Day: July 19, 2012

Top Links

• Windows 8 gets a date: 10/26 (Todd Bishop)
• Using the new Office with touch (Gray Knowlton)
• Introducing Service Bus for Windows Server (Service Bus 1.0 Beta) (Manoj Talreja)
• Using your feedback to make Narrator work better with touch (Steven Sinofsky)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• TFS Heads to the Clouds (Mickey Gousset)
• Benchmarque – Comparative Benchmarking for .NET (Chris Patterson)
• Using the C# Interactive Window that comes with Roslyn: Part 2 (Filip Ekberg)
• How Exactly ReSharper 7 Supports Visual Studio 2012 (Hadi Hariri)
• RavenDB… What am I persisting, what am I querying? (part 3) (Phillip Haydon)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Eager Loading Multiple Collections (Ricardo Peres)
• Windows 8 Dev Tip: Animating Attached Properties (Dan Rigby)
• Generation App: You can develop a Windows 8 app in 30 days (Doris Chen)
• HealthVault SDK (MS Downloads)

 

Web Development

• Getting StructureMap to Work with MVC4 RC and Web API (Steve Smith)
• Introducing Workflow 1.0 On-Premise and Beyond (Brendon Birdoes)
• Asynchronous Javascript Advice (Jeff Blankenburg)
• .NET HTML Sanitation for rich HTML Input (Rick Strahl)
• Twelve Commandments Of Software Localization (Zack Grossbart)
• Curtain reveal effect using CSS (Ryan Seddon)
• Customize Json result in Web API (Ugo Lattanzi)
• Windows Azure Storage – 4 Trillion Objects and Counting (Brad Calder)
• New Connection Pattern in the PHP Client Libraries for Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• YUI TreeView Beta Moves to Gallery and YUI 3.6.0 PR4 Now Available (Allen Rabinovich)
• Getting your own bus, as in Server Bus for Windows Server. Downloading and Hosting the Service Bus 1.0 (Greg Duncan)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: REST in Practice – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• chibi – A tiny JavaScript micro-framework (Kyle Barrow)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Values, Principles, and Practices of Agile Results (JD Meier)
• Becoming an Agile Coach – 5 Tips for Multiple Coaches at a Client (Peter Saddington)
• Lean Tools: Perceived Integrity (Giorgio Sironi)
• What’s New in DDD: New Book and Samples (Rinat Abdullin)
• A Team of Leaders (Abel Avram)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App: Age Tracker(Source Code) (Adam Benoit)
• Circular Context menu in WPF (Ajosh Jose)
• Calling all word nerds: Coin a term, win a Windows Phone (Michael Stroh)
• 2000 WPF Things #606 – Reusing an Existing Routed Event in Your Class (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone: Shake (it) (Sumit Dutta)
• New and Improved Office Integration Pack Extension for LightSwitch (Beth Massi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Bruce Lawson Has Responsive Web Design (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Make SQL Server Drop the Wait (Paul Ballard)
• The Role of the Cloud Architect – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Verge Mobile Show 008 – July 17th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Defrag: Season 2, Mapped Drive Not Connecting, RAID 0 with SSD’s | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 146: Ballmer speaks out, Halo movie, Kinect Playfit, Father blames Xbox LIVE | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 187: Grant Ingersoll on the Solr Search Engine (SE-Radio Team)
• Boagworld: Talking about client relations (Paul Boag)

 

Community / Events

• I’m Speaking at SP Tech Con in Boston Next Week (Andrew Connell)
• Geek of the Week: Paul Elwork, Author of The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead (Eric Smith)

 

Database

• SSIS-Handling package failures when the input file is not found (Jacob Sebastian)
• SSRS does not require IIS (James Serra)
• Using Hashbytes to track and store historical changes for SQL Server data (Christian Allaire)
• Using Cell-Level Encryption in SQL Server (Basit Farooq)
• Execution Statuses [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• Save 50% on SQL Server 2012 ebooks from Microsoft Press–Sale ends tomorrow, July 19, 2012 (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – Find Column Used in Stored Procedure – Search Stored Procedure for Column Name – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Query Stress Tool (John Sterrett)
• Plan Caching and Query Memory Part 1: When not to use stored procedure or other plan caching mechanisms like sp_executesql or prepared statement and Plan Caching and Query Memory Part 2: When not to use stored procedure or other plan caching mechanisms like sp_executesql or prepared statement (Ramesh Meyyappan)
• CASTs become CONVERTs in computed columns with implications for SSDT (Jamie Thomson)
• Merge Replication Baseline Collector (Ted Krueger)
• Troubleshooting SQL index performance on varchar columns (Jimmy Bogard)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Workflow – Advanced Workflow Debugging with Fiddler (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2013 – my view on what’s new (particularly for developers) (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell 3.0 Dynamic Type Data (Adam Driscoll)
• Windows PowerShell Web Access – Installation guide II (Kriti Jindal)

 

Miscellaneous

• Dear JobsBlog: How do I Prepare for a Marketing Interview at Microsoft? (MS JobsBlog)
• A closer look at the upcoming Office Web Apps Preview (now available!) (damaster)
• Nokia shuts down main store in Helsinki for September re-launch—something big planned (Daniel Rubino)
• Zoho Office Integrates with Google Drive (Naveen Venkat)
• Reading a memory.dmp or other .dmp file (Scott Forsyth)
• Microsoft Open Source Project Directory (Microsoft Open Source)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 19, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1149 (Chris Alcock)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 07.11 ~ 07.18 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading July 18, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #918 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-19 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily WP Development News 18 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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