Day: May 21, 2011

Top Links

• Introducing Debugger Canvas (Kael Rowan)
• EF Power Tools CTP1 are Great for Code First (John Papa)
• Nuget development workflow should be the standard practice for any company. (Al Pascual)
• Happy 20th Birthday VB! (Greg Duncan)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Eduasync part 6: using the infrastructure manually and Eduasync part 7: generated code from a simple async method (Jon Skeet)
• Monopolytics: Porting the .NET framework (Laila Lotfi)
• String Parsing Function (Michelle Ufford)
• Checking for anonymous types (Jef Claes)
• Using the Texas eZ430 Watch with the .NET Micro Framework (Rob Miles)
• Kinect Maps UX Lessons – Getting Users Up to Speed (András Velvárt)
• COM for the “I did C++ once a thousand years ago, but only do .NET now” Developer –or– In the Defense of COM (Jeremiah Morrill)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript: Unit testing asynchronous functions (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Edit/Update with dapper ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• ASP.NET MVC: Showing dates using DayCalendarPage extension method (Gunnar Peipman)
• BuildMyPinnedSite.com: 50% More Engagement in 15 Minutes or Less through Pinning (Ziad Ismail)
• Upgrade to Facebook PHP SDK v3.0.0 (Jerry Cain)
• Troubleshooting a Failed Orchard Module Install (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Web Browser Control – Specifying the IE Version (Rick Strahl)
• TweeterFall – Web Workers (Pete LePage)
• Using an anonymous object as the model for your Spark view (Peter Eysermans)
• Google Prediction API Making Many Applications Smarter (Romin Irani)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Full Stack–Accidentally Pair Programming and Writing Unit Tests (Jesse Liberty)
• Step 1: Reproduce the Problem (John Sonmez)
• The most important consulting skill is… effective communication (Paul S. Randal)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Simple WPF Page Transitions (Aron Weiler)
• Searching your contacts (Rudi Grobler)
• Using IIS Express to Secure Silverlight and WCF Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Wicked Wireframes: WP7 Vector UX Kit (Erik Klimczak)
• Is your application powered by #mvvmlight? (Laurent Bugnion)
• A Time To Pivot (Michael Washington)
• Persisting an image (Jesse Liberty)
• Extending the ListBox control (Nigel Sampson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Microsoft Professional Developers Conference Keynote Archives Now Online! (Tina Wood)
• Windows Phone Radio 28 (Brian Seitz)
• Engadget Podcast 240 – 05.20.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #49: Solus: Technology to Help with Peace of Mind (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• TWC9: Taskboard & Storyboard in VS vNext, Hadoop on Azure, Tweeting Breathalyzer (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 17 (Richard Hay)
• The Office Show: The One for Mac Users (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 017 – “White Men From the U.S.” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)

 

Community / Events

• Course and conference updates (Udi Dahan)
• Join us at Maker Faire (John Bacus)
• Open Spaces (Mark Nijhof)
• Few interesting TechEd 2011 Sessions (Hanu Kommalapati)
• ADK at Maker Faire (Tim Bray)

 

Database

• Microsoft® SSIS Balanced Data Distributor (MS Downloads)
• Free SQL Server Webcasts This Week (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Running SSIS Package From Command Line (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Quiz June 2011 (William Vaughn)
• How to get difference between two dates – TSQL (Vishal)

 

SharePoint

• Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 4 of 5 and Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 5 of 5 (Vivek Soni)

 

Miscellaneous

• If I were "graphically challenged" where could I get resources I could use in my XNA games? (Greg Duncan)
• The Art of Presentation (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 20, 2011 and Interesting Finds: May 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 05.17 ~ 05.21 (yuanjian)
• This Week’s Link List (May 20, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Weekly Links– 2010_18 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 20 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Distributed Weekly 103 (Scott Banwart)
• Retrospective 33 – #Scrum Meetings and The #Agile Cartel (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 20th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 05/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight 4 in Action by Pete Brown