Day: June 30, 2015

Top Links

• Save the Date: Visual Studio 2015 RTM on July 20th (S.Somasegar)
• Release Dates and Compatibility: Visual Studio 2015 and the Windows 10 SDK (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Guide to Add Windows Phone to Xamarin.Forms 1.3+ Projects (James Montemagno)
• Early Access to ReSharper 9.2, ReSharper C++ 1.1, dotTrace 6.2 (Jura Gorohovsky)

 

Web Development

• AngularJS For Test-Driven Development: Open Assignment (Daniel Stern)
• 10 WebStorm Shortcuts You Need to Know (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Build an AngularJS App Powered by Python EVE: Part 2 (Jay Raj)
• Getting user-friendly routes with Aurelia in ASP.NET 5 and How to enable Unobtrusive Client Validation using JQuery in ASP.NET 5 and Enable Unobtrusive JQuery Validation on Hidden Input Fields in ASP.NET MVC (Radenko Zec)
• Secure Node Apps Against OWASP Top 10 – Cross Site Request Forgery (Scott K. Smith)
• WebAssembly – A new Hope (Roland Weigelt)
• Error with MS Edge F12 tools on Windows 10 10158 (Aaron Powell)
• Interoperable Web Development (David Voyles)
• NPM 3 Beta Brings Good News for Windows Users (James Chesters)
• Wrangling the Different Docker APIs (Alex Harford)
• Aurelia, Less2CSS and Bundling (Luke Page)
• Understanding HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) and preloading it into the browser (Troy Hunt)
• Day 57 of #100DaysOfSpec: 4.2.6 The style element (Melanie Richards)

 

XAML

• UWP: New features of Visual State Manager (part 2) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• How to add Microsoft Application Insights v1 to your Windows 8.1 Universal app (Marco Siccardi)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Simplifying the Liskov Substitution Principle of SOLID in C# (Dhananjay Kumar)
• What’s New in C# 6.0: Auto-Property Initializers (Joe Mayo)
• Parsing a string as a 64-bit integer, somehow (Raymond Chen)
• Defensive Programming Gone Too Far, Or Respecting Your Contracts (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to copy and share the execution details of Unit Test methods from the Test Explorer in Visual Studio ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Do What Works… Even If It’s Not Agile. (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Book Review: Managing Humans (Patrick Kua)
• Test-induced design damage or why TDD is so painful (Vladimir Khorikov)
• 3 Reasons to Sprint (David Starr)
• DDD, Events and Microservices (Jan Stenberg)
• Usability and User Experience: A Usable Explanation (Oleksandr Berchenko)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.Forms Android ActionBar Style Nugget (Adam J. Wolf)
• Finally Embracing Android Studio (Brandon Stecklein)
• iOS range slider for Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Coloring Android Apps with Palette (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• What’s New in Google Play services (James Montemagno)
• Some Useful Commands for Raspbian on Raspberry Pi and Persisting Data in Xamarin.Forms (Michael Crump)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – NuGet, Chocolatey, Boxstarter and Vagrant with Justin James (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Anti-Fragile and feedback. Trying to make up for the failures of “agile.” (Andy Hunt)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 022: Will Specialization Force Me to Travel? (John Sonmez)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 169 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Dime Casts.NET Episode #219: Brown Bag: Node.js – SSH to a mySQL Database (Dave Schinkel)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Joe Manganiello Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 71 “Gold Farmers” (John Sonmez, Josh Earl, Charles Max Wood & Derick Bailey)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – The fundamental ingredient for team survival | Daniel Nielsen (Vasco Duarte)
• Defrag Tools: #131 – Windows 10 SDK | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• The Married Gamers Episode 367: E3 2015 Wrapup (Chris Brown)
• Ping 246: Hoverboards, Xbox Gold, HoloLens in space | Ping! (Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• SQL Server Radio Show 24 – Virtualization, High Availability and Independent Consulting with David Klee (Matan Yungman)
• SSW TV – Interview with Julie Lerman: Entity Framework 7 (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• MVPs in the Americas Connect Communities to Microsoft Virtual Academy and Channel 9 (MVP Award Program)
• Livecoding.tv Is Twitch.tv For Coding (Christine Magee)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 Features in CTP2 and SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.1 has been released (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – Knowing the Source Application Using APP_NAME() Function (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• How to use WDS to PXE Boot a Nano Server VHD with PowerShell (Emin Atac)
• Use DSC to manage WMI namespace security (Steve Lee)

 

Miscellaneous

• Uber Acquires Part Of Bing’s Mapping Assets, Will Absorb Around 100 Microsoft Employees (Alex Wilhelm)
• An early look at Cortana integration with Office 365 (Office 365 Team)
• Windows RT will get updated around the time of Windows 10 release (Rich Edmonds)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 29, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1519 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1892 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-30 (Dan Rigby)
• Coding4Fun Second Quarter 2015 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)

 

The Geek Shelf