Dew Drop – September 16, 2011

Top Links

• O Reilly – 50% off ebooks and videos to Sept 28th (TATWORTH)
• One scary future for Windows 8 I hope we never see (Steven Hodson)
• WinRT demystified (Miguel de Icaza)
• Will XNA be available in Windows 8 Metro Apps? (Ryan Hayes)
• WebMatrix and node.js: The easiest way to get started with node on Windows (Scott Hanselman)

 

.NET / WinRT / Visual Studio

• Specifying Assembly Information in Visual Studio and How to Pass Command Line Arguments using Visual Studio ? (Abhijit Jana)
• How to configure a build controller against tfspreview (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Using WinRT from C# //build Demo (Harry Pierson)
• Teaching XNA with class with the "Game Development with XNA: Semester 1" class and Kinect SDK dev series with a runtime extension and more on buttons (with Hover Button Control too) and "What’s New in the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview" (and Yield is coming to VB.Net!) (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The String Remove() and Replace() Methods (James Michael Hare)
• Adventure in parserland – parsing lambda expressions in F# – Part V (Luca Bolognese)
• Setting useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy At Runtime (Reed Copsey)
• Back to Basics: Big O notation issues with older .NET code and improving for loops with LINQ deferred execution (Scott Hanselman)
• TFS Azure–Technical Access Preview Experience! (Tarun Arora)
• Installing the Advanced Configuration of TFS vNext from the BUILD Conference in Anaheim (Tim Elhajj)
• Announcing: Windows Azure SDK 1.5, Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and new Service Management Features (Vijay Rajagopalan)
• Modifying an IntelliTrace Collection Plan for the Stand-Alone Collector (Patrick)
• The Windows Runtime (Harry Pierson)
• Build day 2: WinRT and managed languages (Bill Wagner)
• Windows 8 : how to detect the orientation and the layout state of a metro app ? (Jonathan Antoine)
• Metro and WinRT: Too early to call, but I’m paying close attention (Pete Seale)
• Arrays of ValueTypes don’t like object.Equals (Chris Gardner)
• Windows 8 Remote Debugging + Setup (Andy Beaulieu)

 

Web Development

• Reviewing SignalR–Part I (Oren Eini)
• A more complete Simple Membership MVC 3 Sample and ASP.Net MVC4 Developer Preview install fails with web platform installer and ASP.NET MVC4 Developer Preview goodness! (Kevin LaBranche)
• New JavaScript editing features for Web development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Xinyang Qiu)
• Zombies! RUN! (Managing Page Transitions In Backbone Apps) (Derick Bailey)
• Site Ready WebSockets (ieblog)
• Free Book Chapter: Creating a User Account in Rails (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Count Bug Fixes Towards Velocity? Depends … (Vikas Hazrati)
• Why some projects just go right (Paul Boag)
• Business Scenarios for the Cloud (JD Meier)
• Application Lifecycle Management in Team Foundation Server 11 and Designing Loosely Coupled Metro Applications with URIs (Jonathan Allen)
• Windows Azure Architecture Guide (MS Downloads)

 

XAML

• Silverlight Developers Have the Smoothest Road to Metro (Brian Noyes)
• WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 0 and WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 1 – XML Namespace (Morten Nielsen)
• Expand and Collapse ExpanderView inside data bound ListBox via code (Windows Phone Geek)
• Announcing Windows Phone Starter Kits (Chris Koenig)
• Upload Image from Silverlight to Azure BLOB using WCF (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF Elements 5 Beta – Grab it and enter the Xbox draw! (John-Daniel Trask)
• If Silverlight is Dead… (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight 5 in Action Book Update, and Announcing the Next Big Book (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #388 – Layout Containers Don’t Provide Scrolling Support (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio vNext: DirectX 11 Development Experience (Charles Torre)
• JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.6.4, Node 0.5.6 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Let’s Play TDD #140: Cleaning Up the Menu Code (James Shore)
• Xbox LIVE On Windows 8 Enables Gamers To Play Against PC, Windows Phone And Xbox 360 [VIDEO] (Ben Reid)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – William Shulman Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Windows 8 Running on ARM (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• My first few days at Mozilla (Joe Stagner)
• Download all the Build Videos with RSS (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Developer Event, Cambridge MA (Bob Familiar)
• ASP.NET Training in San Diego on Saturday, September 24th (Scott Mitchell)
• BUILD Day #2 in Review According to MVPs (MVP Award Program)
• Join NW Ohio .NET User Group for Their 10th Anniversary! and Learn About Test Studio’s R2 Release via a Webinar on 9/29! (Jim Holmes)
• Microsoft Build: News from the Windows 8 sessions (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Database

• Scripts to Enable Microsoft Help Viewer for Microsoft SQL Server Code-Named “Denali” CTP3 (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – String Function – CONCAT() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• RTM’d today: Deploying Cloud-Based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 – An OS of two halves. (Colin Eberhardt)
• Joe Belfiore: No Mango This Week (Still Might Land this Month) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows To Go (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 5 deal-breaking flaws in Windows 8 (Sebastian Anthony)
• Protecting you from malware (Steven Sinofsky)
• Windows Azure Marketplace News from BUILD: Announcing NEW Data Offerings and International Availability (Sudhir Hasbe)
• iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8? A coder’s guide (Matthew Baxter-Reynolds)
• Xbox Live integration coming to Windows 8 (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #939 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 09/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 14-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Geek Reading September 15, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily Links 15/09/2011 (Jax)

 

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