Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Web Development

• How to Build Your Very Own Provider Model - Part 3 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• MVC Storefront: Best Episode Yet Is on Its Way Monday (Rob Conery)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Tooling Updates and Update NUnit Test Project Templates (Joe Cartano)

.NET / Visual Studio

• BooLangStudio: Boo in Visual Studio (Oren Eini)
• SubSonic: Update on 3.5 Plans (Rob Conery)
• Dark Side with Blue Hues (John Papa) - Nice VS theme.
• A Major Silverlight PITA and Two Annoying 3.0 Limitations (Lee Richardson)
• Sandcastle - May 2008 Release (v2.4.10520) (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• 6 Great Tools For Writing a Book (John Papa)
• Glide Unveils New Version of Web OS (Brad Linder)
• Flowchart.com Offers Online Drawing Tools (Mike Gunderloy)
• The 33 Languages of SQL Server (Joe Webb)

Design / Methodology

• What the &@$#* Is a ‘Best Practice’ Anyway? (Derik Whittaker) - Link of the Day
• Simple State Machine (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Create Custom Policy Programmatically (Andrew Woodward)
• Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (MS Downloads)

Career

• Develop Your Skills at Microsoft (Gretchen Ledgard)

Events / Community / Blogging

• Why You Want to Book Your PDC2008 Ticket Now (Tim Sneath)
• Professionalism, Programming, and Punditry and Success as a Metric (Scott Hanselman)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2008 and Innovation Notes: May 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #34 (Darren Stokes)
• Links Today (2008-05-30) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 30, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for May 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #72 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.31 (gOODiDEA)
• Everyman Links for May 30, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology

• When Does Design Happen in Agile? (Ian Cooper)
• Does Programming to Interfaces Buy Us Anything? (Ben Northrop) - This guy’s just begging for a comment flame war. Don’t let Bellware see this one.  

Silverlight / WPF

• Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 - Part One and Part Two and Part Three and Part Four (Faisal Khan) - Nice four-part series on Silverlight animation. Link(s) of the Day.
• WPF Multipage Reports - Part II - Data Grouping (Jan Repisky)
• Revolutionizing the User Interface (Introducing MenuKiller for WPF) (Zlatan Dzinic)
• Awesome DeepZoom Demo (Pete Brown)
• Chiron (Jimmy Schementi) - "This contains Chiron.exe, the Silverlight development web server for Dynamic Languages, with a fix for the IPv4/6 issues."
• Trying Out Binding.StringFormat (Mike Hillberg)

.NET / Visual Studio

• REST Services and Metadata Endpoints in WCF and Extending WCF InstanceContext to Store Custom State (Dan Rigsby)
• What’s Wrong With this? (Alan Mendelvich) - I’m not a fan of this. Code readability issues should be resolved with proper naming conventions.
• WCF Callbacks: A Beginner’s Guide (Barry Dorrans)
• Detailed Code Metrics with NDepend (Maarten Balliauw)
• ReSharper Introspection Severity and the var Keyword (David Hayden)
• Utilizing Your .NET Projects Automated Acceptance Tests on Crystal Reports - Part 2 (Eric Landes)
• What’s on Your Entity Framework v2 Wish List? (John Papa)
• Foundations of Programming - Part 8 - Back to Basics: Exceptions (Karl Seguin)
• Fluent Interfaces and Readability (Joel Ross)
• No More null Checking on Your IEnumerables Before You Iterate Over Them (John)
• IronRuby and Rails (John Lam) - Congrats to John and the IronRuby team!

Web Development

• ViewData "dot" Notation Expressions in ASP.NET MVC (Matt Hawley)

SharePoint

• Pimp My Content Deployment Job (Stefan Goßner)
• Updating Pages Library with Default Page Content Type (Becky Bertram)
• Presentations for Introductory SharePoint Development (MS Downloads)
• One CAS Policy for Many Web Part Assemblies (Patrick Tisseghem)

Miscellaneous

• Deep Fried Bytes Podcast Is Live (Keith Elder)
• Pure Digital Flip Video Ultra Review (Scott Hanselman) - I need to get this for my wife.
• Get Your Learning On!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Holy Crap - I Like to Write Specs! (Mike Desjardins)
• Gmail Labs? (Ionut Alex Chitu)
• Automating the PowerShell Script Repository (Joel Bennett)
• Authorization and Encryption in Live Mesh (Steve Clayton)
• Turbografx Emulator Hits iPhone (Rob Beschizza) - Ok, now I officially need an iPhone.
• Strong Opinions, Weakly Held (Jeff Atwood)

Blogging / Community

• Calm Days for the .NET Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Great Podcast About the Development Community (Rhonda Tipton)
• Using FriendFeed’s Public Links (Sarah Perez)
• Community Call to Action: NOT Northwind (Scott Hanselman)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for May 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links Today (2008-05-29) (Matt Hinze)
• Squeezed Links: May 2008 (Max Pool)
• Links (5/29/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Everyman Links for May 29, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Link Listing - May 29, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #104 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• PDF Image Grabber (Lou Franco)
• Windows Live Agents SDK Released (Scott)
• The Unit Testing Story in F# Revisited (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Some Great Free WinForms Controls - Krypton (Casey Charlton) - Not many people releasing good, free controls for WinForms lately.
• NHibernate Many-to-Many Collections (OR Mapping Is Not One Table One Class) (Peter van Ooijen)
• Propagating the ActivityID to a WCF Service (Josh Twist)

Web Development

• MVC Storefront Challenge Kickoff (Jimmy Bogard)
• Using jQuery to Directly Call ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods (Dave Ward)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Namespaces - Part 4 - The WPF Subset (Daniel Moth)
• WPF Dialogs and DialogResult (Marlon Grech)
• Keeping Focused on Silverlight and Data (John Papa)
• Silverlight Rectangles, Paths, and Lines (Dave Campbell)

Design / Methodology

• The Role of Architecture in Agile Development (Kevlin Henney)
• Patterns in Practice: The Open Closed Principle (Jeremy D. Miller) - Link of the Day
• Test-Driven Development and Software Quality (John Smart)
• Designing For Evil (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• MOSS Shopping Cart Beta 1.0 (CodePlex)
• Getting Started with SharePoint and Silverlight - Part II (Joris Poelmans)
• Building and Distributing Workflows in SharePoint Products and Technologies - Sample Code (MSDN Code Gallery)

Miscellaneous

• SAAS: Connect Enterprise Apps with Hosted BizTalk Services (Jon Flanders & Aaron Skonnard)
• Static vs Dynamic Languages - Attack of the Clones (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Ideas for Writing Composable PowerShell Scripts (Joel Bennett)
• Microsoft’s Survival Strategy (Maggie Shiels)
• Windows 7 Multi-Touch Hi-Res Shots (Paul Thurrott)
• ‘Harold & Kumar 2′ Goes Interactive for DVD Release (Tim Briscoe) - Choose Your Own Adventure!
• A Software Developer Trying to Get in Shape with the Wii Fit?? (Dan Wahlin)
• Coding4Fun Book for Sale at Amazon! (Brian Peek)
• g.ho.st and Glide Show Web OS Innovation at D6 (Rafe Needleman)
• Sweetter 2.0 teta (via MoMB) - An Open Source Microblogging site.
• Text 2 Mind Map - An Online Converter (via MoMB)

Blogging / Networking

• The Social Media Resume: Making Your Mark in a Web 2.0 World (Celine Roque)

Events / Community / Presenting

• Welcome to PDC08! (Brad Abrams)
• stackoverflow Podcast #7 (Jeff Atwood)
• Tips From My Technical Presentations (Chris Bowen)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #70 and Daily Find #71 (Tim Boland)
• Visual Studio Links #33 (Darren Stokes)
• Links Today (2008-05-28) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for May 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #103 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Assemblies - Part 3 - the v3.x Subset (Daniel Moth)
• Remove Icon From WPF Window (Dan Rigsby)
• How to Create a Two Level Master-Detail Application with ComboBoxes (Shahar Abramovich)
• Silverlight SDK Samples - Release: Silverlight 2 Clock (MSDN Code Gallery)
• A Big List of Popfly Games (Sarah Perez)
• Xaml vs XAML (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Application Life Cycle (Tom)
• Building Accessible Web Forms with ASP.NET (Peter Eysermans)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 114 - Website Scaling War Stories with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 3 Released! (Maarten Balliauw)
• ThinDoc: Zero Footprint Full Screen Adobe-Free PDF Viewer (Jacob Lauzier)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release (Scott Guthrie) - Link of the Day
• Updated Northwind Demo for ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 (Scott Hanselman)
• First Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 (Aaron Lerch)
• ASP.NET Memory: Thou Shalt Not Store UI Objects in Cache or Session Scope (Tess Ferrandez)
• JavaScriptSerializer Undeprecated in .NET 3.5 SP1 (Dan Rigsby)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Image Processing Preview App (Glenn Chittenden Jr.)
• LINQ in Action: Marguerie, Eichert, Wooley [Manning] (Peter Bromberg) - "Our ‘best book on C# 3.0 / LINQ’ poll showed this book as the clear winner. This review tells why."
• LINQ Performance Pitfall - Deferred Execution (Omer van Kloeten)
• Updated Entity Framework Samples (Elisa Flasko)
• BackgroundWorker (Daniel Moth)
• WCF Metadata (Dan Rigsby)
• The Problem(s) with Value Types and A Good Coding Font Makes a Difference (Philippe Leybaert)

Design / Methodology

• Design Inference and the REST Interface (Chris Wallace)
• Why Unit Tests Matter and How They Will Actually Save You Time (Dan Wahlin)
• Why Agile Doesn’t Really Work (David Starr)

Miscellaneous

• Paglo Launches Public Beta With "Share-Its" (Harrison Hoffman)
• [ANN] Dimecasts.net Is Alive and Kicking (Derik Whittaker)
• Facebook to Open Source Facebook Platform (Michael Arrington)
• Get the ODF Office Plugin Now (Sarah Perez)
• 8 Ways to Use a Whiteboard in Your Home Office (Celine Roque)
• Tips for Public Speaking (Shy Cohen)
• Even Easier Way to Obtain MSFT Hotfixes (Spencer Harbar)
• Twelve Tips for Optimizing SQL Server 2005 Query Performance (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Readies New "Don’t Blame Windows" Tool (Mary Jo Foley)

Windows 7

• Microsoft Reveals Nothing About Windows 7… Read All About It!!! (Paul Thurrott)
• Video: Windows 7 and Multi-Touch (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Putting Multiple Fingers on Microsoft’s Windows 7 (Robert Scoble)
• Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 for 2010 (17 Screenshots) (wepokers)

Events / Community

• PDC2008 Site and Registration Is Live (Adam Kinney)
• PDC2008 Registration Opens with Preliminary Sessions (Mike Swanson)
• Ray Ozzie to Keynote PDC2008 (Denise Begley)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Silverlight Forums (Nick)
• Windows 2008 and SharePoint Better Together Part 1 (Bob Fox)

Blogging

• Add Geotwitter to Your Website/Blog (Al Pascual)

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing - May 26, 2008 and Link Listing - May 27, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Visual Studio Links #32 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: May 27, 2008 and Interesting Finds: May 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links: ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight 2, C#, Entity Framework, WPF, Javascript (Robert Muehsig)
• Links Today (2008-05-27) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2008 — #285 and Silverlight Cream for May 28, 2008 — #286 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for May 27, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (5/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #102 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Get the Service Endpoint Address a Client Is Accessing in WCF (Dan Rigsby)
• WiimoteLib v1.3 Released (Brian Peek)
• Visual SourceSafe: A Public Service Announcement (Dan Dyer)
• LINQ to SQL with WCF in a Multi-Tiered Action - Part 1 (Sidar Ok)

Silverlight

• Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Assemblies and Namespaces - Part 2 - the v2.0 Subset (Daniel Moth)
• Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Three (Faisal Khan)
• EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 2) (Jon Davis)

Web Development

• How to Build Your Very Own Provider Model - Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• EntLib 4.0 Validation Application Block and Unity Screencast (David Hayden)
• jQuery Books Review (Rick Strahl)

SharePoint

• Understanding Total Hits & Paging in the MOSS 2007 Search API (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint AutoComplete Lookup Field with AJAX - Release (CodePlex)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Modules (Joel Bennett)
• WPF & PowerShell - Part 6 (Running Functions in the Background) (James Brundage)

Miscellaneous

• It’s Clay Shirky’s Internet, We Just Live in It (Jeff Atwood)
• Are You a Productive Reader? (Dustin Wax)
• Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Is Coming in Q3 2008 (Paul Thurrott)
• Adobe Betas Preview Next Round of Create Suite Apps (Jim Dalrymple)

Design / Methodology

• Agile Requirements Modeling (Scott W. Ambler)

Career

• How to Select a Fine Technical Manager (Jurgen Appelo)

Link-O-Rama

• Weekly Link Post 43 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Finds: May 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for May 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Software Development and Architecture Crumbs #5 and Weekly SOA Crumbs #18 and Weekly Microsoft Oriented Crumbs #5 (Dilip Krishnan)
• Silverlight Cream for May 26, 2008 — #283 and Silverlight Cream for May 26, 2008 - 2 — #284 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #101 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day