A Connect(); packed edition, full of fresh Microsoft updates and new releases.
Top Links (aka – Some of the biggest Connect(); news)
- ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core RC1 in context (Plus all the Connect 2015 News) (Scott Hanselman)
- Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10586 (Gabe Aul)
- Announcing ASP.NET 5 Release Candidate 1 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
- Announcing .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 RC (Rich Lander)
- Introducing ASP.NET 5 and Web Tooling (Scott Hunter)
- Xamarin and Microsoft Create the New Standard for Enterprise Mobility (Joseph Hill)
- Announcing easy to use browser-based exploratory testing for Visual Studio Team Services and Announcing Public Preview of Visual Studio Marketplace (Charles Sterling)
- Announcing Visual Studio Code Beta (Sean McBreen)
- Entity Framework 7 RC1 Available (Rowan Miller)
- Glimpse v2 Beta1 Released! (Nik Molnar)
- News from Connect(); 2015 (Brian Harry)
- Today at Connect()—introducing the Microsoft Graph (Rob Lefferts)
Web Development
- Angular Meteor 1.2.0 Released (James Chesters)
- ASP.NET 5 Overview for Apex Systems (Shahed C)
- Node.js Tools 1.1 for Visual Studio Released (Sara Itani & Arunesh Chandra)
- Announcing the Azure SDK 2.8 for .NET (Brady Gaster)
- A New UI for Docker? Visualizing Container Management with Minecraft (Gaetan de Villele)
- Monitor the Heartbeat of Your Software with Raygun Pulse (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
- Node v5.1.0 (Stable) (Jeremiah Senkpiel)
- Protecting Microsoft Edge against binary injection (Crispin Cowan)
- Upgrading ASP.NET 5 Beta 8 to RC1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
XAML
- Massive set of WPF Samples and Community Projects too (Greg Duncan)
- WPF ItemsControl – Advanced (Kent Boogaart)
- How to use the Clipboard on Windows Phone 8.1 apps (Rudy Huyn)
- #UWP Tips: C# code to change #Windows 10 Lock Screen image (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Vungle SDK for Windows 10 Released (Windows Apps Team)
Miscellaneous .NET
- The hidden costs of allocations (Oren Eini)
- Visual Studio Team Services Extensions from the Rangers (Anisha Pindoria)
- Subversion integration with Visual Studio Team Services (Jeff Young)
- Announcing the new Release Management service in Visual Studio Team Services (Vijay M)
- Visual Studio subscription benefits just got better (Whitney Larsen)
- Release of Hummingbird – distribution list converter (Den Delimarsky)
- Building a Code Analyzer for the Roslyn Analyzer Project (Josh Varty)
- Announcing the VS GDB Debugger extension (Marc Goodner)
- Release of MBrace 1.0, a Distributed Programming Framework for .NET (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
- Common Cryptographic Pitfalls (Schabse Laks)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Core Idea of Agile (Rick Freedman)
- Creating a custom Kudu script for the AllReady app (Bill Wagner)
- Your definition of “legacy” impacts how quick you are to rewrite code (Karoline Klever)
- Getting Started with DevTest Lab for Azure (Charles Sterling)
- The Value of Simplicity in Design (Kevin Hooke)
- Test Results in Build (Manoj Bableshwar)
- What did you say?! A new way to look at feedback. (Wes Higbee)
- Enterprise-grade GitHub: How Azure scaled to 2,000+ employees on GitHub (Jeff Wilcox)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Windows Bridge for iOS: Where we are and where we are headed (Adam Denning)
- MacinCloud Visual Studio Team Services Build and Improvements to iOS Build Support (Chris Patterson)
- Box Announces Preview SDK for Android (Eric Carter)
- Introducing Xamarin 4: Everything You Need to Build Great Apps (Nat Friedman)
- API 23 SDK now available for Android Wear (Wayne Piekarski)
- SAP Fiori Mobile Apps and Tools for Apache Cordova (Chuck Lantz, Kiran Karunakaran & Sanjeet Mall)
- Core Data and Swift: Migrations (Bart Jacobs)
- Announcing the Intune App SDK (Chuck Lantz & Sam Tulimat)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Mobile Dev Stack Update with Lino Tadros and .NET Rocks! – Next Generation Airliners Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- 41 ngAir – The Importance of Learning JavaScript with Kyle Simpson (Kent C. Dodds)
- MS Dev Show – PowerShell in VS Code with David Wilson (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
- Yet Another Podcast #142 – Krystin Stutesman on iOS 9 (Jesse Liberty)
- 186 JSJ NativeScript with TJ VanToll and Burke Holland (Aaron Frost, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
- The Married Gamers Episode 378: Stacked Up with Steve Machuga (Chris Brown)
- Developer on Fire Episode 061 | Josh Varty – Coming Alive (Dave Rael)
- Functional Geekery Episode 35 – Rachel Reese (Steven Proctor)
- The Web Ahead 110: Understanding the Web with Jeremy Keith (Jen Simmons)
- Talk Python to Me #34 Continuum: Scientific Python and The Business of Open Source (Michael Kennedy)
- Microsoft Mechanics – Hybrid Infrastructure Automation with Azure Resource Manager Templates (Corey Sanders)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 103 | Cloud News and Microsoft’s Future on Web Content Management (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- Ep08: Interview with Kathleen Dollard, Martina Grom and Lori Lalonde during the #MVPSummit | GALs (Soumow)
Community / Events
Database
- How To Interpret SQL Server DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS Output (Daniel Farina)
- SQL Server error BACKUP detected corruption in the database log (Ahmad Yaseen)
- Remove Unnecessary SQL Server Transaction Log Files (Sergey Gigoyan)
- SQL Server 2016 Database Maintenance Plan Improvements (Rajendra Gupta)
- SQL Server Reporting Services String Manipulation (Scott Murray)
- Why is SQL Server Slow Sometimes – But Only Sometimes? (Brent Ozar)
- Distributed Storage: How SQL Azure Replicas Work (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
- SQL SERVER – T-SQL Window Function Framing and Performance – Notes from the Field #103 (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint
PowerShell
- Download Microsoft Connect(); // 2015 Sessions Using PowerShell (Alexandre Brisebois)
- Sample chapter: Overview of Windows PowerShell 5.0 (Kim Spilker)
Miscellaneous
- Welcome to Windows 10 Mobile – nicely done! (Steve Litchfield)
- Teaching Kids to Code: The Next Generation (Infographic) (Dara Monasch)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading November 17, 2015 and Geek Reading November 18, 2015 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1587 and Double Shot #1588 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1971 and The Morning Brew #1972 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2015-11-19 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-11-19 (Dan Rigby)
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