Month: October 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

• Dear Silver Bullet Seeker (David Starr)
• Deploying Silverlight assemblies via NuPack (Tim Heuer)
• Choosing between ASP.NET–WebForms, MVC, WebMatrix – Choice is a GOOD thing. (Joe Stagner)
• CodeRush Plugins – What are they good for?… Absolutely everything! and Starting a CodeRush Plugin Project (Rory Becker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Directory icons (Oren Eini)
• Using Solution Factory + NuPack to create Opinionated Visual Studio Solutions. (Eric Hexter)
• Visual Studio 2010 Survey (Jason Zander)
• At The End of the IO Road With C#? Pave New Road! (Wesley Brown)
• The Watch Window: Watching and Changing Values (Zain Naboulsi)
• Cost Architecting for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• CSLA 4 Executive Overview slides (Rockford Lhotka)
• No Backtracking, Part Two (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Using JavaScript to Measure Web Page Performance with IE9 (Gil Fink)
• Conflicts between ASP.NET AJAX Update Panels & jQuery functions (Hajan Selmani)
• Starting with WebSharper Interface Generator (Diego Echeverri)
• Improved JavaScript Model Binding in ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• This operation requires IIS integrated pipeline mode (Steve Andrews)
• What is jQuery? (Matthew David)
• Building, Running, and Packaging Windows Azure Applications From the Command Line and Deploying WebMatrix Applications to Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• LinkedIn’s JavaScript API Aims to Spread Platform Adoption (Romin Irani)
• Using MvcSiteMapProvider through NuPack (Maarten Balliauw)
• Orchard? No harvest quite yet. (Laila Lotfi)
• Building Your Dynamic Router on AppFabric Cache (Christian Martinez)
• Add-ons: Feedback on Add-on Performance Advisor (Paul Cutsinger)
• Add-on Performance Part 3: Optimizing Add-on Startup Performance (Herman Ng)
• Azure@home Part 8: Worker Role and Azure Diagnostics (Jim O’Neil)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Go!" Now Online (James Shore)
• Three New Books from patterns & practices (Ade Miller)
• Sociology and Scrum (Dan Mezick)
• Driven by Desire (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• How-to: Changing Behavior of Static Methods with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Testing the Untestable with Delegate Injection (Harry Pierson)
• A Less Ugly Switch Statement For C# (Derick Bailey)
• 3 Simple But Critical Steps For Project Management (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• We’re entering a new era of “natural user interfaces” (Steve Clayton)
• My heart is yours; all I ask for is freedom (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• On Windows Phone 7 (Raju Vegesna)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: ListBox Scroll Performance (Mike Ormond)
• Flicks photos to TVs from Windows Phone (Steve Clayton)
• Touch Support in Silverlight (Ning Zhang)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Making a hobby a job – Talking with Eric Herbrandson about his Silverlight-based MicroISV (Scott Hanselman)
• Introducing the all new SharePoint Sideshow (Donovan Follette & Paul Stubbs)
• Let’s Play TDD #31: Eliminating Dollars.toInt() (James Shore)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: Let’s talk about Identity and Azure (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Design Events (James Chittenden)
• Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Craig Osborne, Principal Program Manager on the Windows Gaming Experience team at Microsoft (Windows Azure Team)
• .NET Reference source planned downtime for Monday October 11th, 2010 10-11am PST. (Chris D)
• Microsoft Certified Career Conference (Anne Cheng)
• Azure Firestarter Events (Jim O’Neil)
• Membership Has Its Privileges (Jeff Atwood)
• YUIConf 2010: Early-bird registration ends this week (Jenny Han Donnelly)

Database

• SSRS axe work: How to use fields from different Datasets in the same field Expression and Grouping in Report Builder 2.0? (Aedna)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Explanation of Data Type Precedence (Pinal Dave)
• A lesson to everyone on capacity planning – comical failings of foursquare and MongoDB (Simon Sabin)
• Case Studies in Database Fail: A Review of SQL Antipatterns, by Bill Karwin (Tim Berglund)
• Programmatically picking apart foreign-key constraints (Paul S. Randal)
• Creative Commons Data Dump Oct 10 (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Product Idea? Win an iPad! (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Sal’s Amazing Global Academy (The Gates Notes)
• Q&A: Microsoft LightSpace, one step closer to Star Trek holodeck (Todd Bishop)
• The XPS printer is needed by the Send to OneNote Printer (John Guin)
• AIR For Android Released! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• My First Couple Weeks with the Amazon Kindle 3 (Pete Brown)
• Halo Reach Windows 7 Theme and Windows Live OneCare Online Security Scans (Richard Hay)
• [Acquisition Rumors] Microsoft meeting with Adobe, acquisition one of the topics (Steven Hodson) – Probably not true, but an interesting rumor.

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 07, 2010 — #962 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 7, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 7-Oct-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 7 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #703 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed by Ray Rankins