Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew http://www.alvinashcraft.com Daily .NET Development Links with an ALT.NET Slant Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:55:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dew Droplet – July 1-3, 2009   I’m catching up a bit after the birth of our third daughter, Rubina Mae Ashcraft, on Tuesday afternoon. My sincere thanks to everyone who sent their congratulations on Twitter and Facebook. Apologies to the many great blog posts that have not been included. Congrats to all the ... http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/07/03/dew-droplet-july-1-3-2009/ Dew Drop – June 30, 2009   Just an FYI for readers, the Dew Drop posts are going to be interrupted for a day or two sometime in the next couple of weeks. We’re expecting our third girl on July 8th, but it could be as soon as today.   Design / Methodology ... http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/06/30/dew-drop-june-30-2009/ Dew Drop – June 29, 2009   .NET / Visual Studio Moving the Mouse Pointer Programmatically and Hiding the Mouse Pointer (Richard Carr) MSpec... for Boo! (Aaron Jensen) Creating audio signals in .Net (Coding4Fun) F#: Setting properties like named parameters (Mark Needham) ... http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/06/29/dew-drop-june-29-2009/ Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – June 27-28, 2009   .NET / Visual Studio Getting the Current Application's Memory Usage (Richard Carr) Useful VS Key Sequences/Shortcuts (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo) Effective EF with Oracle (Julie Lerman) F#: More thoughts on the forward & application operators (Mark ... http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/06/27/dew-drop-weekend-edition-june-27-28-2009/ Video: A Very Special ‘This Week on Channel 9′ – Revolution 9 It's must-see web TV this week when Arnold and Dudley have to fend off Gordon Jump's advances... wait... that was a diff'rent show... Watch Dan Fernandez & company talk about Revolution 9, and the future of Channel 9 (as well as Channel 8, Channel 10, Coding4Fun and MIXOnline). Good luck guys! Alvin http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/06/26/twoc9-revolution-9/ Dew Drop – June 26, 2009   .NET / Visual Studio Writing console output from a Windows form in C# (Tom Hearn) Treating Warnings as Errors in Visual Studio (Richard Carr) Mmm, Curry (Eric Lippert) Walkthrough: Adding an existing Visual Studio solution ... http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/06/26/dew-drop-june-26-2009/ Dew Drop – June 25, 2009   .NET / Visual Studio Reading a Microsoft Project file (mpp) in C# (Tom Hearn) Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines (Aaron Marten) Expressions Cheat Sheet (Jimmy Bogard) Client-side properties and any remote LINQ provider (Damien ... http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/06/25/dew-drop-june-25-2009/ Dew Drop – June 24, 2009   .NET / Visual Studio Need a visualization of "M" in your programs? (Chris Sells) First run on Visual Studio 2010! (cisterni) LINQ : 2 nice things I just found (Sacha Barber) Storyboard: Architectural Inspections - ... http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/06/24/dew-drop-june-24-2009/ Dew Drop – June 23, 2009   Web Development Spark View Engine - Release: Spark v1.0 (CodePlex via Chris Alcock) – Link of the Day The Perfect Web Framework (Chad Myers) Making a Sharp Dressed Web Form – Thin ASP.NET 8 (Chris Love) ... http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/06/23/dew-drop-june-23-2009/ Dew Drop – June 22, 2009   Design / Methodology / Testing Are garbage collectors slow? (Granville Barnett) – Link of the Day Doing Agile in a Team of One – Day 2 and the End of Sprint 1 (Andrew Woodward) Agile Self-Organization versus Lean ... http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/06/22/dew-drop-june-22-2009/