Top Links
- Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2 Generally Available and 16.3 Preview 1 (Jacqueline Widdis)
- Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.2 is now available (and a Preview for 8.3) (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
- Exploring Blazor with Jeremy Likness (Certified Fresh Events)
- Flutter for web early adopter program now open (Kevin Moore)
- Prism Library – Release: 7.2.0.1367 (Brian Lagunas & Dan Siegel)
Web & Cloud Development
- Call Functions in JavaScript (Chris Pietschmann)
- End to End SSL solution using Web Apps and Azure Application Gateway multisite hosting (Dominique St-Amand)
- ASP.NET Core health checks quick start (Gunnar Peipman)
- Versioning REST APIs in Azure Serverless (Mike Barker)
- Improving the Speed and Accuracy of the Item Page with Light Service (Ramesh Periyathambi)
- Mounting Volumes on Azure Web App for Containers (Tom Kerkhove)
- Uncovering TypeScript for C# Developers (Tugberk Ugurlu)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Highlighting countries on a map in Xamarin.Forms (Martin Zikmund)
- Faster Startup Times With Startup Tracing On Android (Jon Douglas)
- June Update: WinUI 3 roadmap (Jesse Bishop)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio Code C/C++ Extension: July 2019 Update (Tara Raj)
- Skill up on Visual Studio 2019 with Pluralsight (Rajen Kishna)
- VS Code Profile Switcher Extensions Support (Aaron Powell)
- ADO.NET provider 6.7.0.0 for Firebird is ready (Jiří Činčura)
- Experimenting with System.IO.Pipelines for high performance audio (Mark Heath)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Caching and faster artifacts in Azure Pipelines (Alex Mullans)
- Azure DevOps Hidden Gems #5 – Only Download Artifacts Needed for Stages of a Release (Graham Smith)
- How to Have the Best Meetings in Your Life (David Neal)
- How to trigger multiple pipelines using GitLab CI/CD (Itzik Gan Baruch)
- Lessons from Snyk: Make smarter decisions about your application’s security (Marc Campbell)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- WebDriver is Coming to Safari in iOS 13 (Brian Burg)
- MVVM Do’s and Don’ts (Akshay Bhange)
- Using SVG in Flutter (Mirkan)
- Flutter: Infinite ListView with Redux (Pavel Sulimau)
- React Native for Windows Roadmap and July updates (Harini Kannan)
- Alexa Skills SDK for .NET (Tim Heuer)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Automated Text Summarization with Masa Nekic (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Complete Developer Podcast – Design Patterns in Automated Testing (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
- Women Talk Tech Episode 14: Diverse Teams Make Stronger Solutions (Susanna Tarrant)
- On .NET: Updating the WinForms Designer for .NET Core 3.0 (Cecil Phillip, Jeremy Likness, Dustin Campbell & Merrie McGaw)
- Allscripts On Call Podcast – Stories from Community Health – w Dr. Chris Caggiano, Allscripts (Allscripts)
- Ask Octopus Episodes 40-42 – Data Migration, installing the Linux Tentacle & connecting on-premise servers to Octopus Cloud. (Derek Campbell)
- Radio TFS – Drift Boat Dave is Back and Achieving DevOps (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode 374: Marcus Blankenship on Motivating Programmers (Travis Kimmel)
- The SitePen Podcast Episode 37: Stencil: Using TypeScript to Build Web Components (Valerie Kriss, Paul Shannon & Nick Nisi)
Community & Events
- Webinar – From F# to JavaScript with Fable (Maarten Balliauw)
- Being Inspired by Helping Others (David Patrick)
Database
- Find SQL Server Integer Columns to Make Skinnier (Aaron Bertrand)
- SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 3.2 is now available (Asad Khan)
- SQL SERVER – Query Specific Wait Statistics and Performance Tuning (Pinal Dave)
- Free supported Java in SQL Server 2019 is now available (Travis Wright)
- Making Sense of the Metadata: Clustering 4,000 Stack Overflow tags with BigQuery k-means (Felipe Hoffa)
- Relational Databases vs Graph Databases (Siddharth Mehta)
- What Is A Document Database (Mahesh Chand)
Miscellaneous
- A new look for Windows 10’s Start menu: Live Tiles ditched in leaked preview build (Liam Tung)
- Internet Explorer Mode and Other Enterprise Features Now Available for Testing in Microsoft Edge Insider Preview (Russell Smith)
- Is a Blog Frequency of Twice a Week Enough? (Yolanda Fintschenko)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2795 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2019-07-25 (Dan Rigby)
- Double Shot #2392 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Geek Shelf
Angular 2 Development with TypeScript (Yakov Fain & Anton Moiseev)