Day: March 7, 2018

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, Visual Studio for Mac version 7.4 Released (John Montgomery)
• Major build speed improvements – Try .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 today (Scott Hanselman)
• F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 (Phillip Carter)
• Interview with Beth Massi, Product Marketing Manager for the .NET Platform | GALs and Interview with Lauren Tran, Software Engineer Focused on Machine Learning | GALs (Cameron Tomisser)

Web & Cloud Development

• Introducing Hextris – A Tetris Inspired Progressive Web App (PWA) (Chris Love)
• Migrate existing ASP.Net Core 2.0 application to ASP.Net Core 2.1 (Talking DotNet)
• Dynamic Binding in Azure Functions with Imperative Runtime Bindings (Jason Roberts)
• Quickly setup everything you need for develop, deploy and monitor your solution on Azure – Using Azure DevOps Project (Abhijit Jana)
• Angular, AngularJS, and VueJS in 2017: The Important Bits (Alyssa Nicoll)
• ASP.NET Core in Action – Filters (Andrew Lock)
• Interpose.Core Updates (Ricardo Peres)
• Using TOML Config Files in Your Node.js Applications (Dave Johnson)
• Microsoft Releases Azure SDK for Go (E. Carter)
• Jasper v0.6: Better outbox usage, Lamar, ASP.Net Core integration changes (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Beyond React 16: Time Slicing and Suspense API (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• What If I Want to Create the Tables Myself for ASP.NET Authentication? (Tim Corey)
• Copying Classes in TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
• Publish your own NPM package (Dinesh Pandiyan)
• 7 Kubernetes Tools to Expand Your Container Architecture (John Julien)
• Make your website global with Microsoft Translator (Microsoft Translator)
• Twilio Notify is Generally Available (Pranav Deshpande)
• Debunking the fallacy that paid certificates are better than free certificates, and other related nonsense (Scott Helme)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Goodness in Visual Studio 2017 15.6 (Matthew Soucoup)
• Using again my sort of Visual State management (Marcos Cobeña Morián)
• Consume Google API from UWP (Corrado Cavalli)

Visual Studio & .NET

• #VS2017 – Disable PerfWatson2 to improve Visual Studio performance from the Visual Studio Experience Improvement Program (What?) (Bruno Capuano)
• New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 6 (Kayla Ngan)
• Credential providers for private NuGet feeds in Rider 2018.1 EAP (Maarten Balliauw)
• The ‘in’-modifier and the readonly structs in C# (Sergey Teplyakov)
• When MSDN says NULL, is it okay to use nullptr? (Raymond Chen)
• SparkyTools: DependencyProvider and SparkyTools: XmlConfig (Brian “Sparky” Schroer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Agile Fluency Model Updated (James Shore)
• The Theory of Constraints in Agile (Andrew Fuqua)
• CQRS: Understanding From First Principles (Justin Boyer)
• Unit Testing Tips (Kym Phyllpotts)
• Data-Driven Thinking for Continuous Improvement (Ben Linders)
• CodeIt.Right Rules Explained, Part 14 (Erik Dietrich)
• Octopus March Release 2018.3 (Tom Williams)
• Microspeak: The triad, the ad-hoc acronyms that result, and the arithmetic problem 3 × 3 (Raymond Chen)
• Improve Performance through Advance Preparation (Steve Smith)
• Cleanup Git history to remove unwanted files (Thomas Levesque)
• Are you out of alignment? (Camille Fournier)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Things Developer Preview 7 (Dave Smith)
• Deep Dive Part 9: Alexa Display Template Skill Test Gotchas (April Hamilton)
• Easy Version Control With Git in Android Studio (Chike Mgbemena)
• How I Potty Trained My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button (David Gouldin)
• Introduction to Android Architecture Components with Kotlin — Room, LiveData (Gahfy)
• How to Use Phonemes to Change Alexa’s Pronunciation (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Calling RESTful APIs in Unity3D (Mircea Oprea)
• DevOps for IoT with Win10 IoT Core, UWP, and VSTS (Pratap Lakshman)
• Start Testing Your NativeScript Apps Properly (Rob Lauer)
• Tips for Making a Twitch-Friendly Mobile Game (Part 3) (Chris Foley)
• Core Graphics, Part 1: In the Beginning (Mark Dalrymple)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• AiA 179: State of JS with Sacha Greif (Charles Max Wood & Alyssa Nicoll)
• JSJ 303: Test Coverage Tools with Ben Coe, Aaron Abramov, and Issac Schleuter (Charles Max Wood, Aimee Knight, Corey House & AJ O’Neal)
• ID10T Podcast – Robert Kirkman #4 (Chris Hardwick)
• Coding Blocks .NET 76 – Clean Architecture – What is the Humble Object Pattern? (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• ngAir 150 – The TIL Episode #4 (Justin Schwartzenberger)
• RunAs Radio – Cloud Security with Paul Keely (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Developer Tea – How Our Tools Shape Us (Jonathan Cutrell)

Database

• Troubleshooting the SQL Server Dedicated Administrator Connection (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – What is Tail-Log Backups? (Pinal Dave)
• CRUD Operations Using Azure Cosmos DB (David Starr)
• February Cloud data and AI services training roundup (SQL Server Team)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17115 for Fast (Dona Sarkar)
• Windows Insiders get first look at new privacy screen settings layout coming to Windows 10 (Marisa Rogers)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-03-07 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-03-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #2048 (Mike Gunderloy)

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