Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

WPF

• Sample Series - IDataErrorInfo and the Infragistics xamDataGrid (Karl Shefflett)
• Effects in .NET 3.5 SP1 for WPF (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to Convert List(T1) to List(T2) (Shahar Abramovich)
• Concurrency with MPI in .NET (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Error Occurs Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta If KB944899 Is Installed (MS WebDevTools) - I was lucky enough to encounter this error. I worked through it and did finally get SP1 installed.
• Using Debugging Tools From CodePlex (Tom)
• Delegates and Lambda (Josh Twist)
• Web PDF Library Search (Richard Minerich)
• Use Visual Studio’s Post-Build Events to Automate Unit Testing Running (Brian Cook)
• Splitting a Generic List<T> Into Multiple Chunks (Chinh Do)

Events / Community

• LinkedIn CodePlex Developers Group (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Speaking at Philly.NET Code Camp 2008.1 (Rachel Appel)
• MIX 08 Sessions Available in New Dual-Stream Versions Using Silverlight (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Methodology

• Domain-Driven Design: Supple Design Patterns Series (Jimmy Bogard)
• Bad Code Is Bad Even For the Best Developers (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why Do We Refactor? (Jeremy D. Miller) - Link of the Day
• Lines of Code as a Measure of Progress (Casey Charlton)
• The Easy Way to TDD (Steven Harman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Update (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Adobe Flash Player 10 Public Beta Now Open (Tim Conneally)
• The Quarter-Million Dollar Query (Michael Janke)
• Flash Takes It Up a Notch! (or Two… Maybe Three…) (Rob Eisenberg)
• I Finally Get Git (Jeremy D. Miller)
• TeamCity Lessons Learned (Build Trophy For Sale) (Peter Pascale)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #68 (Tim Bogard)
• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-15) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2008 — #275 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (5/15/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• LINKBLOG for May 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing - May 15, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #95 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 242 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

My Anna Banana is 4 today. Cupcake party at preschool… yum!

.NET

• Mutating Readonly Structs (Eric Lippert)
• XLinq’n in the New World - Speed Comparison with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)
• Video: Building an Inventory Screen with TDD (Ben Scheirman & Chad Myers)
• DataContracts and Object References (Aaron Skonnard)
• What’s New in the SP1 Beta for LINQ to SQL (ADO.NET Team)
• Can’t Find the Entity Data Source? (Diego Vega)
• Finally, a SelectedItems Option (yaaay) (Ian Suttle)
• AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft v2 in the Works (Dan Fernandez)
• Scribd.Net - Release 2008.03.17.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Dear Developers, Don’t Hardcode Copyright Years (David Walsh)
• MVC Storefront, Part 10: Shopping Cart Refactoring and Membership (Rob Conery)
• Working with the GridView and the System.Data.Linq.Binary Type (Dan Wahlin)
• Google Doctype - Documenting the Open Web (Google) (via DotNetKicks)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Visualization Application: NFL Free Agency Movement (Pete Brown)
• First Moonlight Release (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Regex and WPF (Will)
• WebCam Control for WPF - Initial Release and Silverlight Controls Library - Initial Release (CodePlex)

Events / Community

• ALT.DayOf.NET? (Steven Harman)

PowerShell

• Doug Finke’s Amazing 7 Minute C# => PowerShell Demo and TIOBE: PowerShell on Its Way to the Top 20 (Programming Languages) (Jeffrey Snover)
• WPF From PowerShell - Something Useful (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Software Developers Never Change (Nick Berardi)
• Xbox 360 Spring Update to Include Motion Control and Game Install Support? (Joshua Fruhlinger)
• Gears of War 2 for Xbox 360 Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• A Good List of Mobile Optimized Websites (Amit Chopra)
• Measuring Progress (Casey Charlton)
• The 4 Core Principles of Agile Programming (Joe Winchester)
• ALT.NET Podcast - Management Crisis! (Andrew Tokeley)
• Creating Your Visual Online Identity (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Neuron ESB Channel Model (David Pallmann)

SharePoint

• LINQ4SP - Simple Query (Agnes Molnar)

Career

• How to Become a Development Team Leader (Andrew Tokeley) - Link of the Day

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 14, 2008 and Innovation Notes: May 14, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-14) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for May 14, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.15 (gOODiDEA)
• May 15th: Posts I Liked (Manish Agrawal)
• Link Listing - May 14, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• New and Notable 241 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

More SP1 == More Gooder

• Growing List of Content About WPF 3.5 SP1 (Rob Relyea)
• .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta: Changes Overview (Patrick Smacchia) - Some metrics.
• Using Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta With Silverlight (Dave)
• DataContracts Without Attributes (POCO Support) in .NET 3.5 SP1 (Aaron Skonnard)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 “Background Compiling” for C# (David Hayden)
• Video: WPF 3.5 SP1 Graphics with David Teitlebaum (Adam Kinney)

.NET

• Beware of List.Find() (Shahar Abramovich)
• Is IQueryable the Right Choice For Me? (Bart De Smet)
• Free .NET 3.5 and .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kits (J. Barnes)
• The ALT.NET Podcast! (Dave Laribee)
• Beyond Mocks - The Partial (Karl Seguin)
• The Power of Programming with Attributes (K. Scott Allen)
• Quickly Copy Rows From DataReader to DataTable (Srinath)
• 10 Tips to Improve Your LINQ to SQL Application Performance (Sidar Ok)
• Building an F# Powered Indexing System (Part 2) (Kurt)
• XLinq’n in the New World - Structure Modification Comparisons with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)
• Lazy Instantiation One-Liner of Instance Fields with the Coalesce Operator (Frank-Leonardo Quednau)

Web Development

• Using AjaxRepeater Control, ASP.NET AJAX (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• Dynamic Data Website: Setting Selection in a List From the URL (Anh Phan)
• DefaultDotAspx.com: A Knowledge Base About ASP.NET and Other Topics (via DotNetKicks)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Best Practices: Decoupling Behavior From the View (Marco De Sanctis)
• Silverlight 2 Programming: The Designer Rule (Jay Kimble)
• Silverlight 2 ListBox Abuse (Pete Brown)
• How to Add a MouseDoubleClick Event to Any WPF Control (Amit Raz)

Events / Community

• Factoids on Philly Code Camp This Saturday (Sam Gentile) - Really wish I was able to go, but it’s my daughter, Anna’s 4th birthday party.

Design / Methodology

• MVP & MVC Simply Put (Andrew Stopford)
• Behavior Driven Development: As Human As Possible (Leon Bambrick) - Link of the Day
• Whiteboard Wednesday: The Probability of Getting Tasks Done (Max Pool)
• Is HTML a Humane Markup Language? (Jeff Atwood)

Miscellaneous

• Tests for Husbands and Wives (Tiabla on flickr) - Ah, the good old days…
• Free Designer Templates for Office 2007 and Bill Gates Talks Windows 7… Again (Paul Thurrott)
• Computer Programming: Art, Science or Both? (Jon Erickson)
• I Can Has Manbabies?!? (Justin Yu)
• Software’s Classic Mistakes - 2008 (Steve McConnell)
• Grape: A New Desktop (Thom Holwerda)
• Architect Team Blog Roll (Charles Sterling)
• stackoverflow Podcast #5 (Jeff Atwood)
• Running Challenge for .NET Developers (Simone Chiaretta)
• A Jedi Mesh (Steve Clayton)
• Topic Networks: How Neuron ESB Implements Publish-Subscribe (David Pallmann)
• Squilbo SQL Tool Needs Beta Testers! (Tobin Harris)
• Xbox 360 Spring Update Bringing 80 New Functions? (Mark Wilson)

Link-O-Rama

• Visual Studio Links #27 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: May 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-13) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for May 13, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (5/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.14 (gOODiDEA)
• Link Listing - May 13, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #93 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

The blogosphere is buzzing about the VS2008/.NET 3.5 SP1 Beta.

SP1 Beta Chatter

• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta (Scott Guthrie)  - Link of the Day
• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 “SP1″ Beta (Brad Abrams)
• WCF Features/Improvements in .NET 3.5 SP1 & VS 2008 SP1 (Aaron Skonnard)
• VS 2008 Service Pack 1 News (Frank La Vigne) - Some info about the changes/enhancements in WPF.
• Introducing the Third Major Release of Windows Presentation Foundation (Tim Sneath)
• Introducing JScript Formatting in VS 2008 SP1 (Nichole Baker & Jeff King)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta (WebDevTools)
• VS2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta - Should You Fear This Release? (Scott Hanselman)
• WPF 3.5 SP1 Beta Release Results in WPF Week on Channel 9 (Adam Kinney)
• ADO.NET Data Services Framework Beta 1 Released (Marcelo)
• What’s New in the SP1 Beta? (ADO.NET Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The LINQ SelectMany Operator (Justin Etheredge)
• Thinking Concurrently in .NET (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Connected Component Labeling in F# (Brian)
• XLinq’n in the New World - Data Manipulation Comparisons with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Example Apps (Daniel Moth)
• Flow Diagram for Silverlight Cross-Domain Policy Checks (W. Kevin Hazzard) (via Frank)
• GPU-Accelerated Custom Effects For WPF and Using Effects in WPF (Part 2) and More Details on How Effects Work and Writing Custom GPU-Based Effects For WPF (Greg Schechter)
• IE8 Beta 1 Breaks Image Download in WPF Applications (LearnWPF)
• Silverlight Desktop (CodePlex) - “Allows you to dynamically load Silverlight controls into a resizable draggable window.”
• How to AddRange/RemoveRange in Silverlight ObservableCollection<T>? and DrawingBrush for Silverlight 2.0 (Tamir Khason)
• A Silverlight Beginning - The Verdict (Anthony Grace)

Web Development

• JSON Services in ASP.NET Ajax (Javier Crespo Alvez)
• Using the Unit of Work-Per-Request Pattern in ASP.NET MVC (Andrew Peters)

SharePoint

• Announcing: Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint - Developer User Guide and SharePoint Developer MSDN Web Cast Series (Paul Andrew)
• LINQ4SP - Code Generator (Agnes Molnar)
• How We Did It: Building a News Workbench on MOSS 2007 for Microsoft’s Corporate Intranet Portal (Sean Squires)

Miscellaneous

• Screencasts with Community Clips (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Introducing Waegis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• How to Create a Virtual Machine From a Physical One (Tom)
• gReader Comments Add Disqus Comments to Google Reader (Brad Linder)
• The Power of Peer Referrals (Jenneth Orantia)
• Hands On: A Week With Xobni (Scott Blitstein)
• Google Friend Connect: What’s the Point? (Mike Gunderloy)
• Google Friend Connect (Paul Thurrott)
• The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection - Part II (Bob McIlree)
• Cleaing Your Display and Keyboard (Jeff Atwood)
• Book: Working Effectively With Legacy Code (Steven Smith)
• SOA Modeling Datasheet (MS Downloads)
• WorldWide Telescope: The Universe at Your Fingertips (Rob Knies)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2008 — #272 and Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2008 - 2 — #273 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: May 12, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #26 (Darren Stokes)
• Links Today (2008-05-12) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #67 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.13 (gOODiDEA)
• Link Listing - May 12, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #92 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #206 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Silverlight

• Dispatch My Stuff to the Right Thread (Dino Esposito)
• Silverlight For the Enterprises - Fundamentals (Hanu Kommalapati)

.NET

• Two LINQ to SQL Myths (K. Scott Allen)
• XLinq’n in the New World - Data Access Comparisons with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)
• Slightly Different Way to Assert That Exceptions Are Thrown (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• AddItem Extension Method for BulletedList, CheckBoxList, DropDownList, ListBox, RadioButtonList (Raj) - For those who miss the AddItem method from their VB6 days.
• Hacking IronRuby (Oleg Tkachenko)
• Peek at Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Christin Boyd)

SharePoint

• Getting Started with SharePoint Development (Paul Andrew)
• Add DOC to PDF and Other Conversions to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Aspose)
• Migrating From CMS2002 to MOSS 2007: XML Placeholder Controls (Joris Poelmans)
• Synchronizing OneNote 2007 and WSS 3.0 (Mike Walsh)

Web Development

• JavaScript: The Good Parts - Book Review (Sergio Pereira)
• Exposing Windows Workflow as Web Services (Prabhjot Bakhsi)
• The Most Used JavaScript Library Is… jQuery (Simone Chiaretta) - According to a css-tricks.com survey.

SQL Server

• Introducing Database Security (Ken Downs)

Miscellaneous

• Upcoming Events of Note (John Musser)
• Phil Haack Is Stealing My Thunder (Max Pool) - Max, what font did you use in your awesome ‘rendering’?   
• XML: The Angle Bracket Tax (Jeff Atwood) - Link of the Day

Link-O-Rama

• LINKBLOG for May 11, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links Today (2008-05-11) (Matt Hinze)
• Interesting Finds: May 11, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links (5/11/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.12 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #91 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 41 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Link Listing - May 11, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Double Shot #205 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day