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Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew » vpc http://www.alvinashcraft.com .NET Development Resources from a Progressive.NET Perspective Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:03:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Dew Drop – May 7, 2009 http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/05/07/dew-drop-may-7-2009/ http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/05/07/dew-drop-may-7-2009/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 12:52:40 +0000 Alvin Ashcraft http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/05/07/dew-drop-may-7-2009/ Silverlight / WPF

The Influence of MVC on My WPF (Christopher Bennage) – Link of the Day
More on Moonlight 2.0 Preview 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
Silverlight – Navigating Data (Dave M. Bush)
Recreating Frogger in Silverlight – Part 2 and Part 3 (Michael Ceranski)
The New York Times Silverlight Kit (Michael S. Scherotter)
Creating a MVVM “Hello World” Application in 30 seconds (Rudi Grobler)
Document Toolkit: Customizing the document viewer (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

Microsoft to turn .Net Micro Framework code, support over to the community (Mary Jo Foley)
LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery) (Peter Kellner)
Pay attention to the difference between Expression.Lt & Expression.LtProperty (Derik Whittaker)
Introduction to MapReduce for .NET Developers (Eran Kampf)
A Developer’s Guide to Preparing for Windows 7 (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

Google’s Latitude Apps Give a Glimpse of New Latitude API (Andres Ferrate)
Tweetpoll – My first Windows Azure application is live (Jamie Thomson)
ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements (Mike Ormond)
Querying SharePoint List Items using jQuery (Jan Tielens)
GridView Plugin For JQuery (Justin)
Dynamic Data Preview 4 Released (Scott Hunter)
Smooth Cascading Effect with ASP.NET Panels using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
Dynamic Data in Regular Websites/Web Applications (David Fowler)
Cleaner, Faster Ajax in ASP.NET (Gil Shabat)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Unit Testing “Where’s The Dollar?” and Understanding the Problem (Chris Missal)
Yet another reason to love TestDriven.net (Sebastien Lambla)
Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 4 (Rajiv Popat)
Who’s In Charge Of The Time? (Davy Brion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Ted Neward on Oracle buying Sun (Carl Franklin)
10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing (Brian Keller)
E-VAN Videos Reminder (Colin Jack)
Stack Overflow Podcast #52 (Jeff Atwood)
Cannon PI Title Sequence (Frank La Vigne)
Podcast: Meg Edwards – My Journey with GTD Lists (Meg Edwards)
Andy Lester: Land the Tech Job you Love (The Pragmatic Programmers)
Windows 7 Taskbar: Incorporating Your Beta Feedback into RC and Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features (Yochay Kiriaty)

Community / Events

.NET’s Most Influential People in 2009 (Jay Kimble)
See and Be Seen Among the Stars at the INETA Booth at Tech·Ed and 9Q w/ Kathleen Sanders (Chris G. Williams)
Announcing Silverlight FireStarter DC: June 6 (Frank La Vigne)
Announcing the Formation of the Lean Software & Systems Consortium (Karl Scotland)

Database

SQL Server Reporting Services Step by Step: What’s new for 2008? (Ken Jones)

PowerShell

Fun with Alerts (“‘a”) (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

Tools and Programs I use in my everyday work (Agnes Molnar)
It’s Not About the Tools, It’s About the Strategy (Celine Roque)
8 Essential Applications (Corey Schuman)
Are You an Information Junkie? (Dawn Foster)
4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks (Samuel Dean)
Interesting and Ignored Tags Now Support Wildcards (Jeff Atwood)
Clearing The Confusion On Security And Clouds (Krishnan Subramanian)
Recipe for Spark build/dev machine on Virtual PC (Louis DeJardin)
Guess Who Owns Kindledx.com? Amazon. Guess Who Forgot To Set It Up? Amazon. (MG Siegler)
Live Search PR push in anticipation of “Kumo” (Kip Kniskern)
Marketing Ideas to Help Sell Your Ideas (Sam’s Club Cup Pt. 2) (Max Pool)

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Book of the Day

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours): Rob Eisenberg, Christopher Bennage: Books

ISBN: 0672329859
ISBN-13: 9780672329852

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.NET / Visual Studio

Wanted: A kickass .NET API for CouchDB (Richard Dingwall)
NHibernate Validator and NHibernate, the database query cache and parameter sizes and NHibernate Search and NHibernate Filters (Oren Eini)
Chess Program in C# (Jacques Fournier)
Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer (Justin Etheredge)
F#: Erlang style messaging passing and F#: Entry point of an application and F#: Stuff I get confused about (Mark Needham)
Using IronRuby with RubyMine (Ivan Porto Carrero)
Projects, Assemblies, and Namespaces – oh my (Udi Dahan)
A simple sample for C# 4.0 ‘dynamic’ feature (Kirill Osenkov)
Functional Composition and Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

JavaScript book excerpt, discount and free shipping offer (Michael Kimsal)
How to Set JavaScript Programmatically on a Page in ASP.NET with Parameters (Peter Kellner)
jQuery Tabs Plugin with Images (Dave Schinkel)
Using jQuery with Client-Side Data Binding Templates (Dan Wahlin)
JavaScript Gotcha in IE7 (Christopher Bennage)
yUML and jQuery for Large Diagrams (Tobin Harris)
Swap images with user interaction in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes #178 – JavaFX and the Web’s Four Virtual Machines (Scott Hanselman)
Jason Olson: Composing Programming Languages, F# and OO (Charles Torre)
WebDevRadio Episode 64: CouchDB with Jan Lenhardt and Chris Anderson (Michael Kimsal)
This week on C9: Windows 7 RC, Glimmer for jQuery, and ZOMG Ponies (Dan Fernandez)
Recent Pluralsight On-Demand! library updates (Aaron Skonnard)
10-4 Episode 17: F# Intro (Jason Olson)
Screencast: Windows Workflow Foundation workflow service context basics and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Creating Custom Context Bindings and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in .NET client applications and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in WF client applications (Matt Milner)
Behaviors in Blend 3 – Podcast (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
FitNesse with Bob Martin – Part 2 (Stephen Wright)

Community / Events

IT Samurai School coming soon… (Billy McCafferty)
Best Practices Conference (William Vaughn)
Devlicio.us Motto Contest Finals – Put your voice (Tuna Toksoz)
Secure a Speaking Slot for Tech Ed North America 2010 (Jas Dhaliwal)
On speaking, trolling, inciting and growing (Ted Neward)
INETA Live – Call for Speakers (Steve Andrews)
Axum, Reactive Framework and other Lang.net items (Matthew Podwysocki)
What Should Microsoft Do For .NET Open Source? (Rob Conery)

Database

SharePoint

Search and Natural User Interfaces – Part 2 (Nathan Treloar)
SharePoint SDK 1.5 (April 2009) Released! (Randall Isenhour)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Releases “Sneak-Peek” Images of Upcoming Office 2010 and MSDN Blogger Recommends Free Windows 7 Federated Search Providers (Blake Handler)
Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on devices, startups, IP and open source (Todd Bishop)
Book: Growing Software (David Starr)
Network Monitor (Netmon) 3.3 Overview (Will Gregg)
Windows Virtual PC and the Microsoft Device Emulator (Brian Peek)
Windows 7 setup secrets (Ed Bott)
XP Mode in Windows 7 is no cop out (Lee Mathews)
Top 10 Scenarios; ISVs Add Customer Value with Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
Glimmering with effects (Coding4Fun)
Interviewing the Interviewee (Dave Schinkel)
Pablo’s Topic of the Month – May 2009 Edition (Gregory Long)
A Little Bit of Personality (Denise Trabona & Samuel Moreau)
Wolfram Alpha Search Engine On Video (Jesus Diaz)
Windows 7 Blame Feature (Nick Berardi)
Codesqueeze Charity Kickin – Room To Read (Max Pool)
Tips for CodePlex Projects hosting multiple applications – #026 (Sara Ford)
iBrowz: A New RSS Reader for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
Test driving Windows 7 RC and PowerShellPlus 3.0 on Virtual PC (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #339 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for May 01, 2009 — #584 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 — #585 (Dave Campbell)
Weekly Links #51 (Grant Palin)
New and Notable 317 (Sam Gentile)
CloudNews for May 1st, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Links (5/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Discoveries This Week 05/01/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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

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