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Dew Drop – March 3, 2009

Silverlight / WPF

Tidy Up Your Xaml And Code Behind, Use UserControls Inside Templates (Amit Raz)
Styling ListBox And Animating ListBoxItem In Silverlight 2 (Faisal Khan)
two very promising WPF application frameworks on codeplex (Jaime Rodriguez)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #97 – Creating Sprites from 3D Models – EnvyGames (Mike Snow)
how to build an outlook style application (Erwin Van Der Valk)
Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Studio (2005, 2008, 2010) Tips and Tricks (Angela Binkowski)
The Twitter Search API made easy with Linq to XML (Jan Tielens)
C# moved to #1 for Programming Book Sales According to O’Reilly’s Radar (Gunther Lenz)
Writing an IronPython Debugger: Setting a Breakpoint (Harry Pierson)
CSLA .NET 3.6.2 beta release (Rockford Lhotka)
Introducing Maestro – A DSL for Actor Based Concurrency and Exploring MapReduce with F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
What’s the point of Value types? (Mike Hadlow)
Things I liked most out of TFS2008 (Laila Bougria)
ADO.NET EF v LINQ to SQL (Take 4) (Chad Moran)

Web Development

JavaScript for C# programmers: object inheritance (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
jQuery, the who, what, where, why and how (Coding4Fun)
40 Useful JavaScript Libraries (Umut Muhaddisoglu)
Must use !important on your CSS class for Text color to work on ASP.NET Validation Controls (Dave Schinkel)
OAuth MVC.net Revisited (Owen Evans)
CRUD with ASP.NET MVC (screencast) (Maarten Balliauw)
43,439 reasons to use append() correctly (Josh Powell)
50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials for Designers and Developers (Paul Andrew)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Why aren’t software architects held accountable? (Simon Brown)
Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects (Gunnar Peipman)
Framework Design Guidelines: Dependency Properties (Brad Abrams)
DDD: The Specification Pattern and DDD: The Post That Should Have Preceded The Last (Casey Charlton)
Next Generation Project Planning Tool: LiquidPlanner 2.0 (Steve McConnell)
A story about ‘getting it done’ (Corey Haines)
Manage Your Projects, Not Just Your Schedule (Part 4) (Dux Raymond Sy)
Agile Architecture Method Revisited (J.D. Meier)

Community / Events

Microsoft’s own private Macworld (Todd Bishop)
MIX ’09 Plans (Nikhil Kothari)
CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, March 3rd, 6:30pm – DotNetNuke, CMS for the Masses (Christopher Steen)
Events This Week – March 2nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
ALT.NET Seattle 2009, some impressions (Ian Cooper)
Alt.Net Seattle Review (Eric Hexter)
MVPs Deliver Smart Business Solutions (Jas Dhaliwal)
SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 2 – Most Contributing MVP of Year (Pinal Dave)
Construx Offers Free Training for Laid-Off Software Workers (Pam McIlroy) – Link of the Day

PowerShell

A guide to Advanced Functions (Joel Bennett)
Powershell “CmdLet” and SharePoint (Liam Cleary)

SharePoint

Guide to SharePoint Performance Optimization (Marwan Tarek)

Database

SQL Server Upgrade Technical Reference Guide (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Releases Two New Windows 7 Guides for IT Professionals (Blake Handler)
Microsoft Opens Office 14 Kimono, Slightly (J. Nicholas Hoover)
Microsoft to start testing ‘Kumo’ search service and First screenshot of Microsoft’s Kumo (Ina Fried)
Xbox Friends Watch Gamercard now on Channel 9 profile page (Adam Kinney)
My Phone Team Is Listening: Tighter Integration With Windows Live Services In Future (Sunshine)
Facebook comes to Windows Live FrameIt, PowerToy now available for download (damaster)
Introducing NLP (Mo Khan)
Why am I seeing this dialog? (IE8) (Frank Olivier)
Ed Bott: The end justifies the means (Paul Thurrott)
OhGizmo Preview: Pixar’s Up (Evan Ackerman)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for March 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: March 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #298 (Chris Alcock)
Visual Studio Links #109 (Darren Stokes)
Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2009 — #532 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: 2009 03.01~03.03 (gOODiDEA)
Weekly Links #42 (Grant)
CloudNews for March 2nd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
New and Notable 297 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition (Windows.Net): Andrew Troelsen: Books

ISBN: 1590598849
ISBN-13: 9781590598849

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Dew Drop – March 2, 2009

Silverlight

Book Review: Silverlight 2 In Action (Davy Brion)
Dispatcher, Cross-Thread Property Setting & Lambda Expressions (Jesse Liberty)
EntitySpaces 2009 Q2 – Can you Query me now? (Mike Griffin)

Web Development

MVC ViewPage Compile Error, or “How to exist in both places” (Kyle Baley)
Quake Live Review and Rant – Why is this interesting? (Scott Hanselman)
Talking Points: ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) (Joel Reyes)

.NET / Visual Studio

Video – Getting Started with LINQ in .NET 3.5 (Dan Wahlin)
What’s the point of Value types? (Mike Hadlow)
LINQ – Using Quantifiers like Any, Contains and All while Querying Objects (Suprotim Agarwal)
Default Values and Smarter Property Assessors (Tim Barcz)
ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 Coming! (Shawn Wildermuth)
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 is on its way (John Papa)
Creating DTOs using AutoMapper (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Perceived Requirements or “All Users Lie” (Casey Charlton)
Typemock NUnit Results to TeamCity (Stephen Wright)
What Johannes Kepler Can Teach Us About Debugging (Scott Mitchell)
What’s in Your Wallet? and What’s in your wallet? – Part 2 (Mike Glenn)
Stuck between a rock and a hard place (Corey Haines)
Trade Offs: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)

Community / Events

Media from AltNetSeattle 2009, Redmond, WA (Weston M. Binford III & others) – Link of the Day
ALT.NET “Mean” – How do we fix it? (Chad Myers)
A busy quarter, DDD and stuff (Sebastien Lambla)
ALT.NET Seattle Day Two and ALT.NET Seattle Day 3 and I’m Speaking At Mix 2009 (Phil Haack)
A Coalition of the Willing (Jeremy D. Miller)
Experiencing ALT.NET Seattle 2009 Open Spaces (Scott Hanselman)
Alt.Heros – Shanselman, benscheirman and What are YOU going to do about it? (Roy Osherove)
SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 1 – Summit Welcome and Keynotes (Pinal Dave)

Database

I Am But a Humble Filing Clerk (Ken Downs)

PowerShell

Where Did That Come From? (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

Bites from the Apple: Form and Function (Agen Schmitz)
Nordic Track Book Club Review: Flip! (Dave Burke)
Windows Server 2008 Web Edition – Ready For Primetime (Bart Czernicki)
Updated Reading List (Davy Brion)
Spore API Contest Challenges Developers to Have Some Fun (Kevin Farnham)
10 Stories Behind Dr. Seuss Stories (Stacy Conradt)
Live Search to get new features…oh and a new brand, too (Kip Kniskern)
The Promise and Peril of Jumbo Frames (Jeff Atwood)
True Learning – not comfortable, easy or safe (Roy Osherove)
Code Cast #24 – On Functional Programming (Matthew Podwysocki)
Building Domain Specific Languages with Boo – Full book now available (Ayende Rahien)
Five things every Windows beta tester should know (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #297 (Chris Alcock)
Links of the week #73 (David Vidmar)
Links (3/1/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Weekly Link Post 83 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

Software Testing (2nd Edition): Ron Patton: Books

ISBN: 0672327988
ISBN-13: 9780672327988

Technorati Tags: .net development,powershell,asp.net mvc,ado.net data services,windows 7,alt.net,functional programming,ddd,nunit,silverlight,sql server

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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – February 21-22, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

What’s Pair Programming Really Like? (James Shore) – Link of the Day
DDD: Living In The Enterprise (Casey Charlton)
Code & Run / Speed Kills (Dave Schinkel)
The Commented Version Of The Readable Code Challenge (Davy Brion)
With Services the focus is on behavior (Ian Cooper)
Application Lifecycle Management and a Collaborative Culture. (Clemens Reijnen)
Domain Driven Design & Test Driven DevelopmentDesign with Entity Framework Part 1.b, Review (Muhammad Mosa)
DDD: Isn’t Learning the Domain Half the Battle? (JP Hamilton)

.NET / Visual Studio

Type Theory Essentials in Pictures – Part 1 – Hints (Bart de Smet)
AutoMapper feature: projection (Jimmy Bogard)
Troubleshooting common mapping bugs with NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
Introduction to HealthVault Development #7 – Data providence (Eric Gunnerson)
.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace Poster (G. Andrew Duthie)
The MVC Template Team Got It Right (John Teague)
Getting Objects from the Object Context, not the database (Julie Lerman)
Windows 7 Taskbar: Jump Lists (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

JavaScript for C# programmers: closure basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
Mvc Contrib – Version 1.0 preparation / project restructuring (Jeffrey Palermo)
ASP.NET MVC Tip #48 – Disable Request Validation (Stephen Walther)
What Happens When You Deploy on Windows Azure? (Steve Marx)
Get inspired for web, photography, anything – SmashingMagazine.com (Tim Heuer)
Implementing Prototype’s Array Methods in jQuery (Josh Powell)
ASP.NET MVC: Driving partials by convention (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Extending the reach of your 2D XNA game to the web (Bill Reiss)
Flash vs Silverlight (Peter Bromberg)
More About the Layout System (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #96 – The meaning of AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE (Mike Snow)
Sonic : Out There In The Wild (Sacha Barber)

Database

SQL Server Indexed Views (Black Wasp)
SQL SERVER – Observation – Effect of Clustered Index over Nonclustered Index (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

MOSS Solutions and Features in Deployments ( Part 3 ) (Michael Cummings)
VS 2010 and SharePoint (Chris Johnson)

PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is Awesome (Vlad)

Community / Events

MIX09 10k Contest Winners and Just published TCSWeekly episodes 4, 5 and 6 (Adam Kinney)
Progressive.NET Event (Ayende Rahien)
MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow Kicks Off Next Week (G. Andrew Duthie)
Party with Palermo Alt.Net/MVP Summit 2009 Edition is 9 days away! and NHibernate users mailing list going strong – Almost 10,000 posts and 1322 members (Jeffrey Palermo)
Online Windows 7 event: MSDN Unleashed (Raymond Comvalius)
Webcast Schedule for March 2009 (Nandita)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Aims to Build a Better Thesaurus (Ina Fried)
Windows Mobile is short changing .NET Developers (Ork)
CraigsList Reader makes searching Craiglist (even more) simple (Brad Linder)
Windows 7 Friday: Locking Down and Protecting Your Computer With AppLocker (Denny Boynton)
Top 10 Tools for Landing a Better Job (Kevin Purdy)
Hire the Best – Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Microsoft anticipating April 10 for Windows 7 release candidate (Lee Mathews)
Get yourself a Windows Home Server (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for February 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for February 20, 2009 — #523 and Silverlight Cream for February 21, 2009 — #524 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: February 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 293 (Sam Gentile)
Functional Discoveries in the Microsoft Sociocosm 02/20/2009 (Rick Minerich)
CloudNews for February 20th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Lessons Learned in Software Testing: Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord: Books

ISBN: 0471081124
ISBN-13: 9780471081128

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