Top Links
- Windows Phone 8.1 core is finished today (Daniel Rubino)
- ATBG: Reordering optimizations (Eric Lippert)
- Using value converters by convention (Nigel Sampson)
- Entity Framework 6 & SQL Server Compact (7) –New features and fixes in version 6.1 (Erik EJ)
Web Development
- Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET is Now Available! (Howard Dierking)
- Setup Express and run first application in Node.js (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Welcome WebStorm 8.0: AngularJS support, spy-js, multiple selections, Grunt and more (Ekaterina Prigara)
- Tips For JavaScript Promises (K. Scott Allen)
- Yes, CSS is code (Simon St. Laurent)
- babylon.js: physics and character animation (Andy Beaulieu)
- Sublime is Sublime 10 (Greg Young)
- Announcing Understanding ECMAScript 6 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Using Splunk as a data store for developers (Nimish Doshi)
- Box Launches New Tools for Developers (Karissa Bell)
- Back to Basics: When allowing user uploads, don’t allow uploads to execute code (Scott Hanselman)
XAML
- 2000 WPF Things #1,038 – Another Way to Prevent Certain Dates from Being Selected (Sean Sexton)
- WPF Text Input Controls Class Hierarchy (Richard Carr)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Disable the Git source control add-in in VS2013, permanently (Mark Rendle)
- More CodeRush Plugins added to the Visual Studio Gallery (Rory Becker)
- Free Tool: Entity Framework Power Tools (Peter Vogel)
- Get rid of deep null checks (Jakub Niemyjski)
- Can CoCreateGuid ever return GUID_NULL? (Raymond Chen)
- 2000 C# Things #1,062 – Unboxing Conversions (Sean Sexton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Is being busy the same as being productive? (Craig Golightly)
- Why you should keep each language its own file (Manya Susoev)
- Good Vs Evil (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Signs you might be in survival mode (Roy Osherove)
Other Mobile Platforms
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – CodedUI with Marcel de Vries (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Cross Platform Mobile Apps with Xamarin and Azure Mobile Services | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- Xamarin Introduction (Filip Ekberg)
- Yet Another Podcast #121–AngularJS Roundtable (Jesse Liberty)
- SSW TV – Building and running a large scale service on Windows Azure – Grant Holliday (SSW Team)
- Channel 9 Video: Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio (Beth Massi)
- What the Tech 205: Smart Fitness (Paul Thurrott)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Jonah Keri (Chris Hardwick)
- The new Office: Click-to-Run Customization and Deployment Deep Dive Part 1 with High-G Aerobatics | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
- Don’t Fear the Execution Plan! [Video] (Jes Schultz Borland)
- RiYL Episode 046: Ben Lindbergh (Brian Heater)
Community / Events
- Global Windows Azure Bootcamp to Reach Thousands (MVP Award Program)
- Geek of the Week: Zenescope President, Joe Brusha (David Goodman)
- Google I/O 2014 and Dart Flight School – Successful Take-Off (Louis Gray)
Database
- Simple Text Mining with the SSIS Term Extraction Component (Koen Verbeeck)
- “Incremental” map/reduce in MongoDB isn’t (Oren Eini)
- SQL Scripts Manager (Steve Jones)
- Working with Web Services in Power Query (Chris Webb)
- Organizing a Power BI Site (Melissa Coates)
PowerShell
- #PSTip Explore TechEd NA 2014 sessions with PowerShell (Aleksandar Nikolic)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft to unveil Enterprise Mobility Suite alongside Office for iPad (Mary Jo Foley)
- New images reveal an overhauled Store for Windows Phone 8.1, includes automatic app updates and more (Daniel Rubino)
More Link Collections
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, March 26, 2014 (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading March 26, 2014 (Robert Diana)
- Daily Links 26 Mar 2014 (Jax)
- Blog Post: Shout out for my favourite Power BI MSDN and TechNet blogs this month (Jen Stirrup)
- The Daily Six Pack: March 27, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily News Digest 3/27/2014 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-27 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-27 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #1577 (Chris Alcock)
- Community Update 2014-03-26 – Google #oauth #openid endpoints, #sublime, #tdd with Google Spreadsheet, and more (Maxime Rouiller)
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