Month: July 2018

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 3.0 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• 4 new ways Microsoft 365 takes the work out of teamwork—including free version of Microsoft Teams (Ron Markezich)
• MS Dev Show – MSIX with John Vintzel (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Modernize Windows Apps to the Web with WebMAP | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

Web & Cloud Development

• Using Elasticsearch with ASP.NET Core and Docker (Miroslav Popovic)
• How to switch Azure Storage replication strategy? (Abhijit Jana)
• 3 Reasons to Check Out the New ASP.NET DropDownTree Control (Ed Charbeneau)
• Building An Audio Player App with Ionic, Angular, RxJS, and NgRx (Indermohan Singh)
• AWS Chalice 1.5.0 adds support for more AWS Lambda event sources (James Saryerwinnie)
• A19–Building App using Angular and ASP.NET Core 2.1–Review Order Details (Mitul Suthar)
• Why Enterprises Are Turning to ASP.NET Core for Web Application Development (Zealous System)
• Evolution of Application Data Caching : From RAM to SSD (Shashi Madappa & Sridhar Enugula)
• How to properly send a greeting message and common issues from customers (Azure Bot Service Team)
• Datepicking Beyond the Gregorian Calendar (Tobias Schweizer)
• Here’s Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS (Troy Hunt)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Mocking your app in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
• Xamarin Preview Release: Xcode 10 Beta 3 (Bri Brothers)
• Xamarin.Forms: Drop Shadows on Android Navigation Toolbar (James Montemagno)

Visual Studio & .NET

• LINQ Challenge #3 (Mark Heath)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• What is your Agile? (AJ Weaver)
• Slack vs. Blocked (John Cutler)
• GitHub Enterprise 2.14 Now Available (Janet Wagner)
• Why code quality is vital in the world of database DevOps (Matt Hilbert)
• WIP Your Product into Shape (Assaf Stone)
• Design Systems at GitHub (Robin Rendle)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Prefetch Text Layout in RecyclerView (Chris Craik)
• Maintainable Architecture – Five Day Forecast – UI Layer (Mark Allison)
• Calculate Mixed Reality object locations on top or in front of obstructions using BoxCastAll (Joost van Schaik)
• Use the New Fallback Intent to Respond Gracefully to Unexpected Customer Requests (Justin Jeffress)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• GCast – Azure SQL Database (David Giard)
• AAWP Insight #255: Go, go, go! (Steve Litchfield)
• Rocket 183: It Could Look Worse (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Voices in AI – Episode 58: A Conversation with Chris Eliasmith (Byron Reese)
• Outcomes Rocket Podcast – A Must Learn Philosphy This Savvy Tech Entrepreneur Used to Pave The Way At AllScripts Developer Program with Tina Joros, General Manager, Open Business Unit & Vice President at Allscripts (Saul Marquez)
• Beautiful Controls for Xamarin.Forms with Syncfusion | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Dynamics Connected Field Service for IoT | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Windows Weekly 577: The Cat Formerly Known As Hamilton (Paul Thurrott)
• Hanselminutes – Web Accessibility and a focused on A11Y with Nicolas Steenhout (Scott Hanselman)
• Software Engineering Daily – Machine Learning Deployments with Diego Oppenheimer (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Astrology and The Barnum Effect (Jonathan Cutrell)
• TalkScript Episode 9: Dojo 2 Loot Crate (Torrey Rice)

Community & Events

• One-on-One with Veselina Radeva, NativeScript’s New Product Manager (Jen Looper)
• Announcing Azure Expert MSPs (Corey Sanders)
• Philly .NET September Meeting – .NET Core Unit Testing, Open Source with nop Commerce (Bill Wolff)
• [Case Study] Insights from a Product Manager User Research Interview (Leon Barnard)
• 15 New Breweries And Cideries To Check Out In Philadelphia This Summer (Visit Philly)

Database

• Importing JSON formatted data into SQL Server (Maria Zakourdaev)
• Optimize Moving SQL Server Data From One Table to Another Table (Bhavesh Patel)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Why Such a Complicated Execution Plan for a Single Row, Single Table Query? (Pinal Dave)
• The Scalability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Chris Walden)
• Lightning fast query performance with Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Tomas Talius)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams is now available to use for free (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Whiteboard exits preview for Windows 10, coming soon to iOS and the web (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• TextWorld: A learning environment for training reinforcement learning agents, inspired by text-based games (Emily Maryatt)
• Microsoft is updating the Windows Notepad app for the first time in years (Tom Warren)
• Pwned Passwords V3 is Now Live! (Troy Hunt)
• Apple updates MacBook Pro to deliver faster performance and new pro features (Wayne Williams)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-13 (Dan Rigby)
• Roundup #9: Razor Email Templates, AWS Lamba .NET Core 2.1, Contract First API Design with OpenAPI V3 (Derek Comartin)
• Collective #432 (Pedro Botelho)

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