Dew Drop – May 25, 2012 (#1,335)

Top Links

• OData submitted to OASIS for standardization (Alex James & Pablo)
• Being productive in the background – background tasks (Hari Pulapaka)
• Metro Walkthrough: Creating a Task List with a ListView and IndexedDB (Stephen Walther)
• Hybrid Mobile Applications with HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 (Sam Gentile)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Extract to User Control in visual studio11 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Object Pipelines (Richard Carr)
• What would you like to know about "how we do language design for VB and C#" ? (Lucian Wischik)
• VS2010 Large Solution Bottle Neck (Mark Pearl)
• Code Query and Rule over LINQ (Patrick Smacchia)
• Deeply Nested Null Checking in C# verses Assert with no nesting (Peter Kellner)
• Performance Gains with Data Parallelism: Using SIMD Instructions from C# (Sasha Goldshtein)
• C++ Build Throughput: Visual Studio 11 Pre-Release Compared to Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Li Shao)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming Entity Framework: Code First – $7.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL(O’Reilly Media)
• How do I prevent unchecked checkboxes in my listview control from disappearing? (Raymond Chen)
• My Favorite Features: Creating Storyboards with PowerPoint (Jason Zander)
• Do you want the Contoso Cookbook (and other Windows Dev Camp content)? (Jennifer Marsman)
• Coded UI Test – New Extensibility QFE (Shubhra Maji)
• Sigh. Writing XML DOM code (John Guin)
• Windows 8 Game Development resources (Glen Gordon)

 

Web Development

• Getting Started on Line-of-Business HTML5 App – Part 2 Setting Up Your Development Environment (Bruce Kyle)
• Injecting Custom HTML Attributes in ASP.NET MVC (Simon J. Ince)
• Dynamic Menus in ASP.NET MVC 4 using EF Code First and jQuery (Sumit Maitra)
• Adding MSCHART to your Windows azure Web Role and WCF service could cause exception (Avkash Chauhan)
• Getting Started with Socket.IO and Node.js (Chad Lung)
• Plugging into Azure with the Azure Plugin Library (Greg Duncan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: ServiceCustodian (Martin Fowler)
• TDD test suites should run in 10 seconds or less (Mark Seemann)
• Design patterns across paradigms (Mark Seemann)
• The Agile Pocket Guide – Peter Saddington – Now on Amazon for Pre-Order! (Peter Saddington)
• A Sense of Ownership (Jurgen Appelo)
• Mercurial for a small team series–Mercurial or Git (Kevin LaBranche)
• Collaboration in the Workplace: Where do You Start? (Jacob Morgan)
• Metro design principles for developers (Anders Poulsen)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 2000 WPF Things #566 – Setting Properties of an Effect in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Opinion: XAML vs. HTML5 and What Do You Want From Tombstone Helper? (William Soprano)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch: Will it emerge from sleeper status? (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: Mix Up Some Databinding with Expression Blend (Paul Ballard)
• Windows Phone Central 143 – Samsung returns, new apps & Skype (Daniel Rubino)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 53 (Richard Hay)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Guru Pangal (Ryan Parsley)
• Let’s Play TDD #192: A Tricky Little Refactoring (James Shore)
• Combining XAML and DirectX in Metro style apps | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Jesse Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• SharePoint Conference Registration Now Open – Get Early Bird $400 Off Discount! (Joel Oleson)
• The First Smashing Conference Is Coming: A Community Event For Web Designers (Vitaly Friedman)
• Canadian Open Day Brings out the Geeks and the Tweets (MVP Award Program)
• Geek Pride Day Survey 2012 (Nathan Barry)
• St. Louis Days of .NET 2012 (Scott Spradlin)
• Coworking makes room for larger startups (Jessica Stillman)
• Dani Does Phone–Western New York User Group Tour (Jim O’Neil)
• Metro Fridays Office Hours in Mountain View, CA (Doris Chen)
• Indy Hall V3 Relaunch Party! (Alex Hillman)
• Jobs in IT: The Hottest New Careers in Tech – PART II of II (Eugenia Sawa)
• Geek Out to Win Free Passes to Wizard World (Chris Cummins)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 LEAD and LAG (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – A Puzzle – Fun with SEQUENCE in SQL Server 2012 – Guess the Next Value (Pinal Dave)
• Recently Used Tables and Databases (William Assaf)

 

SharePoint

• SSRS Performance in SharePoint Integrated Mode (Paul Turley)

 

Miscellaneous

• A 30 year sorting algorithm saga: from 250k to 14GB in one minute (Rachel Appel)
• How I Would Design a Programming Degree (Chris Eargle)
• From the MVPs: Windows Intune 101 (Devon Musgrave)
• MSDN gets a new look… (Greg Duncan)
• Total Commander 8 goes 64-bit, but old plugins won’t work (Mike Williams)
• Steve Ballmer Has An 80-Inch Windows 8 Tablet Hanging In His Office (MSFT) (Steve Kovach)
• Adobe Gives Flash Source Code To Microsoft, Bundles With IE10 (Vygantas)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 25, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1113 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-25 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for May 24, 2012 – #0089 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for May 14 – 20, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life! by Chris Bernard