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- Ever Wonder What Happened to Your Azure Website Connection String? (Max McCarty)
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- A Look at ASP.NET 5: Part 1 – Getting Started (Shawn Wildermuth)
Web Development
- Be Careful With Compound Conditions In AngularJS (And JavaScript In General) (Ben Nadel)
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- Getting Started with CSS Preprocessors (Less and Sass) (Christina Truong)
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- Creating a Web App From Scratch Using AngularJS and Firebase: Part 4 (Jay)
- 10 Responsive jQuery UI Snippets (Learning JQuery)
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- The DecentCMS and Orchard content type systems compared (Bertrand Le Roy)
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XAML
- Introducing Dynamic Fonts with Office2013 and VisualStudio2013 themes in RadControls for WPF and Silverlight (Evgenia Milcheva)
- Adding Application Insights to a Windows 8.1 Universal App (Joshua Weber)
- Helper class to easily display local toast notifications (Windows Universal app) (Marco Siccardi)
Miscellaneous .NET
- The LINQ Join Method: Deciphering the Parameters (Jeremy Clark)
- VS2013 Setup Project and Triggers/Rowcount And NHibernate (Sacha Barber)
- Identity Updates for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 (Vittorio Bertocci)
- Leveraging Views in Entity Framework (Peter Vogel)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How to get the most out of Given-When-Then (Gojko Adzic)
- The One Immutable Law of Adopting Agile and Cultural Judo – How to Change Culture Without Changing Culture (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Excuses For Not Testing (Dave M. Bush)
- Attain Code Management Nirvana via Test-Driven Development, Part 1 (Eric Vogel)
- Architecting interactive environments (Mary Treseler)
- ASP.NET Engineering guidelines (Eilon Lipton)
- Article: Employing Enterprise Architecture for Applications Assurance (Walter Houser)
Other Mobile Platforms
- How To Keep Your Android App Size Down (James Montemagno)
- Triggers in Xamarin.Forms (Nish Anil)
- Android Permissions Explained (Rob Lauer)
- IoT? Sensors? Devices? What’s in what? “Understanding Internet of Things (IoT) Device Choices” Whitepaper (Greg Duncan)
- Xamarin Android – Improving GridView Recycling Performance (John Wilson)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Building IoT Devices with Suz Hinton (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
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- Microsoft shares its vision of the future with thinner displays and cool gadgets (Rich Edmonds)
- Defrag: Viewing SMART, WIFI Network Connections, Wok, UEFI, Disk Cleanup and more…. | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
- RiYL Episode 094: Vijay Iyer (Brian Heater)
- Azure Podcast Episode 66 – Gatekeeper Pattern for IaaS (Sujit D’Mello)
Community / Events
- Connect(“Live”); – Debugging and Cloud Diagnostics Visual Studio Team Q&A (Dmitry Lyalin)
- March 2015: Upcoming Girl Develop It Classes [Roundup] (Ben Novack)
- Spring Forward Festival Celebrates Women in the Digital Industry (Charles Humble)
- Calling all developers! Survey on container adoption in the enterprise (Gigaom)
- Julie Larson-Green honored with Women of Vision Leadership Award (Jake Siegel)
Database
- 7 pro tips for database administrators (Fahd Mirza)
- Are “bad” statistics the reason my query is slow? (Jes Schultz Borland)
- Overview of Using Analysis Services Data in the new Power BI Preview (Melissa Coates)
- Limit the exposure of sensitive data in Azure SQL Database using Dynamic Data Masking (Ron Matchoro)
- Tree structure query with PostgreSQL (Rob Conery)
PowerShell
- Working with PowerShell DSC for Linux, part 3 (Bartek Bielawski)
- Create and pre-configure Azure virtual machines the easy way with PowerShell (Joe Davies)
Miscellaneous
- Small Basic V-Next – Fixing Bugs (Ed Price)
- Pebble Time Smartwatch – What It Does And Does Not Do (Imran Hussain)
- The Hack Language Gets an Official Specification (Sergio De Simone)
- Microsoft Research Expands Microsoft Band Productivity Functionality (MS Research)
- Microsoft Garage incubator delivers new Windows Phone, Android productivity apps (Mary Jo Foley)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading February 25, 2015 (Robert Diana)
- The Morning Brew #1808 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #1480 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-26 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-26 (Dan Rigby)
- Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 25th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
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