April 2008 – Page 5 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – April 19, 2008

SharePoint

SharePoint for Developers Content (G. Andrew Duthie)
SharePoint – The New Lotus Notes (Steve Clayton)

.NET

The Weekly Source Code 24 – Extensibility Edition – Plug-Ins, Providers, Attributes, Add-Ins and Modules in .NET (Scott Hanselman)
Impersonate a Client’s Identity in WCF (Dan Rigsby)
A Fluent Repeater (Adrian Aisemberg)
Searching for Derived Types in an Assembly (Yoav Sion)
Using the Using Statement (Lars Corneliussen)
Digging Into the LINQ “let” Keyword (Justin Etheredge)
WCF WPF Internet Chat Application with File Transferer (Islam ElDemery)
LINQ to NHibernate in LINQPad (Oran Dennison)
p&p: Smart Client Contrib – Release v1.5 (CodePlex)

Web Development

IE8 vs Firefox 3.0 Beta 5: Javascript Part 1 (Ryan Lanciaux)
ASP.NET MVC Framework Pre-Preview 3 – A Step by Step Guide to Create a Simple Web App (Fredrik Normén)

Silverlight/WPF

Silverlight Cross-Domain Policy File Checker (Frank La Vigne)
Building a Casual Game in Silverlight (Laurence Moroney)
Podcast Part 2 Posted (Jesse Liberty)
KaXaml Now Supports Silverlight Tabs (Rob Relyea)
Building the Gamercard – Part 1: Composing the UI and Part 2: Retrieving the Data and Part 3: Updating the UI (Adam Kinney)
RadControls for WPF CTP (Hristo Kosev)
Standalone Silverlight Applications (Miguel de Icaza)
Silverlight 2.0 Custom Scroll Viewer with Mouse Wheel (Nikolay Nedev)
Using MS Expression Design to Design the Control in Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
Create a Video Player in Silverlight 2 – Part 2 (Corey Schuman)

Miscellaneous

Turns Out My Code Is a Piece of American Dog Crap (Max Pool)
A Gentile Introduction to Mocking (K. Scott Allen)
Should All Developers Have Manycore CPUs? (Jeff Atwood)
Shutdown Day – May 3rd (Steve Clayton)
Use Twitter to Stay on Top of the .NET Programming News (via DotNetKicks)

Visual Studio

10 Visual Studio Shortcuts You Must Know (Amit Raz)
File Lock Issue in Visual Studio When Building a Project (Keyvan Nayyeri)
LightSpeed 2.0 Model Designer (Jeremy Boyd)

Events/Community

Philly.NET Code Camp II 2008 and Next Philly IASA Architecture Meeting May 7th (Mitch Ruebush)
Video of ALT.NET Opening (Jeffrey Palermo)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 17, 2008 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Visual Studio Links #20 (Darren Stokes)
Daily Find #57 (Tim Boland)
Links Today (2008-04-17) and Links Today (2008-04-18) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for April 17, 2008 and LINKBLOG for April 18, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (4/17/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Bits for April 17, 2008 (Dave Burke)
Interesting Finds: 2008.04.18 and Interesting Finds: 2008.04.19 (gOODiDEA)
Link Listing – April 17, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #76 (Chris Alcock)
WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web Links – 2008/04/18 (Rob Relyea)
Silverlight Cream for April 18, 2008 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day

Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Developer Reference: Dino Esposito: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, visual studio, silverlight, wpf, wcf, linq, nhibernate

Dew Drop – April 17, 2008

Silverlight/WPF

Webcast: Event Handling (Jesse Liberty)
My Digg Mashup – Part 2: Laying Your Project Out (Jose Fajardo)
Silverlight 2 Essential Getting Started Facts and Guide (Daniel Moth)
p&p Prism – Release Drop 04-15-2008 (CodePlex)

.NET

LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client – Part 3: Database Transactions (Beth Massi)
Entity Framework Is… Complex (Julie Lerman)
Never Ever Synchronize Threads Without Specifying a Timeout Value (Pawel Pabich)
.NET Obfuscators (Timm Martin)
Enumerating the GAC Using ‘foreach’ (Adrian Aisemberg)

Web Development

Action Behavior Using ASP.NET MVC and MvcContrib and ASP.NET MVC Framework – New Build Available – Source Includes Unit Tests (Jeffrey Palermo)
ASP.NET MVC Source Refresh Preview (Scott Guthrie)
Google I/O Coming Soon, Free Passes Now (John Musser)
Javascript: Introducing Using (.js) (Jon Davis)
Having a Crush on jQuery (Simone Chiaretta)

Visual Studio

ReSharper’s “Go to Type by Name” Window Accepts Wildcards! (Jeremy Jarrell)
VSX Community Letter for April 2008 (Ken Levy)
Good Tools and ReSharper 4 EAP Thoughts (Jacob Lewallen)
Trying Out PowerCommands 1.1 for Visual Studio 2008 (Guy Burstein)
Spec# v1.0.20411 for Visual Studio 2008 (MS Research Downloads)

Events/Community

How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Go to DevTeach (Kyle Baley)
Introducing Stackoverflow.com (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

Web Stress Test White Paper Published (Michael Watson)

Miscellaneous

Directions on Microsoft – Free Chapter on Microsoft Online (Steve Clayton)
Source Control Is Not a Feature You Can Postpone to vNext (Oren Eini)
PowerShell Power User Tips: Current Directory (Joel Bennett)
Introducing Mingle 2.0 (Adam Monago)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-04-16) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for April 16, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for April 16, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #75 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #189 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook (Cookbooks (O’Reilly)): Bill Hamilton: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, silverlight, powershell, resharper eap, jquery, asp.net mvc, codeplex

Dew Drop – April 16, 2008

Happy Birthday, Stelene!

Silverlight/WPF

Silverlight – Save Web Page (Yildirim Kocdag)
Why WPF Rocks (Custom Layout Panel Showcase) (Rudi Grobler)
TFS Sticky Buddy v0.3.1 CTP1 (Martin Hinshelwood)
Update to My Silverlight Cross-Domain Proxy Utility (Frank La Vigne)
OpenFileDialog and FileDialogFileInfo in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 (Daniel Moth)

.NET

How to Share Configuration Files Between Projects (Derik Whittaker)
Configuration Error for Custom Behavior Extensions in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
C# params Quiz and Issues (Adrian Aisemberg)
Printing PDF Documents in C# (David Vidmar)
Improving Performance Through Stack Allocation (.NET Memory Management: Part 2) (Rick Minerich)
On Diving Into NHibernate (Kyle Baley)
The Most Reusable Piece of Code Ever… Period (Max Pool)
NullTransport for WCF (Roman Kiss)
C# Singleton Snippet (Yoav Sion)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Membership Starter Kit Alternative Authentication (Maarten Balliauw)
How to Disable web.config Inheritance for Child Applications in Subfolders in ASP.NET (spavkov)
Why Do ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods Have to Be Static? (Dave Ward)
Skinned Login Control (Etienne Tremblay)
HtmlControlWrapper Javascript (Jason Haley)

SQL Server

Solutions for Common T-SQL Problems Site Launched By Microsoft (Denis Gobo)
Did You Know? Another Cumulative Update Package Is Available (Kalen Delaney)
Avoiding Subqueries in SQL Statements (parasite)
SQL Server 2005 – Connection Strings for .NET (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server Security Vulnerabilities (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

ALT.NET on DotNetRocks and the Community (Matthew Podwysocki)
Towards Moore’s Law Software: Part 2 of 3 and Part 3 of 3 (Jeff Moser)
Guidelines Aren’t Rules (Jimmy Bogard)
Community Server 2008 Released (Keyvan Nayyeri)
IoC Container Benchmark – Unity, Windsor, StructureMap and Spring.NET (Torkel Ödegaard)
Possible XP SP3 Release Schedule and Halo 3: Legendary Map Pack (and a Free Theme) (Paul Thurrott)
25 Podcasts Added to WindowsClient.net
Hanselminutes Podcast 108 – Exploring Distributed Source Control with Git (Scott Hanselman)
Sitting in an Oslo SDR (Sam Gentile) – Darn those NDAs!
Free Tools for Keeping Your Home Network Humming (Samuel Dean)

SharePoint

SharePoint = Job Security (Michael Watson)
Two New MSDN Visual How To’s: Automating WSP Creation with MSBuild and Multiple Auth Providers (Andrew Connell)

Career

Indeed Now Lets You Search For Jobs By Salary (Jason Kincaid)

Link Collections

WPF/Silverlight/Xaml Web Links – 2008/04/15 (Rob Relyea)
Interesting Finds: April 15, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-04-15) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for April 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (4/15/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #74 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

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

Technorati: sharepoint, .net development, sql server 2005, t-sql, wpf, silverlight, wcf, jquery, asp.net ajax