Dew Drop – July 2, 2011

Top Links

• Huge wave of official apps arrives at Windows Phone Marketplace; reaches 25,000 apps (damaster)
• From Silverlight To HTML5 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Web Workers in IE10: Background JavaScript Makes Web Apps Faster (Travis Leithead)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Video LINQ with SQL Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Entity Framework June 2011 CTP: TPT Inheritance Query Improvements and Entity Framework & WCF Data Services June 2011 CTP : Auto Compiled LINQ Queries and Entity Framework/WCF Data Services June 2011 CTP: Derived Entities with Related Data (Julie Lerman)
• Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 5, Monitoring Processes (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Microsoft makes the source available for the app that’s going to be used for Bing’s Streetside Wi-Fi/Cell Tower/GPS data gathering (i.e. see some of the code the Bing Streetside cars will be using as they [war]drive around your neighborhood) and XNA Game Development, from Beginner to Semi-Pro from the horse’s mouth (so to speak) (Greg Duncan)
• Quick Tip: Fixing those Stubborn References (Jeremy Likness)

 

Web Development

• News roundup: Paper.js, Fathom.js, test262 (Michael Kimsal)
• ASP.Net GridView with LinqDataSource (Dhananjay Kumar)
• MVC 3, "Third Times a Charm" references (Leon Bambrick)
• YUI and Loader changes for 3.4.0 (Dav Glass)
• Automatic ETag Management with Web API Message Handlers (Howard Dierking)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Web work: Not for the insecure? (Jessica Stillman)
• Feature Folly (Jim Highsmith)
• Ayende’s DDD Application: Macto (Oren Eini)
• OSS on Github – Tips and Tricks (Josh Arnold)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Convention Based View Model Location using Ninject in a MVVM/Silverlight Application (Derik Whittaker)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 116: Eric Lawrence on Fiddler, IE Internals, and HTTP (Jon Galloway)
• Engadget Podcast 246 – 07.01.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Flight Kintroller Using Kinect for Windows SDK (Zhiming Xue)
• Cloud Cover Episode 49 – Access Control in the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 (Steve Marx)
• The Office Show: Office 365 – Part One (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• TWC9: Office 365, Internet Explorer 10 PP2, Choosing the Right collection class, ToneCheck (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 023 – “NDAs of Our Lives” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Windows Phone Radio – 34 (Brian Seitz)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft scoops 7 IDEA awards for design excellence (Steve Clayton)
• 20+ Rubyists to Follow on Google+ (Satish Talim)
• It’s OK to Ask and Answer Your Own Questions (Jeff Atwood)

 

Database

• FileLinking Using SSIS (Brian K. McDonald)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 2 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Quiz–June 2011 (William Vaughn)
• SQL Functions – ROW_NUMBER() (Vishal)

 

SharePoint

• 10 Best Practices and Recommendations for SharePoint 2010 SP1 and June 2011 CU (Joel Oleson)
• Localizing the SharePoint User Interface by Using Resource Files (Sanjay Arora)

 

Miscellaneous

• First step for Xbox LIVE on Windows 8: Games for Windows Marketplace merging with Xbox.com (damaster)
• Service Pack 1 is available for OneNote (and Office) 2010 (John Guin)
• Developer API for Google+: It’s coming (Rafe Needleman)
• Windows Live Writer – blogging’s unsung hero (Andrew Spooner)
• The Engadget app for Windows Phone is here (Tim Stevens)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 1, 2011 and Interesting Finds: July 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 109 (Scott Banwart)
• Today’s Links (7/1/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• This Week’s Link List (July 1, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Retrospective 29 – Certs and Agile Walkthrough (Peter Saddington)
• Link dump for July 1st (Jeff Schoolcraft)

 

The Geek Shelf

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