Tag: metro

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2012 RTM!! (Charles Torre)
• Six years of WPF; what’s changed? (Paul Stovell)
• CQRS Journey is Worth the Trip (Jon Wagner)
• How Nuget could improve (Paul Stack)
• Walkthrough: Getting started on your first Single Page Application (Brad Severtson)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Self “joins” in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• XML Documentation Cross-References (Richard Carr)
• Access Thousands of R Statistics Packages from F# 3.0 (Don Syme)
• Detection keys for Visual Studio 2012 (Heath Stewart)
• ‘Stupid’ Question 14: What is a ’Tuple’ in C#, and what can we use it for? and Example Metro app /WinRT: How to change the style of the radiobutton (Iris Classon)
• Synchronous Client Server Application in C# (Pavithra Gunasekara)
• The future of "C# in Depth" (Jon Skeet)
• New in RavenDb Studio 1.2: Better document editing (Samuel Jack)
• Windows 8 Developer Resources: Windows 8 Camp in a Box, Release Preview Edition and Windows 8 Developer Resources: Programming Windows 8 Apps (eBook) (Zhiming Xue)
• Getting paid from the Windows Store (Antoine Leblond)
• FORFILES, for your fancier batch file enumeration needs (Raymond Chen)
• Restricting Access to Properties in NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
• Quick start on Mass Transit and MSMQ on windows (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Windows 8 Notifications: Image Handling and Windows 8 Notifications: Leveraging Azure Storage (Jim O’Neil)
• RavenDB – using the uniqueconstraint bundle (Gregor Suttie)
• AutoMapper’s ForMember (Geoff Hudik)
• Getting going with the Kinect for Windows (Greg Duncan)
• The Release Preview edition of Programming Windows, Sixth Edition is final (Devon Musgrave)
• Kinect for Windows Developer Toolkit v1.5.2 (MS Downloads)

 

Web Development

• Building Single Page Apps with HTML5, Knockout, jQuery, and Web API – Part 4 – Serving JSON with ASP.NET Web API (John Papa)
• ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls with Client-Side Functionality (Alex Schimp)
• Get The Real Dimensions of an Image Using jQuery (Chris Love)
• New in PowerShell 3: Parse HTML without IE object (unless a local file) (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• JavaScript Data Binding with AngularJS Part II – Binding a View to a Controller/ViewModel (dwahlin)
• What’s Next for ASP.NET Web Optimization (Howard Dierking)
• Developers and ASP.NET: Whats Next? (Jeff Martin)
• How to Fetch Twitter Profile Information using jQuery? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Server Side Timer in an ASP.NET MVC application using SignalR (Sumit Maitra)
• IIS 8 And Web Deploy 3.0 – A Closer Look (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Task Scheduling with Windows Azure Web Sites using a Cron Job Service (Nathan Totten)
• Sencha Touch 2 Models – Custom Validation Functions (Jorge Ramon)
• Using Wijmo in JSFiddle (Kevin Griffin)
• Windows Azure Storage plugin for WordPress (Doug Mahugh)
• Introduction to Kuma: Templates and scripts (Eric Shepherd)
• IIS Express: HTTP and HTTPS (Christopher Geers)
• Hands-on Backbone.js Screencasts (Derick Bailey)
• Content Picker in Orchard CMS With Content Type Filtering and Search (David Hayden)
• Windows Azure Storage Plugin for WordPress Updated! (Brian Swan)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC – Part 2 (Russell Thatcher)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Do We Communicate? and Agile Results on a Page and The Values of Agile Results and Time Management Tips #15 – Make Lists for Action (JD Meier)
• Mocking HttpRequestBase.ServerVariables using Moq (Chris Pietschmann)
• How To Talk To Employees (Phil Haack)
• Automated error reporting: the beginning of a beautiful relationship? (Laila Lotfi)
• Planning your Personal Planning Poker cards (and how to create your own, such as LOLCATS cards) (Greg Duncan)
• ‘Stupid’ Question 15: What does ’Code-smell’ mean, and where does the term come from? (Iris Classon)
• Advice on how to learn as a Software Developer (Dave Bost)
• Simple Cheat Sheet to Sprint Planning Meeting (Derek Huether)
• Why grunt? Why not something else? (Ben Alman)
• Waterfail (Brendan Enrick)
• Becoming an Agile Coach – Tips for Engaging Agile Workshops (Peter Saddington)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• THE open source WinForm & WPF docking library gets overhauled and a new version two, AvalonDock v2’s! (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #618 – Keyboard Event Summary (Sean Sexton)
• How to detect whether Music is playing in WP Background (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 446: Mars Lander, Deadlight and the Transformers Demo (Larry Hyrb)
• The M-Word Developer Podcast Episode 078 – “Anyways … No M Word” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Tablet Show – Jeffrey Fritz Unit Tests Javascript in Windows 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TWC9: Windows 8 & VS 2012 RTM, Writing Test Adapters, FoxIE, HTML5 and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Cloud Cover Episode 85 – Windows Azure, Windows 8, and MVC 4 Demos | Cloud Cover (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• Start Up Success Podcast #147 – Show #79 Facebook for Startups – Victoria Ransom, Wildfire Interactive (Bob Walsh)
• The Vergecast 041 – August 2, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Backup to Basics – Free Video (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Video: Peeling the Onion Architecture of an N-Tier Application (Paul Ballard)
• What The Tech 127: Paul Goes To France and Windows Weekly 272: Big Boy Outlook (Paul Thurrott)
• GeekWire Podcast: Where The Hell is Matt? On our show! (Todd Bishop)
• Engadget Podcast 304 – 08.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Free One-Day Windows 8 Developer Event: DevCamp Public Sector Series and Windows 8 DevCamps 2012 and Windows Azure DevCamps 2012 and Windows Phone DevCamps 2012 (Zhiming Xue)
• Author news: Vittorio Bertocci on Windows Azure Authentication Library (Devon Musgrave)
• Nerd Nite No. 17, August 8, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• Vote for the sessions you want to attend at the Web.NET Conference (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Database

• Calculate the Geographical Distance Between Two Cities in SQL Server (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: 8117: Operand data type bit is invalid for sum operator and SQL SERVER – Query Hint – Contest Win Joes 2 Pros Combo (USD 198) – Day 1 of 5 (Pinal Dave)
• Converting between Azure Tables and CSV (Mike Stall)
• Initialize a Transactional Replication from a Database Backup (Aschen Brennan)
• Recovering from out-of-disk space conditions for tempdb (Basit Farooq)
• AdventureWorks database for SQL Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

PowerShell

• Top 10 API Worst Practices (Adam DuVander)

 

Miscellaneous

• Inside Microsoft Research: Kodu Update Lets Kids Explore Mars (Rob Knies)
• Bing Wallpaper and Screensver Pack: London (MS Downloads)
• What’s in a name? The fate of "Metro" (Brent Schooley)
• Just as I was getting ready to test OneNote, I saw a bunch of free Microsoft ebooks (John Guin)
• A "snark-free" post on the Metro naming debacle* (Caution: May contain snark) (Matthew Baxter-Reynolds)
• Windows 8 Terminology and Concepts (Rockford Lhotka)
• Is Stack Overflow “secure”? Kind of… (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 4, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 5, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 3, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Friday Five – August 3, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #930 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #23 (Mary Lou)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #30) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily News Digest 8/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1161 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-06 (Dan Rigby)
• Pie in the Sky (August 3, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Retrospective 94 – Agile Coach Workshops and the 8 C’s (Peter Saddington)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 3 Aug 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for July 23 – 29, 2012 (Dave Campbell)

 

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