Azure Blockchain, Xamarin & MvvmCross, and More on the Friday Five!

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First published on MSDN on Dec 07, 2018

	Everything You Wanted To Know about Azure Blockchain but were Afraid to Ask Jason Milgram is the Azure Practice Director at Champion Solutions Group in Boca Raton, Florida. Jason has been working with computers ever since he bought his first, a Timex/Sinclair 1000 in 6th grade and taught himself BASIC programming. Prior to Champion Jason has worked in IT for clients such as IBM, the U.S. Department of Justice, Florida Power and Light, Chase Manhattan Bank, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was also a sergeant in the US Army Reserve 1990-98. Follow him on Twitter @jmilgram. Xamarin & MvvmCross Handbook Xiaodi Yan is a senior developer at Intergen in New Zealand and Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies. He has more than 10 years development experience with .NET framework. Xiaodi is proficient in C#, ASP.NET development as well as Windows Universal Platform development. He is also capable of building RESTful Web API and has experience in SPA (Angular 2, Ionic 2 and TypeScript).
	VLOOKUP v INDEX MATCH - You decide Wyn Hopkins is an Excel MVP living in Perth, Western Australia. He is a Director at Access Analytic, a company that provides “Amazing Excel and Power BI solutions” for leading companies around Australia and Asia-Pacific region. Wyn emigrated to Australia and joined Access Analytic in 2007.  Originally a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Wyn went on to work as an analyst with HBOS and the Barclays Group in the UK before leaving for a sunnier lifestyle. Follow him on twitter @wynhopkins .
	Custom pfSense on Azure Rm - a complete guide Pantelis Apostolidis is currently a Solutions Architect at Office Line SA and Microsoft Azure MVP. The last 10 years he has been involved to major Cloud projects in Greece and abroad. His educational background includes a diploma in Tourism Management from the Technological Educational Institute (TEI), a diploma in Computer Network Engineering and a lot of Microsoft Certifications. Also, he is an author, blogger and speaker. Follow him on Twitter @papostolidis .
	Replacing Entity Framework Classes With Record Types Jamie Dixon has been writing code for as long as he can remember and has been getting paid to do it since 1995. He was using C#and javascript almost exclusively until discovering F# and now combines all three languages for the problem at hand. He has a passion for discovering overlooked gems in data sets and merging software engineering techniques to scientific computing. When he codes for fun, he spends his time using Phidgets, Netduinos, and Raspberry Pis or spending time in Kaggle competitions using Python or R. Follow him on Twitter @jamie_dixon .