Day: August 3, 2016

Top Links

• Announcing .NET Framework 4.6.2 (Stacey Haffner)
• Building Universal Windows apps targeting the Windows 10 Anniversary SDK (Pete Faraday)
• .NET Standard Library Support for Xamarin (James Montemagno)
• Introducing Postman for Windows (Kasey)

 

Web Development

• A Promise Chain’s API Is Determined By Its Initiating Promise Library (Ben Nadel)
• You Can Start Using Node Today (Dave M. Bush)
• Aurelia Syncfusion Bridge (Stephen Jebaraj)
• Twilio Message Feedback API Helps Ensure Timely Delivery (Eric Carter)
• Meteor 1.4 Release Updates Node and MongoDB (James Chesters)
• AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform – Storage & Content Delivery (Jess Panni)
• Pokemon Faux: Create Fake Pokemon Go Screenshots with Python, Flask and Twilio MMS (Sam Agnew)

 

XAML

• #Myo – #Windows 10, #UWP Apps, #Myo and Visual Studio 2015 (Bruno Capuano)
• Announcing the Infragistics UWP Preview (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update SDK Now Available! Windows Store Open for Submissions (Kevin Gallo)
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update Preview and Application Extensions (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The curious case of Any() and All() (Bill Wagner)
• C/C++ Cloud Services Survey (Ankit Asthana)
• August Hosted Build Pool Image Updates (Chrispat)
• CodeRush for Roslyn Shortcut Cheat Sheet (Mark Miller)
• Couchbase with Windows and .NET – Part 2 (Matt Groves)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Traceability with Continuous Testing (Atin Bansal)
• Developer Oriented Project Management (Matt Davis)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Mobile App or Mobile Web? (Russ Miller)
• Announcing a New Tool for Building Interactive Adventure Games on Alexa (Robert Jamison)
• HoloLens Development Edition Updates (Alex Kipman)
• New Alexa Skills Kit Template: Step-by-Step Guide to Build a Decision Tree Skill (Noelle LaCharite)
• 5 Tips to help you improve game-as-a-service monetization (Moonlit Wang & Tammy Levy)
• How to Get Started With Amazon’s Alexa Skills Kit (Romin Irani)
• Introducing Azure IoT support for X.509 certificates (Sam George)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – F# to Javascript with Tomas Petricek (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 314 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Davis from Red Hat on Ansible (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Introducing Dockercast – the Docker Podcast (Victor Coisne)
• Creating and Consuming .NET Standard Libraries in Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 140 | Cloud News – Azure, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Verizon and Some Cool Picks! (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – Developer Digest 8 (Ed Charbeneau)
• RunAs Radio – Testing Infrastructure with Steven Murawski (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• What’s Cool for Devs in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (keantonc & Rosshe)
• SE-Radio Episode 264: James Phillips on Service Discovery (Charles Anderson)
• AAWP Insight #187: W10M Anniversary Update and more (Rafe Blandford)

 

Community / Events

• TechBash Developer Conference is Approaching – Register Today and Save $50 (Alvin A.)
• $50 Discount at TechBash (Jesse Liberty)
• 10+ Huge Festivals Hitting Philly This August (Jillian Wilson)

Database

• Understanding the COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT clause in SQL Server (Simon Liew)
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Log shipping and point in time recovery (Oren Eini)
• Another Way To Check Query Folding In Power BI/Power Query M Code (Chris Webb)
• SQL Complete – Smart Code Completion and SQL Formatting (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip New PowerShell Commands in Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Jan Egil Ring)

 

Miscellaneous

• Linux on Windows for Everyone! – How to Enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta) on Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Jon Gallant)
• Gaming on Windows 10 – A Year’s Journey (Larry Hryb)
• How to get the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Michael Fortin)
• akka logging (Sacha Barber)
• Use (and Misuse) of Business Case Studies (Steven Sinofsky)
• This is the new Microsoft: Windows slips to No. 3 amid shift to the cloud (Todd Bishop)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1714 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #2149 (Chris Alcock)
• The week in .NET – 8/2/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-03 (Dan Rigby)

 

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