Month: June 2016

Top Links

• The Aurelia Release Candidate is Here!!! and Introducing the Aurelia HUB Beta!!! and Aurelia Interface Update (Rob Eisenberg)
• Stop saying learning to code is easy. and Forgotten (but Awesome) Windows Command Prompt Features (Scott Hanselman)
• Angular 2 RC3 Now Available (Stephen Fluin)
• On the Road to Release: Redesigning Visual Studio Installation (Tim Sneath)
• .NET Rocks! – CSLA 4.6 with Rocky Lhotka and .NET Rocks! – .NET Core and Kestrel with David Fowler and Damian Edwards and .NET Rocks! – Reusable Spacecraft Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Angular’s Looming Searchability Challenge (Paul Hammant)
• Docker & Containers 101 – What is Docker? (Andrew Connell)
• Inline Object Literals Don’t Trigger Unnecessary Input Changes In Angular 2 RC 2 and Emitting Cancelable / Preventable Output Events In Angular 2 RC 3 and Aggregating Values In A Promise-Based Workflow In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• Get Official ASP.NET Core 1.0 Support in Telerik ASP.NET MVC (Brian Rinaldi)
• An XSLT-inspired approach to JavaScript AST transformation (Colin Eberhardt)
• Upgrading to more recent versions of Node.js on the Raspberry Pi (Dave Johnson)
• Using The Node.js Debugger For Fun And Profit (Eddie Zaneski)
• Working with HTTP – An Introduction to Angular 2 (George Saadeh)
• How to Automate and Optimize Your WordPress Development and Testing on Pantheon (Jarkko Laine)
• Fritz’s 10 Minute Tips – Web Forms + Angular and Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – June 21, 2016 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Creating and Injecting Services – An Introduction to Angular 2 (Kevin Babcock)
• JavaScript performance updates in Microsoft Edge and Chakra (Limin Zhu)
• Javascript Code Design (L. Milkov)
• Meet the New Create Project Wizard for UI for ASP.NET AJAX (Rumen Jekov)
• Adding a Custom Inline Route Constraint in ASP.NET Core 1.0 (Scott Hanselman)
• An introduction to RxJs in Angular2 and Routing in Angular2 (Venkata Koppaka)
• Build customizable Language Switcher Tag Helper with Bootstrap (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• Bing Maps V8 Web Control Released (Bing Maps Team)
• An Introduction to TypeScript: Static Typing for the Web (Byron Houwens)
• Building serverless apps with Docker (Ben Firshman)
• Azure Certification: 70-473 Cloud Data Platform Solutions Specialist (Chris Pietschmann)
• Developer Bliss with Docker for Mac & Docker for Windows (Dan Wahlin)
• Check Stock Prices with Python and Twilio SMS (Devin Rader)
• Docker 1.12: Now with Built-in Orchestration! (Docker Core Engineering Team)
• Node v6.2.2 (Current) and Node v5.12.0 (Stable) (Evan Lucas)
• Structuring ECMAScript 6 Modules via Babel and Webpack (Geertjan Wielenga)
• Introducing the Docker Store Private Beta (Krish Garimella)
• Building A Dad Joke SMS Slack Bot In Python (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Announcing the Docker for Mac and Windows Public Beta (Mano Marks)
• Introducing the Docker for AWS and Azure Beta (Michael Friis)
• Getting Started With React (Tom Whitbread)

 

XAML

• Playing and Processing Audio in UWP Apps with Audio Graphs (Jason Roberts)
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update Preview–Composition and Connected Animations and Windows 10 Anniversary Update–More on Inking with Wet Ink and Windows 10 Anniversary Update–Fun with Composition and Video (Mike Taulty)
• FamilyNotes: Introducing a Windows UWP sample using ink, speech, and face recognition (John Kennedy)
• Updated Brokered Windows Runtime Components whitepaper and project templates for Windows 10 (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Microsoft takes another step toward speeding, tailoring Visual Studio installations (Mary Jo Foley)
• On why RavenDB is written in C# (Oren Eini)
• CodeRush for Roslyn (Preview), version 16.1.4 (Mark Miller)
• NuGet API key expiration (Maarten Balliauw)
• Using C# and Azure to Build a SMS Representative Directory (David Prothero)
• Flipping a Boolean When All Values Meet a Condition with LINQ (Nick Chamberlain)
• Taking a Look at Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 RC (Jeff Martin)
• FizzBuzz in F# in 99 Characters (Jeremy Clark)
• Porting ConsoleTables To .NET Core and Publishing To Nuget (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• C# 7 and Beyond with Mads Torgersen (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• Pitfall: using var and async together (Thomas Levesque)
• C# functional extensions NuGet library (Vladimir Khorikov)
• The .NET support black hole (Frans Bouma)
• Rx 3 is finally in beta (Bnaya Eshet)
• Implementing custom #load behavior in Roslyn scripting (Filip W.)
• OzCode: Reveal With Reveal (Jeff Yates)
• Supercharging Marten with the Jil Serializer and Avoid the Serialization Burn with Marten’s Patching API (Jeremy D. Miller)
• AutoMapper 5.0 speed increases (Jimmy Bogard)
• Portable- is dead, long live NetStandard (Oren Novotny)
• How can I update my WinForms app to behave better at high DPI, or at normal DPI on very large screens? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Intro to Unit Testing, TDD and BDD from QAGeekWeek and You’re Doing It Wrong: Iteration Planning (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Sample Data gets you started with Agile and SAFe on Visual Studio Team Services (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Subversion Merge Limitations That Are Not In Fossil (Paul Hammant)
• Exposing Secret JavaScript privates to Unit Tests (Dave M. Bush)
• How to be Successful with Mobile DevOps (Anusha Sethuraman)
• Cycligent Git Tool – Sneak Peek (Carolyn Sullivan)
• States customization on Team Services (Derrick Fu)
• A New Team Services build task to easily extract files (Jason Sholl)
• Cinematic Color Grading in Adobe Photoshop – Pt. 2 (Jesus Ramirez)
• 10 Lessons from a Long Running DDD Project – Part 2 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Product Owners and Learning, Part 1 and Product Owners and Learning, Part 2 and Product Owners and Learning, Part 3 (Johanna Rothman)
• VSTS Process Customization futures (June 2016) (Justin Marks)
• Taking the MSTest Framework forward with “MSTest V2″ (Pratap Lakshman)
• Help Your Employees Find Their Productivity “Sweet Spot” (Microsoft in Business Team)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cordova iOS 4.2.0 (Steve Gill)
• Xamarin Technology Stack and App Discovery and Deep Linking Series (Adam Pedley)
• Contest: Add the Latest in Xamarin.Forms (Jayme Singleton)
• Xamarin Android – Launch App From Browser (Keith Burnell)
• Using Postman Proxy to Capture and Inspect API Calls from iOS or Android Devices (Shamasis Bhattacharya)
• Navigate and then send data back with Xamarin.Forms and MVVM Light (Jesse Liberty)
• Unity: Adding children to a GameObject in code and retrieving them (Laurent Bugnion)
• MS Health Bot Tutorial (Pete D.)
• Adding Facial Recognition to Your Mobile Apps (Pierce Boggan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers – Data Literacy and the usefulness of Excel with Oz du Soleil and Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers – Building remote-first teams with Karolina Szczur (Scott Hanselman)
• MS Dev Show – What’s new at Xamarin With James Montemagno and MS Dev Show – PowerBI with Josh Caplan (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• SSW TV – Enhanced .NET Unit Testing | David Gardiner (Sophie Belle)
• Android Central 293: Uncle Jerry’s Q&A (Phil Nickinson)
• Redesigning the Visual Studio Installation Experience (Seth Juarez)
• TWC9: .Net Fringe, DockerCon, New Visual Studio Installation, Edge Battery Power and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• ASP.NET Monsters Episode #43: Hello Bundler Minifier with Mads Kristensen (Mads Kristensen, CanadianJames, Dave Paquette & Simon Timms)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 69: John Petersen (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 217 JSJ The Now Project with Guillermo Rauch (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood & Jamison Dance)
• 098 AiA Azure Functions Portal with Chris Anderson and Ahmed ElSayed (John Papa)
• The week in .NET – 6/21/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 134 | Special Father’s Day Episode (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• TWC9: Updated AI Toolkit, New Pluralsight courses, New Windows 10 Build(s), New Xbox News and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco & Nikola Metulev)
• Episode 208: Blockchain with Tom Lindeman and Yorke Rhodes | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• RunAs Radio – Moving Public Folders to the Cloud with Tony Redmond (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• 028 jsAir – On site at KCDC (Kent C. Dodds)
• Talk Python to Me #64 – Inside the Python Package Index (Michael Kennedy)
• What The Tech 312: Microsoft’s Strategy for Xbox (Paul Thurrott)
• StarTalk Live! at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin with Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• The Amp Hour #303 – An Interview with Dmitry Nedospasov and The Amp Hour #304 – Alexa joins the fray (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)
• Xamarin Podcast – WWDC 2016 Recap (Mike James & Pierce Boggan)

 

Community / Events

• New Microsoft offices boast ultramodern design and stunning views (Tracy Ith)
• .NET Fringe 2016 July 10th-12th PDX (Bobby Johnson)
• Microsoft opens new development center in Vancouver and Select Microsoft Stores to host Windows 10 Anniversary Update events for Insiders (John Callaham)
• Bill Gates talks Trump and Clinton and his hope to continue global health efforts with either (Kurt Schlosser)
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Microsoft’s new state-of-the-art technology center in British Columbia (Steve Clarke)
• Meet Sara Chipps, founder of Jewelbots and Girl Develop It! and Meet Josh Simpson, student, developer, and hackathon advocate (Erin Symons)

 

Database

• Export SQL Server Records into Individual Text Files (Artemakis Artemiou)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Poster (Martina Grom)
• Let’s Make a Match: Index Intersection (Brent Ozar)
• Setting Up a PC for Azure Cortana Intelligence Suite Development (Melissa Coates)
• Moving TempDB to New Drive – Interview Question of the Week #077 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Kendo UI in SharePoint Online (Ed Musters)

 

PowerShell

• Use Powershell to bind SSL Certificates to an IIS Host Header Site (Rick Strahl)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14372 for PC and Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• How Microsoft’s LinkedIn Buy Could Affect Lynda.com (Paul Ballard)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 17, 2016 #1130 and Geek Reading June 24, 2016 #1135 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #2116 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 17th, 2016 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 24th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Collective #225 (Pedro Botelho)
• Have a great weekend! #FridayFive and Greet the weekend with this #FridayFive! (MVP Award Program)
• Office 365 news roundup (Office 365 Team)
• GameDev News – Week Ending June 17, 2016 and GameDev News – Week Ending June 24, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #108 (Jakub Chodounsky)

 

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