Dew Drop – July 20, 2011
Top Links
- CLR Stack Explorer – Preview and Manual Stack Walking (Sasha Goldshtein)
- LINQ Pad vs. Visual Studio for Learning LINQ (Jesse Liberty)
- My Next Book: Silverlight 5 in Action 50% off for a limited time (Pete Brown)
- Strings, immutability and persistence (Eric Lippert)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Creating a simple bootstrapper – Project template (Rory Primrose)
- Installing Visual Studio Load Test Agents and Controllers (Steve Smith)
- Opening the Internet Settings Dialog and using Windows Default Network Settings via Code (Rick Strahl)
- Should my database calls be Asynchronous Part II (Rick Anderson)
- Macto: Let’s CREATE an Inmate (Oren Eini)
- How To Use a .NET 4 Based DLL From .NET 2 Based Application? (Arik Poznanski)
- Display Kinect color image containing only players (aka background removal) (Greg Duncan)
Web Development
- ASP.NET MVC Model Binders (Gil Fink)
- Create An HTML/CSS Mobile Web App Using Sencha Touch (Jen Gordon)
- What new feature in PHP 5.4 is the most important to you? (Giorgio Sironi)
- JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Part 2 – Madness or just Insanity? (Scott Hanselman)
- CoffeeScript in Visual Studio 2010 with Web Workbench (David Hayden)
- WordPress.com Provides Pinning to 20 Million Bloggers! (Roger Capriotti)
- Razor Helpers Syntax (Gil Fink)
- Implementing Master and Detail grids in Wijmo (Kevin Griffin)
- First Steps With MongoDB, Mongoose and Jasmine-Node On Node.JS (Davy Brion)
- References, Routing, And The Event Aggregator: Coordinating Views In Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- CodeRush Unit Testing Service overview (Alex Skorkin)
- An Agile Approach to Building a Mac Application (Scott Densmore)
- RoR Testing – One Thing To Do (I think) And One Thing Not To Do (I’m Sure) (Karl Seguin)
- Are PMs worth more than game designers? (Scott Berkun)
- Individuals Over People and The High-Level Test Whisperer (Jay Fields)
- Misconceptions about Self-Organizing Teams (Esther Derby)
- Continuous Delivery in Practice (James Betteley)
- What would you give up to keep working remotely? (Jessica Stillman)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): [Table] attribute (Windows Phone Geek)
- Using Isolated Storage to save/load files on Windows Phone 7 (David Amador)
- Code sample to access SkyDrive Photos API from WP7 (or any REST/OAuth/JSON enabled device/OS) (Greg Duncan)
- Presentation: Silverlight 5 for Line of Business Applications (Jeremy Likness)
- Windows Phone 7 users sure are satisfied (Joe Wilcox)
- The extent of ringtone integration in Windows Phone SDK 7.1 (Dennis Delimarsky)
- “Hacking” through Prism regions (or when to cross the lines with Prism) (Ariel Ben Horesh)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Let’s Play TDD #124: Constraints (James Shore)
- Video–Ed Jezierski on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
- Ping 109: Microsoft Stores, Halo & Kinect, XP Countdown, Windows 8, Mango (Laura Foy)
- The Office Show: Office 365 – Part Two (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
Community / Events
- Team Wins Imagine Cup 2011 in Software Design For Traffic Solution Built on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
- RavenDB & NHibernate Training – August 15 – 16, Chattanooga, TN (Oren Eini)
- MADExpo Additional Thanks (G. Andrew Duthie)
- PowerShell Deep Dive Registration Info & Call for Session Proposals (Travis Jones)
- ReMIX South 2011 (Jason Rainwater)
Database
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 5 Released (Glenn Berry)
- SQL Server Denali Installation Change (Devin Knight)
- SQL Server: Distinct Count across Multiple Tables (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 20 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server Denali CTP3 (Denis Gobo)
- SQL Server – Denali – Management Studio – Restore Database (Vishal)
- Windows Azure Storage – Creating a Hierarchy View (Buck Woody)
- Denali–IIF and CHOOSE (Dave Ballantyne)
SharePoint
- SharePoint Developer Documentation Feed Reader App for the Windows Phone (Jim Crowley)
- Working with the ECMAScript Client Object Model (JSOM) in SharePoint 2010–Part 3 (Nikhil Sachdeva)
Miscellaneous
- New book: Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Devon Musgrave)
- Microsoft opens up new Garage offices (John Callaham)
- Random Khan Exercises (John Resig)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Packet Guide to Core Network Protocols – Only $7.49 w/code DDJ5N (O’Reilly Media)
- A Cloudy Future (André Vrignaud)
- Books I’ve Enjoyed and Recommend to You (Pete Brown)
- The Guide to Creating Quality Technical Screencasts (Scott Hanselman)
- Microsoft talks more about Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango” (damaster)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #898 (Chris Alcock)
- Today’s Links (7/19/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- Daily WP7 Development News 19 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 07/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily Links 19/07/2011 (Jax)
- Link dump for July 18th and Link dump for July 19th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
The Geek Shelf
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