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Dew Drop – May 7, 2008

Posted on May 7, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Silverlight/WPF/Popfly

EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo – Part 1: Propagating EntitySpaces Data (Jon Davis)
Simplify Using 2D Graphics in WPF and Silverlight (Andrej Benedik)
DrawingBrush and Deep Clone in Silverlight (Tamir Khason)
Cracking Open Zip Files in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 (Josh Twist)
Creating Music For Popfly Game Creator (Ben Anderson)
AutoComplete for Silverlight TextBoxes (Nikhil Kothari)
http://www.codeplex.com/sdlsdk (Jimmy Schementi)

.NET

LINQ to XML, Namespaces and VB (Daniel Moth)
Command-Query Separation and Immutable Builders (Matthew Podwysocki)
What Arrays and Pointers Have in Common – or – Why Arrays Start at Zero (Karl Seguin) – Link of the Day
Recent ADO.NET Entity Framework Provider News – Demos and Downloads (David Sceppa)
Stream Processing XML in IronPython and Deserializing XML with IronPython (Harry Pierson)
F# in 20 Minutes – Part I (Chris Smith)
LINQ.Flickr 1.3 (Mehfuz)
SharePoint as a WCF Host (Sahil Malik) – This link doesn’t appear to be working right now, but the title piqued my interest. So, I’m hoping it will be working very soon.

Visual Studio

11 More Visual Studio Shortcuts You Should Know (Amit Raz)
Becoming a Jedi – Part 1 of N (James Kovacs)

Miscellaneous

What’s Your Circle of Interest? (Paul Stovell)
Addict-o-matic: The Newest Metasearch (Mike Gunderloy)
25 WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
The Bookshelf (James Kovacs)
stackoverflow Podcast #4 (Jeff Atwood)
Measuring Programmer Job Satisfaction (Jess)
Office Open XML Is Now an ISO Standard! (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
Blogs From the Live Mesh Team (Mesh Team)

SQL Server

SQL Server 2005: Get Full Information About Transaction Locks (Mladen Prajdić)

PowerShell

PowerShell + WPF (Rob Relyea)
Next Windows PowerShell Will Have GUI, Remote Management Support (Scott M. Fulton, III)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: May 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Visual Studio Links #24 (Darren Stokes)
Links Today (2008-05-06) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2008 — #268 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #88 (Chris Alcock)
Link Listing – May 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): For .NET Framework 3.5 (Microsoft .NET Development Series): Steve Resnick,Richard Crane,Chris Bowen: Books

Technorati: .net development, popfly game creator, silverlight, wcf, wpf, sharepoint, powershell, f#, ado.net entity framework

Dew Drop – May 6, 2008

Posted on May 6, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Silverlight/WPF/Popfly

Silverlight Attached Properties for WPF Developers (Marlon Grech)
Silverlight Behaviors (Nikhil Kothari)
Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight (Brad Abrams)
Binding to Anonymous Types in an Xbap or Silverlight Application (Mike Hillberg)
Popfly Game Creator Video Tutorials (Popfly Team)
Creating Controls in Code (Jesse Liberty)
Developers Can Create Some Amazing Stuff Using Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio – Available for Download Now (Dave)
Unity and Silverlight: It Can Be Done! (Chris)
Patterns & Practices: Prism Contrib (CodePlex)
Editing the Appearance of Actors, Scenes, etc… (Ben Anderson)
WPF From PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

Visual Studio

ReSharper 4.0 vs. CodeRush/Refactor! — Smack Down Results (Derik Whittaker)

.NET

.NET Is Crap? (Chris Cavanagh)
Entity Framework Q&A – Lazy Loading, ObjectContext, and LINQ (John Papa)
Collection Initializer Expressions (Paul Vick)

Web Development

Book: ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls (Joe Stagner)
MVC Storefront, Part 8: Testing Controllers, Iteration 1 (Rob Conery)
ASP.NET Tips: What to Gather to Troubleshoot – Part 2 – High Memory (Tom)
Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Book (Only $16 on Amazon for a Short Time) (Scott Guthrie) – That’s only $1 for every 100 pages. I ordered my copy. I’ll be putting my copy of Pro ASP.NET 2.0 book up on Bookmooch if anyone is interested. Link of the Day
Contrasting Two MVC / LINQ to SQL Applications for the Web (K. Scott Allen)
How the Flickr API Now Handles Video (Raymond Yee)
ASP.NET Crash: StackOverflowException with Server.Transfer (Tess Ferrandez)

Design/Methodology

Domain-Driven Design: Reading Toward Deeper Insight (Peter Van Ooijen)
Behind Live Mesh: Live Desktop Architecture (Alex Himel)
Protected Semantics, Part Five: More on Immutability (Eric Lippert)
Good Code Is… (Casey Charlton)
Understanding Model-View-Controller (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

SharePoint Development For the Masses (Eric Shupps)

Miscellaneous

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #2 (Shahar Yair)
Presdo: Twitter For Your Calendar? (Bob Walsh)
Live Mesh Synch: How to Check Sync Progress to the Cloud (Kip Kniskern)
MacBook Pro, iWork, Expression Studio 2 and Other Rumblings… (David Hayden)
Subversion as a Deployment Tool (Sijin Joseph)
Yes, You Too Can Be a Metrosexual Developer! An Interview with Justice Gray (Mike Duncan)
How to Create SMART Tasks (Mike Gunderloy)
Video: James Whittaker on Software Testing (Brian Keller)
Spolsky’s Paradox (J. Kealy)
I Updated My Resources Lists (Marc)
Share and Annotate Web Pages in Google Reader (Alex Chitu)
Centralizing Your WCF Configuration with Neuron ESB (David Pallmann)

Zune

Zune Spec Video (Steve Clayton)
Zune Multiplayer Games in Action (Adrian Covert)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: May 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-05-05) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for May 5, 2008 — #267 (Dave Campbell)
Silverlight Resources (Mike Snow)
The Morning Brew #87 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: 2008.05.06 (gOODiDEA)
New and Notable 238 (Sam Gentile)
Link Listing – May 5, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB (Programmer to Programmer): Bill Evjen,Scott Hanselman,Devin Rader: Books

Technorati: .net development, asp.net mvc, sharepoint, powershell, popfly game creator, silverlight, wpf, zune

Dew Drop – May 4, 2008

Posted on May 4, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 2 Comments

Silverlight/WPF

Popfly Game Creator Alpha Goes Live! (Ben Anderson) – Some great info from a developer on the Popfly team… Link of the Day
patterns & practices: Prism – Release Drop 05-02-2008 (CodePlex)
Update to Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight Released (Dan Wahlin)
The Story of Ruby and Python in Silverlight (Jimmy Schementi)

Web Development

Code Based Repeater for ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
Json.NET 2.0 Released (James Newton-King)

.NET

Smart Thread Pool – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
Remote Desktop Client Wrapper for RDP 6.1 ActiveX Control – Release v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex)
Unit Testing Events (Patrick Klug)
Managed Extensibility Framework (Krzysztof Cwalina)
Unattended Installation For the .NET Framework 3.5 (Jacob Hodges)

Events/Community

ESB Guidance Webcast Next Friday (May 9th 2008) (Brian Loesgen)
PDC 2008 Conference Scheduling Using a Genetic Algorithm (Mike Swanson)

Miscellaneous

Twitter 101: Clarifying the Rules for Newbies (Corvida)
Neuron ESB Management Experience (David Pallmann)
Scale and Performance Lessons Learned From a Live Deployment and SearchBeta Hardware Configuration (Dan Blood)
Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo! Offer: Full Text of Ballmer Letter to Yang and Yahoo! Responds to Withdrawal – Issues Statement (Kip Kniskern)

Link-O-Rama

Silverlight Cream for May 3, 2008 – #265 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2008 – 2 – #266 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: 2008.05.04 (gOODiDEA)
Innovation Notes: May 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Unleashed: Ray Rankins,Paul Bertucci,Chris Gallelli,Alex T. Silverstein: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, neuron esb, silverlight, deep zoom, asp.net mvc, twitter

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