Day: July 18, 2011

Top Links

• Working with Live Tiles in WP7 Mango–Creating, Updating and Deleting them (Derik Whittaker)
• ILSpy v1.0 RTW’s – Stick a fork in it, it’s done… (Greg Duncan)
• Making Scrum Meetings Effective (John Sonmez)
• The Difficulty with Deadlocks (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Unable to preserve pending changes on gated check in (Rory Primrose)
• How To Change TFS 2010 Attachment Size (Shai Raiten)
• Show Assemblies in the Add Reference Dialog Box (Richard Carr)
• Importing issues from Jira to database using C# (Gunnar Peipman)
• Task Parallel Library: How To Write a Simple Delay Task and An Action Cache (Mike Hadlow)
• ValueType and ReferenceType : Under the Hood Part 2 and ValueTypes and ReferenceTypes : Under the Hood (Abhishek Sur)
• Agatha 1.3 Is Out (Davy Brion)
• Pimping the content of a (Monotouch) iPhone app with a webview (Peter van Ooijen)
• New Open Source Project: OptionStrict.oEmbed (Richard Cirerol)
• COM ByteArray and Dynamic type issues in .NET (Rick Strahl)

 

Web Development

• Building MVC Select Lists The Easy Way (Michael Ceranski)
• A little bit on Javascript magic inside C# code (Alexander Beletsky)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Move Field (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript: How to deep copy an object (Raghav Khunger)
• JavaScript properties: inheritance and enumerability (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Dynamically Change Chart Control Type in ASP.NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• Using Moq to mock ASP.NET MVC HttpContextBase (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to return default(Type) in runtime – a TDD example in four unit tests (Dror Helper)
• Lokad.CQRS – Getting Simpler and Faster (Rinat Abdullin)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part IX–Not Invented Here is FUN (Oren Eini)
• Veracity 0.9.1 (Eric Sink)
• Clarification behind the message that properties are bad. What I learned was: Tell don’t ask (Kelly Sommers)
• Increase in Iteration Duration for benefit (Venkatesh Krishnamurthy)
• Self-Improvement Process (Rinat Abdullin)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight JavaScript Integration – Part 1 (Al Rosan)
• A Simple WPF ComobBox based Brush Selector Control (Pete Barber)
• Calculating Correct Change on the Windows Phone with Genetic Algorithms (Windows Phone Geek)
• Consuming ODATA in Silverlight 4.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF Behaviors in the F# WPF Project Templates (Daniel Mohl)
• From design to delivery, a WP7 application development story – PinCodeKeeper (Greg Duncan)
• Functional WPF Part One and Functional WPF Part Two and Functional WPF Part Three and Functional WPF Part Four and Functional WPF Part Five (Simple example of how to use it) (Edmondo Pentangelo)
• Enriching Windows Phone 7.1 (“Mango”) Apps with Secondary Tiles (Jeff Prosise)
• 31 Days with WP7 – A Collection of Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorials You Must Read (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight 4.0: Applying TextChange behavior to the TextBox (Mahesh Sabnis)
• GUID Generator: My first Windows Phone application is available on the marketplace (Paulo Morgado)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 App – from Zero to Marketplace (Per Ola Sæther)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deed Fried Bytes Episode 73: Developing Real World Applications with TDD with James Bender and Jeff McWherter (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Technology & Friends Episode 165: Matt Wilburn on Robotics Competition (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 22 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Weekly 217: A Baby Named Bing (Paul Thurrott)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 63 – Lachlan Heasman on Project Management and Developers (Richard Banks)
• Yet Another Podcast #43–Sean McKenna and Windows Phone Data (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 025 – “Pink and Waterproof” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• SharePoint Search–What you need to know-Episode 64 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)

 

Community / Events

• Why do people love Indy Hall? We asked. They told. (Alex Hillman)
• The new MSDN Forums Assistant (Paulo Morgado)
• Arguing About Developer Communities Doesn’t Make Sense (Davy Brion)
• ImagineCup 2011 – The competition is over, but the effects aren’t (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Database

• SQL Server Denali FileTables Feature – The fruits of WinFS? (Think "A FileStream enabled table that you can access as a network file share and other standard File IO API’s" or "SQL Server File System in a Table") (Greg Duncan)
• Self Modifying Packages in SSIS? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle v5.1 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Handling ReportViewer Parameters (William Vaughn)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 16 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 17 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 18 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Columnstore Index FAQ wiki page published (Denis Gobo)
• End Of Month Function in Denali CTP 3 (Brian K. McDonald)
• New trace events in 2008R2 SP1 (Chris Webb)
• XQuery Lab 64 – Reading values from an XML column (Jacob Sebastian)

 

Miscellaneous

• Slightly modified “CD” Command for Powershell (Jason Jarrett)
• The impact of United States debt crisis on technology (John Petersen)
• Everybody jump for joy – Spotify coming to Windows Phone (Steven Hodson)
• Ruby 1.9.2-p290 Released: The Lowdown on Ruby’s Latest Production Release (Peter Cooper)
• My first PowerShell Script to Move Folders (Tim Radney)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 07.11 ~ 07.18 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Friday Links 07-15-2011 (JD Meier)
• Link dump for July 15th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 10-July-2011 to 16-July-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for July 17, 2011 — #1117 (Dave Campbell)
• This Week’s Link List (July 15, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #896 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 07/18/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 07/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 15-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #156 (David Vidmar)
• Retrospective 41 – #Android and #iPhone #Agile #Apps (Peter Saddington)

 

The Geek Shelf

Brownfield Application Development in .Net by Donald Belcham