community – Page 9 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – July 8, 2008

Design / Methodology

Entities and the Law of Demeter (Jimmy Bogard)
TDD and Hard to Test Areas, Part 1 (Ian Cooper) – Link of the Day
Incremental Migration (Martin Fowler)

Silverlight / WPF

Great User Experience Example in a Business Application (Brad Abrams)
Hanselminutes Podcast 120 – The Odd Couple – A Developer and a Designer Talk About Working with XAML (Scott Hanselman)
P[e]op[le]Fly (Glen Gordon)

.NET / Visual Studio

Recursing Into Linear, Tail and Binary Recursion (Matthew Podwysocki)
Deep Fried Bytes Episode 5: Developing .NET Software on a Mac (Keith Elder)
Some RichTextBox Tricks (Patrick Smacchia)
The Missing .NET #6: Version Tolerant Serialization (Jason Kemp)
Scale Cheaply – Memcached (Karl Seguin)
Long Paths in .NET, Part 3 of 3 Redux (Kim Hamilton)
Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 2: Cache<KEY, VALUE> (Chad Myers)

C#/VB Pursefight

Declaring Event Handlers in C# Is Just Painful, Prove Me Wrong Please (Chris Love)
Creating Event Handlers in C# – The Definitive Guide (Keith Elder)

Web Development

ASP.NET Hacks (lessthandot)
Waegis Will Be Live Tomorrow (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Kill Your Users Table (Schalk Neethling)
HTTP Request Flow Diagram (Simone Chiaretta)

SQL Server

An Introduction to New T-SQL Programmability Features in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

Events / Community

User Groups This Week (G. Andrew Duthie)
Northern NJ .NET User’s Group Meeting: July 8, 2008 (Rachel Appel)

Miscellaneous

You Don’t Need a Muse: How to Get Your Work Done When You’re Not Inspired (Celine Roque)
Might Microsoft’s Midori Be ‘Cairo’ Revisited? (Mary Jo Foley)
Identi.ca Gets a Reply Tab, Actually Becomes Useful (Sarah Perez)
Is This the Time That 3D Sticks? (Robert Scoble)
Bash vs PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: July 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Morning Coffee 166 (Harry Pierson)
Silverlight News for July 8, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
LINKBLOG for July 7, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2008 — #319 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #131 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf: Books

Technorati: .net development, waegis, powershell, silverlight, xaml, sql server 2008

Dew Drop – July 3, 2008

Silverlight / WPF

Consuming ASMX Web Services with Silverlight 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
Composite Application Guidance Is Live (Glenn Block)
Updating Silverlight.js (Tim Heuer)
Microsoft: Silverlight Is Searchable, Too (Mary Jo Foley)

Web Development

HttpModule for Timing Requests (Phil Haack)
The Weekly Source Code 30 – VB.NET with XML Literals as a View Engine for ASP.NET MVC (Scott Hanselman)
MVC Storefront Part 16: Membership Redo with OpenID (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
ASP.NET MVC Tip #13 – Unit Test Your Custom Routes (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

Showing Some Support for LINQ to SQL (Ian Cooper)
Sandcastle Project Has Been Republished on CodePlex (Jonathan Wanagel)
Active Conventions with NDepend – Part Deux (Jan Van Ryswyck)
On Entity Framework, Concurrency (Mike Taulty)

Events / Community

RockNUG Meeting – 7/9/2008 – Functional C# (Matthew Podwysocki)

SQL Server

Interview with SSIS Guru Jamie Thomson (Denis Gobo)
Efficient Paging in SQL Server 2005 (Justin Etheredge)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft to Ratchet IE8 Security Another Notch in Beta 2 (Ed Bott)
Internet Explorer 8 Security Preview (Paul Thurrott)
New FriendFeed Greasemonkey Script (Sara Perez)
Turning Off the Annoying Shutdown Event Tracker (Mike Azocar)
Matthew Baldwin: writer, blogger, pretty okay guy (Ariel M. Stallings)
Remote Control Extender, Convert Your IR Remote to RF (Matt Walker)
stackoverflow Podcast #12 (Jeff Atwood)
Future Tech: Seven Innovations That Will Change Your Life (Eric Griffith)
Why Jeff Atwood Is Right (M. David Peterson)
55 Free High Quality Icon Sets (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)

Link-O-Rama

LINKBLOG for July 2, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: July 2, 2008 (Jason Haley)
26 Not to Be Missed .NET Articles – June 2008 (Schalk Neethling)
Silverlight Cream for July 2, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #128 (Chris Alcock)
Link Listing – July 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional): Ken Schwaber: Books

Technorati: .net development, ndepend, entity framework, sql server, ssis, asp.net mvc, silverlight, wpf, ie8

Dew Drop – June 25, 2008

Long list of quality posts today. Enjoy!

.NET / Visual Studio

.NET Synchronized Dictionary (Schalk Neethling)
F-In-Box (via DotNetKicks) – A .NET Flash container control.
.NET Rocks! – Naveen Yajaman on Visual Studio Tools for Applications (MS Downloads)
VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension (Phil Haack)
The Dreaded No Such Interface Supported Error (Darren Stokes)
Oh That No-Confidence Vote on E.F. and Jimmy Nilsson on LINQ to SQL and EF (Julie Lerman)
Dissecting LINQ Expression Trees – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
Back to Basics: var != Dim (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day (tie)
WCF Unity (CodePlex)
Twitter WCF Client (Petar Vucetin)
An xUnit.net Assert.Throws Code Snippet (Ade Miller)
Foundations of Programming Ebook (Karl Seguin)
Pex – Automated Exploratory Testing for .NET (MS Research)
Design of LINQ to SQL – What Was I Thinking or Was I? (Dinesh Kulkarni)
The var War is Brewing (Derik Whittaker)

Web Development

Resolving HttpContext Members Using Ninject Providers (Matt Hinze)
Tools to Block and Eradicate SQL Injection (Joe Stagner)
Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection (MS Downloads)
MVC Storefront: What’s Next with Episode 15 (Rob Conery)
Hosting an Entire ASP.NET MVC Request for Testng Purposes (Chad Myers)
Examining ASP.NET 2.0’s Membership, Roles and Profile – Part 11 (Scott Mitchell)
ASP.NET MVC Content Aggregator (Simone Chiaretta)
Doesn’t Anyone Bookmark Anymore? (Shawn Wildermuth)
ASP.NET MVC Tip #1 – Create New HTML Helpers with Extension Methods (Stephen Walther)

Design / Methodology

Separation of Concerns By Example: Part 2 (Jimmy Bogard)
Looking at nServiceBus – Added to Tonight’s Presentation (Sam Gentile)
DSL + UML = Pragmatic Modeling (Cameron Skinner)
Designing Controllers (Sean Chambers)
The Art of Software Estimation (Joel Ross)
Features Do Not Exist (Only Benefits) (Max Pool)
Does Our Addiction on Visual Tooling Harm the Rate of Innovation in the .NET World? (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day (tie)

Silverlight / WPF

Composite Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight and PrismAG (Gunther Lenz)
Client-Side Database with Silverlight? (Peter Bromberg)
Silverlight Soft-Body Physics (Chris Cavanagh)
Silverlight 2 Media Player Project Now Open Source (Tim Heuer)
Fish Eye Control in Silverlight (Andrew Woodward)
Silverlight 2 Samples: Animating Controls (Martin Grayson)
Dynamic Data Entry with WPF and LINQ (Beth Massi)
WPF Flickr Viewer Using LINQ to XML (Sacha Barber)
CSLA Light Data Portal and N-Level Undo (Rocky Lhotka)
Tweening Equations for Silverlight (Adam Kinney)

Miscellaneous

Evernote 3.0 Polishes Interface, Add Mac Client (Kevin Purdy)
Dime Casts – Great Ten Minute Development Tutorials (Rhonda Tipton)
Replacing Notepad with Notepad 2 and Quite Tip: Making Firefox Work with SharePoint (Brian Ellis)
Microsoft VP Confirms Windows 7 Ship Date: January 2010 (Paul Thurrott)
Revisiting the XML Angle Bracket Tax (Jeff Atwood)
ATM Fail! (FAIL Blog) – Windows activation message on an ATM screen. Nice.
PowerShell Authenticode Signatures and Trust… (Joel Bennett)
Discovering Great XP and Vista Themes (Sarah Perez)

SharePoint

Indexing and Searching Documents in Multiple Languages (Part I) (Patrick Tisseghem)

Link-O-Rama

Silverlight News for June 24, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
Interesting Finds: June 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for June 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (6/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
WSDAC#8 – MVP MVC and Everything In-Between and WMOC#8 – Functional Programming in C# and WSOAC#21 – Service Design (Dilip Krishnan)
Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #122 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (3rd Edition) (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series): Martin Fowler: Books

Technorati: sharepoint, powershell, .net development, linq to sql, linq to xml, asp.net mvc, silverlight, wpf, wcf