Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Poll Results: Threading, Mock Frameworks and Unit Test Frameworks (Roy Osherove)
• Presumed Hostile - Your Application Is Out to Get You (Michael Janke)
• Lessons That I Learned From Waegis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Using an ORM? Think Objects! (K. Scott Allen)
• The Blame Game: How Necessary Is Traceability? (Max Pool)
• Understanding Dependency Injection (Mohammad Azam)
• Using Flip Video’s Mino for Programming (Mike Riley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting Them to Play Nice (Part 3) (Tom Hollander)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1) (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Building a Configuration Binder for MEF with POCO Support (Sidar Ok)
• Doing Nothing in .NET (Chris Love)
• IsNull Extension Method (Steven Smith)
• LINQ Farm: More on Set Operators (Charlie Calvert)
• ASP.NET Client Side State Management - Hidden Fields (Gil Fink)

Events / Community

• Community Megaphone Silverlight Map (Frank La Vigne)
• Philly.NET - An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight - July 16th (Community Megaphone)
• Philly ALT.NET Meeting - Building Maintainable Applications with WPF - July 17th (Community Megaphone)
• Learning NHibernate? Join the Email List with 600 Other Users (Jeffrey Palermo)

SharePoint

• FarPoint Has Released Their Spread Control for SharePoint (Bob Mixon)
• GetActiveFeatureDefinitions - A SharePoint PowerShell Function (Darrin Bishop)
• SharePoint Toolbox - Release: Project Site v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 - Introduction to SPARSE Columns - Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 13, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight News for July 14, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• LINKBLOG for July 13, 2008 and LINKBLOG for July 14, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Link Post 50 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links #9 (Grant Palin)
• Links (7/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: July 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #135 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #51 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Audit Options with NHibernate and Refactoring DRY Tests with ReSharper’s Inline Method (Matt Hinze)
• A .NET Assembly for Cloning Objects with Arbitrary Field Value Changes: IcManipulator (Rick Minerich)
• Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library 4.0 and Visual Studio 2008 Webcast and Dependancy Injection with Microsoft Enterprise Library Unity Application Block Webcast (David Hayden)
• MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting Them to Play Nice (Part 1) (Tom Hollander)
• F# Complier v1.9.4.19 (MS Research)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #18 - Parameterize the HTTP Context (Stephen Walther)

SharePoint

• Creating Re-Usable Email Templates for SharePoint Designer 2007 Workflows (Jordan Hull)
• An Introduction to Agile SharePoint Dev (Andrew Woodward)

Silverlight / WPF

• Green Eggs and Blend and Styles and Templates - Three Videos and The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight (Jesse Liberty)
• JSON Serialization and Deserialization in Silverlight (Martin Mihaylov)
• What Is Silverlight (John Stockton)

Design / Methodology

• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Safe/Unsafe Cache and Shutdown Performance: Just Exit! and Sharing WCF Contracts as Visual Studio File Links(Sasha Goldshtein)
• Layer Diagram (Cameron Skinner)
• When to Use Many-to-One(s) vs. Many-to-Many with NHibernate (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Team System Templates (Charles Sterling)
• Does Exploratory Testing Have a Place on Agile Teams? (Johanna Rothman)
• David Chappell on Software + Services (Bill Zack)
• Over Specification in Tests (Roy Osherove)
• Adding a Customer Field to a UI (Kyle Baley)
• I’ll Get to Your Application in a Minute - First, We Need to Build the Framework (Jeffrey Palermo)

Events/ Community

• Updates to the Community Megaphone Plug-In and Silverlight Summer User Group Events (Frank La Vigne)

Database

• SSIS Nugget: Conditionally Email a File Containing Error Rows (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server 2008 User Account - sa or sysadmin (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Sobees Update (Sébastien von Roth)
• Speeding Up PowerShell Startup (Jeffrey Snover)
• Five Best Windows Backup Tools (Adam Pash)
• Chinese Video Site 56.com Is Back (Brad Linder)
• Posty Updated - Now Has Tons More Features, Plans for Identi.ca Support and Jason Calacanis Retires From Blogging, Listen Up Bloggers - This Means Something (Sarah Perez)
• Looking at the Live Mesh Peer-to-Peer Synch and What Microsoft Can Learn from the Apple Application Store (Chris)
• Live Mesh Service Update: New Build, New Features Coming Today (0.9.3103.2) (Sunshine)
• The Story of the Ribbon (Nicole)
• Book Review: Code Leader - Using People, Tools and Processes to Build Successful Software (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Stack Overflow Badge Feedback (Jeff Atwood)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 11, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Interesting Finds: July 11, 2008 - short edition (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #88 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for July 11, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 — #323 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day

Requirements Debate

• It’s Not the Client’s Job to Know What He Needs - It’s Our Job to Find Out (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Doctors We Ain’t (Dave Laribee)

Design / Methodology

• Separation of Concerns By Example: Part 4 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Ward Bell and I Wade Into O/R Mapping Issues (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How Microsoft’s p&p Teams Do Daily Standup Meetings (Ade Miller)
• Too Much Quality (Jacob Proffitt)
• Enterprise Architect - Joke or Joker? (Richard Veryard)
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Read-Write Cache and Practical Concurrency Patterns: Thread-Local Cache (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Channel 9 - C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team (Granville Barnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• #region. Sliced Bread or Sliced Worms? (Eric Gunnerson)
• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code (Matthew Podwysocki) – Link of the Day
• Anonymous Delegates, How I Love Thee (Josh Twist)
• Very Simple .NET Thumbnail Creation Code (Brad Abrams)
• CLR Security Team CodePlex Site (Shawn F.)
• Looking at EF Performance - Some Surprises (Julie Lerman)
• Mocking Expensive Template Methods (Davy Brion)
• Back to Basics - Everyone Remember Where We Parked (That Memory)! (Scott Hanselman)
• 5 Things I Like Better About NetBeans Than Visual Studio (Jim Hoffman)
• Scrubbing Null Values From a DataReader (John Papa)
• How to Navigate Around Your Code in Visual Studio (Ged Mead)
• Mastering F# Lists (Chris Smith)
• Identity Framework for .NET (René Løhde)
• MSDN Code Gallery - Functional C# - Release: v0.1 (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight / WPF

• Learning WPF with BabySmash - MVC or MVP and the Benefits of a Designer (Scott Hanselman)
• How About Some LIVE Silverlight Service Debugging? (Tim Heuer)
• Animation Hands on Lab for Silverlight 2 (Adam Kinney)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #17 - How to Run an ASP.NET MVC Application (Stephen Walther)
• SubSonic: New Code Samples and a SubStage Walkthrough (Rob Conery)
• Static Singletons for ASP.NET Controls (Rick Strahl)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 - Introduction to SPARSE Columns (Pinal Dave)
• Installing Clustered SQL Servers - Outline, Checklists, Document Sheets (Chad Boyd)
• Observations on Embedded Databases (Oren Eini)

Events / Community

• Community Megaphone Plug-In for Windows Live Writer (Frank La Vigne)
• Find Nearby Events with Windows Live Writer Search Mobile and Community Megaphone (G. Andrew Duthie)
• NINE Questions with Rachel Appel (Chris Williams)

Miscellaneous

• My First-Hand Experience with Microsoft Surface (Archis Gore)
• The Saga of an Ultimate Virtualization Rig: Part 3 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows XP Ain’t the Only OS Retiring This Year: Goodbye Windows 3.11 (Brad Linder)
• The Phone Screen (Alex Mueller)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #87 (Tim Boland)
• Link Listing - July 9, 2008 and Link Listing - July 10, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Double Shot #245 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2008 - Early Edition (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (7/10/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Visual Studio Links #49 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #134 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Robotics Studio - Not Just for Robots! (Julie Lerman)
• Classes That Show Up in Every Project (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Coverity Introduces New Static Analysis Solution for C# (Martin Steve)
• PHPLinq as Cool as Real LINQ? (Mike Borozdin)

Events / Community

• Philly ALT.NET - Thursday July 17 - Building Maintainable Apps with WPF (Brian Donahue)
• DC ALT.NET - 7/24/2008 - LINQ Deep Dive with Scott Allen (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Philly.NET - July 16, 2008 - An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight (Bill Wolff)
• July Agile Boot Camp Filling Up Quick - Reserve Your Spot Now (Jeffrey Palermo)

Silverlight / WPF

• The Silverlight 2.0 Security Model (Dino Esposito) – Link of the Day
• How to Test Your WPF Applications (jytylr)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Your Software Can’t Heal Itself (Justin Etheredge)
• Are You Sure Added and Refactored Code Is Covered By Tests? (Patrick Smacchia)

SQL Server

• Microsoft to Deliver SQL Server 2008 in August (Steven Bink)
• Query Analyzer or Management Studio? (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• DirectX 11 to Get Announced This Month (Steven Bink)
• The Saga of an Ultimate Virtualization Rig: Part 1 and Part 2 (Andrew Connell)
• iTunes Is Anti-Web (Jeff Atwood)

Blogging

• Podcast #13 – stackoverflow (Jeff Atwood)
• Can Google Docs Work for Live Blogging? (Josh Lowensohn)

Web Development

• Waegis - The Web Cleaner (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Aggiorno, the Italian Colleague You’ve Always Wanted (Peter Eysermans)
• jQuery Goodness and ASP.NET AJAX - Take II (Schalk Neethling)

SharePoint

• Writing Performant Code in SharePoint (Joris Poelmans)
• How to Create Rounded Corners for Web Part Title Bars (Heather Solomon)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 9, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• WMOC#10 - Composite Application Guidance for WPF Is Out and WSOAC#23 - Convenience Over Correctness Debate and WSDAC#10 - VB Futures (Dilip Krishnan)
• Daily Find #86 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight News for July 10, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
• New and Notable 250 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2008 — #321 (Dave Campbell)
• Visual Studio Links #48 (Darren Stokes)
• The Morning Brew #133 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology

• Entities and the Law of Demeter (Jimmy Bogard)
• TDD and Hard to Test Areas, Part 1 (Ian Cooper) – Link of the Day
• Incremental Migration (Martin Fowler)

Silverlight / WPF

• Great User Experience Example in a Business Application (Brad Abrams)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 120 - The Odd Couple - A Developer and a Designer Talk About Working with XAML (Scott Hanselman)
• P[e]op[le]Fly (Glen Gordon)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Recursing Into Linear, Tail and Binary Recursion (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 5: Developing .NET Software on a Mac (Keith Elder)
• Some RichTextBox Tricks (Patrick Smacchia)
• The Missing .NET #6: Version Tolerant Serialization (Jason Kemp)
• Scale Cheaply – Memcached (Karl Seguin)
• Long Paths in .NET, Part 3 of 3 Redux (Kim Hamilton)
• Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 2: Cache<KEY, VALUE> (Chad Myers)

C#/VB Pursefight

• Declaring Event Handlers in C# Is Just Painful, Prove Me Wrong Please (Chris Love)
• Creating Event Handlers in C# - The Definitive Guide (Keith Elder)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Hacks (lessthandot)
• Waegis Will Be Live Tomorrow (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Kill Your Users Table (Schalk Neethling)
• HTTP Request Flow Diagram (Simone Chiaretta)

SQL Server

• An Introduction to New T-SQL Programmability Features in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

Events / Community

• User Groups This Week (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Northern NJ .NET User’s Group Meeting: July 8, 2008 (Rachel Appel)

Miscellaneous

• You Don’t Need a Muse: How to Get Your Work Done When You’re Not Inspired (Celine Roque)
• Might Microsoft’s Midori Be ‘Cairo’ Revisited? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Identi.ca Gets a Reply Tab, Actually Becomes Useful (Sarah Perez)
• Is This the Time That 3D Sticks? (Robert Scoble)
• Bash vs PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Morning Coffee 166 (Harry Pierson)
• Silverlight News for July 8, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• LINKBLOG for July 7, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2008 — #319 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #131 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day