The Daily Six Pack: July 23, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Software Development Process Seven Changes to Remove Waste From Your Software Development Process, Cecil Dijoux Other SSMS: Activity – All Blocking Transactions, Pinal Dave Tips and tricks for using XAML controls in your universal Windows apps, Windows Apps Team Capitalization Conventions in .NET, Brian Mullen The

The Daily Six Pack: February 14, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Silverlight Tutorial Silverlight Tutorials Chapter 1: Introduction to Silverlight, Kunal Chowdhury Other Moving the XAML Code Block – Visual Studio 2013, Abhijit Jana Microsoft Research – Bing Code Search: C# Code Snippets On Demand, MS Research Combining Tools in the Performance and

The Daily Six Pack: January 13, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Windows 9 "Threshold" to be Called Windows 9, Ship in April 2015, Paul Thurrott Other Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes – eBook update v1.2 posted, Willy-P. Schaub These never-before-seen 'Star Wars' photos are incredible, Mike Fenn Samsung Galaxy Round to be

Ten Minutes With… Michael Crump

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The great thing about meeting new people is that you invariably take away a little bit of who they are. I have been following Michael's blog for a while now and it was really great to catch up with him. I had the privilege of asking him a few questions about

The Daily Six Pack: September 18, 2013

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio 2013 Notifications Notifications in Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio Blog Other When Objects Become Eligible for Garbage Collection, Sean Sexton Detecting Potential Bottlenecks with the help of Profiler, Pinal Dave Visual Studio 2013 RC and the Virtual Launch, Steven Lange

The Daily Six Pack: August 12, 2013

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Twitter Two Factor Authentication Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication System, Bruce Schneier Other Building apps with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview in Visual Studio 2012, The .NET Team XAML Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio Blog Step-by-step: Getting setup on Azure with your MSDN benefits,

The Daily Six Pack: May 15, 2013

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Windows 8 dev... Have you every wanted to try it? With so many resources online (due in part to a huge push by Microsoft), you have a wealth of information at your fingertips. A good starting place is the following article by Mickey MacDonald. He talks about creating a Windows