Tag: windows 8

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• OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 10: Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards (Troy Hunt)
• Announcing the Release of Silverlight 5! (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 5 is released! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Fun With Big Data Using the Microsoft “Data Explorer” Pt. 1 (Don Burnett)
• VIDEO: The Art of Speaking – with Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)
• Using QUnit with Razor Layouts (Phil Haack)
• Windows Azure SDK for node.js (Andre Rodrigues)
• The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011 (Oleg Mokhov)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 and Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server – Windows Server 2003 Distributed Cache Client (MS Downloads)
• Mocking Internal Types with Moq (Richard Carr)
• Poll – do you reverse engineer .NET apps you didn’t write? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Metro Style Apps using Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (Developer Preview) (Mahesh Sabnis)
• TFS source control – Watch your application grow like a garden (Peter Gfader)
• In the async world – no one can hear you scream (Peter von Lochow)
• Sure, I’m supposed to pass WT_EXECUTELONGFUNCTION if my function takes a long time, but how long is long? (Raymond Chen)
• RTM’d today: MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• MicroTweet – Adding tweeting to your Netduino/.Net Micro Framework projects and Want some help making snippet deployment and sharing easier? Snippet to VSI! (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Store to allow for open source apps (John Callaham)
• Make your Windows 8 Video App use the PlayTo feature (Morten Nielsen)
• Tpl Dataflow – Part 3 (Bnaya Eshet)
• ImpromptuInterface: Static interface to dynamic implementation (duck casting). (Google Code)

 

Web Development

• Speed up writing CSS backgrounds (Richard Bradshaw)
• ELMAH MVC: Answering questions (Alexander Beletsky)
• On deploying ASP.NET MVC site as a desktop application (Andrei Marukovich)
• Animations in HTML5 (Florian Rappl)
• MVC3, Razor and MS Chart Controls in .NET 4 (Henrik Andersson)
• Using Classic ASP, PHP and WebForm Pages in ASP.NET MVC Views (Imran Baloch)
• Quick Tip: Create a Makeshift JavaScript Templating Solution (Jeffrey Way)
• JavaScript – Add Commas To Number (Shai Raiten)
• To Say Mobile is to Set A False Limit on Your Reach (Chris Love)
• NetBash – An Alternative to Endless Admin Pages in Asp.Net Web Applications (Luke Lowrey)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Constructor with Factory Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML 5 Input Types on WebForms Controls and HTML 5 Input Types – How useful is this really going to be? and Hosting the Razor Engine for Templating in Non-Web Applications (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Table Storage- Partition or Row key length is limited to 256 characters in Storage Emulator and Handling issues with your startup task in Windows Azure Application and Exploring Windows Azure Package contents (Avkash Chauhan)
• Tutorial: Running the Mongoose Web Server in Windows Azure and Tutorial: Running a Python Web Application in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Media Capture API: Helping Web developers directly import image, video, and sound data into Web apps (Claudio Caldato)
• Transferable Objects: Lightning Fast! (Eric Bidelman)
• Keep Users Coming Back With Desktop Notifications for Web Apps Article (Gil Fink)
• Leveraging YetAnotherForum.NET for External Post Display (Dave Burke)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 18 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• WebStorm 3.0 RC (Alexey Gopachenko)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Unit Testing Death-Spiral of Doom (Gil Zilberfeld)
• TDD vs. BDD or why can’t we all just get along? (Dror Helper)
• Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
• How to Think About Estimating (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Nine Things I’ve Learned (Mike Kus)
• Enterprise Architecture Certifications Distilled (Mike Walker)
• Good UX in the Wild: A comic book geek returns after twenty years away to a brave new digital world (Scott Hanselman)
• Leadership Books Sweep and 30 Day Improvement Sprints Revisited (JD Meier)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 9: Readable Tests and 31 Days of Testing—Day 10: Mocking Out Dependencies and 31 Days of Testing—Day 11: Maintainable Functional Automation (Jim Holmes)
• Is the Cost of Continuous Integration Worth the Value on Your Program?, Part 3 (Johanna Rothmann)
• Super Simple Versioning of Third Party Scripts (Chris Missal)
• Acronyms and Ubiquitous Language (Derek Greer)
• Sunday Thought: Embracing the Type System (Dru Sellers)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Why Silverlight 5’s 3D is (almost) useless (Morten Nielsen)
• Updated all my Silverlight 5 posts (Peter Kuhn)
• Arrays in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Silverlight 5 has released! The docs are up and a .chm is available (Cheryl Simmons)
• Implementing MVVM Light with Structure Map (emardini)
• Detecting and simulating low memory devices in Windows Phone 7 applications (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Silverlight 5 Released: Myth vs. Fact (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight Spy December 2011 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• MVVM Light for Silverlight 5 is on Codeplex #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)
• Microsoft releases Silverlight 5 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone 8 and WinRT (Matt Lacey)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Batch INSERT performance (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #448 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, part I (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – User details & official project page (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Great Series — 31 Days of Mango (Rhonda Tipton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 186: Charles Stacy Harris III and David Sawyer on the Microsoft Technology Center (part 1 of 2) (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 045 – “Frat Night at Ben’s” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 422: Xbox 360 System Update and BF3 Back To Karkand (Larry Hyrb)
• Gweek 030: Supergods, Mutants, and Mystics (Mark)
• The Tablet Show – Rocky Lhotka, Sergey Barskiy and Stuart Williams Explore WinRT App Migration (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Start-Up Success Show #126: George Karavias and Dimitris Gkanatsios, Anlock (Bob Walsh)
• TWC9: Windows 8 Store, Azure Event, SignalR and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 79 – Extreme Performance with Patrick Cooney and Joel Pobar (Richard Banks)
• A Little Bit of My Soul Went Into This One (Rob Conery)
• Engadget Podcast 267 – 12.09.2011 and The Vergecast 005 – 12.10.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 67 – Technical Computing with Windows Azure and Wenming Ye (Wade Wegner)
• Windows Weekly 238: It’s All About The Gs (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft makes a movie: Ctrl+Alt+Compete (Zoe Goldring)

 

Community / Events

• Get Your Azure On! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – Virtual Presentation on Practical Tricks and Tips to Speed up Database Queries – December 15, 2011 (Pinal Dave)
• Just One More Week To Enter The Rock Paper Azure Fall Sweepstakes! (Dani Diaz)
• Author news: Q&A with author and consultant Don Reifer (Devon Musgrave)

 

Database

• Find Last Run Query in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2012 RC0: Fix Setup Error: File format is not valid and SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: Msg 1904, Level 16 The statistics on table has 33 column names in statistics key list. The maximum limit for index or statistics key column list is 32 (Pinal Dave)
• Search SSRS Subscriptions – LightSwitch Star Contest Submission (Royce Bacon)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 9: Dynamic TOP and SQL Advent 2011 Day 10: Upsert by using the Merge statement and SQL Advent 2011 Day 11: DML statements with the OUTPUT clause (Denis Gobo)
• Merge Replication – Parameterized Filters (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Database Status with sys.databases (Jack Vamvas)
• XQuery Lab 65 – Restructuring an XML document using FLWOR (Jacob Sebastian)
• Reduce heap table fragmentation (James Serra)
• Working With Web Data in Microsoft Codename "Data Explorer" (James Terwilliger)

 

SharePoint

• ExcelMashup.com debuts! (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

PowerShell

• How to use a Proxy Server with the EWS Managed API and PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

 

Miscellaneous

• Software: The most important Growth Industry (Bill Wagner)
• HP Opensources WebOS: My Quick Thoughts (Krishnan Subramanian)
• HP: WebOS Is Now an Open Source Project (Lance Ulanoff)
• The New MSDN Subscriber Portal is Live! (Mark Curphey)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 10, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 132 (Scott Banwart)
• Weekly Link Post 214 (Rhonda Tipton)
• MVP Friday Five: December 9, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #770 and Double Shot #771 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 10 Dec 2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 12/9/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/9/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Pie in the Sky (December 9, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #1000 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for December 11, 2011 – #0009 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/09/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Retrospective 62 – Books and Giveaways (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 Dec 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 5 – 11 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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