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Top Links
- MSDN/TechNet Being Open Sourced as docs.microsoft.com (Jonathan Allen)
- Data Access in Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Apps (Windows Apps Team)
- Visual Studio TACO Update 9 (Ricardo Minguez)
- .NET Rocks! – Talking Core with Scott Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Web Development
- Querying For Multiple ViewChild Directives On A Single Element In Angular 2 Beta 17 (Ben Nadel)
- How to design HTML5 games (Ben Chong)
- Using Redux to Manage Angular2 Application State (Dave Baskin)
- How to Web with ASP.NET (Jeremy Likness)
- Kendo UI Map Visualizations with Bar Charts (Rachel Hagerman)
- Angular 2 : Organization Using {barrels} (Shayne Boyer)
- Tag Helpers in ASP.Net Core | Web Hack Wednesday (Martin Beeby)
- Microsoft Power Apps: a look at UX capabilities (DevToolsGuy)
- Getting to Know #Azure Mobile App Part 4 (Alexandre Brisebois)
- New APIs to help developers improve scroll performance (Rick Byers & Stefan Zager)
- Splunk 6.4 – Using CORS and SSL settings with HTTP Event Collector (Glenn Block)
- Speed up page load with WOFF 2.0 fonts in Microsoft Edge (Frank Olivier)
- Submit Your Bot to Microsoft’s Directory (Paul Ballard)
- MS Health API Bot (Pete D.)
XAML
- Getting Started with Roaming App Data (Windows Apps Team)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Set Culture Information in One Step in .NET Framework 4.5 (Peter Vogel)
- Creating a phone number lookup bot using Microsoft Bot Framework and C# (Marcos Placona)
- Test Your C# Basics (Suprotim Agarwal)
- Logic Is Your Enemy (Peter Vogel)
- Using Roslyn code fixes to make the “Friction-less immutable objects in Bridge” even easier (Dan)
- RX Issue: scheduler within Merge over GroupBy (Bnaya Eshet)
- What are the real benefits of being an MSDN subscriber? (DevToolsGuy)
- EnC Part 3 – The CLR (Josh Varty)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- On Being an Expert (Chris Pietschmann)
- Coding Standards Survey (2016): How Can Code Quality Be Made Better? (David McCarter)
- Together, but remote (Gita Malinovksa)
- Selecting the best artwork for videos through A/B testing (Gopal Krishnan)
- Import repositories with large files (Jonathan Hoyt)
- Ignoring files in git, but only locally (Sebastien Lambla)
- Cross-Functional Teams are Gravy (Tim Wise)
Other Mobile Platforms
- How to Build iOS Chat Apps using Xamarin and Twilio (Brent Schooley)
- Xamarin Test Cloud Plans Now Offer Monthly Billing (Justin Raczak)
- 10 Developer Takeaways from Xamarin Evolve (Sam Basu)
- Telerik and Testdroid—Real Device Testing Made Easy (Antonia Bozhkova)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- WCF vs. Web API – The Static Void Podcast (Jess Chadwick, Todd Snyder & Chris Gomez)
- #Podcast – Latest #Xamarin news (all the good stuff from last 2 months !) (Bruno Capuano)
- SE-Radio Episode 256: Jay Fields on Working Effectively with Unit Tests (Stefan Tilkov)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Funcomfortable (Chris Hardwick)
- Functional Geekery Episode 50 – Bridget Hillyer (Steven Proctor)
- Episode 16: GDC 2016 – King’s Quest | Level Up (Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon & Katie Stone Perez)
- RunAs Radio – Just Enough Admin and Windows Server 2016 with Jeffrey Snover (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- Philly Nerd Nite No. 60: Microbes, Political Campaign Memorabilia, Star Wars Collecting (Nerd Nite Team)
- Using Azure CDN features in the Azure Portal (Scott Hanselman)
- Developer Tea – Listener Question: John asks “How Do I Transition from Mid to Senior Level Development?” (Jonathan Cutrell)
Community / Events
- Microsoft vets join VR startup that offers full-body, fully immersive experience (James Risley)
- Would you hire a pregnant woman? Microsoft did. (Karoline Klever)
Database
- Creating a Centralized Performance Collection Solution for SQL Server (Fikrat Azizov)
- SQL Server 2016 Database Scoped Configurations for MAXDOP, Procedure Cache and Cross Database Queries (Rajendra Gupta)
- SQL SERVER 2016 – Scroll Bar Enhancement in Management Studio (SSMS 2016) (Pinal Dave)
- The design of RavenDB 4.0: Making Lucene reliable and RavenDB 3.5 whirl wind tour: I’ll find who is taking my I/O bandwidth and they SHALL pay (Oren Eini)
- Where Clauses and Empty Tables (Erik Darling)
SharePoint
PowerShell
- PowerShell for SQL Server Essentials (Ian Stirk)
Miscellaneous
- Mac Nears 10 Percent Usage Share (Paul Thurrott)
- Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Not enough XMS handles (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-05-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-05-04 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-05-04 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #2085 (Chris Alcock)
- Geek Reading May 3, 2016 #1097 (Robert Diana)
- The week in .NET – 5/3/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
- Links of the Week 5-1-16 (Chris Love)
- Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 3rd, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
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