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)

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