May 2008 – Page 3 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

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

Dew Drop – May 24, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

What’s in the .NET Framework Client Profile? (Pete Brown)
Understanding InstanceContext in WCF (Dan Rigsby)
Is the ADO.NET Team Abondoning LINQ to SQL? (Roger Jennings)
How to Test C# Code Without Running an Application (Marlon Grech)
What Is the Future of C# Anyways? (Matthew Podwysocki)
Announcing the Release of Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (Jason Allor) – Link of the Day

Web Development

How to Build Your Very Own Provider Model – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate and Spring (CodePlex)
Firebug 1.2 – Good News for Web Devs (Mike Gunderloy)
MVC Storefront, Part 11: Hooking Up the Shopping Cart and Components and Part 12: Mocking (Rob Conery)

Silverlight / WPF

Brightness and Contrast Manipulation in WPF 3.5 SP1 (Tamir Khason)
RemoteLINQ – How to Make Your LINQ Span the Globe (Joseph Ferner)
WPF Property Grid (Shahar Yair)
Windowing Demo for Silverlight 2 Beta (Tim Rule)
Silverlight Interoperability (Wilco Bauwer)
WPF & PowerShell — Part 3 (Handling Events) (James Brundage)

Blogging / Community / Events

BlogAmp – Podcasting Made Easy? (Jay Hathaway)
MSDN GeekSpeak on Wednesday May 28 – Connecting Silverlight 2 (Pete Brown)
ScribbleLive: Liveblogging Doesn’t Get Much Easier (Brad Linder)
A Clear Blog Purpose Will Make or Break Your Blog (Lorelle VanFossen)
Coming Soon – Better HDI Videos? (Jesse Liberty)

Miscellaneous

Guitar Hero 4 Guitar to Have More Buttons? (Jesus Diaz)
Windows 7 to Add Native Support for Virtual Hard Disks (Sumeeth Evans)
Proud to Be a Geek? (G. Andrew Duthie)
Book Review: Managing Humans, by Michael Lopp (Arjan Zuidhof)
Control uTorrent Downloads from Facebook with Morrent (Josh Lowensohn)
Synchronizing Favorites with Live Mesh (Adam Kinney)
This Is Not a Bug (David Starr) – That is a great idea. I may have to be a copycat.
Interview with Craig Freedman About Indexing, Query Plans and Performance (Denis Gobo)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: May 23, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-05-23) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News – 2008/05/23 (Rob Relyea)
LINKBLOG for May 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Link Listing – May 23, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager: Michael Lopp: Books

Technorati: .net development, sql server, silverlight, blogging, podcasting, wpf, wcf, c#, coding style, guitar hero

Dew Drop – May 23, 2008

Web Development

PHP Support in Expression Web 2 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Script#: Events/Delegates in an Atlas/MS Ajax Style Script (Jay Kimble)
ASP.NET Tips: Expression Web vs Visual Studio (Tom)
Microsoft Research’s DOLOTO Makes AJAX Twice as Fast (Rick Minerich)
Slick Button Maker (Lou Franco)

.NET / Visual Studio

EF: How Referential Integrity Works (Elisa Flasko)
ReSharper 4 Beta Released and Downloaded (John Papa)
Conditional Extension Method (Chris Cavanagh)
VSX Developer Center Updated – May 2008 (VSX Team)
How to Get the File Path of an Executing Assembly? (Soon Hui)
Give Us Your Feedback: Take the Visual Studio Survey (Charlie Calvert)

Silverlight / WPF

My Silverlight Session (Daniel Moth)
Simple Skinnable and Theme Management in WPF User Interface (Alkampfer)
Reusable Silverlight Popup Logic (Chuck Kinnan)
WPF & PowerShell – Part 2 (Exploring WPF (and the Rest of .NET) with Scripts) (James Brundage)

Design / Methodology

Viewing Your Backlog (David Starr)

Miscellaneous

OpenID: Does the World Really Need Yet Another Username and Password? (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day
Understanding Total Hits & Paging in the MOSS 2007 Search API (Andrew Connell)
FriendFeed – Now Offers Rooms (Dolores Parker)
9 Firefox Extensions to Protect Your Privacy (Mike Gunderloy)
Hot New Updates to SkyDrive (Sunshine)
Guitar Hero World Tour Gets Official (Sean Fallon)
Offline Wikipedia Viewer for the iRex Iliad (Amir)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: May 22, 2008 and Innovation Notes: May 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for May 22, 2008 — #280 (Dave Campbell)
Links (5/22/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #100 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

SOA Principles of Service Design (The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl): Thomas Erl: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, expression web, visual studio, vsx, wpf, silverlight, ajax