Month: June 2010

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• Introducing IIS Express (Scott Guthrie)
• Caliburn v1.1 Released! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Entity Framework Repository & Unit Of Work T4 Template on CodePlex (Dane Morgridge)
• Windows 8 Plans Leaked: Numerous Details Revealed (Stephen Chapman)
• Introducing the PivotViewer Control for Silverlight (Pete Brown)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Understanding C#: Using BackgroundWorker to make your UI responsive (Andrew Stellman)
• Organize Using (C# Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with Zip Files in .NET (Richard Lee)
• Generating MD5 and SHA1 checksums for a file (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WCF by Example – Introduction (Enrique Albert)
• How to host WCF services in IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 (Merrick Chaffer)
• Elegant infoof operators in C# (read Info Of) (Patrick Smacchia)
• How I understood monads, part 2/2: have we met before? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• COM Apartments (Marius Bancila)
• Ghost team foundation build controllers (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The Archivist Is Live! (Karsten Januszewski)
• NHibernate 2nd level cache: Doing it wrong? (Mark Needham)
• Do We Need If Blocks? (John Sonmez)
• OData and Workflow Foundation (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• One of the reasons the section color addin was easy to write (John Guin)
• Performance Impact of Server-side Generated GUIDs in EF (Lei Li)
• Developing with Messenger Connect: Recognizable & intuitive and Social Distribution and Realtime Shared Experiences with Messenger Connect and Identity (authentication, profile & relationships) and Windows Live Messenger Connect is now available (Angus Logan)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript tests now available on the IE Testing Center (Alex Chi)
• HTML5Rocks.com (RJ Owen)
• Mobile Web Toolkits (Brendan Kowitz)
• Action Filter versus Controller Base Class (K. Scott Allen)
• An overview of Open Data Protocol (OData) (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)
• 50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers (Vitaly Friedman)
• Measuring Web Page Performance (Anderson Quach)
• Filling Address Fields using HTML5 Geolocation and jQuery (Elijah Manor)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Which TFS2010 “Agile” Project Template one is right for you? One side-by-side of MS Agile v5, MS Scrum v1[Beta] and Scrum For TFS(SfTS) v3 (Greg Duncan)
• NCover 3.4.10: NCover Explorer Fixes (Alan Johnson)
• Business Driven Test Management with Microsoft Test Manager (Clemens Reijnen)
• Don’t do it alone (Paul Boag)
• Principles of Programming Architecture (Dave M. Bush)
• Intuition and ‘quit thinking and look’ (Mark Needham)
• Visualize First. Build Later. (Dave West)
• Isolator 6.0.4 is out! (Doron Peretz)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Enhanced ListView Operations using MVVM (Izhar Lotem)
• Using WrapPanel and DockPanel in Windows Phone 7 With Blend (Matthias Shapiro)
• A Convention based Approach for wiring your Views to ViewModels in MVVM – AutoViewModelLocator (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Silverlight Bing Maps: Draw Circle Around a Latitude/Longitude Location (Chris Pietschmann)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2010/2008 and Microsoft Test Manager Screen Casts – [HE] (Shai Raiten)
• Roger Peter’s great video on using the Facebook Developer Toolkit with Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• Windows Weekly 162: Geeks Who Love Too Much (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Live Messenger Connect SDK (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 63: Sweet deal from MS, Burger King & Xbox, IE 9 and Zune (Laura Foy)
• Consistent UX, Composite Apps and Windows 7 with Jack Henry (Jared Bienz)
• Technology & Friends Episode 97: Brian Jackett on Powershell (David Giard)
• geekSpeak Recording – Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (Emily Gibson)
• The Archivist: Your friendly neighborhood tweet archiver (Charles Torre)

 

Community / Events

• Join the OData Mailing List (Mike Flasko)
• What I learned at FOO Camp ‘10 (Scott Berkun)
• SQL Saturday 42 Musings (Jeremiah Peschka)
• One of the great things about TechEd … (Ed Wilson)

 

Database

• SQL Server Instance Checklist (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQLAuthority News – Exam 70-433 – MCTS – Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development and SQL SERVER – Outer Join Not Allowed in Indexed Views (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• 3 Ways to Accelerate Your SharePoint Career (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Get FULL Access to SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Book Online (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Chrome Extension Development (Sergio Pereira)
• TechSmith Lights Up Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft leaks plans for a Windows 8 app store (Jay Hathaway)
• The OneNote Test Team is Hiring! (John Guin)
• Microsoft’s Support Sets Us Apart (Barbara Gordon)
• Cloud computing in healthcare – private, public, or somewhere in between (Steve Aylward)
• Xbox 360 is hiring for Kinect (Jason Pankow)
• What I would do if I was in charge of Windows 8 (Miguel de Icaza)
• Co-Authoring Using Office 2010 (Sarah Perez)
• C++ killed my grandpappy – Is C++ hard and where are the C++ coders hiding? (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft removing your 3D glasses (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft details early Windows 8 improvements to OEMs (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 29, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #631 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 28, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

 

The Geek Shelf

Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Venkat Subramaniam