April 2008 – Page 4 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – April 23, 2008

Posted on April 23, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Could it be?? A day without a single Silverlight-related link? I think this is the first since MIX08.

.NET

Is [Serializable] == ISerializable? No! (Shahar Abramovich)
Working with XML Data Using LINQ, a TreeView, and a ListView :: Displaying Data (Miroslav Kadera)

Miscellaneous

Things I’m Waiting For (Paul Thurrott)
altnetpedia Back in Business (James Kovacs)
Live Mesh (Nikhil Kothari)
Live Mesh Launches (Dan Fernandez)
Team Foundation 2008 Power Tools (MS Downloads)

Web Development

JSON Editor Beta 1 (via dzone)
Why You Should Not Place Your Whole Site in an UpdatePanel (Dave Ward)

Events/Community

ALT.NET Geek Code: Should You Care About These ALT.NET Guys? (Scott Hanselman)

PowerShell

Easily Downloading and Installing the Sysinternals Suite (John Robbins)

SQL Server

Better Performance – LEFT JOIN or NOT IN? (Pinal Dave)

Link Collections

Daily Find #58 (Tim Boland)
Interesting Finds: April 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Morning Coffee 163 (Harry Pierson)
Silverlight Cream for April 22, 2008 – #256 (Dave Campbell)
Squeezed Links: April 2008 (Max Pool)
LINKBLOG for April 22, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (4/22/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Interesting Finds: 2008.04.23 (gOODiDEA)
The Morning Brew #79 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Agile Software Development with SCRUM (Series in Agile Software Development): Ken Schwaber,Mike Beedle: Books

Technorati: .net development, sql server, powershell, sysinternals, alt.net, linq

Dew Drop – April 22, 2008

Posted on April 22, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Primary Election Day here in PA. Will all the little Hillamaniacs flood the polls or will voters smell what Barack is cookin’?

Miscellaneous

70-561 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ADO.NET Application Development – Section I – Connecting to Data Sources (Phil Denoncourt)
Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS Kick My Axx – Part IV – Load Report Failed (Dave Campbell) – I feel your pain, brother…
Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned From BASIC (Jeff Atwood)
Subversion Visually Explained in 30 Seconds (Inv)
Should You Judge a Software Engineer Based on Their Hygiene? (Jason Kealey)
Mashup Developers Get Chance to Romp in Sandbox (Rob Knies)

Events/Community

Podcast Recapping MIX08 (Rocky Lhotka)
TECHBash 2008 – I Am Speaking (Sam Gentile)

Design/Methodology

The “Driving Force” Pattern – Part 1 of N (Dino Esposito)
How to Evangelize Unit Testing (Ngu Soon Hui)
Exception Management Architecture Guide (MS Downloads)

Web Development

Photobucket for All! (Peter)
jQuery AJAX Calls to a WCF REST Service (Rick Strahl)
CSS Shorthand Cheat Sheet (Michael Leigeber)

Silverlight/WPF

Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 and WPF Resource Management: What’s the Same and What’s Different? (LearnWPF)
Silverlight Interop with Flash/Flex (Flashlight?) (Michael C. Neel)
Silverlight Testing – Part 2 – Making the Test Easier to Understand (Eric Hexter)
Book Review: Hello Silverlight – Upcoming Book from Manning Publications (Derik Whittaker)
Chapter 1: Introducing WPF (Praveen Moosad)
A Bug in WPF Static Resources? (Amit Raz)
Networking in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 (Daniel Moth)

Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for April 21, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
Weekly SOA Crumbs #14 and Weekly Microsoft Oriented Crumbs #1 and Weekly Architecture Crumbs #1 (Dilip Krishnan)
LINKBLOG for April 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: April 21, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Interesting Finds: 2008.04.22 (gOODiDEA)
The Morning Brew #78 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Inside Windows Communication Foundation (Pro Developer): Justin Smith: Books

Technorati: .net development, wpf, silverlight, asp.net ajax

Dew Drop – April 21, 2008

Posted on April 21, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

.NET

p&p – Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Beta (CodePlex)
Working with Streams (Josh Twist)

Miscellaneous

Business Cards – Moo Cards (Matt Walker)
What Is Coming in the Next Few Weeks (Jesse Liberty)
Telecommute to Save the Planet and The Twitter Ecosystem (Mike Gunderloy)
Book Review: Lifehacker – 88 Tips to Turbocharge Your Day (Rhonda Tipton)

Career

From Developer to Technical Manager (Aaron Lerch)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Framework – New Version of the MVC Contrib Project – v0.0.1.101 (Eric Hexter)
Google’s REST API for Search (Raymond Yee)
RestLess – A Simple REST Framework (Jayme Davis)

Silverlight/WPF

End-to-End Data Centric Application with Silverlight 2 (Brad Abrams)
Silverlight Testing Framework Bug – FrameworkElements Are Not Visible on the TestSurface and Silverlight Testing – Part 1 – Testing the Untested (Eric Hexter)
TFS Sticky Buddy v1.0 (Martin Hinshelwood)

Events/Community

ALT.NET: The View From the Cheap Seats (Russell Ball)
My Thoughts and Reflections on the MVP Summit (Chris Love)

Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for April 20, 2008 – #254 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for April 19, 2008 and LINKBLOG for April 20, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: April 19, 2008 and Interesting Finds: April 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-04-19) (Matt Hinze)
Links of the Week: April 20, 2008 (Chris Love)
Weekly Link Post 38 (Rhonda Tipton)
Links (4/20/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #77 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day: Gina Trapani: Books

Technorati: .net development, wpf, silverlight, moo cards, lifehacker, twitter

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