sql server – Page 13 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – May 24, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

What’s in the .NET Framework Client Profile? (Pete Brown)
Understanding InstanceContext in WCF (Dan Rigsby)
Is the ADO.NET Team Abondoning LINQ to SQL? (Roger Jennings)
How to Test C# Code Without Running an Application (Marlon Grech)
What Is the Future of C# Anyways? (Matthew Podwysocki)
Announcing the Release of Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (Jason Allor) – Link of the Day

Web Development

How to Build Your Very Own Provider Model – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate and Spring (CodePlex)
Firebug 1.2 – Good News for Web Devs (Mike Gunderloy)
MVC Storefront, Part 11: Hooking Up the Shopping Cart and Components and Part 12: Mocking (Rob Conery)

Silverlight / WPF

Brightness and Contrast Manipulation in WPF 3.5 SP1 (Tamir Khason)
RemoteLINQ – How to Make Your LINQ Span the Globe (Joseph Ferner)
WPF Property Grid (Shahar Yair)
Windowing Demo for Silverlight 2 Beta (Tim Rule)
Silverlight Interoperability (Wilco Bauwer)
WPF & PowerShell — Part 3 (Handling Events) (James Brundage)

Blogging / Community / Events

BlogAmp – Podcasting Made Easy? (Jay Hathaway)
MSDN GeekSpeak on Wednesday May 28 – Connecting Silverlight 2 (Pete Brown)
ScribbleLive: Liveblogging Doesn’t Get Much Easier (Brad Linder)
A Clear Blog Purpose Will Make or Break Your Blog (Lorelle VanFossen)
Coming Soon – Better HDI Videos? (Jesse Liberty)

Miscellaneous

Guitar Hero 4 Guitar to Have More Buttons? (Jesus Diaz)
Windows 7 to Add Native Support for Virtual Hard Disks (Sumeeth Evans)
Proud to Be a Geek? (G. Andrew Duthie)
Book Review: Managing Humans, by Michael Lopp (Arjan Zuidhof)
Control uTorrent Downloads from Facebook with Morrent (Josh Lowensohn)
Synchronizing Favorites with Live Mesh (Adam Kinney)
This Is Not a Bug (David Starr) – That is a great idea. I may have to be a copycat.
Interview with Craig Freedman About Indexing, Query Plans and Performance (Denis Gobo)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: May 23, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-05-23) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News – 2008/05/23 (Rob Relyea)
LINKBLOG for May 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Link Listing – May 23, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager: Michael Lopp: Books

Technorati: .net development, sql server, silverlight, blogging, podcasting, wpf, wcf, c#, coding style, guitar hero

Dew Drop – May 22, 2008

.NET

How to Auto Update Your Application (Mike Hall)
Get the Client’s Address in WCF (Dan Rigsby)
Using LINQ’s DataContext to (Re)create Your Database for Testing (Derik Whittaker)
SharpTemplate.NET Pre-Release on CodePlex (Philippe Leybaert)
.NET Framework Client Profile (Brad Abrams)
ReSharper 4 Beta (Ilya Ryzhenkov) – Link of the Day

Web Development

Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity – Using the UnityCompositionContainer (Michael Puleio)
LINQ to SQL in Real World Web Applications (Marco De Sanctis)
Integrated Social Networking in ASP.NET (Daniel Crenna)
SQLAuthority Download – Providing Security for Web Applications and Infrastructure: Best Practices for Managing Security Risks (Pinal Dave)
Signing Requests (or Anything) with Hashes (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Chat Application Part 2 of 2 – Main Page and Sockets (Pete Brown)
Model-See, Model-Do, and the Poo is Optional (Mike Hillberg)
WPF Startup vs NCover (Chris Brandsma)

SharePoint

I Am Joining the SharePoint Experts Crew (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
LINQ4SP Beta 1 Is Here! (Agnes Molnar)
What Makes a “Good” SharePoint Consultant? (Shane Young)

Events / Community

LessThanDot? (Mark Smith)

Career

FlexPaths: Support for Flexible Working (Mike Gunderloy)

PowerShell

Strict Mode v1 Debug Tool v1/v2 Best Practice (Jeffrey Snover)
WPF & PowerShell – Part 1 (Hello World & Welcome to the Week of WPF) (James Brundage)

SQL Server

I Have a Question for You on DB Development Blunders (Denis Gobo)
To SPROC or Not to SPROC (Julie Lerman) 🙂

Miscellaneous

Developer’s Non-Development Book List (Michael C. Neel)
Response to NServiceBus Performance (Sam Gentile)
Microsoft Opens Up to New Document Formats (Paul Thurrott)
Safari Books Online: Five Ways to Make the Most of Your Subscription (Meridith Levinson)
DailyCoding.com (via dzone)
Scalability Principles (Simon Brown)
My Favorite Books (Eric Sink)
16 Simple Ways to Improve FriendFeed (Jeremy Toeman)
Microsoft Steals the FatWallet Concept (Allen Stern)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: May 21, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for May 21, 2008 — #279 (Dave Campbell)
Links Today (2008-05-21) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for May 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (5/21/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Link Listing – May 21, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #99 (Chris Alcock)
New and Notable 244 (Sam Gentile)
Visual Studio Links #31 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

Enterprise Service Bus: David Chappell: Books

Technorati: .net development, wcf, wpf, sharepoint, powershell, sql server stored procedures, asp.net security

Dew Drop – May 20, 2008

SharePoint

When to Dispose of Objects in SharePoint API (Greg Galipeau)
Number 41… yeehaa! (Cornelius van Dyk) – I somehow managed to make #35 on Joel Oleson’s Top 100 SP list. Good SEO, I guess.
SQL Monitoring and I/O (Dan Blood)
Developers, Developers, Developers! SharePoint Wants You! (Lawrence)

Entity Framework

Reviewing the Entity Framework Source Control Support (Oren Eini)
Entity Framework: Our Albatross (Dave Laribee)
What Dan Simmons Forgot to Tell You About the Entity Framework (Jeremy D. Miller)
More Entity Framework Thoughts (Jimmy Bogard)
EF Long Term Plans (Greg Young)
On Comparing Current Tools to Futureware (Evan Hoff)
Why Use the Entity Framework? Yeah, Why Exactly? (Frans Bouma)

.NET / Visual Studio

Unit Tests for WCF (and Moq) (Pablo M. Cibraro)
101 LINQ Samples (Frank La Vigne)
A Generic Constraint Question (Eric Lippert)
Enum Description Values (Mike Oggoly)
Use the Right Tool For the Job (Oren Eini)
What Is the Story with These Files Ending with ni? (Tom)
Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta Has Shipped (Quan To)
ReSharper 4 Approaching Beta Status (Simone Chiaretta) – It’s installing on my machine at the moment. I hope it is actually stable.

Silverlight / WPF

Using Binding.StringFormat (Rudi Grobler)
WPF 3.5 SP1 Feature: StringFormat (Lester
WPF – Point an Image to an Embedded Resource (Chad Campbell)
Trying Code For My Book in VB and C# (John Papa)
In Silverlight, Tags Are Just Strings… (Jesse Liberty)
XAML: Level 100 (Daniel Moth)
50 New Silverlight Screencasts – Short and Snappy (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

ASP.NET Tips: What to Gather to Troubleshoot – Part 5 – OutOfMemoryException (Tom)
MVC Storefront: Brainbender Intermission and Intermission’s Over, Made Some Changes (Rob Conery)
Google Health API Released (John Musser)

Design / Methodology

The Little Things Do Matter (Jeremy D. Miller)
Visual Designers Don’t Scale (K. Scott Allen)
Why Do Some SOA Projects Succeed? Why Do Some Fail? (Brian Loesgen)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Neuron 2.0 General Release Distribution, Case Study, and SOA Software (Sam Gentile)
Bill Gates Demos TouchWall – Like Surface For the Office (Sarah Perez)
Google Health Beta Test Begins (Stephen Shankland)
Google Health: Some Observations (Krishnan Subramanian)
Nice MSDN URLs (Mike Stall) – This is fantastic (and long overdue). Link of the Day.
Hanseminutes Podcast Catchup (Scott Hanselman)
Twitter: How Not to Crash Responsibly (Jeff Atwood)
What’s New in MSDN Downloads? (Tamir Khason)
I Now Present You With Bitter (Mike Hall) – Mike’s new Twitter client. I was one of Mike’s usability testers, and I’ve been very happy with the app.
Generating Code Coverage From PowerShell Scripts (Lee Holmes)
Atari 7800 Lounge at Milwaukee Grocery Store: The Horror, The Horror… (John Brownlee)

Events / Community

Webcast: Software + Services for Developers (Joel)
PDC2008: A Day in the Life #1 (Mike Swanson)
Central Penn .NET User’s Group Tomorrow Night (Sam Gentile) – Tonight, May 20th.

Link-O-Rama

New and Notable 243 (Sam Gentile)
Link Listing – May 18, 2008 and Link Listing – May 19, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Visual Studio Links #29 (Darren Stokes)
Interesting Finds: May 19, 2008 and Interesting Finds: May 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for May 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2008 — #277 (Dave Campbell)
Links (5/19/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Interesting Finds: 2008.05.20 (gOODiDEA)
The Morning Brew #97 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Programmer to Programmer): Robert Bogue, Adam Buenz, Andrew Connell, Stacy Draper, Luis Du Solier Grinda, Todd Klindt, Jason Medero, Dustin Miller, Shane Perran, Joris Poelmans, Heather Solomon, Nick Swan, Jan Tielens, Mike Walsh, Shane Young, Scot Hillier: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, microsoft entity framework, asp.net mvc, linq, silverlight, wpf, wcf

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