Day: April 30, 2015

Top Links

• Introducing Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Application Insights Public Preview and .NET Core Preview for Linux and Mac (S.Somasegar)
• Introducing Visual Studio Code for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Scott Hanselman)
• Introducing Visual Studio Code and Getting Started with Visual Studio Code and Intellisense with Visual Studio Code and Refactoring with Visual Studio Code and Debugging with Visual Studio Code and Git and Preferences in Visual Studio Code (John Papa)
• New video shows how Windows 10 phone apps can work on a big screen with Continuum and Two new videos show the promise of Microsoft HoloLens, more info coming at E3 2015 (John Callaham)
• Microsoft Edge is the browser for Windows 10 (Kyle Pflug)
• New services for intelligent apps + tools and runtimes for any platform & every device (Scott Guthrie)

 

Web Development

• Introducing TagHelpers with ASP.NET 5 on EverLeap and New ASP.NET Features and Fixes in Visual Studio 2015 RC (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Adding minimal OWIN Identity Authentication to an Existing ASP.NET MVC Application (Rick Strahl)
• Build ASP.NET Apps with Visual Studio Code on Windows or Mac (Steve Smith)
• Managing Asynchronous Processes in TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
• Comparing JS Compression Methods in Sencha Cmd (Arthur Kay)
• The Priority+ Navigation Pattern (Chris Coyier)
• Web apps get push notifications and more in Windows 10 (Jared DiPane)
• Microsoft Demonstrates Docker in Build 2015 Keynote Address (Julien Barbier)
• Preview the OneDrive API for Work and Life (Ryan Gregg)
• VSCode: Creating an Application with Yeoman aspnet generators (Shayne Boyer)
• LightSwitch Videos On YouTube (Michael Washington)

 

XAML

• Blend for Visual Studio 2015 RC (Harikrishna Menon)
• Compile Time Bindings in Universal XAML (Jonathan Allen)
• Xamarin Guide 9: Use MVVM pattern (Sara Silva)
• DVLUP launches new website as part of MSDN (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Distributing Windows Apps to the World (Todd Brix)
• Expanding the Universal Windows Platform at Build 2015 (David Treadwell)
• Build conference gives developers more insights about Windows 10 app development and distribution (Athima Chansanchai)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• First Hours with Visual Studio Code on Mac and Windows (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Visual Studio Code first impressions (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Some tips for Using C# Libraries in F# (Tamizh Vendan)
• .NET EnC support for Lambdas and other improvements in Visual Studio 2015 and Open Sourcing Visual Studio’s GDB/LLDB Debug Engine (Andrew B. Hall)
• Visualize a Weighted Average / Composite Color of Multiple Custom Colors Using C# (B. Clay Shannon)
• Announcing the Azure SDK 2.6 for .NET and Visual Studio 2015 RC (Brady Gaster)
• Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server at Build 2015 (Brian Harry)
• Load Test Enhancements in Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise edition (Charles Sterling)
• Diagnosing Event Handler Leaks with the Memory Usage Tool in Visual Studio 2015 (Charles Willis)
• Continued Improvements for Breakpoint Configuration in Visual Studio 2015 (Kaycee Anderson)
• Upgrading to TFS 2015 in production – DONE and Install TFS 2015 today and How to rename a Team Project in TFS 2015 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• What’s new in CodeLens for Visual Studio 2015 RC? (Mathew Aniyan)
• Entity Framework and Visual Studio 2015 RC (Rowan Miller)
• Rounding out Visual F# 4.0 in VS 2015 RC (Visual F# Team)
• BUILD 2015 News: Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Team Foundation Server 2015 RC, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 (John Montgomery)
• With new SDKs, Microsoft helps developers bring their code for the Web, .NET, Win32, Android and iOS to Windows 10 (Suzanne Choney)
• Developers will be able to convert their .NET, Win32 apps for the Windows Store (Joseph Keller)
• Code maps now differentiate test projects, and bring code context into map elements (Mathew Aniyan)
• Announcing Application Insights Public Preview (Merav Davidson)
• The CodeProject API – Part 1 (Pete O’Hanlon)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Good Agile Metrics or Working Software (Jim Magers)
• Run NUnit from Visual Studio (Dave M. Bush)
• Interview: Ben Linders on Retrospectives and Helping Teams Improve (Ben Linders)
• The Quality Wheel and Data v Awareness (Jessica Kerr)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Natvis support for Android debugging (Andrew B. Hall)
• Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 RC (John Kemnetz)
• Creating a Xamarin Forms Accordion Control, without custom renders. (Jonathan Yates)
• Visual Studio Code with Xamarin on a Mac (Mike Bluestein)
• UI for Xamarin Ships Extensible API for Easy Access to Platform-Specific Features (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Microsoft brings Android and iOS code to Windows 10 devices (Samantha Murphy Kelly)
• MonoGame 3.4 is out, has support for Windows 10, and that will include Xbox One (David Voyles)
• Creating ASCII art in functional Swift (Josh Smith)
• Consistent Mobile UI Theming (Keith Rome)
• Building for Windows 10 with Objective-C and Java IS AWESOME! (Matt Lacey)
• Integrate Play data into your workflow with data exports (Frederic Mayot)
• Microsoft brings Windows 10 to Makers (Steve Teixeira)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• jsj 157 Moving Your Rendering Engine to React with Amit Kaufman and Avi Marcus (Joe Eames, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Aimee Knight)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Dave Holmes (Chris Hardwick)
• Microsoft posts new videos showcasing the Windows 10 experience (Joseph Keller)
• No Spartan, it’s “Microsoft Edge”. Will support extensions. New demo video (Kamal)
• RiYL Episode 105: Jean Grae (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Passes 1 Million Developer Milestone (Nat Friedman)
• I’m Presenting At Microsoft’s Ignite Conference (Andrew Connell)
• Build is here! (Steve Guggenheimer)
• A lean UX conference (Stefan Ivanov)
• Great news for open source developers at Build this week (Jean Paoli)

 

Database

• Comparison of SQL Server and Oracle terminology (Daniel Calbimonte)
• Basic VMware and Hyper-V Terminology for the SQL Server DBA (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server Compact ADO.NET data access performance – part 2: INSERTs (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Recovering from Snapshots – Notes from the Field #078 (Pinal Dave)
• Using Function.InvokeAfter() In Power Query (Chris Webb)
• Azure SQL Database previews major updates for BUILD (Tiffany Wissner)

 

SharePoint

• Enable Breadcrumb / Navigate Up on SharePoint 2013 (venkatx5)

 

PowerShell

• Azure PowerShell 0.9.0 Released with Azure Resource Manager! (Trevor Sullivan)
• ScriptAnalyzer in GitHub and availability on Powershell Gallery (Raghu Shantha)

 

Miscellaneous

• Your Windows 10 phone can turn into a full PC (Chris Welch)
• So, I tried the HoloLens! (Laurent Bugnion)
• OneNote: the ONE tool I can’t do without (and neither can my school) (Kelli Etheredge)
• Microsoft Windows on the walls: How HoloLens will work at home (Todd Bishop)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 29, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 30, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Coding4Fun April 2015 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1851 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 29th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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