Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Simulating a Swarm Algorithm in C# (Mike Gold)
• Gotchas: Adding Attributes to Properties on Interfaces in F# (Ade Miller)
• XNA Game Studio 3.1 Zune Extensions Released – Get your Zune HD Dev On (Greg Duncan)
• XNA Game Studio 3.1 Zune Extensions (XNA Team)
• Using the Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard with Multiple Versions of OpenAccess (Stephen Forte)
• F# under the covers III (Steve Gilham)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (Joe Stagner)
• Generically Constraining F# – Part I (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 4 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Reflection with dynamic (Kirill Osenkov)
• PSA: NHibernate Session.Save() do you know what it returns? (Derik Whittaker)
• Using LINQ to query object hierarchies (Gunnar Peipman)
• What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part- II – Developing Routing Service (Mahesh Sabnis)

Web Development

• Accessing Images On Flickr From An ASP.NET Website Using The Flickr.Net Library (Scott Mitchell)
• Take Two: A jQuery WCF/ASMX ServiceProxy Client (Rick Strahl)
• Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Supporting Web Standards Development with SuperPreview (Steve Guttman)
• Making JavaScript APIs Easier to Use (John Teague)
• There’s a Javascript Magazine, and its really good! (Kris Gray)
• Output DOCTYPE In XSLT (Deepak Kapoor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Club: SOLID Principles (Uncle Bob Martin) (Mark Needham)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 8. (Rajiv Popat)
• The Downside of Transparency (Chris Sells)

Silverlight / WPF

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Martin Woodward on Team System (Carl Franklin)
• RADAR: Windows Automatic Memory Leak Detection (Charles Torre)
• Radio TFS 26: Random Beta 1 Stuff (Martin Woodward)

Community / Events

• Critical Path Training to give away $15,000+ of free SharePoint 2010 training and Amazon Kindles at the SharePoint Conference! (Andrew Connell)
• Administering setup in Visual Studio 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• PDC09 – See you there! (Greg Duncan)
• More on Codeplex.org (Scott Koon)
• Top 10 reasons for coming to SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Last day to enter the raffle for a ticket to Roy Osherove’s TDD workshop (Sebastien Lambla)

Database

• The Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Introduction (Wesley Brown)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight CTP2 (Pinal Dave)
• Blobs and Filestreams (Andy Warren)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Tip: Providers (James Kovacs)
• The Windows 7 upgrade survival guide (Ed Bott)
• Zune HD gaming and app downloads confirmed: Twitter, Facebook, and 3D games on the way (updated) (Thomas Ricker)
• Windows PowerShell : Variables, Types, and Operators (Phil Pennington)
• Use the tools Microsoft didn’t use to create Zune HD apps (Paul Thurrott)
• Announcing Pocket Tabs for iPhone (Ben Scheirman)
• Google Gets Real-time Search (Darrell Etherington)
• What do YOU want to see in Windows 8? (Stephen Chapman)
• IE8 Download Notification in Windows 7 (Keith Elder)
• Windows 7 For Architects & Developers – Updates (Jeff Barnes)
• Challenge: NH Prof Exporting Reports (Oren Eini)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Sep 15, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: September 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #434 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 15, 2009 — #692 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 15th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #541 (Mike Gunderloy)
• 9 Articles from Joel On software for Tech Leads (Roy Osherove)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Taming Your Sequence’s Side-Effects Through IEnumerable.Let (Bart de Smet)
• A .NET Application that Never Dies (Bob Nadler)
• Quick Extension Method for Grabbing Exception.Data (Dave Schinkel)
• Storing an Image to a Database in .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Windows Azure Business Side Explained From Developer Point of View (Bruce Kyle)
• Under the Covers with MassTransit Endpoints (Chris Patterson)
• WCF and REST (Colin Jack)
• Event Subscribtion And Memory Leaks (Yet Again) (Davy Brion)
• Mini-Review of Code Rush (Jesse Liberty)
• T4 and CodeDOM – Better Together (Oleg Sych)
• Loading Assemblies In Separate Directories Into New AppDomain (Sacha Barber)
• Simplifying LazyLinq (Keith Dahlby)

Web Development

• Coding: An abstract class/ASP.NET MVC dilemma (Mark Needham)
• Confused about Windows Azure .NET Services? (Bill Zack)
• jQuery UI Datepicker and z-Index (Rick Strahl)
• Functional Construction for ASP.NET Web Forms (Keith Dahlby)
• Bridge from PHP to .NET through REST – Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Does Software Development Have A Culture Of Rewarding Failure (Alan Skorkin)
• Automated Web Testing with the WebBrowserControl (Dave M. Bush)
• Rhino Mocks, Github & Continuous Integration Builds (Oren Eini)
• Some Initial Thoughts On Agile Developer Skills And Certification and A Coworker’s Response To The Future Of The Boutique Software Shop (Derick Bailey)
• How relevant is UML modeling today? (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• The Rake’s Progress – Part II (Michael Nichols)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 7. (Rajiv Popat)
• One Thing: Extract till you Drop. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• It’s turtles all the way down (Ian Cooper)
• Unit Testing – Do Repeat Yourself (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Physics Helper Update: Fluid Container! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight AutoComplete ComboBox (Kirstin Juhl)
• Silverlight Spy 3 RTW (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight RIA Services and AutoCompleteBox (Malcolm Sheridan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week C9: NFL goes Silverlight, VS 2010 features, new freebies (Dan Fernandez)
• Video: Expression Web 3 New Features (Me)
• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Mr. Escher, Your Software is Ready – Circular Dependency Cycle and Host Users Dependency Cycle and Dependency and Overview and Refactoring Notification (Howard Dierking)
• Countdown to PDC09: Visual Studio and .NET Framework Track Owner Tells All (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Author news: Orin Thomas reporting from TechED Down Under, part 2 (Devon Musgrave)
• What The CodePlex Foundation Means To The .NET OSS Developer (Phil Haack)
• Agile Architecture Presentation (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Some quick thoughts about the new Codeplex OSS initiative (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Analysis: CodePlex Foundation – The Terms of Mutual Surrender (Scott Bellware)
• Headspring hosts free Continuous Integration (CI) workshop Sept 15 and Mahendra Mavani teaching Refactoring workshop (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL Server Logical Bitwise Operators (Richard Carr)
• PowerShell 101 for the DBA – Installing PowerShell (Josh Jones)
• Running a Server Side Trace (Joe Webb)
• Geek City: What do you intend with that lock? (Kalen Delaney)
• .Net SQLConnectionStringBuilder ApplicationName Property (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool v1.2 and Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet (Pinal Dave)
• What I’ve Read and Recommend to Others – Joe Celko Edition (Wesley Brown)
• Automating DBA Tasks (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Inheriting Themes for SharePoint publishing sites (Greg Galipeau)
• Customizing the SharePoint ECB with Javascript, Part 3 (Jan Tielens)

Miscellaneous

• More fun with Powershell (Gary Sherman)
• Setup Windows 7 Quick and Easy with VMWare’s Easy Install (Keith Elder)
• Top 250 best movies of all time (Steve Clayton)
• Software pick of the week: Windows 7 Logon Background Changer (Paul Thurrott)
• Analyzing Weblog Data Using the Admin Development Model (Jeffrey Snover)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 11, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 12, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 11, 2009 — #690 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 11th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links for the Week of 2009.09.12 (Jeremiah Peschka)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Live Writer Plug-in: Paste Visual Studio Code (Blake Handler)
• 6 Books That Should Be On Every .NET Developers Bookshelf (Charles Chen)
• Git – TFS Integration – Options (Jim Deville)
• F#: Playing around with asynchronous workflows (Mark Needham)
• Visual Studio Redesign: lose the designers, add a command prompt? (Peter Eysermans)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Calendar component (Gunnar Peipman)
• Authenticating users with RPXNow (in ASP.NET MVC) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Securing Web Services (Even with OOB) (Shawn Wildermuth) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Data virtualization (Bea Stollnitz)
• Silverlight Spy 3 Beta available and Win a free Silverlight Spy 3 license (Koen Zwikstra)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Refactoring challenge #2 – functionally illiterate (Jimmy Bogard)
• DDD and Code ReUse (Jérémie Chassaing)

Community / Events

• Call for Nominations – PASS Board of Directors (Andy Warren)
• Why Can’t You Have Just One Site? (Jeff Atwood)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Coding4Fun Show: MEF Utility Runner with Arian Kulp (Brian Peek)
• Episode 78 – PowerScripting Podcast – Kirk Munro PowerShell MVP (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Database

• SQL SERVER – List All Missing Identity Values of Table in Database (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101 (Part 1) (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• A Few Usability Enhancements to Zoho Projects 2.0 (Vijay)
• OEMs Pick Up Windows 7 RTM Code in Redmond (Steven Bink)
• The Coding Ballerina (Sara Chipps)

More Link Collections

• Everyman Links for July 26, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links (7/26/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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While I am home for a couple of weeks with my family and new baby, I will be posting the following morning’s Dew Drop the night before. Enjoy!

.NET / Visual Studio

• Vault 5.0 Beta 2 (Eric Sink)
• LINQPad and Azure (Jamie Thomson)
• Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 5 ) (Mike Taulty)
• Upgrading from “Weigelt” GhostDoc to “SubMain” GhostDoc (Roland Weigelt)

Silverlight

• Creating a ComboBox Style AutoCompleteBox Control in Silverlight (Dan Wahlin)

Web Development

• The MVC in JavaScriptMVC (Peter Eysermans)
• Use Castle Windsor to Read Your Config Files Automatically (Phillip Jacobs)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Do We Keep Building Tightly Coupled Software? (Justin Etheredge) – Link of the Day
• Domain Driven Design: Anti Corruption Layer (Mark Needham)
• Distraction free development department. (Paul Zubkov)
• Features over Usability : How not to design a web application (Pete Brown)
• Agile Development with Projects 2.0 (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Agile Estimation (Stephen Forte)

Community / Events

• Boston Nerd Dinner – July 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Events This Week – July 6th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Implementing a Hybrid Architecture Based on SOA and ROA in the Enterprise (Bob Familiar)
• Microsoft’s MVP Team Talk on Community Radio! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SQL Detect and Threat Modeling LOB Applications with TAM 3.0 (Jossie Tirado)
• Ping 19: BingTones, SilverLight & Xbox join forces, Win7 guides, IE8 controversy (Laura Foy)
• The Connected Show (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Yes, I Am Still Talking About Prism – On The Connected Show! (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Object Grouping Best Practices: Using Schemas for Logical Separation (Hugo Shebbeare)
• SQL Server – How to Force the Job Owner for a Maintenance Plan (Michael Ceranski)
• How to copy data/append data into files from within T-SQL (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• How to Browse / Download Latest in Source Control – #047 (Sara Ford)
• Piwik – Cool Open Source Alternative to Google Analytics (Software Wikipedia)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for July 06, 2009 — #630 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for July 6th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• New and Notable 338 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 6th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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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 new and renewed Microsoft MVPs this week too!

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Create Reflection Effect on Images Using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask in WPF (Anum Lodhi)
• WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI. (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Coding Contest (Dino Esposito)
• Handling Events within Silverlight Control Templates – AutoCompleteBox Example (Dan Wahlin)
• Choosing Colors to Complement Your User Interface with Expression Design and Experimenting with User Interface Colors with Expression Design and Creating a Sample Icon using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Application – Animal Testing Breaks Hearts (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TweetCraft – A World of Warcraft Twitter client (Dan Fernandez)
• Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper (Eric Hexter)
• "XNAVATARS" – PART 1 (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Meffifying Windows Azure (Glenn Block)
• VSTS 2010 TMap Process Template 1,2 and 3 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 3 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• MCsla on the Olso May CTP (Rockford Lhotka)
• Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems (K. Scott Allen)
• IronRuby 0.6 Released! (Jimmy Schementi)
• Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 Post Beta 1 (Muhammad Mosa)
• Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 4 ) (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner (Jimmy Bogard)
• “Controllerless” MVC: A high-level overview of my attempt (Erik)
• Which Unit Testing Framework? (John Resig)
• Agile Is NOT a Risk Management Strategy (Jurgen Appelo)
• Domain Driven Design: Conformist (Mark Needham)
• Is your Organization out of Alignment? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

• XHTML 2 Cancelled (Timothy)
• Restricting BlogEngine.NET Comments to Sueetie Registered Users Only (Dave Burke)
• SubSonic 3.0 is Released (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Successful Cross Platform .NET Development – Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover and The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove (Scott Hanselman)
• Whirlwind Around .NET 4 (Eric Mork)
• Scott Ambler on the Agile Process Maturity Model (Carl Franklin)
• This Week C9: Speech Recognition, Army of 1, TweetCraft and more (Dan Fernandez)
• Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo) (Jose Fajardo)
• What’s New in Software Development: NeverFail Software Adopts Hyper-V (Bruce Kyle)
• Downloading Prism and 10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Episode #123: Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Object Invariant Conditions (Derik Whittaker)
• Herding Code 52: The Alan Stevens and G. Andrew Duthie Debate Continues! (Jon Galloway)
• Conversation with Stuart Halloway (Corey Haines)
• Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing (Jeff Wilcox)
• Using WPF in Office Add-Ins (John Wiese)

Community / Events

• AgiliTrain and Rachel Appel Announce New Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Automatically create a SQL Server table in a new database. (George Mastros)
• DRY SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room and DELETE Documents from CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• SQL SERVER – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Free Windows 7 Training Resources (Blake Handler)
• Bringing a Bit of Twitter to Bing (Sean Suchter)
• The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
• MSDN / Technet Subscribers Get Windows 7 July 13th (Keith Elder)
• An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two (Ken Sipe)
• Who is developing the software profession? (Maggie Longshore)
• Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2 available as a free download (Jose Barreto)
• The fallacy of the standardized developer machine/image (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Announcing The Social Way To Get Things Done: Zoho Projects 2.0 (Rodrigo Vaca)
• How to display ads on your project from The Lounge – #045 (Sara Ford)
• Kodu Nears Xbox Launch and Want to Compare Search Engines? and Follow @Microsoft on Twitter (…and All the Rest!) (Sarah Perez)
• Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress” (Jason N. Gaylord)
• All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions (Jeff Atwood)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #382 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 3rd July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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