Month: August 2011

Top Links

• Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Release Candidate on Microsoft Downloads (Greg Duncan)
• Optimization and generics, part 1: the new() constraint and Optimization and generics, part 2: lambda expressions and reference types (Jon Skeet)
• Quick Update on Mango App Submissions (Todd Brix)
• Visual Studio Extensions worth checking out… (Jax)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introduction to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Static Code Analysis (aka FxCop) – Simple Code Analysis (Zain Naboulsi)
• EF 4.2 Beta 1 Available (EF Team)
• Interface Attributes != Class Attributes (Brad Wilson)
• Introducing ORM Profiler. Beta-testers wanted! (Frans Bouma)
• An Object Lesson in Binary Compatibility (Sharon Cichelli)
• Tasks vs ThreadPool (Sacha Barber)

 

Web Development

• News roundup: vintageJS, accounting.js, spin.js (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating a Podcast Player with HTML5 for a IE9 Pinned Site on Windows 7 and SlowCheetah – Web.config Transformation Syntax now generalized for any XML configuration file (Scott Hanselman)
• MVC Scaffolding Course on Pluralsight–Free for the Next 24 Hours! (Steve Michelotti)
• Stack Exchange API: the Good and the Bad (Romin Irani)
• Minimalistic CouchDB Client for node.js (Alex Popescu)
• A Simple 2-Column Layout in Razor (K. Scott Allen)
• ASP.NET MVC Plus – KnockoutJS Demo (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is it really agile? (Paul Stack)
• How to engage the next generation (Bill Wagner)
• Challenge: Recent Comments with Future Posts (Oren Eini)
• Managenerds! Hire smart people and let them be smart! (David Lemphers)
• The Cowboy Coder (Chris Eargle)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 3: From UX to UI (Evan Hutnick)
• Behind the Scenes with the TeamPulse Team – Part 1 (Joel Semeniuk)
• Delight Your Stakeholders (Jurgen Appelo)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Blend Drawing Tips (John Papa)
• Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part1: key concepts and API (Windows Phone Geek)
• I thought I knew you WP7 TextBlock and Button… But maybe not well enough… Let’s review… (Greg Duncan)
• Resharper-style Error Template for WPF (LearnWPF)
• Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.4.6 (CodePlex) – This will be the last 7.0 release, all future releases will target 7.1
• Windows Phone 7 Settings & The ToggleSwitch Control of Toolkit (Parvez Ansari)
• WP7Contrib – Tombstoning Part I The View (Richard Griffin)
• Maintaining a Project with Two Windows Phone Versions (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Visual State Manager (VSM) (part 1) (Alex Mukora)
• 2000 WPF Things #370 – Binding a Label’s Content to the Current Date and Time, part II (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Loren Goodman Programs By the Rules! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 67 – Sam Saffron and Performance Optimization at StackOverflow (Richard Banks)
• Coding Naked (err… I mean live video/screen casting of you coding) with CastingCode.tv (Coming soon…) (Greg Duncan)

 

Community / Events

• SharePint @ the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA (Andrew Connell)
• Speaking at the Philly Day of Agile (Jim Holmes)
• The Philadelphia Day of Agile Conference (Stephen Forte)
• Saying thanks to OSS maintainers (Gregory Brown)
• Upcoming Events for August 22nd, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New England Mobile .NET Developers’ Meetup (Jim O’Neil)
• CodeMash Call for Submissions Opening 15 September (Jim Holmes)
• PyCodeConf Ticket Give-away (Kami Lott)
• Xbox 360 at PAX Prime 2011 (Larry Hryb)
• Philly Geek Awards: Recap and Thank You’s (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
• Official site of AutoMapper launched at AutoMapper.org (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 CTP and Microsoft SQL Server code name ‘Denali’, Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP 3) (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server: Limit Millisecond Part in DateTime2 Datatype (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Introduction to Views – Day 23 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Book Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook (Thomas LaRock)
• T-SQL to find Fragmented Indexes (Vinay Pugalia)
• Autogrow bug – fixed with Denali (Henrik Sjang Davidse)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint in a SQL Server environment (Paul S. Randal)
• SharePoint Online Development Options (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• What to do when you aren’t getting promoted (Chris Smith)
• Remote Desktop Administration Options (Chris Love)
• Compile PowerShell scripts to exe (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Careers 2.0: Export And Apply With Your Profile (Nick Larsen)
• Building robust USB 3.0 support (Steven Sinofsky)
• Preview of Google TV Add-on for the Android SDK (Tim Bray)
• Microsoft should still be a platform company (Todd McKinney)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 08.17 ~ 08.22 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading August 22, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Salmagundi for Monday, August 22, 2011 (Joey deVilla)
• Daily Links 22/08/2011 (Jax)
• Link dump for August 22nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Today’s Links (8/22/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #922 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/22/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 08/22/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for August 15-21, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 22-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for August 22, 2011 — #1135 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 22 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Brian Knight