Month: August 2014

Top Links

• Visual Studio “14” CTP 3 Released (John Montgomery)
• Announcing new F12 dev tools features in August update (IE Team)
• Tabbed Page in Xamarin Forms XAML and Carousel Page in Xamarin Forms XAML and Navigation Page in Xamarin Forms XAML and Content Page in Xamarin Forms XAML (Richard Garside)
• ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 3 (Xinyang Qiu)

Web Development

• Sample App With ASP.NET Web API and ReactJS (Shiju Varghese)
• Creating Custom AngularJS Directives Part 3 – Isolate Scope and Function Parameters (Dan Wahlin)
• How To Add Page Transitions with CSS and smoothState.js (Chris Coyier)
• ASP.NET vNext – Alpha3 (David Fowler)
• Integrate ASP.NET with a 3rd Party Security Service (Jeff Fritz)
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Client-side templates (Jimmy Bogard)
• Server Paging, Sorting, and Filtering with Kendo DataSourceRequest (Josh Eastburn)
• Common Pattern in ASP.NET Razor For Clean cshtml Pages (Peter Kellner)
• Deleting elements from an JavaScript array and closing up the gaps (Raymond Chen)
• Knockout 3.2.0 released (Steve Sanderson)
• ASP.NET MVC 6: Reading form values (Gunnar Peipman)
• Permanent redirect to HTTPS with IIS (Phillip Haydon)
• Chrome Fires Its Big Gun At Pointer Events, Hurts Developers and End Users In the Process (Chris Love)
• Mock RequireJS define dependencies with config.map (Kevin Logan)
• API Management Made Easy (Bob Familiar)
• Printing a Webview (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Master Chief, CreateJS & TypeScript (Meshack Musundi)
• WebSharper UI Improvements (panesofglass)
• Sketcher 3 of 3 (Sacha Barber)
• Features of ES6 Part 4: Rest Parameters (K. Scott Allen)
• App-Stitch Demo Secrets – Exposed! (Michael Washington)

XAML

• StorageHelper – For Windows Phone + Silverlight app developers (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,136 – WPF Controls Are Lookless and #1,137 – Value Converter Basics and #1,138 – Value Converter Example for Output and #1,139 – Value Converter Example for Input (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Media Controls Class Hierarchy (Richard Carr)
• New Article Published about Develop Windows Universal Apps (Michael Crump)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Troubleshooting, when F5 debugging can’t help you (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio “14” CTP 3 available (Brian Harry)
• PerfTips: Performance Information at-a-glance while Debugging with Visual Studio (Dan J Taylor)
• Visual Studio “14” CTP 3 Now Available (Eric Battalio)
• Briefly exploring C# 6 new features (Hassan Hashemi)
• Customers not getting the widgets they paid for if they click too fast -or- In C#, the += operator is not merely not guaranteed to be atomic, it is guaranteed not to be atomic and The scope of the C# checked/unchecked keyword is static, not dynamic (Raymond Chen)
• Visual Studio “14” CTP 3 and Entity Framework (Rowan Miller)
• C# 6.0 Features Part II : Primary Constructors (K. Scott Allen)
• [Tutorial & Sample] WCF Data Services Entity Framework Provider is updated with WCF Data Service 5.6.2 (Zoe Luo)
• Bing Developer Assistant Beta for Visual Studio updated to include sample browser, offline support and more… (Greg Duncan)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Hello (Skeletal) World for the .NET Windows 8.1 App Developer (Mike Taulty)
• Logging in Entity Framework (Steve Smith)
• VS Online outage last week (Brian Harry)
• Why I Use Crashlytics – Part 2 (Donn Felker)
• Running TAP (Phillip Trelford)
• 2000 C# Things #1,160 – Implementing Events Defined in an Interface and #1,161 – Explicit Implementation of Events in Interface and #1,162 – Virtual Events Support Polymorphism and #1,163 – An Abstract Event Has No Implementation (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Three-Factor Theory: Creating Employee Engagement (J.D. Meier)
• Thoughts on Unit Testing vs Ad-hoc Testing with Asynchronous Code (Jonathan Allen)
• Support for Agile Teams in Visual Studio 2013 and TFS 2013 (Subodh Sohoni)
• YAGNI – You Aren’t Going To Need It (Dave M. Bush)
• GitHub for Windows now supports @mentions (Amy Palamountain)
• Continuous Integration: A View into appendTo’s Process (Jordan Kasper)
• 4 Keys To Successful Team-Based Code Coverage (Kerry Meade)
• Are your users your biggest security problem? (Mary Branscombe)
• Test Attribute #10 – Isolation and What Is An MVP? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Sencha Architect — Team Development in the Real World (Part 1 of 3) (Richard G Milone)
• Using Application Insights to aid in A/B Testing (Vlad J.)
• The cost of dead code and the only technique you need to know to clean it up (Wes McClure)
• Pirates ship ALM Readiness Treasure Map v3 release for Windows 8.1 (Willy-P. Schaub)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Setting Up Push Notifications on iOS (Bart Jacobs)
• Targeting a Device Type with Cordova Emulate (Raymond Camden)
• Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms: Layout Options (Derek Jensen)
• Running Cordova Multi-Device Hybrid App from Visual Studio On an iOS Device (George Saadeh)
• Android L Developer Preview & Android Wear Support (Miguel de Icaza)
• Value and Reference Types (Swift Team)
• The broken Promise of the Mobile Web (Rick Strahl)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 195: Michael Mahemoff on Player FM (Jon Galloway, Kevin Dente, K. Scott Allen & Scott Koon)
• Episode 281 – PowerScripting Podcast – Robert Cain on SQL and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 011 with Imagine Cup finalists (Office 365 Team)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 140 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – Building CalendarTree, a new startup, with Dilbert creator Scott Adams (Scott Hanselman)
• SSW TV – Getting Started with SignalR | Dev Superpowers Episode 3 (SSW Team)
• Episode 006 – Josh Williams (WinJS) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• What the Tech 222: Tech Journalism and Windows Weekly 375: Use Your Selfie Stick (Paul Thurrott)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 37: Clemens Vasters (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Nathan Fielder and The Nerdist Podcast – Matthew Weiner (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #103 – Writing a Debugger Extension Part 7 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Azure WebSites – Best Practices | Azure Friday (Azure Team)
• TWC9: Compile like it’s 1992, Hyperlapse your GoPro, CocosSharp and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Married Gamers Episode 340: The Future of Gaming (Chris Brown)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 26 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• How safe is your data in Office 365? | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• Episode 149: Azure Site Recovery with Praveen Vijayaraghavan | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• Boagworld – 10 tips for working with clients (Paul Boag)
• RiYL Episode 066 (Mini): Peter Diamandis (Brian Heater)
• Edge Show115 – Azure AD Connect Preview (configuring hybrid identity with Azure AD) | Edge (Simon May)
• StarTalk Radio – A COSMOS Conversation with Ann Druyan (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Community / Events

• Leaving Microsoft (Howard Dierking)
• .NET Developers Keeping Us Covered (Kerry Meade)

Database

• SQL Server Video Reporting Services (SSRS) RS.EXE Utility (Scott Murray)
• Pro SQL Server Internals (Ian Stirk)
• SQL SERVER – Validating If Date is Last Day of the Year, Month or Day and SQL SERVER – Convert Old Syntax of RAISEERROR to THROW and SQL SERVER – Convert Seconds to Hour : Minute : Seconds Format and SQL SERVER – Simple Demo of New Cardinality Estimation Features of SQL Server 2014 (Pinal Dave)
• How to Create In-Memory Database Tables in SQL Server 2014 (Rob Tiffany)
• SQL Server High Availability in Windows Azure Iaas (David Bermingham)
• Removing Punctuation From Text In Power Query (Chris Webb)
• Generating Identities (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Using Power Query to Get Data From an Excel File in OneDrive Via URL (Melissa Coates)

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell to Rebuild #Azure SQL Database Indexes and #PowerShell Module for the #Azure API Management REST APIs (Alexandre Brisebois)
• eBook deal of the week: Windows PowerShell Best Practices (Kim Spilker)
• Blog Post: USING SQL & POWERSHELL – Different Methods to List Databases WITH Recovery Models (Prashanth Jayaram)
• Azure PowerShell Tools 0.8.7 is available (Ravikanth C)
• #PSTip Taking control of verbose and debug output, part 4 and #PSTip Taking control of verbose and debug output, part 5 (Bartek Bielawski)

Miscellaneous

• My Thoughts After A Full Week With the new i7 Surface Pro 3 (Chris Love)
• Small Basic Game Programming – Shooting Game (Nonki Takahashi)
• Surface Pro 3 – Initial Impressions (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, August 14, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, August 15, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, August 18, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 14, 2014 and Geek Reading August 15, 2014 and Geek Reading August 18, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1398 and Double Shot #1399 and Double Shot #1400 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #129 (Mary Lou)
• Daily News Digest 8/15/2014 and Daily News Digest 8/18/2014 and Daily News Digest 8/19/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Blog Post: Reblog: August 8 to August 14 (Jason Strate)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (8/4-8/10) (Dara Monasch)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 15, 2014 and The Daily Six Pack: August 18, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1673 and The Morning Brew #1674 and The Morning Brew #1675 and The Morning Brew #1676 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Programming Digest #69 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-15 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-18 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-19 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-19 (Dan Rigby)

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