Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What’s Pair Programming Really Like? (James Shore) – Link of the Day
• DDD: Living In The Enterprise (Casey Charlton)
• Code & Run / Speed Kills (Dave Schinkel)
• The Commented Version Of The Readable Code Challenge (Davy Brion)
• With Services the focus is on behavior (Ian Cooper)
• Application Lifecycle Management and a Collaborative Culture. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Domain Driven Design & Test Driven Development\Design with Entity Framework Part 1.b, Review (Muhammad Mosa)
• DDD: Isn’t Learning the Domain Half the Battle? (JP Hamilton)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Type Theory Essentials in Pictures – Part 1 – Hints (Bart de Smet)
• AutoMapper feature: projection (Jimmy Bogard)
• Troubleshooting common mapping bugs with NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #7 – Data providence (Eric Gunnerson)
• .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace Poster (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The MVC Template Team Got It Right (John Teague)
• Getting Objects from the Object Context, not the database (Julie Lerman)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Jump Lists (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: closure basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Mvc Contrib – Version 1.0 preparation / project restructuring (Jeffrey Palermo)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #48 – Disable Request Validation (Stephen Walther)
• What Happens When You Deploy on Windows Azure? (Steve Marx)
• Get inspired for web, photography, anything – SmashingMagazine.com (Tim Heuer)
• Implementing Prototype’s Array Methods in jQuery (Josh Powell)
• ASP.NET MVC: Driving partials by convention (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Extending the reach of your 2D XNA game to the web (Bill Reiss)
• Flash vs Silverlight (Peter Bromberg)
• More About the Layout System (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #96 – The meaning of AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE (Mike Snow)
• Sonic : Out There In The Wild (Sacha Barber)

Database

• SQL Server Indexed Views (Black Wasp)
• SQL SERVER – Observation – Effect of Clustered Index over Nonclustered Index (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• MOSS Solutions and Features in Deployments ( Part 3 ) (Michael Cummings)
• VS 2010 and SharePoint (Chris Johnson)

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell is Awesome (Vlad)

Community / Events

• MIX09 10k Contest Winners and Just published TCSWeekly episodes 4, 5 and 6 (Adam Kinney)
• Progressive.NET Event (Ayende Rahien)
• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow Kicks Off Next Week (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Party with Palermo Alt.Net/MVP Summit 2009 Edition is 9 days away! and NHibernate users mailing list going strong – Almost 10,000 posts and 1322 members (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Online Windows 7 event: MSDN Unleashed (Raymond Comvalius)
• Webcast Schedule for March 2009 (Nandita)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Aims to Build a Better Thesaurus (Ina Fried)
• Windows Mobile is short changing .NET Developers (Ork)
• CraigsList Reader makes searching Craiglist (even more) simple (Brad Linder)
• Windows 7 Friday: Locking Down and Protecting Your Computer With AppLocker (Denny Boynton)
• Top 10 Tools for Landing a Better Job (Kevin Purdy)
• Hire the Best – Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Microsoft anticipating April 10 for Windows 7 release candidate (Lee Mathews)
• Get yourself a Windows Home Server (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for February 20, 2009 — #523 and Silverlight Cream for February 21, 2009 — #524 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: February 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 293 (Sam Gentile)
• Functional Discoveries in the Microsoft Sociocosm 02/20/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for February 20th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

 

Web Development

• Creating RSS Feeds Using ASP.NET 3.5 (Kevin Miller)
• Learning jQuery (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Spiff Up Your ASP.NET MVC Forms with jQuery (Justin Etheredge)
• Ask SM [CSS/JS]: Divs of Equal Height, Dealing with IE 6 (Chris Coyier)
• Default Control Focus with ASP.NET Master Pages and LINQ (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Oxite Updated (Sarah Perez)
• The CSS Corner: Using Filters In IE8 (Sylvain Galineau)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Does LINQ StinQ? Not with PLINQO! (Kevin Lawry)
• In-depth: How .NET managed services interact with the ServiceControlManager (SCM) (Kim Hamilton)
• DBProj.com (Gert Drapers)
• Use IOperationBehavior to Customize Operation Behavior in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Axiom 0.7.5.0 Beta 1 (Michael Cummings)
• Making c# lambda expressions more readable (Sean Biefeld)
• If you are still wondering how fast is ADO.NET vs ADODB (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using Enums in List Controls (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Training Kit (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Custom Expressions and the DLR – Part 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: RC Refresh (0.0.14293.004) (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: The Repository Pattern (Casey Charlton)
• BDD Question: Low Level Behavior And Wrapper Methods? (Derick Bailey)
• The valley of continuous learning (Louis Salin)
• Great UI and the Presentation Layer – Clarity and Shape (Mark Miller)
• A Little Chat About Code Sensible Code Generation (Sacha Barber)
• Challenge: Do You Truly Understand This Code? (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Testing Bindings In WPF (Christopher Bennage)
• Silverlight 2 gets minor update (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #95 – Working with Strokes in Shapes (Mike Snow)
• Carousel Video Posted – Parts 1 and 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Setting up a basic n-tier CSLA .NET for Silverlight project (Rockford Lhotka)

 

SharePoint

• Are SharePoint Developers Better Architects than Architects? (Adam Buenz)
• Please help – Visual Studio SharePoint development environment is very slow (Gunnar Peipman)
• Starting with JQuery and SharePoint – that did not work (Ton Stegeman)

 

Community / Events

• I’ll be at TechEd North America 2009 – Will you? (Andrew Connell)
• Network Instruments to Host Event in Philly (David Solivan)
• CodeStock 2009 “Call for Speakers” is Open (Michael C. Neel)
• Silverlight 2 Firestarter Event this Weekend – Malvern, PA (Pete Brown)
• User Group Meeting: Microsoft’s Cloud Services and Combining WCF and Business Activity Monitoring (Zhiming Xue)
• Tech Ed Connect (Jesse Liberty)
• Fun with Twitter for Mix09 (Scott Hanselman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s ‘Social Desktop’ prototype bridges PC and Web (Todd Bishop)
• Free app downloads any Google Book Search item as PDF and Theme GMail your way with a custom color scheme (Lee Mathews)
• The Bad Apple: Group Poison (Jeff Atwood)
• Top 10 Disney LEGO Sets We’d Like to See (Matt Blum)
• 25 random things about Microsoft (Meghan)
• Autoruns for Windows Updated for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
• Auto Twitterise Your Blog Posts (Steve Clayton)
• Much Ado About Monads – List Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #291 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 19, 2009 — #522 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-02-19 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Interesting Finds: February 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (2/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for February 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Improve your NHibernating with NHProf (Hiberlog)
• Top 10 Favorite Performance Counters in Load Testing Using VSTS 2008 (Mohammad Ashraful Alam)
• DateTime.MaxValue (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Contextual Sessions with NHibernate – Part 2 (Javier G. Lozano)
• CodeRush/Refactor Pro refactors Javascript too (Jay Kimble)
• C#: Extensions methods != Open classes (Mark Needham)
• Mapping Objects with AutoMapper (K. Scott Allen)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Building a WPF Application: Part 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• Prism 2.0 is Live (Blaine Wastell)
• Silverlight LinkLabel Control – Release: v1.1 (CodePlex)
• just released: composite application guidance for wpf and silverlight – February 2008 (Erwin van der Valk)
• MVP TV – Changing Silverlight 2’s Control Appearance and Behaviour. (Jas Dhaliwal)
• New Release: Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) (J.D. Meier)
• WPF Kid Stuff: Extracting a Control Template (Shafqat Ahmed)
• Prism v2 – Guidance and Patterns for WPF and Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 2 GDR1 Now Available… (Tim Sneath)
• Dependency Properties and Silverlight 2 (Corey Miller)
• Deep Zoom Composer – February 2009 Preview Released (Sunshine)
• Tracking Down Memory Leaks in WPF and Silverlight (Vladimir Milev)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: What Kind of Applications Is It Suited To? (Casey Charlton)
• D3: Modeling Part 1 – Real-World Relationships (Danny Simmons)
• "Inappropriate Intimacy" points to the bleeding out of your domain logic (Ian Cooper) – Link of the Day
• Types of testing (Laila Bougria)
• MSTest Digest #1 (Steve Andrews)
• Presenter Logic || Domain Service Logic || Repository Logic? (Sean Biefeld)

 

Web Development

• Fixing this blog for Internet Explorer 8 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #47 – Using ResolveUrl in an HTML Helper (Stephen Walther)
• Oxite: what’s new and how to stay up to date with it (Simone Chiaretta)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint and TDD – The other view (Andrew Woodward)
• Debugging SharePoint solutions using Visual Studio (DigiMortal)
• SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part One (Eric Shupps)

 

Community / Events

• Mix09: Developing RESTful Services & Clients w/ M (Chris Sells)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 150 – Uncle Bob Martin, this time with feeling (Scott Hanselman)
• Team System on Twitter (Steve Andrews)

 

SQL Server

• How To Name Default Constraints And How To Drop Default Constraint Without A Name In SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to Keep Innovating (Bill Buxton)
• Windows 7 Beta Brings New Functionality to Games Explorer (Brandon LeBlanc)
• The secret driven-development/design acronyms (Damien Guard)
• Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation (Karen Wong)
• Are You An Expert? (Jeff Atwood)
• Google Releases Google Mobile for Windows Mobile and The Best Whitepaper I’ve Read In Years: Cloud Computing from UC Berkeley (Steve Clayton)
• The Hulu Plugins Just Keep Coming! (Sarah Perez)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #290 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 18, 2009 — #521 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for February 18th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 292 (Sam Gentile)
• Daily Find #118 (Tim Boland)
• Creators Club Communiqué 18 (Kathleen Sanders)

 

Book of the Day