Month: November 2014

Top Links

• All About Angular 2.0 (Rob Eisenberg)
• When is a string not a string? (Jon Skeet)
• NuGet Package of the Week – Courtesy Flush to flush buffers earlier and optimize time to first byte (Scott Hanselman)
• Get Started with ASP.NET MVC TagHelpers (Jeff Fritz)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET v.next’s killer features are already here and Node pitfalls 3: this is not the file you want (Bertrand LeRoy)
• Binding A Single Directive To Multiple Priorities On The Same Element In AngularJS and Refactoring bnRepeatSwitch To Use A Multi-Priority Directive In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Exciting Things About ASP.NET vNext Series: Middlewares and Per Request Dependency Injection (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Notes on draft CSS “alt” property (Bruce Lawson)
• Prototype pattern in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Web API Routing by Content-Type (Marc LaFleur)
• ORTC – A New Protocol for HTML5 Web Apps (Rami Sayar)
• How to create bounded tile layers in Bing Maps (JavaScript) (Ricky Brundritt)
• Creating an ASP.NET vNext Docker Container using Mono (Ross Gardler)
• Creating a WinJS Application Using LightSwitch OData Back-end (Michael Washington)
• Unity – Part 8: Web (Ricardo Peres)
• QuickPost: Link to a new TypeScript article (Bill Wagner)
• Announcing Azure Event Hubs General Availability (Dan Rosanova)
• Responsive Web Page Layouts Using Bootstrap in Indigo Studio (DevToolsGuy)

 

XAML

• Using the new Ad Mediator control for Windows Phone (Shawn Kendrot)
• New Course: Windows Phone 8 Development (Andrew Blackman)
• How to maximize the impact of Windows ad mediation for Windows Phone (Bernardo Zamora)
• WPF Bluetooth data transfer with 32feet.NET (Greg Duncan)
• Kinecting XAML + Unity (Pete D.)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,196 – Making a Window Fully Transparent (Sean Sexton)
• Announcing Windows ad mediation – maximize your Windows Phone app ad revenue (Todd Brix)
• WPF Data Display Controls – DataGrid – Column Types (Richard Carr)
• Book Recommendation: High Performance Windows Store Apps (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• An Alternative to SQLite in Windows Store Apps (Jason Roberts)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using the F# Interactive (Jonathan Wood)
• .NET Book : Visual Studio 2013 Expert Development Cookbook (Abhishek Sur)
• Coming soon to C#: Auto-property initializers (Gunnar Peipman)
• New Clean C# eBook (Jason Roberts)
• [C#] File exporter for IEnumerable of T (Sara Silva)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Kinect Region and the Engagement Manager (Mike Taulty)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls – Batch Modifications (Bertrand LeRoy)
• Build Service with Team Foundation Server 2013: When to use Arguments and Variables (Gouri Sohoni)
• Using System.Numerics.Vector for Graphics Programming (Immo Landwerth)
• Entity Framework 6.0 Code First (Jeetendra Gund)
• How We Do Strong Typed Configuration (Jeremy D. Miller)
• [Announcement] OData V4 Client Code Generator 2.1.0 Release (Layla Liu)
• Introducing EAPs for dotTrace 6, dotCover 3, dotMemory 4.2 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows 10 – What’s in it For Developers? (Michael Crump)
• Passing the incorrect object type for a handle, how bad is it? (Raymond Chen)
• Selection Embedding with CodeRush (Rory Becker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit tests are to testing… (Bertrand LeRoy)
• Unit Testing Succintly: Strategies For Unit Tests (Marc Clifton)
• Moving on from Scrum – Disciplined Agile Delivery (Matt Davey)
• Replacing Backlog Grooming (Derek Huether)
• In a slump? Here are 5 ways to improve your work habits (Jack Wallen)
• Tracking Technical Debt with TechDebtAttributes (Jason Roberts)
• Bad Design is Everywhere: Take Inspiration from it and Improve (Tom Kenny)
• Coverage with Multiple Test Assemblies (Vicky)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.Forms Circle Images (Kevin Ford)
• Epic Saga Chapter 6: Wherein I learn to Remotely Build and Run on the iOS Simulator But Am Ultimately Disappointed (Glenn Gailey)
• Xamarin for Students (Joseph Hill)
• Programming for Google Cardboard on iOS using F# (Larry O’Brien)
• Prototype Android Apps in Microsoft SketchFlow (Sanjay Sharma)
• Test Cloud Video Series: Using C# and UITest to Create Your First Mobile Test (Steven Yi)
• Color and font resources to build a brand for your app (Shawn Kendrot)
• Introducing a New Guide, “The Secrets to App Success on Google Play” (Dom Elliott)
• Improved Game Testing with Google Play Games Management API (Ben Frenkel)
• Create a Text to Speech App With Swift (Carlos Yanez)
• Adding Behaviors To My Player In Unity (Jesse Freeman)
• Increasing Revenue via the Internet of Things (Example 1) and Reducing Expenses via the Internet of Things (Example 2) (Rob Tiffany)
• Kinect With Me Part 3 – Creating a Gesture-Controlled App in Just Three Steps (Sage Franch)
• Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 1) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Actor Models in Akka.NET with Roger Alsing (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 199: Rob Reynolds on the Chocolatey Kickstarter, Chocolatey growth and OneGet (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, K. Scott Allen & Kevin Dente)
• MNR 528: Assassin’s Creed Unity, Rocksmith, Halo Launch and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Azure, Office 365, and SharePoint Online has REST endpoints with Mat Velloso | Azure Friday (Azure)
• Using Bing Maps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• What the Tech 234: Call of Thurrott and Windows Weekly 387: Pint Curls (Paul Thurrott)
• The Amp Hour #223 – Space Difficulties and Lost Heroes – Wanzing Workshop Whemmle (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• TWC9: Two Geeks and a Cube | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan)
• Episode 161: New API Management Features with Vlad Vinogradsky | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• Get Up And Code 064: Joggling and Meteor with Dean Radcliffe (John Sonmez)
• SQL Server Radio Show 8 – SQLRally Interviews (Matan Yungman)
• Dime Casts.NET Episode #216: Native Swift Networking with Alamofire (Peter Shearer)
• Azure Podcast Episode 51 – Networking Updates (Sujit D’Mello)
• Edge Show 125 – Failover Clustering in the next version of Windows Server | Edge (Symon Perriman)

 

Community / Events

• How Skype got its geek cred (Michelle Feder)
• Where can you meet the team? November 2014 at AngleBrackets and Connect(); (Xinyang Qiu)

 

Database

• SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP (Ian Stirk)
• News On SSAS Data Source Support In Power BI (Chris Webb)
• Preview for greater SQL Server compatibility coming soon to Azure SQL Database (Eron Kelly)
• SQL SERVER – Fix – Error 5058, Level 16, State 1 – Option cannot be set in database and SQL SERVER – FIX: ERROR : Msg 3023, Level 16, State 2 – Backup, file manipulation operations (such as ALTER DATABASE ADD FILE) and encryption changes on a database must be serialized and SQL SERVER – FIX: ERROR : Msg 3136, Level 16, State 1 – This differential backup cannot be restored because the database has not been restored to the correct earlier state (Pinal Dave)
• Red Pill or Blue Pill? Choosing Between SQL & NoSQL (Sam Basu)
• Microsoft preps preview of new version of its Azure SQL database-as-a-service (Mary Jo Foley)
• Azure DocumentDB – edit and query documents in the Azure portal (John Macintyre)

 

SharePoint

• Displaying Last Modified Contents in SharePoint and Aggregating Lists in SharePoint (Ricardo Peres)

 

PowerShell

Determine Forest and Domain Functional Levels in Powershell and Using Remote Powershell (Tom Hearn)

 

Miscellaneous

• Amazon Prime Subscribers Get Unlimited Cloud Storage for Photos (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft kicks off its Office for Android tablets preview (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Band (day 6: data) and Microsoft Band (day 7: heart rate) (Craig Dunn)
• Microsoft confirms touch-friendly Office apps are coming with Windows 10 [Update] (John Callaham)
• How to buy an Xbox One for less than $250 (Taylor Soper)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, November 5, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, November 6, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, November 7, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 5, 2014 and Geek Reading November 6, 2014 and Geek Reading November 7, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #141 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1430 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Telerik Flipboard Magazine is Here! (Michael Crump)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 3rd – 9th, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
• Daily News Digest 11/6/2014 and Daily News Digest 11/10/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1731 and The Morning Brew #1732 and The Morning Brew #1733 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Reblog: October 31 to November 6 (Jason Strate)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-06 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-10 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-10 (Dan Rigby)
• Friday Links #328 (Mike Ward)
• Weekly Programming Digest #81 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)

 

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