vs11 – Page 30 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – September 28, 2011

Top Links

Recap: Windows Phone 7.5 “a breath of fresh air” (Michael Stroh)
Exploring Windows Phone 7.5’s Web Marketplace. And a surprise new feature! (Ben Rudolph)
Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update begins (Eric Hautala)
September 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

Compiling Unsafe Code in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
Highlighting Execution Hot Path in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler Call Tree (Abhijit Jana)
Background Transfer Download Sample For C# In Windows 8 (Karsten Januszewski)
Day 2: Building a Metro App with Visual Studio 11 Express (Stephen Forte)
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Quick Launch (Zain Naboulsi)
Asynchronous Operations in Windows 8 with the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) (Visual C++ Team)
Setting up a NuGet repository in seconds: MyGet public feeds (Maarten Balliauw)
Keep it secret, keep it safe (Eric Lippert)
Wiimote Kinecting Music with Holofunk (Greg Duncan)
What’s happening on the NuGet feed (leveraging OData in an RSS reader) (Jason Jarrett)
Environments for Windows Azure development (Tom Hollander)
Announcement: Namespace Global (Lucian Wischik)

Web Development

Building Offline Experiences with HTML5 AppCache and IndexedDB (Israel Hilerio)
What’s New in HTML5 – Markup and More ! and A Useful Firefox Plugin for Web Developers – Firesizer (Joe Stagner)
Massive’s Dynamic Query Syntax (Rob Conery)
Large Ruby File Downloads Done Right! (Dan Watson)
PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP #108.1421 (Alexey Gopachenko)
YUI 3.4.1 is now live (Allen Rabinovich)
Adding A ‘has_image?’ Matcher To Capybara (Derick Bailey)
Come Node With Me – The Working Man’s Introduction to Node.js (Drew Peterson)
Search for code duplicates in PhpStorm (Eugene Kudelevsky)
A Guide to Wijmo Theming (Kevin Griffin)
Running Processes in Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)
SassAndCoffee 1.1 issues with AppHarbor (Paul Betts)
Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6 (Paul Irish)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT) (Laurent Bugnion)
NServiceBus Modelling Tools (Udi Dahan)
Don’t give a chicken access to your schedule / feature set (Oren Eini)
Scrum Sprint Monitor v1.1.0.292 (CodePlex)
Good Collaboration: Bringing Devs and Testers Closer and Wrapping Performance Testing Introduction: What to Monitor (Plus Learning Resources) (Jim Holmes)
Meddlers (Free Exercise) (Jurgen Appelo)
Continuous Integration: Why You Don’t Really "Get It" (Mitch Pronschinske)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

pInvoke in Silverlight5 and .NET Framework (Alexandra Rusina)
The Top 10 Over-Engineering Mistakes in Silverlight Applications (Jeremy Likness)
Know About WP7 System Tray – Tips to Show or Hide it (Kunal Chowdhury)
Enumerating Printers using PInvoke in Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
2000 WPF Things #396 – Rich ListBox Content Using Data Binding, part II (Sean Sexton)
RadMap for Silverlight – How To Consume Tiles from Local Server (Telerik Silverlight Team)
Wiring up an AutoCompleteBox to a JSON Service in Silverlight (Steve Smith)
Developers get MORE with Windows Phone 7.5 (Todd Brix)
Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 3 – Adding wind effect (Lazar Nikolov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET 4.5: David Kean and Mircea Trofin – Portable Libraries (Charles Torre)
End User Adoption and the SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide with Rob Bogue-Episode 67 and SharePoint Pod Show Road Trip and Chat with Latasha Battle-Episode 68 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
Engadget HD Podcast 267 – 09.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Ping 118: Windows Phone wins people choice, Windows makes a difference, Clinton & Gates, Symbian developers (Laura Foy)
Let’s Play TDD #143: File → Save As… (James Shore)
Boagworld: Working with WordPress (Paul Boag)
Check It Out: Mouse Without Borders (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

Attend a Windows Phone Camp…Win a New Phone! (G. Andrew Duthie)
Upcoming Free HTML5 Training in West Region (Doris Chen)
Event: Meet Microsoft Press authors at Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 (Kim Spilker)
October 4th to 6th–FREE Online Conferences on Phone, Azure and IE (Eric Nelson)
The Magic Behind the Curtain: Celebrating Microsoft Research’s 20th Anniversary (Jeffrey Meisner)
I’m speaking at the Northern Virginia Code Camp THIS WEEKEND! (Kevin Griffin)
Moving Along (Michael Swanson)
October Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)

Database

SSIS Child Errors in Parent Package (Mike Davis)
SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV Enhancement – sys.dm_exec_query_stats – New Columns (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Implementing Claims-Based Authentication with SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
compare sharepoint site permissions and clone permissions (Brett Lonsdale)

PowerShell

Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft and mindshare: can Mango be cool in the mall? (Kip Kniskern)
MSDN Magazine: October Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
How to update your Windows Phone (Luke)
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango review (Brad Molen)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading September 27, 2011 (Rob Diana)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/27/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
The Morning Brew #947 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 09/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 26-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
Silverlight Cream for September 27, 2011 — #1151 (Dave Campbell)
Double Shot #718 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0), The (4th Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Anders Hejlsberg

del.icio.us Tags: vs11,vs2010,powershell,windows azure,sql server,sharepoint,windows phone,tdd,silverlight,wpf,ajax,ruby,winrt,c++,webstorm

Dew Drop – September 26, 2011

Top Links

Writing F# Type Providers with the F# 3.0 Developer Preview – An Introductory Guide and Samples (Don Syme)
Using Entity Framework Code First with Stored Procedures that have Output Parameters (Dan Wahlin)
Raising the right PropertyChanged with C# 5′s Caller Info Attributes (Rob Fonseca-Ensor)
Are You a Software Developer — or a Leader? (Eric Spiegel)
Why no ForEach method on IEnumerable interfaces (Mark Zhou)

.NET / Visual Studio

Integrate Validation Block with WCF (Ercan Anlama)
How to change Default Performance Report Name in Visual Studio 2010 ? and Setting Up Noise Reduction Option for Performance Reports in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Abhijit Jana)
C# Runtime Compilation (Richard Carr)
What’s new in C# 5.0 and VB.Net? (Samuel Jack)
Dynamic Properties 1.0.0.0 (Tomáš Jecha)
Setting the Initial Rotation in a C# Metro Application and Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 1 and Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 2 (Derik Whittaker)
FSharp for beginners : Finding Square of Range of Numbers in F# (Dhananjay Kumar)
Working with Many-to-Many Relationships in OData via WCF Data Services (Nick)
Installing TFS 11 Build Server from the BUILD Conference in Anaheim (Tim Elhajj)
WCF in .NET 4.5/Visual Studio 11 (Sam Gentile)
ReadOnlyDictionary in .net 4.5 and Solution Explorer gets new features in VS 2011 (Arun Mahendrakar)
An example of inheritance gone wrong (Joh)
Telerik OpenAccess ORM – What’s new in the latest internal build (OpenAccess ORM Team)
Matching Records (Phillip Trelford)
Bidirectional Entity Foreign Key Names in EF Code First (Steve Smith)
Solution for “Tool makepri.exe cannot be found. Please install Windows Modern SDK” (Kunal Chowdhury)
Dealing with types in WinRT and Detecting design mode in Windows 8/WinRT and Quick tip: Select the correct INotifyPropertyChanged in Windows 8 / WinRT and Quick tip: Killing a Metro-style app in Windows 8 and Breaking change: Raising PropertyChanged with string.Empty in WinRT / Windows 8 and Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT) (Laurent Bugnion)
LLBLGen Pro, Entity Framework 4.1, and the Repository Pattern (Matt J. Cowan)
Internals of .NET Objects and Use of SOS (Abhishek Sur)
Unintended Api Changes – .NET 4.0 Breaking Changes (Alois Kraus)

Web Development

Consuming Cross-Domain WCF REST Services with jQuery using JSONP (Gary Stafford)
Selecting and Installing JavaScript Developer Tools for Linux and The Difference between HTML DIV and HTML SPAN (Joe Stagner)
jQuery: Collecting the results from a collection of asynchronous requests (Mark Needham)
(Yet another) nHibernate sessionmanager for ASP.NET (MVC) (Peter van Ooijen)
10 articles on ASP.NET MVC Extensibility to land on Simple-Talk in the next months (Simone Chiaretta)
ECMAScript.next: new details, reacting to Dart complaints (Axel Rauschmayer)
Show raw Text Code from a URL with CodePaste.NET (Rick Strahl)
Rail 3.1 CI setup with Jenkins, Test Unit & SimpleCov on OS X Lion. (Ryan Svihla)
RFC: Web Platform Installer (WebPI) with an offline feed mode for bandwidth savings (Scott Hanselman)
Facebook Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love (Daniel Andrés Torvisco)
rails_best_practices 1.0.0 & 1.0.1 released (Richard Huang)
Ruby 1.9.3 Release Candidate 1 Released (What’s new?) (Peter Cooper)
JSON Stock Queries (Omar Shahine)
WebForms MVP New Release 1.4.0.0 – Castle users *must* update (Tatham Oddie)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Type Code with Subclasses (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Even Backlogs Need Grooming (John Sonmez)
A Kanban Visualisation TIP (Karl Scotland)
"Strict" Unit Testing — Everything In Isolation Is Too Much Work (Steven Lott)
Selling Features We Don’t Have (Mike Cottmeyer)
JustMock Q2 2011 SP1 Internal Build (Chris Eargle)
Adopting the Metro Style for Line of Business Apps (Bil Simser)
NCrunch (William E. Kempf)
In Retrospect: About Requirements Management (Dennis Doomen)
Some Thoughts On Service Oriented Architecture (Mike Hadlow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

WPF 4.5 – Part 7 : Accessing collections on non-UI Threads and WPF 4.5 – Part 8 : No more airspace problems (Integrating WPF with win32) (Jonathan Antoine)
Physics Helper XAML for Metro WinRT (Andy Beaulieu)
Getting around the Caching in the Silverlight Image Control (Derik Whittaker)
Fetching selected value from List Box in Silverlight and Local Database application for windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
2000 WPF Things #394 – Specify Canvas Child Element Position Using Two Properties (Sean Sexton)
Drag and Drop in 30 Seconds (Jesse Liberty)
XNA to SilverXNA-part 7 Breaking the mould (Simon Jackson)
Visual State Manager and Coroutines (Nigel Sampson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 018: Joel gets an MBA in LEGO (Mark Frauenfelder)
Coding QA Episode 65 – Testing Strategies for a Toaster (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
TWC9: Build Sessions, VS 11, MoXaml Power Toys, Sync Fx Toolkit (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Nic Fillingham)
Herding Code 121: Sara Chipps updates us on Girl Develop It at one year (Jon Galloway)
Technology & Friends Episode 175: Richard Campbell on Windows 8 and Build (David Giard)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 035 – “Is That A Sea Ray In Your Pocket!?” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 412: Gears of War 3 launch (Larry Hyrb)
Episode 160 – PowerScripting Podcast – Boe Prox on PoshPAIG (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Gillmor Gang 9.24.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
Engadget Mobile Podcast 105 – 09.24.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Cloud Cover Episode 59 – Using the Windows Push Notification Service with Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
Start Up Success Podcast Show #121: Marc Köhlbrugge, founder Betali.st (Bob Walsh)
The Engadget Show – 025: We ride an electric bike, check out the new Keepon and get serenaded by Jonathan Coulton (Brian Heater)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Ryan Dunn Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Windows Weekly 227: We’re Having Twins! (Paul Thurrott)
This is my next Podcast 025 – 09.23.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
Scaling with RavenDB video (Oren Eini)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 71 – Jake Ginnivan on the Intricacies of COM Interop and VSTO (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

Tulsa Tech Fest – October 7th – Top 3 reasons you should go! (Caleb Jenkins)
It’s that time of year again: CodeCamps! (John Petersen)
The //Build Report–Thoughts on the Event (D’Arcy Lussier)
Killer Build Interviews and XAML Sessions. (Michael Crump)
Presenting “Taking Baby Steps with Node.js” at Agile.NET 2011 Europe (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Database

SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2 Available at PASS 2011 Summit (Glenn Berry)
Download all SQL Server DENALI CTP3 Demo VHD 36 files at once (Jose Chinchilla)
PerformancePoint – Using SSAS Actions (Devin Knight)
SQL Server Job Monitoring (OceanWanderer)
SQL SERVER – Denali – Download CTP3 Demo VHD Including Fully Configured Services and Integration with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 and SQLAuthority News – Online Session – Ancient Trade of Performance Tuning – Index, Beyond Index and No Index (Pinal Dave)
Aggregates with multiple tables (Naomi Nosonovsky)
Reporting Key Errors can be time-consuming (Chris Webb)

SharePoint

Miscellaneous

Building WebKit on Windows (Ashod Nakashian)
Announcing BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed (Charles Young)
Bounty Reasons and Post Notices (Jeff Atwood)
Windows 8. “Don’t worry, nothing has changed for traditional desktop development” And that’s the problem (Jeremiah Morrill)
Scala: Replacing a trait with a fake one for testing (Mark Needham)
Yes, Google Drive Is Coming. For Real This Time. (MG Siegler)
Running Windows Programs on Linux – a tutorial. (Joe Stagner)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 24, 2011 and Interesting Finds: September 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2011 09.20 ~ 09.25 (yuanjian)
Distributed Weekly 121 (Scott Banwart)
The Morning Brew #945 (Chris Alcock)
Geek Reading September 24, 2011 and Geek Reading September 25, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Links of the week #162 (David Vidmar)
Pie in the Sky (September 23, 2011) (Brian Swan)
Interesting .NET Links – September 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Link dump for September 24th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
Windows Client Developer Roundup 082 for 9/26/2011 (Giant Post-Build Edition) and The Maker Geek Roundup 001 for 9/26/2011 (Pete Brown)
Double Shot #716 (Mike Gunderloy)
Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 — #1148 and Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 – 2 — #1149 (Dave Campbell)
Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 18-September-2011 to 24-September-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Retrospective 51 – #Giveaway and #Agile #Videos (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter

del.icio.us Tags: vs2010,vs11,winrt,f#,c#,silverlight,wpf,windows phone,jquery,asp.net mvc,sharepoint,sql server,entity framework,kanban,windows 8,code camp,powershell

Dew Drop – September 23, 2011

Top Links

AutoMapper 2.0.0 released (Jimmy Bogard)
Writing a Recipe for ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview (Phil Haack)
Dependency Injection Is NOT The Same As The Dependency Inversion Principle (Derick Bailey)
Code First Migrations: Alpha 3 Released (EF Team)
Using Any Test Framework in VS11 (Jason Bock)

.NET / Visual Studio

Creating Parallel Tasks (Richard Carr)
Installing TFS 11 Developer Preview (Nicolas Humann)
Working with Windows Azure on the Windows Developer Preview of Windows 8 (Eric Nelson)
Kinect SDK Block for Cinder and other Kinect Experiments and Making Visual Studio 11 Dev Preview Help point to VS11 based MSDN content (and not VS10 content, as it does now) (Greg Duncan)
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Testing Documentation (Howie Hilliker)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: String Padding and Trimming – Not Just for Spaces! (James Michael Hare)
JustCode Support for Visual Studio 11 (Just* Team)
From the MSDN Library: Master WCF for More Advanced Applications (Mike Desmond)
Community TFS 2010 Build Extensions – September 2011 (Mike Fourie)
Convert NUnit To MSTest Unit Test (Shai Raiten)
Code Review Workflow in Visual Studio vNext – Visual Studio 11 / TFS 11 (Subodh Sohoni)
TFS 2011 Code review missing features! (Tarun Arora)
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Find & Replace (Visual Studio Team)
TextAnalysisTool.NET to Windows 8: "Y U no run me under .NET 4?" [How to avoid the "please install .NET 3.5" dialog when running older .NET applications on the Windows 8 Developer Preview] (David Anson)
XNA to SilverXNA-part 6 Adding a bit of Flash (Simon Jackson)
WinRT and the Paradox of Choice (Steve Smith)
Windows Forms Modular App using MEF (fmsalmeida)
Scripting with Mono (Timo Heinäpurola)
Using Logging Application Block with Windows Azure (Rohit Gupta)
So, what’s new in the CLR 4.5 GC? (Maoni Stephens)
Sync Framework Breaks Platform Barriers (Jenni Ripley & Roopesh Shenoy)
Adding References To System Libraries In Windows 8 and Navigation Sample For Windows 8 Metro Style Apps Using .NET and .NET Metro Surface Area (Karsten Januszewski)
SQL Server Compact Toolbox available for Visual Studio 11 (Erik EJ)
Entity Framework 4 – When you can use Parameterized Constructors in Select (Jake Rutherford)
Code First Migrations: Alpha 3 ‘With-Magic’ Walkthrough (Automatic Migrations) and Code First Migrations: Alpha 3 ‘No-Magic’ Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
Empowering Enums (Chris Eargle)
Kinect – First steps (Christian Jacobsen)

Web Development

jQuery and the not selector (John Whish)
Simple MVC 2 Pager (Doug Lampe)
Phar: PHP libraries included with a single file (Giorgio Sironi)
Scaling Windows Azure Roles using Ruby (Larry Franks)
Some Updates to Waz-Cmd (Ruby Command-Line Tool for Windows Azure) and Extension Methods for the August 2011 Windows Azure Storage Features (Steve Marx)
Page Inspector for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Jorge Gabuardi Gonzalez)
CoffeeScript support in WebStorm/PHPStorm 3.0 (Alexey Gopachenko)
An Alternate Approach to a GridView – Part 2 (Paul Sheriff)
WebMatrix 2 Beta Adds PHP IntelliSense (Mitch Pronschinske)
node.js: child_process.exec not returning all results (Mark Needham)
YUI 3.4.1 PR1 Now Available On CDN (Jenny Donnelly)
Short List of RESTful API Frameworks for PHP (Kin Lane)
Article: Multi-Process Node.js: Motivations, Challenges and Solutions (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
Sueetie Now Supports Authorize.Net Advanced Integration API (Dave Burke)
f8: A New Class of Apps (Bret Taylor)
How to Get Diagnostics Info for Azure/PHP Applications–Part 2 (Brian Swan)
Create An Animated Bar Graph With HTML, CSS And jQuery (Derek Mack)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Tip #8 – Planning and Learning (Aaron Bjork)
CQRS EventStore v3.0 (Jonathan Oliver)
Scrum is hard to adopt and disruptive to your organisation (Martin Hinshelwood)
Agile and Culture (Peter Saddington)
Lightweight Documentation… Not Lightweight Thinking (Mike Cottmeyer)
How Non-negotiable Features Kill Software Products (Matthias Marschall)
Be Balanced When Deciding on Application Architecture (J. Boyer)
Not Every Test Should be Automated! (Jim Holmes)
Growing Ideas – How to Influence Creation and User Experience Prototyping – An Alternate View (Stuart Mayhew)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Fun with TouchDevelop, an IDE for Windows Phone 7 (Justin James)
Windows Phone 7: UDP performance (Peter Kuhn)
WPF 4.5 – Part 4 : the new Binding’s ‘Delay’ property and WPF 4.5 – Part 5 : the new BindingExpression information and WPF 4.5 – Part 6 : Markup Extensions for Events and WPF 4.5′s MarkupExtension : Invoke a method on the ViewModel / DataContext when an event is raised. (Jonathan Antoine)
Differences between WP7 and WP7.1 (Mango) (Chris G. Williams)
RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Mango and Q2 2011 (NoDo) SP1 are now available (Deyan Ginev)
Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 : Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Windows Phone WCF OData Client and Adding Icons to the DateTime Picker (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight Diagram Editor (Michael Sync)
Windows Phone eBook 1st Edition Published (Mike Ormond)
2000 WPF Things #392 – Use SnapsToDevicePixels Property to Prevent Anti-Aliasing and #393 – Canvas Element (Sean Sexton)
Silverlight is dead. F****** dead (Vassil Terziev)
LightSwitch: "There is a commitment to explore creation of apps other than Silverlight…" (Michael Washington)
Azure and Phone … Better Together (Brian Hitney)
IE9 Mobile Developer Overview (Charles Morris)
How to Make a Microsoft Tag Application for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

CLR 4.5: Maoni Stephens – Server Background GC and Raman Sharma: Building Metro Style Apps with C++ and JavaScript and CLR 4.5: David Broman – Inside Re-JIT (Charles Torre)
The JavaScript Show – V8 memory usage, Batman, jQuery plugins (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
SE Podcast #19 (Alex Miller)
Panel Discussion: Using Reference Architectures – Part 1 (Bob Rhubart)
Let’s Play TDD #142: Good Enough (James Shore)
My Intern Life 3 – Episode 11: Reflections (MS JobsBlog)
Keyvan.TV Episode 6: Enterprise Social Software (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Video: Jeffrey Snover – Proxy Functions (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Live at BUILD – interview with Rick Barraza (Dennis Delimarsky)
A preview of Windows Live for Windows 8 (Chris Jones)

Community / Events

My Upcoming Events : Virtual Tech Days and Developer Conference 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
A List of Mozilla Blogs to Follow (additional) (Joe Stagner)
Dallas event: AT&T Mobile App Hackathon (Bill Osuch)
Code Camp NYC–October 1, 2011 (Jim O’Neil)
Book ‘Your Kinect’ Experience Now (Luke)
Post-BUILD – it was awesome (Dennis Delimarsky)

Database

SSIS version in SQL Server (Jack Vamvas)
SSRS – Dealing with truncating spaces (Devin Knight)
SQL Server: Find Database File Path (Madhivanan)
Add APPLY to Your TSQL Tool Belt (John Sonmez)
SQLAuthority News – Latest expressor Data Integration Platform Posts and SQL SERVER – Learning SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) Online in 6 Hours – Top Down Designing and Bottom Up Designing and SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Usage of New Index Hints for Denali – ForceSeek and ForceScan (Pinal Dave)
Oracle Announces Paid MySQL Add-ons (Sean Hull)
Replication DDL Triggers (Seth Phelabaum)
SSMS Tools Pack 2.0 is out! With huge productivity booster features that will blow your mind and ease your job even more. (Mladen Prajdić)
NoSQL with RavenDB (Niklas Lundberg)
Using Unary Operators to control Analysis Services hierarchy aggregations (Jose Chinchilla)
MVP Deep Dives 2… Pre-Order (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

Daddy, tell me a story of how Amazon used their AWS to host their internal SharePoint 2010… "Once upon a time…" (Greg Duncan)
Configuring Versioning of Assemblies in SharePoint Automated Build (Chris O’Brien)
APress Deal of the Day – 23/Sept/2011 – Office and SharePoint 2010 User’s Guide (Tatworth)

PowerShell

How to Remove Quotes and Replace the Delimiter in a File using PowerShell Preserving the Commas (Arthur Zubarev)

Miscellaneous

Designing IE9 Mobile: Putting sites in the spotlight (Amin Lakhani)
Microsoft’s Next Move, Split Metro and Classic Mode in Windows 8? (Bil Simser)
New formats for our free Microsoft Office 365 ebook (Carl Diltz)
Save 50% on all ebooks from Microsoft Press (Devon Musgrave)
Where’s Mango? An update on timing (Eric Hautala)
Updated source code for the Table Sum powertoy for OneNote (John Guin)
The Metro Surfaces (Laila Lotfi)
Feeding Back to Microsoft on Windows 8 (Mike Halsey)
Protecting the pre-OS environment with UEFI (Steven Sinofsky)
“Desktop” could be Win 8’s killer feature with consumers (Ward Bell)
Negative hiring decisions, Part I (Oren Eini)
Trying Linux for Windows Users – A visual tutorial. (Joe Stagner)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Web Dev Tweets 20-Sep-2011 and 21-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 21 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Morning Brew #943 and The Morning Brew #944 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting .NET Links – September 22 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Geek Reading September 21, 2011 and Geek Reading September 22, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Link dump for September 22nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)
Double Shot #714 (Mike Gunderloy)
Today’s Links (9/21/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
Learning Microsoft Cloud Computing (Zhiming Xue)

The Geek Shelf

Pro WPF in C# 2010 by Matthew MacDonald

del.icio.us Tags: vs11,entity framework,powershell,kinect,windows phone,sharepoint,sql server,nosql,sql compact,windows 8,wpf,silverlight,jquery,css,html5,asp.net mvc,winrt