Top Links
- These are the faces of ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ (Bryan Bishop)
- Prism 5.0 for WPF – Book Download (MS Downloads)
- Azure: 99.95% SQL Database SLA, 500 GB DB Size, Improved Performance Self-Service Restore, and Business Continuity (Scott Guthrie)
- When TDD doesn’t work. (“Uncle Bob” Martin)
Web Development
- Geolocation Tracking in Kendo UI Mobile and Google Maps (Basem Emara)
- CSS Shapes 101 (Chris Coyier)
- “Just My Code” for JavaScript (Pierson Lee)
- Creating type-safe properties with ECMAScript 6 proxies (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- ODataLib 6.3.0 Release (LeoHu1)
- Toastr 2.0.2 Now Available on NuGet, Bower and CDNJS (John Papa)
- How to Use Open Type in OData (Liang Wang)
XAML
- Hello, who is this? Controlling the context of a MVVM click handler (Adam Anderson)
- Windows Phone 8.1: LocalCacheFolder (Alec Noller)
- Universal Windows and Windows Phone Apps (Filip Ekberg)
- Kurt’s Tips, Tricks and Links for Windows Phone 8.1 (Greg Duncan)
- Windows/Phone 8.1–Roaming Settings Values Across Windows/Phones (Mike Taulty)
- 2000 WPF Things #1,062 – Scaling a Canvas Using a ViewBox (Sean Sexton)
- Brokered WinRT component project templates now available (Windows Apps Team)
- Dev center and app submission deep dive:Notes BUILD 2014 (Iris Classon)
- XamRichTextEditor: Build your own Office Inspired Contextual Rich Text Format Toolbar (Brian Lagunas)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Announcing the NuGet 3 Roadmap (Jonathan Allen)
- Reading a complex XML using LINQ in C# (Pavan Kumar Pabothu)
- WCF Performance Tuning – The Low Hanging Fruits (Tarun Arora)
- Calling Stored Procedures from Entity Framework (Peter Vogel)
- Reactive Extensions Observables Versus Regular .NET Events Part 2 (Mark Heath)
- Plug it in, plug it in [Sample code for two TextAnalysisTool.NET plug-ins demonstrates support for custom file types] (David Anson)
- Domain modeling with Entity Framework scorecard (Jimmy Bogard)
- Running NDepend Rules through NDepend.API (Patrick Smacchia)
- 2000 C# Things #1,086 – Converting Decimal Floating Point to Binary Floating Point (Sean Sexton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile development races ahead of traditional testing (Savita Pahuja)
- SonicAgile Now with Dropbox Integration (Stephen Walther)
- Improved Object Oriented Design – Isolate and Model Business Processes (Kerry Jenkins)
- Turn your ideas into high-fidelity prototypes with the new Telerik AppPrototyper (Nikolay Atanasov)
Other Mobile Platforms
- .NET on iOS really is as good as it sounds (Jim Wilson)
- Unity 2D Game Development – A Review (Simon Jackson)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek podcast 144: Black Terror vs. Killer Robot (Mark Frauenfelder)
- .NET Rocks! – Building Mobile Apps on Xamarin with James Montemagno (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- MS Cloud Show Episode 027 | Announcing ITUnity, a new Office 365 and SharePoint Resource Site (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- RavenDB Conf Videos: Modeling Tricks my Relational Database Never Taught Me (Oren Eini)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Eddie Izzard Returns (Chris Hardwick)
- The Amp Hour #196 – An Interview with Mike Engelhardt – SPICE Simulator Synteresis (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- GoingNative 25: Offline Analysis Graphics Tool | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
- TechEd Countdown Show: The One with the Tech Expo | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
- RiYL Episode 051: Chris Hayes (Brian Heater)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode 203: Leslie Lamport on Distributed Systems (SE-Radio Team)
- SSW TV – Automated Deployment Using TeamCity and Octopus Deploy with Paul Stovell | DDD Brisbane 2013 (SSW Team)
Community / Events
- Join Xamarin in Houston at Microsoft TechEd North America (Morgan Forsythe)
- Basic Turns 50 (Andrew Binstock)
- Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s VP of Windows and User Experience to hold an AMA this Friday on Reddit (Phone Arena Team)
- Dev of the Week: Valeri Karpov (Alec Noller)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Faster Application Performance with In-Memory OLTP: Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and SafePeak Dynamic Caching (Pinal Dave)
- What is a Non-Clustered Columnstore Index? (Patrick Keisler)
- Data Source Connectivity for Scheduled Data Refresh in Power BI (Melissa Coates)
SharePoint
- Using Breeze and AngularJS in SharePoint 2013 (Andrew Connell)
PowerShell
- Automating Flat File SQL Server Imports With PowerShell (Tim Smith)
- PowerShell 10k – PowerShell Script Browser and Analyzer v1.1 released (Greg Duncan)
Miscellaneous
- Free Online College and University Courses (Dana Coffey)
- Take Our Survey and be Part of DZone’s New Guide to Mobile Development! (Alec Noller)
- Who Will Play What in ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’? (Chris Taylor)
- You Want Me to Splunk That? (David Maislin)
- Full cast for ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ announced, including original cast members (Kwame Opam)
- Why you shouldn’t participate in arguments on the internet (Scott Koon)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading April 29, 2014 (Robert Diana)
- Daily News Digest 4/30/2014 (Silverlight Show)
- Double Shot #1345 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1599 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-30 (Dan Rigby)
- Community Update 2014-04-29 – #nodejs, #elasticsearch, #javascript, #tdd, #sass and #owin (Maxime Rouiller)
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