Day: March 17, 2016

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Top Links

• Bind a Visual Studio solution to a SonarQube project provisions and configures Roslyn analyzers (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• Angular Material 2: Alpha preview! (Jeremy Elbourn)
• 203 JSJ Aurelia with Rob Eisenberg and 014 jsAir – End to End Testing with Julie Ralph (Kent C. Dodds)
• Infrastructure in Code | Visual Studio Toolbox (Donovan Brown & Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• CSS Exclusions and Grid Layout (Rachel Andrew)
• Setting The Window / Document Title In Angular 2 Beta 9 (Ben Nadel)
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – March 15, 2016 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• 15 jQuery Sticky HTML Element Plugins (jQuery By Example)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript – $19.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• How to Validate Phone Numbers in PHP with the Twilio Lookup API (Sam Agnew)
• Why Microsoft Azure? (Chris Pietschmann)
• Important changes coming for Service Bus and Events Hubs (Clemens Vasters)
• Node v5.9.0 (Stable) (Evan Lucas)
• How to Create an Interactive Animated SVG Drum Kit (Josh Ellis)
• RC4 will no longer be supported in Microsoft Edge and IE11 beginning in April (Brent Mills)

 

XAML

• Windows 10 UWP apps will be available for Xbox One owners sometime this summer (John Callaham)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A logging library for operations or a C# feature which Java developer will appreciate (Ruslan Albu)
• Supporting LINQ Queries Calling Your Methods (Peter Vogel)
• Talk to Us about Visual Studio Extensibility (Greg Duncan)
• UI Testing in F# with canopy (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• Writing React apps using Bridge.NET – The Dan Way (Part Two) (Dan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The hidden ingredient of successful agile projects (Dave Diehl)
• Agile Anarchy – Wall un-building and the Panopticon (Sebastien Lambla)
• Article: Change from Within: Developers and Managers Working Together (Ben Linders)
• Remove Fear of Releases with Multiple Versions (Carolyn Sullivan)
• Should We Have a WIP Limit For Organizational Change? (Dave Prior)
• NDepend vs. SonarQube (Erik Dietrich)
• Now Available: The Relaunch of Sources of Insight (JD Meier)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How To Drill Into Problems with Xamarin Insights (Wallace McClure)
• FullScreen and Navigation Bar Color in a NativeScript Android app (Brad Martin)
• Adding Google Play Services to Visual Studio Android Emulator (Chris Miller)
• Google Fit for Android: History API (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• Fixing connection problems between Visual Studio and Mac when building iOS applications (Miha Markic)
• Getting Started with Game Development (Shahed C.)
• 5 best add-ons for the Raspberry Pi 3 (Todd Ogasawara)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cross Platform UI in .NET with Curtis Wensley (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Game Dev Show 05 – Polish and Particles in Unity (David Voyles)
• What The Tech 299: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge First Impressions (Paul Thurrott)
• SSW TV – How To Scale Scrum for Large Software Teams | The Nexus Framework from Scrum.org (Sophie Belle)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Paul Callomon, Collections Manager of Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology, and General Invertebrates at the Academy of Natural Sciences (Jill Sybesma Lim)
• You’re invited: Take the 10th annual Future of Open Source Survey (Suzanne Choney)

 

Database

• Testing SQL Server Performance of Database Inserts and Updates (Ben Snaidero)
• Configure and Customize SQL Azure Dynamic Data Masking (Rajendra Gupta)
• SQL SERVER 2016 – STRING_SPLIT Function Performance Comparison – Notes from the Field #118 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Using Splunk to Monitor Changes to PowerShell Scripts (Hal Rottenberg)

 

Miscellaneous

• From the MVPs: End of Excel VLOOKUPS – Power Pivot Relationships (Kim Spilker)
• Project Server 2016 RTM is now available (MS Project Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-03-17 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2054 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading March 16, 2016 #1064 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Mar 16th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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