Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Just an FYI for readers, the Dew Drop posts are going to be interrupted for a day or two sometime in the next couple of weeks. We’re expecting our third girl on July 8th, but it could be as soon as today.

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Domain Driven Design Quickly (Ade Miller)
• Self-Organization and Complexity (Brad Appleton)
• The “collaboration” piller (version 1) (Brian Marick)
• Hungarian Notation – Use What Works Spit Out The Bones (Dave M. Bush)
• D3: Building Great Software is a Battle, Don’t Leave Any Assets on the Sidelines (Dan Simmons)
• UX Team of One (Frank La Vigne)
• Are You in a Claustrophobic Team? (Max Pool)
• Lessons in Software from Alok Srivastava (J.D. Meier)
• New DDDD Content (Jonathan Oliver)
• Threat Analysis & Modeling Tool – TAM 3.0 (Jossie Tirado)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MGraph Visualizer Plug-in for Intellipad! (Chris Sells)
• The void is invariant (Eric Lippert)
• Sticky DataTips: A new way to view variables in the Visual Studio 2010 debugger (Habib Heydarian)
• Explore C# 4’s New Dynamic Types and Named/Optional Parameters (Joydip Kanjilal)
• New CodePlex project: a simple Undo/Redo framework (Kirill Osenkov)
• How to execute a special build on TFS using Team Foundation Object Model (TFS APIs) – Part 1 (Subodh Sohoni)

Web Development

• AJAX Features in ASP.NET MVC (Dino Esposito)
• How we do MVC – View models (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET WebForms vs. MVC (Michael Ceranski)
• Displaying SQL Server Messages using ASP.NET and ADO.NET (Malcolm Sheridan)

Silverlight / WPF

• Fun With Speech Recognition in WPF (Frank La Vigne)
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-4 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• WPF Toolkit: Charting release (Jeff Wilcox)
• WPF3D Lighting and Shading (Jordan)
• Game Programming with Silverlight. (Mike Snow)
• Principles of Design Series: Learning about Points, Lines, and Form using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Prism Eventing (Eric Mork)
• Google I/O 2009 – AJAX APIs to Navigate User-Generated Content (Me)
• ARCast.TV – Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell (Bob Familiar)
• New Screencast: Working with Property Grids (Dan Rigsby)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #122: Creating Custom Functions w/ NAnt (Derik Whittaker)
• Tales from the Toolshed (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Demo of SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Features – Configure DW Storage and Demo of SQL Server 2008 DW features: Configuring tempdb for Data Warehouse (Joe Longtin)
• The History of Microsoft – 1995 (Tina)
• Netcast #14 – Not Dead Yet (Todd O. Klindt)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 139: Fearless Change with Linda Rising (SE-Radio Team)
• Toolshed Tooltip #15 – Intro from Episode 3, meet MVP’s Stan Schultes, Don Demsak and Jessica Moss. and Toolshed Tooltip #16 – Expression Blend 2 Video, Animation and VS Integration Intro (Russell Fustino)
• Prism’s Event Aggregator (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Yochay Kiriaty – Windows 7 Developer Training Kit (Robert Hess)
• Ping 18: Ballmer apologizes, Paul Allens latest move, Surface fun, Security Beta (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• July Community Events (Eric Shupps)
• Events This Week – June 29th, 2009 and Microsoft Local Impact (G. Andrew Duthie)

SharePoint

• Want A Job? Learn SharePoint, Says Gary Blatt – 100% of the Federal Government has licenses, but they can’t find developers to implement their sites. (James Turner)
• Visio design templates for SharePoint 2007 (Joris Poelmans)

Database

• Approaches to "UPSERT" (Ken Downs)
• After disabling TDE you still requires the certificate to restore the database (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Policy-Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium? (Ed Bott)
• Musings About Project Natal (Frank La Vigne)
• AutoSave Adds Reassurance to Notepad++ Editing (Kevin Purdy)
• Get Firefox’s Ctrl+K Shortcut in Internet Explorer (The How-To Geek)
• The "Risk" of Open Source Software Support (Tim Barcz)
• Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You (Scott Hanselman)
• Oracle Woos Microsoft OracleClient users (Julie Lerman)
• How to Contribute to Open Source (When You’re Not Exactly Scott Hanselman) (Sara Chipps)
• How to stop that annoying beep on your server (Simon Sabin)
• Survey of Surveys on IT Spend for 2009 (Mike Walker)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LI (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #379 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 29, 2009 — #624 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 29th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• SharePoint: Recommended links June 2009 (Tobias Zimmergren)
• Daily Find #122 (Tim Boland)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Moving the Mouse Pointer Programmatically and Hiding the Mouse Pointer (Richard Carr)
• MSpec… for Boo! (Aaron Jensen)
• Creating audio signals in .Net (Coding4Fun)
• F#: Setting properties like named parameters (Mark Needham)
• Generating Code with Visual Studio’s T4 (Michael Ceranski)
• Changing Configuration Settings in a Desktop Client Application (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (Mike Walker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Agile methods to deliver on a fixed-budget, fixed-time commitment (Andy Singleton)
• Cloud Computing Design Patterns (Bob Nadler)
• Another Kata: Expression Tokenizer (Brett Schuchert)
• Elegant Code Project Structure Purse Fight (Chris Brandsma)
• It’s the subleties and Facilitation Antipattern: Repetitor (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Don’t Create Aggregate Roots (Udi Dahan) – Link of the Day
• Making your code easier to understand context/specification style unit tests (Ian Cooper)
• Microsoft ESB Toolkit (Mike Walker)
• Fighting Fabricated Complexity (Patrick Smacchia)
• A Craftsman sometimes has to create his own tool (Sergio Pereira)
• What Investing Can Teach You About Software Development (Part 2) (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Real World Refactoring (Joshua Flanagan)
• Simple Python testing in Silverlight with unittest (Jimmy Schementi)
• The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
• Yes… Agile Isn’t Project Managment… (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

• Never worry about ASP.NET AJAX’s .d again (Dave Ward)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 4 Introduction For Database Support With SQL Alchemy. (Ryan Svihla)
• Principals, Code-Behind, & View Engines (K. Scott Allen)
• ASP.NET DropDownList with Custom Paging (Malcolm Sheridan)
• VS2010 Beta1 Web Application Project Database package and SMO options (Xinyang Qiu)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls (Mike Ormond)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Wrap Panel (Deepak Kapoor)
• YouTube video in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• WPF discussions 090626 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening! (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 113: The Rural Juror (Paul Thurrott)
• ThirstyDeveloper #67 – Open Spaces and unmeetings (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Toolshed Tooltip #14 – Developer Community Update by MVP Don (XML) Demsak from Episode 3 (Russell Fustino)
• Major Nelson Show #323: Geoff Keighly, Worms 2 and behind the scenes at E3 (Larry Hryb)
• SharePoint development: using SharePoint as an application development platform and SharePoint Web Content Management / Publishing – Episode 9 (Rob, Nick & Brett)

Community / Events

• Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q2 2009) (Jurgen Appelo) – Congrats to Scott for making #1 and to Justin for his debut at #43!
• NDC09 Trip Report (Phil Haack)
• C’Mon Get Meta! (Jeff Atwood)
• Nayyeri.NET Turns Four (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Happy Blog-day, Keyvan!

SharePoint

• Community Kit For SharePoint (Dave Mann)
• How to Build a Change Control System in SharePoint (Dux Raymond Sy)

Database

• MVP Helps To Jumpstart SQL Server 2008! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Management Studio New Features and SQL SERVER – Maximum Number of Index per Table (Pinal Dave)
• Hyperlinks in custom reports (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• Firefox 3.5 coming June 30th, Fennec updated today (Brad Linder)
• The Five Best and Five Worst Mountain Dews of All Time (Curtis Silver) – Diet Code Red FTW!
• Organizational Chaos Followup (Jesse Liberty)
• 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills (Smashing Magazine)
• Bing Toolbox (Sunshine)
• Review: "Programming Clojure", by Stu Halloway (Ted Neward)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #378 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 06.22 ~ 06.28 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #59 (Grant Palin)
• Links of the week #82 – “Back From Holidays in Croatia” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Links (6/28/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting the Current Application’s Memory Usage (Richard Carr)
• Useful VS Key Sequences/Shortcuts (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Effective EF with Oracle (Julie Lerman)
• F#: More thoughts on the forward & application operators (Mark Needham)
• Mapping WF 3 activities to WF 4 (Matt Milner)
• Work-Stealing in .NET 4.0 (Jennifer Marsman)
• D3: Fun with Concurrency and Model First – Part 1 and D3: Fun with Concurrency and Model First – Part 2 (Dan Simmons)

Silverlight / WPF

• Behaviors, Triggers and Actions snippets (Rudi Grobler)
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-2 and Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-3 (Faisal Hossain Khan)

Web Development

• The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex, and it does change your code a bit (David Ebbo)
• Adding Events to User Controls (Peter Vogel)
• A case of lost session variables when using out of process session state (Tess Ferrandez)
• Tip #84: Did you know… How to set a Start page for your Web Site in Visual Web Developer? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• ASP.NET – Creating a Custom Tag Cloud (Michael Ceranski)
• Is It Too Late To Change JSON? (Phil Haack)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Open Spaces at work (Larry Clarkin) – Link of the Day
• Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services (Brad Abrams)
• Making Blenders for the Blind is Like Making Software for Normal People (Chris Love)
• Fluent Interface for NH Facility – Take 1 (Tuna Toksoz)
• The Rush (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Focuses on IoC Containers for Configuration (David Hayden)
• Silverlight Geek – An interview with Jesse Liberty (Adam Kinney)
• When agile goes bad, slides and pointers (Sebastien Lambla)
• Iterators at the Summer Games (Eric Lippert)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• "I’m a VB" Interview: Julie Lerman, Visual Basic MVP and "I’m a VB" Interview: Bill Wolff, Visual Basic MVP and "I’m a VB" Interview: Bill Vaughn, Visual Basic MVP (Beth Massi)
• This Week C9: Revolution 9 – The Future of Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez)
• 10-4 Episode 25: Fixing PIA Pains with Type Equivalence (Jason Olson)
• Herding Code 51: Greg Young on Our Grand Failure – Thoughts on DDDD (Jon Galloway)
• Show: Episode #3 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Road Thoughts – Visible Metrics (Corey Haines)
• VSTO: How to Add a Button into the Office Ribbon (Jennifer Marsman)
• Collaborative Knowledge Sharing and Decision Making… (Clemens Reijnen)

Community / Events

• Ajax Survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are Almost Tied Among .NET Developers (Simone Chiaretta)
• Useful jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Plugins with ASP.NET MVC (Elijah Manor)
• Two VANs on Castle Project (Tuna Toksoz)
• Architecture Summit in Southfield, MI (Jennifer Marsman)

SharePoint

• Automated Builds with VSeWSS 1.3 (Paul Andrew)
• Belgian MVP Releases SharePoint Tool Basket on CodePlex! (Lorna Williamson)

Database

• DBA SQLCLR Procedures (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : 17892 Logon failed for login due to trigger execution. Changed database context to ‘master’. (Pinal Dave)
• SQLDBCrypt – Open Source Database Encryption For SQL Server. (Rajiv Popat)
• Can’t depend on sp_depends? Try using sp_refreshsqlmodule and Adding time offsets passed in to a datetime to generate localized datetime (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Download Free WebRadio Add-in for Windows Home Server (Blake Handler)
• Bing cashback 101 (Raju Malhotra)
• Firefox 3.5 coming June 30th, Fennec updated today (Brad Linder)
• Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do upgrades really cost? (Ed Bott)
• When Windows Home Server crashes… (Rockford Lhotka)
• Zoho: We’re launching something, sometime next week (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Download seven Windows 7 chapters (Devon Musgrave)
• 200 Twitter Mashups (John Musser)
• 11 Magazines This Magazine Likes (Jason English)
• Designing input for a script (Ed Wilson)
• WMI: Improving your WMI application performance in fan-out scenario (Andy Cheung)
• Create a Syslog Sender/Receiver Using the MS Winsock Control (Gustav Brock)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2009 — #623 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 26th June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 335 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 26th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)

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It’s must-see web TV this week when Arnold and Dudley have to fend off Gordon Jump’s advances… wait… that was a diff’rent show…

Watch Dan Fernandez & company talk about Revolution 9, and the future of Channel 9 (as well as Channel 8, Channel 10, Coding4Fun and MIXOnline).

Good luck guys!

Alvin

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing console output from a Windows form in C# (Tom Hearn)
• Treating Warnings as Errors in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Mmm, Curry (Eric Lippert)
• Walkthrough: Adding an existing Visual Studio solution to another solution (Habib Heydarian)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Generating Microsoft Office Documents with the Open XML SDK (Vikas Goyal)
• CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic inside Visual Studio 2008 (Mark Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

• F# in Silverlight (Luke Hoban)
• WPF 2D Physics Plus (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight Canvas Panel (Deepak Kapoor)
• Expression Design Resources (Mike Ormond)
• WPF Chart Controls!!! (Marc Schweigert)
• Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000! (Tim Heuer)
• My Sillveright-Prism Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Validation and ViewModel (Josh Twist)
• Creating NikeClone with Silverlight, Part 1 (Faisal Hossian Khan)

Web Development

• The Weekly Source Code 43 – ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinner (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• OSX MonoDevelop MVC? (Tobin Harris)
• A Better SMTP Development Server (Lee Dumond)
• ASP.NET GridView with Custom Paging UI (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET – Creating a Custom Tag Cloud (Michael Ceranski)
• The “Anti-For” Campaign (Matthew Podwysocki)
• jQuery Dialog – With Validation Controls and Does jQuery Make Us Lazy? (Dave M. Bush)
• JSON Hijacking (Phil Haack)
• Declaring Security (Eric Lawrence)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 13 (Rajiv Popat)
• Safe refactoring: Removing object initializer, introducing builder (Mark Needham)
• How Wise Are You Being With Your Work Time? (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Becoming a better developer, or “How to sidestep a question” (Kyle Baley)
• Pair Programming and Pandemics (Pouya Yousefi)
• Programmer Confidence and Arrogance (Jay Fields)
• How To? Highly Complex Query Generating Based On Security Needs (Derick Bailey)
• Making Blenders for the Blind is Like Making Software for Normal People (Chris Love)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• AgileToolkit Podcast – Nationwide – Kevin Fisher – AVP of Product Management – Value of Alignment (Bob Payne)
• Margaret Burnett: Gender and Software (Charles Torre)
• Video: Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session (Brian Peek)
• The NY Times/Silverlight Open API toolkit (Jit Ghosh)
• Commanding in Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Demo of SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Features – Configure DW Storage and Demo of SQL Server 2008 DW features: Configuring tempdb for Data Warehouse (Joe Longtin)

Community / Events

• Free Microsoft Hyper-V Training Course 6319 (Blake Handler)
• ScrumMaster Certification Course in Waltham, MA (Bob Familiar)
• Pragmatic Patterns for Architects: Recordings Available (David Makogon)
• Enthusiast and Fanatic Badges (Jeff Atwood)
• Principles of Design Series: Learning about Unity using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• MSDN Webcast: Enterprise Library 4.1 (Lindsay Rutter)

SharePoint

• Belgian MVP Releases SharePoint Tool Basket on CodePlex! (Lorna Williamson)
• SharePoint SP2 Update (Bob Fox)
• SharePoint BDC Part 1: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog (Tobias Zimmergren)

Database

• Live Meeting: Creating a Star Schema and OLAP Cubes (Trevor Dwyer)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of Logon Trigger On All Servers – Solution (Pinal Dave)
• Not a fan of the Report Manager in SSRS? Using SSRS procedures to get the job done (Ted Krueger)
• How to Avoid Database Restore Issues by a Simple Script Edit – A DB Restore Work-around (Hugo Shebbeare)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Upgrade, Retail & Special 50% Off Pre-Order Pricing! (Blake Handler)
• Running localized versions of Small Basic (Vijaye)
• PowerPoint—Customizing the Ribbon (William Vaughn)
• Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do those upgrades really cost? (Ed Bott)
• Is programming a generic skill? (Eric Gunnerson)
• 200 Twitter Mashups (John Musser)
• Which Windows 7 version is best for you? Pre-order your copy today! (Taimur Asad)
• Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest (Rafe Needleman)
• Coding Dojo #18: Groovy Bowling Game (Mark Needham)
• An Introduction to Functional Languages (Ken Sipe)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 25, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #376 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2009 — #622 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 25th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Links (6/25/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 25th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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