Top Links
- Working with Brushes and Content – XAML and Visual Layer Interop, Part One (Windows UI Team)
- C# 6.0 draft Language Specification (now on docs.microsoft.com) (Bill Wagner & More)
- Hands-on Introduction for Getting Started with F# in the Browser using tryfsharp.org (Jin Yun Soo)
- NuGet.org Gets a Facelift (Jon Chu)
Web & Cloud Development
- ASP.NET Core – App Building Workshop (Jon Galloway)
- What is “let” statement in JavaScript? (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Autorun PHPUnit Tests in PhpStorm 2017.2 (Gary Hockin)
- PhpStorm 2017.2 is now released! (Anna Lebedeva)
- MEAN and Cosmos DB – Part 2: Node.js and Express (John Papa)
- Real-World Angular Series – Part 7: Relational Data and Token Renewal (Kim Maida)
- CSS Grid Layout Slideshow (Mary Lou)
- Enumerable and Non-enumerable Properties in JavaScript and TypeScript (Jessica Kerr)
- A guide to caching in ASP.NET Core (Paul Hiles)
- Forward incoming SMS messages to email with Node.js, SendGrid and Twilio Functions (Phil Nash)
- Saving State data with BotBuilder-Azure (Eric Dahlvang & Matthew Shim)
- Setting Up Continuous Integration for Azure Bot Service (Abhijit Jana)
- Azure For Developers – Part 1: Scratching the Surface (Jesse Liberty)
- Announcing NgRx 4 (Rob Wormald)
- On The (Perceived) Value of EV Certs, Commercial CAs, Phishing and Let’s Encrypt (Troy Hunt)
- Introducing Graph API v2.10 (Vivek Hamirwasia)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- WPF Tips Update – The Extended WPF Toolkit Has a New Home and UWP Tip #3 – UWP Community Toolkit – Part 1, What’s in the Box? (Me)
- The Xamarin.Forms Messaging Center Messed With Me (Matthew Soucoup)
- InTheHand.Forms Updates (Peter Freeman Foot)
- Visualize JSON Data Quickly Using XamCategoryChart (Valerie)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Reviewing Resin: Part V (Oren Eini)
- Why does the assignment operator in C# evaluate left to right instead of right to left? (Raymond Chen)
- Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension July 2017 Update – time to try out the new IntelliSense! (Rong Lu)
- Creating a Figure Auto-Number Addin for Markdown Monster using .NET (Daniel Vaughan)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- A Look into NASA’s Coding Philosophy (Abner Coimbre)
- Improved package support in Team Build (Alex Mullans)
- Opinion Time: Should Developers ALWAYS Build an API? (Matthew Jones)
- Building VSTS Extensions with feature flags – Part 2 (Mikael Krief)
- Managing large numbers of GitHub notifications (Mike McQuaid)
- Extending MSTest V2 (Pratap Lakshman)
Mobile & IoT
- How to Write and Deploy Custom Cloud Code for iOS (Rajeev Ranjan)
- Android Design Patterns: The Singleton Pattern (Chike Mgbemena)
- Shut the HAL Up (Jeff Vander Stoep)
- How to use Facebook Sign-In with Ionic and Firebase (Jorge Vergara)
- Designing Skills for Echo Show: Choosing the Right Template (Martha Kang)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Advanced MSBuild Extensibility with Nate McMaster | Code Conversations and Sharing MSBuild Tasks as NuGet Packages with Nate McMaster | Code Conversations (Jon Galloway & Maria Naggaga)
- Design Patterns: Strategy | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- Scrum Master Toolbox – How to pitch Scrum in your company and the 3 most important questions | Tom Taylor (Vasco Duarte)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 204 | Azure Stack, Microsoft Reorg, Microsoft 365 and More News! (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- The week in .NET – Command Line Parser Library, .NET South East (Bertrand Le Roy)
- SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 105: When is enough, enough? (Carlos L. Chacon)
- STEM Everyday #70: A Special Connection to STEM (Chris Woods)
- RunAs Radio – Self-Driving Vehicles with Mark Minasi (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- Spark Performance Tuning – Part 4 | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
- SE-Radio Episode 297: Kieren James Lubin on Blockchain (Kishore Bhatia)
- Software Engineering Daily – Simple Programmer with John Sonmez (Jeff Meyerson)
- Developer Tea – Listener Question: Daw Chih asks About Over Execution (Jonathan Cutrell)
Community & Events
- Philly .NET Meetup – .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017.3, and ReactJS and Philly .NET Meetup – Azure Container Services (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
- Kansas City Developer Conference Gains New Board Member (PRLog) – Congrats to Jeff Strauss!
- Brandywine River Museum of Art Celebrates Andrew Wyeth’s 100th Birthday With A Grand Exhibition (Grace Dickinson)
- 10 Questions with Dennis Vroegop (James Ashley)
- Casey Hudson has left Microsoft’s efforts with Windows Mixed Reality and returned to BioWare (Jez Corden)
- Announcing NativeScript Developer Day 2017 (TJ VanToll)
Database
- How Microsoft brought SQL Server to Linux (Frederic Lardinois)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services (RC) (MS Downloads)
- SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Count of Temporary Table Re-generations (Pinal Dave)
- Microsoft Drivers v4.3.0 for PHP for SQL Server released! (Meet Bhagdev)
- Documentation Contribution and Improvements (Matthew Groves)
- SQL 2016 SP1 Shows You Wait Stats in Execution Plans. Or Does It? (Brent Ozar)
- sp_BlitzCache: Eventual Compatibility With Azure (Erik Darling)
- Tableau and Azure SQL DB, a match made in the cloud (Joseph Sack)
SharePoint
- Getting started with SharePoint Framework (Gunnar Peipman)
PowerShell
- Viewing Memory in PowerShell (Brandon Wilson)
- Microsoft Transitioning Windows PowerShell 6.0 into PowerShell Core (Kurt Mackie)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft confirms full Windows 10 on ARM won’t be coming to existing phones and Office Mobile apps receive Fluent Design treatment on Windows 10 PC (Zac Bowden)
More Link Collections
- Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-19 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-19 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #2386 (Chris Alcock)
The Geek Shelf
Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework: Kishore Gaddam: 9781786463104: Books ISBN: 1786463105 |