Month: July 2016

Top Links

• .NET Core Roadmap (Immo Landwerth)
• Exploring dotnet new with .NET Core (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14390 for PC and Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• TWC9: Windows 10 Anniversary, LattePanda, HoloHacks, Apollo 11 guidance computer code and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)

 

Web Development

• The Best Advice You’ll Get on ASP.NET MVC Routing (Peter Vogel)
• Loading View Components from a Class Library in ASP.NET Core MVC (Dave Paquette)
• Announcing WebApiContrib for ASP.NET Core (Filip W.)
• KendoUI Grid Excel Export Automatic DateTime Formatting (Rachel Hagerman)
• Writing simple REST-client for Azure Search and Azure Search Suggesters: Helping users to find search keywords (Gunnar Peipman)
• Rich botframework conversation cards (Robin Osborne)
• Migrating Azure IaaS solutions from ASM to ARM using MigAz (Tom Hollander)

 

XAML

• Changes to XAML-Composition Interop (Robert Mikhayelyan)
• Windows Bridge for iOS: UIKit, meet XAML. XAML, meet UIKit. (Adam Denning)
• Windows 8.1, WPF, Kinect for Windows V2 and (Not Quite) Skeletal Fingerprints and Windows 10 Anniversary Update 14388, UWP, Visual Layer–Offsets on Preview SDK 14388 and Windows 10 Anniversary Update Preview, Visual Layer–Mocking Up the Lock Screen (Mike Taulty)
• Using the MVVM Light ObservableRecylerAdapter with the Xamarin.Android RecylerView (Richard Woollcott)
• Desktop App Converter Preview (Project Centennial) (MS Downloads)
• Open sourcing the UWP Tile Generator VSIX (Shen Chauhan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Resize Image In C# (Manoj Kalla)
• Warden stack (Piotr Gankiewicz)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Third Wave of Agile (Charlie Rudd)
• The 3 Things Scrum Teams Get Wrong (Robert Pieper)
• Meat Loaf’s Radical Candor (Elisse Lockhart)
• Speed up cloud-load test execution by retaining resources for quick consecutive runs (Prachi Bora)
• Release Management Workflow Migrator v1 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Object Composition with SOLID (Yacoub Massad)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin iOS Autolayout Cheat Sheet (Kevin Ford)
• A Beginner’s Guide To Using ngrx In An Ionic 2 App – Part 2 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• An Introduction to NativeScript (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Paul Dini (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 211: Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 97 – From Theater Technician to Programmer (Ashley Lewis) (CodeNewbie Team)
• StarTalk Radio – Unveiling Pluto, with Alan Stern and Neil deGrasse Tyson (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Radio TFS – Chatting with Richard Fennell (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• GoingNative 51: Updates with the Visual C++ Linux Extension | C9::GoingNative (Steve Carroll & Augustin Popa)
• Azure Podcast Episode 135 – Live from London – Q&A with Russell Young (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Don’t pass up on the chance to join us at PASS Summit (Annabel Bradford)
• Contest: Add an Azure Backend to Your Mobile App (Jayme Singleton)
• Round 4 of Europe for 2016: More talks, more workshops (Troy Hunt)

Database

• Troubleshooting Distributed Transaction Performance Problems in SQL Server (Ahmad Yaseen)
• Ensure SSRS feature compatibility across multiple SQL Server versions (Rahul Mehta)
• SQL SERVER – Query to Get CPU Usage History for SQL Server and Operating System and How to Change Fill Factor in SQL Server – Interview Question of the Week #080 and SQL SERVER – Identifying If Database Supports InMemory OLTP Functionality (Pinal Dave)
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: What the disk can do for you (Oren Eini)
• 5 Steps to Avoid Database Pitfalls (Barbara Ware)
• T-SQL Insert Into Table Examples (Mandar Mulay)
• Using SQL Compare with Dynamic Data Masking (Steve Jones)

 

PowerShell

• Dropbox PowerShell Provider (Jim Christopher)
• Powershell: How to recursively delete files based of file extension? (Kevin Griffin)
• Poll: Favorite PowerShell Editor (Trevor Sullivan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Researchers Develop AI to Tackle Minecraft Mazes (Adi Gaskell)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 17, 2016 #1150 (Robert Diana)
• Say “hello” to the weekend: #FridayFive! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #241 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #229 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1706 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #2137 (Chris Alcock)
• Azure Weekly: July 18, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Last Week on Channel 9: July 11th – July 17th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• My UWP Link List (Roland Weigelt)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-07-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-07-18 (Dan Rigby)
• GameDev News – Week Ending July 15, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 15th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #111 (Jakub Chodounsky)

 

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