Daily Links 29 Apr 2016

Two Reasons You May Want to Use Microsoft’s Project Orleans

Project Orleans: Different Than Erlang, Designed for a Broad Group of Developers

What is Azure Resource Manager?

Three Out Of This World Node 6 Features You Need to Know About

SnapGold with Azure, DocumentDB, UWP and more

GitHub Enterprise 2.6 is here with faster, more approachable workflows

Easy Crash Reporting for Your Universal Windows Apps using HockeyApp

Integrating NUnit into Visual Studio -- Update for NUnit 3

How to Secure an Android App

Behavior for view model driven animated popups in Xamarin Forms

Building Multitenant SaaS Applications with Tenant Isolation and Unlimited Scale on Azure SQL Database

Parameter Binding in ASP.NET Web API

ASP.NET MVC WebAPI - Optional parameters

Daily Links 25 Apr 2016

Free Xamarin Forms Wireframe Visio Stencil

Visio Shapes for jQuery Mobile

Xamarin Forms Wireframe Sketch Template

Xamarin.Forms Nugget – Card Shadows

Bridge.NET C# to Javascript

Haroopad: Free cross platform Markdown editor with wysiwyg editing

Git Branching and Release Strategy

Git: Comparing Workflows

Responding To Orientation Changes In Xamarin Forms

How To POST A String[] Array To A ASP .NET Web Api REST Service That Uses JSON, From A .NET 2.0 Assembly

The long road to Async/Await in JavaScript

Setting up Xamarin.iOS builds in Visual Studio Team Services 

Windows UWP Package Flights
Slow / Fast Ring release management for your app

Five tips for CI-friendly Git repos

DESIGNING AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE HAMBURGER MENU

The 7 Best Prototyping Tools for UI and UX Designers in 2016

Where to host your integration bus

Do Apps Based on Packaged Software Belong in the Cloud? Five Options to Consider

Enable your Visual Studio Emulator to make https calls to your IIS Web project

Step 1: Set up IIS

Follow the steps as outlined here.

Summary:

1. Create a self-signed certificate on the web server
2. On the Default Web site, create an ssl binding, using the certificate created in 1.
3. Configure SSL on the default web site to require SSL certificates, but ignore client certificates

Step 2: Add inbound rule for https port on the firewall

Basically - as far as I can make out - because the emulator is running on virtual machine, you need to open up your the port that it's communicating on to your machine for https calls.

Check out this article for more details on IIS Express and opening up a port.

Summary:

1. Open windows firewall | Advanced settings
2. Click "Inbound Rules" , and then "New Rule" 
3. Select "Port" as rule type
4. Add the https port number used in IIS to communicate (default is 443)
5. Leave default of "allow connection"
6. Check Private and Public 
7. Choose a name you will remember in case you need to disable it

A quick way to test if it's working is to browse your https web url from the emulator browser. If all is well, you should see something along the lines of:

Daily Links 18 Apr 2016

PayPal Integration Part 1: PayPal Payment Buttons

Introducing Xamarin Workbooks

The Evolution of Interactive C#

Xamarin Workbook

XAML edit and continue for WPF & UWP with Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

Getting started with Microsoft Bot Framework

Remote Debug ASP.NET Core RC1 on Azure App Service

High performance message processing with disruptor.net

Modern Tech Stack for ASP.NET Apps

Entity Framework Code First Migrations

BOLSTERING HTTPS SECURITY

How to host your own NuGet Server and Package Feed

Nexus Repository Manager (free)
Docker ; Nuget ; npm ; Bower support

FreshEssentials for Xamarin.Forms – The must-have nuget for Forms

Adding smooth transitions when navigating in your UWP app

Using Xamarin Forms Effects

Daily Links 2 April 2016

Custom Map for Xamarin Forms
Draggable, Customizable Pins ; Map Click Commands etc

Custom domains, SSL and Azure

ASP.NET Implementing a CI/CD pipeline

Developer's introduction to Azure IoT

How to Debug any Library Source Code Using ReSharper

Personalized Experiences with Azure Mobile Apps Authentication

Git for Windows with TortoiseGit and GitHub

Git Extensions
Windows and Visual Studio Integration

NLog
Opensource Logging framework for .NET platforms (including Xamarin)

PushSharp
Server-side library for mobile device push notifications

COMPARING ANGULAR, AURELIA AND REACT: IS THERE A NEXT-GEN JS FRAMEWORK THAT RULES THEM ALL?

Google Accessibility Scanner for Android

Xamarin Forms 2.1 upgrade–some surprises (and how to get around it)

Holo Dev 101 - Getting started with HoloLens Development

15 resources for free background textures

Paint.Net effects
Including a nifty drop-shadow