Day: May 2, 2011

Top Links

• DZone Refcardz – Node.js: Building for Scalability with Server-Side JavaScript (Todd Eichel)
• ASP.NET MVC Compiled Views – Use Them (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Test don’t get no respect (Eric Brechner)
• A short story of walking the XAML tree (Gill Cleeren)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Custom LINQ Operators, Deferred Execution and Exceptions (Richard Carr)
• Customizing Visual Studio Extension Icon in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• RavenFS & Rsync (Oren Eini)
• System.ServiceModel.Web is missing in Visual Studio 2010 Console Application ? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WCF Data Services Processing Pipeline (Gil Fink)
• DBX vs. Visual Studio and WinDbg: Part 2D, Conditional Breakpoints (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Formatting strings in the .NET Micro Framework (Arian Kulp)
• Windows Azure Socket Shenanigans and Store and Forward (Christian Martinez)
• A better sample for the Netduino ShieldStudio 4-digit shield (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Service Released and notes on quotas (Jaime Alva Bravo)

 

Web Development

• Uploading File to server from ASP.Net client using WCF REST Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Encoding Video using Expression Encoder 4.0 and using it in an ASP.NET Website (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• ASP.NET GZip Encoding Caveats (Rick Strahl)
• ECMAScript.next features are taking shape (Axel Rauschmayer)
• 5 reasons to give node.js some love (Rob Ashton)
• Walking Through the Orchard Part 3 – BlogML Import and Rewrite Rules (John Papa)
• Working with Client-Side Storage Using datajs Store API (Gil Fink)
• How to store custom objects in web.config ? (Abhijit Jana)
• ASP.NET MVC: How to implement invitation codes support (Gunnar Peipman)
• Fluent Email Now Supporting Razor Syntax For Templates (Luke Lowrey)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• User Stories for Cloud Enterprise Strategy (JD Meier)
• Effective Tests: A Test-First Example – Part 5 (Derek Greer)
• New version of the Architecture Guidance (Cameron Skinner)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to Customize On-Screen Keyboard Layout in Windows Phone 7 application ? (Abhishek Sur)
• Creating Animated Splash screen in Windows Phone 7 (Abhishek Sur)
• Why I think you’ll like "101 Windows Phone 7 Apps" (Adam Nathan)
• Introducing Serene for Windows Phone (Brendan Kowitz)
• WP7 The Mask Way– Rating Control and More and WP7 – Data Between Pages – Part 1 (Shai Raiten)
• Silverlight MVVM, RIA, and Validation and Silverlight MVVM, WCF RIA Services Simple Sample Application and Silverlight/WCF RIA Single Property Validation (Deborah Kurata)
• Microsoft resource to make it easier for iOS developers to start working with Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Coming in Mango–Implicit Styles (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 154: ‘Going Independent’ panel discussion (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 396: Gears of War 3 Beta (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 237 – 04.29.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 86: Catch up, estimating and Azure (Michael Kimsal)
• TWC9 HouseBuilder, Solver Dev Labs Project, Windows Shell Extensions (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Weekly 206: I Thought About You In The Shower (Paul Thurrott)
• The GeekDads Episode #90: Was There Celery Involved? (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

 

Community / Events

• Just Tell Me Why (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Software Experts Summit 2011 (Grigori Melnik)
• Pluralsight Webcast: Agile Environments (Hadi Hariri)
• May Silverlight Giveaway by Visiblox, XCeed, First Floor Software and more! (Michael Crump)

 

Database

• A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 30 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – CTAS – Create Table As SELECT – What is CTAS? and SQL SERVER – Migration Assistant for Access, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase and SQL SERVER – Performance Improvement with of Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets in Denali (Pinal Dave)
• SSRS Report – No Page Breaks For You! (Steve Novoselac)
• BI Interview Questions…. (Kim Tessereau)
• TSQL – Select/Skip Top/Bottom N Rows – “Denali” Way (Vishal)
• Checkpoints and the Lazy writer (Martin Catherall)
• Physical Row Location (Jason Brimhall)
• Windows Azure Table Storage Tip (Nathan Totten)

 

SharePoint

• Building Small Apps in SharePoint (Joel Oleson)
• Association Columns (JongHwa Lim)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale (Jeff Atwood)
• Free Social Media Icons – Get your RSS/Facebook/twitter/etc/etc icons here (with PSD’s too) (Greg Duncan)
• As A Software Engineer, Do You Really Like Your Job? (Rob Diana)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 30, 2011 and Interesting Finds: May 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• This Week’s Link List (April 29, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• T-SQL, SQL Administration and SSRS Articles Link List – April 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream for April 30, 2011 — #1080 and Silverlight Cream for May 01, 2011 — #1081 (Dave Campbell)
• Monthly News Digest @SilverlightZone – April 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Web Dev Tweets 29-Apr-2011 and 28-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Retrospective 30 – #Agile, #Scrum, and #CSM Fun (Peter Saddington)
• 24 .NET Tips Links on ASP.NET C# MVC Silverlight Windows Phone – April 2011 (Abhijit Jana)

 

The Geek Shelf

jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery by Dan Wellman