Dew Drop – September 19, 2011

Top Links

• Released: Project Silk Client-Side Web Development for Modern Browsers (Karl Shifflett)
• Using System.Reflection.Emit in a Windows 8 Metro style Application (Jason Bock)
• WinRT is your friend (Josh Smith)
• Demystifying the Windows 8 Grid Application (Bil Simser)
• PlayStation Suite SDK beta coming in November, offering new games in spring 2012 (Richard Lai)

 

Windows 8

• The 300+ Features We Weren’t Shown In Windows 8 (Robert Boland)
• Windows8 StartMenu v1.0.0 (CodePlex) – Win8 gadget to switch Metro start menu on/off.
• Microsoft to release Windows 8 Beta on September 30th? (Zac)
• Windows 8 Gives New Life to Older Hardware (Karl Shifflett)
• First look at Windows 8 application as a developer (Andrej Tozon)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Data Schema Comparison in Visual Studio 2010 (Atul Verma)
• F# Type Providers – Querying StackOverflow (Daniel Mohl)
• Queued WCF Services, MSMQ, IIS7 and NetMsmqActivator. Oh My. (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• TFS Azure: Set up Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS Azure (Tarun Arora)
• Learning about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers and how they embrace products announced at //BUILD/ (Willy P. Schaub)
• WinRT and .NET and WinRT and business apps and CSLA on WinRT (project start) (Rockford Lhotka)
• Under the Covers of WinRT Using C++ and Metro .NET Framework Profile (“Windows Tailored”) and Improvements in the CLR Core in .NET Framework 4.5 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• New Versions of StyleCop have been released (Tatworth)
• Welcome to Zombieland, the Metro Style Land of WinRT and the Undead (Rene Schulte)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Merge and NHibernate Pitfalls: SELECT N + 1 and NHibernate Pitfalls: Fetch and Lazy (Ricardo Peres)
• Developing for WinRT and Windows8 – Basic Concepts (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Dependency Management in .Net (Derek Greer)
• ROSLYN: Complier as Service ? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Code Navigation and Search with Telerik Just Code (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Sort Generic List Using Lambda Expression For Dynamic Type And Dynamic Property (Jebarson Jebamony)
• Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part II) – Using NUI APIs with Camera and Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part III) – Adjusting the Kinect Camera Angle (Abhijit Jana)
• First example of a very simple type provider (Robert Pickering)
• Deep dive in Process template’s states and transitions (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Windows 8 Development Tip – ObservableCollection doesn’t work and Windows 8 Development Tip – Packaging and loading files (Avi P)
• Links to C++ AMP and other content (Daniel Moth)

 

Web Development

• Stability in Insertion Sort (Julian M. Bucknall)
• What about Metro JS Projects and jQuery? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Unobtrusive AJAX with Rails 3.1 (Samnang Chhun)
• Creating Gradients With Compass and SASS (Paul Cowan)
• todomvc – MVC Todo apps for JavaScriptMVC, SproutCore, Backbone.js, Spine.js, YUILibrary, Knockout.js and more (Addy Osmani)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Render unto Caeser the things which are Caeser’s and unto the Designer… (Daniela Panfili)
• Enterprise Service Buses, Brokers, Message Queues, Oh My! (Peter Ritchie)
• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit 3.3 (Yann Trevin)
• Connector: Simple, zero friction Github –> AppHarbor integration (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• How to Setup Sprint or Iterations in a Telerik TeamPulse Project? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Worst Code I Ever Wrote, And Why I’m Still Happy About It (Davy Brion)
• Observations on the Play! framework (James Gregory)
• The Little Things Add Up (Karl Seguin)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 2 : Improved WeakEventManager (Jonathan Antoine)
• How to use WPF controls in DXCore Tool Window plug-in (Alex Skorkin)
• Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone Application Performance analysis (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Binding Image, Brush or Color to Background property in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• HelloTiles – A Simple C# Xaml Application for WinRT/Windows8 to demonstrate Metro Tile Updates (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• 2000 WPF Things #389 – Wrap a Panel in A ScrollViewer to Provide Scrolling Support (Sean Sexton)
• Win8, Metro Apps and Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Phone7.Fx is now available on codeplex (Nicolas Humann)
• Why all the "WPF/SL is gone" claims make no sense (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Cross Document Messaging (xdm) and How Do I: Create Ribbon Controls (Part 1) and MSDN Radio: Exploring SharePoint and Silverlight with Paul Stubbs (MS Podcasts)
• Technology & Friends Episode 174: K Scott Allen on MVC3 (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 034 – “Live from BUILD 2011″ (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 411: Deus Ex, Gears of War 3 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• A Look At Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Weekly 226: Live From Anaheim and the BUILD Conference: Windows 8 Revealed (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft interns are the first Windows 8 developers (MS JobsBlog)
• This is my next Podcast 024 – 09.17.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• The GeekDads Episode #100: The First Internet Streamed Murder (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Camps (Boston, Burlington, New Paltz, and more!) (Jim O’Neil)
• All Good Things (John Papa) – Good luck, John!
• SharePoint Conference Party Best Practices #SPC11 (Joel Oleson)

 

Database

• Have end users who need an introduction to SQL Server book? (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – String Function – FORMAT() – A Quick Introduction and SQLAuthority News – Automation of Data Mining Using Integration Services and SQLAuthority News – Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse Using the Kimball Approach and SQL SERVER – Denali – Date and Time Functions – DATEFROMPARTS() – DATETIMEFROMPARTS() – DATETIME2FROMPARTS() – TIMEFROMPARTS() – SMALLDATETIMEFROMPARTS() – DATETIMEOFFSETFROMPARTS() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
• Delete all data from a database (Jamie Thomson)
• Find the largest tables in a database (II) (Jeffrey Yao)

 

SharePoint

• 10 Top Resources for SharePoint Developers (Avi Hein)
• Opening Files in the Browser with SharePoint and Adding Ratings and Comments to SharePoint Publishing Pages (Bil Simser)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Script To Traverse All Sites In SharePoint 2010 (or 2007) Farm (Brian Jackett)

 

Miscellaneous

• Paint.NET v3.5.9 Beta (build 4278) is now available (Rick Brewster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 17, 2011 and Interesting Finds: September 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #940 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading September 18, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 11-September-2011 to 17-September-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Double Shot #711 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 16th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 09/17/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 09/19/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook by Jason Dentler