Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Sick today, so the Dew Drop is a bit late.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing Lucene.Net (Andrew Smith)
• Visual Studio 2010 to Come with ‘Black Box’ (Ina Fried)
• VSTS 2010: Check Out All the Latest News (Angela Binowski)
• Simple Introduction to Extensible Applications with the Managed Extensions Framework (Brad Abrams)
• IComparer vs IEqualityComparer (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Object Oriented F# - Creating Classes (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Announcing Visual Studio 2010 (Dan Fernandez)
• Team Developer + Team Data = Team Developer! (Gert Drapers)
• Generic C# WinForms (Chris Brandsma)
• More MEF Samples and Launch of MEF Contrib (Glenn Block)
• Trivial but Useful Extension Method (Avi Pilosof)
• VSTS 2010 and .NET 4.0 and Architectural Validation and Synchronization (Cameron Skinner)
• How Do Locks Lock? (Jeff Moser)
• Our Cries Have Finally Been Answered Then? (Granville Barnett)
• LINQ Farm: Preserving Formatting with LINQ to XML (Charlie Calvert)
• Visual Basic Guru Moves to Microsoft’s "Oslo" Team (Darryl K. Taft)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Which Microsoft Virtualization Solution to Use for Software Testing (Dennis Dietrich)
• Reflection - Iteration 7 (Sara Chipps)
• Decorator Pattern (David Hayden)
• Unit Testing Coming to a Workflow Near You (Michael C. Kennedy)
• Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling (Jeremy D. Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

• Kuler Add-In for Expression Blend (Frank La Vigne)
• Kuler for Expression Design and Blend (Corey Miller)
• Isolated Storage - Might Be Easier Than You Think and Dependency Property System - Deeper Dive Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlayout - Simple Actionscript Layout Library (Chris Cavanagh)
• Book Review: Manning’s Silverlight 2 in Action - Chad Campbell and John Stockton (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Multi-File Upload Controls and Patterns (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #47 - How to Implement a Password Box and #48 - How to Implement a ComboBox and #49 - How to Implement a Progress Bar and #51 - How to Enable and Disable Controls and #52 - How to Popup a Browser Window and #53 - MessageBox Is Now Available in Silverlight 2 (Mike Snow)
• XAML and WPF Coding Guidelines (Paul Stovell)
• Step Into The Art & Technology (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Surprised by WPF DataGrid (Mike Taulty)
• What’s New in Silverlight 2 RC0 (Denislav Savkov)

Web Development

• Column Ordering, Paging and Filtering in the MVC Framework (Mike Hadlow)
• Book Review: DHTML Utopia (Larry Clarkin)
• What Is ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Rachel Appel)
• Service Referencing ADO.NET Data Service and A Simple Balloon Shooting Silverlight Game (Xinyang Qiu)
• My MVC Starter Template (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
• AJAX Enhancements in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Use UTF-8 Encoding in HTTP Requests (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

• SQL IF/WHILE Blocks - SQL For Programmers (Dave M. Bush)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (August 2008) (MS Downloads)
• Using Covering Indexes to Improve Query Performance (Joe Webb)

SharePoint

• Writing Extension Methods for SharePoint (Adam Buenz)
• Linq4SP RC1 (Agnes Molnar)

Events / Community

• Events This Week - September 29th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #13: Staying Sane in Today’s Software Development World with Billy Hollis (Keith Elder)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Launches Phone Data Manager Beta (Brad Linder)
• Getting Started with EUnit (Mitchell Hashimoto)
• Statistical Validation of the IE8 XSS Filter (Russ McRee)
• PowerShell’s Security Guiding Principles (Lee Holmes)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 29, 2008 and Interesting Finds: September 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Blog Carnival #5 (Eyal Lantzman)
• Triple Shot Links #3 (Russell Ball)
• LINKBLOG for September 29, 2008 and LINKBLOG for September 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for September 29, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Visual Studio Links #75 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2008 — #382 and Silverlight Cream for September 30, 2008 — #383 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #190 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #302 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #12 - October 1, 2008 (Bob McIlree)
• Silverlight News for September 30, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)

Book of the Day

One thing I took away from Dan Fernandez’ interview of Norman Guadagno, which can be found here, is that Microsoft is merging the Team Data (aka Data Dude) feature set into the Team Developer edition. This applies not only to Visual Studio 2010, but also Visual Studio 2008 Team Developer Edition. This updated 2008 SKU will be available to MSDN subscribers on October 1st. This seems like pretty big news to me, but I haven’t seen a lot of fanfare around it yet.

There is a lot of really great preliminary info about Visual Studio 2010 in Dan’s interview. I suggest you check it out.

Find out the all the details about the topics that will be covered in videos this week here. Here is the welcome video from Brian Keller.

Web Development

• jQuery and Microsoft (Scott Guthrie)
• jQuery to Ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
• Is ASP.NET MVC Learning Independent from ASP.NET Webforms? (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• $("Microsoft").append("excitement"); (Justin Etheredge) – Link of the Day
• Avoid This Tricky Conflict Between ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery (Dave Ward)
• jQuery Web Parts - Release v0.1 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology

• Can You Refactor to MVC? (Kyle Baley)
• Request for Help: Need Better Guidance for Beginners (Chad Myers)
• A Web Based Sequence Diagram Editor (Shahar Yair)
• Abstraction Is For Both Humans and Software, but Not Software (Max Pool)
• Scrum and Supporting Your Existing Products (Ade Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Strongly Typed File Names in .NET (Tobin Harris)
• Agile Is More Disciplined Than Waterfall, So Sayeth Jason Yip (and Me) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Inheritance and Associations with Entity Framework Part 2 (Muhammad Mosa)
• Hiding and Showing Columns Based on a Parameter in Reporting Services (Thomas Williams)
• Screencast on Supporting POCO with LINQ to SQL (Sidar Ok)

Silverlight / WPF

• Find Your Books in Amazon.com with Silverlight (Boyan Mihaylov)
• WPF Application Quality Guide - WPF Automated Testing and Tools (David Hayden)
• Using Silverlight to Access a WCF Service Hosted in a Console Application (Harsh Bardhan)
• XAML Power Toys 3.0.0 Released - Code Name: Refactored (Karl Shifflett)
• Building a Framework for Silverlight Line-of-Business Applications (Chris Anderson)
• Silverlight Write and Win! Contest - Time to Vote! (Emil Stoychev)

SharePoint

• Declarative Workflows and User Context (Darren)

Windows 7

• Windows 7 Client and Server: New and Modified Protocols for Beta 1 and From Windows 7 Server to Windows 7 Server (You Read That Right…) and Ready to Start Developing for Windows 7? Take Note… (Stephen Chapman)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for September 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: September 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 28, 2008 — #381 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #20 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 61 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (9/28/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.09.29 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #189 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Xml Visualizer v.2 - Release: Build v1.8.0.0 (Code Plex)
• The C# Null Coalescing Operator (??) (Rhonda Tipton)
• Parallel Stacks for Multi-Threaded Debugging (Daniel Moth)
• F# for Game Development: Tutorial 10: Programming Using Quotations (Joh)
• NDepend, or a Young .NET Programmer’s Illustrated Primer (Dale Smith)

Web Development

• Calling JavaScript Functions in the Web Browser Control (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET MVC Request Flow (Justin Etheredge)

Silverlight

• CSLA Light (Chris G. Williams)
• Silverlight Custom Controls - Change to generic.xaml (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 2 RC0 - Important & Less Obvious Things Developers Need to Know (Bart Czernicki)
• New Information on WebClient in Silverlight 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)

Design / Methodology

• Hibernating Rhinos #9 - Application Architecture and Hibernating Rhinos #10 - Producing Production Quality Software (Oren Eini)
• Architecture by Baseball: The 2-Out Rally (Larry Clarkin) – Link of the Day

SharePoint

• To Dispose, or Not to Dispose - That Is the Question (Sahil Malik)
• SharePoint for Developers: 3.2 Hands-On - Getting List Items (Gunnar Peipman)

Database

• SQL Server - Renaming SP Is Not Good Idea - Renaming Stored Procedure Does Not Update sys.procedures (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Coming Back to Life (Keyvan Nayyeri)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 27, 2008 — #380 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for September 27, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.09.22~2008.09.27 (yuanjian)

Book of the Day