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Dew Drop – March 8, 2009

Posted on March 8, 2009 | by Alvin A.

.NET / Visual Studio

A Few NHibernate Tips (Billy McCafferty)
Machine.Specifications (MSpec) has moved (and git rocks) (Aaron Jensen)
Live Framework: Connecting to the Local Live Operating Environment (LOE) for Offline Applications (Chris Pietschmann)
Book Review: More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (Jason Haley)
Programming against M (Jon Flanders) – Link of the Day
What I Really, Really, Really Like About Using Fluent NHibernate (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Health Monitoring in ASP.NET 3.5 (Malcolm Sheridan)
Dynamic Delegates with Expression Trees (Rick Strahl)

Silverlight / WPF

Using TransformToVisual for Custom XAML Animation (Andy Beaulieu)
More Uses for Value Converters and Extension Methods in Silverlight Binding (Pete Brown)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Adding Many to Many Relationship between Entities (Gil Fink)
DDD: The Beginning of My Sample Application (Casey Charlton)
Quality: It’s alive! It’s ALIVE! (Uncle Bob Martin)
Book Review: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know (Davy Brion)

Community / Events

The MVP Summit and Agile Arguments (Ted Malone)

SharePoint

The days of documents are *not* numbered (Spence Harbar)
BOOK REVIEW: SharePoint 2007 Developers Guide to Business Data Catalog (Liam Cleary)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s TechNet Recommends Free "ScreenRecorder" Video Capture Utility and Microsoft Releases Updated "NetMon 3.3 Beta" Network Monitoring Tool for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
Windows 7 Release Candidate Preview (Paul Thurrott)
Download Wallpapers from Windows 7 Build 7048 (Taimur Asad)
Easy project administration with Unfuddle (Sergio Pereira)
Locating all the Tools that go in my Toolbox (Ryan Kelley)
How Do I Learn (Jan Van Ryswyck)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for March 07, 2009 — #534 (Dave Campbell)
Links 2009-03-07 (Gunnar Peipman)
Interesting Finds: March 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Let’s Wax Functional 03/06/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

Silverlight 2 in Action: Chad Campbell, John Stockton: Books

ISBN: 1933988428
ISBN-13: 9781933988429

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Dew Drop – March 5, 2009

Posted on March 5, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight.FX and Silverlight Store Sample App (Nikhil Kothari)
Silverlight 2.0 Walkthrough – Creating a “Traffic Jam” game and Silverlight Game – Part 1 – Creating the main layout and Part 2 – Creating a Car UserControl and Part 3 – Using Linq to XML to read and generate the levels and Part 4 – Adding drag and drop functionality to move the cars around and Part 5 – Storing Highscores in Isolated Storage (Tess Ferrandez)
The Power of ICommand (Rudi Grobler)
Silverlight – Databinding ListBox (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

DDD: Validity, Consistency and Immutability (Casey Charlton)
Back to Basics: Interfaces (Karl Seguin)
Coding: Good Citizens (Mark Needham)
Is Excessive Mapping Of DTOs/ViewObjects to Entities A Code Smell (Michael Nichols)

.NET / Visual Studio

January 2009 "Oslo" SDK Refresh (Chris Sells)
What Should I Talk About In A Presentation About NHibernate? (Davy Brion)
Writing and IronPython Debugger: Adding Interactivity (Harry Pierson)
Gratuitous Use of Linq (Jacob Proffitt)
On Tagging, Part 1 (Howard Dierking)
WCF: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority (Josh Twist)
Recursive LINQ with Y-combinator (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

Big Day for Sueetie Source and Documentation updates (Dave Burke)
Adding Search To Your Site (In 5 Minutes) (Jeff Blankenburg)
10-4: Episode 11: Bi-Directional Routing with ASP.NET WebForms 4.0 (Public Sector DPE Team)
New ASP.NET MVC Validation Tutorials Posted at www.ASP.net/MVC (Stephen Walther)
MVC Contrib – Release: RC – 0.0.1.846 (CodePlex)

Community / Events

Foundation Series Workshop 1 – Wednesday, March 11th (Brian Donahue) – A new series of workshops for Philly-area developers. Don’t miss it! – Link of the Day
Alt.net: Alienation by adoption (Ayende Rahien)
Are you going to MIX09? (Pete Brown)
SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 4 – Keynote from SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 4 – Keynote of Steve Ballmer (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

SharePoint unit testing and SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (Joris Poelmans)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s Codeplex Releases "Windows Live Writer Backup" (Blake Handler)
Ballmer: Microsoft needs to make faster Windows Mobile advances (Todd Bishop)
A Journey in Technical Computing (Ade Miller)
Windows Mobile Finally Gets a Decent Facebook App (John Herrman)
Live Mesh…the story so far (Steve Clayton)
Zoho Writer 2.0 launches with fresh look (Raju Vegesna)
Intro to Programming: Microsoft Small Basic (Paul)
We need a new slogan (Roy Osherove)
10 Awesome Things I Remember About Computers (Scott Hanselman)
Flash / ActionScript Guitar Synthesizer and Andre’s Amazing Lab (Pete.Brown)
Zune news: New streaming podcasts, new Zune Social functionality (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for March 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #300 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: March 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Technical Articles and White Papers on SQL Server (Jose Barreto)
CloudNews for March 4th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Creators Club Communiqué 20 (Kathleen Sanders)
Links (3/4/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
New and Notable 299 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

The ThoughtWorks Anthology: Essays on Software Technology and Innovation (Pragmatic Programmers): ThoughtWorks Inc.: Books

ISBN: 193435614X
ISBN-13: 9781934356142

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Dew Drop – March 4, 2009

Posted on March 4, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Design / Methodology / Testing

Contradictory Observations (Martin Fowler)
Inspiration for Next Generation UX (Nikhil Kothari)
Ongoing Maintenance & Debt Reduction (Chris Missal)
Backflows are self-regulating (Corey Ladas)
Different Kind Of Factory? (Davy Brion)
Procrastination and the Bikeshed Effect (Jeff Atwood)
(Almost) Frictionless Testing: Specifications (Erik Peterson)
Application Compatibility Testing — Overview (Grant George)
Debugging the Future (Advanced .NET Debugging) Video Presentation (Michael Kennedy)
The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (Joe Stagner)

.NET / Visual Studio

Reading process output (Gunnar Peipman)
Building Domain Specific Languages in C# (Neal Ford)
Triggering events on UI components (WinForms) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
How to start Visual Studio programmatically (Kirill Osenkov)
Thinking about C# 4.0, VB 10 and Dynamic (Mike Taulty)
Re-attaching objects – My Foray into Linq to Sql and the Entity Framework (part 2 of 2) (Greg Galipeau)
WCF and MSMQ (Steve Stefanovich)
T4 Tutorial: Making Code Generators Extensible (Oleg Sych)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
jQuery – Sliders (scrollbars to the rest of us) (Dave M. Bush)
Use jQuery to catch and display ASP.NET AJAX service errors (Dave Ward)
Creating Dynamic ASP.NET SiteMap using LINQ (Malcolm Sheridan)
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate 2 (Nick Berardi)
ASP.NET MVC: Reducing duplication for partial models (Mark Needham)
How to Learn ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Handling Null Session and Request Variables (Jarzebowski Mark)
Wanna see ASP.NET MVC RTM-ed? Help test MVC RC2 (Simone Chiaretta)
Chapter 6 – Understanding HTML Helpers (Stephen Walther)
Hotfix Available for ASP.NET MVC Crashes With Azure/Power Commands/Resharper (Joe Cartano)

Silverlight / WPF

Using Silverlight for workflow creation (Tim Heuer)
two very promising WPF application frameworks on codeplex (Jaime Rodriguez)
What’s This? No Intellisense for WPF’s Xaml View. (Tom Krueger)
Win Your Copy – WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008 (Izzy Schwartz)

Community / Events

Philadelphia’s Pre-SXSW Mixer @ National Mechanics (Alex Hillman)
Some Great New Mix09 Sessions Posted (Brad Abrams)
At the MVP Global Summit… (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 3 – Party Day and SQL Celebrity Photos (Pinal Dave)

Database

Another Item for the Wish List and SqlClient Wish List and More Data-Centric Visual Studio IDE Requests (William Vaughn)
SQL 2008 Cluster Installation Guide (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

First Look at New Office 14 Roadmap and Resources Available to Get Started with Windows 7 and Quick Applications Help You Get Stared with Live Services Development (Bruce Kyle)
Sobees Gives You Twitter+Facebook+YouTube+RSS (Larry Larsen)
Convert PDF and HTML to .mobi to read on your Kindle (Lee Mathews)
What should I do during a lunch interview? (Microsoft JobsBlog)
Looking Forward to Viveri: An Experimental Search Site (Sarah Perez)
Developing at the Speed of Microsoft (Sean Biefeld)
My Phone Team Is Listening: Tighter Integration With Windows Live Services In Future (Sunshine)
Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.3 and Lightroom 2.3 GMs (PSN Editorial Staff)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for March 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #299 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: March 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 298 (Sam Gentile)
CloudNews for March 3th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008: Arlen Feldman, Maxx Daymon: Books

ISBN: 1933988223
ISBN-13: 9781933988221

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