Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Poll Results: Threading, Mock Frameworks and Unit Test Frameworks (Roy Osherove)
• Presumed Hostile - Your Application Is Out to Get You (Michael Janke)
• Lessons That I Learned From Waegis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Using an ORM? Think Objects! (K. Scott Allen)
• The Blame Game: How Necessary Is Traceability? (Max Pool)
• Understanding Dependency Injection (Mohammad Azam)
• Using Flip Video’s Mino for Programming (Mike Riley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting Them to Play Nice (Part 3) (Tom Hollander)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1) (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Building a Configuration Binder for MEF with POCO Support (Sidar Ok)
• Doing Nothing in .NET (Chris Love)
• IsNull Extension Method (Steven Smith)
• LINQ Farm: More on Set Operators (Charlie Calvert)
• ASP.NET Client Side State Management - Hidden Fields (Gil Fink)

Events / Community

• Community Megaphone Silverlight Map (Frank La Vigne)
• Philly.NET - An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight - July 16th (Community Megaphone)
• Philly ALT.NET Meeting - Building Maintainable Applications with WPF - July 17th (Community Megaphone)
• Learning NHibernate? Join the Email List with 600 Other Users (Jeffrey Palermo)

SharePoint

• FarPoint Has Released Their Spread Control for SharePoint (Bob Mixon)
• GetActiveFeatureDefinitions - A SharePoint PowerShell Function (Darrin Bishop)
• SharePoint Toolbox - Release: Project Site v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 - Introduction to SPARSE Columns - Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 13, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight News for July 14, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• LINKBLOG for July 13, 2008 and LINKBLOG for July 14, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Link Post 50 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links #9 (Grant Palin)
• Links (7/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: July 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #135 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #51 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

Requirements Debate

• It’s Not the Client’s Job to Know What He Needs - It’s Our Job to Find Out (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Doctors We Ain’t (Dave Laribee)

Design / Methodology

• Separation of Concerns By Example: Part 4 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Ward Bell and I Wade Into O/R Mapping Issues (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How Microsoft’s p&p Teams Do Daily Standup Meetings (Ade Miller)
• Too Much Quality (Jacob Proffitt)
• Enterprise Architect - Joke or Joker? (Richard Veryard)
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Read-Write Cache and Practical Concurrency Patterns: Thread-Local Cache (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Channel 9 - C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team (Granville Barnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• #region. Sliced Bread or Sliced Worms? (Eric Gunnerson)
• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code (Matthew Podwysocki) – Link of the Day
• Anonymous Delegates, How I Love Thee (Josh Twist)
• Very Simple .NET Thumbnail Creation Code (Brad Abrams)
• CLR Security Team CodePlex Site (Shawn F.)
• Looking at EF Performance - Some Surprises (Julie Lerman)
• Mocking Expensive Template Methods (Davy Brion)
• Back to Basics - Everyone Remember Where We Parked (That Memory)! (Scott Hanselman)
• 5 Things I Like Better About NetBeans Than Visual Studio (Jim Hoffman)
• Scrubbing Null Values From a DataReader (John Papa)
• How to Navigate Around Your Code in Visual Studio (Ged Mead)
• Mastering F# Lists (Chris Smith)
• Identity Framework for .NET (René Løhde)
• MSDN Code Gallery - Functional C# - Release: v0.1 (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight / WPF

• Learning WPF with BabySmash - MVC or MVP and the Benefits of a Designer (Scott Hanselman)
• How About Some LIVE Silverlight Service Debugging? (Tim Heuer)
• Animation Hands on Lab for Silverlight 2 (Adam Kinney)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #17 - How to Run an ASP.NET MVC Application (Stephen Walther)
• SubSonic: New Code Samples and a SubStage Walkthrough (Rob Conery)
• Static Singletons for ASP.NET Controls (Rick Strahl)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 - Introduction to SPARSE Columns (Pinal Dave)
• Installing Clustered SQL Servers - Outline, Checklists, Document Sheets (Chad Boyd)
• Observations on Embedded Databases (Oren Eini)

Events / Community

• Community Megaphone Plug-In for Windows Live Writer (Frank La Vigne)
• Find Nearby Events with Windows Live Writer Search Mobile and Community Megaphone (G. Andrew Duthie)
• NINE Questions with Rachel Appel (Chris Williams)

Miscellaneous

• My First-Hand Experience with Microsoft Surface (Archis Gore)
• The Saga of an Ultimate Virtualization Rig: Part 3 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows XP Ain’t the Only OS Retiring This Year: Goodbye Windows 3.11 (Brad Linder)
• The Phone Screen (Alex Mueller)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #87 (Tim Boland)
• Link Listing - July 9, 2008 and Link Listing - July 10, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Double Shot #245 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2008 - Early Edition (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (7/10/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Visual Studio Links #49 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #134 (Chris Alcock)

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

• Free Visual Studio Plugin to Format Your Mark-Up (Joe Stagner)
• Extending WCF InstanceContext to Store Custom State (Dan Rigsby) - Part 2 in Dan’s series on WCF InstanceContext.
• Basic Audio Library (CodePlex)

Web Development

• 30 Websites to Follow If You’re Into Web Development (Jacob Gube)

WPF / Silverlight

• Using ViewModels and DataTemplates to Compose Your UI (Glenn Block)
• WPF & PowerShell — Part 4 (XAML & Show-Control) (James Brundage)

Miscellaneous

• ALT.NET Podcast EP2 on Microsoft (Chad Myers) - Link of the Day
• Videos - Interim Opinions… (Jesse Liberty)
• Help Improve CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• Windows 7 to Make Appearance at D6 Conference (Long Zheng)
• Twitter Features That Should Exist for Enterprise Social Networking (Rob Foster)
• SharePoint 2007 Post-SP1 Fixes (Spencer Harbar)
• Zefty - Online Allowance and Money Management For Kids (via Go2Web2.0)
• Move Over Twhirl, Alert Thingy, Feedalizr Is in Town (Duncan Riley)
• Episode 97: Interview Anders Hejlsberg (Markus Völter)
• 20 Top Add-Ons That Are Ready For Firefox 3 (Deb Richardson)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.24 and Interesting Finds: 2008.05.25 (gOODiDEA)
• LINKBLOG for May 24, 2008 and LINKBLOG for May 25, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• WCF Security Resources (J.D. Meier) - A great collection of WCF links.

Book of the Day