Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Automatic Properties (And Why You Should Avoid Them) (Charles Chen)
• Using an Associated Metadata Class outside Dynamic Data (David Ebbo)
• NHibernate Linq 1.0 released! (Oren Eini) – Link of the Day
• ExpectedException attribute in Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 and Packaging my gallery code (Gunnar Peipman)
• F#: Values, functions and DateTime (Mark Needham)
• .NET Support for More Than 64 Processors (Sasha Goldshtein)
• A First Look at MassTransit and How MassTransit Publish and Subscribe works (Mike Hadlow)
• T4 Toolbox: Visual Basic as Template Language (Oleg Sych)
• CouchDB in the Cloud – Persisting From .NET Code (Rinat Abdullin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introduction to Behaviors (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Thoughts on Messaging and MVC (Mike Glenn)
• Tom DeMarco’s confession (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Stitch And Use Approach To Developing Intellectual Property Is Highly Overrated. (Rajiv Popat)
• Managers are Grown-ups Too (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Generic Expression Builder (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Write Your Own Diagnostics for StructureMap (and yet more fun with Linq) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Poor Man’s Dependency Injection: Take 42, Action! (Jonathan Oliver)
• Cruise Agents: Reducing ‘random’ build failures (Mark Needham)

 

Web Development

• Bind an ASP.NET Repeater to a Generic List<> (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action (Bobby Johnson)
• jHtmlArea 0.6.0 Update with Improved Functionality (Chris Pietschmann)
• OpenForum – new ASP.NET MVC based forum (Gunnar Peipman)
• Previewing Websites in Multiple Browsers with Expression Web 3’s SuperPreview (Dan Wahlin)
• Efficiently Paging through data using the ASP.NET ListView Control (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Walkthrough: Measure the performance of your JScript code with Team System 2010 (Habib Heydarian)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 11: The Client-Only World (Brad Abrams)
• Convert string to Color (Corey Schuman)
• A Simple Silverlight 3 Synthesizer with Keyboard (of Sorts) (Charles Petzold)
• DotNetNuke Silverlight 3.0 Hello World (Michael Washington)
• Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Remove (Ashish Shetty)
• Caliburn v1 Release Candidate 2 is Available! (Rob Eisenberg)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Merged Resources (Jesse Liberty)
• RIA Services – Still Not Baked Yet (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Cinch (My MVVM framework) Part 3 is out (Sacha Barber)
• Expression 3 Launched (Mike Ormond)
• Blacklight v4.1 Update Released (Martin Grayson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight MEF (Eric Mork)
• This Week C9: Windows 7 RTMs, 7 Sins of App Compat, & cool Silverlight apps (Dan Fernandez)
• Lambda Expressions in C++ (Kathleen McGrath)
• MEF With Glenn Block (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• TMap Process Template for VSTS2010 – Overview Video (Clemens Reijnen)

 

Database

• SQL Script to Uninstall an "M" Image (Chris Sells)
• The effects of DISTINCT in a SQL query (Joe Webb)
• Dynamic Data Sources in SSRS (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Download – Cumulative Update Package for SQL Server 2008 and SQLAuthority News – Search SQL Server Solutions (Pinal Dave)
• When Books On Line is not really correct (Denis Gobo)
• Determining Nullability of a procedure parameter (Martin Bell)

 

SharePoint

• I’ve got the beta of SharePoint 2010 and I love it! (Stephen Cummins)
• Getting paid for your SharePoint software, part 3 (Eugene Rosenfeld)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell remoting between two workgroup machines (Nathan Burkhart)

 

Miscellaneous

• What Is New in Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 (MS Downloads)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Unfinished Revolution (Dave Burke)
• Google Wave Federation Protocol and Open Source Updates (Dan Peterson)
• The Ultimate Windows 7 Upgrade FAQ (Ed Bott)
• OEMs Pick Up Windows 7 RTM Code in Redmond (Steven Bink)
• XNA CREATORS CLUB ONLINE REVAMP (Pedro Guida)
• Windows 7 – "XP Mode" Walkthrough (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Linus: “Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease” (Nick Berardi)
• How To Be a Successful Individual Contributor at Microsoft (J.D. Meier)
• The Lounge Survey Pt. 2 (James Avery)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 25, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2009 — #654 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 07.21 ~ 07.26 (yuanjian)
• Links for the Week of 2009.07.24 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 24th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

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Thanks!

Alvin