Links for 5_23_1018

• Real Browser Integration Testing with Selenium Standalone, Chrome, and ASP.NET Core 2.1
• Eyes wide open - Correct Caching is always hard
• SOLID Design Principles Explained – Dependency Inversion Principle with Code Examples
• The 25 best icebreaker questions for team-building at work
• On Mentorship
• How to run your first meeting as a new manager
• How I First Used Domain-Driven Design
• Sharpen
• Binding RxJS Observable Sources Outside Of The NgZone In Angular 6.0.2
• Azure SignalR Service – Getting started
• Diary Of A Net Developer - Learning React
• CacheCow.Client 2.0: HTTP Caching for your API Calls
• CacheCow 2.0 is here - now supporting .NET Standard and ASP.NET Core MVC
• How to Make a Real-Time Sports Application Using Node.js
• Akka.NET + DI + Testing Considerations
• https://medium.com/@hamedbaatour/build-a-real-world-beautiful-web-app-with-angular-6-a-to-z-ultimate-guide-2018-part-i-e121dd1d55e

links on 9/13/2017

• SpecFlow VSTS Build pipeline with SpecRunner For BDD Style Automated Gherkin Functional Tests
• Defensive database context for multi-tenant ASP.NET Core applications
• Azure Logic Apps - An Overview
• React Crash Course for Beginners, Part 1
• Building a simple component in React.js v2
• T4MVC and R4MVC - Roslyn code generators for ASP.NET Core tag helpers
• A proper terminal for Visual Studio
• Building Serverless Applications in Azure
• Free e-books for software architecture meetups
• Aligning strings within string.Format and interpolated strings
• Microsoft .NET Architecture Guidance
• Encrypting connection strings in web.config
• Opinion Time: Should Developers ALWAYS Build an API?
• Yep, We Should (Almost) Always Build An API
• Composite UIs for Microservices - A Primer
• Composite UIs for Microservices - Composition options
• Composite UIs for Microservices - Client Composition
• Getting a Competitive Edge with a Microservices Based Architecture
• Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Design Patterns: Decorator
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Design Patterns: Strategy
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Design Patterns: Command/Memento
• Installing public certificates in App Service
• Cloud SOLID Part I: Cloud Architecture and the Single Responsibility Principle
• Microservices Design and Patterns

Links of intrest 5/1/2017

I have not had time to post lately so this will have a lot of links.

• Azure App Service Secrets and Web Site Hidden Gems
• Xamarin .NET Workbooks - Interactive Computing is a stellar learning tool
• How to Trap Uncaught Exceptions and Avoid 5xx Errors in ASP.Net WebAPI
• Stripe SMS Notifications via Twilio, Heroku, and Python
• Reasons for Automated Testing
• Everything you need to know to build your own NAS
• Integrate JavaScript Logging with ASP.NET Core Logging APIs
• Building microservices with ASP.NET Core (without MVC)
• An In Depth Guide Into a Ridiculously Simple API Using .NET Core
• Building React Web Apps on .NET Core
• Visual Studio Toolbox for Modern Web Development
• Entity Framework Query Caching
• Five Visual Studio 2017 Extensions for Web Developers
• Modeling Battleship in C# - Components and Setup
• Move Beyond Factory Methods with the Builder Pattern in C#/Visual Basic
• Building Better Entity Framework Applications
• .NET Architecture
• Code Reviews and Presentations with Visual Studio
• How to encrypt sections in web.config and to share among the servers
• PRESENTER TIPS #1: VISUAL STUDIO BUILT IN PRESENTER MODE

Links 2/21/2017

• Beginning MonoGame
• Trying out "dotnet new" template updates and csproj with VS2017
• dotnet new angular and dotnet new react
• Building Single Page Applications on ASP.NET Core with JavaScriptServices
• Onion Architecture In ASP.NET Core MVC
• ASP.NET Core MVC 6 API Boilerplate
• DotNet Core series
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Running and Managing LOTS of Web Apps on a single Azure App Service
• 22 Tips to Lower Azure Pricing and Optimize Hosting Costs
• AppMetrics
• Logging for Fun: Things You’d Never Thought to Log
• Ultimate NLog Tutorial for .NET Logging – 19 Best Practices, Resources and Tips
• JavaScript Will Finally Get Proper Asynchronous Programming
• MoreLINQ
• What .NET Developers ought to know to start in 2017

Links for 1/3/2017

• Foundations of RESTful Architecture
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) – Part 1 – Replacing C# Events
• Avoid Referencing Infrastructure in Visual Studio Solutions
• Free Intermediate ASP.NET Core 1.0 Training on Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Build your Mobile Development Toolkit for 2017
• Even more demos from Connect();!
• Understanding the Azure App Service Editor
• Exploring Wyam - a .NET Static Site Content Generator
• Bootstrap 4 – New Features
• How to Implement CRUD in Node.js With MongoDB
• Speed Up Skip and Take in Entity Framework with Lambda Expressions
• Server Side React
• Consuming Node.js Microservices Created with Stdlib
• NoSQL .NET Core development using an local Azure DocumentDB Emulator
• Introducing Microsoft Stream
• A Brief Introduction to Promises
• Publishing ASP.NET Core 1.1 applications to Azure using git deploy

Links 11/17/2016

• 45 (and counting) ASP.NET Core Samples
• The Advanced Uses of Razor Views in ASP.NET MVC
• Introducing Visual Studio Mobile Center (Preview)
• WinAppDriver - Test any app with Appium's Selenium-like tests on Windows
• My notes from learning React & JSX
• How to MongoDB in C# – Part 1
• IMPLEMENTING UNIT TESTING – GOALS
• Five Days of Azure Functions
• Triggering a Microsoft Flow from an HTTP Post
• Advanced SpecFlow: 4 Ways for Handling Parameters Properly
• 9 Docker .NET App Templates: A Complete Guide
• Free local development using the DocumentDB Emulator plus .NET Core support
• Visual Studio Code just keeps getting better - with extensions
• Stateless 3.0 - A State Machine library for .NET Core
• Swagger
• Cooking with ASP.NET Core and Angular 2
• Implement ASP.NET 4 MVC Application Security in Angular 2 Using OData 4
• Serverless Computing and Workflows with Azure Functions and Microsoft Flow
• jQuery MVC: Move Listbox Items From One Listbox to Another With jQuery And Detect At Controller End
• Fluent API Libraries for Azure .NET SDK

Links For 11/07/2016

• Microsoft Flow
• Introducing Microsoft Flow Admin Center
• LEARN .NET CORE BY EXAMPLE
• Free ASP.NET Core 1.0 Training on Microsoft Virtual Academy
• ASP.NET Core RESTful Web API versioning made easy
• Exploring ServiceStack's simple and fast web services on .NET Core
• Hello World! in Angular 2 using Visual Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 4
• Getting Started with Angular 2
• Mads Kristensen Extensions
• Fat Controller CQRS Diet: Simple Query
• CQRS/MediatR implementation patterns
• C# 7.0 : Tuples to the Extreme!
• JavaScript Stack from Scratch
• What is Serverless Architecture?
• Creating and Debugging Azure Functions Locally
• The SaaS CTO Security Checklist
• The Myth of Sloppy Code
• React with Redux: A Stable, Powerful and Scalable Combination - Part 1
• RxJs.Samples
• Exploring Application Insights for disconnected or connected deep telemetry in ASP.NET Apps

Links for 0_17_2016

• Cake for Visual Studio released
• Cake Build - A C# Make cross platform build automation system with Patrik Svensson
• Cake!... Baking a new Build with C# Make
• LEARNING .NET CORE BY EXAMPLE
• Hosting .NET Core Services on Service Fabric
• Exploring ASP.NET Core with Docker in both Linux and Windows Containers
• Docker Cheat Sheet
• Manage Azure App Service Deployments with Deployment Slots
• Simpler Azure Management Libraries for .NET
• Go serverless for the enterprise with Microsoft Azure Functions
• Orchestrating and automating deployments with Octopus Deploy and Damian Brady

links for 09_09_2016

• Creating Powershell Modules the Easy Way!
• Is JavaScript Single-Threaded?
• How to Use the react-redux Package
• Don't Throw Away All Those web.config Settings
• 9 Docker .NET App Templates: A Complete Guide
• Awesome.net
• Using Let’s Encrypt for free automated SSL certificates
• YOU'RE USING HTTPCLIENT WRONG AND IT IS DESTABILIZING YOUR SOFTWARE
• Microservices: Real Architectural Patterns
• Learning Angular 2: Tour of Heroes Tutorial, HTTP
• Containers – An Index
• Polymer, React and Angular using Visual studio 2015
• Creating a Serverless Backend for Mobile Apps
• Automating Builds with Cake (C# Make)
• What is Serverless Computing? Exploring Azure Functions
• THE BASICS OF PUBLISHING YOUR .NET CORE WEB APP
• Accelerate your insights with Application Insights Performance Counters
• Moving to ASP.NET MVC Core 1
• Tutorial: Using Entity Framework Core as an In-Memory Database for ASP.NET Core
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Links for 08_17_2016

• Why I’m leaving React behind
• Visual Studio's most useful (and underused) tips
• Visual Studio 2015 - Fixing "Dependencies npm not installed" from fsevents with node on Windows
• Two tools for quick and easy web application load testing during development
• Exploring a minimal WebAPI with ASP.NET Core
• How to Use React with Visual Studio and ASP.NET Web API
• Creating a simple API with ASP.NET Core
• Building Multi-Tenant Applications with Paul Stovell
• Create high quality mobile apps with Ionic & Visual Studio
• https://jonhilton.net/2016/08/04/compile-your-changes-on-the-fly-with-net-core/
• State of React #1: A Stateless React App?
• Handling domain events
• Easy to Miss Code Smells
• Microsoft Azure platform Demystified - Part One
• Microsoft Azure Platform and its AWS equivalent - Part two
• Using ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core and ASP.NET Boilerplate to Create NLayered Web Application (Part I)
• Deploying an Angular 2 App to Azure with Github
• Exploring a minimal WebAPI with .NET Core and NancyFX
• ASP.NET Core Template Pack
• Building Ambitious Web Applications with Ember.js
• AKKA SERIES
• Service Bus and the new Azure portal
• HOW TO ADD MVC TO YOUR ASP.NET CORE WEB APPLICATION
• Incremental backups on Microsoft Azure Backup: Save on long term storage
• Enumeration classes
• Enum Alternatives in C#
• I wanna go fast: HTTPS' massive speed advantage

Links for 4/19/2016

Some useful reading...

• ASP.Net – Ensure your Actions aren’t missing Authorization with Unit Tests
• Angular 2 typescript configuration and debugging for Visual Studio 2015
• Azure Marketplace Resources for Startups
• Play Azure DocumentDB with MongoDB Protocol
• ASP.NET Core Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection
• Marmalade makes it easy to create games that run cross-platform
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Server Configuration as Code with PowerShell DSC
• Zero Downtime
• Give yourself permission to have work-life balance
• Exploring Prefix: A Free ASP.NET Profiling Tool
• Live Application Metrics from Application Insights – Live Stream Metrics
• New Features Of Entity Framework 7
• Big Ideas Behind Angular2
• Build Your First Mobile App With Ionic 2 & Angular 2 - Part 1
• 5 Rookie Mistakes to Avoid with Angular 2