sql server – Page 25 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – March 15, 2008

.NET

How to Calculate Network Utilization in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Playing with LINQ to SQL and Various Performance Tests (Derik Whittaker)
C# 3 is Like a Moped (Jeremy D. Miller)
IronPython 2.0 Beta 1 Released (Harry Pierson)
Delegates in C# (Amr Ashush)
An ALT.NET Media Blitz! (Dave Laribee)
Cool Entity Framework Sample (Elisa Flasko)
Things in Metadata That Are Missing in Reflection (Mike Stall)
Thoughts on ALT.NET (Christopher Bennage)
Why I Love F#: A Refactoring Tale (Dustin Campbell)
Making PInvoke Easy (Jared Parsons)
Building a REST API in .NET (Jack Altiere)
Exploring Secrets of .NET Diagnostics (Michael Sorens)
Add Support For “Set” Collections to .NET (Jason Smith)
Why Do We Need Yet Another .NET Mocking Framework? (Daniel Cazzulino)
Anonymous Methods: Now That’s a Dumb Name! (Leon Bambrick)

Misc

Do You Want to Host the WF Workflow and Rules Designer? (Chris Sells)
PTOM: The Interface Segregation Principle (Ray Houston)
Recommended Books (Oren Eini)
PTOM: The Single Responsibility Principle (Sean Chambers)
Brad Abrams’ pixel8 Interview Podcast Posted (Brad Abrams)
INVEST in Good User Stories (Kelly Waters)
Looking Into VIM and ViEmu (Roy Osherove)

WCF

WCF Tips and Gotchas From Neudesic Teams (Sam Gentile)
Windows Communication Foundation – 65 Links to Make You an Expert (Joe Stagner)

Silverlight/WPF

A WPF File Selection Control (Philipp Sumi)
New Dynamic Silverlight Site! (Jimmy Schementi)
Tip of the Day Returns From Disney – Master Detail in Silverlight 2 (Jesse Liberty)
Sudoku Generator and Solver in C# (Dino Chiesa)
Why Silverlight Is Nailing Flex (Martin Beeby)

Web Development

Using Unity and the ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (Chris)
SubSonic: Taking a Look at the New Repository Base Class (Rob Conery)
DLRScript – Release v3.1 (CodePlex) – Ruby support added in this release.
Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 2 (hackersoft)

SQL Server

More Goodies For Developers in SQL Server 2008 (Julie Lerman)

Visual Studio

MSBuild File Explorer Tools – March 2008 Release (CodePlex)

Link Collections

Link Listing – March 13, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
New and Notable 227 (Sam Gentile)
Links Today (2008-03-14) and Links Today (2008-03-15) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for March 14, 2008 and LINKBLOG for March 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

Book of the Day

Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008: Joseph C. Rattz: Books

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Dew Drop – March 10, 2008

Silverlight/WPF

Decompiling Silverlight 2 Apps – Enter the XAP (Daniel Moth)
Identifying Control Templates Parts in WPF (Christopher Bennage)

.NET

Architecting LINQ to SQL Applications, Part 6 and Part 7 (Ian Cooper)
Interesting (Good) Behavior of Closures (Chad Myers)
EntitySpaces 2008 – Dynamic SubQuery Showcase (EntitySpaces Team)

Web Development

This Is How ASP.NET MVC Controller Actions Should Be Unit Tested (Jeffrey Palermo)
MapQuest Offers Unlimited Free API Calls (John Musser)

SQL Server

Accessing the INSERTED/DELETED Tables Outside a Trigger (Kevin S. Goff)

Misc

SOLID Principles (Chad Myers)

Link Collections

Weekly Link Post 32 (Rhonda Tipton)
Links (3/9/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Link Listing – March 9, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #49 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Second Edition (Pro): Matthew MacDonald: Books

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Daily Bits – March 4, 2008

Visual Studio

More “How Do I?” Videos for TFS 2008 (Angela Binkowski)
The ABCDEFGHI of Setting Up Visual Studio for Demos (Daniel Moth)

Events/Community

Big Things Happening This Week (Frank La Vigne)
MIX08 Schedule Picks (Brad Abrams)
MIX08 for Non-Attendees (Tim Sneath)
Heading to MIX08 and Tweeting Along the Way (Scott Hanselman)

Silverlight/WPF

Slide.Show (G. Andrew Duthie)
New Devs4Devs Video Released! Silverlight – What, Where and How? (Dave)
Microsoft and Nokia Get Together on Silverlight (Robert Scoble)
Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition Joins 4 Others in the WPF Showcase (WindowsClient.net)

Web Development

Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ – Part 3 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Why My ASP.NET AJAX Forms Are Never Submitted Twice (Dave Ward)
Now This Is Ridiculous (Generics in JavaScript) (Adrian Kosmaczewski)

.NET

Followup on .NET 2.0 SP1 ThreadPool Bug (Michael C. Kennedy)
LazyParser.NET 0.9.1 Has Been Published on CodePlex (Philippe Leybaert)
.NET Reflector 5.1 Released (Lutz Roeder)
C# Code Samples for the Live Search API (MS Downloads)

Misc

Six Months in the Inside – Am I Evil Yet? and 2008 Windows Scription Games – Advanced PowerShell Event 7 (Scott Hanselman)
101 x 101 Articles on Becoming an Architect (Simon Guest)
45 Photoshop Tutorials for Better Navigation (Vandelay)
Three Cheers for Microsoft! The Web Is About to Improve Big-Time (speednet)
MSN Toolbar Beta Now Available for Download (Simon Kerbel)

SQL Server

A Simple Way to Defragment All Indexes in a Database That Is Fragmented Above a Declared Threshold (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Now Available: SharePoint End User Handbook (Andrew Connell)
What the 0x80072020? (Martin Hinshelwood)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 3, 2008 and Interesting Finds: March 4, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for March 3, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #45 (Chris Alcock)
Bits for March 3, 2008 (Dave Burke)
Morning Coffee 152 (Harry Pierson)
2 Links Today (2008-03-03) (Matt Hinze)

Book of the Day

Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures: Microsoft Corporation: Books

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