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 - 11/10/2007

Layered Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Dependency Inversion

Database Performance Optimization - Denormalization using MySQL Triggers

Caching in ASP.NET while making sure that cache data is synch'ed with the database - in 3.5 minutes

Google Gears
"open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality"
"Gears provides three key features:
* A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
* A database, to store and access data from within the browser
* A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background"

Speed Up Your Site! 8 ASP.NET Performance Tips

43 Exceptionally useful AJAX Applications

Daily Links - 08/10/2007

Silverlight links

GOA Winforms for Silverlight and Flash development
Winforms controls for Silverlight development

SQL Server: Notify user of long running process
...also handy for keeping long processes alive in .NET

Cool UI Templating Technique to use with ASP.NET AJAX for non-UpdatePanel scenarios

More than 100 on-line web 2.0 generators

Super easy SQL Server 2005 Database Schema change auditing

Scott Guthrie announces ASP.NET MVC framework at Alt.Net Conf

How to debug web applications using Firebug

Working with DataReaders
Overview article on using DataReader for efficient data access.

ScaleOut Software (3rd party software)
Distributed caching for server farms

tangible FREE modeling tools for Visual Studio.NET
"With tangible modelling tools you can directly create Use Case Diagrams, Component Diagrams, State Charts, Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Persistent Object Models."
I would like to have seen sequence diagram integration

Daily Links - 10/9/2007

Gaphor - Free UML modeling tool
Supports UML 2.0 standard

Overview - ASP.NET 3.5

Is JSON just for AJAX?

10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications

One Shell Command to delete all svn hidden folders

Determining when last a Stored Proc has been altered (SQL Server)

comparison of M$ Ajax and Gaia Web Widgets Framework
This article specifically compares data across the wire for an AJAX operation.

Free windows forms component library - Krypton Toolkit
Seems to have a number of office UI laf components. Does seem to be a bit of a plug for their commercial components though.

Making Windows Forms thread safe
Link 1
Link 2
In order to make windows forms have a responsive UI when implementing process code, you need to execute the code on a separate thread. These articles deal with updating the UI from a different thread.

The .NET answer to Google's GWT - Open source AJAX framework extending WinForms over ASP.NET
Not really comparable to GWT - since GWT operates with client-side javascript, and
VWG is server-side Ajax, but anyway - that's what the title says.
VWG seems to implement a different kind of Ajax to the other Ajax framework implementations - server-side Ajax for web UI
Check out an article on it here
...and here's an article on creating your first VWG application