Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew » .net development

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)

Book of the Day

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory: Books

ISBN: 0321534468
ISBN-13: 9780321534460

Technorati Tags: .net development,subsonic,asp.net mvc,agile,windows 7,functional programming,sql server,silverlight,wpf,unit testing

Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – June 27-28, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:37:12 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Getting the Current Application’s Memory Usage (Richard Carr)
Useful VS Key Sequences/Shortcuts (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Effective EF with Oracle (Julie Lerman)
F#: More thoughts on the forward & application operators (Mark Needham)
Mapping WF 3 activities to WF 4 (Matt Milner)
Work-Stealing in .NET 4.0 (Jennifer Marsman)
D3: Fun with Concurrency and Model First – Part 1 and D3: Fun with Concurrency and Model First – Part 2 (Dan Simmons)

Silverlight / WPF

Behaviors, Triggers and Actions snippets (Rudi Grobler)
Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-2 and Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-3 (Faisal Hossain Khan)

Web Development

The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex, and it does change your code a bit (David Ebbo)
Adding Events to User Controls (Peter Vogel)
A case of lost session variables when using out of process session state (Tess Ferrandez)
Tip #84: Did you know… How to set a Start page for your Web Site in Visual Web Developer? (Reshmi Mangalore)
ASP.NET – Creating a Custom Tag Cloud (Michael Ceranski)
Is It Too Late To Change JSON? (Phil Haack)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Open Spaces at work (Larry Clarkin) – Link of the Day
Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services (Brad Abrams)
Making Blenders for the Blind is Like Making Software for Normal People (Chris Love)
Fluent Interface for NH Facility – Take 1 (Tuna Toksoz)
The Rush (Uncle Bob Martin)
Enterprise Library 5.0 Focuses on IoC Containers for Configuration (David Hayden)
Silverlight Geek – An interview with Jesse Liberty (Adam Kinney)
When agile goes bad, slides and pointers (Sebastien Lambla)
Iterators at the Summer Games (Eric Lippert)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

"I’m a VB" Interview: Julie Lerman, Visual Basic MVP and "I’m a VB" Interview: Bill Wolff, Visual Basic MVP and "I’m a VB" Interview: Bill Vaughn, Visual Basic MVP (Beth Massi)
This Week C9: Revolution 9 – The Future of Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez)
10-4 Episode 25: Fixing PIA Pains with Type Equivalence (Jason Olson)
Herding Code 51: Greg Young on Our Grand Failure – Thoughts on DDDD (Jon Galloway)
Show: Episode #3 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
Road Thoughts – Visible Metrics (Corey Haines)
VSTO: How to Add a Button into the Office Ribbon (Jennifer Marsman)
Collaborative Knowledge Sharing and Decision Making… (Clemens Reijnen)

Community / Events

Ajax Survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are Almost Tied Among .NET Developers (Simone Chiaretta)
Useful jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Plugins with ASP.NET MVC (Elijah Manor)
Two VANs on Castle Project (Tuna Toksoz)
Architecture Summit in Southfield, MI (Jennifer Marsman)

SharePoint

Automated Builds with VSeWSS 1.3 (Paul Andrew)
Belgian MVP Releases SharePoint Tool Basket on CodePlex! (Lorna Williamson)

Database

DBA SQLCLR Procedures (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : 17892 Logon failed for login due to trigger execution. Changed database context to ‘master’. (Pinal Dave)
SQLDBCrypt – Open Source Database Encryption For SQL Server. (Rajiv Popat)
Can’t depend on sp_depends? Try using sp_refreshsqlmodule and Adding time offsets passed in to a datetime to generate localized datetime (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

Download Free WebRadio Add-in for Windows Home Server (Blake Handler)
Bing cashback 101 (Raju Malhotra)
Firefox 3.5 coming June 30th, Fennec updated today (Brad Linder)
Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do upgrades really cost? (Ed Bott)
When Windows Home Server crashes… (Rockford Lhotka)
Zoho: We’re launching something, sometime next week (Rodrigo Vaca)
Download seven Windows 7 chapters (Devon Musgrave)
200 Twitter Mashups (John Musser)
11 Magazines This Magazine Likes (Jason English)
Designing input for a script (Ed Wilson)
WMI: Improving your WMI application performance in fan-out scenario (Andy Cheung)
Create a Syslog Sender/Receiver Using the MS Winsock Control (Gustav Brock)

Book of the Day

Implementation Patterns (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Kent Beck: Books

ISBN: 0321413091
ISBN-13: 9780321413093

Technorati Tags: .net development,workflow,entity framework,sharepoint,wmi,sql server,asp.net mvc

Dew Drop – April 24, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:26:30 +0000

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)

Book of the Day

RESTful .NET: Build and Consume RESTful Web Services with .NET 3.5: Jon Flanders: Books

ISBN: 0596519206
ISBN-13: 9780596519209

Technorati Tags: .net development,teamcity,sql server,oracle,asp.net mvc,nhibernate,linq,wpf,silverlight,windows 7,windows mobile 6.5,DSLs,entity framework,ado.net

Dew Drop – April 23, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:46:53 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

HealthVault SDK (MS Downloads)
Web Browser in C# (Kapil Soni)
Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio ShortcutsAnother List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts (Amit Raz)
Using Active Record to write less code and Ode to ReSharper and NHibernate Tidbit – using without referencing Iesi.Collections (Oren Eini)
VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR R2 is Out (David Starr)
Show me the memory: Tool for visualizing virtual memory usage and GC heap usage. (Tess Ferrandez)
ReSharper coolness of the day: generated constructor visibility (Joe White)
HowTo: Tweet with C# (Robert Muehsig)
MCsla – Fixing up output from mgx (Rockford Lhotka)
Functional C# – Composing Through Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)
__clrtype__ Metaclasses: Customizing the Type Name (Harry Pierson)
Dogfooding Ukadc.Diagnostics (Josh Twist)

Silverlight / WPF

Intro to Composite App Frameworks with Prism (David Makogon)
Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Network Awareness (Ashish Shetty)
Silverlight and DOM events (Malcolm Sheridan)
Video Drivers, Prison Riots, and Silverlight (Stephen Forte)
Silverlight 3 – Knowing When Images Are Loaded (Mike Taulty)
Databinding the videogame, part 2: mapping terrain types to GUI (Joe White)
Silverlight, Web Services and DataSets (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Agility Cycle – Part 2 (Brad Appleton)
Simple Management Tip: Tracking 1:1 Conversations (Steve Rowe)
DDD: Making implicit concepts explicit (Mark Needham)
Second Order Agile Scaling (Mike Cottmeyer)
Nice Acceptance Test Framework: Cucumber (Jim Holmes)
NDepend and the quality of the Cruise Control .NET code base (Patrick Smacchia)
Source Control Only Team Projects (David Starr)
Who has been a great leader in your career and what made them a great leader? (Denis Gobo)
When Surrogate Keys Attack (and validation isn’t there) (Howard Dierking)
Stubs: Comparison with other mocking frameworks (Jonathan de Halleux)
UX thoughts – In defense of eye candy, an “A List Apart” article (András Velvárt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Jeff Atwood talks Stack Overflow (Carl Franklin)
Hervey Wilson on the Geneva Framework (Donovan Follette)
Code Cast 26 – Prism 2.0 (David Starr)
Stack Overflow Podcast #50 (Jeff Atwood)

Community / Events

Linguistics on the job, on the stage … and in space? (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
Let Your NoVa Code Camp Geek Flair Fly (G. Andrew Duthie)
Test Your Application on Windows 7 at TechEd 2009 (Yochay Kiriaty)
Harnessing the Power of Community 2.0 (Dux Raymond Sy)

Web Development

Any ASP.NET Debugging requests? (Tom)
Tip # 53: Did you know… How to edit the templates for gridview in VS designer? (Deepak Verma)
Scripting ASP.NET MVC Views Stored In The Database (Phil Haack)
I Spose I’ll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
Life and Times of an ASP.NET MVC Controller (K. Scott Allen)
Stopping the panic: how to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial performances. Don’t run in debug mode (Simone Chiaretta)
Finally played with ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Julie Lerman)

PowerShell

V2 Quick Tip: Starting a new elevated process from a PowerShell script (James Brundage)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Zune Lyrics" Plug-in for Zune Software (Blake Handler)
NH Prof: An important milestone (Oren Eini)
Super discount on MS Certification Exams (Chris G. Williams)
Microsoft pubCenter beta goes public (Kip Kniskern)
Windows 7 RC completed, build 7100 (Steven Bink)
Office 2010 Revealed: Redux and Windows Mobile 6.5 Miscellaneous Debris (Stephen Chapman)
How to subscribe to all project updates via RSS – #021 and There are now separate RSS feeds for Reviews and Releases – #022 (Sara Ford)
Best source code comments (Daniel Moth)
Ink Input and Tablet PC (Win 7 Team)
Did You Know? How to tell if a bug has been fixed? (Kalen Delaney)
Source Code with a Sense of Humor (Michael Ceranski)

Book of the Day

The Ultimate CSS Reference: Tommy Olsson, Paul O’Brien: Books

ISBN: 0980285852
ISBN-13: 9780980285857

Technorati Tags: .net development,powershell,silverlight,prism v2,stack overflow,windows 7,windows mobile 6.5,asp.net mvc,resharper,oslo,agile,nhibernate,nhprof,functional programming

Dew Drop – April 21, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:27:27 +0000

Silverlight / WPF

Quick and Dirty (but nice!) ToolTips via Markup Extensions (Philipp Sumi)
IIS Media Services 2.0 – 32-bit and Smooth Streaming Samples (MS Downloads)
SilverArcade Opens its Doors! (Andy Beaulieu)
Grouping in Silverlight 3 DataGrid (Harsh Bardhan)
Databinding the videogame, part 1 (Joe White)
MVP Delivers World’s First Silverlight Ribbon Control! (Jas Dhaliwal)
Improving Performance of images used with 3D (Josh Twist)
Silverlight 3 – FlickR Client (Mike Taulty)
WPF : Blend 3 Interactions / Behaviours (Sacha Barber)

.NET / Visual Studio

WCF: Champ vs. the Contender (Aaron Skonnard)
NHibernate Mapping – (Oren Eini)
Introducing __clrtype__ Metaclasses (Harry Pierson)
How To Run a ClickOnce Application on Startup (Keith Elder)
How Your WCF Service Can Use MSMQ as a Durable Message Store (Steve Stefanovich)
New IDE feature in VS 2008: Tracepoints (Srinath M.)

Web Development

UrlRewrite – Virtual Directories and the Tilde (Dave M. Bush)
New series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008 (Web Dev Tools Team)
WebControls in ASP.NET MVC (Radim Köhler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Intentional Software (Martin Fowler)
A horrible, HORRIBLE, horrible test and Test refactoring (Oren Eini)
Is the Supremacy of Object-Oriented Programming Over? (Dean Wampler) – Link of the Day
Should We Solve Institutional Problems In Our Code? (Justin Etheredge)
Development Project Archetypes, or “How to pigeon-hole” (Kyle Baley)
Learning through teaching (Mark Needham)
Introduction to TestApi – Part 3: Visual Verification APIs (Ivo Manolov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ARCast.TV – Enabling Web Slices on Your Web Site (Bob Familiar)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #103: Learning how to harness the power of NUnit RowTest (Derik Whittaker)
Videos from DevWeek: Catching up with Aaron Skonnard and Silverlight 3 – Running Out Of Browser Apps on the Macintosh (Mike Taulty)
Episode 67 – PowerScripting Podcast – Bob Bobel from Quest Software (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

INETA Live Webcasts: Round One (Steve Andrews)
Richmond Code Camp 2009.1 This Saturday (Justin Etheredge)
Events This Week – April 20th, 2009 and Upcoming geekSpeaks (G. Andrew Duthie)
Upcoming Free Live Webcast on XBRL: The what, why and who… Wed., April 22, 2009 at 10am PT (Charlie Hoffman & Steve Levine)

PowerShell

PowerShell Audio Sequencer (Lee Holmes)
Adding your own help links to ISE (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

SharePoint

SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 with WCF and Silverlight (Sahil Malik)

Database

Distance Calculation Showdown (Alex Ullrich)
What makes a successful SQL Server Reporting Services implementation? (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

Stephen Nelson on The Five Small Business Success Formulas (J.D. Meier)
Introduction to Cloud Computing (Pinal Dave)
Highlighting the woman behind the Windows 7 user experience (Paul Thurrott)
Functional Solution for the Shortest Path Problem (Matt Podwysocki)
A Few of My Favorite Things (Chris Missal)

Book of the Day

The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures: Dan Roam: Books

ISBN: 1591841992
ISBN-13: 9781591841999

Technorati Tags: .net development,sharepoint,silverlight,wcf,wpf,powershell,sql server,windows 7,asp.net mvc,msmq,testapi

Dew Drop – April 20, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:00:09 +0000

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 – and NHibernate Mapping – (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)

Book of the Day

Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0: Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Scott Guthrie: Books

ISBN: 0470384611
ISBN-13: 9780470384619

Technorati Tags: .net development,oslo,mgrammar,powershell,silverlight,wpf,ria services,windows 7,windows mobile 6.5,agile,nhibernate,s#arp architecture,philly .net,code camp,f#,json,jquery,asp.net mvc

Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew » .net development

Dew Drop – September 16, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

Web Development

Design / Methodology / Testing

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