Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft – Page 1517 – Daily links for Windows and .NET developers.

Dew Drop – May 22, 2008

.NET

How to Auto Update Your Application (Mike Hall)
Get the Client’s Address in WCF (Dan Rigsby)
Using LINQ’s DataContext to (Re)create Your Database for Testing (Derik Whittaker)
SharpTemplate.NET Pre-Release on CodePlex (Philippe Leybaert)
.NET Framework Client Profile (Brad Abrams)
ReSharper 4 Beta (Ilya Ryzhenkov) – Link of the Day

Web Development

Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity – Using the UnityCompositionContainer (Michael Puleio)
LINQ to SQL in Real World Web Applications (Marco De Sanctis)
Integrated Social Networking in ASP.NET (Daniel Crenna)
SQLAuthority Download – Providing Security for Web Applications and Infrastructure: Best Practices for Managing Security Risks (Pinal Dave)
Signing Requests (or Anything) with Hashes (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Chat Application Part 2 of 2 – Main Page and Sockets (Pete Brown)
Model-See, Model-Do, and the Poo is Optional (Mike Hillberg)
WPF Startup vs NCover (Chris Brandsma)

SharePoint

I Am Joining the SharePoint Experts Crew (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
LINQ4SP Beta 1 Is Here! (Agnes Molnar)
What Makes a “Good” SharePoint Consultant? (Shane Young)

Events / Community

LessThanDot? (Mark Smith)

Career

FlexPaths: Support for Flexible Working (Mike Gunderloy)

PowerShell

Strict Mode v1 Debug Tool v1/v2 Best Practice (Jeffrey Snover)
WPF & PowerShell – Part 1 (Hello World & Welcome to the Week of WPF) (James Brundage)

SQL Server

I Have a Question for You on DB Development Blunders (Denis Gobo)
To SPROC or Not to SPROC (Julie Lerman) 🙂

Miscellaneous

Developer’s Non-Development Book List (Michael C. Neel)
Response to NServiceBus Performance (Sam Gentile)
Microsoft Opens Up to New Document Formats (Paul Thurrott)
Safari Books Online: Five Ways to Make the Most of Your Subscription (Meridith Levinson)
DailyCoding.com (via dzone)
Scalability Principles (Simon Brown)
My Favorite Books (Eric Sink)
16 Simple Ways to Improve FriendFeed (Jeremy Toeman)
Microsoft Steals the FatWallet Concept (Allen Stern)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: May 21, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for May 21, 2008 — #279 (Dave Campbell)
Links Today (2008-05-21) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for May 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (5/21/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Link Listing – May 21, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #99 (Chris Alcock)
New and Notable 244 (Sam Gentile)
Visual Studio Links #31 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

Enterprise Service Bus: David Chappell: Books

Technorati: .net development, wcf, wpf, sharepoint, powershell, sql server stored procedures, asp.net security

Dew Drop – May 21, 2008

Silverlight / WPF

WPF Integration for VAB Update for Enterprise Library 4.0 (Martin Bennedik)
Margins and Padding in WPF (Dan Rigsby)
Updated Silverlight Uploader for SL2 Beta 1 (Josh Twist)
What Do You Think of My Silverlight ‘How Do I’ Videos? (Jesse Liberty)

Blogging

100 ‘Why Not’ Activities for Bloggers (Jason Boom)

.NET / Visual Studio

How Do I… ? New Entity Framework Videos (ADO.NET Team)
VSX Survey (Spring 2008) Invitation (VSX Team)
Enterprise Library 4.0 DAAB with Unity Screencast (David Hayden)
The Emergence of Choice in the .NET Ecosystem (James Avery)
XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Aaron Skonnard)
F# and Unit Testing – Some New Developments (Matthew Podwysocki)
The Weekly Source Code 27 – Suck Less Libraries (Scott Hanselman)
VSX Community Letter for May 2008 (Ken Levy)
Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep Part Deux: If It Looks Like a Duck, It Might Be a WinForm (Jacob Lauzier)
Need a “WHERE field IN (x, y, z)” Clause with LINQ (John Papa)
Strongly Typed Property Names (Paul Stovell)
Lambda and Expression Trees (Josh Twist)

Web Development

Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters – Building the New Code Camp Web Site (Part II) (Peter Kellner)
ASP.NET Tips: What to Gather to Troubleshoot – Part 6 – Recycle Due to MemoryLimit (Tom)
Creating a Custom ViewEngine for the ASP.NET MVC Framework (Maarten Balliauw)
RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC Part 1 – Setup (Ryan Lanciaux)
MVC Storefront: Client Progress Meeting (Rob Conery)
The MVC Storefront Challenge! (Jimmy Bogard)
Rob’s Not So Lazy MVC Storefront (K. Scott Allen)
PHP Sucks, But It Doesn’t Matter (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

SharePoint Elevated Privilege without RunWithElevatedPrivelege (Daniel Larson)
Developing for SharePoint on Your Local Computer (Martin Hinshelwood)
LINQ4SP – How to Create a New Item with a Lookup to Another List (Agnes Molnar)
Creating MOSS Pages Using RPC (Ton Stegeman)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Community Games on Xbox Live Beta (David Weller)
Microsoft Certification Policy Changed (Harold van de Kamp)
A GUI Interface in VB to Track an IP Address? (John Papa) – Link of the Day
10 Things to Consider Before Writing a Book (John Papa)
Techmeme Adds Search, Becomes Useful to the General Public (Brad Linder)
Service Update: New Build Released (Live Mesh Team)
MSN Toolbar Released – Yes Another Toolbar. Is This One Different? (Kip Kniskern) – Note: Only works with Silverlight 1.0 at the moment.
stackoverflow Podcast #6 (Jeff Atwood)
Announcing the Totally Unofficial Build a Better Twitter Contest (Molly Wood)
GRADED: The Worst ’10 Worst Consoles’ List of All Time (John Brownlee)
Is ALT.NET Duplicitous? (Casey Charlton)
Search Training Material Available on TechNet! (Michal Gideoni)
How Google Friend Connect Works (Peter Chane, Sami Shalabi & Mussie Shore)

PowerShell

WPF From PowerShell – Select-Grid (Joel Bennett)
The Future Is Here Today (Jeffrey Snover)

Design / Methodology

Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates and Roots (Jimmy Bogard)

Career

Why Did You Hire Me? (Keith LaFerriere)

Events / Community

F# and Functional Programming at Philly ALT.NET Wednesday Night! (Brian Donahue)

Link-O-Rama

Daily Find #69 (Tim Boland)
LINKBLOG for May 20, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links Today (2008-05-20) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for May 20, 2008 — #278 (Dave Campbell)
May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF (Scott Guthrie)
Visual Studio Links #30 (Darren Stokes)
May 21st: Posts I Liked (Manish Agrawal)
The Morning Brew #98 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity: Joel Spolsky: Books

Technorati: .net development, wpf, silverlight, asp.net mvc, linq, live mesh, powershell, f#, vsx

Dew Drop – May 20, 2008

SharePoint

When to Dispose of Objects in SharePoint API (Greg Galipeau)
Number 41… yeehaa! (Cornelius van Dyk) – I somehow managed to make #35 on Joel Oleson’s Top 100 SP list. Good SEO, I guess.
SQL Monitoring and I/O (Dan Blood)
Developers, Developers, Developers! SharePoint Wants You! (Lawrence)

Entity Framework

Reviewing the Entity Framework Source Control Support (Oren Eini)
Entity Framework: Our Albatross (Dave Laribee)
What Dan Simmons Forgot to Tell You About the Entity Framework (Jeremy D. Miller)
More Entity Framework Thoughts (Jimmy Bogard)
EF Long Term Plans (Greg Young)
On Comparing Current Tools to Futureware (Evan Hoff)
Why Use the Entity Framework? Yeah, Why Exactly? (Frans Bouma)

.NET / Visual Studio

Unit Tests for WCF (and Moq) (Pablo M. Cibraro)
101 LINQ Samples (Frank La Vigne)
A Generic Constraint Question (Eric Lippert)
Enum Description Values (Mike Oggoly)
Use the Right Tool For the Job (Oren Eini)
What Is the Story with These Files Ending with ni? (Tom)
Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta Has Shipped (Quan To)
ReSharper 4 Approaching Beta Status (Simone Chiaretta) – It’s installing on my machine at the moment. I hope it is actually stable.

Silverlight / WPF

Using Binding.StringFormat (Rudi Grobler)
WPF 3.5 SP1 Feature: StringFormat (Lester
WPF – Point an Image to an Embedded Resource (Chad Campbell)
Trying Code For My Book in VB and C# (John Papa)
In Silverlight, Tags Are Just Strings… (Jesse Liberty)
XAML: Level 100 (Daniel Moth)
50 New Silverlight Screencasts – Short and Snappy (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

ASP.NET Tips: What to Gather to Troubleshoot – Part 5 – OutOfMemoryException (Tom)
MVC Storefront: Brainbender Intermission and Intermission’s Over, Made Some Changes (Rob Conery)
Google Health API Released (John Musser)

Design / Methodology

The Little Things Do Matter (Jeremy D. Miller)
Visual Designers Don’t Scale (K. Scott Allen)
Why Do Some SOA Projects Succeed? Why Do Some Fail? (Brian Loesgen)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Neuron 2.0 General Release Distribution, Case Study, and SOA Software (Sam Gentile)
Bill Gates Demos TouchWall – Like Surface For the Office (Sarah Perez)
Google Health Beta Test Begins (Stephen Shankland)
Google Health: Some Observations (Krishnan Subramanian)
Nice MSDN URLs (Mike Stall) – This is fantastic (and long overdue). Link of the Day.
Hanseminutes Podcast Catchup (Scott Hanselman)
Twitter: How Not to Crash Responsibly (Jeff Atwood)
What’s New in MSDN Downloads? (Tamir Khason)
I Now Present You With Bitter (Mike Hall) – Mike’s new Twitter client. I was one of Mike’s usability testers, and I’ve been very happy with the app.
Generating Code Coverage From PowerShell Scripts (Lee Holmes)
Atari 7800 Lounge at Milwaukee Grocery Store: The Horror, The Horror… (John Brownlee)

Events / Community

Webcast: Software + Services for Developers (Joel)
PDC2008: A Day in the Life #1 (Mike Swanson)
Central Penn .NET User’s Group Tomorrow Night (Sam Gentile) – Tonight, May 20th.

Link-O-Rama

New and Notable 243 (Sam Gentile)
Link Listing – May 18, 2008 and Link Listing – May 19, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Visual Studio Links #29 (Darren Stokes)
Interesting Finds: May 19, 2008 and Interesting Finds: May 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for May 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2008 — #277 (Dave Campbell)
Links (5/19/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Interesting Finds: 2008.05.20 (gOODiDEA)
The Morning Brew #97 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Programmer to Programmer): Robert Bogue, Adam Buenz, Andrew Connell, Stacy Draper, Luis Du Solier Grinda, Todd Klindt, Jason Medero, Dustin Miller, Shane Perran, Joris Poelmans, Heather Solomon, Nick Swan, Jan Tielens, Mike Walsh, Shane Young, Scot Hillier: Books

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