Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Jason Zander Ships Visual Studio 2012! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- An Async Primer (Bill Wagner)
- Share Your Video Tips! (MVP Award Program)
- Meet the Windows Phone Dev Center (Ash Wahi)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Awesome RavenDB feature of the Day, Encryption (Oren Eini)
- Changing your account/URL name for your Team Foundation Service Preview (TFSP) (Charles Sterling)
- Tips and Tricks for C# Windows 8 developer: Try to catch the famous ‘It works for me’ bug (David Catuhe)
- LINQ to SQL & Entity Framework slow relationships (Jeff Krebsbach)
- VSNomad – Interesting Cross Mobile Platform Development from Visual Studio (Mark Pearl)
- Json.NET 4.5 Release 8 (CodePlex)
- Building your own Windows Runtime components to deliver great Metro style apps (Ines Khelifi)
- WinRT/Metro App Q n’ A: Can I set the MaxDropDownHeight on a ComboBox? (Iris Classon)
- Stored Procedures and Entity Framework (Jonathan Allen)
- RabbitMQ – Implementing Scatter Gather in .net (Michael Stephenson)
- Reflection vs. Metadata (Mike Stall)
- New .NET Framework Cleanup tool adds Windows 8, .NET 4.5 support (Mike Williams)
- The consequence of a .NET Framework API design flaw (Patrick Smacchia)
- Need a refresher on what Portable Class Library Projects are? (For your co-workers of course, since YOU know about them already… right?) and There’s a WIF on Nuget (Greg Duncan)
- ILMerge (MS Downloads)
- New in RavenDb Studio 1.2: Paging through result sets (Samuel Jack)
- Team Foundation Service Updates – 8/6 (Brian Harry)
Web Development
- Making your JavaScript garbage friendly, as in high-performance, garbage-collector-friendly! (Greg Duncan)
- Editing HTML in the browser (Kevin Dangoor)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming JavaScript Applications – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
- Using JQuery Ajax method to pass Json to a MVC3 Action and return a partial view (Robin Hames)
- jQuery Mobile: Buttons (Sumit Dutta)
- Free! 21 Part Free tutorial on HTML5 and CSS, must read for game designers (Surf4Fun)
- Plans regarding Website projects and Web Deployment Projects (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
- Book Review: Even Faster Websites (Alex Staveley)
- Implementing Single Sign-on with Windows Azure Active Directory (Himanshu Singh)
- ASP.NET Web API OAuth2 delegation with Windows Azure Access Control Service (Maarten Balliauw)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Let’s TDD a Simple App in PHP (Csaba Patkos)
- Agile as Exercise (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
- Lean Tools: Measurements (Giorgio Sironi)
- xUnit.net 2.0 (CodePlex)
- Time Management Tips #16–Unscramble Your Day (JD Meier)
- Getting ready for a setup pass (John Guin)
- Appetite for Change (Dean Stevens)
- ‘Stupid’ Question 16: What are some common code smells? (Iris Classon)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- The new WP7 App Hub reporting is great – and it’s even better with analytics and SCHNEL! Or why patience is a virtue except when testing on Windows Phone (Sebastian Holst)
- Multiple Item Templates in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
- Secondary Live Tiles in Windows Phone (Sam Nasr)
- Introduction to the Windows Phone 8 SDK Developer Preview (Part 1) (Rob Sanders)
- Windows Phone 8 SDK: Project Hawaii (Senthil Kumar)
- Silverlight Spell Checker (Jason Fauchelle)
- Beginners Guide to Windows Phone Development (#WPDev) Tutorials (Kunal Chowdhury)
- 2000 WPF Things #619 – Event Sequence for the Key Up/Down Events (Sean Sexton)
- Presenting Dialogs from a View Model (Bill)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman Explores Entity Framework 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Episode 196 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ferdinand Rios and David Corrales on SAPIEN’s 2012 lineup (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Video: Taking Advantage of TPL in MVC4 (Paul Ballard)
- Series Introduction – 01 | Javascript Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners (Clint Rutkas, Bob Tabor & Golnaz)
- JSConf Live Episode 12 – Isaac Schlueter (Chris Williams & Matt Podwysocki)
- Yet Another Podcast #72–Chris Bowen On Windows 8 Programming (Jesse Liberty)
- Defrag Tools: #2 – Process Explorer | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
- Engadget Mobile Podcast 148 – 08.06.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for August 6th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Geek Graduates: A New Hire Reflects on 6 Months at Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
- Philadelphia Open Source Software Enthusiasts to Speak at Fosscon 2012 (Colleen Reese)
- Quick news: Cloud computing hiring event, August 23–24 (Devon Musgrave)
- Columbus Drinkup (Jason Long)
- Reworking and Refreshing the MadPosh User Group (Adam Driscoll)
Database
- Solving the SQL Server Multiple Cascade Path Issue with a Trigger (Ben Snaidero)
- SQL Server: How Recursive Common Table Expression (CTE) Works ? (Nelson John)
- SQL SERVER – Identity Fields – Contest Win Joes 2 Pros Combo (USD 198) – Day 2 of 5 (Pinal Dave)
- Database Refactoring (Thomas LaRock)
SharePoint
- Introducing apps for the new Office and SharePoint and the Office Store (Gray Knowlton)
- Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Updates on August 6st, 2012 – Featuring 19 SharePoint samples (Jialiang Ge)
- Welcome to SharePoint Designer 2013 Customer Preview (SharePoint Designer Team)
Miscellaneous
- Replacing CRLF with LF using Notepad++ (Jamie Thomson)
- Why is the desktop treated so special in window ordering? (Raymond Chen)
- GitHub – Notification Email Improvements (Ryan Tomayko)
- Unreleased Nokia prototype Windows Phone shown running latest OS (Daniel Rubino)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading August 6, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Interesting Finds: August 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #931 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-07 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #1162 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Dev News for August 06, 2012 – #0111 (Dave Campbell)
The Geek Shelf
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