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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – April 4-5, 2009

Posted on April 4, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Silverlight / WPF

Blend 3 Behaviors: A Sample Action (Christian Schormann)
Don’t Use a WPF Control in Windows.Resource (Amit Raz)
[MVVM + Mediator + ACB = cool WPF App] – Intro (Marlon Grech)
Friday Books – Introducing MS Silverlight 2 (Dave M. Bush)
Relative URIs in XAML, the underlying mechanism (Rob Relyea)
Share DataContext among navigation pages in Silverlight 3 (Tim Heuer)
Sharing Source and Skills – Source download (Jeff Wilcox)
Microsoft Health Common User Interface – Release 6.6.43.000 (CodePlex)
Expression Blend 3 Preview (Somasegar) – Link of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

What is Agility? (Brad Appleton)
DDD: Strategic Design: Core, Supporting, and Generic Subdomains and DDDD: Aggregate Versioning & Persistence Schema (Jonathan Oliver)
Are Some Software Development Challenges Too Complex for Agility? (Lee Cunningham)

.NET / Visual Studio

Using a Form in Place of a Control (Richard Carr)
I Heart ReSharper! (Mo Khan)
Functional C#: The hole in the middle pattern (Mark Needham)

Web Development

TipJar: Title Tags and Master Pages (Phil Haack)
Example: resizing uploaded image (Gunnar Peipman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Arun Kishan on The Windows Kernel (Carl Franklin)
This Week on C9: April Fools Day, open source MVC, ExceLINQ, and cool Silverlight apps (Dan Fernandez)
Keiji Kanazawa – Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

NINE Questions with Jim Duffy (Chris Williams)
Microsoft at HIMSS 2009 – It Starts… (Roberto Ruggeri)

Database

Use Joins, Not IN (Alex Ullrich)
SQL SERVER – Automated Index Defragmentation Script (Pinal Dave)
Thinking Aloud – Suggestions for Visual Studio BI Tools (William Vaughn)
SQL Server – Finding Redundant Indexes (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft: Server version of Windows 7 this year (Ina Fried)
Windows Live Users Can Now Easily Sign Up for Sites Using RPX (Angus Logan)
The Eight Levels of Programmers and I Happen to Like Heroic Coding (Jeff Atwood)
Shady Dealing Developers (Sara J. Chipps)
On Developer Wisdom (Peter Bromberg)
How to use social networking sites to contact recruiters (Ryan)
How to edit a project’s homepage / wiki? – #008 (Sara Ford)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for April 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: April 3, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Link Round up on .NET RIA Services (March 3rd) (Brad Abrams)
Silverlight Cream for April 03, 2009 — #562 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for April 3rd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
New and Notable 310 (Sam Gentile)
SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 16 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day

RESTful .NET: Build and Consume RESTful Web Services with .NET 3.5: Jon Flanders: Books

ISBN: 0596519206
ISBN-13: 9780596519209

Technorati Tags: .net development,agile,ddd,dddd,codeplex,xaml,silverlight,expression blend,resharper,sql server,channel9,mvvm,functional programming

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Dew Drop – April, 1 2009

Posted on April 1, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Design / Methodology / Testing

Why I Don’t Provide Agile Certification (James Shore)
DDDD: Didn’t You Get The Message? and DDDD: Producers and Consumers (Jonathan Oliver)
Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 4 (Justin Etheredge)
How To Correctly Sandbag Your Estimates (Max Pool)
Code Coverage – 100% Coverage and Still Failing (Tim Barcz)
Getting Back in the Game (Mike Cottmeyer)

.NET / Visual Studio

10 Best Libraries for generating PDF Files (AjaxLine)
The basic syntax of F# – types (Brian McNamara)
An Extensive Examination of LINQ: The Standard Query Operators (Scott Mitchell)
The C# Programming Language 4.0 (Doug Holland)
Syntax Highlighting with MGrammar (Lars Wilhelmsen)
Soma Provides Catalog of Development Tools (Bruce Kyle)
Function to Extract a Regular Expression Pattern From a String (Cindy Rodriguez)
Transparent Query Batching Through Your Repository (Davy Brion)
Writing an IronPython Debugger: Displaying Values (Harry Pierson)
Using Pre-Compiled LINQ to Entities Queries in Web Apps and Services (Julie Lerman)
Euphemized Exceptions for .NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
What are your Visual Studio tips? (Nick Berardi)
Windows Azure: .NET Services March CTP Update (Zhiming Xue)
CSLA .NET 3.6.2 is now available (Rockford Lhotka)
Windows 7 Taskbar: Window Switchers and Previews In Depth (Sasha Goldshtein)
Revisiting “DSLs are a bad idea”… (Paul Vick)

Web Development

Announcement of S#arp Architecture Community Site (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
Putting the “M” Back in MVC (Rob Conery)
The Four Pillars of ASP.NET (Stephen Walther)
JavaScript: Avoid the Evil eval (Sergio Pereira)
Help Shape the Future of ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
Tip #50: Did you know…How to absolute position the controls in Visual Studio Designer? (Vinayabhushana GattamReddy)
Tip #51 Did you know… how to use VS2005 to debug with IE8? (Xinyang Qiu)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 3 Photo Gallery Wall Application (Jeff Paries)
Efficient Paging In Silverlight 2.0 (Malcolm Sheridan)
Preparing for a Side-by-Side Silverlight Machine (Shawn Wildermuth)
Resources for Surface WPF Development (Mark Hopkins)
Announcement: Document Toolkit for Silverlight (Koen Zwikstra)

Community / Events

Foundation Series, Session 2 – April 8th (Brian Donahue)
CMAP Main Meeting – Tomorrow, April 1st, 6:30pm – Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service (Christopher Steen)
Wrox Authors at TechEd North America 2009 (Jim Minatel)
Microsoft tech·days virtual conference->April 1st 2009 (Rachel Appel)
MIX 09 (Scott Guthrie)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Phil Haack on ASP.NET MVC RTM!! (Carl Franklin)
Fireworks to XAML Panel (Adam Kinney)
DevHawk on CodeCast (Harry Pierson)
Herding Code Episode 40: Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight 3 and RIA Services (Jon Galloway)
Open Source software at Microsoft – Justin Angel and Shawn Burke (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
10-4 Episode 14: Sentient DSLs (Jonathan Carter)
Don Syme: F# and functional programming in . NET (martinesmann)

Database

SQL SERVER – Reseed Identity of Table – Table Missing Identity Values – Gap in Identity Column (Pinal Dave)
Should the developer divsion develop the tools for SQL Server (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 (Microsoft XML Core Services) (MS Downloads)
Microsoft previews Windows Mobile App store, alters developer fees and Mozilla Weave 0.3 syncs Firefox bookmarks, passords, history (Brad Linder)
New Poll: What’s The Worst Part About Software Development As A Career? (Davy Brion)
Iran Means History (Keyvan Nayyeri)
"Multi-core Mania": A Rebuttal (Ted Neward)
Review: Peopleware (Steve Rowe)
Yahoo Launches Slick Desktop AIR App For Monitoring Twitter (Robin Wauters)
The Open Cloud Manifesto – what I think… (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
How to enable / disable the discussion tab – #005 (Sara Ford)
IE 8.1 Supports Firefox Plugins, Rendering Engine (K. Dawson)
Functional Programming and Collective Intelligence – II (Matthew Podwysocki)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for March 31, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: March 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #319 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2009 — #559 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Twitterings #22 (Elijah Manor)
Creators Club Communiqué 22 (Kathleen Sanders)
CloudNews for March 31st, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory: Books

ISBN: 0321534468
ISBN-13: 9780321534460

Technorati Tags: .net development,f#,windows 7,ie8,silverlight,wpf,channel9,s#arp architecture,scrum,asp.net mvc,codeplex,sql server

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Dew Drop – March 28, 2009

Posted on March 28, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Training Kit (MS Downloads)
JavaScript for C# programmers: convert string to integer (Julian M. Bucknall)
Tip #45: Did you know…How to change the DynamicData folder location? (Deepak Verma)
Tip #46: Did you know… that Web Deployment “migrate” operation is “sync” operation with all migration rules enabled? (Kateryna Rohonyan)
Tip #47 Did you know… that front page script remote debugging requires turning off IE’s Enhanced Security Configuration in windows 2003 and windows 2008? (Xinyang Qiu)
Handling interactions between ViewModel classes (Brian Button)

.NET / Visual Studio

Code Canvas (Kael Rowan) – Link of the Day
Help Us Prioritize the Enterprise Library 5.0 Backlog (Ade Miller)
Cascading Filters – Dynamic Data Futures (Futures on Codeplex) (Steve)
Using VS.NET 2005 SP1 with SQL Server 2008 connectivity (Ted Krueger)
Windows Azure – .NET Services and the Service Bus and C# and Optional Parameters (Mike Taulty)
IronPython 2.6 Alpha 1 (Harry Pierson)
DBFile project now on CodePlex (Jason Haley)
Essential LINQ (Jason Zander)
Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Contrib – Release: 0.4.0.1 and T4 Toolbox – Release: 9.3.21.2 and StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: 1.0.0.000 (compatible with ReSharper 4.1) (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Idealistic vs. Practical (Christopher Bennage)
Framework Design Guidelines: the System.* namespace (Brad Abrams)
JavaScript Unit Testing Frameworks (Elijah Manor)
Always Assume That You’re the Problem (Justin Etheredge)
F#: Forcing type to unit for Assert.ShouldThrow in XUnit.NET (Mark Needham)
Underscoring A Point (Rod Paddock)

Silverlight / WPF

Machine is now available! Reuxables 2.0, WPF Toolkit, and more. (Dax Pandhi)
Props to Two Cool Silverlight Applications (Corrina Barber)
Silverlight Localization Gotcha (Davy Brion)
Toolkit Control – TimePicker (Jesse Liberty)
DLR Hosting in Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)
Installing Silverlight 3 – A Step By Step Guide for Upgrading your Development Environment (Harsh Bardhan)
Expression Blend 3 & Behaviours (Mike Taulty)
RadControls for Silverlight 3 now available (Valentin Stoychev)
Why is it called a "DependencyProperty"? (Mike Hillberg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Pete Brown, Silverlight Wizard in Action (Adam Kinney)
This Week on C9: New SDKs, Silverlight 3, Web utilities and cool Show Off Projects (Dan Fernandez)
Azure videos worth watching (Bill Zack)
No More Underscrores in Visual Basic 10 (Beth Massi)
Hanselminutes on 9 – Eilon Lipton and the ASP.NET MVC Rumors (Scott Hanselman)
MIX09: Time Lapse camera, setup and tear down (Duncan Mackenzie)
Episode 130: Code Visualization with Michele Lanza (SE-Radio Team)
Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! (Rob Conery)
Some of the Shows I did at or around MIX – Hanselminutes, Continuum (Pete Brown)
Mike Swanson – XAML Plugin for Adobe Illustrator (Robert Hess)
2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 5 and 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – I’m a PC and I’m and MVP! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Community / Events

A few favorite photos from MIX09 (Adam Kinney)
Requesting Contracted .NET OSS Bug Fixes from the Community (Bobby Johnson)
Contest: Help Us To Find A Motto For Devlicio.us (Tuna Toksoz)

Database

Spring cleaning your indexes – Part II (Kimberly L. Tripp)
ExecutionLog Table in SSRS 2008 Gone (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

CCleaner version 2.18.878 software update (Ben) – IE8 support added
Get hip to Mesh… it rocks! (Andrew Connell)
Presentation tip: They Remember the Mistakes more than the Polish (Brad Abrams)
DreamSpark – High School access now and new stuff! and Blu-ray/DVD Comparison Utility (Coding4Fun)
Windows Mobile 7 screenshots (or mockups, or something) leaked? (Chris Ziegler)
Small Basic: Sample of the week: Turn ’em Off (Vijaye)
Windows 7 Build 7068 leaks in the wild (Taimur Asad)
Where to Find Windows 7 Logon Screen Backgrounds (Sarah Perez)
There’s a lot of Software in Our Future (Dino Esposito)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for March 27, 2009 and LINKBLOG for March 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2009 — #554 and Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2009 — #555 (Dave Campbell)
New and Notable 309 (Sam Gentile)
CloudNews for March 27th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Interesting Finds: March 27, 2009 and Interesting Finds: March 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Advanced Windows Debugging (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series): Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat: Books

ISBN: 0321374460
ISBN-13: 9780321374462

Technorati Tags: .net development,silverlight,xunit.net,f#,resharper,stylecop,windows 7,radcontrols,small basic,asp.net mvc,sql server,channel9

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