Links 11/17/2016

• 45 (and counting) ASP.NET Core Samples
• The Advanced Uses of Razor Views in ASP.NET MVC
• Introducing Visual Studio Mobile Center (Preview)
• WinAppDriver - Test any app with Appium's Selenium-like tests on Windows
• My notes from learning React & JSX
• How to MongoDB in C# – Part 1
• IMPLEMENTING UNIT TESTING – GOALS
• Five Days of Azure Functions
• Triggering a Microsoft Flow from an HTTP Post
• Advanced SpecFlow: 4 Ways for Handling Parameters Properly
• 9 Docker .NET App Templates: A Complete Guide
• Free local development using the DocumentDB Emulator plus .NET Core support
• Visual Studio Code just keeps getting better - with extensions
• Stateless 3.0 - A State Machine library for .NET Core
• Swagger
• Cooking with ASP.NET Core and Angular 2
• Implement ASP.NET 4 MVC Application Security in Angular 2 Using OData 4
• Serverless Computing and Workflows with Azure Functions and Microsoft Flow
• jQuery MVC: Move Listbox Items From One Listbox to Another With jQuery And Detect At Controller End
• Fluent API Libraries for Azure .NET SDK

Links For 11/07/2016

• Microsoft Flow
• Introducing Microsoft Flow Admin Center
• LEARN .NET CORE BY EXAMPLE
• Free ASP.NET Core 1.0 Training on Microsoft Virtual Academy
• ASP.NET Core RESTful Web API versioning made easy
• Exploring ServiceStack's simple and fast web services on .NET Core
• Hello World! in Angular 2 using Visual Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 4
• Getting Started with Angular 2
• Mads Kristensen Extensions
• Fat Controller CQRS Diet: Simple Query
• CQRS/MediatR implementation patterns
• C# 7.0 : Tuples to the Extreme!
• JavaScript Stack from Scratch
• What is Serverless Architecture?
• Creating and Debugging Azure Functions Locally
• The SaaS CTO Security Checklist
• The Myth of Sloppy Code
• React with Redux: A Stable, Powerful and Scalable Combination - Part 1
• RxJs.Samples
• Exploring Application Insights for disconnected or connected deep telemetry in ASP.NET Apps

Links for 0_17_2016

• Cake for Visual Studio released
• Cake Build - A C# Make cross platform build automation system with Patrik Svensson
• Cake!... Baking a new Build with C# Make
• LEARNING .NET CORE BY EXAMPLE
• Hosting .NET Core Services on Service Fabric
• Exploring ASP.NET Core with Docker in both Linux and Windows Containers
• Docker Cheat Sheet
• Manage Azure App Service Deployments with Deployment Slots
• Simpler Azure Management Libraries for .NET
• Go serverless for the enterprise with Microsoft Azure Functions
• Orchestrating and automating deployments with Octopus Deploy and Damian Brady

Links for 09_22_2016

• Asynchronous Programming in C# using Async Await – Best Practices
• What Great .NET Developers Ought To Know (More .NET Interview Questions)
• Self-contained .NET Core Applications
• Putting (my VB6) Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store - Project Centennial
• Multi-Step Input Forms in ASP.NET MVC
• Introducing Angular Modules - Feature Modules
• Introducing Angular Modules - Routing Module
• Introducing Angular Modules - Root Module
• Create React App
• Routing React Apps: The Complete Guide
• Xamarin and Azure
• Introducing the Azure Track in Xamarin University
• Custom ASP.NET Core Middleware Example
• Here's how broken today's web will feel in Chrome's secure-by-default future
• The Dotnet Watch Tool
• Awesome JS microservices in the cloud for (almost) free
• Tailoring your app for Xbox and the TV (App Dev on Xbox series)
• API Stylebook
• So, What Makes a Good User Story
• 16 New Tools and Extensions for Visual Studio
• Bridge

links for 09_09_2016

• Creating Powershell Modules the Easy Way!
• Is JavaScript Single-Threaded?
• How to Use the react-redux Package
• Don't Throw Away All Those web.config Settings
• 9 Docker .NET App Templates: A Complete Guide
• Awesome.net
• Using Let’s Encrypt for free automated SSL certificates
• YOU'RE USING HTTPCLIENT WRONG AND IT IS DESTABILIZING YOUR SOFTWARE
• Microservices: Real Architectural Patterns
• Learning Angular 2: Tour of Heroes Tutorial, HTTP
• Containers – An Index
• Polymer, React and Angular using Visual studio 2015
• Creating a Serverless Backend for Mobile Apps
• Automating Builds with Cake (C# Make)
• What is Serverless Computing? Exploring Azure Functions
• THE BASICS OF PUBLISHING YOUR .NET CORE WEB APP
• Accelerate your insights with Application Insights Performance Counters
• Moving to ASP.NET MVC Core 1
• Tutorial: Using Entity Framework Core as an In-Memory Database for ASP.NET Core
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Links for 08_17_2016

• Why I’m leaving React behind
• Visual Studio's most useful (and underused) tips
• Visual Studio 2015 - Fixing "Dependencies npm not installed" from fsevents with node on Windows
• Two tools for quick and easy web application load testing during development
• Exploring a minimal WebAPI with ASP.NET Core
• How to Use React with Visual Studio and ASP.NET Web API
• Creating a simple API with ASP.NET Core
• Building Multi-Tenant Applications with Paul Stovell
• Create high quality mobile apps with Ionic & Visual Studio
• https://jonhilton.net/2016/08/04/compile-your-changes-on-the-fly-with-net-core/
• State of React #1: A Stateless React App?
• Handling domain events
• Easy to Miss Code Smells
• Microsoft Azure platform Demystified - Part One
• Microsoft Azure Platform and its AWS equivalent - Part two
• Using ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core and ASP.NET Boilerplate to Create NLayered Web Application (Part I)
• Deploying an Angular 2 App to Azure with Github
• Exploring a minimal WebAPI with .NET Core and NancyFX
• ASP.NET Core Template Pack
• Building Ambitious Web Applications with Ember.js
• AKKA SERIES
• Service Bus and the new Azure portal
• HOW TO ADD MVC TO YOUR ASP.NET CORE WEB APPLICATION
• Incremental backups on Microsoft Azure Backup: Save on long term storage
• Enumeration classes
• Enum Alternatives in C#
• I wanna go fast: HTTPS' massive speed advantage

Links for 07_25_2016

• Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
• Developer Productivity in VS 2015 and VS 15
• WebStorm 2016.2: Drag files into HTML and quotes style
• Always Encrypted now generally available in Azure SQL Database
• Exploring dotnet new with .NET Core
• Self-care matters: Pay yourself first
• Where's DNVM? Safely running multiple versions of the .NET Core SDK and Tooling with global.json
• .NET Core 1.0 is now released!
• Run Additional Test Code with SpecFlow 2 Hooks
• Developer's introduction to Azure IoT
• Everything you need to know about loading a free Let's Encrypt certificate into an Azure website
• CAKE: Building solutions with C# & Roslyn
• How we upgrade a live data center
• Application configuration in .NET Core – Part 1
• Securing ASP.NET Web API

Links 6/27/2016

• 3 WAYS TO SPOT IF YOUR CONTROLLER IS DOING TOO MUCH
• Software Performance & Scalability: A Cheatsheet
• Forgotten (but Awesome) Windows Command Prompt Features
• Stop saying learning to code is easy.
• FAKE: Build ASP.NET projects with web.config transformation (and without knowing a tiny bit of F#)
• Angular 1.x styleguide (ES2015)
• Application Insights: Work item integration with Visual Studio Team Services
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Automated Acceptance Tests with SpecFlow and Selenium Part 1
• Working with HTTP – An Introduction to Angular 2
• Creating and Injecting Services – An Introduction to Angular 2
• Bootstrapping Your App – An Introduction to Angular 2
• Writing Your First Component – An Introduction to Angular 2
• Thank you for watching dotnetConf 2016!
• Creating Your Code Review Checklist
• 10 Lessons from a Long Running DDD Project – Part 2
• CQRS and REST: the perfect match
• SOLID Principles | Building a Visual Studio Console App
• Automated Testing of Message Based System
• 10 Lessons from a Long Running DDD Project – Part 1
• Reliable and “Debuggable” Automated Testing of Message Based Systems in a Crazy Async World
• 10 Minutes to User Authentication in ASP.NET

Links 6/8/2016

• ASP.NET MVC Boilerplate
• Chess TDD 62: Finishing Chess TDD
• MSBuild Structured Log: record and visualize your builds
• ASP.NET Core and VS Code
• The Plain Simple Password Page Not So Simple Anymore
• Builder: C#
• Free as in ... HTTPS certificates? [Obtaining and configuring a free HTTPS certificate for an Azure Web App with a custom domain]
• The Angular 2 CLI and TypeScript
• Tic-Tac-Toe in Angular 2 and TypeScript
• Angular 2 : Giving Your CLI a Server
• Angular 2 : A Re-Quickstart using the CLI
• Debugging AngularJS in Visual Studio 2015
• ADDING SQL LOCALIZATION DATA USING AN ANGULAR 2 FORM AND ASP.NET CORE

Links of Interest 5/16/2016

• Chess TDD 60: Wrapping Initial Development
• Stack Overflow: A Technical Deconstruction
• Announcing Azure Mobile Services transition to Azure App Service
• Build Video Chat using AngularJS 1.x
• Free Course on Creating a New JavaScript Framework
• Writing API Controllers in ASP.NET MVC 6
• Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Documentation
• JSON functionalities in Azure SQL Database (public preview)
• Callback Functions in JavaScript
• Angular, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect – Session Slides and Code
• Build A Unity Game Part 1
• How to design HTML5 games
• The Journey to Angular: Part 1
• Integrating ASP.NET MVC and Angular JS
• AngularJS 2
• Scrum with Trello
• ANGULAR 2 BEST PRACTICES: CHANGE DETECTOR PERFORMANCE
• Yield return in C#
• Angular 2 : Continuous Integration to Azure using Codeship and the Angular CLI
• Announcing MSBuild Structured Log: record and visualize your builds
• WHAT SHOULD I LEARN IN ORDER TO DEVELOP MODERN ASP.NET WEB PROJECTS?
• Everything You Need To Program Components In Angular 1.5

Links for 5/4/2016

May the 4th be with you!!

1. 14 Tools For Microsoft Azure Development
2. Angular 2: Getting Started With Visual Studio 2015
3. Fritz’s 10 Minute Tips – Where did my bundles go in ASP.NET Core?
4. A development workflow with Docker and .NET Core
5. 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 1 – Setup
6. Install Gulp and Bower using Visual Studio 2015 in ASP.NET 5 project.
7. BUILDING MICROSERVICES USING AZURE SERVICE FABRIC 2.0
8. Are you learning Docker yet
9. 20 of the Most Popular HTML5 Game Templates
10. Building Multitenant SaaS Applications with Tenant Isolation and Unlimited Scale on Azure SQL Database
11. Why Azure REST API
12. Adding HTTPS To Your Web Site
13. Do This To Increase Your Client Side Web Development Speed
14. A practical overview of Service Fabric
15. Implementing A Publish And Subscribe (Pub/Sub) Service In Angular 2 Beta 14
16. Waterfall.js

Links for 4/19/2016

Some useful reading...

• ASP.Net – Ensure your Actions aren’t missing Authorization with Unit Tests
• Angular 2 typescript configuration and debugging for Visual Studio 2015
• Azure Marketplace Resources for Startups
• Play Azure DocumentDB with MongoDB Protocol
• ASP.NET Core Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection
• Marmalade makes it easy to create games that run cross-platform
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Server Configuration as Code with PowerShell DSC
• Zero Downtime
• Give yourself permission to have work-life balance
• Exploring Prefix: A Free ASP.NET Profiling Tool
• Live Application Metrics from Application Insights – Live Stream Metrics
• New Features Of Entity Framework 7
• Big Ideas Behind Angular2
• Build Your First Mobile App With Ionic 2 & Angular 2 - Part 1
• 5 Rookie Mistakes to Avoid with Angular 2

Links for 4_7_2016

Good Reading...

• angular-2-typescript-and-html-snippets-for-vs-code
• asp-net-core-and-angular-2
• Implementing SQL Elastic Pools for affordable SQL Azure databases
• Introducing Azure Functions
• Free eBook:. Visual Studio Code - Tips & Tricks Vol 1 (English / German)
• SpecFlow 2 Cheat Sheet
• Moving to Cake (C# Make)
• Getting Started With Angular 2 Step by Step: 1 - Your First Component
• Introducing Application Insights Analytics
• Migrating From ASP.NET MVC 5 to MVC 6
• How To Mimic Azure Web Sites Deployment Slots In A Basic Plan

Links 3/30/2016

• Using Specflow to test Web API - PART 1
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Microservices: An application revolution powered by the cloud
• Deploy an MVC Application to a Container
• Docker for Windows Beta announced
• Writing Tests Doesn’t Have to Be Extra Work
• On a Cloud: Data Storage Techniques
• Introducing LINQPad.QueryPlanVisualizer
• Software Lessons from Property Brothers
• CQRS with Decoupled Messaging - Part I

Links for 3_7_2016

• Beginner's Guide to VS Code: Up and Running in Ten Minutes
• Better single-page apps with ASP.NET MVC 6 - Steve Sanderson NDC2016
• Separation of Concerns: Application Builds & Continuous Integration.
• Game Templates, Construct 2
• ASP.NET WebHooks and Slack Slash Commands
• Domain-Driven Design: Object-Orientation Done Right
• Benchmarking .NET code
• Death of a Scrum Room
• Agile Approaches in Test Planning
• Developing ASP.NET Apps in Docker Containers
• The SOLID Principles in Real Life

2016-2-19 Links of Interest

• Sending ASP.NET WebHooks from Azure WebJobs (Link)
• On Being the Governor of your Azure Dev/Test Environments
• Lumberyard + Amazon GameLift + Twitch for Games on AWS
• Agile Software Delivery with #NoEstimates
• My tryst with IoT (Internet of Things) –Part 1
• Developing the widget
• Building Real time application with SignalR – Part 1
• Some thoughts on current trends
• Azure Redis Cache, the fast in-memory cache service
• The Error Model
• The Significance of Free SSL on Azure Web Sites
• I Hated JavaScript
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – A Lap Around the Contoso University Sample Application
• Service discovery – part 1

Links of Interest 1_29_2016

1. Powerful Integration Testing
2. Getting Started with Selenium Testing in a Continuous Integration Pipeline with Visual Studio
3. Library of plugins is a collection of ready-made decisions for front-end development
4. Service Fabric
5. Service Fabric Getting Started Samples
6. Handling Lists of Selectable Items in ASP.NET MVC
7. (Not so) Stupid Question 284-287: What is cyclomatic complexity, how do you calculate it and what does the score mean?
8. Implementing a CI/CD pipeline
9. Micro service based architecture
10. Keeping Promises With JavaScript
11. AZURE BITES: MICROSERVICES IN AZURE
12. Using ASP.NET 5 and EF7 with Modern Web Dev Tools like AngularJS and Grunt
13. Goodbye Child Actions, Hello View Components

Links of Interest 1_19_2016

• JavaScrip Tips
• AZURE INSIGHTS
• Getting started with Azure API Apps and Azure MVC web App in Azure App Service
• Sharing Tables Between Two or More SQL Servers using Couchbase
• Deploying Microservices Architecture with C#, Part 1
• Microservices in C# Part 1: Building and Testing
• MicroService4Net - Create Micro Services Easily with C#
• Micro Services Architecture – A Practical Look
• Do One Thing And Do It Well
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Links of Interest 1_12_2016

• Getting Started with PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio
• Cake Build
• Asynchronous Everything
• Using Azure Storage Queues from .NET
• Complex Custom Tag Helpers in MVC 6
• New Year Updates to ASP.NET WebHooks Preview
• Securing ASP.NET Web API using Token Based Authentication and using it in Angular.js application
• Entity Framework Performance and What You Can Do About It
• Creating a prototype chain in Javascript
• Why build scripts?
• In-Memory Queue with Web API 2 and Websockets