sql server – Page 3 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – July 21, 2008

Silverlight / WPF

WPF Validation Simplified (Sacha Barber)
Build a WPF Application: Part 0 (Christopher Bennage)
Digging Deeper: Templates and the Visual State Manager (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight Drag, Drop, Import and Export (Michael Washington)
Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control (Part 4) (Mike Taulty)

.NET / Visual Studio

Yet More on to Var or Not to Var (Josh Twist)
Mocking Dilemma (Davy Brion)
The New Crop of .NET Screencasts (Sergio Pereira)
IronEditor – Release v1.0.0.46 (CodePlex)
Sneak Peeks Into the New F# Project System, Part One (Brian)
Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
Linq2WMI – Release v.3 (CodePlex)
Using Generics and Anonymous Methods to Your Advantage (Maurice)
CustomFxCop – Release: Custom FxCop Rules (MSDN Code Gallery)

Web Development

IronRuby with ASP.NET MVC Working Prototype (Phil Haack)
ASP.NET Query Strings – Client Side State Management (Gil Fink)
Adding OpenSearch to Your Website and Getting in the Browser’s Search Box (Scott Hanselman)
RSS and Atom Refcard Available – Download Now (Jill Tomich)

Miscellaneous

The Difference Between Derivation and Innovation and Patterns for Using Distributed Hash Tables: Locking (Oren Eini)
History Tables (Ken Downs)
Twhirl Gets Pushy with Identi.ca (Rafe Needleman)
Scaling Hyper-V (James O’Neill)

Link-O-Rama

New and Notable 254 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: July 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
Weekly Link Post 51 (Rhonda Tipton)
Links (7/20/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Silverlight News for July 21, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
Interesting Finds: 2008.07.21 (gOODiDEA)
The Morning Brew #140 (Chris Alcock)
WPF Links – 21 July 2008 (Rudi Grobler)

Book of the Day

Watchmen: Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons: Books

Technorati: .net development, sql server, sharepoint, wcf, silverlight, ironruby, linq, asp.net mvc, opensearch

Dew Drop – July 14, 2008

Design / Methodology / Testing

Poll Results: Threading, Mock Frameworks and Unit Test Frameworks (Roy Osherove)
Presumed Hostile – Your Application Is Out to Get You (Michael Janke)
Lessons That I Learned From Waegis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Using an ORM? Think Objects! (K. Scott Allen)
The Blame Game: How Necessary Is Traceability? (Max Pool)
Understanding Dependency Injection (Mohammad Azam)
Using Flip Video’s Mino for Programming (Mike Riley)

.NET / Visual Studio

MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting Them to Play Nice (Part 3) (Tom Hollander)
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1) (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
Building a Configuration Binder for MEF with POCO Support (Sidar Ok)
Doing Nothing in .NET (Chris Love)
IsNull Extension Method (Steven Smith)
LINQ Farm: More on Set Operators (Charlie Calvert)
ASP.NET Client Side State Management – Hidden Fields (Gil Fink)

Events / Community

Community Megaphone Silverlight Map (Frank La Vigne)
Philly.NET – An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight – July 16th (Community Megaphone)
Philly ALT.NET Meeting – Building Maintainable Applications with WPF – July 17th (Community Megaphone)
Learning NHibernate? Join the Email List with 600 Other Users (Jeffrey Palermo)

SharePoint

FarPoint Has Released Their Spread Control for SharePoint (Bob Mixon)
GetActiveFeatureDefinitions – A SharePoint PowerShell Function (Darrin Bishop)
SharePoint Toolbox – Release: Project Site v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Database

SQL Server 2008 – Introduction to SPARSE Columns – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

Silverlight News for July 13, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
Silverlight News for July 14, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
LINKBLOG for July 13, 2008 and LINKBLOG for July 14, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Weekly Link Post 50 (Rhonda Tipton)
Weekly Links #9 (Grant Palin)
Links (7/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Interesting Finds: July 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #135 (Chris Alcock)
Visual Studio Links #51 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the MicrosoftÂ® Platform (PRO-Developer): Daniel Larson: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, powershell, msmq, wcf, silverlight, .net community, sql server 2008, flip mino, asp.net mvc, nhibernate

Dew Drop – July 12, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

Audit Options with NHibernate and Refactoring DRY Tests with ReSharper’s Inline Method (Matt Hinze)
A .NET Assembly for Cloning Objects with Arbitrary Field Value Changes: IcManipulator (Rick Minerich)
Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library 4.0 and Visual Studio 2008 Webcast and Dependancy Injection with Microsoft Enterprise Library Unity Application Block Webcast (David Hayden)
MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting Them to Play Nice (Part 1) (Tom Hollander)
F# Complier v1.9.4.19 (MS Research)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Tip #18 – Parameterize the HTTP Context (Stephen Walther)

SharePoint

Creating Re-Usable Email Templates for SharePoint Designer 2007 Workflows (Jordan Hull)
An Introduction to Agile SharePoint Dev (Andrew Woodward)

Silverlight / WPF

Green Eggs and Blend and Styles and Templates – Three Videos and The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight (Jesse Liberty)
JSON Serialization and Deserialization in Silverlight (Martin Mihaylov)
What Is Silverlight (John Stockton)

Design / Methodology

Practical Concurrency Patterns: Safe/Unsafe Cache and Shutdown Performance: Just Exit! and Sharing WCF Contracts as Visual Studio File Links(Sasha Goldshtein)
Layer Diagram (Cameron Skinner)
When to Use Many-to-One(s) vs. Many-to-Many with NHibernate (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
Team System Templates (Charles Sterling)
Does Exploratory Testing Have a Place on Agile Teams? (Johanna Rothman)
David Chappell on Software + Services (Bill Zack)
Over Specification in Tests (Roy Osherove)
Adding a Customer Field to a UI (Kyle Baley)
I’ll Get to Your Application in a Minute – First, We Need to Build the Framework (Jeffrey Palermo)

Events/ Community

Updates to the Community Megaphone Plug-In and Silverlight Summer User Group Events (Frank La Vigne)

Database

SSIS Nugget: Conditionally Email a File Containing Error Rows (Jamie Thomson)
SQL Server 2008 User Account – sa or sysadmin (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Sobees Update (Sébastien von Roth)
Speeding Up PowerShell Startup (Jeffrey Snover)
Five Best Windows Backup Tools (Adam Pash)
Chinese Video Site 56.com Is Back (Brad Linder)
Posty Updated – Now Has Tons More Features, Plans for Identi.ca Support and Jason Calacanis Retires From Blogging, Listen Up Bloggers – This Means Something (Sarah Perez)
Looking at the Live Mesh Peer-to-Peer Synch and What Microsoft Can Learn from the Apple Application Store (Chris)
Live Mesh Service Update: New Build, New Features Coming Today (0.9.3103.2) (Sunshine)
The Story of the Ribbon (Nicole)
Book Review: Code Leader – Using People, Tools and Processes to Build Successful Software (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Stack Overflow Badge Feedback (Jeff Atwood)

Link-O-Rama

Silverlight News for July 11, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
Interesting Finds: July 11, 2008 – short edition (Jason Haley)
Daily Find #88 (Tim Boland)
LINKBLOG for July 11, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 — #323 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day

Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software (Programmer to Programmer): Patrick Cauldwell, Scott Hanselman: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, powershell, wcf, silverlight, nhibernate, agile development, vsts, sql server 2008

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