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DevExpress – When Only The Best Will Do

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:December 4, 2013
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DevExpress – December is a month of giving and if you are looking to fill the gift stocking of that special developer someone, have a look at the new release of DevExpress. I have been lucky enough to explore the product for the past while. As usual, DevExpress come out tops with some awesome new features.

The suite is too large to review in its entirety in only one article, but I really want to highlight some of my absolute favourite features (By the way, I’m using Visual Studio Ultimate 2013). All right then buckle up, and let’s go. (more…)

The Daily Six Pack: October 30, 2013

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Post published:October 30, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Buffer Hacked Buffer confirms hackers stole users’ Twitter and Facebook tokens, but billing information unaffected, Kaylene Hong Other Different ways of getting Path, Abhishek Sur My Responsibilities as a Social Media Strategist, Ahna Hendrix…

The Daily Six Pack: October 15, 2013

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Post published:October 15, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Lightswitch HTML Client Lightswitch HTML Client – Geolocation, Stu Ó Riagháin Other Portable Class Library (PCL) now available on all platforms, The .NET Team Steve Ballmer is right, and I was wrong, Joe Wilcox Visual…

The Daily Six Pack: October 14, 2013

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Post published:October 14, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Free Programming Books Free Programming Books, GitHub Other Windows Phone 8 Learning Roadmap, Mohamed Yamama What’s in Which Version of C#, Sean Sexton Windows 8 Myths, Busted, Shawn Keene Creating a MVC 5 CRUD…

The Daily Six Pack: September 26, 2013

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Post published:September 26, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Windows 8.1 File History Create a complete System Image Backup with Windows 8.1 and File History, Scott Hanselman Other Working with XML comments in Visual Studio, Abhishek Sur 4chan's fake iOS 7 ads convince…

The Daily Six Pack: September 9, 2013

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Post published:September 9, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: LightSwitch Using ActiveReports Using ActiveReports with LightSwitch Application, C1_Deepankar Other The FBI Is Now at War with Syrian Hackers, Rebecca Greenfield BlackBerry Messenger iOS App Being Reviewed By Apple For Past 2 Weeks, Ken…

The Daily Six Pack: August 20, 2013

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Post published:August 20, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Windows 8.1 Pinned Site Tiles Notifications Dev Tip: Windows 8.1 Brings Notifications to Pinned Site Tiles, Shawn Keene Other What is AutoMapper and How to map two objects using AutoMapper?, Kunal Chowdhury Windows 8.1…

The Daily Six Pack: July 12, 2013

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Post published:July 12, 2013
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Energy Consumption Tool in Visual Studio 2013 aims to solve a very real problem, and one that I am sure that most of us as developers don't give a second thought to. If your applications are battery hungry, this will quickly result in bad customer experience. To keep your application's energy…

The Daily Six Pack: May 14, 2013

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Post published:May 14, 2013
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Today I start with a great animation of Star Wars Episode IV which condenses the whole episode to one minute. That is well worth the awesomeness. So take a spin through Star Wars: A New Hope. Incidentally, these are the same folks that brought us the sixty second remake of The Matrix.…

The Daily Six Pack: May 10, 2013

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Post published:May 10, 2013
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Some people are doubters, but WordPress core is probably one of the most secure platforms you can choose to put your site on. Jason Cosper clears up this debate once and for all. Then, Stephen Zaharuk brings us another 'Going from C# to Objective-C' post. Julie Larson-Green makes a rare public…