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Top Links

• .NET Memory Analysis: Go to Source in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 and Multiple Monitor Support for Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 (Andrew Chan)
• Code Lens for Git in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 3 (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• Announcing Update to Productivity Power Tools 2013 (Mark Wilson-Thomas)
• Dependent Methods in Kendo: A Practical Example (Jesse Liberty)
• Attention, developers! New Windows app training resources now available! (Jeffrey Meisner)

 

Web Development

• Inspecting AngularJS $scope using Firebug and Chrome Developer Tools (Alexander Zeitler)
• Checking whether a value is an integer in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Book Review: Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET and Bootstrap Theme Switcher (Joseph Guadagno)
• jQuery UI 1.11.0-beta.2 (Jörn Zaefferer)
• PhpStorm gets Bower support (Maarten Balliauw)
• 5 Excellent and FREE AngularJS Learning Materials for Beginners (Michael Crump)
• In JavaScript, ‘true’ == true is false, truthy truth (Peter Kellner)
• Find the index of the smallest element in a JavaScript array (Raymond Chen)
• JavaScript: Relay Control with Johnny-Five on Node.js (Rick Waldron)
• Set Context User Principal for Customized Authentication in SignalR (Shaun Xu)
• Defining AngularJS Routing in an ASP.NET MVC application (Sumit Maitra)
• Web Performance Optimization is Simple – Can Your Developers Execute? and No Matter How You Look At It Enterprise Mobility is ALL ABOUT THE CLIENT (Chris Love)
• litebox : Lightbox/Modal window Plugin (jQuery Rain)
• YUI 3.17.2 Release Candidate 1 (Andrew Wooldridge)
• SVG `use` with External Source and Ideas Behind Responsive Emails (Chris Coyier)
• Set-AzureStorageBlobContent : The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden (Iris Classon)
• Enterprise Typescript (Jeremy Likness)
• Remote debugging a windows Azure website (Morten Anderson)
• Refactoring Legacy Code: Part 5 – Game’s Testable Methods (Patkos Csaba)

 

XAML

• Preview: an ObservableAdapter for Xamarin Android in MVVM Light VNext (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows/Phone 8.1–Frame, Page, NavigationHelper, SuspensionManager (Mike Taulty)
• Microsoft announces training resources for Windows Phone developers (Richard Hay)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,080 – Command Text for Preexisting Commands Is Automatically Localized (Sean Sexton)
• App builders: Check out the latest trends in the Windows and Windows Phone stores (Suzanne Choney)
• WPF Date Controls – Calendar (Richard Carr)
• New Windows app development training resources now available (Larry Lieberman)
• WAQS Querying: Math methods (Matthieu Mezil)
• Remove Tap/Mouse Down Animations on GridView and ListView for Windows 8.1 (Nick Randolph)
• Understanding and resolving app crashes and failures in Windows Store apps, part 2: JSON and tiles (Gretchen Loihle & Andrew Richards)
• Going cross-platform with Xamarin–The Windows Phone App (Brynte)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• First NuGet package for SQLitePCL.raw (Eric Sink)
• Becoming SOLID in C# (Abel Avram)
• How to Pebble with Windows and Visual Studio and EOLM, End of the Line Markers Visual Studio Extension (Greg Duncan)
• Book Review: NuGet 2 Essentials and Book Review: Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook (Joseph Guadagno)
• Test Plan and Test Suite Customization with TFS2013 Update3 (Manoj Bableshwar)
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient: Seamlessly integrating T-SQL and F# in the same code [Guest Post] (Dmitry Sevastianov & Dmitry Morozov)
• Managing multiple platforms in Visual Studio (Alexandre Mutel)
• Moving Data to the Form in Windows Forms (Peter Vogel)
• Update does not apply or is blocked by another condition on your computer (Heath Stewart)
• Quick IntelliTrace File Open from App Insights (jhwa)
• T4 Basis and Entity Data Model classes and Roslyn basis and How to generate a property from an extension method using Roslyn (Matthieu Mezil)
• Why is the debugger telling me I crashed because my DLL was unloaded, when I see it loaded right here happily executing code? (Raymond Chen)
• Where is that console.log? (Remy Sharp)
• 2000 C# Things #1,103 – A Block Defines Both Scope and Declaration Space and #1,104 – Can’t Re-Declare a Variable within a Nested Block (Sean Sexton)
• .NET Native Deep Dive: Making Your Library Great and .NET Native Deep Dive: Optimizing with Runtime Directives (Morgan Brown)
• Working with Portable Class Libraries and porting TagLib# and Determining Portable Class Library compatibility (Tim Heuer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Waterfall to Agile (JD Meier)
• Change Risk Anti-Patterns & Code Complexity (Kerry Meade)
• What’s wrong with TDD (Dror Helper)
• Take Control of Your Git Repos with DigitalOcean (Rob Conery)
• Branding guidelines and logos for OneNote API developers (MS Downloads)
• Leaky Libraries: How To Assess The Risk Of Dependencies (Ben Voss)
• 10 Reasons Why Developers Hate Your API and API Design Should Be About Interactive and Tinkering (Graeme Thickins)
• Quote of the week – quality (Bob)
• Introducing CommandAllThings (Jason Jarrett)
• You Never Really Learn Something Until You Teach It (John Sonmez)
• Jenkins CI Integrates With Chef and Puppet to Provide Full Traceability of Deployments (Matthias Marschall)
• How to use OneNote 2013 to go paperless (Richard Hay)
• Applying Design Values to Programming (Simon St. Laurent)
• How to decide? (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Another Easy Sample For Notification Pages on Android Wear (Wayne Piekarski)
• Review: Learning Objective-C by Developing iPhone Games (Brian Minnaar)
• Dynamic Repositioning In Unity (Jesse Freeman)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cloud Patterns with Vishwas Lele (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 319 – Andrew Brust on Excel BI Tools (David Giard)
• Yet Another Podcast Show 125 – Mads Kristensen (Jesse Liberty)
• Engadget Podcast 398 – 5.26.14 (Jon Turi)
• MNR 511: June Xbox One Update and Geoff Keighley stops by (Larry Hyrb)
• Webinar Recording: Developing with Google Glass and Xamarin (Mike Bluestein)
• App Hack Monday #7: Xamarin | App Hack Monday (Martin Beeby)
• GeekWire Radio: This 15-year-old iPhone stethoscope inventor is just getting started (Todd Bishop)
• SSW TV – Visual Studio and Telerik Platform: Mobile App Development Awesomesauce with John Bristowe (SSW Team)
• What The Tech 211: No Surface Mini No Problem (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Dave Attell #3 and The Nerdist Podcast – Clark Gregg Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 26: Laurent Bugnion (Shawn Wildermuth)
• How to Work Around Standard Edition’s Limits [Video] (Brent Ozar)
• TWC9: Two Geeks and a Baby | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Married Gamers Episode 334: Pink & Deadly Gamers (Chris Brown)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 12 and Episode 11 and Episode 10 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Episode 141: API Management with Vladimir Vinogradsky | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Nick Harris & Chris)
• Get Up And Code 055: Staying Active With Troy Hunt (John Sonmez)
• Connectedly 1: Welcome! (Kevin Michaluk, Adam Zeis & Rene Ritchie)
• Defrag Tools: Live – TechEd 2014 – Paula Januszkiewicz Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Space and Science with Bill Nye (Bill Nye)

 

Community / Events

• F# Summer of Code 2014 (Phillip Trelford)
• Last chance to register for Modern Devices and Universal Apps on 5/29! (Michael Cummings)
• Falafel Hires Chief Technology Officer Steve Smith (Ryan Axford)
• .NET MVPs Doing Great Work Worldwide (Kerry Meade)

 

Database

• Semi-blocking Transformations in SQL Server Integration Services SSIS (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – Fix – Agent Starting Error 15281 – SQL Server blocked access to procedure ‘dbo.sp_get_sqlagent_properties’ of component ‘Agent XPs’ because this component is turned off as part of the security configuration for this server (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Differences Between Power BI and SharePoint BI (Melissa Coates)

 

PowerShell

• Attaching all Databases with Powershell–Finding my MDF files (Steve Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• EVERYTHING IS FINE PROBABLY – Some thoughts about anxiety (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Functional vs Chronological Resume (Travis Scott)
• Calculate your WEI (Windows Experience Index) under Windows 8.1 (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 23, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of May 19, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 23, 2014 and Geek Reading May 26, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #117 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1363 and Double Shot #1364 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Blog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #85 (Jason Strate)
• Daily News Digest 5/26/2014 and Daily News Digest 5/27/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #141 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1616 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Links #305 (Mike Ward)
• Weekly Programming Digest #63 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-26 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-26 (Dan Rigby)

 

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