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- Rider 2017.3 is released (Jura Gorohovsky)
- fun-ny Faces : Face-based Augmented Reality with F# and the iPhone X (Larry O’Brien)
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- Making MvvmCross with Xamarin Forms Friction Free (Nick Randolph)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to capture an ASP.NET Core memory dump on Azure App Service and Deploy to an Azure App Service using KUDU and a zip file (Benjamin Perkins)
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XAML, UWP & Xamarin
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Visual Studio & .NET
- Why do I have to pass a valid page protection value to VirtualAlloc even if it ignores it? (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Supporting Digital Leadership with Agile (Ben Linders)
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- Yes, Remote Teams Can Be High Performing. Here’s How to Make Them Work (Bruce Eckfeldt)
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Mobile & IoT
- Unity game engine gets Xbox One X support (Asher Madan)
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Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Laudato Si Challenge with Stephen Forte (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Syntax Podcast – Dealing With Email Overload && Prettier Setups (Wes Bos)
- AiA 169: NGRX Entities with Jesse Sanders (Ward Bell, Alyssa Nicoll, Joe Eames, John Papa & Charles Max Wood)
- JSJ 293: Big Data with Nishant Thacker (Charles Max Wood)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: Barry O’Reilly on What is Hypothesis-driven Development, and why that matters for Agilists (Vasco Duarte)
- Complete Developer Podcast – Resolutions 2018 (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
- Developer on Fire Episode 299 | Bill Sourour – Paying It Forward (Dave Rael)
- Windows Weekly 550: The Best of 2017 (Paul Thurrott)
- Software Engineering Daily – Language Design with Brian Kernighan Holiday Repeat (Jeff Meyerson)
Community & Events
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Database
- SQL Server Stored Procedure to Calculate Database Backup Compression Ratio (Eli Leiba)
- SQL SERVER – Linked Server Error: TCP Provider: No Connection Could be Made Because the Target Machine Actively Refused It (Pinal Dave)
- Scaling Couchbase Server on Azure (Matthew Groves)
- Azure SQL Database Backup and Restore Overview (Vitor Montalvao)
- Deploying Couchbase on AWS in less than 3 minutes (Denis Rosa)
PowerShell
- Running PowerShell Core on Raspberry Pi 2 (Stefan Stranger)
Miscellaneous
- 7 Reasons We’ve Fallen Out of Love with Apple (Geoffrey James)
More Link Collections
- Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-28 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-28 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #2494 (Chris Alcock)
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- Azure Weekly: Dec 25, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
- Collective #378 (Pedro Botelho)
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