Month: November 2017

Top Links

• Mastering ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Ricardo Peres) – Check out Ricardo’s new book from Packt. It’s a great reference for experienced ASP.NET devs moving to Core. I was really pleased to be involved in the process as the tech reviewer for the book.
• Network Extortion is what you get when network neutrality is dropped (Paul Hammant)
• Vue.js with TypeScript (John Papa)
• Two Weeks Left in My Kickstarter! (Shawn Wildermuth) – Be sure to support Shawn’s Kickstarter before it ends!
• The UWP Community Toolkit v2.1 (Nikola Metulev)

Web & Cloud Development

• CxJS – Build enterprise JavaScript applications with ease (Marko Stijak & the Codaxy Team)
• Favoring Local Interfaces Over Imported Interfaces For Data Structures In Angular 5.0.2 (Ben Nadel)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 56 – Deploy a .NET Core WebAPI Project to Web App for Containers (Michael Crump)
• Docker for Windows 17.11 with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Carl Fisher)
• Windows Weekly Dockerfile #12: NerdDinner (Elton Stoneman)
• The State of Node.js & JavaScript for Backend Development (Snipcart)
• Utilizing Save-Data client hint in ASP.NET Core MVC (Tomasz Pęczek)
• 5 Reasons Why We’re Thankful for the Docker Community (Sara Ho)
• Trying out new .NET Core Alpine Docker Images (Scott Hanselman)
• Retrieving Pop3 Emails Using Azure Functions (Michael Washington)
• Introducing Microsoft Coco Framework for Blockchain (Chris Pietschmann)
• Madcap Idea 13: Getting the ‘View Job’ to Work End-End (Sacha Barber)
• Authy API Configuration has moved to the Twilio Console (Simon Thorpe)
• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2 Released (Sriram Hariharan)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• MvvmCross 5.5 (Martijn van Dijk)
• Xamarin.Forms 101: Tools for Xamarin Mobile Development (Devlin Duldulao)
• Fault Handling in Xamarin.Forms: Circuit Breaker using Polly (David Britch)

Visual Studio & .NET

• NHibernate Profiler 5.0 Alpha has been released (Oren Eini)
• Code formatting engine updates in ReSharper and Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• File Comparison in Visual Studio (Rob Miles)
• 30 Days of NAudio Documentation (Mark Heath)
• Rider 2017.3 Early Access Program is open (Alexander Kurakin)
• Get Started With .NET Standard 2.0 (Mahesh Chand)
• Demonstrating what happens when a parent and child window have different UI states (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• OOP Concept for Beginners: What is Abstraction? (Thorben Janssen)
• Ten Things I Wish I’d Known About Chef (Ian Miell)

Mobile & IoT

• Retain returning users with Android’s app backup (part 2) (Sebastiano Poggi)
• Add Authentication To Your iOS Apps with Centralized Login (Sebastián Peyrott)
• GameMaker Basics: Pause and Unpause (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
• Getting Constructive with Construct 3 and Soldering 101 (Greg Duncan)
• Function references in Kotlin: use functions as lambdas everywhere (Hassan Usman)
• Streamlined TestFlight Registration with fastlane (James Montemagno)
• Unity 2017.3b feature preview: Assembly Definition Files and Transform Tool (Lukasz Paczkowski)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Visual Studio Team Services and DevOps with Brian Harry (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• InfoQ Podcast: Jason Yip on Removing Friction in Development and DevOps at Spotify (Jason Yip)
• Hanselminutes – Removing Bias from AI and Machine Learning with Camille Eddy (Scott Hanselman)
• The Xamarin Show Episode 33: iOS Auto Provisioning Awesomeness with Oleg (James Montemagno)
• Syntax Podcast – Fitness, Nutrition, and Losing Weight (Wes Bos)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Stop Writing CRUDy Apps (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• SDU Show 72 with guest Kamal Hathi (Greg Low)
• This Week on Windows: Black Friday deals, Minecraft 1.2.5 Update and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• Windows Weekly 545: Those Aren’t Pillows! (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – Turkey Edition (Martin Woodward)
• Using Web App for Containers in a Multi-Tier Application (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Rocket 150: CMAC AND CMOM (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Software Engineering Daily – Load Balancing at Scale with Vivek Panyam (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Interview Week: First Impressions (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 205 – SQL Vulnerability Assessment (Sujit D’Mello)
• IoT Minute Episode 66: Can the Web Save the Internet of Things? (Rob Tiffany)

Community & Events

• Interview with Uncle Bob (Leah Grantz)
• Q&A: MVP Karen Payne Talks With Us About Being A Transgender Woman In Tech (MVP Award Program)
• OzCode Black Friday Sale (OzCode)
• .NET South East November 2017 Meetup (Steve Gordon)

Database

• SQL SERVER – TCP Provider – An Operation On a Socket Could Not be Performed Because the System Lacked Sufficient Buffer Space or Because a Queue was Full (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB Setup: How the automatic setup works (Oren Eini)
• Azure SQL Database – Service Tiers (Arun Sirpal)
• How to Move TempDB to Another Drive & Folder (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

• PowerShell and Hash Table Examples (Tim Smith)

Miscellaneous

• Getting more from the Windows Command Line (Dan Clarke)
• Net neutrality, consolidation, monopolies, and you (Derek Kessler)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17046 for PC (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-11-23 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-11-23 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2471 and The Morning Brew #2472 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1980 (Mike Gunderloy)
• F# Weekly #48 – Domain Modeling Made Functional (Sergey Tihon)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.11.24 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Collective #368 (Pedro Botelho)
• Kick Up Your Feet And Relax, It’s Time For The Friday Five (MVP Award Program)

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