Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# developers: date basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• To MVC or to WebForms? (Chad Myers)
• CMS vs Code It Yourself (Dave M. Bush)
• How I handle JSON dates returned by ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward)
• Tip#57: Did you know… How to manage web site configuration through a web interface (Deepak Verma)
• ASP.NET MVC brings FUN back inside web development, on .NET (Simone Chiaretta)
• The strange case of the disappearing Feature: AdapterGroup (Scott Galloway)
• Creating Visual Studio Templates from your Web Projects (Rick Strahl)
• PHPPowerPoint 0.1.0 (CTP1) released! and Book review: Learning Ext JS (Maarten Balliauw)
• Move Over ASP.NET WebForms and MVC! (Jonathan Oliver)
• ASP.NET 400 Bad Request with restricted characters (Joshua Flanagan)
• How to Create A JQuery Plugin (Justin)
• IRouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Cross browsing experience with Expression Web and IE8 (Giorgio Sardo)
• Windows Live Web Toolbar – How to integrate into your site (Hackersoft)
• Develop Provider-Based Features for Your Applications (Miguel A. Castro)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tally Rows in a DataSet that Match a Condition (Beth Massi)
• Why I love ReSharper, Part X of N (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Dovetail DataMap (Kevin Miller)
• What’s Been Happening in Fluent NHibernate Land? (James Gregory)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NHibernate Unit Testing (Oren Eini)
• Why Messaging #1 – Intro (Dru Sellers)
• Don’t Worship at the Altar of Accuracy (Steve Rowe)
• Weak/Strong APIs (Mark Needham)
• All Your Repositories Are Belong To Us (Jonathan Oliver)
• Why agile transitions initiatives might fail (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Validation – Part 2 – Client-Side and The 7 Phases of Unit Testing (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft Previews Great WPF and Silverlight Apps with Facebook OpenStreams API (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 3 – Simple Control for Online/Offline and Silverlight 3 – Simple “Flip Control” built on PlaneProjection (Mike Taulty)
• TestAPI v0.2 Released (Lester Lobo)
• Round Gel-like button template for WPF (LearnWPF)
• Databinding the videogame, part 6: logical coordinates (Joe White)
• Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Local Data Store (Ashish Shetty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #105: Getting your Func along with your Action on (Derik Whittaker)
• The Future of SQL Data Services with Nigel Ellis (Zach Skyles Owens)
• The Thirsty Developer 60: SQL Server 2008 for developers (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Taking PeepCode for a spin (Sergio Pereira)

Community / Events

• Distributed Development at Agile 2009 (Ade Miller)
• Top 10 .NET Twitterers (Me)
• NINE Questions with Shawn Weisfeld (Chris Williams)
• My upcoming speaking/teaching schedule (Derik Whittaker)
• Events This Week – April 27th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL2005 and SQL2008 should not be installed side by side (Simon Sabin)
• Quick Data Model creation off SSAS Data Source in SSRS (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server Encryption and Symmetric Key Encryption Tutorial with Script (Pinal Dave) – Link of the Day

SharePoint

• sharepoint guidance v2 – drop 8 (Erwin Van Der Valk)

Miscellaneous

• Call for JavaScript authors (Michael Kimsal)
• More Office 2010 screenshots surface and Microsoft said to reveal "Kumo" in June (Ben)
• NH Prof feedback (Oren Eini)
• Windows Live Profile (April) update is here! (damaster)
• At This Point, I’d Prefer Java Developers Over .NET Developers (Davy Brion)
• Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Vine to alert you in the time of crisis (Taimur Asad)
• Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 Available for Download (Kevin Purdy)
• 40% off IronPython In Action Book (Michael Ceranski)
• Five Windows 7 chapters free to all (Devon Musgrave)
• Improvements to AutoPlay (Arik Cohen)
• Is Google trying to out-Digg Digg? (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #336 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #114 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for April 27, 2009 — #581 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 91 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 315 (Sam Gentile)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Repository’s Daughter (Oren Eini)
• There is no right way (Chris Brandsma)
• Build the right feature, build the feature right! (David L.)
• Poco, Mef, and custom type systems. Are you ready to take the red pill? (Glenn Block)
• Design By Contracts meets Automated White box Testing (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Overcoming Fear of Unit Testing Disease (Julie Lerman)
• Validation – Part 1 – Getting Started (Karl Seguin)
• If You Aren’t The Caretaker, Why Are You The Product Owner? (Max Pool)
• Prototyping with SketchFlow (Somasegar) – Link of the Day
• The big picture of the SharpDevelop code base (Patrick Smacchia)
• AutoSpec and AutoTest.NET – AutoSpec for .NET (Rob Reynolds)
• 10,000 Hours to Graceland (Rod Paddock)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate Futures (Oren Eini)
• Unlambda .NET – With a Big Dose of C# 3.0 Lambdas (Bart de Smet)
• Functional C# – Forward Functional Composition and Functional C# – Reverse Functional Composition (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Programming Microsoft Agent in Windows Forms (Mohammad Elsheimy)
• ReSharper coolness of the day: TODOs and NotImplementedException (Joe White)
• Data Synchronization and the Compact Framework (Joel Ross)
• Static Method Interception in .NET with C# and Mono.Cecil (Justin Etheredge)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight – Databinding to a Web Service (Dave M. Bush)
• Silverlight 3 Hidden Features: TextBox.CaretBrush (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Databinding the videogame, part 4: terrain collection and Databinding the videogame, part 5: making the map 2-D (Joe White)
• Silverlight 3 Navigation API (Thanigainathan Siranjeevi)

Web Development

• Getting up and Running Quickly with ScrewTurn Wiki & SQL Server (Dave Schinkel)
• You should NOT use ASP.NET MVC if. . . (Jeffrey Palermo)
• 7 New APIs – Aviary, Google and ProgrammableWeb (John Musser)
• Suteki Shop is now a sample application on the official MVC Framework site (Mike Hadlow)
• 6 Tips for ASP.NET MVC Model Binding (K. Scott Allen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Northeast Roadshow – Silverlight with WCF, WCF REST, and ADO.NET Data Services (Brian Johnson)
• DDD: Videos from Øredev (Casey Charlton)
• Major Nelson Blogcast – Show #317 : Wolverine, The Maw DLC and Todd McFarlane (Larry Hryb)
• SE Radio Episode 133: Continuous Integration with Chris Read (Volker Mosthaf)

Database

• SQL Server Except and Intersect (Richard Carr)
• Import directory of XML files into SQL Server 2005 (Ted Krueger)
• T- SQL – How to get all descendants of a given element in a hierarchical table (Paolo Costa)
• SQL SERVER – List All the Tables for All Databases Using System Tables (Pinal Dave)

Community / Events

• Awarded INETA Community Champion for Q1 2009 (Ben Scheirman)
• Party with Palermo location confirmed for Tech Ed 2009 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• SQLAuthority News – Starting the SQL Journey – How Did I Get Started With SQL? (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Press Releases Free Sample Chapters of Upcoming Windows 7 Books and Microsoft’s MSDev.com Releases Free Web Seminars: "A Developer’s First Look at Windows 7" (Blake Handler)
• Organize your Personal Resources – Just use a Wiki! (Dave Schinkel)
• What you need to know about the Windows 7 Release Candidate (Ed Bott)
• Has The Virtualization Future Arrived? (Jeff Atwood)
• Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock (Kip Kniskern)
• PowerShell CmdLet Name Changes (Gary Lapointe)
• Crossing Domain Boundaries: Name Resolution (Oleg Sych)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #335 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2009 – 2 — #579 and Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2009 — #580 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for April 25, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #50 (Grant Palin)
• Links (4/26/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• The difference between Infrastructure & Application (Oren Eini)
• Practical Example of YAGNI: Good Intentions Gone Horribly Wrong and How To Be Awesome: Enforcing ToDos with Specification Tests (Bobby Johnson)
• The Scatology of Agile Architecture (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Pimp my architecture – Dan North and OO with a bit of functional mixed in and Writing unit tests can be fun (Mark Needham)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 1 (Rajiv Popat)
• Help Us Name This Method (Davy Brion)
• A Language for Architecture (J.D. Meier)

.NET / Visual Studio

• My Oslo “M” end-to-end demo (Brian Loesgen)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Adding CLR Properties and __clrtype__ Metaclasses Demo: Silverlight Databinding (Harry Pierson)
• Automating Visual Studio Solution Builds (Srinath M.)
• Fluent NHibernate Automapping (Peter Bromberg)
• F#: Not equal/Not operator (Mark Needham)
• 5 things you’d be willing to chop off System.Byte for (Sergio Pereira)
• No bandwidth MSDN: Reflector (James Newton-King) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• Is ASP.NET MVC a half-baked solution? (Karl Seguin)
• Logging modules for ASP.NET (MVC) and also for Windows Azure (Tom)
• New Processing.js and Sizzle.js Sites (John Resig)
• JSON Serialization is not just for Web Services (Jason Grundy)
• My Quick Oversimplified ASP.Net MVC Pros and Cons (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Tip #54: Did you know…How you can turn off intellisense for HTML/ CSS editors (Ranjini Mathrubootham)
• Tip #55: Did you know…How to change Start-Up Options and Instances of ASP.Net Development Server in a Multi-project Solution (WebDevTools Team)
• Tip#56: Did you know… How to update JScript Intellisense manually (Masako Omoto)
• JSON Serialization of a DataReader (Rick Strahl)
• …In Which We Discuss Writing a Book on MVC (Rob Conery)
• Little hack: CSS Combiner / Minifier ASP.NET Control (Scott Galloway)
• Syntax Highligher (Kevin Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

• Easing is… Easier (Jesse Liberty)
• Databinding the videogame, part 3: actual databinding (Joe White)
• WPF TestApi v0.2 has released! (Vincent Sibal)
• What is Silverlight? (Part 1 of many) and Getting Started with Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode (Corey Schuman)
• Read and Display ASP.NET Query Strings using Silverlight (Malcolm Sheridan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Show #159 – IronPython with Michael Foord (Scott Hanselman)
• Sod This 3: On Dynamic Languages, The Irish and Giving Away your Daughter (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
• WebDevRadio Episode 63: Talking YUI3 with Satyen Desai from Yahoo! (Michael Kimsal)
• This Week on C9: New Downloads, Design for Devs, TFS 2010, and underground Script Clubs (Dan Fernandez)
• Free Azure Services Platform “How Do I” Videos (Bill Zack)
• Dominick Baier on DevWeek and WCF and Dominick Baier on Identity, Geneva and OpenID (Mike Ormond)
• Podcast: Best Practices in Silverlight – MVVM (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• New Video — New CodeRush Features for ASP.net Development (Mark Miller)

Community / Events

• JSMag @ JSConf (Michael Kimsal)
• Silverlight – 7 Twitter Accounts I Follow (and have found valuable) (Chad Campbell)
• How “Being Lazy” is a Good Thing: Daniel Nerenberg (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Arizona: Silverlight, MVC, MEF, WPF (Tim Heuer)

Database

• Blocking due to fragmented HEAP Tables (Ted Krueger)
• How to pad positive and negative number with zeroes in SQL Server? (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server UNION Operations (Richard Carr)

Windows 7

• Windows 7 RC Build 7100: Leaked (Stephen Chapman)
• Windows XP Mode Internals – Part 1 (Overview) (Rafael Rivera Jr.)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate Screens and Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 Screenshots and Secret No More: Revealing Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 and Revealed: More Windows 7 RC details (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate Update (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance (Ameet Chitre)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate 1’s Best Surprise New Features (Matt Buchanan)

Miscellaneous

• Foundations of a Good Programming Language (Michael Ceranski)
• Work from home, save the world (Mike Walker)
• The Twitter Book, by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Get free invites to Microsoft DreamSpark (Taimur Asad)
• May’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• SQLAuthority News – Interview of Author on 60 Seconds with Pinal Dave (Pinal Dave)
• Wolfram Alpha Getting A Public Preview On Tuesday (MG Siegler)
• Paint.NET Plugin Lets You Open Photoshop Files (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Tricky Question (Greg Young)
• Re-review of Kinesis (Kyle Baley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for April 24, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #113 (Darren Stokes)
• CloudNews for April 24th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Nice collection of .NET 4 links (Daniel Moth)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2009 — #578 (Dave Campbell)

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Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft’s Silverlight-based Local Impact Map (Adam Kinney)
• Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode (Corey Schuman)
• Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 – Introduction (Boyan Mihaylov)
• "Follow the Cursor" Animation – lets do it with behaviors (Jose Fajardo)
• Debugging XMAL Parser Exceptions (Kirstin Juhl)
• Enhance Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Reporting with Silverlight (Sandeep Chanda)
• Understanding Performance in your WPF Application (Margaret Parsons)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Repository is Dead: Long Live Repository (Greg Young)
• Night of the living Repositories and Find the bug (Oren Eini)
• IT Architecture is not Enterprise Architecture (Mike Walker)

Web Development

• How we do MVC (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET Survey Questions for the Community (Sam Gentile)
• ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!) (Scott Hanselman)
• Friday Books: RESTful .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• I Spose I’ll Just Say It: Still Waiting for a GOOD Reason to Learn MVC (Joe Brinkman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 2nd Level Cache (Oren Eini)
• Fluent Ado.Net and API design (Chris Brandsma)
• Idiomatic F# – Functional vs. Imperative (Chris Smith)
• Using Obscure Windows COM APIs in .NET (Jeff Moser)
• EF4 EF4 EF4 (Julie Lerman)
• Jon Skeet: Planning C# In Depth 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Adding CLR Fields (Harry Pierson)
• Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• .NET Trick – Persisting Data Without Using a Database (Michael Ceranski)
• HowTo: Create RSS Feeds with Linq to XML / XLinq (Robert Muehsig)
• Part 3 of My DSL for Developers Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What about DataLoadOptions for Entity Framework ObjectContext? (Muhammad Mosa)
• Pro Tip: Don’t co-opt .net conventions for your own purposes (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Cloud Computing and Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
• CLR 4 ThreadPool Enhancements (Daniel Moth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #104: Navigate your codebase like a pro with ReSharper 4.5 (Ray Houston) – Link of the Day
• Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Cloud Computing Timescales and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Preparing for "The Cloud" and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Current Shiny Toys (Mike Taulty)
• Herding Code 44: Microbusiness (Jon Galloway)
• The History of Microsoft – 1986 (Tina)
• Manuel Fähndrich and Peli de Halleux – The Synergy of Code Contracts and Pex (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• The Painting of IndyHall 2.0: THIS WEEKEND! (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• Dates Updated for Windows 7 Application Compatibility Labs (Bruce Kyle)
• CodeStock 2009 (Chris G. Williams)
• Those who can do, those who can’t blog? (Sara Chipps)
• MVPs Shine Silverlight Together at MVP Global Summit! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference (Zhiming Xue)
• MSDN session on ASP.NET MVC (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

• The Case for Multiple DBs in Multi Tenancy situations (Anne Epstein)
• Normaliser Component v2 : SSIS and Installation order for Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Team Explorer and SQL Server 2008 (Jamie Thomson)
• New book: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying (K. Jones)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler and SQL SERVER – Leading Zero to Number (Pinal Dave)
• The real headquarters of Oracle (Simone Chiaretta)
• Please Mr. DBA, Change default passwords and use strong passwords (Ted Kreuger)

Miscellaneous

• Delicious Tech Tweets (Elijah Manor)
• MSDN Mag 6/2009 Editor’s Note Sneak Peak – On Aggregates (Howard Dierking)
• Recent Changes to IE Content on MSDN (Lance Leonard)
• Why we should attack our own systems? (Gunnar Peipman)
• What is this blog? (Silverlight Team)
• TeamCity 4.5 is live! (Richard Cirerol)
• Windows Mobile 6.5: Standard and Professional and Windows 8 and Windows 9: Various Tidbits (Stephen Chapman)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate out in the wild! (Taimur Asad)
• A Multitouch Pad for Windows (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 3009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #334 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2009 — #577 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 23rd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (4/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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Thanks to everyone who came out to Philly.NET’s Code Camp last Saturday! I had a great time meeting many of the attendees and other speakers. I think I’ve learned some good lessons from my first public .NET speaking engagement and hope to refine and improve my talk and give it again soon.

I presented ‘ASP.NET MVC Development with S#arp Architecture’ on Rachel Appel’s ASP.NET track. If you are interested in checking out the slides or my sample code, you can get them here:

• Slide Deck
• Sample Code

There is a great list of useful links at the end of the slideshow. Make sure to check them all out if you are working with ASP.NET MVC.

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