Dew Drop – October 12, 2011

Top Links

• Reflecting on your comments on the Start screen (Steven Sinofsky)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Search Everywhere (Radhika Tadinada)
• Adding an Application Bar to your XAML Metro Applications. (Michael Crump)
• Windows 8 wish list: 10 Metro-style apps I want to see (Ed Bott)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Debugging Optimized Code in Visual Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 2 and What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 3 (Tarun Arora)
• FSharpChart new release available (version 0.55) (Carl Nolan)
• Large Object Heap And .NET GC Improvements (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Implementing Windows 8 Push Notifications – An Example (Peter von Lochow)
• The Cost of Async and Await (Jonathan Allen)
• Official release of “The Developer’s Guide to AppFabric" (Alan Smith)
• Creating a Distributed Computing System Using a Windows Azure Queue (Buck Woody)
• Devpad 4.4 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Few Nice features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview for ASP.NET Developers (Abhijit Jana)
• Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns (Addy Osmani)
• Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Consolidate Duplicate Conditional Fragments (Giorgio Sironi)
• KnockoutJS Custom Binding for Invoking an Action with Enter Key (Steve Michelotti)
• Share Your Windows Azure (Cloud Computing) Ideas (MS Public Sector Team)
• Backbone.js: Getting The Model For A Clicked Element (Derick Bailey)
• Modernizr.js : Feature Detection (K. Scott Allen)
• OAuth 2.0 in Web API (Howard Dierking)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Way of Success (J.D. Meier)
• Spiking RavenDB Design Decisions: Event Aggregation (Oren Eini)
• Event Sourcing as a strategic advantage (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New FREE e-book: Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• FSharpChart and WPF (Carl Nolan)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 1: Authorized navigation. (Kevin Dockx)
• 2000 WPF Things #406 – Creating New Controls by Layering One on Top of Another (Sean Sexton)
• Sending Windows Phone 7 Notifications from Ruby (Larry Franks)
• Quick Tip: Design-Time Views for Regions (Jeremy Likness)
• Accessing the Dispatcher Thread from your ViewModel (Mark Pearl)
• Background Audio (Jesse Liberty)
• A Touch-Scrolling Attached Behaviour for ScrollViewer (Matt Hamilton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET 4.5: Eric St. John – Reducing Reboots During Framework Installation (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 122: Bert Belder on porting Node.js to Windows (Jon Galloway)
• Engadget HD Podcast 269 – 10.11.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Ejecting USB devices, Game stopping Windows Button, Getting MKV File Thumbnails (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 120: Zune, Hotmail, Kinect, Steve Jobs and Office Show 911: The shortcut to keyboard shortcuts (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Some Great FREE Windows Phone and ALM Sessions coming to IL, IN and WI in November! (Angela Dugan)
• Project Lifecycle Management with EPM and TFS User Group MN Oct 21st (Charles Sterling)
• SQLAuthority News – SQLPASS – 100 SQL Wait Stats Book Print Copy Giveaway – A Book Every Minute for an Hour Tomorrow (Pinal Dave)
• PowerShell v3 at Deep Dive next week (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• My Silverlight, HTML5, OData and Kinect talks coming up. (Michael Crump)
• I’m Presenting at the New York City SharePoint Dev User Group Next Week (October 19th) (Andrew Connell)

 

Database

• Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server CTP3 (MS Downloads)
• Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server Code Name “Denali” (DRAFT Preview) (Devon Musgrave)
• Useful queries #3: Get SQL Server Edition, Version, Build and Last Update date and time. (Jose Chinchilla)
• Generate SQL Server Test Data (Rob Bowman)
• Remove All Foreign Keys (Sedat Salman)
• Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware (Glenn Berry)
• Using Custom Code Functions in Reporting Services Reports (Paul Turley)

 

SharePoint

• Deployment guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Profile synchronization guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• RTM’d today: Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

 

PowerShell

• Start Scheduled Task and Wait On Completion with PowerShell (Geoff Hudik)

 

Miscellaneous

• Three Reasons I Love Functional Programming (Alex Rønne Petersen)
• NoReplyAll Updated (Since I last installed it at least…) – Also see related the seven part "How it was built" series (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft and Oracle part ways over multitenancy in the cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
• Lessons From Steve Jobs (Stephen Forte)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 11, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #957 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/11/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 10/12/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 3-9, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Web Dev Tweets 10-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #728 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

The Geek Shelf

jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery by Dan Wellman