Day: March 1, 2018

Top Links

• How (and Why) We Built Our New Visual Studio App Center Tester Apps: Preview Now Available! (Jessica Yeh)
• The New, Feature-Packed UrhoSharp 1.8 (Miguel de Icaza)
• ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Improvements to IIS hosting (Sourabh Shirhatti)
• The UWP Community Toolkit v2.2 (Nikola Metulev)

Web & Cloud Development

• AngularJS: The Final Release (Alyssa Nicoll)
• Microsoft launches new healthcare tools powered by AI and Azure (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Ember.js Releases Version 3.0 (Dylan Schiemann)
• WebStorm 2018.1 EAP, 181.3986: create new projects with Vue CLI (Ekaterina Prigara)
• ASP.NET Core 2.1-preview1: Introducing HTTPClient factory (Glenn Condron)
• Azure workshops give developers the tools and skills to transform (Kyle Elliott)
• A Gentle Introduction to Higher-Order Components in React: Best Practices (Manjunath M)
• .NET Core 2.0 With Angular 4 and MySQL, Part 7: Angular Components (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Upgrading an ASP.NET Core 2.0 application to ASP.NET Core 2.1 (preview 1) (Steve Gordon)
• Supporting Developers with JSON Schema (Peter Vogel)
• Announcing SSL policies for HTTPS and SSL proxy load balancers (David Gingold)
• Develop bot integrations with the Hangouts Chat platform and API (Mike Sorvillo & Wesley Chun)
• A Secure Supply Chain for Kubernetes (Jenny Fong)
• Node v9.7.0 (Current) (Rod Vagg)
• API Feature Folders (Steve Smith)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Resilient Network Connectivity In Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Consuming a RESTful Web Service in Xamarin Forms using Refit (Part 3) (Charlin Agramonte)
• Xamarin 101: How to use Lottie Animation the Right Way (Devlin Duldulao)
• No more certificate hassle with Fastlane in Visual Studio for Mac (Gerald Versluis)
• CSHTML5 released to build HTML5 Apps with C-Sharp (Christian Hargrave)
• SQLite & Material Design Frames on iOS (Marcos Cobeña Morián)
• Windows.Forms Comes to 64-bit Mac OS X (Jeff Martin)

Visual Studio & .NET

• VSTS and TFS roadmap update (Brian Harry)
• EF Core 2.1 Roadmap: Views, Group By, and Lazy Loading (Jonathan Allen)
• An amusing story about a practical use of the null garbage collector (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Introducing Trello For Google Hangouts Chat: Bring Chat And Project Management Together (Brian Cervino)
• When Functional Programming Isn’t Functional (Dave Nicolette)
• Customer obsession (Eric Brechner)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Alexa Developer Rewards Program Expands to Skills for Kids (Paul Cutsinger)
• Improving Stability by Reducing Usage of non-SDK Interfaces (David Brazdil)
• Swift 4.2 Release Process (Ted Kremenek)
• Game Jamming in Unity: Tips to Make Art Faster (Christer Kaitila)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Voice Programming with Heather Downing (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Yet Another Podcast #181 – Matthew Robbins on MFractor (Jesse Liberty)
• AAWP Insight #246: Pretending to be a Lumia 950, and 8.1 vs W10M (Steve Litchfield)
• Allscripts On Call – Healthcare in the Cloud (Lisa Khorey)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Domain Driven Design (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Developer on Fire Episode 317 | Steven Hicks – Scary Things (Dave Rael)
• Keeping an Eye on AI with Dr. Kate Crawford (Emily Maryatt)
• Episode 7: Five Things About TypeScript | Five Things (John Papa)
• 2FD 067: Financial Fraud, Who to Trust With Your Money, Stock Market Correction, Fiduciary Advisors (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• Women in Business and Technology Podcast 015 – Becoming the CEO of your dreams with Serrah Linares (Microsoft)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 75: Lara Hogan Demystifies Public Speaking (Richie Rump)
• Edge AI: Skin Cancer Detection App | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
• Software Engineering Daily – Blockchain Scalability with Peter Ullrich (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• 10 Golden Rules of MVP Summit (Jen Stirrup)
• What One Community Has Done to Create a Culture of STEM (Dustin McKissen)
• Our Guide To The 2018 Philadelphia Flower Show, March 3-11 (Kelly Bucci)
• The Countdown Is On – Get Ready for the MVP Global Summit! (MVP Award Program)
• Nerd Nite No. 83: Nerd Nite Celebrates One Book One Philadelphia (Nerd Nite Philly Team)

Database

• Dates and Times in SQL Server: SMALLDATETIME (Randolph West)
• Different Ways to Import JSON Files into SQL Server (Nat Sundar)
• SQL SERVER – Why SQL Server Service is Stuck in Starting / Change Pending State? (Pinal Dave)
• Self Joins…ROW_NUMBER()…LAG()! … Oh My! (Chris Lound)
• Adaptive Joins, Memory Grant Feedback, and Stored Procedures (Erik Darling)
• Using the Full Screen Mode in SSMS (Day 33) (Wayne Sheffield)

MS Teams

• True Guest Access Comes To Microsoft Teams (Sam McNeill)

Miscellaneous

• Advanced | Flow of the Week: Filtering Data with OData (Kent Weare)
• Per-directory case sensitivity and WSL (Sven Groot)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2538 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2044 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf