Tag: visual stuido

Top Links

• SQL Server Data Tools for SQL Server 2014 is available (Kevin Cunnane)
• Sorry Xbox fans, Facebook just bought Oculus for $2 billion (Sam Sabri)
• AutoView – the Missing Link for a Good ViewModel First Approach (András Velvárt)
• Linker Enhancements in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 (Eric Battalio)

Web Development

• Case Study: Using $scope.$digest() As A Performance Optimization In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• How to Create Common Screens Quickly (Kevin Mehlhaff)
• JavaScript Frameworks | How to Learn Them Quickly (Craig McKeachie)
• Event Source Base class for Typescript (James Curran)
• OneNote Dev isn’t dead by a long shot! The OneNote team opens up about their near-term API roadmap (Greg Duncan)
• Sublime is Sublime 9 and Sublime is Sublime 10 (Greg Young)
• Some stuff that doesn’t work between the DOM and Shadow DOM (Steve Faulkner)

XAML

• More on Search in WInRT: Search history (Iris Classon)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,037 – Entering Text Manually into a DatePicker (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Form Designer Prototype (MVVM) (Adolfo Perez)
• Testing for accessibility in Windows Store apps (Joseph Shum)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Solving fun puzzles with F# (Tomas Petricek)
• Asynchronous MSMQ Processing (Peter Vogel)
• F#11 : Sequences (Sacha Barber)
• Creating a self-contained test suite for WCF services using Microsoft Visual Studio Coded UI (Uma Malleshwari)
• Book Review: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• IronPython 2.7.5 Beta 1 (CodePlex)
• “Point and Click” Cloud Push Notifications with Azure Mobile Services (Mike Taulty)
• Introduction to MonoGame 3.2 for Windows 8 (Michael Cummings)
• Entity Framework Gets Code First Model Generation Through Reverse Engineering (David Ramel)
• JustMock Lite Just Got Even Better (Elena Pundjeva)
• 2000 C# Things #1,061 – Explicit Reference Conversions (Sean Sexton)
• Seq is ready for prime-time (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are Microservices the Future? and Open-Sourcing ThoughtWorks Go (Martin Fowler)
• Throw user stories away after they are delivered (Gojko Adzic)
• TDD Isn’t All About Testing (Dave M. Bush)
• Frontend & Backend: Gotta Keep’em Separated (Brad Carleton)
• Using BeyondCompare 4 with Tortoise HG 2.11.1 (and possibly all 2.x previous) (Chris Skardon)
• Domain-Driven Design Using a Functional Language (Jan Stenberg)
• How To Convince Your Boss To Try New Things (Scott Berkun)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Awesome Android with Xamarin (Marc LaFleur)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 124 (Richard Hay)
• Tech Flash Podcast: Halo, IE9, Delve; and guest Matt Hulett of GameHouse (Todd Bishop & John Cook)
• 250th Video Published on WintellectNOW – WintellectNOW Blog – 3/25/2014 (Sara Faatz)
• The Amp Hour #190 – Let’s Hear It For The Buoys – Vanishing Vessel Vexation (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Verge Mobile Show 083 – March 25th, 2014 (Evan Rodgers)
• Radio TFS – Building up to Build (Martin Woodward, Mickey Gousset & Paul Hacker)
• Facebook to acquire Oculus VR for $2 billion: 90 Seconds on The Verge (Verge Video)

Community / Events

• Boston Code Camp 21 (Michael Cummings)
• First State .NET User Group – 27-Mar-2014 – Intro to ASP.NET MVC with Andy Schwam (First State .NET)
• Dev of the Week: Troy Hunt (Alec Noller)
• Nokia will unveil #moreLumia to the world on April 2nd (Daniel Rubino)

Database

• Microsoft® OData Source for Microsoft SQL Server® 2012 (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – SSIS Execution Control Using Precedence Constraints – Notes from the Field #021 (Pinal Dave)
• Differences in Map/Reduce between RavenDB & MongoDB (Oren Eini)
• How to Add Nonclustered Indexes to Clustered Columnstore Indexes (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Cast versus Convert: CAST should be first choice (Kevin Shyr)

PowerShell

• Collect Database and Table Index Grow Statistics for all SQL Servers Using PowerShell (Bernard Black)
• #PSTip Create your own DSC resource snippets in PowerShell ISE (Aleksandar Nikolic)
• Writing a PowerShell module in C#, Part 1: The basics (Carlos Perez)

Miscellaneous

• Minecraft Creator Cancels The Oculus Rift Version Because Facebook “Creeps” Him Out (Darrell Etherington)
• Buy your own Jet-Powered R/C Flame Breathing Dragon (You just have to take a 2nd on your house… but it’s a flying, jet powered dragon!) (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public (Jeffrey Meisner)
• 10 Things I Wish I’d Known About Giving Good Tech Talks (Marc Grabanski)

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, March 25, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 25, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 26, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/25/2014 and Daily News Digest 3/26/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1576 (Chris Alcock)
• Community Update 2014-03-25 – #webdev, #aspnet, #windowsazure, #nuget packages of the week (Maxime Rouiller)

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