Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 2.0 Beta 1 Released (Oren Eini)
• Quickly Navigate Code with the Code Definition Window (Darren Stokes)
• Batching WCF Calls (Oren Eini)
• Looking at Rhino Mocks 3.5 (RC1) (Chris Brandsma)
• An Introduction to xUnit.net for ASP.NET MVC Developers (Stephen Walther)
• Beginners Guide to Threading in .NET Part 3 of n (Sacha Barber)

Design / Methodology

• Before You Use an IoC Tool, Some Concepts to Know First (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Control Builder Contest ‘08 (Pete Brown)
• Composite Application Guidance, Time to Ship (Glenn Block)
• Data Conversion in Silverlight 2 Data Binding (Emil Stoychev)
• Silverlight 2 Refcard Available - Download Now (Jill Tomich)

PowerShell

• Creating AD User Accounts in PowerShell (Josh Twist)
• Getting Started with PowerShell 2 - Part 2 (Joel Bennett)

SQL Server

• Create a Check Constraint on a Column (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Rethinking Introductory Material (Jesse Liberty)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for June 29, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• Link Listing - June 28, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: June 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Bookmarking the Web - x26/2008 (Erwin)
• Silverlight Cream for June 29, 2008 — #313 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 48 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (6/29/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight News for June 30, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.06.30 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #125 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• My First Impressions with Rhino Mocks 3.5 Beta (Derik Whittaker)
• Replacing ExpectedException in NUnit 2.4 (Peter Provost)
• Migrating Wiki Pages Remotely, Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4 and Part 5 and Part 6 and Part 7 and Part 8 and Part 9 and Part 10 (Dan Winter)
• Rhino Mocks 3.5 Release Candidate (Oren Eini)
• StyleCop AddIn for SharpDevelop - Release v1.01 (CodePlex)
• Two Things Worth Noting Today (Chad Myers)
• Debug a WCF Service with Edit and Continue Support (Alex Sarafian)

Design / Methodology

• Impedance Mismatch (Stephen Forte)
• Can Software Be Reliable? (Avi Pilosof)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 119 - What Is Done? with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber (Scott Hanselman)
• Simon Guest on Architecture at Microsoft (Bob Familiar)
• Achieving Persistance Ignorance with NHibernate Wrap-Up (James Kovacs)
• The Entity Framework Team are Real Professionals (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Lean and Agile - Some Thoughts on the Differences (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Architecting LINQ to SQL Part 9 (Ian Cooper)
• In the ORM Battle, Everyone Loses and Example of Removing Some Pain: Grid Fluent API (Chad Myers)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 1.5 of 2) More on Service Call Chaining (Pete Brown)
• Displaying Data Validation Messaging in WPF (Beth Massi)
• 3rd Party Silverlight 2 Controls (Shawn Wildermuth)
• patterns & practices: Composite WPF - Release: Composite Application Guidance for WPF 2008 RC1 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• jQuery for ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 (Chris Van de Steeg)
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data: Customizing the UI (Brad Abrams)
• A Back to Basics Case Study: Implementing HTTP File Upload with ASP.NET MVC Including Tests and Mocks (Scott Hanselman)
• MVC Storefront, Part 15: Code Review with Ayende (Rob Conery)
• A Lightweight AJAX.NET-Enabled Grid Control (Simon Gulliver)

PowerShell

• Introducing psake (James Kovacs)

SQL Server

• Finding IDENTITY Columns (Joe Webb)

SharePoint

• SharePoint DateTimeControl Validation (Greg Galipeau)
• FeedReader Web Part 3.0.0.2 (Tim Heuer)

Miscellaneous

• Which Software Blogger Do Girls Like Better? (Nick Berardi)
• The All Positive Post (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Regular Expressions: Now You Have Two Problems and Open Wireless and the Illusion of Security (Jeff Atwood)
• Robot Game Available for Download (XNA Team)
• Happy Birthday CodePlex! (Sara Ford) – Link of the Day
• Famous Quotes from Bill Gates (Pinal Dave)
• An Open Letter to the ALT.NET Community (Justin Etheredge)
• Nayyeri.NET Turns Three (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Here Comes Everybody (Dave Burke)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for June 27, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Visual Studio Links #43 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: June 27, 2008 and Interesting Finds: June 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for June 27, 2008 and LINKBLOG for June 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #81 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight Cream for June 27, 2008 — #311 and Silverlight Cream for June 28, 2008 — #312 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing - June 27, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Everyman Links for June 29, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Unit Testing Non-Public Types Using Reflection (Dennis Dietrich)
• The Entity Framework - Don’t Get Fooled in What Is Wrong About It (Sebastien Lambla)
• A Safe and Asynchronous One to Many Stream Copy Through IL and Inheritance (Rick Minerich)
• EDM Tools | Options (Part 3 of 4) (Mike Kaufman)
• Debugging Windows Services (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
• On InternalsVisibleTo (Oren Eini)
• WCF: A Few Tips (Sacha Barber)

Design / Methodology

• Agile Versus Lean (Martin Fowler)
• The Criticism of the Entity Framework Is Not Just Around Domain Driven Design (Ian Cooper)
• "Agile Shop" (Dave Laribee)
• Separation of Concerns by Example: Part 3 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Tools For Agility (Ade Miller) – New whitepaper by Kent Beck on MSDN.

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #9 - Create a GridView View User Control (Stephen Walther)
• Waegis Will Be Live in July (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• One Man’s Guide to Silverlight Nirvana (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 1 of 2) - Async Service Call Chaining (Pete Brown)
• Xbox Gamercard Updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Adam Kinney)
• Data Focused Silverlight Demo (Brad Abrams)
• Tip of the Day #11 - Transparency - How to Make Your Silverlight Control Transparent (Mike Snow)
• XAML Control Design (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Contrasting Control Templates & Styles in WPF (Christopher Bennage)
• Silvester - A Silverlight Twitter Widget (Emil Stoychev)

Events

• VSLive New York - September 7-10, 2008 (Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Fan Mail (Jesse Liberty)
• 4 Contacts Every Web Worker Should Have (Celine Roque)
• NotNorthwind - Update #1 - All Your Northwind Are Belong to Us (Scott Hanselman)
• Understanding RosettaNet Message Flow in BizTalk Server 2006 (Jeff Lynch)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for June 26, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Interesting Finds: June 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for June 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Find #80 (Tim Boland)
• Links (6/26/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.06.27 (gOODiDEA)
• Everyman Links for June 27, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #124 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Low-Lock Multi-Threading (Joe White)
• A Cross-Language Generics Trick (Ricky Clarkson)
• NMemcached: A WCF Experiment and Public vs. Published (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• How to Build a Task Scheduler System for the ASP.NET - Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• ASP.NET MVC: List Helper Extension Method (Rob Conery)
• Security Tip: Blocking Access to ASP.NET MVC Views Using Alternative View Engines (Phil Haack)
• Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to Build a Client-Side Repeater (Dave Ward)

Design / Methodology

• Architecture By Baseball: The Managers (Larry Clarkin)
• The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work (Jay Fields)

Silverlight

• Green Eggs and Ham Webcast Presentation (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight and Line of Business Applications (Shawn Wildermuth)

Miscellaneous

• Books That Changed My Life and Blog (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Microsoft Releases Tools to Address SQL Injection Attacks (Denis Gobo)
• Know Thine Product’s Language (Josh Poley)
• Presentations 2.0 (Jesse Liberty)
• ‘Robot Game’ to Be Released This Friday (XNA Team)
• Git to CodePlex (Oren Eini)
• Demo Time! 10 New Apps I Need to Try (Sarah Perez)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for June 25, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Link Listing - June 24, 2008 and Link Listing - June 25, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: June 25, 2008 and Innovation Notes: June 25, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for June 25, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #42 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2008 — #309 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #123 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Long list of quality posts today. Enjoy!

.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Synchronized Dictionary (Schalk Neethling)
• F-In-Box (via DotNetKicks) – A .NET Flash container control.
• .NET Rocks! - Naveen Yajaman on Visual Studio Tools for Applications (MS Downloads)
• VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension (Phil Haack)
• The Dreaded No Such Interface Supported Error (Darren Stokes)
• Oh That No-Confidence Vote on E.F. and Jimmy Nilsson on LINQ to SQL and EF (Julie Lerman)
• Dissecting LINQ Expression Trees - Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Back to Basics: var != Dim (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day (tie)
• WCF Unity (CodePlex)
• Twitter WCF Client (Petar Vucetin)
• An xUnit.net Assert.Throws Code Snippet (Ade Miller)
• Foundations of Programming Ebook (Karl Seguin)
• Pex - Automated Exploratory Testing for .NET (MS Research)
• Design of LINQ to SQL - What Was I Thinking or Was I? (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• The var War is Brewing (Derik Whittaker)

Web Development

• Resolving HttpContext Members Using Ninject Providers (Matt Hinze)
• Tools to Block and Eradicate SQL Injection (Joe Stagner)
• Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection (MS Downloads)
• MVC Storefront: What’s Next with Episode 15 (Rob Conery)
• Hosting an Entire ASP.NET MVC Request for Testng Purposes (Chad Myers)
• Examining ASP.NET 2.0’s Membership, Roles and Profile - Part 11 (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET MVC Content Aggregator (Simone Chiaretta)
• Doesn’t Anyone Bookmark Anymore? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #1 - Create New HTML Helpers with Extension Methods (Stephen Walther)

Design / Methodology

• Separation of Concerns By Example: Part 2 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Looking at nServiceBus - Added to Tonight’s Presentation (Sam Gentile)
• DSL + UML = Pragmatic Modeling (Cameron Skinner)
• Designing Controllers (Sean Chambers)
• The Art of Software Estimation (Joel Ross)
• Features Do Not Exist (Only Benefits) (Max Pool)
• Does Our Addiction on Visual Tooling Harm the Rate of Innovation in the .NET World? (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day (tie)

Silverlight / WPF

• Composite Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight and PrismAG (Gunther Lenz)
• Client-Side Database with Silverlight? (Peter Bromberg)
• Silverlight Soft-Body Physics (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight 2 Media Player Project Now Open Source (Tim Heuer)
• Fish Eye Control in Silverlight (Andrew Woodward)
• Silverlight 2 Samples: Animating Controls (Martin Grayson)
• Dynamic Data Entry with WPF and LINQ (Beth Massi)
• WPF Flickr Viewer Using LINQ to XML (Sacha Barber)
• CSLA Light Data Portal and N-Level Undo (Rocky Lhotka)
• Tweening Equations for Silverlight (Adam Kinney)

Miscellaneous

• Evernote 3.0 Polishes Interface, Add Mac Client (Kevin Purdy)
• Dime Casts - Great Ten Minute Development Tutorials (Rhonda Tipton)
• Replacing Notepad with Notepad 2 and Quite Tip: Making Firefox Work with SharePoint (Brian Ellis)
• Microsoft VP Confirms Windows 7 Ship Date: January 2010 (Paul Thurrott)
• Revisiting the XML Angle Bracket Tax (Jeff Atwood)
• ATM Fail! (FAIL Blog) – Windows activation message on an ATM screen. Nice.
• PowerShell Authenticode Signatures and Trust… (Joel Bennett)
• Discovering Great XP and Vista Themes (Sarah Perez)

SharePoint

• Indexing and Searching Documents in Multiple Languages (Part I) (Patrick Tisseghem)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for June 24, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• Interesting Finds: June 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for June 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (6/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• WSDAC#8 - MVP MVC and Everything In-Between and WMOC#8 - Functional Programming in C# and WSOAC#21 - Service Design (Dilip Krishnan)
• Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #122 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day