Day: March 12, 2014

Top Links

• Why MessageBox.Show() = Fail! (Matt Lacey)
• The future of Windows Phone (Matteo Pagani)
• Efficient querying with LINQ, AutoMapper and Future queries (Jimmy Bogard)
• Happy Birthday, World Wide Web! #web25 (Jean Paoli)

 

Web Development

• ember.js – Computed Property for All Keys of an Object (Paul Cowan)
• What’s New in ASP.NET Web API 2.0 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Replacing Common UI Icons with CSS (Trevan Hetzel)
• Glimpse 1.8.4 released (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• Book Review: NodeJS The Right Way (Jaco Pretorius)

 

XAML

• 325 Windows Phone apps you can launch from your own app (Matt Lacey)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,027 – Displaying a Subrange on a Slider (Sean Sexton)
• Build apps that connect with People and Calendar, Part 1: Contact Cards (Zainab Hakim)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• [Sample Of Mar 11th] How to Register Test Controller using TFS APIs (Philip Fu)
• F#8 Discriminated Unions (Sacha Barber)
• C# Extension: Complementary Color (Sanjay Sharma)
• New in PostSharp 3.2: Undo/Redo, Part 3 (Gael Fraiteur)
• The Most Underused Compiler Switches in Visual C++ (Ankit Asthana & Ayman Shoukry)
• 2000 C# Things #1,051 – Implicit Reference Conversions (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: SoftwareDevelopmentAttitude (Martin Fowler)
• How Agile Is Your Process? (Cory Foy)
• When Should You Think? (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Satya Nadella on How the Key To Longevity is To Be a Learning Organization (JD Meier)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Baby Steps on Android with Xamarin–Part 5 (Mike Taulty)
• Clean and (Re)Build your code after updates (Wally McClure)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SSW TV – Using Git with TFS – Matt Mitrik (SSW Team)
• Polymorphic Podcast – Doppelganger: An Epic Battle for a Name (Craig Shoemaker)
• The Amp Hour #188 – Capacitors, Simulation and Closures – Deonerated Design Dealmaking (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• TechEd Countdown Show: The One with lots of odds and ends | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)

 

Community / Events

• Dev of the Week: Johan den Haan (Alec Noller)
• This Week’s Nerd Nite Will Be the Most Explosive One Yet (Chris Cummins)
• First day at work, hello dream job and hello IdentityMine (Iris Classon)
• Donations, why I don’t need them and why I’m now accepting them for “Have I been pwned?” (Troy Hunt)
• Announcing the global Cloud Platform Developer Roadshow (Louis Gray)
• Start your Windows Phone development training at DVLUP Day events (Mark Guim)

 

Database

• Demonstrating the Effects of Using Data Compression in SQL Server (Derek Colley)
• MySQL – How to do Straight Join in MySQL? (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint / Office 365

• Introducing codename Oslo and the Office Graph (Ashok Kuppusamy)

 

PowerShell

• Using Powershell to Monitor the SQL Server system_health Extended Event Session (Ben Snaidero)

 

Miscellaneous

• Become a Development Wizard and Win an XBox One! (Jeremy Likness)
• Getting the version number for modern OneNote (John Guin)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 11, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1315 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 12, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1566 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-12 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for March 11, 2014 – #0211 (Dave Campbell)

 

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