Franky's Notes

Suggestion of the week

Contributing to Open-Source - My first roslyn pull request - Fixing the bug (Maxime Rouiller) - Awesome post where Maxime shares with us that journey with us and helps us to understand what it is really about.

Announcing Azure SDK for Node.js 2.0 preview (Matt Hernandez) - This post details all the new features of this update.
How to easily deploy Azure Hybrid Use Benefit (BYOL) virtual machines from marketplace images and Azure Resource Manager Template (Stephane Lapointe) - Nice post that explains how to save money using the BYOL VMs.
Tips & Tricks: Cost savings using Logic Apps (Rene Brauwers) - Very interesting post where the author did the exercise of comparing different scenario's performances and prices.

What is Kubernetes? An Intro for Beginners (Paul Burt) - This post is the perfect starting point to know what is Kubernetes are and understands what it can do for you, without getting deep technical.
Setting up a Shiny Development Environment within Linux on Windows 10 (Scott Hanselman) - Nice post that describes how to setup your text-mode dev environment the Hanselman's way. Take what you like, adapted what you don't.

How to control PowerPoint on Windows with a Bluetooth Nintendo Switch JoyCon controller! (or a Surface Pen) (Scott Hanselman) - Really cool trick.

Do more or less with default values in the Azure CLI (Shayne Boyer) - That clever! Great optimization of the CLI.
HTTP-triggered Azure Functions (Gunnar) - Azure functions are such a powerful tool. This post explains how to use them with a Http endpoint.
How to send emails with SendGrid in Azure WebJobs using the SendGrid extension (Vivien Chevallier) - Nice tutorial that explains very clearly how to use SendGrid in our solution. All the code is also available.

Microsoft + Docker – Investing in the future of your applications - It's a very exciting time to build an application. This post lists the Microsoft-related talks at the DockerCon.
Testing Azure Functions with Postman and Swagger (Shayne Boyer) - Great update to an already awesome tool.

Shutting down CodePlex ( Brian Harry) - If you have a project sitting at Codeplex, don't panic. This post explains what will happen, and if you would like to migrate, what are your options.
Password managers don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better than not having one (Troy Hunt) - Interesting post about password managers. Are you using one? Learn here why you should.

~Frank

Web Scraping In Power BI And Excel Power Query (Gil Raviv) - Just recently I've learned about Power BI web scrapping capability, then this! I didn't think it could be that great! Great post.

Azure Backup’s cloud-first approach and why it matters (Shreesh Dubey) - Nice post that explains the complete backup service in Azure.
Azure functions - Just the CLI, hold the GUI, add some git (Shayne Boyer) - Nice tutorial that explains how to deploy an ARM template using Azure CLI simple commands.
Interesting facts about Azure BizTalk Hybrid Connections! (Alexander Laysha) - Nice post that explains how works the hybrid connections.
Trying ASP.NET Core on the Google Cloud Platform "App Engine Flexible Environment" (hanselman.com) - Interesting share that inspires to try .Net Core... outside of the happy path. Awesome.

Model Binding in ASP.NET Core - Simple Talk (Dino Esposito) - Great tutorial that introduces the auto bindings and shows how to implement it.
What’s New in Visual Basic 2017 (The Visual Basic Team) - It's been a while since I coded in VB but reading this post brought back all those souvenirs... Great work.
6 Reasons Why JavaScript’s Async/Await Blows Promises Away (Mostafa Gaafar) - Nice update. For a .Net developer, this is perfect!