A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T.

Dirk Strauss

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Feature link: Azure SQL Elastic Database Pools

• Better Density and Lower Prices for Azure’s SQL Elastic Database Pools, Scott Gu

Other

• Visual Studio Online – output colouring by tag, Ruslan Albu
• If statements: Do you really need them in your code?, Samer Buna
• #VS2015 – Do you need #Xamarin Forms Designer? This may help you, Bruno Capuano
• Using cross-app communication to make apps work together (10 by 10), Rajen Kishna
• SQL SERVER – Finding If Date is LastDay of the Month, Pinal Dave

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Even More

• The iPhone 6S is as powerful as Apple’s new MacBook, test claims, Lisa Eadicicco
• iPhone ad blocking apps will ‘only’ cost $1 billion in lost advertising revenues, Lara O’Reilly
• Introducing availability of Office 365 Groups in Outlook 2016, Christophe Fiessinger
• Office 2016 for Windows 10, Terry Myerson
• Introducing Office 365 Planner, Howard Crow

Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 Goodness

• Windows 10 courses in MVA, Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Developer for Windows 10
  • What’s New
  • Get Started
  • Design
  • Develop
  • Publish
• Channel 9 – A great online resource for Windows 10 related videos
• Developer Tools Download, Download any Visual Studio sku’s, including VS 2015

For more excellent content, have a look at these great sites

• TechLife Stream – Fresh From The Internet
• Abhijit’s World of .NET, Abhijit Jana
• Lock Me Down – Security For The Everyday Developer by Max McCarty
• GeekLift
• James Michael Hare
• Interesting Finds by Jason Haley
• FormatException by Brian Mullen
• Dew Drop by Alvin Ashcraft
• Regular Geek by Robert Diana
• Weekly C# Digest, Jakub Chodounský