Tag: visual studio

I will be on vacation starting tomorrow 6/14 thru Sunday 6/24. I will post some links while I am away but they will usually be in “Dew Dump” form without additional sorting.

Top Links

• Activating Windows 8 contracts in your app (Steven Sinofsky)
• Team Foundation Service Preview is public! (Brian Harry)
• Welcome to the Era of the Cloud OS for Infrastructure! (Satya Nadella)
• TechEd North America 2012 Keynote News and What you need to know about developing for Windows on ARM (WOA) (Jason Zander)
• Trying Out ECMAScript.next’s for…of Loop in Firefox 13 (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#–Using a delegate to raise an event from one class to another (Bill Osuch)
• Using NDepend and LINQ to Examine Code (Jonathan Allen)
• Refactoring Halfwit’s Coroutines to C# 5 and Refactoring Halfwit to use C# 5 (Matt Hamilton)
• Windows8: Promise.then() and Task.ContinueWith() – Help Me Out? (Mike Taulty)
• Visual Studio Feature Packs (Zain Naboulsi)
• A World of Samples at your Fingertips (Anthony Cangialosi & Steven Wilssens)
• Quick Response Sample – Command line utility to manage Team Foundation Server Teams and Users (Willy-P. Schaub)
• async Bing for Metro Style Apps (Sebastian Dau)
• NDepend 4 – First Steps (Ricardo Peres)
• Whats new in NDepend 4 (Rohit Sharma)
• Playin’ Around with Riak and .NET (Adrian Hills)
• Fix: ReSharper EAP 7 Keyboard Shortcuts not working with VS 2012 (Andrew Schwam)
• How to Make Your Life Easier with .NET Transaction Escalation Behavior (Pieter de Rycke)
• An Original Algorithm to Find .NET Code Duplicate (Patrick Smacchia)
• Hash Function Added To The PredicateEqualityComparer (Paulo Morgado)
• Why I do not mind VS2012 ALL CAPS menu (Mehdi Khalili)
• Debugger Trick when Working with UTC DateTimes (Chris Missal)
• OWIN – what is it about and why is it so cool? (Code Inside Team)
• Implementing endless scrolling incremental loading in Metro GridViews and ListViews with ISupportIncrementalLoading and Let me tell you a story about the first community submitted Storyboard Shapes… and The Four P’s… A four part P/Invoke tutorial series (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• View Controller Patterns With Spine.JS & SpacePen (Ken Collins)
• Early Look at the Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client (Beth Massi)
• ASP.NET Web API integration testing with in-memory hosting (Filip W)
• Say Hello to the HTML5 Embed Element (Constantin Alin)
• Create a page turn effect with CSS3 (Joe Lambert)
• ASP.Net Web API Example Video Now Available and ASP Web API examples – now updated with Release Candidate bits (John Petersen)
• Announcing the LightSwitch HTML Client! (Joe Binder)
• Record and replay for testing of legacy PHP applications (Giorgio Sironi)
• ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta to MVC RC Upgrade Instructions (Rick Anderson)
• Simulating an iPhone or iPad browser for ASP.NET Mobile Web Development with WebMatrix 2 or Visual Studio 2012 (Scott Hanselman)
• JavaScript Profiling With The Chrome Developer Tools (Zack Grossbart)
• GitHub API v2: End of Life (Rick Olson)
• Windows Azure Evolution – Web Sites (aka Antares) Part 1 (Shaun Xu)
• ASP.NET Web API Exception Handling (Fredrik Normen)
• OASIS OData Technical Committee Call for Participation (Michael Pizzo)
• Some notes on the recent Azure launch (AppHarbor Team)
• Using Schema.Org Vocabularies with OData (Mike Flasko)
• The road to Web Essentials 2012 (Mads Kristensen)
• Azure Web Sites FTP credentials (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Windows Azure Websites: A PHP Perspective (Brian Swan)
• The Web Developer Toolbox: ThreeJS (Jeremie Patonnier)
• Developing Kudu locally and on Azure (David Ebbo)
• Making Prettier Forms: Converting Checkboxes into Images (Deran Schilling)
• How to Create a Resumable Video Uploader in Node.js (Gabriel Manricks)
• Compute performance in the cloud – EC2 vs Azure (Ingo Rammer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Three Expectations of Servant Leadership (J.D. Meier)
• The Kanban Thinking Picture (Karl Scotland)
• 3 Secrets of the Most Productive People (Peter Saddington)
• Entities Associations: Point in Time vs. Current Associations and Why scalability matters? (Oren Eini)
• Digital Skeuomorphism decoded. (Scott Barnes)
• Lean tools: Cost of delay (Giorgio Sironi)
• Is Productivity Killing Your Creativity? (Jay Fields)
• Becoming a Leading Manager (Johanna Rothman)
• Hiding features always results in a #Fail (Derik Whittaker)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Working with Location in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Getting Started with the Coding4Fun Toolkit ChatBubble Control for Windows Phone and Windows Phone Map Control: Display Current Location and Remove previous Pushpins (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to – Word Suggestions in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
• What’s New in Telerik RadControls for WP7 Q2.2012 Release? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• OAuth with RestSharp in Windows Phone (Mohamed Haamdi)
• 2000 WPF Things #578 – Grid Row and Column Size Use GridLength Object and #579 – Adding an Event Handler for a User Interface Element (Sean Sexton)
• RadControls for Windows Phone Q2 2012 is here! and Design Templates for Windows Phone (Telerik Windows Phone Team)
• Hardcore WindowsPhone Developers, Check Out SignalR (Samidip Basu)
• Part 7: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check. (Kevin Dockx)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 055: Rainn Wilson’s Soul Pancake (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Stephen Toub Does Parallel Development in Studio 11 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Mark Russinovich: On Windows Azure IaaS, Sysinternals, Cybersecurity, Trojan Horse (Charles Torre)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 87: What goes on in the Mind of a User Experience Expert? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 188 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Let’s Play TDD #197: It’s Like a Horror Movie (James Shore)
• Coding PHP in WebMatrix 2 with Thao Doan | Web Camps TV (Brady Gaster)
• The JavaScript Show – Jasmine 1.2 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Yet Another Podcast #67–Pete Brown and Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
• Ping 144: SmartGlass, On{X}, FrugalDad, ESPN on XBox | Ping! (Laura Foy & Paul Mestemaker)
• Engadget HD Podcast 303 – 06.12.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 141 – 06.12.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video: Plan Your Execution with SQL Query Tuning (Paul Ballard)
• Developing for Windows on ARM (Jason Zander & Robert Green)
• Keynote After Party with Jason Zander | Channel 9 Live at Tech Ed North America 2012 (Dan Fernandez & Jason Zander)
• New Pluralsight Course: HTML5 Canvas Fundamentals (Dan Wahlin)
• Demystifying Benchmarking: How to Measure Performance in SQL Server Video (Kendra Little)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for June 12th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• June 21 FREE Webinar: 5 Risky SharePoint Temptations for Executives #in #pmot (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Windows 8 UX fundamentals–free virtual training (James Senior)
• Jobs in IT: Join a Career Webinar with a Panel of Microsoft Employees (MS JobsBlog)
• HTML5 Education Day Available: Register Now! (Doris Chen)
• Making Your Meetup™ a Community Sponsor of Silicon Valley Code Camp (Peter Kellner)
• Free, online Windows 8 UX Training (Jaime Rodriguez)
• TechEd 2012: Get Demos, Win Cash & Learn! (Jason Beres)
• MSDN Webcast Series on developing Metro apps for Windows 8 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Two Copies of Pete Brown’s "Silverlight 5 In Action" to Give Away (Dave Campbell)
• Talking Cloud Tuesday with Visual C# MVP Marcel Meijer (MVP Award Program)
• Meet the Author: Oliver Sturm on Introduction to F# (Paul Ballard)

 

Database

• Using Find/Replace with regular expressions inside a SSIS package (Jamie Thomson)
• Create DATETIME and TIME values‏ in SQL Server 2012 (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Look at Logging and Ideas around Logging and SQL SERVER – Video – Beginning Performance Tuning with SQL Server Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)
• NoSQL for storage AND relational for reporting (Paul Hammant)
• How to Configure RavenDB Database Replication (David Neal)
• Using PowerPivot to Monitor Reporting Services (Mike Davis)
• SQL Reporting for Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud goes live (Mary Jo Foley)
• TSQL Tuning: How to Measure Performance Improvements (with Video) (Kendra Little)
• How we got rid of the database (Gabriel Schenker)
• Resetting grant privileges on mysql root (Patrick Kua)

 

SharePoint

• Run SharePoint Management Shell as Any User (Martin W. Angler)
• Metro SharePoint Directory–Reading from Lists (Bil Simser)

 

PowerShell

• Deploy and Manage Storage Spaces with PowerShell (MS Downloads)
• Intellisense in Windows PowerShell ISE 3.0 (Refaat Issa)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the Pluralsight Starter Subscription for MSDN (Aaron Skonnard)
• The Windows 8 Store is HOW BIG? (Andy Beaulieu)
• From the MVPs: A computer management cloud service designed for your business! (Dave Franklyn)
• NetAdvantage for iOS Public Beta Now Available for Download (with Bonus FAQ) (Nick Landry)
• Why do you have to wait for Windows Error Reporting to check for solutions before it restarts the application? (Raymond Chen)
• Apple gets complaints about consistent incremental growth in their product(s). (Scott Barnes)
• ConEmu – The Windows Terminal/Console/Prompt we’ve been waiting for? (Scott Hanselman)
• O’Reilly deal of the Week on Early Release Books to 19/June/2012 23:39 PT (Tatworth)
• Microsoft Office logo goes Metro, hints at 2013 release for Office 15 and Nokia confirms PureView is coming to future Lumia Windows Phones (Tom Warren)
• Apple strikes out with iOS 6 Or: How Windows Phone 8 will be more impressive. (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 12, 2012 and Interesting Finds: June 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading June 11, 2012 and Geek Reading June 12, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #896 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 6/11/2012 and Daily News Digest 6/12/2012 and Daily News Digest 6/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-12 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1122 and The Morning Brew #1123 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for June 11, 2012 – #0095 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 June 2012 and Daily WP7 Development News 12 June 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 12 June 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily Links 12 Jun 2012 (Jax)

 

The Geek Shelf

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