Tag: aspconf

Top Links

• Here’s why we keep getting hacked – clear and present Billabong failures (Troy Hunt)
• aspConf – Free Virtual ASP.NET Conference this week (Scott Guthrie)
• Building Single Page Apps with Knockout, jQuery, and Web API – The Story Begins (John Papa)
• Knockout Inline Binding Handlers (Daniel Vaughan)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Enum.HasFlag (Richard Carr)
• How simple is a OpenID Connect Basic client? (C#) (David Christiansen)
• Argument Exception when Working with Secondary Tiles in WinRT (C#) and Playing a embedded media file (mp3) in WinRT (not via Xaml) (Derik Whittaker)
• A couple code examples of doing some low level disk stuff, like reading the MFT, with C# (and some P/Invoke) and Programming for TFS 2010 and find having to install Team Explorer a pain just to get the TFS Object Model? There’s a download for that… and Thanks for the tank… Building a Netduino Tank and July 2012 Update for VS2012 RC has been updated… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 HTML5 Metro Style App: How to Create a Small RSS Reader in 30min (part 2/2) (David Rousset)
• Launching Windows Store from your Metro style app (Alan Mendelevich)
• Why doesn’t RealGetWindowClass return the real window class for my superclass? (Raymond Chen)
• Windows 8 Metro – Let ListViewBase drive the underlying collection (Rohit Sharma)
• New book: Start Here! Learn the Kinect API (Kim Spilker)
• Win 8–Some Things Are Just Too Easy (Jesse Liberty)
• Using SqlDataReader’s new async methods in .Net 4.5 Beta, Part 2: Examples (Daniel Paoliello)
• Windows 8 Metro Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 2 (Samidip Basu)
• Positioning Popup Menus in Windows 8 Metro (Nigel Sampson)

 

Web Development

• A Standards-Compliant CSS Parser (Tab Atkins Jr.)
• Everything you want to know about ASP.NET Web API content negotation (Filip W.)
• Paging ASP.NET ListView using DataPager without using DataSource Control (Hajan Selmani)
• Should I unit- or integration test my ASP.NET Web API services? (Jef Claes)
• A couple of useful JavaScript Sublime Text 2 snippets (Jonathan Creamer)
• Using ASP.NET Resources in JavaScript (Ricardo Peres)
• Dear Microsoft, Please Include Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2012 (Doug Rathbone)
• How Do You Mark Up A Single Link or Button? (Louis Lazaris)
• Backbone.js Tutorials in CoffeeScript (Chris Smith)
• How to Query Google’s Currency Converter using JSON API? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Firebug 1.10.0 and Firebug Tip: Trace Styles (Jan Odvarko)
• Coding Q&A With Chris Coyier: Code Smell And Type On A Grid and Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text (Chris Coyier)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.3 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• A quick guide to the built-in Orchard modules (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Talking Feature Leads and Book Review: Strengths Based Leadership (Patrick Kua)
• Agile at the Speed of Trust – Relationship Trust (Peter Callies)
• Significance of Window Titles in Coded UI Test Playback (Tapas Sahoo)
• The Roman numerals kata: TDD with and without analysis (Giorgio Sironi)
• Simplify. (Leo Babauta)
• One Team Project (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The Elements Of The Mobile User Experience (Lyndon Cerejo)
• Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can’t Stop Talking By Susan Cain (Ben Nadel)
• TODO Comments – Code Audits #9 (Brendan Enrick)
• A Quick Introduction To Using GitHub For Windows (Chris Love)
• Product Owner Zero Cost Effect (Derek Huether)
• Project Management, Productivity, and Leadership for Unstoppable You and Quotes to Empower You for Work and Life (JD Meier)
• Test-Driven Development in PHP: First Steps (Jeffrey Way)
• Developers – Stop Doing QA’s Job (Eli Lopian)
• Battle of the C++ Testing Frameworks (Avi Kaye)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF DataGrid Scrolling Performance (Chris Lovett)
• Knockout Style Observables in XAML (Daniel Vaughan)
• Digging WPF Data Binding with the "WPF DataBinding References & Tutorials" wiki article (Greg Duncan)
• ConventionalCommand in MVVM architecture (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Windows Phone: Building Enterprise Apps (Rob Tiffany)
• 2000 WPF Things #603 – Sender, Source and OriginalSource Example (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone – Double Width Tile (Sumit Dutta)
• Bring the Windows Phone 8 home screen to your apps (Telerik Windows Phone Team)
• New Features Explained – LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 (Beth Massi)
• Purpose of InitializeComponent() in WPF and Why it is public in WPF in contrast to Winforms implementation (Vijay Sharma)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 060: Superman is a Happy Mutant; Batman is Jerk (Mark Frauenfelder)
• The Metro Developer Show Episode 075 – “Kinects” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Best Videos for a XAML person at TechEd 2012 (Michael Crump)
• The Tablet Show – Aral Balkan On the Design Mobile Apps (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Start Up Success Podcast #144 – Show #28: Sramana Mitra and Bootstrapping – Weapon of Mass Reconstruction (Bob Walsh)
• The Vergecast 038 – 07.13.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• TWC9: Windows 8/VS2012 RTM Dates, Virtual Metro Dev, Search with Sando and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Windows Weekly 269: Mail-Order Lemmings (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 301 – 07.14.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.9 and Node 0.8 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Video: Creating a New You with Claims Validation and Transformation in .NET 4.5 (Paul Ballard)
• Getting Started… Webinar Videos Posted! (Jim Holmes)
• Technology & Friends Episode 221: Jeff Fritz on QUnit-Metro (David Giard)

 

Community / Events

• MADExpo 2012 and Upcoming Events for July 16th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Thanking a Personal Hero (Cori Drew)
• aspConf – The Free Live ASP.NET Conference – July 17-18 (Jon Galloway & Larry Larsen)
• Keyword Driven Testing Webcast July 18th with Visual Studio and LogiGear by Hans Buwalda (Charles Sterling)
• Windows 8 Release Dates and Events (Jennifer Marsman)
• Houston Code Camp – Call for Speakers (Ben Scheirman)
• Get Ready For The Upcoming Develop With Passion® 2012 Courses!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Great Place to Work: Challenges and problem-solving excite Microsoft interns at Puzzleday 2012 (MS JobsBlog)

 

Database

• Importing SQL Server Data Using SSIS – Which Option is Fastest (Daniel Calbimonte)
• HOW TO: Create a New Partition or Volume with SQL Server in mind (Scott Mattie)
• SQL Server – Generating scripts for schema (and data) using SSMS 2008 (Jacob Sebastian)
• SSAS Interview Questions on Measures, Actions, and Storage (Dattatrey Sindol)
• SQL Server: Instant Deadlock Alert Using WMI in Your Mailbox (John A. Nelson)
• Encrypting Connections to SQL Server and Introducing Windows Server 2012 – Get the FREE eBook! (Basit Farooq)
• Using a SQL Server FileTable to get XML, Text, Binary, etc out of SQL Server (think "Kind of a reverse of OPENROWSET") (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Example of Width Sensitive and Width Insensitive Collation and SQL SERVER – Find Column Used in Stored Procedure – Search Stored Procedure for Column Name and SQL SERVER – 2012 Functions – FORMAT() and CONCAT() – An Interesting Usage (Pinal Dave)
• SQLDiag and New SQL 2012 Perfmon Counters (Martin Bell)
• Using Composable DML to maintain entity history [T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)

 

PowerShell

• Join-Object (PowerShell Team)
• Using PowerShell to lookup a log message based on Correlation ID token (Kunaal Kapoor)

 

Miscellaneous

• When and how will users get the next version of Microsoft’s Office? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Introducing the Office Next Blog (Gray Knowlton)
• My book about iOS programming is now available! (Josh Smith)
• Will Microsoft lift the Cone of Silence beginning Monday? (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 14, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 15, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 16, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 163 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading July 13, 2012 and Geek Reading July 14, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (June 13, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Friday Five–July 13, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• The Morning Brew #1146 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-16 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #20 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #915 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 16 Jul 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 7/13/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (7/13/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for July 14, 2012 – #0103 and Windows Dev News for July 15, 2012 – #0104 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for July 02 – 08, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Reading Notes #55 (Frank)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #27) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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