Top Links
- ReSharper Ultimate 2018.3 is released! (Alexander Kurakin)
- Rider 2018.3 is released! (Alexander Kurakin)
- HockeyApp’s Exciting Future in Visual Studio App Center (Garrett Knoll)
- Integrating UWP components into Win32 applications | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Alexandre Chohfi & Jeremy Likness)
Web & Cloud Development
- ASP.NET MVC5: Limit Upload File Size (Asma Khalid)
- The practical value of semantic HTML (Bruce Lawson)
- OpenID Connect back-channel logout using Azure Redis Cache and IdentityServer4 (Damien Bowden)
- Free Download – Angular Essentials E-Book to help you getting started (Dhananjay Kumar)
- How to Use Basic React Hooks for Context and KendoReact: Creating Robust React Applications (Eric Bishard)
- How to publish Bot app to Azure using az botservice extension (Jason Xu)
- Debug Angular apps in production without revealing source maps (Kevin Kreuzer)
- Best stories of 2018 on Angular-In-Depth (Max Koretskyi)
- AWS: Operations Health and Best Practices (Ophir Ronen)
- Is ASP.NET Core now a Mature Platform? (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
- PhpStorm 2018.3.2 is released (Roman Pronskiy)
- Aurelia – Smoke House Project (Daryl Cober)
- Node v11.5.0 (Current) (Bethany Nicolle Griggs)
- How to Worry About npm Package Weight (Chris Coyier)
- Responsive Tables – How to scale your site beautifully (Dirk Strauss)
- Announcing Kitura 2.6 and more! (Ian Partridge)
- Ease-y Breezy: A Primer on Easing Functions (Pavithra Kodmad)
- What is a service mesh anyways? (William Morgan)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Adding TitleColor to Your Picker in Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
- Xamarin forms – Android label less bottom tabs with badges (Glenn Versweyveld)
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# Features: An Exhaustive List of the Best Ones (Carlos Schults)
- First Impressions of Visual Studio 2019 (Joseph Reynolds)
- 2018 Christmas Trees – Cross Platform Edition using Avalonia (Reed Copsey)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- “Agile Coaching” Is Not the Goal (Johanna Rothman)
- Creating a git repo with Azure Repos and trying out Git LFS (Andrew Lock)
- Autodetecting Test Frameworks (Anton Monakov)
- LinkedIn finds Gen Z workers put more emphasis on mastering ‘hard’ skills than learning ‘soft’ skills (Frank Catalano)
- Building the Shape System for Material Design (Yarden Eitan)
- TeamCity 2018.1.5 is here (Julia Alexandrova)
- Factors Behind Successfully and Repeatedly Executing Digital Transformation Programs at a Lightning Pace (Mohammad Rizvi)
- Clean Code for .NET Coding Craftsman (Thang Chung)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Kotlin for Android Developers: Data Class (Pablo Costa)
- Building Your First Android App (Packt Pub Team)
- Improving Azure Custom Vision Object Recognition by using and correcting the prediction pictures (Joost van Schaik)
- Mocking With Protocols in Swift (Jeremiah Jessel)
- Fitbit OS 3.0 Includes Four New Developer APIs (Eric Carter)
- Implementing a Login for NativeScript Apps with Tab-based Navigation (Rob Lauer)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- 4Devs talk .NET Core 3, Microsoft, Visual Studio 19 and more (Video) (Laurie Smith)
- React Podcast 33: Transcendence and the Future of React with Laurie Voss (Michael Chan)
- Connect devices from other IoT clouds to Azure IoT Central | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
- The Changelog 328: State of the “log” (2018) (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 283 | KubeCon 2018, Deprecations and Clarity (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- RunAs Radio – Windows Customer Experiences with Chris Jackson (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- Talk Python to Me #191 – Python’s journey at Microsoft (Michael Kennedy)
- Software Engineering Daily – Linkerd Service Mesh with William Morgan (Jeff Meyerson)
- Flutter: Make Desktop Apps With Flutter Tutorial (MTechViral)
Community & Events
- AWS Re:Invent 2018 Reflects An Industry Coming Of Age (Jon Collins)
- The 2018 Succinctly Series Awards are coming! (Ginger Reed)
- Phil Haack is no longer a GitHubber (Phil Haack)
- 2019 Software Trends (Rob Mee)
- Need Help Wireframing Your Nonprofit Project? Let Us Help! (Val)
Database
- MySQL for PCF 2.5 is Now GA! High Availability via Galera Clustering Takes Center Stage. (Jagdish Mirani)
- Introducing UTF-8 support in SQL Server 2019 preview (Pedro Lopes)
- SSIS Catalog Automatic Log Cleanup (Tim Mitchell)
- SQL Server Backup To Azure Storage (Arun Sirpal)
- Setting Healthcare Data on FHIR (Oracle Health Sciences Team)
- Sniffed Nulls and Magic Numbers (Erik Darling)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- How to disable the modern experience in SharePoint 2019 (Mike Lee)
- What’s new in Microsoft Teams – December round up (Christopher Bryan)
PowerShell
- Azure PowerShell ‘Az’ Module version 1.0 (Mark Cowlishaw)
- How to authenticate with the Azure subscription you select in a custom PowerShell Azure DevOps task (Matteo Emili)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft officially announces ‘Windows Sandbox’ for running applications in isolation (Mary Jo Foley)
- Announcing Windows Server vNext Insider Preview Build 18298 (Dona Sarkar)
- Less interviews, more JoI (Jade Daubney)
- DZone Refcardz – Practical DNS (John Esposito)
More Link Collections
- Double Shot #2239 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-12-19 (Dan Rigby)
- Today in Tech – Wednesday, Dec 19, 2018 (Dirk Strauss)
The Geek Shelf
How We Test Software at Microsoft (Alan Page & Ken Johnston)