I will eventually get this posted to Studio Styles. Until then, here is a dark theme for Visual Studio that I created. The green and orange give it a Halo-ish feel. Let me know what you think in the comments.
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Month: May 2010
Dew Drop – May 12, 2010
Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf
Top Links
- MVVM Coding by Convention (Convention over Configuration) (Jeremy Likness)
- Can I Do Perfect Scrum and Still Fail? (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Integrating Twitter Into An ASP.NET Website Using OAuth (Scott Mitchell)
- Code contracts and inheritance (Gunnar Peipman)
- Visual Studio 2010: How to understand your code using Dependency Graphs, Sequence Diagrams, and the Architecture Explorer (Jennifer Marsman)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Updated C# all-in-one file (Kirill Osenkov)
- Service Operations for Any and All (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
- Think .Net Cache = System.Web.Caching? .Net 4 has a present for you, System.Runtime.Caching. and Extra .Net 4 Parallel Extension goodness in the Parallel Extension Samples, with RTM updates and a few new Projects (Greg Duncan)
- Book Review – Essential C# 4.0 (Brandon Cannaday)
- Assembly Resolution in MSBuild and Visual Studio Series Introduction (Chris Mann)
- Break Multiple Processes (Zain Naboulsi)
- Entity Framework 4.0 POCO Classes and Data Services (Chris Sells)
- ADO.NET Survey Results (Luiz Fernando Santos)
Web Development
- F# in ASP.NET, mathematics and testing (Gunnar Peipman)
- Using the Sueetie Cross-Application Footer Menu Control (Dave Burke)
- Building a Data Grid in ASP.NET MVC (Ali Bastani)
- Becoming a Great Web Developer (Marc Grabanski)
- New book: Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
- DOM Range and HTML5 Selection (Jon Seitel)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Information is the Most Transient Form of Power and ASP.NET Security Scenarios on Azure and Application Scenarios and Solutions (J.D. Meier)
- Agile: Chasing a points total (Mark Needham)
- Responsibility And Disaster (Michael Nichols)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Updated Bing App for Windows Phone (Justin Jed)
- IIS Media Services 4 – Changing the Game (Nigel Parker)
- Event-based property changes in pure XAML (Dennis Delimarsky)
- We’ve secretly changed this control’s DataContext – let’s see if it notices! [Workaround for a Silverlight data binding bug affecting various scenarios – including DataGrid+ContextMenu] (David Anson)
- Embedding the Silverlight version of the Open Media Player (Joe Stagner)
- Silverlight Tip of the Day #18 – Elastic Scrolling (Mike Snow)
- IIS Media Services to Include a Version of PlayReady DRM for HTTP Streaming (Silverlight Team)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Corrinne Yu – Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team Microsoft: Part One and Office Casual: OneNote – An all too brief introduction (Tina Wood)
- Webcast: NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB (Michael Kennedy)
- Video Interviews Part 2 – Nicholas Zakas, Principal Front-end Engineer at Yahoo! on jQuery Performance and Menno van Slooten on his Automated UI Testing Framework for jQuery (Rey Bango)
- Silverlight TV 25: No More Boxes! Exploring the PathListBox (John Papa)
- MSDN Radio: SharePoint 2010 for Developers (Emily Gibson)
- JP Boodhoo’s Introduction to Machine.Specifications (Bobby Johnson)
- Executive Thoughts on SharePoint 2010 (Eric Swift)
- Silverlight Week – How to Choose a Mobile Platform (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
- Kelly Cassidy: Effective Prototyping with SketchFlow (Eric Hagan)
Community / Events
- “Unplugged” Chat with Me this Thursday (Scott Guthrie)
- It’s time to Party like is SharePoint 2010 Launch Day! (Joel Oleson)
- Women In Web Design: Group Interview (Smashing Editorial)
- Microsoft’s greatest strength: people (Eugenia Sawa
) - Deep dive on Silverlight unit testing at Tech Ed next month (Jeff Wilcox)
Database
- SQL Azure vs. SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 (MS Downloads)
- 5 Things SQL Server Should Truncate (Brent Ozar)
- Five things SSIS should drop (Jamie Thomson)
- Trusting Database Engine Tuning Advisor for Query Tuning and Five things wouldn’t miss in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
- SQL SERVER – Understanding ALTER INDEX ALL REBUILD with Disabled Clustered Index (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Meme: Tagged: 5 things SQL Server should drop (Denis Gobo)
- Why LOB data makes shrink run slooooowly (T-SQL Tuesday #006) (Paul S. Randal)
SharePoint
- Using Filters in BCS Meta Man (Lightning Tools)
Miscellaneous
- PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) 2.0 Released – New Cmdlets, PowerShell 2 and XCopy, oh my and “If you want users to RTFM, write a better FM” (Greg Duncan)
- Microsoft and LG partner to release Xbox 360 3D gaming (Matt Blowes)
- Firefox 3.7 will become 4.0 — Firefox 4, with updated Gecko, confirmed for later this year (Sebastian Anthony)
- Snagit 10 Released With New Capture Tools (Simon Mackie)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
- Daily Cloud Feed – May 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
- Tech Tweets for 11-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
- The Morning Brew #598 (Chris Alcock)
- New and Notable 415 (Sam Gentile)
- Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2010 — #859 (Dave Campbell)
The Geek Shelf
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Programming C# 4.0: Building Windows, Web, and RIA Applications for the .NET 4.0 Framework (Animal Guide) |
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Dew Drop – May 11, 2010
Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf
Top Links
- Vim+Grep: Find All Occurrences Of Text In Your Project (Derick Bailey)
- Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Async Method Chaining (Matthew Podwysocki)
- StackOverflow Desktop Client in C# and WPF – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
- A Brief, Incomplete and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (James Iry)
.NET / Visual Studio
- How to get info from client certificates issued by a CA (C#) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
- C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: BigInteger and C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: Complex numeric type (Sam Gentile)
- How Do I: Using IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2010 (Chris Koenig)
- New IDE Features in Visual Studio 2010 for C# Developers (Kirill Osenkov)
- Protecting your .NET applications (Suprotim Agarwal)
- WCF Data Service Projections – null handling and expansion (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
- Shake – C# Make – Release v0.1.11 (CodePlex)
- F#: Tacit programming (Mark Needham)
- Pinning Projects and Solutions with Visual Studio 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
- Build Tools Roundup For .NET Systems (Derick Bailey)
- Every Program There Is, Part Five (Eric Lippert)
- If you are seeing intermittent crashes with VS 2010 (Gary Horen)
Web Development
- Globalizing ASP.NET MVC Client Validation (Phil Haack)
- Use ScriptSrc.net to Copy and Paste the Script tag for Your Favorite JavaScript Library (Rey Bango)
- Resolve a URL from a Partial View (ASP.NET MVC) (Scott Mitchell)
- JavaScript Coding Standards (Simon Ince)
- jQuery and Windows Azure (Stephen Walther)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- "Art of Agile" Training Courses This October (James Shore)
- Project Greenfield (Joel Cochran)
- What Do I Mean by a Complex Product? (Mike Cottmeyer)
- The devil is in the detail (Paul Boag)
- The True Cost of Quality (John Sonmez)
- How the SDL helped improve Security in Office 2010 (Didier Vandenbroeck)
- Software As A Destination vs Software As A Journey (Alan Skorkin)
- Poka-Yoke in UI design (Janko Jovanovic)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7: Near-Final Screenshots (Paul Thurrott)
- Control templates in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Building a Simple Windows Phone App (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Droppy Pop: A Windows Phone 7 Game (Andy Beaulieu)
- Why you should check out Expression Blend Behaviors when using Silverlight (Dave Isbitski)
- Integrating HTML into Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
- Silverlight HVP – Next Steps and Community Involvement (Jesse Liberty)
- Windows Phone 7 Panorama & Pivot controls – Release v0.7 (samples included) (CodePlex)
- Binding to Silverlight ComboBox and Using SelectedValue, SelectedValuePath and DisplayMemberPath (John Papa)
- WPF Shell Integration Library (Lester Lobo)
- Silverlight Tip of the Day #17 – Double Click (Mike Snow)
- Fiddler inspector for WCF Silverlight Polling Duplex and WCF RIA (Joe Zhou)
- Common Navigation UI and Authorization-driven Sitemaps (David Poll)
- Quick and easy scalable rounded bevels (Phil Middlemiss)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- New Video by Jon Harris: Blend 4 for Windows Phone in 90 Seconds (Christian Schormann)
- Ping 57: IE9, Alan Wake, Silverlight, Spindex, MMS (Laura Foy)
- Pluralcast 15 : SQL Server Under the Covers (David Starr)
- QuarkPromote Lights Up Windows 7 with RIA Web Application on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
- Talking Shop Down Under Episode 12 – WebForms MVP with Tatham Oddie (Richard Banks)
- endpoint.tv – Configuring Windows Server AppFabric Persistence (Ron Jacobs)
Community / Events
- Events this Week – May 10th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Special Silverlight Designer Events THIS WEEK at NERD (Jim O’Neil)
- Open Data Event Rallies Developers (Adam DuVander)
- Two Cool Typemock Contests (Roy Osherove)
- OData Blowout in June… 8 OData Workshops in Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Chicago and NYC (Chris Woodruff)
- “10 Days for Office 2010” Starting May 12 (Joseph Mirabella)
- API Forum Grand Opening (Rick Olson)
- Hate Software Bugs?! Fan page snapshot (Tal Townsend)
Database
- SQL Server PowerShell Provider And PowerShell Version 2 Get-Command Issue (Buck Woody)
- Create Date Ranges for Consecutive dates in a SQL Server Table (Suprotim Agarwal)
- What 5 things should SQL Server get rid of? (Paul S. Randal)
- SQL SERVER – Spatial Database Queries – What About BLOB – T-SQL Tuesday #006 (Pinal Dave)
- Moving Data from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 (Zhiming Xue)
- DBA Survivor by Tom LaRock – Book Review (Brent Ozar)
Miscellaneous
- DocTranslator: Google Translation Mashup Service for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
- Making Sense of the SenseCam (Rob Knies)
- Microsoft Access 2010 Source Code Control (MS Downloads)
- Microsoft and LG partner to release Xbox 360 3D gaming (Matt Blowes)
- #Ebook Deal of the Day: Mathematica Cookbook – Only $9.99 use code DDMTC (O’Reilly Media)
- Benchmarking: Introducing SSDs (Part 1b: not overloaded log file array) (Paul S. Randal)
- Firefox 3.7 will become 4.0 — Firefox 4, with updated Gecko, confirmed for later this year (Sebastian Anthony)
- Analyze Your Git Log With Ruby (Tobin Harris)
- Announcing the Clinical Documentation Solution Accelerator (CDSA) (MS CUI Team)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
- Daily Cloud Feed – May 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
- The Morning Brew #597 (Chris Alcock)
- Cheatsheet: 2010 05.01 ~ 05.10 (yuanjian)
The Geek Shelf
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Hacking Vim 7.2 |
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