Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services: From Vision to Architecture (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 3: Activity Control (Brad Abrams)
• Getting Started with Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control SDK CTP and Virtual Earth Silverlight: Basics of Adding Polygons and Polylines using XAML and Code and Virtual Earth Silverlight: Adding Media (Images, Video, etc.) to the Map and Virtual Earth Silverlight: Using Tile Layers to Overlay Custom Map Imagery and Virtual Earth Silverlight: Overlay OpenStreetMap, OpenAerialMap and Yahoo Map Imagery using Custom Tile Layers! (Chris Pietschmann)
• Silverlight 3 Sample Application: Slidentity (Tim Heuer)
• WPFToolkit March 2009 Release and new WPF Themes! (Vincent Sibal)
• Concerns about RIA Services Squashed (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Virtual Earth Silverlight Control – Register Now (Simon Sabin)
• ICommand is like a chocolate cake (Mike Hillberg)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Delay All Your Decisions (Casey Charlton)
• Friday Books – Architecting Applications… (Dave M. Bush)
• Recomposition and constructors (Glenn Block)
• Progressive Interfaces (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Architecture By Baseball: Spring Training (Larry Clarkin)
• Lean Thinking: Book Review and Reassessing What the Debugger Is For (Mark Needham)
• When "Process" stops working for you …. (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Test Review #2 – ASP.NET MVC Unit Tests (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Essential LINQ Published (Charlie Calvert)
• Why doesn’t MEF support open-generics for exports? Because MEF is not type based. (Glenn Block)
• ReSharper 4.5 – Red Bull for VS (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• IronRuby 0.3 Released (Jimmy Schementi)
• Twitter API – Submit a post in C# (Wally McClure)
• Book review: C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming (Tamir Khason)
• Be Careful With the var Keyword and Expression Builders (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: A Little Hack…err…Cleanup (Harry Pierson)
• ADO.NET Data Services Friendly Feeds , Mapping CLR Types (Phani Raj)
• Talking Point: to ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 (CTP1) (Joel Reyes)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Link Repository (Dave Schinkel)
• Sueetie Week in Review for March 21, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• JavaScript Testing Does Not Scale and More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries (John Resig)
• New Live Framework Samples (Kevin Ledley)
• MSDN Magazine Series: From Web Dev to RIA Dev (James Kovacs)
• MUrl – a DSL and runtime for exercising HTTP (Jon Flanders)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (2 in a series) (Sara J. Chipps)
• It used to be “write once – deploy anywhere” (Yochay Kiriaty)

 

Community / Events

• Mix09: Silverlight for Business Apps and .NET RIA Services talks posted (Brad Abrams)
• MIX09 Day 4 and MIX09 Last Day and redux (Dave Campbell)
• MiX09 personal note.. (Jay Kimble)
• Speaking at ASP.NET Connections Next Week (Stephen Walther)
• Mix: Mobile Web Sites with ASP.NET MVC and the Mobile Browser Definition File (Scott Hanselman)
• My Mini-Session at MIX09 (Eclipse and Silverlight) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• UK MVPs Present at the UK’s Biggest Event For Software Developers! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Photo Essay of Mix09 (Jesse Liberty)
• My MIX09 Silverlight 3 ShowOff Video – Commodore 64 Emulator (Pete Brown)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week on C9: Live from MIX09 – Silverlight 3, IE 8, SuperPreview and SketchFlow (Dan Fernandez)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #46 (Jeff Atwood)
• Using the Touchless SDK with Visual Basic (Beth Massi)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Optimize for Ad hoc Workloads – Advance Performance Optimization (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 Fragmentation (Jose Barreto)
• SQL Mesh March 09 update (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• Cleaning up your WebPart Gallery (Greg Galipeau)
• IE 8.0 Quick Observation for SharePoint (Reza Alirezaei)
• 10 New SharePoint Themes. (Stephen Cummins)
• Why I don’t use OpenWeb() (Gary Lapointe)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Software & Resources (Blake Handler)
• Google Tests Enhanced Suggestions for IE8 (Alex Chitu)
• Next Office version to ship in 32-bit and 64-bit versions (Ed Bott)
• Two more Microsoft Press books RTM’d today (Devon Musgrave)
• My First IE8 Encounter (Keith Elder)
• Git/Github survival guide (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Live Writer Backup Released (Scott)
• Specialization in Recruiting in Hard Times (Scott Bellware)
• Yet another Scam: Blog Ripping (Rick Strahl)
• Survey for Canvas for OneNote (Nathan)
• Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) (Matt Uyttendaele)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Window Switchers and Previews In Depth (Sasha Goldshtein)
• RTM Platform Changes (Kris Krueger)
• Top 10 Tiny & Awesome Windows Utilities [Lifehacker Top 10] (Kevin Purdy)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 20, 2009 and Interesting Finds: March 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for March 20th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 15 (Denis Gobo)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 03.20~03.22 (yuanjian)
• Some great DSL reading (Jeremy D. Miller)
• New and Notable 306 (Sam Gentile)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Ruby’s send in C# (Andre Loker)
• C# Optimization Revisited Part 1: Algorithms and Bill Clinton (Ade Miller)
• Win Your Copy – Professional ADO.NET 3.5 with LINQ and the Entity Framework (Me)
• Representation and Identity (Eric Lippert)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Showing Source Code and IronPython ConsoleColorMgr (Harry Pierson)
• Introducing Docu – Simple doc gen for .Net (James Gregory)
• WCF / Windsor Integration: Adding Behaviours (Mike Hadlow)
• NHibernate POID Generators revealed (Tuna Toksoz)
• As a FP Ambassador – F# for Testing and Analysis at Code Camp 11 (Rick Minerich)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services MIX ’09 Talk – Slides + Code (Nikhil Kothari)
• Blend 3 – An Overview (Christian Schormann) – Link of the Day
• What is .NET RIA Services? (Brad Abrams)
• Available to all: “First Look: Microsoft Silverlight 3” (Devon Musgrave)
• Update on Video Source Code and Silverlight Toolkit Release (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 3 Features Announced – One Word…”Wow” (Dan Wahlin)
• Virtual Earth Silverlight Control CTP Teaser and Some Initial Thoughts (Chris Pietschmann)
• Creating applications with .NET RIA Service Part 1 – Introduction and Part 2 – Creating the project and Part 3 – Adding DomainService class (Martin Mihaylov)
• Silverlight Toolkit – Release: March 2009 (CodePlex)
• Expression Blend 3 is… (Rudi Grobler)
• Build a Simple Twitter client using Silverlight 2 (Shoban Kumar)
• Creating Silverlight 3 applications for PHP (Bradley Bartz)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #99 – ComponentArt Controls (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight Design Time Extensibility (Justin Angel)
• Silverlight 3 Out-of-Browser Support (Chris Koenig)

 

Web Development

• Mindscape MVC – Extensions for ASP.NET MVC and LightSpeed (Jeremy Boyd)
• Patterns and Origins: SueetieContext and Patterns and Origins: SueetieCache Class and Patterns and Origins: The Sueetie Data Provider Model (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data 4.0 Preview 3 (CodePlex)
• Getting Started With Ruby On Rails (Jan Varwig)
• The Challenges of Script Debugging Using VS2008 (Steve Sheppard)
• Mix: Mobile Web Sites with ASP.NET MVC and the Mobile Browser Definition File (Scott Hanselman)

 

Design / Testing Methodology

• Obvious Testing or: How I Learned to Stop Using the new keyword (Chris Missal)
• My Current BDD / SpecUnit Live Templates (Derick Bailey)
• Choosing A Mocking Framework (Tim Barcz)
• Productivity, not Bailouts (Scott Bellware)
• There is return in user experience design (Simone Chiaretta)
• Test Review #1 – NerdDinner (Roy Osherove)
• My Code Would Suck Less If… (Leon Bambrick)
• What Is the Mission of Your Project? (Jurgen Appelo)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Courts Students at MIX (Darryl K. Taft)
• MIX09 Day 3 (Dave Campbell)
• What I’d Like To See At Microsoft’s Technical Events (Davy Brion)
• MIX09 Day 1 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• why we do love ScottGu.. (Jay Kimble)
• MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 1: Dean Hachamovitch on Internet Explorer 8 and MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 2: Deborah Adler on Changing Behavior by Design (Tim Sneath)
• Mix 09 – First Half Rollup and Session Videos (Scott Hanselman)
• Nominate a New Stack Overflow Moderator (Jeff Atwood)
• The Silverlight Tour Now Includes Silverlight 3! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Game Developers Conference 2009! (Kathleen Sanders)
• Windows Azure Training Courses (Aaron Skonnard)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts

• Stack Overflow Podcast Bingo and Podcast #46 (Jeff Atwood)
• Silverlight 3 – What does it mean? (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #94: Creating SOLID Code: Interface Segregation Principle (Stephen Bohlen)

 

Database

• SQL Server Data Service Announcement (Jason De Lorme)
• Indexing for Joins in SQL Server (Jose Barreto)

 

SharePoint

• Removing Role Definitions from a Role Assignment (Adam Buenz)
• p&p Sharepoint guidance v2 (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• MOSSMAN Says: New SharePoint Themes Available (John Holliday)
• Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3 addresses all common SharePoint Developer requests (Paul Andrew)
• IE 8.0 Quick Observation for SharePoint (Reza Alirezaei)

 

Miscellaneous

• Virtual Sever 2005 R2 SP1 Update and IE8 RTW (Brian Randell)
• IE8 focuses on usability (Ed Bott)
• The ALM Man… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Pimp your command-line for git (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Five Dollar Programming Words (Jeff Atwood)
• Sony Reader Getting Half a Million Free Books from Google (Mark Wilson)
• Performance test: IE8 easily doubles IE7 speed (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Eight Reasons to Fall in Love with Internet Explorer 8 (Tim Sneath)
• We’re sorry, but you won’t be able to download Internet Explorer 8 for Windows 7 Beta at this time (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Facebook IM for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft Confirms Widgets Coming to Windows Mobile 6.5 (Brad Linder)
• Open Source and Cloud Computing Series – Introduction (Krishnan Subramanian)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #311 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: March 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (3/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for March 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Blend 3 Preview (MS Downloads)
• SketchFlow – Sketching and Prototyping in Expression Blend (Christian Schormann)
• Silverlight 3: Blog Post Summary (Andy Beaulieu)
• Blend 3 MIX Preview and TFS 2008 Integration (Brian Randell)
• .NET RIA Services is now public (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• What’s New in Silverlight 3? (Emil Stoychev)
• Perspective 3D in Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 3 as a Desktop Application (Out-of-Browser Applications) (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight 3: More Posts? (Mike Taulty)
• Compiling the Silverlight 3 Video’s Code (Jesse Liberty)
• Announcing Silverlight 3! SL3 Post Index (Pete Brown)
• A guide to Silverlight 3 new features and Silverlight 3 Out-of-browser Update Model (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3 and Silverlight Spy (Koen Zwikstra)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• A great set of performance tests for datareader,linq to sql, ef (Julie Lerman)
• Functional .NET – Lose the Magic Strings (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Geo Location Enables Developers To Choose Data Centers and Group Applications & Storage (Sriram Krishnan)
• Windows Azure Delivers New CTP Capabilities (Windows Azure Team)
• Using Extension Methods to Verify Assumptions (Craig Andera)

 

MIX09

• MIX09 Day 1 Keynote: A Roundup of Announcements and Releases (Me)
• Commerce Server 2009 Announced at MIX09 (ASP.NET News)
• New Experiences @MIX from the Microsoft Web Platform (Bill Staples)
• MIX09 Day 2 Scott Gu Keynote and MIX09 Day 2 and MIX09 Day 2 Bill Buxton Keynote (Dave Campbell)
• MIX 2009 Keynote Announcements: Day 1 (Denny Boynton)
• MIX09 Photos and MIX09 Photos Part 2 (Frank La Vigne)
• MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 1: Bill Buxton on Experience Design and MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 2: Scott Guthrie on Advancing User Experiences (Tim Sneath)
• A lap around MIX09 announcements (Simone Chiaretta)
• For MIX09 attendees: “First Look: Microsoft Silverlight 3” (Devon Musgrave)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released! and Subtext 2.1.1 Available Via the Web Platform Installer (Phil Haack)
• Sample chapter from ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Maarten Balliauw)
• WCF / Windsor Integration: Adding Behaviours (Mike Hadlow)
• Windows Azure Full Trust and FastCGI (PHP!) and PHP + ASP.NET in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Hosting Roles Under .NET Full Trust (Mohit Srivastava)
• Using 3rd Party Programming Languages via FastCGI (Windows Azure Team)
• Introducing Web Friendly Feeds aka Friendly Feeds (Phani Raj)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip – Return specific views for specific errors. (Scott Koon)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Documentation and Videos (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Microsoft Web Platform, Web Application Gallery, Web Platform Installer (and DasBlog) (Scott Hanselman)
• Reach your people everywhere, in real time! (Kevin)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released (Nick Berardi)
• ASP.NET MVC Goes RTM Before MIX09 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Live Messenger Web Toolkit (Scott)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ivory tower policies or mandates are counter productive (Derik Whittaker)
• If you’ve ever wondered what Query/Command Separation means (Jeremy D. Miller)
• "Architect" is a swear word. (Leon Bambrick)
• Patterns and Origins: SueetieConfiguration Class (Dave Burke)
• When Is One Container (IoC) Not Enough? (Dru Sellers)
• Your Software Project Has No Goal (Jurgen Appelo)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ASP.NET MVC 1 with Phil Haack and First Look at Expression Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Abrams and Kothari Talk MIX09! (Carl Franklin)
• Tips and Advice – Self Organizing Teams (Bob)
• Scott Guthrie: Inside Silverlight 3 (Charles)
• endpoint.tv Screencast – Consuming REST services with HttpClient (Cliff Simpkins)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Johnny Lee on Computer Vision (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 137 – Microsoft Velocity Installation and Configuration with David Penton – audio (Wally McClure)
• Behind the scenes: How Scott Guthrie prepares for his MIX09 keynote (Tina) – Link of the Day

 

SharePoint

• Aging Calculated Fields in SharePoint (Bil Simser)
• Easy Installation of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3 (Paul Andrew)

 

Community / Events

• Talk – JavaScript at Rockford .NET (Sergio Pereira)
• Microsoft Developer Dinner Presenting Design your ASP.NET Application with Standards using Expression Web – March 25, 2009 Reston, VA (Nandita)
• The State of ALT.NET (Nick Berardi)

 

Miscellaneous

• First Google Chrome Extensions (Alex Chitu)
• 14 Twitter directories to find new friends (Don Reisinger)
• WordPress News Report: iPhone, Widgets API, WordCamps in Hong Kong and China, International WordPress.tv (Lorelle VanFossen)
• The curious case of Kumo: more than just a “test name”? (Kip Kniskern)
• Re-reading books (Mark Needham)
• Windows Azure Outage (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Xbox 360 and EA Bring Beloved HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT to Next Generation of Players (Sumeeth Evans)
• Internet Explorer 8 To Be Released At Noon EDT Today (March 19) (Sunshine)
• SQLAuthority News – 900th Article – 9 Best Practices – Important Milestones (Pinal Dave)
• Google Launches Chrome Experiments To Showcase JavaScript Applications (Robin Wauters)
• Improving the Education Experience with Internet Explorer 8 (Jatinder Mann)
• Mozilla Fennec (Firefox Mobile) Hits Beta (Brad Linder)
• WorldWide Telescope Web Client now available – bringing the universe closer to everyone (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #310 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for March 18, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• CloudNews for March 18h, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

Book of the Day