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Top Links
- Why VB2017 only supports consuming ref returning methods (Anthony D. Green)
 - Ensure Version Compatibility with JustAssembly (Stefan Stefanov)
 - Getting started with ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
 - Preview 6 – Visual Studio for Mac (Bri Brothers)
 
Web Development
- Running multiple independent ASP.NET Core pipelines side by side in the same application (Filip W.)
 - JWT Validation and Authorization in ASP.NET Core (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
 - Programming AWS using Visual Studio 2017 (Dror Helper)
 - ASP.NET Core: SQL Server based distributed cache (Gunnar Peipman)
 - Testing/Consuming an Azure Function (Benjamin Perkins)
 - Import Your MongoDB Collection Data into Couchbase Server with Golang (Nic Raboy)
 - What’s the Best Editor for Modern Web Development? (Brian Rinaldi)
 - How to Create the Smallest Docker Image for Your Golang App (Daniel van Gils)
 - Programming With Yii2: Building a RESTful API (Jeff Reifman)
 - Playing a Twitter adventure game using SMS and Twilio on Glitch (Kevin Lewis)
 - Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 refresh with Azure PaaS services (Azure Stack Team)
 - Logic Apps is not a fit for enterprise integration! (Toon Vanhoutte)
 
XAML
- 2000 WPF Things #1,204 – Using a DataTrigger to Change Content in a ContentPresenter (Sean Sexton)
 - Unit Testing Plugins for Xamarin (James Montemagno)
 - WPF Tip #8 – Grids and Rendering Performance (Alvin Ashcraft)
 - Xamarin Documentation Goes Multilingual! (Joel Martinez)
 - Large file downloads on Windows 10 mobile (Diego Ponce de León)
 - Xamarin Alpha Release: 15.2 Alpha Preview 1 (Bri Brothers)
 - GitHub Latest (Peter Freeman Foot)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- C# 7: Micro-Benchmarking the Three Ways to Cast Safely (Daniel Crabtree)
 - Persisting the “Find All References” results in Visual Studio 2017 (Abhijit Jana)
 - ReSharper Interactive Tutorials get an update (Alexey Totin)
 - C# 7 First Look (Jesse Liberty)
 - NuGet is Now Part of MSBuild (Jonathan Allen)
 - C# Tuples: New C# 7 language feature (Matthew Groves)
 - Ten Unsung Visual Studio Time-Savers (Michael Sorens)
 - Code Quality in the .NET Ecosystem (Daniel Jimenez Garcia)
 - LLBLGen Pro v5.2 Beta has been released! (Frans Bouma)
 - FeatureToggle v4 RC1 with .NET Core Support (Jason Roberts)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How to practice getting into and out of a detached HEAD state via command line – 096 (Sara Ford)
 - Why Expert Developers Still Make Mistakes (Erik Dietrich)
 - Netflix Conductor: Inversion of Control for workflows (Viren Baraiya)
 - Illustrator CC’s Anniversary Updates Are Waiting for You (Wayne Hoang)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Android Things Developer Preview 3 (Wayne Piekarski)
 - Calling All University Students to Hack Your World with Amazon Alexa (Bertrand Vacherot)
 - Adding Speech Recognition Capabilities to your NativeScript app (Eddy Verbruggen)
 - Expand your color palette with new tools for Material Design (Rachel Been)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Episode 125 on Microsoft Teams development with Bill Bliss—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Richard diZerega & Andrew Coates)
 - Hanselminutes – The Road to Lead Developer with Linda Kamau of Ushahidi (Scott Hanselman)
 - Xamarin Podcast Episode 38: Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4 & Beyond (Pierce Boggan & Mike James)
 - Debugging C# user code in a U-SQL query locally | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
 - Building Applications with Node.js, Angular, and Couchbase (video) (Hod Greeley)
 - Data structures with Couchbase and .NET (video) (Matthew Groves)
 - Radio TFS – Spring Into DevOps with Gopinath Chigakkagari (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
 - Azure Container Registry General Availability and Use Helm with Azure Container Service and Kubernetes (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
 
Community & Events
- It’s things like this that make me love working at Microsoft (Ed Fisher)
 - Meet the Teen Dev Who Taught Alexa to Drive a Model Car, Co-Pilot a Video Game (Martha Kang)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – Unable to recycle Errorlog – sp_cycle_errorlog – OS error 1392 (Pinal Dave)
 - Five reasons to run SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 – No. 3: database uptime and reliability (SQL Server Team)
 - RavenDB 4.0 Features: Document Versioning (Oren Eini)
 - Why is my clone so small? (Chris Hurley)
 - Working with the Azure Blob Storage Service (Christos Matskas)
 - DocumentDB Transactions from .NET (Derek Comartin)
 - FakeIt Series 4 of 5: Working with Existing Data (Laura Czajkowski)
 
PowerShell
- Do Anything in One Line of PowerShell (Michael Sorens)
 - Parameters and IntelliSense (Emin Atac)
 
Miscellaneous
- New Share Experience in Windows 10 Creators Update (Juan Sebastian Oviedo)
 - First details emerge about Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 (Tom Warren)
 - Here’s where the Apple accounts hackers are threatening to wipe came from (Troy Hunt)
 
More Link Collections
- Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-04-07 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-04-07 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Morning Brew #2317 (Chris Alcock)
 
The Geek Shelf
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