Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

 

.NET

• Prism, CAB, and WinForms Futures (Glenn Block)

 

PowerShell

• In Praise of TypeConverters - Spread the Love (Jeffrey Snover)

 

Miscellaneous

• Zune Clock Has Arrived (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Twitter This, Twitter That… (Rick Strahl)
• Turning Off Automatic Syncing in Zune - How’s It Done? (Mike Walsh)
• SlickEdit 2008 at First Glance (Dave Campbell)
• Hello World! (Chris Deluca) - A developer on the MSDN Subscriber Downloads site begins blogging.
• Create a Deep Zoom Panorama with Windows Live and First of Many New Live Developer Articles (John O’Brien)
• Wix Widgets, Some Ideas (Amit Knaani)
• Three Reasons to Use Disqus (Fred Wilson)
• My Verdict on Disqus: Two Thumbs Up (Matthew Ingram)

 

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-10) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for May 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Everyman Links for May 9, 2008 (Dave Burke)

 

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

 

Over the weekend, my friend and former co-worker, Matt Walker, blogged about the ‘need’ to print documents on paper. I couldn’t agree more, and wanted to add a couple of points to the discussion.

For anyone who has issues reading from an LCD or CRT for long periods of time, you can pick up a Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle. Sony’s device will display .doc, .rtf, .pdf, and .txt files out of the box. PDFs can be a little hard to read on the device because of how they are scaled, but there are 3rd party tools out there to convert PDF to RTF.

Matt talks about a free tool to print to PDF files. Another e-printing option built into Windows Vista is the “Microsoft XPS Document Writer” printer. You can create a portable document without installing any 3rd party tools. This option is for anyone who exclusively uses systems that can read the .xps format.

 

Peace out!

 

I changed the theme and name of the site yesterday. I’ve seen several coffee-themed blogs, but coffee’s not really my thing. I’m more of a Diet Mountain Dew kind of guy.

 

Silverlight/WPF

• Tip of the Day: How the Silverlight Videos Are Made and Great Silverlight Programmer Utilities (Jesse Liberty)
• Dynamic Silverlight Bits Now Available (John Lam)
• Silverlight Browser Integration aka HTML Bridge (Daniel Moth)
• WPF Wiimote Library (Now With Project Files!) (Matthias Shapiro)
• Thoughts on MIX 08 (Rocky Lhotka)

.NET

• New World with Extension Methods (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Build Your Own CAB: The Main Players in the Composite Application Neighborhood (Jeremy D. Miller)

Web Development

• Testing Controller Actions Inside ASP.NET MVC (Derik Whittaker)
• IoC Container, Unity and Breaking Changes Galore (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Testing ASP.NET MVC Controllers with Typemock Isolator (Roy Osherove)

Visual Studio

• ILVisualizer VS2008 Solution (Haibo Luo)

Misc

• On Beyond Unit Testing (Chris Sells)
• How to Use the Web to Build a Powerful Reputation in Any Industry (Maki)
• Zuned (Daniel Larson)
• UltimatePC.com (Steve Clayton)

 

Link Collections

• Links Today (2008-03-08) and Links Today (2008-03-09) (Matt Hinze)
• Interesting Finds: March 8, 2008 and Interesting Finds: March 9, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Link Listing - March 8, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Our Daily Link (2008-03-09) (Trevor Green)

 

Book of the Day

 

Lengthy list today… must be CES.

Guinness Book of Videogame Records Coming in February

Returning an Anonymous Type

Xbox Live to Twitter Update (v0.2.3)

Drag and Drop with ASP.NET AJAX (via Public Sector Developer Weblog)

My Team’s Developer Creedo

SQL Puzzle 9 (Matching DateTime) (via DotNetSlackers)

Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta (MS Download) (documentation here)

Fun with Headlins, CES 2008 Special Edition (Paul Thurrott)

FAQ: Which Code Analysis Rules Shipped in Which Version

What Should Developers Know About Windows Server 2008?

Hiding Code From ReSharper

C# Futures, Diminishing Returns, and the Scala Parachute

Taser Unveils Holster with Music Player (Don’t tase me while you listen to Britney, bro!)

To Add or To Create

A Command-Line Interface Base Class (via DotNetKicks)

Extending the String Object in C# (some extension method ideas) (via DotNetKicks)

Tip: Overriding Core Object Methods (via Arjan’s World)

On Resume, Error (resumé tips) (via Arjan’s World)

Random Producing Same Values (via Arjan’s World)

Inheritance and Extension Methods (via Arjan’s World)

Ruby on Rails IDE Geared to Visual Studio 2008 Users (via WinBeta)

Bill Gates Explains the Difference Between Microsoft and Apple

Differentiated User Experience (UX) (via Christopher Steen)

Microsoft Health Common User Interface Toolkit v1.2.68.000 (new release on Codeplex)

On Blogging

Dynamic LINQ (Part 1: Using the LINQ Dynamic Query Library) (ScottGu)

DirecTV’s PC Tuner is Real

Pastor Targets Microsoft Gay-Rights Policy (some people have too much time on their hands)

Hacking Your Xbox 360 Fan (if you want to void your warranty, or your warranty has expired)

 

Book of the Day