A weekend catch-up post.
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Top Links
- A sneak peek at IE9 UI: What do you think? (Kip Kniskern)
- Fluent Validation with MEF and PRISM (Jeremy Likness)
- First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–III) (Kunal Chowdhury)
- TWC9: LightSwitch available, Windows Phone, OData, HTML 5 File API (Dan Fernandez)
- Script Junkie (Somasegar)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Public Application Settings (Richard Carr)
- F# for puzzles (Morse code decoder) (Brian McNamara)
- How to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
- The Profiler New Features: Starring & Renaming (Oren Eini)
- MSDN Keeps getting better (Cameron Skinner)
- Managing business object locks on application level (Gunnar Peipman)
- VS2010 Parallel Stacks – Debugging enhancement in VS2010 (Hima)
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-In-One book is close to the finish (András Velvárt)
- Big Enhancements to our documentation: Now with a Version Selector! (Charles Sterling)
- Coding4Fun: Feeling the Earth Move (Arian T. Kulp)
- 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 Minutes (Wes Yanaga)
- Enumerable.Skip vs Seq.skip (Mauricio Scheffer)
- The Misnamed and Misunderstood Object Browser and The Object Browser: Browsing Scope and The Object Browser: Navigation and References (Zain Naboulsi)
- CSLA 4 version 4.0.1 released (Rockford Lhotka)
- Lazy(Of T) class in .Net Framework4.0 (Venu Gopal)
- ANTS Performance Profiler 6 (Ryan O’Neill)
- Microsoft won’t stop .Net on Android (Rodney Gedda)
- PSSCor2: GC Heap Analysis Commands and Demonstrating CLR Side-by-Side Execution (Sasha Goldshtein)
- MSBuild Extension Pack August 2010 Release (Mike Fourie)
- Know Your Debugger Part 2: Ok, I’m Broken. Now What? (Dane Morgridge)
- Must I release everything when using Windsor? (Krzysztof Koźmic)
- Strong naming an assembly without having the actual source code (Marlon Grech)
- Windsor 2.0 and Log4Net (Jonathan McCracken)
- Behaviour – Lesson 7 (Simon Jackson)
- Microsoft Surface and Magical Object Interaction (Josh Blake)
- Introducing CountdownEvent (Dror Helper)
- What’s New for Office 2010 Developers white paper is live (Frank Rice)
- Debugging the Undebuggable (Gil Zilberfeld)
- NHibernate – prepare_sql and some considerations on mapping very long string fields (Giorgetti Alessandro)
Web Development
- File uploads and MVC Controllers (Jason Grundy)
- jQuery Plugin Checklist: Should You Use That jQuery Plug-In? (Jon Raasch)
- ASP.NET MVC HTML Helpers (Dane Morgridge)
- A quick primer on .NET web frameworks (Chad Myers)
- Great Twitter Accounts to keep up to date on jQuery news (Matthew David)
- Elegant MVC with Spark – The way views were meant to be (Robert Greyling)
- Enhancing the Store Locator ASP.NET MVC Application to Include Directions (Scott Mitchell)
- New DevNugget: Installing Microsoft WebMatrix (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Chakra: Interoperability Means More Than Just Standards (Allen Wirfs-Brock)
- More on SVG (Jennifer Yu)
- Extending the SiteMap (Rudi Grobler)
- Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Buffering (Matthew Podwysocki)
- Empathy and web design (Janko Jovanovic)
- PHP: What is More Powerful Than list() (Stoimen Popov)
- NetBeans vs. Vim for PHP development (Giorgio Sironi)
- Get File Length over http before you download it (Peter Bromberg)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 4: Adopting XP (James Shore)
- First Experiences With RSpec/BDD (Davy Brion)
- I am an Exception Extremist (John Sonmez)
- We’re Not Paid To Write Code (Phil Haack)
- The Downside Of Providing An API Through Extension Methods and Compiler|Interpreter Warnings Are Important Learning Opportunities (Davy Brion)
- Day 26 – Solve Problems with Skill and Day 27 – Do Something Great and Day 28 – Find Your One Thing (J.D. Meier)
- Design Patterns by Metaphors – Part I (Creational Patterns) (Kiran Kumar G)
- The Case of the Unit Test and the Native DLL (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Why Hg branches are broken (or at least less useful) (Jimmy Bogard)
- Prototyping NUI on paper (Steve Clayton)
- The Open Source Project Spec: With Reference To Me (Jesse Liberty)
- Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources (Aquil Akhter)
- Programmer Tip: The Meaning Of Mentorship And How You Grow As A Person (Rajiv Popat)
- Introducing Yeti: The YUI Easy Testing Interface (Reid Burke)
- A Case for Feature Branches (Matt Stine)
- Multitouch on Windows book update (Josh Blake)
- posh-git Release v0.2 (Keith Dahlby)
- Coding: Mutating parameters (Mark Needham)
- Test Behavior, Not State (Jared Richardson)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Deep Linking Into A SketchFlow Prototype (Christian Schormann)
- DroppyPop for WP7 Update (Andy Beaulieu)
- Think twice before putting another grid inside a WPF window (Dennis Delimarsky)
- WCF RIA Services Part 6 – Validating Data (Brian Noyes)
- WP7 Tip: tombstoning simplified (James Ashley)
- On Socks and Windows Phone 7 and Calling JavaScript Functions in Windows Phone 7 and XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – The Microphone (Mike Ormond)
- Eeny, meeny, miny, moe and TimeslotPanel (Rudi Grobler)
- Creating a Toast Like Notification Popup on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
- My favorite feature of the WPF and Silverlight Tools update (Carole Snyder)
- Loading a static XML file to your Windows Phone/Silverlight App (Cheryl Simmons)
- My “Hello World” Windows Phone 7 Application (Chris Koenig)
- Windows Forms and WPF Interop: Sharing WPF Resources (Christian Nagel)
- Your phone can turn into a robot [LayoutTransformer works great on the Windows Phone platform] (David Anson)
- Saving State: Execution Model Best Practices for Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
- i2W: An iPhone Developer’s First Windows Phone 7 Application (Jesse Liberty)
- WPF DataGrid Control – Performing Update and Delete Operations (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Flashing Text (using behavior/storyboard) in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 4 Application Template Themes by Microsoft (Michael Crump)
- Windows Phone 7 and Compression using Accept-Encoding Header (Nick Randolph)
- Dual Targeting WPF and Silverlight (and Windows Phone 7) and 10 things Beginning Silverlight and WPF Developers Need to Know (Pete Brown)
- Windows Phone 7 security for developers (Steven Hodson)
- Introducing the concept of “Places” and Redirecting an initial navigation (Peter Torr)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Ethan Winer, Very Old School (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Silverlight TV 42: Apply and Customize the New Silverlight Themes (John Papa)
- Steve Anonsen and John Rivard: Inside LightSwitch and Wes Dyer and Jeffrey Van Gogh: Rx Virtual Time (Charles Torre)
- Herding Code 92: Dru Sellers and Rob Reynolds on Nu (Jon Galloway)
- geekSpeak Recording – WCF Extensibility with Scott Reed and MSDN Radio: Shazzam and Windows Phone 7 with Walt Ritscher and MSDN Radio: Game Building for Windows Phone 7 using XNA/Game Studio with Dan Waters (Emily Gibson)
- New Show on Channel 9: Web Camps TV (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Windows Phone Design Days Presentations (Don Burnett)
- Web Camps TV #1 – ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and Razor Tips with Phil Haack and New: Windows Azure Storage Helper for WebMatrix (James Senior)
- Bytes by MSDN: Brandon Watson and Tim Huckaby discuss Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Rockford Lhotka and Tim Huckaby discuss Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Tim Huckaby and Mike Benkovich discuss Developing Apps for Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams and Billy Hollis discuss Silverlight 4 and Bytes by MSDN: Richard Campbell and Mike Benkovich and Bytes by MSDN: Bill Lodin and Mickey Williams discuss Windows Azure Resources and Bytes by MSDN: Brian Noyes and Rob Bagby discuss Service Bus and Windows Azure and Bytes by MSDN: Clemens Vasters and Rob Bagby discuss "Project Sydney" and Hybrid Apps (Bytes by MSDN)
- MSDEV Video Series Highlights Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) (Bruce Kyle)
- Video of Windows Phone 7 in action and a true image of the LG E900 surface (Phone Arena)
- Free Webcast: Get to SharePoint 2010 – Strategies for Effective Upgrades and Migrations (Joel Oleson)
- BPC10 Screencast: How to Best Gather Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)
- Community Megaphone Show #16 with guest John Blumenauer (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
- jQuery Podcast 32 – Dave Ward (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
- Cloud Cover Episode 23 – AppFabric Service Bus (Ryan Dunn)
- Countdown to PDC10: And the winner is . . . (Larry Larsen)
Community / Events
- The Programmer’s Body (Scott Hanselman)
- Ever thought of being a writer? (Ted Neward)
- The patterns & practices symposium Redmond 2010 (Grigori Melnik)
- 20 MVPs and 4 former MVPs at SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
- Keep the Fire(starters) Burning: Web Platform Edition! (Jim O’Neil)
- DreamSpark provides Free Windows Marketplace for Mobile (Chris Koenig)
- Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins) (Jeff Atwood)
- Imagine Cup 2011 to be hosted in New York City (Bob Familiar)
- Typemock Sponsors See# Party 2010 (#ssp2010) (Britt King)
- Interview with Ken Schwaber, Part1 (Dan Mezick)
Database
- Display DDL Triggers in your SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Adding Column is Expensive by Joining Table Outside View – Limitation of the Views Part 2 and SQL SERVER – Plan Cache – Retrieve and Remove – A Simple Script (Pinal Dave)
- Don’t index on dates (Simon Sabin)
- Database indexes are your friend (Jimmy Bogard)
- Generate Insert Query in SQL (Abhijit Desai)
- The Lazy DBA Series: Wizards! (Ted Krueger)
- Ten Things I Hate to See in T-SQL (Michael Swart)
SharePoint
- Tips and Tricks for setting up a SharePoint 2010 development environment (Greg Galipeau)
- SharePoint 2010 and SQL Hotfix Dependencies (Joel Oleson)
- I’m Done with SharePoint (William Vaughn)
Miscellaneous
- Windows Home Server Update Rollup 1 Released (Nigel Wilks)
- Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Update to Increase Video Performance and "Sort Sections" OneNote PowerToy Upgraded for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
- Windows Live Sync to be named Windows Live Mesh (Allison Omahony)
- Microsoft Offers New Certification Exam Discount (Brad M. McGehee)
- Become a Better Mindmapper: Chuck Frey Shows You How (Chance Brown)
- PowerShell, GAC, and build servers (Christopher Bennage)
- Docs.com Update adds tags support, search, sort and filter, and new Social Doc Templates (damaster)
- Auto-Wiring Ruby Events (Davy Brion)
- Page Tab Floatie (Jeff Cardon)
- Programmer Superstitions (Jesse Liberty)
- How to prepare questions for your interview (Angela McLaughlin
) - Installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS on Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 and Two Must-Have Tools for a More Readable Web (Scott Hanselman)
- Our Product Strategy: How Zoho Services Fit Together (Sridhar Vembu)
- Startup Business Checklist 2010 (Steve Smith)
- Microsoft’s FUSE Labs releases teamcrossword beta (Steve Clayton)
- Call phones from Gmail (The Gmail Team)
- My new Kindle 3 review–comparing against Kindle 2 (Tim Heuer)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 25, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 27, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #673 and The Morning Brew #674 (Chris Alcock)
- Tech Tweets for 25-Aug-2010 and Tech Tweets for 26-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
- F# Discoveries This Week 08/27/2010 (Rick Minerich)
- Distributed Weekly 65 (Scott Banwart)
- Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 25, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 26, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 27, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
- Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2010 – 2 — #933 and Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2010 — #934 (Dave Campbell)
- Weekly Archives 14th Aug 2010 – 28th Aug 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
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