Dew Drop – June 4, 2008

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Goodies (Pete Brown)
• Beta 2 Event Bubbling (Jesse Liberty)
• Creating Control Skins with Visual State Manager – An Introduction and Visual State Manager: Goals and Visual State Manager for User Controls: A Simple Guitar Chord Finder Example (Christian Schormann)
• Ad Supported Silverlight Streaming Trial to Begin (Kip Kniskern)
• Loosely Coupled Communication – Prism Style (Glenn Block)
• Visual State Manager in Blend 2.5 (John Papa)
• Using the ToggleButton Control in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 (Nikolay Raychev)
• A Moan About ImageBrush in WPF (Sacha Barber)

 

Web Development

• Using the MVC Route Engine to Preserve URL Routes for SEO (Derik Whittaker)
• FlingScan – Searchable PDF Service (Bill Bither)
• Greeting Card Generator (Elaine McNealy)
• Color Scheme Generator (Lou Franco)
• DataGrid Isn’t a Control, It’s a Lifestyle (Paul Stovell)
• Code Based ASP.NET MVC GridView (Maarten Balliauw)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• WiimoteLib v1.4 Released (Brian Peek)
• Video: Contract Oriented Programming and Spec# (Charles Torre)
• Language Oriented Programming and Functional Unit Testing in F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• ReSharper 4.0 Goes to RC Phase!!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Order of Construction (Jason Crease)

 

Design / Methodology

• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 4 of N ROUGH DRAFT and A Note (Sam Gentile)
• No, OOP Doesn’t Fail Us (Soon Hui)
• Does Lazy Loading via Properties Violate Domain Driven Design Principle? (John Teague)

 

Events / Community

• On Stage at the TechEd 2008 Keynote (Somasegar)
• ALT.NET Podcast 3: Adopting Agile (ALT.NET Podcast)
• stackoverflow Podcast #8 (Jeff Atwood)
• TechEd 2008 Keynote Summary (Jon Galloway)
• Lunch with Bill (Stephen Forte)

 

Blogging

• Using the DotNetKicks Plugin for Live Writer (John Papa)
• How Twitter Could Crash and Burn (Mike Gunderloy)
• Happy 1st Birthday Codesqueeze! (Max Pool)

 

Miscellaneous

• Levels of Enthusiasm (Rick Strahl)
• Return? and Waegis Alpha 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows Search 4.0 Released (Chris)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight Cream for June 3, 2008 – Updated — #289 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: June 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight News for June 3, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Daily Find #74 (Tim Boland)
• Links Today (2008-06-03) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for June 3, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (6/3/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.06.04 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #107 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Articles for June 4, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)

 

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