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Jerry Nixon

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2014 7

  1. Announcing: Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 5.0 for WPF
  2. Common Copyright Mistakes
  3. At last, C# is getting “?.”, sometimes called the Safe Navigation Operator
  4. Free C# Training for Beginners and Forgetful Experts
  5. Vanity domains and Outlook.com
  6. It’s all free! Here’s $500 for your user group, all the swag you want, and free Facebook advertising. No catch. Really.
  7. The most Comprehensive Blend for Visual Studio training you will ever receive – for Free; you’re welcome!

2013 45

  1. Make it snow with XAML
  2. Decorate your tree with XAML.
  3. The two ways to handle orientation in your Windows 8.1 app
  4. Over $100 million available to purchase Windows apps this holiday
  5. XAML: How to add ItemsSource to the Windows 8.1 MenuFlyout
  6. Students can make real cash this holiday season on Windows 8.
  7. Windows 8.1: How to use Visual States in your XAML App
  8. 3 inevitable things; a glimpse into the future of our industry
  9. Everything I know ‘bout Behaviors in Blend for Visual Studio 2013
  10. My XAML Contribution to the Star Trek Universe
  11. Do you know Microsoft’s brands?
  12. Walkthrough: Is your Windows 8 app too square and boxy? Here are some options.
  13. Windows 8.1 design principles hand developers back their sanity
  14. IPhone 5S features I want to see on my Windows Phone, today!
  15. How Apple’s new IPhone 5S bald-faced copied Microsoft Windows Phone
  16. Windows 8.1 says, “Forget all that Design Stuff from Windows 8.0”
  17. This is the most important control you may ever use
  18. 5 things you must do BEFORE you publish your app.
  19. Walkthrough: Create a whiteboard app in 10 minutes
  20. Walkthrough: Let’s build a control like that awesome new one in Windows 8.1.
  21. Here are some of the new things in Windows 8.1
  22. Windows 8 apps need 28 logo varietals; enter Expression Design
  23. 5 awesome reasons your Start Menu is better in Windows 8.1
  24. Walkthrough: Real world Manipulation techniques
  25. Resources for Migrating to 8.1
  26. Walkthrough: Two-way binding inside a XAML User Control
  27. Walkthrough: Reordering items in a GridView with Drag and Drop
  28. Starfleet Avatar Store on Xbox Live
  29. Walkthrough: Windows 8 Extended Splash Screen
  30. Cash for Clouds
  31. Windows 8 and Windows Phone Exclusive: Halo Spartan Assault
  32. Star Trek into Darkness plot holes
  33. Horizontal Screen Breakpoints for Web Designers to Support
  34. Ready to learn XAML?
  35. Best Windows Phone Commercial Ever
  36. Binding to an ENUM in Windows 8
  37. App Challenge: Windows 8 Apps For Social Good Contest
  38. DevRadio: Using Xamarin to Create the Draw a Stickman app for Windows 8
  39. DevRadio: Windows Phone 8 Features Overview
  40. Walkthrough: Dynamically Skinning your Windows 8 App
  41. Here’s Microsoft Surface as a Windows Phone (concept)
  42. Holy Smokes. Windows Phone on a Flexible Display? Awesome!
  43. Windows 8 Design is Calm
  44. Where is PhoneGap for Windows Phone 8? Right here!
  45. Choosing the Windows Phone That’s Right for Me

2012 119

  1. Hey IT Pros! What developers already know about Windows 8
  2. Windows 8 Play, Pause, Resume. Do you even know what it is?
  3. Walkthough: Use XAML’s 3D PlaneProjection to Open a Window and See What’s Inside
  4. Walkthrough: Implementing SnapView in your Windows 8 App
  5. DevRadio: Developing your Windows 8 Apps using Visual C++
  6. Walkthrough: Building a Sweet Dial in XAML for Windows 8
  7. With Steven Sinofsky leaving Microsoft, Windows 8 will have to stand on its own!
  8. Training Resources for native C++ and C++CX programming, graphics and gaming
  9. It’s official. Goodbye Windows live Messenger. Hello Skype.
  10. Announcing: WCF Data Services 5.1 Released!
  11. The Largest Hack-a-thon in the World is in Colorado!
  12. Introducing the Windows Azure Store; we’ve loved it for years!
  13. See you at the Windows Azure Conference!
  14. Team Foundation Service is live! It’s Free!
  15. DevRadio: Managing Windows 8 Enterprise Apps
  16. What iOS developers need to know about Windows 8 development
  17. What did //Build/ attendees get?
  18. The Absolute Top Features of Windows Phone 8
  19. Microsoft DevRadio: Your Top Windows Store Questions Answered
  20. What is a Microsoft account?
  21. Walkthrough: using Windows 8 Custom Protocol Activation
  22. Walkthrough: Monetize Windows 8 with the Microsoft Advertising SDK
  23. XAML Binding Basics 101
  24. There is absolutely *no* reason you aren’t using Visual Studio ULTIMATE!
  25. Walkthrough: The Windows 8 AppBar, you might as well have the coolest! (feat. Expression Design)
  26. We did it! Office 2013 RTMs today!
  27. What Windows 8 developers need to know about app certification and publishing
  28. What if your Windows Phone app idea got funded? Here it is!
  29. Walkthrough: Adding Text Translation to your Windows 8 App
  30. Walkthrough: the Windows 8 Settings and About Dialogs
  31. Best show this season? Forward Unto Dawn. Made by, wait for it, Microsoft!
  32. Save the date! For Windows Phone 8 on October 29th
  33. Round Three: Windows Azure Mobile Services on DevRadio
  34. Round Two: Windows Azure Mobile Services on DevRadio
  35. New Pepsi website flatters Windows 8!
  36. Android developers can use Azure Mobile Services, too!
  37. Announcing! Windows 8 Bing Maps SDK is Available!
  38. Extra Extra! Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 1) Windows Azure Mobile Services
  39. The HealthVault Windows 8 SDK is now available!
  40. Walkthrough: Capturing photos in your Windows 8 application
  41. StackOverflow launches Aptivate!
  42. W3C publishes Microsoft’s – how to support multiple pointer types in web sites! More standards leadership.
  43. Will project “Roslyn” change how developers use Visual Studio?
  44. Free MS Press book: Introducing Windows Server 2012 (RTM Edition)
  45. Let’s compare SkyDrive to Apple, Google, and Dropbox.
  46. It’s official, Windows 8 developer certifications are available. Look!
  47. Amazing. What’s new in WPF 4.5?
  48. Microsoft gives developers Real, Live Support for Windows Store certification problems! Know your options.
  49. What are the Best Practices for Windows 8 apps on ARM? I’ll show you.
  50. At last! The Windows Store is OPEN for business!
  51. The most common Errors in Windows Store submissions can be Easily avoided, just read this!
  52. I used to want a Surface (table), this new monitor makes me second guess!
  53. What does it take to get a Windows 8 App into the Windows Store? Take a look.
  54. How to access a named control inside a XAML DataTemplate (using CSharp)
  55. Windows Server 2012 Available Today!
  56. Windows 8: Scheduled Tasks & the Lock Screen
  57. Wanna see the Unreal Engine running on Windows RT?
  58. Apple helps Windows Phone
  59. Hooray! Here’s all 316 pages of the Windows 8 UX Guidelines in one cool PDF
  60. Most people are doing MVVM all wrong. Are you?
  61. (new episode) DevRadio – Let Odata make your Windows 8 App Sing!
  62. Develop Windows 8 Apps without Windows 8? Yes, you can!
  63. How to uniquely identify a device in WinRT?
  64. Adding Location, Geocoding, and Bing Maps to Windows 8 Apps
  65. Turns out Windows 8 is “the most secure OS” on the planet.
  66. Windows 8 apps, what’s an Enterprise to do?
  67. How to Create a Windows 8 Settings Pane in XAML
  68. Windows 8 Resources & Links to get started quickly
  69. Do you like prizes? Do you like glory? Do you like Windows 8?
  70. Use Expression Design to create a Windows 8 ‘Ratings’ control
  71. 30 questions about Windows 8 that I get asked all the time
  72. (New Episode) Microsoft DevRadio: How to Convert Your Windows Phone App into a Windows 8 Application
  73. Windows 8 is an Android killer?
  74. Why Chris Hayes should have used Windows 8 to say “I’m Sorry”
  75. Why Windows 8 is like Radioactive Pacific Bluefin Tuna
  76. Internet Explorer continues its Reign over Firefox, Chrome, and Safari According to 2012 Q1 Data
  77. Learn Windows Phone in Denver
  78. Mac Security Situation is Getting Worse
  79. Can Windows Phone pick up when Android drops off?
  80. Windows 8: Connected Standby
  81. Windows 8: Windows Phone SDK (7.1.1 update) Ready to Go!
  82. Nokia files Patent for “Phone in a Tattoo”
  83. Windows 8: Semantic Zoom versus Optical Zoom
  84. Sorry, Google Chrome is not supported
  85. Game Developers Conference
  86. Really?! OneNote vs. EverNote
  87. Broken: Windows 8 and the Windows Phone SDK
  88. SQL Express v LocalDB v SQL Compact Edition
  89. Drupal and Microsoft? Yes!
  90. #MVA: Finally something Free! from Microsoft
  91. Oh, no you didn’t! Office 365 at Home?
  92. Open Call: Submit your Pictures for the official Windows Wallpaper Gallery
  93. Why Google Docs Suck!
  94. Visual Studio 11: New Features Preview
  95. Windows Phone: Go Underground
  96. Lasers can be Magnetized: Faster Hard Drives
  97. Utah’s Code Camp Announced!
  98. Windows 8 avoids “Bill Shock” with Mobility Overhaul
  99. WP7 Sample: A GPS-enabled Phone App in 5 minutes!
  100. Hey .Net, Happy Valentine’s Day!
  101. Proven Marketing Strategies to Promote your Windows Phone App
  102. WP7 Sample: An Accelerator-based App in 5 Minutes
  103. Customize the WP Emulator’s Skin!
  104. WP7 REST without Sleeping
  105. WP7 Sample: A Microphone-enabled Phone App in 5 Minutes!
  106. Mango Sample: Give your app the Finger!
  107. A Phone App on every Platform?
  108. Mango Sample: A Cloud-based Phone App in 5 Minutes
  109. Mango Tip: Awesome Marketplace Screenshots
  110. PhoneGap fully supports Windows Phone
  111. System Center’s Private Cloud
  112. Massively Scalable Azure
  113. 5 Questions on Solid State
  114. White Paper: Assessing the Windows 8 Development Platform
  115. Does it still make sense to learn ASP.Net?
  116. Windows Server 8 Storage Management
  117. Mango Sample: Delete Dramatically
  118. Mango Sample: The ApplicationBar’s Secret Blend?
  119. Mango Sample: 3 Solutions to Formatting Problems

2011 23

  1. Mango Sample: Portable Assemblies
  2. Mango Sample: Resources Part 3: Sizes
  3. Mango Sample: Resources Part 2: Colors
  4. Mango Sample: Resources Part 1: Themes
  5. Mango Sample: Accelerometer
  6. Mango Sample: Advertising
  7. Mango Sample: Icon Design
  8. Mango Sample: Lock and Run
  9. Mango Online Workshop (Next Week) – Databases
  10. Mango Sample: Data Validation
  11. Mango Sample: External Data
  12. Mango Sample: OAuth2 & Live Id
  13. Mango Sample: Detect Theme
  14. Mango Sample: Async Work
  15. Mango Samples: SQL Toolbox
  16. Mango Sample: Exit Application
  17. Mango Sample: Local Database Part 2:2
  18. Mango Sample: Local Database Part 1:2
  19. Mango Sample: Isolated Storage
  20. Mango Sample: Input Scope
  21. Mango Sample: Consume Odata
  22. Mango Sample: MVVM
  23. Mango Sample: Chart Data