Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

Tons of goodies hitting MS Downloads this morning! Hello ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and Silverlight 3 Beta!!!

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• 10 C# Shorthands that improve productivity (Martijn Dijksterhuis)
• VSeWSS 1.3 Mar 2009 CTP and ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 (MS Downloads)
• Calling the Twitter API in C# and Twitter API – Get a list of your friends in C# (Wally McClure)
• Shorthand Repository Accessors (Tobin Harris)
• Functional .NET – Laziness Becomes You (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Data-Driven RIA with Silverlight and Silverlight 3 Tools and Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Software Development Kit Beta 1 (MS Downloads) – Links of the Day
• Silverlight – Binding ResourceDictionaries (Dave M. Bush)
• Why is focus in WPF so tricky? [managing and understanding focus in a WPF application] (Eric Burke)
• Silverlight Smooth Streaming: UX Simulator (Tim Heuer)
• How to Re Style the AvalonControlsLibrary DataGridView (Marlon Grech)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Continuous Integration 101 (Davy Brion)
• A better Model Binder (Jimmy Bogard)
• "A" way of dealing with dates in automated tests (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Coding: Make it obvious (Mark Needham)
• API design values and decision matrix (Roy Osherove)
• Book Review: The Art of Lean Software Development (Jim Holmes)

 

Web Development

• Syndicating and Consuming RSS 1.0 (RDF) Feeds in ASP.NET 3.5 (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and Live Search API SDK (MS Downloads)
• WCF REST Screencasts/Videos (Aaron Skonnard)
• Sueetie.Core Overview (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has been released! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Retrieve Table Size with SQL Server and ASP.NET 3.5 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Signs That Your JavaScript Skills Need Updating (K. Scott Allen)
• Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 4 now available (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts

• Code Cast #25 – MassTransit (David Starr)
• 2009.03.17 Digital Productivity Strategies for Developers (Craig Shoemaker)
• NHibernate performance with Ayende, David Penton, and Ben Scheirman (Jon Galloway)
• Channel 9 This Week: Joe Nalewabau, Red Nose Day, Windows 7 .NET wrappers, free MVC chapter (Dan Fernandez)
• Major Nelson Show #312 : Resident Evil 5 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 62 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ferdinand Rios and Jeffery Hicks from Sapien (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint Architecture and Small to Medium MOSS Deployments-Episode 19 (SharePoint Pod Show)
• The Thirsty Developer 55: RESTifarian (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Michael Foord Talks IronPython (.NET Rocks!)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 129: F# with Luke Hoban (SE Radio Team)
• Episode #93: Retrieving data from a REST based service using C# (Derik Whittaker)

 

Community / Events

• Tracking MIX09 (Tim Sneath)
• Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2009 edition – save the date! (Jeff Palermo)

 

SharePoint

• Why Proper Requirements is Key to SharePoint Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint Session State; The Guest That Just Won’t Leave (Todd Carter)

 

Database

• Enhancing Visualisation of Common Elements Across Groups Using Color in Reporting Services 2005, Part 2 (Thomas Williams)
• Indexing Best Practices for SQL Server 2008 (Jose Barreto)

 

PowerShell

• Confusion about PowerShell Script Signing (James Kovacs)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft SearchTogether Beta and Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x86) and IIS Powershell Snap-in (x86) and Microsoft WebDAV 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x86) and Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 for IIS 7 Beta 1 (x86) and Administration Pack for IIS 7.0 (x86) (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft’s Codeplex Releases "Outlook Attachment Reminder" (Blake Handler)
• Google Chrome 2.0 Beta (Alex Chitu)
• Inside Microsoft’s 2019 Vision Video (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 RTM speculation heats up and Twitter intrigue: Kumo “only the test name”: Live Search (Kip Kniskern)
• Designing Aero Snap (Stephan Hoefnagels)
• 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications (Paul Andrew)
• Virtua Health Joins the Growing Amalga Family (Roberto Ruggeri)
• The Windows Azure Malfunction This Weekend (Windows Azure Team)
• The Hardest Interview Puzzle Question Ever (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for March 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #309 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 17, 2009 — #544 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Twitterings #20 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for March 17th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• “Maximizing Value with Agile Release Planning” Recording (James Shore)
• Aspect Oriented Programming in C#.NET: Part I (Shivprasad Koirala)
• Beginning Mocking with Moq 3 – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Aluminum Wiring in Your Software (K. Scott Allen)
• How I Learned to Program Manage an Agile Team after 6 years of Waterfall (Sara Ford)
• Agile Methods – Delivering Software Faster (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Introduction to test-doubles (Laila Bougria)
• Why Don’t We Learn? (Davy Brion)
• Ken Sylvester on Top 5 Characteristics of Leaders (J.D. Meier)
• DDD and Repositories. Without NHibernate but with Lazy Loading (Peter Van Ooijen)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: getting caught out with closures (Julian M. Bucknall)
• JavaScript: The Good Parts (Chris Brandsma)
• Introducing Sueetie Patterns and Origins (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC TIP – Keep your controllers and actions thin (Scott Koon)
• ASP.NET AJAX SlideShow Extender – Some Common Tips and Tricks (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Talking Points: WCF and RESTful Services (Part II) (Joel Reyes)
• External ITemplates and Hierarchical Databinding (David Fowler)
• Web Packaging: Installing Web Packages using Command Line (Vishal R. Joshi)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Rounded Corners – and holes! (Chris Cavanagh)
• MVVM Mediator Pattern (Sacha Barber)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #28: Networking Silverlight (Keith Elder)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ADO.NET Data Services V1.5 CTP1 (MS Downloads)
• Setting Automatic Property Values in a Struct’s Constructor (Black Wasp)
• Unicode in regular expressions (Jimmy Bogard)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #1 (Damien Guard)
• linq and the dry principle (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Programming Entity Framework (Jarod Ferguson)
• Mapping Stored Procedure Results to a Custom Entity in Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• MSBuild Extension Pack – Release: 3.5.2.0 (CodePlex)

Database

• Designing a document database: Remote API & Public API and Designing a document database: What next? (Oren Eini)

Community / Events

• Social Networking not a replacement for In Person Networking (Brendon Schwartz)
• Join In with MIX09 Live Content Online (Bruce Kyle)
• XBOX LIVE Community Games Best Practices talk with Andy (The Zman) Dunn (Chris G. Williams)
• MIX09 Minus 1 (Dave Campbell)
• Events This Week – March 16th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Local Boy Makes Good (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 build 7057 – Performance that blasts past XP, Vista and previous builds (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
• Why Service Virtualization Matters (Aaron Skonnard)
• Cloud Computing hits the mainstream press (Andy Singleton)
• Small Basic on Facebook (Vijaye R.)
• FizzBin – The Technical Support Secret Handshake (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Getting Things Done with Gmail Tasks (Simon Mackie)
• Azure joins the “crash club”: down for 22 hours (Kip Kniskern)
• Open Source Maturity Model Explored (Tim Barcz)
• Things you know now (Joe Webb)
• 2nd Annual RossCode.com March Madness Pool Contest (Joel Ross)
• Weekly release: A Proper Certificate! (Marco Botton)
• Focus on fun and step into freedom in your career!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• How to Embed Your Windows Live Calendar on Your Website (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #308 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 16, 2009 — #543 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 85 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for March 16th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

 

Feeling MIX envy this week, as are some others out there.

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Free theme: INCY (Dax Pandhi)
• Silverlight DependencyProperty Relay and Silverlight Asynchronous Loader Helper (Chris Cavanagh)
• Beginning Silverlight 3 (Robert Lair)
• Pro Silverlight 3 in C# (Silverlight Show)
• Very colorful comments about Prism 2 (Glenn Block)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• && vs & and | vs ||… What’s the difference? (Dave M. Bush)
• Book Review: NHibernate In Action (Davy Brion)
• Highlight on Visual Studio 2008 Quality Features (Gunther Lenz)
• How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work (Jeff Moser)
• Batching Queries using the ADO.NET Data Services Client library (Phani Raj)

 

Web Development

• New in Sueetie User Profiles: Avatars! (Dave Burke)
• Adding Dynamic Data Previews to a New or Exiting Dynamic Data Website (Stephen Naughton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Disambiguating a test fixture (Jimmy Bogard)
• Oppression, Revolution and the Future of Scrum — #2 (Tobias Mayer)
• DevelopWithPassion@GitHub (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Refinance Your Technical Debt Just Like Your Mortgage (Max Pool)
• Git – Distributed Version Control – New User Resources (Rob Reynolds)
• Foundations of Programming (foundationsof.com) – Link of the Day

 

Database

• Designing a document database: Looking at views (Oren Eini)
• Handling Report (RDL) Filters (William Vaughn)

 

Community / Events

• Mix 2009: So Much to Tell You about Blend… (Christian Schormann)
• Follow Silverlight updates on Twitter (Tim Heuer)
• Speaking at MIX (Stephen Walther)
• Suffering from Pre Mix Envy… again (Simone Chiaretta)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 153 – Scott’s Wife Mo interviews Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to: Install Office Communicator 2007 on Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Writing Re-usable Scripts with PowerShell (James Kovacs)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 15, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #307 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2009 — #541 and Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2009 – 2 — #542 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #75 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #44 (Grant Palin)
• Links (3/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

Book of the Day