Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Validation Simplified (Sacha Barber)
• Build a WPF Application: Part 0 (Christopher Bennage)
• Digging Deeper: Templates and the Visual State Manager (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Drag, Drop, Import and Export (Michael Washington)
• Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control (Part 4) (Mike Taulty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Yet More on to Var or Not to Var (Josh Twist)
• Mocking Dilemma (Davy Brion)
• The New Crop of .NET Screencasts (Sergio Pereira)
• IronEditor - Release v1.0.0.46 (CodePlex)
• Sneak Peeks Into the New F# Project System, Part One (Brian)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• Linq2WMI - Release v.3 (CodePlex)
• Using Generics and Anonymous Methods to Your Advantage (Maurice)
• CustomFxCop - Release: Custom FxCop Rules (MSDN Code Gallery)

Web Development

• IronRuby with ASP.NET MVC Working Prototype (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET Query Strings - Client Side State Management (Gil Fink)
• Adding OpenSearch to Your Website and Getting in the Browser’s Search Box (Scott Hanselman)
• RSS and Atom Refcard Available - Download Now (Jill Tomich)

Miscellaneous

• The Difference Between Derivation and Innovation and Patterns for Using Distributed Hash Tables: Locking (Oren Eini)
• History Tables (Ken Downs)
• Twhirl Gets Pushy with Identi.ca (Rafe Needleman)
• Scaling Hyper-V (James O’Neill)

Link-O-Rama

• New and Notable 254 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: July 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 51 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (7/20/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight News for July 21, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.21 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #140 (Chris Alcock)
• WPF Links - 21 July 2008 (Rudi Grobler)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Adding OpenID to Your Web Site in Conjunction with ASP.NET Membership (Dan Hounshell)
• Showing Some MVC Support (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #21 - Fake the Data Context (Stephen Walther)

Silverlight

• Brad Abrams - Program Manager .NET Framework on Silverlight and .NET (Schalk Neethling)
• Bubbly Skin Updated for Beta 2 (Corrina Barber)
• Silverlight 2 + NHibernate.LINQ == Sweet (Shawn Wildermuth)

.NET / Visual Studio

• StructureMap: Medium-Level Usage Scenarios (Chad Myers)
• Exposing Custom Performance Counters in .NET (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Lambda and Scope in C# (Leon)

Design / Methodology

• Too-Smart-Business-Object Anti-Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• Ward’s Wiki Is Still a Great Resource (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Bellware Driven Design (Greg Young)
• Patterns for Using Distributed Hash Tables (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Distributed in Memory Cache / Storage (Oren Eini)
• PowerShell Laptop Stickers (Jeffrey Snover)
• Live Mesh Tutorial: Synchronizing Windows Live Messenger Content (Chris)
• Local Tweets on AIR (Sarah Perez)
• New Show: Countdown to PDC2008 (Mike Swanson)

Link-O-Rama

• New and Notable 253 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: July 19, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for July 20, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Foundations of Programming - Learning Application (Karl Seguin) – Link of the Day
• .NET Is Like the Galaxy, They’re Both Big and Getting Bigger (Tim Stall)
• Binsor: The Castle Windsor XML Configuration Killer (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Expressions and Lambdas (Jimmy Bogard)
• Microsoft Robotics Studio 2008 CTP July (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP (MS Downloads)
• Beginners Guide to Threading in .NET Part 4 of n (Sacha Barber)
• AppDomains and Remoting Lifetime Service (Sasha Goldshtein)

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating a Silverlight Game (Boyan Mihailov)
• Popfly Games: Now with High Score Tracking! (Adam Nathan)
• Learning WPF with BabySmash and Back to Basics - Making Assumptions and When to Turn to Books and Learning WPF with BabySmash - Making a Transparent Window with Substance (Scott Hanselman)
• Custom Tab Style (Sacha Barber)
• Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control (Part 3) (Mike Taulty)

Web Development

• Abidar 1.0 Beta 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• PowerShell ASP - Too Cool! (Jeffrey Snover)

Events / Community

• NYC .NET Developers Users Group - Special Meeting 7/31 (Stephen Forte)

Miscellaneous

• Workflow Capabilities Available in BizTalk Services (Zhiming Xue)
• How Can I Help You With Your WCF/WF/Neuron/Messaging Needs Today? (Sam Gentile)
• Dealing with Bad Apples (Jeff Atwood)

Link-O-Rama

• LINKBLOG for July 18, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for July 18, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• Visual Studio Links #54 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology

• Separation of Concerns by Example: Part 5 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Developer != Designer (Scott Hanselman)
• Dependency Injection and Policy Based Design (Christopher Diggins)
• DTO - Not Only for Web Services (Gunnar Peipman)
• More Distributed Development Best Practices (Ade Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

• Porting Flash Code/Content to Silverlight? (Zhiming Xue)
• Silverlight 2 Control Unit Tests (Schalk Neethling)
• Yosemite Deep Zoom Project From xRez Is Now Live (Adam Kinney)
• Tip of the Day #20 - How to Increase the Isolated Storage Quota For Your App (Mike Snow)
• Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control (Part 1) and (Part 2) (Mike Taulty)
• Three New Videos on Data Binding (Jesse Liberty)
• Serious Challenge for Unit Testing in Silverlight (Rocky Lhotka)
• Learning WPF with BabySmash - Customer Feedback and a WPF Font ComboBox (Scott Hanselman)
• July Popfly Update (Popfly Team)
• 10 Silverlight 2 Gotchas Resolved (Antoni Dol)

.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Rocks! - Aaron Skonnard Puts BizTalk and WCF Together (MS Downloads)
• Building LINQ Expressions for ADO.NET Data Services (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Many Projects Don’t Lead to a Good Solution (Davy Brion)
• To var or Not to var (Josh Twist)

Web Development

• Proof of Concept: A Simple DI Solution for ASP.NET WebForms (Michael Puleio)

Events / Community

• Sam Gentile PhillyNJ.NET July 31, 2008 and Capital Area .NET Advanced WCF Demo Code (Sam Gentile)
• Philly.NET Hands-On Lab: ALT.NET MVP (Model View Presenter) @ DeVry University, July 29th (Bill Wolff)

Miscellaneous

• Core Strength (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Tips for Coworking with Friends (Celine Roque)

Link-O-Rama

• Visual Studio Links #53 (Darren Stokes)
• Morning Coffee 169 (Harry Pierson)
• Silverlight Cream for July 17, 2008 — #327 and Silverlight Cream for July 17 - 2 — #328 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight News for July 18, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Innovation Notes: July 17, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for July 18, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #139 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #251 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link Listing - July 17, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology

• Rik on Design Patterns and Deep Fried DDD (Dave Laribee)
• Domain Driven Design and Sometimes Integration Tests Are Most Important (Gunnar Peipman)

Silverlight

• Telerik RadControls for Silverlight 2 CTP 2 Release (Ilia Iordinov)
• Silverlight Control Model: Its Philosophy and Power (Corey Miller)
• Tip of the Day #19: Using Isolated Storage (Mike Snow)
• Making SL2 Video Player an Encoder Template (Tim Heuer) – Link of the Day
• [The Global] War on Terrier (Avi Pilosof)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 121 - LineRider - Porting a Flash Game to Silverlight 2 (Scott Hanselman)
• Custom ContentControl Using VisualStateManager (Denislav Savkov)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Sela Technology Center Course: .NET Performance, Internals and Debugging (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Reintroducing Terrarium, Now with 2.0 Goodness! (Bil Simser)
• Looking for Updated Documentation on Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta? (Marc)
• Recursing Into List Processing (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Learning Opportunity - .NET Terrarium Is Back! (Scott Hanselman)
• Some Extension Methods for DateTime (Gunnar Peipman)
• Set Based Operations in ADO.NET Data Services (Phani Raj)
• Using Lambdas to Get at Properties (Christopher Bennage)
• July ‘08 TFS Power Tool Preview (Brian Harry)
• Review of NDepend (Nick Berardi)
• Running Applications in IronRuby (Justin Etheredge)
• IronPython Post 2.0 Roadmap (Harry Pierson)

Web Development

• Yes, It’s That Easy to Get Hacked (Rachel Appel)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 - Using Ajax and Ajax.Form (Scott Hanselman)
• Notes on ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4 (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4: ComponentController Is Now RenderAction and MVC Storefront Part 17: Checkout with Jeff Atwood (Rob Conery)
• Displaying Detail Records for User-Selected Master Records - Saving the User’s Search Preferences (Scott Mitchell)
• Testing TempData in ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 (Matt Hinze)

SharePoint

• Learn How to Develop on SharePoint (Marc)
• SharePoint Magazine Is Live (Darrin Bishop)
• .NET Rocks! - Sahil Malik Shares the Point (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Me + MEF = A New Beginning (Glenn Block)
• stackoverflow Podcast #14 (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft Opens Up Live Mesh for Basic Mobile Access (Chris Overd)

Link-O-Rama

• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Links Collection (Simone Chiaretta)
• WMOC#11 - Zermatt! and WSOAC#24 - Protocol Buffers? RPC? Are We Going Back in Time? and WSDAC#11 - Model Driven Software Development (Dilip Krishnan)
• LINKBLOG for July 16, 2008 and LINKBLOG for July 17, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2008 — #326 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #138 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #250 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links of the Week July 16th 2008 (Chris Love)
• Silverlight News for July 17, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Interesting Finds: July 17, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 252 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day