asp.net mvc – Page 188 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – January 13, 2009

Web Development

DevEvents: More .NET MVC HtmlHelpers (Steve Andrews)
Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 6) – The View (Nick Berardi)
Delegated Authentication, Part II: Managing Tokens (Kevin Ledley)

.NET / Visual Studio

F#: Partial Function Application with the Function Composition Operator (Mark Needham)
Filtering List Items: The Old, The New and The Slick (Amit Raz)
Introduction to HealthVault Development #0: Background (Eric Gunnerson)
Framework Configuration: A Different Approach (Davy Brion)
Beginning F#: Card Tricks (Seth Livingston)
Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
Fluent NHibernate’s AutoPersistenceModel (Chris Missal)
Open Generic Types in StructureMap (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

TestAPI Library Usage (Lester)
Application Architecture Guide 2.0 (Rocky Lhotka)
Good Design Is Easily Learned (Scott Bellware) – Link of the Day
Should My Repository Expose IQueryable? (Mike Hadlow)
The Pathfinder: Reaching Your Organization’s Goal (Derick Bailey)
Framework Design Guidelines: Extension Methods (Brad Abrams)
Scrum Daily Standup Meetings: A Manager’s Field Guide (Ade Miller)
Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes (Jeff Atwood)

Silverlight / WPF

Showing a Splash Screen Whilst Initializing a WPF Prism Application (Josh Twist)
InitParams in Silverlight Live Streaming Services (Tim Heuer)
Video: Silverlight 2 – Drag and Drop Part 2 of 2 (Corey Miller)
Flash vs. Silverlight (Corey Schuman)
Silverlight 3 – What We Know So Far & What We Can Predict (Part 3 of 4) (Bart Czernicki)
Building a WPF Application: Part 6 (Christopher Bennage)
COLOURLovers Offers Palettes in Expression Design, WPF and Silverlight Format (Adam Kinney)
XAML Guidelines Released! (Rudi Grobler)
Manipulating Service References in Silverlight 2 (John Papa)
Drag and Drop with Managed Code (Jesse Liberty)

.NET Community / Events

MSDN Developer Conference Is THIS WEEK! and Events This Week – January 12th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Developer Dinner Registration Issues (Marc Schweigert)
Team System User Group – Virtual Edition: January Meetings (Anthony Borton)

Database

SQL Server – sp_msforeachdb and sp_msforeachtable (Michael Ceranski)
More OODB Crazy Talk (Rob Conery)

PowerShell

How to Copy Colorized Script from PowerShell ISE and Interactive Remoting in CTP3 (Vladimir Averkin)

Miscellaneous

Motivation Techniques (J.D. Meier)
The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets (Tim Sneath)
Office 14 Revealed: Part 1 – Integration of Volume Activation 2.0 (Stephen Chapman)

More Link Collections

Innovation Notes: January 12, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
CloudNews for January 12th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2009 — #483 (Dave Campbell)
Link Listing – January 11, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
LINKBLOG for January 12, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #263 (Chris Alcock)
Everyman Links for January 12, 2009 (Dave Burke)
Silverlight News for January 13, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
Visual Studio Links #99 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

Essential Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) (Microsoft .NET Development Series): Chris Anderson: Books

Technorati Tags: silverlight,wpf,entity framework,asp.net mvc,structuremap,powershell,office 14,windows 7,.net development

Dew Drop – January 12, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

Kick the DateTime.Now Addiction and Topshelf (Dru Sellers)
James Gregory on the AutoMapping Features of Fluent NHibernate and It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s… StructureMap Documentation!!! and StructureMap 2.5.2 Is Released (Jeremy D. Miller)
Great Links on Using Garbage Collection Efficiently (Davy Brion)
First Thoughts on VS2008-on-Windows 7 (Ted Neward)
C# Trivia – What? No Overflow? (Justin Etheredge)
Announcing: Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint v1.3 (SharePoint Team)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC RSS Feed Action Result (Eran Kampf)
Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 5) – The Model (Nick Berardi)
Etixo (Javier G. Lozano)
Why ASP.NET Developers Should Care About Windows Azure (Stephen Walther)
jQuery Lesson Learned: Close Your Tags (Joe White)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Ethics in Software Development: Craftsmanship Over Crap (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Ethics in Software Development: Pragmatism Over Dogmatism (Davy Brion)
TypeMock AutoMocker – Release 1.0.0 (CodePlex)
Leadership 101: Want Respect? Give Respect. (Jim Holmes) – Link of the Day
Enabling Success with Opinionated Architecture (Jimmy Bogard)
App Configuration and Databases (K. Scott Allen)
Beware of Fear-Driven Architecture (Do You Fear Deployments?) (Jeffrey Palermo)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight for Interactive CD/DVD (Andy Beaulieu)
MouseEnter and MouseLeave Loops in WPF (Scott Hanselman)
Interaction Between Silverlight and HTML (Boyan Mihaylov)
HOWTO: Create Vector-Based Backgrounds in WPF (Rudi Grobler)

.NET Community / Events

A Rant on Professionalism (Chad Myers)
Starting a User Group, Entry #1 (Jason Haley)

Database

Upgrading Indexes with a Data Dictionary (Ken Downs)

PowerShell

Colorized Capture of Console Screen in HTML and RTF (PowerShell Team)
Copy Console Screen to System Clipboard (Vladimir Averkin)

Miscellaneous

Things I Love About Windows 7 (Beta) (Josh Twist)
New Google PageRank Formula – Back to the Zero Point (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Windows 7 Looks Good So Far (Michael Janke)
"Windows 7 Download Frustration", Defended (Ted Neward)
Git on Windows 7 (Jimmy Schementi)
What C-3PO Can Teach You About Job Security (Max Pool)
A Tip for Those Who Intend to Dual Boot Between Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 (Kit Kai)
If You Don’t Change the UI, Nobody Notices (Jeff Atwood)
2009: The Year Ahead – Live Mesh (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 11, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for January 11, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Weekly Links #35 (Grant Palin)
Links of the Week #67 (David Vidmar)
Links (1/11/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Weekly Link Post 76 (Rhonda Tipton)
Silverlight Cream for January 11, 2009 — $482 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #262 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: 2009.01.12 (yuanjian)
Silverlight News for January 12, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
SQL Server – Top Five Articles of Year 2008 (Pinal Dave)
Visual Studio Links #98 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

CSS: The Definitive Guide: Eric Meyer: Books

Technorati Tags: windows 7,sharepoint,powershell,jquery,asp.net mvc,wpf,silverlight,sql server,structuremap

Dew Drop – January 10, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

Separating Configuration from Data Lowers Total Cost of Ownership (Jeffrey Palermo)
Injecting Fakes/Stubs into StructureMap When Using Profiles (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

Integrating Fluent NHibernate and Windsor NHibernate Facility (Mike Hadlow)
Oslo Tool: SQL Schema –> MSchema (Chris Sells)
Working with IDs in the Entity Framework (Josh Twist)
Asynchronous Fire and Forget with Lambdas (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
The Problems with NHibernate (Buddy Lindsey)
Microsoft Windows 7 SDK: Beta and Microsoft .NET Services White Paper (Dec 2008 CTP) (MS Downloads)

Web Development

JavaScript Tools (Mike Hadlow)
An Argument for Moving ASP.NET MVC Controllers to a Separate Assembly (Billy McCafferty)
The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String (Updated Edition) (Eric Lawrence)
Enumeration-Based Dropdowns in .NET MVC (Steve Andrews)
xVal – A Validation Framework for ASP.NET MVC (Steve Sanderson)

Silverlight / WPF

The WPF Mindset (Ryan Cromwell)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #80 – How to Crop an Object (Mike Snow)
Creating a Silverlight Control That Stays Square and Dazzling Silverlight Toolkit Pie Charts with Overlays (Pete Brown)
Using Encoder 2 Templates for Existing Media (Tim Heuer)
Fun with List Bindings in Silverlight 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)

PowerShell

Managing Remote Desktop Services (aka Terminal Services) Using Windows PowerShell (Shanmugam Kulandaivel)
Should I Refinance? PowerShell the Financial Advisor (Lee Holmes)
Get-USB – Using WMI Association Classes in PowerShell (James Brundage)
Develop a Complete WMI Inventory Tool in Windows PowerShell (Don Jones)

.NET Community / Events

MDC Giveaways (Frank La Vigne)
James Whittaker Netcast (Steve Rowe)
ALT.NET Podcast Episode 14: Object Databases (Mike Moore)

Miscellaneous

The Office 14 Wave: What to Expect and Office 14 and Windows Mobil 7: Another Day, Another Roadmap… and First Office 14 Screenshot? (Stephen Chapman)
SOA Still Alive and Well–Sell It to the Business (David A. Chappell)
Visualization – The Browser Wars (Max Pool)
A Year in the Life of Caffeinated Coder: Part Deux (Russell Ball)
Google’s New Favicon (Marissa Mayer)
Getting Windows 7 Up and Running in VPC 2007 (Kirstin Juhl)
Building a Hackintosh (Ben Scheirman)
Windows 7 in 2010? Ha! Try July 2009 (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for January 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Discoveries This Week 01/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
CloudNews for January 9th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Silverlight Cream for January 09, 2009 — #480 (Dave Campbell)
Silverlight News for January 10, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
Link Listing – January 10, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: January 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Windows PowerShell Cookbook: for Windows, Exchange 2007, and MOM V3: Lee Holmes: Books

Technorati Tags: powershell,silverlight,wpf,.net services,nhibernate,asp.net mvc,hackintosh,windows 7,office 14,alt.net

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