Day: April 24, 2017

Top Links

• TWC9: Win Dev’s at Build, GA Cognitive Services, Linux Containers on Windows and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Vlad Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• When disaster strikes: the complete guide to Failover Appenders in Log4net (Moaid Hathot)
• Using Xamarin Forms with .NET Standard – VS 2017 Edition (Oren Novotny)
• Spans and ref part 1 : ref and Spans and ref part 2 : spans (Marc Gravell)

 

Web & Cloud Development

• ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection Understands Unbound Generics (K. Scott Allen)
• Accessing an HTTP API running on your MacBook in a Docker container from your iPhone/iPad using dnsmasq (Alex Zeitler)
• Azure Tables–What are They Good For? (Mark Heath)
• Bots are the new Apps – Part 2 (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Zero to Azure CLI in Seconds Using Docker (Bobby Johnson)
• GPUs and TensorFlow on Azure (Dave Voyles)
• Texting robots on Mars using Python, Flask, NASA APIs and Twilio MMS (Sam Agnew)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• MvvmCross 5.0 release! (MvvmCross Team)
• WPF – Data Binding (Piyush Pansuriya)
• Stable Release: Xamarin Workbooks & Inspector 1.2.2 (Bri Brothers)
• Value Converter in Xamarin.Forms (Suthahar J.)
• Easier Setup and Fast Development with UI for Xamarin (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• Add Images Icons And Splash Screen In Xamarin.Forms (Umair Hassan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Update: Windows 10 Creators Update and SDK, .NET Framework 4.7, More (Michael Domingo)
• Multiple Platform Targeting in Visual Studio 2017 (Jason Roberts)
• AWS DevOps with .NET – Part 1 (Jason Farrell)
• Thread pool starvation? Just add another thread (Oren Eini)
• C++ Code Editing and Navigation in Visual Studio and Getting Started with Visual Studio for C and C++ Development (Augustin Popa)
• Making string validation faster by not using a regular expression. A story. (Maarten Balliauw)
• Detecting faces on photos using Microsoft Cognitive Services (Gunnar Peipman)
• Better Benchmarking with Additive and Multiplicative Baselines (Daniel Crabtree)
• Task.Delay Challenge Solution (Bnaya Eshet)
• Exceptionless.NET client, core, UI, releases – Bugs, Usability, Performance, Self Hosting (Eric J. Smith)
• Developers Use Case For .NET API Browser (Vidya Vrat Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• New book: Adaptive Code: Agile coding with design patterns and SOLID principles, Second Edition (Kim Spilker)
• How to visualize a rebase in the Git Visualization tool – 111 and How to practice a rebase on the command line – 112 and How to understand the “current branch is up-to-date” error when rebasing – 113 (Sara Ford)
• 5 Little-Known Features For Fine-Tuning Your Trello Boards (Jessica Webb)
• People Re-engineering How-to’s: Mentoring As A Service (Medhat Sabry)
• What we delivered in latest releases of the team services extension generator (Mikael Krief)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• #Hololens – Spatial Understanding vs Spatial Mapping, and a step-by-step on how to use it (Bruno Capuano)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show Azure x-plat CLI 2.0 with Jason R. Shaver (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 038 – Ali Groves on Macros (Matthew Groves)
• Agile Uprising Podcast: Jurgen Appelo (Ryan Lockard)
• Introducing Coffeehouse Blunders, Chess + Tech Podcast (James Montemagno)
• Xamarin Podcast: Building Up to Build (Pierce Boggan & Mike James)
• The Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The problems with avoiding conflict | Jonathan Fulton (Vasco Duarte)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 137 – Intro to Data Science (Briana Vecchione) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 228 | Erik Dietrich – Developer Hegemony (Dave Rael)
• Episode 228: Building Games with Service Fabric | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Thiago Almeida & Chris Risner)
• Talk Python to Me #108 – MicroPython and Open Source Hardware at Adafruit (Michael Kennedy)
• StarTalk Live! Let’s Make America Smart Again (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Windows Weekly 514: Bash on Windows and Samsung Galaxy S8 and Moto G5 First Impressions – What The Tech Ep. 352 (Paul Thurrott)
• Developer Tea – You Can’t Control Random and Developer Tea – Building Your Intuition (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 175 – Encryption at Rest (Sujit D’Mello)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 64: Challenging Education with the Caribu Team (Richie Rump)

 

Community / Events

• Interview with a SharePoint and C# Wiki Ninja – Prashant Bansal (Ed Price)
• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Team Services Bot (J. Opdam)
• Windows Developer Awards: Honoring Windows Devs at Microsoft Build 2017 (Windows Apps Team)
• Our Guide To The Free NFL Draft Experience In Philadelphia, April 27-29 (Grace Dickinson)

 

Database

• SQL Server Integration Services Catalog Best Practices (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL Server 2017: Unpublished Gems (Erik Darling)
• Big Data: Data Science and Advanced Analytics (Natalie Iannello)
• Why SELECT HOST_NAME() Returns Empty String? – Interview Question of the Week #119 and SQL SERVER – FIX : Msg 8115, Level 16, Arithmetic Overflow Error Converting IDENTITY to Data Type INT (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Update 1 (MS Downloads)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-04-24 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-04-24 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2325 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #308 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #277 (Frank Boucher)
• Scott Hanselman’s Best Blog Posts Of All Time (Jonathan Wood)
• From Office 365 To Azure Machine Learning, These Five MVPs Share Their Insights (MVP Award Program)
• Azure Weekly: Apr 24, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #151 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Last Week on Channel 9: April 17th – April 23rd, 2017 (Greg Duncan)

 

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