Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

…and we’re back! Sorry for the outage over the last 36 hours. Here’s yesterday’s Dew Drop. I’ll probably skip 01/06 and come back with an XL version of the Dew tomorrow. Thanks for reading/clicking! 

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Top Links

• Changing Visual Studio’s Color Palette (Matthew Johnson) – An addin for VS2010 to work around the lack of built-in themes for the IDE.
• Essential F# DZone Refcard by Chance Coble & Ted Neward (Greg Duncan)
• T4MVC 2.6.10: fluent route value API, shorter way to refer to action, and more (David Ebbo)
• MVC Integration Changes in Autofac Beta 2.1.6 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• What the Office team will be talking about at CES (Rachel Bondi)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Open .sln File as Elevated User (Jason Haley)
• NHibernate vs. Entity Framework 4.0 (Oren Eini)
• BOOK : Murach’s C++ 2008 (Joe Stagner)
• Overloading Dynamic (Justin Etheredge)
• Creating WCF Service using Workflow 4.0 Beta 2 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• F#: Expressing intent and the forward/application operators (Mark Needham)
• AutoMapFilter meet IJoinedFilter (Wes McClure)

 

Web Development

• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC (Rob Conery)
• BOOK – ASP.NET 4.0 by Joydip Kanjilal (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET 4 SEO Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• UI Automation tools snake oil? (Jimmy Bogard)
• Don’t Strive For Perfection (Davy Brion)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber part 3: Scenario outlines and tabular templates (Gojko Adzic)
• Production profiling security considerations (Oren Eini)
• Agile Tenet #7 – Usable Doc as a Measure of Progress (Julie Stickler)
• FubuMVC Diagnostics Sneak Peek (Jeremy D. Miller)
• A web store using FubuMVC and CQRS and Test Driven Spikes (TDS) (Mark Nijhof)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Extending the SLHVP Player to be a Platform (Jesse Liberty)
• Bing Maps 3D, WPF, and Windows 7 MultiTouch (Marc Schweigert)
• Silverlight 4 Beta – More on MEF and the PackageCatalog (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight – Navigate to a specific Page using a Hyperlink (Fredrik Normén)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pixel8 Podcast – ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta with Stephen Walther (Craig Shoemaker)
• Pluralcast #5: The Lean Sensei (David Starr)

 

Community / Events

• The Virtual PowerShell Group (Joel Bennett)
• Northeast Roadshow: Finding Developer Help (Chris Bowen)
• Community Coding Contest 2010 – Looking for Input and Prizes (Chris Pietschmann)
• Stack Overflow: Where We Hate Fun (Jeff Atwood)
• Predictions for 2010 Part I- Beyond .NET (Stephen Forte)
• 2010 Predictions, 2009 Predictions Revisited (Ted Neward)
• January 2010 Silverlight MVPs (Tim Heuer)
• Should PASS hold the conference on the East coast (Simon Sabin) – Yes! 
• Help Silverlight win a 2009 Crunchie for Best Technology Achievement (Silverlight Team)
• MVC 2 in Action book conducting public reviews (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Byebye 2009, welcome 2010! (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Database

• SQLPSX v2 – PowerShell for SQL Server has been PowerShell 2’ed (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server RDL Specification (Pinal Dave)
• TSQL Challenge – Remove duplicates from a string (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Azure CTP Testers Can Upgrade Their Accounts To Paid Commercial Subscriptions Starting Today (Denis Gobo)
• MySQL, Oracle And Cloud Computing (Krishnan Subramanian)

 

SharePoint

• Planning for Upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2010 (SharePoint Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Using Windows 7 GodMode to create keyboard shortcuts to settings (James Clarke)
• First Cousins Once Removed (Eric Lippert)
• The 50 Best Adobe Illustrator Tutorials from 2009 (Frank La Vigne)
• Workaround for Start-Transcript on native processes (Tianjie (James) Wei)
• Oh, no. My TortoiseSVN overlays are missing (Sergio Pereira)
• Case of the Missing PC Speaker Beep in x64 Win7 (Larry Larsen)
• An Exercise in De-Obfuscation (Lee Holmes)

 

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 4-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #510 (Chris Alcock)
• Independent Consultant Notes: January 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• A Feed You Should Read #18 – F# Discoveries This Week (Greg Duncan)

 

The Geek Shelf

Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

 

 

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Top Links

• Ten things thou shalt not tweet (Xeni Jardin)
• UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil (Michael Feathers)
• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC (Rob Conery)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: v1.8.0.3 (CodePlex)
• Extending NHibernate data with one-to-optional relationships (Louis DeJardin)
• F#: Expressing intent and the forward/application operators (Mark Needham)
• Comparing Bytes (Sean Timm)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part –1) (Mehfuz Hussain)

 

Web Development

• Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure? (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Business Applications Could (Or Should) Look Like (Davy Brion)
• Handling Concurrency: It’s a Matter of Trust (Dan Simmons)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber part 2: Making scenarios easier to read with tables (Gojko Adzic)
• Unity/Moq – AutoMocker or AutoMockingContainer (Jason Jarrett)
• Test Soon Development: a case study (Ward Bell)
• Programmer Tip: Do Not Waste Your Professional Trump Card On Funny Things. (Rajiv Popat)
• Balsamiq Roadmap for 2010 (Peldi Guilizzoni)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Autofac as an IoC Container in Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight 4 – Make Commanding use lesser code (Fredrik Normén)
• Fluent Silverlight – Fluent API and inheritance (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• MEF and Prism exploration, MEF module loading (Glenn Block)
• Configuration Files for Silvelright HVP (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Dynamic Data Services in a WPF Application (Brady Kelly)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 2 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• F# Parallel Programming Video (Talbott Crowell)
• ARCast.TV – Real World Software + Services Architecture: The Winchester Ballistics Calculator (Bob Familiar)

 

Community / Events

• Byebye 2009, welcome 2010! (Maarten Balliauw)
• 2009 in Retrospective: Mike Cottmeyer Edition (Mike Cottmeyer)
• PowerShell, Virtually (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• SQL Server WHILE Loops (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Unique Nonclustered Index Creation with IGNORE_DUP_KEY = ON (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler? (Thom Holwerda)
• Enable the secret ‘GodMode’ in Windows 7 (Imran Hussain)
• New, Lower Careers Pricing (Jeff Atwood)
• Why Windows Media Center is dead (Daniel Cazzulino)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 9 Posts from 2009 (Bart de Smet)
• Interesting Finds: January 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #509 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #104 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #86 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/4/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Links (1/3/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 126 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Best of Sources of Insight 2009 (JD Meier)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

 

 

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Happy 2010 everyone!

 

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Top Links

• An IoC-Agnostic Prism Bootstrapper (Ward Bell)
• Hello from 2020 (Rob Conery)
• Powershell and SQL Authentication (Martin Bell)
• Leveraging Windows 7 Boot to VHD to Test Visual Studio 2010 (Chris Patterson)
• DZone 2009: How many links promoted, buried, etc? (Rick Ross) – DZone has been hard at work keeping spam and other irrelevant content out of your way.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Essence of LINQ – MinLINQ (Bart de Smet)
• CciSharp, a post-compiler for .NET based on CCI (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Review: C# in Depth (Grant Palin)
• Language Envy – C# needs Ranges (Sergio Pereira)
• Sprache C# (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Show CodeRush Xpress 9.3 Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Two Major Milestones for RoundhousE and UppercuT (Rob Reynolds)
• With the new year we get a loved series sequel, Visual Studio Tips and Tricks v2 – Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks (Greg Duncan)
• It’s Easy to Forget (Christopher Bennage)

 

Web Development

• Death to confirmation dialogs with jquery.undoable (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC – Do I Really Need It? (Peter Bromberg)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Dunbar’s Number, Monkeyspheres and how to design for social (Ron George)
• Brown, Green, Refactor and RTM ready tests (Roy Osherove)
• Micro optimization decision process and Patterns for reducing memory usage (Oren Eini)
• One to one and many to many (Eric Brechner)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber, Cuke4Nuke and TeamCity (Gojko Adzic)
• Recovering from the depths of developer burn out – Some tips from the field (Greg Duncan)
• How To Change a Habit and Make It Stick (JD Meier)
• The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch and OOP: Behavioural and Structural Constraints (Mark Needham)
• Lazing Around with Autofac2 and Declarative Context Adapters in Autofac 2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Entrepreneurship Tip: Shipping Mediocre Products Is Not An Option. (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Magellan Diagnostics and Magellan Shared Layouts and Extending the WPF XML namespaces (Paul Stovell)
• Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Authentication/Authorization in an INavigationContentLoader (David Poll)
• Day #31: Geocoding and More Fun In Bing Maps for Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Polling Video – A Viable sub-second alternative? (Jesse Liberty)
• Saving Snapshots to PNG in Silverlight 4 and the WebCam (John Papa)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Huey and Wegner Migrate Us to SQL Azure (Carl Franklin)
• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 1 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 71: Frank Zammetti on webOS (Michael Kimsal)
• This Week in Testing – New Year Resolutions (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Nikolaj Bjørner and Leonardo de Moura: The Z3 Constraint Solver (Jonathan de Halleux)

 

Community / Events

• Agile 2010, Nashville August 9-13 (Ade Miller)
• The Morning Brew – Review of the Year 2009 (Chris Alcock)
• Looking Ahead to 2010 – New Year’s Resolutions (Andrew Connell)
• Trends for 2010 (J.D. Meier)
• Goals for 2010 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Yet Another 2009 Year In Review (John Sheehan)
• It’s time to look ahead to 2010 (Bill Wagner)
• 2009 Blogged – Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
• 2009 Year in Review (Rob Bazinet)
• 2010 and Forevah (Rob Reynolds)
• Where Do You Want to Be In a Year? (Tim Barcz)
• Looking back at 2009, and forward to 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Click The Button – The Contest (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Best of "The Moth" 2009 (Daniel Moth)

 

Database

• SQL Server IF Conditions (Richard Carr)
• “SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide” – 486 pages of SQL Server 2008 upgrade guidance (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Find Location of Data File Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Using Variables in SSIS: Purpose review and functional examples (Ted Krueger)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Debugging Silverlight Client OM Apps in SharePoint and SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Trouble finding the CAML reference in the 2010 SDKs? (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Read and Recommended: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Brian Noyes)
• New Subversion Reference Site (Alex Coisman)
• IE8 64-bit Windows 7 and the Mobile Code Bug (Part 2) (William Stanek)
• Install OS X Snow Leopard in VMware Windows 7 (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft Talked About Windows Mobile 7 And We All Missed It (Paul Thurrott)
• Fairness is Highly Overrated (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Dec 31, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #508 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 1, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2009 — #767 and Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2009 – 2 — #768 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.21 ~ 12.31, bye 2009 (yuanjian)
• Everyman Links for January 1, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 31-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library (Expert’s Voice in .Net)

 

 

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Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 8: WCF Based Data Source (Brad Abrams)
• New in Silverlight 3: Perspective Transforms and What’s New In SL3 – Based-on Styles and What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Validation (Jesse Liberty)
• Building Silverlight 2 and 3 applications with Visual Studio 2008 (Tim Heuer)
• Day # 18: Silverlight Effects (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Prism Visual Studio Templates (including MVVM) (Marc Schweigert)
• Lokad Shared Libraries 1.5 and Autofac for Silverlight 3.0 (Rinat Abdullin)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Framework 4.0: On the way to Composite Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• MEF and XAML integration – Self composition (Glenn Block) – Link of the Day
• Creating WCF Services using .NET 4.0 and WF 4.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• TFS – How To Remove Source Control Bindings (Michael Ceranski)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Texas Dependency Injection Massacre (Harry Pierson)
• When Bad is Good (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Book Club: The Dreyfus Model (Stuart and Hubert Dreyfus) (Mark Needham)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 6. (Rajiv Popat)
• Every Paradigm Has its Place (Rick Minerich)

 

Web Development

• Google Wave Sandbox Update (Pamela Fox)
• Compressing and combining files with JavaScriptMVC (Peter Eysermans)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: V8: Building a High Performance JavaScript Engine (Mads Ager, Lars Bak & Anders Sandholm)
• This Week C9: Office 2010, Azure pricing, ScottGu on MVC, and Silverlight 3 (Dan Fernandez)
• Walkthrough: Debug a WPF window or Windows Form without running your application [Video] (Habib Heydarian)
• Herding Code 54: Rob Conery interviews the Herding Code guys (Jon Galloway)
• ToolShed Tooltip #19 – IE 8 Developer Tools, saves the day (and time) (Russell Fustino)
• Video: WI-INETA JavaScript presentation (Sergio Pereira)

 

Community / Events

• Intro to iPhone Development at ALT.NET Geek Dinner (Ben Scheirman)
• High Scalability Blog on Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)

 

SharePoint

• Hiding Empty Content Areas in SharePoint 2007 [WCM] Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• What I’ve Learned over the Last Five Years (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How to Get (the Right) People to Follow You on Twitter (Mark Suster)
• Xbox Live Dashboard Update Preview (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Breaking: Incoming Xbox Live update detailed in full (Sumeeth Evans)
• Walter Cronkite, 1916 – 2009 (Phil Plait)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 17, 2009 — #644 (Dave Campbell)
• Rants and Raves #4 (Joel Cochran)
• Links for the Week of 2009.07.17 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 17th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 343 (Sam Gentile)

 

Book of the Day (Sorta)

 

 

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