Software
- Introducing VsixCompres – a NuGet package to compress your Visual Studio Package – Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi shares a NuGet package which manipulates the build process for your Visual Studio Extension projects to add in generation of a fully compressed VSIX build artefact.
Information
- Reactive benefits with commodity option barrier events – Wes McClure takes a look at refactoring some code to make use of the reactive extensions and along the way making the code clearer and simpler
- CSI: Visual Studio – Unable to translate Unicode character at index X to specified code page – Scott Hanselman discusses the tracking down of a bizarre build error caused by some invalid characters in the PATH environment variables.
- WintellectNOW FTW – Wintellect now providing on-demand learning for everyone (and there's even a few free sessions too) – Greg Duncan highlights some free and some paid for trainign content from Wintellect. The free modules available include jQuery, Azure and IntelliTrace content.
- Using Environment.FailFast – Richard Carr takes a look at how to get your application to bail out completely in the case that something very serious has gone wrong using Environment.FailFast.
- Agile software development methodologies and how to apply them. – Monjurul Habib shares a nice overview of all things Agile, looking at the guiding principles and the various skills , practices and techniques which under pin in this CodeProject article.
Community
- TechEd North America 2013 – Channel 9 now has all the session recordings from TechEd available online, giving you access to what appears to be over 700 sessions of content covering all aspects of the Microsoft world.
- NxtGenUG – Event: Making Windows Store Dance – The Birmingham NxtGenUG welcome Christopher Myhill for a session on building applications for the Windows Store, sharing key lessons learnt when crafting your application for the store. The event takes place the evening of Tuesday 18th June