Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

WPF

• Sample Series - IDataErrorInfo and the Infragistics xamDataGrid (Karl Shefflett)
• Effects in .NET 3.5 SP1 for WPF (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to Convert List(T1) to List(T2) (Shahar Abramovich)
• Concurrency with MPI in .NET (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Error Occurs Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta If KB944899 Is Installed (MS WebDevTools) - I was lucky enough to encounter this error. I worked through it and did finally get SP1 installed.
• Using Debugging Tools From CodePlex (Tom)
• Delegates and Lambda (Josh Twist)
• Web PDF Library Search (Richard Minerich)
• Use Visual Studio’s Post-Build Events to Automate Unit Testing Running (Brian Cook)
• Splitting a Generic List<T> Into Multiple Chunks (Chinh Do)

Events / Community

• LinkedIn CodePlex Developers Group (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Speaking at Philly.NET Code Camp 2008.1 (Rachel Appel)
• MIX 08 Sessions Available in New Dual-Stream Versions Using Silverlight (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Methodology

• Domain-Driven Design: Supple Design Patterns Series (Jimmy Bogard)
• Bad Code Is Bad Even For the Best Developers (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why Do We Refactor? (Jeremy D. Miller) - Link of the Day
• Lines of Code as a Measure of Progress (Casey Charlton)
• The Easy Way to TDD (Steven Harman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Update (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Adobe Flash Player 10 Public Beta Now Open (Tim Conneally)
• The Quarter-Million Dollar Query (Michael Janke)
• Flash Takes It Up a Notch! (or Two… Maybe Three…) (Rob Eisenberg)
• I Finally Get Git (Jeremy D. Miller)
• TeamCity Lessons Learned (Build Trophy For Sale) (Peter Pascale)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #68 (Tim Bogard)
• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-15) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2008 — #275 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (5/15/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• LINKBLOG for May 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing - May 15, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #95 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 242 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

My Anna Banana is 4 today. Cupcake party at preschool… yum!

.NET

• Mutating Readonly Structs (Eric Lippert)
• XLinq’n in the New World - Speed Comparison with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)
• Video: Building an Inventory Screen with TDD (Ben Scheirman & Chad Myers)
• DataContracts and Object References (Aaron Skonnard)
• What’s New in the SP1 Beta for LINQ to SQL (ADO.NET Team)
• Can’t Find the Entity Data Source? (Diego Vega)
• Finally, a SelectedItems Option (yaaay) (Ian Suttle)
• AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft v2 in the Works (Dan Fernandez)
• Scribd.Net - Release 2008.03.17.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Dear Developers, Don’t Hardcode Copyright Years (David Walsh)
• MVC Storefront, Part 10: Shopping Cart Refactoring and Membership (Rob Conery)
• Working with the GridView and the System.Data.Linq.Binary Type (Dan Wahlin)
• Google Doctype - Documenting the Open Web (Google) (via DotNetKicks)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Visualization Application: NFL Free Agency Movement (Pete Brown)
• First Moonlight Release (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Regex and WPF (Will)
• WebCam Control for WPF - Initial Release and Silverlight Controls Library - Initial Release (CodePlex)

Events / Community

• ALT.DayOf.NET? (Steven Harman)

PowerShell

• Doug Finke’s Amazing 7 Minute C# => PowerShell Demo and TIOBE: PowerShell on Its Way to the Top 20 (Programming Languages) (Jeffrey Snover)
• WPF From PowerShell - Something Useful (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Software Developers Never Change (Nick Berardi)
• Xbox 360 Spring Update to Include Motion Control and Game Install Support? (Joshua Fruhlinger)
• Gears of War 2 for Xbox 360 Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• A Good List of Mobile Optimized Websites (Amit Chopra)
• Measuring Progress (Casey Charlton)
• The 4 Core Principles of Agile Programming (Joe Winchester)
• ALT.NET Podcast - Management Crisis! (Andrew Tokeley)
• Creating Your Visual Online Identity (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Neuron ESB Channel Model (David Pallmann)

SharePoint

• LINQ4SP - Simple Query (Agnes Molnar)

Career

• How to Become a Development Team Leader (Andrew Tokeley) - Link of the Day

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 14, 2008 and Innovation Notes: May 14, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-14) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for May 14, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.15 (gOODiDEA)
• May 15th: Posts I Liked (Manish Agrawal)
• Link Listing - May 14, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• New and Notable 241 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

More SP1 == More Gooder

• Growing List of Content About WPF 3.5 SP1 (Rob Relyea)
• .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta: Changes Overview (Patrick Smacchia) - Some metrics.
• Using Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta With Silverlight (Dave)
• DataContracts Without Attributes (POCO Support) in .NET 3.5 SP1 (Aaron Skonnard)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 “Background Compiling” for C# (David Hayden)
• Video: WPF 3.5 SP1 Graphics with David Teitlebaum (Adam Kinney)

.NET

• Beware of List.Find() (Shahar Abramovich)
• Is IQueryable the Right Choice For Me? (Bart De Smet)
• Free .NET 3.5 and .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kits (J. Barnes)
• The ALT.NET Podcast! (Dave Laribee)
• Beyond Mocks - The Partial (Karl Seguin)
• The Power of Programming with Attributes (K. Scott Allen)
• Quickly Copy Rows From DataReader to DataTable (Srinath)
• 10 Tips to Improve Your LINQ to SQL Application Performance (Sidar Ok)
• Building an F# Powered Indexing System (Part 2) (Kurt)
• XLinq’n in the New World - Structure Modification Comparisons with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)
• Lazy Instantiation One-Liner of Instance Fields with the Coalesce Operator (Frank-Leonardo Quednau)

Web Development

• Using AjaxRepeater Control, ASP.NET AJAX (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• Dynamic Data Website: Setting Selection in a List From the URL (Anh Phan)
• DefaultDotAspx.com: A Knowledge Base About ASP.NET and Other Topics (via DotNetKicks)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Best Practices: Decoupling Behavior From the View (Marco De Sanctis)
• Silverlight 2 Programming: The Designer Rule (Jay Kimble)
• Silverlight 2 ListBox Abuse (Pete Brown)
• How to Add a MouseDoubleClick Event to Any WPF Control (Amit Raz)

Events / Community

• Factoids on Philly Code Camp This Saturday (Sam Gentile) - Really wish I was able to go, but it’s my daughter, Anna’s 4th birthday party.

Design / Methodology

• MVP & MVC Simply Put (Andrew Stopford)
• Behavior Driven Development: As Human As Possible (Leon Bambrick) - Link of the Day
• Whiteboard Wednesday: The Probability of Getting Tasks Done (Max Pool)
• Is HTML a Humane Markup Language? (Jeff Atwood)

Miscellaneous

• Tests for Husbands and Wives (Tiabla on flickr) - Ah, the good old days…
• Free Designer Templates for Office 2007 and Bill Gates Talks Windows 7… Again (Paul Thurrott)
• Computer Programming: Art, Science or Both? (Jon Erickson)
• I Can Has Manbabies?!? (Justin Yu)
• Software’s Classic Mistakes - 2008 (Steve McConnell)
• Grape: A New Desktop (Thom Holwerda)
• Architect Team Blog Roll (Charles Sterling)
• stackoverflow Podcast #5 (Jeff Atwood)
• Running Challenge for .NET Developers (Simone Chiaretta)
• A Jedi Mesh (Steve Clayton)
• Topic Networks: How Neuron ESB Implements Publish-Subscribe (David Pallmann)
• Squilbo SQL Tool Needs Beta Testers! (Tobin Harris)
• Xbox 360 Spring Update Bringing 80 New Functions? (Mark Wilson)

Link-O-Rama

• Visual Studio Links #27 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: May 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-13) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for May 13, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (5/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.14 (gOODiDEA)
• Link Listing - May 13, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #93 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Why You Should Wrap Your ASP.NET Session Object (Shahar Abramovich)
• New Release of SmartTools for SharePoint (Jan Tielens)

Miscellaneous

• 3 Places to Keep Your Pocket Code (Besides Your Pocket) (Max Pool)
• Day-to-Day with Subversion (Bil Simser) - Link of the Day
• 35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Messenger TV Is Coming Soon (Sunshine)
• Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop (Michael Arrington)
• OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Announcement (OOO Marketing)
• Halo, Office 2007, Safari Now on U3 (With the Help of One Man) (Everything USB)
• iRex’s iLiad Book Edition e-book Reader (John Brownlee)
• Amazon Kindle on the Road (Rick Strahl)
• How to Make Late Software Even Later (Casey Charlton)
• Social Networks/Blogging and Self-Improvement (Rhonda Tipton)
• Intwition Shows You Who’s Tweeting About Your Blog (Brad Linder)
• Service Pass-Through in Neuron ESB (David Pallmann)

.NET

• A Limitation of Lambda Expressions and Overloaded Extension Methods (Omer van Kloeten)
• Covariance and Contravariance, Part Eleven: To Infinity, but Not Beyond (Eric Lippert)
• Do You Really Need a Data Access Layer with LINQ? (Jason Young)
• Introducing Machine.Specifications (or MSpec for Short) (Aaron Jensen)
• Exception Handling - Do’s and Don’ts (Misbah Arefin)
• Building an F# Powered Indexing System (Kurt)
• A .NET Cryptography Primer, Part Four (Will McGurk)

Silverlight / WPF / Popfly

• The Silverlight Tutorials & Book & More and Dynamically Creating and Destroying Containers and Dynamically Creating User Controls That Fire Events Back to You (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF For Line of Business Applications (Marc)
• Silverlight, WCF and LINQ to SQL (John Papa)
• Capping Your Actor’s Speed (Ben Anderson)
• Creating a Computer Game with My Granddaughter (Michael Leonard)
• Prism vs Framework XXX (Glenn Block)
• Great Silverlight 2 Demo: Healthcare Demonstrator (Tim Sneath)
• Popfly Game Creator: Video Walk-Thru (Jason Flynn)

Visual Studio

• Unescape My Strings (Sergio Pereira)
• Announcing: XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) (David Weller)
• Using Database Projects for Visual Studio (Ira)

Events / Community

• Our .NET Community (Julie Lerman)

SQL Server

• Should SQL Server Have the CREATE [OR REPLACE] PROCEDURE Syntax? (Denis Gobo)
• What’s the Difference in a GDR, a Cumulative Update, and a Service Pack? (Joe Webb)
• How to Rename Database Objects to Comply with Naming Conventions (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #64 (Tim Boland)
• Links Today (2008-05-07) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 07, 2008 — #269 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for May 7 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links (5/7/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #89 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 239 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

.NET

• Managed Extensibility Framework (Brad Abrams)
• Making spec# a Priority (Matthew Podwysocki)
• C# in Depth (Eric Lippert) - Jon Skeet’s new book is now available.
• Caliburn and Prism (Rob Eisenberg)
• I Want spec# (Greg Young)
• Implementing Generic Caching (Dave)

Silverlight/WPF

• Viewbox for Silverlight 2 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Heterogeneous Hierarchies in the WPF Elements MultiColumnTreeView (Ivan Towlson)
• Silverlight Photo Album Control - Release v0.8 (CodePlex)

Events/Community

• Become a Member of “Partner Huddle” - A MS Partners’ Group on Facebook (Zhiming Xue)
• IASA Conference in NYC on May 22-23 (Zhiming Xue)

Design/Methodology

• UI Matter: Make the Simple Things Simple and Hard Things Possible (Patrick Smacchia)
• Individual Empowerment and Agile (Eric Gunnerson)
• The Microsoft Client Continuum… from Rich Clients to Rich Internet Applications (Jeff Barnes)

Miscellaneous

• How To: Setup a MOSS Development Environment (Eric Charran)
• Officelabs.com Is Live (Steve Clayton)
• Remote Video Conferencing + Whiteboard - PalBee (Jason Harris)
• Microsoft Internal Memo Details Windows 7 - Windows Live Ties (Paul Thurrott)
• Programmers Don’t Read Books - But You Should (Jeff Atwood)
• JPEG XR: The (R)evolution of JPEG (MS Research)
• Get Mesh (and Why We Require UAC) (John Macintyre) - Thanks for the UAC explanation, John.
• Wix.com Launch Time! (Amit)

Blogs/Blogging

• Some of the Silverlight Blogs I Read (Jaime Rodriguez)

Visual Studio

• TFS 2008 SP1 - An Impressive List of Features (Anthony Borton)

Career

• Thoughts on Being a Solution Architect (Tom Hollander)

SQL Server

• Query Analyzer Shortcuts - Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Optimization Rules of Thumb - Best Practices - Reader’s Article (Praveen Barath)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
• Links Today (2008-04-28) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for April 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #83 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day