March 2008 – Page 6 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – March 18, 2008

Miscellaneous

New and Improved MSDN Site (Angela Binkowski)
Please Question the Need for Whitespace (Jonathan Cogley)
Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity? (Jeff Atwood)
DLR Resources & Jobs (Harry Pierson)

Blogging

WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek (Matthew Mullenweg)
Rethinking Twitter (Russell Ball)

.NET

Number of Types in the .NET Framework (Brad Abrams)
Getting LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities to Use NOLOCK (Scott Hanselman)
Mono.Cecil vs. System.Reflection (Patrick Smacchia)
RicherTextBox (Svetoslav Savov)

Web Development

Email Something Huge: Introducing the Big Mailer Utility (Michael C. Kennedy)
A Simple FormatDate Function for JavaScript (Rick Strahl)

Visual Studio

MS Tests Failing Due to Security Errors (Rick Strahl)
Visual Studio 2008 Theme (Corey Schuman) – Another nice-looking dark theme for VS.
Second CodePlex Project – Virtual Earth Gets IntelliSense (Tim Heuer)
Adding an Existing File to a Project Without Copying It (Darren)

Silverlight

How Do I Write That in JavaScript? (Jesse Liberty)
Live Demo of ScottGu’s Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Digg Application (Matt Berseth)
Showing off the Power of Silverlight 2.0 – Windows Media Player Redone (Jose Fajardo)
Easing Animations in Blend (Corey Schuman)

SQL Server

Reduce Locks for DELETE and UPDATE Commands in SQL Server 2005 with TOP Clause (Keyvan Nayyeri)
SQL Server 2008 and Unstructured Data (Jose Barreto)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Dispose Patterns By Example (Roger Lamb)

Link Collections

Weekly SOA Crumbs #11 (Dilip Krishnan)
Links Today (2008-03-17) (Matt Hinze)
Bits for March 17, 2008 (Dave Burke)
Finds of the Week – March 16, 2008 (Chinh Do)
The Morning Brew #55 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

The Security Development Lifecycle: Michael Howard,Steve Lipner: Books

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Dew Drop – March 17, 2008

Silverlight/WPF

New Devs4Devs Video – A Step By Step Guide to Silverlight DeepZoom (Dave Isbitski)
Tip of the Day – Binding to a Collection and Source for Tip of the Day (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight 2 Developer Poster (Brad Abrams)
WPF Snippets (Rudi Grobler)

.NET

Do You Use VB Late Binding? If so, how? (Rocky Lhotka)
Mashups with SyndicationFeed and LINQ (K. Scott Allen)
C# 4: Immutable Type Initialization (Jon Skeet)
The Method You Didn’t Know You Needed (Mads Kristensen)

Misc

Review – xUnit Test Patterns (Jimmy Bogard)
JetBrains Omea Goes Open Source (dotnetproject)

SQL Server

Touch/Peel/Stand, then Try/Catch/Raise (Kevin Goff)
Nonclustered Index Keys (Kalen Delaney)

Events/Community

philly.net Meeting: March 19, Microsoft Malvern, MIX Report and Building Good UX with .NET

Web Development

MSN Search SDK Beta (MS Downloads)

Link Collections

Visual Studio Links #10 (Darren Stokes)
Links Today (2008-03-16) (Matt Hinze)
Weekly Link Post 33 (Rhonda Tipton)
Links (3/16/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #54 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach: Joseph Sack: Books

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Dew Drop – March 15, 2008

.NET

How to Calculate Network Utilization in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Playing with LINQ to SQL and Various Performance Tests (Derik Whittaker)
C# 3 is Like a Moped (Jeremy D. Miller)
IronPython 2.0 Beta 1 Released (Harry Pierson)
Delegates in C# (Amr Ashush)
An ALT.NET Media Blitz! (Dave Laribee)
Cool Entity Framework Sample (Elisa Flasko)
Things in Metadata That Are Missing in Reflection (Mike Stall)
Thoughts on ALT.NET (Christopher Bennage)
Why I Love F#: A Refactoring Tale (Dustin Campbell)
Making PInvoke Easy (Jared Parsons)
Building a REST API in .NET (Jack Altiere)
Exploring Secrets of .NET Diagnostics (Michael Sorens)
Add Support For “Set” Collections to .NET (Jason Smith)
Why Do We Need Yet Another .NET Mocking Framework? (Daniel Cazzulino)
Anonymous Methods: Now That’s a Dumb Name! (Leon Bambrick)

Misc

Do You Want to Host the WF Workflow and Rules Designer? (Chris Sells)
PTOM: The Interface Segregation Principle (Ray Houston)
Recommended Books (Oren Eini)
PTOM: The Single Responsibility Principle (Sean Chambers)
Brad Abrams’ pixel8 Interview Podcast Posted (Brad Abrams)
INVEST in Good User Stories (Kelly Waters)
Looking Into VIM and ViEmu (Roy Osherove)

WCF

WCF Tips and Gotchas From Neudesic Teams (Sam Gentile)
Windows Communication Foundation – 65 Links to Make You an Expert (Joe Stagner)

Silverlight/WPF

A WPF File Selection Control (Philipp Sumi)
New Dynamic Silverlight Site! (Jimmy Schementi)
Tip of the Day Returns From Disney – Master Detail in Silverlight 2 (Jesse Liberty)
Sudoku Generator and Solver in C# (Dino Chiesa)
Why Silverlight Is Nailing Flex (Martin Beeby)

Web Development

Using Unity and the ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (Chris)
SubSonic: Taking a Look at the New Repository Base Class (Rob Conery)
DLRScript – Release v3.1 (CodePlex) – Ruby support added in this release.
Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 2 (hackersoft)

SQL Server

More Goodies For Developers in SQL Server 2008 (Julie Lerman)

Visual Studio

MSBuild File Explorer Tools – March 2008 Release (CodePlex)

Link Collections

Link Listing – March 13, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
New and Notable 227 (Sam Gentile)
Links Today (2008-03-14) and Links Today (2008-03-15) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for March 14, 2008 and LINKBLOG for March 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

Book of the Day

Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008: Joseph C. Rattz: Books

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