Day: March 8, 2018

Top Links

• Episode 8: Five Things About Visual Studio Code | Five Things (Burke Holland & Amanda Silver)
• NDepend: New .NET Core 2.1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 APIs (Patrick Smacchia)
• Windows 10 in S Mode coming soon to all editions of Windows 10 (Joe Belfiore)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17110 now available (Clint Rutkas)
• Three things you need to know about Windows Developer Day (Kevin Gallo)

Web & Cloud Development

• Testing Precompiled Azure Functions Locally with Storage Emulator (Jason Roberts)
• Angular, AngularJS, and VueJS in 2017: The Important Bits (Alyssa Nicoll)
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: Client Caching (Carl Rippon)
• WebStorm 2018.1 EAP, 181.4096: renaming class and file, webpack 4, CSS improvements (Ekaterina Prigara)
• 6 Awesome Videos for React Developers (John Willoughby)
• Making Azure the best place for all your applications and data (Rohan Kumar)
• Decryption with Azure Key Vault (K. Scott Allen)
• Fixing Visual Studio Docker (Jason Farrell)
• Microsoft says AI and machine learning driven by open source and the cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
• RESTful JSON: Adding Links to your APIs (Derek Comartin)
• Publish your own NPM package (Dinesh Pandiyan)
• Using Swagger to automatically generate the client code (E. Zborovsky)
• Using HostBuilder and the Generic Host in .NET Core Microservices (Steve Gordon)
• Node v9.8.0 (Current) (Myles Borins)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.iOS WiFi debugging (Sven-Michael Stübe)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Private Protected Access Modifier in C# 7.2 (Andrea Angella)
• SparkyTools (Brian “Sparky” Schroer)
• AI Platform for Windows Developers (Kam VedBrat)
• Exception popup, improved Smart Step Into, symbol servers, and more Rider 2018.1 EAP debugger updates (Maarten Balliauw)
• When MSDN says NULL, is it okay to use nullptr? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The Theory of Constraints in Agile (Andrew Fuqua)
• What is Professional Agile Leadership? (Ryan Ripley)
• VSTS Update – Mar 5 (Brian Harry)
• How to Contribute to Git (on Windows) (Derrick Stolee)
• Mocking Frameworks: Is it Worth Paying for Them? (Erik Dietrich)
• Containers – What Are They Good For? Build Environments? (Jimmy Bogard)
• Configuring SpecFlow for XUnit using new-style csproj (Matthew Adams)
• The Development Lead’s Guide to Understanding & Managing Time (Tyler Hakes)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Previewing Android P (Dave Burke)
• Meet the Women Shaping the Future of Voice with Alexa (Jennifer King)
• How ARCore enables you to create brand new types of user interaction (Dan Miller)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Dashboards with Jessica White (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ngAir 151 – Angular Tooling with Minko Gechev (Justin Schwartzenberger)
• Introduction to Azure ML Services [Part 1/4] | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 57 – podcast – Agile Coffee (Vic Bonacci)
• Syntax Podcast – Keeping Up with the Codeashians. Dealing with our fast paced industry. (Wes Bos)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 126: SQLSaturday Edition (Amanda Halverson)
• Developer on Fire Episode 319 | John Best – How You Respond (Dave Rael)
• Brokering Peace Talks in the Networking and Storage Arms Race with Dr. Anirudh Badam (Emily Maryatt)
• 2FD 068: Frugal Experiences, Lifestyle Overhaul, Free Events and Taxes for Giving Money (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• SQL Server Radio – Will Machines Eventually Haunt Us? (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• Talk Python to Me #154 – Python in Biology and Genomics (Michael Kennedy)
• Women in Business and Technology 016 – Celebrating International Women’s Day with CVP Toni Townes-Whitley (Microsoft)

Community & Events

• Being Empowered by Adobe & Women (Adobe Careers)
• Microsoft names new director of developer marketing, plans to launch Insider ‘Dev Circles’ (Andy Weir)
• 10 Things Men Can Do to Support Women in Tech (Nona Blackman)

Database

• Marten 2.6/2.7 and why we don’t support Sql Server (yet) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• SQL SERVER – What is Forwarded Records and How to Fix Them? (Pinal Dave)
• Introducing SQL Information Protection for Azure SQL Database and on-premises SQL Server! (Gilad Mittelman)

PowerShell

• How to use PowerShell script modules… on Linux (Shane @ Octopus Deploy)

Miscellaneous

• 17 Incredible Employee Perks of Successful Companies (Reuben Yonatan)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17618 for Skip Ahead and Preview the latest Windows Mixed Reality features coming this spring (Dona Sarkar)
• Windows 10 Version 1803 to be Called the Spring Creators Update (Paul Thurrott)
• What’s new for the Command Line in Windows 10 version 1803 (Yosef Durr)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-03-08 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-03-08 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #2049 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #396 (Pedro Botelho)

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