Day: November 17, 2016

Top Links

• MSDN Magazine – Connect(); Special Issue (MSDN)
• Introducing Visual Studio Mobile Center (Preview) (Nat Friedman)
• Announcing the new Visual Studio for Mac (Miguel de Icaza)
• Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate (John Montgomery)
• The expanding Visual Studio family of products (Julia Liuson)
• Announcing the Fastest ASP.NET Yet, ASP.NET Core 1.1 RTM and Put a .NET Core App in a Container with the new Docker Tools for Visual Studio (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Announcing .NET Core Tools MSBuild “alpha” and Announcing .NET Core 1.1 (Rich Lander)
• Microsoft Connect(); 2016 Recap (Joseph Hill)

 

Web Development

• Follow-Up: Creating Leaky Abstractions With RxJS In Angular 2.1.1 (Ben Nadel)
• Write Reusable JavaScript Business Logic with peasy-js (Aaron Hanusa)
• Creating Node.js Microservices with Ease Using Stdlib (Dave Johnson)
• What’s the Truth about Running ASP.NET WEBAPI Asynchronously? (Dave M. Bush)
• The Advanced Uses of Razor Views in ASP.NET MVC (Dino Esposito)
• 45 (and counting) ASP.NET Core Samples (Greg Duncan)
• PhpStorm 2016.3 Release Candidate 2 is available (Maxim Kolmakov)
• Send Emails With Rackspace Mailgun Using NativeScript And Angular 2 (Nic Raboy)
• A Rundown of JavaScript 2015 features (Sebastián Peyrott)
• Microsoft releases preview of its Azure cloud bot-as-a-service (Mary Jo Foley)
• React v15.4.0 (Dan Abramov)
• JSON View replacement (Daniel Fisher)
• Fan out workloads in Azure Function Apps (James Chambers)
• Introducing Image Signing Policy in Docker Datacenter (David Lawrence)
• Getting Started with Reactive Programming Using RxJS (K. Scott Allen)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Code Version 1.7 Released with October Updates (Richard Hay)
• Exploring memory allocation and strings (Maarten Balliauw)
• Package Management is generally available: NuGet, npm, and more (Alex Mullans)
• NuGet Extensions (Bnaya Eshet)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3 EAP 8 (Dmitry Matveev)
• First Impressions of Visual Studio 2017 RC (Dror Helper)
• Getting Started With & Learning C# (James Montemagno)
• ReSharper Ultimate build for Visual Studio 2017 RC (Jura Gorohovsky)
• How to create an offline installer of Visual Studio 2017 RC? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• CMake support in Visual Studio – the Visual Studio 2017 RC update and Open any folder with C++ sources in Visual Studio 2017 RC (Marian Luparu)
• Announcing sim-ship with Visual Studio 2017 RC (OzCode Team)
• Telerik UI and Visual Studio 2017 RC: Let’s Code (Todd Anglin)
• Life Without On Error Resume Next (Tim Patrick)
• Give Visual C++ a Switch to Standard Conformance (Andrew Pardoe)
• Introducing Go To, the successor to Navigate To and Find All References re-designed for larger searches (Augustin Popa)
• WinForms and MVP: Making a testable application (Lenny Kean)
• CodeRush for Roslyn, v. 16.1.9 is Available (Mark Miller)
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 1.1 (Rowan Miller)
• Extending the dotnet core cli: introducing dotnet-prop (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making code faster: Going down the I/O chute and Making code faster: I like my performance unsafely (Oren Eini)
• Introducing the Visual Studio Build Tools (Adam Welch)
• Application Insights: Three of the latest features in Visual Studio (David Stephens)
• Progress Bars vs. Spinners: When to Use Which (Anthony)
• What matters to you, matters to us. (Ayesha Bose)
• Flexible Working Hours – You Can Work From Home! (Dirk Strauss)
• Reward the Candor (Elisse Lockhart)
• Coffee Talks: How To Brew Knowledge Share Culture In Your Company (Emily Chapman)
• The Fastest Way to Get to Know NDepend (Erik Dietrich)
• Announcing Code Search on Team Foundation Server 2017 (Jimson Chalissery)
• Start a new plan with Microsoft Project 2016 (Kim Spilker)
• Development Delusions: That It is Enough to Build a Better Mousetrap (Michael Sorens)
• 3 reasons why I don’t use strict mocks (Michał Komorowski)
• General availability of Azure Application Insights (Shiva Sivakumar)
• Announcing Public Preview for Work Item Search (Shruti Poddar)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Nougat Quick Setting Tiles (James Montemagno)
• WinAppDriver – Test any app with Appium’s Selenium-like tests on Windows (Scott Hanselman)
• Xamarin Test Cloud Announcements at Microsoft Connect(); (Justin Raczak)
• Using UI for Xamarin in Visual Studio for Mac (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Mobile Testing in the Xamarin Test Cloud and Xamarin User Interface Testing for Android Apps (Noel Rice)
• Visual Studio 2017 Support in AppBuilder (Todor Totev)
• Get Started Building a Material Design App (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Windows Application Driver for PC integrates with Appium (David Catuhe)
• Efficient IoT With Azure (Alon Fliess & Eran Stiller)
• HoloLens: Voice Commands (Pete D.)
• Transition to Server-Side Swift with BluePic (Taylor Franklin)
• Platform-Specific Development with NativeScript (Rob Lauer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mobile Development using F# with Scott Nimrod and .NET Rocks! – Connect Debrief with Scott Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• MS Deve Show Episode 129: Data & the Augmented Self with James Whittaker & Dona Sarkar | MS Dev Show (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Introducing SQL Server on Linux and Azure High Performance Computing (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – TDD 13 Progressive web and Bootstrap 4 (Ed Charbeneau)
• GoingNative 54: What’s New In Visual Studio 2017 RC and Introduction To Vcpkg | C9::GoingNative (Steve Carroll, Augustin Popa & Bryan DiLaura)
• [Webinar Recording] Solving localization challenges with design pattern automation (Iveta Moldavcuk)
• 238 JSJ Intellectual Property and Software Forensics with Bob Zeidman (Aimee Knight, AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Jamison Dance)
• The week in .NET – Mitch Muenster – Stateless (Bertrand Le Roy)
• RunAs Radio – SQL Q&A; from SQL Intersection Las Vegas! (Richard Campbell)
• Developer on Fire Episode 183 | Mark Seemann – Value and Quality (Dave Rael)
• Functional Geekery Episode 74 – Zeeshan Lakhani (Steven Proctor)
• What’s new in .NET Core 1.1? | Connect(); // 2016 (Kendra Havens)
• Hunting for Black Holes, with Janna Levin – StarTalk All-Stars (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• What The Tech 332: MacBook Pro Reviews Roll In (Paul Thurrott)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Azure Active Directory Domain Services | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Keynote | Developer Event 2016 (Satya Nadella)
• What’s New in the .NET Platform (Scott Hunter)
• Developer Tea – DCR Step 9: Replace Yourself (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Prasanna Ramkumar (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Code.gov Officially Launches (Graham High)
• GitKraken joins the Student Developer Pack (Carol S.)
• Changing the Image of Software Developers to Achieve Higher Diversity (Ben Linders)
• Microsoft and Code.org unveil new Minecraft-themed tutorial for ‘Hour of Code’ (Clare McGrane)
• Google Cloud to join .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group (Chris Sells)
• Welcome the Newest Alexa Champions (Marion Desmazieres)
• Know it Prove it Challenges Are Back! Get Ready to Skill Up! (Matthew Calder)
• Chrome Developer Summit 2016 – Summary (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• Maker Spotlight: Lisa Winter (Sophia Smith)
• Celebrating 15 Years of Xbox (Will Tuttle)

 

Database

• Calculate SQL Azure Database Size (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL Authority News – Download SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1) (Pinal Dave)
• Public Preview: Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) (Jenny Jiang)
• Free local development using the DocumentDB Emulator plus .NET Core support (Aravind Ramachandran)
• Stupid Things I’ve Done With SQL (Erik Darling)
• Azure Data Lake Analytics now generally available (Oliver Chiu)
• Azure Elastic Database Pools for SaaS Applications (Vikram Pendse)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell changes and new cmdlets for SQL Server 2016 (Rajendra Gupta)
• Using PowerShell to Add a Key to the Registry (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

Miscellaneous

• Now Shipping 2017 Software Craftsmanship Calendars (Steve Smith)
• This Windows app makes the best case yet for the Surface Dial (Tom Warren)
• New in the Shop: GitHub Activity Book (Natalie Grace)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-11-16 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-11-16 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-11-17 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-11-17 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2223 and The Morning Brew #2224 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1770 and Double Shot #1771 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #264 (Pedro Botelho)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 16, 2016 and The Daily Six Pack: November 17, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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