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Dew Drop – April 28, 2008

Silverlight

Silverlight Playground – Library v1.0.3037.0 Release (CodePlex)
Silverlight – The Song (Dan Wahlin)

.NET

From Zero to Logging with System.Diagnostics in 15 Minutes (Josh Twist)
Foundations of Programming – Pt 7 – Back to Basics: Memory (Karl Seguin) – Link of the Day
Immutability and Tail Recursion (Justin Etheredge)
Understanding Mock Objects: An Alternate Solution (Jimmy Bogard)

Events/Community

Some Suggestions to Have a Better Microsoft Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Building Online Community Brick by Virtual Brick (Aliza Sherman)
Slides From My ASP.NET Connections Orlando Talks (Scott Guthrie)

SQL Server

Getting Column Information Using T-SQL (Joe Webb)
Denormalization Patterns (Ken Downs)

Web Development

Customized Loading… Images (Rick Strahl)

PowerShell

Get-Random (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

Continuous Innovation in the Online Office (Mike Gunderloy)
Mr. Yuk Says Project Roadmaps Are Poisonous (Max Pool)
Extreme Patterns with Oren (Glenn Block)
Diff Tools to See Source File Changes (Patrick Smacchia)
Chapter 4: Learning and Adapting (Dan Bunea) – Dan continuous his online Agile mini-book.

Blogging

6 Years of Blogging! (Sam Gentile)
The Trouble with Blogrolls (Bryan Person)

Live Mesh

Live Mesh Technology Preview: A Closer Look – User Perspective, Part 2 (Sunshine)
Podcast: Windows Weekly #56 – Meet Mesh and Live Mesh Preview (Paul Thurrott)
Mesh Has the Potential to Be HUGE! (Jose Fajardo)
GillmorGang Talks Live Mesh (Steve Clayton)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-04-27) (Matt Hinze)
Links (4/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Useful Articles and Links 4 (bayarsaikhan)
Weekly Link Post 39 (Rhonda Tipton)
Interesting Finds: 2008.04.28 (gOODiDEA)
The Morning Brew #82 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great: Esther Derby,Diana Larsen,Ken Schwaber: Books

Technorati: .net development, agile development, silverlight, live mesh, powershell, sql server, blogroll, design patterns

Dew Drop – April 25, 2008

Miscellaneous

Software + Service (Ashish Jaiman)
Ray Ozzie’s Latest Memo – Software Plus Services Strategy and Live Mesh – First Look Whitepaper and Microsoft’s Software Plus Services Website Goes Live (Steve Clayton)
Two New Rosario Specifications (Charles Sterling)
Books: We Need More ‘So What’, ‘Now What’ and ‘What For?’ and Less Just ‘What’ (Scott Hanselman)
The Problem with Software Registration (Jeff Atwood)

Blogging/Writing

Writer, the web-based distraction-free writing… (Kevin Purdy)
Be a WindowsClient.Net Blogger (mpochimcherla)
let Matt = CodeBetter + 1 (Matthew Podwysocki)

.NET

A Great XPath Query Tool (Shahar Yair)
Why Can’t I Access a Protected Member From a Derived Class, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
United States Postal Service (USPS) Web Tools Wrapper (JohnnyCantCode)
Video: John Lam on IronRuby (Dave Laribee)
RoboChamps – Simulated Robotics League (Bob Familiar)
Faster Builds with MSBuild Using Parallel Builds and Multicore CPUs (Scott Hanselman)
InfoQ Interview: Framework Design Studio Released (Brad Abrams)
Interesting Extension Hack to Get Around NullReferenceExceptions (Nick Berardi)

Web Development

AJAX Images Sliders Part 2: Intervals with On Demand (David Cilley)
Five More Principles of Effective Web Design (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
Book Review: ASP.NET Ajax in Action [5 Stars] (Rachel Appel)
ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 5 (Rob Conery)
47 ASP.NET MVC Resources to Rock Your Development (Craig Shoemaker)

Silverlight/WPF

An Introduction to Using a DataGrid Control in Silverlight 2.0 (Abhilash Nedumpurath)
Pimp My ListView (Rudi Grobler)
A Few Noteworthy SL Samples (Scott McCraw)
Explore Silverlight Project Hierarchy with Silverlight Spy 2 (intelligent adventurer) – Link of the Day

PowerShell

How Could You Top CTP1? and Changes in Upcoming CTP (Jeffrey Snover)

SQL Server

So Do You Think Deciding Between a Clustered or Non-Clustered Index Is Difficult? (Denis Gobo)
Column Headings from SQL Results – Easier Way (Rhonda Tipton)
Clustered or Non-Clustered? Why Not Both? (Kalen Delaney)
SET vs SELECT – When to Use What (vivekamar)

Design/Methodology

Composition vs Inheritance (Christopher Diggins)
Refactoring Code Is Like Doing the Dishes (Max Pool)

Link Collections

Links Today (2008-04-24) (Matt Hinze)
Daily Find #60 (Tim Boland)
Morning Coffee 164 (Harry Pierson)
Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2008 – #258 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for April 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (4/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #81 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #194 (Mike Gunderloy)
WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News – 2008/04/25 (Rob Relyea)

Book of the Day

ASP.NET AJAX in Action: Alessandro Gallo,David Barkol,Rama Vavilala,Scott Guthrie,Bertrand Le Roy: Books

Technorati: .net development, silverlight 2, xaml, wpf, sql server, powershell 2, asp.net mvc, asp.net ajax, .net extension methods

Dew Drop – April 24, 2008

Miscellaneous

BizTalk Server 2006 R3 Just Announced (Aaron Skonnard)
Consolas Font: Old Age & Tired Eyes! (Jeff Lynch)
A History of King’s Quest (Paul Thurrott)
SharePoint Load Tests (Adam Gallant)
The Technical Manager (Jacob Proffitt)
Book Review: Brownfield Application Development – Upcoming Book from Manning Publications (Derik Whittaker)
SvnBridge 2.0 Released! (Oren Eini)
Windows XP SP3 Patch Now Available to MSDN Subscribers – Through Top Downloads List (msdn blog)
Why I’m Not Using .NET (Steve Tibbett)

Silverlight

Got Duplex? (Silverlight 2 and WCF Duplex Communications) (Pete Brown)
Prototype Silverlight Data Portal (Rocky Lhotka)
How Do You Know INotifyPropertyChanged Is Working (Jesse Liberty)
Video: Write Your First Silverlight Game (J. Michael Palermo IV)
Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Calendar and DatePicker Starter Guide (Kathy Kam)

Web Development

Use Fiddler to Test RESTful WCF Services (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
Updated ASP.NET Dynamic Data Bits Posted (Brad Abrams)
ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 4 (Rob Conery)

.NET

LINQ Extensions Release 2 Now on CodePlex (Omer van Kloeten)
Increasing the Size of Your Stack (.NET Memory Management: Part 3) (Rick Minerich)
Random Exceptions (Sean)
Performance Impact of the readonly Keyword (Julien)
xUnit.net 1.0 Released Today (James Newkirk)
Using NAnt with Visual Studio (Richard Brown)

Design/Methodology

Solo A Pensoso (Mike Nichols)
Source Control Practices to Be Abolished: The Large Checkin (Oren Eini)

SQL Server

SQLExamples: A Great New SQL Server Resource (Joe Webb)
Column Headings from SQL Results (Rhonda Tipton)

Blogging

13 of the Best WordPress Plugins (David Airey)
WLW Code Formatting (Scott Watermasysk)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 23, 2008 – limited and Interesting Finds: April 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Visual Studio Links #21 (Darren Stokes)
Links Today (2008-04-23) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2008 – #257 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for April 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Daily Find #59 (Tim Boland)
Interesting Finds: 2008.04.24 (gOODiDEA)
The Morning Brew #80 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Mary Poppendieck,Tom Poppendieck: Books

Technorati: .net development, sql server, sharepoint, asp.net, linq, silverlight, wcf, biztalk, xunit.net