1Gig-Tech #2 - ASP.NET, Win10, Office 2016, Xamarin, ElasticSearch

Welcome to 1Gig Tech for 11 Jul, 2015!

In today's edition, there are 15 articles on technology, news, open source, community on the fantastic and ever evolving technology world.

• Deploying ASP.NET 5 application to Azure Web App with Git
  I haven’t found any official docs about publishing ASP.NET 5 applications to Azure using source control (continuous deployment), but I thought I’ll give it a try. I failed at first and I asked whether it’s even possible on Twitter: Hi @michaldudak that's a very good question.

• react-ui-builder
  This tool is a visual builder of React JS components for your web application. In builder you can easily combine available components with each other, and see how they look and feel right on a web page.

• Just released: Windows 10 Application Deployment tool (Windows Apps Team)
  With the latest release of Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 10166, we are excited to introduce the Windows 10 Application Deployment (WinAppDeployCmd.exe) tool.

• Windows 10 Insiders can now install the Office 2016 Preview (Richard Devine)
  As we get ever closer to the big Windows 10 launch, Insiders are today being emailed informing them that the Office 2016 Preview can now be installed on preview builds of the new OS. The Office 2016 Preview is currently open to all in 32- and 64-bit forms.

• Don't Waste Time On Cross Browser Testing
  Browsers Mobile Simulators Reporting Side By Side Find cross-browser issues in minutes Easily switch between all major desktop browsers You don't need more than 5 minutes to test any website in all major desktop browsers. Anytime all browsers are just 1 click away.

• R Consortium aims to strengthen data analysis (Thor Olavsrud)
  The Linux Foundation today announced the formation of the R Consortium, intended to strengthen the technical and user communities around the R language,  a specialized programming language for statistical data analysis.

• Build native iOS, Android and Mac apps in C#
  Mobile development skills are in demand, and Xamarin for Students gives you an edge over the competition. With Xamarin for Students, you can build native iOS, Android, and Windows apps with Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio, for free.

• Installing Windows 10: A pictorial walkthrough (Ng Chong Seng)
  With Windows 10 for PCs and tablets due end of this month, and the fact that Microsoft is pushing out preview builds left, right, and center recently, we thought it’s time to revisit the installation process to see how it differs from previous versions of Windows and the early WIndows 10 builds.

• Share Your Open Source Extension on the Visual Studio Gallery! (Heath Stewart)
  In a recent post on Extending Visual Studio 2015 we shared how easy it is to create Visual Studio extensions. We also shared links to our improved docs and to our presence on GitHub.

• UNITY 3D – Leap Motion Integration (Vahe Karamian)
  The future of human computer interaction (HCI) is about to have a paradigm shift.

• Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services, Worldwide
  Public cloud storage is infrastructure as a service (IaaS) that provides object storage services through a REST API using Internet protocols. The service is stand-alone with no requirement for additional managed services.

• SQL Server Brain Basher of the Week #018 - Single insert with multiple rows (Dinesh Priyankara)
  Here is a basic concept you should know. It is about inserting records, specifically inserting multiple records with a single insert statement. Can we insert multiple rows using a single insert statement? Yes, this is possible, however code has to be constructed as per the version of SQL Server.

• Windows Server 2003 Migration Resources! (Jeffadude)
  It’s hard to believe that it's been 12 years since we released Windows Server 2003! On March 28th 2003 I received a ship-it award for the role I played in helping to make Windows Server 2003 ready for enterprise customers.

• Hey Azure, how's my Cloud Service doing?
  The Azure Management APIs give you a lot of useful stats and you can easily use them to build a customised dashboard for an instant healthcheck of your Azure estate.

• Visualizing Elasticsearch Watcher events using ASP.NET 5, SignalR and Angular (damienbod)
  This article shows how to display Elasticsearch Watcher events in an Angular UI using SignalR. The Elasticsearch Watcher events are sent to a MVC 6 controller in an ASP.NET 5 application.

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Thanks,
Puneet Ghanshani