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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