Month: August 2011

Top Links

• Accessing data in ISO and VHD files (Steven Sinofsky)
• 3 Ways to update the Application Tile Content in Mango (Michael Crump)
• What is this thing you call a "type"? Part one (Eric Lippert)
• More on Updating Apps for Mango (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio (Somasegar)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Working with AssemblyCatalog in MEF (Abhijit Jana)
• MVPs for Exchange Online: Calling Exchange Online PowerShell Cmdlets from C# (Mike Pfeiffer)
• Now Shipping! Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Visual Studio (Covers Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Debugging Security Exceptions (Oren Eini)
• Configurable Aspects for MEF (Gary H. Guo)
• Lazy Evaluation: Benefits, and costs too (Bill Wagner)
• Highlighting an identifier and its references using CodeRush and DXCore APIs related to the programming languages specification (Alex Skorkin)
• Use SQLite to test NH–DateDiff function (Gian Maria Ricci)
• .NET Extension Methods For Microsoft Translator API (Roopesh Shenoy)
• ORM: Should I go Micro? (Peter Gfader)
• Keep your code tidy with JustCode (JustCode Team)
• 1 page, 101 Office 2010 Code Samples and Depends4Net – Dependency Walker homage project… (or A kind of Dependency Walker for .Net, with source…) and KinectFusion (Greg Duncan)
• NHibernate 3 Beginners Guide published (Gabriel Schenker)

 

Web Development

• Spreading arrays into arguments in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• How to inspect css hover , active property using firebug (Sachin Khosla)
• Custom validation messages for HTML5 Input elements using the constraint validation API (Sagar H. Ganatra)
• Memcached in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Deploying Ruby (Java, Python, and Node.js) Applications to Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
• Creating a Windows Azure hosted service (Neil Mackenzie)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.1.3 released! (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Building a small microframework with PHP (Part 2). Command line interface (Gonzalo Ayuso)
• Optimize Images With HTML5 Canvas (Sergey Chikuyonok)
• HTML5 for the ASP.NET Developer (Wally McClure)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An Update on Agile for Families (David Starr)
• A Bucket of Criticism – Water, Sand, and Gold (J.D. Meier)
• 5 Steps to Introduce an Agile Tool (Marc Löffler)
• Distributed Team Evasion Tactic – Away or Offline (Roy Osherove)
• Backlog Management in TeamPulse (Yordan Dimitrov)
• The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture Version 3 (Mike Walker)
• The read-only database (Mark Needham)
• 25 Strategies for Getting Results (JD Meier)
• The Danger of Using Home Page Login Fields (Anthony Tseng)
• Let’s not forget what makes a good tester a good tester (Dawn Cannan)
• Dear Team Lead, You Are Not Doing Agile If… (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Update the WPF UI now: how to wait for the rendering to finish ? (Jonathan Antoine)
• WPF Command Prompt (Clavius Maximus)
• Windows Phone MVVM Master – Details Navigation in 5 minutes and 5 Helpful Windows Phone Mango SketchFlow Tutorials and Windows Phone Toolkit PhoneTextBox in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• Introducing the IE9 on Windows Phone “Mango” User Agent String (Charles Morris)
• Tic Tac Toe Game for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Using the Bing Maps WPF control to build an, "OMG, was that an earthquake…?" app and AgFx = Developing Data Driven Windows Phone 7 App Joy (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #375 – Binding Something in a Tooltip to a Property on the Parent Control (Sean Sexton)
• What is the architecture of WPF? (Hima)
• Windows Phone Marketplace (free apps) in your pocket and [Weekend coding] MetroPack – Weekend report #1 (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza Start Xamarin (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 409: PAX Prime 2011 Podcast (Larry Hyrb)
• Let’s Play TDD #132: Fresh Eyes on the Domain (James Shore)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 2: Mobile Software Development with .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Defrag: How to make a Win7 thumbdrive, Running old games on Win7, Imaging old laptop for XP Mode. (Larry Larsen)
• Video: Bruce Payette – Inside PowerShell Runtime (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Ping 115: Dilbert Challenge, Mango Apps, Smarter file copying, RenRen (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for August 29th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The (not so) secret lives of interns (MS JobsBlog)
• Women in Technology: A Quick Observation and a Quick Straw Poll (Kevin Kline)
• 27 Female Founders You Should Be Following On Twitter (Bianca Bosker)

 

Database

• When to use T-SQL or SSIS for ETL (James Serra)
• SSIS For Each Loop over files with Date in Name (Mike Davis)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – What is XML? – Day 30 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Inserting Records AND Getting The Identity in SSIS – Part 2 (Todd McDermid)
• T-SQL Enhancements: FIRST_VALUE() and LAST_VALUE() (Henrik Sjang Davidse)

 

SharePoint

• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Self-study Upgrade/Migration Guide (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• MSDN Magazine September Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Enterprise iOS Applications – Only $7.49 w/code DDDEA (O’Reilly Media)
• Paul’s Picks: Microsoft Touch Mouse and Apple iOS Developer Training (Paul Thurrott)
• Improvements in Windows Explorer (Steven Sinofsky)
• Nokia: What Should We Call Our Series of Windows Phones in the US? (Antonio Hernandez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 080 for 8/29/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Geek Reading August 29, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Silverlight Cream for August 29, 2011 — #1139 (Dave Campbell)
• Today’s Links (8/29/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #926 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/30/2011 and Silverlight Cream Top 5 News for August 22-29, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 29 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software (Theory in Practice)