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

.NET / Visual Studio

• Expert 2008 Business Objects Tentative TOC (Rocky Lhotka)
• Project Anti-Patterns: Many projects in a Visual Studio Solution File (Chad Myers)
• Rules for CLR Add-Ins Contract and View Assemblies (Patrick Smacchia)
• IronPython 1.1.2 RC (Harry Pierson)
• .NET-Fu: Zero Delay Signing of an Unsigned Assembly (Schalk Neethling)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #20 - How to Unit Test Data Access (Stephen Walther)
• West Wind Ajax Toolkit Updated (Rick Strahl)
• New Modules for IIS7: Application Request Routing - Proxy and Load Balancing Module (Scott Hanselman)
• National Public Radio to Launch NPR API (Andres Ferrate)

Silverlight

• Tip of the Day #18: How to Set Browser Cookies (Mike Snow)
• CSLA Light Preview Release (Rocky Lhotka)
• Creating a Simple Pivot Table Using LINQ and RadTreeView for Silverlight (Emil Stoychev)

Design / Methodology

• Architecture by Baseball: Jargon (Larry Clarkin)
• Silver Bullet Anti-Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• Object-Firster or Data-Firster: DDD Is for CRUD Apps (Jarod Ferguson)
• What Is More Important - Design or Content? (Tom)

Events / Community

• Events This Week (G. Andrew Duthie)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2007 Infrastructure Update Released (Michael Watson)
• Using Regular Expressions to Build SPList Collections (Adam Buenz)
• PowerShell Building Blocks for SharePoint: Initial Release (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Learning Erlang - Erlang Gaining Momentum (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Joining Microsoft (Hamilton Verissimo)
• The Ultimate Software Gold Plating (Jeff Atwood)
• Xbox 360 New Xbox Experience Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Grouping in XQuery (Erik Wilde)
• Wordpress Fun: A Free Wordpress Theme (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open (Sunshine)
• Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008 (John Biggs)
• The Undercover Adventure (Part 1): Being a User Is Hard! (Anne Botha)
• Osla: Road to Microsoft’s Cloud (Darryl K. Taft)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 15, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Interesting Finds: July 15, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #90 (Tim Boland)
• Morning Coffee 168 (Harry Pierson)
• LINKBLOG for July 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #52 (Darren Stokes)
• Links (7/15/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2008 — #325 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing - July 15, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #137 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for July 16, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Prism and Caliburn’s Future (Rob Eisenberg)
• Expression Encoder SDK Now Available (Pete Brown)
• Popup Control and Beta 2 Tutorials Available Now in PDF (Jesse Liberty)
• Browser Resize - How to Capture the Size of Your Browser When It Is Resized and Dynamically Loading and Display Images in Beta 2 and What’s New with Silverlight Tools Beta 2 (Mike Snow)
• What’s Changed in Silverlight 2 Beta 2? and Upgrading Your Silverlight 2 Projects to Beta 2 and Using ADO.NET Data Services in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Sites and Debugging ADO.NET Data Services… with Fiddler 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Available Plus Refreshed Screencasts (Mike Taulty)
• WPF GlassEffect for Non-Vista OS (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released, Now MSN Toolbar Works (Kip Kniskern)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Data Dude Extensibility - How IBM Integrated DB2 Into Visual Studio and Architecture Modeling in Rosario with Peter Provost (David Starr)
• Using the Visual Studio Tools for the Office System Power Tools v1.0.0.0 (Andrew Whitechapel)
• LINQ DataContext Logging with the Logging Application Block (Ade Miller)
• Functional C# Revisited - Into the Great Void (Matthew Podwysocki)
• VSX Developer Center Update - June 2008 (VSX Team)
• uCertify M70-533: Upgrade MCSD.NET Skills to MCPD Enterprise Developer Using C# Exam Preparation Kit (Muhammad M. Mosa Soliman)
• Give Way to the yield Keyword (Shay Friedman)
• Higher Order Function Demo (Justin Etheredge)

Web Development

• MVC + Facebook == Wonderful Development Platform (Nick Berardi)
• 5 Developer Add-Ons for Firefox 3 (Mike Gunderloy)
• How to Create a Package for Graffiti (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Design / Methodology

• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 7 of N (Sam Gentile)
• Creating a Culture of Quality (John Teague)

SharePoint

• Multiple RSS Aggregator Web Part Example (Zlatan Dzinic)
• SharePoint Quick Surveys 1.0.1 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Miscellaneous

• Opera 9.5 Web Browser Gets a New Look (Brad Linder)
• 10 Tips for Working with the Not-So-Tech-Savvy (Celine Roque)
• How to Be Jeff Atwood (Leon Bambrick)
• Microsoft Videos - Official News, Demos, How-To’s and More (Chris)
• Run Xbox Media Center From a USB Drive (Kevin Purdy)
• Xbox Jobs: Developers in Test (Josh Poley)
• Cube Desktop (Mike Taulty)
• The Greatest Invention in Computer Science (Jeff Atwood)

Events / Community

• Followup to Testing with Mocks (Wendy Friedlander)
• TechEd 2008 Notes: The Gentle Art of Pair Programming (Joe White)

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing - June 5, 2008 and Link Listing - June 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: June 6, 2008 and Interesting Finds: June 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight News for June 6, 2008 #2 (Emil Stoychev)
• Everyman Links for June 5, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Links Today (2008-06-06) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #76 (Tim Boland)
• Cool Links for Programmers (Shahar Abramovich)
• LINKBLOG for June 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for June 06, 2008 — #292 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Of Logical and Visual Trees in WPF (Mike Hillberg) - Link of the Day
• WPF Multipage Reports - Part I (Jan Repisky)
• PowerShell and WPF: WTF and WPF & PowerShell - Part 5 (Using WPF & PowerShell Modules) (James Brundage)
• Silverlight Training Videos (Sarah Perez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• We’re Talking Past Each Other on the Entity Framework (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Microsoft Source Analysis (Chris Brandsma)
• Writing Your Own Rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (Tobias Hertkorn)
• HowTo: Configure Microsoft Source Analysis (John Rudolf Lewis)
• Some LINQ Tricks (Papenoo pa)
• Return Within a C# Using Statement (Brendan Enrick)
• The Future of .NET, Visual Studio and More (Joni Moilanen)

Web Development

• Ending a Response Without Response.End() Exceptions? (Rick Strahl)

SharePoint

• LINQ4SP - Delete a List Item (Agnes Molnar)
• Super Easy Way to Add WCF to SharePoint 2007 (Sahil Malik)
• SharePoint Solutions Rant (Martin Hinshelwood)

Miscellaneous

• Feedbacks on Waegis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Book Review: C# in Depth (Patrick Smacchia) - I love this book.
• The Illusion of Technically Competent Managers (Max Pool)
• Pizza Hut Hops Onto the Adobe AIR Bandwagon (Jay Hathaway) - Does this mean Papa John’s will go with Silverlight?
• 6 Resources For Free Images (Mike Gunderloy)
• New Version of IE7 Pro Released and Tweet Your Xbox Live Status (Sarah Perez)

Blogging / Events / Community

• Forget About the Target on Your Back (John Papa)
• Massey University XNA Presentation (John-Daniel Trask)

SQL Server

• What’s Worse Than a Table Scan? (Kalen Delaney)

Link-O-Rama

• New and Notable 245 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2008 — #282 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (5/25/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Everyman Links for May 25, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• What’s in the .NET Framework Client Profile? (Pete Brown)
• Understanding InstanceContext in WCF (Dan Rigsby)
• Is the ADO.NET Team Abondoning LINQ to SQL? (Roger Jennings)
• How to Test C# Code Without Running an Application (Marlon Grech)
• What Is the Future of C# Anyways? (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Announcing the Release of Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (Jason Allor) - Link of the Day

Web Development

• How to Build Your Very Own Provider Model - Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate and Spring (CodePlex)
• Firebug 1.2 - Good News for Web Devs (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVC Storefront, Part 11: Hooking Up the Shopping Cart and Components and Part 12: Mocking (Rob Conery)

Silverlight / WPF

• Brightness and Contrast Manipulation in WPF 3.5 SP1 (Tamir Khason)
• RemoteLINQ - How to Make Your LINQ Span the Globe (Joseph Ferner)
• WPF Property Grid (Shahar Yair)
• Windowing Demo for Silverlight 2 Beta (Tim Rule)
• Silverlight Interoperability (Wilco Bauwer)
• WPF & PowerShell — Part 3 (Handling Events) (James Brundage)

Blogging / Community / Events

• BlogAmp - Podcasting Made Easy? (Jay Hathaway)
• MSDN GeekSpeak on Wednesday May 28 - Connecting Silverlight 2 (Pete Brown)
• ScribbleLive: Liveblogging Doesn’t Get Much Easier (Brad Linder)
• A Clear Blog Purpose Will Make or Break Your Blog (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Coming Soon - Better HDI Videos? (Jesse Liberty)

Miscellaneous

• Guitar Hero 4 Guitar to Have More Buttons? (Jesus Diaz)
• Windows 7 to Add Native Support for Virtual Hard Disks (Sumeeth Evans)
• Proud to Be a Geek? (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Book Review: Managing Humans, by Michael Lopp (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Control uTorrent Downloads from Facebook with Morrent (Josh Lowensohn)
• Synchronizing Favorites with Live Mesh (Adam Kinney)
• This Is Not a Bug (David Starr) - That is a great idea. I may have to be a copycat.
• Interview with Craig Freedman About Indexing, Query Plans and Performance (Denis Gobo)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 23, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-23) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News - 2008/05/23 (Rob Relyea)
• LINKBLOG for May 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing - May 23, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day