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Dew Drop – July 16, 2008

Posted on July 16, 2008 | by Alvin A.

.NET / Visual Studio

Expert 2008 Business Objects Tentative TOC (Rocky Lhotka)
Project Anti-Patterns: Many projects in a Visual Studio Solution File (Chad Myers)
Rules for CLR Add-Ins Contract and View Assemblies (Patrick Smacchia)
IronPython 1.1.2 RC (Harry Pierson)
.NET-Fu: Zero Delay Signing of an Unsigned Assembly (Schalk Neethling)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Tip #20 – How to Unit Test Data Access (Stephen Walther)
West Wind Ajax Toolkit Updated (Rick Strahl)
New Modules for IIS7: Application Request Routing – Proxy and Load Balancing Module (Scott Hanselman)
National Public Radio to Launch NPR API (Andres Ferrate)

Silverlight

Tip of the Day #18: How to Set Browser Cookies (Mike Snow)
CSLA Light Preview Release (Rocky Lhotka)
Creating a Simple Pivot Table Using LINQ and RadTreeView for Silverlight (Emil Stoychev)

Design / Methodology

Architecture by Baseball: Jargon (Larry Clarkin)
Silver Bullet Anti-Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
Object-Firster or Data-Firster: DDD Is for CRUD Apps (Jarod Ferguson)
What Is More Important – Design or Content? (Tom)

Events / Community

Events This Week (G. Andrew Duthie)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2007 Infrastructure Update Released (Michael Watson)
Using Regular Expressions to Build SPList Collections (Adam Buenz)
PowerShell Building Blocks for SharePoint: Initial Release (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

Learning Erlang – Erlang Gaining Momentum (Matthew Podwysocki)
Joining Microsoft (Hamilton Verissimo)
The Ultimate Software Gold Plating (Jeff Atwood)
Xbox 360 New Xbox Experience Preview (Paul Thurrott)
Grouping in XQuery (Erik Wilde)
WordPress Fun: A Free WordPress Theme (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open (Sunshine)
Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008 (John Biggs)
The Undercover Adventure (Part 1): Being a User Is Hard! (Anne Botha)
Osla: Road to Microsoft’s Cloud (Darryl K. Taft)

Link-O-Rama

Silverlight News for July 15, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
Interesting Finds: July 15, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Daily Find #90 (Tim Boland)
Morning Coffee 168 (Harry Pierson)
LINKBLOG for July 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Visual Studio Links #52 (Darren Stokes)
Links (7/15/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2008 — #325 (Dave Campbell)
Link Listing – July 15, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #137 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight News for July 16, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)

Book of the Day

Pro BizTalk 2006 (Pro): George Dunphy, Ahmed Metwally: Books

Technorati: .net development, silverlight, live mesh, powershell, sharepoint, patterns & practices, xbox 360

Dew Drop – July 15, 2008

Posted on July 15, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Silverlight / WPF

How to Learn Silverlight (John Stockton)
Using LINQ to XML in Silverlight 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
CSLA Light Data Portal Options (Rocky Lhotka)
WPF Expression Blend 2 Tutorial: WPF Manufacturing Gauge Fan Custom Control (Steve Low)

Design / Methodology

Trust & Transparency (Mo Khan)
The Wonderful Awful Browser (Ken Downs)
Obsolete in Isolation (Oren Eini)
Model Driven Software Development and MDSD and DSL (Martin Fowler)
My Guide to Effective Test Driven Development (Davy Brion)
Maybe Normalizing Isn’t Normal (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day
How I Use Hungarian Notation? (Gunnar Peipman)

.NET / Visual Studio

.NET Parallel Extension Like Functionality Added to the Dizzy – Functional List Library and Getting IronRuby Up and Running (Justin Etheredge)
Integrating Castle Windsor and NHibernate with WCF – Throwing the WCF Facility and Some Rhino Tools in the Mix (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Announcing the .NET Extension Library (Karl Seguin)
Optimizing LINQ Queries (K. Scott Allen)
Visual Studio IronPython Integration Deep Dive (MSDN Code Gallery)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Tip #19 – Use the nVelocity View Engine (Stephen Walther)
Make Routing Ignore Requests for a File Extension (Phil Haack)
The Future of ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward)
The Dangers of cookieless="AutoDetect" (Dave M. Bush)

SharePoint

Getting GAC Path Using Reflection and Best Practice for Deploying Shared SharePoint Libraries (Adam Buenz)
SharePoint Keeps on Going and Going and Going… (Bob Familiar)
Take SharePoint Content Offline (Bob Mixon)

Miscellaneous

XML Makes You Stoopid! (Ric Johnson)
Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in the Top 100 Web Celebrities (Simone Chiaretta)
WordPress 2.6 Released (Grant Palin)

Link-O-Rama

Link Listing – July 13, 2008 and Link Listing – July 14, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Daily Find #89 (Tim Boland)
Interesting Finds: July 14, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Morning Coffee 167 (Harry Pierson)
Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2008 — #324 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: 2008.07.15 (gOODiDEA)
The Morning Brew #136 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Paul Duvall, Steve Matyas, Andrew Glover: Books

Technorati: .net development, wpf, silverlight, asp.net ajax, asp.net mvc, wcf, sharepoint, ironpython, ironruby

Dew Drop – July 14, 2008

Posted on July 14, 2008 | by Alvin A.

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

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