Day: October 11, 2017

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.4 Released (John Montgomery)
• Windows Developer Day – Fall Creators Update – Keynote and Windows Developer Day in London – Windows 10 Fall Creators Update SDK Availability (Kevin Gallo)
• Announcing UWP Support for .NET Standard 2.0 (Immo Landwerth)
• The Static Void Podcast – Developer Productivity: TechBash 2017 Conference Panel (Jess Chadwick)
• CSLA .NET 20 Year Anniversary (Rockford Lhotka)

Web & Cloud Development

• Launching today: The New CSS Layout (Rachel Andrew)
• Distributed session with ASP.NET Core and Couchbase (Matthew Groves)
• Dynamic Data in the Kendo UI Grid (Alex Hajigeorgieva)
• NgRX 4 Actions – Class vs Object Literal (Dave M. Bush)
• Optimize your jQuery selectors for best performance (Learning jQuery)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 31 – Setting up Email Alerts with Azure App Services (Michael Crump)
• Forthcoming Npm Update Will Add Two-Factor Authentication (Alex Handy)
• Monitor your Azure IoT solutions with Azure Monitor and Azure Resource Health (Ashita Rastogi)
• Getting Started with Azure Event Grid Services (Barry Luijbregts)
• Create collections, documentation, and more with Postman’s NEW button (Belinda)
• Durable Functions and Bindings Extensibility Preview Announcement (Chris Anderson)
• Self-issuing an IdentityServer4 token in an IdentityServer4 service (Filip W.)
• Introducing Dialogflow, the new name for API.AI (Ilya Gelfenbeyn)
• Build a React App With a Laravel RESTful Back End: Part 1, Laravel 5.5 API (Manjunath M)
• Azure Function – Integrating monitoring with Application Insights (Mikael Krief)
• Developing Web Apps and RESTful APIs with KeystoneJS (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• How to Receive and Respond to Text Messages in Python with Django and Twilio (Sam Agnew)
• Exploring Data with Serverless and Vue: Automatically Update GitHub Files With Serverless Functions (Sarah Drasner)
• Bringing WebVR to everyone with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Lewis Weaver)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Forms UI Development Made Easy with LiveXAML (Dan Siegel)
• Xamarin.Forms Updates (Wallace McClure)
• Hey, who moved my… Visual Studio Emulator for Android? (Nick Randolph)
• Authenticate users through Facebook using Xamarin.Auth (Timothé Larivière)
• #Windows10 – Controlling a MediaPlayer Element with #SurfaceDial in a Windows Store App (Bruno Capuano)
• Build and Release Five-Star Apps Faster (Mayur Tendulkar)

Visual Studio & .NET

• F# support improvements in Rider 2017.2 (Maarten Balliauw)
• .NET Framework October 2017 Security and Quality Rollup (Rich Lander)
• .NET: Manage availability zones and more (Asir Selvasingh)
• CodeIt.Right Rules Explained, Part 10 (Erik Dietrich)
• Introducing Oakton — Command line parsing minus the usual cruft (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Evolutionary design still requires up front thinking (Simon Brown)
• Successfully handle disruptive changes with no downtime: the TFS 2015 example (Matteo Emili)
• Bob Martin: Test Contra-Variance (Andrew Morgan)
• Building Trust Through Cadenced Retrospectives (Cory Foy)
• If ‘Everyone is a Designer’ then why am I here? (Darian O’Reilly)
• Netflix Builds a Pipeline for Polyglot Programming (Joab Jackson)
• How Little Can You Do (& Still be Effective) (Johanna Rothman)
• Microspeak: Gardening (Raymond Chen)

Mobile & IoT

• The Google Assistant can help control your Android media apps (Android Developers)
• As Kotlin Ascends, What Are Options for Visual Studio Devs? (David Ramel)
• Life is Easier with NativeScript Playground (Sebastian Witalec)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Windows Central Podcast 67: Microsoft kills Groove (Zac Bowden)
• RunAs Radio – SharePoint Update with Todd Klindt (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Snack Pack 22: Android SDK Manager in Visual Studio for Mac (James Montemagno)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 220 | VSTS DevOps with Donovan Brown and Gopinath Chigakkagari (Andrew Connell)
• Azure Instance Metadata Service (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Software Engineering Daily – Ethereum Platform with Preethi Kasireddy (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Mark Engelberg (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• 20+ Excellent Things To Do In Philly This Week, October 9-16 (Dan Van Wert)
• How To Celebrate Pennsylvania Wine Month At Philadelphia Bars, Restaurants And Beyond (Kristina Jenkins)

Database

• Remove SQL Server AlwaysOn Database from Primary Replica (Manvendra Singh)
• How to Do a Free SQL Server Health Check (Brent Ozar)
• What’s new in SQL Server Management Studio 17.3 (SQL Server Team)
• SQL SERVER – 5 Don’ts When Database Corruption is Detected (Pinal Dave)
• Unique constraints didn’t make the cut for RavenDB 4.0 (Oren Eini)
• Book Review: Think Like a Data Scientist (Mike James)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams: Creating The Dream Team (Eric Overfield)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Output For Fast Debugging and Tracking (Tim Smith)
• Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part IV (Will Anderson)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-10-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-10-11 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2440 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1950 (Mike Gunderloy)

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