Essential Visual Studio 2017 Tools & Extensions

Web Essentials 2017
Wrapper for many handy extensions such as File Nesting, Image Optimizer, Markdown Editor, Open Command Line & HTML Tools

Productivity Power Tools 2017
Another wrapper for extensions like Ctrl+Click GoTo Navigation, Power Commands for Visual Studio & Copy As Html

XAML Styler 
Format your XAML on save - consistent and readble XAML Style implementations

CodeMaid
Cleanup and format your code. Multiple language support

NUnit 3 Test Adapter
Run NUnit tests in Visual Studio
...also consider xUnit unit testing

Cloud Explorer for Visual Studio 2017
View your cloud resources, inspect properties, and perform key developer actions from within Visual Studio

ResXManager
Central access to all ResX-based string resources in your solution

..any other essential extensions you can't do without? Share in the comments below.

Xamarin Forms: ToolbarItem with Bindable IsVisible Property

It's fairly typical for toolbar items to change depending on the state of the model that the view is bound to (quite another thing if it's considered good UX).

Unfortunately Xamarin Forms doesn't have an IsVisible property on it's ToolbarItem control, so I had to hunt for a sample implementation.

A found this handy thread on the Xamarin forums.
Basically create a custom control that inherits from ToolbarItem, add a bindable IsVisible property, and add /remove the toolbar items as the property changes.

I made some minor modifications, and added the source code here

Happy Coding :)

Daily Links 4 Mar 2017

The 12 Factor App

Building Single Page Applications on ASP.NET Core with JavaScriptServices

Realtime Databases with the Realm Mobile Platform

Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Running and Managing LOTS of Web Apps on a single Azure App Service

Xamarin Forms ListView Grouping

Xamarin.Forms Android Selected & Unselected Tab Colors

Xamarin Forms Tab Badge

Azure App Service Secrets and Web Site Hidden Gems

What is scope and closure in JavaScript?

Writing Jasmine unit tests in ES6

Getting Started With WebAssembly in Node.js

Parsing And Serializing Large Objects Using JSONStream In Node.js

Azure App Service Authentication in an ASP.NET Core Application