Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Design / Methodology

• Rik on Design Patterns and Deep Fried DDD (Dave Laribee)
• Domain Driven Design and Sometimes Integration Tests Are Most Important (Gunnar Peipman)

Silverlight

• Telerik RadControls for Silverlight 2 CTP 2 Release (Ilia Iordinov)
• Silverlight Control Model: Its Philosophy and Power (Corey Miller)
• Tip of the Day #19: Using Isolated Storage (Mike Snow)
• Making SL2 Video Player an Encoder Template (Tim Heuer) – Link of the Day
• [The Global] War on Terrier (Avi Pilosof)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 121 - LineRider - Porting a Flash Game to Silverlight 2 (Scott Hanselman)
• Custom ContentControl Using VisualStateManager (Denislav Savkov)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Sela Technology Center Course: .NET Performance, Internals and Debugging (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Reintroducing Terrarium, Now with 2.0 Goodness! (Bil Simser)
• Looking for Updated Documentation on Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta? (Marc)
• Recursing Into List Processing (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Learning Opportunity - .NET Terrarium Is Back! (Scott Hanselman)
• Some Extension Methods for DateTime (Gunnar Peipman)
• Set Based Operations in ADO.NET Data Services (Phani Raj)
• Using Lambdas to Get at Properties (Christopher Bennage)
• July ‘08 TFS Power Tool Preview (Brian Harry)
• Review of NDepend (Nick Berardi)
• Running Applications in IronRuby (Justin Etheredge)
• IronPython Post 2.0 Roadmap (Harry Pierson)

Web Development

• Yes, It’s That Easy to Get Hacked (Rachel Appel)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 - Using Ajax and Ajax.Form (Scott Hanselman)
• Notes on ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4 (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4: ComponentController Is Now RenderAction and MVC Storefront Part 17: Checkout with Jeff Atwood (Rob Conery)
• Displaying Detail Records for User-Selected Master Records - Saving the User’s Search Preferences (Scott Mitchell)
• Testing TempData in ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 (Matt Hinze)

SharePoint

• Learn How to Develop on SharePoint (Marc)
• SharePoint Magazine Is Live (Darrin Bishop)
• .NET Rocks! - Sahil Malik Shares the Point (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Me + MEF = A New Beginning (Glenn Block)
• stackoverflow Podcast #14 (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft Opens Up Live Mesh for Basic Mobile Access (Chris Overd)

Link-O-Rama

• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Links Collection (Simone Chiaretta)
• WMOC#11 - Zermatt! and WSOAC#24 - Protocol Buffers? RPC? Are We Going Back in Time? and WSDAC#11 - Model Driven Software Development (Dilip Krishnan)
• LINKBLOG for July 16, 2008 and LINKBLOG for July 17, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2008 — #326 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #138 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #250 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links of the Week July 16th 2008 (Chris Love)
• Silverlight News for July 17, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Interesting Finds: July 17, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 252 (Sam Gentile)

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

• How to Learn Silverlight (John Stockton)
• Using LINQ to XML in Silverlight 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
• CSLA Light Data Portal Options (Rocky Lhotka)
• WPF Expression Blend 2 Tutorial: WPF Manufacturing Gauge Fan Custom Control (Steve Low)

Design / Methodology

• Trust & Transparency (Mo Khan)
• The Wonderful Awful Browser (Ken Downs)
• Obsolete in Isolation (Oren Eini)
• Model Driven Software Development and MDSD and DSL (Martin Fowler)
• My Guide to Effective Test Driven Development (Davy Brion)
• Maybe Normalizing Isn’t Normal (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day
• How I Use Hungarian Notation? (Gunnar Peipman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Parallel Extension Like Functionality Added to the Dizzy - Functional List Library and Getting IronRuby Up and Running (Justin Etheredge)
• Integrating Castle Windsor and NHibernate with WCF - Throwing the WCF Facility and Some Rhino Tools in the Mix (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Announcing the .NET Extension Library (Karl Seguin)
• Optimizing LINQ Queries (K. Scott Allen)
• Visual Studio IronPython Integration Deep Dive (MSDN Code Gallery)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #19 - Use the nVelocity View Engine (Stephen Walther)
• Make Routing Ignore Requests for a File Extension (Phil Haack)
• The Future of ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward)
• The Dangers of cookieless="AutoDetect" (Dave M. Bush)

SharePoint

• Getting GAC Path Using Reflection and Best Practice for Deploying Shared SharePoint Libraries (Adam Buenz)
• SharePoint Keeps on Going and Going and Going… (Bob Familiar)
• Take SharePoint Content Offline (Bob Mixon)

Miscellaneous

• XML Makes You Stoopid! (Ric Johnson)
• Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in the Top 100 Web Celebrities (Simone Chiaretta)
• WordPress 2.6 Released (Grant Palin)

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing - July 13, 2008 and Link Listing - July 14, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Daily Find #89 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: July 14, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Morning Coffee 167 (Harry Pierson)
• Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2008 — #324 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.15 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #136 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

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

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting Them to Play Nice (Part 2) (Tom Hollander)
• var Is Like (Good) Wine (Gunnar Peipman)
• Experimenting with Adobe AiR (Shawn Wildermuth)
• A Little Help with the .NET WinForms TreeView (Kevin Hurwitz)
• Is It a Managed or a Native Memory Leak? (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Integrating NHibernate and Active Record (Oren Eini)
• Monkeypatching for Humans (Jeff Atwood)
• Overriding ObjectContext.SaveChanges (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• Phew - An ASP.NET Page Compilation Utility (ulu)
• 6 Free Ways to Track Down Site Issues (Mike Gunderloy)

Design / Methodology

• Adding a Customer Field to a UI: Proposed Solution (Kyle Baley)
• Notes on Versioning Domain Specific Languages (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• ALT.NET Certification Course (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day

Link-O-Rama

• Visual Studio Links #50 (Darren Stokes)
• Link Listing - July 11, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• New and Notable 251 (Sam Gentile)
• Bookmarking the Web - w28/2008 (Erwin)
• LINKBLOG for July 12, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

Book of the Day