Top Links
- azure-cli 0.6.9 ships, pure joy (Glenn Block)
- this.Log– Source, NuGet Package & Performance (Rob Reynolds)
- A Sudden Move: one developer’s journey from C# to JavaScript (Joel Cochran)
- Need funding for a great app idea? AppCampus is here to help (Todd Brix)
Web Development
- Windows Azure: A look back and hints of what’s ahead (Mary Jo Foley)
- Baby steps to Backbone.js: Unit testing of views (Alexander Beletsky)
- Microsoft Open Technologies releases Windows Azure support for Solr 4.0 (Brian Benz)
- Enhancing LightSwitch Controls with jQuery Mobile (Michael Zlatkovsky)
- New Book: Learning CSS3 Animations (Louis Lazaris)
- Facebook Authentication with the Facebook C# SDK and ASP.NET MVC 4 (Nathan Totten)
- MVC Single Page Application Template Update for ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC (Xinyang Qiu)
- Applications are now open for the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure – 2013 (Scott Guthrie)
- 40% off DevExpress DXperience ASP .NET course! – Merry Christmas! (Oliver Sturm)
- Why moving elements with translate() is better than pos:abs top/left (Paul Irish)
- Configuring multiple Forms Authentication sections with NancyFX (Phillip Haydon)
- A Tale of Animation Performance (Chris Coyier)
XAML
- Attached Behaviors vs Attached Properties vs Blend Behaviors (Brian Noyes)
- Microsoft publishes changelog for Windows Phone 8 OS update (Daniel Rubino)
- Tutorial: Bluetooth File Transfer with Windows Phone 8 (Eric Gregory)
- 10,000 Beta Users – Windows Phone Dev Center (Jesse MacFadyen)
- Simulation Dashboard for Windows Phone Apps (Jonathan Lyons)
- 2000 WPF Things #716 – Using a Border As a Visual Indication That a Control Can Be Dragged (Sean Sexton)
- Building a great Windows 8 app Step 4: Pick your programming language (Susan Ibach)
- Basics of Using Local Storage on Windows Phone 8 (Dennis Delimarsky)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Obtaining a List of Loaded Assemblies (Richard Carr)
- Visual Studio 2012 C++ CppUnitTestFramework targeting the Visual Studio C++ 2010 compiler (Charles Sterling)
- Xamarin is Bringing C# to the Mac App Store (Jonathan Allen)
- Serialization and events in C# (Dror Helper)
- Accessing Methods Asynchronously in WCF 4.5 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
- Avoid WCF to test validity of HTTPS certificates (Ricci Gian Maria)
- Securing User Passwords (Michael Lang)
- Infragistics Parsing Framework – Removing Ambiguities, Part 2 (Mike Dour)
- Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 with Kanban Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
- DataReader for CSV files (Rockford Lhotka)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Tips on Drag & Drop with the Ignite UI Tree (Damyan Petev)
- Sprint Goals Tie up Loose Ends (Anders Abel)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Evernote Announces Major Updates to Android and iOS SDKs (Eric Carter)
- Adding a Login Screen to a Sencha Touch Application, Part 2 (Jorge Ramon)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- The Windows Developer Show Episode 097 – “I’m Ryan Lowdermilk, I Do NOT Approve This Message” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- What the Tech 146: Best Tech Products of 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Paul Gilmartin (Chris Hardwick)
- Introducing the Windows 8 platform and the Windows Store | Windows Store App Development for iOS Developers (Aaron Hillegass)
- Using Azure Mobile Services in a Windows 8 App | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- DevRadio webcast: Patrick Godwin on “How I Wrote and Deployed a Cloud-Powered Windows 8 App in Six Days” (Jennifer Marsman)
- Yet Another Podcast #86–Azure Mobile Services with Josh Twist (Jesse Liberty)
Community / Events
- Silverlight Show Webinar on An Overview of the New Windows Phone 8 SDK (Michael Crump)
- Geek of the Week: Allison Stadd of Uwishunu.com (Mary E. Brickthrower)
Database
- SQL Server – Skipping Function Execution when parameters are NULL (Vishal)
- Graphing the Sine Function in SQL Server Reporting Services (Scott Murray)
- A Look Inside SQL Server Row and Page Compression (Jes Schultz Borland)
- SQL SERVER – Difference Between CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and GETDATE() – CURRENT_TIMESTAMP Equivalent in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Advent 2012 Day 19: How to improve your tech skills (Denis Gobo)
- Book Review: Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure (Thomas LaRock)
SharePoint
PowerShell
- Windows Management Framework 3.0 Compatibility Update (PowerShell Team)
Miscellaneous
- Christmas Trees – Small Basic Featured Programs (Ed Price)
- Former Windows president Steven Sinofsky returning to Harvard Business School to teach this spring (Nathan Ingraham)
- ‘Code Hero’: The Kickstarter success story that soured (Tracey Lien)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading December 19, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #1027 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Top 10 OTN Tech Articles for 2012 (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #1258 (Chris Alcock)
- The Daily Six Pack: December 20, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily News Digest 12/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily Windows 8 Development News 19 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 19 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, December 19th 2012 (Joe Stagner)
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