Top Links
- The TechBash 2019 Schedule Is Live and Single-Day Tickets Are Available (TechBash Team)
 - Creating a Windows Service with .NET Core 3.0 (Christian Nagel)
 - dotnet-script 0.50 is out – with support for .NET Core 3.0! (Filip W.)
 - Opt-out of Dark Mode on iOS, Android, UWP, and macOS (James Montemagno)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Upgrading to ASP.NET Core Version 3.0: Top Tips (Peter Vogel)
 - Coming Next, JavaScript Private Class Fields & Methods (Guy Nesher)
 - Batch Editing with Kendo UI Grid for Angular (Jason Watmore)
 - How to Create an Interactive 3D Character with Three.js (Kyle Wetton)
 - The Repository-Service Pattern with DI and ASP.NET Core (Matthew Jones)
 - Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Fifth Refresh Release (Service Fabric Team)
 - The AWS CLI and AWS SDK for Python will require Python 2.7+ or 3.4+ as their Python runtime (Trevor Rowe)
 - Microsoft Azure Cloud Roadmap (Vikram Pendse)
 - Distributing WebAssembly modules using OCI registries (Radu Matei)
 - Designing Your First App in Kubernetes: An Overview (Bill Mills)
 - The Strengths and Benefits of Micro Frontends (Bob Myers)
 - Observable Store 2.0 Released on npm! (Dan Wahlin)
 - Arrested (Web) Development – Part 2 (Katie Adams)
 - IISNode Performance Debugging and Optimization (Michael Szul)
 - Yammer API with AAD tokens Postman Collection (Sameer Sitaram)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Introducing Shimmer in Xamarin.Forms (Mohamed Samsudeen)
 - Introducing Xamarin.Forms Rich Text Editor (Dilli Babu N.)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Searching through text: Part I, full text search in under 200 lines of code (Oren Eini)
 - Running .NET Core global tools in non-sdk Docker images (Andrew Lock)
 - Introducing Microsoft.Data.SqlClient (Jonathan Allen)
 - No Exception Left Unlogged (Mark Heath)
 - Tautological assertion (Mark Seemann)
 - Redacting Content in PDF Files in .NET Core (Palak Bansal)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Agile Approaches Can’t Save Impossible Projects: Fixed Cost, Scope, Date (Johanna Rothman)
 - Overtesting Endpoints (Paul Hammant)
 - Tracking Cross-team Projects Portfolio with Azure DevOps Boards (Vishal Saroopchand)
 - MSIX Packaging Tool – October 2019 Release Now Available (John Vintzel)
 - Decision-based stakeholder mapping: How to influence the people who matter (Carrie Holmes)
 - Save time linking resources with autolink references (Lars Schneider)
 - How partners like GitKraken use GitHub Actions (Marc Campbell)
 - Can the Definition of Done change per Sprint? (Martin Hinshelwood)
 - From Sketch to Screen — how Blake Stevenson created our Ambassador art print (Sketch Team)
 - Serverless Deployment Best Practices (Fernando Medina Corey)
 - Free card deck for 50 Quick Ideas to Improve User Stories (Gojko Adzic)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- New Alexa Tools Empower Developers to Build, Test, and Tune Skills (Eric Carter)
 - Getting started with React Native for Windows (Matteo Pagani)
 - Announcing Ionic React (Max Lynch)
 - Visual Studio for Nintendo Switch? – FUZE4 Nintendo Switch is an amazing coding app (Scott Hanselman)
 - The Best Flutter Responsive UI Pattern (Dane Mackier)
 - Windows for IoT adds expanded silicon support and new intelligent edge capabilities to accelerate digital transformation (Ian LeGrow)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Float Tank Experiences (Wes Bos)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast is Back! (Ben Popper)
 - CodeNewbie S10:E4 – Building a personal brand early in your development career (Amy Chen) (CodeNewbie Team)
 - Software Engineering Daily – Diffbot Infrastructure with Mike Tung (Jeff Meyerson)
 - TPDP E32: Getting Familiar with TypeScript for Development (Nic Raboy)
 - ASP.NET Monsters #134: Visual Studio Extensions 2 (Simon Timms, James Chambers & David Paquette)
 - Write Blockchain-Powered Azure Functions in Java leveraging Azure Key Vault | Block Talk (Blocktalkadmin)
 - .NET Bytes Episode 9: News from October 1st, 2019 through October 9th, 2019 (Calvin Allen & Matthew Groves)
 - Bot Framework + IBM Watson #1: Initial Setup for Emotion Detection (Michael Szul)
 - Serverless Chats Episode #18: Pushing the Limits of Lambda with Michael Hart (Part 1) (Jeremy Daly)
 - Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – The latest Microsoft 365 Developer news (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
 - Real Talk JS Episode 54: Styling Modern Applications with Nicole Oliver (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)
 - The 6 Figure Developer Episode 113 – Platform Specialist Jason Resnick (John Callaway)
 - Video Interview: Between Two Nerds – Building Careers with Empathy (Scott Hanselman)
 - Women in Business & Technology Podcast 055 – Sharing the full picture with Grace Hopper Celebration Chair Vidya Srinivasan (Sonia Dara & Colleen O’Brien)
 - IoT at Ignite: Big news and useful tips for IoT developers and operators | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & MAAllen)
 - Leading Agile Podcast – What if You Don’t Have a Product Owner? w/ Sara McClintock & Jeff Streitmatter (Dave Prior)
 
Community & Events
- Philly .NET Code Camp 2020.1 (Bill Wolff)
 - Women in Tech Week Profile: Renee Mascarinas (Jenny Burcio)
 - Game-Changing Meeting Trends (Kalahari Meetings)
 - Hack for Good (Sebastian Witalec)
 - C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Answers Our Top Five C++ Questions (Sonny Li)
 
Database
- Impact of UTF-8 support in SQL Server 2019 (Aaron Bertrand)
 - Azure SQL Database: Continuous innovation and limitless scale at an unbeatable price (John ‘JG’ Chirapurath)
 - SQL Puzzle – Schema and Table Creation – Answer Without Running Code (Pinal Dave)
 - Handling type hierarchies in Cosmos DB (part 2) (Thomas Levesque)
 
Miscellaneous
- Python 3.8 Released With Assignment Expressions, Runtime Audit Hooks (Michael Larabel)
 - Learn Python with Microsoft or the University of Michigan (Nikos Vaggalis)
 - Disney+ launch lineup: Every movie and TV show available to stream in the US on day one (Julia Alexander)
 - Paint.NET v4.2.6 will require SSE2 on 32-bit / x86 (Rick Brewster)
 - Announcing Rustup 1.20.0 (The Rustup Working Group)
 - Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming preview is now live (Tom Warren)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2852 (Chris Alcock)
 - .NET App Developer Links – 2019-10-15 (Dan Rigby)
 - Double Shot #2451 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Azure Weekly: October 14, 2019 (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Collective #557 (Pedro Botelho)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core (Andrew Troelsen & Philip Japikse)

