Day: January 23, 2013

Top Links

• Announcing Release of Windows Azure Media Services (Scott Guthrie)
• Try F# 3.0 Launches Today! (F# Team)
• Create an off-line Installer for the Windows Phone 7.8 SDK (Michael Crump)
• Now Available: Windows Phone SDK Update for 7.8 (Cliff Simpkins)

 

Web Development

• Building Web Apps with SignalR, Part 1 (Eric Vogel)
• Adding Request.IsLocal to ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• Increase Performance in an asp.net Application (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Video: Teach Windows Azure to Scale Your Way (Paul Ballard)
• ASP.NET Image Control With Fallback URL (Ricardo Peres)
• API Integration With SoundCloud (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Defending Presentational Class Names (Philip Walton)

 

XAML

• URI associations in Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8 Live Tile light up for Windows Phone OS 7.1 apps (Adam Denning)
• Windows Phone 8: Live Tiles and Lock Screen (Peter Kuhn)
• WPF: How to Find Control Location. (Ilya Verbitskiy)
• 2000 WPF Things #740 – Set Background of Canvas to Transparent to Receive Touch Events (Sean Sexton)
• DataContextChanged event for WinRT (András Velvárt)
• You are Here… "Bing Maps for Windows Store Apps Training Kit" (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Apps: Integrating Bing Maps with GeoLocation (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Getting more visibility for your Windows Store app Part 1: Create great apps (Pete Brown)
• Four Things You Have to Remember for Windows 8 Apps (Shubham Saxena)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Stand-alone installer for TFS object model (Brian Harry)
• The Missing ResWFileCodeGenerator Custom Tool for Visual Studio 2012 (Christian Helle)
• Try F# – Learn, Create and Share F#, from your browser (Don Syme)
• Introducing SvcPerf – An End-to-End trace Analysis tool for WCF (Sajay Antony)
• Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Image Preview in Solution Explorer (Andy Schwam)
• Access BCS Data via C# (Wayne H. Magnum)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ben’s Unit Testing &TDD Courseware for Visual Studio 2010 (for free) (Greg Duncan)
• Closing Issues via Commit Messages (Chris Wanstrath)
• The Most Successful Techniques for Rising Early (Leo Babauta)
• Assembla Introduces One Button Deploys and More (Michael Chletsos)
• Other enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager in Update 1 (Arvind)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Broadcast push notifications to millions of mobile devices using Windows Azure Notification Hubs (Scott Guthrie)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 212 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Block from Microsoft Manages Azure with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.9 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• The Nerdist Podcast – YouTube Titans! (Chris Hardwick)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 10: MarkedUp Aaron (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Hot Apps: AlphaJax, ReadyClick!, Sketch ME Free, Drag Race, The Onion | Hot Apps (Laura Foy)
• Devnology Podcast 036 – CleVR (Freek Leemhuis, Felienne Hermans & Mendelt Siebenga)

 

Community / Events

• Quick Hits Issue 1: Ultimate Experience and the Return of Rock Paper Azure (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Meet the cloud diagnostics and analytics team while at the ALM Summit Jan 29-31 (Charles Sterling)
• Inside Microsoft Research: Programming Languages in the Eternal City (Rob Knies)

 

Database

• Cumulative Update – 9 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Is Now Available ! (Rohit Garg)
• SQL SERVER – TRIM Function to Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces of String – SQL in Sixty Seconds #040 – Video (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Cookbook V3 Now Available (Lee Holmes)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 23, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading January 22, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 22nd (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1050 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 23, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/23/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1279 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-01-23 (Dan Rigby)

 

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