Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some Finalizer Pitfalls and Not All Bytes Are Exactly 8 Bits (Oren Eini)
• Finalizer vs. Application: A Race Condition From Hell and Guaranteed, Finalization Order Is Not (Sasha Goldshtein)
• CBR/CBZ Comics in C# (thund3rstruck)
• ReSharper 4.0 Lambda Refactoring (David Starr)
• Countdown to F# CTP (Chris Smith)
• There’s Usually an Easier Way (Mike Hadlow)
• Extended DSL Model Explorer – Release v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Migratory Compromises (Dave Laribee)
• The Poetry of Testing and Prevention v. Cure (Part 3) (James Whittaker)
• Three Qualities That Every Piece of Code Should Have (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Going Full Circle with TDD (Kyle Baley)
• .NET Rocks! – Christian Weyer on the Internet Service Bus (MS Downloads)
• Five Questions with Kyle Larsen (Michael Hunter)
• Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History (David Starr)
• SOA Patterns Chapter 2 for Free Download (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Futures Is Out! (Vladimir Milev)
• Using CSLA Light, Part 1 and Part 2 (Rocky Lhotka)
• Expression Blend Training Resources (Frank La Vigne)
• WPF Photo Print (.NET 3.5 SP1) (Chris Cavanagh)
• Behold! Silverlight Streaming! (John Holliday)

Web Development

• Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Released (John O’Brien)
• How to Encrypt Query String Parameters in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #26 – Create a Lightweight Control View Engine (Stephen Walther)

Database

• Quick Tip: Generate Change Script for SQL Modifications (Ryan Lanciaux)
• SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Now Available (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• SQL Server Data Services (Aghy)
• SQL Server – Simple Example of Recursive CTE – Part 2 – MAXRECURSION – Prevent CTE Infinite Loop (Pinal Dave)
• SSDS Demo Code Now on CodePlex (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Magazine Articles for July (Arno Nel)
• Question to SharePoint Developers (Gunnar Peipman)

PowerShell

• DevHawk’s Slightly Useful PowerShell Configuration and Some PowerShell Scripts (Harry Pierson)

Events / Community

• Events This Week – July 28th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the Summer of Arcade and Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 Releases This Week (Larry Hryb)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Guthrie on MIX and Matthew Manela on the MSDN Code Gallery (MS Downloads)
• Cuil Shows Us How Not to Launch a Search Engine (Rafe Needleman)
• Nerd Test Results (Frank La Vigne) – My results are on my About Me page.
• Academics to Get a Glimpse of Microsoft’s Sphere (Ina Fried)
• Windows Live Wave 3: New Photo Feed Service – Windows Live FrameIt (Chris)
• IE8 and Reliability (Andy Zeigler)
• Tigerpress – A Free WordPress Theme (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2 (PhotoshopNews.com)
• The Mojave Experiment (Sunshine)
• Must-Have Software and Tools – July 2008 Edition (Tim Boland)

Link-O-Rama

• Weekly Links #11 (Grant Palin)
• Clearing a Blog Backlog (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.29 (gOODiDEA)
• Silverlight News for July 29, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
• Everyman Links for July 28, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2008 — #337 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #146 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #258 (Mike Gunderloy)

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I thought I would share this list of reference cards / cheat sheets that I have compiled over the last year or so. If I am missing any good ones, please post them in the comments.

 

• PowerShell 1.0 (Jeffrey Snover)
• PowerShell 1.0 (dzone)
• Visual C# 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster (MS Downloads)
• LINQ to SQL (Ben Hall)
• ReSharper 4 (JetBrains)
• Silverlight 2 (dzone)
• Design Patterns (dzone)
• Design Patterns (Jason McDonald)
• UML (Laurent Grégoire)
• UML (Allen Holub)
• JavaScript (Dave Child)
• jQuery Selectors (dzone)
• Getting Started with AJAX (dzone)
• MS AJAX (Jay Kimble)
• CSS (Leslie Franke)
• SQL Server (Dave Child)
• SQL Server 2005 (Simon Sheppard)
• SQL Injection (Ferruh Mavituna)
• VIM Quick Reference Card (Laurent Grégoire)
• Regular Expressions (Dave Child)
• Regular Expressions (.NET) (regexlib)
• Firefox (Leslie Franke)
• TFS Command Line (TF.exe) (Noah Coad)
• SVN (Ariejan de Vroom)
• Google Search (Nancy Blachman, Tasha Bergson-Michelson, & Jerry Peek)
• Windows XP Command Line (Simon Sheppard)
• SEO (seomoz)
• Gimp (ozh)
• Photoshop (Multiple Versions) (Trevor Morris)

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Parallel Extensions for .NET (Mike Taulty)
• Crashing WCF 3.5 JSON Services with DateTime.MinValue (Rick Strahl)
• String Usage Guidelines (David Kean)
• LINQPad – Copy HTML to Clipboard (Chris Cavanagh)
• Entity Framework: Vote of No Confidence (Brian Ellis)
• EDM Tools | Options (Part 2 of 4) (Mike Kaufman)
• MOSS 2007 Testing with VS 2008 – Response to Comments (Liam Cleary)
• .NET WeakReference: GC Knows the Best (Shafqat Ahmed)
• Agile Tools Integration – Rally Announces Integration with TFS! (Stephanie Saad)
• Visual Studio Smart Tag Expansion Tip (Phil Haack)
• P/Invoke Interop Assistant (Justin Van Patten)
• Dissecting LINQ Expression Trees – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• Reading Feeds with XLINQ (Sacha Barber)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using ASP.NET Authentication in a Web Service with Silverlight (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight Tattoo? (Frank La Vigne)
• Using the Shape Controls in Silverlight 2 Part 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Silverlight 2 Binding Modes Diagram (John Papa)
• Silverlight Desktop – Release v01.10.00 (CodePlex)
• WatermarkedTextBox for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Kathy Kam)

 

Web Development

• Announcing the Presdo API, and the Presdo iPhone 3G Contest (Presdo Blog)

 

Design / Methodology

• Automated Regression Testing: Why, What and How (Frank Kelly)
• Matrix Resource Management and Agile (Joe Ocampo)
• Revisiting the Ad-Hoc vs Stored Procedure Debate (Chris Love)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Ultimate Code Kata (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day
• Write For Us (James Avery)
• Inside the Applicant Tracking System (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• INETA Community Champions Program (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Bill Gates: Transitioning Into the Future (Charles Torre)
• What Makes Me NOT Want to Leave a Company/Client/Shop (Derik Whittaker)
• The Weekly Source Code 29 – Ruby and Shoes and the First Ruby Virus (Scott Hanselman)
• Capital Area .NET User’s Group June 24, 2008 (Sam Gentile)
• 101 Photoshop Tips in Five Minutes (Deke McClelland)

 

SQL Server

• 10 Reasons Why SQL Server 2008 Is Going to Rock (Angry Hacker)
• SQL Server 2008 – Inline Variable Assignment (Pinal Dave)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for June 23, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Interesting Finds: June 23, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the Week: June 23, 2008 (Chris Love)
• Daily Find #79 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for June 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for June 23, 2008 — #307 (Dave Campbell)
• Visual Studio Links #41 (Darren Stokes)
• The Morning Brew #121 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #235 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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Silverlight / WPF

• Did You Know It Is WPF Week on Channel 9? (Marc)
• Expression  Blend for Programmers (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF Designer: Changes and Fixes in VS2008 SP1 Beta (wcsdkteam)
• Encoding Resources for Silverlight Streaming (G. Andrew Duthie)
• CameraPanel From IdentityMine (Marlon Grech)
• Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta – Part Two (Faisal Khan)

 

.NET

• MbUnit TestFixture Attribute Is Now Optional (Jeff Brown)
• Using Where and Group in LINQ (Andrew Stopford)
• Rhino Mocks – Arrange, Act, Assert Syntax and Rhino Mocks 3.5 Beta Released (Oren Eini)
• My New Favorite Utility for .NET (Jesse Liberty)
• Reading Code Over the Telephone (Eric Lippert)
• Inline Edit Box on CodePlex and New PostBack Ritalin Beta (Dave Ward)
• .NET Framework 3.5 – Client Application Services (Saurabh Pant)
• Enterprise Library 4.0 – May 2008 (MS Downloads)
• Enterprise Library 4.0 – Get It While It’s Hot! (Tom Hollander)
• Enterprise Library 4.0 Released with Unity IoC Integration (David Hayden)
• eNurse Personal Health Record – Release: May 2008 Preview for .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta (CodePlex)
• Building a Pub/Sub Message Bus with WCF and MSMQ (Tom Hollander)
• DebuggerVisualizers in F# (Brian)
• Why Use the Entity Framework? (Danny Simmons)

 

Design / Methodology

• What Determines High Quality Code? (Casey Charlton) - Link of the Day
• Zero Friction & Maintainability (Oren Eini)
• How Is SaaS Different From ASP of the Past? (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Writing Code That You’re Proud Of (Jason Young)
• Book Review: Designing for the Social Web (Mike Gunderloy)

 

Web Development

• Intellisense for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008 (Lance Fisher)
• Enjoying Expression Web (Dave Burke)

 

Events / Community

• Programming for Windows Mobile Event at Malvern PA, May 22, 2008 (Zhiming Xue)
• DevHawk World Tour 2008 (Harry Pierson)
• 11 Top Tips For a Successful Technical Presentation (Scott Hanselman)

 

SQL Server

• What Did You Do to Master SQL? (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• LINQ4SP – Create New List Item (Agnes Molnar)
• Getting Started with SharePoint and Silverlight – Part I (Joris)

 

Miscellaneous

• Innovation at Microsoft (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Oh Yeah? Fork You! (Jeff Atwood)
• New Requirements Tool for TFS by stpsoft Ltd. – Reqsheet (Charles Sterling)
• BAM Poster for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (MS Downloads)
• Punctuality: More Than Showing Up on Time (Jason Harris)
• Looking to Get Certified on VS 2008 or SQL 2008? And Save Money? (Angela Binkowski)
• ShutterSpeed – Episode #1 Is Now Posted! (Michael Palermiti)
• New XNA Creators Club Online Web Site Coming Soon! (David Weller)
• 4 Free Digital Photography and Image Editing Resources (Samuel Dean)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Visual Studio Links #28 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: May 16, 2008 and Interesting Finds: May 17, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for May 16, 2008 and LINKBLOG for May 17, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Microsoft Oriented Crumbs #4: The Betas Are Out and Weekly SOA Crumbs #17: JavaOne Week and Weekly Software Development and Architecture Crumbs #4 (Dilip Krishnan)
• Silverlight Cream for May 16, 2008 — #276 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for May 17, 2008 (Dave Burke)

 

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Silverlight/WPF

• WPF Diagram Designer – Part 4 (Sukram)
• Get Paid For Streaming With Silverlight? (Scott)
• A Silverlight Calculator (Scott McCraw)

 

.NET

• Introduction to ADO.NET Data Services (Part 3: Reading and Manipulating Results in a .NET Consumer Application) (Greg Galipeau)
• .NET Framework 3.5 Distribution Size (Rick Strahl)
• Moq’s MockBehavior (Aaron Jensen)
• The Weekly Source Code 22 – C# and VB .NET Libraries to Digg, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Live Services, Google and other Web 2.0 APIs (Scott Hanselman)
• C# HTML Table Builder (Trev)
• NDepend – Static Analysis on Steroids (David Mohundro)
• How To: Use the Group Clause in LINQ (Corey Roth)

 

Web Development

• Using jQuery to Consume ASP.NET JSON Web Services (Dave Ward)
• ASP.NET MVC: Goodbye SmartBag, Hellow ViewDataExtensions (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Kigg – Upgraded to MIX08 ASP.NET MVC Release (Kazi Manzur)
• SubSonic BlogProvider for BlogEngine.net (Luke Nathan Foust)
• Timeline .NET (Rob Chartier) – Nice-looking timeline web control
• Using Custom BasePage Class in ASP.NET (Satheesh Babu)

 

Visual Studio

• Finding Shelve/Unshelve in Visual Studio 2008 (Charles Sterling)

 

Miscellaneous

• ZipInstaller Lets You Install Windows Apps Without an Installer (Brad Linder)
• Photoshop Express Enters Public Beta (Cristian)

 

Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for March 26, 2008 – #237 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: March 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly SOA Crumbs #12 (Dilip Krishnan)
• LINKBLOG for March 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (3/26/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #60 (Chris Alcock)

 

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