Month: January 2014

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 (S.Somasegar)
• Announcing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 (Daniel Roth)
• WPF Everywhere…For REAL this time…. (Rob Eisenberg)
• Diagnosing issues with reversible data transformations (Jon Skeet)

 

Web Development

• Create a Router in Node.js using crossroads (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Return types, action parameters and data annotations now available in Web API 2.1 Help Page (Filip W)
• Setting up Debugging Environment for ASP.NET Katana and Windows Azure Active Directory (Hanu K.)
• RouteConfig part for WCF svc files in MVC to avoid the 404 http status code (Kris van der Mast)
• Identity in your own apps with Windows Azure Active Directory (Martina Grom & Toni Pohl)
• Implementing ASP.NET Identity (K. Scott Allen)
• Pruning Web Sites for Higher Yield and Easier Maintenance (Chris Love)
• Image workflow using Web Essentials 2013 (Mads Kristensen)
• Changing Between Spaces and Tabs in Sublime Text (Chris Coyier)
• Dot Navigation Styles (Mary Lou)
• Using the ExtJS SimManager To Provide Mock JSON Data To a Store Proxy (Peter Kellner)

 

XAML

• Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools (MS Downloads)
• Announcing Spinkit.Xaml (Nigel Sampson)
• A MVVM Visual State solution for your Windows Phone app (Johan Silfversparre)
• Non-Blocking Initialization Code to run at Startup on Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #991 – Specifying which Field Is Used for Finding an Item by Typing (Sean Sexton)
• How not to highlight alternate items in a virtualised list (Matt Lacey)
• Simulating Click Event on ApplicationBarIconButton (Toni Petrina)
• Understanding and resolving failures in Windows Store apps (Gretchen Loihle & Andrew Richards)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Resources from talk “Expose CRUD operation as WCF SOAP and REST” (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ReSharper 8.1.1 Goes EAP: More TypeScript Support + Fixes (Jura Gorohovsky)
• In Praise of TestDriven.NET (Mike Hadlow)
• “Add Service Reference”: When WCF Metadata Goes Wrong (Sasha Goldshtein)
• VS 2013.1 (Update 1) is available (Brian Harry)
• How do I get a high resolution icon for a file? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,015 – Rendering a Byte Array as a Series of Hex Characters (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 7 Days of Agile Results: Day 2 – Monday (Monday Vision) (JD Meier)
• Article: Interfacing between Linear Waterfall and Agile Approaches (Michael Nir)
• Fundamentals of Agile Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Half Arsed Agile Manifesto (Peter Saddington)
• nodemon 1.0 (Remy Sharp)
• Book Review: The Lean Mindset (Bill Wagner)
• Convincing Your CEO to Adopt Extreme Programming (Cory Foy)
• Lean Software Architecture: Build The Simplest Thing – Part 2 of 3 (Cory House)
• It’s High Time to Learn Git (John Papa)
• Test Pain (Gil Zilberfeld)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Storytelling for User Experience – $10.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• SOLID: Part 2 – The Open/Closed Principle (Patkos Csaba)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• A Collection of Objective-C Style Guides (Alex Curylo)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Entity Framework 6 with Julie Lerman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Aaron Eckhart (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools: #74 – Windows 8.1 – Frame.GetNavigationState Crash | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• YUIConf 2013 Talk: David Gomez on Forget Everything You Know About Testing, and Start Testing! (Andrew Wooldridge)

 

Community / Events

• The RavenDB Conference – April 7 – 11 (Oren Eini)
• How I Met My Dream Job, Left It, And Why I’m Returning To Build Products And Services (Derick Bailey)
• Google Code-in 2013 – drumroll please! (Scott Knaster)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – SQLWays – Database and Application Migration Tool (Pinal Dave)
• Big Data Search: The index format is horrible (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• New book: Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Administration Inside Out (Kim Spilker)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell in a Month – Day 11 – Filtering (Steve Jones)
• New book: Windows PowerShell Best Practices (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8.1 Power User Guide for Business (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft set to announce a new CEO? (Kip Kniskern)
• Move your Active Directory domain to another server (Martin Hinshelwood)
• AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer (Slashdot)
• 14 tips, tricks and secrets of Windows Phone 8 (Luke)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 21, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, January 20, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 20, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1282 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1530 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-21 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 21, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/21/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Blog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #67 (Jason Strate)

 

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