Day: July 24, 2012

Top Links

• Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics (Steven Sinofsky)
• Office Preview – Getting Started Guide (Gray Knowlton)
• Windows Runtime Support in ReSharper 7 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Building Single Page Apps with HTML5, Knockout, jQuery, and Web API – Client Technologies (John Papa)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Awesome RavenDB Feature of the day: Evil Patching (Oren Eini)
• F# PacMan! (Greg Duncan)
• EF5, Data Annotations, Namespaces and Targeted .NET Versions (Julie Lerman)
• CommonLibrary.NET 0.9.8.6 – Final Release (CodePlex)
• What’s New in C# 5.0 – Learn about CallerLineNumber Attribute (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Top 5 New Features in Visual Studio 2012 (Paul Ballard)
• Rebooting Topshelf for Version 3 (Chris Patterson)
• Debugging WinRT/XAML bindings (Andrej Tozon)
• Get All Types in an Assembly (Phil Haack)
• Creating beautiful views for local files (Marc Wautier)
• A timing update for the Programming Windows, Sixth Edition eBook (Devon Musgrave)
• Inside A DLR Language – IronJS (Roopesh Shenoy)
• WaitHandle.WaitAll throws NotSupportedException when joining more than 64 WaitHandled (Sebastian Dau)
• What’s new in GC in CLR 4.5 from our team blog (Maoni Stephens)

 

Web Development

• An easy way to write an integration test with Web API (Ugo Lattanzi)
• A Discussion About CSS Reusability (Chris Coyier)
• What are the Most Valuable Tools for HTML5 Development? (Dio Synodinos)
• New Course: MVC 4 Fundamentals (Jason Salmond)
• Simulating The Letterpress: From Live Filters In Fireworks To CSS Code (Jose Olarte)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: HTML5 Cookbook – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Refactoring away from spaghetti PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
• Captcha Mvc 2.0.1 (CodePlex)
• Understanding Design Patterns in JavaScript (Tilo Mitra)
• Facebook Apps and Windows Azure Web Sites (Part 1 – Getting Started) (Nathan Totten)
• JS Bin: Built For Sharing, Education And Real-Time Rendering (Remy Sharp)
• A ViewModel Walks Into a Bar and Gets Knocked Out (Kevin Griffin)
• Hands-on Windows Azure Services for Windows (Maarten Balliauw)
• Opera Mobile Emulator from the command line (Karl Dubost)
• Apply and arrays: three tricks (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• That’s Not Agile!? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Agile Coach – 5 Tips for Building Relationships at a Client (Peter Saddington)
• Beyond Agile Estimation Part II: Improving Your Metrics (Stephen Forte)
• The Fabled Design Method – Part 2 (Devin Jordan)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Integrating Services into a WPF Composable Application (Peter Vogel)
• Disabling Design Time Data in a Windows Phone Application (Nick Randolph)
• Augmented Reality with SLARToolkit on Windows Phone (Greg Duncan)
• Using a provisional WinRT port of SilverlightSerializer to store state in MVVMLight ViewModels (Joost van Schaik)
• WPF Tree View with Multiple Levels (Paul Sheriff)
• 2000 WPF Things #609 – Perform Initialization in Window.Loaded Handler (Sean Sexton)
• Creating a Simple Particle Effect With XNA For WP7 (Toni Petrina)
• Optimizing XamDataGrid Scrolling Performance Using Simplified Templates (Kiril Matev)
• PhoneGap 2.0, the Adobe cross-platform development platform, adds more features as well as other improvements (Rich Edmonds)
• Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook (Matt Duffield)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 062: The Paleo Solution with Robb Wolf (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Michael Heydt Develops with TPL Dataflows (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 194 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones on his forthcoming books and more (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Exterminate Common jQuery Bugs Video (Elijah Manor)
• Asynchronous Programming in .NET 4.5 (Video) (Michael Kennedy)
• Sebastien Ros Introduces Orchard 1.5 | Web Camps TV (Brady Gaster)
• Jose creates 9 new samples for Windows 8 (Brennon Williams)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for July 23rd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Announcing the CloudyDeveloper.com Blog (MS Web Dev Tools Team)
• Curious who won the World Imagine Cup 2012 Software Design? (Susan Ibach)
• Launch your Windows 8 App in 30 Days (Bob Familiar)

 

Database

• SQL Server Queries With Hints (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL Server 2012: Migrating BLOBs to FILETABLEs (Matija Lah)
• Video: Scripting SQL Server with PowerShell (Paul Ballard)
• Book Review: “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Programming” by Itzik Ben-Gan et al (Sam Abraham)
• SqlXml 4.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) (MS Downloads)
• SQL 2012 evaluate installation requirements (Katie & Emil)
• "Connect" an Excel 2010 Slicer to an unrelated object. (Joshua Fennessy)

 

SharePoint

• O’Reilly deal of the day 24/July/2012 – Selected Sharepoint books (Tatworth)

 

Miscellaneous

• Building "ListViews with Dynamic Data" on Android (Carlos Sessa)
• The Presenter’s Bill of Rights (Brent Ozar)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 24, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading July 23, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #921 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Maker Geek Roundup 016 for 7/23/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Daily News Digest 7/24/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1152 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-24 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for July 23, 2012 – #0106 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Azure Resources (Chris Koenig)

 

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