April 2008 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – April 30, 2008

Posted on April 30, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Silverlight/WPF

Silverlight 2 WrapPanel and ViewBox (Marc)
Prism: Composite WPF Guidance (Brian Noyes)
Reusable WPF Transitions Project Is Live! (Brad Abrams)
Uploading Files Directly to Silverlight Streaming Site – An Update (Zhiming Xue)
Porting Silverlight 2 to WPF (Straylight)

.NET

Change the Order of Data Members in Data Contracts in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
LINQFarm: Understanding IEnumerable<T>, Part I (Charlie Calvert) – Link of the Day
Designing with Lambdas – Part III (Sergio Pereira)
LINQ to CSV Library (Matt Perdeck) – via Arjan
CC.NET Community Plugins – Release v1.0.421.10385 Beta (CodePlex)
Multi-Column Grouping with Linq2Sql (Derik Whittaker)
Why .NET IEnumerable Predicates Are Cool (Straylight)

Web Development

Working with XML Data Using LINQ, a TreeView, and a ListView – Editing Data (Miroslav Kadera)
The Weekly Source Code 25 – OpenID Edition (Scott Hanselman)
MVC Storefront, Part 6: Catalog Completion and Initial UI (Rob Conery)
500,000 SQL Injection Attacks This Week (Anthony Grace)

Career

Building a Career on Bursty Work (Mike Gunderloy)

Blogging

Feedburner Moves to Google Accounts and Google Analytics for Blogs (Ionut Alex Chitu)
DotNetKicks PlugIn for Windows Live Writer (John Papa)

Miscellaneous

Making the ALT.NET Geek Code Badge Video (Adam Kinney)
Podcast #3 – stackoverflow (Jeff Atwood)
Neuron 2.0 – The WCF and SOA Enabler (Sam Gentile)

SharePoint

SharePoint Search Deployment Guidance (Chandima Kulathilake)
How We Did It – Tag Driven Information Architecture Using MOSS 2007 for the New Zealand Ministry of Transport (Provoke Team)

Link-O-Rama

Daily Find #62 (Tim Boland)
Interesting Finds: April 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-04-29) (Matt Hinze)
Visual Studio Links #22 (Darren Stokes)
LINKBLOG for April 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (4/29/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Weekly SOA Crumbs #15 and Weekly Microsoft Oriented Crumbs #2 and Weekly Software Development & Architecture Crumbs #2 (Dilip Krishnan)
Silverlight Cream for April 29, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #84 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: 2008.04.30 (gOODiDEA)
WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News – 2008/04/30 (Rob Relyea)

Book of the Day

Murach’s C# 2008: Joel Murach: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, silverlight, wpf, linq, asp.net mvc, openid

Dew Drop – April 29, 2008

Posted on April 29, 2008 | by Alvin A.

.NET

Managed Extensibility Framework (Brad Abrams)
Making spec# a Priority (Matthew Podwysocki)
C# in Depth (Eric Lippert) – Jon Skeet’s new book is now available.
Caliburn and Prism (Rob Eisenberg)
I Want spec# (Greg Young)
Implementing Generic Caching (Dave)

Silverlight/WPF

Viewbox for Silverlight 2 (Jaime Rodriguez)
Heterogeneous Hierarchies in the WPF Elements MultiColumnTreeView (Ivan Towlson)
Silverlight Photo Album Control – Release v0.8 (CodePlex)

Events/Community

Become a Member of “Partner Huddle” – A MS Partners’ Group on Facebook (Zhiming Xue)
IASA Conference in NYC on May 22-23 (Zhiming Xue)

Design/Methodology

UI Matter: Make the Simple Things Simple and Hard Things Possible (Patrick Smacchia)
Individual Empowerment and Agile (Eric Gunnerson)
The Microsoft Client Continuum… from Rich Clients to Rich Internet Applications (Jeff Barnes)

Miscellaneous

How To: Setup a MOSS Development Environment (Eric Charran)
Officelabs.com Is Live (Steve Clayton)
Remote Video Conferencing + Whiteboard – PalBee (Jason Harris)
Microsoft Internal Memo Details Windows 7 – Windows Live Ties (Paul Thurrott)
Programmers Don’t Read Books – But You Should (Jeff Atwood)
JPEG XR: The (R)evolution of JPEG (MS Research)
Get Mesh (and Why We Require UAC) (John Macintyre) – Thanks for the UAC explanation, John.
Wix.com Launch Time! (Amit)

Blogs/Blogging

Some of the Silverlight Blogs I Read (Jaime Rodriguez)

Visual Studio

TFS 2008 SP1 – An Impressive List of Features (Anthony Borton)

Career

Thoughts on Being a Solution Architect (Tom Hollander)

SQL Server

Query Analyzer Shortcuts – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
Optimization Rules of Thumb – Best Practices – Reader’s Article (Praveen Barath)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
Links Today (2008-04-28) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for April 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #83 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

C# in Depth: What you need to master C# 2 and 3: Jon Skeet: Books

Technorati: .net development, spec#, silverlight, wpf, sql server, sharepoint, live mesh, agile development

Dew Drop – April 28, 2008

Posted on April 28, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Silverlight

Silverlight Playground – Library v1.0.3037.0 Release (CodePlex)
Silverlight – The Song (Dan Wahlin)

.NET

From Zero to Logging with System.Diagnostics in 15 Minutes (Josh Twist)
Foundations of Programming – Pt 7 – Back to Basics: Memory (Karl Seguin) – Link of the Day
Immutability and Tail Recursion (Justin Etheredge)
Understanding Mock Objects: An Alternate Solution (Jimmy Bogard)

Events/Community

Some Suggestions to Have a Better Microsoft Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Building Online Community Brick by Virtual Brick (Aliza Sherman)
Slides From My ASP.NET Connections Orlando Talks (Scott Guthrie)

SQL Server

Getting Column Information Using T-SQL (Joe Webb)
Denormalization Patterns (Ken Downs)

Web Development

Customized Loading… Images (Rick Strahl)

PowerShell

Get-Random (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

Continuous Innovation in the Online Office (Mike Gunderloy)
Mr. Yuk Says Project Roadmaps Are Poisonous (Max Pool)
Extreme Patterns with Oren (Glenn Block)
Diff Tools to See Source File Changes (Patrick Smacchia)
Chapter 4: Learning and Adapting (Dan Bunea) – Dan continuous his online Agile mini-book.

Blogging

6 Years of Blogging! (Sam Gentile)
The Trouble with Blogrolls (Bryan Person)

Live Mesh

Live Mesh Technology Preview: A Closer Look – User Perspective, Part 2 (Sunshine)
Podcast: Windows Weekly #56 – Meet Mesh and Live Mesh Preview (Paul Thurrott)
Mesh Has the Potential to Be HUGE! (Jose Fajardo)
GillmorGang Talks Live Mesh (Steve Clayton)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-04-27) (Matt Hinze)
Links (4/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Useful Articles and Links 4 (bayarsaikhan)
Weekly Link Post 39 (Rhonda Tipton)
Interesting Finds: 2008.04.28 (gOODiDEA)
The Morning Brew #82 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great: Esther Derby,Diana Larsen,Ken Schwaber: Books

Technorati: .net development, agile development, silverlight, live mesh, powershell, sql server, blogroll, design patterns

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