Top Links
- Brokered WinRT Components Step-by-Step and Brokered WinRT Components Step One and Brokered WinRT Components Step Two and Brokered WinRT Components Step Three (Harry Pierson)
- A quick guide to getting going with Roslyn (Greg Duncan)
- Using OAuth, Twitter and Async To Display Data – Connect to Twitter from a mobile application using OAuth with the Xamarin.Auth library, along with Joe Mayo’s LINQ To Twitter library (Wally McClure)
- Legend Confirmed: Atari 2600 ‘E.T.’ Game Discovered at New Mexico Dig (Adario Strange)
Web Development
- Dirty Children and Kendo UI (Josh Eastburn)
- Securing Node.js Applications With OAuth2 and Azure (Josh Lane)
- Angular Part 5–Adding A Service (Jesse Liberty)
- Understanding Javascript Promises (Karl Seguin)
- Preventing default action for an element in AngularJS (Venkata Koppaka)
- JavaScript Unit Tests and Code Coverage Tracking using Venus.js (Ariya Hidayat)
- Using Bower in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
- Why your ASP.NET MVC Application needs its own framework (Matt Honeycutt)
- The interoperability of Web Component polyfills (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Enjoy Spring, and new updates to our Open Source Azure Storage Plugin for Jenkins (Brian Benz)
- Hosting interactive code in the Cloud (Mike Stall)
- WritingGauntlet.com: A Real world LightSwitch Application (Michael Washington)
XAML
- Sharing Resource Dictionaries in your Universal XAML Apps (Bary Nusz)
- Windows Phone 8.1 – LocalCacheFolder (Andrej Tozon)
- Migrating from the LongListSelector to the ListView in Windows Phone XAML Apps (Shawn Kendrot)
- Physics Helper for Universal Windows apps (Andy Beaulieu)
- Building Brokered LOB WinRT App’s, a quick guide and a few tips to help you keep your hair… (Greg Duncan)
- Windows/Phone 8.1 and the “Rolling Geofence” (Mike Taulty)
- 2000 WPF Things #1,060 – Clipping in Grid Happens Before Render Transforms (Sean Sexton)
- WAQS Patterns 8/11 (Matthieu Mezil)
- WPF Base Classes – TextBoxBase – Selection (Richard Carr)
- Background transfer API in universal Windows apps: what you need to know (Himadri Sarkar)
Miscellaneous .NET
- ReSharper 8.2.1 Release Candidate Is Here (Daria Dovzhikova)
- Installing the Windows Embedded Compact Edition 2013 Update for Visual Studio 2013 (Werner Willemsens)
- Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jesper Fernström (Willy-P. Schaub)
- Explicit Wait. It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means. (Jim Holmes)
- Domain Modeling and Persistence in Entity Framework 6 (Dino Esposito)
- Leveling up your logging. (part 2) (Phillip Haydon)
- Date Types (Phillip Trelford)
- Reactive Extensions (Rx) – Part 6 – Task ToObservable (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
- 2000 C# Things #1,084 – Representing Numbers Using Scientific Notation (Sean Sexton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Monagamous TDD (“Uncle Bob” Martin)
- Automating SproutCore Unit Testing with PhantomJS (Greg Fairbanks)
- Kanban Thinking Questions (Karl Scotland)
- Setting up Karma to run unit tests in PhantomJS and Chrome (Arun Mahendrakar)
- TDD Is Dead? Let’s Kill The Messenger Instead! (Gil Zilberfeld)
- What to do when FakeItEasy throws System.BadImageException (Dror Helper)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Connect to a Bluetooth Serial Device with Xamarin.Android (Brian Peek)
- Create an iOS Flow Layout with Ease Using NucliOS (Obj-C & C#) (Torrey Betts)
- Android Studio 0.5.5 Released (Alec Noller)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Episode 315 – Lance McCarthy on App Studio (David Giard)
- Engadget Podcast 394 – 4.25.14 (Jon Turi)
- RavenDB Conf Videos: Panel Discussion – The good & ugly of working with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- TWC9: More from Cortana, Windows Phone 8.1 Dev Series, a changelog plea and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- The Changelog 119: MEAN.js & Full-Stack JavaScript w/ Roie and Amos (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
- Hello World Podcast Episode 22: Brad Wilson (Shawn Wildermuth)
- (Video) Hack: Camtasia Recorder endless loop when opening a program as an administrator (Iris Classon)
- Get Up And Code 051: Richard Campbell Climbs Mountains (John Sonmez)
- StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: New Discoveries (Neil deGrasse Tyson & Eugene Mirman)
- GeekWire Radio: Streaming TV, startup investing, and singing in the studio (Todd Bishop)
Community / Events
- I’m Teaching Critical Path Training’s SharePoint 2013 Developer Course in Boston, June 2-6 (Andrew Connell)
- What a week. Code babes and douches, nerd dinners, sun and code (Iris Classon)
Database
- Improve SSIS data flow buffer performance (Koen Verbeeck)
- SQLAuthority News – Microsoft Whitepaper – Optimizing Your Query Plans with the SQL Server 2014 Cardinality Estimator and SQLAuthority News – Two Microsoft Whitepaper on In-Memory OLTP (Pinal Dave)
PowerShell
- Learn PowerShell – Piping (Gregor Suttie)
- Understanding Import-DscResource Keyword in Desired State Configuration (Fayza Sultan)
Miscellaneous
- How ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ turned awful B movies into comedy gold (Dante D’Orazio)
- Nate Silver’s advice to young journalists: Learn to code now (Taylor Soper)
- Software developers remain ‘life itself’ to Microsoft, Nadella says (Tracey Spenser)
More Link Collections
- //build 2014 highlights #4: so much more! (Windows Apps Team)
- Top 7 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, April 25, 2014 (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading April 26, 2014 (Robert Diana)
- Pie in the Sky (April 25th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
- Collective #113 (Mary Lou)
- Double Shot #1343 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-28 (Dan Rigby)
- Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
- The Morning Brew #1597 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 4/28/2014 (Silverlight Show)
- Reading Notes #137 (Frank)
- Reblog: April 18 to April 24 (Jason Strate)
- Friday Links #301 (Mike Ward)
- Community Update 2014-04-25–#tdd, #underscorejs compared to #linq, #webdev bookmarks, and more (Maxime Rouiller)
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