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Dew Drop – June 3, 2008

Design / Methodology

Whatever Happened to UI Consistency? (Jeff Atwood)
SimpleStateMachine on CodePlex (Kyle Baley)
Architecting Twitter (Oren Eini)
This Is Agile Working Well (David Starr)
SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 3 of N (Sam Gentile)

Web Development

URL Rewriting Across App Domains (Joel Ross)
MVC Storefront: Dependency Injection (Rob Conery)
Microsoft’s Silverlight Boss on How Silverlight 2 Fits in with Media and RIA Scenarios (RIA News Desk)
Where Is Silverlight Going? (or — Why Silverlight Will Succeed) (Peter Bromberg)

.NET / Visual Studio

Quick Blurb: Test Tools Toolbar in Visual Studio and Useless Icons (Omer van Kloeten)
Introducing BabySmash – A WPF Experiment and Learning WPF with BabySmash – Configuration with DataBinding (Scott Hanselman)
NDepend – Static Analysis Made in Heaven (Jan Van Ryswyck)
We Don’t Need No String.Format Binding! (Paul Stovell)

Events / Community

LessThanDot: A New Community Site Has Been Launched (Denis Gobo)

SQL Server

PIVOT Table Example (Pinal Dave)
SQL Injection Continued (Tom)

SharePoint

Things to Think About When Planning a SharePoint Solution (Ishai Sagi)

Miscellaneous

Acrobat.com Beta and MinWin: Is It or Isn’t It Part of Windows 7? (Paul Thurrott)
Acrobat.com – Game Changer or Me Too? (Mike Gunderloy)
6 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Be a Web Worker (Celine Roque)
Tip: Path Variable Expansion in Vista (Pete Brown)
Catching Up with the Plumbers (James Kovacs)
Welcome to the World of Git (Jeremy Jarrell)
When the Going Gets Tough or, How to Improve Your Life as a Developer (Michael Eaton)
Staying Humble (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Data Programmability Advisory Council (Jarod Ferguson)
Large USB Flash Drive Performance (Jeff Atwood)
SilckEdit 2008 Review (Mike Riley)
Live Mesh Desktop Wallpapers (Chris)
Introducing the Microsoft Store (Sumeeth Evans)

Blogging

Announcing Brevity (Frank La Vigne)
Windows Live Writer Plugin for DotNetKicks Alpha (John Papa)
Windows Live Writer CTP Released and The New Live Writer SDK (Scott)

PowerShell

WPF & PowerShell – Part 7 (Sharing Hosts) (James Brundage)

Link-O-Rama

Visual Studio Links #35 (Darren Stokes)
Interesting Finds: June 2, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Daily Find #73 (Tim Boland)
LINKBLOG for June 2, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Weekly Software Development and Architecture Crumbs #6 (Dilip Krishnan)
The Morning Brew #106 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Windows Vista(TM) Resource Kit: Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, Ralph Ramos, The Windows Vista Team: Books

Technorati: .net development, wpf, silverlight, sharepoint, powershell, sql server, slickedit, windows live writer

Dew Drop – May 31, 2008

Web Development

How to Build Your Very Own Provider Model – Part 3 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
MVC Storefront: Best Episode Yet Is on Its Way Monday (Rob Conery)
ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Tooling Updates and Update NUnit Test Project Templates (Joe Cartano)

.NET / Visual Studio

BooLangStudio: Boo in Visual Studio (Oren Eini)
SubSonic: Update on 3.5 Plans (Rob Conery)
Dark Side with Blue Hues (John Papa) – Nice VS theme.
A Major Silverlight PITA and Two Annoying 3.0 Limitations (Lee Richardson)
Sandcastle – May 2008 Release (v2.4.10520) (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

6 Great Tools For Writing a Book (John Papa)
Glide Unveils New Version of Web OS (Brad Linder)
Flowchart.com Offers Online Drawing Tools (Mike Gunderloy)
The 33 Languages of SQL Server (Joe Webb)

Design / Methodology

What the &@$#* Is a ‘Best Practice’ Anyway? (Derik Whittaker) – Link of the Day
Simple State Machine (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

Create Custom Policy Programmatically (Andrew Woodward)
Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (MS Downloads)

Career

Develop Your Skills at Microsoft (Gretchen Ledgard)

Events / Community / Blogging

Why You Want to Book Your PDC2008 Ticket Now (Tim Sneath)
Professionalism, Programming, and Punditry and Success as a Metric (Scott Hanselman)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: May 30, 2008 and Innovation Notes: May 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Visual Studio Links #34 (Darren Stokes)
Links Today (2008-05-30) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for May 30, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for May 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Daily Find #72 (Tim Boland)
Interesting Finds: 2008.05.31 (gOODiDEA)
Everyman Links for May 30, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter): Garr Reynolds: Books

Technorati: sharepoint, sql server, silverlight, boo language, microsoft sandcastle, visual studio, asp.net mvc

Dew Drop – May 30, 2008

Design / Methodology

When Does Design Happen in Agile? (Ian Cooper)
Does Programming to Interfaces Buy Us Anything? (Ben Northrop) – This guy’s just begging for a comment flame war. Don’t let Bellware see this one. 🙂

Silverlight / WPF

Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 – Part One and Part Two and Part Three and Part Four (Faisal Khan) – Nice four-part series on Silverlight animation. Link(s) of the Day.
WPF Multipage Reports – Part II – Data Grouping (Jan Repisky)
Revolutionizing the User Interface (Introducing MenuKiller for WPF) (Zlatan Dzinic)
Awesome DeepZoom Demo (Pete Brown)
Chiron (Jimmy Schementi) – "This contains Chiron.exe, the Silverlight development web server for Dynamic Languages, with a fix for the IPv4/6 issues."
Trying Out Binding.StringFormat (Mike Hillberg)

.NET / Visual Studio

REST Services and Metadata Endpoints in WCF and Extending WCF InstanceContext to Store Custom State (Dan Rigsby)
What’s Wrong With this? (Alan Mendelvich) – I’m not a fan of this. Code readability issues should be resolved with proper naming conventions.
WCF Callbacks: A Beginner’s Guide (Barry Dorrans)
Detailed Code Metrics with NDepend (Maarten Balliauw)
ReSharper Introspection Severity and the var Keyword (David Hayden)
Utilizing Your .NET Projects Automated Acceptance Tests on Crystal Reports – Part 2 (Eric Landes)
What’s on Your Entity Framework v2 Wish List? (John Papa)
Foundations of Programming – Part 8 – Back to Basics: Exceptions (Karl Seguin)
Fluent Interfaces and Readability (Joel Ross)
No More null Checking on Your IEnumerables Before You Iterate Over Them (John)
IronRuby and Rails (John Lam) – Congrats to John and the IronRuby team!

Web Development

ViewData "dot" Notation Expressions in ASP.NET MVC (Matt Hawley)

SharePoint

Pimp My Content Deployment Job (Stefan Goßner)
Updating Pages Library with Default Page Content Type (Becky Bertram)
Presentations for Introductory SharePoint Development (MS Downloads)
One CAS Policy for Many Web Part Assemblies (Patrick Tisseghem)

Miscellaneous

Deep Fried Bytes Podcast Is Live (Keith Elder)
Pure Digital Flip Video Ultra Review (Scott Hanselman) – I need to get this for my wife.
Get Your Learning On!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Holy Crap – I Like to Write Specs! (Mike Desjardins)
Gmail Labs? (Ionut Alex Chitu)
Automating the PowerShell Script Repository (Joel Bennett)
Authorization and Encryption in Live Mesh (Steve Clayton)
Turbografx Emulator Hits iPhone (Rob Beschizza) – Ok, now I officially need an iPhone.
Strong Opinions, Weakly Held (Jeff Atwood)

Blogging / Community

Calm Days for the .NET Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Great Podcast About the Development Community (Rhonda Tipton)
Using FriendFeed’s Public Links (Sarah Perez)
Community Call to Action: NOT Northwind (Scott Hanselman)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: May 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for May 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links Today (2008-05-29) (Matt Hinze)
Squeezed Links: May 2008 (Max Pool)
Links (5/29/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Everyman Links for May 29, 2008 (Dave Burke)
Link Listing – May 29, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #104 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

3D Programming for Windows (Pro – Developer): Charles Petzold: Books

Technorati: .net development, agile development, ninject, wcf, wpf, silverlight, powershell, sharepoint, entity framework, asp.net mvc, turbografx, iphone