Top Links
- Visual Studio 2017 roadmap now available (John Montgomery)
- WinDbg Preview 1.1804.18003.0 Release Notes (Andy Luhrs)
- BlazeDown: An Experiment with Markdown and Blazor (Ed Charbeneau)
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 118 – FREE E-book titled Azure Quick Start Guide for .NET Developers (Michael Crump)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to Remove Elements From A JavaScript Array (Chris Love)
- Leaders Are The People We Bleed With – Not The People We Bleed For (Ben Nadel)
- Optimising ASP.NET Core apps in Docker – avoiding manually copying csproj files (Part 2) (Andrew Lock)
- Using Destructure and Spread in React Components (Carl Rippon)
- WebStorm 2018.1.2 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
- Migrating your apps, data and infrastructure to Azure is easier than ever (Julia White)
- HTML5’s Global `hidden` Attribute (Louis Lazaris)
- New Features for Developing AngularJS Applications – Part 1: Component-Based Architecture (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
- HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (Part 3) (Steve Gordon)
- Node v10.0.0 (Current) (James M. Snell)
- Aurelia and .NET Core 2.0 (vnmatt)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Masked Entry in Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
- Xamarin Quick Hit: Dimming a button to indicate it is disabled (Jesse Liberty)
- Get the state of the Battery [Xamarin.Forms] (Vicente G. Guzman Lucio)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Bringing custom icons to your Visual Studio Code projects (Abhijit Jana)
- #VS2017 – Using Microsoft.Recognizers to recognize and solve numbers, units and date / time; in multiple languages (Bruno Capuano)
- Visual Studio extensibility samples (Mads Kristensen)
- Announcing a single C++ library manager for Linux, macOS and Windows: Vcpkg (Eric Mittelette)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How to break a Monolith into Microservices (Martin Fowler)
- In Defense of the SOLID Principles (Carlos Schults)
- Give Your Productivity A New View With Trello Home (Jessica Webb)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- AlexaDev Tuesday: Alexa Blueprints & Skill Devs (April Hamilton)
- How to Make It Easy for Teams to Contribute Content to Your Alexa Skill (Jeff Blankenburg)
- An Intro to Low-Poly and Flat Design (Kenney Vleugels)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 248 | Latest news in the SharePoint, Azure and AI Space (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- MetaCast Episode 129 – Agile FAQs, Part 2 (Josh Anderson)
- Part 3 of 4: Create and use Azure Key Vault Secrets | The Open Source Show (Golnaz Alibeigi, Bryan Liston & Alena Hall)
- Alexa Dev Chat Episode 020 – Building Community in the Era of Voice (David Isbitski)
- RunAs Radio – Talking DevOps to Devs with Tim Warner (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- Developer Tea – Fear, Change & Insticts (Jonathan Cutrell)
Community & Events
- “Help! someone has pointed out my conference has diversity issues! How do I fix this?” (Ada Rose Cannon)
- Philadelphia Black Pride Returns For Its 19th Year Of Parties, Panels And More, April 25-29 (Candace Shelton)
- An engineer’s dream job blooms into reality (Candace Whitney-Morris)
Database
- SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 is now available (SQL Server Team)
- Cross-database query performance in Azure SQL Database (Fikrat Azizov)
- Azure SQL Database – A Copying “Gotcha” (Arun Sirpal)
PowerShell
- Schedule VM Downtime With Azure Automation And PowerShell (Timothy Warner)
- PowerShell – How to Install dbatools? (Pinal Dave)
Miscellaneous
- Book Review – R For Everyone (Mike James)
- Announcing Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview Build 17650 (Dona Sarkar)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2571 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #2083 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-04-25 (Dan Rigby)
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