January 19, 2012 Links

 

C#

• async / await, some reasoning [bnaya]
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Stopwatch Ticks are not TimeSpan Ticks [James Michael Hare]
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The DateTime TryParse() and ParseExact() Methods [James Michael Hare]
• List the locations of special folders in C# [Rod Stephens]

Asp.net

• Timeouts for long running operations… [marlongrech]

Silverlight

• How to host a Silverlight Application using JavaScript? [Kunal Chowdhury]

WCF

• WCF Extensibility – Configuring the Endpoint for WCF RIA Services [CarlosFigueira]

Database

• Real World API Design Using The Entity Framework Services [David McCarter]

Azure

• Just published my first node.js Windows Azure application [ericnel]

Visual Studio

• Regex Tester [Roman Kurbangaliev]
• Visual Studio Achievements [Microsoft]

Miscellaneous

• Dream Job [Eric Proctor]

Client

• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 3 - Paths and Text [(author unknown)]
• Easing Functions in CSS3
• jQuery Grid - Feature Chooser [Jordan Tsankov]

Testing

• Unit Test or Integration Test and Why You Should Care [ssmith]

Videos

• Microsoft Parallel Computing Session - JorDev UserGroup [Abdulla.Abdelhaq]

Articles

• An analysis of SOPA and PIPA Protest "Blackout" HTML and CSS techniques [Scott Hanselman]
• The Morning Brew #1025 [Chris Alcock]
• Handset maker: Windows Phone OS costs $23-plus per copy? [Mary Jo Foley]