Tag: xaml

Top Links

• Eduasync part 18: Changes between the Async CTP and the Visual Studio 11 Preview (Jon Skeet)
• Day 1 results from the #smokedbywindowsphone $100 challenge (Ben Rudolph)
• Windows Phone 2011 Retrospective (Brandon Watson)
• Adding your own callbacks to existing JavaScript functions (Dave Ward)
• “Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (Jan 16th) (Scott Guthrie)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge (Oren Eini)
• Basic Volume Control (Richard Carr)
• Benjamin Day slides us into “How to be a C# ninja in 10 easy steps" and BugAid – Enhanced C# Debugging tool (and free for non-commercial open source projects too) (Greg Duncan)
• Kicking off StructureMap 3 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How can I detect the language a run of text is written in? (Raymond Chen)
• Kinect Apps – ensuring Kinect Runtime is installed (Rob Relyea)
• With Azure SDK 1.6, Azure Diagnostics is enabled by default can cause thousands of daily transections to Azure Storage (Avkash Chauhan)
• async await and Exception Handling (Bnaya Eshet)
• A brief overview of type system metadata in various languages (Dru Sellers)
• VS hangs for 1 minute on start debugging? Check for dead symbol paths! (Kirill Osenkov)

 

Web Development

• Using jQuery Deferred To Create Compound Objects From Multiple Asynchronous Data Sources (Ben Nadel)
• NetAdvantage For jQuery Chart – An HTML5/jQuery Chart Designed for Performance! (Graham Murray)
• Controlling Selection with CSS user-select (Sharon Newman)
• jQuery Grid – Showing Row Selectors & Selection (Jordan Tsankov)
• JSON serialization problems and solution in MVC3 (Nuri Halperin)
• Why is there Flash in the HTML5 version of Cut the Rope? (Robby Ingebretsen)
• Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development (Michael J. Ross)
• CSS Buttons with Pseudo-elements (Sergio Camalich)
• Advanced Random Numbers in JS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• PhpStorm 3.0: New and Noteworthy in Database Realm (Alexey Korsun)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Experts advise growing Agile projects with feature teams (Anand Vishwanath)
• Agile Project Management—Driving Value or Where’s the Beef? (Bob Galen)
• How Great Leaders Inspire Action – Simon Sinek (Peter Saddington)
• Forrester: Developer Testing Lowers Costs & Increases Quality (Avi Kaye)
• Integration testing with Azure development storage (Rory Primrose)
• Open/Closed Principle on real world code (Giorgio Sironi)
• Do Tests Get Too Much Respect? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Getting started with Git and GitHub (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Extending XAML Applications with Custom Commands and Getting Started with Coding4Fun Button Controls (Windows Phone Geek)
• Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) and Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools (MS Downloads)
• HttpWebRequest (WebClient) And Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #471 – How FlowDirection Works with the Image Element (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #7 – Check for Network Connections (Senthil Kumar)
• Joe Belfiore interview: Windows Phone will compete on quality, not specs (Vlad Savov)
• A WPF Custom Control for Zooming and Panning (Ashley Davis)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out About Electricity! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ACMQ Online Programming Competition: Jan 1- Feb 12, 2012 (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 050 – “Silent and Invisible” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Boagworld: Give users a sense of control (Paul Boag)
• Windows Weekly 243: Live From CES (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 273: CES 2012 Day 3 – 01.11.2012 and The Vergecast 010: CES 2012 Day 1 – 01.11.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 281: CES 2012 – 01.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Inside Windows Phone #30 | Arturo Toledo is back (Larry Lieberman)
• The Engadget Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop at CES 2012 (video) (Myriam Joire)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 1 (Robert Green)
• VIDEO: Watch a Galaxy Nexus get #smokedbywindowsphone (Ben Rudolph)
• Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)

 

Community / Events

• Magenic celebrates a few of its internal OSS developers… (Greg Duncan)
• CES 2012: Two new Nokia apps for Windows Phone coming soon – Nokia Transport and Nokia City Lens (damaster)
• Meet Todd Anglin – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)

 

Database

• The SSIS Expression Way–Skipping an Unwanted File (Arthur Zubarev)
• SQL Server – Backup to NUL trick – read throughput (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL SERVER – Non-Clustered Index and Automatic Rebuild – Quiz – Puzzle – 11 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Join Hint in SQL – Guest Post by Joydeep Das (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Now accepting more users for the Data Explorer Cloud service! (Data Explorer Team)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites Installer Error: KB976462 Could Not Be Installed (Martin W. Angler)
• On Site SharePoint Experience UI/UX Branding Class with Dustin Miller and Heather Solomon (Joel Oleson)
• SharePoint 2010 Fluent Ribbon API Release 1.4 (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous

• Creating a WordPress and Blogging New Year’s Resolutions List (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules For Startups (Mark Cuban)
• Book Excerpt: "To The Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise" (Pankaj Arora)
• Using MessageBox Control Outside UpdatePanel Control (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango Commercial Release 2: What’s inside (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 086 for 1/11/2012 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #1020 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for January 11, 2011 – #0025 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #794 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/11/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/12/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 10-Jan-2012 and 11-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-11 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 Jan 2012: (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Jennifer Kyrnin