Top Links
- Getting Started: MvvmCross with Xamarin Forms (Nick Randolph)
- Your Ideas Needed: Other Ways to Run Code in Parallel (Jeremy Clark)
- .NET Rocks! – Xamarin Development Gets Faster with James Montemagno (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- TWC9: Last Show of 2017 with Qbits, Hardhat Hololens, Azure bots, Mainframe Christmas Cards and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Golnaz Alibeigi & Christina Warren)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to add Social Media Authentication to ASPNET Core – Day 22 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and The book Table of Content – Day 23 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and Preface to Frontend development with ASP.NET Core MVC, Angular and Bootstrap – Day 24 (Simone Chiaretta)
- Angular Testing Patterns – TestBed (Simon Timms)
- Swashbuckle and Swagger with ASP.NET Core (Matthew Groves)
- Components in Vue.js (Chinedu Izuchukwu)
- PhpStorm 2017.3.2 is released (Maxim Kolmakov)
- How to Fix the [ERROR] Get-ChildItem when Deploying an Azure Resource Group in Visual Studio” (Frank Boucher)
- Azure Data Factory 2.0 – How is it different from Azure Logic Apps? (Tom Kerkhove)
- Is jQuery still relevant? (Grant Palin)
- ESLint v4.14.0 released (ESLint Team)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- VisualStateManager In Xamarin.Forms – Phase 1 (Adam Pedley)
- Drawing with SkiaSharp in Xamarin.Forms (Bas De Cort)
- Xamarin Forms 101: How to fix keyboard overlapping or covering entry (Devlin Duldulao)
- Showing PDF files in Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
- Sara can has MVVM – Part 1 – Writing a Xamarin.Forms App and Databinding a ListView – Part 2 – Writing a Xamarin.Forms App and Displaying an ItemDetailsPage for a ListView item – Part 3 – Writing a Xamarin.Forms App and Editing Items in ItemDetailsPage – Part 4 – Writing a Xamarin.Forms app and Adding items in a List View – Part 5 – Writing a Xamarin.Forms app and Sara can has DataService – Part 6 – Writing a Xamarin.Forms app and Using App.Properties as source of truth – Part 7 – Writing a Xamarin.Forms App and Displaying a ListView item from Page1 on Page2 – Part 8 and Final – Writing a Xamarin.Forms app (Sara Ford)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Invisible race conditions: The async query (Oren Eini)
- ReSharper Ultimate 2017.3.1 bugfix is available! (Alexander Kurakin)
- The Producer Consumer Pattern in .NET (C#) (Yacoub Massad)
- Advent of Code Day 22-Sparse Grids and Advent of Code Day 23–Human Decompiler and Advent of Code Day 24–Recursive Generators and Advent of Code Day 25-State Machines (Mark Heath)
- Time travel is here, at least when it comes to debugging (Raymond Chen)
- Useful Developer Tools #9: Clean and Zip .NET projects from Finder (Robin-Manuel Thiel)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- What Does Agile Really Mean? (Bria Grangard)
- Chaos Engineering at Twilio (Hrishikesh Barua)
- How To Power Down And Find Your #JOMO Flow This Year (Leah Ryder)
- Cherry picking work is slow and unproductive (Matt Lacey)
- Here’s the Thing Development Leaders Get Wrong About Time Tracking (Tyler Hakes)
Mobile & IoT
- Resource Roundup: Top Alexa Tips and Tutorials for Building Kid Skills and Best Practices for Scaling Your Alexa Skill Using Amazon Web Services (Jennifer King)
- Short tip: using the UI components from the Mixed Reality Toolkit examples (Joost van Schaik)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Rob Reynolds on Chocolatey (David Giard)
- InfoQ Podcast: Kolton Andrus on Gremlin’s Newly Announced SaaS Chaos Engineering Product and Running Game Days (Kolton Andrus)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: JB Rainsberger on Fearless Agile Adoption (Vasco Duarte)
- Developer on Fire Episode 298 | Melinda Thielbar – Understanding In Depth (Dave Rael)
- This Week on Windows: Celebrate the countdown to 2018 with great deals at Microsoft Store (Elana Pidgeon)
- Merge Conflict Episode 77: `dotnet pack holiday` (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
- Software Engineering Daily – Modern War with Peter Warren Singer (Jeff Meyerson)
- Azure Podcast Episode 209 – DevOps with Kubernetes (Sujit D’Mello)
Community & Events
- So Long and Thanks for All the Community! (Greg Duncan)
Database
- Implement SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Amazon EC2 – Part 4 (Pinakin Patel)
- What is the Automatic Plan Correction in SQL Server 2017? (Guy Glantser)
- How to List All ColumnStore Index with Table Name in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #153 and SQL SERVER – Error: 17300 – SQL Server Was Unable to Run a New System Task and SQL SERVER – How to Install New Sample Database WideWorldImportersDW.bak (Pinal Dave)
- Using SQL Server Management Studio Projects (Tim Mitchell)
- SQL Tip: LEFT JOINs and WHERE clauses…are they really LEFT JOINs? (Benjamin Reynolds)
- Checklist for Finalizing a Data Model in Power BI Desktop (Melissa Coates)
Miscellaneous
- Mixer Create on iOS can now stream any game (Richard Devine)
- Share Environment Vars between WSL and Windows (Craig Wilhite)
- Barack Obama Says “Merry Christmas” 17 Times (Geoffrey James)
- Get certified. Get an Awesome T-shirt. (Selina Winter)
More Link Collections
- Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-25 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #2492 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #2000 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
- Weekly C# Digest Issue #186 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- F# Weekly #52 – Merry Christmas! (Sergey Tihon)
- Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.12.22 (Willy-P. Schaub)
- Collective #377 (Pedro Botelho)
The Geek Shelf
 Learning Vue.js 2: Olga Filipova: 9781786469946: Books
ISBN: 1786469944 |
Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure: SQL Server in the Cloud: Scott Klein, Herve Roggero: 9781430243953: Books
Mastering ASP.NET Core: Ricardo Peres: 9781787283688: Books