Day: December 28, 2015

Top Links

• Exploring the new .NET “dotnet” Command Line Interface (CLI) (Scott Hanselman)
• First Update Released for Open Live Writer (Richard Hay)
• Creating an Angular 2 build with Gulp, TSLint and DefinitelyTyped (Colin Eberhardt)
• The future of bundling JavaScript modules (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

Web Development

• Disabling session affinity in Azure App Service Web Apps (Websites) (Maarten Balliauw)
• AngularJS in Action – An Interview With Lukas Ruebbelke (Alex Giamas)
• WebStorm 11.0.3 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Three Shades of Angular (Jeremy Likness)
• Calling Externally Hosted Service using Node.js (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Build Ultra-Modern Web Apps with Angular Material (Matt Spaulding)
• Service Fabric: Let Your Voice Be Heard (Bnaya Eshet)
• Should I use React.createClass, ES6 Classes or stateless functional components? (James K. Nelson)
• Here are the system requirements for Microsoft Azure Stack (Sead Fadilpašić)
• Running ASPNET 5 and .NET Core on Linux (Vince Chan)
• LightSwitch for Cloud Business Apps 2015 v3 Release (Michael Washington)
• The Best Way To Compute The Average Age Of Cat Owners In Functional Programming (Ben Nadel)

 

XAML

• Better WPF DataBinding with CalcBinding (Manuel Naujoks)
• WPF – Understanding Logical Tree And Visual Tree In WPF ( Part 1 ) (Siddharth Patel)
• How to turn ON/OFF the Frame Rate Counter in #UWP apps? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Gotcha–navigating from SplitView requires back button to be pressed twice in UWP apps (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Understand the complexity and maintainability of your code using Code Metrics in Visual Studio – Cyclomatic Complexity (Abhijit Jana)
• Learning F# – The Thunderdome Principle for Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Visual Studio Shortcuts: Format Document and Visual Studio Shortcuts: Comment Selection / Uncomment Selection (Jeremy Clark)
• Calculating Values Using Calculated Values In LINQ (Nick Chamberlain)
• Generic Delegates in C# (Abhi Jain)
• Data Science in F# using FsLab: Interview with Tomas Petricek (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• ‘Value does not fall within the expected range’ error while adding toolbar to toolwindow (Utkarsh Shigihalli & Tarun Arora)
• Confusing gotcha: PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR is not a pointer to a SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Service Fabric Concept, Guidelines and Patterns #3 – Pool (Bnaya Eshet)
• Faster prototypes with Just Objects Prototype (Manuel Naujoks)
• Let’s Build a Metric: Global and Local Scope (Erik Dietrich)
• Legacy Code to Testable Code #11: More Static Constructors (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS From Scratch With Swift: Exploring Tab Bar Controller and iOS From Scratch With Swift: Data Persistence and Sandboxing on iOS (Bart Jacobs)
• watchOS 2: Hello World Tutorial (iOS-Blog Admin Team)
• Swift 2 Core Data – Everything you need to know Part 1 (Nolan O’Brien)
• JetBrains CLion Adds Support for Swift on Linux and OS X (Sergio De Simone)
• Introduction to guard syntax and watchOS 2 Tutorial: Checking Reachability (yffaria)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Technical Debt isn’t Technical with Einar Høst (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 077 on Office Add-in commands in Excel/Word/PowerPoint—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutes – Data Visualization and D3.js with Irene Ros (Scott Hanselman)
• Webinar Recording: Building Native, Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with Xamarin 4 (Courtney Witmer)
• SSW TV – Mastering ReSharper | Dev SuperPowers Episode 18 (Sophie Belle)
• GoingNative 45: Incredi-builds with IncrediBuild — free in Visual Studio 2015! | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
• 073 AiA Angular 2 Beta Architecture (John Papa)
• 191 JSJ Stripe with Craig McKeachie (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Aimee Knight)
• The Changelog 188: 24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io with Andrew Nesbitt + Flynn with Jonathan Rudenberg (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Rocket 50: Vapors of Memory (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Developer on Fire Episode 076 | Troy Hunt and Developer on Fire Episode 077 | Daniel Marbach – Geeking Out (Dave Rael)
• SDU Show 65 with guest Jen Underwood (Greg Low)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 20 – Hackathons (Jeremy Thake & Sonya Koptyev)
• Tuesdays With Corey: Seasons Greetings and Until Next Year! | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• StarTalk Radio – Extended Classic: Holiday Lights (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Azure Podcast Episode 108 – Service Fabric Deep Dive (Sujit D’Mello)
• The Amp Hour #279 – Merry Keyzermas! (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)
• MS Dev Show – Easy Debugging using OzCode with Omer Raviv (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Top 10 Developer Videos in 2015 (MSDNTST)

 

Community / Events

• My Next Adventure (Eric Lawrence)
• History of Node.js on a Timeline (Gabor Nagy)
• Why Don’t You Contribute to Open Source? (Yegor Bugayenko)

 

Database

• Comparison of SQL Server Serializable and Snapshot isolation levels (Sergey Gigoyan)
• New DAX functions in SQL Server 2016 (Daniel Calbimonte)
• Who’s Really Doing Continuous Integration of SQL Server Databases? (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Getting to understand SQL Server Activity Monitor in SSMS and SQL SERVER – Script: Remove Spaces in Column Name in All Tables and Interview Question of the Week #051 – Actual Execution Plan vs. Estimated Execution Plan and Geometry Datatype – Line String Behavior Enhancements (Pinal Dave)
• JetBrains Releases DataGrip 1.0 for SQL DBAs and Developers (Abel Avram)

 

PowerShell

• Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 currently removed from Download Center (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Phone needs ‘spiritual equivalent’ to Surface, says Microsoft’s marketing head (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Microsoft accused of releasing ‘worst patch yet’ for Windows 10 (spoiler: it’s not true) (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft’s Developer Evangelism leader thinks Windows 10 app momentum will keep growing (John Callaham)
• Build 11088 tipped to be next Windows 10 Mobile build. May bring some new features. (KN)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 23, 2015 and Geek Reading December 24, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #200 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1611 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Your Happy Holiday #FridayFives! (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 21st – December 27th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1996 and The Morning Brew #1997 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Links #387 (Mike Ward)
• GameDev News – Short Week Ending December 23, 2015 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #72 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 23rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #82 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #52, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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