Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft’s Silverlight-based Local Impact Map (Adam Kinney)
• Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode (Corey Schuman)
• Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 – Introduction (Boyan Mihaylov)
• "Follow the Cursor" Animation – lets do it with behaviors (Jose Fajardo)
• Debugging XMAL Parser Exceptions (Kirstin Juhl)
• Enhance Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Reporting with Silverlight (Sandeep Chanda)
• Understanding Performance in your WPF Application (Margaret Parsons)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Repository is Dead: Long Live Repository (Greg Young)
• Night of the living Repositories and Find the bug (Oren Eini)
• IT Architecture is not Enterprise Architecture (Mike Walker)

 

Web Development

• How we do MVC (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET Survey Questions for the Community (Sam Gentile)
• ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!) (Scott Hanselman)
• Friday Books: RESTful .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• I Spose I’ll Just Say It: Still Waiting for a GOOD Reason to Learn MVC (Joe Brinkman)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 2nd Level Cache (Oren Eini)
• Fluent Ado.Net and API design (Chris Brandsma)
• Idiomatic F# – Functional vs. Imperative (Chris Smith)
• Using Obscure Windows COM APIs in .NET (Jeff Moser)
• EF4 EF4 EF4 (Julie Lerman)
• Jon Skeet: Planning C# In Depth 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Adding CLR Fields (Harry Pierson)
• Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• .NET Trick – Persisting Data Without Using a Database (Michael Ceranski)
• HowTo: Create RSS Feeds with Linq to XML / XLinq (Robert Muehsig)
• Part 3 of My DSL for Developers Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What about DataLoadOptions for Entity Framework ObjectContext? (Muhammad Mosa)
• Pro Tip: Don’t co-opt .net conventions for your own purposes (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Cloud Computing and Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
• CLR 4 ThreadPool Enhancements (Daniel Moth)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #104: Navigate your codebase like a pro with ReSharper 4.5 (Ray Houston) – Link of the Day
• Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Cloud Computing Timescales and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Preparing for "The Cloud" and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Current Shiny Toys (Mike Taulty)
• Herding Code 44: Microbusiness (Jon Galloway)
• The History of Microsoft – 1986 (Tina)
• Manuel Fähndrich and Peli de Halleux – The Synergy of Code Contracts and Pex (Jonathan de Halleux)

 

Community / Events

• The Painting of IndyHall 2.0: THIS WEEKEND! (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• Dates Updated for Windows 7 Application Compatibility Labs (Bruce Kyle)
• CodeStock 2009 (Chris G. Williams)
• Those who can do, those who can’t blog? (Sara Chipps)
• MVPs Shine Silverlight Together at MVP Global Summit! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference (Zhiming Xue)
• MSDN session on ASP.NET MVC (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Database

• The Case for Multiple DBs in Multi Tenancy situations (Anne Epstein)
• Normaliser Component v2 : SSIS and Installation order for Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Team Explorer and SQL Server 2008 (Jamie Thomson)
• New book: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying (K. Jones)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler and SQL SERVER – Leading Zero to Number (Pinal Dave)
• The real headquarters of Oracle (Simone Chiaretta)
• Please Mr. DBA, Change default passwords and use strong passwords (Ted Kreuger)

 

Miscellaneous

• Delicious Tech Tweets (Elijah Manor)
• MSDN Mag 6/2009 Editor’s Note Sneak Peak – On Aggregates (Howard Dierking)
• Recent Changes to IE Content on MSDN (Lance Leonard)
• Why we should attack our own systems? (Gunnar Peipman)
• What is this blog? (Silverlight Team)
• TeamCity 4.5 is live! (Richard Cirerol)
• Windows Mobile 6.5: Standard and Professional and Windows 8 and Windows 9: Various Tidbits (Stephen Chapman)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate out in the wild! (Taimur Asad)
• A Multitouch Pad for Windows (Sarah Perez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 3009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #334 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2009 — #577 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 23rd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (4/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

Thanks to everyone who came out to Philly.NET’s Code Camp last Saturday! I had a great time meeting many of the attendees and other speakers. I think I’ve learned some good lessons from my first public .NET speaking engagement and hope to refine and improve my talk and give it again soon.

I presented ‘ASP.NET MVC Development with S#arp Architecture’ on Rachel Appel’s ASP.NET track. If you are interested in checking out the slides or my sample code, you can get them here:

• Slide Deck
• Sample Code

There is a great list of useful links at the end of the slideshow. Make sure to check them all out if you are working with ASP.NET MVC.

 

 

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• HealthVault SDK (MS Downloads)
• Web Browser in C# (Kapil Soni)
• Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio ShortcutsAnother List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts (Amit Raz)
• Using Active Record to write less code and Ode to ReSharper and NHibernate Tidbit – using <set/> without referencing Iesi.Collections (Oren Eini)
• VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR R2 is Out (David Starr)
• Show me the memory: Tool for visualizing virtual memory usage and GC heap usage. (Tess Ferrandez)
• ReSharper coolness of the day: generated constructor visibility (Joe White)
• HowTo: Tweet with C# (Robert Muehsig)
• MCsla – Fixing up output from mgx (Rockford Lhotka)
• Functional C# – Composing Through Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Customizing the Type Name (Harry Pierson)
• Dogfooding Ukadc.Diagnostics (Josh Twist)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Intro to Composite App Frameworks with Prism (David Makogon)
• Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Network Awareness (Ashish Shetty)
• Silverlight and DOM events (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Video Drivers, Prison Riots, and Silverlight (Stephen Forte)
• Silverlight 3 – Knowing When Images Are Loaded (Mike Taulty)
• Databinding the videogame, part 2: mapping terrain types to GUI (Joe White)
• Silverlight, Web Services and DataSets (Dave M. Bush)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Agility Cycle – Part 2 (Brad Appleton)
• Simple Management Tip: Tracking 1:1 Conversations (Steve Rowe)
• DDD: Making implicit concepts explicit (Mark Needham)
• Second Order Agile Scaling (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Nice Acceptance Test Framework: Cucumber (Jim Holmes)
• NDepend and the quality of the Cruise Control .NET code base (Patrick Smacchia)
• Source Control Only Team Projects (David Starr)
• Who has been a great leader in your career and what made them a great leader? (Denis Gobo)
• When Surrogate Keys Attack (and validation isn’t there) (Howard Dierking)
• Stubs: Comparison with other mocking frameworks (Jonathan de Halleux)
• UX thoughts – In defense of eye candy, an “A List Apart” article (András  Velvárt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jeff Atwood talks Stack Overflow (Carl Franklin)
• Hervey Wilson on the Geneva Framework (Donovan Follette)
• Code Cast 26 – Prism 2.0 (David Starr)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #50 (Jeff Atwood)

 

Community / Events

• Linguistics on the job, on the stage … and in space? (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Let Your NoVa Code Camp Geek Flair Fly (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Test Your Application on Windows 7 at TechEd 2009 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Harnessing the Power of Community 2.0 (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Web Development

• Any ASP.NET Debugging requests? (Tom)
• Tip # 53: Did you know… How to edit the templates for gridview in VS designer? (Deepak Verma)
• Scripting ASP.NET MVC Views Stored In The Database (Phil Haack)
• I Spose I’ll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
• Life and Times of an ASP.NET MVC Controller (K. Scott Allen)
• Stopping the panic: how to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial performances. Don’t run in debug mode (Simone Chiaretta)
• Finally played with ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Julie Lerman)

 

PowerShell

• V2 Quick Tip: Starting a new elevated process from a PowerShell script (James Brundage)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Zune Lyrics" Plug-in for Zune Software (Blake Handler)
• NH Prof: An important milestone (Oren Eini)
• Super discount on MS Certification Exams (Chris G. Williams)
• Microsoft pubCenter beta goes public (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows 7 RC completed, build 7100 (Steven Bink)
• Office 2010 Revealed: Redux and Windows Mobile 6.5 Miscellaneous Debris (Stephen Chapman)
• How to subscribe to all project updates via RSS – #021 and There are now separate RSS feeds for Reviews and Releases – #022 (Sara Ford)
• Best source code comments (Daniel Moth)
• Ink Input and Tablet PC (Win 7 Team)
• Did You Know? How to tell if a bug has been fixed? (Kalen Delaney)
• Source Code with a Sense of Humor (Michael Ceranski)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #333 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Twitterings #25 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 314 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for April 22nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day