June 2008 – Page 7 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – June 8, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

File Compression Using the .NET GZipStream Class (Rhonda Tipton)
RAD C++ Integrated Development Environment (Ali Imran Khan Shirani)
Some Improved LINQ Operators (Jimmy Bogard)
Hanselminutes Podcast 116 – Distributed Caching with Microsoft’s Velocity (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day

Design / Methodology

More on Quality (Chad Myers)
My Issues with the Term "Scrum Master" (Joe Ocampo)
Duct Tape & Bailing Wire as Architecture Eventually Fails (Bob McIlree)

SharePoint

Important: LINQ4SP Site Moved (Agnes Molnar)

Link-O-Rama

Silverlight Cream for June 07, 2008 — #293 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: 2008.06.08 (gOODiDEA)

Book of the Day

Test Driven Development: By Example (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Kent Beck: Books

Technorati: .net development, c++ development IDE, sharepoint, scrum, application architecture, linq, microsoft velocity

Dew Drop – June 7, 2008

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
Prism and Caliburn’s Future (Rob Eisenberg)
Expression Encoder SDK Now Available (Pete Brown)
Popup Control and Beta 2 Tutorials Available Now in PDF (Jesse Liberty)
Browser Resize – How to Capture the Size of Your Browser When It Is Resized and Dynamically Loading and Display Images in Beta 2 and What’s New with Silverlight Tools Beta 2 (Mike Snow)
What’s Changed in Silverlight 2 Beta 2? and Upgrading Your Silverlight 2 Projects to Beta 2 and Using ADO.NET Data Services in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Sites and Debugging ADO.NET Data Services… with Fiddler 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Available Plus Refreshed Screencasts (Mike Taulty)
WPF GlassEffect for Non-Vista OS (Sacha Barber)
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released, Now MSN Toolbar Works (Kip Kniskern)

.NET / Visual Studio

Data Dude Extensibility – How IBM Integrated DB2 Into Visual Studio and Architecture Modeling in Rosario with Peter Provost (David Starr)
Using the Visual Studio Tools for the Office System Power Tools v1.0.0.0 (Andrew Whitechapel)
LINQ DataContext Logging with the Logging Application Block (Ade Miller)
Functional C# Revisited – Into the Great Void (Matthew Podwysocki)
VSX Developer Center Update – June 2008 (VSX Team)
uCertify M70-533: Upgrade MCSD.NET Skills to MCPD Enterprise Developer Using C# Exam Preparation Kit (Muhammad M. Mosa Soliman)
Give Way to the yield Keyword (Shay Friedman)
Higher Order Function Demo (Justin Etheredge)

Web Development

MVC + Facebook == Wonderful Development Platform (Nick Berardi)
5 Developer Add-Ons for Firefox 3 (Mike Gunderloy)
How to Create a Package for Graffiti (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Design / Methodology

SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 7 of N (Sam Gentile)
Creating a Culture of Quality (John Teague)

SharePoint

Multiple RSS Aggregator Web Part Example (Zlatan Dzinic)
SharePoint Quick Surveys 1.0.1 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Miscellaneous

Opera 9.5 Web Browser Gets a New Look (Brad Linder)
10 Tips for Working with the Not-So-Tech-Savvy (Celine Roque)
How to Be Jeff Atwood (Leon Bambrick)
Microsoft Videos – Official News, Demos, How-To’s and More (Chris)
Run Xbox Media Center From a USB Drive (Kevin Purdy)
Xbox Jobs: Developers in Test (Josh Poley)
Cube Desktop (Mike Taulty)
The Greatest Invention in Computer Science (Jeff Atwood)

Events / Community

Followup to Testing with Mocks (Wendy Friedlander)
TechEd 2008 Notes: The Gentle Art of Pair Programming (Joe White)

Link-O-Rama

Link Listing – June 5, 2008 and Link Listing – June 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: June 6, 2008 and Interesting Finds: June 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight News for June 6, 2008 #2 (Emil Stoychev)
Everyman Links for June 5, 2008 (Dave Burke)
Links Today (2008-06-06) (Matt Hinze)
Daily Find #76 (Tim Boland)
Cool Links for Programmers (Shahar Abramovich)
LINKBLOG for June 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for June 06, 2008 — #292 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day

Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, 2nd Edition: Laurence Moroney: Books

Technorati: .net development, silverlight 2 beta 2, wpf, soa, sharepoint, vsx, graffiti cms

Dew Drop – June 6, 2008

Web Development

Unwanted Padding in IE Image Rendering in div Tag (Rick Strahl)
SubSonic: Using Migrations (Rob Conery)
Give Your ASP.NET Applications Velocity (Nick Berardi)

.NET / Visual Studio

Setting .NET Breakpoints in Windbg for Applications That Crash on Startup (Tess Ferrandez)
The "To Do" List (Mike Taulty)
The Art of Assembly Versions (Tony Rasa)
Quick Tip – Visual Studio Keybindings (Ryan Lanciaux)
Managed Extensibility Framework Preview Available (Brad Abrams)
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta Broke My LINQ to SQL (Rudi Grobler)
Refactoring Legacy Code – Part 1: Dealing with Static Cling (Sendhil Kumar R.)

Silverlight / WPF

The Use of Environment.NewLine in a WPF MultiLine TextBox (Amit Raz)
New Features: ScrollViewer.IsDeferredScrollingEnabled; AlternationCount; IEditableCollectionView (Lester)
Silverlight 2 SDK Beta 2 Documentation (John Papa)

Design / Methodology

SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 5 of N and Part 6 of N – The Current State of SOA and How to Mkae the Paradigm Shift (Sam Gentile)
If You Want a Modeling Career, Forget Barbazon, Take a Good Look at "Oslo" (David Solivan)

Blogging

DZone PlugIn for Windows Live Writer (John Papa) – Link of the Day

Miscellaneous

Introducing Gmail Labs (Keith Coleman)
Birthday Contest – Win Bamboo 2.0 + SlickEdit (Max Pool)
The Great Devlicio.us Giveaway (Sergio Pereira)

Link-O-Rama

LINKBLOG for June 5, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: June 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Visual Studio Links #37 (Darren Stokes)
Silverlight News for June 6, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
Links Today (2008-06-05) (Matt Hinze)
Interesting Finds: 2008.06.06 (gOODiDEA)
Silverlight Cream for June 05, 2008 — #291 (Dave Campbell)
Links (6/5/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #109 (Chris Alcock)
New and Notable 246 – SOA and WCF Edition (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series): Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts: Books

Technorati: .net development, linq, wpf, silverlight, wcf, soa, microsoft velocity, asp.net, subsonic