January 2009 – Page 9 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – January 10, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

Separating Configuration from Data Lowers Total Cost of Ownership (Jeffrey Palermo)
Injecting Fakes/Stubs into StructureMap When Using Profiles (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

Integrating Fluent NHibernate and Windsor NHibernate Facility (Mike Hadlow)
Oslo Tool: SQL Schema –> MSchema (Chris Sells)
Working with IDs in the Entity Framework (Josh Twist)
Asynchronous Fire and Forget with Lambdas (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
The Problems with NHibernate (Buddy Lindsey)
Microsoft Windows 7 SDK: Beta and Microsoft .NET Services White Paper (Dec 2008 CTP) (MS Downloads)

Web Development

JavaScript Tools (Mike Hadlow)
An Argument for Moving ASP.NET MVC Controllers to a Separate Assembly (Billy McCafferty)
The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String (Updated Edition) (Eric Lawrence)
Enumeration-Based Dropdowns in .NET MVC (Steve Andrews)
xVal – A Validation Framework for ASP.NET MVC (Steve Sanderson)

Silverlight / WPF

The WPF Mindset (Ryan Cromwell)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #80 – How to Crop an Object (Mike Snow)
Creating a Silverlight Control That Stays Square and Dazzling Silverlight Toolkit Pie Charts with Overlays (Pete Brown)
Using Encoder 2 Templates for Existing Media (Tim Heuer)
Fun with List Bindings in Silverlight 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)

PowerShell

Managing Remote Desktop Services (aka Terminal Services) Using Windows PowerShell (Shanmugam Kulandaivel)
Should I Refinance? PowerShell the Financial Advisor (Lee Holmes)
Get-USB – Using WMI Association Classes in PowerShell (James Brundage)
Develop a Complete WMI Inventory Tool in Windows PowerShell (Don Jones)

.NET Community / Events

MDC Giveaways (Frank La Vigne)
James Whittaker Netcast (Steve Rowe)
ALT.NET Podcast Episode 14: Object Databases (Mike Moore)

Miscellaneous

The Office 14 Wave: What to Expect and Office 14 and Windows Mobil 7: Another Day, Another Roadmap… and First Office 14 Screenshot? (Stephen Chapman)
SOA Still Alive and Well–Sell It to the Business (David A. Chappell)
Visualization – The Browser Wars (Max Pool)
A Year in the Life of Caffeinated Coder: Part Deux (Russell Ball)
Google’s New Favicon (Marissa Mayer)
Getting Windows 7 Up and Running in VPC 2007 (Kirstin Juhl)
Building a Hackintosh (Ben Scheirman)
Windows 7 in 2010? Ha! Try July 2009 (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for January 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Discoveries This Week 01/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
CloudNews for January 9th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Silverlight Cream for January 09, 2009 — #480 (Dave Campbell)
Silverlight News for January 10, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
Link Listing – January 10, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: January 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Windows PowerShell Cookbook: for Windows, Exchange 2007, and MOM V3: Lee Holmes: Books

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Dew Drop – January 9, 2009

Web Development

ASP.NET Podcast on Windows Azure (Keyvan Nayyeri)
ASP.NET MVC – Think Before You Bind (Justin Etheredge)
Xbox Gamer Tag Reader (Craig Wright)
Friday Books – CSS: The Missing Manual (Dave M. Bush)
US Congress Gets an API (Kevin Farnham)

.NET / Visual Studio

Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption Part 2 (Sam Gentile)
How I Do Continuous Integration with My C#/F# Projects – Part II: Setting Up a Continuous Integration Server and Part III: Running Automated Unit Tests (Steffen Forkmann)
Getting Started with Xbox 360 Game Development with XNA – Release: Tutorials (MSDN Code Gallery)
Introduction to HealthVault Development #1: Introduction and #2: Hello World (Eric Gunnerson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Ux Tip 2 – UX Review (Corey Miller) – Link of the Day
xUnitForms – Release: v1.0 (CodePlex)
Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Impact (J.D. Meier)
Hanselminutes Podcast 145 – SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob – Robert C. Martin (Scott Hanselman)
Explaining Exploratory Testing (James Whittaker)
TDD in SharePoint – Introduction to Common Vocabulary (Andrew Woodward)

Silverlight / WPF

How to Build an Asteroids Inspired Silverlight Game (Michael Ceranski)
Nifty Time Savers for WPF Development and Building FM Radio with RDS Support (Tamir Khason)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #79 – How to Disable HTML DOM Access from Your Silverlight Application (Mike Snow)
Expression Encoder SL 2 MediaPlayer Templates and SL Streaming (Mike Ormond)
WPF Toolkit Is Not Ready for Production Applications (Brent)

Database

SQL Server – sqlcmd – Using a Dedicated Administrator Connection to Kill Currently Running Query (Pinal Dave)

Windows 7

Six New Annoyances Introduced in Windows 7 (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
What You Should Expect from the Windows 7 Beta (The Geek)
Windows 7 Videos on Channel 9 (Adam Kinney)
Windows 7 Taskbar – Part 1, The Basics (Yochay Kiriaty)

Miscellaneous

Whiteboard Wednesday – "Dipping" Into New Year’s Resolutions (Max Pool)
Kid Programming with Kodu Coming to Xbox 360 (Harry Pierson)
Google Chrome Release Channels (Mark Larson)
It’s Official: Office 14 RTM Scheduled for a 2010 Release (Stephen Chapman)
Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta (Alex Chitu)
Overnight Success: It Takes Years (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

Tech Twitterings #10: 2008.12.29 – 2009.01.06 (Elijah Manor)
Silverlight Cream for January 08, 2009 — #479 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for January 8th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Links (1/8/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
LINKBLOG for January 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #261 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 10 (Mike Snow)
Link Listing – January 9, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
Silverlight News for January 09, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
Visual Studio Links #97 (Darren Stokes)
Interesting Finds: January 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 6 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day

CSS: The Missing Manual: David McFarland: Books

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Dew Drop – January 8, 2009

Web Development

SOA Is Dead; Long Live… Well, Services 😉 (Gunther Lenz)
Working with ASP.NET MVC Part 3 – URL Routing (Justin)
Javascript: Add a Month to a Date and Javascript Dates – Be Aware of Mutability (Mark Needham)
Live Framework SDK – Inviting Others (Mike Taulty)
Windows Azure – Sending SMTP Emails! (David L.)
DimeCasts.NET #75 – Introduction to S#arp Architecture (Kyle Baley) – Link of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

Parallelising Loops in .NET 4 (Daniel Moth)
The DLR Is the Language of Languages (Kevin Hazzard)
Setting Up Profiles in StructureMap 2.5 (Derik Whittaker)
Auto-Wiring in StructureMap 2.5+ and A Challenge to the VB.NET Community at Large on OSS (Jeremy D. Miller)
Processes in .NET Part 3 – Interfacing with Simple Console Programs by Example, Tesseract OCR (Rick Minerich)
The Visual Studio 10 CTP VPC Expired! What Should I Do? (VSX Team)
New Black Book (Josh Poley)
IoC Libraries Compared (Chris Brandsma)
IronPython Nightly Builds and Nightly Builds Technical Info (Harry Pierson)
The Most Important Feature of .NET 4.0 (Kathleen Dollard)
You Don’t Have to Use Query Expressions to Use LINQ (Jon Skeet)

Silverlight / WPF

Live Framework SDK – Adding a Silverlight MEWA (Mike Taulty)
Tip: Getting Hierarchical Entities via ADO.NET Data Services from Silverlight (John Papa)
PhotoSuru, An Innovative Photo-Viewing WPF Application (Adam Kinney)
Subscribe to the Expression Newsletter (Pete Brown)
Published the Source Code for Silverlight 2 Runtime & SDK Controls (Seema, Andre Michaud, & Jon Sheller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Rules Engine (Martin Fowler)
Architecture by Baseball: Moneyball (Larry Clarkin)
Pex – Software Cracker? (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Karvonite – Agile Persistence Framework – Release: January (CTP 2009) (MSDN Code Gallery)

.NET Community / Events

New York Microsoft Cloud Computing User Group Meeting (William Zack)
Developer Dinner: Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond (Pete Brown)
Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services WebCast (1/8/2009) (John Papa) – Buy John’s book!
MSDN Developer Conference Is Coming to DC/Reston, VA (Zhiming Xue)
CLR Team Blog Now Live (Justin Van Patten)
Recap of Microsoft CES Announcements (Paul Thurrott)

Database

The SQL Server Memory Leak Confusion (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

Predictions for 2009 (Stephen Forte)
Your Products Aren’t "I"s (Thomas Williams)
R.I.P. Dr. Dobb’s (Eric Sink)
10 Killer WordPress Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
Windows 7 Beta – Go Get It! (Yochay Kiriaty)
Microsoft Research Songsmith (MS Research)
New Program Allows Everyone to Design Video Games (Mike Snider)
Six Vista Annoyances Fixed in Windows 7 (Ed Bott)
Xbox: The Next Phase Begins (Stephen Chapman)
Halo Wars Coming Febrary 28th (Larry Hyrb)
Device Stage in Windows 7 (Steve Clayton)
Dictionary Attacks 101 (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

Visual Studio Links #96 (Darren Stokes)
Interesting Finds: January 7, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
CloudNews for January 7th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Silverlight Cream for January 07, 2009 — #478 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for January 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #260 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight News for January 08, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
Link Listing – January 8, 2009 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

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

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