• Delete option is missing from solution explorer context menu in Xamarin Forms Android projects.
• Xamarin.Android: Can't select target framework 28 in Android Manifest settings.
• Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.PageInspector.Loader, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
• "There was an error running the selected code generator" when trying to create a new view.
• Android Berechtigungsliste ist leer-Android permission list is empty.
• Missing icons for .axml files in Visual Studio 2019.
• axml icons are not displayed.
• Visual Studio extensions may fail to install attempting to overwrite core NuGet files.
• C# switch statement on a constant expression may produce bad compiler errors. 

JavaScript's Creator Brendan Eich Shares The Full Story of JavaScript
Lex Fridman is an AI researcher who’s becoming well known for high quality interviews with some of the greatest minds of our time and here he talks with Brendan Eich about his coding history, JavaScript’s full origin story, the browser wars, and Brave. 

In Visual Studio 2013, there were a handful of templates that supported developing ASP.NET projects with various frameworks and data structures.  Some of those project templates from the Visual Studio 2012 era have been removed from the Visual Studio 2015 install and added to the Visual Studio Extension gallery as the ASP.NET Project Templates extension for Visual Studio 2015. 

Insight #1: React is here to stay
Insight #2: Angular is shifting to a new role --> enterprise apps
Insight #3: You can’t ignore Vue.js anymore
Insight #4: Knowledge of some libraries will help you earn more (but not for the reasons you might think)
Insight #5: 2018 will be the year of GraphQL
Insight #6: JavaScript != Front-end
Insight #7: Microsoft is striking back
Insight #8: JavaScript is different around the world
Insight #9: Typed JavaScript is on the rise
Insight #10: JavaScript is whatever you want it to be

If you have server-side access to your website there are some workarounds you can use, such as configuring the .htaccess, to download these files directly. If your site is hosted with a free service like WordPress.com, Blogspot, or perhaps Github pages which don’t allow you to do so, consider using the download attribute.

SDKs are the building blocks of app development. Here’s what non-devs need to know. 

- SQL Server Runs on Windows, Linux and Docker Containers
- Graph Database Capabilities
- Python Support
- Resumable Online Index Rebuild
- New CLR Security Model
- Identity Cache
- Adaptive Query Processing
- Scaling Out Integration Services
- Simplify Your Code with New T-SQL Functions

Dive into all the details that a JavaScript developer needs to know to be a great TypeScript developer — Basarat Ali Syed  

In the last post, I looked at auto-property enhancements, with several comments pointing out some nicer usages. I recently went through the HtmlTags codebase, C# 6-ifying “all the things”, and auto property and expression bodied function members were used pretty much everywhere. This is a large result of the codebase being quite tightly defined, with small objects and methods doing one thing well.