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Dew Drop – June 11, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:19:49 +0000

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Learning WCF by Michele Leroux Bustamante

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Dew Drop – June 5, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:44:13 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Deep Cloning Using Binary Serialization (Richard Carr)
Rendering RSS feeds in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
Design by Contract with Microsoft .Net Code Contract (Fredrik Normen)
A Speedy Alternative to F# DelegateEvents (Rick Minerich)
“Getting Started with Extending Visual Studio” page now available on the MSDN Visual Studio Dev Center (Greg Duncan)
Remove the Navigation Bar (Zain Naboulsi)
Viewing Persisted Workflow State (Sasha Goldshtein)
Data Services Expressions – Part 5 – Sorting (Vitek Karas)

Web Development

7 Awesome CSS3 Techniques You Can Start Using Right Now (Christina Warren)
Button Maker lets you make CSS-only buttons for the Web (Erez Zukerman)
Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – MooTools Integration (Matthew Podwysocki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Server Naming and Configuration Conflicts (Udi Dahan)
NUnit for .NET 4 (Grant Palin)
Send me bugs that are caught in end-to-end testing (Brian Marick)
Are we done testing yet? (Anand Pradhan)
Simple Branching Strategy Part 1: Back to Basics (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Using lambdas for WPF animation (Dmitri Nesteruk)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #28 – Text Trimming (Mike Snow)
A Circular Gradient Brush for Silverlight (Charles Petzold)
Silverlight 4 Theme refresh including RIA Services templates (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ASP.NET Soup to Nuts: Web Application Design and Architecture (MS Podcasts)
TWC9: Windows Live Essentials, CodeRush vs Resharper, Silverlight Unit Testing (Dan Fernandez)
This Week in Test Episode 1 – Rietveld! (Roy Osherove)
jQuery Podcast 25 – Meeno Van Slooten (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
Community Megaphone Show #11 at Richmond Code Camp (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

Nothin But ReSharper – Remote (June 28th, 2010) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Expression Studio 4 Launch on June 7th (John Papa)
Socks, Beads, and Fun at TechEd New Orleans (Eve Turzillo)

Database

Authors Needed for the SQL Server Standard (Andy Warren)
Removing old files with SSIS (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – Convert IN to EXISTS – Performance Talk (Pinal Dave)
Couch Potato 1.1 Bookmarklet – Expand/Collapse (Elijah Manor)
How to skip a Table or Database while using sp_MSforeachdb or sp_MSforeachtable (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

announcing the Lightning conductor 2010 (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

Windows Live Mobile website updated to Wave 4 (damaster)
Google Chrome’s Developer Tools Improve Productivity (Ian Fette)
10 things you should know about AT&T’s new smartphone data plans (Joe Wilcox)
How a Silly Phone for Teens Reveals Microsoft’s Plan for Us All [Cloud] (John Herrman)
Bing says thank you for a great first year (Yusuf Mehdi)

The Geek Shelf

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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Dew Drop – May 28, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:20:59 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Generics and Default Values (Richard Carr)
Telerik OpenAccess SP1 Available (Stephen Forte)
.NET Refcardz – My TOP 5 (Dennis Delimarsky)
Using the dynamic Keyword in C# to Improve Object Orientation – A Follow-up (Peter Ritchie)
Using Parameter Info (Zain Naboulsi)
Secure Logging in MSBuild and MSBuild Extension Pack – May 2010 Release (Mike Fourie)
WiimoteLib Future (Brian Peek)
Cast operators do not obey the distributive law (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

Non-Dom Element Event Binding with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
Web performance in seven steps (Jeroen Borgers)
Ajax Toolkit for ASP.NET MVC – Release: v2010527 and Microsoft Web Protection Library – May CTP (CodePlex)
Quick jQuery hack to fix position:fixed toolbars in iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch (Scott Koon)
Porting the MVC Music Store to Raven: ShoppingCartController (Oren Eini)
ASP.NET: Using pickup directory for outgoing e-mails (Gunnar Peipman)
Why Firebug sucks more than IE6 (Remy Sharp)
An Introduction to Using YUI 3 in Offline Applications (Alexander Kessinger)
Making Songs Swing with Windows Azure, Python, and the Echo Nest API (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Friday: "Iteration Planning" Now Online (James Shore)
Violations Of The “Tell, Don’t Ask” and “Don’t Repeat Yourself” Principles? (Derick Bailey)
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship – book review (Gunnar Peipman)
Why Creatives Are Confused (Scott Berkun)
A Coverage Metric That Matters (Michael Feathers)
Announcing the May 2010 Release of Microsoft Health CUI (CUI Team)
Docx 2 UnitTest (Daniel Fisher)
Code Snippet Basics – now with NUnit! (Joel Cochran)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

WPF Single Instance Application (Arik Poznanski)
OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight (Rudi Grobler)
More Accelerometer Visualization on the Zune HD (Charles Petzold)
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) [Easily animate orientation changes for any Windows Phone application with this handy source code] (David Anson)
How to add a Close button to a WPF TabItem (Ed Fink)
Working with code based templates in Silverlight (Gabriel N. Schenker)
Playing Sounds from the Library (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Extending and Customizing SQL Server Data Mining (MS Podcasts)
Boagworld 213. Getting all emotional (Paul Boag)
Standard Dependency Graphs and Architecture Explorer and Managing Large Graphs (Chris Lovett)

Community / Events

COM Is Love (Jim Galasyn)
Silverlight.net and WindowsClient.net Update: Your Input Requested (Pete Brown)

Database

When did SQL Server start and how long is the downtime window? (Jeffrey Yao)
Transaction Log expanding on restore after shrink (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – Disabled Index and Update Statistics (Pinal Dave)
StreamInsight on the Brain – can you help? (Trevor Dwyer)
How Much Space Am I Taking Up? (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Books for Developers, Administrators, Designers, Project Managers and End Users (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

PowerShell: Check who can send email to a group (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Beyond Beta: Microsoft Tag Takes Off (Aaron Getz)
Linux for Consumers: MeeGo Updates (Miguel de Icaza)
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Manager — Now Available (Mike Fourie)
Microsoft’s FUSE Labs unveils Emporia (alpha) (Steve Clayton)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

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Dew Drop – March 31, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:20:32 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Announcing the Preview release of “Feature Builder” (Cameron Skinner)
Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Afterward: Effective Events (Chris Burrows)
Generating Random Letters (Deborah Kurata)
Closing Just the Selected Files You Want (Zain Naboulsi)
Setting up WCF Server/Client configuration for Anonymous Access (Derik Whittaker)
Data Annotations in the Entity Framework and Code First (Jeff Derstadt)
Multi-targeting and the C# and VB compilers (Ed Maurer)
Dynamic Casting with .NET (Mike Ceranski)
Sorting OData feeds by their title (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
New book: Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step by Step (Rosemary Caperton)
Azure: A Glance at Apps Without Infrastructure (Rachel Appel)

Web Development

Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Refreshing An UpdatePanel With JavaScript (Scott Mitchell)
Store images on Flickr using Flickrnet.dll and ASP.NET MVC (Bill Sternberger)
Your JavaScript goes WHERE? (Chris Brandsma)
Cleaner HTML Markup with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms – Client IDs (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
Using jQuery and OData to Insert a Database Record (Stephen Walther)
7 Ways to Make Your API More Successful (Daniel Jacobson)
Stack Overflow API Private Beta Starts (Jeff Atwood)
HP Opens Snapfish Photo API, Gives Developers Access to 85 Million Members (Matthew Casperson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Strengthening your domain: The double dispatch pattern (Jimmy Bogard)
Quick example: why coding standards must be in place (Gunnar Peipman)
Warming up Sites Before Running Selenium Tests with NUnit’s SetUpFixture (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF

F# and Silverlight (Brian McNamara)
Creating a Small Overlay Window (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Create Silverlight Apps Using Plug-in Components (Bruce Kyle)
Using VertexPositionTexture on Windows Phone (Charles Petzold)
Sometimes you just gotta do the best you can [Tip: Read-only custom DependencyProperties don't exist in Silverlight, but can be closely approximated] (David Anson)
A RoleManager to apply roles declaratively to user interface (Andrea Boschin)
What tools are the minimum to get started in Silverlight? (Tim Heuer)
WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 6 : Automated UI Testing (Phil Price)
Fast and Easy Navigation in WPF or Silverlight Applications in Visual Studio 2010 (Karl Shifflett)
Mix Session Viewer for Windows Phone 7 (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Roman Rubin and Venkatesh Ramakrishnan Push the Limits of Silverlight. (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Some Rough Draft TDD Demonstration Videos (Brett Schuchert)
DeepFriedBytes Episode 50: Behind the Scenes of the .NET Languages with Luca Bolognese (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #168: Exploring how to use Layer Diagrams in VS2010 (Derik Whittaker)
Jim Somers (Antenna Software) chats with Gunther Lenz (Microsoft) (Gunther Lenz)
FXG Import for Expression Blend- Mix 10 Video Segment Courtesy of Adam Kinney (Don Burnett)
MSDN Radio: What you need to know about Silverlight (Emily Gibson)
Cloud Faster: Microsoft Research at TechFest 2010 and Bill Buxton & Student Insiders (Laura Foy)
The Feature Builder Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 and Feature Builder 101 – Creating the "Code" and Feature Builder 101 – Creating the "Map" (Michael Lehman)
Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Bill Buxton & Erik Meijer – Perspectives on Design (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

Free SQL Server Training in April (Jeremiah Peschka)
Nothin But .Net Remote Pilot – Reviews (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Scottish Visual Studio 2010 Launch event with Jason Zander (Martin Hinshelwood)
Get Cloud Ready: Attend FREE Windows Azure Firestarter Event April 6, 2010 (Windows Azure Team)
OpenSource on .net at Microsoft TechDays (Sebastien Lambla)
Demo Apps from MIX10 on Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)

Database

Backup Meta-Data (Buck Woody)
Finding meaningful error details to report execution failures (Ted Krueger)
FizzBuzz Revisited (Jason Brimhall)
SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Cheat Sheet from MidnightDBA (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Official SharePoint 2010 Certifications and Microsoft Official Curriculum Training Courses (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

Find And Replace With Regular Expressions In Vim / ViEmu (Derick Bailey)
Very Thorough Dissection of Windows Phone 7 Series on AnandTech (G. Andrew Duthie)
Becoming a Windows Search Ninja – “Mastering Windows Search using Advanced Query Syntax” and The Microsoft Desktop Player [Beta] – Your IT/Development Video/Cast/Whitepaper/Link/News Console (Greg Duncan)
The dreaded “HR Interview” Part 1: The Phone Screen (Gretchen Ledgard)
Windows Phone 7 Series Theme Now in Beta (Sarah Perez)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: slide:ology – Only $9.99! Use code DDSDG (O’Reilly Media)
Note to Microsoft: I love the new phone, but… (Stephen Forte)
10 Tips to Keep yourself Sane while Working from Home (or alone) (Pete Brown)
Visual Web Developer Team is Hiring (Bradley Bartz)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

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Dew Drop – January 12, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:01:37 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Bookmarking with Visual Studio and ReSharper 5.0 (Vadim Kreynin)
LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #3 (Damien Guard)
Checking Whether A Method Is Overridden (Davy Brion)
NHiberante and Join types in your mappings Select vs Join (Derik Whittaker)
Receiving notifications when garbage collections occur (Jeffrey Richter)
Continuing to an outer loop (Eric Lippert)
Replacing text with a box selection (Zain Naboulsi)
Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 1 – Introduction (Sasha Goldshtein)
Entity Framework in .NET 4 (Somasegar)
PyBinding now hosted on CodePlex (Pavan Podila)
F#: Refactoring to pattern matching (Mark Needham)
10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 2. Auto Registration (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

A More Scalable ScrewTurn Wiki Membership Model (Dave Burke)
Adding Multiple Nested Data in ASP.NET MVC Application (Mohammad Azam)
MVC Turbine Redux (Javier G. Lozano)
ASP.NET Performance – Part 3 – Cache Busting (Karl Seguin)
Required Field Highlighting in Dynamic Data Field Templates (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Tenet #9 – Attention to Excellence (Julie Stickler)
What Do You Want to Accomplish Today? (JD Meier)
StatLight (Rockford Lhotka)
Poll: Do you use NUnit’s fluent API? (Roy Osherove)
I Am Not a Master but a Solutionist (Rob Bazinet)
When visualizations go wrong, part 2 (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part II (Karl Shifflett)
Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.7 (Koen Zwikstra)
Silverlight 4 Beta & MEF – Experimenting with an alternative Programming Model and Silverlight 4 – Displaying a Bunch of Files from a Zip File (Mike Taulty)
Digging into Data (from a XAML perspective) (Rob Relyea)
Silverlight Top 10 of 2009 (Silverlight Team)
Severely Decoupled Configuration (Jesse Liberty)
Minimizing your designer footprint (Alex Knight)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Stephen Walther On ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 (Carl Franklin)
ARCast.TV – An Overview of MVC4WPF – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Familiar)
Countdown to MIX10: We’re baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! and Ping 43: CES, God Mode in Win 7, New Years Resolutions, MIX10 (Laura Foy)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #158: Exploring Operator Overloading in C# (Derik Whittaker)
The Thirsty Developer 81: nPlus1 (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

Silverlight Design Days – Free Blend Training on Tour (Adam Kinney)
Magenic Code Mastery Event for Developers – February 11, 2010 and Calling All Enterprise Architects – Register Today for the Microsoft Business Integration Roadshow (Bob Familiar)
Events This Week – January 11th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
The best of the best and the worst of the worst of 2010 CES (Robert Scoble)
Subversion seems to be losing favor among version control users (Jeffrey Palermo)
A Call for Help – Vote for my Codeplex Issues (Eric Hexter)
The NIH dance (Oren Eini)

Database

Finding Invalid SQL Logins (Chad Miller)
T-SQL Tuesday #002: Non-aggregated columns in a GROUP BY query (Kalen Delaney)
SSIS – Lesson learnt, Case is very very important (Simon Sabin)
SQL SERVER – Fragmentation – Detect Fragmentation and Eliminate Fragmentation (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Visual Studio 2010 (Beta) upgrade tool for VSeWSS (MS Downloads)
Try System Center Operations Manager Management Packs for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta and SharePoint Foundation 2010 beta (SharePoint Team)
10 Key Questions Determining SharePoint SQL Server Count (Joel Oleson)
Business Connectivity Services Authentication (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

Kodu Game-Creation Tool for Kids Adapted for the PC (MS PressPass)
MobileShell – PowerShell Prompt in a Browser (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Resume wording matters (Ryan Graves)
Popular Languages of 2009 (Mitch Pronschinske)
Windows Mobile 7 – New Details Emerge (Taimur Asad)
Ebook Deal of the Day: iPhone: The Missing Manual, Third Edition — Only $9.99! Use discount code PTMM9 (O’Reilly Media)
Starting a new language is like spiking (Patrick Kua)
Ballmer Picks Natural User Interface As Next Big Trend (Bruce Kyle)

The Geek Shelf

Domain-Driven Design

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Dew Drop – October 10, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:17:48 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

ReSharper 5.0 – Bookmarks (Tim Barcz) – Link of the Day
Review: The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security (Mike Hadlow)
Visual Studio Profile (Daniel Moth)
Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 6 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
How to Make Your Application Better on Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
Hybrid App Debugging – The Debug Window (Harry Pierson)
Enforced Strings (Paul Stovell)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Cheat Sheets (Elijah Manor)
Highlight and Auto Select CheckBoxList Items With jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 13. (Rajiv Popat)
Using Dependency Injection and Mocking For Testability (Rob Conery)
What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Test Infrastructure (Sasha Goldshtein)
Coding: API readability/testability (Mark Needham)
TDD: Keeping assertions clear (Mark Needham)
Guest Post: Suggestions for Effective Team Communication in a Virtual Environment (Larry Silverman)
DDD: Entity Injection and Mocking Time (Jonathan Oliver)
Event Aggregation (Davy Brion)
Exploring NServiceBus (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Magic Numbers: Integers (Josh Poley)
Evolving a Workflow (Karl Scotland)
Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 3 (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

Creating Behaviors in Silverlight 3 (Andy Beaulieu)
NUnit and Silverlight (Joe White)
Expression Encoder: Which edition is right for you? (Silverlight Team)
Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.4 released (Koen Zwikstra)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Intro to ASP.NET MVC & the MVC Design Pattern (MS Podcasts)
ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Framework Fundamentals & Practices (MS Podcasts)
ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Routing & Controllers (MS Podcasts)
ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Rendering Markup & Working with Data (MS Podcasts)
ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: ASP.NET MVC & AJAX (MS Podcasts)
TWC9: Office Engineering, Zune HD app, .NET Audio Recorder (Dan Fernandez)
Kickoff to the Road Trip and SharePointOverflow.com-Episode 32 (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)

Community / Events

Review: Stack Overflow DevDays Boston (Jason N. Gaylord)
Another Community Update (Joel Cochran)
Windows 7 Launch Party (Laura Foy)

Database

SQL Server Announcements From Microsoft (Glenn Berry)
Decimal and Numeric problems when you don’t specify precision and scale (George Mastros)
SQL SERVER – Download Logical Query Processing Poster (Pinal Dave)
Adventures in SQL CLR and C# (Wesley Brown)
An issue when enabling protocols with Powershell (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Recommends More Windows Home Server Add-ons (Blake Handler)
The single biggest reason why Windows 7 won’t be another Vista (Ed Bott)
Social Media Oops Means We Get a Deep View at Microsoft (Dan Morrill)
Boot Windows 7 from VHD without installing a native OS (Mike Ormond)
Barnes and Noble ‘confirms’ color Plastic Logic e-book reader for Spring 2010 (video) (Thomas Ricker)
Updated Windows Mobile 7 RTM Time Frame and Office Mobile 7 Teaser (Stephen Chapman)

Book of the Day

Programming F# (Animal Guide) (9780596153649): Chris Smith: Books

ISBN: 0596153643
ISBN-13: 9780596153649

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Dew Drop – June 25, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:39:21 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Reading a Microsoft Project file (mpp) in C# (Tom Hearn)
Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines (Aaron Marten)
Expressions Cheat Sheet (Jimmy Bogard)
Client-side properties and any remote LINQ provider (Damien Guard)
Adding and removing websites to/from security zones programmatically (C#) (Dennis Dietrich)
It Already Is A Scripting Language (Eric Lippert)
Correlating Downloads to Usage With Visual Studio 2010 (Joe Kuemerle)
Using SqlHelper in a .Net application (Sam Tyson)
iTextSharp – The easy way (Dave M. Bush)
Providing Safe Alternatives (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

Google Releases Virtual Keyboard AJAX API (Andres Ferrate)
Mind if my MVC T4 template changes your code a bit? (David Ebbo) – Link of the Day
JavaScript implementation of "M" (Chris Sells)
Developer Tools for Google Chrome (Ian Fette)
Two frameworks are better than one (Simone Chiaretta)
Better JavaScript class generation (Jay Kimble)
Share Your Work in the Wave Samples Gallery (Pamela Fox)
Learning to Create Icons using Expression Design (Arturo Toledo)
Testing MVC Elements and Interactions with Mock Container (Rinat Abdullin)
Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 2 Controllers, Views and Testing (Ryan Svihla)
Debugging with Different Browsers in Visual Studio 2008 (Michael Ceranski)
.NETOOP high level configuration storage decision. (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Where are my Entities and my Repositories? and Which model is best? That’s not the question. (Jérémie Chassaing)
Ubiquitous Language in Product Development (Dave Laribee)
Avoid Using NHibernate With NUnit 2.4.6 (Davy Brion)
Using Typemock Isolator for Integration Tests (Francis K. Cheung)
Security Design Reviews (Jossie Tirado)
QTB: Agile Adoption – How to stuff it up (Mark Needham)
Just Be Honest and Tell the Truth (Jeff Perrin)

Silverlight / WPF

ToggleButton Command for Prism (Corey Schuman)
Giving WPF Some Love (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
From Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition: UI Element Binding (Pete Brown)
Expression Design for Developers part 4 – Using Layers and Exporting to XAML (Joel Cochran)
Using Binding to position a Collection of elements – Take 2 (Josh Twist)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! #458 – Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack at NDC! (Carl Franklin)
WebDevRadio Episode 67: MySQL with Keith Murphy (Michael Kimsal)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #121: Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark (Donn Felker)
Stack Overflow Podcast #59 (Jeff Atwood)
How to use a delegate (Jennifer Marsman)
Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session Posted (Brian Peek)
ThirstyDeveloper #66 – HAML with a side of SASS (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

Spark v1.0 and presentation for MPLS ALT.NET (Louis DeJardin)
TDD Master Class almost full (Roy Osherove)
Silverlight Ads on Xbox LIVE Announced at Cannes (Silverlight Team)
VAN: Doing 2 Part Series on Castle development July 1st and 8th at 8pm (Ryan Svihla)
Looking for a charity for CodePlex project owners to donate advertisement revenue (Sara Ford)

PowerShell

Control your PC with your voice … and PowerShell (Joel Bennett)
New Powershell Survey on Connect (Osama Sajid)

Database

Repost: Watch out for SQL Server Parameter Sniffing (Chris Brandsma)
Better Know A SSIS Transform – The Sort Transform (Devin Knight)

Miscellaneous

PM Tip #10: Interview Tips for Landing a Great Program Management Job (Brad Abrams)
Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs and The iPhone Software Revolution (Jeff Atwood)
Audio files from Ghostbusters (Larry Hyrb)
Become a Gmail ninja with tips from Googlers (Jason Clarke)
XBOX 360 & ZUNE BUZZ (Pedro Daniel Güida)
Birdies: Cute Free Twitter Icons For Your Blog (Smashing Magazine)
Zune HD video hands-on quickie (Paul Miller)
Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest (Rafe Needleman)
Introducing Microsoft Hohm – Save Energy & Money and Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) in Windows 7 (Nic Fillingham)
FriendFeed Adds File Sharing. No Movies, But MP3s Are Fine. (MG Siegler)

Book of the Day

Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP: Quentin Zervaas: Books

ISBN: 1590599063
ISBN-13: 9781590599068

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Dew Drop – May 6, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:15:31 +0000

Web Development

jQuery UI DatePicker instead of AJAX Control Toolkit CalendarExtender in ASP.NET (Arnold Matusz)
JSMag May 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
Customizing ASP.NET’s CreateUserWizard Control To Display a Fixed Set of Security Questions (Scott Mitchell)
PTOM: Breaking Free from HttpContext (Colin Ramsay)
jQuery – Accordion and DotNetNuke CSS in your Module Settings (Dave M. Bush)
Put Your Pages and Views on Lockdown (Phil Haack)
jQuery & MicrosoftAjax “happy together” (Marc Schneider)
A Fast and Easy Way to Take an ASP.NET Application Offline (Rafay Ali)
Iterating on an ASP.NET MVC Model Binder (K. Scott Allen)
More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Maarten Balliauw)
Project Huron Wants YOU to Test Cloud-Based Data Services (Dana Coffey)
Win Your Copy: JavaScript for Programmers (Me)

.NET / Visual Studio

Microsoft Windows 7 SDK: RC (MS Downloads)
AutoMapper feature – custom type converters (Jimmy Bogard)
Drools on Windows (Part 3 of 22) – Object Interop (Dana Stevens)
.NET Platform Invoke Paradigm in Java (J/Invoke) (Vitaly Shelest)
Checking XML for Semantic Equivalence in C# (Justin Etheredge)
Windows 7 for Developers – File Dialogs from .NET (Mike Taulty)
Atom feeds with the Windsor WCF Facility and Windsor WCF Facility: MessageAction and MessageEnvelopeAction (Mike Hadlow)
C#: Using Virtual Leads to Confusion? (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

A Software Craftsman’s Bookshelf (Gøran Hansen)
NUnit 2.5 RTM (Andrew Stopford) – Link of the Day
How design rot (Oren Eini)
A testing survey on a large project (Jimmy Bogard)
Code Generation Should be the Nuclear Option (Justin Etheredge)
ELMAH and Exception Driven Development FTW (Scott Hanselman)
Enterprise Constraints and Feedback (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

Book Review: WPF In Action with Visual Studio 2008 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
Expression Blend Tutorial: Customizing the Look of a Radio Button (Frank La Vigne)
Recreating Frogger in Silverlight – Part 1 (Michael Ceranski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

WPF Design Surface Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 (Adam Kinney)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #107: Testing MVC Routes (Kyle Baley)
Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview – Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 (Yochay Kiriaty)
Andy Lester: Land the Tech Job you Love (The Pragmatic Programmers)

Community / Events

F# Community Roundup (Chris Smith)
Microsoft Connected Health Conference (Eric Gunnerson)
Stored Procedure panel at Tech Ed 2009 (Jeffrey Palermo)
You’re invited to XamlFest Boston – May 27 + May 28 (John Pelak)
Stack Overflow Moderator Voting Now Open (Jeff Atwood)
My MVC Best Practices talk (Sebastien Lambla)
Sod This at TechEd (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)

PowerShell

PowerShell V2 – backward compatibility (Osama Sajid)

Database

SQLAuthority News – Book Review – SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration by Ross Mistry (Pinal Dave)
Handling long running queries with a stop sign (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

Debugging SharePoint Workflows (Vishwas Lele)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft wants to take Seadragon to Windows 8, Windows Mobile 7, everywhere (Long Zheng)
Revitalizing a Technical Career (Jeremy D. Miller)
You can sort the project directory by top-rated releases – #028 and Why some projects have a Download Now button on their homepage – #029 (Sara Ford)
What’s in your svn:ignore? (Simone Chiaretta)
Functionally Implementing Intersperse (Matthew Podwysocki)
Google Contacts Open to Non-Gmail Users and OpenOffice.org 3.1 Available at a Server Near You (Kevin Purdy)
Getting up and running on git-svn (5 minute quickstart) (Scott C. Reynolds)
Git, SSH, PuTTY, GitHub, Unfuddle, the kitchen sink (Sergio Pereira)
Windows 7 RC Available: Why You Should Upgrade From XP (Simon Mackie)
I Just Logged in as You: How It Happened (Jeff Atwood)

Book of the Day

JavaScript for Programmers (Deitel Developer): Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel: Books

ISBN: 0137001312
ISBN-13: 9780137001316

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Dew Drop – March 2, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:26:59 +0000

Silverlight

Book Review: Silverlight 2 In Action (Davy Brion)
Dispatcher, Cross-Thread Property Setting & Lambda Expressions (Jesse Liberty)
EntitySpaces 2009 Q2 – Can you Query me now? (Mike Griffin)

Web Development

MVC ViewPage Compile Error, or “How to exist in both places” (Kyle Baley)
Quake Live Review and Rant – Why is this interesting? (Scott Hanselman)
Talking Points: ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) (Joel Reyes)

.NET / Visual Studio

Video – Getting Started with LINQ in .NET 3.5 (Dan Wahlin)
What’s the point of Value types? (Mike Hadlow)
LINQ – Using Quantifiers like Any, Contains and All while Querying Objects (Suprotim Agarwal)
Default Values and Smarter Property Assessors (Tim Barcz)
ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 Coming! (Shawn Wildermuth)
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 is on its way (John Papa)
Creating DTOs using AutoMapper (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Perceived Requirements or “All Users Lie” (Casey Charlton)
Typemock NUnit Results to TeamCity (Stephen Wright)
What Johannes Kepler Can Teach Us About Debugging (Scott Mitchell)
What’s in Your Wallet? and What’s in your wallet? – Part 2 (Mike Glenn)
Stuck between a rock and a hard place (Corey Haines)
Trade Offs: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)

Community / Events

Media from AltNetSeattle 2009, Redmond, WA (Weston M. Binford III & others) – Link of the Day
ALT.NET “Mean” – How do we fix it? (Chad Myers)
A busy quarter, DDD and stuff (Sebastien Lambla)
ALT.NET Seattle Day Two and ALT.NET Seattle Day 3 and I’m Speaking At Mix 2009 (Phil Haack)
A Coalition of the Willing (Jeremy D. Miller)
Experiencing ALT.NET Seattle 2009 Open Spaces (Scott Hanselman)
Alt.Heros – Shanselman, benscheirman and What are YOU going to do about it? (Roy Osherove)
SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 1 – Summit Welcome and Keynotes (Pinal Dave)

Database

I Am But a Humble Filing Clerk (Ken Downs)

PowerShell

Where Did That Come From? (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

Bites from the Apple: Form and Function (Agen Schmitz)
Nordic Track Book Club Review: Flip! (Dave Burke)
Windows Server 2008 Web Edition – Ready For Primetime (Bart Czernicki)
Updated Reading List (Davy Brion)
Spore API Contest Challenges Developers to Have Some Fun (Kevin Farnham)
10 Stories Behind Dr. Seuss Stories (Stacy Conradt)
Live Search to get new features…oh and a new brand, too (Kip Kniskern)
The Promise and Peril of Jumbo Frames (Jeff Atwood)
True Learning – not comfortable, easy or safe (Roy Osherove)
Code Cast #24 – On Functional Programming (Matthew Podwysocki)
Building Domain Specific Languages with Boo – Full book now available (Ayende Rahien)
Five things every Windows beta tester should know (Ed Bott)

Book of the Day

Software Testing (2nd Edition): Ron Patton: Books

ISBN: 0672327988
ISBN-13: 9780672327988

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Dew Drop – March 1, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:55:41 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Writing XML with IronPython. XmlWriter and the ‘with’ Statement (Luis Diego Fallas)
Basics of LINQ and Lambda Expressions (Abhishek Sur)

Design / Methodology / Testing

NUnit: Tests with Context/Spec style assertions (Mark Needham)
Development Psychology, Technical debt and The next feature syndrome (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
iPhone Controls, New Icons and Much More! (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Web Development

MVC ViewPage Compile Error, or “How to exist in both places” (Kyle Baley)
20 Most Interesting jQuery Plugins – February 2009 (AjaxLine)

Database

Fighting Back Against the SQL Server 2005 Tools Installation Program (John Papa)

Community / Events

ALT.NET Seattle Day Two (Phil Haack)

Miscellaneous

Using GoToMeeting with Windows 7 (Peter Kellner)

Book of the Day

Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials: Client-side ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Explained: Bogdan Brinzarea: Books

ISBN: 1847190987
ISBN-13: 9781847190987

Technorati Tags: .net development,nunit,alt.net,open spaces,windows 7,sql server,jquery

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Dew Drop – June 11, 2010

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Dew Drop – June 5, 2010

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Dew Drop – May 28, 2010

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Dew Drop – March 31, 2010

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Dew Drop – January 12, 2010

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Dew Drop – October 10, 2009

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Dew Drop – June 25, 2009

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