Links of Interest 12_18_2015

• How to clone a JavaScript backend Mobile Service
• 7 Tools That Bring Cross-Platform Languages into Visual Studio
• Application Insights Telemetry in Glimpse
• Using Certificates in Azure Websites Applications
• Refactoring Code to Load a Document
• Web Development starts here! - 8 tutorials for Elementary and High schools students
• Updateing the .NET target framework for many projects
• No Excuse For Not Developing For Windows Phone
• Building Stateful Services with Azure Service Fabric
• You suck at TDD #1: Rewrite the steps
• You suck at TDD #2–Mocking libraries
• 
  

Links of Interest 12_10_2015

• Future of Web Design – Watch out for these 7 Trends
• Brainstorming development workflows with Docker, Kitematic, VirtualBox, Azure, ASP.NET, and Visual Studio
• An 'XCOM' game in Excel beats playing with spreadsheets
• StructureMap
• Announcing PowerApps with Azure App Service
• What Developers Need To Know About Docker
• RazorTemplates
• 3D Game Engine for Android, iOS, and .NET
• DreamSparking a HTML5/JS Game From Start to Finish
• When Should You Use A Single Page Application?
• ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core RC1 in context (Plus all the Connect 2015 News)
• Announcing PowerApps with Azure App Service
• RFC: Server-side Image and Graphics Processing with .NET Core and ASP.NET 5
• The 5 Laws of Software Estimates
• An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript for C# Developers
• 
  

Links For 11_17_2015

• Getting Started with Docker Toolbox and Compose
• Migrations from global.asa
• Azure Cloud Load Testing Made Easy
• Managing DbContext the right way with Entity Framework 6: an in-depth guide
• A Fresh Coat Of REST Paint On A SOAP Stack
• Cadru
• S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Fallout 4's perks list and character stats detailed
• SPECIAL / Build Calculator
• Throwing Exceptions and Keeping the Stack Trace
• Using Chain Of Responsibility Instead of if/else Statement
• Using Redis as a Service in Azure to speed up ASP.NET applications
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSO – Start of a New Journey

Links For 11_06_2015

• ASP.NET Identity with Azure Storage Table
• Barbaric Tip of the Week: Improve Your Visual Studio Web Dev Fu With Web Extension Pack
• Create more secure apps with less effort (10 by 10)
• Markdown in your MVC 6 Razor Pages
• An Introduction to the new TFS/VSO Build System
• Extensions by Mads Kristensen
• Visual Studio Time Saver– Setting and creating themes
• Generic UI Testing with Coded UI – Day 27 – Visual Studio 2015
• TDD: SPEED AND FLOW
• HttpRequester and in-memory Web-API testing
• Peasy.NET
• Requester
• Integrating Visual Studio Code with dnx-watch to develop ASP.NET 5 applications

Links For 10_14_2015

• Announcing the ASP.NET WebHooks Visual Studio Extension Preview
• Introducing ASP.NET WebHooks Receivers - WebHooks made easy.
• CSS Multi-Level Accordion Menu
• Creating a CSS Sliding Background Effect
• Windows 10 Development for Absolute Beginners
• Docker: Containerize your Startup – Your journey from virtualization to Containerization (Part 4)
• Inside Azure File Storage
• How to break your site with a content security policy: an illustrated example
• Getting NUnit Test Parameters From a File (or Other Source)
• HOW CAN I WRITE A TEST IF THE CODE IS NOT THERE?
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Your web app doesn't need 64-bit
• Prediction Markets for Software Estimates
• 31 Days of Visual Studio 2015 Tricks and Treats

Links for 10_01_2015

• Windows 10 development for absolute beginners
• AzureCon Keynote Announcements: India Regions, GPU Support, IoT Suite, Container Service, and Security Center
• Azure File Storage, now generally available
• New Azure Container Service to bring together Mesos, Docker and Azure cloud
• On a Cloud: Data Processing
• Setting IHostingEnvironment.IsDevelopment as True in an ASP.NET 5 Application
• Speeding up Application Development with Bootstrap
• Bootstrap 3 Tips and Tricks You Might Not Know
• Whipping File Inputs Into Shape with Bootstrap 3
• The 10 Most Common Bootstrap Mistakes
• Better Density and Lower Prices for Azure’s SQL Elastic Database Pools
• Sending WebHooks with ASP.NET WebHooks Preview

Links for 8_28_2015

• Create a Web API in MVC 6
• Docker: Containerize your startup!
• Moving to VS 2015 from VS 2013
• Microsoft Azure Developer Reference
• 50 Free Books for Web Designers & Developers
• If Unit Tests Were Seinfeld Characters
• Building A Component-Based Web UI With Modern JavaScript Frameworks
• The Zen of Code Reviews: Best Practices
• Announcing Windows Server 2016 Containers Preview
• FAKE It Till You Make It
• IdentityServer3

Links for 8_18_2015

• Cloud-Connected Mobile Apps - Create a Web Service with Azure Web Apps and WebJobs
• Experiences from using existing projects within VS2015
• How to use JetBrains Annotations to improve ReSharper inspections
• 7 C# Interview Questions
• New features of C# 6
• Chess TDD 45: Onward with En Passant
• A Complete Guide to the MVC 6 Tag Helpers
• Apt-Get for Windows - OneGet and Chocolatey on Windows 10
• Use Fluent Builders In Your Tests – C#
• My favorite Visual Studio 2015 Extensions
• TDD best practices
• A Complete List of Microsoft Azure Tools
• CREATING A UNIT TESTING STRATEGY – PART I
• Behaviour Driven Development Overview Part 1 – Ubiquitous Language

Links 8_3_2015

• Dependency injection in ASP.NET 5
• ASP.NET 5 and CSS bundling: Fixing image paths
• Structuring Views in ASP.NET MVC to Centralize Logic
• Upgrading a Real-World MVC 5 Application to MVC 6
• Visual Studio 2015, ASP.NET 4.6, ASP.NET 5 & EF 7 Previews
• Convert HTML to PDF files
• Top VS2015 Extensions: C# Essentials
• Getting Started with Windows 10
• Chess TDD 43: Pawns Good to Go
• Chess TDD 44: Starting the Climb toward En Passant
• Advanced Page Object Pattern in Automation Testing
• 
  

Links for 7_14_2015

• New ASP.NET 5 Project from Scratch with Visual Studio 2015
• Attain Code Management Nirvana via Test-Driven Development
• Introducing Web Tiles for Microsoft Band - My diabetes data on a Band!
• Entity Framework extensions for AutoMapper
• 5 Tips For Migrating Web Sites To Azure Web Apps
• FluentBootstrap
• A Complete List of .NET Open Source Developer Projects
• VS Refactoring Essentials (formerly) NR6Pack - Free analyzers and refactoring for Visual Studio 2015
• Chess TDD 42: Finishing up White Pawn Movement
• Should Product Owner attend Daily Scrum meeting regularly?

Links of Interest 7_7_2015

• Are You Making These 10 DDD Mistakes?
• Managing Entity Relationship Complexity
• How to do painless TDD
• Chess TDD 39: Dipping a Toe into Complex Piece Movement
• Chess TDD 40: Diagonal Capture for Pawns
• Chess TDD 41: Finishing up White Pawn Movement
• TDD for ASP.NET MVC Part 4: Unit Testing View Model Validation
• Web Developers’ SEO Cheat Sheet 3.0
• Multi Language Design
• Rebooting Database Localization for ASP.NET with West Wind Globalization 2.0
• MVC 6 Image Tag Helper
• Examining Application Startup in ASP.NET 5
• How to ask Bing and Google to Index your Website
• Hey Azure, how's my Web App doing?
• Debugging and Profiling LINQ Queries using Devart LINQ Insight

Links for 06_19_2015

• ChessTDD 37: Cleaning Up and Implementing Rook
• ChessTDD 38: Bishop Tests and Being Wrong about Being Wrong
• Historical Debugging, Profiling, New Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2015
• Embed powerful real-time analytics in your app
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Javascript
• Action filters, service filters and type filters in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6
• An End-to-End AngularJS Guide
• Introducing Source Templates
• Storing Data Securely in Azure Blob Storage with Azure Encryption Extensions
• Handling Bad URLs in ASP.NET MVC
• Project Tracking Website using AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API
• $25 Xbox wireless adapter is perfect for using your controller on a Windows 10 PC
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC6

Links for 06_05_2015

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Null Conditional Operator in C# 6
• Ten Awesome Features of Visual Studio Code
• Strongly typed AppSettings Configuration in ASP.NET 5
• Azure App Service: Logic Apps
• SPECFLOW TUTORIAL
• A Step-by-Step Guide to Working with the ASP.NET Web API and AngularJS
• Building Responsive Web Sites with Bootstrap
• REST Cheatsheet
• Why to avoid fat controllers
• What's the deal with Windows 10 for the Non-Technical Friend

Links for Me 5_27_2015

• TDD for ASP.NET MVC, Part 3: Contact Service Class
• ChessTDD 35: Acceptance Tests for Knight Movement
• http://www.daedtech.com/chesstdd-36-acceptance-tests-for-queen-movement
• Where Did My ASP.NET Bundles Go in ASP.NET 5?
• SETTING UP SPECFLOW
• The Simplest Possible ASP.NET Web API Template
• DDD – The aggregate
• Unit Testing OData Web API/Entity Framework Applications
• Setting up Code Coverage in Team City
• Building Mobile Apps with Ionic and Monaca
• Give Your REST APIs Some Metadata Swagger!
• Testing for Exceptions with NUnit
• Single Responsibility Principle

Links for Me 5_15_2015

• Attain Code Management Nirvana via Test-Driven Development, Part 1
• Oh, CRUD … It's Test-Driven Development for ASP.NET MVC, Part 2
• SOLID principles in .NET revisited part 1: introduction with code to be improved
• SOLID principles in .NET revisited part 2: Single Responsibility Principle
• SOLID principles in .NET revisited part 3: the Open-Closed principle
• SOLID principles in .NET revisited part 4: the Liskov Substitution Principle
• SOLID principles in .NET revisited part 5: the Liskov Substitution Principle 2
• SOLID principles in .NET revisited part 6: the Interface Segregation Principle
• SOLID principles in .NET revisited part 7: the Dependency Inversion Principle
• Page Object Pattern – Design Patterns in Automation Testing
• Advanced Page Object Pattern – Design Patterns in Automation Testing
• Facade Design Pattern – Design Patterns in Automation Testing
• Fluent Page Object Pattern- Design Patterns Automation Testing
• DDD revisited
• DDD applied
• DDD – Special scenarios, part 1
• DDD – Special scenarios, part 2
• ChessTDD 34: Specflow for Pawn Movement
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Exporting data In SQL Server as INSERT INTO

Links of Interest 5_6_2015

• Visual Studio Code
• ChessTDD 31: Look, We Caught a Bug!
• ChessTDD 32: Squashing a Subtle Bug
• ChessTDD 33: Scenario Housekeeping
• One API, Four Frameworks: The Great .NET ReST Showdown
• Build Keynote
• I'’m hooked on test-driven development (TDD)
• Building a Comparison Grid in ASP.NET MVC
• DDD applied
• Object Oriented, Test Driven Design in C# and Java: A Practical Example Part #5
• Azure Powershell: Azure Websites for the command line junkies! – Part 1
• TDD GAMIFICATION – TURNING TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT INTO A GAME
• 8 Resharper shortcuts everyone should know

Links of Intrest 4_21_2015

• An introduction to the ASP.NET 5 Generic OAuth Provider
• Using Basic Authentication in ASP.NET WebAPI
• DDD revisited
• Step by Step implementing Onion architecture in ASP.NET MVC Application
• Making your API behave like the big boys
• Developing Cross-platform 2D Games in C# and CocosSharp
• SpecFlow Extensions for Azure Storage Emulator
• 30 Days of Bootstrap with the MVC Framework - Revisited
• Build Your First Hybrid Mobile App With Visual Studio 2013, AngularJS, Ionic, And Adobe PhoneGap
• Orchestrating massive parallelisation of Azure WebJobs for fun and profit
• Chess TDD 30: Starting To Be Idiomatic With SpecFlow
• 
  

Links of Interest 4_10_2015

• How to get your SSL for free on a Shared Azure website with CloudFlare
• Protecting ASP.NET Applications Against CSRF Attacks
• Queryable Services
• Web API Documentation Tools
• Your First Angular Project in Visual Studio
• Azure Mobile Services and APIs – RESTful and Custom
• Introducing Azure Resource Explorer for the Azure Resource Management APIs
• BDD BY EXAMPLE
• Changing the server time zone on Azure Web Apps
• Unit testing with Dates
• Clean Tests
• ChessTDD 29: Finishing up the ASCII Board Builder

Links of Interest 4_2_2015

• Climax.Web.Http
• The Kudu Debug Console, Azure Websites best kept secret
• A Dev and Test Adventure on #Azure
• Unstructured Blob Storage (Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Azure)
• How to make a Windows Store game with C# and XAML, part 2
• Solution: Little Puzzlers–Is tree a Binary Search Tree?
• ChessTDD 28: Preparing for Idiomatic SpecFlow
• Building Distributed Cloud Apps With Azure WebSites, WebJobs And Azure Service Bus Topic
• Introducing Azure API Apps
• Introducing the Azure API Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2013
• Improve your SpecFlow scenarios with custom step argument transformations
• 
  

links 3-20-2015

• What I Learned from Learning about SpecFlow
• Storing Your Secrets in Azure Websites App Settings
• Managing Web Sites from Web Sites using the Windows Azure Management Libraries for .NET
• ChessTDD 27: Parameterized Acceptance Tests and Scenarios
• Paging in ASP.NET Web API: Using HTTP Headers
• Using Azure Storage API in an ASP.NET MVC Application
• Securing Web.API Requests With JSON Web Tokens
• Design Patterns: The Command Pattern
• Pickles - The Open Source Living Documentation Generator
• Getting Started with TypeScript – Classes, Types and Interfaces

Interesting Links 3-10-2015

• Introducing NUnit.Specifications
• Azure SQL as the Backbone to Azure Mobile Service
• Accessing the Bing Maps REST services from various JavaScript frameworks
• Should bugs be user stories
• A Web Game in an Hour
• Using FontAwesome Fonts for HTML Radio Buttons and Checkboxes
• BeckDesignRules
• Clean Tests: Isolating the Database
• IF YOU LOVE SOMETHING, SET IT FREE
• Object Oriented, Test Driven Design in C# and Java Part 1

Interesting Links 2-26-2015

• ChessTDD 26: At Last, Acceptance Tests
• Using Windows Azure Mobile Services in ASP.NET MVC
• Azure Blob Storage Part 6: Blob Properties, Metadata, etc.
• Reliable database tests with Respawn
• Javascript Design Patterns
• Azure: Machine Learning Service, Hadoop Storm, Cluster Scaling, Linux Support, Site Recovery and More
• ntroducing ASP.NET 5
• NuGet Package of the Week: A different take on ASP.NET MVC Forms with ChameleonForms
• ChameleonForms Documentation

Links 2-17-2015

• Visual Studio Time Savers
• ASP.NET Identity 2.1 with ASP.NET Web API 2.2 (Accounts Management) – Part 1
• JavaScript Has Won: Run Flash with Mozilla Shumway and Develop Silverlight in JS with Fayde
• NuGet Package of the Week: A different take on ASP.NET MVC Forms with ChameleonForms
• NUNIT TEST CODE STRUCTURE
• UNIT TEST STRUCTURE
• Authorization As a Service,the coolest thing for LOB
• FizzBuzz TDD kata– using Reactive Extensions
• TDD Practice: Parsing Data from a Service
• ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 1, Configuring Grunt, Uglify, and AngularJS

Interesting Links 1-28-2015

• SpecFlow v2 - progress
• ChessTDD 25: Yak-Shaving with a visit to trusty old ExtendedAssert
• Increase Your Conversion Rates With These 7 Landing Page Must Have's
• Design Patterns: The Simple Factory Pattern
• Design Patterns: The Strategy Pattern
• Design Patterns: The Facade Pattern
• Design Patterns: The Adapter Pattern
• Design Patterns: The Decorator Pattern

Interesting Links 1-14-15

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• ChessTDD 24: Cleaning Up for Acceptance Testing
• Introduction to REST and .net Web API
• SPECFLOW STRATEGY
• Azure Mobile Services: The story of the real application
• Project Tracking Website using AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API
• REST : A Simple REST framework
• Automating Windows environments’ setup with Boxstarter and Chocolatey packages

Interesting Links

• Creating Your Solution and Your Azure Mobile Service
• Connecting Windows/Windows Phone Apps to Azure Mobile Service
• Updating the Data Model with Azure Mobile Service
• Top 10 Things Every ScrumMaster Should Be Doing
• Chess TDD 23: Yak-Shaving with SpecFlow
• Using the Strategy Pattern to Reduce Complexity in Your JavaScript
• Using Entity Framework with an Existing Database: User Interface
• Part 4: Azure Mobile Services: What you need to know about Authentication and Authorization
• Part 5: Azure Mobile Service: What you need to know about Backend Server Scripts and Scheduling
• Not using JavaScript Promises? It is time to make the change.