Month: August 2015

Top Links

• .NET Native – What it means for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) developers (Daniel Jacobson)
• Weak events in C#, take two (Thomas Levesque) – Linking directly to a comment by Joseph Musser with an alternative.
• .NET Rocks #1180 – Diving into Aurelia with Julie Lerman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Intellitest | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

Web Development

• 12 tips to increase the performance of ASP.NET application drastically – Part 2 (Brij Bhushan Mishra)
• Build a High-Performance Mobile App With Famo.us and Manifold.js (David Voyles)
• WebStorm 11 EAP, 142.4148: encode HTML symbols, Meteor, TypeScript 1.6 features (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Using the CSS :checked pseudo-class (Isaac Haynes)
• SignalR Transports Explained (Kevin Griffin)
• Read a Local File using HTML5 and JavaScript (Mahesh Sabnis)
• #Video Deal/Day: Beautiful JavaScript – $16.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media, Inc.)
• Kendo UI Unleashed! (Sam Basu)
• Debugging Yeoman Generators with Visual Studio Code and Running Mocha Tests with Visual Studio Code (Andrew Connell)
• Doing Science On The Web (Alex Russell)
• API Testing with Telerik Fiddler (Eric Lawrence)
• Fenzo: OSS Scheduler for Apache Mesos Frameworks (Sharma Podila)

XAML

• XAML tools in Visual Studio 2015 (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• [UWP]Take the control of your title bar (David Catuhe)
• Windows 10 maps part 3 – querying the map & attaching business objects to map shapes (Joost van Schaik)
• Add Sharing to your UWP App (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Coding4Fun Toolkit 2.1.1 released #wpdev #uwp (Hermit Dave)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Technical Debt – Why care? How to set up SonarQube to work with TFS using Build Task? (Tarun Arora)
• Using Callbacks with Moq (Richard Carr)
• Connecting and Extending Office with Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio (Nicole Bruck)
• The Periodic Table of .NET (Dara Monasch)
• Upgrading Projects to .NET 4.6 (James Chambers)
• Single Reponsibility Principle in .NET (Abhi Jain)
• I saw a pinvoke signature that passed a UInt64 instead of a FILETIME, what’s up with that? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Building Trust with 100% Distributed Team & 100% Flexible Schedules (Frank Garcia)
• 7 more questions asked by noob designers (Cameron Chapman)
• Let’s Build a Metric 3: Compositeness (Erik Dietrich)
• Why Frameworks and Methodologies Don’t Matter (Mike Cottmeyer)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Create Modern Android Apps with the Design Support Library (Greg Shackles)
• Interactive watch faces with the latest Android Wear update (Wayne Piekarski)
• Unity 5 First-Person Tutorial (Shahed C)
• 31 Days of Xamarin Android Day 20: CardView (Venkata Koppaka)
• Bluetooth Rfcomm Communication with a Windows IoT Core Device (Bary Nusz)
• Azure Mobile Apps August 2015 update (Matthew Henderson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Indie Dev Podcast, Ep 22 – David Catuhe, BabylonJS (David Voyles)
• Episode 059 with Jason Himmelstein on Power BI development—Office 365 Developer Podcast and Outlook 2016 on the desktop, Windows 10, iOS & Android | Office Mechanics (formerly Garage Series) (Jeremy Chapman)
• Hanselminutes – Enterprising node.js with Nodesource’s VP of Engineering Kevin Stewart and Azure API Management Policy Expressions 103 – Caching and Output Conversion and Azure API Management Policy Expressions 102 – JSON Web Tokens (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET Community Standup – August 18, 2015 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• 056 AiA Server Rendering with Angular with Jeff Whelpley and Patrick Stapleton (John Papa)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Bobcat Goldthwait Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• CppCast – Game Dev and Low Latency with Nicolas Guillemot (Rob Irving)
• Rocket 32: Frankenkeyboards (Brianna Wu, Simone De Rochefort & Christina Warren)
• The Amp Hour #263 – An Interview with Fran Blanche (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Developer on Fire Podcast – Mark Seemann – Abstract Value (Dave Rael)
• Isolated User Mode Processes and Features in Windows 10 with Logan Gabriel (Seth Juarez)

Database

• Comparison of Oracle and SQL Server Management Tools (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox 4.3 – Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – DBCC CHECKDB errors – Msg 2520 during executions (Pinal Dave)
• Designing a PostgreSQL Document API (Rob Conery)
• Azure DocumentDB: JavaScript as Modern Day T-SQL (Andrew Liu)
• Importing Power Pivot & Power View into Power BI (Dustin Ryan)
• Row-Level Security for SQL Database is Generally Available (Tommy Mullaney)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #1930 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 21, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for August 20th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Internet of Things (IoT), Mobility, Azure, Universal Windows Platform and Devices – The Daily Developers Links – #4 (Abhijit Jana)

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