Top Links
- Internet Explorer 10 preview for Windows 7 due in mid-November (Tom Warren)
- MonoGame 3.0 (BETA) (CodePlex)
- Pausing and resuming test execution from the test runner in Microsoft Test Manager and Populate Test Suites using hierarchical queries in Microsoft Test Manager (Charles Sterling)
- Zombie Explorer : A N-Tier application from top to bottom (Sacha Barber)
Web Development
- ASP.NET Web API file download service with resume support (Piotr Walat)
- Windows Azure Mobile Services with iOS and Android (Ralph Squillace)
- Backbone.js – Parsing the Response from the Server (Sagar H. Ganatra)
- Using Sass source maps in WebKit Inspector (Bricss)
- A Simple Parallax Scrolling Technique (Mohiuddin Parekh)
- What is “Do Not Track” and How it Affects Your Website (Craig Buckler)
- YUI 3.7.3 – Windows 8 Apps and IE 10 (Eric Ferraiuolo)
XAML
- NetAdvantage for Windows Phone Release Notes – 12.2 Volume Release (Martin Trela)
- Getting websites ready for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows Phone 8 (Charles Morris)
- Published a Windows Store application? Then display a logo with pride and Windows Store Tips: Read the resolving certification errors BEFORE you start developing! (Eric Nelson)
- Callisto Dialog Helpers for Caliburn.Micro WinRT (Mikael Koskinen)
- 2000 WPF Things #671 – Mouse.GetPosition Only Works When Mouse Is in Window (Sean Sexton)
- RadControls for Windows Phone Q3 2012 comes with a new DataForm control (Telerik Windows Phone Team)
- Project Hawaii – SDK for Windows Apps (Kay Ewbank)
- RadControls for Windows 8 now official and starting at $99 (Telerik Windows 8 Team)
- CODE Framework 4.0.21017.0 (CodePlex)
- Walkthrough: Monetize Windows 8 with the Microsoft Advertising SDK (Jerry Nixon)
- Browser control, prevent a link to open in a new page (Ricci Gian Maria)
- Windows Store–Publishing, Images, Screenshots, etc. (Mike Taulty)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Setting the Title for Console Applications (Richard Carr)
- Add the Visual Studio Command Prompt to VS2012 (Ward Bell)
- A better developer experience for Native Client (Christian Stefansen)
- CSLA 4 version 4.5 release candidate (Rockford Lhotka)
- Stupid Question 60: Should I use named variables in a loops, lambdas, exceptions etc? (Iris Classon)
- Fluent CSV/XML Exporter for Lists/IEnumerable<T>’s (Greg Duncan)
- How to Create a JustCode Extension (Chris Eargle)
- Platform Guidance for .NET Developers (Chris Sells)
- .NET Framework 4.5 – Off to a great start (Brandon Bray)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Beyond Scrum Roadmap (Andy Singleton)
- ALM Rangers ship the new Branching and Merging Guide v2.1 (Willy-P. Schaub)
- A Strong Personal Brand can Help EAs Become More Effective (Mike Walker)
- The failed record of the software industry–why software people don’t get it (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Creating Off-Center Balance: Using Asymmetry in Web Design (Carrie Cousins)
Other Mobile Platforms
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- The Windows Developer Show Episode 089 – “Clark Turned Me On to It” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- SQL Server Installation Best Practices Video (Brent Ozar)
- The Nerdist Podcast Live at JFL42 with Andy Kindler (Chris Hardwick)
- Mash This Podcast – The NPR API with Javaun Moradi (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Lee Dumond & Dustin Davis)
- The Verge Mobile Show 021 – October 16th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
- Microsoft DevRadio: Community Corner – How I created my Windows 8 app for UserGroup.tv (Chris Koenig)
- Defrag: UEFI, OS on RAM, Blocking Spam | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
- Devnology Podcast 033 – Michael Feathers (Mendelt Siebenga, Freek Leemhuis & Michel Rijnders)
- Free Access to My Windows Store Apps Video Series (Jeffrey Richter)
- A must watch session if you are developing XAML WinRT applications (Eric Nelson)
- The Big Deal About Big Data – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
Community / Events
- Join me for a CodeMash precompiler workshop on C# async (Bill Wagner)
- Get Ready for HTML5 Windows 8 Camp and Hakathon (Doris Chen)
- Author news: Free webinar by Steve McConnell on October 18 (Devon Musgrave)
- MVPs Bring Windows Server 2012 Technology to the Community! (MVP Award Program)
- WOWZAPP 2012 – Worldwide Hackathon for Windows November 9-11, 2012 (Zhiming Xue)
Database
- Using SQL Server Concatenation Efficiently (Sherlee Dizon)
- Querying the SSIS Catalog? Here’s a handy query! and SQL Server devs–what source control system do you use, if any? (answer and maybe win free stuff) and HTML Maps for DataViz (Jamie Thomson)
- Date Functions – SQL Server vs MySQL (Madhivanan)
- SQL SERVER – Finding Different ColumnName From Almost Identitical Tables (Pinal Dave)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Why I Pre-Ordered a Surface Tablet (Joe Kunk)
- Microsoft Office 365: More new packages and prices coming in November (Mary Jo Foley)
- Why should dev’s have all the fun with Microsoft All-In-One Framework? Here’s one for IT Pro’s, welcome to the Microsoft All-In-One Script Framework! (Greg Duncan)
- Two Years of Kinect (James Ashley)
- The Guerilla Guide to Getting a Better Performance Review at Microsoft (JD Meier)
- Windows Store Crosses 5000+ Apps ! (Sagar)
- Poll Results: Would you work from home? (Scott Berkun)
- Kaspersky Labs building their own OS (Tyler Holman)
- The Microsoft Surface and Apple iPad 3 Head to Head (Jeremy Likness)
- No pressure, Microsoft, but I just spent my family’s iPad budget on a $599 Surface (Todd Bishop)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading October 17, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #982 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 10/18/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-18 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #1213 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Dev News for October 17, 2012 – #0134 (Dave Campbell)
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