Month: August 2012

Top Links

• jQuery 1.8.1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• My Favorite Visual Studio 2012 Features (K. Scott Allen)
• ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms Tutorial Series Published – 10 Tutorials (Erik Reitan)
• Build Single Page Apps – Part 9 – Navigation, Transitions, Storage, and Messaging (John Papa)
• This is the Samsung ATIV S, the first of many amazing Windows Phone 8 devices coming this year (Ben Rudolph)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• NuGet Perf, Part III–Displaying the Packages page and NuGet Perf, Part IV–Modeling the packages (Oren Eini)
• Lazy Initialisation with Lazy (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts (Brian Harry)
• Changing fields on the Visual Studio Extension Gallery page and Clearing the credentials for connecting to a Team Foundation Server (Charles Sterling)
• OData 101: Bin deploying WCF Data Services and OData 101: Using the [NotMapped] attribute to exclude Enum properties (OData Team)
• Tips: keyboard shortcuts (Nick Maidment)
• WCF Data Service 5.0.2 Released (WCF Data Services Team)
• Learning Path: C# – 24 Hours to Becoming a C# Master (Fritz Onion)
• Watch out for VS2012 EDMX Code Generation Special Case (Julie Lerman)
• Windows 8 Development–When Your UI Thread is not Your Main Thread (Mike Taulty)
• In C# Passing Delegate As Parameter, Then Executing on Return (Peter Kellner)
• Visual Studio Plugin: stop build at first error (Ricci Gian Maria)
• C++/CX Part 0 of [n]: An Introduction (Visual C++ Team)
• New Items in ReSharper 7! (Tatworth)
• Using the Microsoft Ad SDK in Windows 8 (Matt Harrington)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Custom Types and Detecting Changes (Ricardo Peres)
• Simple.Data 0.18 / 1.0.0-rc1 (Mark Rendle)
• ‘Stupid’ Question 33: Why was the DLR and Dynamic keyword introduced in .Net? and WinRT app guide: Step 4: Adding RadControls for WinRT/Metro (Iris Classon)
• 30+ Excellent Windows 8 Development Tutorials (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Announcing BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP Availability in Windows Azure Virtual Machines (Himanshu Singh)
• dotCover 2.1 Beta is available (Daria Dovzhikova)
• New Hierarchical Views in ReSharper 7 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• LLBLGen Pro feature highlights: model views (Frans Bouma)
• Microsoft’s Azure Mobile Services… and MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
• RadControls for Metro (XAML)–Date and Time Pickers (Jesse Liberty)
• Getting Started: Authoring HTML for Windows 8 Apps using Blend for VS 2012 (Kirupa)
• Convert C# to VB or Vice Versa with Visual Studio 2012 and Adding Tools to Visual Studio 2012 (Deborah Kurata)
• Getting Started: XAML Authoring with Blend for VS 2012 (Harikrishna Menon)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Editors: How to get started and improve productivity and experience (Damyan Petev)
• Simple Way to Toggle on Hover with CSS (Deran Schilling)
• A guide to asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET Web API RTM (Filip W)
• Getting Symbols and Source with ASP.NET Nightly NuGet Packages (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• New Course: Single Page Apps with HTML5, ASP.NET Web API, Knockout and jQuery (Jason Salmond)
• SimpleMembership, Membership Providers, Universal Providers and the new ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC 4 templates (Jon Galloway)
• Giving Data to JavaScript (K. Scott Allen)
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Handler Factories (Ricardo Peres)
• One Line CSS Mobile Framework (Vladimir Carrer)
• Fixing hash DoS good and proper (and breaking ASafaWeb) (Troy Hunt)
• Multiple Area Charts with D3.js (Tyler Craft)
• CRUD demo in Node.js with Windows Azure SQL Database (Shiju Varghese)
• Using JSON.NET for dynamic JSON parsing (Rick Strahl)
• Download My Web Apps Have HotKeys Too Sample App (Michael Kennedy)
• Painting the DOM to Canvas with Domvas (Paul Bakaus)
• Announcing AT&T API Platform SDK 2.1 (Kevin Cassidy)
• Jade support in WebStorm 5 (Kirill Safonov)
• Exploring Device Orientation and Motion (Abu Obeida Bakhach & Jacob Rossi)
• jsfiddle.net – what is it and why is it so useful? (Gregor Suttie)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0 RC 121.150 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• The Zen of Python (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NServiceBus Security Issue Fixed (Udi Dahan)
• My Top 5 Best Ways to Improve Your Productivity (Paul Stovell)
• Pluralsight Top 10: Building a Great Software Development Team (Keith Brown)
• Evolutionary Project Structure (Jimmy Bogard)
• Leadership Tip–Vent Up! (D’Arcy Lussier)
• The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part III (Bob McIlree)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Emulator Color Render Issue – Fix (Malcolm Jack)
• Update WriteableBitmapEx for WinRT RTM, WPF, Windows Phone and Silverlight (Rene Schulte)
• 2000 WPF Things #636 – Keyboard Events that Fire When A Key Is Held Down and #637 – Block Repeating Keys by Setting Handled to true (Sean Sexton)
• Gesture-Driven To Do List Article Wins CodeProject Monthly Competition (Colin Eberhardt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Chris Patterson Builds MassTransit (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 149 – What I Did With My Summer Vacation (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Building Office and SharePoint Apps with "Napa" and Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Microsoft DevRadio: Top 10 Windows 8 Secrets for App Success (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Verge Mobile Show 014 – August 28th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• ShopTalk Episode 31 (Chris Coyier)
• Podcast: Better Requirements to Make Better Products (Kim Spilker)
• Video: Get the Big Picture on Big Data with Hadoop and Azure (Paul Ballard)
• What The Tech 130: Patent Wars (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – The one with Brian Keller (Martin Woodward)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – HTML5 for .NET Developers (Ryan Parsley)
• Defrag: Clearing Frequent List, Keyboard Shortcuts, Window Always On Top | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Boagworld – Do you make users go ooh! (Paul Boag)
• ADPEast 2011 – Tom Paider and Dustin Potts – Going Big with Agile, Lean and CMMI at Nationwide (Bob Payne)

 

Community / Events

• I’m presenting at SharePoint Live in Orlando, FL on SharePoint 2013 December 10-14, 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Jobs in IT: The Hottest New Careers in Tech (MS JobsBlog)
• MVPs Showcase Their Skills, Win Awards at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (MVP Award Program)
• UXAustralia my take-away opinionitis filled rant. (Scott Barnes)
• Come join us at Build Blogger Bash! (Kip Kniskern)
• Mark your Microsoft calendars: Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 launch dates revealed (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Database

• SSRS Textbox Tips and Tricks (Scott Murray)
• Recover access to a SQL Server instance (Aaron Bertrand)
• SSAS Interview Questions on Deployment, Processing, Querying, and Accessing (Dattatrey Sindol)
• SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 3 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Beginning of SQL Server Architecture – Terminology – Guest Post and SQL SERVER – Error: Fix – Msg 208 – Invalid object name ‘dbo.backupset’ – Invalid object name ‘dbo.backupfile’ (Pinal Dave)
• Install product update during SQL 2012 installation (James Xu)
• Survey: transaction log files per database (code to run) (Paul S. Randal)

 

SharePoint

• Packaging List, Site, and Reusable Workflow and How to Deploy the Package (JongHwa Lim)

 

PowerShell

• Wintellect Code All in One Place (John Robbins)

 

Miscellaneous

• Bill Nye declares Todd Akin "fucking idiot"; issues debate challenge (Jason Weisberger)
• Atari Online: IE Brings Classic Games to the Web with HTML5 and Multi-touch (Tobin Titus)
• Getting OneNote text saved as PDF looking as expected (John Guin)
• How to install unsigned drivers in Windows 8 (Martin Brinkmann)
• Pinning Useful and Obscure Stuff to the Windows 8 Start Menu (Scott Hanselman)
• Will.I.Am Says Coders Are Today’s Rock Stars (Todd Olmstead)
• Nokia Lumia 820, 920 leak out: PureView coming to Windows Phone (Phone Arena Team)
• Windows Phone 8 to get new “Kid’s Corner” parental control feature (damaster)
• Microsoft unveils Samsung ATIV-S Windows Phone 8 device (Daniel Rubino)
• First wave of Xbox LIVE games that will be coming to Windows 8 (Larry Hyrb)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 30, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 31, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 170 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading August 30, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #946 and Double Shot #947 and Double Shot #948 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 8/30/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/31/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-30 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-31 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1178 and The Morning Brew #1179 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for August 29, 2012 – #0120 and Windows Dev News for August 30, 2012 – #0121 (Dave Campbell)

 

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