Top Links
- Reminder: BUILD 2012 registration begins Wednesday at 8:00 AM PDT (Devon Musgrave)
- Windows Store and Windows Phone Developer accounts for MSDN Subscribers (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Windows 8, XNA and MonoGame – Part 3, Code Migration and Windows 8 Feature Support (Bob Familiar)
- Setting up your own SymbolSource Server: step-by-step (Xavier Decoster)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Optional parameters interop: C# – F# (Mauricio Scheffer)
- ‘Stupid’ Question 17: Is use of Tuple, Anonymous Type and/or Out parameters a code smell? (Iris Classon)
- Sprache – A Monadic Parser For C# (Mike Hadlow)
- Microsoft updates Forms PropertyGrid to support dark theme in VS2012 (Koen Zwikstra)
- Porting a Windows Phone 7 application to Windows 8 and Walkthrough on becoming a Windows Store developer if you are registering as a company (Eric Nelson)
- From Soup to Nuts with RadControls for Metro (HTML5) (Michael Crump)
- UPDATED HOWTO: SQLite with Windows 8 apps (Tim Heuer)
- Metro Style App term replacement… "Windows Store" App? (Greg Duncan)
- Windows 8 Notifications: Local Notifications (Jim O’Neil)
- Why You Should not Use ToArray or ToList (Chris Eargle)
- Windows 8 Apps For the PhoneGap Developer (Glen Gordon)
- The New Read-Only Collections in .NET 4.5 (Eric Vogel)
- New in RavenDb Studio 1.2: Quick Links (Samuel Jack)
Web Development
- JavaScript: defining a property versus assigning to a property (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Configuration Tips For ASP.NET MVC 4 on a Windows Azure Website (K. Scott Allen)
- Where does ASP.NET Web API Fit? (Rick Strahl)
- node.js Version 0.8.6 (stable) (node.js Team)
- Controlling IIS7 Programmatically (Paul Stack)
- How to Use the Azure Node SDK to Browse Blobs (Nano Vazquez)
- HttpClient, HttpClientHandler, and WebRequestHandler Explained (Henrik F. Nielsen)
- WebGL Essentials: Part II (Gabriel Manricks)
- WebSocket Example With Keyword Highlighting (Raymond Camden)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0 EAP 121.12 (Alexey Gopachenko)
- Source Code Reader – Browse source code online (Rajeesh C V)
- Simple.Web and Nancy (Mark Rendle)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- New Agile Books (Jurgen Appelo)
- It isn’t a feature that is killing you, it is the intersection of features (Oren Eini)
- How Expensive is a "Waterfall" Project Plan? (Steven Lott)
- Computer Algorithms: Heap and Heapsort (Stoimen Popov)
- Article: Wireframes: A Great Way to Start Development Projects (Andreas Wulf)
- Make Technical Debt Explicit (Arnon Rotem-gal-oz)
- Time Management Tips #17-Identify Outcomes (JD Meier)
- [Free eBook] Top 30 Agile Myths – True or False? (Phil Japikse)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Navigating Between Views in WPF and Prism (Peter Vogel)
- Docking For WPF– AvalonDock (Roopesh Shenoy)
- 2000 WPF Things #620 – Why Are There So Many KeyPress Events? (Sean Sexton)
- Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications – Part 1 (András Velvárt)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Interview with Iris Classon: How She Became a Developer in Less Than a Year (Aaron Skonnard)
- 023 JSJ Phantom.js with Ariya Hidayat (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
- Ping 149: The Outlook is good, body controlled PC’s, Win8 RTM, Paid apps | Ping! (Laura Foy, Paul Mestemaker & Golnaz)
Community / Events
- Meet the Author: Kate Gregory on Building Windows 8 Metro Apps with C++ and XAML (Paul Ballard)
- Geek Graduates: A New Hire Reflects on 6 Months at Microsoft (Thomas Kohnstamm)
- Author news: Charles Petzold interviewed by Sara Faatz (Devon Musgrave)
- Now a Master of Science (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Windows 8 Dev Camp in Albany – 8/16! (Jim O’Neil)
Database
- How To Support Multiple SQL Server Package Configurations in SSIS (Ray Barley)
- Variables And Expression in SSIS and Package Configuration In SSIS (Keshav Singh)
- SQL SERVER – Clustered Index and Primary Key – Contest Win Joes 2 Pros Combo (USD 198) – Day 3 of 5 (Pinal Dave)
- Really? Still Fighting About SQL vs. NoSQL? (David Ramel)
SharePoint
- Registering SharePoint 2013 High-Trust Apps Using S2S the Easy Way (Andrew Connell)
- SharePoint Fundamentals – How do I programmatically get a reference to a SharePoint site following Best Practices using C# (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
- Introducing Napa – A Web Based IDE for Outlook/SharePoint (Jonathan Allen)
PowerShell
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Windows PowerShell for Developers – $8.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
- View Flat File Contents Using PowerShell (Bradley Schacht)
Miscellaneous
- Introducing New Facebook Mobile Ads for Apps (Vijaye Raji)
- Facebook SDK 3.0 for iOS (Jason Clark)
- Microsoft IT: How we rolled out Windows 8 to 30,000 users (Mary Jo Foley)
- Setting up a Minecraft Server (or other software) in the Cloud on a Windows Azure Virtual Machine (Brian Noyes)
- Go download the new version of Windows Photo Gallery 2012 (Aaron Bregel)
- The new Windows Essentials 2012 is out with an updated Movie Maker and Photo Gallery. But DON’T install it if you want to keep using Live Mesh! and It’s a sweet suite! Windows Sysinternals Suite gets a summer refresh [August 3, 2012]… (Greg Duncan)
- Make Your Job Feel Less Like Work with "20% Time" [Balance] (Jeff Atwood)
- Book Preview: DevOps for Developers (Michael Huettermann)
- Microspeak: planful (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 8, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #932 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1163 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-08 (Dan Rigby)
- Recommended reading from mrdenny for August 07, 2012 at 03:15PM (Denny Cherry)
- Daily Windows Phone Development News 7 Aug 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Geek Shelf
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ISBN: 0596806752 |
JavaScript Patterns (9780596806750): Stoyan Stefanov: Books
Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) (9780596510046): Andy Oram, Greg Wilson: Books
A Programmer's Guide to C# 5.0 (9781430245933): Eric Gunnerson, Nick Wienholt: Books