Month: February 2016

Top Links

• Domain-Driven Design: Object-Orientation Done Right – DZone Refcardz (Aslam Khan & Obi Oberoi)
• More XAML Designer Less XAML Typing | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Building Your First Game with MonoGame: Finishing the App (Dean Ellis)
• Thinking functionally in JavaScript (part three) (Julian M. Bucknall)

Web Development

• Dependency-Injection With Sub-Classed Services In Angular 2 Beta 3 and Provider And Directive Arrays Can Be Mixed-Depth In Angular 2 Beta 6 and Selectors And Outputs Can Have The Same Name In Angular 2 Beta 6 (Ben Nadel)
• Brace yourself, ASP.NET Core 1.0 is coming! (Elizabeth Andrews)
• A Step-by-step Introduction to JavaScript Sets (Tim Brock)
• Functional Reactive Programming for Angular 2 Developers — RxJs and Observables (Vasco Ferreira C.)
• Because GitHub Decided I Had To: Convert From Textile To Markdown (Paul Hammant)
• Exercises for JS Beginners (Rebecca Murphey)
• Using Azure Media Services to Encode, Host, and Transcribe Video (Carey Payette)
• How to force NPM to use latest version of TypeScript (David Voyles)
• Why npm Scripts? (Damon Bauer)
• Building Video Chat with IBM Watson, Twilio Video, and WebRTC (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Excelling with Excel in Splunk (Matthias Maier)
• Remote Images Retrieval With Splunk Using Custom Command “getimage.py” (Mohamad Hassan)
• An Introduction to Web MIDI (Si Robertson)

XAML

• WPF Application Exit Codes (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft Open Sources XAML Behaviors (Jonathan Allen)
• XAML Attached Properties Tricks in Xamarin.Forms (Michael Ridland)
• A Windows 10, UWP ListView Control with Swiped Actions? (Mike Taulty)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Profiling mysteries (Oren Eini)
• Expand and Collapse Code Blocks on the fly in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• ReSharper Ultimate 10.1 EAP 2 (Dmitry Matveev)
• Using the DebuggerNonUserCode Attribute in Visual Studio 2015 (Kaycee Anderson)
• Detecting Default Values of Value Types (Ricardo Peres)
• Natvis for C++/CLI Available to Preview in VS2015 Update 2 (Adam Welch)
• Do You Develop Games? (Eric Battalio)
• CallerMemberName vs. nameof() in INotifyPropertyChanged (Jeremy Clark)
• #VisualStudio 2015 Tips – How to switch between fullscreen IDE mode? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• .NET Core: Introduction To Microsoft.Data.Sqlite (Ranjan Dailata)
• Two New eBPF Tools: memleak and argdist (Sasha Goldshtein)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review – How Software Works (Mike James)
• Find Your Passion (Chris Pietschmann)
• Crafting Quality Software (Ben Linders)
• Bridging the Communication Gap Between Developers and Architects (Erik Dietrich)
• Information Architecture from the UX side of view (Joakim Astbrant)
• Proper Test Case Design for Testing – Part 2 – Boundary Value Analysis (Nikolay Advolodkin)
• Introducing Vector Networks (Robin Rendle)
• More Strawmen for the #NoEstimates Fire (Ryan Ripley)
• Impact of new Release Management orchestration features (Vijay M.)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Android – Fragments and Orientations/Rotation (David Yardy)
• Creating Custom Controls in Xamarin.Forms on Android. (Arun Kumar)
• 20 Useful iOS Icon & App Template Resources (Bart Jacobs)
• Having fun with Xamarin.Forms and Multi-Touch Behaviors (Davide Zordan)
• Using Native Libraries in NativeScript (Brad Martin)
• Azure IoT Hub: Managing and communicating with IoT devices (Carey Payette)
• Swift’s Benchmarking Suite is Now Open Source (Sergio De Simone)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: Visual Basic gets DICE Award, TechNet Virtual Conference, Bridge to iOS and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco & Seth Juarez)
• AFH 026: Agile Impressions and Errors with Jerry Weinberg [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• Angular Air Episode 51- Getting Past the Angular Learning Curve with Pascal Precht and Angular Air #52 – Internet Of Things and 53 ngAir – Angular 2 Reactive Redux with Victor Savkin and Dan Abramov and 009 jsAir – JavaScript Forward: ES6 and ES7 with Allen Wirfs-Brock and Kassandra Perch (Kent C. Dodds)
• MS Dev Show – All About Working From Home (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Changelog 195: Free Code Camp with Quincy Larson (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Maker Show: Episode 2 – Blinking LED…Now What? | The Maker Show (Brian Sherwin)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 75 – Coding In Columbia (Juan Pablo Buriticá) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 098 | Kevlin Henney – Applied Philosophy (Dave Rael)
• Episode 199: The Barracuda Next Generation Firewall | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 32: Erez Testiler Software Developer & Furniture Maker (Richie Rump)
• Developer Tea – Building and Maintaining Client Relationships: Active Listening and Developer Tea – Part One: Interview with David Hemphill (Jonathan Cutrell)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries – The Science of Love (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Win a treasure from Amazon’s truck, the state of the tech economy, and a cinematic photographer’s lens on technology (Todd Bishop)

Community / Events

• .NET Community Salute (Vicky)

Database

• How to read data from multiple Excel files with SQL Server Integration Services (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL Server Triggers To Mirror a Table and SQL Server Profiler – Trace for your Application and Generate Insert, Update, Delete Trigger for Table Audit (David Yardy)
• SQL Server 2016 R Services: Display R plots in Reporting Services (Ghanesh Prasad)
• SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 hotfix available (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – FIX: Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 58. Login failed for user and SQL SERVER – Showplan Additions for ColumnStore Indexes and Interview Question of the Week #058 – What is the Difference Among DECIMAL, FLOAT and NUMERIC? (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• How to Create SQL Server Logins with PowerShell (Adam Bertram)
• Use PowerShell to batch rename files from digital cameras (Chris Miller)

Miscellaneous

• Five Years down the Road: The Future of App Dev (Yousef Awad)
• Small Basic 1.2: Installation Guide (Featured Article) (Ed Price)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading February 12, 2016 #1041 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #206 (Pedro Botelho)
• Happy #FridayFive! (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #1644 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Last Week on Channel 9: February 8th – February 14th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #2031 (Chris Alcock)
• GameDev News – Week Ending February 12, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #79 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Feb 12th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #89 (Jakub Chodounsky)

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