Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft – Page 1482 – Daily links for Windows and .NET developers.

Dew Drop – March 17, 2008

Silverlight/WPF

New Devs4Devs Video – A Step By Step Guide to Silverlight DeepZoom (Dave Isbitski)
Tip of the Day – Binding to a Collection and Source for Tip of the Day (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight 2 Developer Poster (Brad Abrams)
WPF Snippets (Rudi Grobler)

.NET

Do You Use VB Late Binding? If so, how? (Rocky Lhotka)
Mashups with SyndicationFeed and LINQ (K. Scott Allen)
C# 4: Immutable Type Initialization (Jon Skeet)
The Method You Didn’t Know You Needed (Mads Kristensen)

Misc

Review – xUnit Test Patterns (Jimmy Bogard)
JetBrains Omea Goes Open Source (dotnetproject)

SQL Server

Touch/Peel/Stand, then Try/Catch/Raise (Kevin Goff)
Nonclustered Index Keys (Kalen Delaney)

Events/Community

philly.net Meeting: March 19, Microsoft Malvern, MIX Report and Building Good UX with .NET

Web Development

MSN Search SDK Beta (MS Downloads)

Link Collections

Visual Studio Links #10 (Darren Stokes)
Links Today (2008-03-16) (Matt Hinze)
Weekly Link Post 33 (Rhonda Tipton)
Links (3/16/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #54 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach: Joseph Sack: Books

Technorati: daily links, silverlight, wpf, sql server, windows live, .net development, linq

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

Technorati: daily links, sql server, .net, wpf, silverlight, subsonic, windows live, microsoft, .net development

Dew Drop – March 14, 2008

Misc

Are Twitter Clients the New Hello World App? (Aaron Lerch)
This Is Why You Need TeamCity Build Server (Sammy Larbi)
Observations (Jeremy D. Miller)
Using YAGNI Responsibly (James Kovacs)
Saying YAGNI to YAGNI? (Rob Teixeira)
FiOS Users Speak (John Czwartacki)
Free Download: Keyboard Jedi (Learn all of your applications’ keyboard shortcuts) (Robert Shelton)
New Version of the Book Out! (Oren Eini)
Clearing Up the Mock Confusion (Jimmy Bogard)
9 of the Best Rich Text Editors Reviewed (Paul Anthony)

Silverlight/WPF

There’s Some Darkness in Your Silver Light (Rob Eisenberg)
DeepZoom in C# – Not Just Possible, but Easy (Laurence Moroney)
Animation Engine for Silverlight and Animate Silverlight 2 Object From 1 Line of Code (Corey Schuman)
Skinning a Button – 4 Different Ways and Counting (Jose Fajardo)

.NET

The Zen of GUI Programming (Mike Gold)
Complex Searching/Querying with NHibernate (Oren Eini)
The Weekly Source Code 19 – LINQ and More What, Less How and List of .NET Dependency Injection Containers (IoC) (Scott Hanselman)
Framework Design Guidelines: LINQ (Brad Abrams)
DLRScript… Now With Added Ruby! (Jay Kimble) – I still think David Lee Roth every time I see DLR.
Creating Screenshots With C# (typeof.net)
Float, Double and Decimal: Do You Know the Differences? (pheaven)
Convert Generic ICollection<T> (Timm)

Web Development

I’m Just a Caveman – The Hanselman Corollary to the Clarke/Wheeler Laws (Scott Hanselman)
ASP.NET MVC: Securing Your Controller Actions and SubSonic: New Project Site Online (Rob Conery)
HTML Reference (beta) (sitepoint)
Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 1 (Hackersoft)
Google Releases Book Search API (gcode) – How long until we see a Google BookSearch .NET library on CodePlex?
JScript Debugger in IE8 (Deepak Jain)

PowerShell

Dev Environment for PowerShell (Tomas Restrepo) – Script to config your .NET dev environment.
PowerShell Plus Is Now Official! (Jeffrey Snover)

Visual Studio

The Command Window (nillfm)
How to Get Enterprise Library 3.1 Working in VS 2008 (Scott Densmore)
VSX Community Letter for March 2008 (Ken Levy)
Restarting VisualStudioHacks.com (James Avery)

Career

5 Ways to Engage Employees (Michael Specht)
Steve Yegge on Interviewing (John Lam)

Blogging

Tags vs. Categories (J.D. Meier)
Post to Your Blog Directly From Google Docs (Jason Harris)
FriendFeed Is This Year’s Twitter, but Why? (Duncan Riley)
MyBlogLog Founder to Launch New Startup Gnip With $1 Million in Funding (Michael Arrington)

SharePoint

Migrate WSS 2.0 Web Sites to WSS 3.0 (Some Tips About SharePoint) (Luis Du Solier G.)

Link Collections

March 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and .NET (Scott Guthrie)
Interesting Finds: March 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 226 (Sam Gentile)
Links Today (2008-03-13) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for March 13, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Our Daily Link (2008-03-13) (Trevor Green)
Links (3/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #53 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Joe Celko’s Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems): Joe Celko: Books

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