Top Links
- Mobile-first, Cloud-first Development – Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 released, Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview and the future of .NET for Cloud and Server and Visual Studio Online REST APIs and Service Hooks (S.Somasegar)
- Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is here! (Anthony Cangialosi)
- Huge News! Get Windows 8 and Windows Phone Controls for FREE for the Duration of TechEd 2014 (Sasha Krsmanovic)
- Azure: VM Security Extensions, ExpressRoute GA, Reserved IPs, Internal Load Balancing, Multi Site-to-Site VPNs, Storage Import/Export GA, New SMB File Service, API Management, Hybrid Connection Service, Redis Cache, Remote Apps and more… (Scott Guthrie)
- Introducing ASP.NET vNext (Scott Hanselman)
Web Development
- Understanding the four layers of JavaScript OOP (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Enabling the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) in ASP.NET applications (Damian Edwards)
- ASP.NET vNext (David Fowler)
- Announcing ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis Preview Release (Guang Yang)
- .NET and JavaScript Libraries for Office 365 APIs, Available in Preview (Office Developer Team)
- The Next Generation of .NET – ASP.NET vNext (The .NET Team)
- Integrate Azure, Visual Studio Online and Office 365 with VSO Rest APIs. (Clemens Reijnen)
- Tips for Creating Accessible SVG (Chris Coyier)
XAML
- Build secure enterprise apps faster on Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
- Autoformatting XAML (Iris Classon)
- 2000 WPF Things #1,071 – How TextBox Reacts to Gaining Keyboard Focus (Sean Sexton)
- WPF Button Controls – Button (Richard Carr)
- The latest developer bits and advertising SDK; it’s time to //publish/ (Windows Apps Team)
Miscellaneous .NET
- A new API for Visual Studio Online and Application Insights extension for Visual Studio Update – May 12 and VS 2013 Update 2 and other TechEd news (Brian Harry)
- Migrating Your Data from TFS to Visual Studio Online with New Free Utility from OpsHub (Ed Blankenship)
- Release Management for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 with Update 2 is live! (Jonathan Rajotte)
- Semantic Tracing (Kathleen Dollard)
- Things I learnt reading C# specifications (2) (Dror Helper)
- Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RTM (Xinyang Qiu)
- API Portability Analyzer – Alpha (MS Downloads)
- What are the fundamental rules of pointers? (Eric Lippert)
- News from the .NET World (Miguel de Icaza)
- Entity Framework ”reboot” – EF7 – Get a sneak peek via TechEd US live stream (Erik EJ)
- “It is very exciting not only to welcome VS developers, but also to welcome firs… (Olivier Bloch)
- 2000 C# Things #1,095 – How Floating Point Infinity Values Are Stored (Sean Sexton)
- Getting started with GhostDoc (Tatworth)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How does Microsoft scale Agile? Here’s how, all in a very cool looking webzine (Greg Duncan)
- What’s Your Plan for Beta Testing? (Gavin Hope)
- What if we stored events instead of state? – slides (Jef Claes)
- Uncertainty in Building Software (Matt Davey)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Microsoft & Cordova (PhoneGap) sitting in a tree… (Matt Lacey)
- Apache Cordova integrated in Visual Studio for Multi-Device Hybrid App development (Olivier Bloch)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Audio version of first “Is TDD Dead” Hangout (Martin Fowler)
- RavenDB Conf Videos: The tale of RavenHQ – An Ops Story (Oren Eini)
- Channel 9 Live: Final TechEd Countdown Show | TechEd North America 2014 (Rick & Joey)
- The Married Gamers Episode 332: Gaming Equality (Chris Brown)
- Create a Staging .NET Backend for Testing and Developing Azure Mobile Services | Windows Store Developer Solutions (Jeff Sanders)
- Nerds At Play Episode 064: Sex, Lies, and Video Games (Melisa Snyder)
- App Hack Monday #5 – Guide to making the most of local app communities | App Hack Monday (Martin Beeby)
Community / Events
- New Role at Microsoft (Frank La Vigne)
- Nurses for Microsoft in Health blog debuts (Athima Chansanchai)
- What I Am Actually Doing and Why I Am Doing It (John Sonmez)
- Upcoming Web Camps – Summer 2014 (Jon Galloway)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Incremental Statistics – Performance improvements in SQL Server 2014 – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
PowerShell
- Cycle SQL Server Error Logs based on size using PowerShell (Jeffery Yao)
- Dell Business Client BIOS Configuration PowerShell Provider (Vibha Garg)
- Just Released: What’s New in Microsoft Script Browser & Script Analyzer 1.2 (Jialiang)
Miscellaneous
- Cool new blog series by Keith Mayer: Accelerating DevOps with the Cloud using Microsoft Azure and Friends (Randy)
- ‘Everything as a service’: A key piece of Microsoft’s push to get IT to the cloud (May Jo Foley)
- Microsoft reported to be prepping Xbox Music locker service (Derek Kessler)
- Visual Basic 6 is still going strong (Eric Nelson)
- Azure RemoteApp gives you Windows software anywhere (Mary Branscombe)
- Microsoft supposedly working on Windows 365 alongside Windows 9 and Office 2015 (Ron)
- Microsoft reportedly removing Xbox Live Gold requirement for Netflix and streaming apps (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, May 12, 2014 (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading May 12, 2014 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1354 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1607 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 5/13/2014 (Silverlight Show)
- Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #83 (Jason Strate)
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