Dew Drop – November 15, 2011
Top Links
- Windows Azure SDK 1.6 is released!! (Avkash Chauhan)
- Windows Phone Dev Ecosystem – One Year On (Brandon Watson)
- A .Net Dev’s journey creating his first Android app… (Greg Duncan)
- New Windows Phone 7 Content on MSDN Library (Mike Desmond)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Locking the Workstation Programmatically (Richard Carr)
- Search and Filters in Error List Window – Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
- Use the WinDbg Engine in Visual Studio User-Mode Debugging (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Preview Tab (Zain Naboulsi)
- Using ExtendedReflection To Manage Your .NET Code at Runtime (Jason Bock)
- Windows Azure SDK 1.6 (Build 1.6.41103.1601) installation Walkthrough and Windows Azure Training Kit November 2011 Update is available to download now!! (Avkash Chauhan)
- The challenges in changing the way Explorer hosts shell extensions (Raymond Chen)
- Guide to reduce TFS database growth using the Test Attachment Cleaner (Terje Sandstrom)
- Checking if an Unloaded Collection Contains Elements (Ricardo Peres)
Web Development
- jQuery Grids Unleashed – Flat Grid Architecture (JavaScript) (Angel Todorov)
- Installing NODE.js on Ubuntu Linux. (Joe Stagner)
- 15 Pragmatic JavaScript Tips for ASP.NET Developers (Jon Galloway)
- Compiling F# to JavaScript with Pit (Phillip Trelford)
- JQuery 1.7 Brings HTML5 To IE6-8, Gets Deprecation Policy (Roopesh Shenoy)
- Laying out HTML with CSS Grids (Mike Taulty)
- Add reCAPTCHA To ASP.NET MVC Web Application (Shai Raiten)
- Frictionless development: Web.config and connection strings (Oren Eini)
- Using Scala and the Play Framework in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
- Announcing YUI Compressor 2.4.7 (Satyen Desai)
- Introducing the Sueetie Wall (Dave Burke)
- The Untimely Demise of the Plugin (and how LOB developments will suffer) (Colin Eberhardt)
- Analysis Of Web API Versioning Options (Dilip Krishnan)
- Web.config Transformations and XML Namespaces (Mads Troest)
- Semantics in practice and mapping semantic value to its consumers (Paul Irish)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Monthly Planning with Agile Results (JD Meier)
- Velocity: Agile Killer or Unsuspecting Mark? (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Should Developers Know the Business Customers? (Peter Saddington)
- Should Agile Coaches Have a Code of Ethics? (Todd Charron)
- Why We Need UX Designers (Tim Murphy)
- Why I love Test Driven Development (Wille Faler)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Localizing a Windows Phone app Step by Step (Windows Phone Geek)
- Get my first book… Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight (Caleb Jenkins)
- F# Silverlight Library Template in Visual Studio 11 (Daniel Mohl)
- Silverlight Cookbook: Switching to another IoC Framework (Dennis Doomen)
- 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 6 of 10) and Information on upgrading Kinect Applications to MS SDK Beta 2. (Michael Crump)
- Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 1) (ggailey777)
- Developers’ Interest Growing in Windows Phone, Waning in BlackBerry (Ina Fried)
- Basis of Tactile Programming with WPF4 and Surface 2.0 SDK | Bases de la Programmation Tactile avec WPF4 et le SDK (Nicolas Calvi)
- 2000 WPF Things #430 – Setting Width and Height Using Different Units (Sean Sexton)
- 31 Days of Mango | Day #15: The Progress Bar (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Spiking the Pomodoro Timer (Jesse Liberty)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Web Development at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Herding Code 126: Jeff Atwood on the overlap of Video Games and Learning (Jon Galloway & Co.)
- Episode 165 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brandon Shell talks Splunk (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Gweek 026: A heavily medicated ren faire (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Kinectimals on Windows Phones from Nokia World (Laura Foy)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 30 (Richard Hay)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for November 14th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- LeadingAgile Welcomes Dennis Stevens and Peter Saddington (Mike Cottmeyer)
- The Baudboys: Kings of Geek A Cappella (MS JobsBlog)
- Win a Samsung Slate or Free Marketing for you Windows Phone Mango Apps (Dave Isbitski)
- More Windows Phone events this week! (Brian Seitz)
- Webcasts: Coming up this week (Kim Spilker)
- The Return of Oracle Wikis: Bigger and Better (Oracle TechNet)
Database
- Some SQL Server Security Housekeeping (Chad Miller)
- SQL SERVER – Introduction to LEAD and LAG – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
- Create Sparklines in SSRS (Samuel Vanga)
- SQL Azure Data Sync Agent Preview (MS Downloads)
- DBCC CHECKDB (Jack Vamvas)
- Many-to-Many Dimensions (James Serra)
SharePoint
- Client Object Model Request Batching in SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Developer Team)
Miscellaneous
- How To: Convert a PowerPoint Presentation from 4:3 ratio to 16:9 without distorted or stretched images and CSI: My Computer – What is netsession_win.exe from Akamai and how did it get on my system? (Scott Hanselman)
- Barnes & Noble Exposes Microsoft’s "Trivial" Patents and Strategy Against Android (Groklaw)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: November 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 11.08 ~ 11.15 (yuanjian)
- Daily WP7 Development News 14 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/14/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #981 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting .NET Links – November 15 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Double Shot #752 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 11/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 14-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
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