Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

Happy New Year! Thanks for following the ‘Dew in 2009!

 

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Top Links

• ReSharper 5.0 has awesome ASP.NET MVC support (Jeffrey Palermo) – R# FTW again.
• Why MVC Turbine? (Javier G. Lozano) – Javier explains Turbine’s raison d’être.
• Ye Olde Kamera – Silverlight 4 Webcam & Old Movie Shader (Rene Schulte) – Another very cool SL4 post from Rene.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Much Ado About Monads – State Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Web Development

• Looking Ahead to ASP.NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• Dynamic types and ASP.NET MVC (Hadi Hariri)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Personal Retrospectives (Diana Larsen)
• 10 Ways to Know Thyself (JD Meier)
• Memory obesity and the curse of the string (Oren Eini)
• “MEF in 2 hours or less”, I am all for it. and Autofac 2 is on the way, now in Beta! (Glenn Block)
• Rich Assertion Messages using CCI (and without expression trees) (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Welcome to the OCGM Generation! Part 2 (Ron George)
• The legend of free tools (Roy Osherove)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Polling Video – A Viable sub-second alternative? (Jesse Liberty)
• WCF RIA Services – Dynamically create a criteria on the client-side (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight 4 – WebCams.OnceMoreWithAudio() (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight tutorial: HOW TO build CommandLink Control in Silverlight with Expression Blend 3 and Behaviors (Vibor Cipan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Huey Wegner Migrate Us to SQL Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• MEF & Silverlight 4 Beta – Part 1, Introduction and Part 2, Imports & Exports and Part 3, Catalogs and Part 4, Recomposition and Part 5, the PackageCatalog and Part 6, Locating Defaults & ExportProviders (Mike Taulty)
• ASP.NET MVC FireStarter (Part 1 of 5): Intro to ASP.NET MVC & the MVC Design Pattern (Emily Gibson)
• Major Nelson Show 345: Last show of 2009 (Larry Hyrb)

 

Community / Events

• Retrospective of 2009, Planning for 2010 (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• AltNetConf email list is back! (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Running a Small User Group – The Tools (K. Brian Kelley)
• Looking back at 2009, and forward to 2010 (Pete Brown)
• SQLAuthority News – 1200th Post – An Important Milestone (Pinal Dave)

 

Database

• Measure Statement Performance with PowerShell (Buck Woody)
• Dimension cubes (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• How to Start Freelancing (Without Quitting Your Job) (Gina Trapani)
• The (Near) Final Word on Multi-Monitor Taskbars for Windows 7 – Ultramon vs. DisplayFusion (Scott Hanselman)
• 2000-2009: Microsoft’s decade of shattered dreams and Ten resolutions Microsoft should make for 2010 (Joe Wilcox)
• 24 Years of Windows Box Art (Larry Larsen)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #508 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2009 — #766 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.21 ~ 12.31, bye 2009 (yuanjian)
• Tech Tweets for 30-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

 

The Geek Shelf

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

 

 

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Top Links

• Microsoft Job Posting Confirms Xbox LIVE Windows Mobile Phones (Kat Hannaford) – Where’s my ZuneHD/WinMo/XboxLive device??? 
• Software Patents: Our Industry’s Nuclear Weapon (Davy Brion) – Davy’s argument against patents.
• Still waiting for a 64-bit Flash Player (Ed Bott) – Me too!
• Magellan Asynchronous Controllers (Paul Stovell) – Paul updates his WPF MVC framework to v1.1.
• 4th Web Client Guidance Drop Available on Codeplex and Proposed UX Design (Blaine Wastell) – p&p goodies… get ‘em while they’re hot.
• Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor) – Cool tip from Elijah.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• More LINQ with System.Interactive – More combinators for your Swiss Army Knife (Bart de Smet)
• No more magic strings with VisualStateManager.GoToState (András Velvárt)
• Update on using MSDeploy for remote deployments. (Eric Hexter)
• Dealing with Nullable Types and IIf in VBNET (Kevin Jones)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Other attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

 

Web Development

• Gummy Bear 1.1 Is In The Can (Dave Burke)
• 4 JavaScript frameworks you may never have heard of (Michael Kimsal)
• Converting an RGB Color To Hex With JavaScript (Phil Haack)
• Using BindAttribute In ASP.NET MVC To Exclude Bindable Data (Malcolm Sheridan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Guidelines for consistent exception handling (Samir Bellouti)
• When mini benchmarks are important (Oren Eini)
• Recommended Book: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Davy Brion)
• Runtime Fault Injection using TestAPI (Lester Lobo)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Getting the Absolute Position (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• WCF RIA Services DomainService life-cycle and adding Transactions (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight HVP Design – Configuration & Scenarios (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF : New Threading Component (Sacha Barber)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Jeffrey Van Gogh and Bart De Smet: Inside System.Interactive (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #156: Learning how to use Named Content Areas w/ Spark (Derik Whittaker)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: TWoC9 Day 3 (Nic Fillingham)

 

Community / Events

• Origins of a love affair (Damien Guard)
• Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)

 

Database

• Getting the ISO Week and Year (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• BCS Multiple Finder Methods for External Content Types (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• Presenting Lessons I’ve Learned (Jay Fields)
• 10 Things to Do Before the New Year (Meryl Evans)
• Windows 7 Tip: Creating A Help Toolbar (Michael S. Scherotter)
• 50 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks (Steve Clayton)
• Stephen King’s On Writing… A Memoir Of The Craft (Mike Cottmeyer)
• DZone Daily Dose – 12/30 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 3 Microsoft Project 2010 Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Stormy weather? Who is monitoring the cloud? (Andy Singleton)
• Conversation Piece: Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
• How to pass arguments for remote commands and Bringing remote commands to your local session and Saving remote session to your local disk (Lukasz Anforowicz)

 

More Link Collections

• 2009’s Most Popular Articles (Scott Mitchell)
• The Morning Brew #507 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2009 — #766 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/29/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts (Simone Chiaretta)

 

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Windows 7 Inside Out

 

 

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Top Links

• OCGM: A New Windows User Experience (Stephen Chapman) – Some insight into the UX design philosophy in Windows 8.
• Day #28: Silverlight Application Themes (Jeff Blankenburg) – Jeff nears the end of his 30 days of Silverlight sereies.
• Cost of Maintenance (Larry Clarkin) – A reminder about the importance of a good design up front.
• iPhone and Android Development – NOT STARTING A FLAME WAR!!!! (Leon Gersing) – Leon compares ease of programming against each platform.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating An Application With Full Plug-in Support (Arian T. Kulp)
• Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing in C# and F# (Rick Minerich)
• D3DImage Extension Methods (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Update for Windows Azure Blob Storage publishing plugin for Expression Encoder (James Clarke)
• Migrating Applications to Windows Azure (Bob Familiar)
• More Windows Code Pack and Windows 7 developing delightfulness (Greg Duncan)
• More LINQ with System.Interactive – Exploiting the code = data relationship (Bart de Smet)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript inside ColdFusion – CFJS (Michael Kimsal)
• 7 Tips for Loading JavaScript Rich Web 2.0-like Sites Significantly Faster (Omar Al Zabir)
• Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor)
• Do you know how to permanently redirect old incoming URL’s? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 3 The Core (Muhammad Mosa)
• Self executing recursive javascript functions (Kris Gray)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fighting the profiler memory obesity (Oren Eini)
• Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: My First Attempt (Mark Needham)
• Agile Tenet #6– Face-to-face Communication (Julie Stickler)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows 7, VS2010, WPF all mixed together DevX article style (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight HVP Design Update (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Compass indicators properties for Telerik’s Docking Control for Silverlight and WPF (Telerik Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 4 – Yet More on Capturing Video from Webcams (Mike Taulty)
• Better WPF Circular Progress Bar (Sacha Barber)
• Solution to minimize the loading of too much data to a DataGrid– WCF RIA Services and Silverlight (Fredrik Normen)
• Read and Recommended: Essential Silverlight 3 (Stephen Forte)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Hunter Tours Us Through ASP.NET 4.0 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• (free) Training videos from the last year. (Eric Hexter)
• Episode 96- PowerScripting Podcast – Ed Wilson The Scripting Guy on PowerShell Best Practices (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

 

Community / Events

• Mark Your Calendars for Microsoft BI Conference (Bruce Kyle)
• Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)
• January Events (Matt Hinze)
• 12/28/2009 – Speaking at Northern Delaware .NET User Group on 1/28/2010 (Kevin Goff)
• This One is for the Quiet Ones (Sara J. Chipps)

 

Database

• Data is Just Data – Information – that’s another thing! (Buck Woody)
• Standard Point-in-time and time-interval representations (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Get Date of All Weekdays or Weekends of the Year (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• On Learning (Anne Epstein)
• Using "within" in a WMI event query (Kapil Mathur)
• DZone Daily Dose – 12/29 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Write-Progress & WPK (James Brundage)
• A Desktop UI for Zoho Services (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Consulting vs. Employee-hood, or “How to consider your options” (Kyle Baley)
• The decade in graphic form (Steve Clayton)
• Chrome Corner – weekly updates, extensions, themes, and tips for Google Chrome (Lee Mathews)
• Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Read Facebook updates in Google Reader (or any other RSS tool) (Sebastian Anthony)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2009 — #765 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #506 (Chris Alcock)

 

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

 

 

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Top Links

• Introducing MarkdownSharp (Jeff Atwood) – Jeff & Co. open up the server-side implementation of their Markdown language.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• More LINQ with System.Interactive – Sequences under construction (Bart de Smet)

 

Web Development

• Change Image Opacity on MouseOver using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Tenet #6– Face-to-face Communication (Julie Stickler)
• Programmer Tip: The Best Of The Projects In Your Life Never End. (Rajiv Popat)
• Introducing Siege.ServiceLocation.Extensions: FactoryMethod Support, Dependency Resolution based on type injected into added (Marcus Bratton)

Community / Events

• 12/27/2009 – Speaking at NJ SQL Server User Group on 1/19/2010 (Kevin Goff)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Difference Temp Table and Table Variable – Effect of Transaction (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Year End Review – SharePoint in 2009 (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• DZone Daily Dose – 12/28 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• PowerPivot Demo Part II (Stephen Forte)
• Get me all groups I manage (Dmitry Sotnikov) – A PowerShell tip.
• Free tool makes managing your Windows 7 library settings easier (Lee Mathews)
• Two (More) Free Utilities for Microsoft’s Windows 7! (Blake Handler)
• PowerShell: Determine your function’s position in the pipeline (Joel Bennett)

 

More Link Collections

• Everyman Links for December 27, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #103 (David Vidmar)
• Links (12/27/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/28/2009 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 125 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

The Geek Shelf

Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell TFM

 

 

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Top Links

• Simplifying Entity Framework: Data-Driven Design (Oleg Sych) – EF and T4 templates… nice.
• Snoop with 64 bit support (Lester Lobo) – Testing tool for WPF now available for 64 bit.
• Architecting SL4 Applications with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM – Part 3 (Shawn Wildermuth) – Part 3 of a really great walkthrough.
• Run Code Online (Taranfx) – Write, compile and run code online (40+ languages supported) with IDEOne.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Thoughts on EF vs. NHibernate Redux (Rob Conery)
• String Interning: The Garbage Collectible way (Oren Eini)
• More LINQ with System.Interactive – The Ultimate Imperative and More LINQ with System.Interactive – Exceptional Exception Handling (Bart de Smet)
• Using LINQ and reflection to find matching properties of objects and Using NHibernate order-by attribute to sort names history (Gunnar Peipman)
• Contextual Extension Methods (Ariel Raunstien)

 

Web Development

• New release of YUI Test 3.0 (Michael Kimsal)
• Introducing Fluent MetadataProvider for ASP.NET MVC and More on Fluent MetadataProvider for ASP.NET MVC (Kazi Manzur Rashid)
• jQuery Hide/Close Link (Phil Haack)
• Click and Increase the Size of an Image using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Stupid Service Oriented Architecture (SSOA) #1 – The 50/50 upgrade (Ken Johnston)
• Programmer Tip: Slow Down And Give Your Sprints Some Time To Stabilize. and Programmer Tip: Growing Your Comfort Zone A Little More Each Day. (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Binding Syntax Intellisense in VS2010 (Frank La Vigne)
• WPF : Simple 3D Charting (Sacha Barber)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 136: We Need More Coal (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• New Year’s Resolutions (Davy Brion)
• MVP Summit Events Launched (Joseph Guadagno)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Whitepaper SQL Server 2008 Full-Text Search: Internals and Enhancements and SQL SERVER – Download FREE SQL SERVER Express Edition and Service Pack 1 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• A Feed You Should Read #17 – Microsoft Download Center (Greg Duncan)
• What I Use (Paul Thurrott)
• A Christmas Tree in WPK (James Brundage)
• PowerShell Help Reader – WOW! (Jeffrey Snover)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for December 26, 2009 — #764 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #85 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read TOC (Greg Duncan)

 

The Geek Shelf

Programming Entity Framework

 

 

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