Tag: vs15

Top Links

• Visual Studio “15” Preview 4 (John Montgomery)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.2: video and code samples (Jura Gorohovsky)
• How do I call Cognitive Services from Azure Machine Learning? (Jennifer Marsman)
• The Lightweight Visual Studio “15” Installer (Adam Welch)

 

Web Development

• Building NuGet (.NET Core) using Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines (Maarten Balliauw)
• Building a WordPress-Powered Front End With the WP REST API and AngularJS: Building a Custom Directive for Post Listing (Bilal Shahid)
• Convert Text Cases Using jQuery (Learning jQuery)
• Test Amazon Alexa Skills Offline With Mocha And Chai For Node.js (Nic Raboy)
• Transcompiling F# to Javascript with Fable (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• Polymer, React and Angular using Visual studio 2015 (Subodh Nath Pushpak)
• Scale ASP.NET Core apps with Docker Swarm Mode (Victor Coisne)
• GitHub Pages now runs Jekyll 3.2 (Ben Balter)
• Use cloud load agents on your infrastructure and Testing private/intranet applications using Cloud-based load testing (Deepak Singhal)
• Back to School: Learn Fundamentals of Web Development with Thinkful (Carol S.)
• Modernizing OAuth interactions in Native Apps for Better Usability and Security (William Denniss)
• Using the Postman Chrome App? Implications from the Recent Google Announcement (Kasey)

 

XAML

• Beautiful apps made possible and easy with Windows.UI (Michael Crump)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Writing Better Tests Than Humans Can Part 1: FsCheck Property Tests in C# (Aaron Stannard)
• Work items now open in the web from Visual Studio ’15’ (Dante Santos)
• User Lifecycle Management Improvements in Visual Studio Team Services (Shantaram P)
• Lot’s O’ Languages – Visual Studio Language Pack (Greg Duncan)
• Tuple deconstruction in C# 7 (Thomas Levesque)
• Extensions for TFS and Team Services on the marketplace (Willy-P. Schaub)
• The path towards better documentation (NuGet Team)
• Adventures in application compatibility: The bogus memory calculation (Raymond Chen)
• Reduce Trips to the Database Service with EF.E’s Future Queries (Peter Vogel)
• Refactoring Production Code With Experiments and Scientist.NET (Jason Roberts)
• Range-v3 on MSVC is Available on GitHub (Eric Mittelette)
• Review: NCache by Alachisoft (Kevin Griffin)
• Waiting for .NET Core Tooling (Rockford Lhotka)
• CodeRush for Roslyn: The Fastest .Net Test Runner (Rory Becker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Three odd attitudes towards database unit testing that make me angry (Alex Yates)
• Survey on the Need for an Agile Manifesto 2.0 (Ben Linders)
• How to Sabotage Estimates (Dave M. Bush)
• Part 5. Use your own Build and Deployment Agent (Abbie Petchtes)
• Becoming more productive with Git: Tower and Team Services (Tobias Günther)
• Engineering Trade-Offs and The Netflix API Re-Architecture (Daniel Jacobson)
• Git on Windows: Whence Cometh Configuration (Derek Greer)
• You’re Doing It Wrong: Retrospectives (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Publish Your Project Documentation with GitHub Pages (Allen Smith)
• Psychic Weight – Dealing with the things that press on your mind (Scott Hanselman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cordova Android 5.2.2 & Cordova iOS 4.2.1 Released! (Steve Gill)
• Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat (Dave Burke)
• Android 7.0 Nougat brings more sweetness and security to work (Jane Smith)
• Text to Me in 5 Minutes – with Xamarin Plugins (Jesse Liberty)
• Designing, Wireframing & Prototyping an Android App: Part 2 (Jessica Thornsby)
• Should You Use Angular 2 in Your NativeScript App? (TJ VanToll)
• Amazon’s Smart Home Skills API (April Hamilton)
• #Hololens – Device Portal basic features for developers (Bruno Capuano)
• Creating a Serverless Backend for Mobile Apps (James Montemagno)
• Unity Ads Platform Update: Integration Tutorials (Rick Armstrong)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Akka.NET 1.1 with Aaron Stannard and .NET Rocks! – Angular 2 CLI with Joseph Woodward (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• AFH 044: Agile Thinking with Don Gray [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• Getting Started with CSS Transitions (keantonc & Rosshe)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 73: Mario Cardinal (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 143 | Office 365 in Education with Alex Pearce (Andrew Connell)
• The week in .NET – 8/23/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 102 – Six Months of Coding (Aurelian Sennett) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Merge Conflict 7: Is Code Sharing Worth It? (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Functional Geekery Episode 63 – Yan Cui (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – VM and Cloud Management with Jon Mittelhauser (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Using Value Stream Mapping For Continuous Improvement | ChefConf 2016 (Joe-Breslin)
• Revision Path 154: Fredric Mitchell (Maurice Cherry)
• StarTalk Radio – Searching for Space Water, with Natalie Starkey – StarTalk All-Stars (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• The Maker Show: Azure IoT Starter Kits | The Maker Show (Nick Landry & Jeremy Foster)
• Developer Tea – 3 Concrete Ways to Be a Better Co-worker and Developer Tea – Digging Up Your Job Description (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Xamarin Podcast – Identity Management in Mobile Apps (Pierce Boggan & Mike James)
• Delivering Products at Velocity | ChefConf 2016 and Linux Management with Operations Management Suite (OMS) and Erica Wu on the Bot Framework and Cognitive Services (Seth Juarez)

 

Community / Events

• Computers Are For Girls, Too (Bill Gates)
• 16+ Excellent Events This Week in Philly, August 22-28 (Amy Gordon)
• Announcing the “App Dev on Xbox” live event (Michael Crump)
• .NET DeveloperDays 2016 are coming (Michał Komorowski)
• Women in Technology: Meet Booz Allen’s Angie Messer (Sherry Lowe)

Database

• SQL Server Agent Job Advanced Management (Jeffrey Yao)
• Releasing SSDT with Visual Studio “15” Preview 4 and introducing SSDT MSBuild NuGet package (Abbie Petchtes)
• SQL Server images on Google Compute Engine (Amruta Gulanikar)
• Query Timeout of the Distribution Agent in SQL Server Transactional Replication (Guy Glantser)
• SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘upgrade_ucp_cmdw.sql’ (Pinal Dave)
• Database Building 101: High level graph operations and Database Building 101: Stable node ids (Oren Eini)
• Proposed Marten Tooling for Database Management (Jeremy D. Miller)
• ebook deal of the week: T-SQL Fundamentals, Third Edition (Kim Spilker)
• Copying Documents Between Buckets in Couchbase (Matthew Groves)

 

PowerShell

• Enabling Intellisense for PowerShell cmdlets in VSCode on Mac OS X (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Why “Objects,” Remoting, and Consistency are Such a Big Deal in PowerShell (Don Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• Lenovo will pre-load Microsoft apps like Office, Skype and OneDrive on select Android devices (John Callaham)
• How Star Wars Helps Explain Civil Rights (Bill Gates)
• HP Elite x3 with Desk Dock pre-orders begin at Microsoft Store U.S. and Canada (John Callaham)
• VS Code – Goodbye User Voice (Wade Anderson)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2163 and The Morning Brew #2164 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1724 and Double Shot #1725 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Last Week on Channel 9: August 15th – August 21st, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• Top Ten Most Popular Developer Links for the Week of August 15th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Azure Weekly: August 22, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-23 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-24 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-24 (Dan Rigby)
• Amazon Developer Blog – Week in Review August 15th (Peter Heinrich)

 

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