Dew Drop – September 29, 2011
Top Links
- Extending "Windows 8" apps to the cloud with SkyDrive (Steven Sinofsky)
- Have a new Windows Phone feature idea? Try Suggestion Box (Michael Stroh)
- Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Now Available! (Cliff Simpkins)
- jQuery 1.7 Beta 1 Released (Dave Methvin)
- Kindle Fire as iPad killer? Yes. It’s the price, stupid. (Molly Wood)
.NET / Visual Studio
- How to enable Tier Interaction Profiling ( TIP ) in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler ? (Abhijit Jana)
- Visual Studio macro to group files (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Using the Settings Contract (Derik Whittaker)
- Nullable Types’ Subtlety (Mehdi Khalili)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Using LINQ to XML to Query Data on the Web (Robert Green)
- Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure: A Rangers dog fooding perspective (Willy-P. Schaub)
- NMigrate (Nicolas Dorier)
- Lambdas and events in C++ (Timo Heinäpurola)
- Migrating smart clients to WinRT (Rockford Lhotka)
- Good ol’ DebuggerDisplay attribute (Arun Mahendrakar)
- Avoid Parallel Hierarchies (Chris Eargle)
- F Sharp for beginners: Modules in F # (Dhananjay Kumar)
- 10 Great Questions to ask about the Windows Azure Platform (Eric Nelson)
- RadChart for Windows 8 WinRT – A Prelude (Georgi Atanasov)
- ILMerge get’s a rev… (Greg Duncan)
- Windows 8 Development Tip – Dispatching calls to the UI thread (Avi Pilosof)
- An example of a testable Azure Table Storage (Peter von Lochow)
Web Development
- Converting a .NET DateTime object to a JavaScript Date object (Jason Gaylord)
- filter.js – Client side search filtering using JSON and jQuery (Josh Software Team)
- Amazon Silk scares me…but in a good way (Cal Evans)
- HTML Encoded Expressions in ASP.NET4 (Hima)
- ASP.NET MVC Dictionary Binding (Sazzad Hossain)
- Mvc.ValidationTookit Alpha Release: Conditional Validation with MVC 3 (Simon J. Ince)
- APress Deal of the Day – 29/Sep/2011 – Pro HTML5 Programming (Tatworth)
- What’s the best Windows Azure role size for Ruby or Node.js applications? (Larry Franks)
- Bing Maps REST Services SDK (PDF) and Bing Maps AJAX Control SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
- Skipping Windows Azure Startup Tasks When Running in the Emulator (Steve Marx)
- An old guys guide to building modern websites (Paul Boag)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- CQRS is too complicated (Rob Ashton)
- T-shaped Agile (Lee Cunningham)
- Model-Driven Approach to Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE) (Jeevak Kasarkod)
- Why you should care about information hiding (Gregory Moeck)
- Architectural Mirages (Boris Lublinsky)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- WPF 4.5 – Part 9 : binding to static properties (Jonathan Antoine)
- Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone (MS Downloads)
- Fix for Expression Blend 4 crashing on startup (Brent Schooley)
- What is Frame Rate Counter in WP7? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Enabling Frame Rate Counters for HTML Applications in Windows 8 (Michael Crump)
- 2000 WPF Things #397 – Rich ListBox Content Using Data Binding, part III (Sean Sexton)
- Using Silverlight with an Apple Mac? Why? Give Expression Blend a try (Surf4Fun)
- Design and Deploy Visual Studio Light Switch 2011 Application in Windows Azure – Part 2 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
- Windows Phone Icons Maker v1.0 (CodePlex)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Guy Smith-Ferrier Does Mind Control! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- SE Podcast #20 (Alex Miller)
- Panel Discussion: Using Reference Architectures – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)
- My Intern Life 3 – Episode 12: Saying Goodbye (MS JobsBlog)
- Goodbye 9: Nic Fillingham Exit Interview (Charles Torre & Larry Larsen)
- Behind the Windows 8 Metro UI (Larry Larsen)
- Hot Apps: Implode!, Stub Hub, Collapse, Falling Skies, Pro Football Weekly (Laura Foy)
- Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘WCF RIA POCO Domain Services’ available online (Silverlight Show)
- AppFabric.tv – How to Invoke a Child Workflow (Ron Jacobs)
Community / Events
- A Coder Interview With Daniel Vaughan (The Code Project)
- Philly Nerd Nite No. 7, October 5, 2011 (Michelle, Matt & Gina)
- FREE Web Workshops on Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ALM tools by Imaginet (Angela Binkowski)
Database
- Microsoft Drivers 3.0 for SQL Server for PHP CTP1 (MS Downloads)
- SQLAuthority News – Various Ways to Stay in Touch with SQLAuthority.com – Best Practices (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Table Columns Disappear in Access (Seth Phelabaum)
- Change Database Owner (Tim Radney)
- Handling Transient Connection Failures in SQL Azure (Neil Mackenzie)
PowerShell
- stupid powershell tricks #1 (Jim Christopher)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft and Amazon: Two browsers, two clouds and two different paths taken (Mary Jo Foley)
- Hiring Questions–The phone book (Oren Eini)
- Windows Phone Mango release and we want your feedback! (Cheryl Simmons)
- Custom Ringtones on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango (Richard Hay)
More Link Collections
- Weekly Link Post 210 (Rhonda Tipton)
- Geek Reading September 28, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #719 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #948 (Chris Alcock)
- Web Dev Tweets 27-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/28/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Daily News Digest 09/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
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