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Dew Drop – October 18, 2012 (#1,424)

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Dew Drop – May 17, 2012 (#1,329)

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.NET / Visual Studio

When using the Task Parallel Library, Wait() is a BAD warning sign (Oren Eini)
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta SDK now available (Greg Duncan)
TMap 4 TFS WP7 App – Connect 2 TFS video explanation (Clemens Reijnen)
Troubleshoot WCF The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server (Ricci Gian Maria)
Get Detailed Build Test Results using the TFS API (Tarun Arora)
Talking cloud: Not all .NET roads lead to Microsoft (Troy Hunt)
Being productive when your app is offscreen (Hari Pulapaka)
High accuracy DateTime.UtcNow (Kirill Osenkov)
Going Beyond async and await On WinRT (Jeff Martin)
RabbitMQ for Windows: Fanout Exchanges (Derek Greer)

Web Development

Implementing message handlers to track your ASP.NET Web API usage (Filip W)
jQuery/JavaScript Tools and Plugins Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
Quick Tip: Telling Knockout to skip binding part of a page (Ryan Niemeyer)
PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.2 EAP 117.414 (Alexey Gopachenko)
Meet Crockford’s JSCheck (Andrew Burgess)
SASS vs. LESS (Chris Coyier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Code to Interfaces. Right. What’s an Interface? (Bil Simser)
The Importance of unleashing your own creativity (Bill Wagner)
Microsoft Test Manager–Test Cases Not in a Test Plan (Bob Hardister)
People are Messy (Mike Cottmeyer)
Load and Performance Testing; what’s the Difference? (Phil Sams)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Building a Belt Clock in WPF (No, not a clock for your belt, but a clock made of belts…) (Greg Duncan)
WP7 Launchers and Choosers – A WP7Dev should know (Kunal Chowdhury)
2000 WPF Things #560 – Using a Radial Gradient to Create a 3D Effect (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Mister Franklin Goes to Washington (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Stephan T. Lavavej: Core C++, 1 of n | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
Lessons Learned: Lint and Javascript (James Shore)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 52 (Richard Hay)
Roundtable Part 1: Agility vs. Architecture (Bob Rhubart)
The Verge Mobile Podcast 028 – 05.16.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
Defrag: WPA2, Virtual Desktops, Cool KB’s | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
The new Bing…your questions answered (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Social meet up on Twitter for MEET Windows Azure on June 7th (Maarten Balliauw)
Philly.NET: Scott Hanselman: The Future of ASP.NET (Nick Berardi) – Mr. Hanselman goes to Philadelphia.
Windows Phone designer is named one of country’s most creative (Michael Stroh)
Come to the Agile Buffet Table to Fill Your Plate (Telerik Agile Blog)
Interview With Ward Cunningham (Andrew Binstock)
Register Now to Attend a May 24th Windows 8 Developer Camp in Chevy Chase, MD! (MS Public Sector Team)
Workshop and hackaton with Glenn Block: Node.js in the cloud with Azure (Einar Otto Stangvik)
that CONFERENCE (Brian Harry)
Social meet up on Twitter for MEET Windows Azure on June 7th (Magnus Martensson)
Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block (Paul Ballard)
How I Open Source (Jay C. Fields)

Database

Securing SQL Server with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) (Jonathan Gardner)
Upgrading Packages to SSIS 2012 (Devin Knight)
"SQL Server Performance Survival Guide" a fairly massive link round-up on all things SQL Server performance related (Greg Duncan)
Adventure Works Database for SQL Server 2012 (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide – A Comprehensive Whitepaper – (454 pages – 9 MB) (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

Converting all your non-MP3 files to MP3’s with VLC, PowerShell & TagLib# (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

Facebook App Center Best Practices (Emil Hesslow)
Screenshots of new Windows 8 Photos app revealed (damaster)
Channel 9: Announcing MSDN Profile Integration (Geoffrey K., Karsten Januszewski & Mike Sampson)
Windows Phone sales nearly double in the US passing RIM, according to Kantar Worldpanel (Daniel Rubino)
Why I Taught My Daughter To Code (A Little) (Jon Galloway)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action by Jeffrey Palermo

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Dew Drop – May 16, 2012 (#1,328)

.NET / Visual Studio

Reviewing RavenDB app: ReleaseCandidateTracker (Oren Eini)
Creating Type Aliases in C# (Richard Carr)
Another Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application (nycnet)
Team Foundation Service Updates – 5/15 and Team Explorer Everywhere in the Eclipse Marketplace (Brian Harry)
Post-increment Operator and Precedence (Chris Eargle)
Mech Commander, could it be rebuilt for Windows 8? (Surf4Fun)
What Metro style app packages are installed? (Mike Ormond)
Metro on Windows 8 – Illegal characters in path (Nick Berardi)
Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Updates in May, 2012 (Jialiang Ge)
IQueryable Dynamic Expressions (Jon Canning)

Web Development

Ten Features I Like About CoffeeScript (Karl Seguin)
Approaching Beta: What’s changing in JsRender and JsViews (Boris Moore)
Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 3, Logging, and Depency Injection (Bil Simser)
HTML5 adaptive images: end of round one (Bruce Lawson)
Why REST Keeps Me Up At Night (Daniel Jacobson)
node.js Version 0.6.18 (stable) (Isaac Schlueter)
Mobile responsive site design in Expression Web (I. Haynes)
Some Random JavaScript Coding Tidbits (Louis Lazaris)
Working with files in JavaScript, Part 2: FileReader (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Self Hosting ASP.NET Web API and Understanding the Routing Conventions (Anoop Madhusudanan)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Learning JavaScript Design Patterns – $11.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
A crash course for the MongoDB console (Giorgio Sironi)
DropDownList and SelectListItem Array Item Updates in MVC (Rick Strahl)
HTML5’s Value for Mobile Event Apps (Rob Diana)
Naked JavaScript – Constructor Functions (Ryan Sukale)
Sass vs Less (Renso Hollhumer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Is VM size an architectural smell? (Simon Brown)
Book Review (Book 11) – Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform (Buck Woody)
Agile in Hardware Projects – When Issues Arise (Peter Saddington)
Plans for CQRS V2 (Microsoft patterns & practices)
100% Resource Utilization Does Not Equal 100% Productivity (Paul Ballard)
@aldos response. (‘Uncle Bob’ Martin)
Test Naming Conventions With Unit of Work (Roy Osherove)
Design Thinking and Culture of Radical Collaboration (Srini Penchikala)
Got a Bug? File a Report (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Kendo UI ListView Control and OData in Windows Phone Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #8: Alarms and Reminders (Glen Gordon)
Windows Phone A-Z Resources (Lohith Nagaraj)
Learn about RadDiagnostics for retrieving Exception Details using the Telerik Controls for WP7 and Part 90 – WP – Background File Transfers – by @SumitDutta21 and Part 91 – WP – Indeterminate PerformanceProgressBar – by @SumitDutta21 (Kunal Chowdhury)
TcpClient – Making Windows Phone Sockets Easy (Mikael Koskinen)
2000 WPF Things #559 – Drawing a Masked Gradient in Blend (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ShopTalk Episode 18 (Chris Coyier)
The Campus Coder Show #3: Ben Snyder and Zach Hoefler (Glen Gordon)
Ping 141: The new Bing, Disney Kinect, Soundwave, 360’s on sale (Laura Foy, Paul Mestemaker & Golnaz)
Engadget HD Podcast 299 – 05.15.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

Accelerate Your Windows 8 App Development (G. Andrew Duthie)
Being a SharePoint Premier Field Engineer (Chris O’Brien)
I’m joining ifttt (John Sheehan)
Announcing: Test-Driven Javascript Screencast (James Shore)
Windows Azure, Scott Guthrie, 22nd June, London (Mike Taulty)
Hold The Dates! June 26-28: Getting Started with Web Automated Testing (Jim Holmes)
Let’s MEET Windows Azure (Shaun Xu)
Wining with Palermo on the beach… Learning about developing for Windows 8 with Michael Palermo on the beach (Carlsbad, CA) and win stuff too… (Greg Duncan)
Calling all social coders: Xamarin is hiring Developer Evangelists (Xamarin Team)

Database

SharePoint

RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services (Kim Spilker)
Integrating SharePoint with Fruity Products (Becky Isserman)

PowerShell

Calling Oracle Stored procedures using Powershell (Gary Sherman)

Miscellaneous

Whitelisting Domains in Cordova (PhoneGap) Android (Chris Love)
On Learning to Code. Or Not. (Michael Krakovskiy)
Microsoft "Data Hub," a private, self-service DataMarket for your internal data and users, but in the cloud… (Greg Duncan)
Now in Marketplace: the AboutOne family organizer (Michael Stroh)
Inside a Google onsite interview (Swizec Teller)
Windows Phone sales nearly double in the US passing RIM, according to Kantar Worldpanel (Daniel Rubino)

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference by Joseph Albahari

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