Day: February 11, 2011

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Top Links

• How to Interface LightSwitch to a Windows Workflow Part 1 (Dan Moyer)
• Nokia will be allowed to customize every part of Windows Phone 7 (Sebastian Anthony)
• Oracle’s Entity Framework Beta Released Today (Julie Lerman)
• Acting on Feedback: IE9 Release Candidate Available for Download (Dean Hachamovitch)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Concurrent Collections (1 of 3) (James Michael Hare)
• IronRuby – Release v1.1.2 and ReSharper Settings Manager – Release v4.o (for R# 5.1) and WCF Data Services Toolkit Beta (CodePlex)
• Building a database installer with WiX, datadude and Visual Studio 2010 (Jamie Thomson)
• How Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server enable Compliance (Martin Hinshelwood)
• TEE 2010 SP1 (MS Downloads) – TFS Eclipse plugin updated
• Trivia Friday (Jimmy Bogard)
• Reach out and… Windows 7 Touch Development Guidance in a 26 page XPS form (Greg Duncan)
• NOW Available: Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February Release (Windows Azure Team)
• Creating a Color Picker with an Owner Draw ComboBox (Jonathan Wood)
• Elevate added to the NuGet gallery (Bill Wagner)

 

Web Development

• A JavaScript tip that’s jarring: remove falsy elements from array (Julian M. Bucknall)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Manifesto 10 Year Reunion (Chris Matts)
• What Is Agile Management? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Cool Printable Kanban Card (Peter Saddington)
• The Important User Experience (UX) You Can’t See (Rob Tiffany)
• Web Testing with Selenium Sushi: A Practical Guide and Toolset (Michael Sorens)
• Balsamiq Release: Select on Layers, Linux 32bit installer and bug fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Cucumber tests on iPhone/iPad (Davor Crnomat)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Implementing Windows Phone 7 DataTemplateSelector and CustomDataTemplateSelector (Windows Phone Geek)
• [TUTORIAL + VIDEO] Creating an RSS reader for Windows Phone 7 in 5 minutes (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• Not able to bind to Uid or Name property in XAML (Merrick Chaffer)
• Windows Phone 7 Navigation Memory Usage and Windows Phone 7 Navigation Memory Usage Just Got Scary and Windows Phone 7: Translator Sample, an example in what not to do! (Nick Randolph)
• Some curious facts about the Windows Phone 7 OS – from the emulator console (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ClickOnce, TaskDialogs, Common Controls and WPF Applications and Blend Bits 22–Being Stylish and Blend Bits 23–Templating Part 1 (Mike Taulty)
• Multiple View Models implies multiple DataContexts (Bill Wagner)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Organizing your own Virtual Technical Conference – MVCConf Post-Mortem (Scott Hanselman)
• ARCast.TV: SharePoint Deployment to Microsoft BPOS Cloud (MS Podcasts)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 1 of n (Charles Torre)
• VIDEO – WebMatrix – Charts and the Chart Helper and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Data Visualization with the Chart Helper (Joe Stagner)
• First look at 5 features of IE9 RC and A look at three performance demos for IE 9 Release Candidate (Larry Larsen)
• Silverlight TV 61: Expert Chat on Deep Zoom, Touch, and Windows Phone (John Papa)
• New Video: Interview with Windows Phone 7 Developer–Ash Morgan (Wes Yanaga)

 

Community / Events

• Last Chance to Save on MIX11 – Register by Feb 11 (Kim Spilker)
• London SharePoint Best Practices Conference – April 11-13, 2011 (Andrew Connell)
• PAX East 2011 Tweet-up (Larry Hyrb)
• Congratulations to MIX11 Open Call Winners (Silverlight Show)
• Web Camp Coming to Mid Atlantic (Dani Diaz)
• Best Practices Europe Conference Sessions Announced! (Joel Oleson)

 

Database

• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) – Part 1: Basics of SSIS and Creating Packages (Karthik Anbarasan)
• SQL Server MVP Daily Paper and 31 Days of SSIS Conclusion (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION – Wait Type – Day 11 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Do Relational Database Vendors Care About Developers? (Karl Seguin)

 

SharePoint

• ­A step by step guide in designing BCS entities by using a SQL stored procedure (Jyoti Saikia)

 

Miscellaneous

• Pull Request Changes, Multi-Selection in Advanced View, and Advertisement Changes (Matt Hawley)
• Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate Product Guide and Internet Explorer Administration Kit 9 Release Candidate (MS Downloads)
• IE9 Release Candidate review: will Microsoft’s big browser bet pay off? and IE9 FAQ: how to install, uninstall, and tweak the IE9 RC (Ed Bott)
• ADIAD (Rod Paddock)
• Open Letter from CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft (Stephen Elop & Steve Ballmer)
• Starting and Stopping Services on Remote Servers using PowerShell (Steve Smith)
• Bing: Making search yours (Aidan Crook & Sanaz Ahari)
• Here’s a look at the Microsoft Log Parser from a different point of view, from the Computer Forensics’ side of the house OR Check out a ‘Query Analyzer/SSMS’ for Log Parser called Log Parser Lizard (Greg Duncan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 89 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily News Digest 02/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 9-Feb-2011 and 10-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links– 2010_06 (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 10th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for Jan 31- Feb 06, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #790 (Chris Alcock)

 

The Geek Shelf

iPhone for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul J. Deitel