Day: August 21, 2013

Top Links

• New Guide: Dependency Injection with Unity (Grigori Melnik)
• Week of PostSharp, Day 3 – You are already using AOP (Gael Fraiteur)
• tangible T4 Editor 2.2.0 plus modeling tools – Released! (Nico Ploner)
• PlayScript and What is new on Mono (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Web Development

• Using the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Wiring Up TimeAgo and ASPNET MVC (Steve Smith)
• Why all objects are truthy in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• The Use of jQuery in Tutorials (Chris Coyier)
• Quick Tip: Converting JavaScript Array-like Objects to Real Arrays (Gil Fink)
• Connecting to Google Cloud SQL from PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Comparing and contrasting ins, del, and s (Oli Studholme)
• GridView Bootstrap Update (Steve Naughton)
• SignalLeaf: Hacking A Podcast Audio Service Together (Derick Bailey)

 

XAML

• How to Export content from RadRichTextBox to a variety of formats in WPF or Silverlight (Elena Pundjeva)
• Create a Login Window in WPF (2013) (Paul Sheriff)
• 2000 WPF Things #889 – Scrolling a ScrollViewer from Code (Sean Sexton)
• Creating smarter apps with geofencing (Ross Heise)
• ViewModel 1st Child Container PRISM Navigation (Sacha Barber)
• Adding Dynamic Data to apps with the SQLite Plugin (Anthony Abdulla)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• TFS API: Query Build-Definitions (Robert Muehsig)
• Small Basic – How to Create an Extension Using VB.NET (Ed Price)
• Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Twelve – Dealing with Repetitive Tasks – Recursion in F# (Matthew Adams)
• Awesome Libraries For C# Developers #1 – Interactive Extensions (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• ATL and MFC changes and fixes in Visual Studio 2013 (Pat Brenner)
• Caching LINQ Queries (Ricardo Peres)
• Visual Studio 2013: Format the Current Document or Selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• Stupid Question 231: What is ’Peek to definition’ in Windows 8.1? (Iris Classon)
• 2000 C# Things #913 – How to Document that a Method Can Throw an Exception (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MVP Featured App: TFS Agile Poker (MVP Award Program)
• The fallacy of the rejected backlog item (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Continuous Productivity: New tools and a new way of working for a new era (Steven Sinofsky)
• Realtime User Interface Design (Chris Missal)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• New tools for Android developers: updated SDK, Share Dialog and more (Chris Lang)
• UIRefreshControl Timeout with Xamarin.iOS (Wally McClure)
• Google Play Services 3.2 (Android Developers Blog)
• Top 5 Things A Game Can Teach Your Business App (Steve Drucker)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hot Apps: Fresh Paint, The Amazing Spiderman, Temple Run, Despicable Minions, How To Kiss | Hot Apps (Laura Foy)
• Webinar Recording: Dashboards and Data Visualization for Mobile using Xamarin and ShinobiControls (Rich Taylor)

 

Community / Events

• Dev of the Week: Nuno Job (Allen Coin)

 

Database

• More than half of all SQL Server instances are out-of-date and unsupported! (Paul Randal)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Basics Video: Data and Information in Businesses – SQL in Sixty Seconds #056 (Pinal Dave)
• re: How memory mapped files, filesystems and cloud storage works (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• Deploying Workflow Manager 1.0 for SharePoint 2013 the Right Way (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Xbox Announces Self-Publishing Details (ID@XBOX) (Michael Cummings)
• What’s in the new update for Windows Phone 8? (Michael Stroh)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, August 20th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 20, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1184 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 21, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 8/21/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1425 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-21 (Dan Rigby)

 

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