Dew Drop – April 13, 2012 (#1,306)

Top Links

• Task Parallel Library and Servers, Part 3: ContinueWith (Brad Wilson)
• "Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc" (No, it’s not April 1st) (Greg Duncan)
• null is not false, part two (Eric Lippert)
• The Big Glossary of Open Source JavaScript and Web Frameworks with Cool Names (Scott Hanselman)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Beware of big Task Parallel Library Operations (Oren Eini)
• Extending Visual Studio Part 3 – Item Templates (Dave Kerr)
• Actions in WCF Data Services – Part 3: A sample provider for the Entity Framework (Alex James)
• Using SnagIt with Microsoft Test Manager and the Visual Studio TFS Feedback Client (Ed Blankenship)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1.1 (CodePlex)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Getting Started with Netduino – $7.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Tips for Entity Framework Migrations (Jarod Ferguson)

 

Web Development

• A device emulator guide for cross platform development on ASP.NET and jQuery Mobile development (Rachel Appel)
• T4MVC has its own home, with some git love (David Ebbo)
• ClassyObjects: A JavaScript Class-y Inheritance Example (Derick Bailey)
• The Shift Towards Client-Side MVC and Performance Testing Knockout, Angular and Backbone with Selenium2 (Paul Hammant)
• Animated Content Tabs with CSS3 (Ring Wing)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0 RC (117.190) (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Firebug 1.9.2b1 (Jan Odvarko)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Want to Learn Some New Skills? Just Write It! (Andy Schwam)
• What’s in a name? (Giorgio Sironi)
• Move over, Visio, because Dia delights (Mike Williams)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• KnockoutJS vs. Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
• Windows Phone 7 – A Simple Clock App in 10-15 Minutes (Paresh Mayani)
• 2000 WPF Things #536 – Adding Layout Panels Using the Tools Panel in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• APress Deal of the Day – 13/Apr/2012 – Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM and Microsoft Press Deal of the Day – 13/April/2012 – Building Enterprise Applications with Windows® Presentation Foundation and the MVVM Pattern (Tatworth)
• Adjusting to rapid Marketplace growth—and preparing for the future (Todd Brix)
• Using The OData Explorer with LightSwitch OData (Michael Washington)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Alexandrescu, Bright, Meijer, Moran: Pure versus Native (and much more) (Charles Torre)
• ShopTalk Episode 14 (Chris Coyier)
• Let’s Play TDD #181: invokeAndWaitFor() (James Shore)
• WPCentral 140: Nokia Lumia 900 vs HTC Titan II (Daniel Rubino)
• Video: Manage the State of Your WPF Controls (Paul Ballard)
• Inside Windows Phone #36 | The Rowi Guys (Larry Lieberman)

 

Community / Events

• CSharpenUp Samples and Slides (Andy Schwam)
• Women in IT: working at the intersection of search and social media (MS JobsBlog)
• Agile 2012 Keynote Speakers Announced (Shane Hastie)
• Next F# New York City Meetup: Tomas Petricek on F# applications – From Domain Model to User Interface (Don Syme)
• Code Mastery Boston (Rockford Lhotka)
• Early Bird registration for C++ Now! ends Sunday (Diego Dagum)
• Meet the Author: Julie Lerman on Data Layer Validation in Entity Framework 4.1+ (Paul Ballard)
• Imagine Cup 2012: Vote for the People’s Choice (Matt Harrington)
• San Francisco Agile 2012 (SFAgile2012) (Sameer Bendre)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 1 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL server: Deciphering Wait resource (Nelson John A)
• SET and SELECT – SQL Server Vs MySQL‏ (Madhivanan)
• Diagnostic Manager – Custom Alerts (Kevin Conan)
• Finding Exact Duplicate Indexes (George Mastros)
• Using a SQL Prompt snippet with template parameters (David Atkinson)
• PowerShell and T-SQL: Implementing UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT (Kyle Neier)

 

SharePoint

• Test Lab Guide: Configure SharePoint Server 2010 in a Three-Tier Farm (MS Downloads)
• Windows Azure tools for SharePoint–announcing Cloud Meta Man (Nick Swan)
• Creating SharePoint sites from xml using Powershell (Reidar Husmo)
• Cloud Meta Man – Getting Started (Dmitry Kaloshin)

 

PowerShell

• Running show-command for a cmdlet (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows 8 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Microsoft’s answer to Amazon’s CloudSearch: Bing on Azure Marketplace (Mary Jo Foley)
• What is the real maximum length of a DNS name? (Raymond Chen)
• A new website for Office Labs (Steve Clayton)
• Now you can watch videos at high speed in our Silverlight players! (Keith Brown) – Yay, Pluralsight!

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• April 12th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• Double Shot #858 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 4/12/2012 and Daily News Digest 04/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Windows 8 Links – 2012-04-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1084 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

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