Top Links
- *New* video series on Windows Store App development using Visual Basic on Microsoft Virtual Academy (Anthony D. Green)
- .NET Framework SDKs and Downloads (.NET Team)
- Twenty C# Questions Explained (MS Virtual Academy)
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- (video) Sharing views (XAML) using Portable Class Libraries (Iris Classon)
- GitHub – Hello World Guide (Jessica Lord)
- [24 hours only] On the Day Against DRM (May 6th, 2014) all Packt eBooks for $10 for 24 hours only (Greg Duncan)
Web Development
- Book Review: The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript (Ian Elliot)
- First look of book: Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET by Glenn Block (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Kendo UI & Dynamic Data: Solution 1 (Jesse Liberty)
- PHPUnit 4 in PhpStorm 8 EAP (Maarten Balliauw)
- Telerik, moving to Kendo (Peter van Ooijen)
- Adding Application Notifications With Kendo UI Core (Rey Bango)
- Moving Forward with CSS Shapes (Sara Soueidan)
- Links with Inline SVG, Staying on Target with Events (Chris Coyier)
- Cloud Power: How to scale Azure Websites globally with Traffic Manager (Scott Hanselman)
XAML
- Foundbite dev finds Windows Phone 8.1 gives developers more control, enhances user experience (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
- MovedCheeseException–where is StorageFolder.TryGetItemAsync in Windows Phone 8.1? (Joost van Schaik)
- 2000 WPF Things #1,066 – Elements Must Be Visible and Enabled to Fire Events (Sean Sexton)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Debugging 256 GPU Threads in Visual Studio 2013 (Gaston Hillar)
- Visual Studio Graphics Frame Analysis in action! (Rong Lu)
- 2000 C# Things #1,090 – Using Visual Studio to Verify How Floating Point Numbers Are Stored (Sean Sexton)
- Missing NHibernate features in Entity Framework (Jimmy Bogard)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Bliki: UnitTest (Martin Fowler)
- Focus on key examples (Gojko Adzic)
- Separating the UI Code from the Business Code: What’s Reasonable? (Peter Vogel)
- The Mindmapping Software Advantage: Week 5 – Personal Productivity Templates (Chance Brown)
- Import virtual machines or template operation of Microsoft Test Manager throws ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object’’ (Subramanyam)
Other Mobile Platforms
- MS Open Tech brings a new WebSQL plugin for Apache Cordova and enhancements to the popular Contacts plugin (Olivier Bloch)
- Building a delicious “hamburger” button app layout (David Washington)
- Mobile Services .NET Backend: Part 1—Creating the Service and Defining the REST API (Glenn Gailey)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- RavenDB Conf Videos: Mastering Date and Time Data in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- Windows Phone – Getting Started With Azure Mobile Services (.NET Backend) | Windows Azure Mobile Services (Yavor Georgiev)
- Part 1 – Series Introduction | Windows Phone 8.1 Development for Absolute Beginners (Bob Tabor, Matthias Shapiro & Larry Lieberman)
- Hello World Podcast Episode 23: Phil Haack (Shawn Wildermuth)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Jon Favreau (Chris Hardwick)
- Defrag Tools: #89 – Symbol Folder Tools | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
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Database
- Cumulative Update – 12 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available ! (Rohit Garg)
- SQL Server Debugging with WinDbg – an Introduction (Klaus Aschenbrenner)
- Introducing DxConsole 2014 for SQL Server (Jonathan Allen)
- SQL SERVER – How to Change Compatibility of Database to SQL Server 2014 (Pinal Dave)
- Big Data Basics – Part 5 – Introduction to MapReduce (Dattatrey Sindol)
- 4 Lightweight Ways to Tell if a Database is Used (Kendra Little)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- How Should Software Developers Prepare For The Future? (John Sonmez)
More Link Collections
- Double Shot #1349 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1602 (Chris Alcock)
- Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (4/28-5/5) (Dara Monasch)
- Reading Notes #138 (Frank)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-06 (Dan Rigby)
- Community Update 2014-05-05 – #fubumvc, #angularjs, #visualstudio and way more (Maxime Rouiller)
The Geek Shelf
Smashing Android UI: Juhani Lehtimaki: 9781118387283: Books ISBN: 1118387287 |