Day: September 28, 2015

Top Links

• Online AzureCon Conference this Tuesday (Scott Guthrie)
• Using Roslyn and unit tests to enforce coding guidelines and more (Filip W.)
• Available now for Raspberry Pi 2: Windows IoT Core Starter Kit (MS Openness Team)
• TWC9: Office 2016, HoloLens, Minecraft, Unity, Oculus Rift and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript Tips: Parse QueryString to Dictionary (Chris Pietschmann)
• Using A Compound Track-By Expression With ngRepeat In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Simplify Directives with Scope Inheritance in AngularJS (Aarti Parikh & Davide Curletti)
• Dynamically Generating Sitemap.xml for ASP.NET MVC (Rehan Saeed)
• Create a Mobile App Using Famo.us and Angular (David Voyles)
• MVC and Entity Framework Code First, Code Migration approach (Dileep Ashok)
• The effect of JavaScript 2015 (ES6) on development and MVC6 New Project Tour (Ed Charbeneau)
• Building web apps with ASP.net 5 MVC and Entity Framework 7 (Fiyaz Hasan)
• Introducing Parameter Refactoring in PhpStorm 9 (Gary Hockin)
• Functional Programming Using JavaScript (Mohammad Nadeem)
• Introducing Nova from Kendo UI (Rob Lauer)
• Using jQuery to Perform Calculations in a Table (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Managing Functions in TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
• Containers 101 (Bob Reselman)
• ES2015 (ES6) Features Commonly Used with Functional Style React (Mikael Brevik)
• ES6 Array Extensions in Depth and ES6 Strings (and Unicode, ❤) in Depth (Nicolas Bevacqua)
• Reference Imports in LESS (are kinda cool) (Chris Coyier)
• api-sdk-generators (Jon Gallant)
• Writing Gulpfile using TypeScript (Rabi Kiran)

 

XAML

• Best WPF Books (Mahesh Chand)
• Dynamic localization of Windows Store apps (Corrado Cavalli)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Integration Testing with Neo4j using C# (Andreas Kollegger)
• Presentation: C# Inception: Using Roslyn and C# Code to Analyze C# Code (Eric Potter)
• C# and F# approaches to illegal states (Vladimir Khorikov)
• Regular Expression Alternation (Richard Carr)
• #VS2015 – ShowMyGitBranch, quick view of the current #Git branch 😉 #VSGallery (Bruno Capuano)
• Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler (Jim Springfield)
• Covering .NET Code With NCover Desktop (Kerry Meade)
• PowerForms update – 0.3.5.3906 (Mitul Suthar)
• Old School Garbage Collection (Paul Ballard)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Subversion Merge Limitations That Are Not In Git (Paul Hammant)
• Learning How to Deal with Impediments Effectively (Ben Linders)
• From Legacy Code to Testable Code #8: If-else to Guard Blocks (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Creating a Shared Understanding (Jim Magers)
• Resource vs. Flow Efficiency, Part 5: How Flow Changes Everything (Johanna Rothman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS 9-ify your Xamarin App (Craig Dunn)
• New Xamarin.Forms eCourse (Michael Ridland)
• Visual Studio Tools for Unity (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Azure Mobile Apps, Tables with Integer Keys, and You (Adam Anderson)
• An Introduction to tvOS Development (Davis Allie)
• Run Apps Script code from anywhere using the Execution API (Edward Jones & Wesley Chun)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 059: Some Criticism of Soft Skills (John Sonmez)
• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #23 (Ron Gilbert)
• Technology & Friends Episode 385: Katarina Eames on An Early Start to a Software Career (David Giard)
• Podcast Appearances (Marc Grabanski)
• Webinar Recording: Go Mobile with Xamarin and Azure (Courtney Witmer)
• Episode 187: Node.js support for Azure Mobile Apps with Chris Anderson | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai)
• MS Dev Show – DevOps and Release Management with Donovan Brown (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Developer on Fire Episode 039 | Linda Rising – Lit Up On Life and Still Rocking (Dave Rael)
• Get Up And Code 110: The Last Episode (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Going Native 42: Bjarne Stroustrup interview at cppcon | C9::GoingNative (Marian Luparu)
• Inside Windows Platform – Using “Drag and Drop” in your Universal Windows App (Larry Lieberman & Shen Chauhan)
• Radio TFS – Pocket Dialing Paul (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Xamarin Podcast – Apple Special Event (9/9/2015) Recap (Pierce Boggan)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Cloud Tour 2015 – DC Metro (Shahed C)
• How I got started in technical evangelism, Pt. 1 (David Voyles)
• Time for Another Telerik DevCraft Release Webinar (Michael Crump)
• .NET Mentors (Vicky)

 

Database

• SQL Server SSIS: ReplaceNull (Forrards)
• SQL Server 2016 Query Store Queries (Svetlana Golovko)
• SQL SERVER – How to Restore Corrupted Model Database from Backup? and SQL SERVER – Basic architecture of Transaction Logs (Pinal Dave)
• Introduction to the Power BI Desktop and the M Language (John Miner)
• Tables.GetRelationships() Function In Power BI M (Chris Webb)

 

PowerShell

• Power Bi, PowerShell and SQL Agent Jobs (Rob Sewell)
• Windows IoT Core: Running a PowerShell Script on Startup (Carey Payette)
• How to handle oAuth from PowerShell (Stephen Owen)

 

Miscellaneous

• My favorite interview question (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Packt 50% off eBooks – Discount Extended Until 24-Oct-2015 (Alvin A.)
• Why you should buy a diesel car right now — or keep the one you own (Bill Howard)
• Dell’s new XPS 15 may launch in October with 4K display, NVIDIA GTX 960M graphics (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• New Microsoft Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL slides confirm phones and specs (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading September 25, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #187 (Pedro Botelho)
• Troy’s ultimate list of security links (Troy Hunt)
• Double Shot #1556 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #203 (Frank Boucher)
• Last Week on Channel 9: September 21st – September 27th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Blog Post: Recommended reading from mrdenny for September 25, 2015 (Denny Cherry)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 28, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• GameDev News – Week Ending September 25, 2015 (Brian Peek)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-09-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-09-28 (Dan Rigby)
• Links of the Week September 27 2015 (Chris Love)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #59 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for September 25th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #69 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #39, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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