Day: October 12, 2017

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5 Preview (Christine Ruana)
• .NET Standard Selector (Immo Landwerth)
• BuildCast Video Player UWP Sample (MS Open Source)
• Announcing Microsoft MakeCode for Minecraft Windows 10 (Seth Juarez)

Web & Cloud Development

• Serverless JavaScript, OMG (Burke H✪lland)
• “CSS: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition” Goes to Print (Eric Meyer)
• 4 ways you can deploy an ASP.NET Core app to GCP (Ivan Naranjo)
• Botwin offers an interesting alternative option for routing with ASP.NET Core (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 32 – Using Application Insights with Azure App Service (Michael Crump)
• Create and Configure a VM with the Azure CLI (Mark Heath)
• One person, multiple accounts (Belinda)
• Build a React App With a Laravel Back End: Part 2, React (Manjunath M)
• Rebuilding slack.com (Mina Markham)
• Node v8.7.0 (Current) (Myles Borins)
• Phone Number Authentication With Firebase (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• Exploring Data with Serverless and Vue: Filtering and Using the Data (Sarah Drasner)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Updating Xamarin.iOS Apps for the iPhone X (John Miller)
• Health Care Provider Booking Platform: Proof of Concept Cross Platform App using Xamarin and Syncfusion (Malcolm Jack)
• Creating Native macOS Apps with Xamarin.Forms (Bryan Anthony Garcia)
• Xamarin Beta Release: 15.5 Preview 1 (Brendan Zagaeski)
• Can you see me now? PhotoLab UWP Sample App (Greg Duncan)
• Xamawin – Controlling the Back Button Text (Joe Meyer)

Visual Studio & .NET

• 15.5 Preview 1 Productivity Improvements: Structure Visualizer, Ctrl + Click Go to Definition, Faster Find All References, and More (Augustin Popa)
• ADAL.NET 3.17.0 released (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• How can I specify that my DLL should resolve a DLL dependency from the same directory that the DLL is in? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Visual Studio Team Services Bot (VSTS Bot) is now in Preview (J. Opdam)
• VSTS Update – Oct 9 (Brian Harry)
• Without Seeing Your Application’s Dependency Graph, You’re Flying Blind (Erik Dietrich)
• 10 Tips for Improving the Readability of Your Code (Manas Sadangi)
• How To Bring Remote Teams Together Without A Big Offsite Budget (Rebecca Siler)

Mobile & IoT

• Boost your Android productivity — Use Compound ViewGroups (Romit Choudhary)
• SiriKit Part 4: Custom UI (John Daub)
• Your Amazon Alexa device can finally tell different voices apart (Joe Maring)
• ArraySlice in Swift (Marco Santarossa)
• Recognize that guy? You might not, but your app could! (Matthew Calder)
• Learning Kotlin: Inline functions (Rashi Karanpuria)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Many Kinds of Messaging with Clemens Vasters (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Stack Exchange Podcast #118 – What’s a Travel-Hacker, Anyway? (Jess Pardue)
• Gone Mobile 57: OpenMVVM with Stanko Nikolic and Bojan Misic (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
• Functional Programming in C# | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• AAWP Insight #232: Windows 10 Mobile dead? Not so fast! (Steve Litchfield)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 113: How do you start consulting? (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Developer on Fire Episode 277 | Justin James – Impactful Activities (Dave Rael)
• Talk Python to Me #133 – Productivity for developers (Michael Kennedy)
• Jenkins Plugins for Kubernetes (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Software Engineering Daily – Blockchain Building with Daniel van Flymen (Jeff Meyerson)
• Syntax Podcast – Advice for New Developers, Imposter Syndrome and Interviewing at Google (Wes Bos)
• SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2017 – Ask Me Anything! with Brendan Richards and Troy Hunt (Security, Hack your Career) (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Mark Engelberg (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• What Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella learned from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer about being a leader (Clare McGrane)
• A more connected universe (Jason Warner)
• After struggling with ‘Why us?’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella credits son with shaping who he is (Kurt Schlosser)
• 10 Questions with Lori Lalonde (Matthew Soucoup)

Database

• Configure SQL Server on Linux to Use Windows Authentication (Daniel Farina)
• SQL SERVER – RETAINDAYS Does Not Delete Backup After x Days (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Temporal Tables (Tim Mitchell)
• MongoDB Quickstart with Python: A new, free course to teach you MongoDB (Michael Kennedy)
• New Features in SSMS 17.3 (Wayne Sheffield)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Professional Program Now Offers 5 Different Online Degrees (Chris Pietschmann)
• What’s new in Windows Console in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Rich Turner)
• What’s new in WSL in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Tara Raj)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-10-12 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-10-12 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2441 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1951 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #356 (Pedro Botelho)
• Daily Links 11 Oct 2017 (Malcolm Jack)

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