Day: July 6, 2018

Top Links

• Visual Studio Code June 2018 (VS Code Team)
• dotnet outdated helps you keep your projects up to date (Scott Hanselman)
• Workaround for Bower Version Deprecation (Justin Clareburt)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2018.1.3 and Rider 2018.1.3 are out! (Alexander Kurakin)

Web & Cloud Development

• Keystone.js is the best Node.js alternative to WordPress (Jorgé)
• Running WordPress on .NET Core (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using ASP.NET Core Razor Views from a Class Library (Derek Comartin)
• Creating an Azure Chatbot Using Microsoft Bot Framework and the DirectLine Channel (Ivan Petrov)
• Under the hood of ASP.NET Core WebHooks – Signature Validation (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Getting Started with Azure Event Grid (Jason Farrell)
• VSCode Grid Editor Layout Is Here! (Ahmad Awais)
• Introduction of TensorFlow with Python (Harun-Ur-Rashid)
• The API Economy We Know Has Ended (Bob Reselman)
• Prototyping in the Browser (Robin Rendle)
• Use serverless functions and CDN to speed up API data calls (Shayne Boyer)
• Anatomy of a Linux DNS Lookup – Part III (Ian Miell)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• 5 Xamarin.Forms Debugging Nightmares And Their Solutions (Damien Doumer)
• MongoDB with Xamarin? It’s True!! (Matthew Soucoup)
• Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: Command Chaining (Marco Siccardi)
• 12 Best New WPF Books To Read In 2018 (BookAuthority)
• Setting iOS permission descriptions in Visual Studio 2017 (Jim Bennett)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Emaroo 4.1 – Hide Those Tryout Visual Studio Projects! (Roland Weigelt)
• Shared PCH usage sample in Visual Studio (Eric Mittelette)
• Switching from packages.config to PackageReference for .NET projects (Miha Markic)
• Machine Learning with .NET (Diogo Souza)
• How can I detect whether the user is logging off? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Copy Application Insights Telemetry data to Clipboard (Abhijit Jana)
• the future of software: complexity (Jessica Kerr)
• Maintainable Architecture – Five Day Forecast – Data Layer (Mark Allison)
• If I am a VSTS Stakeholder, can I also be an Admin? (Paris Morgan)
• Using OpenShift to deploy .NET Core applications (Tom Deseyn)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• 5 Reasons Why Azure IoT Edge Is Industry’s Most Promising Edge Computing Platform (Janakiram MSV)
• Using Machine Learning and Azure Custom Vision for image classification in your apps (Daniel Hindrikes)
• If Smartphone Growth Is Flat, Who’s Going to Use My App? (Jeff Hadfield)
• What’s new in Unity 2018.1 (Lance Talbert)
• Revamped experience of APK section during app submission (Siva Rajaraman)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Bots Experience with Michael Szul (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Prism Template Studio & Developer Toolkit for Visual Studio for Mac with Dan Siegel | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Unified alerts in Azure Monitor (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Azure Static website (Frank Boucher)
• Rocket 182: Nap Queen (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• StarTalk Radio – #ICYMI – MLB Greatness and Trout 5 Design, with Mike Trout (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Provisioning IoT devices at scale – The Demo | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Hanselminutes – Visible Designers with Revision Path’s Maurice Cherry (Scott Hanselman)
• Software Engineering Daily – Future Projection with Tim O’Reilly (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – A Problem Solving Paradox (Jonathan Cutrell)

Database

• Build an Automated SQL Server Database Inventory System (Jeffrey Yao)
• SQL SERVER – Backup to Microsoft Azure Tool – ERROR: Account Verification Failed (Pinal Dave)
• A Pure PostgreSQL Document Database API (Rob Conery)
• Ola Hallengren’s Scripts Keep Getting Better (Erik Darling)

PowerShell

• Introducing WPFBot3000 (Mike Shepard)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Surface $400 iPad rival has Intel Pentium, Windows 10, benchmarks suggest (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft is working on Movies & TV apps for Android and iOS (Zac Bowden)
• Microsoft Rewards app for Xbox One is now generally available (Laurent Giret)
• Microsoft teases new Outlook.com dark mode (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2621 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2135 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-06 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #430 (Pedro Botelho)

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