Daily Links 4 Sep 2019

Awesome Xamarin Forms properties that you probably didn’t know about

Build Data-Driven Web Apps Blazing Fast with Blazor and OData

New for developers: Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3 now available

Entity Framework Core Cosmos DB provider

Using C#, XAML, Uno and MvvmCross to Jump Start Your Cross Platform Application

Syncfusion UI Kit for Xamarin Forms

Xamarin.Forms - Implement CI/CD using App Center

Adding Loader/Progress to your xamarin App using Postsharp.

My First Look at ASP.NET Core 3.0

Role Based Security in an ASP.NET Core Application

.NET Core Background Services

Best Practices for Designing the Mobile App Login Screen

Material Design XAML Toolkit (WPF)F)

App Store Optimization Checklist

Getting Started with Flutter for Web

REST vs. GraphQL: A Critical Review

Quickstart: Create a Xamarin iOS app with Azure Spatial Anchors

Denormalizing your data with Azure Functions and Cosmos DB's change feed

Xamarin Forms Accessible Headings

Get started with Azure App Configuration for your ASP.NET Core app

Daily Links 2 May 2017

13 Cool Design Tools You’ve Probably Never Seen Before

Infinite Scrolling ListView For Xamarin.Forms App Using Behaviors

How We Do Database Integration Tests With Entity Framework Migrations

Entity Framework Migrations - How to create a Unit Test to Ensure Migrations Model is up to Date?

Integration Testing Entity Framework with Migrations

TypeScript at Slack

Using memory cache in ASP.NET Core

Setting up a Shiny Development Environment within Linux on Windows 10

ASP.NET Core Lazy Command Pattern

Xamarin.Tips – Removing the Bottom Border of Your iOS Navigation Bars

Using Storyteller with ASP.Net Core Systems

Xamarin: Choosing CPU Architecture and SDK Version

Turn your Postman Collection into a Microsoft integration

 Killer Visual Studio 2017 Features for Mobile Developers

Daily Links 14 Jul 2016

Cross platform testing example for Android and iOS using Appium

Cross-Post: Creating a Corporate Wiki in Azure

A visual guide to bootstrap 4

Getting started with Progressive Web Apps

Naming of Images in a Xamarin Forms project

Entity Framework: SaveChanges(false)

Add custom tiles to map in Xamarin Forms

Xamarin Estimote Component

101 Setup, configure and work with GIT VSTS Build and Release.

Moving to Lets Encrypt SSL Certificates

CAKE: Building solutions with C# & Roslyn

Xamarin Forms Navigation Awareness

Daily Links 18 Apr 2016

PayPal Integration Part 1: PayPal Payment Buttons

Introducing Xamarin Workbooks

The Evolution of Interactive C#

Xamarin Workbook

XAML edit and continue for WPF & UWP with Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

Getting started with Microsoft Bot Framework

Remote Debug ASP.NET Core RC1 on Azure App Service

High performance message processing with disruptor.net

Modern Tech Stack for ASP.NET Apps

Entity Framework Code First Migrations

BOLSTERING HTTPS SECURITY

How to host your own NuGet Server and Package Feed

Nexus Repository Manager (free)
Docker ; Nuget ; npm ; Bower support

FreshEssentials for Xamarin.Forms – The must-have nuget for Forms

Adding smooth transitions when navigating in your UWP app

Using Xamarin Forms Effects

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 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 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 27 Apr 2012

Move over, Visio, because Dia delights

ANIMATED CONTENT TABS WITH CSS3

KnockoutJS vs. Silverlight

Full screen Bing Maps with HTML5 Full screen API

New gesture toolkit available for Kinect for Windows developers

Entity Framework Code First Migrations: Where have you been all my life?

Simple Windows 8 Metro style ‘Maps App’

Background Downloads in a Windows 8 Metro style app

10 Quick Real-World Windows Phone Developer Performance Tuning Tips

Touch Enabled Graph Control WP7

SkyDrive APIs – Bring your data to any app, any platform, any device

Daily Links 15 Feb 2012

EF 4.3 Released

Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications

Nokia dev tool creates dynamic banners for your apps

Mango Sample: A Cloud-based Phone App in 5 Minutes

Windows Phone Design Resources

Get the tilt effect and the click event, everywhere

An implemention of WeakEvent pattern for WPF/Silverlight/Windows Phone

Using (and customizing) the AutoCompleteBox for Windows Phone

WP7 Sample: Use Location Services *and* get Certified!

Would you like Ads with that!–Intro to AdRotator for WP

Unified Ad for Windows Phone - Part 4 - GenericAdProviderForXaml

Let your apps sell themselves!

Daily Links 06 Feb 2012

Testing Windows Phone Apps

Using AdMob for Windows Phone 7

Phone Core Framework
 - Navigation engine which simplifies navigation between pages
 - Dependency injection container which helps you to create lously coupled application
 - Configuration subsystem which allows you to manage workflow without rebuilding of an application
 - Tracing engine which allows to do postmortem analysis or analyze workflow/performance
 - Bootstrapping engine with plugin architecture
 - Primitive types: Lazy, Tuple

jQuery UI vs Kendo UI

Enabling SSL for a WCF Service

Hazards of Converting Binary Data To A String

Memory Profiling for Application Performance

Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager in WPF 4.5

Entity Framework vs. LightSpeed

Windows Phone Resources

Windows 8 touch interactions

Bing maps data bound pushpins fade-in animation

Daily Links 20 Jan 2012

Advanced ApplicationBar for Windows Phone

Kung Fu Windows Phone - User Feedback

Silverlight 5 Security: Designed for the Intranet

Seven Silverlight snippets you can not live without

Mango Sample: 5 Must-Have Animations

EvenTiles from Start to Finish–Part 12
Example of running Periodic Tasks

Windows Phone 7.5 - Using advanced tiles API

Windows Phone 7 Serialization: Comparison

Windows Phone 7 Serialization: Binary Serialization

EF 4.3 Beta 1 Released

Windows Phone 7 – Browsing your Photos via Bing Maps

A quick look at MetroRadio: quick spacing, margin, and icon tips for Windows Phone devs

Getting Started with Mobile Web Development Using HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4

WP: Building A Multi-Touch Photo Viewer Control

Daily Links 22/08/2011

Windows Phone Toolkit August 2011: Overview and Getting Started

How to port your WP7 custom application Theme to Windows Phone Mango

iPhone styled WP7 apps

Progress on WP7 Icons

Create PDF in Silverlight

Using Inversion of Control in MonoDroid Applications

WP7: Loading Optimizations - How I optimized my loading time with almost 3 seconds

Reusable WCF Service Data Access Layer for WP7, MonoTouch and Mono for Android

Mercurial Cheat Sheet

Moonlight on Android

EF 4.2 Beta 1 Available

Greenshot
Free Screenshot tool

Daily Links 28/07/2011

EF 4.1 Update 1 Released

Code First Migrations: Walkthrough of August 2011 CTP

Coding4Fun Toolkit – now with in-app tiles

MVVM in real life Windows Phone applications Part2

Mindscape LightSpeed Free eBook available (not LightSwitch… but for the LightSpeed ORM…)

Windows Phone 7: Pivot Page Indicator Control

Windows Phone Toolkit AutoCompleteBox

Posting Twitter Status Update from Windows Phone

Microsoft Releases 'Mango' SDK Beta 2 Refresh

Some highlights of new features in the Mango Beta 2 Refresh update (SDK)

Localized Windows Phone App - Start to Finish

Windows Phone Page State–Step by Step

Windows Phone Mango build 7712 released to developers

Convention Based View Model Location using Ninject in a MVVM/Silverlight Application

Windows Phone (Mango) DB Engines Performance Testing

Daily Links 04/07/2011

Breaking News: Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta2(Mango) now available
Release Notes

Windows Phone 7: Login UI Sample Code and Coding4Fun

Step by Step Mango Beta Developer Update Guide for Windows Phone 7 (WP7)

Download Windows Phone 7,1 SDK Beta 2 - Web and Offline installer

Unit Testing the Windows Phone 7 applications

Augmented Reality With Windows Phone 7 - Part I Camera+Sensors
Augmented Reality With Windows Phone 7 - Part II Sensors

Announcing the Microsoft Entity Framework June 2011 CTP
Walkthrough: Enums (June CTP)

Make Money with the Microsoft Ad Control

Visual Studio Code Cleanup Macro

Daily Links 23/05/2011

Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Adding Buy Now Functionality

Simulating tombstone (suspended state) on Windows Phone 7 emulator

How to get the UniqueID of a Windows Phone device using C#

Offline Microsoft Silverlight Applications

Encouraging Windows Phone Marketplace Reviews

Things to consider before submitting your WP7 App

How to Publish Your AppMakr App into the Windows Phone Marketplace

WP7: Extending the ListBox Control

Silverlight Augmented Reality Toolkit

Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 2)

TileSlider Control for WP7 (OpenSource)

NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2

Consider this when downloading large files on Windows Phone 7

New countries supported by Mango Windows Phone Update

Debugging Windows Phone 7 device network access with just a laptop

Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Advanced Buy Now Implementation

EF Power Tools CTP1 are Great for Code First

Using IIS Express to Secure Silverlight and WCF Applications

Daily Links 18/04/2011

Silverlight 5 Beta: A guide to the new features

Silverlight 5 Beta: Let's deal with it's features

Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 5 Beta

Using Custom Markup Extensions in Silverlight 5

List of newly supported developer countries for Marketplace
At last!

A Quick Wrap-Up of Today’s Windows Phone Announcements at MIX
cool devtools bro!

Mango adds Beta and Private Marketplaces to Windows Phone 7 and neglects Enterprise
w00t for the Beta Marketplace!

Mix11: Windows Phone 7 news

Microsoft TouchStudio for Windows Phone 7

EF 4.1 Released

EF Video Series

Code First/Entity Framework 4.1 Videos and Articles on MSDN

Building WP7 Custom Validation Control - Validation Logic

Make your own Angry Birds for WP7

Daily Links 09/12/2010

Silverlight 5 Plans Revealed

Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Network Awareness

Windows Phone 7 gets user-friendly hack for bypassing the Marketplace, loading your own apps

Silverlight basics. Validation. Part 2. IDataErrorInfo & INotifyDataErrorInfo

WP7 update to bring copy/paste, multitasking, Bing upgrades, and custom ringers

Resizing Images in Windows Phone 7

Taking Screen Shots of Windows Phone 7 Panorama Apps

Entity Framework CTP 5

EF Feature CTP5: Code First Walkthrough

EF Feature CTP5: Fluent API Samples

Looking at EF4 CTP5 in Parts: Part 4–Working with New and Existing Databases in Code First

Logging all SQL statements done by Entity Framework

SQL Index Selection and the Query Optimizer

Daily Links 13/11/2010

Creating High Performing Applications for Windows Phone

Device Information for Windows Phone

Marketplace Tips for Windows Phone 7 Developers: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly


Ready for take-off? Top 10 things to check when you think you are done with your application.

Customize the Silverlight Installation Experience in about 15 Minutes

Visiblox Charts vs. Silverlight Toolkit Charts - a test of Performance
Basically Visiblox charts are 50 - 100 times faster than the toolkit charts - however, the visiblox charts will cost you in the region of $550 for a single developer licence, whereas the toolkit charts are free.

WP7 Code: Managing Application State

WP7 Code: Using the Accelerometer API

Windows Phone 7 Database - CodePlex

Updated FAQ for EF4

5 minute Observable.FromAsyncPattern sample for Windows Phone 7

GeoCoordinateWatcher tips part1

Daily Links 12/09/2010

Silverlight UI Element Leak tester
Seems that there are still some memory leaks even after the hotfix that just came out - this a sample application to test controls for memory leaks

Effects (Silverlight QuickStart)

New Silverlight 4 Themes available - get the raw bits

Silverlight 4: Digitally signing a XAP with Visual Studio 2010

EF Feature CTP4: DbContext & Databases

EF Feature CTP4 Walkthrough: Code First

Turn on WCF Tracing for WCF Troubleshooting

Catching the Back Button action on WP7

Workaround for StackOverflowException when using SlSvcUtil.exe

Silverlight Code Snippets for DependencyProperties and other Handy Stuff

The Third Object
A very handy description of the different flavors of presentation patterns, the main aim of which is to separate out logic to a third object for easy unit testability.

Daily Links 23/08/2010

Conceptual USGA golf scoring app by Microsoft shows Windows Phone 7 apps done right

Writing a Bing Maps location aware application for Windows Phone 7 Series

Customizing WP7 Push Notification Tiles

Simulating and Mocking Location Data in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator

Some free Silverlight Gauge controls

WP7: Screen Considerations for Developers

MS P&P: Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide

Debugging Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7

Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and more - Part 3.

Validating Data in Silverlight 4 Applications: IDataErrorInfo

Performance Considerations when using TPT (Table per Type) Inheritance in the Entity Framework

Implementing Multithreaded Singleton Class