Month: February 2011

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

• Creating a NuGet Package in 7 easy steps – Plus using NuGet to integrate ASP.NET MVC 3 into existing Web Forms applications (Scott Hanselman)
• Idle Detection and Running under Lock on your WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Axum and the new Visual Studio Async CTP (Don Burnett)
• Collaborative design (Simon Brown)
• IE9 on Windows Phone (Dean Hachamovitch)
• CSS Support in ReSharper 6 (Jura Gorohovsky)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio and IE9 start playing nice again (Jef Claes)
• F# Intellisense in Emacs – in progress (Laurent Le Brun)
• WCF – interchangeable data-contract types (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Accessing the Toolbar Inside Tool Windows with the Keyboard (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Change the default Icon on your jQuery UI Accordion (Hajan Selmani)
• Basic JavaScript Part 10: The Module Pattern (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Revisiting Charting with ASP.NET and LINQ (K. Scott Allen)
• W3C Says Final HTML5 Spec is Due in 2014 (Katie McKinsey)
• (pre)Maturely Optimize Your JavaScript (Kyle Simpson)
• jQuery CSS Property Monitoring Plug-in updated and Monitoring Html Element CSS Changes in JavaScript (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Write a Lean and Agile Contract (Dan Puckett)
• The President and the CEO of an Application (Jay Fields)
• Three Components of a Successful Project (Brian Swan)
• Using Generic TestFixtures To Run Tests In Multiple Browsers With WatiN (Davy Brion)
• Telling the complete story (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)
• Getting Friendly With Presets, Part III (Elliot Meacham)
• Introducing the CachedRepository Pattern (Steve Smith)
• YouTrack as a Hosted Service Goes Beta! (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Garbage-Collected Teardown (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Accelerating the Windows Phone Ecosystem (Andy Lees)
• Make YouTube links Windows Phone 7–compatible (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 Tombstoning with MVVM and Sterling (Jeremy Likness)
• WPF 4: Parallel processing of the Data using .NET 4 Parallel Extension Capabilities (Mahesh Sabnis)
• New Release: ReactiveUI 2.1 (Paul Betts)
• Silverlight 4: Interoperability with Windows 7 Taskbar using COM (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight 4 February 2011 Update Released Today (Tim Heuer)
• WP7 – Backup Service (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• Windows Phone 7’s multitasking uses zoomed-out cards to check on your apps (Tim Stevens)
• 9 of 10 – Make your life easy. Use our common controls, and use them right! (Alfred Astort)
• Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.1 (CodePlex)
• Building the Next Great Mobile Software Developer Opportunity (Terry Myerson)
• Talking about Data Binding in WP7 | Coding4fun TextBoxBinding helper in depth (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Entering the WebMatrix! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 105: Brad Wilson on MVC 3 (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 139 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brian and Ben from DevFarm (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Interview with Gearbox co-founder Brian Martel about Duke Nukem Forever (Tina Wood)
• Windows Phone 7 announcements from Mobile World Congress 2011 and Ping 92: Cut & Paste on Windows Phone, Kinect rocks, Team Coco, Halo reach wins (Laura Foy)
• Video: Reactive Phone Programming For Windows Phone 7 (Jesse Liberty)
• Pluralcast 36: K. Scott Allen on MVC 3 (David Starr)
• Authors Cast: Scott Millett on Professional ASP.NET Design Patterns (Lee Dumond)

Community / Events

• Community, community, community, community… (Paul S. Randal)
• Microsoft Career Conference 17th Feb (Rob Miles)
• Speaking at Dahlgren .NET Users Group (Kevin Griffin)
• Richmond Code Camp XI (Kevin Hazzard)
• Events This Week – February 14th, 2011 and Richmond Code Camp XI – Call For Speakers is Open! (DEvHammer)
• New Group – Agile Lean Europe (ALE) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Agile & Scrum Training (Michelle Flynn)
• Kanban workshop for leader/managers–Part II (Dror Helper)
• MVPs for Office 365: MVP Award Program Interviews our Office 365 Guest Bloggers! (Lonnie Webb)
• Finding love at Microsoft: A story of bowling, bug fixes and business (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• Another SQL Server FILESTREAM Best Practice guide (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – LCK_M_XXX – Wait Type – Day 15 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Can I Add Controls to a Reporting Services Report? (Paul Turley)
• Heap Inserts and Replication (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

• Designing Dashboards and Scorecards using SharePoint PerformancePoint Services 2010 and SSAS – Part 2 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• The Importance of Net Neutrality (Jeff Atwood)
• WinZip releases new System Utilities Suite, we go hands-on (Erez Zukerman)
• What would Feynman do? (Eric Lippert)
• Developers, is the Nokia-Microsoft deal good for you? (Joe Wilcox)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: App Savvy – $11.99 (Save 50%) Code DDSVE (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup 059 for 2/14/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 182 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 14 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #792 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 14th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for February 14, 2011 — #1047 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 02/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Coding4fun: 10 .Net Programming Projects for Wiimote, Youtube, World of Warcraft, and More by Dan Fernandez & Brian Peek