Top Links (Microsoft Build 2018, Day 1)
- Try the Latest Release of Xamarin.Forms 3.0! (David Ortinau)
 - Microsoft Build 2018: New releases for Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms (Julia Liuson)
 - Announcing the Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview and Introducing Visual Studio IntelliCode (Amanda Silver)
 - Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 and beyond (Miguel de Icaza)
 - Introducing ML.NET: Cross-platform, Proven and Open Source Machine Learning Framework (Ankit Asthana)
 - Modernizing applications for our multi-sense, multi device world (Kevin Gallo)
 - Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and version 15.8 Preview 1 (John Montgomery)
 - Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 and .NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications (Rich Lander)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Testing Button Click in React with Jest (Derik Whittaker)
 - ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-rc1 now available (Daniel Roth)
 - Creating PDF on ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman)
 - Upgrade Angular 5 app to Angular 6 with Visual Studio 2017 (Talking Dotnet)
 - Introducing Translator Text API V3: natively neural with advanced capabilities (Microsoft Translator Team)
 - Introducing Conversational UI: Modern UI for Chatbots (Sara Faatz)
 - Announcing General Availability of QnAMaker and Microsoft Conversational AI tools enable developers to build, connect and manage intelligent bots and Build a Microsoft Bot Framework bot with the Bot Builder SDK v4 (Bot Framework Team)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Root detection: Xamarin apps stop hackers before they can begin (Sebastian Holst)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Recently completed UserVoice Suggestions for Visual Studio (Eli Fessler)
 - Leading digit separators, ref structs and in parameters – C# 7.2 in Rider and ReSharper (Matthias Koch)
 - C# Generics – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
 - Announcing: MSVC Conforms to the C++ Standard (Bat-Ulzii Luvsanbat)
 - Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 RC 1 (Diego B. Vega)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Introducing the Checks API, a better way to connect integrations and code (Jason Warner)
 - Design by Contract: Part One (Dave Nicolette)
 - Introducing Indigo Design to Code Studio: Design to Developer Collaboration Redefined (Jason Beres)
 - To Be a Good Tester, Just Do What No One Else Can (Matthew Heusser)
 - ebook deal of the week: Software Requirements, 3rd Edition (Microsoft Press)
 - SOLID Design Principles Explained – Dependency Inversion Principle with Code Examples (Thorben Janssen)
 - Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 is now available (Erin Dormier)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Say Hello to Android Things 1.0 (Dave Smith)
 - Ready for Production Apps: Flutter Beta 3 (Flutter Team)
 - Do more at the intelligent edge with Windows 10 IoT (James Coliz)
 - A new Microsoft Store revenue share is coming (Microsoft Store Team)
 - Unity 2018.2 beta: What’s new (Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen)
 - Microsoft and GitHub Present: A Solution for Mobile CI (Nilofer Rajpurkar)
 - What’s New in Flutter Beta 3 (Tim Sneath)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Announcing .NET Core 3 with Scott Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Technology & Friends – Raffaele Rialdi on GDPR (David Giard)
 - GeekWire Podcast, Live at Build: Cloud, AI and mixed reality with Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie and Lorraine Bardeen (Todd Bishop)
 - Functional Geekery Episode 123 – Zach Tellman (Steven Proctor)
 - Jim & Tonic Episode 3: Tanya Janca (Jim Bennett)
 - No Dogma Podcast #95 – Ben Watson, High Performance .NET (Bryan Hogan)
 - SE-Radio Episode 323: Lin Clark on WebAssembly (Matthew Farwell)
 - What’s New with Cognitive Services | AI Show and What’s New with Cognitive Services Speech SDK and Speech Devices SDK | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
 
Community & Events
- Hello World: The Film, Take 2 (Roland Weigelt)
 - 20 Fabulous Things To Do In Philly This Week, May 7-13 (Kelly Bucci)
 - An AI MVP Award Category Update (MVP Award Program)
 
Database
- Introducing two new mixed reality business applications: Microsoft Remote Assist and Microsoft Layout (Lorraine Bardeen)
 - React with .NET Core and MySQL – Preparing the Project and Creating Components (Marinko Spasojevic)
 - SQL SERVER – How to Find Free Log Space in SQL Server? (Pinal Dave)
 - Couchbase 5.5 Enhanced Query Plan Visualization (Denis Rosa)
 - When Query Plans Lie Part 1 (Erik Darling)
 - Welcome to Redgate tools for SQL Operations Studio (Santiago Arias & Alex Tercete)
 
MS Teams
- Microsoft announces Teams Progressive Web App (PWA) preview for Windows 10 S (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
 
PowerShell
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2579 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #2092 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-05-08 (Dan Rigby)
 - Reading Notes #326 (Frank Boucher)
 - Collective #413 (Pedro Botelho)
 - Interesting links of the week (04/30 – 05/06, 2018) (Michael Eaton)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 1786469944  | 
Learning Vue.js 2: Learn how to build amazing and complex reactive web applications easily with Vue.js: Olga Filipova: 9781786469946: Books
Angular in Action: Jeremy Wilken: 9781617293313: Books
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code: Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts, Erich Gamma: 9780201485677: Books