Top Links
- Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RTM and Visual Studio “15” Preview Now Available (John Montgomery)
 - Introducing NuGet 3.4 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
 - Updates for Debugging Installed App Packages in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 (Kaycee Anderson)
 - Windows 10 Anniversary Update brings New Experiences and Developer Opportunity (Terry Myerson)
 - Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10 (Scott Hanselman)
 
Web Development
- How To Mimic Azure Web Sites Deployment Slots In A Basic Plan (Chris Love)
 - Entity Framework Core with ASP.NET Core Overview (Shahed Chowdhuri)
 - Writing React apps using Bridge.NET – The Dan Way (Part Three) (Dan)
 - Something ridiculous in ES6 (glazou)
 - Microsoft Translator brings end-to-end speech translation to everyone with the world’s first Speech Translation API (Microsoft Translator)
 - Announcing template export feature in Azure Resource Manager (Mike Chen)
 - Global Cloud – Active-Active and Beyond (Peter D. Stout)
 
XAML
- Windows 10 Anniversary SDK is bringing exciting opportunities to developers (Kevin Gallo)
 - Build 2016: Microsoft Makes the Case for UWP to Developers (Paul Thurrott)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- R Tool for Visual Studio—Predictive Analytics for C# Applications (Marissa Keller Outten)
 - Singleton Implementation: C# (Ted Neward)
 - VS2015 Update 2 and TFS 2015 Update 2 have shipped (Brian Harry)
 - New Build 2016 Partner Extensions in the Visual Studio Team Services Marketplace (Ed Blankenship)
 - UserVoice Suggestions Completed in Visual Studio 2015 (Eric Battalio)
 - Enabling C# 7 Features in Visual Studio “15” Preview (Filip W.)
 - Generate C# Code for Google Protobuf Definition in VS 2015 (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
 - Strong typing DisplayAttribute reference to Resources (Miha Markic)
 - Announcing the .NET Framework 4.6.2 Preview (Stacey Haffner)
 - Announcing the VC++ 2015 Migration Virtual Development Laboratory (Eric Mittelette)
 - Visual C++ for Linux Development (Marc Goodner)
 - Optimizing the Layout of Empty Base Classes in VS2015 Update 2 (Vinny Romano)
 - Value Objects: Entity Framework vs NHibernate (Vladimir Khorikov)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How To Be a Better Listener (J.D. Meier)
 - Agile and Lean Program Management is Done (Johanna Rothman)
 - Executing Automated tests in Build vNext using Test Plan, Test Suites (Atin Bansal)
 - How to Add Static Analysis to Your Development Process (Erik Dietrich)
 - On the potential of Bash on Windows in a DevOps world (Matteo Emili)
 - What is interrupt testing Interruptions are never welcomed. Not just in our live… (Purva Kawatra)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Xamarin Forms 2.1 upgrade–some surprises (and how to get around it) (Joost van Schaik)
 - Code Reuse in Angular 2 Native Mobile Apps with NativeScript (Brad Green)
 - An Introduction to Model View Presenter on Android (Tin Megali)
 - Xamarin Android List Views and MVVM Light (Richard Woollcott)
 - Build 2016: Microsoft HoloLens is Now Available (Paul Thurrott)
 - Holo Dev 101 – Getting started with HoloLens Development (Rene Schulte)
 - Announcing UI for NativeScript—True Native Cross-Platform UI (Shravanthi Alimilli)
 - Building Polished Mobile Apps with Telerik UI for NativeScript (TJ VanToll)
 - Build Ionic Apps in Minutes with VS Code (Parashuram N.)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- 016 jsAir – JavaScript Frameworks: Vue.js with Taylor Otwell and Evan You (Kent C. Dodds)
 - 205 JSJ Shasta with Eric Schoffstall (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
 - Lock Me Down Show 7: Stuxnet the Story of Digital Sabotage (Max McCarty)
 - RiYL Episode 161: Stern Pinball CEO Gary Stern (Brian Heater)
 - Developer on Fire Episode 117 | Joyce Akiko – Life On Your Terms (Dave Rael)
 - Web.Dev Show 3: The Role of C++ in the Modern Web (David Voyles)
 - SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 37: Power BI (Lynn Swayze)
 - Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 120 | Microsoft invests in Mesosphere, Docker for Mac, Windows and Azure, Google Cloud, Office 365 Connectors and Microsoft’s Build Conference (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
 
Community / Events
- Diversity at NDC Oslo 2016 (Karoline Klever)
 - Git Merge is sold out: see what’s on tap (Alaine Newland)
 - Build 2016: Windows 10 “Redstone” to be Branded as Anniversary Update (Paul Thurrott)
 - Microsoft Build: The top 10 reasons Day 1 rocked it for developers (Suzanne Choney)
 - Philly Nerd Nite No 59: Hydrography, Drosophila, and Mitochondria! Music by Pat Finnerty! (Nerd Nite Team)
 
Database
- How to sync an entity in SQL Server 2016 Master Data Services (Koen Verbeeck)
 - SQL Server Referential Integrity without Foreign Keys (Sergey Gigoyan)
 - SQL SERVER – Finding If Status of Bulk Logging Enabled or Not From Logs (Pinal Dave)
 
PowerShell
- Download #Build 2016 Sessions Using PowerShell (Alexandre Brisebois)
 - Export Azure Resource Groups to ARM Templates with PowerShell (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Azure PowerShell 1.3.0 – PowerShell Gallery installation improvements (Mark Cowlishaw)
 - Configure the firewall profile with DSC (Part 2) (Emin Atac)
 
Miscellaneous
- The Future of Pen: Windows Ink (Aaron Woodman)
 - Run Bash on Ubuntu on Windows (Mike Harsh)
 
More Link Collections
- Windows App Developer Links – 2016-03-31 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-03-31 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Morning Brew #2062 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #1667 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Geek Reading March 30, 2016 #1073 (Robert Diana)
 - Coding4Fun First Quarter 2016 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
 
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