Tag: vs11

Top Links

• New F# Windows Phone Library Project Template (Daniel Mohl)
• Async Programming in Visual Studio 2010 (Bill Wagner)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #10: Network Information (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Getting a Quick Feel for a New Software Team (Peter Ritchie)
• Bill Gates on Natural User Interfaces (Steve Clayton)

.NET / Visual Studio

• PyKinect (Yep, Python and Kinect, in Visual Studio yet!) (Greg Duncan)
• ReSharper 6.1 EAP for Visual Studio 2011 (Hadi Hariri)
• New Entity Framework Book(s) Status (Julie Lerman)
• Docking External Document Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Pyvot for Excel (Mike Stall)
• MapWindow GIS v4.8.6 – Final Release – 64Bit (CodePlex)
• Further Tales of the Keyboard Ninja (Just* Team)
• How to access Service Configuration settings in Windows Azure Startup Task (Avkash Chauhan)
• POLAR – Creating a Virtual Machine in .NET (Paulo Zemek)
• Building a .NET Quality Control Tool for Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies (Kevin Ha)

Web Development

• Refactoring MVC Routes (Deran Schilling)
• ASP.NET MVC: Converting business objects to select list items (Gunnar Peipman)
• Backbone.js: Object Literals, Views Events, jQuery, and `el` (Derick Bailey)
• 6 for 5… Six lesson class for HTML5 (Greg Duncan)
• Announcing JesCov – JavaScript code coverage (Ola Bini)
• Web applications with the Play framework (Giorgio Sironi)
• Improving the JavaScript typeof operator (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Adobe puts full support behind HTML5, leaves Flash to standalone mobile apps (Tim Conneally)
• Recipe for a Brittle Data Service (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Web sites vs Web apps (Rockford Lhotka)
• Your users don’t care if you use Web Sockets (Scott Hanselman)
• Programming for the future of mobile (Jef Claes)
• Learn from my Express.js HTTP status code blunder (Dave Ward)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.359 (Alexey Gopachenko)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and DevExpress XAF (Patrick Liekhus)
• People, NOT Technology (Peter Saddington)
• Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop (Steve Schoeffel)
• Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 3: NDbUnit (Thomas Weller)
• Code Analysis for All (Tim Burrell)
• New Article: Best Practices for Performance Improvements Using Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Ruppert Koch)
• TDD With Roy Osherove (Rob Conery)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of Readable Code – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Is Implementing Continuous Delivery the key to success? (Paul Stack)
• Getting your App Continuously Tested (Maria Marcano)
• Sound vs. Valid Argument (Mark Pearl)
• Arity (Chris Eargle)
• MSpec Runnner Available for ReSharper 6.1 EAP (Hadi Hariri)
• The last vestiges of Hungarian notation (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• The New "ListPicker Learning Pack" : Solution to all your ListPicker problems and GART Geo AR Toolkit and Getting Started with Windows Phone Reminders (Windows Phone Geek)
• Blend 5 and Visual Studio 11 feedback – The Future of Windows 8 Development (Benjamin Laffont)
• Inside Windows Phone Apps – IMDb (Sara Allison)
• 2000 WPF Things #427 – Changing Margins from Within Blend (Sean Sexton)
• The differences between IE9 on the desktop and IE9 on WP7 (Martin Beeby)
• Styling Windows Phone Silverlight Applications (Tim Murphy)
• WP7: Northern Lights WP7 Toolkit v0.0.1 (Bjorn Kuiper)
• Building Microsoft Exchange client for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
• Putting back functionality left out of VB Core – ( If you can’t live without Mid when writing WP7 apps 😉 ) (VBTeam)
• What if “Microsoft” were in our shoes? About Windows Phone (Vijaya Malla)
• How to Control Screen Layouts in LightSwitch (Chris D.)
• Live Tiles in WP Mango (Daniel Egan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dan Hanan and Danny Warren Mix Kinect and Metro (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SPLASH 2011: Gilad Bracha – Dart, Newspeak, and More and Microsoft DevCamps: Free, Fun, No-Fluff Events for Developers (Charles Torre)
• Information Integration – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 001 – 11.09.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• What The Tech 92: Just Like RIM (Paul Thurrott)
• There’s Something About Nolock: Webcast Video (Kendra Little)
• SE Podcast #26 (Alex Miller)
• Toji: The Psake Based, Nuget Powered Canned Build of Awesome (Bobby Johnson)

Community / Events

• VS Live Orlando in December (Rockford Lhotka)
• A Coder Interview With Al-Farooque Shubho (The Code Project)
• TEDxPhilly 2011: The City [Recap] (Bianca)

Database

• Why does my SSIS package run slower in BIDS than DTEXEC? (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – OVER clause with FIRST _VALUE and LAST_VALUE – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 – ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING (Pinal Dave)
• Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed (Eric Humphrey)

SharePoint

• Two New User Adoption and Engagement Strategies: ShareLab and ShareLove (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• What is Bill Gates reading? 5 books on helping world’s poor (Michele Matassa Flores)
• Microsoft Download Manager (MS Downloads)
• Yesterday’s Patch Tuesday delivers some OneNote 2010 goodness too. Free update to improve OneNote 2010’s SkyDrive and sync features… (Greg Duncan)
• Samsung jumps on the ‘Windows 8 in second half of 2012’ bandwagon (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the week #163 (David Vidmar)
• Daily News Digest 11/9/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #978 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links– 2011_35 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News 9 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #748 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Head First C#, 2E: A Learner’s Guide to Real-World Programming with Visual C# and .NET (Head First Guides) by Andrew Stellman