Day: July 2, 2018

Top Links

• TWC9: Azure IoT Edge Goes GA, Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Preview 3, Windows 95 Phone Concepts and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• Building Flutter QR Code Generator, Scanner, and Sharing App (Alfian Losari)
• .NET Foundation June Update (.NET Foundation Team)
• Interfaces for Xamarin.Essentials (Ryan Davis)

Web & Cloud Development

• Node.js Isn’t The Solution You’re Looking For (Andrew Williams)
• CSS Variables explained with 5 examples (Daniel Nastase)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 136 – Quickly Restore your Local Settings File for Azure Functions (Michael Crump)
• A15–Building App using Angular and ASP.NET Core 2.1–Route Resolvers, Child Routes (Mitul Suthar)
• Detecting that a .NET Core app is running in a Docker Container and SkippableFacts in XUnit (Scott Hanselman)
• What’s coming in ASP.NET Core 2.2 (Talking Dotnet)
• Creating a Hello World! Bot (MS Bot Framework V4 Preview Edition) (Michael Washington)
• Scratching the Surface of Real Time Apps – Part 2 and Scratching the Surface of Real Time Apps – Part 3 (Jason Farrell)
• Visual Studio Code plugin for Service Fabric Reliable Services (Sudhanva Huruli)
• Query Application Insights Telemetry Data using REST API (Abhijit Jana)
• HIPAA & Medical Data Security for Web Developers (Avery Phillips)
• Renewing Free SSL Certificate on your site: Let’s Encrypt’s Free SSL Certificate Renewal (Part II) (Kapil Khandelwal)
• RxJS: Avoiding Unbound Methods (Nicholas Jamieson)
• Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Private Endpoints (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Adding RTL Support to Your PDF in Xamarin (George Livingston)
• How to continuously check internet connection in Xamarin Forms (Devlin Duldulao)
• TinyInsights – A library for helping developers with analytics and crash reporting (Daniel Hindrikes)
• #WinML – How to create a #Windows10 App using #YOLO for object detection (2 of N) (Bruno Capuano)
• Publishing times for Microsoft Store just got faster! (Microsoft Store Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• New Series – Learn to Code in C# – DevChatter (Brendan Enrick)
• Changes to script debugging in Visual Studio 15.7 (Angelos Petropoulos)
• Passing Data To A Worker Thread In C# and .NET (Mahesh Chand)
• Announcing C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio (Marian Luparu)
• Practical Introduction to Unit testing in C# and Visual Studio (Andrea Angella)
• The Case For .Net Monkey Patching In 2018 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Migrating to Entity Framework Core Seed Data (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• Machine Learning with ML.NET – Solving Real-World Classification Problem (Wine Quality) (Nikola Živković)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• What if we do daily scrum/stand up over Slack? (Sumit Gupta)
• DZone Refcard #266 – Agile Patterns (Ian Mitchell)
• How to add custom HTML to VSTS dashboard? and Creating Code Repositories from Existing one in VSTS (Abhijit Jana)
• Your Application Isn’t Your Domain (Andrew Williams)
• Meet Your Maker: How To Host Meaningful Meetings For Non-Managers (Lauren Moon)
• Git 2.18 Adds Support for Git Protocol Version 2 (Sergio De Simone)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Building Reusable iOS Components in Swift (Kayeli Dennis)
• The Ship List: Visual Studio App Center June Update (James S. White)
• A New Universal Music Player (Nicole Borrelli)
• Internet of Things (IoT) Messaging Architecture (Chris Pietschmann)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• InfoQ Podcast: Anastasiia Voitova on Cryptography and the Design of Cryptographic Libraries (Anastasiia Voitova)
• Technology & Friends – Tobiasz Koprowski on Securing SQL Server (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 271 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Talk Python to Me #167 – Simplifying Python’s Async with Trio (Michael Kennedy)
• Developer on Fire Episode 352 | Chase Aucoin – Looking and Leaping (Dave Rael)
• FreeCodeFriday – Episode 5 (Jason Bock)
• Windows Weekly 576: 1803 Curious (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Daily – Kademlia: P2P Distributed Hash Table with Petar Maymounkov (Jeff Meyerson)
• Merge Conflict 104: Learning From Our Users (James Montemagno)
• Weekly Dev Tips 025: What Good is a Repository (Steve Smith)
• Azure Podcast – Episode 235 – AI, Blockchain and Big Data discussion (Sujit D’Mello)
• Developer Tea – No Good Options (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Why State Machines Make Your Life Easier (with Video) (Sara Faatz)

Community & Events

• Interview with W3.CSS Succinctly Author Joseph D. Booth (Jacqueline Bieringer)
• Congratulations, Everyone! The 2018 Annual Award Cycle Kicks Off Today! (MVP Award Program)

Database

• Solving forget me requests for GDPR in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – gMSA: The Service Did Not Start Due to a Logon Failure (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 4.1 Features: Running RavenDB embedded (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure SQL Data Sync (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

PowerShell

• Adding PowerShell Core to the Hyper Terminal (Michael Szul)
• A PowerShell WPF DSL (Part 2) – Getting Control Values (Mike Shepard)
• Windows PowerShell and the Text-to-Speech REST API (Part 5) (Sean Kearney)

Miscellaneous

• Panos Panay tweets curious hinged picture, thanks LG Display, is he teasing the Surface Phone? (Arif Bacchus)
• Mechanical Keyboards, I Just Got One, and Why You Need One Too (Jeff Fritz)
• Pet Peeves in Job Interviews (Leah Grantz)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2617 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2131 (Mike Gunderloy)
• 30 Days – 30 .NET Tips and Tricks ( Azure, DevOps & VSTS) from Daily .NET Tips- June 2018 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• Azure Weekly: July 2, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #213 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #26, 2018 – Guide to F# async and common hazards (Sergey Tihon)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-02 (Dan Rigby)
• 2018 mid-year link clearance (Raymond Chen)
• Reading Notes #334 (Frank Boucher)
• Friday Five: A Bot For Smart Homes, Windows 10 IoT Core, And More! (MVP Award Program)
• Roundup #8 (Derek Comartin)
• GameDev News – June 29, 2018 (Brian Peek)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.06.29 (Edward Thomson)

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