Month: May 2011

Top Links

• Creating your own private NuGet feed: MyGet (Maarten Balliauw)
• MVVM T4 Now Available via NuGet (Rick Ratayczak) – Rick’s T4 templates on CodePlex generate “view models and views for WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone using T4 Toolbox and MVVM Light.”
• “Mango” from the trenches part 2: Starting a Bing Maps navigation #wp7dev (Laurent Bugnion)
• Eduasync part 9: generated code for multiple awaits (Jon Skeet)
• What ASP.NET MVC Could Learn From Rails (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Nice F# Syntax for Rx (Reactive Extensions) (Don Syme)
• Into and let in LINQ ( Let vs Into) and Enable Scroll Override in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Kinect drivers can be inter-changed for experimentation purposes and Want to develop for Kinect (before the SDK) with .NET – what are the options? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• LINQ: Join Between a Collection and XML Data (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Code Issues configuration and options (Alex Skorkin)
• Creating a Code First Database Initializer Strategy (Gil Fink)
• C++ Productivity: Memory Management 101 for the .NET Guy (Jeremiah Morrill)
• On partitionning .NET code (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• Referencing Routes in ASP.NET MVC The Rails Way (Rob Conery)
• HTML5 Reaches ‘Last Call’ at W3C (Bruce Kyle)
• Scaffolding and packaging a Windows Azure project in PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 1: Cache and Cool Stuff in FubuCore and FubuMVC Series (Chad Myers)
• Filter and Display Data with ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) (Christian Nagel)
• Prop function in jQuery 1.6 (Hajan Selmani)
• Working with jQuery Selectors – Events . (Hima)
• Jquery tips – Tip 1 – How to display nice popup information messages (Nilos Printezis)
• Object Oriented JavaScript: Inheritance (Stoimen Popov)
• Get list of all active session variables in ASP.NET (Abhijit Jana)
• Pleasant Surprises: the Razor view Engine (Russell Ball)
• Blogging Facebook Social Comments Integration (Joel Oleson)
• New Release: SassAndCoffee 0.8 (Paul Betts)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Can Scrum work for the DBA? (Adam Mikolaj)
• Dealing with Critics and Criticism and Performance Review Template (JD Meier)
• Testing Pattern: Exploratory API via the Web (Patrick Kua)
• Essential ScrumMaster Interview Questions (Peter Saddington)
• NUnit Timed Tests (Richard Carr)
• Dependency Injection Haskell Style (Mike Hadlow)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Literal Value (Giorgio Sironi)
• 5 Things “House” Can Teach You about Fixing Bugs (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Triple-Loop Learning (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Settings in Silverlight (Daniel Fisher)
• Switching between Windows Phone 7.1 Mango and 7.0 RTW developer tools and vice versa and How to Navigate to an external URL in WP7 and Windows Phone 7 Mango: First look at RichTextBox control (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPFSpark: 1 of n: SprocketControl (Ratish Philip)
• Workaround for WP7 Mango Unit Testing Framework "Cannot find a Resource with the Name/Key typeNameConverter" (Daniel Vaughan)
• New OData Tombstoning Behavior in Mango (Glenn Gailey)
• Modifying the Silverlight Toolkit’s DateTimePicker for WP7 and Modifying the Silverlight Toolkit’s DateTimePicker for WP7–part 2 (John Baird)
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start with Mango – 1 – Creating a Hello World Application and Windows Phone 7 Jump Start with Mango – 2 – Know more about Page (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Completing the Pin code list screen for the PinCodeKeeper WP7 app (Per Ola Sæther)
• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 8–The EventAggregator (Rob Eisenberg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Michele Leroux Bustamante Still Focused on Identity (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• How Do I: Display Virtual Earth Maps inside a PictureBox Control? and How Do I: Use the MapPoint Web Service on Windows Mobile Devices? (MS Podcasts)
• Technology & Friends Episode 158: Dixit, Martin and Hoover on Apprenticeships (David Giard)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 007: Interview with Ayende Rahien (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 18 (Richard Hay)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 57 – Chris Walsh on Mango for WP7 (Richard Banks)
• Yet Another Podcast #37 Silverlight HTML5 & Developers Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Recording of Telerik’s webinar ‘Crash Course in Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7’ (Evan Hutnick)

Database

• DDL Triggers in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – SELECT * vs SELECT COUNT(*) (Pinal Dave)
• Optimizer Timeouts with XQuery (Grant Fritchey)
• Using Built-in system functions – LEN() and DATALENGTH() (Vishal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Foundation 2010 Events Pipeline (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Awesome embeddable, deployable web browser that’s free for independents… Awesomium! (Greg Duncan)
• Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 1, Install the Tools and Configure Kernel Debugging (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Mac and iOS Development Toolbox (Scott Densmore)
• Windows Phone’s follow-up to Mango is called Apollo (Steven Hodson)
• WP7 Mango: Multiplayer Confirmed For Windows Phone? (WP7GIRL)
• Attachmate response for Mono, Monotouch, and Mono for Android is PR Spin at its worst – What they are telling the community (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 05.22 ~ 05.31 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Link Post 195 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #862 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/30/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 05/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for May 29, 2011 — #1096 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 30th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• T-SQL, SQL Administration and SQL Server BI Articles Link List – May 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Best SQLAuthority Posts of May (Pinal Dave)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development by Jayaram Krishnaswamy