Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft – Page 1499 – Daily links for Windows and .NET developers.

Dew Drop – July 15, 2008

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

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 13, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting Them to Play Nice (Part 2) (Tom Hollander)
var Is Like (Good) Wine (Gunnar Peipman)
Experimenting with Adobe AiR (Shawn Wildermuth)
A Little Help with the .NET WinForms TreeView (Kevin Hurwitz)
Is It a Managed or a Native Memory Leak? (Sasha Goldshtein)
Integrating NHibernate and Active Record (Oren Eini)
Monkeypatching for Humans (Jeff Atwood)
Overriding ObjectContext.SaveChanges (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

Phew – An ASP.NET Page Compilation Utility (ulu)
6 Free Ways to Track Down Site Issues (Mike Gunderloy)

Design / Methodology

Adding a Customer Field to a UI: Proposed Solution (Kyle Baley)
Notes on Versioning Domain Specific Languages (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

ALT.NET Certification Course (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day

Link-O-Rama

Visual Studio Links #50 (Darren Stokes)
Link Listing – July 11, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
New and Notable 251 (Sam Gentile)
Bookmarking the Web – w28/2008 (Erwin)
LINKBLOG for July 12, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

Book of the Day

Goodnight Bush: A Parody: Gan Golan, Erich Origen: Books

Technorati: .net development, nhibernate, wcf, msmq, silverlight, adobe air, winforms, alt.net

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