Month: June 2017

Top Links

• LLBLGen Pro for .NET and .NET Core – Database Entity Modeling with any ORM (Scott Hanselman)
• E3 2017 Briefing recap: Introducing Xbox One X and an epic lineup of new games (Will Tuttle)
• E3 2017: Introducing Xbox One X, the world’s most powerful console (Albert Penello)
• Xbox One backward compatibility expanding to original Xbox games (Matt Brown)

Web Development

• Add a Multi-Select ListBox or DropDownList to Your ASP.NET MVC View (Peter Vogel)
• Global Antiforgery Token Validation in ASP.NET Core and TypeScript 2.3: The –strict Compiler Option (Marius Schulz)
• Using Module Augmentation To Safely Inject Runtime Methods Using TypeScript And Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• Automatically validating anti-forgery tokens in ASP.NET Core with the AutoValidateAntiforgeryTokenAttribute (Andrew Lock)
• OpenID Connect Session Management an Angular application using IdentityServer4 (Damien Bowden)
• Stuffing Angular into a Tiny Docker Container (< 2 MB) (Jeremy Likness)
• ASP.NET Core deployment using Docker, Nginx and Ubuntu Server (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Eight CSS Tips for Advanced Layouts and Effects (Rico Mossesgeld)
• Microsoft Cognitive Custom Vision Service .Net Core Angular 4 Application (Part One) (Michael Washington)
• Razor Pages – The Elevator Pitch (Mike Brind)
• SPA in a nutshell | Manning (Emmit A. Scott, Jr.)
• ESLint v4.0.0 released (ESLint Team)
• Deploying Applications to Azure Container Service (atulm)
• Go, without package scoped variables (Dave Cheney)
• The 3 Best Ways To Create the Single Vision of A Customer (And What to Do With It) (Diego Poza)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Is Xamarin Forms Making Traditional Xamarin Obsolete? (Adam Pedley)
• Growing Your First Xamarin.Forms Mac App (Matthew Soucoup)
• Visual States in Xamarin.Forms using BuildIt.Forms and Xamarin.Forms Visual States with View Models and Adding Fluent Design Acrylic Material to UWP via Xamarin.Forms. (Nick Randolph)
• Xamarin Forms ChatBot Application using the Microsoft Bot Framework (Suthahar J.)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# 7.1 and Beyond: Polishing Usability (Erik Heemskerk)
• NuGet Package Hierarchical Versioning (Chris Cavanagh)
• My Favorite C# 7 Feature: More expression-bodied members (James Montemagno)
• How to Catch All Exceptions in C# & Find All Application Errors (Matt Watson)
• Creating your first shared library in .NET Core (Paul Hiles)
• Different ways to implement Singleton in .NET (and make people hate you along the way) (Nikola Živković)
• dotnet CLI Tab completions now available in 2.0 (Shayne Boyer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• When to Unit Test in F# (Isaac Abraham)
• Thinking About What to Call Team Members and Managers (Johanna Rothman)

Mobile & IoT

• Writing a Weather App for Android: Refresh (Adrian Hall)
• Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API (Wei Liu)
• Introducing Blockly 1.0 for Android and iOS (Erik Pasternak)
• Building Your Dog A Button with a Raspberry Pi, Node.js and Twilio (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Generating Splash Screens and Application Icons for NativeScript Mobile Apps (Nic Raboy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 049 – Eat Sleep Code Stir Trek Crossover Special with Ed Charbeneau (Matthew Groves)
• InfoQ Podcast: Sid Anand on Building Agrai’s Cloud-native Data Pipelines with AWS Kinesis and Serverless (Sid Anand)
• Merge Conflict 49: The Magic of MVVM (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Rocket 126: WWDC! (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Tom Eich (part 1) and Developer Tea – Interview with Tom Eich (part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Getting started with Mixer Interactivity in Unity | .GAME (Stacey Haffner)
• The Changelog 252: GitHub’s Open Source Survey (2017) with Frannie Zlotnick and Nadia Eghbal (Adam Stacoviak & Mikeal Rogers)
• Developer on Fire Episode 242 | Alex Papadimoulis – Inventions And Products (Dave Rael)
• TWC9: Build Touring in Beijing, Xbox at E3, Holographic Cortana and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Petri Wilhelmsen & Nikola Metulev)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: A Taste of Space, with Matt O’Dowd (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Community & Events

• WebStorm team at the events this summer (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Minecraft is getting the 4K treatment on Xbox One X (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Microsoft connects Minecraft players across Nintendo Switch, Xbox, mobile, and Windows 10 (Jez Corden)

Database

• Getting Started with SQL Server Agent – Part 1 (Rick Dobson)
• SQL SERVER – Not Able to Kill SPID with KILL WITH STATUSONLY and SQL SERVER – Learning New Multipurpose FORMAT Function and How to Add Column at Specific Location in Table? – Interview Question of the Week #126 (Pinal Dave)
• ARM Template Deployments for MySQL and PostgreSQL (Sam Cogan)
• RavenDB 4.0: Data subscriptions, Part II (Oren Eini)
• Query Folding And Writing Your Own SQL Queries In Power Query/Power BI/Excel Get & Transform (Chris Webb)
• Redgate puts its resources behind SQL Code Guard (Oleksii Kovalov)
• SQL Data Mask: masking configurations and reports (Santiago Arias)

SharePoint

• Use an SPFx Application Customizer to add JavaScript (e.g. header) to every page in a site (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

• Uploading Static Web Content to Azure Blob Storage with PowerShell and AzCopy (Mark Heath)
• Getting Started with PowerShell Core on Windows, Mac, and Linux (Ashley McGlone)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to shut down its Docs.com file-sharing site December 15 (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-06-12 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-06-12 (Dan Rigby)
• Here It Is Again: The Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• The Morning Brew #2359 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1866 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #158 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #24, 2017 – Suave learning discount inside (Sergey Tihon)
• Reading Notes #284 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #322 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Weekly: June 12, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Last Week on Channel 9: June 5th – June 11th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)

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