Links of Intrest

• Intro to Azure DocumentDB
• Using Autofac and Common Service Locator with Azure WebJobs
• Parameterized Tests with NUnit
• Creating An App With Windows Phone App Studio – Part 1
• C# 6 IN ACTION
• Five Essential Tools for Building REST APIs
• OmniSharp

Links I Find Interesting

Some Great links

• Sublime Text for Front End Developers
• Using Visual Studio as an Azure File Explorer
• Registering SQL Server Built-in Functions to Entity Framework Code First
• Chess TDD 22: Friendly Pieces
• Testing EntityFramework with Moq
• Introducing Smart Unit Tests
• StructureMap 3 Documentation
• Still More Smart Unit Tests (Preview): Exploring Exceptions
• ASP.NET Web Api and Identity 2.0 - Customizing Identity Models and Implementing Role-Based Authorization
• ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Introduction to Working with Identity 2.0 and Web API 2.2

Things I Find Interesting

• Azure Websites Authentication / Authorization
• Azure Websites Authentication / Authorization (Preview Release)
• Smart Unit Tests (Preview) and Conway's Game of Life
• More Smart Unit Tests (Preview): Guard Clauses
• TDD & Conway's Game of Life
• Parameterized Tests with NUnit
• ChessTDD 21: False Starts and The Knight Problem
• Announcing Open Source of .NET Core Framework, .NET Core Distribution for Linux/OSX, and Free Visual Studio Community Edition
• Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community
• ASP.NET Web Api and Identity 2.0 - Customizing Identity Models and Implementing Role-Based Authorization
• Success by a thousand cuts: Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and SQL Azure

Links That Intrest Me

• Design Patterns: The Adapter Pattern
• Design Patterns: The Facade Pattern
• ChessTDD 20: Refactoring in Earnest
• How Azure Mobile Services enable your Cloud First Mobile First World
• Part 2: Azure Mobile Services: What you need to know to get started with Storage Services
• TDD & Conway's Game of Life
• Azure: Announcing New Real-time Data Streaming and Data Factory Services
• Azure: New Marketplace, Network Improvements, New Batch Service, Automation Service, more
• Kinect With Me Part 2 - Tracking Bodies and Overlaying Shapes on Infrared Data

Interesting Links

• Creating an API for a Rock-paper-scissors Game – using ASP.NET Web Api
• Creating a Classic 2D RPG Using HTML5
• Reach a bigger audience with your Unity game
• ASP.NET Web API and MVC Basic Infrastructure By Example
• Five common mistakes when dealing with performance issues in your application
• Kinect With Me Part 1 - Setting Up Your Machine
• Chess TDD 19
• Secure a Web API with Individual Accounts and Local Login
• CRUD Operations using ASP.NET Web API and Angular.js
• Cloud Gaming Architecture–A walkthrough of how to get started

Great Links

• Plex for Xbox One is here and my life is complete - Plus Synology setup how-to
• MICROSOFT AZURE WEB SITE CHEAT SHEET
• Math Jax
• 24 Resharper Tips
• Scrum Guides
• JavaScript Frontend Web App Tutorial Part 1: Building a Minimal App in Seven Steps
• Node.js – Setting up a basic development environment
• A chatroom for all! Part 6 – The Finale and Debugging Remote Node Apps
• Creating Radio Buttons using Bootstrap and MVC
• ChessTDD 18: RemovePiece and Housekeeping
• The Deploy to Azure Button
• 25 Ways To Ask Your Kids “So how was school today?” Without Asking them “So how was school today?”
• Cloud Gaming Architecture–A walkthrough of how to get started

Great Links

• Building a Customer Management App Using AngularJS and Laravel
• Taking the tax (and cost) out of app localization: Multilingual App Toolkit
• 3 Essential Sublime Text Plugins for Node & JavaScript Developers
• Chess TDD 17: Implementing Piece Movement
• How to get the Current Controller Name, Action, or ID in ASP.NET MVC
• Favorite Visual Studio Extensions
• A chatroom for all! Part 5 - Connecting the Chatroom with WebSockets
• Authentication Filters in ASP.NET Web API 2
• Reuse Code Assets with Universal Windows Apps
• ASP.NET Web Api: Unwrapping HTTP Error Results and Model State Dictionaries Client-Side

Some Good Links

• Securing ASP.NET Web API endpoints – Using OWIN, OAuth 2.0 and Claims
• A chatroom for all! Part 4 – Building a Chatroom UI with Bootstrap
• ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Introduction to Working with Identity 2.0 and Web API 2.2
• Chess TDD 16: Finishing Bishop Blocking
• Design and Document Your RESTful API Using RAML
• RAML
• THREE SIMPLE STEPS TO USE JQUERY UI IN ASP.NET MVC 5

Recent Links

• Bind Check Boxes in MVC
• Bind Check Boxes to a Collection in MVC
• A chatroom for all! Part 3 - Building a Backend with Node, Mongo and Socket.IO
• plitting Tables in Entity Framework 6 to Improve Performance
• MVC Application using Owin to achieve Federated Authentication
• Task Runner Explorer
• Over 100 ASP.NET Web API samples

Links From Around the Web

• Azure: SQL Databases, API Management, Media Services, Websites, Role Based Access Control and More
• TIP: Lazy Code Snippets in Visual Studio
• Creating Checkboxes using Bootstrap and MVC
• Code Show
• How I used Azure Mobile Services in my Unity game
• Things you didn’t know about action return types in ASP.NET Web API
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Links From Around the Web

• Coding for Kids: Free platforms, tools, videos and games
• How Azure Mobile Services enable your Cloud First Mobile First World
• C#: Building a Useful, Extensible .NET Console Application Template for Development and Testing
• Microsoft DevRadio: How to use Visual Studio to Build Hybrid Apps that run on iOS, Android and Windows devices
• Drag Drop Elements in ASP.NET MVC 5 using HTML 5, Web API and jQuery
• A chatroom for all! Part 1 - Introduction to Node.js
• A chatroom for all! Part 2 – Welcome to Express with Node.js and Azure
• Real-time web functionality using ASP.NET SignalR
• Chess TDD 15

Today's Links

• MSDN Magazine
• Azure Caching: All that we need to know
• ASP.Net MVC 5 – quick tip for unobtrusive validation and Bootstrap styling
• Notes from a TechEd talk on SOLID principles
• Upgrading a low end laptop–What a difference an SSD can make
• Chess TDD 14: Figuring Out Blocking Pieces
• AzureConf 2014 with my session Microsoft Azure Web Jobs - the new way to run your workloads in the Cloud

Links of Intrest

• Chess TDD 13: Moving On
• Online Share able Whiteboard
• Azure: New DocumentDB NoSQL Service, New Search Service, New SQL AlwaysOn VM Template, and more
• WEB APPLICATION TEMPLATE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS
• Object-oriented JavaScript for C# Developers
• Simple inheritance with JavaScript
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Client-side templates

Links I Like

• pdf.js
• ChessTDD 12: Blind Alleys
• MVC OnActionExecuting to Redirect
• Leveraging existing code across .NET platforms
• Beginner Concepts: How CSS Selectors Work

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Great Links

• A TDD Journey: 1-Trials and Tribulations
• A TDD Journey: 2- Naming Tests; Mocking Frameworks; Dependency Injection
• A TDD Journey: 3- Mocks vs. Stubs; Test Frameworks; Assertions; ReSharper Accelerators
• A TDD Journey: 4-Tests as Documentation; False Positive Results; Component Isolation
• A TDD Journey: 5- Tests vs. Code; Refactor Friendliness; Test Parameterization
• A TDD Journey: 6- Mini-Factory Pattern; Don’t Care Terms
• Azure: Virtual Machine, Machine Learning, IoT Event Ingestion, Mobile, SQL, Redis, SDK Improvements
• Building Real World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure Part 1
• Building Real World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure Part 2
• Chess TDD 11: Tying Up Loose Ends

Link's of Intrest

• Commodore 64 Emulator
• CSS Learning Game
• Azure Databases – Restore Local Database To Azure
• How to fake session object / HttpContext for integration tests
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Validators
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Building larger primitives
• Using Markdown for Effective Logging
• Azure Mobile Services .NET Updates
• MSDN magazine brings you a wealth of practical info about Azure Websites

Interesting Links

• TDD Chess Game Part 9: God Save the Queen
• Chess TDD 10: A Knight’s Tale
• Fun with .NET - Windows Phone, LEGO Mindstorms, and Azure
• Azure Mobile Services: why should ASP.NET developers care?
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: A Primer
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Building tags
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Adopting Fubu conventions
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Baseline behavior
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Replacing form helpers

CP Solutions

Xtreme Lesson Planner

Great Links

1. Iconic
2. CSS Diner
3. Implement Observer Pattern in .NET (3 techniques)
4. Web checklist

Link's From Around the Web

• Using AngularJs, ASP.NET MVC, Web API and EntityFramework to build NLayered Single Page Web Applications
• Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK 3.0 Beta Boosts Application Development on the Cloud
• Catch up on all the videos from DotNetConf Spring 2014
• Bootstrap Show Password : jQuery Plugin
• Scaling a standard Azure website to 380k queries per minute of 163M records with loader.io
• Top "Must Know" Frameworks for .NET web developers

Today's Links

Links from the last week or two

• TDD Chess Game Part 8: Hail to the King
• ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Customizing Users and Roles
• ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Extending and Modifying Roles
• Azure Web Site Enhancements
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET vNext

Today's Links

6/16/2014

• TDD Chess Game Part 7: Cleaning up the Bishop
• Architecting large Single Page Applications with Knockout.js
• How to get notifications from a Windows Azure website
• Are You a School Thinking of Using iPads/Tablets

Today's Links

Azure

• Fresh Updates to Azure Mobile Services .NET
• Visual Studio Online 2013 (VSO) – Developing in the Cloud

vNext

• ASP.NET vNext Moving Parts: OWIN

Bootstrap and MVC

• 30 Days of Bootstrap with the MVC Framework

Today's Links

Azure

• Accessing Visual Studio Online from YOUR Azure Account – Now we can with this new PaaS offering
• Lap around Azure Redis Cache (Preview)
• Using Traffic Manager with Microsoft Azure Web Site

.Net

• Extending Identity Accounts and Implementing Role-Based Authentication in ASP.NET MVC 5
• Missing EF Feature Workarounds: Filters

Stripe

• Subscriptions guide

Today's Links

• Downloading Azure Friday videos from Channel 9 with one line of PowerShell
• ASP.NET vNext Moving Parts: IBuilder
• Game Development Middleware: What is it? Do I need it?
• Coding Principles Every Engineer Should Know

Today's Links

PDF Generation

• Building an ASP.NET PDF Viewer with Telerik Window Control and PDF.js
• PDF.js

Azure

• Automated Deployment to Azure Hosted Services
• Top things a new Visual Studio Online account owner should know

Scott Hanselman

• We are abstracting on the shoulders of giants
• Xamarin.Forms - Write Once, Run Everywhere, AND Be Native?

ASP.Net Identity 2.0

• Developing Secure ASP.NET MVC Applications using ASP.NET Identity 2.0

Today's Links

vNext

• ASP.NET vNext Moving Parts: IConfiguration

Azure

• Set-AzureStorageBlobContent : The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden

Odds and Ends

• Beginner's Tutorial on Globalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC
• Set Error page through UI and avoid redirect loop

Today's Links

Odd's and End's

• HOW TO SECURE YOUR REST API THE RIGHT WAY
• Optimizing calls to Azure storage using Fiddler
• Universal apps are confusing because they're not apps...
• Support a Live Tile for your website on Windows and Windows Phone 8.1
• NuGet Package of the Week: ImageProcessor - lightweight image manipulation in C#
• Tables with Integer Keys and the .NET Backend
• Great tech ed sessions

Today's Links

TDD

• TDD your API
• How Does TDD Affect Design?

vNext

• The Future of .NET on the Server: ASP.NET vNext content and videos from TechEd 2014
• Assembly Neutral Interfaces
• Assembly Neutral Types Implementation

Javascript and TypeScript

• Write Object-Oriented JavaScript with TypeScript

Today's Links

Azure

• Building Reliable Cloud Systems on Microsoft Azure
• New Getting-Started Resources for Azure Cloud Services and ASP.NET
• Redis Cache (Preview) in Microsoft Azure

TDD and BDD

• TDD Chess Game Part 6: Starting with More Pieces
• A Feature Based Approach to Organising Test Code in BDDfy and Other Testing Frameworks

Tools

• CShell
• Hybrid App Starter Kit

Today's Links

Sorry for missing the last two days.

vNext

• Introducing ASP.NET vNext
• The .NET Native Tool-Chain
• A 30 Minute Look At ASP.NET vNext

Azure

• Azure Implementation Guidelines
• API Tutorials and Guides
• Azure: VM Security Extensions, ExpressRoute GA, Reserved IPs, Internal Load Balancing, Multi Site-to-Site VPNs, Storage Import/Export GA, New SMB File Service, API Management, Hybrid Connection Service, Redis Cache, Remote Apps and more…

Entity Framework Reboot

• Entity Framework Everywhere
• Rebooting Entity Framework
• Entity Framework ”reboot” – EF7 – Get a sneak peek via TechEd US live stream

Today's Links

Odds and Ends

• Visual Studio Design Patterns add-in
• How To Write Your Own Compiler, Part 1: Mapping Source Files
• Metro Controls
• Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.2

Azure

• Azure RemoteApp
• Introduction to Remote Debugging Azure Web Sites part 2 – Inside Remote debugging

Today's Links

Start Ups

• 15 Reasons to Keep Your Company Small
• Why our startup failed

TDD and BDD

• Chess TDD 5: Bounded Collections of Moves
• Business-Readable, Living Documentation with BDDfy

Mobile Services

• Mobile Services .NET Backend: Part 1—Creating the Service and Defining the REST API

Today's Links

UI

• Use Dropdown Login Boxes for a Faster Login
• 9 Small User Experience Details Most Websites Miss
• Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster with Top Aligned Labels
• Innovative Techniques to Simplify Sign Ups and Logins
• Modal Windows Best Practices

Today's Links

Unit Testing

• Unit Test

UI

• Why Your Form Buttons Should Never Say Submit

Today's Links

Sorry about missing yesterday, I was busy at work and didn't have time to read.

CSS

• Moving Forward with CSS Shapes

Azure

• Storing Images in Azure Blob Storage in a LightSwitch Application
• Cloud Power: How to scale Azure Websites globally with Traffic Manager
• Windows Phone - Getting Started With Azure Mobile Services (.NET Backend)

.Net

• .NET SDKs and Downloads

Today's Links

Azure

• Overview of the new Azure Portal with Vishal Joshi
• Azure WebJobs 101 - Basic WebJobs with Jamie Espinosa
• Azure WebJobs 102 - Scheduled WebJobs and the WebJobs Dashboard with Jamie Espinosa

Windows Phone

• Get your libraries ready for Windows Phone 8.1

Today's Links

TDD

• TDD Chess Game Part 4: Getting Organized
• When TDD doesn't work

CSS

• CSS Shapes 101

.Net

• ASP.NET MVC – Multiple Files Upload Bug or by-design issue?
• APIFrame : A simple library for Web API security, exception and versioning

Today's Links

Azure

• Azure: 99.95% SQL Database SLA, 500 GB DB Size, Improved Performance Self-Service Restore, and Business Continuity
• Azure SQL Database Service Tiers and Performance Levels

DDD

• Domain modeling with Entity Framework scorecard
• Strengthening your domain: a primer

CSS

• List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

Today's Links

.Net

• Warnings vs errors
• Introducing the Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool
• Why your ASP.NET MVC Application needs its own framework

JavaScript

• Understanding Javascript Promises

IIS

• Easily detect and block malicious HTTP requests targeting IIS/ASP.NET using “BLACKIPS”

Today's Links

Learning

• microsof tvirtual academy
• 12 ethical dilemmas gnawing at developers today

Azure

• Logging with the .NET backend for Azure Mobile Services
• Azure Websites and wildcard domains
• Point-in-time Restore in New Azure SQL Database

Today's Links

I will be on vacation tomorrow so no post tomorrow.

Identity

• ASP.NET MVC and Identity 2.0: Understanding the Basics
• ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Setting Up Account Validation and Two-Factor Authorization

Test Automation

• Using Page Object Models in UI Test Automation

Windows Apps

• Using the Windows App Certification Kit

Today's Links

Universal Apps

• Building Windows Phone 8.1 Apps in HTML
• Resources for writing universal apps for Windows with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• WinJS on Windows Phone 8.1

Sublime

• Getting Sublime 3 To Launch your HTML page in a Browser with a Key Combo

Today's Links

BDD

• Are You Really Doing BDD
• A Simple Approach to BDD

HTML5

• RIP Flash: Why HTML5 will finally take over video and the Web this year

Azure

• Azure Web Sites New Basic Pricing Tier

Today's Posts

There will not be a post Friday since I will be on traveling.

Laptop Shopping

• Review: A tale of three Lenovo Laptops - X1 Carbon Touch, ThinkPad Yoga, IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro
• Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful

Business Analysis

• Business Analysis – We’re Doing It Wrong

Public Speaking

• How to Give a Good Conference Talk

Xamarin

• Show us your apps!

Today's Links

Open Source

• Announcing Kendo UI Core
• Open Source Software
• Free Software and Services for Open Source Projects

TDD and Continuous Testing

• NCrunch and Continuous Testing: The Must-Have Setup

Azure

• Configure Azure Backup to quickly and easily back-up Windows Server

Today's Links

Azure

• -notification-hubs-storage-vnets-schedule-autoscale-and-more.aspx
• Create a Staging .NET Backend for Testing
• Building your Dream DevOps Dashboard with the new Azure Preview Portal

UI

• Is Cards UI the Future of Mobile

Scrum

• Scrum Hub

Today's Links

Azure

• How to create Universal applications with Azure Mobile Services that leverage push notifications and database insertion and data retrieval
• Reading from a queue in an Azure WebJob
• Information on Microsoft Azure and Heartbleed

jQuery

• jQuery - .bind(), .live(), .delegate(), .on() ( and also .unbind(), .die(), .undelegate(), .off() )

Visual Studio 2013 tips

• Configuring Code Information Indicators in Visual Studio 2013
• Changing Code Information Indicator Styles in Visual Studio 2013

Stack Overflow

• ASP.NET MVC Ajax Error handling
• ASP.NET MVC Ajax Error returning view instead of ajax

Today's links of Intrest

TDD

• TDD Chess Game Part 3: Stumbling and Refactoring

Azure

• How much Azure kit do you need to serve 2,000 requests per second?
• Creating an Azure Mobile Services .NET backend from scratch

Today's Links

Development

• How To Build A WinJS App In 10 Easy Steps
• Windows App Studio Beta: Build a Windows Phone AND Windows app in one session, no code required
• Improve your JavaScript with Web Essentials and JSHint

SQL Server 

• 10 great new features in SQL Server 2014

Build

• A run down of the Build 2014 keynote announcements

Today's Links

Build

• High-Performance Web Platform: Real-World Problems and Solutions
• Building Xbox One Apps using HTML and JavaScript
• Building Web APIs for Mobile Apps Using ASP.NET Web API 2.1
• HTML5 Platform from Web to Apps

Azure

• Push Notifications Using Notification Hub and .NET Backend
• Microsoft Azure Storage @ BUILD 2014
• Microsoft Azure Load Balancing Services

Heartbleed

• http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/heartbleed-in-eight-minutes-what-it-is.html

ASP.Net MVC 5

• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 1 - Overview and Enums
• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 2 - Attribute Routing with Custom Constraints
• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 3 - Bootstrap and JavaScript enhancements
• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 4 - Web API Help Pages, BSON, and Global Error Handling

Other

• Xamarin vs Titanium vs Phonegap vs Native application development

Today's Links

Asp.Net

• Adding Two Factor Authentication To An ASPNET Application
• Designing Evolvable WebAPIs With ASPNET Now As A Free Ebook

Azure

• Management Libraries

Build

• Go Mobile with C# and Xamarin
• Visual Studio and .NET Overview
• The Next Generation of .NET for Building Applications
• Tips and Tricks in Visual Studio 2013
• Building Modern Web Applications with Visual Studio and Web Essentials

CSS

• Css Magic

Links for today

Azure

• Azure Web Hosting Plans
• Azure Management Libraries
• Mobile Services Managed Client SDK

Build

• Build conf Round up
• Build Keynote Announcements

Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Extensions For Web Developers