Day: November 20, 2017

Top Links

• Announcing .NET 4.7.1 Tools for the Cloud (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Managing Secrets Securely in the Cloud (Catherine Wang)
• The DZone Guide to Web Development – Frameworks & Responsive Design Vol. 2 (DZone)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 53 – Prebuilt Azure VMs ready for Containers (Michael Crump)

Web & Cloud Development

• Understanding Sets With JavaScript (Alberta Williams)
• To JavaScript, or Not to JavaScript, That Is the Question (Dan McGhan)
• ASP.NET Core Tag Helpers for Bootstrap (Dino Esposito)
• ASP.NET Core 2.0 Update: Building a RESTful API with ASP.NET Core (Kevin Dockx)
• Authentication Redirection Loop with Angular Application and Azure Active Directory (Nick Randolph)
• Angular application – Architecture Overview (Ravi Kiran)
• Docker Labels in Depth (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• Docker and Linux Containers on Windows, with or without Hyper-V Virtual Machines (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET Core 2.0 and the End of Bower (Shawn Wildermuth)
• QnA maker for Node.js bots (Matthew Shim)
• Turbocharging Your Angular 4+ Development Using Typewriter (Michael Washington)
• The bare minimum a distributed system developer should know about: Binding to IP addresses (Oren Eini)
• Moving Your App to the Cloud (Diego Poza)
• Postman makes SOAP requests too (Joyce)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• ParallaxView Control In UWP (Vijayaragavan S)
• SafeAreaInsets For Xamarin.Forms In iOS (Adam Pedley)
• Java library binding with JavaDocs for Xamarin.Android (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
• Getting a users Facebook profile after Authenticating your Xamarin app with Azure (Jim Bennett)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Back to Basics – What is the difference between Ref and Out Keyword in C#? (Abhijit Jana)
• This Week in Programming: Real-Time Collaborative Coding Comes to Atom and Visual Studio (Mike Melanson)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Unit Testing Stencil Components (Ken Sodemann)
• MSBuild: Targeting Your Needs (Hubert Kuffel)
• Visualizing Projects With NDepend (Eric Potter)
• DéjàVu: a map of code duplicates on GitHub (Adrian Colyer)
• Pairing Improves Writing (Johanna Rothman)
• YAML Build Definitions in the Team Build, now what? (Matteo Emili)
• Using log diffs to identify the cause of errors (Michael Sanders)
• Common Neural Network Activation Functions (Nikola Živković)

Mobile & IoT

• 10 Things New Android Developers Can Relate To (Elvis Chidera)
• What Is Embeddinator-4000 (Mahesh Chand)
• Creation Crate v2 (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Merge Conflict 72: Xamarin.Forms on the Web (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Xamarin Podcast: Connect(); 2017 Xamarin and App Center Recap (James Montemagno)
• Build a Better UI with Vue and Kendo UI—Webinar Recap (John Willoughby)
• Azure CDN: Dynamic Site Acceleration (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• The Amp Hour #368 – The EEVblog Sparkgap Generator (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Developer on Fire Episode 288 | Rachel Smith – Connecting and Delivering (Dave Rael)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Defending our Planet, with Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Software Engineering Daily – Run Less Software with Rich Archbold (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Interview Week: Heather Asks a Question About Dev Ops (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Announcing Philly Azure Meetup Group (Dave Voyles)
• Hello World: The Film – About Devs, by a Dev (Roland Weigelt)
• Everything Announced at MINECON Earth! (Tom Stone)
• Towards a New Adventure (Scott Banwart)

Database

• What is the Role of the UPDATE Lock in SQL Server? and How to Calculate Running Totals in SQL Server (Guy Glantser)
• SQL SERVER – Startup Error – Your SQL Server Installation is Either Corrupt or Has Been Tampered With and How to Assign Multiple Variables in a Single T-SQL Query? – Interview Question of the Week #148 (Pinal Dave)

MS Teams

• Using Event Triggered Tasks to Send Messages to Microsoft Teams (Liam Kemp)

PowerShell

• Graph SQL Server Database Growth Using R and PowerShell (Pablo Echeverria)
• PowerShell Core 6 Release Candidate (Steve Lee)

Miscellaneous

• How to monetize open source (Safia Abdalla)
• Will Artificial Intelligence replace developers (part 2)? (Michał Komorowski)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-11-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-11-20 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2468 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1977 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: Nov 20, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.11.17 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Reading Notes #305 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #367 (Pedro Botelho)
• Watch MVP Daron Yondem Present On The Serverlesss Framework, And More On The Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 13th – November 17th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• .NET blogs to follow – the ultimate list (Thomas Ardal)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #181 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #45-#47 – VS support for .NET Core, new RFCs, F# plugin​ for Rider, LambdUp and more (Sergey Tihon)

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