Month: August 2017

Top Links

• Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Architecture and Patterns guidance (Cesar de la Torre)
• UWP & .NET Standard 2.0: A preview is now available! (Immo Landwerth)
• Zero Garbage Collector for .NET Core (Konrad Kokosa)
• Rider advanced debugging with breakpoints (Maarten Balliauw)

Web & Cloud Development

• 10 Languages That Compile to JavaScript (James Kolce)
• Querying Azure Cosmos DB using serverless Node.js and Introducing downr (Brady Gaster)
• Easing the pain of building in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Easy JavaScript Part 6 : Arrow functions in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ASP.NET Core 2.0 Features (Glenn Condron)
• Introduction to Cognitive Services (Sasindu Kavinda)
• Installing the ASP.NET Core 2.0 runtime store on Linux (Paul Hiles)
• A Dark Tower inspired guide to getting started with Azure AD B2C (Sara Ford)
• Introducing Puppet support for Google Cloud Platform (Nelson Araujo)
• Using ngrok with Azure Functions⚡ (Mattias Karlsson)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 5 – Custom Tile Sizes in the Azure Dashboard (Michael Crump)
• React Higher-Order Components (HOC) using TypeScript (Tatu Tamminen)
• Azure Go Library Documentation Project (Tsuyoshi Ushio)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• A new C++/WinRT update is available (Andrew Pardoe)
• Create a GridView with Xamarin Forms (Alessandro Caliaro)
• Google Maps API Key For Xamarin.Android App (Adam Pedley)
• Xamarin Preview: Xcode 9 Beta 6, iOS 11, MacOS 10.13 Support – Preview 6 (Brendan Zagaeski)
• The Xamarin.Android Template Pack Returns for VS 2017 (James Montemagno)
• Getting Started: Xamarin Forms with .NET Standard (Nick Randolph)
• Xamarin.Forms and Entity Framework Core 2.0: CRUD Example (Almir Vuk)
• Kickass UI in Xamarin Forms: Twitter (Steven Thewissen)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Application configuration settings guidelines and practices. (Clemens Reijnen)
• New C# 7 features in action: Deconstruction in C# 7 – deconstructing declaration, deconstructing assignment, deconstructor method and discards in deconstruction. (Kapil Khandelwal)
• Python updates in Visual Studio 15.4 Preview 1 (Steve Dower)
• Testing and debugging library code from LINQPad (Thomas Levesque)
• Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Support for OpenShift (Charlotte Ellett)
• Visual C++ for Linux Development with CMake (Marc Goodner)
• Source Code Debugging with BuildIt Libraries (Nick Randolph)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• SpecFlow VSTS Build pipeline with SpecRunner For BDD Style Automated Gherkin Functional Tests (Tarun Arora)
• 9 Change Management Principles From Research (Daniel Lock)
• Code sharing with Git submodules (Bas de Cort)
• Software Craftsmanship in Context (Dave Nicolette)
• Automatic linking work items to builds (Smitha Saligrama)

Mobile & IoT

• IoT and Visual Studio (Greg Duncan)
• How to improve app design for Wear 2.0 (Steven Tepper)
• Play with micro:bit and Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Software Endurance with Ariya Hidayat on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers (Scott Hanselman)
• MS Dev Show – That Conference 2017 – Part 3 (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Windows Central Podcast 62: Jumping Builds (Zac Bowden)
• Xamarin Podcast: Latest Stable & Preview Xamarin Releases, Social Authentication, Realm, and more! (Pierce Boggan)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 056 – Jeremy Clark Convincing Your Boss on Unit Testing (Matthew Groves)
• Agile Uprising Podcast – Modern Agile Series – Make People Awesome (Ryan Lockard)
• SSW TV – PowerShell and Azure Automation with Mark Rhodes and Adam Cogan – Digital Workplace Conference, Sydney 2017 (Sophie Belle)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Neil deGrasse Tyson (TWCH) (Chris Hardwick)
• TED Talks – How to speak so that people want to listen (Julian Treasure)
• Developer on Fire Episode 264 | David Giard – Positive Gratitude (Dave Rael)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Azure for Developers (Ed Charbeneau)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: TV Sci-Fi with Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• no dogma podcast #79 – Josh Doody, Salary Negotiation (Bryan Hogan)
• Xbox One X Pre-Orders Go Live – What The Tech Ep. 366 (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Daily – Cloud-Native SQL with Alex Robinson (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Learning Environment (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Girls Who Code’s Rally For Women in Tech Takes Over New York City Square (Jenny Abamu)
• Vermont Code Camp 2017 (Chris Miller)
• Philly Geek Awards 2017 Winners (Mikey Il)
• Fired up for Fall Device Giveaway (Serena McIntire)

Database

• How to use a Project in SQL Server Management Studio (Matteo Lorini)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) – Unable to Connect to SSIS – The Specified Service Does Not Exist as an Installed Service and What is the Biggest Limitation of ISDATE() Function? – Interview Question of the Week #137 (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• Polyfill with PowerShell‍ (Mattias Karlsson)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16275 for PC & Build 15245 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• Computer Science in Education: Women and Men Brains (Ed Price)
• Reduce Email with Microsoft Teams (how and why to do it) (Matt Soseman)
• Migrating from ‘Legacy’ Bash on Ubuntu on Windows to ‘Store’ Ubuntu on Windows (Tim Sneath)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-28 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-28 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #1918 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #169 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #35, 2017 – Today and every weekend! (Sergey Tihon)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Weekly: Aug 28, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Discover How Minecraft Supports K-12 Education Learning, And More On This Week’s Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: August 21st – August 27th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading Notes #294 (Frank Boucher)

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