Day: May 15, 2015

Top Links

• Microsoft delivers another Windows 10 Mobile preview build for phones (Mary Jo Foley)
• Where Did My ASP.NET Bundles Go in ASP.NET 5? (Jeff Fritz)
• IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 now supports attach! and Collect data from a windows service using the IntelliTrace Standalone Collector (Angelos Petropoulos)
• Application Insights: Public preview announced, iOS and Android Support, and Performance Counters and unhandled exceptions for Java apps, and fine time selection (David Lubash)

 

Web Development

• io.js Joins Node.js Foundation (Ian Elliot)
• Oh, CRUD … It’s Test-Driven Development for ASP.NET MVC, Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
• The Maple.js Framework (Alex R. Young)
• Quick Tips to Boost Your WordPress Website’s Speed (Barış Ünver)
• MVC6 Validation Tag Helpers Deep Dive (Dave Paquette)
• Functional CSS Tabs Re-Revisited (Geoff Graham)
• Querying DecentCMS, part2: querying the index (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Web Form Design, A Must Have for Every Web Developer (Chris Love)
• ngrok: Public URLs for your Dev Machine (Josh Eastburn)

 

XAML

• MVVM: Data Binding Rich Text to the Infragistics XamRichTextEditor (Brian Lagunas)
• Hands-free WinRT: Part 3 – Cortana (Jason Follas)
• Undo/Redo Implemented via Stateless Command Stacks in WPF Applications (Sprint 1/4) (Mark Wardell)
• WPF Animated GIF 1.4.13 (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Expression-Bodied Members in C# 6 (James Michael Hare)
• Top plugins to use with Visual Studio Community (Mary Branscombe)
• F# under the covers XV — functions, types, and what you see isn’t what you get (Steve Gilham)
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Filters (Ricardo Peres)
• A fun project for customer connection (Brian Harry)
• Top 10 features of VS in 2015 (DevToolsGuy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Q&A with Gil Zilberfeld on Agile Product Planning and Management (Ben Linders)
• TDD is like riding a bicycle (Dror Helper)
• CQRS Demo (Sacha Barber)
• Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? (Timothy)
• The 5 Dollar Rule (John Sonmez)
• The Shape of Your Portfolio (Jann Thomas)
• No matter what you do: add value (Kevin Griffin)
• TestComplete Object Recognition (Noel Rice)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Combining F# and Xamarin Forms to Create Mobile Applications (Jonathan Wood)
• Crafting 5 Star iOS Experiences With Animations (Michael James)
• MVVM With ReactiveCocoa 3.0 (Colin Eberhardt)
• TouchDevelop: Create apps and games on your Lumia (Adam Fraser)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Yet Another Podcast #136 K. Scott Allen (Jesse Liberty)
• Hanselminutes – Accessibility (a11y) with OpenDirective’s Steve Lee (Scott Hanselman)
• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 045 on SharePoint development post Build & Ignite conference (Jeremy Thake)
• 042 AiA Dependency Injection and Change Detection with Victor Savkin (John Papa)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Kumail Nanjiani Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The system conditions that affect your team’s peformance | Wayde Stallmann (Vasco Duarte)
• The Amp Hour #249 – Wearables Might Have Limited Fashion Options – Lachrymogenic Lane Language (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• View of DevOps Inside Microsoft | Edge (David Tesar)

 

Community / Events

• Xbox at E3 2015 (Will Tuttle)
• Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference, one more day to go (Frank Boucher)
• Measuring Success in Developer Relations (Rey Bango)

 

Database

• Iterate over a collection in Cronacle (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – WARNING – SQL Server Has Encountered N Occurrence(s) of I/O Requests Taking Longer Than 15 Seconds (Pinal Dave)
• [Ecosystem] Microsoft Power Query for Excel Releases Support for OData V4 (Yi Ding)

 

SharePoint

• Powershell for SSRS in SharePoint: Multiple data sources and shared datasets (Rayis Imayev)
• Extracting a SharePoint List with Power Query (Koen Verbeeck)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell DSC for Linux released! (Bartek Bielawski)
• Update JEA for the April WMF 5.0 Preview (John Slack)

 

Miscellaneous

• Universal Office and Xbox apps and new Store part of Windows 10 preview for phones build 10080 and Here’s what’s been fixed and what’s still broken in the Windows 10 preview for phones build 10080 (John Callaham)
• Audio recording comes to OneNote for Mac (OneNote Team)
• Microsoft to drop support for Rooms feature on Windows Phone in June (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 14, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1861 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 15, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Double Shot #1501 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-15 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 14th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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