xaml standard – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – November 16, 2017 (#2605)

Top Links

Introducing Visual Studio Live Share (Amanda Silver)
Build, Test, Distribute and Monitor Apps in the Cloud – Visual Studio App Center Blog (Keith Ballinger)
Announcing Visual Studio and Kubernetes – Visual Studio Connected Environment (Scott Hanselman)
Announcing “Azure DevOps Project” public preview (Gopinath C H)
Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17035 now available (Clint Rutkas)
Help shape the future of docs.microsoft.com! (Denis Delimarschi)
The Latest in Developer Productivity and App Experiences (Nat Friedman)
Xamarin Announcements from Microsoft Connect(); 2017 (Joseph Hill)
Introducing Teletype for Atom: Code collaboratively in real time (Antonio Scandurra)

Web & Cloud Development

ASP.NET Core – A Complete Rewrite of ASP.NET (Daniel Crabtree)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 52 – Deploy Azure Functions with Visual Studio Code (Michael Crump)
A Look at Angular Alongside Vue – File Structure (John Papa)
Improvements to Azure Functions in Visual Studio (Justin Clareburt)
Running Kotlin in Azure Functions (Maarten Balliauw)
PhpStorm 2017.3 Public Preview (Maxim Kolmakov)
Progressive Web Apps made easy with ASP.NET Core (Mads Kristensen)
DZone Refcard – Introduction to TensorFlow (Tim Spann)
Introducing Tensor for multi-dimensional Machine Learning and AI data (Ankit Asthana)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on the Cutting Edge (Ted Way)
Exciting AI Platform & Tools Announcements from Microsoft (Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team)
BlueGriffon 3.0 (glazou)
Announcing general availability of Bash in Cloud Shell (Justin Luk)
Animated SVG Frame Slideshow (Mary Lou)
Kubernetes is Still Hard (for Developers) (Michelle Noorali)
Holograms Catalogue–To the Cloud (Pete D.)
Displaying and Setting Current ASPNET Assembly Version (Steve Smith)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Stable Release: Xamarin.Forms 2.5.0 (David Ortinau)
Visual Studio App Center: The Next Generation of Xamarin Test Cloud (Glenn Wester)
Flexible WPF ToggleSwitch Lookless Control in C# & VB (Graeme Grant)
Xamarin-Forms-Practices – Collection of good practices for Xamarin forms development (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
Windows 10 at Microsoft Connect(); 2017 (Kevin Gallo)
Code tips to keep the UI responsive (Pedro Lamas)

Visual Studio & .NET

Side-by-side minor version MSVC toolsets in Visual Studio 2017 and MSVC conformance improvements in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 (Andrew Pardoe)
#VS2017 – #Minecraft missions options in Xml format #ProjectMalmo (Bruno Capuano)
Welcome to C# 7.2 and Span and Introducing Nullable Reference Types in C# (Mads Torgersen)
Announcing F# support for .NET Core and .NET Standard projects in Visual Studio (Phillip Carter)
Did you know – You can check all the installed Common Language Runtime (CLR) Versions in your machine? (Abhijit Jana)
Using a custom shell with Rider’s built-in terminal (Maarten Balliauw)

Design, Methodology & Testing

VSTS is now a Symbol Server (Alex Mullans)
5 Tips to Help You Visualize Code (Erik Dietrich)
The Importance of Domain Driven Design (Raymond Bryant Jr.)
Release Gates: Releases with continuous monitoring built in (Shashank Bansal)
Introducing the new CLI for VSTS (Will Smythe)

Mobile & IoT

How to Upload Images to Firebase from an Android App (Chinedu Izuchukwu)
Getting in the Xbox One Game with GameMaker Studio (Greg Duncan)
Creating an App with Multiple Side Drawers (Jen Looper)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Developer Tips and Design Patterns with Steve Smith (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Kubernetes development with the Visual Studio connected environment | Connect(); 2017 (Scott Hanselman)
Creating the ‘intelligent edge’ with Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show (Golnaz Alibeigi)
Introducing Visual Studio Live Share | Connect(); 2017 (Chris Dias, Dan Fernandez & Amanda Silver)
New Cassandra API for Azure Cosmos DB (Microsoft Mechanics)
Syntax Podcast – How to get into Speaking At Conferences (Wes Bos)
Developer on Fire Episode 287 | Jason Huggins – Robotic Aspirations (Dave Rael)
Talk Python to Me #138 – Anvil: All web, all Python (Michael Kennedy)
Software Engineering Daily – High Volume Event Processing with John-Daniel Trask (Jeff Meyerson)
Windows Compatibility Pack for .NET Core | Connect(); 2017 (Immo Landwerth)

Community & Events

Microsoft Connect(); 2017 Sessions for Xamarin Developers (Jayme Singleton)
Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech? (Caroline Bullock)
Hello World: The Film – Kickstarter (Shawn Wildermuth)
Connect(); announcements (Brian Harry)
Microsoft Connect() 2017 Highlights and Announcements – Bring AI Everywhere (Chris Pietschmann)
MvvmCross – Joining the .NET Foundation (Martijn van Dijk)

Database

Compare SQL Server Page Splits for INT vs BIGINT vs GUID Data Types (Ben Snaidero)
SQL Server CTE and XML Recursion Script (Bhavesh Patel)
SQL Server 2017 Features Bring ‘Choice’ to Developers and Announcing SQL Operations Studio for preview (SQL Server Team)
Creating a Linked Server to an Azure SQL Database (Gethyn Ellis)
Marten 2.4.0 — now plays nicer with others (Jeremy D. Miller)

PowerShell

DSC Resource Kit Release November 2017 (Katie Keim)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17035 (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

Windows App Developer Links – 2017-11-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-11-16 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2466 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1975 (Mike Gunderloy)
Collective #366 (Mary Lou)

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Dew Drop – September 21, 2017 (#2566)

Top Links

What would a cross-platform .NET UI Framework look like? Exploring Avalonia (Scott Hanselman)
How to install .NET Core 2.0 and How to install .NET Standard 2.0 and Target .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0 and Creating a NuGet package for my .NET Standard class library (Benjamin Perkins)
Syntax Podcast – Why is everyone switching to VS Code? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 18 – Use Tags to quickly organize Azure Resources and Azure Tips and Tricks Part 19 – Deploy an Azure Web App using only the CLI (Michael Crump)
.NET Conf – What’s New in Visual Studio 2017 (Kasey Uhlenhuth)

Web & Cloud Development

Supporting SSL Acceleration (Offloading) in ASP.NET Core (Tomasz Pęczek)
Web APIs: The real existential questions (Dominique St-Amand)
Global Exception Handling in ASP.NET Core Web API (Joseph Woodward)
RxJS Advanced Tutorial With Angular & Web Speech: Part 1 (Kim Maida)
20 Impressive jQuery Plugins to Replace the HTML Select Box (Learning jQuery)
TypeScript vs. JavaScript: Should You Migrate Your Project to TypeScript? (Matt Watson)
Distributed session with ASP.NET Core and Couchbase (Matthew Groves)
Opinion Time: Should Razor Pages Be the Default for ASP.NET Core Apps? (Matthew Jones)
Must-have JavaScript Framework/Libraries in Your Skillset (jQuery By Example)
How much storage space is my Progressive Web App using? (Dean Hume)
Get Familiar with Docker Enterprise Edition Client Bundles (Brian Kaufman)
Vue: The Next Big Thing? (Burke H✪lland)
Use Azure App Insights to track events in your app/web part/provisioning code (Chris O’Brien)
Madcap Idea 10 : Play Framework Reactive Kafka Producer (Sacha Barber)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Protecting Your Xamarin Apps with Dotfuscator (Joe Sewell)
Super UWP App’s with the Super Windows Template Studio (Greg Duncan)

Visual Studio & .NET

New Free C# 7.1: What’s New Quick Start eBook (Jason Roberts)
What’s new in TFS 2017 Update 3 RC (Alex Nichols)
How to encrypt your Team Foundation Server data tier (Matteo Emili)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Announcing the Singleton Challenge (Erik Dietrich)
The Mind Map Technique: How To Set More Productive Goals (Leah Ryder)

Mobile & IoT

Android MVP Architecture with Instant App Support. (Bedanta Bikash Borah)
Securing and Optimizing Your App with Google Play App Signing (Abayomi Akanji)
How To Build An Ionic App With A Graphcool Backend – Part 2 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
Scale up Your Apps and Games: Building New Experiences on Amazon Fire TV (Becky Young)
Complete example of testing MVP architecture with Kotlin and RxJava — Part 1 (Tamás Kozmér)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Azure Event Grid with Dan Rosanova (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – How to Use ASP.NET Core TagHelpers (Ed Charbeneau)
Snack Pack 21: Installing Visual Studio 2017 Preview | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
Microsoft Mechanics – Remote Desktop Services: Updates and upcoming innovations (Simon May & Scott Manchester)
The Nerdist Podcast – Paula Poundstone (Chris Hardwick)
Complete Developer Podcast – What Is A Bug (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
SQL Data Partner Podcast Episode 110: How do I build trust with my team? (Carlos L. Chacon)
Developer on Fire Episode 271 | Saron Yitbarek – High Riser (Dave Rael)
HashiCorp Terraform on Azure | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Software Engineering Daily – Tinder Growth Engineering with Alex Ross (Jeff Meyerson)
SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2017 – Ask Me Anything! with Adam Cogan and Sam Newman (Containers, Serverless, Microservices and other buzz words) (Sophie Belle)
Developer Tea – DCR: Traits of a Great Developer – Communications Expert (Jonathan Cutrell)
.NET Conf – Build Your Own Cortana Skill with .NET (Dorrene Brown)
.NET Conf – Containerized ASP.NET Core Apps with Kubernetes (Mete Atamel)
.NET Conf – Running PHP on .NET Core with Peachpie and .NET Conf – Turning software into computer chips – Hastlayer (Scott Hanselman)
Build, Test, Distribute, and Monitor Xamarin apps with Visual Studio Mobile Center (Scott Densmore & Blanca Delgado Parra)

Community & Events

O’Reilly Media Announces Expansion of Leadership Team (O’Reilly Press Room)
10 Questions with Sky Zhou (James Ashley)
Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017 recordings are now available on Channel 9 (Kyle Pflug)

Database

SQL Server Edition Post-Downgrade Steps (Svetlana Golovko)
The importance of bringing Python to SQL Server (Coeo)
Geek City: Changing How To Change Your Database Properties — ALTER DATABASE (Kalen Delaney)

MS Teams

Microsoft Teams: Enabling and Using Guest Access (Matt Soseman)

PowerShell

PowerShell–Working with Internal Repositories (Chad Cox)

Miscellaneous

The WinPhone 95 is the best Windows phone that never existed (Jez Corden)
The Better Together Update for Minecraft is here (Aubrey Norris)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16294 for PC (Dona Sarkar)
Windows 10 Creators Update is the best version of Windows 10 ever (John Cable)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-21 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-21 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2426 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #350 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Learning Vue.js 2: Olga Filipova: 9781786469946: Books

ISBN: 1786469944
ISBN-13: 9781786469946

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Top 20 Recommended Microsoft Build 2017 Sessions for C# Developers

Because I was unable to attend MS Build 2017, last week I went to look for a few sessions to watch. I visited the Build 2017 landing page on Channel 9 and there were 458 sessions available for viewing. Where do you start?

If your interests are similar to mine (C#, WPF, UWP, Xamarin, .NET Core, TypeScript, Aurelia), here is a Top 20 list to get you started.

Day 1 Keynote (Scott Guthrie, Satya Nadella & Harry Shum) – Highlights include Azure, Cognitive Services and Cosmos DB.
Day 2 Keynote (Joe Belfiore, Terry Myerson & Alex Kipman) – Highlights include Windows 10, .NET Standard 2.0, XAML Standard 1.0, Visual Studio Mobile Center and Xamarin Live Player.
Three Runtimes, one standard… .NET Standard: All in Visual Studio 2017 (Scott Hunter, Scott Hanselman & Kasey Uhlenhuth)
Supercharge your debugging in Visual Studio 2017 (Kaycee Anderson)
Introducing ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Daniel Roth, Scott Hanselman & Maria Naggaga Nakanwagi)
Visual Studio Mobile Center: Ship mobile apps faster (Thomas Dohmke & Keith Ballinger)
The future of Visual Studio (Tim Sneath & Amanda Silver)
Build intelligence into your business apps with ease using Bing APIs in Microsoft Cognitive Services (Ansuman Kar & Brian King)
Visual Studio for Mac (Miguel de Icaza, Joseph Hill & Kendra Havens)
Xamarin: The future of mobile app development (Miguel de Icaza & James Montemagno)
The future of C# (Mads Torgersen & Dustin Campbell)
Modernize WinForms and WPF apps with maximum code reuse, cross-platform reach, and efficient DevOps (Joshua Weber & Mike Battista)
Getting started with Aurelia and ASP.NET Core (Rob Eisenberg)
Never break the build with live unit testing (Manish Jayaswal)
Why you should use F# (Mads Torgersen & Phillip Carter)
Simplified app development with plug-ins for Xamarin and Windows (James Montemagno)
Visual Studio Code: The most useful (and underused) tips and tricks (Wade Anderson)
Leadership Panel: Women Leaders Standing Out Through Technology (Erin Chapple, Joy Chik, Jacky Wright, Dr. Daniela Braga & Holly Peck)
Introducing Fluent Design (Paul Gusmorino & Bojana Ostojic)
Open Q&A: .NET panel (Damian Edwards, Mike Harsh, Scott Hunter, Immo Landwerth & Richard Lander)

Enjoy the sessions! You’ll notice that in order to keep the list down to 20, I did not include any of the excellent Channel 9 interview sessions or pre-recorded sessions. Be sure to go check out some of these as well.

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