Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

.NET / Visual Studio

• Another Rhino Mocks Extension Method to Support Your AAA Style (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Book Review: LINQ in Action (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Optimization Modeling Language Sample Utilizing Microsoft Solver Foundation (Don Syme)
• Statically Typed Duck Typing in F# (Michael Giagnocavo)
• FSharpp to FSProj Converter (Chris Smith)
• Custom Enumerators (Jaime Olivares)
• Introduction to Attached Behaviors in WPF (Josh Smith)

Design / Methodology

• DDD and Huge Collections. Eeugh! (Tobin Harris)
• Architecture by Baseball: Stats (Larry Clarkin)
• Book Review: Agile Principles, Patterns and Practices in C# (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Revisiting the Onion (Kyle Baley)
• The Fable of the Perfect ORM (Shawn Wildermuth)
• "97 Things" - Architect Axioms (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Web Development

• Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK 0.3 (Jimmy Schementi)
• "Secret" Questions (Sam Buchanan)
• Building Composite Apps with Silverlight (Glenn Block)
• Unable to Debug Web Site with Top Level Location (Rick Strahl)

Database

• PowerShell vs T-SQL & Why Learn PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)
• SQL Server 2008 - Introduction to Table-Valued Parameters with Example (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Why I Don’t Care About Feed Subscribers Count (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• WordPress - 10 Tips and Recommendations (Eran Kampf)

More Link Collections

• Some More Interesting Finds This Week (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for August 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing - August 30, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

F#

• F# Addin for MonoDevelop (Don Syme)
• F# Releases September 2008 CTP! (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Welcome to the F# CTP Project System: Project Templates and Project Property Pages (Brian)
• Functional Programming and F#: Introduction and Functional Programming and F#: Newton Basin Fractal Example Code (Jonathan Birge)
• F# Optimization Modeling Language Utilizing Microsoft Solver Foundation - Release: F# Optimization DSL (MSDN Code Gallery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Working with LINQ’s Expression Trees Visually (Rob Conery)
• New Content Available: AI Flocking, Shadow Mapping, and Multipass Lighting Shaders! (XNA Team)
• C# 3.0 Query Expression Translation Cheat Sheet (Bart de Smet)
• Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool (MS Downloads)
• Code Analysis Dictionary Schema - Release: 2008.08.29 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Framework Design Studio - Release: FDS 1.1.3 Build 20080829 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Asynchronously Execute PowerShell Scripts from C# (Jean-Paul Mikkers)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What’s Wrong with a Data-Driven Approach? (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Handling Passwords (DevPrime)
• MbUnit Combinational Test (Andrew Stopford)
• Recommended Books: Clean Code (Davy Brion)
• Unit Driven - Release v0.0.2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Publishing Compliant HTML and Web Markup (Chris Love)
• Model Binders in ASP.NET MVC (Timothy Khouri)
• ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 Released and How a Method Becomes an Action (Phil Haack)
• FxCop for Ajax Code (Nikhil Kothari)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #40 - Don’t Cache Pages That Require Authentication (Stephen Walther)
• Silverlight 2 Samples: Dragging, Docking, Expanding Panels (Part 3) (Martin Grayson)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #34 - How to Center Your Silverlight Application in Your Browser (Mike Snow)
• Thoughts on MVP and WebForms (Chad Myers)
• Web Scraping, HTML/XML Parsing, and Firebug’s Copy XPath Feature (Chinh Do)

Events / Community

• NHForge.org for NHibernate (Chris Brandsma)
• jQuery Site Redesign - The Community Speaks (Rey Bango)
• Dear Joe: I’m NORM.Net (Keith Elder)
• Bambrick versus Hanselman: Bring It! (Leon Bambrick) – Best. Post. Ever… Link of the Day
• NINE Questions with Lisa Feigenbaum (Chris G. Williams)
• Steve Ballmer Inherits Bill Gates’ CES Keynote (Wolfgang Gruener)

Database

• Guaranteeing the Order of Results in SQL Server (Josh Twist)

SharePoint

• Announcing the SharePoint Best Practices Series (Arpan Shah)
• Creating Workflows in Microsoft Office Live (Rohit Puri)
• Just Published! WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SDK 1.4 Download and Online MSDN Library (Randall Isenhour)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing New C# 4.0 LINQ Features and Book (Omer van Kloeten) – Ha… Very nice.  
• Why I Made the Switch to Microsoft and Expression Web (Steve Hebert)
• Does Your Application Have a Blog? (Oren Eini)
• Download: Microsoft Research AutoCollage 2008 (MS Research)
• Trustworthy Browsing with IE8: Summary (Eric Lawrence)
• Boot Performance (Michael Fortin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: 2008.08.27~2008.08.29 (gOODiDEA)
• Some Interesting Finds This Week (Jason Haley)
• New on Tips and Tricks Blog! (Reshmi Mangalore)
• Top 10 Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) Articles You Must Read (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Morning Coffee 173 (Harry Pierson)
• Greatest Hits (Chinh Do)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology

• Current Coding Style (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• An Entry Into Lean (Raymond Lewallen)
• Agile 2008 - Conway’s Law and Distributed Teams (Ade Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to XSD (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Palindromes in C# (Philip Fitzsimons)
• Visual Studio Next Wish List (Chris Love)
• To Bind or Not To Bind - Dynamic Expression Trees - Part 3 and Intermezzo: SOS in Visual Studio (Bart de Smet)
• Async Operations in WCF: Handling Exceptions (Dan Rigsby)
• The State of IronRuby on the ALT.NET Podcast (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Herding Code #14 and TFS/VS Phantom Checkouts (Rhonda Tipton)
• Visual Studio Shell 2008: Bringing More .NET Languages Into the Visual Studio Fold (Rick Minerich)
• GhostDoc Tweaks (Roland WeigeIt)
• HealthVault Patient Connect and Master-Child App Sample - Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Sneak Peeks Into the F# Project System, Part Two (Brian)
• How to Find the Intersection of Multiple Lists (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Sources Are Available! (Stephen Wilson) – Link of the Day
• An Update on My Illustrator Plug-In and Flash to XAML Conversion Tool (Mike Swanson)

Web Development

• Popfly Game Creator Now in Beta (Popfly Team)
• Screencast: Hosting WCF Services in ASP.NET/IIS (Aaron Skonnard)
• Creating Vista Style Login Screen with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and iPhone UI with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC (Preview 4) - Part III (Ivan Limansky)
• Building a Custom XML Configuration System for ASP.NET - Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly (Jeff Atwood)
• Service Driven Apps with WCF and Silverlight 2 (John Papa)
• 10 Free Image Resources for Website Design (Dana Coffey)
• Getting Started with jQuery QUnit for Client-Side Javascript Testing (Chad Myers)
• Managing Long-Lived Transactions with MassTransit.Saga (Chris Patterson)
• Building an ASP.NET MVC Sitemap Provider with Security Trimming (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 Released (Simone Chiaretta)

Database

• Query Execution Statistics in SQL Server 2005/2008 (Sumair Shaikh)
• LINQ to SQL Queries Involving Strings Cause SQL Server Procedure Cache Bloat (Denis Gobo) – Yikes! Watch out for this.

SharePoint

• SharePoint Administration Toolkit 2.0 Is Now Available (Zach Rosenfield)
• Microsoft Patterns & Practices: Creating Good Guidance for SharePoint Developers (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• IE8 Part I: Better Everyday Browsing and Part II (Paul Cutsinger)
• I’m in It for the Technology and Awesome 3D Spatial Navigation in Silverlight 2 (Pete Brown)
• 5 Reasons I Won’t Be Getting an iPhone (Mike Gunderloy)
• An IE8 Beta 2 Q&A (Ed Bott)
• Live Mesh: New Service Update (Sunshine)
• Windows Home Server Developer Guidelines (MS Downloads)
• Great Developers Are Hard to Find, Regardless of Language (Jay Fields)
• 10 Weblog Engines Reviewed (Glen Stansberry)
• Hug a Developer (Max Pool)

More Link Collections

• New and Notable 270 (Sam Gentile)
• LINKBLOG for August 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (8/28/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• WSDAC#17 - 97 Things Every Architect Should Know! (Dilip Krishnan)
• Innovation Notes: August 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for August 28, 2008 — #358 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing - August 28, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight News for August 29, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• The Morning Brew #168 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #280 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology

• Style on Top of Substance… (Kevin Seal)
• Data Structures and Algorithms Book (Free) First Preview Available! (Granville Barnett)
• My Agile Wall (Plus a Few Tricks) (Max Pool)
• Legacy Driven Development (Oren Eini)
• What We Collectively Bring to the Table (Bob McIlree)
• Between Kanban and Pair Programming Lies the Feature Brigade (Corey Ladas)

.NET / Visual Studio

• CSLA .NET on DNR TV (Rockford Lhotka)
• The WPF Ah-Ha Moment (Scott Weinstein)
• Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 Released: More Controls, Streamlined Setup, Improved Start-Up (Gunther Lenz)
• .NET Client Profile (Part 3) (Mike Taulty)
• New Webcast: Dates & Times in .NET 3.5 (Dan Rigsby)
• To Bind or Not To Bind - Dynamic Expression Trees - Part 2 (Bart de Smet)
• Changing Table Names in an OR/M (Jacob Proffitt)
• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS Kick My Axx - Part X — WAY Too Many Pages, Part 2 (Dave Campbell)
• xUnit.net - Unit Testing for .NET - Release v1.0.2 (CodePlex)
• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Training and Certs for Free (Angela Binowski)
• Playing with NHibernate (Joel Ross)
• Explore Stack Trace in ReSharper (Josh Twist)

Web Development

• Returning XML or JSON Is Easy with RESTful Services (John Papa)
• S+S Mobile / Silverlight Application (Bob Familiar)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #39 - Use the Velocity Distributed Cache (Stephen Walther)
• CallbackController (Wesley Bakker)

Events / Community

• Startup Weekend - A Great Idea (Tim Heuer)
• Want to Learn WPF? (Mike Azocar)
• Test Drive the New CodePlex at our Upcoming Usability Study! (Jonathan Wagnagel)

Database

• The Undocumented sp_MSforeachdb Procedure (Joe Webb)
• SQL Server 2008 - Introduction to Merge Statement - One Statement for INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Patterns & Practices SharePoint Guidance and a TypeMock Video (Andrew Woodward)
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Issue on SharePoint Services 2.0 (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• IE8 Beta 2 Release - My TinyURL Accelerator (Tim Heuer) – Link of the Day
• Windows 7 — Approach to System Performance (Steven Sinofsky)
• Adobe Unveils Photoshop Elements 7 and Introduces Photoshop.com Membership (PSN Staff)
• .NET Rocks! - Brian Randell on Hyper-V and Virtualization (MS Downloads)
• Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2: Technology Overview for Developers (MS Downloads)
• Upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 (Jane Maliouta)
• Introducing IE8 Compatibility View (Scott Dickens)
• Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available (Dean Hachamovitch)
• FriendFeed Releases New Set of Customizable Widgets (Jason Kincaid)
• A Photoshop How To (Frank La Vigne)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #19 (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Link Listing - August 26, 2008 and Link Listing - August 27, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• MSDN Event Resources (Lindsay Rutter)
• New and Notable 269 (Sam Gentile)
• Daily Find #95 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for August 27, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• Great Design Pattern Resources (Rhonda Tipton)
• WMOC#17 - PhotoSynth, Reflector Move Forward (Dilip Krishnan)
• Interesting Finds - August 27, 2008 (Chinh Do)
• The Morning Brew #167 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for August 28, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Removing My Visual Studio Tips and Treats Download (Steve Andrews)
• Billy Hollis on Making a Good UI with Windows Presentation Foundation (Joe Stagner)
• Creating a 3D Border Style in WPF (Amit Raz)
• NHibernate 2.0 Changes Overview (Patrick Smacchia)
• NCover Requires Admin Privileges to Run (Tim Barcz)
• Extension Methods Suck (Michael Giagnocavo)
• Parameter Lists in NHibernate and Strategies and Discriminators in NHibernate (Jimmy Bogard)
• To Bind or Not To Bind - Dynamic Expression Trees - Part 1 (Bart de Smet)
• Didja Know? #Develop Has a Class Designer (Oren Eini)
• The .NET Client Profile and Part 2 (Mike Taulty)
• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS Kick My Axx - Part IX — WAY Too Many Pages (Dave Campbell) – Ah, Crystal Reports, the nemesis of every developer… Why is it that something that should be so simple and be such a pain in the axx?

Web Development

• Loading Images Asynchronously Inside an ASP.NET GridView (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Creating Animation - Part 2 (Brian Hunter)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #38 - Simplify LINQ to SQL with Extension Methods (Stephen Walther)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #32: How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page and #33: How to Scale Your Entire App and Its Elements to Your Browser’s Size (Mike Snow)
• Creating a Dynamic, Data-Driven User Interface (Part 2) (Scott Mitchell)
• Dragging Elements in Silverlight with DLRConsole (Jimmy Schementi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Future of Software Testing (Part 2) (James Whittaker)
• Agile Has the Answers? and MbUnit Factory (Andrew Stopford)
• Decoupled Domain Models (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Beginner’s Guide to Test-Driven Web Part Development (Andrew Woodward)
• PUnit, Sample Unit Test Framework for Team Test - Release v1.0.0.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Agile Development: Why It Rocks, Who It Helps, and Why It’s Failing (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• Completely Scripting a SQL Server Database (Justin Etheredge)
• Download SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 RC1 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• So Where Were You? (Oren Eini) – Link of the Day
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Blog! (Dave Burke)
• IE8 Performance (Christian Stockwell)
• Windows Live on Facebook (Sunshine)

Events / Community

• Strands Kicks In - More People Powered Partying! (Alex Hillman)
• Silverlight 2 Firestarter (John Papa)
• Need to Get Something Off My Chest (Joe Ocampo)
• Code Camp IronRuby Presentation Materials (Aaron Junod)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 26, 2008 - [Rough Draft] and Interesting Finds: August 25, 2008 - [Final Cut] (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Tips of the Day - Week 5 (Web Dev Tools Team)
• LINKBLOG for August 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for August 26, 2008 — #356 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (8/26/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• WSOAC#30 - Amazon Releases Elastic Block Store (Dilip Krishnan)
• The Morning Brew #166 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for August 27, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Double Shot #278 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day