Top Links
- Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC (John Montgomery)
- .NET Framework Compatibility Diagnostics (Taylor Southwick)
- How to Build and Design iOS Video Chat Apps Using Swift (Brent Schooley)
- Creating NativeScript Plugins in TypeScript (Nathan Walker)
Web Development
- Logging Error Streams To The Server In Angular 2 Beta 6 and I Have A Fundamental Misunderstanding Of Change Detection In Angular 2 Beta 8 and Constructor vs. Property QueryList Injection In Angular 2 Beta 8 and How Injection Method Affects ViewChild Queries In Angular 2 Beta 8 and Providing Default Values For The Safe Navigation Operator In Angular 2 Beta 8 (Ben Nadel)
- Avoiding the Service Locator Pattern in ASP.NET Core (K. Scott Allen)
- Online Article: Handling Exceptions Returned from the Web API (Paul D. Sheriff)
- Why Responsive Web Design? (Chris Love)
- Calling Localhost Web APIs from Visual Studio 2015 Android Emulator (Brian Noyes)
- JavaScript Objects — What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You (Dave M. Bush)
- How to Create a Custom Action Filter in ASP.NET MVC and How to Implement the Repository Pattern in ASP.NET MVC Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Maker.JS – CAD modeling in pure JavaScript (Doug Mahugh)
- Announcing ASP.NET WebHooks Release Candidate 1 (Henrik F. Nielsen)
- Subresource Integrity TagHelper Using ASP.NET Core (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
- Flexing your HTML Layout Muscles with Flexbox (Rick Strahl)
- Define a Class in Multiple Files in Node.js (Shaun Xu)
- Introduction to ASP.NET Core 1.0 video (Simone Chiaretta)
- ngOfficeUIFabric – How We Do It – Keeping a Clean Commit Log and ngOfficeUIFabric – How We Do It – Handling Pull Requests (Andrew Connell)
- Open Source Azure Certification Practice Tests and Which Azure Portal do I use? and Cloud Platform University Online – Free Azure Training (Chris Pietschmann)
- Using HTTPS Properly (Eric Lawrence)
XAML
- Welcome to WPF Tips (Me)
- Announcing FreshMvvm 1.0.1 Release (Michael Ridland)
- Connect your Windows app to Azure IoT Hub with Visual Studio (Artur Laksberg)
- Epic Games CEO Finally Notices That UWP Apps Are A Walled Garden (Mike James)
- Using FontAwesome in UWP apps (Robert Muehsig)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Rate limiting fun (Oren Eini)
- Ungrouping Page Numbers (Richard Carr)
- Avoid code warnings being missed or ignored : Treating Warnings as Errors in Visual Studio and “Execute in Interactive”– Send to C# Interactive Window – Visual Studio 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
- TFS 2015 RC2 and VS 2015 Update 2 RC are available (Brian Harry)
- Marketplace Search now available for Visual Studio (Harysh Menon)
- Use async keyword only when required (Miha Markic)
- A Visual Studio script that saves time and pain (Patrick Smacchia)
- Access Modifiers in C# (Abhi Jain)
- Entity Framework Pitfalls: Entity Refresh and Changes to Postal.NET (Ricardo Peres)
- Parsing XML Schemas in .NET (Robert Muehsig)
- Microsoft.Composition (Portable MEF): Scoping (Bnaya Eshet)
- CodeRush for Roslyn 1.0.9 (preview) is Available and CodeRush for Roslyn Update – 1.0.10 (Mark Miller)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Unit testing exceptions and error handlers (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Waving the Agile Flag? (Johanna Rothman)
- Scrum with Trello (Robin Warren)
- The Agile Developer’s Guide to Getting Started with Home Brewing (Shawn Rakowski)
- VeST Redux – Semantic persistence (Sebastien Lambla)
- Using Travis CI for GitHub Pages builds (Robert Muehsig)
- Better exploratory testing, test results for release environments, squash merge, and more – Mar 3 (Aaron Bjork)
- Leadership Fit for the 21st Century: Intent-based Leadership (Ben Linders)
- How to use GitHub like a Pro (DevToolsGuy)
- It’s OK not to lead and A Manager’s Guide to Legacy Code (Erik Dietrich)
- Successful Programmer Mindset: Don’t Be F***** Lazy! (John Sonmez)
- TestComplete TypeScript? (Noel Rice)
- Issue references and @mentions for GitHub Desktop (Paul Nakata)
- Management by Letting Go (Wes Higbee)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Understanding the Android Platform Architecture (Joydip Kanjilal)
- Working with Android View Animation in Apps (Vipul Patel)
- Applying Styles for Xamarin Forms control in Android from XML File. (Arun Kumar)
- Instagram for Windows 10 Mobile reportedly revealed as iOS port (John Callaham)
- Mobile Project vs. Mobile Product (Russ Miller)
- #IoT – Novedades en #Raspberry Pi 3 (Bruno Capuano)
- 3D Scan, Kinect and Windows 10 (Greg Duncan)
- HoloLens Surface Reconstruction XEF File Format (James Ashley)
- Personalized Experiences with Azure Mobile Apps Authentication (James Montemagno)
- Band 2 SDK Update–Tile notifications in the background (Mike Taulty)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Episode 087 with Todd Baginski on the Property Manager hero demo updates—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake)
- Azure Podcast Episode 117 – Migrating SharePoint to Azure (Sujit D’Mello)
- MS Dev Show – C# Language and Future with Mads Torgersen (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
- Yet Another Podcast #148 – Ted Neward on Xamarin and MSFT (Jesse Liberty)
- The Changelog 197: The Future of WordPress and Calypso with Matt Mullenweg (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- 082 AiA Getting Started with Angular 2 With No Angular 1 Experience with Shayne Boyer (John Papa)
- CodeNewbie Ep. 78 – Hardware Newbie (Emily Xie) (CodeNewbie Team)
- Developer on Fire Episode 106 | Gary Stonerock – Finding the Underlying Problem and Developer on Fire Episode 107 | Pamela Gay – Joy of Science (Dave Rael)
- SQLIntersection Spring 2016 CountDown Show with Kimberly Tripp | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Golnaz Alibeigi)
- SQL Server Radio Show 42 – Database Testing and Continuous Integration with Steve Jones (Matan Yungman, Guy Glantser & Steve Jones)
- The Maker Show: Episode 5 – Installing Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi 2 | The Maker Show (Nick Landry & Kenny Spade)
- RadioTFS – Flying with Copilot Tarun Arora (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
- 68 – Forgetful Jif Leap | Patch And Switch (RicksterCDN, Joey Snow & Jared S.)
- Rocket 60: Full Disclosure (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
- Developer Tea – Part Two: Interview With Kenneth Reitz (@kennethreitz) and Developer Tea – Part One: Interview with Rachel Smith (Jonathan Cutrell)
- StarTalk Radio – Gazing into the Future with Ray Kurzweil (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
- The Amp Hour #289 – Documentation Is A Waste Of Time (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)
- New features of System Center Configuration Manager (Microsoft Mechanics)
Community / Events
- Announcing: RavenConf 2016 (Oren Eini)
- Hello World Road Trip – So Far (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Xamarin Evolve 2016 Speaker Spotlight: Lori Lalonde (Joseph Hill)
- Weekly Challenge: Volunteering in the Community (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
- Microsoft Regional Director (Troy Hunt)
Database
- Test Performance Overhead of SQL Server Row Level Security (Ben Snaidero)
- Microsoft readies near-final SQL Server 2016 release candidate (Mary Jo Foley)
- SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Mobile Report (Scott Murray)
- Setting a fixed amount of memory for SQL Server (Sergey Gigoyan)
- SQL SERVER – Management Studio – Changing Status Bar location (Pinal Dave)
- Scalable Big Data Architecture (Ian Stirk)
- How to Grant Permissions Only on the Replica in Database Mirroring and AlwaysOn AG (Matan Yungman)
- T-SQL : UPDATE & INSERT in a single SQL statement to prevent locking/duplication issues. (Sid Patel)
SharePoint
PowerShell
- 4 Convenient Ways To Run PowerShell Scripts (Tim Smith)
- PowerShell: Adding Windows Version to Desktop (Andrew James)
Miscellaneous
- PIN number analysis (Nick Berry)
- Early Access Book: Learn to Program with Small Basic (Ed Price)
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14279 (Gabe Aul)
- We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else (Jeff Atwood)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading March 3, 2016 #1055 and Geek Reading March 4, 2016 #1056 (Robert Diana)
- Collective #209 (Pedro Botelho)
- Double Shot #1652 and Double Shot #1653 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Last Week on Channel 9: February 29th – March 6th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
- Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
- The Morning Brew #2045 and The Morning Brew #2046 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2016-03-04 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-03-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-03-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-03-07 (Dan Rigby)
- Weekly Xamarin Newsletter #82 (Adam J. Wolf)
- GameDev News – Week Ending March 4, 2016 (Brian Peek)
- Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Mar 3rd, 2016 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Mar 4th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
- Weekly C# Digest Issue #92 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- F# Weekly #10, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)
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