Month: April 2019

Top Links

• .NET Foundation Board of Directors Election: Results! (.NET Foundation Team)
• Recommended VS Code Extensions for Angular Developers (John Papa)
• Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web (Lin Clark)
• How to Beat Array Iteration Performance with Parallelism in C# .NET (Michael Shpilt)

Web & Cloud Development

• Using Guard Conditions To Short-Circuit Object-Spread Operations In TypeScript 3.2.4 (Ben Nadel)
• Reliably processing Azure Service Bus topics with Azure Functions (Alex Brown)
• Responsible JavaScript: Part I (Jeremy Wagner)
• 3 Ways to Implement Form Dropdowns in Vue Using Kendo UI (Christian Nwamba)
• Simplifying Angular CLI for beginners (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ARMing a Hybrid Docker Swarm: Part 3 – Name Resolution with Dnsmasq (Elton Stoneman)
• Lamar v3 is Released: Faster, smaller, quicker cold starts, internal type friendly (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 191 – Serial console access with Azure VMs (Michael Crump)
• Easily identify problems in Node.js applications with Diagnostic Report (Node.js Foundation)
• AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio now supports Visual Studio 2019 (Norm Johanson)
• PhpStorm 2019.1 released: Debug Twig and Blade, Locate Dead Code, Enjoy Improved Autocompletion, New Refactorings & Quick-Fixes, and more (Roman Pronskiy)
• Drawing with Voice – Speech Recognition with TensorFlow.js (Nikola Živković)
• Using Azure DevOps for NodeJS application optimization using Gulp and Azure DevOps to build and deploy ReactJS App (Subodh Sohoni)
• A Small Lesson on env Files in docker-compose (Julie Lerman)
• ESLint v5.16.0 released (ESLint Team)
• Managing Page Layouts in Blazor (Peter Vogel)
• Solution to Postman Collection Created as Read only (Jon Gallant)
• First Look: Forms and Validation in Razor Components (Chris Sainty)
• Announcing TypeScript 3.4 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• (Not so) Stupid Question 324: What are Emmet abbreviations? (Iris Classon)
• Announcing Brigade 1.0: Build a new kind of distributed application (Matt Butcher)
• Accessing Express Request Headers in a Handlebar Template (Michael Szul)
• Bypassing authentication for the local Kubernetes Cluster Dashboard (Randy Patterson)
• Node v11.13.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Emoticons (Nigel Ferrissey)
• Making the case for XAML Markup Extensions (Pedro Lamas)
• C++/WinRT envy: Bringing thread switching tasks to C# (UWP edition) and C++/WinRT envy: Bringing thread switching tasks to C# (WPF and WinForms edition) (Raymond Chen)
• Chasing Success with Xamarin Apps (Sam Basu)
• What’s New in Xamarin.Forms 4.0 (Alessandro Del Sole)
• All About the Telerik WPF DataGrid (Yavor Ivanov)
• How to add a UISearchBar in the NavigationBar of a Xamarin.Forms app on iOS (John Taubensee)
• Hot Reloading iOS “Device-Only” features with the new Mono Interpreter (Ryan Davis)
• Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged (Gunnar Peipman)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Fixing Random, part 17 (Eric Lippert)
• Getting .NET Core 3 Preview to Work in Visual Studio 2019 (Jeremy Clark)
• Visual Studio Tips – Breakpoints and Visual Studio Tips – Solution Explorer Search (Jeremy Hutchinson)
• Export EditorConfig Code Style, Optimize References for SDK Projects, and More ReSharper 2019.1 EAP Updates (Maarten Balliauw)
• An example of state-based testing in C# (Mark Seemann)
• Introducing Couchbase.Lite.Mapping: A New Couchbase Labs Nuget Package (Rob Hedgpeth)
• allowElevation for MSIX (Horatiu Vladasel)
• Behind the burst compiler (Alexandre Mutel)
• .NET Core Workers as Windows Services (Glenn Condron)
• Trill 101: how to add temporal queries to your applications (James Terwilliger)
• Migrating Delegate.BeginInvoke Calls for .NET Core (Mike Rousos)
• Telemetry in Desktop Apps (Oren Novotny)
• Implementing .NET Core 2.2 Health Checks (Tom Longhurst)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Agile Milestone Criteria for Projects and Programs (Johanna Rothman)
• Scrum@Scale: An Interview With Agile Manifesto Co-Author and Scrum Co-Founder Jeff Sutherland (Shaaron A. Alvares & Jeff Sutherland)
• MSIX Deployment Options (Radu Popescu)
• On learning new technologies: why breadth beats depth (Itamar Turner-Trauring)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Progressive web application as a share option in Android (Jakub Chodounsky)
• GlideX for For Fast Images on Android (Jonathan Peppers)
• Xcode 10.2 GM is now available! (Matt Moriarity)
• Real Time Baby Monitor Chrome Extension – Streaming from Raspberry PI using SignalR and Cognitive Vision Service (Jeeva Subburaj)
• Building Simple Async API Request With Swift 5 Result Type (Alfian Losari)
• AOSP Application Updates (Raman Tenneti & Ally Sillins)
• Pixar’s Universal Scene Description for Unity out in Preview (Jeremy Cowles)
• Displaying your realtime Blood Glucose from NightScout on an AdaFruit PyPortal (Scott Hanselman)
• Configuration as Code, Part 1: Getting Started with Kotlin DSL and Configuration as Code, Part 2: Working with Kotlin Scripts (Anton Arhipov)
• NativeScript 5.3—Hot Module Replacement Officially Supported and More (TJ VanToll)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – CNCF and App Plat with Alessandro Vozza (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 115 – Jamie Phillips on Terraform (Matthew Groves)
• .NET Rocks! – Azure Functions using Node with Simona Cotin (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 307 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Software Engineering Daily – Uber Infrastructure with Prashant Varanasi and Akshay Shah (Jeff Meyerson)
• Merge Conflict 143: It’s a Services Episode (James Montemagno)
• Developer Tea – Mental Accounting (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Deploy to Azure using GitHub Actions | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
• Using GitHub Actions to Deploy to Azure | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady)
• ASP.NET Monsters #122: Playing with Pulumi (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
• Azure Podcast Episode 272 – The New Azure Monitor (Sujit D’Mello)
• React Podcast 41: Be Super with TypeScript and Jared Palmer. On the when, where, what, why, and how much of TypeScript in React. (Michael Chan)
• XAML Islands | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• The Productive C# Podcast – How to organize a UX Review Session (Andrea Angella)
• .NET Core Show – Microservices with Christian Horsdal (Jamie Taylor)
• The Changelog – Why smart engineers write bad code (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – The Second Date is Always Easier (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Put Yourself Out There (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Rocket 220: She’s in Dubai (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Developer on Fire Episode 417 | Jérémie Chassaing – Caring, Context, and Iteration (Dave Rael)
• SDU Show 76 with guest Jakub Szymaszek (Greg Low)
• The Amp Hour #436 – Downward Sloping Trace (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 53 (Jason Bock)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Microsoft Teams provisioning with Bob German (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• Women in Business & Technology Podcast 042 – Activating change with Microsoft US President Kate Johnson (Sonia Dara & Colleen O’Brien)
• Ask Octopus Episode 11 – Automatically Cancel Tasks, Progression Prevention and Compliance (Octopus Deploy)
• Hanselminutes – The Manager’s Path with Camille Fournier (Scott Hanselman)

Community & Events

• Visual Studio Extensibility Day at Build 2019 (Mads Kristensen)
• .NET Foundation March 2019 Update (.NET Foundation Team)
• Leader spotlight: Melissa Fabros (Jessica Paoli)
• The Next CEO of Stack Overflow (Joel Spolsky)
• Dominican MVP Girls panel by Mujeres Tics (Leomaris Reyes)
• First Election of the .NET Foundation (Miguel de Icaza)

Database

• SQL Server Management Studio 18.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available (Dinakar Nethi)
• How to Limit Output of Varchar(max), Nvarchar(max) in SELECT Statement? – Interview Question of the Week #218 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• Whiteboard in Teams meetings integration, ink grab and ink beautification are here! (Itai Almog)
• What’s new in Microsoft Teams on Surface Hub – March round up (Jatin Patel)
• RELEASE: Live Events for Microsoft Teams & Yammer Enterprise (Kurt Shintaku)

PowerShell

• Powershell Script to Collect SQL Server Inventory (Alejandro Cobar)
• General Availability of PowerShell Core 6.2 (Steve Lee)
• PowerShell Standard support in AWSPowerShell.NetCore (Steven Kang)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft officially designates Windows 10 1809 as ready for broad deployment (Mary Jo Foley)
• Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse (Sam Saffron)
• Hitting send on the next 15 years of Gmail (Tom Holman)
• What it’s like to interview at GitLab: A peek inside the recruitment process (Gosia Ksionek)
• Speed of Voice – The Pace of Your Presentation Can Heavily Impact How Well it Lands (John Papa)
• How to Make the Most Out of Your Visit to Kalahari Resorts (Nedra McDaniel)
• Download the Creating Winning Content Ebook (Yolanda Fintschenko)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2715 and The Morning Brew #2716 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2310 and Double Shot #2311 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #503 (Pedro Botelho)
• F# Weekly #13, 2019 – Ionide — A New Hope & VS 2019 Launch Event (Sergey Tihon)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #252 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• ASP.NET MVC5, Azure Security Center, and More on This Week’s Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading List 227 (Bruce Lawson)
• Reading Notes #372 (Frank Boucher)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.03.29 (Edward Thomson)
• GameDev News – March 29, 2019 (Brian Peek)
• XamarinBites 4 (Nigel Ferrissey)

The Geek Shelf

 React Cookbook: Create dynamic web apps with React using Redux, Webpack, Node.js, and GraphQL (Carlos Santana Roldan)