Dew Drop – July 30, 2008

Design / Methodology

• The Onion Architecture: Part 1 (Jeffrey Palermo) – Link of the Day
• Agile Software: Business Impact and Business Benefits (Steve McConnell)
• WCSF Application Architecture Tutorials – Layering and Design Patterns (David Hayden)
• A New Template for Team Foundation Server: .NET Objectives Agile Process Template and an Update to the Kanban Template (Charles Sterling)
• ARCast.TV – Roy Osherove on Test Driven Development (Bob Familiar)
• What Is an Architect? (Steve)
• Make Your Code More Maintainable: The Evils of the return Statement (Calvin Hsia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Cars SmashPack (Rudi Grobler)
• Tip of the Day #23 – How to Capture the Mouse Wheel Event (Mike Snow)
• Effects and Transitions for Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Partial Classes – They Have Only One Real Use, Right? (Granville Barnett)
• .NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman on the Entity Framework (MS Downloads)
• Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (J. Barnes)
• Asynchronously Preloaded LINQ Queries (Omer van Kloeten)
• How to Show Log4Net Info in NUnit (from NHibernate) (Chris Brandsma)
• Two Cool Debugger Tips That I Learnt Today (Daniel Moth)
• Integrating StructureMap with WCF (Jimmy Bogard)
• Implementing IExpandProvider for NHibernate.LINQ (Shawn Wildermuth)

Web Development

• Super Simple MVC Ajax with jQuery Demo (Phil Haack)
• jQuery Documentation Alternatives (Karl Swedberg)
• Getting SharePoint and ASP.NET AJAX to Work Together (Todd Snyder)
• Missing Dynamic Data Templates – VS 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 (Harish)
• Helping Visitors Search Your Site by Creating an OpenSearch Provider (Scott Mitchell)
• Batch JavaScript Libraries for Increased Performance (Steven Smith)

Events / Community

• Philly.NET Workshop – Slides, Code and Lessons Learned (Brian Donahue)
• Upcoming Northeast Developer Events – August (Chris Bowen)

Miscellaneous

• Is Money Useless to Open Source Projects? (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft’s Plans for Post-Windows OS Revealed (David Worthington)
• The Great Thing About Me Is That There’s So Many of Me (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Using Excel as an XML Editor (Mike Taulty)
• Monadic Philosophy (Harry Pierson)

Link-O-Rama

• Links (7/29/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Visual Studio Links #58 (Darren Stokes)
• WSDAC#13 – SCRUM Resources and WSOAC#26 – To ESB or not to ESB… and WMOC#13 – REST Twitter Client with WCF (Dilip Krishnan)
• Interesting Finds: July 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #147 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day