Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

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

Silverlight/WPF/Popfly

• EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo - Part 1: Propagating EntitySpaces Data (Jon Davis)
• Simplify Using 2D Graphics in WPF and Silverlight (Andrej Benedik)
• DrawingBrush and Deep Clone in Silverlight (Tamir Khason)
• Cracking Open Zip Files in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 (Josh Twist)
• Creating Music For Popfly Game Creator (Ben Anderson)
• AutoComplete for Silverlight TextBoxes (Nikhil Kothari)
• http://www.codeplex.com/sdlsdk (Jimmy Schementi)

.NET

• LINQ to XML, Namespaces and VB (Daniel Moth)
• Command-Query Separation and Immutable Builders (Matthew Podwysocki)
• What Arrays and Pointers Have in Common - or - Why Arrays Start at Zero (Karl Seguin) - Link of the Day
• Recent ADO.NET Entity Framework Provider News - Demos and Downloads (David Sceppa)
• Stream Processing XML in IronPython and Deserializing XML with IronPython (Harry Pierson)
• F# in 20 Minutes - Part I (Chris Smith)
• LINQ.Flickr 1.3 (Mehfuz)
• SharePoint as a WCF Host (Sahil Malik) - This link doesn’t appear to be working right now, but the title piqued my interest. So, I’m hoping it will be working very soon.

Visual Studio

• 11 More Visual Studio Shortcuts You Should Know (Amit Raz)
• Becoming a Jedi - Part 1 of N (James Kovacs)

Miscellaneous

• What’s Your Circle of Interest? (Paul Stovell)
• Addict-o-matic: The Newest Metasearch (Mike Gunderloy)
• 25 WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• The Bookshelf (James Kovacs)
• stackoverflow Podcast #4 (Jeff Atwood)
• Measuring Programmer Job Satisfaction (Jess)
• Office Open XML Is Now an ISO Standard! (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Blogs From the Live Mesh Team (Mesh Team)

SQL Server

• SQL Server 2005: Get Full Information About Transaction Locks (Mladen Prajdić)

PowerShell

• PowerShell + WPF (Rob Relyea)
• Next Windows PowerShell Will Have GUI, Remote Management Support (Scott M. Fulton, III)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #24 (Darren Stokes)
• Links Today (2008-05-06) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2008 — #268 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #88 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing - May 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Silverlight/WPF/Popfly

• Silverlight Attached Properties for WPF Developers (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight Behaviors (Nikhil Kothari)
• Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight (Brad Abrams)
• Binding to Anonymous Types in an Xbap or Silverlight Application (Mike Hillberg)
• Popfly Game Creator Video Tutorials (Popfly Team)
• Creating Controls in Code (Jesse Liberty)
• Developers Can Create Some Amazing Stuff Using Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio - Available for Download Now (Dave)
• Unity and Silverlight: It Can Be Done! (Chris)
• Patterns & Practices: Prism Contrib (CodePlex)
• Editing the Appearance of Actors, Scenes, etc… (Ben Anderson)
• WPF From PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

Visual Studio

• ReSharper 4.0 vs. CodeRush/Refactor! — Smack Down Results (Derik Whittaker)

.NET

• .NET Is Crap? (Chris Cavanagh)
• Entity Framework Q&A - Lazy Loading, ObjectContext, and LINQ (John Papa)
• Collection Initializer Expressions (Paul Vick)

Web Development

• Book: ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls (Joe Stagner)
• MVC Storefront, Part 8: Testing Controllers, Iteration 1 (Rob Conery)
• ASP.NET Tips: What to Gather to Troubleshoot - Part 2 - High Memory (Tom)
• Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Book (Only $16 on Amazon for a Short Time) (Scott Guthrie) - That’s only $1 for every 100 pages. I ordered my copy. I’ll be putting my copy of Pro ASP.NET 2.0 book up on Bookmooch if anyone is interested.   Link of the Day
• Contrasting Two MVC / LINQ to SQL Applications for the Web (K. Scott Allen)
• How the Flickr API Now Handles Video (Raymond Yee)
• ASP.NET Crash: StackOverflowException with Server.Transfer (Tess Ferrandez)

Design/Methodology

• Domain-Driven Design: Reading Toward Deeper Insight (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Behind Live Mesh: Live Desktop Architecture (Alex Himel)
• Protected Semantics, Part Five: More on Immutability (Eric Lippert)
• Good Code Is… (Casey Charlton)
• Understanding Model-View-Controller (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Development For the Masses (Eric Shupps)

Miscellaneous

• A Programming Job Interview Challenge #2 (Shahar Yair)
• Presdo: Twitter For Your Calendar? (Bob Walsh)
• Live Mesh Synch: How to Check Sync Progress to the Cloud (Kip Kniskern)
• MacBook Pro, iWork, Expression Studio 2 and Other Rumblings… (David Hayden)
• Subversion as a Deployment Tool (Sijin Joseph)
• Yes, You Too Can Be a Metrosexual Developer! An Interview with Justice Gray (Mike Duncan)
• How to Create SMART Tasks (Mike Gunderloy)
• Video: James Whittaker on Software Testing (Brian Keller)
• Spolsky’s Paradox (J. Kealy)
• I Updated My Resources Lists (Marc)
• Share and Annotate Web Pages in Google Reader (Alex Chitu)
• Centralizing Your WCF Configuration with Neuron ESB (David Pallmann)

Zune

• Zune Spec Video (Steve Clayton)
• Zune Multiplayer Games in Action (Adrian Covert)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-05) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 5, 2008 — #267 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight Resources (Mike Snow)
• The Morning Brew #87 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.06 (gOODiDEA)
• New and Notable 238 (Sam Gentile)
• Link Listing - May 5, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Silverlight/WPF

• Popfly Game Creator Alpha Goes Live! (Ben Anderson) - Some great info from a developer on the Popfly team… Link of the Day
• patterns & practices: Prism - Release Drop 05-02-2008 (CodePlex)
• Update to Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight Released (Dan Wahlin)
• The Story of Ruby and Python in Silverlight (Jimmy Schementi)

Web Development

• Code Based Repeater for ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• Json.NET 2.0 Released (James Newton-King)

.NET

• Smart Thread Pool - Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Remote Desktop Client Wrapper for RDP 6.1 ActiveX Control - Release v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Unit Testing Events (Patrick Klug)
• Managed Extensibility Framework (Krzysztof Cwalina)
• Unattended Installation For the .NET Framework 3.5 (Jacob Hodges)

Events/Community

• ESB Guidance Webcast Next Friday (May 9th 2008) (Brian Loesgen)
• PDC 2008 Conference Scheduling Using a Genetic Algorithm (Mike Swanson)

Miscellaneous

• Twitter 101: Clarifying the Rules for Newbies (Corvida)
• Neuron ESB Management Experience (David Pallmann)
• Scale and Performance Lessons Learned From a Live Deployment and SearchBeta Hardware Configuration (Dan Blood)
• Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo! Offer: Full Text of Ballmer Letter to Yang and Yahoo! Responds to Withdrawal - Issues Statement (Kip Kniskern)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight Cream for May 3, 2008 - #265 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2008 - 2 - #266 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.04 (gOODiDEA)
• Innovation Notes: May 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Silverlight/WPF

• Keeping Up With Silverlight (Dave Campbell)
• Expression Studio 2 Ready For Download (John Papa)

Popfly

• Popfly Introduces Game Creator Alpha (Popfly Team)
• Video: First Look at Popfly Game Creator Alpha (Adam Nathan & Suzanne Hansen) - Link of the Day
• Popfly Game Creator Alpha Launches! (Dan Fernandez)
• Popfly Game Creator! (What I’ve Been Doing the Last 6 Months) (Adam Nathan)
• Why Build a Game Creator? (John Montgomery)

Web Development

• MVC Storefront, Part 7: Helpers and Routing and Part 8: Testing Controllers, Iteration 1 (Rob Conery)

.NET

• Video: XNA Framework Games Running on Zune (Mike Klucher)
• 10 Tips to Improve Your LINQ to SQL Application Performance (Sidar Ok)
• IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 (Harry Pierson)
• Adventures in F# - F# 101 Part 9 (Control Flow) (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Help and IntelliSense for the Expression Encoder Object Model (deanro)
• How the Garbage Collector Works - Part 1 and Part 2 (dotnetfacts)

Design/Methodology

• Composition vs. Inheritance… (Jay Kimble)
• When to Make an Action Invisible or Disabled (Dan Rigsby)
• How to Not Screw Up Your Application Object Model - Don’t Go All OOP on Me! (Keith Elder)

Blogging

• Minor Spaces Update, and More From Windows Live Blogs (Kip Kniskern)
• Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict (Sarah Perez)
• RFC: OpenTweets - Why Is Microblogging Centralized? (Scott Hanselman)
• Witty Twitter 0.1.8.3 Published (Keith Elder)
• ReMIX Bling For My Blog (Philip Beadle)
• Snooze Chatty Twitter Friends (Gina Trapani)

SharePoint

• My Personal Web Part Project (Liam Cleary)
• Colleagues, Social Distance & Relevance in People Search, and other Social Networking tools in SharePoint (Mark Arend)
• New “stsadm -o updatealert” Command in the SharePoint Administration Kit (Mike Walsh)
• Some SP 2007 Books at Bargain Prices! (Mike Walsh)

SQL Server

• Testing for SQL Server Vulnerabilities (Denis Gobo)

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell v2 CTP 2 (MS Downloads)
• Announcing the Release of Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) of Windows PowerShell v2 (Hemant Mahawar)

Miscellaneous

• I Am Not a Technical Writer (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Web Worker 101: Cashflow Management (Mike Gunderloy)
• Microsoft’s Cloud Jigsaw (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft Pro Photo Tools (Mark Harrison)
• Neuron-ESB 2.0 Ships! (Brian Loesgen)
• Map Your Mind 2.0 (Rafe Needleman)
• Free Full Version of WinRAR 3.62 (Windows) (slickdeals) - I know some people prefer 7zip these days, but I’m still a WinRAR guy.

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 2, 2008 and Interesting Finds: May 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #23 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for May 2, 2008 - #264 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 236 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.03 (gOODiDEA)
• Link Listing - May 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day