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Dew Drop – May 31, 2008

Posted on May 31, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Web Development

How to Build Your Very Own Provider Model – Part 3 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
MVC Storefront: Best Episode Yet Is on Its Way Monday (Rob Conery)
ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Tooling Updates and Update NUnit Test Project Templates (Joe Cartano)

.NET / Visual Studio

BooLangStudio: Boo in Visual Studio (Oren Eini)
SubSonic: Update on 3.5 Plans (Rob Conery)
Dark Side with Blue Hues (John Papa) – Nice VS theme.
A Major Silverlight PITA and Two Annoying 3.0 Limitations (Lee Richardson)
Sandcastle – May 2008 Release (v2.4.10520) (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

6 Great Tools For Writing a Book (John Papa)
Glide Unveils New Version of Web OS (Brad Linder)
Flowchart.com Offers Online Drawing Tools (Mike Gunderloy)
The 33 Languages of SQL Server (Joe Webb)

Design / Methodology

What the &@$#* Is a ‘Best Practice’ Anyway? (Derik Whittaker) – Link of the Day
Simple State Machine (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

Create Custom Policy Programmatically (Andrew Woodward)
Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (MS Downloads)

Career

Develop Your Skills at Microsoft (Gretchen Ledgard)

Events / Community / Blogging

Why You Want to Book Your PDC2008 Ticket Now (Tim Sneath)
Professionalism, Programming, and Punditry and Success as a Metric (Scott Hanselman)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: May 30, 2008 and Innovation Notes: May 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Visual Studio Links #34 (Darren Stokes)
Links Today (2008-05-30) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for May 30, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for May 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Daily Find #72 (Tim Boland)
Interesting Finds: 2008.05.31 (gOODiDEA)
Everyman Links for May 30, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter): Garr Reynolds: Books

Technorati: sharepoint, sql server, silverlight, boo language, microsoft sandcastle, visual studio, asp.net mvc

Dew Drop – May 29, 2008

Posted on May 29, 2008 | by Alvin A.

.NET / Visual Studio

PDF Image Grabber (Lou Franco)
Windows Live Agents SDK Released (Scott)
The Unit Testing Story in F# Revisited (Matthew Podwysocki)
Some Great Free WinForms Controls – Krypton (Casey Charlton) – Not many people releasing good, free controls for WinForms lately.
NHibernate Many-to-Many Collections (OR Mapping Is Not One Table One Class) (Peter van Ooijen)
Propagating the ActivityID to a WCF Service (Josh Twist)

Web Development

MVC Storefront Challenge Kickoff (Jimmy Bogard)
Using jQuery to Directly Call ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods (Dave Ward)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Namespaces – Part 4 – The WPF Subset (Daniel Moth)
WPF Dialogs and DialogResult (Marlon Grech)
Keeping Focused on Silverlight and Data (John Papa)
Silverlight Rectangles, Paths, and Lines (Dave Campbell)

Design / Methodology

The Role of Architecture in Agile Development (Kevlin Henney)
Patterns in Practice: The Open Closed Principle (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
Test-Driven Development and Software Quality (John Smart)
Designing For Evil (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

MOSS Shopping Cart Beta 1.0 (CodePlex)
Getting Started with SharePoint and Silverlight – Part II (Joris Poelmans)
Building and Distributing Workflows in SharePoint Products and Technologies – Sample Code (MSDN Code Gallery)

Miscellaneous

SAAS: Connect Enterprise Apps with Hosted BizTalk Services (Jon Flanders & Aaron Skonnard)
Static vs Dynamic Languages – Attack of the Clones (Matthew Podwysocki)
Ideas for Writing Composable PowerShell Scripts (Joel Bennett)
Microsoft’s Survival Strategy (Maggie Shiels)
Windows 7 Multi-Touch Hi-Res Shots (Paul Thurrott)
‘Harold & Kumar 2’ Goes Interactive for DVD Release (Tim Briscoe) – Choose Your Own Adventure!
A Software Developer Trying to Get in Shape with the Wii Fit?? (Dan Wahlin)
Coding4Fun Book for Sale at Amazon! (Brian Peek)
g.ho.st and Glide Show Web OS Innovation at D6 (Rafe Needleman)
Sweetter 2.0 teta (via MoMB) – An Open Source Microblogging site.
Text 2 Mind Map – An Online Converter (via MoMB)

Blogging / Networking

The Social Media Resume: Making Your Mark in a Web 2.0 World (Celine Roque)

Events / Community / Presenting

Welcome to PDC08! (Brad Abrams)
stackoverflow Podcast #7 (Jeff Atwood)
Tips From My Technical Presentations (Chris Bowen)

Link-O-Rama

Daily Find #70 and Daily Find #71 (Tim Boland)
Visual Studio Links #33 (Darren Stokes)
Links Today (2008-05-28) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for May 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #103 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

10 Coding4Fun Projects with .NET for Programmers, Hobbyists, and Game Developers: Dan Fernandez, Brian Peek: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, powershell, wcf, wpf, silverlight, agile development, nhibernate, pdc08, windows 7, wii fit

Dew Drop – May 16, 2008

Posted on May 16, 2008 | by Alvin A.

WPF

Sample Series – IDataErrorInfo and the Infragistics xamDataGrid (Karl Shefflett)
Effects in .NET 3.5 SP1 for WPF (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

How to Convert List(T1) to List(T2) (Shahar Abramovich)
Concurrency with MPI in .NET (Matthew Podwysocki)
Error Occurs Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta If KB944899 Is Installed (MS WebDevTools) – I was lucky enough to encounter this error. I worked through it and did finally get SP1 installed.
Using Debugging Tools From CodePlex (Tom)
Delegates and Lambda (Josh Twist)
Web PDF Library Search (Richard Minerich)
Use Visual Studio’s Post-Build Events to Automate Unit Testing Running (Brian Cook)
Splitting a Generic List<T> Into Multiple Chunks (Chinh Do)

Events / Community

LinkedIn CodePlex Developers Group (Martin Hinshelwood)
Speaking at Philly.NET Code Camp 2008.1 (Rachel Appel)
MIX 08 Sessions Available in New Dual-Stream Versions Using Silverlight (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Methodology

Domain-Driven Design: Supple Design Patterns Series (Jimmy Bogard)
Bad Code Is Bad Even For the Best Developers (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Why Do We Refactor? (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
Lines of Code as a Measure of Progress (Casey Charlton)
The Easy Way to TDD (Steven Harman)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Update (MS Downloads)
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 (MS Downloads)
More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
Adobe Flash Player 10 Public Beta Now Open (Tim Conneally)
The Quarter-Million Dollar Query (Michael Janke)
Flash Takes It Up a Notch! (or Two… Maybe Three…) (Rob Eisenberg)
I Finally Get Git (Jeremy D. Miller)
TeamCity Lessons Learned (Build Trophy For Sale) (Peter Pascale)

Link-O-Rama

Daily Find #68 (Tim Bogard)
Interesting Finds: May 15, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-05-15) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2008 — #275 (Dave Campbell)
Links (5/15/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
LINKBLOG for May 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Link Listing – May 15, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #95 (Chris Alcock)
New and Notable 242 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# (Robert C. Martin Series): Robert C. Martin, Micah Martin: Books

Technorati: .net development, wpf, lambda expressions, teamcity, git, design patterns, virtual pc

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