Day: November 14, 2014

Top Links

• Blend for Visual Studio 2015 Preview (Kino Aguilar)
• Smart Unit Tests (Preview) and Conway’s Game of Life (Jeremy Clark)
• Tools for Apache Cordova Update: iOS Debugging & Windows 8.1 Support (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Make sure you Connect(); On Demand. There’s so much more than what was live streamed… (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Five Common Angular Mistakes (Itay Herskovitz)
• ASP.NET Tag Helpers – Making HTML More Cool! (Jeff Fritz)
• Using AngularJS decorators to resolve view templates by resource content type (Matthew Adams)
• Thoughts on Angular 2.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• ASP.NET 5: How to debug with ASP.NET source? (Gunnar Peipman)
• Adding fields to a fake Orchard content item (Bertrand LeRoy)
• Deploy to Azure Button for Azure Websites (Elliott Hamai)
• Azure Websites Authentication / Authorization (Preview Release) (Mark Brown)
• 5 Evolving Docker Technologies (Phil Whelan)

 

XAML

• How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app–Part I: the preview of the photo to capture (Marco Siccardi)
• APress Deal of the Day 14/November/2014 – Designing for Windows 8 (Tatworth)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using “Ctrl+Enter, Enter” Instead of “Ctrl+., Enter” for C# Quick Actions on Visual Studio 2015 Preview (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Union with C# (Bnaya Eshet)
• Memory Usage Tool While Debugging in Visual Studio 2015 (Charles Willis)
• TFS Private Builds (Josh Eastburn)
• Visual Studio 2015 Preview Features – Part 1 (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Cross Platform Mobile Development with C++ and Visual Studio 2015 (Rene Schulte)
• Visual Studio 2015 and NUnit, with a little NuGet issue (Terje Sandstrom)
• C# Properties Get and Set (Dave M. Bush)
• Passing Exception Information (Peter Vogel)
• C++ AMP Algorithms Library 0.9.4.1 Released (Ade Miller)
• Hooray for Open Source .NET! (Brendan Tompkins)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When We Don’t Understand, We Turn to Our Assumptions (Mark Smith)
• Running Builds on Azure with TeamCity and the Azure SDK for Java (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• A Better Way to Share Image Assets in Xamarin Forms (Daniel Vaughan)
• Mobile authentication with Xamarin.Auth and refresh tokens (Jimmy Bogard)
• Increasing Revenue via the Internet of Things (IoT Example 5) (Rob Tiffany)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Indie Dev Podcast, Ep 15 – Michael Hicks (David Voyles)
• Hanselminutes – Balancing a Nerdcore Music Career and a PhD with Sammus aka Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (Scott Hanselman)
• Adventures in Angular 016 – NG 1.3 and 2.0 with Brad Green, Igor Minar, and Miško Hevery (John Papa)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Gilbert Gottfried (Chris Hardwick)

 

Community / Events

• Passionate Windows developer, Rudy Huyn, shares how he obtained 15 million downloads (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Eyenaemia’s Imagine Cup Tips and Tricks (Jennifer Tang)
• Rachel Andrew on the Business of Web Dev: Managing Feature Requests (Rachel Andrew)
• Run a Hybrid App, Get an Amazon.com Gift Card (Paulette Stout)

 

Database

• Amazon Launches Supercharged MySQL Alternative (Kay Ewbank)
• Guidelines for Using Natively-Compiled Stored Procedures in SSIS Packages (Daniel Farina)
• SQL SERVER – Filtering CPU Bound Execution Plans with Extended Events (Pinal Dave)
• Just an idea: Bare Bones SQL (Jen McCown)
• Thoughts on shared development databases (Wes McClure)

 

SharePoint

• Downloadable eBook: Explore SharePoint 2013 (MS Downloads)

 

PowerShell

• Troubleshooting WMI standard event consumer issues (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• All Windows Phone 8 Handsets Will Get Windows 10, Microsoft Says (Paul Thurrott)
• New England Patriots regret thanking racist Twitter account (Brittany Levine) – You’re going to have problems if you automate your fan interaction.
• Small Basic – 3 Simple Games (Ed Price)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, November 13, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 13, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1737 (Chris Alcock)
• Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)
• Daily News Digest 11/14/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-14 (Dan Rigby)

 

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