Month: August 2017

Top Links

• Referencing .NET Standard Assemblies from both .NET Core and .NET Framework (Scott Hanselman)
• A Preview of C# 8 with Mads Torgersen (Seth Juarez)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 1 – Use Keyboard Shortcuts in the Azure Portal and Azure Tips and Tricks Part 2 – Quickly change themes in the Azure Portal and Azure Tips and Tricks Part 3 – Drag Tiles to customize your Azure Dashboard (Michael Crump)
• Running and debugging a .NET project in Rider and Run/debug configurations in Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 16267 and Mobile Emulator Build 15240 Released (Clint Rutkas)

Web & Cloud Development

• Using CancellationTokens in ASP.NET Core MVC controllers (Andrew Lock)
• Easy JavaScript Part 5: Simplifying function hoisting (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Developing Ionic apps in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Querying Azure Cosmos DB’s Graph API using an Azure Function (Brady Gaster)
• ASP.NET Core Demystified – Action Results (Matthew Jones)
• Dependency Injection in action filters in ASP.NET Core (Paul Hiles)
• NodeServices: Where JavaScript and .NET Meet Back on the Other Side (Rion Williams)
• Two AuthorizationSchemes in ASP.NET Core 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Create a CI/CD pipeline for containerized ASP.NET Core projects (Visual Studio Blog)
• An Angular 4 .Net Core 2.0 Example With Application Shell and Authentication (Michael Washington)
• Creating Precompiled Azure Functions with Visual Studio 2017 (Jason Roberts)
• Using bearer tokens in ASP.NET Core and Implementing tenant providers on ASP.NET Core and Implementing database per tenant strategy on ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman)
• Here’s how to run web application in multiple browsers from Visual Studio (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building Serverless Applications in Azure (Mark Heath)
• How JSON Toppled XML and Other Lessons from the Vintage Computer Fest (Alex Handy)
• Formatting dates and numbers in React (Carl Rippon)
• Refactoring React (Josh McCormick)
• Integrate API tests with Postman, Newman, and Travis CI (Joyce)
• What Progressive Web Apps can do for you (Justin Willis)
• A Brief History of Open Source from the Netflix Cloud Security Team (Jason Chan)
• Why you should care about serverless computing (Donna Malayeri)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Forms OnPlatform And RuntimePlatform (Adam Pedley)
• Xamarin.Tip – Read All Contacts in iOS (Alex Dunn)
• Xamarin Preview: XCode 9 Beta 5, iOS 11, MacOS 10.13 Support – Preview 5 and Xamarin Stable Release: 15.3.2 Servicing Release (Brendan Zagaeski)
• Prism in Xamarin Forms Step by Step (Part. 4) (Charlin Agramonte)
• Native Android Facebook Authentication with Azure App Service and Removing BottomNavigationView’s Icon Shifting  in Xamarin.Android (James Montemagno)
• Live Webinar: Building Your First Mobile Application with Xamarin.Forms (Jesse Liberty)
• Introduction to UI Testing with Xamarin (Jim Bennett)
• Xamarin Forms: Entry View Control (Malcolm Jack)
• Building Serverless Mobile App with Azure Functions using Xamarin Forms (Suthahar J.)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Using C# 7.1 Features (Jason Roberts)
• Using Aliases for Namespaces in C# (Srinath M S)
• AsyncStorage, TypeScript and async/await in React Native (Adrian Hall)
• Practical C# – How to configure the C# language version in Visual Studio 2017 projects (Andrea Angella)
• Functional Programming (F#) for C# Developers (Damir Arh)
• Top 5 ways to debug async/await and multi-threaded code in Visual Studio (Dror Helper)
• Searching in Visual Studio, Powered by Code Search (Greg Duncan)
• Migrating Complex NuGet solutions to Paket (Isaac Abraham)
• Let’s learn about default literal in C# 7.1 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• .NET Framework Update for AppContext (Rich Lander)
• Windows Forms: Don’t Skimp on the Caps Lock Warning (Tim Patrick)
• New Features in Entity Framework Core 2.0 (Jonathan Allen)
• Rider 2017.1.1 is released (Jura Gorohovsky)
• CodeRush 17.1.7 Released (Mark Miller)
• This Week in Programming: Microsoft .NET Goes Truly Cross Platform (Mike Melanson)
• Json.net also tricked me (Michał Komorowski)
• GhostDoc v2018 Beta 2 is available (Serge Baranovsky)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) makes an enterprise agile (joweibel)
• Diagnosing a single slow test and Diagnosing a corner-case tooling bug (Jon Skeet)
• Committing with Confidence: Commit Time Code Quality Information Updated (Mark Wilson-Thomas)

Mobile & IoT

• Introducing Android 8.0 Oreo (Dave Burke)
• Migrating from Cordova to NativeScript (Rob Lauer)
• NativeScript Angular – Performance Tips & Tricks (Jen Looper)
• Making your EZ-Robots Smart with Microsoft Cognitive Services (Greg Duncan)
• Where in the World is Mobile Development? (Jason Punyon)
• Swift 5 Sets its Goals, Defines New Evolution Process (Sergio De Simone)
• Swift Local Refactoring (Xi Ge)
• How to Make HTTP Requests in Swift 3 (Sam Agnew)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Laura Laban explores Infinite Flight simulation on mobile devices on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers (Scott Hanselman)
• MS Dev Show – That Conference 2017 – Part 2 (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• .NET Rocks! – Accessibility for UX with Elle Waters (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends – Riccardo Bennett-Lovsey on Digital Transformations (David Giard)
• Yet Another Podcast #173 – Jeremy Likness on Azure (Jesse Liberty)
• InfoQ Podcast: Security Considerations and the State of Microservices with Sam Newman (Sam Newman)
• Gone Mobile 56: MvvmCross Updates with Martijn van Dijk (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• Podcast – Prism for Xamarin.Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
• Polished Telerik UI for Xamarin Apps (Seth Juarez)
• TWC9: Hyper about HyperCard, .NET 2.0 is Out, How YOU impact Visual Studio Development and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Christina Warren)
• Coding Blocks .NET Episode 65 – Software Design Anti-patterns (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – Dean Leffingwell – Agile2017 and Agile Toolkit Podcast – Lymari Castro and Warren Smith – Agile2017 (Bob Payne)
• Developer on Fire Episode 262 | Kelli Shaver – Opportunities to Grow (Dave Rael)
• Merge Conflict 59: Managing Open Source Projects (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Interview with Maira Wenzel, Senior Content Developer on the .NET Team | GALs (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• RunAs Radio – Turn Off SMB1 with Ned Pyle (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Talk Python to Me #126 – Kubernetes for Pythonistas (Michael Kennedy)
• Azure Portal Updates | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• TDE with Bring Your Own Key Support in Azure SQL DB and DW | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• Software Engineering Daily – Error Diagnosis with James Smith (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Michael Asks About Dev Bootcamps (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Dream.Build.Play August Update | .GAME (Stacey Haffner)

Community & Events

• Get ready for back to school with discounted apps and STEM Saturdays at Microsoft Store (Annie Arnold)
• 10 Questions with Amanda Lange (James Ashley)
• If You Really Want Happy Attendees, Do These Seven Things (Kalahari Meetings)

Database

• SQL Server 2017 Adaptive Memory Grant Feedback for Stored Procedure Performance Improvements (Rajendra Gupta)
• Why don’t you unit test SQL Server code? (Coeo)
• SQL SERVER – 3 Different Usage of DBCC SQLPERF and SQL Server Management Studio – New Feature – Object Explorer Query Tracking and SQL SERVER – Learning DATEDIFF_BIG Function in SQL Server 2016 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Latest News for the SharePoint Framework: Extensions RC! (Andrew Connell)
• The future of our TFS/SharePoint Integration (Gregg Boer)

PowerShell

• Getting Started With Microsoft Azure PowerShell (Timothy Warner)

Miscellaneous

• Why You Need to Care About Net Neutrality (Diego Poza)
• Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 16267 (Dona Sarkar)
• Windows 10 Tip: Three ways to get started with OneNote (Elana Pidgeon)
• Intel has a mysterious black Surface Book in its latest video (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-23 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2411 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1915 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #168 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #34, 2017 – Choose your 2017 F# Heroes ! (Sergey Tihon)
• Collective #342 (Pedro Botelho)
• Based In Cities Around The World, Delve Into What These Global MVPs Have To Share (MVP Award Program)
• Daily Links 18 Aug 2017 (Malcolm Jack)
• Last Week on Channel 9: August 14th – August 20th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Azure Weekly: Aug 21, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)

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