Month: August 2019

Top Links

• Improving .NET Core installation in Visual Studio and on Windows (Lee Coward)
• .NET Core is sexy, and you should know it (Jeremy Buisson)
• Writing tests with MSTest v2 | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander & Kendra Havens)
• Mission-driven careers with Amanda Silver | Careers Behind the Code (Steve Carroll)
• 5 Reasons Why You Should Give Visual Studio for Mac Another Try (Heather Downing)
• Xamarin.Forms 101: XAML Previewer | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno & Maddy Leger)
• Try out Nullable Reference Types (Phillip Carter)

Web & Cloud Development

• Remainder operator vs. modulo operator (with JavaScript code) (Axel Rauschmayer)
• .NET/ASP.NET Documentation Update for July 2019 (Maxime Rouiller)
• Learn JavaScript Closures in 6 Minutes (Yazeed Bzadough)
• TensorFlow vs PyTorch vs Keras for NLP (Exxact Team)
• Azure Functions with Dependency Injection (Christian Nagel)
• Creating a Web Editor Using Kendo UI and Angular (Christian Nwamba)
• JavaScript: What’s new in ES2019 (Marin Radman)
• ASP.NET Core Identity with Fido2 WebAuthn MFA (Damien Bowden)
• Creating vCard in ASP.NET Core and Dependency Injection in Azure Functions (Gunnar Peipman)
• We’re making Azure Archive Storage better with new lower pricing (Kumail Hussain)
• Create Master-Detail app using Ignite UI for React components (Martin Trela)
• Execute HTTP Requests in JavaScript Applications (Nic Raboy)
• Implement a Progressive Web App (PWA) in your Static Website and Introducing Durable Entities for Serverless State (Jeremy Likness)
• Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 214 – Explicitly Name Logic API Connections and Tip 215 – Reusing Network Service Groups across Virtual Machines (Michael Crump)
• Stack Overflow: How We Do App Caching – 2019 Edition (Nick Craver)
• Microsoft Open-Sources TensorWatch AI Debugging Tool (Anthony Alford)
• Twilio Announces Conversations API for Multi-Channel Messaging (Eric Carter)
• Configuring boto to validate HTTPS certificates (Kyle Knapp)
• How to Add Excel Import and Export to your Vue App (Ryan Peden)
• Node v12.8.0 (Current) (Ruben Bridgewater)
• Go Contracts will Enable Generic Programming (Sergio De Simone)
• Online tools for .NET web developers (Thomas Ardal)
• Blazor Binding, Events and Parameters (Michael Washington)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• IoT with Azure Serverless and UWP (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18950 available now! (Kevin Larkin)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How YOU can create a Serverless API in C# and .NET (Chris Noring)
• C# Performance Of Code – For Loop VS Foreach Loop (Ali Sufyan)
• The 9 Coding Standards C# Developers Need to Get Started (Phil Vuollet)
• How to build with Cake on Linux using Cake.CoreCLR or the Cake global tool (Andrew Lock)
• Using third-party Windows Forms controls with Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• Configuring Nonrelational Properties in EF Core (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Quick Sort – The Sorting Algorithm Family Reunion (Matthew Jones)
• Remove all Unicode Control Characters and special control characters fast in C-Sharp (Mark Pahulje)
• .NET Core – introduction (Michał Białecki)
• Introducing No Curly – beta release (Sam Williams)
• Dotnet Depends is a great text mode development utility made with Gui.cs (Scott Hanselman)
• Integrating Cosmos DB with OData (Part 2) (Hassan Habib)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• A Deep Dive into Git Performance using Trace2 (Jeff Hostetler)
• Improvements for enterprises signing MSIX packages (Insider Preview) (John Vintzel)
• Building Go programs in TeamCity (Anton Arhipov)
• State of Testing 2019 Report published (Ben Linders)
• Learn more about Feature Flags: The next step in Progressive Delivery (Chrissie Buchanan)
• How enterprises should think about getting started with AI (Derrick Harris)
• The 10 Platform Journey Health Markers: A Roadmap to Continuous Improvement (Parker Fleming)
• SOLID Design: The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) (Patrick Smacchia)
• Technical debt is not real (Sam Williams)
• The Modern Developer, Part 2: Design (Zlatin Stanimirovv)
• Setting the Node.js Version for an Azure DevOps Build (Marius Schulz)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• App Center: High-performing backend as a service (Bas de Cort)
• A Production-Quality Flutter Starter App (Greger Teigre Wedel)
• Bringing Tabletop Audio to Actions on Google through media responses (Nick Felker)
• HockeyApp Transition to App Center July Update (HockeyApp Team)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – VSCode Love Part 3 (Wes Bos)
• CodeNewbie S9:E5 – Why you should understand user interface and design (Mina Markham) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Technology & Friends – Mercedes Bernard on Dev Together (David Giard)
• Revision Path 306: Jeremi Dudu (Maurice Cherry)
• A couple of podcast interviews (me as a guest) (Michael Kennedy)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 314 | Azure is the new Mainframe with Steve Steuart (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• ASP.NET Monsters #124: Dev Containers (Simon Timms, James Chambers & David Paquette)
• SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 46 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
• Working with Azure DevOps using the Azure DevOps CLI | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady)
• Yet Another Podcast: Xamarin.Forms Tools (Jesse Liberty)
• Onboard to Azure Security Center for IoT | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Functional Geekery Episode 127 – Katie Hughes (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – SQL Q and A from SQL Intersection Spring 2019 (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Serverless Chats Episode #8: Observability in Modern Applications with Ran Ribenzaft (Jeremy Daly)
• Real Talk JS Episode 44: Long Time Java – GO To First Time Script With Brian Ketelsen (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)
• Introducing Episode 4 of Learning from Leaders with Tessa Myers (Microsoft in Business)
• Talk Python to Me #224 – 12 lessons from 100 days of web (Michael Kennedy)
• The 6 Figure Developer Episode 103 – Legacy App Containers with Joey Schluchter (John Callaway)
• Windows Insider Podcast – Your Career Path to the Future (Windows Insider Team)

Community & Events

• Meet the Splunker: Sarah Moir (Tracy Edkins)
• Meet the 4 Female Founders Behind Tech’s Most Exciting Inventions (Inc)
• 3 Steps to Microsoft MVP! (Joel Oleson)
• The Art of Getting Girls Into STEM (Katie Juran)

Database

• SQL Server FORMAT Function for Dates, Numbers and SQL Server Agent Dates (Jeffrey Yao)
• Comparing Postgres JSONB with NoSQL (Denis Rosa)
• How Oracle Autonomous Database Will Change the DBA’s Role for the Better (Nancy Swanson)
• SQL SERVER – List All Frequently Ran Stored Procedure From Server Cache and SQL SERVER – Retrieving N Rows After Ordering Query With OFFSET and SQL SERVER – Best Value for Max Worker Count (Pinal Dave)
• Use SSIS to load data in chunks from SQLServer to Excel (Gianwen Shi)
• Azure SQL Database Clustered Columnstore Index (Arun Sirpal)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams may soon have an official Linux app (Arif Bacchus)

PowerShell

• Microsoft: New Windows Terminal update is out and it’s ‘huge’ (Liam Tung)
• Azure Cloud Shell Tips for SysAdmins: Part III – Using Azure CLI (Jay Gordon)
• Microsoft Issues Major Update to Windows Terminal (Paul Thurrott)

Miscellaneous

• The Dart Language: When Java and C# Aren’t Sharp Enough (Star Ford)
• The hidden costs of unreliable electricity (Bill Gates)
• Windows 10 Tip: Clipboard (Athima Chansanchai)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2803 and The Morning Brew #2804 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week (2019 #27) (Michael Eaton)
• Double Shot #2401 and Double Shot #2402 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #538 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

 Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core: Developing Distributed Web Services to improve scalability with .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Gaurav Aroraa & Tadit Dash)