Tag: c#

Top Links

• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 3) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 22: Why Collaboration Matters (A Real World Example) (Jim Holmes)
• Channel 9 New feature: your own personal video queue (Duncan Mackenzie)
• The Likes & Dislikes of Microsoft in 2011 (Scott Barnes)
• Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology (Soulskill)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• XML Documentation Comments (Richard Carr)
• I am reviewing Microsoft’s 70-515 C# exam PrepKit from UCertify (Abhishek Sur)
• Getting Assembly Information Using Reflection (Michael Ceranski)
• With Windows 8 Metro HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/WinRT, Read Any File From Project Directory and Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background (Peter Kellner)
• Working with DatePicker control in Windows 8 HTML5 Metro App and Working with Message Dialog Control in Windows 8 HTML Metro App (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Hashtables vs. Arrays (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• New GhostDoc Pro in Beta soon (Tatworth)
• New Resharper Code Style Sharing in v6.1 Features. (Mark Pearl)
• Mapping and Auto-Mapping Objects (Elton Stoneman)
• Graphite with .Net and Ubuntu 11.10 (Henrik Feldt)
• Sandcastle Help File Bbuilder v1.9.3.3 Beta 1 (VS2010 Support) (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 10 – Running a JavaScript Map/Reduce Job from Interactive JavaScript Console (Avkash Chauhan)
• HTML5 Progress Bars (Chris Coyier)
• ASP.NET Tutorial – Creating Web.Config file (Chris D.)
• Introduction to Column Hiding in jQuery igGrid (Jordan Tsankov)
• CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 1 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• CSS Selector Profiler, Source Mapping and Software Rendering (Peter Beverloo)
• Checking if a view has changed in ASP.NET (Tim)
• APIs in 2012: Predictions From the Experts (Adam DuVander)
• Day 11 – Animating with sprite sheets (Val Head)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 4 (Dan Wellman)
• Batman.js: Micro-framework with macro features (Dave Mahon)
• IE9 not rendering box-shadow Elements inside of Table Cells (Rick Strahl)
• Do you need to worry about the cookie crisis? (Paul Boag)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Automating PHPUnit Tests in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• The Value is in the Change (J.D. Meier)
• Out of context, architecture is nothing but modern art (Oren Eini)
• Testing Rendered Output of NancyFx with the Razor View Engine Gotchas (Bobby Johnson)
• More flexibility at work equals better health, new study confirms (Jessica Stillman)
• Formula for project success (Jimmy Bogard)
• Management Myth, Myth of 100% Utilitization Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• Donald Reifer: “Software Change Management: Doing More With Less” (Devon Musgrave)
• xUnit.net 1.9 (CodePlex)
• Interview: Jeff Sutherland: Are Agile Teams Truly Agile? (Jeff Sutherland)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to launch Call Task from Secondary Tile in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Running Windows Phone Unit Tests via MSBuild (Francis Cheung)
• WPF TextBox With Ellipsis (Mark)
• 2000 WPF Things #465 – Using GridSplitters with Nested Grids (Sean Sexton)
• Vibrating the phone (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 5 Security: Designed for the Intranet (Jonathan Allen)
• Seven Silverlight snippets you can not live without (Loek van den Ouweland)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C++ and Beyond 2011: Scott, Andrei and Herb – Ask Us Anything (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #156: Persistence, for Realsies (James Shore)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 35 (Richard Hay)
• The Vergecast 008 – 01.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hot Apps: Minesweeper, Cheezia. Interior Design, Talking Alien, Zombie Squish (Laura Foy)
• The GeekDads Episode #106: Skylanders Farming (Ken Denmead)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 3rd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Maine’s First SharePoint User Group (Jim O’Neil)
• Engadget’s 2012 CES Preview (Engadget staff)

 

Database

• CSV to SQL Server Compact scripting utility (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding Identity Beyond its Every Increasing Nature – Quiz – Puzzle – 3 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment service released (Denis Gobo)
• Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Notes on Scalability (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft patent could signal Xbox digital video recorder (Greg Lamm)
• Metro Style Desktop Wallpaper Calendar – January 2012 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Cropping screenshots in OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
• Learn to Code in 2012 with Free Weekly Programming Lessons from Codecademy [Programming] (Melanie Pinola)
• UX service consulting: It’s all about motivation! (Miao Wang)
• 5 Awesome Learning Resources For Programmers (To help you and your kids to grow the geek neurons) (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Holo Everywhere (Tim Bray)
• Windows Phone partners bet $100M on Nokia Ace (Ed Oswald)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #788 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 04/01/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 1/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1014 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/03/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 03, 2011 – #0021 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Oracle Database 11g The Complete Reference (Oracle Press) by Kevin Loney