Daily Links 8 Dec 2013

Testing at the speed and scale of Google

Beautiful REST + JSON APIs" by Les Hazlewood

Paint.NET PSD Plugin

CSS Tricks

Facebook Login comes to Windows and Windows Phone

Portable Class Libraries just got REALLY useful with new licensing changes

The Very Weird Way of Checking if Bluetooth or Location is Enabled on Windows Phone

XAML: Implementing the MVVM Pattern

Introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio

Nokia Imaging SDK 1.0 Adds Filters, WinPRT API, Enhancements and Sample Demos

Taking Advantage of Large-Screen Windows Phones

Options for publishing Windows Phone beta apps and testing in-app purchase

Stop Hitting Yourself: CSS Design Patterns That Scale

Curing Your Event Processing Blues with Rx

Contrasting Backbone and Angular

The Magic Behind Enterprise Apps: How to Expose Reliable, Scalable and Secure Enterprise APIs?

Re-discovering Microsoft Web API

Windows Phone Dev Tip: Use PowerShell to test REST web services

Getting to know AngularJS

Building for both: a tap+send/Bluetooth connection helper for Windows Phone 8 AND Windows 8.1

Prevent a User Navigating Away from a Page with Unsaved Changes

Daily Links 11 Nov 2013

WP8: A utility class to call choosers using 

Tips for localizing and monetizing your app for Windows Phone users

How to protect your HTTPS communication from Man-In-the-Middle's decryption in Windows Store App

Great Examples of Mobile Apps Interface Designs

Why Asynchronous data with SignalR is Smarter and Easier than WebAPI

Running JavaScript Unit Tests in Visual Studio with Jasmine & ReSharper

New pubCenter reports to help you optimize ad revenue

Windows Performance Toolkit

Top 5 jQuery UI Alternatives

Introducing batch support in Web API and Web API OData

Creating A RequireJS Service For AngularJS Applications

Make Your Windows Phone App Listen to the User’s Voice

DO’s and DON’Ts in a Web API

JQUERY – EVENTS

JQUERY, JSON, AND ASP.NET

jQuery Deferred Object: Your New Best Friend

Daily Links 21 Oct (Part 2)

HTML5 Techniques for Optimizing Mobile Performance

Introducing Windows Phone Preview for Developers

AngularJS vs Knockout - Modules and DI (6 of 8)

Debug why your Windows 8 Modern App isn't starting

What's new in Windows Phone SDK Update 3

WP8 App/Page Base Navigation Classes

Windows 8.1 design principles hand developers back their sanity

Windows Phone 8 - A simple helper class for working with SkyDrive files using SkyDrive API

Live SDK v5.5

Developing High Performance Websites and Modern Apps with JavaScript and HTML5

Real-Time Reporting with SignalR, Kendo UI DataViz, and Icenium Part 1

15 Useful HTML5 Tutorials and Cheat Sheets

WP GPS Simulator

GEOLOCATION WITH THE ESRI SILVERLIGHT API

Announcing the Release of Visual Studio 2013 and Great Improvements to ASP.NET and Entity Framework

Introducing Win8nl for Windows 8.1–kissing WinRtBehaviors goodbye

Daily Links 21 Oct 2013

Creating Real-Time System Notifications with SignalR

Caching in ASP.NET

Backup Isolated Storage To SkyDrive

WCF How to: Enable Streaming

Five Great .NET Framework 4.5 Features

Shared localization for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 apps using Portable Class

Microsoft building a single app store for the next Windows Phone and Windows releases
... about time

C# Intellisense for Notepad++

Mixed mode HTTP / HTTPS

BEHAVIORS SDK

Whitepaper: Deployment Automation for ASP.NET Apps and SQL Server Databases

Enabling Distributed Agile Teams

Maintainable Automated UI Tests

Shorter way of writing Grid row and column definitions

Introduction to Bluetooth support on Windows Phone 8

Daily Links 2 Sep 2013

Extension methods to animate scaling and opacity on Windows Phone

A behavior to animate folding in and out of GUI elements on Windows Phone

Windows Phone 8 Development: Maps and Clusters

WPF Matrix Rain Dashboard Gauge Control

Creating smarter apps with geofencing

EF6 Release Candidate Available

Implementing Two Factor Authentication in ASP.NET MVC with Google Authenticator

A behavior to animate mirroring of GUI elements on Windows Phone

Validation in Silverlight

100 Fresh & Free Seamless Patterns – Ideal for Web Design Work

22 Hexagon Photoshop Patterns (PAT)

Windows Phone Series – Jump Lists

5 ways to tackle an insufficient HTTPS implementation

ServiceStack
"Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all"

Daily Links 16 Aug 2013

Proximity in Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 8 App Development: Using Voice Commands

Windows Phone app building tools you might not know about

An autoscaling build farm using TeamCity and Windows Azure

Visual Studio Unit Test Generator is feature complete – v1 Release Candidate lands!

New WinPhone 8 SDK Download

Architects: Chickens or Pigs in an Agile Development Process?

Microsoft Announces Windows Phone App Studio And No.Of Other Improvements For Developer Experience

WebMatrix is a free, lightweight, cloud-connected web development tool

Windows 8: Live Tiles, Services, Authentication

Daily Links 24 July 2013

Nokia Imaging SDK for windows phone

OAuth 2.0 – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Drag & Drop in Silverlight for Windows Phone

Windows 8 MVVM Drag Drop

Embed YouTube videos into your Windows Phone/Windows 8 app

Free WinRT / Phone Icons - 1507 and counting

Windows Phone 8 Samples July Update

Using Buddy with Windows Phone 8
"Buddy offers cloud infrastructure with high level services ready to use with your mobile apps"

Using the new SettingsFlyout API in a Windows 8.1 AND Windows 8 Store app

Create Phone Applications Quickly using Telerik Design Templates in Visual Studio Express

Daily Links 10 Jul 2013

Windows 8.1 new developer API tidbits

Updated Windows Phone Store Badges

Windows 8.1 - New Features in XAML

How to monitor upload/download SkyDrive operations with Live SDK for Windows Store apps

Saying Hello To jQuery Mobile

Building Apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

Create a Windows Phone 8 Company Hub App

Windows 8 Time Picker for Windows Phone

Build talk of the week: Beautiful apps at any size on any screen

Top Reasons Developers Should Use Windows Azure Mobile Services

LIGHTNING MEMORY-MAPPED DATABASE
Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: Partial

.NET Technology Guidance
Also some specific material covering silverlight migration paths

Windows Phone 8 Background Agents

Essential Knockout.js

Cross-Platform Portable Class Libraries with .NET are Happening

Daily Links 26 Jun 2013

The Case for Xamarin

NuoDB 1.1 Targets .NET Developers

SQL – Step by Step Guide to Download and Install NuoDB – Getting Started with NuoDB

Inside Windows Phone - Use Location and Mapping in your Apps

Run your WP8 app on two emulators simultaneously

Five Essential Front-End Tools That Should be Used with Modern MVC Projects

Changing the default windows phone 8 colors (override the chosen theme)

TTF Font with Windows Phone 8

Using the Geolocator API in your Phone 8 AND Phone 7 apps!

Announcing SQL Server Data Tools - June 2013

Agile Software Architecture Sketches and NoUML

Daily Links 8 Jun 2013

Beginner's Android Development Tutorial

Create location aware apps using geolocation and Bing Maps

5 HTML5 Features you need to know

SQLite WinRT wrapper for Windows Phone

Windows (RT and Phone) and Sqlite (Part 1)

A new SQLite wrapper for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 – The basics

Microsoft's new 3D data visualization BI product - GeoFlow

Windows Phone 8 Serialization: Comparison

Single Sign On with OAuth in Windows Store Apps

Creating a smooth extended splash screen experience

Visual Studio 2013

SQL Server Backup Paths and File Management

My 2 cents on SQL Server 2014

Dealing with self-signed SSL certificates on Windows Phone

MonoGame: Building Portable Solutions

Hands-on: Xamarin Studio’s powerful new iOS designer

Daily Links 22 May 2013

XMAS Came Early For All Windows Azure Developers!

Icon Explorer – free icons for Windows Phone Developers and Designers

FREE MODERNUI CHARTS FOR WPF, WINDOWS STORE APPS UND SILVERLIGHT PUBLISHED

A Fluent Approach to Windows Store Tiles

Proximity Sensors and Bluetooth in Windows Phone 8

SQL Server Performance-
The Crib Sheet

Image UserControl with FadeIn & FadeOut Animation for WinRT

Android Studio: An IDE built for Android

53-Minute Android Developer Tools Session Video Shows Everything You Want To Know About Android Studio IDE

Windows Store Registration :: Companies and Developers

Windows Phone 8 Training Kit

Announcing the ability to Test Windows Phone 8 applications with Experitest SeeTest

Soon Unity3D development will be free for Windows Phone developers

Daily Links 30 April 2013

Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.5

Step by Step working with Windows Azure Mobile Service Data in XAML based Windows Store Apps

Backup and restore on Skydrive in Windows Phone 7

Say What? Incorporating Windows Phone 8 Speech Recognition into Your Apps

Asynchronous programming in C# using async and await

Beginning Distributed Version Control with Mercurial

ViewModel driven multi-state animations using DataTriggers and Blend on Windows Phone

Creating connected Windows Store apps

Introducing: Code Digger, an extension for VS2012

Intelligent SQL Server Maintenance

Windows Phone 8 Training Kit - Update

Win 8 : Develop a cutting edge app with NFC

Google Analytics SDK for Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps

Daily Links 18 Mar 2013

Windows Store LOB Apps with Kona: Getting Started

How to build a multi-touch control for Windows Phone

Windows 8 Toolkit - Charts and More

MULTI-SERVICE AUTHENTICATION THE EASY WAY

Nokia Remote Device Access

A Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking App in 100 Lines of Code

Windows Phone 8: Voice Commands

Lessons learned in Win 8 App Certification

Lex.Db for Windows 8 Store Apps (Part 1) - The Basics

OpenCover
"A code coverage tool for .NET 2 and above, support for 32 and 64 processes (including Silverlight) with both branch and sequence points."

How to Integrate WP7.8, WP8 Live Tiles in your WP7.5 apps?

How to decide: Mobile websites vs. mobile apps

Metro App Site Template MVC / HTML5

Windows Store XAML App–Adding a Privacy Page

Building a shared core between Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8

Daily Links 21 Feb 2013

Visual Studio Unit Testing Enhancements for Windows Store and Windows Phone

Setting up Unit Testing in Windows Phone 7 and 8

Windows Phone 8: NFC (Near Field Communication)

Simple golden rules for async / await

An overview of UI Controls from Win RT XAML Toolkit

New Launchers in Windows Phone 8

How using Raygun.io makes Windows Store submission a breeze

Windows Store App - Adding Advertising

New pattern for the Design Patterns Library: Rules Pattern

Mocking with Foq

5 Steps to Containerize your Enterprise Mobile Apps

Introducing Durandal
Javascript MV* Library

Portable HttpClient for .NET Framework and Windows Phone

Implement a ‘smart banner’ for your Windows Store app

Daily Links 13 Feb 2013

Pivot and Panorama have moved AND changed in WP8

Using Portable Class Libraries with Windows 8 / Windows Phone 8 MVVM

A Cool Way to Promote Your App
How-to app video using Expression Encoder

Async Performance: Understanding the Costs of Async and Await

12 Lessons Learned for a New Team Lead

Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely

Coding4fun toolkit released (WP8 support & more)

Windows Phone 8: Bluetooth

ShowMessageBox for WP8 & W8

Windows 8: Creating Great App Bar Buttons

Submitting your App to the Windows Store and Avoiding Common Submission Errors

Preparing your Windows Store app for a world market

WP8 New Location APIs : Part 2 Location Tracking and Background Location Tracking

Daily Links 29 Jan 2013

App submission tips for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8

Creating Spinning progress Animation in Windows Phone

How to use the Light Sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications

Windows Phone 8: Contacts Integration

Windows Phone 8 and 7.x Design Guidelines

Lex.Db
Platform independent data store solution

Start Button 8
Free start button software for win 8

Now Available: Windows Phone SDK Update for 7.8

Mangopollo
"easily take advantage of new windows phone tiles (cyclic, flip, iconic) if your application is run from a Windows Phone 7.8 or 8 as well as new launchers if your application is run from a Windows Phone 8 while remaining compatible with windows phone 7."

Getting more visibility for your Windows Store app Part 1: Create great apps

Windows Phone 8 SDK on a Virtual Machine with Working Emulator

Using async/await with WebClient in Windows Phone 8 (or: TaskCompletionSource saves the day)

Send Email with attachments without using EmailComposeTask with MailMessage

Handling Resuming in your Windows 8 Applications

Tips and tricks when using voice recognition in a Windows Phone 8 app

Building High Performance Windows Phone Apps

Handling unhandled exceptions with async/await on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

Daily Links 16 Jan 2013

WinRT’s default “save on suspend” isn’t good enough

How to detect that your app is running in Kid’s Corner

How to Become a Software Architect

Setting up your Windows Store payout account (South Africa)

Splash Screens in Windows Phone 8–Who moved my cheese?

silverPDF - Silverlight PDF library

Getting WP7 Device Info

From the MVPs: Different deployment options in Windows 8

Live Tiles in Windows Phone 8 Part2: Lock screen notifications

Windows Phone 8: Localization

Reversi XAML/C# Windows Store Sample Game

Windows Phone 8 Emulator Skin Switcher 1.0 released on codeplex

Windows 8 Design Templates is now ready for all the developers

Daily Links 2 Jan 2013

Geoposition advanced tracking scenarios for Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 8 SDK - Deploying Multiple Enterprise Applications

Windows Phone 8: Multiple Screen Resolutions

Changing the name of a Windows 8 Store app

10 Things Silverlight Devs Need to Know About the Windows Runtime

AvalonDock for WPF
Docking control lib for WPF

Player Framework for Windows Phone 8

Using the adcontrol from code in Windows Phone 8
Minimum capabilities you need to run the ad control in WP8

Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough Using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0 – Part 1

QuickLight
"C# to Javascript compiler allows a developer to write C# code and then compile it to Javascript which can be run in any web browser. This makes it possible to write applications in C# that target any platform."

Awaitable critical section

The 4 Most Important Skills for a Software Developer

An AnimatedFlipView to use in your Windows Store apps!

Draggable markers with Windows Phone maps API

10 Scrum Methodology Best Practices