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Dew Drop – July 3, 2008

Posted on July 3, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Silverlight / WPF

Consuming ASMX Web Services with Silverlight 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
Composite Application Guidance Is Live (Glenn Block)
Updating Silverlight.js (Tim Heuer)
Microsoft: Silverlight Is Searchable, Too (Mary Jo Foley)

Web Development

HttpModule for Timing Requests (Phil Haack)
The Weekly Source Code 30 – VB.NET with XML Literals as a View Engine for ASP.NET MVC (Scott Hanselman)
MVC Storefront Part 16: Membership Redo with OpenID (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
ASP.NET MVC Tip #13 – Unit Test Your Custom Routes (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

Showing Some Support for LINQ to SQL (Ian Cooper)
Sandcastle Project Has Been Republished on CodePlex (Jonathan Wanagel)
Active Conventions with NDepend – Part Deux (Jan Van Ryswyck)
On Entity Framework, Concurrency (Mike Taulty)

Events / Community

RockNUG Meeting – 7/9/2008 – Functional C# (Matthew Podwysocki)

SQL Server

Interview with SSIS Guru Jamie Thomson (Denis Gobo)
Efficient Paging in SQL Server 2005 (Justin Etheredge)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft to Ratchet IE8 Security Another Notch in Beta 2 (Ed Bott)
Internet Explorer 8 Security Preview (Paul Thurrott)
New FriendFeed Greasemonkey Script (Sara Perez)
Turning Off the Annoying Shutdown Event Tracker (Mike Azocar)
Matthew Baldwin: writer, blogger, pretty okay guy (Ariel M. Stallings)
Remote Control Extender, Convert Your IR Remote to RF (Matt Walker)
stackoverflow Podcast #12 (Jeff Atwood)
Future Tech: Seven Innovations That Will Change Your Life (Eric Griffith)
Why Jeff Atwood Is Right (M. David Peterson)
55 Free High Quality Icon Sets (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)

Link-O-Rama

LINKBLOG for July 2, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: July 2, 2008 (Jason Haley)
26 Not to Be Missed .NET Articles – June 2008 (Schalk Neethling)
Silverlight Cream for July 2, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #128 (Chris Alcock)
Link Listing – July 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional): Ken Schwaber: Books

Technorati: .net development, ndepend, entity framework, sql server, ssis, asp.net mvc, silverlight, wpf, ie8

Dew Drop – June 10, 2008

Posted on June 10, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Silverlight / WPF

Telerik RadControls for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Emil Stoychev)
Using the ToolTip Control in Silverlight 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Mega-FAQ (Laurent Duveau) – Link of the Day
Silverlight Rich Text Editor – Release Beta 2.0 (CodePlex)
New VSM Tutorials by Celso Gomes (Christian Schormann)
Northwind N-Tier Blueprint Application Using WPF/WCF/LINQ to SQL (Cool Wayfarer)

.NET / Visual Studio

DimeCasts.Net #9 – Creating Templates in Visual Studio and Code Annotations Are a Slick Feature From SlickTools (Derik Whittaker)
ReSharper 4.0 Released and Profiling with dotTrace (Chris Brandsma)
New Webcast: Creating Snippets in Visual Studio (Dan Rigsby)
The Weekly Source Code 28 – iPhone with ASP.NET MVC Edition (Scott Hanselman)
Managing Settings in Visual Studio (Chris Love)
Bindable LINQ: Bindable Aggregates (Paul Stovell)
Dizzy Published (Justin Etheredge)
What Really Went Wrong? Check the Inner Exception (Peter van Ooijen)

SQL Server

T-SQL Script to Divide One Column into Two Columns (Pinal Dave)

Design / Methodology

The Cost of Defects (Evan Hoff)
SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 8 of N (Sam Gentile)
What Can a Hybrid Car Teach Us About Continuous Improvement? (Jeremy Jarrell)

SharePoint

Podcasting Kit for SharePoint Released to CodePlex (William Cornwill)

Miscellaneous

Why Are Our Programs Still Represented by Flat Files? (Rick Minerich)
iPhone 3G. The G Stands for Groan. 🙁 (Chris Hollander)
Syntactic Noise (Martin Fowler)
RIA Job Openings on the Rise (Pete Brown)
Separated at Birth? and Apple Bores at Microsoft-esque WWDC Keynote (Paul Thurrott)
New Proof: Office 14 Slated for 2009 (Mary Jo Foley)
Want to Try Out MobileMe? Check Out SproutCore (Jason Kincaid)
DestroyFlickr Breathes AIR Into Flickr (Josh Lowensohn)

Events / Community

Windows 7 at the PDC (Steve Clayton)

Link-O-Rama

LINKBLOG for June 9, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight News for June 9, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
WMOC #7: TechEd, Velocity and WSDAC #7: Enterprise Architecture, Scrum in 5 Minutes (Dilip Krishnan)
Daily Find #77 (Tim Boland)
Links of the Week June 8 2008 (Chris Love)
Interesting Finds: 2008.06.10 (gOODiDEA)
Silverlight Cream for June 09, 2008 — #295 (Dave Campbell)
Finds of the Week – June 9, 2008 (Chinh Do)
The Morning Brew #111 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master: Andrew Hunt, David Thomas: Books

Gadget of the Day

Flip Video Mino Series Camcorder, 60 Minutes (Black): Camera & Photo

Technorati: .net development, wpf, wcf, soa, sharepoint, podcasts, expression blend, flip mino, iphone 3g, mobileme

Dew Drop – June 2, 2008

Posted on June 2, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Design / Methodology

Enterprise Architecture: A Joke, A Failure… or an Opportunity? (Bob McIlree) – Link of the Day
SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 2 of N (Sam Gentile)
Object Oriented Programming Has Failed Us (Dave M. Bush)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Support with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (Scott Guthrie)
Logging Application Block and Unity Screencast – EntLib 4.0 (David Hayden)
MvcContrib 0.0.1.117 Released to Match ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Brazilian Waxing, Choosing a JavaScript Framework and Why I Don’t Like ASP.NET AJAX (Peter Eysermans)

.NET / Visual Studio

BackgroundWorker, Closure and Overridable Task (Patrick Smacchia)
Coding Style Per Project (Sergio Pereira)
Open Source Software in C# (via dzone)
Announcing Visual Studio MythWeek!! (Nandita)
How to Write a Terminal Services Add-In in Pure C# (Selvin)
WCF Visualizers – Release v1.6 (MSDN Code Gallery)
Bindable LINQ 1.0 Beta 1 (Paul Stovell)
LINQ to SQL with WCF in a Multi Tiered Action – Part 2 (Sidar Ok)

SQL Server

Just Say No to Manual CRUD (Russell Ball)
SQL Server Programming Hacks (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

Understanding the Crawler Architecture in SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008 (Bill English)
Where to Deploy My Silverlight XAP File? (Patrick Tisseghem)
Even If Your PC Once Didn’t Support Datasheet View, It May Do So Later (Mike Walsh)

Miscellaneous

Amiga Forever 2008: What’s New (via dzone)
Welcome to Acrobat.com – Work. Together. Anywhere. (Erik Larson) – Adobe re-branding a number of its online beta offerings under the Acrobat name.
Adobe Pushes Acrobat Into Online Office Space Against Microsoft, Google (Eric Lai)
Adobe Acrobat Takes Big Online Leap (Elsa Wenzel)
Adobe Acrobat 9 Launched (Cristian)
FlixPulse: Twitter Movie Reviews (Matthew Hurst)

Link-O-Rama

Weekly Link Post 44 (Rhonda Tipton)
Links (6/1/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Interesting Finds: June 1, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for June 1, 2008 — #288 (Dave Campbell)
Finds of the Week – May 31, 2008 (Chinh Do)
The Morning Brew #105 (Chris Alcock)
Link Listing – June 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Professional ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX (Programmer to Programmer): Matt Gibbs, Dan Wahlin: Books

Awesome Toy of the Day

Zizzle Zoundz: Toys & Games

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, wcf, silverlight, asp.net mvc, asp.net ajax, adobe acrobat, twitter, object oriented programming, enterprise architecture

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