Tag: halo

Top Links

• The Halo Journey (Bonnie Ross) – Halo 5 coming in the fall of 2015.
• Migrating from the Windows Phone Toolkit to the new XAML controls and Migrating from the Windows Phone Toolkit ToggleSwitch to the new XAML ToggleSwitch and Migrating from the Windows Phone Toolkit DatePicker to the new XAML DatePicker (Shawn Kendrot)
• Leadership Requires Communication (Steve Smith)
• TechEd: “The Future of Visual Basic and C#” Video Now Available Online! (Anthony D. Green)
• Call for Splunk C# SDK Advisory Board members (Grigori Melnik)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET vNext Overview (David Fowler)
• PhpStorm 8 EAP 138.184 (Mikhail Vink)
• JavaScript: Tilt Sensor with Johnny-Five on Node.js (Rick Waldron)
• A Few Thoughts on Better Unit Tests For AngularJS Controllers (K. Scott Allen)
• APress Deal of the day 16/May/2014 – Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 (Tatworth)
• Flask Web Development Book Review (David Hayden)
• Beer Locker: Building a RESTful API With Node (Scott Smith)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone Dev Center now available in 10 languages (Bernardo Zamora)
• DataTemplates in WinRT (Samuel Cragg)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,074 – Attached Event Syntax (Sean Sexton)
• WAQS: ParameterMode (Matthieu Mezil)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Tasktop: Another tool in your toolbox for integrating VSOnline/TFS (Brian Harry)
• Visual Studio 2013 and MSDN Licensing Whitepaper (Greg Duncan)
• Highlights of Rowan Miller’s EF6/EF7 Talk at TechEd 2014 (Julie Lerman)
• F# 28 : Integrating With Task Parallel Library (Sacha Barber)
• Practical guidance for TFVC and TFS on Azure IaaS (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Treat Warnings As Errors (Dave M. Bush)
• 2000 C# Things #1,098 – Floating Point Overflow (Sean Sexton)
• MonoGame Modularisation (Simon Jackson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The People Factor in Agile Governance (Ben Linders)
• 45 New Books (by Top Authors) for Your Management Book Shelf (Jurgen Appelo)
• TFS Planning and Disaster Recovery Avoidance Guide – v1.4.BETA – TFS, DR and Azure IaaS Planning Guides (CodePlex)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Research & Tools for Secure Android Development (Alec Noller)
• External Actions: Choosy for iOS (Alex Curylo)
• iOS – Objective-C – Downloading Data using NSURLConnection (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Develop Universal App that runs across Windows, Windows Phone and FirefoxOS (Doris Chen)
• Helping You Go Global with More Seamless Google Play Payments (Ibrahim Elbouchikhi)
• Creating Connected App Experiences with App Links (Jon Dick)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 226: Also in Mini (Gareth Myles)
• Engadget HD Podcast 398 – 5.15.14 (Jon Turi)
• Hanselminutes – Designing Video Games with student and game designer Lauren Scott (Scott Hanselman)
• 2013’s Conference Videos (James Shore)
• IWP76: Matt Hidinger on Live Tiles in Windows 8.1 | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• What the Tech 210: A New Microsoft and Windows Weekly 362: Xbox on Prem (Paul Thurrott)
• TRAINING: TechEd North America 2014 sessions recordings now available on-demand (Kurt Shintaku)
• Talking “community” on Channel 9 (Matt Lacey)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft’s corporate PR head confirms TechEd will be back in 2015 (John Callaham)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Report and Group Variable References (Scott Murray)
• SSRS Nugget: displaying placeholders when no rows are returned (Koen Verbeeck)
• MySQL – Beginning Temporary Tables in MySQL (Pinal Dave)
• Function Folding in #PowerQuery (Darren Gosbell)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell Tips–PSEdit (Steve Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• BizTalk 2013R2 now RTM (Brian Loesgen)
• Quickest Way To Pass A Job Interview (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 15, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1357 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1610 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 5/16/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-16 (Dan Rigby)

 

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