Dew Drop – August 22, 2011

Short post today because I pushed a Dew Drop last night.

Top Links

• Task Parallel Library for Silverlight 2.0 (and WP7) (Robert McLaws & Jrmie "Garuma" Laval)
• Premature cries of Silverlight / WPF skill loss. Windows 8 supports all programming models (David Burela)
• Should You Upgrade Your WP7 App to Mango? (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Walking the Stack Without Symbols and With FPO (Frame Pointer Omission) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Book review: Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Web Development

• Creating Basic RSS Reader in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Reference to Value (Giorgio Sironi)
• Studio for Wijmo MVC Review (Steve Michelotti)
• Photo Mosaics Part 5: Queues (Jim O’Neil)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone: Adding Mango features to a 7.0 WinPhone App (Morten Nielsen)
• Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 3: Going visual with screens (Gill Cleeren)
• Ensure Your Apps are Published in All Markets (Mike Ormond)
• 2000 WPF Things #369 – Binding a Label’s Content to the Current Date and Time (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 170: Todd Anglin on HTML5 (David Giard)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 62 – Team Structure (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)

 

Database

• SQL Server: Limit Millisecond Part in DateTime2 Datatype (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Query Techniques For Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Book Available for SQL Server Certification and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – All about SQL Constraints – Day 22 of 35 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Skype acquires Microsoft BizSpark partner GroupMe (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup 079 for 8/22/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #921 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2011 – 2 — #1134 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

jQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine