Tag: entity framework

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.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Puzzlers available for download (Bill Wagner)
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: From start to finishing–tracing a request (Oren Eini)
• Teams and TFS Groups in TFS11, the backlog, board and security settings. (Clemens Reijnen)
• .NET Demon Provides Continuous Compilation and Testing for Visual Studio (Jenni Konrad)
• C#, Async, Limits, oh my! (Peter Ritchie)
• Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview: Team Explorer My Work Page (Mickey Gousset)
• More on TPL Data Flow from Zlatko Michailov (Jonathan Allen)
• Building an English-Based Rules Engine in .NET with IronRuby Slides and Demo (Keith Elder)
• SkyDrive API Link Round-Up and A "Get right to work introduction to Lucene.Net" (Greg Duncan)
• Aggressive Inlining in the CLR 4.5 JIT (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Abusing the Microsoft Research’s Touch Mouse Sensor API SDK with a Console-based Heat-map (Scott Hanselman)
• Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent (Shawn Cicoria)
• Entity Framework 4.3 Gets Final Tune-Up — Enum Support Promised in 5.0 (David Ramel)
• Simple Microsoft™ CAB Sample (Tom Puglisi)
• Timeouts for long running operations… (Marlon Grech)

Web Development

• HTML5 and validation issues with this blog (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Facebook App using DotNetNuke (Dave M. Bush)
• How Wikipedia uses HTML5 to save bandwidth (Jef Claes)
• From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference (Jeffrey Way)
• CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 2 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 1 (Shi Chuan)
• How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter And Google+ In WordPress (Kevin Muldoon)
• Tracking API usage with Google Analytics (Maarten Balliauw)
• Retrieving a Logged On User ID (Bunch)
• Just published my first node.js Windows Azure application (Eric Nelson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: AggregateOrientedDatabase (Martin Fowler)
• TDD/BDD as Architectural Tools (James Kovacs)
• Article: Interview and Book Excerpt: Service Design Patterns (Jeevak Kasarkod)
• Coded UI Test and Microsoft Test Manager Survey (Shubhra Maji)
• The quickest and easiest “Getting Started w/ GitHub” article you’ll ever read! (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Faceted Minimization: Simplifying the Sidebar Navigation (Anthony)
• "Re: I have a question about proving code correctness" (Frans Bouma)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• PhoneGap on Windows Phone Adds Support For Facebook, Twitter, Bing Maps, and More (Eric Genesky)
• How to host a Silverlight Application using JavaScript? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #477 – Default ZIndex Value for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #10 – Beep sound (Senthil Kumar)
• Free Ly: Expression Design, XAML and Expression Blend, why bother? (Surf4Fun)
• “Metro Done Right” according to my tweeps (András Velvárt)
• WPFSpark 1.1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint Pod Show – Building a SharePoint team-Episode 69 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Full Stack Resumes–MVVM Design (Jesse Liberty)
• Visual Studio Achievements in 60 seconds (Dan Fernandez, Karsten J. & Golnaz)
• [Humor] – What Project Managers Say and Talk Like (Peter Saddington)
• Architecting Applications for Multiple UIs video now available! (Paul Sheriff)
• Blog Post: New and Improved Generator Overview Video (Autumn Wilkins)

Community / Events

• Join me at the ALM & Test days in Italy (Jason Zander)
• “I Gotta Get Me Some of That [Azure]” (Jim O’Neil)
• Thoughts on the Latest PASS Fracas… (Audrey Hammonds)
• Meet Abhishek Sur – Client App Dev MVP from India (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Microsoft International Development Centers (Anne Cheng)

Database

• Use VALUES clause to get the maximum value from some columns [SQL Server, T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS Tip: Hide a tablix if no rows returned (Jen McCown)
• SQL SERVER – MERGE or INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE – Quiz – Puzzle – 19 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How I use PowerShell to generate table output for blog posts from query results (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – Powershell Excel to HTML (Jack Vamvas)
• Could not find stored procedure ‘sp_ExecuteSQL’ (Ted Krueger)
• SQL 2012 Database Engine Tuning Advisor: Now With More Plan Cache! (Thomas LaRock)
• RavenDB Sequential Number Generator (Nick Berardi)

SharePoint

• WebPartAdderExtension – a better way of deploying web parts (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

• Powershell Emailing Strings as attachments (Mike Koerner)

Miscellaneous

• Jobless rate for software developers: 4.4 percent (Greg Lamm)
• Microsoft has ‘perks galore’ but still lags behind Google (Jennifer Sokolowsky & Greg Lamm)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 138 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #799 and Double Shot #800 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 20 Jan 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 1/20/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily and Weekly Front-End Dev Resources (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #1026 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-19 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 19 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems by Steve Krug