Month: May 2015

Top Links

• WCF is Open Source (Ron Cain)
• Porting an Angular 2.0 App to Aurelia (Rob Eisenberg)
• Rewards for Learning and Development? DVLUP! (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Debugging Tips and Tricks | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• TDD for ASP.NET MVC, Part 3: Contact Service Class (Eric Vogel)
• Create Node Task for Visual Studio Code (Steve Michelotti)
• The Simplest Possible ASP.NET Web API Template (Darrel Miller)
• Node.js profiling in WebStorm. Part 1: CPU profiling. (Irina Chernushina)
• 7 Awesome JavaScript Libraries for Drawing (Learning jQuery)
• Delivering fast JavaScript performance in Microsoft Edge (Gaurav Seth)
• Configuring ASP.NET 5 Environment Variables (Steve Smith)
• Choose ES6 modules Today! (Cody Lindley)
• An Introduction to Vagrant (Jason Witt)
• QuickReactions – Isomorphic Hello World with React and Node (Jeff Handley)
• Docker Tutorial 10 – Docker Compose (John Willis)
• #Video Deal/Day: Mastering MEAN Web Development – $47.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Python and Data: SQL Database on Azure as a data source for Python applications (Susan Ibach)
• 5 Best JavaScript IDE For Front-End and Web Engineers (Nitish Singh)

 

XAML

• Does Reporting Progress with Task.Run Freeze Your WPF UI? (Brian Lagunas)
• Displaying a backbutton on your app title bar (Morten Nielsen)
• String Encryption in Windows 8.1 Universal apps (Marco Siccardi)
• Using a Windows 10 UWP app and Signal/R on Azure to display Microsoft Band heart rates–basically everywhere (Joost van Schaik)
• Make Apps Stand Out in Search with App Linking (Vincent Wehren)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# is 0-based, VB.NET is 1-based (Bill Wagner)
• What’s New in Visual Basic 14 for Visual Studio 2015 (Peter Vogel)
• A new utility for upgrading reports when you upgrade TFS (Jeff Levinson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Q and A on The Scrum Culture and Delivering Value on Time by Using #NoEstimates (Ben Linders)
• Setting up SpecFlow (Dave M. Bush)
• Are You Infected by Microservice Envy? (Johannes Thönes)
• Insights – Get to know your fakes part 5- Base (Alex)
• How to Set Up GitHub (Dan Wellman)
• Delegating Is Not Just for Managers (Erik Dietrich)
• GROWS for Executives (Jared Richardson)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• The Xamarin.Forms Chef (Adam J. Wolf)
• Fixing your iOS build scripts (Jimmie Jensen)
• Material Designer for Xamarin Forms (Jonathan Yates)
• Lighting up Native Platform Features in Xamarin Forms – Part 2 (Keith Rome)
• Get Started with HomeKit (Michael James)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – A Craftsman’s Approach to Software Development with Bob Reselman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Scrum is the starting point, we must do more | Jeremy Jarrell (Vasco Duarte)
• Angular Air Episode 15: Architecting Huge Angular Apps With Ben Nadel And Aaron Frost (Ben Nadel)
• 160 JSJ Stormpath with Robert Damphousse (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
• Introducing mobile device management for Office 365 | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• Radio TFS – Back from Build 2015 (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Early look at Office 2016 Public Preview for Windows—on the desktop and phone (Ben Walters & Jeremy Chapman)
• CppCast – Modern C++ for the Windows Runtime with Kenny Kerr (Rob Irving & Jason Turner)
• Developing for HoloLens (Seth Juarez & Alex Kipman)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Dr. Frederic Bertley of the Franklin Institute (Neil Bardhan)
• Android Developer Story: Wooga’s fast iterations on Android and Google Play (Reto Meier)

 

Database

• Connect an Azure SQL Database to an On Premise SQL Server (John Miner)
• Query Data from Extended Events in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – Adding Reference Data to Master Data Services – Notes from the Field #081 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online solution packs (MS Downloads)

 

PowerShell

• Debugging Desired State Configuration (DSC) on an #Azure Virtual Machine (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Windows 10 PC preview build 10122 has improvements for Start menu, Continuum, Edge and more (John Callaham)
• OneDrive for Business introduces new data loss prevention capabilities for sync (Reuben Krippner)
• Syncing Windows Live Writer Drafts to the Cloud (Dropbox) and other bug fixes (Scott Hanselman)
• YouTuber gets Windows XP to boot on an Android Wear smartwatch (Jared DiPane)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 20, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1505 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1865 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 21, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Free Training Materials for Development (Ricardo Peres)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 20th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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