Day: April 19, 2016

Top Links

• JetBrains joins the .NET Foundation (Hadi Hariri)
• Refactoring Essentials now with a Roslyn Code Converter (Greg Duncan)
• Getting Started with the Media Plugin for Xamarin (Pierce Boggan)
• Intro to porting Unity 3D games to UWP: Building and deploying (Alex Teodorescu-Badia)

 

Web Development

• Container and Presentation Components in Angular2 (Dave Baskin)
• ngOfficeUiFabric v0.8.0 Released – Two New Directives (Andrew Connell)
• Storm Reaches 1.0 (Kay Ewbank)
• New languages with Azure Media Indexer 2 Preview (Adarsh Solanki)
• Azure Container Service is now generally available (Ross Gardler)

 

XAML

• What’s New in Infragistics WPF 16.1 (Brian Lagunas)
• Map APIs and controls: Adding external elements (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• What’s new for the .NET Native Compiler and Runtime in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 (Stacey Haffner)
• C-Runtime Deployment: Why choosing AppLocal? (Eric Mittelette)
• Edit and Continue Part 1 – Introduction (Josh Varty)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Create Test Cases from the VSTS Kanban board (Esteban Garcia)
• Ease Github Pull Request code review (Laurent Kempé)
• The key first step for successful organizational change (Gojko Adzic)
• Interactive Analytics for Application Insights (Abhijit Jana)
• Hidden Parts of the Performance Equation (Albert Gareev)
• Using database replication with automated deployments (Chris Heppell & Peter Gerrard)
• Look ma, no hands! Deploying Linux-based workloads in Azure Stack through Azure Resource Manager (Matt McSpirit)
• 6 Red Flags That You Need To Start Cutting Your Losses (Elisa Doucette)
• Code Metric Visualization: Lines of Code and Code Coverage (NDepend Team)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• One language to rule them all: How Azure and Xamarin dominate app development (Imagine Cup Team)
• Android From Scratch: Common UI Design Patterns (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 9 – Table Controller Operations (Adrian Hall)
• Playing RoboRaid on Microsoft HoloLens – Part 1 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Getting Physical with the Beacon-Enabled Web (Jen Looper)
• Stream premium content to Apple TV with Azure Media Services (Mingfei Yan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Making Windows Command Line Cool with Richard Turner (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Changelog 200: JavaScript and Robots with Raquel Vélez (rockbot) (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Learning to break stories down | David Bernstein (Vasco Duarte)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 64: Richard Hundhausen (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Defrag Tools #160 – PsPing | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• RiYL Episode 165: Adam Green (Brian Heater)
• The Ops Team #017 – “Timekeeping with Tesar” | The Ops Team (David Tesar, Matt McSpirit, Simon May & Oguz Pastirmaci)
• WebM, VP9 and Opus Support in Microsoft Edge (Andy Glass, Neil Hinnant & Jerry Smith)
• Speech | Context (Mike Taulty & Andrew Spooner)
• My Life for the Code Episode 22: The Smallest Possible Thing with Steve Kinney (Shawn Rakowski)
• Developer Tea – Abstract Mental Models (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Early bird offer for RavenDB Conference (Oren Eini)
• 15+ Excellent Events Happening In Philly This Week, April 18-24 (Jillian Wilson)
• Many facets of India’s first Openness Days (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Backwards Compatibility in SQL Server Data Tools for Integration Services (Koen Verbeeck)
• MySQL – LEAST and GREATEST Comparison Operators (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 3.5 whirl wind tour: Is this a cluster in your pocket AND you are happy to see me? (Oren Eini)
• How To Use PouchDB + SQLite For Local Storage In Ionic 2 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• Profiler, Extended Events And Analysis Services (Chris Webb)
• The compiled query feature in Marten and why it rocks. (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Parameters Part II – ValidateSet and ValidatePattern (Tim Smith)
• A study in PowerShell scripting – A beginners guide Part 3 (Wei-Yen Tan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s mobile hardware mess: Android isn’t the answer (Ed Bott)
• Finally, an all-emoji programming language (Michael Morisy)
• Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Too much memory! (Raymond Chen)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-04-19 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-04-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2075 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1672 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading April 18, 2016 #1086 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #228 (Frank Boucher)
• Daily Links 18 Apr 2016 (Malcolm Jack)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Apr 18th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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