Happy ‘Dew’ Year!
Top Links
- New Year Updates to ASP.NET WebHooks Preview (Henrik F. Nielsen)
- Having a Look at dotnet CLI Tool and .NET Native Compilation in Linux (Tugberk Ugurlu)
- Exploiting Generics in TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
- What’s New in Fiddler 4.6.2 (Eric Lawrence)
Web Development
- Synchronizing Magnetic Poetry With Firebase And AngularJS (Without Redux) and Breaking Out Of A Promise Chain In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
- Complex Custom Tag Helpers in MVC 6 (David Paquette)
- Serving embedded resources with ASP.NET WebApi (Robert Muehsig)
- JavaScript Alchemy with Strings, Numbers, and Booleans. (Dave M. Bush)
- WebStorm 12 roadmap and EAP (Ekaterina Prigara)
- jQuery-resizable and Table Column Resizing (Rick Strahl)
- Fixing JavaScript’s Broken Random Number Generator (samzenpus)
- Atom – DuoTone themes (simurai)
- Introducing the WP REST API (Bilal Shahid)
- What’s New in ES6? Perspective of a CoffeeScript Convert (William Coates)
- Are you ready for January 12? (Aaron Powell)
XAML
- WPF – Understanding Logical Tree and Visual Tree In WPF ( Part 2 ) (Sid Patel)
- #VS2015 – Windows Universal sample App using #FaceDetection native API on #Windows10 (Bruno Capuano)
- The Evolution of INotifyPropertyChanged (Jeremy Clark)
- How to get the Battery Information in #UWP apps? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Enabling your universal app for Continuum (Laurent Bugnion)
- Auto Layout 101: Building Beautiful, Dynamic UIs for All Devices (Mike James)
- States v’s Regions for Multi-Window Applications and State Management using BuiltIt.States and BuildIt.States from a ViewModel (Nick Randolph)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Implementing API Gateway in F# using Rx and Suave (Tamizh Vendan)
- Code review challenge: The concurrent dictionary refactoring and Code review challenge: The concurrent dictionary refactoring–answer (Oren Eini)
- From MSTest to xUnit, Visual Studio, MSBuild, and TFS Integration (Punit Ganshani)
- Understand the complexity and maintainability of your code using Code Metrics in Visual Studio – Maintainability Index and Exploring the Code Metrics Tool in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
- Visual Studio 2015 Update 1: EXE Install vs Control Panel Install (Julie Lerman)
- Podcast: Getting Started with Game Development in C# (Mike James)
- Debugging & Managing NuGet Packages A Lesson Learned (Mitchel Sellers)
- var keyword in C# (Abhi Jain)
- Did you know that Visual Studio shows deadlocked tasks? (Dror Helper)
- Introducing XPlot, a Chart Generation Library for F# (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
- Splitting Strings with Regular Expressions (Richard Carr)
- Microsoft Team Explorer Everywhere 2015 (MS Downloads)
- Procedural Invaders (Phillip Trelford)
- ExplosionStudio -> PowerMode! (Greg Duncan)
- (Not so) Stupid Question 283: What is string interpolation? (Iris Classon)
- Using multiple cancellation sources with CreateLinkedTokenSource (Thomas Levesque)
- How To Tell If An IQueryable Is In Memory Or Not? (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- JSLint, AngualrJS, and TDD (Sahil Malik)
- Shadow-copying in dotCover: if your NUnit tests fail during continuous testing (Alexey Totin)
- Towards an Agile Software Architecture (Boyan Mihaylov)
- Understanding the Differences Between Unit Tests and Test Automation (Francis Adanza)
- The 5 Choices of Extraordinary Productivity (J.D. Meier)
- How to Understand the complexity and maintainability of the code ? (Abhijit Jana)
- With Code Metrics, Trends are King (Erik Dietrich)
- Why Are Constraints Helpful? and Legacy Code To Testable Code #12: Instance Constructors (Gil Zilberfeld)
- New book: Microsoft Visio 2016 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
- Is It Really Okay to Fail? (Mike Cottmeyer)
Other Mobile Platforms
- iOS From Scratch With Swift: Building a Shopping List Application 1 and iOS From Scratch With Swift: Building a Shopping List Application 2 and iOS From Scratch With Swift: Where To Go Next (Bart Jacobs)
- 31 Days of TestComplete Mobile and Mobile Testing Approaches and Web-Based Testing: Testing Responsive Web Sites and Web-Based Testing: Scripting and Handling Page Differences and Web-Based Testing: Configuring Custom Virtual Browsers (Noel Rice)
- Introduction to Swift 2.0 (Mohammad Azam)
- Exploring Swift on Linux (Daniel Firsht)
- Working With JSON in Swift (Davis Allie)
- Mobile Bootcamp Part IV: Effectively monetize your app (Danielle Landress)
- Advanced Swift: Create Today Widget (Extension) (Mark Petherbridge)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Windows Workflow with Blake Helms and .NET Rocks! – GitHub Fundamentals with Bill Wagner and .NET Rocks! – Old Programmers with Gary Wisniewski (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Yet Another Podcast #145: John Sonmez (Jesse Liberty)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 184 #OTP (Richard Hay)
- Hanselminutes – Is QA a lost art? Node.js quality expert Stacy Kirk (Scott Hanselman)
- Webinar Recording: Mobile Testing Made Easy with Xamarin Test Recorder (Courtney Witmer)
- Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 39 (Vic Bonacci)
- 46 ngAir – What will happen to Angular in 2016? (Kent C. Dodds)
- 074 AiA NativeScript with Burke Holland and TJ VanToll (John Papa)
- The Changelog 189: JSON API with Yehuda Katz (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- The Married Gamers Episode 381: GOTY or GTFO (Chris Brown)
- Developer on Fire Episode 077 | Daniel Marbach – Geeking Out and Episode 079 | Greg Shackles – Not Just Mobile and Episode 080 | Jared Smith – Check Your Fear At the Door (Dave Rael)
- RunAs Radio – Windows as a Service with Mark Minasi (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 108 | Looking Back at our 2015 Cloud Predictions (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- SE Radio Episode 245: John Sonmez on Marketing Yourself and Managing Your Career (se-radio team)
Community / Events
Database
- New DAX functions in SQL Server 2016 (Daniel Calbimonte)
- Introducing a simplified configuration experience for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines (Ninar Nuemah)
- SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Browser and SQL Server 2016 – Enhancements with TempDB and SQL SERVER – FIX: SQLServerAgent is not currently running so it cannot be notified of this action. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 22022) and SQL SERVER – Script: Finding Cumulative IO Per Database File (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint
- Learn ASP.NET 5, MVC 6, Web API and SharePoint (Suprotim Agarwal)
PowerShell
- Using Curl in Powershell (Daniel Egan)
- PowerShell.org’s Nonprofit Status (Don Jones)
- Vagrant Powershell – The closest thing to vagrant ssh yet for windows (Matt Wrock)
More Link Collections
- Reading Notes #215 (Frank Boucher)
- #FridayFives to Kick Off the New Year! (MVP Award Program)
- Double Shot #1612 and Double Shot #1613 and Double Shot #1614 and Double Shot #1615 and Double Shot #1616 and Double Shot #1617 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Last Week on Channel 9: December 21st – December 27th, 2015 and Coding4Fun 2015 Round-Up and Last Week on Channel 9: December 28, 2015 – January 3rd, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
- Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (12/14-12/27) (Dara Monasch)
- The week in .NET – 12/29/2015 (Bertrand Le Roy)
- The Morning Brew #1998 and The Morning Brew #1999 and The Morning Brew #2000 and The Morning Brew #2001 (Chris Alcock)
- Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-31 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-01-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-01-04 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-31 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-01-01 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-01-04 (Dan Rigby)
- Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #73 (Adam J. Wolf)
- The Top 12 Xamarin Blog Posts of 2015 (Courtney Witmer)
- .NET Tips and Tricks – Code Metrics, Visual Studio and Application Insights – December 2015 Links (Abhijit Jana)
- Weekly C# Digest Issue #83 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- 2015 year-end link clearance (Raymond Chen)
- F# Weekly #1, 2016 – New Year Edition (Sergey Tihon)
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