February 2009 – Page 2 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – February 25, 2009

Posted on February 25, 2009 | by Alvin A.

.NET / Visual Studio

Announcing PostSharp 1.5 CTP 3 (Gael Fraiteur)
StyleCop for R# goes RC (Andrew Stopford)
LINQ Explained– Part 2 (Kashif Ahmad)
A New Look for Visual Studio 2010 (Jason Zander) – Link of the Day
Making the move to Microsoft Azure (CTP) (Dan Carroll)
Oracle support announced for Visual Studio Team System 2010 Development (Barclay Hill)
Parallel and Concurrency Futures for Microsoft Developers (Rocky Lhotka)
An Intro to Barrier, cont.d (Jason Olson)
MVP TV – Gaze into the Crystal Ball: Reporting in Team System Made Easy! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Web Development

Using Expression Builders in ASP.NET (Scott Mitchell)
Web Packaging: Creating web packages using MSBuild (Vishal R. Joshi)
VSDoc for jQuery 1.3.2 Now Available (Jeff King)
Showing Syntax Colored Source Code in ASP.NET Content (Rick Strahl)
Oxite: what’s new and how to stay up to date with it (Simone Chiaretta)
JavaScript, inner functions and private members (Sergio Pereira)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Creating an API testing framework 101 (Dennis Dietrich)
Polymorphism in Expression trees (Jimmy Bogard)
What Are The “Never Events” for Software Quality? (K. Scott Allen)
re: Software Craftsmanship, Dogma and Pragmatism (Corey Haines)
The Pewter Scale, or “How to Maintain Your Balance” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

Auto trace in Expression Design (Corey Schuman)
Introducing SilverUnit (Roy Osherove)
We shipped WPF Flow Diagrams (JD Trask)
The Microsoft Expression Gallery (Joe Stagner)

PowerShell

Using PowerShell and WatiN (PowerWatin?) (Joel Bennett)

Database

Some clues as to SDS’s future (Jamie Thomson)

Community / Events

CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, March 3rd, 6:30pm – DotNetNuke, CMS for the masses (Christopher Steen)
Starting a User Group, Entry #3 (Jason Haley)
I’m Speaking at Mix09! (John Stockton)
MSDN Webcast: ADO.NET Data Services (Lindsay Rutter)

Miscellaneous

Feedback and Engineering Windows 7 (Steven Sinofsky)
IE8 Reliability Update for Windows 7 Beta Now Available (Herman Ng)
Microsoft Viveri: search and social networking (Steve Clayton)
Office Live Workspace: New Features (Sunshine)
No SharePoint 14 for you this year (Todd O. Klindt)
XML Notepad 2007 is a Simple, Smart Editor for Web Code (Kevin Purdy)
Hype Check: Safari 4 can’t beat Google Chrome (Lee Mathews)
Nine ways recruiters find you (Anne Cheng)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for February 24, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #294 (Chris Alcock)
Link Listing – February 23, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
Links 2009-02-24 (Gunnar Peipman)
Silverlight Cream for February 24, 2009 — #527 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: February 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Creators Club Communiqué 19 (Kathleen Sanders)
CloudNews for February 24th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (Theory in Practice (O’Reilly)): Scott Berkun: Books

ISBN: 0596517718
ISBN-13: 9780596517717

Technorati Tags: .net development,vs2010,silverlight,wpf,powershell,oracle,sds,safari,parallel extensions,silverunit,windows 7,sharepoint,jquery,user groups

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Dew Drop – February 24, 2009

Posted on February 24, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Design / Methodology / Testing

On Git’s lack of respect for immutability and the Best Practices for a DVCS (Eric Sink)
Testing ASP.NET MVC with QUnit – Part 1 (Brady Gaster)
Framework Design Guidelines: Factored Types (Brad Abrams)
Decade of Agile, Dawn of Lean (Scott Bellware) – Link of the Day
Test types and Continous Integration (Laila Bougria)
Ninject.FilterInjector v1.5: now injecting inside all kind of filters (Simone Chiaretta)

.NET / Visual Studio

Preview of Code Contract Tools Now Available (Melitta Andersen)
SharePoint Developers Get Big Boost in Visual Studio 2010 (Bruce Kyle)
Talking Points: ADO.NET Entity Framework (Joel Reyes)
Closures in C#: Variable Scoping and Value Types vs Reference Types (Derick Bailey)
Book review: LINQ in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Thoughts on the Code Contracts Preview for .NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
Declaration of Awesomeness for the Mono Compiler (Scott Koon)
Deep Fried Bytes Episode #27: Present and Future of the C# Language and Demystifying WCF on DNRTV (Keith Elder)
Tips & Tricks for the Visual C# Integrated Development Environment (Lindsay Rutter)
Use IDispatchMessageFormatter and IClientMessageFormatter to Customize Messages in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Windows 7 Taskbar: Custom Destinations (Sasha Goldshtein)
Nintender – Open Source Nintendo Emulator in C# – Release: v.001 (CodePlex)

Web Development

JavaScript for C# programmers: prototypes, the basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
IE6 Warning – Stop Living In The Past – Get off of IE6 (Scott Hanselman)
Creating and Consuming Syndication Feeds in ASP.NET 3.5 (Scott Mitchell)
JavaScript Function Call Profiling (John Resig)
Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign (Simone Chiaretta)
SharePoint Online and jQuery (Stephen Cummins)
JavaScript, time to grok closures (Sergio Pereira)

Silverlight / WPF

How to Create a Drag & Drop / Move, Zoom In & Out Content Control (Amit Raz)
New Preloader for Silverlight (Corey Schuman)
Excellent Tool For Silverlight Developers (Davy Brion)
Drawing with Ink in ASP.NET using Silverlight (Suprotim Agarwal)
Announcing Family.Show v3 – Our WPF Reference Application (Tim Sneath)

Community / Events

The official unofficial MIX09 Tweetup (Adam Kinney)
Events This Week – February 23rd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
MIX09 ticket winners (Tim Heuer)
Heading to MIX 09 and Presenting Too (John Papa)
The Importance of Code Camp in a recession (Stephen Forte)

Database

Advanaced TSQL and performance tuning (Simon Sabin)
SQL Server 2008 – CTE’s (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

Windows 3.1 installed on Nokia N95 (Tim Conneally)
Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec) Will Sync Tabs with Firefox on Your Desktop [Fennec] (Adam Pash)
Social Desktop extends REST to your desktop (Jamie Thomson)
Twitter PowerShell Script (Sarah Perez)
Commodore 128 (Pete Brown)
Web Work 101: Telecommuting – Out of Sight Doesn’t Have to Mean Out of Mind (Judi Sohn)
(Officially) Announcing the Resident Evil Limited Edition Console (Larry Hyrb)
Now, Discover Your Strengths (Steve Rowe)
HowTo: Hello "Cloud-Computing" (Robert Muehsig)
Why Do Enterprise Applications Suck? (Michael Nygard)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for February 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #293 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: February 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Link Listing – February 23, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2009 — #526 (Dave Campbell)
ASP.NET Dynamic Data Resources (Rachel Appel)
CloudNews for February 23rd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

jQuery in Action: Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz, John Resig: Books

ISBN: 1933988355
ISBN-13: 9781933988351

Technorati Tags: jquery,windows 7,silverlight,wpf,powershell,sql server,sharepoint,vs2010,git,mix09,ie6,windows azure,agile,lean engineering

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Dew Drop – February 23, 2009

Posted on February 23, 2009 | by Alvin A.

.NET / Visual Studio

Implementing a WCF service firewall part I of N (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
Silverlight Contrib 2009.1.0 Released! (Ilia Iordanov)
Using SliM in FitNess with .Net (Brett Schuchert)
DGML, Containers, and VSTS 2010 Architecture Rendering (Cameron Skinner)
Visual Basic 10 on the 10-4 Channel9 Series! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
SP1 for Crystal Reports 2008: fixes reports not opening up in VS2008 and "entry point not found" in stand-alone version (Julie Lerman)
Troubleshooting common mapping bugs with NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
Adding Parallel Extensions to F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
C#: Implicit Operator and C#: Wrapping collections vs Extension methods (Mark Needham)
Event Aggregation with MEF (with and without EventAggregator) (Glenn Block)
Windows 7 Taskbar: User Tasks (Sasha Goldshtein)
CSharper: C# Metaprogramming – Release: 3.0 Feb CTP (CodePlex)
Love and Fluent NHibernate (Chris Brandsma)

Design / Methodology / Testing

OO is Irrelevant! (Brett Schuchert)
Messaging ROI (Udi Dahan)
As for Peer Review, Code Review? (Ted Neward)
How Scrum is Like Marijuana (David Starr)
The Tests For The Readable Code Challenge (Davy Brion)
Who Knew Domain Validation Was So Hard? (Justin Etheredge) – Link of the Day
Domain Driven Design & Test Driven DesignDevelopment with Entity Framework Part 1.b Integration Testing for ObjectContext (Muhammad Mosa)
Evolutionary Design and Acyclic componentization (Patrick Smacchia)
Fluent Interfaces: What Am I Missing? (David Starr)

Web Development

Release: jQuery 1.3.2 (jQuery Team)
JavaScript for C# programmers: closure basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
JavaScript Arrays via JQuery Ajax to an Asp.Net WebMethod and JQuery 1.3.2: Performance and IE8 (Chris Brandsma)
Chapter 4 – Understanding Views (Stephen Walther)
Creating an ASP.NET MVC application with Google Gears (Maarten Balliauw)
Creating Hyperlinks and applying Styles to them in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
Show your Twitter log in SharePoint (Gunnar Peipman)

PowerShell

PowerShell needs Shift operators … (Joel Bennett)

Community / Events

IndyHall Resume Night on February 26th (Alex Hillman)
NINE Questions with Kent Tegels (Chris G. Williams)
This Week on C9: jQuery, Win Mobile, Warcraft AddOn Tools, and an Automated Bartender (Dan Fernandez)
Elegant Code Cast 23 – Jeremy Miller on StructureMap and Call for Code Cast Feedback (David Starr)

Miscellaneous

Setting Up a Virtual Lab with Hyper-V (Bob Fox)
Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 beta for Windows 7 (damaster)
10 Greasemonkey scripts you shouldn’t browse without (Jay Hathaway)
So You Like To Use ANSI SQL… (Denis Gobo)
How I Learn (David Starr)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for February 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #292 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for February 21, 2009 — #524 and Silverlight Cream for February 22, 2009 — #525 (Dave Campbell)
Links of the week #72 (David Vidmar)
Interesting Finds: 2009 02.16~02.22 (yuanjian)
Weekly Links #41 (Grant Palin)
Interesting Finds: February 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Weekly Link Post 82 (Rhonda Tipton)
Links (2/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
New and Notable 294 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET: Jimmy Nilsson: Books

ISBN: 0321268202
ISBN-13: 9780321268204

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