Dew Drop – May 18, 2012 (#1,330)

Top Links

• Delivering reliable and trustworthy Metro style apps (Steven Sinofsky)
• Programming Windows 6th Edition Preview Ebook Is Here! (Charles Petzold)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Select() and Where() with Indexes (James Michael Hare)
• NuGet and Bin Deploy (WCF Data Services Team)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• When using the Task Parallel Library, Wait() is a BAD warning sign (Oren Eini)
• Disabling the Screensaver Programmatically (Richard Carr)
• How to view the stack of threads that were terminated as part of process teardown from the kernel debugger (Raymond Chen)
• Enum helper for values specified in attributes (Scott Wojan)
• Introduction to Redis on Windows & Redis usage with .NET (Code Inside Team)
• EntityCollection or EntityReferece error in EF when using .ToList() (Derik Whittaker)
• Free set Windows Performance analysis tools. From boot perf analysis, to power use, memory leaks, CPU hogs, app crashes and many more… (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing “dotPeek” – A free .NET Decompiler by JetBrains (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Web Development

• Backbone.Syphon: Serialize Form Inputs To JavaScript Objects (Derick Bailey)
• jQuery find function (Jay C. Fields)
• jQuery/JavaScript Tools and Plugins Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• Node.js vs. ASP.NET Web API (Mikael Koskinen)
• jQuery UI 1.9 Milestone 8 – Position (Scott González)
• Diving Into CSS Regions (Umar Hansa)
• The EU Cookie Law – what to do now (Chris Scott)
• 20 Things That May Be Clouding Your Choice About the Cloud, But Shouldn’t (Zhiming Xue)
• The Bing Search API on Windows Azure Marketplace is Here! (Peter Horsman)
• CoffeeScript Style Guide (Chris Smith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why I Hate Unit Testing (Chris Eargle)
• "TIONTITITQ" ("To interface, or not to interface, that is the question") (Greg Duncan)
• How to prioritize tasks based on their value (Marta Jasinska)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RTM’d today: Windows Phone 7 Development Internals (Kim Spilker)
• AdDuplex launches referral program for Windows Phone developers (Rich Edmonds)
• 2000 WPF Things #561 – Drawing a 3D Donut Using a Radial Gradient (Sean Sexton)
• A LightSwitch Role Administration Web Page (JQueryUI/JuiceUI/Wijmo) (Michael Washington)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 052: Mystery in Space (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Video: Using a Security Token Service with an ASP.NET Application (Paul Ballard)
• my NPR interview about great speeches (Scott Berkun)

 

Community / Events

• Jobs in IT: Three reasons why it’s ideal to be a Program Manager at Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
• Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++: Live Streaming at 0900 PDT, May 18 (Charles Torre)
• Hangouts Hackathon: 1 API, 5 developers, 2 weeks (Scott Knaster)
• GeekDad and GeekMom at Maker Faire! (Ken Denmead)

 

Database

• SQL Server Tricks: How Can I Restore a Subset of My Tables to A Prior Point in Time? (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Thinking about Deprecated, Discontinued Features and Breaking Changes while Upgrading to SQL Server 2012 – Guest Post by Nakul Vachhrajani (Pinal Dave)
• Don’t put a return statement in a stored procedure inside a transaction (Denis Gobo)
• Managing Structured Data using Windows Azure Table Service (Mahesh Sabnis)

 

SharePoint

• Choosing the right site template – SharePoint 2010 (Kunaal Kapoor)
• Two MVPs Open Doors to a FAST World (MVP Award Program)

 

Miscellaneous

• More details on Windows 8 Release Preview bundled apps revealed (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #883 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 5/18/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-18 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for May 17, 2012 – #0084 (Dave Campbell)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1108 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold