Day: March 12, 2018

Top Links

• TWC9: MVP Summit, Windows Developer Day, International Women’s Day, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• ASP.NET Core Configuration Tips (David Pine)
• How to Modify Visual Studio 2017 or Install Preview Versions (Steve Smith)
• Remote Views in Vue.js (Shawn Wildermuth)

Web & Cloud Development

• Testing Precompiled Azure Functions Locally with Storage Emulator (Jason Roberts)
• The 2048 Progressive Web App (PWA) and Introducing the Flappy Bird Online Progressive Web App (PWA) and Extracting Sub-Strings In JavaScript Using SubString, Substr and Slice (Chris Love)
• Using Jenkins with Kubernetes AWS, Part 3 (Deepak Vohra)
• Setting up Continuous Delivery for Azure App Services from Azure Portal and Configure Continuous Delivery(CD) to Azure right from the Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• “Console” yourself with JavaScript (Brian “Sparky” Schroer)
• Azure Log Analytics ML: Using the evaluate operator with the app() or workspace() scope function (Iris Classon)
• Securing Angular-Based Chrome Extensions Using Azure AD and ASP.NET CORE (Jakub Kaczmarek)
• 6 Awesome Videos for React Developers (John Willoughby)
• .NET Core 2.0, Angular 4 and MySQL. Part 9 (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Overwhelmed by Choice with Azure Functions? (Mark Heath)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 101 – Day 1 – An end to end scenario with Azure App Server, API Apps, SQL, VSTS and CI/CD (Michael Crump)
• Web API Security with IdentityServer4: IdentityServer4 with .Net Core Part III and Solution for the SignalR error “Failed to start the connection. Error- Method Not Allowed” : .Net Core Errors Part III and Azure Vault key security pattern: Cloud design patterns part I (Neel Bhatt)
• Enhanced Layer 7 Routing for Swarm in Docker Enterprise Edition Beta (Nicola Kabar)
• Redis backed response caching in ASP.NET Core (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Upgrading my podcast site to ASP.NET Core 2.1 in Azure plus some Best Practices (Scott Hanselman)
• Decryption with Azure Key Vault (K. Scott Allen)
• Build an SMS-Driven Bot with Node.js (Toby Jones)
• Interpose.Core Changes (Ricardo Peres)
• BakeBot Day 1: What a Bot Is (And What It Is Not) (James Chambers)
• The Postman API Network (Kin Lane)
• Installing Jekyll on Windows (Connel Hooley)
• How to Connect Your Bot App with Microsoft Cortana (Benjamin Xue)
• Create your developer landing page with GitHub Pages (Dinesh Pandiyan)
• Introducing GCP’s new interactive CLI (Seher Aylin Altiok)
• Progressive Web Apps — The Future of Mobile Web App Development (Goldy Benedict Macquin)
• #wedskaas: What every developer should know about app security, part 2: Why you should be using certificate pinning (Kerry)
• Microsoft’s Bot Framework SDK for Python (Michael Szul)
• API customer text translations no longer logged by Microsoft Translator (Microsoft Translator)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• More Functional ViewModels In Xamarin.Forms With C# and Functional ViewModels In Xamarin.Forms (Revision 2) (Adam Pedley)
• Using Native Facebook Login Button in Xamarin.Forms (Evgeny Zborovsky)
• Reading Data From CosmosDB in a Xamarin App (Matthew Soucoup)
• More on Xamarin Insights Migration (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Adding Badge to ToolbarItem in Xamarin Forms (Rendy Del Rosario)
• FlexButton: A super flexible button control for Xamarin.Forms (Robin-Manuel Thiel)
• First Experiment with Image Classification on Windows ML from UWP (Mike Taulty)
• How To Use FocusTracker Control In UWP (Vijayaragavan S)
• #Windows10 – Using #ONNX models embedded in UWP Apps in Windows 10 (Bruno Capuano)
• Contributing to Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Mac (John Miller)

Visual Studio & .NET

• NuGet Support in Visual Studio for Mac 7.4 and .NET Core Support in Visual Studio for Mac 7.4 (Matt Ward)
• How to suppress SonarLint Analyzers rules in Visual Studio 2017 (Donovan Brown)
• Private Protected Access Modifier in C# 7.2 (Andrea Angella)
• How to open URL in browser in C# ? (Anirudha)
• Python in Visual Studio Code – Feb 2018 Release (Dan Taylor)
• .NET Framework 4.7.2 Developer Pack Early Access build 3056 is available! (Preeti Krishna)
• Getting the VSTS Hosted Mac Agent to restore from your custom NuGet sources (Ryan Davis)
• .NET’s “implicit operator” (Brian “Sparky” Schroer)
• Solution: (Error)Unable to Correct problems, You have held broken packages–Install .NET Core on Ubuntu (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• FluentRealSense – the first steps to a simpler RealSense (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Protecting Your Passwords with the .NET Secret Manager (Corey Weathers)
• Exception popup, improved Smart Step Into, symbol servers, and more Rider 2018.1 EAP debugger updates (Maarten Balliauw)
• Why can’t I add a dependency to my UI in my class library? (Tim Corey)
• Save 40% on pre-orders (Microsoft Press)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• 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)
• SOLID Design Principles Explained – The Single Responsibility Principle (Thorben Janssen)
• Demystifying AI – The AI explosion (Stephen Roughley)
• The Development Lead’s Guide to Understanding & Managing Time (Tyler Hakes)
• DZone Refcard #259 – Test Design Automation (Gedeon Hombrebueno)
• Create Your Own Git Diagrams (Ian Miell)
• User Interface Automation with App Center Test (James Montemagno)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Microsoft quietly adds Cortana features; still testing Alexa integration (Mary Jo Foley)
• React Native: Getting Started with Lottie and Expo (Aman Mittal)
• Cryptography Changes in Android P (Adam Vartanian)
• Meet the Women Shaping the Future of Voice with Alexa (Jennifer King)
• Experiments with HoloLens, Mixed Reality Toolkit and two-handed manipulations (Davide Zordan)
• How mixed reality is changing the game for healthcare, from performing live surgeries to delivering ultrasounds in 3D (Lorraine Bardeen)
• JetBrains Releases Kotlin 1.2.30 (Michael Redlich)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 073 – Scott Drake on Hiring Programmers (Matthew Groves)
• Hanselminutes – Type to the world in your language with Keyman and Marc Durdin (Scott Hanselman)
• Using PowerShell Core with Azure | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
• Merge Conflict 88: Getting Hip to F# (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Freelancing Hot Tips (Wes Bos)
• Rocket 165: Steven Spielberg Hasn’t Made A Bad Movie Since Hook – Fight Me (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Jeremy Likness – CosmosDB and .NET Core | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander & Jeremy Likness)
• Developer on Fire Episode 320 | Scott Drake – Future Proof (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #383 – An Interview with Scott Shawcroft (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• StarTalk Radio – Celebrating Einstein (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• AFH 089: Training from the Back of the Room with Kim Brainard (Ryan Ripley)
• Software Engineering Daily – Monopolies and Proof of Stake with Karl Floersh (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Better 1-on-1s With This Simple  Question and Developer Tea – Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Learn More Intentionally (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Webinar: Getting Started on Xamarin.Forms with Powerful Tools from Infragistics Ultimate UI (Daizen Ikehara)
• Being Empowered by Adobe & Women (Adobe Careers)
• All good things… (Brian Harry)
• Meet The OzCode team- Michael Shpilt (OzCode Team)

Database

• SQL Server MERGE statement usage and examples (Jayendra Viswanathan)
• Transforming JSON Data to Relational Data in SQL Server 2016 (Parvathy Natraj)
• What is Alternative to CASE Statement in SQL Server? – IIF Function – Interview Question of the Week #164 (Pinal Dave)
• Restore an Azure SQL Database from one server to another server (Mohammed Moinudheen)
• Which One is Better? IN or BETWEEN? (Guy Glantser)
• New Querying Features in Couchbase Server 5.5 (Matthew Groves)
• Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 – Developer Build (Tyler Mitchell)
• Redgate’s support for Azure SQL Database Managed Instances (Ben Emmett)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams – There is no “I” in Teams (Robert J. Gates)

PowerShell

• Iron Scripter prequel: Puzzle 9 (Richard Siddaway)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 Version 1803 to be Called the Spring Creators Update (Paul Thurrott)
• JavaScript rules but Microsoft programming languages are on the rise (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-03-12 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-03-12 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2541 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2050 and Double Shot #2051 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: Mar 12, 2018 – Build Azure is Growing! (Chris Pietschmann)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #197 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Top stories from the VSTS community–2017.03.09 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Reading Notes #318 – MVP Summit 2018 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #396 (Pedro Botelho)
• Popular Design News of the Week: March 5, 2018 – March 11, 2018 (Cameron Chapman)

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