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Top Links

• A Year of Q# (Mariia Mykhailova)
• New Benefits in Visual Studio Subscriptions (Lan Kaim)
• Visual Studio App Center’s GitHub App: The Ultimate Stocking Stuffer (Nilofer Rajpurkar)
• Redesigned Search Everywhere, Plugins, Templates and more in Rider 2018.3 EAP (Chris Woodruff)

Web & Cloud Development

• Creating a Side Menu for ASP.NET Core using a View Component (Chris A. Johnson)
• Zero Config JavaScript App Prototyping with ParcelJS (Dan Arias)
• AWS Lambda Layers and Runtime API: beyond JavaScript (Dylan Schiemann)
• Razor Components for a JavaScript-Free FrontEnd in 2019 (Ed Charbeneau)
• KendoReact: What Can It Do for You? (Eric Bishard)
• Azure Monitor for containers now generally available (Keiko Harada)
• Alternative approach to HttpClient in Azure Functions 2.0 – bringing in HttpClientFactory (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Improved UX with Ghost Elements + Angular Animations (Thomas Burleson)
• Angular Smart 404 Page (Vitaliy Bobrov)
• Chrome Dev Tools – More Advanced Tips for Better Debugging (Dirk Strauss)
• REST vs. RESTful: The Difference and Why the Difference Doesn’t Matter (Eric Goebelbecker)
• Modernizing the Web Playback UI (Corey Grunewald & Matt Jaquish)
• Steal My Blog Design (Phil Haack)
• Achieve workload compliance and scale-to-zero with new Kubernetes open source projects (Ria Bhatia & Lachlan Evenson)
• A hybrid approach to Kubernetes (Ricardo Mendes)
• Prototypes and production (Robin Rendle)
• Postman Supports OpenAPI 3.0 (Stacee)
• Analyzing 404s with Google Analytics (Steve Smith)
• Amazon Web Services reveals a public road map for its cloud container services (Tom Krazit)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio IntelliSense Not Working? What To Do. (Carlos Schults)
• F# Fantasy Football (Dave Lowe)
• Installing Visual Studio 2019 (Joseph Reynolds)
• .NET Framework December 2018 Security and Quality Rollup (Tara Overfield)
• Why is string.GetHashCode() different each time I run my program in .NET Core? (Andrew Lock)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Writing xUnit Tests in .NET Core (Peter Vogel)
• Hidden Business Rules in Legacy Code (Dave Nicolette)
• Help Managers Visualize Their Problems (Johanna Rothman)
• Why don’t we nurture our DevOps teams as professional sports teams do? (Willy-Peter Schaub)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Effective foreground services on Android (Keith Smyth)
• 2 New Ways to Enhance Alexa Skill Accuracy and Deliver More Natural Customer Engagements (Drew Meyer)
• Tweetstorm: Ionic is Web Native and Why That Matters (Max Lynch)
• ARCore and Unity: A look at 2018 and the road ahead (Dustin Burg)
• BLoC Architecture — Why so important? (Fellipe Malta)
• Splitting widgets to methods is a performance antipattern (Iiro Krankka)
• Internationalization — Localizing your Action (Jessica Dene Earley-Cha)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• RunAs Radio – SQL Server 2019 with Brent Ozar (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Azure IoT TypeEdge : a strongly-typed development experience for Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Python on Azure: Part 1—Building Django apps with Visual Studio Code | Azure Friday (Rob Caron & Nina Zakharenko)
• Building Web APIs Part 3 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Kubernetes Podcast – Envoy, with Matt Klein (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 282 | Microsoft Connect(), Microsoft Flow Licensing Changes & Microsoft Ditches Edge (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Microsoft Bot Framework v4 Node #10: Adding LUIS to Your Chatbot (Michael Szul)
• Real Talk JS Episode 11: Web Accessibility with Jen Luker (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)
• Meta Cast Episode 139 – The Dynamics of New Teams (Josh Anderson)
• React Podcast 32 – Steal the Platform with Vincent Riemer (Michael Chan)
• Talk Python to Me #190 – Teaching Django (Michael Kennedy)
• Machine Learning on Code | The Open Source Show (Rob Caron, Lacey Butler & Allison Cordle)
• SSW TV – How to be a good Manager or Boss and lead your team to success (Sophie Belle)

Community & Events

• And Now a Word from Our AWS Heroes… (Jeff Barr)
• Winter Bash 2018 (Juan M.)
• Phippy and friends join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Karen Chu)
• Announcing the Female Founders Competition winners (Peggy Johnson)
• Friends of Redgate 101 (Roseanna Whitelegg)

Database

• Auto Generate NetBackup script to backup SQL Server databases (Alejandro Cobar)
• SQL Server I/O (Arun Sirpal)
• Detect and Diagnose SQL Server Performance Issues with Spotlight Cloud (Pinal Dave)
• Create custom T-SQL code snippets with Azure Data Studio (Eduardo Pivaral)

SharePoint

• It’s time for reminders in SharePoint (Chris McNulty)

PowerShell

• Announcing New REST based Service Fabric PowerShell Module (Service Fabric Team)

Miscellaneous

• Rust 2019: Think Bigger (Nick Fitzgerald)
• Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH (Danny Maertens)
• Organisation-wide teams in Microsoft Teams: what and how (Loryan Strant)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #2234 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-12-12 (Dan Rigby)
• Today in Tech – Wednesday, Dec 12, 2018 (Dirk Strauss)

The Geek Shelf

 Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks: Native Apps, Multiple Platforms (Pragmatic Programmer) (Tony Hillerson)