Month: March 2014

Top Links

• New CodeLens Indicator–Incoming Changes (Mathew Aniyan)
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and Web Essentials (Mads Kristensen)
• Visual Studio Online early adoption period extended! (Visual Studio Online Team)
• 10 Years of Coding Horror (Jeff Atwood)

 

Web Development

• Post JSON data to an MVC controller from a Kendo datasource (Patrick Dunn)
• Rebuilding the SiteMonitR using Windows Azure WebJobs (Brady Gaster)
• WebStorm 8 EAP (build 134.1361): multiple selection (Ekaterina Prigara)
• VS2013 LightSwitch HTML Themes – Headers (Xpert360)
• Basics of CSS Blend Modes (Chris Coyier)
• Performance tricks for (mobile) web development (Matteo Spinelli)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone Emulator – Shortcut Keys (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Source code documentation for MVVM Light V4.2.30 (Laurent Bugnion)
• C#|XAML : ListBox – Search, Filter, and Highlight (1/3) and C#|XAML : ListBox – Search, Filter, and Highlight (2/3) (Sanjay Sharma)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,020 – Displaying Tick Marks on a Slider (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Text Input Controls – TextBox – Multiline (Richard Carr)
• Custom Special Values in Caliburn.Micro (Nigel Sampson)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Four Deadly Sins of LINQ Data Access: Part 2–Too Many Columns (Adam Anderson)
• Visual Studio Online Update – Feb 28 and Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 Update 1 available (Brian Harry)
• New CPU Usage tool in the Performance and Diagnostics hub in Visual Studio 2013 (Dan J. Taylor)
• AVX2 Support in Visual Studio C++ Compiler (Jim Hogg)
• F#3 : Formatting text (Sacha Barber)
• VS2013 LightSwitch Jsproj Unsupported Incompatible and could not be loaded (Xpert360)
• Announcing the release of Dynamic Data provider and EntityDataSource control for Entity Framework 6 (Pranav Rastogi)
• Jetbrains’ InspectCode result file viewer (Frans Bouma)
• XNA for VS 2013? Yes, you can… (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 C# Things #1,044 – How Static Data Behaves in Generic Types (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What does the test say? (Oren Eini)
• How to Create a Simple Chocolatey Package (Mike Ward)
• The Importance of Company Culture in Your Software Development Career (Jeff Chelko)
• Staying small (Eric Brechner)
• Releasing Update 4 for Indigo Studio (George Abraham)
• Event Sourcing and Post/Pre Dated Transactions (Greg Young)
• Alternatives to Udi’s domain events (Jef Claes)
• Book review: Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development (Dror Helper)
• Finding the Best-fit for Lean Startup Methodology (Rafiq Gemmail)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin: Android Activities, Context, Intents and Views (Marco Siccardi)
• Nokia-X and Android code that “just works” (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 386 – 2.28.14 (Jon Turi)
• Episode 260 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVPs Don Jones and Jason Helmick on The Scripting Games and More (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 121 (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 018 | Previewing the SharePoint Conference 2014 (Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson)
• Webinar Recording: Add Charts and Graphs to your Mobile Apps with ShinobiControls and Xamarin (Rich Taylor)
• TWC9: Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 news, Azure updates, .Net Reference Source and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Tablet Show – HTML Input Standards with Jacob Rossi (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 133: The Website Capability Model | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• The Alton Browncast – Gretchen Pfarrer (Alton Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Michelle Monaghan (Chris Hardwick)
• Get Up and CODE 43: Diet Plan Basics (John Sonmez)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Time Travel (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Even more video (Eric Lippert)

 

Community / Events

• 10 Years of being Haacked (Phil Haack)
• Speculations for Build 2014 (John Ptacek)
• PASS, Evangelism, Goals, Dreams (Andy Warren)
• A Lap around Application Insights in Brisbane Australia March 18th and 21st and Adelaide March 19th (Charles Sterling)
• To the Incoming (and Maybe Current) Computer Science Majors (Den Delimarsky)
• Student App Challenge is Back: Get up to S100 by April 14th, 2014 (Doris Chen)
• The Author Summit experience: Day 1 and The Author Summit experience: Day 2 and The Author Summit experience: Day 3 (Manya Susoev)
• Register Now for the Texas Association of Enterprise Architects | Summit (Mike Walker)

 

Database

• Identify Completion Time for Long Running SQL Server Processes using Dynamic Management Objects (Tim Ford)
• SQL SERVER – Listing Foreign Key Relationships of Table with Stored Procedure sp_fkeys and SQL SERVER – Listing Primary Key of Table with Stored Procedure sp_pkeys and SQL SERVER – Images and media file management in SQL Server and MySQL – Coding Media Management Tools is Never Easy (Pinal Dave)
• Big Data Basics – Part 4 – Introduction to HDFS (Dattatrey Sindol)
• Allocation in Power Query, Part 2 (Chris Webb)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell in a Month Day 18–Variables (Steve Jones)
• SSAS – Listing Active Queries with PowerShell (Darren Gosbell)
• Step-by-Step: Live Migrate Multiple (Clustered) VMs in One Line of PowerShell – Revisited (Keith Mayer)
• Want to Automatically Configure Your Machines Using DSC at Initial Boot-up? (Jianyun Tao)

 

Miscellaneous

• Defining disservice (Rockford Lhotka)
• Wolfram Language Demo Impresses (Soulskill)
• Microsoft experimenting with free version of Windows 8.1 (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, February 28, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 28, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #105 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1309 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – February 28, 2014 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (February 28th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• Coding4Fun February 2014 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
• Daily News Digest 2/28/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1559 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 3, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reblog: February 21 to February 27 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #293 (Mike Ward)
• .NET Weekly Digest #52 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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