Dew Drop – October 12, 2011
Top Links
- Reflecting on your comments on the Start screen (Steven Sinofsky)
- Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Search Everywhere (Radhika Tadinada)
- Adding an Application Bar to your XAML Metro Applications. (Michael Crump)
- Windows 8 wish list: 10 Metro-style apps I want to see (Ed Bott)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Debugging Optimized Code in Visual Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
- What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 2 and What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 3 (Tarun Arora)
- FSharpChart new release available (version 0.55) (Carl Nolan)
- Large Object Heap And .NET GC Improvements (Roopesh Shenoy)
- Implementing Windows 8 Push Notifications – An Example (Peter von Lochow)
- The Cost of Async and Await (Jonathan Allen)
- Official release of “The Developer’s Guide to AppFabric" (Alan Smith)
- Creating a Distributed Computing System Using a Windows Azure Queue (Buck Woody)
- Devpad 4.4 (CodePlex)
Web Development
- Few Nice features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview for ASP.NET Developers (Abhijit Jana)
- Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns (Addy Osmani)
- Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know (Mitch Pronschinske)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Consolidate Duplicate Conditional Fragments (Giorgio Sironi)
- KnockoutJS Custom Binding for Invoking an Action with Enter Key (Steve Michelotti)
- Share Your Windows Azure (Cloud Computing) Ideas (MS Public Sector Team)
- Backbone.js: Getting The Model For A Clicked Element (Derick Bailey)
- Modernizr.js : Feature Detection (K. Scott Allen)
- OAuth 2.0 in Web API (Howard Dierking)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Way of Success (J.D. Meier)
- Spiking RavenDB Design Decisions: Event Aggregation (Oren Eini)
- Event Sourcing as a strategic advantage (Jimmy Bogard)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- New FREE e-book: Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth (Windows Phone Geek)
- FSharpChart and WPF (Carl Nolan)
- Authorization in Silverlight, part 1: Authorized navigation. (Kevin Dockx)
- 2000 WPF Things #406 – Creating New Controls by Layering One on Top of Another (Sean Sexton)
- Sending Windows Phone 7 Notifications from Ruby (Larry Franks)
- Quick Tip: Design-Time Views for Regions (Jeremy Likness)
- Accessing the Dispatcher Thread from your ViewModel (Mark Pearl)
- Background Audio (Jesse Liberty)
- A Touch-Scrolling Attached Behaviour for ScrollViewer (Matt Hamilton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET 4.5: Eric St. John – Reducing Reboots During Framework Installation (Charles Torre)
- Herding Code 122: Bert Belder on porting Node.js to Windows (Jon Galloway)
- Engadget HD Podcast 269 – 10.11.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- Defrag: Ejecting USB devices, Game stopping Windows Button, Getting MKV File Thumbnails (Larry Larsen)
- Ping 120: Zune, Hotmail, Kinect, Steve Jobs and Office Show 911: The shortcut to keyboard shortcuts (Laura Foy)
Community / Events
- Some Great FREE Windows Phone and ALM Sessions coming to IL, IN and WI in November! (Angela Dugan)
- Project Lifecycle Management with EPM and TFS User Group MN Oct 21st (Charles Sterling)
- SQLAuthority News – SQLPASS – 100 SQL Wait Stats Book Print Copy Giveaway – A Book Every Minute for an Hour Tomorrow (Pinal Dave)
- PowerShell v3 at Deep Dive next week (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- My Silverlight, HTML5, OData and Kinect talks coming up. (Michael Crump)
- I’m Presenting at the New York City SharePoint Dev User Group Next Week (October 19th) (Andrew Connell)
Database
- Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server CTP3 (MS Downloads)
- Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server Code Name “Denali” (DRAFT Preview) (Devon Musgrave)
- Useful queries #3: Get SQL Server Edition, Version, Build and Last Update date and time. (Jose Chinchilla)
- Generate SQL Server Test Data (Rob Bowman)
- Remove All Foreign Keys (Sedat Salman)
- Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware (Glenn Berry)
- Using Custom Code Functions in Reporting Services Reports (Paul Turley)
SharePoint
- Deployment guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Profile synchronization guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
- RTM’d today: Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Three Reasons I Love Functional Programming (Alex Rønne Petersen)
- NoReplyAll Updated (Since I last installed it at least…) – Also see related the seven part "How it was built" series (Greg Duncan)
- Microsoft and Oracle part ways over multitenancy in the cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
- Lessons From Steve Jobs (Stephen Forte)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading October 11, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- The Morning Brew #957 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/11/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Daily News Digest 10/12/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 3-9, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily WP7 Development News 11 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Web Dev Tweets 10-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Double Shot #728 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Geek Shelf
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