Month: May 2017

Top Links

• Exclusive: Behind Fluent Design, Microsoft’s Vision For The Future Of Interfaces (Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan)
• All Things Mobile at Microsoft Build (Nat Friedman)
• Managing dotnet Core 2.0 and dotnet Core 1.x versioned SDKs on the same machine (Scott Hanselman)
• Build 2017: Sparking the next wave of creativity with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Terry Myerson)
• Windows Mixed Reality Dev Kits available for pre-order (Windows Apps Team)
• Windows is home for developers with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Kevin Gallo)

Web Development

• Speed Up Your ASP.NET MVC Application with Doughnut Hole Caching (Peter Vogel)
• Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: Hypermedia (Derek Comartin)
• What ASP.NET Core May Bring to the .NET Framework’s String Handling (Jonathan Allen)
• The Many Faces of Functions in JavaScript (Leo Balter)
• ASP.NET Core 2.0 – Thinking about the future (Matthew Abbott)
• Getting started with ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 (Steve Gordon)
• Solr v2 API – Quick Look (Rafal Kuc)
• Bot Framework at Microsoft Build 2017 (Bot Framework Team)
• Microsoft LUIS with Botkit Studio (Bot Framework & Cognitive Services Teams)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xuni to ComponentOne Xamarin Edition Migration Guide (Kelley Ricker)
• Google Analytics for Xamarin (Adam Pedley)
• Pre-release: Xamarin.Forms 2.3.5.239-pre3 (David Ortinau)
• Microsoft Announces Xamarin Live Player Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Xamarin Alpha Release: 15.3 Preview 1 (Bri Brothers)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 16190 Released (Clint Rutkas)

Visual Studio & .NET

• What’s New in C# 7.0 Article in Code Magazine (Chris G. Williams)
• More Platforms, More Choices, More Power: Visual Studio Mobile Center at Build (Keith Ballinger)
• Working with TODO items in Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• #VS2017 – #VisualStudio2017 will automatically refresh a project, if you add / copy files using the #FileSystem (Bruno Capuano)
• Never-Ending Audio Streams in NAudio (Mark Heath)
• Error Handling in Large .NET Projects – Best Practices (Damir Arh)
• Cimbalino Toolkit 2.5.0 (Pedro Lamas)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Agile and the Theory of Constraints: Part 4–The Inner Loop (Eric Gunnerson)
• Team Services Update – May 11, 2017 (Brian Harry)
• Package Management: Maven Public Preview (Calvin Jones)
• Are Code Rules Meant to Be Broken? (Erik Dietrich)
• 8 Teamwork Myths To Tackle At Your Office (Leah Ryder)
• Announcing public preview of the new Deployment Groups in Release Management (Roopesh Nair)

Mobile & IoT

• Ionic and Lazy Loading Pt 2 (Mike Hartington)
• Windows 10 IoT is ready for Microsoft Build 2017 (Rushmi Malaviarachchi)
• Windows Mixed Reality minimum PC requirements (Cale Hunt)
• Get Started with Azure IoT Technical Training for Developers (Chris Pietschmann)
• How to get started with HoloLens development (Chris Walden)
• Using IoT Sensors to Up Your Game (Patty Ryan, Hang Zhang & Mustafa Kasap)
• New tools for understanding user behavior with Application Insights (David Stephens)
• Progress NativeScript UI 2.0 is Live with Support for NativeScript 3.0 (Deyan Ginev)
• Send and Receive SMS messages with Kotlin (Marcos Placona)
• I updated my app to 3.0 and so can you! (Jen Looper)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Hanselminutes – RavenDB, the open source NoSQL Database for .NET with Adi Avivi (Scott Hanselman)
• CodingBlocks.NET Episode 59 – How to Jumpstart Your Next App (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Microsoft Announces Windows Template Studio (Michael Crump)
• Create a SQL Database from Azure CLI 2.0 (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)

Community / Events

• A Developer’s Perspective on Microsoft’s //BUILD Announcements (Sam Basu)
• AI Announcements at the Build Day 1 keynote (Jennifer Marsman)
• Announcing Alexa Skills Workshops Powered by Coding Dojo (Marion Desmazieres)
• Bot Framework open office hours at the Reactor – May 25th (Dave Voyles)

Database

• Data Modeling NoSQL Documents in MongoDB vs Couchbase Server (Nic Raboy)
• SQL SERVER – Error Installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Pinal Dave)
• Using SQL Server 2016 for a DSC Pull Server (Raimund Andrée)
• Beginning the RavenDB 4.0 book (Oren Eini)
• Azure SQL Database now supports transparent geographic failover of database groups (Alexander (Sasha) Nosov)
• SQL Backup Pro – why we’re going backwards to let our customers go forwards (David Connell)

SharePoint

• Calling an Azure Function from a SharePoint Framework web part (SPFx) – part 2: calling from SPFx and passing data (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft reveals new Windows 10 features coming in fall update and New Files On-Demand feature brings OneDrive placeholders back to Windows 10 (Ed Bott)
• Tesla begins taking orders for its Solar Roof (Matt McFarland)
• Windows 10 Insider build 16193 ISO files now available for download and Windows Server is now a part of the Windows Insider program (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16193 for PC + Build 15213 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• Is Your Favorite Open Source Technology in Growth or Decline? (Kaitlin Pike)
• Introducing OneDrive Files On-Demand and other features making it easy to access files (OneDrive Team)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-05-12 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-05-12 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2339 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1844 and Double Shot #1845 (Mike Gunderloy)

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