Day: December 30, 2014

Top Links

• Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push (Mary Jo Foley)
• UI Considerations When Using Asynchronous Methods (Jeremy Clark)
• Some Common Xamarin.Forms XAML Control Properties (Mike Benkovich)

 

Web Development

• Scope.$applyAsync() vs. Scope.$evalAsync() in AngularJS 1.3 (Ben Nadel)
• Creating Custom AngularJS Directives Part 6 – Using Controllers (Dan Wahlin)
• Displaying Your WordPress Widget on the Site (Rachel McCollin)

 

XAML

• Using XAML RadioButton in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
• How to use Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit Media Library – ScreenshotService and How to use Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit UserInfo – UserExtendedPropertiesService (Sara Silva)
• Create the Ultimate Fan Universal App using Windows AppStudio – Part 3 (Lori Lalonde)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Regular Expression Explorer, v2.1 released (i.e. VS 2012, 2013 version) (Greg Duncan)
• AutoMapper 3 Adds Open Generic and Callback Support (Jonathan Allen)
• GC ETW Events – 4 (Maoni Stephens)
• DevExpress on the Future of WinForms and Silverlight (Jonathan Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The New Agile–More, Please! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• JetBrains Upsource Released (I-Programmer)
• Use different Git Diff Tools Per File Extension (Jason Jarrett)
• You Broke My Code? It’s My Fault (Jim Holmes)
• How Do You Serve Your Organization? (Johanna Rothman)
• Want to Accomplish Your Goals? Become a Finisher (John Sonmez)
• Naming Things is Hard: Dictionaries (Steve Wilkes)
• Budgeting should follow, not lead (Wes Higbee)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Scroll To in Xamarin.Forms Grouping (Jesse Liberty)
• Mobile Development Platform Performance (Kevin Ford)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Programming in Elixir with Bryan Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Sam Raimi (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 45 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez)

 

Community / Events

• Xbox Live founder Boyd Multerer leaves Microsoft after 20 years (Kip Kniskern)

 

Database

• Add a linear trendline to a graph in SQL Server Reporting Services (Koen Verbeeck)
• A breaking change in Entity Framework 6.1.2 when using EDMX and SQL Server 2008/2005 (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – UNION and UNION ALL with TEXT DataType – Observation (Pinal Dave)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Enterprise Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing – $17.48 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell – Copy the Latest Backup (Steve Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• Tolerance of Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2014 (Michael Burns)
• Double Shot #1451 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading December 29, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1767 (Chris Alcock)
• The Top 12 Xamarin Blog Posts of 2014 (Courtney Witmer)

 

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