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Dew Drop – March 31, 2008

Silverlight

Silverlight Charts and Graphs – with Source Code (Pete Brown)

Events/Community

Spontaneous New York Ethiopian Nerd Dinner (Scott Hanselman)

.NET

A Web Server in 30 Lines of Code and NHibernate 2.0 Alpha Is Out (Oren Eini)
Using LINQ to Access the File System (Derik Whittaker)
Extension Methods Under .NET Framework v2 and v3 (Phil Curnow)
C# DateTime.MinValue Is Not the Same As SqlDateTime.MinValue (Justin Bezanson)
If You Are Using a Loop, You Are Doing It Wrong (Chuck Jazdzewski)
How To: Optimize the Memory Usage with Strings (Eugen Ciuta)

Design/Methodology

Developers’ Three Favorite Abstractions/Patterns (Evan Hoff)
We Need ALT.NET to Supplement the Traditional .NET Leadership (Jeremy D. Miller)
The Best Coding Design Guidelines Ever (Milan Negovan)
CHAPTER 1: Problems and Causes with the Way We Develop Software (Dan Bunea)

SQL Server

How the SQL UNION Affects Table Design (Ken Downs)

PowerShell

-ErrorAction SilentlyContinue => -EA 0 (Jeffrey Snover)

Link Collections

Links (3/30/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Weekly Link Post 35 (Rhonda Tipton)
The Morning Brew #62 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

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

Technorati: daily links, .net development, linq, silverlight, sql server, powershell, nhibernate

Dew Drop – March 26, 2008

Web Development

What’s New in Expression Web 2? (Public Sector DPE Team)
expression.microsoft.com – Center of MS Expression Info (Rob Relyea)
Best Adobe Flex Resources and Tutorial Sites (Charlie Key) – Keeping an eye on the competition.
Internet Explorer 8 and Adaptive Zoom (Saloni Mira Rai)
New Log Reporting, Database Management, and Other Cool Admin Modules for IIS 7 (Scott Guthrie)
How to Completely Test Your Website (Amit Agarwal)

Silverlight/WPF

The New Technology Behind Silverlight DeepZoom (David Isbitski)
Split Button/Menu Item/Automation (Lester)
Prism Drop 2 on CodePlex (Glenn Block) – WPF Composite UI Framework
10 Things I Didn’t Know About WPF Data Binding (Rudi Grobler)
XAML Specification Published, Added to Microsoft’s Open Promise (Scott M. Fulton, III)
Determining Silverlight Installation Metrics at Your Site (Laurence Moroney)
Getting the Most Out of ScottGu’s Silverlight 2.0 Overview (Brian Ellis)

.NET

.NET Framework Programming Model for Add-Ins (Vitaly Gorn)
Translating Intentions and Mechanisms (Eric Lippert)
NullObject.For (Paul Stovell)
Why Convert.ToInt32 Might Be Dangerous (Shahar Abramovich)
.NET Micro Framework Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 3 (MS Downloads)
LINQ to SQL Gotchas – Using Stored Procedures (Simon Sabin)
And Equality for All… Anonymous Types (K. Scott Allen)
Extending Lightweight Transactions in SqlClient (Alazel Acheson)
LINQifying – Getting Rid of CollectionBase? (Rick Strahl)
Wrapping Up NHibernate (Peter van Ooijen)
Testing LINQ to SQL with Mock Object (Avi Wortzel)
Why ALT.NET? (Scott C. Reynolds)

Miscellaneous

Top 5 Favorite CodePlex Projects (Michael C. Kennedy)
How Do I Write My UI Specs? (Yevgenia Gestrin)
MS Remote Server Admin Tools for Vista SP1 (x86) (MS Downloads)
Revisiting The Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (Jeff Atwood)
Whiteboard Wednesday: Effective Communication Channels (Max Pool)
Microsoft Partners with Top Social Networks – invite2messenger (Mark Harrison)

Career

How To Differentiate (J.D. Meier)

Blogging

7 Blogging Statistics Rules – There Is Life After Page Views (Scott Hanselman)
FriendFeed Launches API (John Musser)

SQL Server

A Simple Puzzle Using UNION and UNION ALL – Answer (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Very Cool Cryptogrophy Project for SharePoint on CodePlex (Andrew Connell)

Events/Community

Local to the NY/NJ/PA/CT/MA Area and Want a Hands-On Demo of MS Surface? How About Some Amazing Free OBA, Silverlight, WPF, SharePoint and .NET Content? (David Isbitski)
How to Receive Proper Notification About Events (Lindsay Rutter)
Speaking Tomorrow Night – Northern Delaware .NET User Group (Sam Gentile)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 25, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-03-25) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2008 – #234 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for March 25, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #59 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #173 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (Agile Software Development): Robert L. Glass: Books

Technorati: daily links, .net development, microsoft events, sharepoint, wpf, silverlight, linq to sql, iis7

Dew Drop – March 11, 2008

Silverlight/WPF

We Need to Learn From Flash and Silverlight & WPF, What It Means to Me (Jose Fajardo)
Live Messenger Done With Silverlight 2.0 – The Beginning and Login Screen Layout (Jose Fajardo)
Silverlight 2.0 Regular Expression Evaluator and BlogEngine.NET Extension For Embedding a Silverlight Plugin (Sean)
Silverlight 2 – 2D Physics Revisited and XAML Loading Animation (Chris Cavanagh)
Calling JavaScript Functions From Silverlight 2 (Tim Heuer)
Webcast: Building WPF Applications in VS2008 and Expression Blend (Marc)
Tip of the Day: Routed Events (Jesse Liberty)
A Missing Items/Solutions – Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 (Jay Kimble)
Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Hints and Workaround: Installing Windows SDK after VS2008 breaks WPF Intellisense (XAMLdev)
Review: Blendables Layout Mix (Rudi Grobler)

.NET

Enforcing Single Instance With Argument Passing (Sean)
Have YOU Updated Your Windows SDK Recently? (Tim Sneath)
The Artist That Used to Be Known as Astoria and DataDeveloper.NET – A Resource For Developers Interested in Data Access (Julie Lerman)
Fitting LINQ to SQL Into a Real-World Data Layer (Justin Etheredge)
CSLA .NET 3.5 Code Reduction With Child Objects (Rocky Lhotka)

Career

10 Ways to Keep Employees Happy (IT Employees) (Derik Whittaker)
Creating a Great Workplace For Developers (Sarat Pediredla)
Interviewing the Employer (Andy)

Blogging

Blog Resources For English Language and Blog Writing (Lorelle VanFossen)

Visual Studio

Professional Visual Studio Extensibility – Finally Released (Keyvan Nayyeri)
MOSS2007 Testing Using Visual Studio Team System 2008 (Liam Cleary)

Web Development

Microsoft MVC and MbUnit (Andrew Stopford)
ASP.NET MVC in CodePlex and Extensible Unit Testing (Brad Abrams)

Events/Community

S3 Browser For Live Writer – Our First CodePlex Release (TheCodeTrip)
Speaking Dates and Schedule For Spring and Launch Into 2008… A Microsoft Geek’s Timeline (Sam Gentile)
Talks You Won’t See at the Local Code Camp (K. Scott Allen)

Misc

Tell Me… What Do You Want For WCF Adapter Documentation? (Mike McKeown)
The Role of Architects and Architecture (David Starr)
10 Ways to Improve Your Code (John K. Waters)
Binary vs. Source Compatibility (Mike Stall)
Inside Vista Sidebar (Lionel Laske)

Link Collections

New and Notable 224 (Sam Gentile)
Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #9 – March 4, 2008 (Robert McIlree)
Interesting Finds: March 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Our Daily Link (2008-03-10) (Trevor Green)
LINKBLOG for March 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Finds of the Week, March 9, 2008 (Chinh Do)
The Morning Brew #50 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Professional Visual Studio Extensibility: Keyvan Nayyeri: Books

Technorati: daily links, wpf, silverlight, asp.net mvc, ado.net, .net programming, wcf, sharepoint, microsoft, visual studio, vsx, development careers