Top Links
- Making every developer more productive with Visual Studio 2019 (John Montgomery)
- Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI at Microsoft Connect(); 2018 (Kevin Gallo)
- Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.2, available today! (Damian Edwards)
- Connect(); 2018 Xamarin Announcements (Joseph Hill)
- Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18290 available now! (Clint Rutkas)
- Announcing .NET Core 2.2 and Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks (Rich Lander)
- Announcing .NET Foundation Open Membership (.NET Foundation Team)
- You’re Investing In .NET, and so Are We. Pivotal Is Now a Corporate Sponsor of The .NET Foundation. (Richard Seroter)
- Flutter 1.0: Google’s Portable UI Toolkit (Tim Sneath)
Web & Cloud Development
- Architecting Blazor (and Integrating JavaScript) (Peter Vogel)
- Managing State in Functional React Components with useState (Carl Rippon)
- Setup Visual Studio 2019 Development VM in Microsoft Azure Cloud (Chris Pietschmann)
- Angular Console (Daniel Muller)
- Simplifying Kubernetes with Docker Compose and Friends and Docker App and CNAB (Gareth Rushgrove)
- Wiring TypeScript Into React (Gil Fink)
- A gentle introduction into change detection in Angular (Max Koretskyi)
- A20-Upgrading to Angular 7 and ASP.NET Core (Mitul Suthar)
- PhpStorm 2017.3.7 and PhpStorm 2018.1.7 are released (Roman Pronskiy)
- Type Safe Message Dispatch in TypeScript (David Karapetyan)
- Chrome Developer Tools – Easy Web Debugging You Need to Know (Dirk Strauss)
- Customize Microsoft Translator’s Neural Machine Translation to translate just the way you want: Custom Translator now in General Availability (MS Translator Team)
- Announcing Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) (Patrick Chanezon)
- Service Fabric Mesh Preview Refresh Release (Service Fabric Team)
- Linux users can now install Postman as a snap (Stacee)
- Hummingbird: Building Flutter for the Web (Yegor Jbanov)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Bring Your WPF and WinForms Apps to .NET Core 3 with Telerik UI for WPF and WinForms (Rossitza Fakalieva)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Progress Announces Support for Visual Studio 2019, .NET Core 3.0, the .NET Foundation and More and Telerik and Kendo UI Controls Compatible with the Latest Visual Studio 2019 Preview (Sara Faatz)
- Capture Android Screen Video from Visual Studio (Peter Freeman Foot)
- Announcing WPF, WinForms, and WinUI are going Open Source (Scott Hanselman)
- Customizing and building Windows Forms (Morten Nielsen)
- Packaging a .NET Core app with the Desktop Bridge (Oren Novotny)
- LLBLGen Pro v5.5 feature highlight: Window functions and LLBLGen Pro v5.5 feature highlight: query batching (Frans Bouma)
- Announcing ML.NET 0.8 – Machine Learning for .NET (Cesar de la Torre)
- Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.2 (Diego B. Vega)
- Announcing Live Share for C++: Real-Time Sharing and Collaboration (Nick Uhlenhuth)
- Introduction to Material Design in WinForms Apps (Nilay Vishwakarma)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Linking your GitHub commits with Azure Boards (Aaron Bjork)
- New Azure Pipelines announcements – VS Code extension, GitHub Releases, and more (Jeremy Epling)
- Coupling in Programming: What This Means and How Not to Get Burned (Eric Goebelbecker)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android codelab courses are here! (Jocelyn Becker)
- New Alexa Smart Home Developer Tools Enable Seamless Voice Control of Any Device and Any Feature – New Toggle, Mode, and Range Capabilities are Generally Available in the Smart Home Skill API (Brian Crum)
- Jewelbots — Exploring new products (Sara Chipps)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 107 – Season 3 Wrap (Matthew Groves)
- JavaScript Variable Declaration: var vs. let vs. const (Bill Ahern)
- What’s New in C# 8.0 | Microsoft Connect(); 2018 (Mads Torgersen)
- Azure API Management for serverless applications (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
- STEM Everyday: #112 | Changing the Narrative for what Scientists Actually Look Like | feat. Sara MacSorley (Chris Woods)
- RunAs Radio – Traditional and Modern Device Management with Jeremy Moskowitz (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- Developer Tea – Bad Bugs – Avoiding Burnout When Solving Elusive Problems (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Microsoft Connect(); Keynote #2 – Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)
Community & Events
- Modern Workplace Conference Paris: MVPs Organize an Office365 and SharePoint Extravaganza (MVP Award Program)
- Must-See Talks from AngularConnect 2018 (Sam Julien)
- The future of software intelligence: fireside chat (Hamel Husain)
- Welcome Wagon: Community and Comments on Stack Overflow (Julia Silge & Jason Punyon)
- Hostility In Open Source Is Good Because Too Much Collaboration Leads To Monoculture (Malte Ubl)
- .NET Foundation Changes (Miguel de Icaza)
- Microsoft’s Latest Open Source Announcements: Why Should You Care? (Sara Faatz)
Database
- Indexed View Creation And Underlying Indexes (Erik Darling)
- Advent of Code 2018 – Day 2 (Inventory Management) (Wayne Sheffield)
- Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK Version 3.0 now in public preview and Azure Cosmos DB Developer experience updates December 2018 (Deborah Chen)
Miscellaneous
- paint.net 4.1.5 is now available! (Rick Brewster)
More Link Collections
- Double Shot #2229 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-12-05 (Dan Rigby)
- Today in Tech – Wednesday, Dec 05, 2018 (Dirk Strauss)
The Geek Shelf
App Inventor 2: Create Your Own Android Apps (David Wolber & Hal Abelson)