Technology – Page 24 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – May 27, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

Get the Service Endpoint Address a Client Is Accessing in WCF (Dan Rigsby)
WiimoteLib v1.3 Released (Brian Peek)
Visual SourceSafe: A Public Service Announcement (Dan Dyer)
LINQ to SQL with WCF in a Multi-Tiered Action – Part 1 (Sidar Ok)

Silverlight

Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Assemblies and Namespaces – Part 2 – the v2.0 Subset (Daniel Moth)
Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta – Part Three (Faisal Khan)
EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 2) (Jon Davis)

Web Development

How to Build Your Very Own Provider Model – Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
EntLib 4.0 Validation Application Block and Unity Screencast (David Hayden)
jQuery Books Review (Rick Strahl)

SharePoint

Understanding Total Hits & Paging in the MOSS 2007 Search API (Andrew Connell)
SharePoint AutoComplete Lookup Field with AJAX – Release (CodePlex)

PowerShell

PowerShell Modules (Joel Bennett)
WPF & PowerShell – Part 6 (Running Functions in the Background) (James Brundage)

Miscellaneous

It’s Clay Shirky’s Internet, We Just Live in It (Jeff Atwood)
Are You a Productive Reader? (Dustin Wax)
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Is Coming in Q3 2008 (Paul Thurrott)
Adobe Betas Preview Next Round of Create Suite Apps (Jim Dalrymple)

Design / Methodology

Agile Requirements Modeling (Scott W. Ambler)

Career

How to Select a Fine Technical Manager (Jurgen Appelo)

Link-O-Rama

Weekly Link Post 43 (Rhonda Tipton)
Interesting Finds: May 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for May 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Weekly Software Development and Architecture Crumbs #5 and Weekly SOA Crumbs #18 and Weekly Microsoft Oriented Crumbs #5 (Dilip Krishnan)
Silverlight Cream for May 26, 2008 — #283 and Silverlight Cream for May 26, 2008 – 2 — #284 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #101 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

jQuery in Action: Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz, John Resig: Books

Technorati: .net development, powershell, sharepoint, wcf, silverlight, ie8, jquery, enterprise library, clay shirky

Dew Drop – May 26, 2008

Silverlight / WPF

Of Logical and Visual Trees in WPF (Mike Hillberg) – Link of the Day
WPF Multipage Reports – Part I (Jan Repisky)
PowerShell and WPF: WTF and WPF & PowerShell – Part 5 (Using WPF & PowerShell Modules) (James Brundage)
Silverlight Training Videos (Sarah Perez)

.NET / Visual Studio

We’re Talking Past Each Other on the Entity Framework (Jeremy D. Miller)
Microsoft Source Analysis (Chris Brandsma)
Writing Your Own Rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (Tobias Hertkorn)
HowTo: Configure Microsoft Source Analysis (John Rudolf Lewis)
Some LINQ Tricks (Papenoo pa)
Return Within a C# Using Statement (Brendan Enrick)
The Future of .NET, Visual Studio and More (Joni Moilanen)

Web Development

Ending a Response Without Response.End() Exceptions? (Rick Strahl)

SharePoint

LINQ4SP – Delete a List Item (Agnes Molnar)
Super Easy Way to Add WCF to SharePoint 2007 (Sahil Malik)
SharePoint Solutions Rant (Martin Hinshelwood)

Miscellaneous

Feedbacks on Waegis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Book Review: C# in Depth (Patrick Smacchia) – I love this book.
The Illusion of Technically Competent Managers (Max Pool)
Pizza Hut Hops Onto the Adobe AIR Bandwagon (Jay Hathaway) – Does this mean Papa John’s will go with Silverlight?
6 Resources For Free Images (Mike Gunderloy)
New Version of IE7 Pro Released and Tweet Your Xbox Live Status (Sarah Perez)

Blogging / Events / Community

Forget About the Target on Your Back (John Papa)
Massey University XNA Presentation (John-Daniel Trask)

SQL Server

What’s Worse Than a Table Scan? (Kalen Delaney)

Link-O-Rama

New and Notable 245 (Sam Gentile)
Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2008 — #282 (Dave Campbell)
Links (5/25/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Everyman Links for May 25, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Service-Oriented Modeling (SOA): Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture: Michael Bell: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, powershell, wpf, wcf, linq, entity framework, microsoft source analysis, xna framework

Dew Drop – May 25, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

Free Visual Studio Plugin to Format Your Mark-Up (Joe Stagner)
Extending WCF InstanceContext to Store Custom State (Dan Rigsby) – Part 2 in Dan’s series on WCF InstanceContext.
Basic Audio Library (CodePlex)

Web Development

30 Websites to Follow If You’re Into Web Development (Jacob Gube)

WPF / Silverlight

Using ViewModels and DataTemplates to Compose Your UI (Glenn Block)
WPF & PowerShell — Part 4 (XAML & Show-Control) (James Brundage)

Miscellaneous

ALT.NET Podcast EP2 on Microsoft (Chad Myers) – Link of the Day
Videos – Interim Opinions… (Jesse Liberty)
Help Improve CodePlex (Sara Ford)
Windows 7 to Make Appearance at D6 Conference (Long Zheng)
Twitter Features That Should Exist for Enterprise Social Networking (Rob Foster)
SharePoint 2007 Post-SP1 Fixes (Spencer Harbar)
Zefty – Online Allowance and Money Management For Kids (via Go2Web2.0)
Move Over Twhirl, Alert Thingy, Feedalizr Is in Town (Duncan Riley)
Episode 97: Interview Anders Hejlsberg (Markus Völter)
20 Top Add-Ons That Are Ready For Firefox 3 (Deb Richardson)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: 2008.05.24 and Interesting Finds: 2008.05.25 (gOODiDEA)
LINKBLOG for May 24, 2008 and LINKBLOG for May 25, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: May 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
WCF Security Resources (J.D. Meier) – A great collection of WCF links.

Book of the Day

Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics: Brian Clifton: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, wcf, wpf, powershell, linq, alt.net, friendfeed, twitter, firefox 3 plugins

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