Dew Drop – September 21, 2011
Top Links
- Metro Business Apps (Ward Bell)
- My Windows 8 slate has split personalities–and what Microsoft could do to improve that (Laurent Bugnion)
- Reengineering the Windows boot experience (Steven Sinofsky)
- Analyzing Windows 8 and WinRT (Steve Smith)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Creating Deep Zoom Images through c# code and Adding message in a Windows Azure Queue (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Confirmed: Juneau is in the next version of Visual Studio (Jamie Thomson)
- TFS vNext – Falls Short of the Mark (Paul Stack)
- TFS Workbench v2.2.0.8 (CodePlex)
- Community Callout: CodePlugIn_INotifyPropertyChanged (Rory Becker)
- New HTML Editor feature in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Web Platform and Tools Team)
- Python Tools for VS (Mike Stall)
- Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Neil Mackenzie)
- GPU Debugging with VS 11 (Daniel Moth)
- Dependency Management in .Net: Get (Derek Greer)
- Windows 8 applications and JSON data (Andrej Tozon)
- Using the Windows Runtime from a Non-Metro Application and Core .NET Types Usable from a Metro Style Application (Jeffrey Richter)
Web Development
- Save a tree with TreeSaver.js (Think "JavaScript framework for creating magazine-style layouts using standards-compliant HTML and CSS") (Greg Duncan)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Type Code with Class (Giorgio Sironi)
- Quasi-literals: embedded DSLs in ECMAScript.next (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Adding filters to your ELMAH installation (Doug Rathbone)
- Things the W3C Should Stop Doing (Alex Russell)
- A Visual History Of The Usefulness Of Ruby On Rails (Derick Bailey)
- SVG – an introduction (Josh Reuben)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 Early Access Program started (Alexey Gopachenko)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Premature Optimization (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Why would anyone use MSTest over NUnit? (Drew Peterson)
- Three Book Reviews (Jim Holmes)
- Why you should care about encapsulation (Greg Moeck)
- Touch Input for IE10 and Metro style Apps (Jacob Rossi)
- Scrum for Team System v3.0.4281.00 (CodePlex) – v3.0 is now open source.
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
- WPF 4.5 – Part 3 : New methods of the Dispatcher (Jonathan Antoine)
- Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data (Samidip Basu)
- Nokia Developers: learn Windows Phone even faster (JC Cimetiere)
- Enabling Frame Rate Counters for XAML Applications in Windows 8 (Michael Crump)
- Windows Phone Power Tools 1.1 (Oren Nachman)
- Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) – Tcp Socket acts differently on emulator and device (HTC Mozard) (Michael Sync)
- Enumerating MIDI Interfaces using Silverlight 5 PInvoke (Pete Brown)
- Build a GOVERNMENT Windows Phone App Today!!! (Joel Reyes)
- 2000 WPF Things #391 – Anti-Aliasing Can Lead to Fuzzy GUI Elements (Sean Sexton)
- Submit Windows Phone 7.5 Apps today; Update 7.0 Apps in October (Todd Brix)
- An Alternate Approach to a GridView (Paul Sheriff)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes: Manipulations and UML with VS 2010 Part 6: Designing a Project’s Physical Structure (MS Podcasts)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 23 (Richard Hay)
- Engadget HD Podcast 266 – 09.20.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- Yet Another Podcast #49–Jon Galloway: What’s New In ASP.NET (Jesse Liberty)
- Let’s Play TDD #141: Domain-Specific Language (James Shore)
- Ping 117: Xbox gives back, Win 8 boots fast, Ballmer sees bright future, More MATH please! and Hot Apps: Fight Game Rivals, Bad Trip, Multi Browser, Showcase’d, Bulls n Cows (Laura Foy)
Community / Events
- Charlotte .NET User Group – Mono for Android #monodroid (Wally McClure)
- A few Mozillians to read and follow. (Joe Stagner)
- Just Added: HTML5 Training at jQuery Conference Boston! (Leah Silber)
- Agile .NET 2011 Europe happens in 3 weeks and discount code (Simone Chiaretta)
- Windows Phone Camps (Chris Koenig)
- Microsoft Employee Who Tweeted About Unreleased Nokia Windows Phone Now an Ex-Employee (Ina Fried)
- A good day: “Day of Caring” volunteering (Devon Musgrave)
- f8 is almost here! (Kathleen Loughlin)
Database
- Microsoft Releases Two Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008 (Glenn Berry)
- SQL SERVER – Denali – 14 New Functions – A Quick Guide (Pinal Dave)
- Query SQL Azure and On-Premise Data in One Codeset (Buck Woody)
- Roman Numerals to integers, and Vice Versa, in SQL: (Phil Factor)
- Stored Procedures – Common Security Practice (Jason Brimhall)
SharePoint
- 7 New Wonders of the SharePoint World (Joel Oleson)
- New book: Customizing My Site in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Kim Spilker)
PowerShell
- Applying NTFS Permissions (Tobias Weltner)
- Cross-Post: Announcing the Release of Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 (Windows Azure Team)
- PowerPack for non-Windows management in SCCM and SCOM (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- Win7 SP1/Win2008 RC SP1 get some PowerShell 3 CTP love… Or PS gets WF (Greg Duncan)
Miscellaneous
- Introducing App Sites (Ben Scheirman)
- NYC 2.0 on PBS (Becky Stern)
More Link Collections
- Tip on Writing Reflector Addins (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – September 21 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Geek Reading September 20, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Today’s Links (9/20/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #942 (Chris Alcock)
- Silverlight Cream for September 20, 2011 — #1146 (Dave Campbell)
- Double Shot #713 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 09/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 19-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Link dump for September 20th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
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