Day: June 28, 2011

Top Links

• (Not so) Crazy Microsoft Rumors: Windows 8 to RTM in April 2012 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Sending text messages from a Dell Venue Pro. Directly from the app and without SmsComposerTask. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 5 jQuery Scripts To Create a Great First Impression (Rob Diana)
• Microsoft Office Division to Make Announcement, June 28, 2011 (Zhiming Xue)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Enabling conditional Basic HTTP authentication on a WCF OData service (Maarten Balliauw)
• LINQ Partitioning with Indexes (Richard Carr)
• Using Complex Numbers in .NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine Speed up (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Turning off Pluralization of classes in LINQ to SQL O/R designer and Using O/R designer to bind a Windows Form in LINQ and Fetching different values in LINQ Concurrency conflict (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Code refactoring with Visual Studio 2010-Part 3 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Configuring a PowerShell Adapter for the TFS Integration Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
• RabbitMQ, Subscription, and Bouncing Servers in EasyNetQ (Mike Hadlow)
• Visual Studio ALM Video & Two Updates for TFS/VS You Should Install (Shai Raiten)
• You can’t cache DateTime.Now (Oren Eini)
• .Net Micro Framework Codeplex’apluza (i.e. a .Net MF Codeplex Project Round-up) (Greg Duncan)
• Correlating a Non-Delivery-Notification to its original message with the Exchange Managed API (Henning Krause)
• Using the Task Parallel Library (TPL) for Events (Jeremy Likness)
• Creating an Internet Explorer Add-in Toolbar Button using C++ and ATL: Update (Pete Brown)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Docs In Nine Languages (Phil Haack)
• Hosting Services with WAS and IIS on Windows Azure (Tom Hollander)
• New Windows Azure Traffic Manager Features Ease Visibility Into Hosted Service Health (Windows Azure Team)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.1.1 released! (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Microsoft: full speed ahead into the cloud with fileupload & Node.js (Code Inside Team)
• Book Review: Hands-on Node.js (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Using Code Signing Certificates to sign downloaded MSIs and build reputation with IE9 SmartScreen (Scott Hanselman)
• A brief history of ECMAScript versions (including Harmony/ES.next) (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Building a Better Web Application: Part 1 and Part 2 (Tobin Titus)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Explaining Variable (Giorgio Sironi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• UX + Agile (Caleb Jenkins)
• Fear, Courage and Unit Testing (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Personal Strengths Vocabulary (J.D. Meier)
• Be Teachable, Be Command-able, Be Critique-able (John Sonmez)
• When Testing Fails … (Shrini Kulkarni)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 4) (Peter Kuhn)
• #7 How to use AddressChooserTask in a Windows Phone Mango and Dynamically updating a data bound LongListSelector in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• MMPPF – Getting started guide for the Silverlight Microsoft Media Platform (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 22 – Local Database Support, Create DataContext (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Michael’s “Mega Collection of Silverlight 5 Beta” Demos (Michael Crump)
• MarketPlus Evolve: UX Inspiration from a Great Silverlight Application (Pete Brown)
• Extensibility interfaces for Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight 3 (Carlos Figueira)
• Unexpected Debugging with WP7 (Simon Jackson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ingo Rammer Builds Native HTML 5 Apps (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 151 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeremy Kelly Announces Script Explorer (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Bytes by TechNet: Scott Hanselman and Matt Hester (MS Podcasts)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 60 – Continuous Delivery with Stephen Godbold (Richard Banks)
• Pluralcast 45 : Mario Cardinal on Agile Architecture (David Starr)
• Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Constellation and A Look at Tabbed Conversations in Lync SDK and Kinect Code Camp: Team Redhawk (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 106: Nuads on Kinect, Mozaic, Mozilla, Facebook (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Pablo’s Fiesta 2011 (Chad Myers)
• F#unctional Londoners, July 4: Monads in .Net & F# in the Cloud (Don Syme)
• Teaching Computer Programming at Home (Michael Scherotter)
• This year, I’ll be at the Agile Alliance Conference – you should go to the Dallas Tech Fest (Caleb Jenkins)
• DevDays is Back! (Joel Spolsky)
• Lynn Langit: Evangelist and Intrapreneur (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Girl Geek Dinners: Meet Up to Talk About Games, Gadgets & Geekery (Nicole Kline)
• The Developer’s Workplace (K. Scott Allen)
• New SSIS features and enhancements in Denali – a webinar on 28th June in association with Pragmatic Works (Jamie Thomson)

 

Database

• SQL Server “Denali”: Details on the next version of SSAS (James Serra)
• SQL Server: Check if Date is End of Month (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Monthly list of Puzzles and Solutions on SQLAuthority.com (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Functions – LOGINPROPERTY() (Vishal)

 

SharePoint

• 10 Reasons Users Should Care About Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
• New Book: Developing Microsoft SharePoint Applications Using Windows Azure (Kim Spilker)
• PerformancePoint Services Architecture in SharePoint Server 2010 (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Disabling Events in ShowUI (Joel Bennett)
• Google Health and HealthVault – why and when it matters and to whom (Bill Crounse)
• A Browser for All Windows Customers: it’s about and, not or (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Why should Google wait for Microsoft to launch Office 365 tomorrow, when it can diss today? (Joe Wilcox)
• Summer of Arcade dates and prices (Larry Hryb)
• MVPs for Office 365: Lync Online Federation (Lonnie Webb)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: iPad 2: The Missing Manual, 2nd Ed. – Only $9.99 w/code DDPD2 (O’Reilly Media)
• An open letter to speakers (Scott Berkun)
• Nokia – devices, design and developers (Steve Clayton)
• Get ready – Office 2010 SP1 coming your way (Steven Hodson)
• KickoffLabs is Open for Business! (Scott Watermasysk & Josh Ledgard)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – June 28 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Today’s Links (6/27/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #882 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 06/27/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 06/27/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/28/2011 and Silverlight Cream Top 5 News for June 20-26, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 074 for 6/27/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily WP7 Development News 27 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

jQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine