Day: June 22, 2011

Another post with incomplete categorization. I’ll be back from vacation next week.

Top Links

• Getting Started with Kinect Development (Jennifer Marsman)
• The mission to land a .NET developer on Jupiter. and Is Adobe’s new HTML5 Edge tool Expression Blends replacement? (Scott Barnes)
• Nokia Windows Phones to be announced on October 26? (damaster)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Visual Experience (Richard Carr)
• .NET StockTrader 5 Sample Application (MS Downloads)
• CodeRush Code Navigation inside Visual Studio – Tab to Next Reference (Alex Skorkin)
• Kinect SDK and F# – a standard library in a non-standard language (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Automated License Header Extension for Visual Studio (define the license once, let VS auto-magically add it to new files…) (Greg Duncan)
• Turning off Code First Database Initialization completely (Julie Lerman)
• Silverlight, HTML and the WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps (Mike Taulty)
• C# Light Syntax (Phillip Trelford)
• Microsoft Test Manager – Test Plan – Part 2 (Shai Raiten)
• Eduasync part 11: More sophisticated (but lossy) exception handling and Eduasync part 12: Observing all exceptions (Jon Skeet)
• More NuGet (Steve Naughton)
• Just Announced: Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP Now Available (Windows Azure Team)
• Sending Richly Formatted Emails with .NET (Jonathan Allen)
• 3 Incredibly Useful Projects to jump-start your Kinect Development. (Michael Crump)

 

Web Development

• Interfacing with dynamic JavaScript APIs in WebSharper (Joel Bjornson)
• HTML5 Web Camps Content Downloads! (Rachel Appel)
• Using the ASP.NET Membership API with SQL Server / SQL Azure: The new “System.Web.Providers” namespace (Harish Ranganathan)
• Rendering jQuery Templates With Backbone Views (Derick Bailey)
• 15 Amazing Free HTML5 Templates (DongDesign)
• Tap the Cloud for Your ASP.NET Apps (Kim Spilker)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using ActionMethodSelectorAttribute to Handle Multiple Submit Buttons (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Daily Dose: jQuery Mobile Beta 1 Released (R. Jernigan)
• Abhorred Calendar (Mithun Patel)
• Invalid View State error While expanding your Web Farm (Abhijit Jana)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Dispatch options 2 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Upsides of Scrum (Jimmy Bogard)
• Agile Estimation is Dead – Stop Estimating Stories? (Peter Saddington)
• Managing Application Resources with the Flyweight Pattern (Addy Osmani)
• Quick Tips on Work Breakdown Structures (JD Meier)
• Balsamiq Release: HUGE loading time improvement! (Peldi)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Debug Helper (Visual Studio Add-in) and Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 3) (Peter Kuhn)
• CanResizeWithGrip seems does not work in WPF (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Three properties that I use for almost every Windows Phone application (Eugene)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 16 – How to Create a WP7 Alarm Application? and Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 17 – How to Create a WP7 Reminder Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Sort Data in Windows Phone using Collection View Source (Paul Sheriff)
• Drag and drop in WPF (and similar to Silverlight) (Surf4Fun)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stories from NDC! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 115: RESTravaganza with Darrel Miller, Glenn Block, and John Sheehan (Jon Galloway)
• Defrag: Tweaking for HTPC, SSD as a ReadyBoost, WiFi Antenna tuning and Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Chupacabra (Larry Larsen)
• Let’s Play TDD #116: You Gotta Know What You’re Doing (James Shore)
• AppFabric.tv – Announcing the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP (Ron Jacobs)

 

Community / Events

• Windows 8: Sinofsky @ D9 Transcribed (Paul Thurrott)
• BUILD: Use what you know. Do what you’ve always imagined! (Katrien de Graeve)

 

Database

• Standard Deviation in SQL Server and Aggregation on Aggregates (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Solution – Generating Zero Without using Any Numbers in T-SQL and SQL SERVER – List of Article on Expressor Data Integration Platform and SQL SERVER – SSAS – Multidimensional Space Terms and Explanation (Pinal Dave)
• Copy a Table with data in SQL Server (Steve Smith)
• Nine Reasons Developers Should Learn SQL (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Data Compression in SQL Server (Steve Jones)
• Using the @ in SQL Azure Connections (Buck Woody)

 

SharePoint

• New xsl files for the lightning conductor 2010 web part (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

Ribbon Hero 2 (MS Downloads)

RavenDB in Practice, Part 2 – Using the Client API (Unknown Author)

How to verify validity of certificates with .NET (alejacma)

Why the Windows Azure VM Role is not necessary (most of the time) (Code Inside Team)

Mercurial Cheat Sheet and Visio Template Bonanza (Greg Duncan)

Adobe Flash Player 10.3: Hardware-Accelerated Rendering in IE9 (ieblog)

datajs 0.0.4 is out – very important release! (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Using PowerShell to automate setting CopyLocal to false (Naeem Khedarun)

Tired of manual deployments? (Peter Gfader)

Developers Will Not be Getting their Hands on Mango this Week (WP7GIRL)

How the free market is a complex puzzle for Windows Phone 7 team to grok. (Scott Barnes)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• SilverlightShow for June 13 – 19, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2011 — #1110 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Interesting .NET Links – June 21 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 198 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Link dump for June 20th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Today’s Links (6/20/2011) and Today’s Links (6/21/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #877 and The Morning Brew #878 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 06/21/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/22/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Analysis Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) by Scott Cameron