April 2009 – Page 2 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – April 28, 2009

Web Development

JavaScript for C# developers: date basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
To MVC or to WebForms? (Chad Myers)
CMS vs Code It Yourself (Dave M. Bush)
How I handle JSON dates returned by ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward)
Tip#57: Did you know… How to manage web site configuration through a web interface (Deepak Verma)
ASP.NET MVC brings FUN back inside web development, on .NET (Simone Chiaretta)
The strange case of the disappearing Feature: AdapterGroup (Scott Galloway)
Creating Visual Studio Templates from your Web Projects (Rick Strahl)
PHPPowerPoint 0.1.0 (CTP1) released! and Book review: Learning Ext JS (Maarten Balliauw)
Move Over ASP.NET WebForms and MVC! (Jonathan Oliver)
ASP.NET 400 Bad Request with restricted characters (Joshua Flanagan)
How to Create A JQuery Plugin (Justin)
IRouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Cross browsing experience with Expression Web and IE8 (Giorgio Sardo)
Windows Live Web Toolbar – How to integrate into your site (Hackersoft)
Develop Provider-Based Features for Your Applications (Miguel A. Castro)

.NET / Visual Studio

Tally Rows in a DataSet that Match a Condition (Beth Massi)
Why I love ReSharper, Part X of N (Oren Eini)
Introducing Dovetail DataMap (Kevin Miller)
What’s Been Happening in Fluent NHibernate Land? (James Gregory)

Design / Methodology / Testing

NHibernate Unit Testing (Oren Eini)
Why Messaging #1 – Intro (Dru Sellers)
Don’t Worship at the Altar of Accuracy (Steve Rowe)
Weak/Strong APIs (Mark Needham)
All Your Repositories Are Belong To Us (Jonathan Oliver)
Why agile transitions initiatives might fail (Jeffrey Palermo)
Validation – Part 2 – Client-Side and The 7 Phases of Unit Testing (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF

Microsoft Previews Great WPF and Silverlight Apps with Facebook OpenStreams API (Silverlight Team)
Silverlight 3 – Simple Control for Online/Offline and Silverlight 3 – Simple “Flip Control” built on PlaneProjection (Mike Taulty)
TestAPI v0.2 Released (Lester Lobo)
Round Gel-like button template for WPF (LearnWPF)
Databinding the videogame, part 6: logical coordinates (Joe White)
Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Local Data Store (Ashish Shetty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

DimeCasts.NET Episode #105: Getting your Func along with your Action on (Derik Whittaker)
The Future of SQL Data Services with Nigel Ellis (Zach Skyles Owens)
The Thirsty Developer 60: SQL Server 2008 for developers (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
Taking PeepCode for a spin (Sergio Pereira)

Community / Events

Distributed Development at Agile 2009 (Ade Miller)
Top 10 .NET Twitterers (Me)
NINE Questions with Shawn Weisfeld (Chris Williams)
My upcoming speaking/teaching schedule (Derik Whittaker)
Events This Week – April 27th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

SQL2005 and SQL2008 should not be installed side by side (Simon Sabin)
Quick Data Model creation off SSAS Data Source in SSRS (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server Encryption and Symmetric Key Encryption Tutorial with Script (Pinal Dave) – Link of the Day

SharePoint

sharepoint guidance v2 – drop 8 (Erwin Van Der Valk)

Miscellaneous

Call for JavaScript authors (Michael Kimsal)
More Office 2010 screenshots surface and Microsoft said to reveal "Kumo" in June (Ben)
NH Prof feedback (Oren Eini)
Windows Live Profile (April) update is here! (damaster)
At This Point, I’d Prefer Java Developers Over .NET Developers (Davy Brion)
Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock (Kip Kniskern)
Microsoft Vine to alert you in the time of crisis (Taimur Asad)
Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 Available for Download (Kevin Purdy)
40% off IronPython In Action Book (Michael Ceranski)
Five Windows 7 chapters free to all (Devon Musgrave)
Improvements to AutoPlay (Arik Cohen)
Is Google trying to out-Digg Digg? (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for April 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: April 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #336 (Chris Alcock)
Visual Studio Links #114 (Darren Stokes)
Silverlight Cream for April 27, 2009 — #581 (Dave Campbell)
Weekly Link Post 91 (Rhonda Tipton)
New and Notable 315 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Windows® Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition (PRO-Developer): Mark Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu: Books

ISBN: 0735625301
ISBN-13: 9780735625303

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Dew Drop – April 27, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Repository’s Daughter (Oren Eini)
There is no right way (Chris Brandsma)
Build the right feature, build the feature right! (David L.)
Poco, Mef, and custom type systems. Are you ready to take the red pill? (Glenn Block)
Design By Contracts meets Automated White box Testing (Jonathan de Halleux)
Overcoming Fear of Unit Testing Disease (Julie Lerman)
Validation – Part 1 – Getting Started (Karl Seguin)
If You Aren’t The Caretaker, Why Are You The Product Owner? (Max Pool)
Prototyping with SketchFlow (Somasegar) – Link of the Day
The big picture of the SharpDevelop code base (Patrick Smacchia)
AutoSpec and AutoTest.NET – AutoSpec for .NET (Rob Reynolds)
10,000 Hours to Graceland (Rod Paddock)

.NET / Visual Studio

NHibernate Futures (Oren Eini)
Unlambda .NET – With a Big Dose of C# 3.0 Lambdas (Bart de Smet)
Functional C# – Forward Functional Composition and Functional C# – Reverse Functional Composition (Matthew Podwysocki)
Programming Microsoft Agent in Windows Forms (Mohammad Elsheimy)
ReSharper coolness of the day: TODOs and NotImplementedException (Joe White)
Data Synchronization and the Compact Framework (Joel Ross)
Static Method Interception in .NET with C# and Mono.Cecil (Justin Etheredge)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight – Databinding to a Web Service (Dave M. Bush)
Silverlight 3 Hidden Features: TextBox.CaretBrush (Shawn Wildermuth)
Databinding the videogame, part 4: terrain collection and Databinding the videogame, part 5: making the map 2-D (Joe White)
Silverlight 3 Navigation API (Thanigainathan Siranjeevi)

Web Development

Getting up and Running Quickly with ScrewTurn Wiki & SQL Server (Dave Schinkel)
You should NOT use ASP.NET MVC if. . . (Jeffrey Palermo)
7 New APIs – Aviary, Google and ProgrammableWeb (John Musser)
Suteki Shop is now a sample application on the official MVC Framework site (Mike Hadlow)
6 Tips for ASP.NET MVC Model Binding (K. Scott Allen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Northeast Roadshow – Silverlight with WCF, WCF REST, and ADO.NET Data Services (Brian Johnson)
DDD: Videos from Øredev (Casey Charlton)
Major Nelson Blogcast – Show #317 : Wolverine, The Maw DLC and Todd McFarlane (Larry Hryb)
SE Radio Episode 133: Continuous Integration with Chris Read (Volker Mosthaf)

Database

SQL Server Except and Intersect (Richard Carr)
Import directory of XML files into SQL Server 2005 (Ted Krueger)
T- SQL – How to get all descendants of a given element in a hierarchical table (Paolo Costa)
SQL SERVER – List All the Tables for All Databases Using System Tables (Pinal Dave)

Community / Events

Awarded INETA Community Champion for Q1 2009 (Ben Scheirman)
Party with Palermo location confirmed for Tech Ed 2009 (Jeffrey Palermo)
SQLAuthority News – Starting the SQL Journey – How Did I Get Started With SQL? (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Press Releases Free Sample Chapters of Upcoming Windows 7 Books and Microsoft’s MSDev.com Releases Free Web Seminars: "A Developer’s First Look at Windows 7" (Blake Handler)
Organize your Personal Resources – Just use a Wiki! (Dave Schinkel)
What you need to know about the Windows 7 Release Candidate (Ed Bott)
Has The Virtualization Future Arrived? (Jeff Atwood)
Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock (Kip Kniskern)
PowerShell CmdLet Name Changes (Gary Lapointe)
Crossing Domain Boundaries: Name Resolution (Oleg Sych)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for April 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #335 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2009 – 2 — #579 and Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2009 — #580 (Dave Campbell)
Everyman Links for April 25, 2009 (Dave Burke)
Weekly Links #50 (Grant Palin)
Links (4/26/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Concurrent Programming on Windows (Microsoft .NET Development Series): Joe Duffy: Books

ISBN: 032143482X
ISBN-13: 9780321434821

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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – April 25-26, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

The difference between Infrastructure & Application (Oren Eini)
Practical Example of YAGNI: Good Intentions Gone Horribly Wrong and How To Be Awesome: Enforcing ToDos with Specification Tests (Bobby Johnson)
The Scatology of Agile Architecture (Uncle Bob Martin)
Pimp my architecture – Dan North and OO with a bit of functional mixed in and Writing unit tests can be fun (Mark Needham)
Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 1 (Rajiv Popat)
Help Us Name This Method (Davy Brion)
A Language for Architecture (J.D. Meier)

.NET / Visual Studio

My Oslo “M” end-to-end demo (Brian Loesgen)
__clrtype__ Metaclasses: Adding CLR Properties and __clrtype__ Metaclasses Demo: Silverlight Databinding (Harry Pierson)
Automating Visual Studio Solution Builds (Srinath M.)
Fluent NHibernate Automapping (Peter Bromberg)
F#: Not equal/Not operator (Mark Needham)
5 things you’d be willing to chop off System.Byte for (Sergio Pereira)
No bandwidth MSDN: Reflector (James Newton-King) – Link of the Day

Web Development

Is ASP.NET MVC a half-baked solution? (Karl Seguin)
Logging modules for ASP.NET (MVC) and also for Windows Azure (Tom)
New Processing.js and Sizzle.js Sites (John Resig)
JSON Serialization is not just for Web Services (Jason Grundy)
My Quick Oversimplified ASP.Net MVC Pros and Cons (Jeremy D. Miller)
Tip #54: Did you know…How you can turn off intellisense for HTML/ CSS editors (Ranjini Mathrubootham)
Tip #55: Did you know…How to change Start-Up Options and Instances of ASP.Net Development Server in a Multi-project Solution (WebDevTools Team)
Tip#56: Did you know… How to update JScript Intellisense manually (Masako Omoto)
JSON Serialization of a DataReader (Rick Strahl)
…In Which We Discuss Writing a Book on MVC (Rob Conery)
Little hack: CSS Combiner / Minifier ASP.NET Control (Scott Galloway)
Syntax Highligher (Kevin Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

Easing is… Easier (Jesse Liberty)
Databinding the videogame, part 3: actual databinding (Joe White)
WPF TestApi v0.2 has released! (Vincent Sibal)
What is Silverlight? (Part 1 of many) and Getting Started with Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode (Corey Schuman)
Read and Display ASP.NET Query Strings using Silverlight (Malcolm Sheridan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes Show #159 – IronPython with Michael Foord (Scott Hanselman)
Sod This 3: On Dynamic Languages, The Irish and Giving Away your Daughter (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
WebDevRadio Episode 63: Talking YUI3 with Satyen Desai from Yahoo! (Michael Kimsal)
This Week on C9: New Downloads, Design for Devs, TFS 2010, and underground Script Clubs (Dan Fernandez)
Free Azure Services Platform “How Do I” Videos (Bill Zack)
Dominick Baier on DevWeek and WCF and Dominick Baier on Identity, Geneva and OpenID (Mike Ormond)
Podcast: Best Practices in Silverlight – MVVM (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
New Video — New CodeRush Features for ASP.net Development (Mark Miller)

Community / Events

JSMag @ JSConf (Michael Kimsal)
Silverlight – 7 Twitter Accounts I Follow (and have found valuable) (Chad Campbell)
How “Being Lazy” is a Good Thing: Daniel Nerenberg (Jas Dhaliwal)
Arizona: Silverlight, MVC, MEF, WPF (Tim Heuer)

Database

Blocking due to fragmented HEAP Tables (Ted Krueger)
How to pad positive and negative number with zeroes in SQL Server? (Denis Gobo)
SQL Server UNION Operations (Richard Carr)

Windows 7

Windows 7 RC Build 7100: Leaked (Stephen Chapman)
Windows XP Mode Internals – Part 1 (Overview) (Rafael Rivera Jr.)
Windows 7 Release Candidate Screens and Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 Screenshots and Secret No More: Revealing Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 and Revealed: More Windows 7 RC details (Paul Thurrott)
Windows 7 Release Candidate Update (Brandon LeBlanc)
Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance (Ameet Chitre)
Windows 7 Release Candidate 1’s Best Surprise New Features (Matt Buchanan)

Miscellaneous

Foundations of a Good Programming Language (Michael Ceranski)
Work from home, save the world (Mike Walker)
The Twitter Book, by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein (Mark Frauenfelder)
Get free invites to Microsoft DreamSpark (Taimur Asad)
May’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
SQLAuthority News – Interview of Author on 60 Seconds with Pinal Dave (Pinal Dave)
Wolfram Alpha Getting A Public Preview On Tuesday (MG Siegler)
Paint.NET Plugin Lets You Open Photoshop Files (Jason Fitzpatrick)
Tricky Question (Greg Young)
Re-review of Kinesis (Kyle Baley)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for April 24, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Visual Studio Links #113 (Darren Stokes)
CloudNews for April 24th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Nice collection of .NET 4 links (Daniel Moth)
Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2009 — #578 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day

Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Second Edition (Books for Professionals by Professionals): Matthew MacDonald: Books

ISBN: 1590599551
ISBN-13: 9781590599556

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