Day: August 5, 2014

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RTM Available (John Montgomery)
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, Azure SDK 2.4, Windows Phone 8.1 Update and Apache Cordova Tools CTP 2 (S.Somasegar)
• Azure: Virtual Machine, Machine Learning, IoT Event Ingestion, Mobile, SQL, Redis, SDK Improvements (Scott Guthrie)
• How to investigate Rebuilding in Visual Studio when nothing has changed (Kirill Osenkov)

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure SDK for .NET – 2.4 (MS Downloads)
• Knockout Bindings are Evaluated Left to Right (Cory House)
• JavaScript: using closure space to create real private members (David Catuhe)
• Kendo UI Mobile with MVVM and RequireJS (Basem Emara)
• Json.NET 6.0 Release 4 (CodePlex)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 SDK and Emulators (MS Downloads)
• Smartwatch API support for Windows Phone 8.1 found in GDR1 update (Daniel Rubino)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,129 – Localization X – Integrating Translations Back into Application (Sean Sexton)
• Store and Retrieve JSON data from Local storage in Windows Store App (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Store Tidbits #2: Freemium to free, trial to full, and in-app purchases within a trial (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• VS/TFS 2013.3 (Update 3) released (Brian Harry)
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 now available (Charles Sterling)
• Presentation on Visual Studio Database Projects Integration with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (Lonny Bastien)
• VS2013 Update 3 and Entity Framework (Rowan Miller)
• C# 6.0 Features Part I : Property Initializers (K. Scott Allen)
• Use a Microsoft Account to Create Web Apps Protected by Azure AD – With VS2013 Update 3 (Vittorio Bertocci)
• Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RTM (Xinyang Qiu)
• NHibernate Succinctly (Ricardo Peres)
• You aren’t using Resource Monitor enough (Scott Hanselman)
• 2000 C# Things #1,153 – Different Delegate Types Are Not Assignment Compatible (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Everyday Unit Testing (Gil Zilberfeld)
• How Agile Do You Have to be to be Considered Agile? (Peter Saddington)
• Work-items tracking using Release Management (Anand Gaurav)
• Why Should Developers Help With User Interface Tests? (Antonia Bozhkova)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Announce: Ninject for Xamarin (and everything else) (Oren Novotny)
• Configuring Android Emulators in Xamarin Studio (Patrick Dunn)
• Apache Cordova Tooling Update with Support for Windows 7 (Ryan J. Salva)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Migrating to Azure with Mike Wood (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin & Robert Green)
• Ping 217: ImagineCup Champions, EA Access, Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1, All the NFL Player Data, and free Games! | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & Simon May)
• Is Transparent Data Encryption Right for Your Data? [Video] (Jes Schultz Borland)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Spoon (Chris Hardwick)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 35: Mike Woodring (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Edge Show 113 – New Azure Portal DevOps UX | Edge (David Tesar & Simon May)
• Episode 004 – Arasu Elangovan (Math Grove) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• John Platt on AI, Cortana, and Project Adam | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 24 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)

 

Community / Events

• Mobile .NET and Xamarin Meetups in August (Aleks Fonseca)
• Xamarin Acquires Petzold (Bryan Costanich)
• //oneweek hackathon shows culture shift at Microsoft (Matthew Shaffer)

 

Database

• Adding Custom Reports to SQL Server Management Studio (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS: Database Consistency History Report (Pinal Dave)
• Guids are evil nasty little creatures that make me cry (Oren Eini)
• Reply to “What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL” (Frans Bouma)
• Primer on Power BI (Business Intelligence) (Mark Tabladillo)
• Azure Storage Explorer 6 Preview 1 (CodePlex)
• Currently Executing Queries in Vertica (Steven Proctor)

 

SharePoint

• Creating Azure AD Apps for Office 365 – New Reference Samples Published (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• Azure PowerShell Tools version 0.8.6 is available (Ravikanth C)
• PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit v3.1.5 (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous

• eBook deal of the week: Code (Kim Spilker)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, August 4, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of July 28, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 4, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 5, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 8/5/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-05 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1666 (Chris Alcock)

 

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