I will be on vacation starting tomorrow 6/14 thru Sunday 6/24. I will post some links while I am away but they will usually be in “Dew Dump” form without additional sorting.
Top Links
- Activating Windows 8 contracts in your app (Steven Sinofsky)
- Team Foundation Service Preview is public! (Brian Harry)
- Welcome to the Era of the Cloud OS for Infrastructure! (Satya Nadella)
- TechEd North America 2012 Keynote News and What you need to know about developing for Windows on ARM (WOA) (Jason Zander)
- Trying Out ECMAScript.next’s for…of Loop in Firefox 13 (Axel Rauschmayer)
.NET / Visual Studio
- C#–Using a delegate to raise an event from one class to another (Bill Osuch)
- Using NDepend and LINQ to Examine Code (Jonathan Allen)
- Refactoring Halfwit’s Coroutines to C# 5 and Refactoring Halfwit to use C# 5 (Matt Hamilton)
- Windows8: Promise.then() and Task.ContinueWith() – Help Me Out? (Mike Taulty)
- Visual Studio Feature Packs (Zain Naboulsi)
- A World of Samples at your Fingertips (Anthony Cangialosi & Steven Wilssens)
- Quick Response Sample – Command line utility to manage Team Foundation Server Teams and Users (Willy-P. Schaub)
- async Bing for Metro Style Apps (Sebastian Dau)
- NDepend 4 – First Steps (Ricardo Peres)
- Whats new in NDepend 4 (Rohit Sharma)
- Playin’ Around with Riak and .NET (Adrian Hills)
- Fix: ReSharper EAP 7 Keyboard Shortcuts not working with VS 2012 (Andrew Schwam)
- How to Make Your Life Easier with .NET Transaction Escalation Behavior (Pieter de Rycke)
- An Original Algorithm to Find .NET Code Duplicate (Patrick Smacchia)
- Hash Function Added To The PredicateEqualityComparer (Paulo Morgado)
- Why I do not mind VS2012 ALL CAPS menu (Mehdi Khalili)
- Debugger Trick when Working with UTC DateTimes (Chris Missal)
- OWIN – what is it about and why is it so cool? (Code Inside Team)
- Implementing endless scrolling incremental loading in Metro GridViews and ListViews with ISupportIncrementalLoading and Let me tell you a story about the first community submitted Storyboard Shapes… and The Four P’s… A four part P/Invoke tutorial series (Greg Duncan)
Web Development
- View Controller Patterns With Spine.JS & SpacePen (Ken Collins)
- Early Look at the Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client (Beth Massi)
- ASP.NET Web API integration testing with in-memory hosting (Filip W)
- Say Hello to the HTML5 Embed Element (Constantin Alin)
- Create a page turn effect with CSS3 (Joe Lambert)
- ASP.Net Web API Example Video Now Available and ASP Web API examples – now updated with Release Candidate bits (John Petersen)
- Announcing the LightSwitch HTML Client! (Joe Binder)
- Record and replay for testing of legacy PHP applications (Giorgio Sironi)
- ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta to MVC RC Upgrade Instructions (Rick Anderson)
- Simulating an iPhone or iPad browser for ASP.NET Mobile Web Development with WebMatrix 2 or Visual Studio 2012 (Scott Hanselman)
- JavaScript Profiling With The Chrome Developer Tools (Zack Grossbart)
- GitHub API v2: End of Life (Rick Olson)
- Windows Azure Evolution – Web Sites (aka Antares) Part 1 (Shaun Xu)
- ASP.NET Web API Exception Handling (Fredrik Normen)
- OASIS OData Technical Committee Call for Participation (Michael Pizzo)
- Some notes on the recent Azure launch (AppHarbor Team)
- Using Schema.Org Vocabularies with OData (Mike Flasko)
- The road to Web Essentials 2012 (Mads Kristensen)
- Azure Web Sites FTP credentials (Bertrand Le Roy)
- Windows Azure Websites: A PHP Perspective (Brian Swan)
- The Web Developer Toolbox: ThreeJS (Jeremie Patonnier)
- Developing Kudu locally and on Azure (David Ebbo)
- Making Prettier Forms: Converting Checkboxes into Images (Deran Schilling)
- How to Create a Resumable Video Uploader in Node.js (Gabriel Manricks)
- Compute performance in the cloud – EC2 vs Azure (Ingo Rammer)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Three Expectations of Servant Leadership (J.D. Meier)
- The Kanban Thinking Picture (Karl Scotland)
- 3 Secrets of the Most Productive People (Peter Saddington)
- Entities Associations: Point in Time vs. Current Associations and Why scalability matters? (Oren Eini)
- Digital Skeuomorphism decoded. (Scott Barnes)
- Lean tools: Cost of delay (Giorgio Sironi)
- Is Productivity Killing Your Creativity? (Jay Fields)
- Becoming a Leading Manager (Johanna Rothman)
- Hiding features always results in a #Fail (Derik Whittaker)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Working with Location in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
- Getting Started with the Coding4Fun Toolkit ChatBubble Control for Windows Phone and Windows Phone Map Control: Display Current Location and Remove previous Pushpins (Windows Phone Geek)
- How to – Word Suggestions in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
- What’s New in Telerik RadControls for WP7 Q2.2012 Release? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- OAuth with RestSharp in Windows Phone (Mohamed Haamdi)
- 2000 WPF Things #578 – Grid Row and Column Size Use GridLength Object and #579 – Adding an Event Handler for a User Interface Element (Sean Sexton)
- RadControls for Windows Phone Q2 2012 is here! and Design Templates for Windows Phone (Telerik Windows Phone Team)
- Hardcore WindowsPhone Developers, Check Out SignalR (Samidip Basu)
- Part 7: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check. (Kevin Dockx)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 055: Rainn Wilson’s Soul Pancake (Mark Frauenfelder)
- .NET Rocks! – Stephen Toub Does Parallel Development in Studio 11 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Mark Russinovich: On Windows Azure IaaS, Sysinternals, Cybersecurity, Trojan Horse (Charles Torre)
- Deep Fried Bytes Episode 87: What goes on in the Mind of a User Experience Expert? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
- Episode 188 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Let’s Play TDD #197: It’s Like a Horror Movie (James Shore)
- Coding PHP in WebMatrix 2 with Thao Doan | Web Camps TV (Brady Gaster)
- The JavaScript Show – Jasmine 1.2 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- Yet Another Podcast #67–Pete Brown and Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
- Ping 144: SmartGlass, On{X}, FrugalDad, ESPN on XBox | Ping! (Laura Foy & Paul Mestemaker)
- Engadget HD Podcast 303 – 06.12.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 141 – 06.12.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Video: Plan Your Execution with SQL Query Tuning (Paul Ballard)
- Developing for Windows on ARM (Jason Zander & Robert Green)
- Keynote After Party with Jason Zander | Channel 9 Live at Tech Ed North America 2012 (Dan Fernandez & Jason Zander)
- New Pluralsight Course: HTML5 Canvas Fundamentals (Dan Wahlin)
- Demystifying Benchmarking: How to Measure Performance in SQL Server Video (Kendra Little)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for June 12th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- June 21 FREE Webinar: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives #in #pmot (Dux Raymond Sy)
- Windows 8 UX fundamentals–free virtual training (James Senior)
- Jobs in IT: Join a Career Webinar with a Panel of Microsoft Employees (MS JobsBlog)
- HTML5 Education Day Available: Register Now! (Doris Chen)
- Making Your Meetup™ a Community Sponsor of Silicon Valley Code Camp (Peter Kellner)
- Free, online Windows 8 UX Training (Jaime Rodriguez)
- TechEd 2012: Get Demos, Win Cash & Learn! (Jason Beres)
- MSDN Webcast Series on developing Metro apps for Windows 8 (Jennifer Marsman)
- Two Copies of Pete Brown’s "Silverlight 5 In Action" to Give Away (Dave Campbell)
- Talking Cloud Tuesday with Visual C# MVP Marcel Meijer (MVP Award Program)
- Meet the Author: Oliver Sturm on Introduction to F# (Paul Ballard)
Database
- Using Find/Replace with regular expressions inside a SSIS package (Jamie Thomson)
- Create DATETIME and TIME values in SQL Server 2012 (Madhivanan)
- SQL SERVER – A Quick Look at Logging and Ideas around Logging and SQL SERVER – Video – Beginning Performance Tuning with SQL Server Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)
- NoSQL for storage AND relational for reporting (Paul Hammant)
- How to Configure RavenDB Database Replication (David Neal)
- Using PowerPivot to Monitor Reporting Services (Mike Davis)
- SQL Reporting for Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud goes live (Mary Jo Foley)
- TSQL Tuning: How to Measure Performance Improvements (with Video) (Kendra Little)
- How we got rid of the database (Gabriel Schenker)
- Resetting grant privileges on mysql root (Patrick Kua)
SharePoint
- Run SharePoint Management Shell as Any User (Martin W. Angler)
- Metro SharePoint Directory–Reading from Lists (Bil Simser)
PowerShell
- Deploy and Manage Storage Spaces with PowerShell (MS Downloads)
- Intellisense in Windows PowerShell ISE 3.0 (Refaat Issa)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing the Pluralsight Starter Subscription for MSDN (Aaron Skonnard)
- The Windows 8 Store is HOW BIG? (Andy Beaulieu)
- From the MVPs: A computer management cloud service designed for your business! (Dave Franklyn)
- NetAdvantage for iOS Public Beta Now Available for Download (with Bonus FAQ) (Nick Landry)
- Why do you have to wait for Windows Error Reporting to check for solutions before it restarts the application? (Raymond Chen)
- Apple gets complaints about consistent incremental growth in their product(s). (Scott Barnes)
- ConEmu – The Windows Terminal/Console/Prompt we’ve been waiting for? (Scott Hanselman)
- O’Reilly deal of the Week on Early Release Books to 19/June/2012 23:39 PT (Tatworth)
- Microsoft Office logo goes Metro, hints at 2013 release for Office 15 and Nokia confirms PureView is coming to future Lumia Windows Phones (Tom Warren)
- Apple strikes out with iOS 6 Or: How Windows Phone 8 will be more impressive. (Daniel Rubino)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: June 12, 2012 and Interesting Finds: June 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Geek Reading June 11, 2012 and Geek Reading June 12, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #896 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 6/11/2012 and Daily News Digest 6/12/2012 and Daily News Digest 6/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-12 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-13 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #1122 and The Morning Brew #1123 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Dev News for June 11, 2012 – #0095 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 11 June 2012 and Daily WP7 Development News 12 June 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 12 June 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily Links 12 Jun 2012 (Jax)
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