Month: November 2018

Top Links

• XAML Islands – A deep dive – Part 1 (Alexandre Chohfi)
• Watch: Richard Taylor Talks About Unit Test (Jason Gaylord)
• Amazon reportedly in advanced talks to place HQ2 at site in Northern Virginia (John Cook)
• What the .NET Renaissance Means for the Enterprise (Shanfan Huang)

Web & Cloud Development

• Adding Blazor to Existing HTML+JavaScript Pages (Peter Vogel)
• Including Static Resources In Razor Class Libraries In ASP.NET Core (Mike Brind)
• Azure Functions Labs – Information and setup instructions (Benjamin Perkins)
• What’s New In CSS? (Chris Coyier)
• Making Sense of React Hooks (Dan Abramov)
• Testing SignalR in ASP.NET Core with Integration Tests (Dominique St-Amand)
• Document your Azure Architecture (Gregor Suttie)
• Angular Material Table, Filter, Sorting, Paging (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 170 – SAP on Azure in Plain English Part 1 of 2 (Michael Crump)
• Free e-book for Azure tips and tricks (Neel Bhatt)
• Microsoft Announces the General Availability of the New Azure Media Services API (V3) (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• How I built a dashboard in Azure Portal to track Gitflow feature branches (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• Blazor Popups and JavaScript Interop and A Demonstration of Simple Server-side Blazor Cookie Authentication (Michael Washington)
• Aurelia 2018 Q3 Report (Rob Eisenberg)
• Simple Named Grid Areas (Chris Coyier)
• Why Microservices? (Jey Geethan)
• Created a Killer Collection? Share it with Postman’s 5+ million developers, via a Template (Kasey)
• Windows Authentication in IIS Express (Michael Szul)
• Node v11.1.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
• Your Web App Secrets in ASP .NET Core (Shahed Chowdhuri)
• Unstructured Data Transfer in Rest.li (Sheng Liang)
• Transclusion, Injection and Procrastination (Uri Shaked)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Screenshots for Xamarin.Forms with MvvmCross Article (Nick Randolph)
• Writing and refactoring C# code: Translated text entries in Xamarin.Forms (Rene Wiersma)
• Windows Developer Resource Roundup – November 2018 Edition (Me)
• Courageous Explorers Wanted to take C#, WPF and XAML where few have traveled: Native Web Apps! (Lesarde)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio Productivity Tips: Assigning keyboard shortcuts to #VisualStudio commands (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Printed C# Yellow Book now available with added duck (Rob Miles)
• Anti-unification, part 3 (Eric Lippert)
• Does a Hamburger Menu Belong in a WinForms App? (Ivan Petrov)
• My new book on modernizing .NET applications is now available! (Richard Seroter)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Full Speed Ahead: How To Accelerate Agile Teams With Trello (Robin Warren)
• xUnit–what is it and why another unit testing framework (David Yardy)
• Build Agility with Design Sprints (Ben Linders)
• When and why to clean up your code: now, later, never (Itamar Turner-Trauring)
• Practice > Best Practices (John Cutler)
• Eli Lopian on Sloppy QA and How to Shorten the QA Process (Leah Grantz)
• Working Geek: A diverse workplace creates conflict – and that’s the goal, says COO Nat Cartwright (Lisa Stiffler)
• Testing Test-Driven Development with the Unity Test Runner (Sophia Clarke)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Ionic tips you might need in your native applications. (Abdul Hafeez Abdul Raheem)
• Building Conversational Alexa Skills: How to Dynamically Elicit Slots Based on a Previous Answer Using Dialog Management (Justin Jeffress)
• Autocomplete Select Inputs on React Native (John Tucker)
• Flutter & MVC. A Closer Look. (Greg Perry)
• Architecture Components & MVP \ MVVM (T. Surkis)
• Flutter ❤ GRPC (Ishaan Bahal)
• Tizen 5.0 Released (j2inet)
• Autocomplete Select Inputs on Mobile (John Tucker)
• BMI Calculator in Flutter – Part 6 – Custom Slider (Marcin Szałek)
• Responding to focus and showing data when tapping a hologram in Mixed Reality/HoloLens apps (Joost van Schaik)
• Animating Flutter widgets with Sidekicks (Romain Rastel)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 106 – Brant Burnett on CI/CD for Microservices (Matthew Groves)
• InfoQ Podcast: Martin Fowler Discusses New Edition of Refactoring, along with Thoughts on Evolutionary Architecture (Martin Fowler)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 288 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hybrid data movement across multiple Azure Data Factories (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – Johanna Rothman – Agile2018 (Bob Payne)
• Coding Blocks Podcast 93 – Developer Shopping Spree (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Rocket 199: 34.8 Billion Dollars (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• TWC9: GitHub Acquisition, Windows Community Toolkit, IoT Gadgets, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• CodeNewbie S6:E4 – Why do I need to test my code? (Jonas Nicklas) (CodeNewbie Teawm)
• Microsoft Bot Framework v4 Node #5: Designing Chatbots with Chatdown (Michael Szul)
• FreeCodeFriday – Episode 23 (Jason Bock)
• Real Talk JS Episode 6: Sam Julien (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)
• Software Engineering Daily – Commons Clause with Kevin Wang (Jeff Meyerson)
• Merge Conflict 122: Today’s Lecture… Debug Symbols (James Montemagno)
• Developer Tea – Exit Points – Where Productivity Turns Into Procrastination (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Refactor Now or Never – Webinar Recording (Maarten Balliauw)

Community & Events

• Observations on Hacktoberfest 2018 (David Humphrey)
• Family Friendly Conferences Increase Attendance: Are they right for your attendees? (Kalahari Meetings)
• 25 Terrific Things To Do In Philly This Week, November 5-11 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

• Automatically Create and Anonymize Downstream Databases from Azure DB (Derek Colley)
• Microsoft Azure: SQL Database Setup (Asma Khalid)
• Migration from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (Kirill Kotlyarenko)
• How to Find Size of the Index for Tables? – Interview Question of the Week #198 (Pinal Dave)

MS Teams

• Using Microsoft Teams Free Edition for Private Collaboration around Healthcare and More (Mike Gannotti)

Miscellaneous

• paint.net 4.1.4 is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #2207 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #231 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #44, 2018 – Fable Community Heroes and #FableConf / @RemmidemmiConf videos (Sergey Tihon)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-11-05 (Dan Rigby)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.11.02 (Edward Thomson)
• Check out this week’s top reads, it’s the Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #350 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WebAssembly: Build web applications with native performance using Wasm and C/C++ (Mike Rourke)