Day: March 23, 2018

Top Links

• Automatic Unit Testing in .NET Core plus Code Coverage in Visual Studio Code (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Developer Day 2018 Sample App Source Code – Contoso Insurance UWP App (Justin Liu)
• Automatically converting PCL to .NET Standard 2.0 project (Evgeny Zborovsky)
• Get started building .NET web apps in the browser with Blazor (Daniel Roth)

Web & Cloud Development

• The Philly Code Camp ⚙️ Service Worker ⚙️ – Making the Schedule Work Offline! (Chris Love)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 106 – Introducing Azure Tips and Tricks Video! (Michael Crump)
• Testing improvements in PhpStorm 2018.1 (Anton Monakov)
• Updating Angular and .NET Core Visual Studio 2017 Sample (Daren May)
• Is WCF faster than ASP.NET Core? Of course not! Or is it? (Erik Heemskerk)
• All Things Angular (John Willoughby)
• .NET Core 2.0 With Angular 4 and MySQL, Part 10: Angular Lazy Loading (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Push Notifications and ASP.NET Core – Part 4 (Queueing requesting delivery in background) (Tomasz Pęczek)
• ASP.NET Core manageability and Application Insights improvements (Sergey Kanzhelev)
• Microsoft Web Framework – Overview (Microsoft)
• Introducing Twilio/Swagger-Codgen (Devon Stewart)
• Using Machine Learning to Improve Streaming Quality at Netflix (Chaitanya Ekanadham)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Tip – iOS Pill Button (with Storyboard Support) (Alex Dunn)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Update on the incident: Monday, March 22nd 2018 – NuGet.org experienced an incide… (Svetlana Kofman)
• Learning Git with Visual Studio #1 and Learning Git with Visual Studio #2 (Corrado Cavalli)
• C++ Core Checks in Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Preview 2 (Sunny Chatterjee)
• High Performance Object-Oriented Data Access with Dapper (Peter Vogel)
• Roslyn analyzer support in Rider 2018.1 EAP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Functors (Mark Seemann)
• CSLA .NET version 4.7.100 release (Rockford Lhotka)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Becoming an Agile Company (Ben Linders)
• Hone your craft: approaches to making code testable (Anders Poulsen)
• The What, Where, and Why of Continuous Load Testing (Chelsea Frischknecht)
• 5 Key Trello Boards For That #StartupLife (Leah Ryder)
• Stop cherry-picking, start merging, Part 9: Chasing the commit (Raymond Chen)
• VSTS Gems- Release gates (Shmulik Ahituv)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• 5 Tips for Building Multi-Language Alexa Skills (Ankit Kala)
• Beyond the Basics: Best Practices for Adding Account Linking to Your Alexa Skills (David Zhang)
• Android P Slices: the missing documentation — part 2 (Sebastiano Poggi)
• Bluetooth from Unity (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Sending text messages in Swift with Twilio (Sam Agnew)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Managing your VMs and resources in Azure (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Codit share their experience building IoT applications with Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & Cameron Tomisser)
• Scalable + Secure Data with CosmosDB for Mobile | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• ID10T Podcast – Judd Apatow Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Rocket 167: Pointing Fingers (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Radio TFS – Getting into the Groove (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Software Engineering Daily – DAO Reflections and Slock.it with Christoph Jentzsch (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10 + what’s the difference between an MSI and Click To Run? | Adam Cogan (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea 3×3: Three Habits for Mental Hygiene (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Join Microsoft at the GPU Technology Conference (Ben Cotton)
• Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: A Cautionary Tale As We Near GDPR (Jennifer O’Brien)
• Philly Azure April Meeting – Tue, Apr. 10 (Chris Gomez, Tim Ferro, Brian Minisi & Rob McKenna)

Database

• Importing JSON Files Using SQL Server Integration Services (Nat Sundar)
• SQL Server 2017 CU5: Finding Problems With Parallelism (Erik Darling)
• SQL SERVER – How to Fix High CPU Consumption on SQL Server 2017 and 2016 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Vulnerability Assessment for Azure SQL Database (Arun Sirpal)
• Unlock your data’s potential with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Databricks (John Macintyre)
• Azure Databricks, industry-leading analytics platform powered by Apache Spark™ (Rohan Kumar)
• RavenDB Security Review: Encrypting data on disk (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• The Current State Of Email Marketing Programming: What Can And Can’t Be Used (Jaymin Bhuptani)
• Vivaldi collaborates with DuckDuckGo to improve browser privacy (Mark Wycislik-Wilson)
• Windows 10 on ARM and devices–hang on to your continuum dock! (Joost van Schaik)
• AI researchers, wake up! (Rene Schulte)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2550 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2060 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-03-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #400 (Pedro Botelho)

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