Day: December 14, 2015

Top Links

• Presentation: Designing C# 7 (Lucian Wischik)
• TWC9: Build 2016 Dates, ChakraCore, Open Live Writer and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• Windows IoT Core Visual Studio Project Templates (Greg Duncan)
• What Progressive Web Apps Mean for the Web (TJ VanToll)

 

Web Development

• Formatting CSV Data For JIRA Tables Using AngularJS And Plupload (Ben Nadel)
• Should You Use The Template Element? (Chris Love)
• Opening a Dialog Box in an ASP.NET MVC Page (Peter Vogel)
• HTML5 Mastery: Constraint Validation (Florian Rappl)
• Extending jQuery (Julian M. Bucknall)
• ASP.NET 5, MVC 6, TagHelpers, And The Cake (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Multiple Async calls to ASP.NET Web API using Angular.js $q.all() (Mahesh Sabnis)
• WordPress 4.4 Adds Infrastructure for the WordPress REST API (Patricio Robles)
• Table-driven Tests in Go (Alan Hohn)
• Babel 6: loose mode and Babel and CommonJS modules (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Building Stateful Services with Azure Service Fabric (Paul Mooney)
• Web Development starts here! – 8 tutorials for Elementary and High schools students (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

XAML

• Intense Toolkit updated (Koen Zwikstra)
• UWP Map data binding with WpWinNlMaps explained (Joost van Schaik)
• 3D Map For Windows 10 UWP (Suresh M)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Understand the complexity and maintainability of your coding using Code Metrics in Visual Studio and Understand the complexity and maintainability of your code using Code Metrics in Visual Studio– Line of Code (LoC) (Abhijit Jana)
• Did You See: Improve Your Build Times With IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015 (Eric Battalio)
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Commissioning TFS or VSTS (Graham Smith)
• Detecting Environment Shutdown (Richard Carr)
• Updating the .NET target framework for many projects (Daniel Fisher)
• The new work item form (Jose Rady)
• Porting a .net application to Linux/Mono/MonoDevelop (Miha Markic)
• Print Cards journal is now included with the source code (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Getting Started with Neo4j in .NET with Neo4jClient Library (Tugberk Ugurlu)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retrospectives – not just for agile teams (Patrick Kua)
• Trunk based development: when to branch for release (Paul Hammant)
• Developing and Testing Microservices (Ben Linders)
• Cloud Load Test Build Task information (Charles Sterling)
• Getting Git: Stash Some the Things (Huyen Tue Dao)
• Lazy vs. Careless (Jeremy Clark)
• How to Create Happy Teams (Moritz Plassnig)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS From Scratch With Swift: Exploring the iOS SDK (Bart Jacobs)
• 52 Weeks of Xamarin – Week 17 (Jesse Liberty)
• Asset creation for holographic apps (Microsoft HoloLens Team)
• One tap sign-up and automatic sign-in without password entry using Smart Lock (Steven Soneff)
• Swift 2: A quick look at print() vs println() vs NSLog() (yffaria)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #33 (Ron Gilbert)
• MS Dev Show – Pattern Lab with Brian Muenzenmeyer (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Changelog 186: Building the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard with László Monda (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Developer on Fire Episode 072 | John Robbins – Debugging Master (Dave Rael)
• Episode 194: Azure News Recap with Chris and Haishi | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• Mac Power Users 294: Workflows with Mike Vardy (Katie Floyd & David Sparks)
• Multi-user Support in Dev Center | Inside Windows Platform (Larry Lieberman & shenchauhan)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 27: The Evolution Of Joel Martinez (Richie Rump)
• StarTalk Radio – Expanding Our Perspectives, with Susan Sarandon (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Azure Podcast Episode 106 – Many Clouds, Different Frameworks (Sujit D’Mello)
• The Amp Hour #277 – Interconnectorama (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)
• The Static Void Podcast – Specialist vs. Generalist: Which are you? (Chris Gomez, Jess Chadwick & Todd Snyder)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing Winter Bash 2015 (Pops)

 

Database

• SQL Server Performance Considerations – Fetching Rows One By One or All At Once (Tim Wiseman)
• SQL Server: Create Objects Automatically in New Databases (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Fix SQL Server Index Fragmentation with dbForge Index Manager (Pinal Dave)
• Power BI Desktop Custom Visualization (Scott Murray)
• Database Design Evils (Karen Lopez)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell SDK Reference Assemblies Available via NuGet.org (James W. Truher)
• Visual Studio Code: PowerShell Extension (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Continuum Experience – Hands on with your phone as a PC (Richard Hay)
• Retain your existing free #OneDrive space before #Microsoft downgrades it’s plan (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using cloud storage for Open Live Writer draft posts (Laurent Bugnion)
• Released Boxstarter 2.6 now with an embedded Chocolatey 0.9.10 Beta (Matt Wrock)
• Illumination in Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 11, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Here’s your #FridayFives! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #213 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #198 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1604 and Double Shot #1605 (Mike Gunderloy)
• DevOps, Cross-Platform Apps, Docker and IoT on Dec 11 2015 (Jeremy Likness)
• The Morning Brew #1989 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 7th – December 13th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-14 (Dan Rigby)
• GameDev News – Week Ending December 11, 2015 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #70 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 11th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #80 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #50, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
• AngularJS Performance, Visual Studio Team Services Customization, Continuum and More Sat Dec 12 2015 (Jeremy Likness)
• Links of the Week 12-13-15 (Chris Love)

 

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