Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

.NET / Visual Studio

• Architecture Exploration with VSTA2010 (Clemens Reijnen)
• My First VSTO Application – BeSure and Team Foundation Build and FinalBuilder (David Starr)
• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR Installation (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Spec# for Visual Studio 2008 v1.0.21125 (MS Research)
• Checking Scroll Lock Status (Richard Carr)
• Prism and Custom Enterprise Library Trace Listeners (Bob)
• "Operation Could Destabilize the Runtime" from Casting from Concrete to Interfaces with LINQ (Derik Whittaker)
• On C# and VB (Jesse Liberty)
• Taking the Magic Out of Expression<T> (Justin Etheredge) – Link of the Day
• Export Providers and Custom Factories with MEF (Glenn Block)

Web Development

• Instantiating Components on Template Markup (Bertrand Le Roy)
• <asp:Chart> (Gunnar Peipman)
• Deleting Entities from Windows Azure Without Querying First (Steve Marx)
• Making Asynchronous Calls to WCF Services from ASP.NET (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Storing Data in the Mesh : Live Framework (Jamie Thomson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Multi-Tenancy Part 2: Components and Context (Mike Hadlow)
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 11 of N (Sam Gentile) – Recently updated post from Sam.
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Future Perfect (Dave Burke)

Career

• Avoiding Conflicts Within a Teleworking Team (Celine Roque)
• Hire the Best – Introduction (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Update Your Resume! (Scott Schimanski)
• How to Get Good People (Oren Eini)

Database

• SQL Server - Interesting Observation - Use of Index and Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)

Events / Community

• Microsoft FireStarter Events (David Starr)
• PDC Attendees Should Have Windows Azure Tokens (Steve Marx)

SharePoint

• Updated SharePoint RSS Aggregator Web Part (Zlatan Dzinic)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Allows DirectX 10 Acceleration on the CPU (Ben Hardwidge)
• Microsoft Image Composite Editor v1.2 (MS Research)
• A Look at the Dynamic Themes in Windows Live Wave 3 (damaster)
• Head Banger Is Now Available on Xbox LIVE Community Games (Brian Peek)
• PowerShell Scripting Tricks: More Joy of Hashtables (with Get-HashtableAsObject) (James Brundage)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 28, 2008 and Interesting Finds: November 29, 2008 and Interesting Finds: November 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 28, 2008 — #440 and Silverlight Cream for November 28, 2008 - 2 — #441 and Silverlight Cream for November 29, 2008 — #442 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for November 28th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for November 28, 2008 and LINKBLOG for November 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #86 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Dynamic and Multiple Dispatch (Curt Hagenlocher)
• Dr. Popper for Zune Written with XNA 3.0 and Getting Started with XNA 3.0 and C# (Bill Reiss)
• Object Oriented F# - Encapsulation with Object Expressions (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Transactions Made Simple with Windows Communication Foundation (Steve)
• Addicted to MEF - Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• Visualizing LINQ Expressions in the Debugger (Jimmy Bogard)
• Fun with T4 Templates and Dynamic Data (David Ebbo)
• Did You Know… There’s a Way to Have Visual Studio Log Its Activity for Troubleshooting? - #366 (Sara Ford)
• Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions (Karl Seguin)
• IronPython and LINQ to XML Part 1: Introduction and Part 2: Screen Scraping and Part 3: Consuming Atom Feeds and Early Christmas from Iron Languages and DLR (Harry Pierson)
• patterns & practices: Guidance Explorer Add-In for Visual Studio 2008 - Release 20081121 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough and SubText 2.1 Released! Contains Security Update and Poll on Moving SubText to ASP.NET 3.5 (Phil Haack)
• WCF REST Services and AJAX Callbacks (Rick Strahl)
• Tip #30: Did You Know… Ajax Extender Controls UI Behaves Differently in VS 2008 Than in VS 2005 (Anh Phan)
• The Weekly Source Code 37 - Geolocation/Geotargeting (Reverse IP Address Lookup) in ASP.NET MVC Made Easy (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Creating a Custom View Engine in ASP.NET MVC (Timothy Khouri)
• Oomph - A Microformats Toolkit - Release: v1.1 (CodePlex)
• Check/Uncheck All Items in an ASP.NET CheckBox List Using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Learn About Enabling Social Networking in SharePoint (Brendon Schwartz)

Silverlight / WPF

• New Silverlight Book Written by Microsoft Techs Working on the "Front Lines" (David Solivan)
• New Silverlight Showcases and Feeds (Tim Heuer)
• Avoiding CommandBinding in the XAML Code Behind Files (Marlon Grech)
• What Is the Silverlight Font? (Seema Ramchandani)
• Routed Events in Silverlight (Martin Mihaylov)
• Moonlight Roadmap Update (Sarah Perez)
• Managing Your WPF Splash Screen’s Lifecycle (Boris Eligulashvili)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Perils of Quantification - What Harm Metrics Can Do for You? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Yet Another Use of a Unit Test Framework (David Starr)
• When Agile Works (Wendy Friedlander)
• PTOM: Descriptive State Enumeration and Mapping a State Pattern with NHibernate (Derick Bailey)
• MSTest Tip: Double Click to Go to Failing Test (Simone Chiaretta)
• xUnit.net - Unit Testing for .NET - Release v1.1 (CodePlex)
• Best Essays of 2008 (James Shore)
• Genesis: Bridging the Gap Between Requirements and Code (Davy Brion)

Database

• Viewing All Foreign Key Constraints in SQL Server (Jimmy Bogard)
• SDS Shell v0.2 : SQL Data Services (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• New Utility for Dealing with Off-Screen Apps - Front and Center! (Kevin Dente)
• 27 Free Must-Have Online Collaboration Tools (Dana Coffey)
• SilverlightShow Accelerator for IE8 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Potential Windows Live Writer Competitor (Paul Thurrott)
• Lunascape: New Kid on the Browser Block (Darrell Etherington)
• Windows Live Writer Sidebar Gadget and Evernote’s New Windows Mobile App (Sarah Perez)
• Where Are the XML Editors? (Eric Larson)
• Five Strategies Microsoft Got Right… and What It Teaches (Steve Clayton)
• WordPress 2.7 Release News and Links (Lorelle Van Fossen)
• Two UI Features I Just Don’t Understand (Steve Tibbett)

PowerShell

• My New PowerShell Cmdlets for SharePoint 2007: Feedback Requested! (Gary Lapointe)
• PowerShell Scripting Tricks: The Joy of Using Hashtables with Windows PowerShell (James Brundage)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for November 26, 2008 and LINKBLOG for November 27, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #111 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight Cream for November 26, 2008 — #438 and Silverlight Cream for November 27, 2008 — #439 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #232 and The Morning Brew #233 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 27, 2008 and Silverlight News for November 28, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Finds: November 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for November 26th, 2008 and CloudNews for November 27th, 2008 (Sameer & Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

The Dew Drop is taking a day off tomorrow. We’ll be back on Friday with fresh links.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Processes in .NET Part 1 - Launching Processes and Managing the Scheduler (Rick Minerich)
• MEF Refactored, Preview 3 Has Shipped (Glenn Block)
• Isolation Syntax for VB.NET - Your Comments Please (Roy Osherove)
• Generating Temporary Files (Richard Carr)
• Working with Large Models in Entity Framework - Part 2 (Srikanth Mandadi)
• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR – RTM (Gert Drapers) – Link of the Day
• MSBuild Extension Pack - Release: v3.5.1.0 Beta (CodePlex)

Web Development

• New ASP.NET Charting Control: <asp:chart runat="server"/> (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC - Using Extension Method to Add Validation Application Block Errors to Controller’s ModelState (David Hayden)
• Web Platform Installer (Van Kichline)
• Paging Through <li> Items Using jQuery (Karsten Januszewski)
• Windows Azure Worker Role to Deal with Spam (Steve Marx)
• Getting Started with the ASP.NET 3.5 Chart Control (Dan Wahlin)
• Chart Love (Sacha Barber)
• Access an AJAX-Enabled WCF Service Using ASP.NET and Client Script (Suprotim Agarwal)
• An Audio Visual Tour of the Mesh Developer Experience (Jamie Thomson)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF ScrollViewer Thumbnail (Josh Twist)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #72 - How to Call Page.xaml.cs from App.xaml.cs and #73 - Threading in Silverlight and #74 - Monitoring for App.Current Events - Startup, Shutdown, UnhandledException & Exit (Mike Snow)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Two New Great Architecture Webcasts (Angela Binkowski)
• 10 Ways to Programmatically Shoot Yourself in the Foot - Part B (Shahar Yair)
• Testing WPF Apps Using NUnit (Lester)
• Composing Code Metrics Values (Patrick Smacchia)
• Fluent Route Testing in ASP.NET MVC (Ben Scheirman)
• Who Should Be the Scrum Master? (Ade Miller)
• How to Add a Test Run Configuration to Test Project with Visual Studio 2008 (Simone Chiaretta)

SharePoint

• Reporting on MOSS Data (Vishwas Lele)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide Available for Download (Denis Gobo)

Career

• Poor Promotion Prospects for Testers? (Dirty MS Laundry) (James Whittaker)

Hanselminutes Podcasts (Scott Hanselman)

• 135 - StackOverflow Behind the Music - Unedited Outtakes Show
• 136 - MSR@PDC - Microsoft Research at the Professional Developers Conference
• 137 - Microsoft PDC and Windows 7 Reaction Show with Richard Campbell
• 138 - Paint.NET with Rick Brewster

Miscellaneous

• Janke’s Official 2009 Technology Predictions (Michael Janke)
• Get Windows 7’s Best Features Right Now (Gina Trapani)
• Is Email = Efail? (Jeff Atwood)
• PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Select-Object (Note Properties) vs Add-Member (Script Properties) (James Brundage)
• Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode (Steven Levy)
• Move Over, Ajax. Here Comes Microsoft’s ‘Kojax’ (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Squeezed Links: November 2009 (Max Pool)
• Tech Twitterings #5 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: November 25, 2008 and Interesting Finds: November 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for November 25, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #231 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 26, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• CloudNews for November 25th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• jQuery Ajax Uploader Plugin (with Progress Bar!) (Steve Sanderson)
• Announcing the Web Platform Installer Release Candidate and Murach’s ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with C# 2008 (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET Supported on Server Core - Windows Server 2008 R2 (Bill Staples)
• MVC Storefront: Episode 25 Preview (Rob Conery)
• Web Platform Installer Now Supports XP - And the Master Plan Continues (Scott Hanselman)
• RenderPartial vs RenderAction (Derik Whittaker)
• 20 Amazing jQuery PlugIns and 65 Excellent jQuery Resources (Specky Boy)
• Adding a Property (Column) in Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
• HowTo: Basics of ASP.NET MVC or Why MVC? (Robert Muehsig)
• Partial Page Updates with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (and Action Filters) (Maarten Balliauw)

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating a Silverlight Fade In and Out Popup Window (Amit Raz)
• IronPython and WPF Part 5: Interactive Console (Harry Pierson)
• Details on Silverlight 3 (Sarah Perez)
• XAML Power Toys from Karl Shifflett (Adam Kinney)
• Graphing - Silverlight Toolkit (Jesse Liberty)
• Naming and Conventions in XAML (Anders Bursjöö)
• Silverlight Tooltips - Positioning and Customizing (Corey Schuman)
• Adding Store and Forward Support to the Prism EventAggregator (Ade Miller)
• Custom Slider for Silverlight 2 Media Players (MSDN Code Gallery)
• A Big Change Is Coming Today (Popfly Team)
• Deep Zoom Composer Updated: Seajax Support, New API, and More! (Sunshine)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Opening the Current Directory from the Command Line (Jeremy Jarrell)
• What’s New with Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (Sarah Perez)
• CodeRush Shortcuts and Templates - Quick Start Sheets (Mark Miller)
• Dustin Campbell on the Future of VB in VS2010 (Ted Neward)
• Model and Work Item Integration (Cameron Skinner)
• Connect to a MySQL 5.0 Database with ADO.NET (Eugen Ciuta)
• Working with Large Models in Entity Framework (Srikanth Mandadi)
• Database Project Import Scripts Add-In (Patrick Sirr)
• Setting Properties for WiX in MSBuild (Jason Kemp)
• Renaming Properties, Methods and Variables (Dave M. Bush)
• Windsor WCF Integration (Mike Hadlow)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Framework Design Guidelines: Supporting Experimentation (Brad Abrams)
• .NET Systems Need Software Architecture Too (Simon Brown)
• Elementary Application Security Part 1: Look Both Ways Before Crossing the Street (Jason Ipock)
• ORM Is NOT Inherently Evil (Davy Brion)
• Code Contracts - TDD in a DbC World (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Refactoring: Getting Started Is the Hardest Part (David Yancey)
• Slightly Different Way to Write Unit Tests (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Dealing with Parameters in Expressions and Strongly-Typed Reflection (Jimmy Bogard)
• PTOM: Bend 3rd Party Libraries to Your Will with the Adapter Pattern (John Teague)
• Getting Started with Automated White Box Testing (and Pex) (Jonathan de Halleux & Nikolai Tillmann)

patterns & practices Pocket Guides (J.D. Meier)

• Service Architecture
• Rich Client Application Architecture
• RIA Architecture
• Mobile Application Architecture
• Web Application Architecture
• Agile Architecture
• Series for Application Architecture

Events / Community

• Events This Week - November 24th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Øredev 2008 Summary (Tim Heuer)
• Chat with Beth Massi at PDC08 (Chris G. Williams)
• Boodhoo Take 2 (Brian Donahue)
• Stack Overflow Is You (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• The World’s Greatest SharePoint Admin Book Is Here (Shane Young)
• Announcing Isolator for SharePoint with a Free Full License for Bloggers (Roy Osherove)
• Creating and Deploying SharePoint Solution Files (Joydip Kanjilal)

Database

• SQL Server - Interesting Observation About Order of ResultSet without ORDER BY (Pinal Dave)
• Database Thaw (Martin Fowler)

Career

• The Dangers of Testing as Part of an Interview (Dave M. Bush)
• Resumes Are Dead. Social Media Is Your New Resume. (Zoli Erdos)
• Outsourcing Sites: Threat or Opportunity? (Mike Gunderloy)
• Download the Free Inaugural Issue of Productive Magazine (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Presentation Styles (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• 10 Reasons the Zune Beats the iPod. Seriously. (Jeff Blankenburg)
• How to Clean Up a Folder Tree with NAnt (Simone Chiaretta)
• Subversion Upgraded with New Features (Andy Singleton)
• SaaS Is Here to Say (Unreasonablemen)
• A New Live Mesh App: Flickr2Mesh (Sarah Perez)
• Diskeeper 2009 Features Detailed (Cristian)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2008 — #437 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for November 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.11.21~2008.11.25 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #230 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 25, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day

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