Tag: microsoft test manager

Top Links

• Microsoft: This is why we bought Nokia and What’s the strategic rational in acquiring Nokia? Here’s Microsofts answer and Ballmer: Stephen Elop now an internal candidate for Microsoft CEO (Sam Sabri)
• Microsoft to Buy Nokia’s Device Business in Deal Worth $7.17 Billion and Microsoft Wants to Keep Licensing Windows Phone to Others, Post-Nokia Deal (Ina Fried)
• The Next Chapter: An open letter from Steve Ballmer and Stephen Elop (Michael Wann)
• Microsoft buys Nokia handset unit: It’s an end-to-end world after all (Molly Wood)
• Some key points in the Microsoft – Nokia deal (Kip Kniskern)

Web Development

• An Overview of Project Katana (Howard Dierking)
• JavaScript’s type system (Axel Rauschmayer)
• AngularJS Training (egghead.io) – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• Invocation patterns in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 7 EAP 131.24; local terminal and Compass support (Dmitry Jemerov)
• New eBook: JavaScript Patterns JumpStart Guide – Clean up your JavaScript Code (Dan Wahlin)
• ASP.NET Web API 2 and HttpRequestContext (Filip W)
• Using Spatial Data With Sql 2012 and Windows Azure (Ugo Lattanzi)
• Creating Real-Time System Notifications with SignalR (Joel Cogley)
• Accessing external APIs with Angular.js (Arun Israel)
• Use Visual Studio 2012 to debug JavaScript code outside the running project (Tao Wu, Tony Liu & Michael Zlatkovsky)
• New Features in Windows Azure SDK 2.1 (Paul Ballard)
• Inverting if Clause in JavaScript Fails (Peter Kellner)
• Leveraging the Most Out of CSS Classes (Ryan Morr)
• Integrating PayPal With Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)
• Filtering Items in a List (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Building and Testing a View Model in TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
• WebDriver and AngularJS (Paul Hammant)
• Transition end propertyName (David DeSandro)
• Using the AngularJS Package for Sublime Text (Dan Wahlin)
• Firebug Tip: getEventListeners() command (Jan Odvarko)
• Bootstrap 3 At A Glance – Part One – Motivations (Matthew Adams)
• Web security, Dark Matter Developers and lowering the bar (Troy Hunt)

XAML

• Grouping with the GridView Control – Windows Store Apps (XAML) (Christian Nagel)
• 2000 WPF Things #897 – Content on a TabItem Does Not Automatically Wrap and #898 – Setting the Text that Appears on a TabItem (Sean Sexton)
• How to Create a Cloud-Powered Windows Phone App with Telerik Cloud Controls – Part 4 (Todor Petrov)
• In-App Purchase: Success stories and Tips to test common in-app failure scenarios (Bernardo Zamora)
• SkyDrive Sync on Windows Phone – Adding Local Content (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WPF Base Classes – FrameworkElement – Object Lifetime (Richard Carr)
• Prism for Windows Runtime docs now available in 11 languages (Blaine Wastell)
• Using PubCenter for Ads? READ THIS. (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Make your App Studio app a little more Charming (Peter Foot)
• [Sample Of Sep 2nd] Bind ListView with local datasource in Windows Store apps (Philip Fu)
• Using a VisualBrush for Slicing Content (Roland Weigelt)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Buzz-Fuzz in LINQ (James Curran)
• Forced Override of Virtual Methods (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate inches closer (Mary Jo Foley)
• NuGet 2.7 Package Restore Tips (Jeff Handley)
• Embedding a Console in a C# Application (Dave Kerr)
• Different ways to work with SharePoint Lists in Visual Studio 2013 LightSwitch (Clemens Reijnen)
• Awesome Libraries For C# Developers #2 – Reactive Extensions (Rx) and More On IEnumerable, IQueryable, IObservable and IQbservable (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Visual Studio 2013 RC leaked, 46 days until Windows 8.1 general availability (Ron)
• 2012 MCSD Resources (Kevin Logan)
• Take full control of your projects with RadGanttView for WinForms (Carey Payette)
• Creating a Unity Game for Windows 8 (Dave Bost)
• Some New Features for SpecFlow and SpecRun (David Starr)
• ‘object’ Does Not Contain a Definition for ‘errors’ (Juri Strumpflohner)
• Building a game in a day (Phillip Trelford)
• 2000 C# Things #921 – Objects Are Explicitly Created but Automatically Destroyed and #922 – Ways in Which References to an Object Are Released (Sean Sexton)
• DevLog Day – Playing with Xamarin and MonoGame (Toni Petrina)
• SlowCheetah + ClickOnce Issue and Non-app config (e.g. NLog.config) transformation with SlowCheetah in Console App (Michael Sync)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls – Cannot Return Complex Types From SQL Queries and Entity Framework Code First One to One With Cascade Delete (Ricardo Peres)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Improve Agile Project Planning by Involving the Whole Team (Konstantin Boev)
• How we solved our #1 product management problem (Gojko Adzic)
• Saving you some labor in creating your Unit tests… (Greg Duncan)
• There is no “be agile” there is only “do agile” (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Ideas on Managing Distributed Teams Using Agile [1/3] – Introduction and Ceremonies (Peter Saddington)
• Unit Testing Succinctly (Rabeb Othmani)
• Get out of the way, we are coding, Part II (Oren Eini)
• Designing Cloud Services – Consider Bulkiness & Chattiness (Alexandre Brisebois)
• E-Shaped People, Not T-Shaped (JD Meier)
• Kick-Start Your Tests with Microsoft Test Manager (John Papa)
• New book: Software Requirements, Third Edition (Kim Spilker)
• Designing the hub experience for Windows Store creative (art, music, video) apps (Pete Brown)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Objective C Block syntax reference (Karl von Randow)
• First Look at the FireFox OS Developer Preview Phone (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 129 – “Atley Hunter” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• .NET Rocks! – Wireframing UI the Right Way with Russ Unger (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 18: Inside Vector Calling Convention (VCC) | C9::GoingNative (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 281: David Makogon on Polyglot Persistence (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast – PAX Podcast 2013 (Larry Hyrb)
• TWC9: Windows 8.1 RTM’s, VS Unit Test Generator, more Azure GA’s and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Robert Green)
• Yet Another Podcast #106–Jeff Fritz on One ASP.Net (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Weekly 326: Bye Bye Ballmer (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Neko Case (Chris Hardwick)
• Show 100 Recap of Two Years of Tablet Show! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 073 JSJ React with Pete Hunt and Jordan Walke (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Podcast: emerging technology and the coming disruption in design (Jenn Webb)
• Engadget Podcast 358 – 08.30.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Get Up And Code 17: Common Injuries While Lifting (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Nintendo 2DS, Pebble, And Unikey (Jordan Crook)
• Defrag Tools: #54 – IE Favorites Crash | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Windows Store Weekly: Toy Story, Hallmark, Outfitzy, Draw & guess, Sleep Bug | Windows Store Weekly (Laura Foy)
• ZEN & TECH 58: Zen in the workplace (Rene Ritchie)
• GeekWire Radio: Chase Jarvis on photography, creativity and the new world of learning (Todd Bishop)

Community / Events

• Student Developer? Get Involved! (Dennis Delimarsky)
• TechEd Australia Streaming Live (Channel 9)
• Build Apps. Get Stuff. (Jim O’Neil)
• The Life and Times of an Open Source Project (Joe Brinkman)
• Hello (Martin Woodward)
• Nic’s path to Xbox internship (MS JobsBlog)

Database

• #0291 – SQL Server – sp_rename – Renaming SQL Server objects – Do’s and Dont’s (Nakul Vachhrajani)
• Common SQL Server Clustering, AlwaysOn, and High Availability Answers (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Basics Video: SQL 2012 Certification Path – SQL in Sixty Seconds #065 and SQLAuthority News – Learn MySQL Indexing in 99 Minutes – MySQL Indexing for Performance – Video Course (Pinal Dave)
• The Case of the NULL Query_Plan (Patrick Keisler)

SharePoint

• Current State of SharePoint (DevToolsGuy)
• Are You Designed To Take Advantage of Mobile? (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft abruptly pulls ‘masters’ certification; hints a replacement may come and Does its Nokia buy thwart or fuel a possible Microsoft break-up? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Running batch and long-running, highly available service jobs on the same cluster (Ben Lorica)
• Kickstarter Reportedly Owns Indiegogo With Around 6X More Total Dollars Raised, Average Success Rate Much Higher (Darrell Etherington)
• Permissible poaching—internal recruiting (Eric Brechner)
• Do I Need To Understand Low Level Programming And Memory Management? (Filip Ekberg)
• ID@Xbox (Greg Duncan)
• OneNote as personal travel guide: Using OneNote on trip (Gunnar Peipmen)
• Stupid Question 234: Do I need to know math to be a developer? What about logic, statistics, and linear programming? (Iris Classon)
• A flowchart of what programmers do at work all day (Leon Bambrick)
• More perspective on the Nokia news (Michael Stroh)
• Review Part 2: Developing with Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook (Martin Hinshelwood)
• 10+ Progamming Languages in 10 minutes (Phillip Trelford)
• Windows Phone is a ‘real adversary’ to Android and iOS (Mihaita Bamburic)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 31, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 1, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 2, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, August 30th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, September 2nd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 30, 2013 and Geek Reading September 2, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1192 and Double Shot #1193 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #79 (Mary Lou)
• Daily Links 2 Sep 2013 (Jax)
• Reading Notes #105 (Frank)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 2, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: September 3, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 8/30/2013 and Daily News Digest 9/2/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1432 and The Morning Brew #1433 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Reblog: August 23 to August 29 (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #044 (Pinal Dave)
• Weekly Digest 28 (Jakub Chodounský)
• .NET Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips – July and August 2013 Links (Abhijit Jana)

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