Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Xamarin Essentials with James Montemagno (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Writing a Blazor App (David Pine)
 - Bing.com runs on .NET Core 2.1! (Mukul Sabharwal)
 - Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6 (Dominic Nahous)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Azure Tips and Tricks 151 – The Developer’s Guide to Azure August Update is now Available (Michael Crump)
 - Adding Segment client-side analytics to an ASP.NET Core application (Andrew Lock)
 - TensorFlow 2.0 is coming (Martin Wicke)
 - Progressive Images in React (Bryce Dorn)
 - HTML to PDF Conversion Using ASP.NET Core in Linux Docker (George Livingston)
 - Using Angular Kendo Grid with Elastic Search and ASP.NET Core (Jared Rhodes)
 - Docker Desktop Adds Kubernetes Support (Matt Campbell)
 - How to be efficient with our Azure Devtest Lab deployments (Frank Boucher)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Important dates regarding apps with Windows Phone 8.x and earlier and Windows 8/8.1 packages submitted to Microsoft Store (Microsoft Store Team)
 - Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Authenticating with ADAL and Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms, Refactoring MvvmCross and Services (Nick Randolph)
 - Exploring New iOS 12 ARKit Capabilities With Xamarin (Larry O’Brien)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Serilog Tutorial for .NET Logging: 16 Best Practices and Tips (Matt Watson)
 - What I learned by building my own VS Code extension (Atishay Jain)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Scrum master tip: Helping team members to solve impediments over solving impediments themselves (Ben Linders)
 - What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline? (Dave Nicolette)
 - You ain’t gonna use it! – Code smells series (Dino Esposito)
 - Teaching Acceptance Test-Driven Development (Matthew Heusser)
 - Not Invented Here – The Daily Software Anti-Pattern (Matthew Jones)
 - Power Up Your UI Tests with API Test as Step in Telerik Test Studio (Oleg Georgiev)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Mock final and static methods on Android devices (Philip P. Moltmann)
 - Code Deep Dive: Using the Display Directives in the ASK SDK for Node.js (Amit Jotwani)
 - Are You Following These Top 10 App Protection Practices? (Gabriel Torok)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- MS Dev Show – That Conference 2018 (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
 - AiA 203: “Where To Store Angular Configurations” with Dave Bush (Charles Max Wood)
 - Visual Studio Code Adaptive Cards Previewer (Michael Szul)
 - Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Goal Setting (Wes Bos)
 - Revision Path 256: Lisa Babb (Maurice Cherry)
 - Software Engineering Daily – Build Faster with Nader Dabit (Jeff Meyerson)
 - Updating Microsoft Documentation – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
 - The Developer Show — TL;DR 123 (Timothy Jordan)
 
Community & Events
Database
- Getting Sysadmin Access to SQL Server When Locked Out (Joe Gavin)
 - A collection of SQL Server-related tips for the TFS Administrator (Matteo Emili)
 - RavenDB 4.1 Release Candidate is out (Oren Eini)
 
Miscellaneous
- Windows 10’s next big feature release officially named build 1809 and Windows 10 screen snipping tool: Microsoft gives it a new name, adds delay feature (Mary Jo Foley)
 - ‘Minecraft: Education Edition’ comes to Apple’s iPad, as education features expand to mainstream version of game (Frank Catalano)
 - Windows 10 Tip: Use Paint 3D to edit your snips (Athima Chansanchai)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2648 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #2160 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-08-21 (Dan Rigby)
 - Collective #443 (Pedro Botelho)
 - Reading Notes #341 (Frank Boucher)
 - Interesting links of the week (08/13 – 08/19, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
 - Professional Development 8/13/2018 – 8/19/2018 (Cameron Presley)
 
The Geek Shelf
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Professional Visual Studio 2017: Bruce Johnson: 9781119404583: Books