Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to NHibernate in 10 Minutes (Matt Hinze)
• Ward & I Talk Over the EF Vote of No Confidence Document (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Learn How to Use NHibernate with the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series (Scott Hanselman)
• T4 Templates in Visual Studio for Code Generation Screencast (David Hayden)
• Running a x64 Build Server. Challenges Overcome. (Eric Hexter)
• Return a List<T> or ObservableCollection<T> (John Papa)
• 5 Things I Like Better About Visual Studio Than NetBeans (Jim Hoffman)
• C# Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 - Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy (MS Downloads)
• What New Windows SDK Features Do You Want? (Win SDK Team)

Events / Community

• Yay! Philly Geek Dinner (Lindsay Rutter)
• CodePlex Project Discussions Mailing Lists (J. Wanagel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Measuring Testers (James Whittaker)
• Dealing with Code Un-Coverable by Tests (Patrick Smacchia)
• Unit Test Boundaries (Phil Haack)
• Update Model - A Question of Identity - Part 2 of 3 (Lawrence Jones)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 6: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee - Part 1 (Keith Elder) – Can’t wait to listen to this one, but I just finished episode 3 of DFB.
• Software Plus Services and Developers (Matt Rosoff)
• How to Communicate Design Decisions to Clients (Brian D. Armstrong)

Silverlight / WPF

• Dynamically Selecting Theme in Silverlight 2 Applications (Zhiming Xue)
• Building a Silverlight Application: A Designer’s Perspective (Corrina Barber)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 1 (Christopher Bennage)
• Silverlight and Multi-Touch Tablets (Bart Czernicki)

SharePoint

• Notes on the Recently Released Infrastructure Update for SharePoint (Chandima Kulathilake)
• LINQ4SP - Query Evaluation (Daniel Leiszen)
• SharePoint Gradual Upgrade Disabled When Using a SQL Instance Named SharePoint and Database Gotchas When Upgrading SPS 2003 to MOSS (Scott Lock)

Web Development

• AJAX Panels with ASP.NET MVC (Timothy Khouri)
• Forcing Client Windows to Pop Up as Windows in Tabbed Browsers (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #23 - Use POCO LINQ to SQL Entities (Stephen Walther)
• My Thoughts on ASP.NET’s MVC (Karl Seguin)
• A Sneak Peek at ASP.NET AJAX 4.0’s Client-Side Templating (Dave Ward)

Miscellaneous

• Computer Manuals (Larry Clarkin)
• The Best Tech Tools and Fitness Plans to Get in Shape (Adam Pash)
• Metered Internet: The Death of Web Work? (Mike Gunderloy) – Link of the Day
• Looking Back - A Review of My Most Popular Blogs (Chris Love)
• Introducing Xbox LIVE Community Games (XNA Team)
• .NET Rocks! - Kirk Munro on PowerShell and PowerGUI (MS Downloads)
• BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 / WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Scalable Fabric (Sarah Perez)
• Games for Windows - LIVE Is Now FREE (Kevin Unangst)
• Building Tiny, Ultra Low Power PCs (Jeff Atwood)

SQL Server

• Introduction to Log Viewer (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: July 21, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #91 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight News for July 22, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2008 — #332 (Dave Campbell)
• WMOC#12 - Terrarium Is Back! and WSOAC#25 - REST Eye For an SOA Guy (Dilip Krishnan)
• Links (7/22/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #142 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Web Development as Tag Soup (Jeff Atwood)
• DropThings: Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal - New and Improved (Brad Abrams)
• The Weekly Source Code 30 - Spark and NHaml - Crazy ASP.NET MVC ViewEngines (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 Available (Bertrand Le Roy)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #22 - Return a View Without Creating a Controller Action (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Known Type Provider (Davy Brion)
• What a C# Coder Should Know Before They Write VB (Kathleen Dollard)
• Running Your Build/Source Code From a RAM Disk (Eric Hexter)
• Update Model - A Question of Identity - Part 1 of 3 (Lawrence Jones)
• NHibernate.LINQ with ADO.NET Data Services (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Evolution of C# Delegate Syntax From .NET 1.x to 3.5 (Bart Czernicki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Patch Management Approaches Using Centralized SCM and How a Blocking Remote Call Can Take Down an Application (Oren Eini)
• No Slow Unit Tests with xUnit.net (Ade Miller)
• Mocking Dilemma, Solved! (Davy Brion)
• The Code Reuse Myth (Brian Reindel)
• Leveraging Unit Tests as Functional Tests, Load Tests, and Service Monitors (Schalk Neethling)
• The Undercover Adventure (Part 2): I Want to Know What You Mean. What You Meant. What You Will Mean. Every Time. (Anne Botha)

Silverlight

• Check Out Our New Learn Page! (Jesse Liberty)
• Fun Silverlight Game: Crayon Cannon (Dan Fernandez)
• Silverlight 2.0 - Concepts to Become a Master Series (Part 1 - .NET/C#) and (Part 2 - WCF) (Bart Czernicki)

Events / Community / Blogging

• Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Fundamentals in Big Apple (Sam Gentile)
• Events This Week - July 21st, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Has/How/Why Tech Blogging Has Failed You (Robert Scoble)
• PEST (James Whittaker)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Declarative Data Validation Presentation - Charlotte Developers Guild (Karl Shifflett)
• Upcoming Conferences with Plenty of SharePoint Oriented Content (Lawrence)
• WordPress Tips + Things You Can Do After Installing WordPress (Amit Agarwal)

Miscellaneous

• Review: The Annoted Turing by Charles Petzold (Michael C. Neel)
• Live Mesh Updated (Sarah Perez)
• Live Mesh Tutorial: Synchronizing Messenger Plus! Skins, Scripts Etc. (Sunshine)
• Pre-Beta Mac Client for Live Mesh - Review Only (Chris)
• What I Look For in an Interview Candidate (Pete Brown)
• How to Become a Good Developer? (Gunnar Peipman) – Link of the Day

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing - July 20, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• New and Notable 255 (Sam Gentile)
• Visual Studio Links #55 (Darren Stokes)
• Weekly Links #10 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2008 — #330 and Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2008 - 2 — #331 (Dave Campbell)
• Five Minutes Past Noon Coffee 170 (Harry Pierson)
• Bookmarking the Web - w29/2008 (Erwin)
• The Morning Brew #141 (Chris Alcock)

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

.NET / Visual Studio

• Low-Lock Multi-Threading (Joe White)
• A Cross-Language Generics Trick (Ricky Clarkson)
• NMemcached: A WCF Experiment and Public vs. Published (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• How to Build a Task Scheduler System for the ASP.NET - Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• ASP.NET MVC: List Helper Extension Method (Rob Conery)
• Security Tip: Blocking Access to ASP.NET MVC Views Using Alternative View Engines (Phil Haack)
• Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to Build a Client-Side Repeater (Dave Ward)

Design / Methodology

• Architecture By Baseball: The Managers (Larry Clarkin)
• The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work (Jay Fields)

Silverlight

• Green Eggs and Ham Webcast Presentation (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight and Line of Business Applications (Shawn Wildermuth)

Miscellaneous

• Books That Changed My Life and Blog (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Microsoft Releases Tools to Address SQL Injection Attacks (Denis Gobo)
• Know Thine Product’s Language (Josh Poley)
• Presentations 2.0 (Jesse Liberty)
• ‘Robot Game’ to Be Released This Friday (XNA Team)
• Git to CodePlex (Oren Eini)
• Demo Time! 10 New Apps I Need to Try (Sarah Perez)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for June 25, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Link Listing - June 24, 2008 and Link Listing - June 25, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: June 25, 2008 and Innovation Notes: June 25, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for June 25, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #42 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2008 — #309 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #123 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology

• When Does Design Happen in Agile? (Ian Cooper)
• Does Programming to Interfaces Buy Us Anything? (Ben Northrop) - This guy’s just begging for a comment flame war. Don’t let Bellware see this one.  

Silverlight / WPF

• Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 - Part One and Part Two and Part Three and Part Four (Faisal Khan) - Nice four-part series on Silverlight animation. Link(s) of the Day.
• WPF Multipage Reports - Part II - Data Grouping (Jan Repisky)
• Revolutionizing the User Interface (Introducing MenuKiller for WPF) (Zlatan Dzinic)
• Awesome DeepZoom Demo (Pete Brown)
• Chiron (Jimmy Schementi) - "This contains Chiron.exe, the Silverlight development web server for Dynamic Languages, with a fix for the IPv4/6 issues."
• Trying Out Binding.StringFormat (Mike Hillberg)

.NET / Visual Studio

• REST Services and Metadata Endpoints in WCF and Extending WCF InstanceContext to Store Custom State (Dan Rigsby)
• What’s Wrong With this? (Alan Mendelvich) - I’m not a fan of this. Code readability issues should be resolved with proper naming conventions.
• WCF Callbacks: A Beginner’s Guide (Barry Dorrans)
• Detailed Code Metrics with NDepend (Maarten Balliauw)
• ReSharper Introspection Severity and the var Keyword (David Hayden)
• Utilizing Your .NET Projects Automated Acceptance Tests on Crystal Reports - Part 2 (Eric Landes)
• What’s on Your Entity Framework v2 Wish List? (John Papa)
• Foundations of Programming - Part 8 - Back to Basics: Exceptions (Karl Seguin)
• Fluent Interfaces and Readability (Joel Ross)
• No More null Checking on Your IEnumerables Before You Iterate Over Them (John)
• IronRuby and Rails (John Lam) - Congrats to John and the IronRuby team!

Web Development

• ViewData "dot" Notation Expressions in ASP.NET MVC (Matt Hawley)

SharePoint

• Pimp My Content Deployment Job (Stefan Goßner)
• Updating Pages Library with Default Page Content Type (Becky Bertram)
• Presentations for Introductory SharePoint Development (MS Downloads)
• One CAS Policy for Many Web Part Assemblies (Patrick Tisseghem)

Miscellaneous

• Deep Fried Bytes Podcast Is Live (Keith Elder)
• Pure Digital Flip Video Ultra Review (Scott Hanselman) - I need to get this for my wife.
• Get Your Learning On!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Holy Crap - I Like to Write Specs! (Mike Desjardins)
• Gmail Labs? (Ionut Alex Chitu)
• Automating the PowerShell Script Repository (Joel Bennett)
• Authorization and Encryption in Live Mesh (Steve Clayton)
• Turbografx Emulator Hits iPhone (Rob Beschizza) - Ok, now I officially need an iPhone.
• Strong Opinions, Weakly Held (Jeff Atwood)

Blogging / Community

• Calm Days for the .NET Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Great Podcast About the Development Community (Rhonda Tipton)
• Using FriendFeed’s Public Links (Sarah Perez)
• Community Call to Action: NOT Northwind (Scott Hanselman)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for May 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links Today (2008-05-29) (Matt Hinze)
• Squeezed Links: May 2008 (Max Pool)
• Links (5/29/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Everyman Links for May 29, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Link Listing - May 29, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #104 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day