Day: July 14, 2016

Top Links

• Visual Studio ‘15’ Preview 3 for C# and Visual Basic (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
• Developer Assistant now supports C++ (Anuj Jain)
• Visual Studio Code, your new Markdown editor (James Montemagno)
• Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 patch (KB3165756) (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Web Development

• Getting Started with Node.js in Windows – Node Modules (Adam Anderson)
• Images Grid jQuery Plugin (jQuery Rain)
• PhpStorm 2016.2 is released! (Anna Lebedeva)
• Avoiding Unexpected Bundling Issues with ASP.NET MVC (Mitchel Sellers)
• Foundations of Random Number Generation in JavaScript (Tim Brock)
• (Not so) Stupid Question 290-291: What is OWASP, and what is the WebGoat project? (Iris Classon)
• Get better quality video with Microsoft Edge (Jerry Smith, Jatinder Mann & John Simmons)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: RESTful Rails Development – $16.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• TypeScript 2.0 Beta Brings Option Types, Discriminated Unions, and More (Sergio De Simone)

 

XAML

• Customize Scroll Bar in #uwp (Hermit Dave)
• Introducing New Remote Sensing Features (Rinku Sreedhar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C++ Debugging in Visual Studio: Let’s Start with the Basics (Bartlomiej Filipek)
• Bing Developer Assistant, now with C++ support (Marian Luparu)
• Crypto101 Introductory Course for Programmers (Greg Duncan)
• CodeRush for Roslyn (Preview), version 16.1.5 (Mark Miller)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Benefits of Serverless Architectures (Martin Fowler)
• Avoid Technical Debt with NDepend (Erik Dietrich)
• Cycligent Git Flow – Part of the Cycligent Git Tool Blog Series (Frank Garcia)
• A Guide to Developer Collaboration With GitHub: eBook Summary (Justin Collier)
• Self-care matters: Pay yourself first (Scott Hanselman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Explicit DirectX 12 MultiGPU, the Affinity Layer helper library, and your game (Andrew Yeung)
• Creating a Five-Star Search Experience with Azure Search (Mike James)
• HoloLens CubeBouncer application part 3-air tapping the cubes away and adding spatial sounds (Joost van Schaik)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – NuGet with Harikrishna Menon & Yishai Galatzer (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• .NET Rocks! – Learning Tech on KataCoda with Ben Hall (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Advancements in Data Technology | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Scott Klein)
• 220 JSJ Teaching JavaScript with Kyle Simpson (Aimee Knight, Jamison Dance & Joe Eames)
• ngAir 71 – AngularFire 2 Tutorial with David East and 031 jsAir – Automated Accessibility Testing with aXe-core with Dylan Barrell, Marcy Sutton, and Wilco Fiers (Kent C. Dodds)
• AAWP Insight #185: Redstone timing, UWPs, Wallet and more (Rafe Blandford)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 63 (Air Mozilla)
• RiYL Episode 176: Mary Roach (Brian Heater)
• Developer on Fire Episode 147 | Reid Evans – Functionally Engaged (Dave Rael)
• Talk Python to Me #67 – Property-based Testing with Hypothesis (Michael Kennedy)
• Office 365 Compliance Control Updates (Microsoft Mechanics)
• What The Tech 315: Microsoft Innovating Partners (Paul Thurrott)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 37 – Building Webhooks with the Microsoft Graph (Richard diZerega)
• Developer Tea – Two Common Questions from Early Career Developers (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Webinar: What’s New in Xamarin.Forms and Essential Studio for Xamarin (Marissa Keller Outten)
• Submit a talk for GitHub Universe (Kelsey Schimmelman)
• First-Ever Open Streets Day In Philly Officially Arrives This September (Kristina Jenkins)

Database

• Can Adding an Index Make SQL Server 2016…Worse? (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER 2016 – Encrypt Your PII Data – Notes from the Field #132 (Pinal Dave)
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Backup, restore and the environment… (Oren Eini)
• What’s New In Analysis Services 2016 Multidimensional? (Chris Webb)
• Azure SQL Data Warehouse has landed. Now we’re going to make it fly. (David Bick)
• Building a Simple Bank With Marten (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the Microsoft Professional Degree (MPD) Program (Alison Cunard)
• Kinect is almost dead, but it finally has a killer app (Andrew Webster)
• How to use Xbox One controller as a mouse to control your Windows 10 PC (Cale Hunt)
• OneNote adds “Save a copy” to Class Notebooks (Dave Shanahan)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 13, 2016 #1147 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #228 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1705 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew – #2135 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-07-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-07-14 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 13th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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