Month: February 2014

Top Links

• Biggy Basics, Part 1: Documents (Rob Conery)
• Enabling NuGet Support in Xamarin Studio (Dan Rigby)
• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 – Part 4 – Web API Help Pages, BSON, and Global Error Handling (Jon Galloway)
• ATBG: How do exceptions interact with the “using” statement? (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• More Angular Inside SVG Inside HTML (Paul Hammant)
• Enabling Kendo Grid CSV Downloads on iPad Mobile Safari (Rachel Hagerman)
• Application Components with AngularJS (Borislav Iordanov)
• Common Mistakes With Angular Kendo UI (Burke Holland)
• Angular JS blog series – Table of content and Angular JS–Part 13, Services (Gabriel Schenker)
• [Sample Of Feb 26th] How to use DropDownList with ASP.NET MVC (Philip Fu)
• Configuring Custom Domain Names on Windows Azure Websites in 4 Easy Steps (Rick G. Garibay)
• AngularJS – Introducing Routes (John Ptacek)
• Selecting One User Interface Framework: The Impossible Dream? (Cory House)
• There’s never magic, but plenty of butterfly effects (Eric Lawrence)
• Lucene and Solr 4.7 Released (Rafał Kuć)

XAML

• Data Storage for Windows Phone – the first Telerik component which utilizes the concept of the common Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 platform (Deyan Ginev)
• Teaser: my MVVM Light reference course at Pluralsight is almost ready (Laurent Bugnion)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,018 – Slider Basics (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Text Input Controls – TextBox – Styling (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous .NET

• ReSharper for C++ EAP Goes Public (Jura Gorohovsky)
• News on the future of C# as a language (Per-Olof Bondesson)
• C#|.NET : Generic Concurrent Queue (6/6) (Sanjay Sharma)
• Extending Visual Studio, part 5: Dealing with Unversioned Assemblies (Schabse Laks)
• A C# Feature I’d Really Like to See in a Future Version (Roland Weigelt)
• .NET Reference Source browser gets a new look (Bill Wagner)
• Picking Up Queue Messages: Strategy and Tactics (Peter Vogel)
• Roslyn Powered (Matt Davey)
• Interface implementation delegation (Matthieu Mezil)
• 2000 C# Things #1,042 – Deriving from a Self-Referencing Constructed Type, Part I (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Projections Example (Greg Young)
• What If Managers Didn’t Get Paid More? (Scott Berkun)
• How Software Architecture Is Like Photography (Tim Murphy)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Telerik Mobile Testing – iOS Case Study (Anthony Rinaldi)
• Telerik UI for Android debuting with a Powerful Holo-inspired Chart Library (Deyan Ginev)
• Creating Magic with Cloud Connected Mobile Apps (James Montemagno)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Rocking Your Technical Interview with David McCarter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Using Portable Class Libraries with Xamarin | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• What the Tech 202: Full-Blown Android (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Donald Faison (Chris Hardwick)
• 098 JSJ Assemble.io with Brian Woodward and Jon Schlinkert (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The Amp Hour #186 – Someone is watching…we think – Horme Hostility Hypochondriac (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Bill Buxton and Jeff Han – Part 4 of 4 | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)
• RiYL Episode 042: Amber Papini and Nathan Michel (Brian Heater)
• The Verge Mobile Show 081 – February 26th, 2014 (Verge Video)
• The new Office: Client Configuration Management 101 | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)

Community / Events

• 3 Ways to Maximize Social Media at SharePoint Conference #spc14 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• upcoming user group / conference visits (Chris G. Williams)
• Geek of the Week: RPG Designer Jesse Benner (David Goodman)
• MVPs Help Make the 2014 System Center Universe a Success (MVP Award Program)

Database

• Where Are All the DBAs in NoSQL? (Alec Noller)
• Execute Script Error Resolved In SQL Server Management Studio (Dirk Strauss)
• Analyze your SQL Server wait stats and get free SQL Server training! (Paul Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Dude, Where is the SQL Agent Job History? – Notes from the Field #017 (Pinal Dave)
• Shiny features in the depth: New index optimization (Oren Eini)
• SQLite on mobile devices – Issues with sync and constraints (Eric Sink)
• Back Up Transaction Logs Every Minute. Yes, Really. (Brent Ozar)

Miscellaneous

• 10 amazingly stupid things the ‘experts’ will try to tell you about Microsoft (Ed Bott)
• Visit the MIT OpenCourseWare eBook Shelf (Computer, Nanoelectronics, Languages and much more) (Greg Duncan)
• Code.org turning the ashes of ‘Flappy Bird’ into a phoenix of coding education (Josh Lowensohn)
• So you were browsing the Splunk Apps portal and just found an app you’d like to … (Leo Budchenko)
• Bing Rewards Members Get OneDrive 100 GB Special Offer (Omar Shahine)

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, February 26, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1557 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading February 26, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1307 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 27, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/26/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-27 (Dan Rigby)

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