December 2008 – Page 8 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – December 8, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

Is LINQ to SQL Dead? Yes, but… (Stephen Forte)
Contributions to Entity Framework Community (Zeeshan Hirani)
StyleCop for ReSharper v0.0.14220 Released (Howard van Rooijen) – via Andrew Stopford
Identity Maps (K. Scott Allen)

Web Development

jQuery Based Ajax.Net Library – Release: v1.0 (CodePlex)
Extending the Framework – Overriding Formatting, Custom User-Controls and Mvc.XForms.UI (Jon Curtis)
Quick Tip: Click Table Row to Trigger a CheckBox Click (Karl Swedberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Designing a Shopping Cart and Shopping Cart Sample Design Considerations and Integrating User Interface & Domain Specific Languages (Oren Eini)
Starting with BDD vs. Starting with TDD (Sean Chambers)
Conway’s Law (Kevin Seal) – Link of the Day
Advices on Partitioning Code Through .NET Assemblies (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

How to Bind to Generic Method in XAML (Sacha Barber)
WPF PropertyGrid Control – Release: November 2008 CTP (CodePlex)

SharePoint

Access Denied Error When Crawling SharePoint Content (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

Tools That I Use Daily (Rhonda Tipton)
99 Ways to Become a Better Developer (Eran Kampf)
So What’s NHibernate Development Like? (Davy Brion)
Another 10 Reasons Why Twitter Is for You and FriendFeed Is Not (Robert Scoble)
Snake in Small Basic (Vijay)
Balsamiq Mockups – WOW! (Oren Eini)
Managing Reporting Services Subscriptions (Thomas S. Williams)
PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Scripting the Web (Part 2) (Get-MarkupTag) (James Brundage)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for December 06, 2008 — #446 and Silverlight Cream for December 07, 2008 — #447 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: 2008.12.07 (yuanjian)
Interesting Finds: December 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for December 7, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Weekly Links #30 (Grant Palin)
Links (12/7/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Links of the Week #63 (David Vidmar)
Weekly Link Post 71 (Rhonda Tipton)
The Morning Brew #239 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Pro JavaScript Techniques (Pro): John Resig: Books

ISBN: 1590597273
ISBN-13: 9781590597279

Technorati Tags: .net development,linq to sql,entity framework,powershell,ssrs,tdd,bdd,jquery,asp.net mvc.xforms,nhibernate,stylecop,resharper

Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – December 6&7, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

Live Mesh and Windows Home Server (G. Andrew Duthie)
CSLA .NET 3.6 RC1 Available (Rocky Lhotka)
C# Ogg Vorbis Decoder Wrapper – First Release (CodePlex)
What I Hate Most About VS… and Tabs, Too Many Tabs (Andrew Stopford)
"Table Splitting": Mapping Multiple Entity Types to the Same Table (Entity Framework Team)

Web Development

How to Retrieve a GridView Based on a CheckBoxList of Items with ASP.NET Using ObjectDataSource with a Little LINQ (Peter Kellner)
Reusing Views in ASP.NET MVC for Ajax Updates (Sergio Pereira)
http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-language-abstractions/ (John Resig)
SEO Tip: Controlling a Site’s Title and Abstract (Chris Love)
New Sharp Architecture Release – ASP.NET MVC + NHibernate + Castle Windsor + Fluent NHibernate (David Hayden)
Windows Azure to Twitter and Back (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Purpose of Value Stream Maps Are Not the Value Stream Maps (Raymond Lewallen)
Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 1 (Matthew Podwysocki)
MVC Storefront Part 25: Getting Started with Domain-Driven Design (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
Improving Task Estimation Accuracy (Steve Rowe)
UI Composition Patterns (David Hill)
Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise – Part I – Introducing the Actors (Eugenio Pace)
Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010: Making Testing Easier (Jennifer Marsman)

Silverlight / WPF

Adventures with the Silverlight Viewbox (Mike Ormond)
ComponentArt Silverlight Preview (Milos Glisic)
Creating Skinnable Custom Controls – Video (Jesse Liberty)
WPF Boot Camp Content Ported to Silverlight RTM (Karsten Januszewski)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #78 – Animating Objects with DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames (Mike Snow)
Blacklight v2.0 (Dec08) Is Here (Martin Grayson)
Moving the Popfly Game Creator Engine from Silverlight 1 to 2 (Ben Anderson)
patterns & practices: Composite WPF and Silverlight – Release: Prism v2 – Drop 7 (CodePlex)

Events / Community / Social Networking

The Next 20 People .NET Developers Should Follow on Twitter (Elijah Manor)
Going Live with Egyptian Yonklies Network Through Yonkly.com (Muhammad Mosa)
HOW TO: Get the Most Out of FriendFeed (Wendy Boswell)
This Week on C9: Live Wave 3, Coding4Fun – The Book, Johnny Chung Lee, and Rise (Dan Fernandez)

Miscellaneous

Windows 7 Build 69xx Screenshots and Windows 7 Feature Focus: Aero Peek (Paul Thurrott)
Sorting "Collate" All Out (Michael S. Kaplan)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 5, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 280 (Sam Gentile)
CloudNews for December 5th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
Visual Studio Links #87 (Darren Stokes)
LINKBLOG for December 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

Book of the Day

Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques: Jonathan Chaffer: Books

ISBN: 1847192505
ISBN-13: 9781847192509

Technorati Tags: .net development,asp.net mvc,nhibernate,fluent nhibernate,jquery,silverlight,windows 7,windows azure,vs2010,functional programming,unit testing

Dew Drop – December 5, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

Jeffrey Richter Does a Video About His AsyncEnumerator for the C# Team and Channel 9 (Jeffrey Richter)
Becoming a ReSharper Samurai – Part 2 (Derik Whittaker)
Best Practice: Don’t Iterate SPListItems for IQueryable Support (Adam Buenz)
My New Favourite ReSharper Features (Josh Twist)

Web Development

Using System.Web.Abstractions in Your WebForms Apps (Justin Etheredge)
XM Radio Player Part II: Scraping (K. Scott Allen)
Live Framework (Martin Hinshelwood)
Friday Books – Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 (Dave M. Bush)
ASP.NET MVC XForms Released on CodePlex (Maarten Balliauw) – Link of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

More Cores Requires More Abstraction, What Does This Mean for Image Processing? (Rick Minerich)
Hanselminutes Podcast 140 – Rob Conery Learns About Domain Driven Design (Scott Hanselman)
Get SOLID: Single Responsibility Principle (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF

How to Build Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2 RTW – Part 1 of 2 and Pie Chart Styling in the Silverlight Toolkit – Cross-Slice Gradients (Pete Brown)
Making the ScrollViewerThumbnail Interactive (Josh Twist)
Hanselminutes Podcast 139 – Moonlight (Silverlight on Linux with Mono) with Miguel de Icaza and Joseph Hill (Scott Hanselman)
Project Rosetta Turns into a MIX09 Workshop (Adam Kinney)
3D Silverlight Charts in SharePoint: SmartTools.Charts (Jan Tielens)
Sky Player TV Uses Microsoft Silverlight / PlayReady (Mark Harrison)
Silverlight Enabled WCF Service Template Is Bad Practice (Bart Czernicki)
Tutorial on Multi-Page Applications Posted (Jesse Liberty)
Event (Analytics) Tracking in Silverlight (Tim Heuer)

Database

SQL Server Case/When Data Type Problems (George Mastros)

Miscellaneous

My Personal Experience Writing the Book (Simone Chiaretta)
Keeping Your Head in the Cloud (Jeff Blankenburg)
Professionalism and Thermodynamics (Derick Bailey)
Why an Employee Who Said He’d Work at Microsoft for One Year Is Still Here… Four Years Later (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
WordPad 2009 Offers Windows 7-Like Ribbon Interface (Gina Trapani)
I Love Ayende (and OSS) and Stuff I Do Like (Jeremy D. Miller)
Solid State Drive: Enhance Developers’ Productivity (Patrick Smacchia)
Oops! How to Fix Your Live Writer Dictionary (Sarah Perez)
Microsoft Gets a Better Answer to Flickr (Stephen Shankland)
101 Facebook Hacks You Never Knew About (Laura Milligan)
Twitter (and All Social Networks) Will Never Be the Same Thanks to PeopleBrowser (Robert Scoble)
Methods and Tools Magazine: 2008 Issues for Download (MSDN Code Gallery)
When Will Windows 7 Ship? My Prediction: April 2009 (Paul Thurrott)
20 Vector Graphics Editors Reviewed (Sachin Dhall)
Qi Lu Joins Microsoft, Is Yahoo! Search Business Next? (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 4, 2008 and Innovation Notes: December 4, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for December 4, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (12/4/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Silverlight Cream for December 04, 2008 — #445 (Dave Campbell)
My .NET Development Links (Shahar Yair)
Everyman Links for December 4, 2008 (Dave Burke)
The Morning Brew #238 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight News for December 05, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
Tech Twitterings #6 (Elijah Manor)

Book of the Day

Beginning ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB (Programmer to Programmer): Imar Spaanjaars: Books

ISBN: 047018759X
ISBN-13: 9780470187593

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