May the 4th be with you…
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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The Sriracha Cookbook: 50 "Rooster Sauce" Recipes that Pack a Punch: Randy Clemens: 9781607740032: Books
Dependency Injection in .NET: Mark Seemann: 9781935182504: Books