Daily Links 9 Dec 2015

Azure Event Hubs Primer

Increase your app’s reach with Windows Store for Business

9ish Low Latency Strategies For SaaS Companies

Aurelia Beta Week - Day 2 - Plugins

Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management

Developer Tools Blog Summary for Microsoft Connect(); //2015

Android Studio 1.5
Bug Fixes mostly

UX: Empty State Design

TRACKING.JS & THE COMPUTER VISION POWER OF JAVASCRIPT

Pros and Cons of 5 Popular Continuous Delivery Patterns

THE STATE OF TYPESCRIPT PACKAGES

Beautiful Material Design with the Android Support Design Library

Exploring Microservices in Docker and Microsoft Azure

A case for microservices

XAML Behaviors, Windows 10 UWP and Open-Source

Build Apps Faster with Plugins for Xamarin 2.0!

Announcing the Azure SDK 2.8.1 for .NET

Azure Mobile Services HTML/JS Client & Auth0

AngularJS Token Authentication Using ASP.NET Web API 2, Owin, And Identity

Daily Links 16 Nov 2015

WINRT SPECIFIC PROPERTIES IN XAMARIN FORMS XAML

AURELIA + VS2015: NEXT GEN JS FRAMEWORK IN ASP.NET 

Introducing Layouts - Xaml for the Web

Easily Authenticate Users with Android’s Confirm Credential

Material Design for Your Xamarin.Forms Android Apps

Xamarin Android Circle Image View

What Developers Need To Know About Docker

Unleashing insights from data in DocumentDB with Power BI

Azure Mobile Apps: Writing a Fast Custom DomainManager, Part 2

10 jQuery Plugins with Google Material Design

Using Redis as a Service in Azure to speed up ASP.NET applications

ASP.NET 5 Identity MongoDB Implementation

Levaraging Azure Service Bus with C#

Using Visual Studio Online's new build system to achieve a Continuous Delivery pipeline Presentation

Aurelia Binding Behaviors

DZone - getting started with Docker Guide

DZone - Definitive Guide to IoT for Business

Daily Links 14 Oct 2015

App Development with Cortana

IOT BUSINESS VALUE

Android Development Patterns: A Series on Best Practices for Android Development

Containers 101

Windows 10 Development: UI Automation with Blend and VisualStateManager

Links and Code from 10 Awesome Xamarin.Forms Tips and Tricks

Understanding Basics of Docker Containers

Bridging the WinPhone to UWP Gap...

Go paperless with OneNote 2016

Using Application Insights to Improve Mobile Beta Testing

Cloud-scale Event Processing using Rx

OAuth 2: Why You Should Care

Azure Code Samples

Why the Azure Cloud?

Writing a NuGet package for VS2015 RTM

DocumentDB: To create, or not to create, that is the question

Essential C# 6 Features You Need to Know!

Improving Message Throughput in Akka.NET with Routers

Design templates for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps

Top VS2015 Extensions: DuoCode

Getting Started with Estimote Nearables and Xamarin

Daily Links 18 Sep 2015

Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Online

MSDN Article Part 2: Cloud-Connected Mobile Apps – Build a Xamarin App with Authentication and Offline Support

Gulp and Visual Studio: Getting SASSy

Intense Toolkit for UWP

Implementing Adaptive Toast with Actions in Windows 10 Universal Apps

PCL, Shared Projects, and NuGet

Git with Visual Studio 2015 and TFS 2015

Getting Started with Git for Visual Studio Developers

HOW TO DESIGN FOR MOBILE UX

Creating a Portable Windows 10 Environment with Windows To Go

Make your app look great on any size screen or window (10 by 10)

How to get started with docker

ES7 async/await with Aurelia

Writing Build vNext tasks for Visual Studio Online

Learn about the samples for Universal Windows Platform

Microsoft Adds New Identity Features To Azure

Building your first end-to-end Cross Platform app 

Daily Links 2 Sep 2015

31 Days of Xamarin.Android: Day 21 - RecyclerView

Windows 10 maps part 3 - querying the map & attaching business objects to map shapes

ADD SHARING TO YOUR UWP APP

Coding4Fun Toolkit 2.1.1 released #wpdev #uwp

Create Modern Android Apps with the Design Support Library

Unity 5 First-Person Tutorial

Azure Mobile Apps August 2015 update

Screen share your Android Device to your screen

Localizing TimeZones in Javascript

Windows Snip: Screenshot with voice and annotation tool

How to Build High Performance Apps Using Microsoft Azure Redis Cache

Jumpstart your Win10 IoT development with the AllJoyn Studio for Visual Studio 2015

Announcing Great New SQL Database Capabilities in Azure

Docker: Containerize your startup!
Part 2

NETFLIX'S FALCOR IS A DATA FETCHING GIFT TO DEVELOPERS

Getting started with Falcor

#VS2015 – Icon Generator for #Xamarin Android app

Win 10 Adaptive Tile Extensions

Daily Links 24 Aug 2015

Build cross platform desktop apps with Electron

Visual Studio Code Metrics Powertool for Visual Studio 2015

RESTful Considered Harmful

Universal Windows app samples

Top VS2015 Extensions: C# Essentials

Universal Windows apps in .NET

OAuth Credential Flow

Introduction to Azure App Service

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO BUILDING FAST WEB APPLICATIONS IN THE CLOUD

Contextual Sensing in Windows 10

Real-Time Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with Xamarin and SignalR

Xaml Reference for Xamarin.Forms

Introduction series to Xamarin.Android

Creating Onboarding Screens for Android Apps

Getting Started with DocumentDB

Containers: Docker, Windows and Trends

Using App Service Web Apps continuous deployment with GitHub organizations

Alignment Map: Aligning IT and business objectives

Daily Links 23 Jul 2015

Try the new HERE Mobile SDK for free

Write Unit Test Automatically using IntelliTest in Visual Studio 2015

Crop, Blend (Watermark) Photos on Windows Phone 8.1 with the Lumia Imaging SDK

A/B Testing and Testing In Production with Azure Web Apps

Integrate your on-premises infrastructure with Azure

Application Insights Tools in Visual Studio 2015 RTM

FreshMvvm – A Mvvm Framework designed for Xamarin.Forms

UWP: New Controls (part 3 – Maps)

Application Insights Tools in Visual Studio 2015 RTM

Octopus: Automated deployment for .NET

Why I got the MCSD: Azure Solutions Architect Certification

Azure SQL or SQL Server Database?

Azure, IoT and the Future Enterprise Data Center

Pixate and Proto.io: Native Mobile Prototyping tool for Android and iOS

Comparing Four Popular, Page–Based, Interactive Prototyping Tools

Daily Links 20 Jul 2015

Universal Windows app code samples for Windows 10

Taking Attendance with Xamarin, Beacons and Microsoft Azure

Xamarin Test Cloud now open to developers

From Zero To Hero In Xamarin Forms In 53 Minutes

Continuous Integration Lab for MSIT

AZURE MOBILE SERVICE DEPLOYMENT WITH TEAM CITY PART 1. TEAM CITY INSTALLATION

AZURE MOBILE SERVICE DEPLOYMENT WITH TEAM CITY PART 2. CONFIGURE TEAMCITY NUGET SERVER

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO CREATING A XAMARIN.FORMS APP WITH MVVMCROSS (PART 3 OF 5)

MICROSOFT HEALTH API – UWP SAMPLE

Material Design with Android Support Design Library

Distributed Caching using Redis Server with .NET/C# Client

Microservices, or “How to spread the love”

TaskCompletionSource + Xamarin = Beautiful Async

Xamarin Plugins

Lighting the way with BLE beacons

Daily Links 24 Jun 2015

Guide to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps

Using Visual Studio Online to Build a GitHub Hosted JavaScript Project with NPM, Bower, and Grunt (for Free)

How to undo (almost) anything with Git

The 22 Rules of UX

New Azure Infrastructure Services Implementation Guidelines

UX Design Tips for Your App

Better Apps & Faster Release Cycles

A Simple and Sophisticated Logging Tool

How to Improve Android App Performance

Building Microservices: Using an API Gateway

How to Load Test & Tune Performance on Your API (Part II)

Some thoughts after (almost) a year of real Xamarin use

Build Native Mobile Apps with Javascript

Developing Universal Windows Apps with C# and XAML

Windows 10, UWP, Raspberry PI 2, AllJoyn and ightbulb Demo 

Running a touch-based Universal Application on a Pi 2 with Windows IoT Core Insider Preview

Guid vs Identity columns (Ints)

OpenID Connect Provider and OAuth2 Authorization Server Framework

Daily Links 7 Jun 2015

Using Git for .NET Development
part 1, part 2, part 3 part 4 part 5

API usage patterns for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) in the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 10.

Using Sqlite for windows 10 universal apps

Visual Studio Code

Connecting Azure Storage Using Add Connected Services in Visual Studio 2015

Using Azure Event Hubs As A Message Hub For IoT Scenarios

Using Fiddler to monitor network traffic from the VS Emulator for Android

Spicing Up Universal Windows Apps With Per-Platform Views And Compiled Data Bindings

FreshMvvm – A Mvvm Framework designed for Xamarin.Forms

Deployment in Universal Applications

A Speech Library Helper for Cortana

ASP.NET Web API 2 external logins with Facebook and Google in AngularJS app

Microsoft Azure Tips, Tricks, How Tos and the New Portal - TechDaysUK Hanselman Keynote

Daily Links 7 Apr 2015

Binding with Value Converters in Aurelia

Introducing Module Browser – A World of Reusable PowerShell Modules at your Fingertips

How to create a schedule task in Universal Windows App

Microsoft Band SDK

jQuery Carousel Slider Control (any html content)

Async Await By Example - Part 1

Best Practices in Asynchronous Programming

Top Down shooter tuturial - Unity 3D

Ideal REST API design

Essential Xamarin.Android Templates for Visual Studio

Moving Forwards: Geolocation

How to make a Windows Store game with C# and XAML – part 1

Universal Applications: be ready for Windows 10 (part 2)

XNA is no more, as the phoenix rises from the ashes
MonoGame is now independent of XNA

Starting with Microsoft Band and Xamarin

How to make a Windows Store game with C# and XAML, part 2

Binding to Enum in Universal apps with localization

Starting with Microsoft Band and Xamarin

Building Context-Aware Apps with Beacons

Developing for Microsoft Band Tutorial part 2: Connecting to the band and retrieving band information

Daily Links 20 Feb 2015

Build Better Software with Smart Unit Tests

New set of Hybrid Cloud Test Environments

Flexing Xamarin.Android’s Build to Work Around Android’s 65K Method Limitation

Mobile Development Platform Performance Part 2

6 Free Material Design Icon packs

Aurelia Q&A

Simple helper method to detect the last page of API data (C#)

Microsoft Open Sources Cross-platform Serialization Library – Bond

Why You Should Use Git

IoT with Windows on Devices

Security and Web API - guidence

Securing OData Services using Basic Authentication

External Authentication Services with ASP.NET Web API

ASP.NET Web API REST Security Basics

Complex Synchronization Wrapper

C# 6 Exception Filters and How they are much more than Syntactic Sugar

Task.Run() vs. Task.Factory.StartNew()

End 2 End Testing with Aurelia and Protractor

Write Automated UI Tests for iOS and Android Apps

Daily Links 3 Feb 2015

SourceTree: A free Git & Mercurial client for Windows or Mac

Task and Await: Basic Exception Handling

Modern App and Microservices

Supporting your app with background tasks (XAML) 

Coding 4 Fun Toolkit lives
... now with WRT & WP8.1 support

Best Practices for Building HTML5 Applications

Azure Mobile Services: The story of the real application

Paypal Here coming to Windows Phone

Microsoft demoes its ‘Lab of Things’ platform

Resilient network services with mobile Xamarin apps

How To Inject Analytics Code into Windows Phone 8.1 Apps

Simplifying Events in .NET

Navigating Android with Fragments (MvvmCross)

Using Conditional XAML in Universal Windows Apps

Getting Up and Running with MongoDB on Azure

End to End Mvvm with Xamarin

Such Android API Levels, Much Confuse. Wow

Daily Links 7 Jan 2015

Why Web Components Aren’t Ready for Production… Yet

Implementing In-App Purchase on Windows Phone 8

Google Play services 6.5

The beautiful, open source front-end framework for developing hybrid mobile apps with HTML5.

Create stunning cross-platform hybrid mobile applications using HTML 5 and JavaScript

How to take a photo in Windows Runtime

Windows Phone 8.1 Maps & Directions

Android Tips: Hello Toolbar, Goodbye Action Bar

OmniSharp - Cross platform .NET development

Microsoft Endorsing C# as a First Class Citizen in Sublime Text

Goodbye BooleanToVisibilityConverter, welcome IsVisible!

11 Visual Studio Tools to Simplify Data Access

Mobile Development Platform Performance (Native, Cordova, Classic Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms)

Connect the IoT Dot's with Help from ConnectTheDots.io

Fluent Validation (validation framework for .NET)