Month: January 2017

Top Links

• Try the Next Major Xamarin Release Candidate (Joseph Hill)
• .NET Rocks! – Rewriting Critical Code with Phil Haack (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SOLID Design Patterns | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Radio TFS – A New Year with Donovan Brown (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Managing Cookie Lifetime with ASP.NET Core OAuth 2.0 providers (Jerrie Pelser)
• Building An iTunes Player With Angular (Burke Holland)
• Printing from ASP.NET MVC (Dino Esposito)
• Random Numbers in CSS (Robin Rendle)
• Clean Code JavaScript (Sarah Drasner)
• Updating WilderBlog to ASPNETCore 1.1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Essential Angular: Testing (Victor Savkin)
• A Nicer Looking Angular 2 Loading Page (Michael Washington)
• OctoSearch – Cache and search Octopus Deploy variable sets (Naeem Khedarun)
• How to Find Azure Regions with Lowest Latency (Jon Gallant)
• Azure Media Services Live Monitoring Dashboard open-source release (Dwyane George)
• Google AMP Cache, AMP Lite, and the need for speed (Huibao Lin & Eyal Peled)
• Creating AWS Lambda Functions From Octopus Deployments (Joao Rosa)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Understanding ECMAScript 6 – $13.97 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Brackets 2017 Web Tools Survey (Rajnish Bharti)
• Fiddler for Linux Beta Is Here (Tsviatko Yovtchev)
• Azure Virtual Machine Internals – Part 1 (Yunus Mohammed)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Making Sense of Class Modifiers in C# and Visual Basic (Tim Patrick)
• Another way to detect whether binaries are digitally signed (using C#) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Implementing Missing Features in Entity Framework Core – Part 6: Lazy Loading (Ricardo Peres)
• vcpkg 3 Months Anniversary, Survey (Eric Mittelette)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Three Insights to Make Agile Development Work for You (Christina Lynch)
• iOS Communication Patterns Explained, Part III: Key-Value Observing (Peter Molnar)
• System Design Canvas (Derek Huether)
• Adding Static Analysis to Your Team’s DNA (Erik Dietrich)
• Update: Low Risk vs. High Risk (Jeremy Clark)
• Radical Candor is NOT Brutal Honesty (Kim Scott)
• Thoughts on Overusing Code Comments (Maciej Piekarski)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 5 Reasons .NET Devs Should Try Xamarin (Laura Rodriguez)
• Android Wear 2.0 is launching next month (Nick Statt)
• Your Unity Game on Amazon: Part 1 (Abdullah Hamed)
• Tips for Using Cards with Your Alexa Skill (David Isbitski)
• Making a Connection Between Unity 3D and Azure IoT Hub (Amanda Lange)
• Getting Started With a React Native App Template (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Yet Another Podcast #165 – Jon Galloway on Azure Functions (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Central Podcast 31: Dan and Zac talk CES (Zac Bowden)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 78: Conversion to SQL Server 2016 (Carlos Chacon Jr.)
• Connect(); 2016 for Mobile Developers | Xamarin Dev Days Live and The Xamarin Show 12: MVVM Helpers | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Any Team Member Can Take On The Scrum Master Role | Maaret Pyhäjärvi (Vasco Duarte)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Coolness of Visual Studio Azure Functions Tools! | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Defrag: New Year, New Defrag Show Episode! | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• SQL Server Radio – The Elephant in the Room (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)

 

Community / Events

• Update: 5 Ways to Make Extra Money From Your Event (Tamara Mendelsohn)
• Free Microsoft Tech Summit Events in 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Microsoft’s Jeannette Wing – Champion of Computational Thinking (Ed Price)
• DockerCon 2017 first speakers announced (Jenny Burcio)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses chat bots at the FinTech Ideas Festival (Michael Cottuli)
• Once An MVP, Always An MVP: We’re So Excited About MVP Reconnect! (MVP Award Program)
• Join us on Feb 8th for Windows Developer Day – Creators Update livestream (Windows Apps Team)

 

Database

• Creating High-Low-Open-Close Candlestick Charts with SQL Server Reporting Services (Rick Dobson)
• In-Memory OLTP: Using Memory-Optimized Tables to Replace SQL Server Temporary Tables (Simon Liew)
• SQL SERVER – Why Cluster Network is Unavailable in Failover Cluster Manager? (Pinal Dave)
• Do DDL Triggers in TempDB Survive Restarts? (Erik Darling)
• Azure SQL Database is increasing read and write performance (Jan Engelsberg)

 

PowerShell

• Gain access as delegated partner to another Office365 tenant with PowerShell (Toni Pohl)
• Using the PowerShell SQL Provider with SQL Authentication (Rob Sewell)
• Code Coverage now available for PowerShell Core! (James W. Truher)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Teams expected to pass Google Hangouts, Slack for enterprise chat (Arif Bacchus)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2261 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #279 (Pedro Botelho)

 

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