Month: March 2013

Top Links

• Moving old apps from IIS6 to IIS8 and why Classic Mode exists (Scott Hanselman)
• 9 Interactive Features of the Ignite UI igGrid (Craig Shoemaker)
• Virtualization for Developers | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Happy 7th Birthday, Twitter (Stan Schroeder)

 

Web Development

• Folding for imports in PhpStorm 6.0 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Ember: Baby Steps (Rob Conery)
• My New Blog: Why Orchard as the Engine & Azure as the Host? (Andrew Connell)
• Build Simple Web UIs with the Nancy Framework (Patrick Steele)
• ECMAScript 6 and Method Definitions (Ariya)
• Stupid Question 165: What is a headless browser? (Iris Classon)

 

XAML

• Create Flickr Photo Search Windows Store App in XAML (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Behaviors in WPF introduction (Robert Hedgate)
• 2000 WPF Things #780 – Combining Transforms and #781 – Transform Order Matters (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Layout Controls – GridSplitter (Richard Carr)
• Using the Windows Runtime Media API (Eric Vogel)
• Q&A on Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 3: What are these buffer things? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reviewing LevelDB: Part II, Put some data on the disk, dude (Oren Eini)
• Batched domain migration with TFS while maintaining Identity (Martin Hinshelwood)
• APress Deal of the Day 20/Mar/2013 – A Programmer’s Guide to C# 5.0 (Tatworth)
• Entity Framework 5/6 vs NHibernate 3 – The State of Affairs (Dennis Doomen)
• Funky C for literate programming (Luca Bolognese)
• Remote Profiling using dotTrace (Maarten Balliauw)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Making Changes to the Configuration After the Session Factory Is Built and Soft Deletes With NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #804 – Tradeoffs when Using the var Keyword and #805 – An Example of Discretionary Use of the var Keyword (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Saga implementation patterns – variations (Jimmy Bogard)
• View Driven Data Design; don’t let your view shape your data (Adam)
• Nice article on the Death of Beta Testing (Andy Singleton)
• Defining "bug" part 2 (John Guin)
• MVP: Your Minimum Viable Product (Kelly Drill)
• Get Mindfire 1.1 Free for the next 48 hours (Scott Berkun)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• New Client Coming to RavenDB – Mono For Android (Daniel Dar)
• Producing Better Bindings #1: Constructors (Sebastien Pouliot)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Columbia Sportswear Connects Development Teams with TFS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 220 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mark Minasi (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Live from Gilda’s Laugh Fest (Chris Hardwick)
• Ping 171: SXSW wins, Flash & IE, Cross-platform gaming, Office 365 FREE | Ping! and Windows Store Weekly: Twitter, Galactic Regin, Audible, NIM, BrainPOP | Windows Store Weekly (Laura Foy)
• People Talking Tech Episode 027 – Boris Hristov (Denny Cherry)
• EdgeShow 55 – MVP Alan Burchill Brings More Group Policy Goodness | Edge (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• An Ode To The Passing Of Google Reader – It Even Made Animals Cry [Video] (Steven)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for March 20th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Speaking With jQuery’s Core Team Lead: Dave Methvin (Rey Bango)
• Geek Of The Week: WMMR Radio Legend Pierre Robert (David Goodman)
• Working Abroad at Microsoft – Opportunities for Women (MS JobsBlog)
• Xbox 360 at PAX East 2013 (Larry Hryb)
• New Beginnings (Elijah Manor)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Identify Last User Access of Table using T-SQL Script (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB 2.4 Released and Creating a SQL Server Unique Index that behaves like an Oracle Unique Index (Denis Gobo)
• Red Gate Releases SQL Backup Pro 7.3 and Setting up Mirroring to SQL 2012 Availability Groups Encryption Error (Ted Krueger)
• Considerations when starting a new SSDT database project (Jamie Thomson)
• How I used Data Explorer to create a demo (Koen Verbeeck)

 

SharePoint

• Social SharePoint and Yammer: Microsoft Roadmap Revealed (Joel Oleson)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell and psake background file watcher (Torkel Ödegaard)

 

Miscellaneous

• When Should You Arrive for an Interview (Steve Smith)
• A Look at Windows 8 Ease of Access (Larry Larsen)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, March 20th (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1320 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading March 20, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1090 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 21, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/21/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 20 March 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 20 March 2013 (Geek Champ)

 

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