Day: October 18, 2017

Top Links

• Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7.1 (Preeti Krishna)
• Introducing Surface Book 2, the most powerful Surface Book ever (Panos Panay)
• C# 7.0 and 7.1 support in ReSharper – Out variables (Maarten Balliauw)
• What’s new in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Mollie Ruiz-Hopper)

Web & Cloud Development

• PayPal Open Sources JavaScript Suite (Kay Ewbank)
• NgRX Effects Design Patterns (Dave M. Bush)
• Host ASP.NET Core in Docker containers (MS Docs)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 35 – Work with the Azure Functions File System using the Console (Michael Crump)
• Which Azure Deployment Model Should You Use? 4 Ways To Deploy (Barry Luijbregts)
• Automating Azure: How to Deploy a Temporary Virtual Machine Resource and Automating Azure: Creating an On-Demand HDInsight Cluster (Feodor Georgiev)
• REST Client for VS Code, an elegant alternative to Postman (Joseph Woodward)
• What’s New in Microsoft Edge in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Kyle Pflug)
• Getting Productive With Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell (Timothy Warner)
• Automate Your Development Workflow With GulpJS (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• Dynamic Shape Overlays with SVG (Yoichi Kobayashi)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Using LiveXAML to improve your Xamarin Forms UIs (Jim Bennett)
• Exporting the data grid to a specific PDF page in Xamarin.Forms (Dave Lasike)
• App icons missing after upgrading to iOS 11/Xamarin (Miha Markic)
• #Windows10 – Working with Multiple Menus with #SurfaceDial in a UWP View (Bruno Capuano)

Visual Studio & .NET

• .NET Framework October 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup (Rich Lander)
• Confronting Your Entity Framework Performance Fears (Mitchel Sellers)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Performance Testing and Load Testing Couchbase with Pillowfight (Matthew Groves)
• My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies (Ian Miell)
• Running tests with dotnet xunit using Cake (Andrew Lock)
• Does Your Organization Need a DevOps Architect? (Jeffrey Lee)
• When a stopgap solution becomes an undocumented feature some people rely on (Raymond Chen)

Mobile & IoT

• A Developer’s Introduction to iOS 11 (Wallace McClure)
• Top 5 iOS Test Automation Frameworks With Code Examples (Lingkai Shao)
• Dive into ARKit on iOS with Swift and Twilio Programmable Video (Lizzie Siegle)
• AlexaDev Tuesday: Pros And Cons Of Writing Alexa Skills For Kids (April Hamilton)
• Swift 4.1 Release Process (Ted Kremenek)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Windows Central Podcast 68: Windows phone is dead, for real this time (Zac Bowden)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Russell Brand (Chris Hardwick)
• TechWomen 2017 Emerging Leader Presentations (Air Mozilla)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 221 | Azure and Office 365 News while Riding Scorpions (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Functional Geekery Episode 111 – Stian Veum Møllersen (Steven Proctor)
• Introducing the new Import Flat File Wizard in SSMS 17.3 | Data Exposed (Golnaz Alibeigi & Seth Juarez)
• Gone Mobile 58: Cake with Gary Ewan Park and Mattias Karlsson (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
• RunAs Radio – GDPR and You with Seb Matthews (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Software Engineering Daily – Model Training with Yufeng Guo (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2017 – Ask Me Anything! with Stephen Carter and Lars Klint (HoloLens, Windows Mixed Reality) (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – Interview w/ Kristen Gallagher (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Interview with Application Security in .NET Succinctly Author Stan Drapkin (Graham High)
• The Massive Harry Potter Festival Returns To Chestnut Hill This Weekend, October 20-21 (Grace Dickinson)
• How Microsoft Marketers Create Inclusive Customer Events (Kyle Elliott)
• Calling University Students: Build the Ultimate Game for Alexa for a Chance to Win Prizes (Marina Jeon)

Database

• Read all errors and warnings in the SQL Server Error Log for all versions (Pablo Echeverria)
• SQL SERVER – How to Create Table Variable and Temporary Table? (Pinal Dave)
• Using T-SQL for Finding Narrowing Ranges of Data (Tim Smith)
• Microsoft Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer – public preview (Jenny Jiang)
• Querying multiple tables by using joins in Transact-SQL (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

• Halo: The Master Chief Collection will be enhanced for Xbox One X (Asher Madan)
• Windows Mixed Reality PC Check app makes it easy to find out if your PC supports mixed reality (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Microsoft CEO hints Windows Core OS mobile device may be headed to the enterprise (Jason Ward)
• How to get the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (John Cable)
• Use a second laptop as an extended monitor with Windows 10 wireless displays (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-10-18 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-10-18 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2445 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1955 (Mike Gunderloy)

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