data To Provide Request-Specific Application Configuration In Angular 7.2.0 (Ben Nadel)
Configuring Queue Names and Blob Path Bindings in Azure Functions Configuration (Jason Roberts)
React for the Angular Developer — Pt 2 (Austin McDaniel)
Implementing an Angular Auth Guard with oidc-client (Brian Noyes)
Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server in NodeJS Applications (Michael Szul)
WebStorm 2018.3.3 is available (Ekaterina Prigara)
The Road to React Mastery — Handling Events (Ethan Hansen)
ASP.NET Core 3.0 Projects Go on a Diet (Jonathan Allen)
Running an AppVeyor Build After Creating an Azure Web App Using Terraform (Ken Dale)
New Docker Hub Merges Together Docker Cloud and Docker Store (Matt Campbell)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 178 – A Lap Around Azure Media Player (Michael Crump)
Google+ shutdown: fixing Google authentication in ASP.NET Core (Thomas Levesque)
Azure Active Directory Authentication in Server Side Blazor and Creating A Bot Using ChoiceFlow for Bot Builder v4 .NET SDK (Michael Washington)
ASP.NET Core — How to use Dependency Injection in Entity Framework Core (Yogi)
The Go Program Structure ️ (Gaurav Gahlot)
In-App Postman Lessons (Kasey)
Cloud Native Apps Need to be Managed in a Completely New Way (Max Johnson)
Reading the RxJS 6 Sources: Map and Pipe (Nate Lapinski)
Running Minecraft on Service Fabric Mesh (Service Fabric Team)
Bending TSLint to your needs (Tim Deschryver)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms 3.5: A Little Bindable Love (Andrei Nitescu)
Xamarin.Forms projects (Daniel Hindrikes)
Tips to practice UI development in Xamarin Forms and not die trying (Leomaris Reyes)
Prism – Using the Event Aggregator (Brian Lagunas)
Fun with Bindable Squares in UWP (Diederik Krols)

Visual Studio & .NET

Using C# and DalSoft.RestClient to Consume Any REST API (Code Maze)
Hackathon Superweapon: F# and Fabulous (Larry O’Brien)
How to do app backgrounding with F# (Sam Williams)
More DI: Unit Testing Async Methods and More DI: Adding Exception Logging with the Decorator Pattern (Jeremy Clark)
Unit testing for ValidateAntiForgeryToken and clever navigation in the ReSharper/Rider test runner (Maarten Balliauw)
Building a Reverse Proxy in .NET Core (Andrea Chiarelli)
Announcing ML.NET 0.9 – Machine Learning for .NET (Cesar de la Torre)
.NET Core Configuration, a deeper dive (Dane Vinson)
Code Analysis and Code Coverage using NetCore + VS Code & publishing to Sonarqube (sonarcloud.io) (Bruno Capuano)
Migrating from .NET to .NET Standard (Rockford Lhotka)

Design, Methodology & Testing

My Best Essays (James Shore)
Running .NET Core Unit Tests with Docker and Azure Pipelines and Deploy Azure Web App for Containers with ARM and Azure DevOps (Jakob Ehn)
The Power of Business Scenarios for Digital Transformation (JD Meier)
View multi-file diffs with commit preview (Meaghan Lewis)
NUnit 3 Quick Tips: Asserting On Collections (Jason Roberts)
Deploying a personal blog with GitHub Actions (Den Delimarsky)
Q&A on the Book Refactoring – Second Edition (Ben Linders & Martin Fowler)
How to Choose the Right Pantone 2019 Color (Brea Weinreb)
10 Blog Posts that Teach You a Lot About Satya Nadella and Digital Transformation (JD Meier)
11 things I wish I could tell myself as a Junior Software Developer (Michael Shpilt)
Bridging the Gap: Ease of Use & Enterprise Practices (Mitchel Sellers)
Backup your collections on a custom domain in your Git repositories! (Nikita)
Successful Teams: How Leaders Build Their Tech Companies (Theodora Palikarska)
Calling All DevOps Engineers (Yolanda Fintschenko)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

React Native Bridge for Android and iOS — UI Component (Abhishek Nalwaya)
Building Trello Like iOS App with Drag & Drop API — Alfian Losari (Alfian Losari)
Developing and debugging Flutter apps for iOS without a Mac (Gabriel Rodríguez)
Alexa Skill Teardown: Building the Interaction Model for the Space Explorer Skill (Jon Mongan)
Eight Ways to Reduce Your Android App APK Size (Jessica Thornsby)
Creating a Flutter Plugin | Dialog Box (Ashish Rawat)
Better Player Engagement with Push Notifications in Unity Apps (James S. White)
kt.dart — Better collections for your Flutter business logic (Pascal Welsch)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Rocket 209: Pepsi is Not a Sponsor of This Podcast (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
Technology & Friends – Jackie Becker on Mixed Reality in the Real World (David Giard)
Global real-time multi-user apps with Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
Presentation: SOLID JavaScript (Jonathan Mills)
UX Design and Code Generation for Angular Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Software Engineering Daily – AWS Analysis with Corey Quinn and Software Engineering Daily – Zeit: Serverless Cloud with Guillermo Rauch (Jeff Meyerson)
Xamarin.Forms 101: Data Binding | The Xamarin Show and Merge Conflict – The Life & Times of Frank Krueger (James Montemagno)
Syntax Podcast – Potluck – Where to start with JS × Freelancing × Cron jobs × Split testing × Frameworks in 2019 × More (Wes Bos)
CodeNewbie S7:E1 – Moms who code (Bekah Hawrot Weigel) (CodeNewbie Team)
Microsoft Bot Framework v4 Node #17: How to Use Proactive Messages Part 1 (Michael Szul)
Developer on Fire Episode 406 | Rodney Norris – Opening Up Black Boxes (Dave Rael)
The Amp Hour #425 – An Interview with Chris Osterwood (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
FreeCodeFriday – Episode 33 (Jason Bock)
Talk Python to Me #194 – Learning (and teaching) Python in a vacuum (Michael Kennedy)
One Dev Question – What was your first interview like for Microsoft? (Microsoft Developer)
Flutter Weekly Widgets S02E02 | 3D ListView (MTechViral)
Distributed .NET Core – Episode 6 (Service discovery & Load balancing with Consul + Fabio) (Piotr Gankiewicz)
Hanselminutes Episode 666 – Game Engine Black Book: Doom with Fabien Sanglard (Scott Hanselman)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 351 – Bernd Rücker on Orchestrating Microservices with Workflow Management (Robert Blumen)
Developer Tea – Adding tests to a big untested codebase – Where do I start? and Developer Tea – Mental Models – Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Azure Podcast Episode 261 – Outage Communications (Sujit D’Mello)
The SitePen Podcast Episode 26: 12 Months of TalkScript (Torrey Rice)

Community & Events

Microsoft’s Build Conference to take place May 7-9, in Seattle (Brad Sams)
23 Amazing Things To Do In Philly, January 14-21 (Kelly Bucci)
15+ Excellent Reasons To Visit Philly This Winter (Shannon Wink)

Database

Four ways to improve scalar function performance in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
Performance Best Practices in Mainframe Migration to .NET and SQL Server (MS Downloads)
Use SQL Server to import GeoJSON files, and convert geo-data back into GeoJSON (Jeremy Lindsay)
How to Move Log File or MDF File in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #208 (Pinal Dave)
Data modeling with indexes: Business rules and Data modeling with indexes: Predicting the future (Oren Eini)
Performance troubleshooting using new Azure Database for PostgreSQL features (Harini Gupta)

PowerShell

Windows Security change affecting PowerShell (Paul Higinbotham)

Miscellaneous

What are all the Chocolatey repositories for? (Gary Ewan Park)
What is PHI and why is it important in HIPAA? (Rebecca Edwards)
5 useful Vim plugins for developers (Ricardo Gerardi)
How to update the firmware on your Zune, without Microsoft, dammit. (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #2255 and Double Shot 2256 (Mike Gunderloy)
Roundup #31: .NET OSS, Async Startup, Loki Serilog, Monitoring, Collectible Assemblies, Alba 3.0 (Derek Comartin)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #241 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #2, 2019 – Open FSharp 2018 Videos (Sergey Tihon)
Friday Five: Firewalls, Expense receipts, Azure and More! (MVP Award Program)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2019-01-11 and Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2019-01-14 (Dan Rigby)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
Today in Tech – Thursday, Jan 10, 2019 (Dirk Strauss)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.01.11 (Edward Thomson)
Collective #482 (Pedro Botelho)
Reading Notes #361 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Secret Wars (Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribic & Paul Renaud)

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