Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

Web Development

• Editing in jqGrid with asp.net mvc (Eric Schoneveld)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip: Turn on compile-time View Checking (Adrian Grigore)
• Community Server and JavaScript (Agnes Molnar)
• GitHub’s New API Lets You Mashup Git Repositories (Andres Ferrate)
• JQuery Ajax with Class Arrays (Chris Brandsma)
• Creating jQuery plug-ins from MicrosoftAjax components (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Sorting ASP.NET DropDownList Using LINQ (Malcolm Sheridan)
• My article on client-side data binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 is now live (Fritz Onion)
• Adding Default Assemblies, Namespaces and Control Prefixes in Web.Config (Rick Strahl)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Castle Windsor 2.0 RTM Released (Oren Eini)
• I need some peer review on this (Chad Myers)
• Debugging NHibernate Exceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• The Stack Is An Implementation Detail, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Getting a Recursive FTP File List in .Net (Michael C. Neel)
• Unit testing WCF data contract serialization. (Peter Ritchie)
• Thoughts on M/Oslo DSL/metadata requirements (Rockford Lhotka)
• Programming Twittering with Visual Basic (Rod Paddock)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• 4 Great Tips for Custom WPF Controls Developers (Amit Raz)
• “View Model” – the movie, cast your vote. (Glenn Block)
• Measuring the x,y distance between two elements in Silverlight (Josh Twist)
• Moonlight 2.0 Preview Released (Silverlight Team)
• Did you know? – Silverlight Class Library can’t be named with “.Resources” (Michael Sync)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video segment 4 (N-tier) online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Notifying the UI when Entity References Change in Lookup Comboboxes (Beth Massi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making the Business Case for Agility (Lee Cunningham)
• The buddy classes are drowning DRY (Oren Eini)
• Adding humour to Tester/Developer collaboration (Mark Needham)
• A Touch Of Polish for yUML (Tobin Harris)
• Implementing TeamCity for .NET Projects: Evolving Your Build Automation Solution and Implementing TeamCity for .NET projects, Part 1: Just Build It! (A Simple Build Configuration) (Richard Cirerol)
• On Measuring Agility, Craftsmanship, and Everything Else (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• PTOM – Brownfield development – Making your dependencies explicit (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• NDepend – Code Metrics at Your Fingertips (Michael Ceranski)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kate Gregory Still Programs in C++! (Carl Franklin)
• Executive Strategies for Agile Transition – Charlie Kennedy and Tom Paider (Bob Payne)
• Philip Wadler and Erik Meijer: On Programming Language Theory and Practice (Charles Torre)
• MS Virtual Labs: Microsoft Open XML and LINQ to XML (Joel Reyes)
• The Thirsty Developer 61: I got nothing! (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

 

Community / Events

• Foundation Series, Session 3, Wed May 13th (Brian Donahue)
• NINE Questions with Steve Andrews (Chris Williams)
• I’m now a Silverlight MVP! (Dave Campbell) – Congrats, Dave!
• Events This Week – May 4th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 11 TechEd Sessions next week-hope to see you there (Stephen Forte)
• SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – TechEd India 2009 – Hyderabad (Pinal Dave)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Bill Evjen on Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (Me)

 

SharePoint

• MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 2) and MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 3) (Liam Cleary)
• Introducing ComponentOne SharePoint Web Parts (Joe Stagner)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShellToys – WOW! (Jeffrey Snover)
• Top 10 Windows 7 Features #9: Native PowerShell 2.0 (Scott M. Fulton, III)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 RC users get new IE 8 ‘tab responsiveness’ feature (Mary Jo Foley)
• Top 10 Open Source Projects for .NET Developers (Me)
• I Just Logged In As You (Jeff Atwood)
• 2009 – A Year of Learning (so far) (Karl Seguin)
• IE8 in Windows 7 RC: Reliability and Telemetry (IE Team)
• NewCloudApp() Azure Developer Contest: Win $5000 (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows PHP Virtual Labs and Designing Generation 4.0 Data Centers (Hanu Kommalapati)
• How to story your TFS password – #027 (Sara Ford)
• 8 Disastrous Product Names (Ransom Riggs)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #340 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 — #585 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 92 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for May 4th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

Long list today because I skipped the weekend post. I was busy at Philly.NET Code Camp 2009.1 on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came out to my S#arp Architecture talk, especially Nick and Sara.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# String.Empty Example and Issues (Sam Allen)
• C# “” better than string.Empty? (Dave M. Bush)
• NHibernate Mapping – <one-to-one/> and NHibernate Mapping – <join/> (Oren Eini)
• More on the lock-free stack/queue: memory fences (Julian M. Bucknall)
• LINQ to Z3 – Theorem Solving on Steroids – Part 0 (Bart de Smet)
• Extension Methods in C#: cool but at what cost? (Christopher Diggins)
• Introduction to HealthvaultDevelopment #11: Data filtering (Eric Gunnerson)
• C# Regions are not Useful? Give me a Break (Dave Schinkel)
• F# Basics – Infix Operators (Jason Olson)
• How does C# Lambda expressions work? (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Keep Your IQueryable In Check (Justin Etheredge)
• The sorry tale of the Visual Studio Web Site (Mike Hadlow)
• Developing Surface Applications (Luis Cabrera)
• How Relationships are Modeled in "MSchema" (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• .Net RIA Services and Multi-table Joins (Bob Baker)
• View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)
• A WPF Countdown Timer in PowerShell 2.0 (Joel Bennett)
• Some facts about Silverlight 3 and where it’s going (Peter Bromberg)
• Navigation system in WPF (Lester Lobo)
• Silverlight Layouts Part 1 (Charlie Calvert)
• Silverlight 3 Out of Browser – Quick Rant and It took me under 5 minutes to realize the power of behaviors… (Jose Fajardo)
• Cracking an XPS in WPF and WPF Quick Tip: Converters as MarkupExtensions (Josh Twist)
• Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Support Publishing To DeepZoomPix! (Sunshine)
• WPF : Dynamic Search Driven List Results (Now uses AppDomain) and WPF : Blend 3 Interactions / Behaviours (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight 3 – Out of Browser Applications with Cached Extensions (Mike Taulty)
• SuperPreview with Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)

 

Web Development

• Just Noticed some Great Tutorials by the Author of Learning ExtJS (Peter Kellner)
• ASP.NET Session State shared between IE Tabs and IE8 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Minimize Code by Using jQuery and Data Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Unit Testing Part 2: JSSpec (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC Free eBooks (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• The performance implications of the expression tree-based ActionLink helper and How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications (Simone Chiaretta)
• Native JSON Parsing: What does it mean? (Rick Strahl) – Link of the Day
• OpenRasta, or “How to speak REST” (Kyle Baley)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• "Don’t be a plumber" is horrible advice. (Leon Gersing)
• What do I expect from guidance? and Repository is the new Singleton and Where is the ROI? (Oren Eini)
• The Agility Cycle – Part 1 (Brad Appleton)
• Put Performance Concerns Into Perspective and Gotta Love Refactoring (Davy Brion)
• Decoupling Workflow And Forms With An Application Controller (Derick Bailey)
• First Order Agile Scaling and The Software Requirements Balancing Act (Mike Cottmeyer)
• AJAX Architectures Condensed (Dino Esposito)
• Leader vs. Ruler: Which One Are You? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Ditching the Micro-Optimization Fetish (Justin Etheredge)
• Half-a-Book Review: SOA Patterns (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• F#: Refactoring that little twitter application into objects and I don’t have time not to test! and Coding: Applying levels of abstraction (Mark Needham)
• 10 ways to reduce cost of software testing (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Saga Persistence and Event-Driven Architectures (Udi Dahan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week on C9: Office 2010, PowerShell for OpenXML, and would you help a robot (Brian Keller)
• Another Video Blog (Sara Chipps)
• ViewModel (MVVM) in Raw Silverlight 2 (Erik Mork)
• CodeCast: Oslo and M with Paul Vick (Chris Sells)
• Herding Code 43: Javier Lozano on the "M" in MVC (Jon Galloway)
• deCast – Building an Azure App Part III: Hosting Web Services and Silverlight (Rob Bagby)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video series pre-purchase offer (Rockford Lhotka)
• Major Nelson Show #316 : Lode Runner and photo editing laptops (Larry Hryb)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Announces "OfficePalooza" Two Week Contest Event for VBA Office Programmers (Blake Handler)
• Virtual ALT.NET Meeting about S#arp Architecture (Chad Myers)
• Philly .NET Code Camp Notes (Erik Peterson)
• Code Camp 2009.1 – Gooey GUI… Programming in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)

 

Database

• C Style operators in SQL Server 2008 (Darrel Carver)
• The Relational Model (Ken Downs)
• SQLAuthority News – Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 and SQLAuthority Book Review – Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide by Michael Coles (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Mobile 6.5 coming May 11, WM 6.5 phones not so much (Brad Linder)
• SharePoint sheds the “Office” label with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Google Pushing Chrome to Internet Explorer Users (Keith Elder)
• There is a “Are you sure you want to navigate away?” alert when editing your wiki? – #018 and You can enlarge the wiki text area – #019 (Sara Ford)
• New Windows Live Mobile Client and FeedMe: An RSS/Podcast Client for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
• Low Bandwidth View and other Hidden (and Future) Features of MSDN (Scott Hanselman)
• Evernote’s New Twitter Functionality (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows 7 RC to be released publicly on May 5 (Lee Mathews)
• Microsoft Technology Roadmap Links and Resources (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Five: Reification (Eric Lippert)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 17, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 19, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #330 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2009 — #573 and Silverlight Cream for April 19, 2009 — #574 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #49 (Grant Palin)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 18 (Denis Gobo)
• Squeezed Links: April 2009 (Max Pool)
• New and Notable 313 (Sam Gentile)
• Weekly Link Post 90 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for April 17th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio April 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Evening with Fluent NHibernate (Howard Dierking) – Link of the Day
• Introduction to NHibernate, pt.5 (Ian Cooper)
• Live fx Helper Class – extra methods : Live Framework (Jamie Thomson)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 Release Candidate available (Rockford Lhotka)
• T4 Toolbox – Release: 9.3.21.1 (CodePlex)
• M is to DSL as Drag & Drop is to programming (Oren Eini)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Media 2 SP2 (MS Downloads)
• Silverlight 3 Release Date (RTW) Surprise (Bart Czernicki)
• New official Silverlight Blog (Brian Goldfarb)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video training series (Rockford Lhotka)
• Dragging has NEVER been so easy (Rudi Grobler)
• Silverlight 3 Sample Application: Slidentity and Silverlight 3: Navigation URI Routing (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3: Array Helper (Michael Sync)
• Using the new Silverlight 3 Perspective tools to emulate 3D (Jeff)
• WPF Toolkit – March 2009 Release (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Patterns and Origins: Sueetie User Avatars (Dave Burke)
• Internet Explorer Global Variable Blow ups (Rick Strahl)
• Json.NET 3.5 Beta 3 (CodePlex)
• Why I don’t use OpenWeb() (Gary Lapointe)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Great Managers Have No Secrets (Jurgen Appelo)
• Test Review #3 – Unity (Roy Osherove)
• To Inject Or Not To Inject (Justin Etheredge)
• The Successor Value Pattern (Michael Feathers)
• Coding: Making the debugger redundant (Mark Needham)

 

Community / Events

• Sexiest Bachelor Developer Results!!! (Sara J. Chipps)
• MIX Slides, Code, and Session Recording (Stephen Walther)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Bonus Episode – PowerScripting Podcast – The Missing Interviews (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Thirsty Developer 56: Quick Basic Gorillas (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• The History of Microsoft – 1981 (Tina)

 

Database

• Differentiating between environments within SQL Server Management Studio (Leon Bambrick)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #312 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2009 — #545 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #76 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: March 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Discoveries This Week 03/20/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 86 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (3/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

Book of the Day