Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft – Page 1558 – Daily links for Windows and .NET developers.

Daily Bits – February 2, 2008

Misc

Design Patterns Quick Reference II – The Poster Chronicles (Jason McDonald)
New AgileThinkers Blog – It Is About the People, More Than the Pieces (Clarke Ching)
Lang.net Wrap-Up (John Lam)
You Suck at Photoshop 5 (Donnie Hoyle)
Developers Are Not Hot-Swappable (Simon Munro)
TDD Proven Effective! Or Is It? (Jacob Proffitt)
Reports: Vista SP1 Gold Bits on Track For Next Week (Mary Jo Foley) – Looks like Monday, 02/04.
Pair Programming with Descartes (Billy McCafferty)

WPF

A Versatile WPF TreeView Control Finding an Ancestor of a WPF Dependency Object (Philipp Sumi)

Web Development

Storing LINQ Objects in SQL-Based Session State (Troy Goode)
Gotchas and Learnings From Refactoring to Use ASP.NET AJAX (Jeff Putz)
What Controls Do You Want in Silverlight v2? (Kathy Kam)
Firefox, WPF and XBAP and MS Deploy – New IIS Web Deployment Tool (Scott Hanselman)
SubSonic: 2.1 Beta Is Up (Rob Conery)
Free Training: New Microsoft Expression Virtual Labs (Robert Shelton)

.NET

Enterprise Library 4: Now With More Peace, Love and Rock n’ Roll (Scott Densmore)
A Sorted Affair: History of the C# Sort (JD Conley)
Unity + EntLib = ? (Tom Hollander)
When string.ToLower() is Evil (Vadym Stetsiak) – I think that this is WHY it is evil.
Custom Username and Password Authentication in WCF 3.5 (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Visual Studio

ReSharper 4 in 2 Weeks (and Random Geekiness) (Jeremy D. Miller)
Intellisense for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008 (Brennan Stehling)

SharePoint

Silverlight Display Web Part and Why You Should Always Do Least Priveleged Testing (Eric Shupps)

Other Link Blogs

Link Listing – January 31, 2008 and Link Listing – February 1, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: February 1, 2008 and Interesting Finds: February 2, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for February 1, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
links for 2008-02-02 (Sam Buchanan)
3 Links Today (2008-02-02) (Matt Hinze)

Book of the Day (Superbowl Weekend Edition)

Phil Simms on Passing: Fundamentals of Throwing the Football: Books: Phil Simms

Technorati: daily links, programming, microsoft, wpf, wcf, silverlight, microsoft, .net, books

Daily Bits – February 1, 2008

HOT NEWS

Microsoft Wants to Purchase Yahoo (Offers $44.6 Billion) (BBC News)

Events

Whew, Been Busy!!! (Mitch Ruebush)
First Half 2008 Conference Speaking Schedule (Scott Hanselman)
MIX08 (Scott Guthrie)

Misc

Invoking a WCF Service From a CLR Trigger (Sam Shiles)
30 Things to Do to Keep From Getting Bored Out of Your Skull at Work (Leo Babauta)
Test Data Builders: An Alternative to the Object Mother Pattern (Nat Pryce)
101 Design Patters & Tips for Developers (SourceMaking)
Holy Halftones! Microsoft Launches Comic Featuring Superhero Techies (Paul McDougall)

Career

Wanted: Rock Star Developer for Channel9/10 (Dan Fernandez)

.NET

Creating a Transparent Panel in .NET (Tobias Hertkorn)
Expression Tree Basics (Charlie Calvert)
WPF Application Quality Guide v0.1 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
Quiz – C# and .NET Secrets (Rainer Stropek)

Web Development

Web Client 2.0 Closer Than You Think (Glenn Brock)
Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ – Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
MVC with Entity Framework… a Twist on Brad Abrams’ Example (Julie Lerman)
Writing a Book: Service-Based Enterprise AJAX on the Microsoft Platform (Daniel Larson)
Microsoft Ajax Library Book Published (Brad Abrams)
Silverlight: Overview (via Sam Buchanan)

PowerShell

Advanced PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)

SharePoint

Installing MOSS From Scratch (Martin Hinshelwood)
The Legend of the Single, Multi-Terabyte, Replicating SharePoint Database (Jose Barreto)
MOSS Reporting Services Native Mode Options for Adding Reports to SharePoint Sites (Kathy Hughes)
SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard (CodePlex)

Visual Studio

Best VS Fonts/Colors EVER (Ryan Lanciaux)
Visual Studio 2008 Extensibility Known Issues Document Has Been Updated (Quan To)

Other Link Blogs

New and Notable 221 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: January 31, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for January 31, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
2 Links Today (2008-01-31) (Matt Hinze)
links for 2008-02-01 (Sam Buchanan)
The Morning Brew #23 (Chris Alcock)
Concentrated Codesqueeze: January 2008 (Max Pool)

Book of the Day

Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials: Client-side ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Explained: Books: Cristian Darie,Bogdan Brinzarea

Technorati: daily links, programming, microsoft, yahoo, ajax, events, wcf, wpf, silverlight

Daily Bits – January 31, 2008

PowerShell

Free eBook Offer For Windows Server 2008 and PowerShell (Dave Glover)
Online PowerShell Training (Jeffrey Snover)
Tab Completion (Jeffrey Snover)

Misc

Want Some WPF Improvements/Features? Tell Us. (Lester)
No, Be a Jerk (Justin Gehtland)
Confessions of a Software Developer* (Aaron Lerch)
Neudesic Announces NuCon’08 Events (Sam Gentile) – I’ll be attending the NY event.
Three Rules For Database Work (K. Scott Allen)
The Weekly Source Code 14 – Fluent Interface Edition (Scott Hanselman)

.NET

C# Generics Annoyance (Chris Brandsma)
Why Threading Is Hard (Mike Stall)
Learning .NET Debugging (Tess Ferrandez)
HealthVault Device Driver Development Kit Available on MSDN (HealthVault Device Team)

SharePoint

Open Source Faceted Search for MOSS 2007 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 (Part 1 of 2) (Neil Hodgkinson)
SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Import Your CSS for SharePoint Themes (Heather Solomon)
SharePoint Search Bench v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex)
Microsoft SharePoint Will “Steamroll” Web 2.0 Market, Plus Eight More Predictions From Forrester (Jon Brodkin)

Web Development

CruiseControl, VS2008 and ASP.NET MVC (Kyle Baley)
10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets (Omar AL Zabir)
Troubleshooting Expired ASP.NET Session State and Your Options (Scott Hanselman)
New Channel9 Interview with Scott Guthrie on Mix (Dan Fernandez)

Visual Studio

StickyNotes Available for Visual Studio 2008 on the New MSDN Code Gallery (VSX Team)
Known Issues for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 (VSX Team)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: January 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for January 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (1/30/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Link Listing – January 30, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #22 (Chris Alcock)
1 Link Today (2008-01-30) (Matt Hinze)
links for 2008-01-31 (Sam Buchanan)

Book of the Day

The Rational Guide to SQL Server 2005 Service Broker (Rational Guides) (Rational Guides): Books: Roger Wolter

Technorati: daily links, programming, microsoft, sharepoint, powershell, asp.net, books, events

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