Day: June 8, 2016

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 RC (John Montgomery)
• Visual Studio TACO Update 10 (Linda Zhong)
• Announcing a new .NET and ASP.NET Core Bug Bounty (Barry Dorrans)
• dotnetConf is back! Free live streaming developer event – June 7th-9th 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

Web Development

• Dotnet EF Migrations for ASP.NET Core (Ben Cull)
• The JavaScript Execution Stack: The Key to Learning the Language (Erik Grueter)
• Using External Tools in PhpStorm (Gary Hockin)
• You don’t need JavaScript for that! (Isaac Haynes)
• Creating a Content Validation Bot for GitHub and Intro to Azure Notification Hubs (Den Delimarsky)
• Getting Started With Angular 2.0 RC1 (Matt Raible)
• Publishing and Running ASP.NET Core Applications with IIS (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET MVC edit collection of items (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to integrate Node.JS/React App with Xero (shazzad)
• AppBuilder CLI Deprecating Support for Node.js 0.10 (Todor Totev)
• Using PHP CodeSniffer With WordPress: Understanding Code Smells (Tom McFarlin)
• Learning redux with reducks – intro (Aaron Powell)
• Apache Spark 2.0 Technical Preview (Kay Ewbank)
• Run Multiple Find & Replace Commands in Sublime Text (Chris Coyier)
• Cloud War: Microsoft vs Amazon – Feature 2 Feature Comparisons (Chris Pietschmann)
• Simplify your controllers with the Command Pattern and MediatR (Jon Hilton)
• Managing Microsoft Edge in the enterprise (Dalen Abraham, Jatinder Mann & Josh Rennert)
• Azure Media Services is now available in the new Azure portal (Mingfei Yan)
• Creating a TestComplete JScript Framework with TypeScript (Noel Rice)
• What Twilio’s IPO Filing Means for the API Economy (Patricio Robles)
• Getting started with Web Components building a Video Chat widget (Phil Nash)

 

XAML

• Windows App Studio June ’16 Release: Harnessing the wealth of the web with the new REST API Data Source (Windows App Studio)
• Understanding Prism – Part 1 – Conventions and Understanding Prism – Part 2 – Regions (Rohit Sharma)
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update Preview–Background Tasks and Windows 10 Anniversary Update Preview–Composition and the CompositionBackdropBrush and Windows 10 Anniversary Update Preview–Composition and Implicit Animations (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.2 EAP: Build 2 (Dmitry Matveev)
• Implementing Soundex using LINQ (with help from OzCode) (Dror Helper)
• How to manage AllJoyn devices in C#: LIFX Color 1000 Example (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Implementing Updates Without Query (Peter Vogel)
• Running .NET Core on Docker (Jurgis Pasukonis)
• Standards version switches in the compiler and Expression SFINAE improvements in VS 2015 Update 3 and Compiler improvements in VS 2015 Update 3 RC (Andrew Pardoe)
• Team Services Update – June 1 and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 RC is available (Brian Harry)
• Announcing Scripty – An alternative to T4 for compile-time code generation using the power of Roslyn scripting (Dave Glick)
• Mole is back and now free! (Greg Duncan)
• Visual C++ for Linux Updates (Marc Goodner)
• Entity Framework Code First – Where is my database (Morten Anderson)
• CodeRush for Roslyn: The References Toolwindow (Rory Becker)
• Background activity with the Single Process Model (Windows Apps Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introducing Structurizr Express (Simon Brown)
• Who facilitates the agile retrospective? (Ben Linders)
• Agile Economics: Scale 3D (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Moving to Agile Contracts (Johanna Rothman)
• Visual Studio and .NET’s Unit Test Framework (Vidya Vrat Agarwal)
• How To Identify When It’s Time For A New Workflow, According To Science (Aja Frost)
• The Case for and Against Estimates, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Understanding Gradle, the Android Build System (Vipul Patel)
• 4 Xamarin Misconceptions Debunked (aka What Even Is Xamarin) (Lee Richardson)
• Windows Bridge for iOS: Project updates, new features, and new samples (Nick Gerard)
• Top 3 Considerations when Choosing an IoT Platform Provider (Jason Young)
• How to Read All Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass Data from the GY801, GY80 aka 9-Axis Inertial Navigation Module for Arduino aka IMU 10DOF L3G4200D+ADXL345+HMC5883L+BMP180 (Jon Gallant)
• Making a Raspberry Pi-Based Amateur Radio WSPR Go-Kit (Kevin Hooke)
• Serialization, MonoBehaviour constructors and Unity 5.4 (Lukasz Paczkowski)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Continuum with Liz Threlkeld (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• .NET Rocks! – Continuous Delivery 3.0 with Marcel de Vries and Rene van Osnabrugge and .NET Rocks! – Window Container Service with Els Putzeys (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video – TypeScript: Angular 2’s Secret Weapon (Dan Wahlin)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 48 – podcast – Agile Coffee (Vic Bonacci)
• AFH 037: Cost of Delay with Johanna Rothman [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 120 “Crabs In A Bucket” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Chuck Lorre and Mayim Bialik (Chris Hardwick)
• AAWP Insight #182: future of apps, and more (Rafe Blandford)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 132 | Listener Question, Azure and Google News, New Azure Regions, Renamed Azure Services and More (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The Married Gamers Episode 390: With Love (Chris Brown)
• Functional Geekery Episode 54 – Edwin Brady (Steven Proctor)
• Keynote | //build Canada: LIVE from Toronto (Giorgio Sardo, Larry Lieberman, Pete Brown & Shen Chauhan)
• Episode 18: Xbox Dev Kit Mode | Level Up (Golnaz, Kaitlin McKinnon & Katie Stone Perez)
• TWC9: From the BuildTour in India | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Petri Wilhelmsen & Nikola Metulev)
• RunAs Radio – Getting into Machine Learning with Buck Woody (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• CodeChat 062 – Paul from Octopus Deploy | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Welcome to //build Canada | //build Canada: LIVE from Toronto (Mary-Ellen Anderson)
• Video course: Continuous Delivery with the Windows Stack (Brian Harry)
• Talk Python to Me #62 – San Diego Technology Immersion Group Learns Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Migrating from Service Manager to Azure Resource Manager | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Azure Data Factory – Monitoring and Managing Big Data Piplines (Scott Hanselman)
• SE-Radio Episode 259: John Purrier on OpenStack (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Great Developer Mindset: Redefining Complete and Developer Tea – Answering Listener Questions: Jean Michel asks about avoiding bike shedding (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – Don’t Be A Stereotype, Rapid Prototype – Session Recording (Ed Charbeneau)

 

Community / Events

• Live Webinar: Create Native iOS and Android Apps with Visual Studio and Xamarin (Courtney Witmer)
• RSVP for the Xamarin + Microsoft WWDC 2016 Party (Joseph Hill)
• Webinar: Docker for PHP Developers (Anna Lebedeva)
• New Adventure… (Betsy Weber)
• Free Power BI Webinar 6/14: Going Hardcore on your Business Intelligence with Power BI Webinar by Adam Cogan (Charles Sterling)
• Celebrate Pride with GitHub (Dustin Knievel)
• Announcing Rust Doc Days (Jeremiah Peschka)
• The Advantages of Having Audiovisual in the House (Kalahari Meetings)
• Community Superheroes in Canada! (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Custom Solution to Measure SQL Server Query Performance Improvements (Fikrat Azizov)
• SQL SERVER – How Much Free Space I Have in My Database? and SQL SERVER – System Objects Not Visible in SQL Server Management Studio (Pinal Dave)
• Azure SQL Database query performance improvements for newly created databases (Guy Haycock)
• Introducing user account licensing (Roger Hart)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft expands its commitment to Apache Spark big-data framework and Microsoft starts rolling out Office 365 Planner (Mary Jo Foley)
• How to switch from LastPass to 1Password using Windows (Cale Hunt)
• Python lambda expressions unleashed (Carl Kadie)
• Slack voice calling exits beta, now rolling out to everyone (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Microsoft announces the first wave of features for this summer’s Xbox One updates (Jez Corden)
• New Content, Cortana Integration and More Coming in the Xbox Summer Update (Mollie Ruiz-Hopper)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-06-08 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2108 and The Morning Brew #2109 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading June 6, 2016 #1121 and Geek Reading June 7, 2016 #1122 (Robert Diana)
• Weekly Ink – 6/6/16 (Shayne Boyer)
• Reading Notes #235 (Frank Boucher)
• Interesting links of the week (5/30 – 6/5) (Mike Eaton)
• The week in .NET – 06/07/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 6th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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