Daily Links 7 Oct 2014

Developers: Microsoft Releases OCR Library For Windows Runtime

Windows 8 Xaml Behaviors on Github w/ Video

Wrapping a Mobile API around Your Enterprise & Taking Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Data Offline w/ NoSQL via Universal Apps for Windows

Barcode scanning for Xamarin

Unit testing AngularJS with Visual Studio, ReSharper and TeamCity

Cortana Integration and Speech Recognition: New Code Samples

ToolbarItems in Xamarin Forms

Multi-device apps with Web Components

Part 2 – Bring your maps to life: Creating animations with Bing Maps (.NET)

Securing ASP.NET Web API endpoints – Using OWIN, OAuth 2.0 and Claims

Web Components: A Shiny New You

Writing Testable JavaScript

AngularJS Tutorial: A Comprehensive 10,000 Word Guide

Angular Material Design components

SQLite PCL Library

Daily Links 18 Sep 2014

Xamarin Android SwipeListView

The Lean UX Manifesto: Principle-Driven Design

The Design Studio Method
Lean UX & Agile

Analyze data from SQL Server Analysis Services by using Excel

Decisions: PowerPivot, SSAS Tabular, or SSAS Multidimensional Model in SQL Server 2012

Excel Services vs. SSRS Considerations

Android App Widget Template Pack (4.0)

Android 101: How to create a StackView widget

Online Regex Editor

Saving the Windows Phone 8 Emulator State

Developers: Use this handy tool to create multi-sized logos for your app

WinJS Everywhere

Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

Web API Documentation Tools

Daily Links 03 Sep 2014

An Introduction to Android Transitions

Xamarin / MvvmCross Android ImageView with Transition

Internet of Things blog series

How to run Background Tasks in ASP.NET

Real-World Best Practices for Building Angular.js Apps without Browserify or Require.js

Learning AngularJS by Example – The Customer Manager Application

End to end web app in under an hour–Part 1

Hands On Lab: Build a Single Page Application (SPA) with ASP.NET Web API and Angular.js

Integrating AngularJS with ASP.Net MVC and WebAPI - Visual Studio Web project template
..from VS gallery (including some documentation)

Entity Framework: Code First to a new database

Couchbase ASP.NET MVC Tutorial

Open Source cross platform thermal imaging

Creating a Location-Aware App with Geofencing

Xamarin’s Visual Studio Plugin, missing Android devices, Genymotion and Parallels Desktop – don’t panic!

ASP.Net MVC 5 – quick tip for unobtrusive validation and Bootstrap styling

Daily Links 22 Aug 2014

10 Xcode Plugins for iOS Development

Introducing CocosSharp
"cross-platform library for building 2D games."

Bind a collection of items to the Windows Phone MapControl

3 Steps to Crafting an Effective Mobile Strategy for Your Enterprise

Google: Material Design

Polymer: Web Components Simplified

Major Xamarin.Mac Updates

So you want your Team to start using Git? – Part 1: Getting started

Running a simple .NET console app on the Intel Galileo with Windows

Introducing BareKit: A Bare Minimum Responsive Framework

How To Add Page Transitions with CSS and smoothState.js

Daily Links 7 Aug 2014

How can I recover/reset/restore my phone software?

Status of FxCop/Code Analysis! – Is FxCop still being maintained?

8 ways to improve ASP.NET Web API performance

AngularJS Debugging and Performance

Learn AngularJS: Hour 2

Mock.Of() and Mock.Get() in Moq

Windows Phone: Background Agents Pitfalls (2 of n)

Tips and tricks for using XAML controls in your universal Windows apps

Windows for IoT, First Impressions

Angularjs + TypeScript – setting up a basic application with Visual Studio 2013

Learn the Basics of Color Theory to Know What Looks Good

A step by step guide to developing Visual Studio item templates using SideWaffle

External Auth in ASP.Net MVC/SPA/Web API apps

Cleaner INotifyPropertyChanged with FODY

Developing Your First Game with Unity and C#

Driving Unit Tests from Cloud Load Test

Creating a Custom Kendo UI Validator

Cloud apps with Microsoft Azure–free ebook

Daily Links 16 Jul 2014

Error logging and tracking done right with Raygun.io

The Only AngularJS Modal Service You'll Ever Need

Real world async/await defects
Good links and discussions on typical issues with async await

Lumia SensorCore SDK beta

Using SensorCore and MVVMLight to build a ‘what did I do where and when’ Windows Phone 8.1 app

Geoposition advanced tracking scenarios for Windows Phone 8

How to continuously track the phone's location for Windows Phone 8

How to run location-tracking apps in the background for Windows Phone 8

Learn AngularJS : Hour 1

Daily Links 18 Jun 2014

Xamarin.Forms Intro Part 2 – Build a Custom Control Library

Back up and restore your app on Windows Phone 8.1, Part 2: App data

Why every mobile developer should be reactive

Online Resources to Learn Apple's Swift Language

Overview of Azure features, services, and common uses.

AngularJS Fundamentals

Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers–Bluetooth LE Battery Service

Say hello to GitHub for Windows 2.0

using xamarin.auth.oauth2authenticator with async/await

Xamarin - Xamarin.Forms Renderer Reference

NativeScript
Build iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8 native apps using JavaScript

WP 8.1 Text To Speech API updates

Where to host private Git repositories?

Daily Links 14 Jun 2014

Here Come the .NET Containers

Getting Started with Cordova and Multi-Device Hybrid App in Visual Studio

Xamarin: Hybrid App Starter Kit

A Few Thoughts on Better Unit Tests For AngularJS Controllers

HowTo – NInject – Part 2 – Advanced Features

Taking Visual States Cross Platform to iOS and Android with Xamarin

Setting up Sqlite on iOS, Android and Windows Phone using Xamarin

Web Essentials on Visual Studio Web Express

Creating Asynchronous Alerts, Prompts, And Confirms In AngularJS

Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Coded UI Test Plugin for Silverlight 

Using C# 5 async and await syntax with Xamarin

5 Excellent and FREE AngularJS Learning Materials for Beginners

Windows/Phone 8.1–Frame, Page, NavigationHelper, SuspensionManager

Xamarin.Forms - Write Once, Run Everywhere, AND Be Native?

Xamarin 3.0 and Xamarin.Forms - Getting Started

Internationalization of a Cross Platform Application

Daily Links 13 May 2014

Behind the scenes of “Universal Apps”

Delight and engage your users with these new Windows Phone 8.1 capabilities

Xamarin and Microsoft launch the .NET foundation

The Next Generation of .NET

Using NuGet without committing packages to source control

Essential Tips for Async

How does TypeScript help prevent bugs in JavaScript

ASP.NET Web API/AngularJS SPA Demo App Updated

Enterprise WinRT Apps Build Roundup

Common XAML UI Framework: Notes BUILD 2014

Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Power Tools

Windows Phone 8.1 Features

Tasks and awaits and Rx! (And Drones!) Oh My!

Creating Custom AngularJS Directives Series

Visual Studio Image Library updated to over 10000 images

Easier Code Sharing Across iOS, Android and Windows

Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is here!

Enabling the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) in ASP.NET applications

Announcing ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis Preview Release

Apache Cordova integrated in Visual Studio for Multi-Device Hybrid App development

Daily Links 4 Apr 2014

JavaScript Frameworks | How to Learn Them Quickly

Getting Started with ASP.NET Web API 2 (C#)

Connecting the Windows Phone 8 Emulator to Web API Applications on a Local Computer

BUILD: The New Windows Phone Application Model

BUILD: Developing Apps using the Common XAML UI Framework

Preloading Images In AngularJS With Promises

12 reasons to consume OData feeds using Simple.OData.Client

Angular: The Modern HTML5 Answer to Silverlight’s MVVM

AngularJS Workflow in WebStorm

Grunt-Deploy-WPXap: Using Grunt to deploy your Windows Phone application

Introduction to MonoGame 3.2 for Windows Phone

Xamarin: Sharper  HTML hybrid apps with Razor

Angular Part 2– Behavior Driven Development

Transitioning your app from the Panorama control to the Hub control

Windows 8 side loading improvements

Localize Your Windows Phone 8 Application : Simplified

SharpCompress
Fully native C# lib for compression

Daily Links 26 Mar 2014

Fast App Switching and MvvmCross. How to make it work

Coded Design Time Data using Mvvmcross for Windows and Windows Phone

MvvmCross Sample Enterprise App

AngularJS 2.0 Will Target Mobile Apps, Drop Support For Older Browsers

Writing a PowerShell module in C#, Part 1: The basics

Fluent Assertions
"set of .NET extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style test"

Communicating between loosely coupled components in a Windows Store business app using C#, XAML, and Prism

Stuff – WPF Line of Business Using MVVM Video Tutorial
Also covers topics such as Event Aggregator Pattern and use of OData protocol.

Release Notes for Reactive Extensions 1.1.11011.11 (Experimental Release
as Rx related to the lastest async await syntax in C# 4.5

Task vs IObservable: when to use what?

PCL of Reactive Extensions

Event aggregation Quickstart for Windows Store apps using C#, XAML, and Prism

An MVVM framework for .NET that integrates the Reactive Extensions (Rx) framework 

Breeze
Rich data for JavaScript apps.

NuGet Package of the Week: Canopy Web Testing Framework with F#

Chart.js – A JavaScript Library For Easy Graphs For Designers & Developers

Dynamic Routes with AngularJS

CodeFluent Entities – A Tool For Developers by Developers 
Model First Code Gen your App - Free Personal Licence

Daily Links 18 Mar 2014

What You Need To Know About AngularJS Data Binding

Creating your first Angular program

Angular Fundamentals in 60 minutes

Microsoft Accessibility links for developers

Using Git for .NET development part 2 – basic operations and tools

FAKE - F# Make - A DSL for build tasks

Exploring FAKE, an F# Build System for all of .NET

Raygun: Exceptional Error Tracking

Blend for HTML Behaviors and Actions

Getting started with the ArcGIS Runtime (beta) Mapping SDK for .NET
related: ArcGIS pricing

Getting started with ASP.NET Web API 2.2 for OData v4.0

Five Reasons ASP.NET Developers Should Care About Node.js

Auto-launching apps using file and URI associations for Windows Phone 8

Choosing a javscript MVC framework

Evaluation of AngularJS, EmberJS, BackboneJS + MarionetteJS

Angular from an Ember perspective

AngularJS Video Tutorial: Animating the Angular Way

Float Like a Butterfly: Why AngularJS beat out Ember.js in our stack

Durandal: Single Page Apps Done Right

Linq2IndexedDB
"With linq2indexeddb developpers can add, update, delete and search data on an easy way without having to think how to put up an connection, handeling transaction, etc"

From .NET & SQL Server to SQLite on Mobile

Daily Links 12 Mar 2014

Xamarin: Android Activities, Context, Intents and Views

Cross-Platform SQLite Support – Part 1

Baby Steps on Android with Xamarin–Part 4

Reliable and fast applications by introducing parallel and async 

Patterns for Asynchronous MVVM Applications: Data Binding

AngularJS in Visual Studio: Data Binding

Using Background Threads in Mono For Android Applications

Updates On My SignalR Fork and Xamarin Support

Auto-Formatting Text Inputs with MvvmCross and Value Converters

Cross-Platform Portable Class Libraries with .NET are Happening

NInject fork for X Platform Xamarin:

Writing Windows Store apps with locale-based adaptive design

MVVMCross N+1
everything MVVMCross

API Versioning in ASP.NET Web API 2.1

Handle conversion between time zones in SQL Server - part 2

Deploying Windows Phone apps for the Enterprise

Daily Links 4 Mar 2014

Xamarin: The easiest way to build Native iOS UI.

Not unit testing your databases? You should be

Architecting for the Cloud

Group files in solution explorer

GET CREATIVE WITH NOKIA IMAGING SDK 1.1

Notification Hubs Plus Mobile Services for Sending Windows Phone Notifications from a .NET Backend Service

Windows Phone App Starter Kits

Testing and debugging your geofencing apps

Baby Steps with Xamarin–Part 3

How to Make Android Development Less Frustrating

Telerik Mobile Testing – Android Case Study

Daily Links 12 Feb 2014

AngularJS–Part 1

Data Validation in Windows Phone 8
using FluentValidation

Live Tile Templates in Windows Phone 8

Custom Live Tile Layout with UserControl as image source

A Simple Approach to Remove QueryStrings from NavigationContext on Windows Phone

Leave Sample - January 2014 (for .NET 4.5.1) - Layered Architecture Examples

Agile: 10 Tips for Better Story Estimation

WPF Everywhere…For REAL this time….
... very tempting to use game framwork for Enterprise app development

Windows Phone GDR3 and Lumia Black update - what's new

The Only Interview Question That Matters

Windows 8.1: Easily send your notifications to tiles, toasts and badges

Entity Framework 6 vs NHibernate 4

Entity Framework 5 and 6 vs NHibernate 3 – The State of Affairs

SQL Server 2014 Developer Training Kit

Enterprise Adoption of NoSQL

Getting started with SignalR

Daily Links 24 Jan 2014

AngularJS–Part 1

Data Validation in Windows Phone 8
using FluentValidation


Live Tile Templates in Windows Phone 8

Custom Live Tile Layout with UserControl as image source

A Simple Approach to Remove QueryStrings from NavigationContext on Windows Phone

Leave Sample - January 2014 (for .NET 4.5.1) - Layered Architecture Examples

Agile: 10 Tips for Better Story Estimation

WPF Everywhere…For REAL this time….
... very tempting to use game framwork for Enterprise app development

Windows 8.1 Power User Guide for Business

Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools

Implementing ASP.NET Identity