Day: November 23, 2012

Top Links

• Windows Phone 8: Compile in the Cloud (Peter Kuhn)
• "MVVM Diagram Designer" (Greg Duncan)
• Why Learn Small Basic? (Ed Price)
• Why must async methods return Task? (Lucian Wischik)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• What is up with RavenDB 2.0? Performance… (Oren Eini)
• Executing a Command Against Every Table in a Database (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2012 – Visual Options (Rob Sanders)
• A Programmer’s Guide to C# 5.0 (Eric Gunnerson)
• Exceptions vs. Return Values to represent errors (in F#) – II– An example problem (Luca Bolognese)
• C# to Objective-C – Part 3 : Classes (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Quick Response Sample – Visual Studio Extension to support the ALM Rangers Branching and Merging guidance (Willy-P. Schaub)
• CodeIt.Right Takes Refactoring To The Next Level (Peter Kellner)
• It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Silently enabling features and The resource compiler will helpfully add window styles for you, but if you’re building a dialog template yourself, you don’t get that help (Raymond Chen)
• The Simplest Way to use MEF Fully Lazy DLL Loading (Shai Vashdi)
• dotCover 2.2 is here! (Daria.Dovzhikova)
• Update on Programming Windows, Sixth Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• A Simple Entity Tagger (Elton Stoneman)
• 5 Good and useful .NET Profilers (Senthil Kumar)

 

Web Development

• Building an HTML Client for a LightSwitch Solution in 5 Minutes (Beth Massi)
• How to Duplicate Elements Using CSS3 Box Shadows (Craig Buckler)
• Tips and tricks for Windows 8 JavaScript developer: How to create a cool parallax background (David Catuhe)
• TypeScript – The new JavaScript? (DevToolsGuy)
• Realtime ASP.NET Web API tracing with SignalR (Filip W)
• The state of CSS 3D transforms (Keith Clark)
• Building a LightSwitch HTML Client: eBay Daily Deals (Andy Kung)
• IE10 CSS Hacks (Louis Lazaris)
• Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 3.5: Node.js relay (Elton Stoneman)
• Organizing your JavaScript – An introduction to modules (Mattias Lindskog)
• How to return a CSV file with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
• Tips: 50 Performance Tricks To Make Your HTML5 Applications And Sites Faster (Vygantas)
• Creating JavaScript Using TypeScript in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)
• The State of Backbone.js (Alex Young)
• Orchard CMS with NHibernate SysCache2 Database Caching (David Hayden)
• 50 Tricks for Faster Web Applications (Abel Avram)
• Adaptive Thumbnail Pile Effect with Automatic Grouping (Pedro Botelho)
• Introduction to Page Visibility API (Aurelio De Rosa)
• Why CoffeeScript is One of the Good Guys (Earle Castledine)
• What is CoffeeScript all about? (Jess Genevieve Brown)
• Fully Loaded Node – A Node.JS Holiday Season, part 2 (Lloyd Hilaiel)
• Flood Filling In A Canvas (K. Scott Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Evidence of Success of Agile Projects (Ben Linders)
• F# as a Unit Testing Language (Phillip Trelford)
• Looking inside the black box (Mark Needham)
• Strangling the life out of Software Testing (Mark Pearl)
• Separating Concerns – Part 1: Libraries (Chris Patterson)
• Another Earful: Debugging Survey (Eric Battalio)
• Build Metrics with Distributed Teams & Large Organizations (Eric Hexter)
• Common Pitfalls in Dashboard Design (Filip K)
• Future Mocking (JustMock Team)
• Find your way around your code (Mikhail Vink)
• Xcode Source Code Management with Git (Nick Petrov)
• Mockery: A Better Way (Patkos Csaba)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone Toolkit overview (Adam Denning)
• Playing wav files in a XAML/C# Windows Store App using SharpDX (admin)
• Integrate SkyDrive with .NET and Windows Phone 8 SDK (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Windows Store Apps with XAML or HTML? (Christian Nagel)
• Performance tips for Windows Store apps using XAML | Build 2012 (Kiran Kumar)
• Register for Windows Phone 8 Webcast Series (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #696 – A Drop Target Can Receive Data from Other Applications and #697 – Dragging Data Out of Your Application (Sean Sexton)
• Building Windows Store Apps with .NET (Brandon Bray)
• Building IG Outlook Part 6 – Adding Ribbon Tabs to View Navigation (Brian Lagunas)
• Of Mice and Men and Computed Observables. Oh my. (Pete O’Hanlon)
• File Activation in Windows RT (J. Danforth)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #21: Camera Capture and 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #22: Using Play To (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Handling binding between WinRT Image control and ViewModel for local file system images (Andrei Marukovich)
• #Win8Dev Tutorial: Working with the Windows 8 Clipboard in WinRT applications (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 076: I Want My Blackwing Dirt Candy (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Dan North Deals with Uncertainty! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Inside Windows 8: Arun Kishan – Windows App Model | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Episode 207 – PowerScripting Podcast – Dave Kennedy talks security and the Social Engineering Toolkit (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Dave Attell Returns! (Chris Hardwick)
• What the Tech 142: Buy Into Ecosystems, Not Devices (Paul Thurrott)
• Migrating Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud (Bob Rhubart)
• The Verge Mobile Show 026 – November 20th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Maelstrom: An Overview (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Michael B. McLaughlin & Rick Barraza)
• ShopTalk Episode #43 (Chris Coyier)
• Ratchet & The Geek – The Charm (Luvvie Ajayi & Scott Hanselman)
• Video: RAID – Kills Data Failures Dead (Paul Ballard)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 158 – 11.21.2012 and Engadget Podcast 317 – 11.21.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Thanksgiving: Gratitude is served (MS JobsBlog)
• Women & Tech (Chris Coyier)
• Korea MVP Open Days Event a Success (MVP Award Program)
• Geek of the Week: Miss Rachel of Miss Rachel’s Pantry (Mikey Il)

 

Database

• SQL Server Database Security Audit (Part 1): What to expect? (Svetlana Golovko)
• SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU1 Is Now Available ! (Rohit Garg)
• Backwards Compatibility of SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) (Dirk Strauss)
• sp_ssiscatalog v1.0.1.0 now available for download (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server: Datetime vs Datetime2 Datatype (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Display Datetime in Specific Format – SQL in Sixty Seconds #033 – Video and SQL SERVER – Removing Leading Zeros From Column in Table – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 for $15 (Ted Krueger)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syspermissions and Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysusers and Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysobjects and Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysperfinfo (Jason Strate)
• Big Data In The Cloud (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Windows Azure SQL Database Management (Shay Yannay)

 

SharePoint

• Content enrichment service scaling and aggregation (Niels Petter R-O)

 

PowerShell

• How does Windows Azure PowerShell import publishsettings using Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile command? (Avkash Chauhan)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Dew Review – Intel Next Generation Ultrabook™ with Windows 8: A Final Look (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Playing and developing Games on Windows 8 with a Razer Blade Laptop (David Isbitski)
• How to Tune Up a Virtual PC (Merrick Chaffer)
• Top 10 Reasons to Be Thankful in 2012! (Paul Ballard)
• Livescribe Echo Pen (Rob Miles)
• Microsoft ‘Xbox TV’ device due in 2013 with casual gaming and streaming (Tom Warren)
• NPR’s Science Friday goes after creationist, anti-science "Real Science Friday" copycat (Xeni Jardin)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 22, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 23, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 182 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #1007 and Double Shot #1008 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 22 Nov 212 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1238 and The Morning Brew #1239 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 22, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: November 23, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/21/2012 and Daily News Digest 11/22/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 21 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 21 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading November 21, 2012 and Geek Reading November 22, 2012 (Rob Diana)

 

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