Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

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

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t Make ‘Read-Only’ Fields Less Readable (Leon Bambrick)
• Refactoring: Introduce Constant (Gunnar Peipman)
• Learning StructureMap Through Tiny Goals (Chris Missal)
• My Thoughts About IRepository (Laila Bougria)
• Repositories and IQueryable, the Paging Case (Jérémie)
• p&p – Web Service with REST Application Pattern (Colin Jack)
• More About Test Case Reuse (James Whittaker)
• Code Noise Part 2! (David Yancey)
• Leadership 101: Build Broad Shoulders (Jim Holmes)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• EntityObject Class Constructors (Julie Lerman)
• Multiple Outputs from T4 Made Easy (Damien Guard)
• Reading Declarations (Eric Lippert)
• Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon: The Time Has Come – Your Win32 Application Will Change (Michael Chourdakis)
• Many-to-One Mapping with Composite-ID’s with FluentNHibernate and DimeCasts .NET #79 – Learning How to Use the XML Serializer (Derik Whittaker)
• Using the Kinetic Framework with a Non-Table-Based Entity (Joel Ross)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 147 – The New WPF-Based Text Editor in Visual Studio 2010 – Interview with a Dev (Scott Hanselman)
• AutoMapper – The Object-Object Mapper (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Web Development

• Matthew MacDonald’s Hot List of Useful Web Sites (Sara Peyton)
• jQuery, JSON and ASP.NET and Friday Books – Teach Yourself ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Introducing Azure Issue Tracker Sample Application (Joe Stagner)
• Do Not Blame ASP.NET WebForms (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• Method for Retrieving Movie Posters and ASP.NET Application Lockdown on IIS 7 (Mads Kristensen)
• New Release of the SmartTools for SharePoint Project (Jan Tielens)
• Firebug Rocks for CSS Manipulation (Jason Grundy)
• Speed Up Your JavaScript with Memoization and Queueing (Dion Almaer)
• Creating MVC "Areas" as Subfolders Under Views (Billy McCafferty)
• Redirecting with the Click of a Button (Scott Mitchell)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Video: Learning CRUD and Data Forms in Silverlight 2 – Episode 1 and Episode 2 and Episode 3 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Control Creation (or Why Silverlight Needs a Blink Control) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #86 – How to Load External Images (Mike Snow)
• WPF Wonders: Properties and Events (Rod Stephens)
• My First Silverlight Part 3 – Create the Silverlight Web Part (Ton Stegeman)

 

.NET Community / Events

• CodeMash Wrapup (John Stockton)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2005,2008 – Find Longest Running Query – T-SQL – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Welcome to Windows 7 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Welcome to Black January: Microsoft, Intel, IBM and Others Lay Off Tons (Robert Scoble) – Best of luck to all those impacted by these cuts.
• WHS v2 and Power Pack 2 Announced (Michael Ceranski)
• Unlock Hidden Themes in Windows 7 and It’s a Windows 7 Love Fest (Sarah Perez)
• How to Remove Windows 7 Send Feedback, Watermark Text (Brad Linder)
• Tips on Upgrading from VSS to Subversion (Russell Ball)
• Microsoft to Release IE8 RC1 Next Week (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft Hiring Update (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Tips for Being More Productive (Dan Wahlin)
• Open Source Software, Self Service Software (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft to Merge Windows Live and Office Live (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #102 and Visual Studio Links #103 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 — #492 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 – 2 — #493 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 – 3 — #494 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 – 4 — #495 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for January 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• CloudNews for January 22nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (1/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #271 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Azure (Dan Carroll)
• T4 Toolbox – Release: 9.1.20.1 (CodePlex)
• Some Common GroupBy Operations on List<> Using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Introduction to NHibernate, Pt. 4 (Ian Cooper)

 

Web Development

• jQuery and ASP.NET (G. Andrew Duthie)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #46 – Don’t Use Delete Links Because They Create Security Holes (Stephen Walther)
• whitehouse.gov Website Code (Sam Allen)
• IETester – Essential Web Dev Tool (JD Trask)
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer v1.0 Released! (Bill Staples)
• MSDN Webcast: Social Networking Site Development with SharePoint Server (Level 200) (MS Events)
• JavaScript Behavior Sheets: An Experiment (Bertrand Le Roy)
• jQuery – Retrieving HTML Fragments (Dave M. Bush)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Styling Microsoft’s WPF DataGrid (Jaime Rodriguez) – Link of the Day
• Update on XAML Compatibility for WPF 4 (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #84 – How to Dynamically Load a Control from a DLL and #85 – How to Save $$ on the Silverlight MIX Conference (Mike Snow)
• Exploring MVVM: Grouping with the DataGrid (Vincent Sibal)
• IntelliSense for Expression Blend 2.0 SP1 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• A Quick Trick to Turn Regular XML Into XAML (James Brundage)

 

.NET Community / Events

• ANNOUNCEMENT: The Sexiest Bachelor Developer Contest (Sara Chipps)
• Links and Content from My MDC Session (Frank La Vigne)
• Appreciating Alt.Net (Jacob Proffitt)

 

Miscellaneous

• TCS Weekly – Episode 2 Is Live (Adam Kinney)
• Windows 7 Beta Users: Check Out My Washington D.C. Theme (Paul Thurrott)
• WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit, January 2009 Release (MS Research)
• What Defines a Great Programming Language? (Michael Ceranski)
• Follow Up: Accessibility in Windows 7 (Brett)
• Microsoft’s Internal Org Chart Down Amid Layoff Chatter (Ina Fried)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Leak – The Analysis (WM Power User)
• Welcome to Windows 7 (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 282 (Sam Gentile)
• LINKBLOG for January 21, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• WMOC#32 – Don Box and Doug Purdy on OSLO @ SE Radio and WSOAC#44 – The “SOA Design Patterns” Book Is Available and WSDAC#32 – Database Sharding Schemes (Dilip Krishnan)
• The Morning Brew #270 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for January 21st, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

Book of the Day