Day: September 4, 2015

Top Links

• MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core! (Nikolai Tillmann)
• CodeRush for Roslyn, v1.0.5 (Mark Miller)
• CodeLens Indicator for Code Health (Mathew Aniyan)
• AJAX Control Toolkit Critical Update (Jeffrey T. Fritz)

 

Web Development

• Protecting Context-Dependent Promise Callbacks In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Data Structures With JavaScript: What’s a Data Structure? (Cho S. Kim)
• Adding Prefixes to Tag Helpers in MVC 6 (Dave Paquette)
• Embracing Sass: Why You Should Stop Using Vanilla CSS (Marcelo Mazza)
• Hello Elixir. Wow. (Rob Conery)
• WebDriver for Windows Insiders (MS Downloads)
• How To Populate a Select Element with Data From a JSON File in a Meteor App (B. Clay Shannon)
• Embracing the latest web trend: card-based design (Marc Schenker)
• Promises in ES2015 Part 1 (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Building & Designing Windows 10 Universal Windows Apps using XAML and C# (Fons Sonnemans)
• Windows 10, Chrome 45+, and Silverlight (John Bristowe)
• Easy drawing and inking using new InkCanvas Control for Universal Windows App (Abhijit Jana)
• Windows 10 maps part 5 – styles and 3D (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Design time preview for your multi devices apps in Visual Studio 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
• Cross-Platform MSBuild (Eric Battalio)
• LINQ Support in Visual Studio 2015 Debugger Awesome (Peter Kellner)
• Why I Still Love .NET (Dave Rael)
• #VS2015 – Pull Request from VS IDE ? in the near future … and #VS2015 – Code Lens Health Indicator, code metrics in the source code editor (Bruno Capuano)
• Using Predicates in Akka.NET Receive Actors (Jason Roberts)
• Load Your Library! Save up to 50% on all books & eBooks (Kim Spilker)
• Liskov Substitution Principle in .NET (Abhi Jain)
• NQuery vNext (Immo Landwerth)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Domain-Driven Development: Where Does the Code Go? (Peter Vogel)
• Azure Mobile Service deployment with Team City part 7. Deployment to Test environment (Ruslan Albu)
• Don’t Ignore Big Deltas in Your Teams’ Estimates (Jim Holmes)
• Touch interactions in Photoshop (Samartha Vashishtha)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Pull To Refresh Any(ish) Xamarin.Forms View! (James Montemagno)
• 52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 4 – Binding A List of Data (Jesse Liberty)
• Improve Discoverability with Search in iOS 9 (Mike James)
• Windows IoT Core Oscilloscope (Bary Nusz)
• Publish a Windows 10 Game with Construct 2 (Shahed C)
• New sensor features in Windows 10 (Rinku Sreedhar)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 061 on the Office 365 File Handlers—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutes – Developing Designers with Catt Small (Scott Hanselman)
• 058 AiA D3 with Aysegul Yonet (John Papa)
• CppCast – Software Transactional Memory with Brett Hall (Rob Irving)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Violent Femmes (Chris Hardwick)
• The right questions to ask to understand the system | Gil Zilberfeld (Vasco Duarte)
• Expanding our developer video channel lineup (Reto Meier)
• New Video: Basic Exception Handling with Task and Await (Jeremy Clark)
• Creating Custom Visualizations for Power BI with Sachin Patney and Nico Cristache (Seth Juarez)
• SSW TV – How to become an front end developer with Justin Schwartzenberger (SSW Team)
• The Amp Hour #265 – A Security Update with Michael Ossmann (Chris Gammell & David L Jones)

 

Community / Events

• Meet Creative Paul Boag, User Experience Consultant (Adobe UK Team)
• Mark the date: #AzureCon, a free virtual event on 29th September (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Butterfly Effect of Technology Community (Scott Hanselman)

 

Database

• Handling error converting data type varchar to numeric in SQL Server (Tim Smith)
• Excel File Data Validation for SQL Server Imports (Jeffrey Yao)
• Compare SQL permissions using SQL Server Data Tools (Svetlana Golovko)
• SQL SERVER – Configure the Backup Compression Default Server Configuration Option (Pinal Dave)
• Power BI Personal Gateway (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• Snip makes you even more productive using Microsoft Office (Office Team)
• Office work destroys your body (Rob Beschizza)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1549 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading September 3, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-09-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-09-04 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for September 3rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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