Day: February 6, 2018

Top Links

• Essential .NET – C# 8.0 and Nullable Reference Types (Mark Michaelis)
• Writing Space Invaders with Go (Sau Sheong)
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.7.2 Early Access build 3052! (Preeti Krishna)
• SmartHotel360 Demo App Mobile Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & James Montemagno)

Web & Cloud Development

• Simple Concurrent Client-Side Processing in ASP.NET MVC with Web Workers and TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
• Data Points – Creating Azure Functions That Can Read from Cosmos DB with Almost No Code (Julie Lerman)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 91 – Part 2 – Implementing Azure Search with SQL Server (Michael Crump)
• Sharing appsettings.json configuration files between projects in ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
• Property Based Testing in Angular with jsVerify (Dave M. Bush)
• Exploring the ApiControllerAttribute and its features for ASP.NET Core MVC 2.1 (Filip W.)
• Building pager tag helper (Gunnar Peipman)
• Creating Your First Angular App: Basics (Monty Shokeen)
• Learn how to do Image Recognition with Cognitive Services and ASP.NET (Phillip Carter)
• Docker Who? By Acquiring CoreOS, Red Hat Aims to Be the Kubernetes Company (Scott M. Fulton III)
• From Swift to React — Our First Project (Shooting Unicorns)
• Fade in Lazy Loaded Images With React and CSS: A Quick Guide (Swizec Teller)
• TNWiki Article Spotlight – ASP.NET Core 2.0 and Docker on MacOS (Syed Shanu)
• Bing Speech API extends its text to speech support to 34 languages (Qinying Liao)
• Madcap Idea 14 – Final article wrap-up (Sacha Barber)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Announcing the new WPF XamDataGrid Control Configurator (Infragistics Team)
• What’s New in UI for WPF for R1 2018: Fluent Theme (Kalin Todorov)
• Xamarin Apps Can Wait in Style (Sam Basu)
• Draw your Next App Idea with Ink to Code (Alex Corrado)
• Playing with ParallaxView (Corrado Cavalli)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Paste JSON as Code with quicktype.io in Visual Studio (James Montemagno)
• Uncurry isomorphisms (Mark Seemann)
• Getting Stacks for LTTng Events with .NET Core on Linux (Sasha Goldshtein)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Why The Hamburger Menu Should Disappear For Good (Ben Bate)
• On Productive Software Development Teams (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Conquer time with new features in Microsoft Planner (MS Planner Team)
• Updates from the DevOps VSTS Bot (J. Opdam)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• AlexaDev Tuesday – All About Alexa Skill Localization (Dustin Coates)
• Exploring chat bots on the Amazon Alexa; to infinity and beyond (Team Novoda)
• #Tutorial – How to build an #Amazon #AlexaSkill using Visual Studio 2017, C# and #Azure (4 de N) (Bruno Capuano)
• Go serverless for your IoT needs (Raman Sharma)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Live Stream Your Coding with Suz Hinton (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• InfoQ Podcast: Theo Schlossnagle on Software Ethics and the Presence of Doing Good (Theo Schlossnagle)
• Merge Conflict 83: Fear of Breaking the World (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Revision Path 228: Ian Davis (Maurice Cherry)
• Software Engineering Daily – Serverless at the Edge with Kenton Varda (Jeff Meyerson)
• 10 Things You Really Should Know About Jupyter Notebooks (Frank La Vigne)

Community & Events

• Join me on our App Modernization roadshow throughout the Southeast! (Esteban Garcia)
• Five Technology Initiatives Every Event Planner Should Seek From a Venue (Kalahari Meetings)
• Mobile .NET Developers Philippines February Session (Bryan Anthony Garcia)
• 12 Major Music Events Coming To Philly This February (Nikki Volpicelli)

Database

• Automated Notification Email for SQL Server Object Modifications (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL SERVER – Create Catalog Error 911: Database ‘SSISDB’ Does Not Exist. Make Sure That he name is entered correctly (Pinal Dave)
• Understanding memory utilization in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Hacking Azure Table Storage to do ORDER BY on Timestamp (Scott Helme)

PowerShell

• Swallow GIT output in PowerShell run by Team Foundation Server because it’s STDERR which breaks the build (Daniel Fisher)
• Yet Another Write-Log Function (Aaron Guilmette)

Miscellaneous

• Everyone should get a Dashcam (Scott Hanselman)
• How Long is Long Enough? Minimum Password Lengths by the World’s Top Sites (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-06 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-06 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2521 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2029 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting links of the week (01/29 – 02/04, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Collective #388 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last week in Azure: Event Grid GA, Ansible in Cloud Shell, and more (Rob Caron)

The Geek Shelf