February 2009 – Page 9 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – February 2, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

StructureMap 2.5.3 Is Released – and the Future of StructureMap (Jeremy D. Miller)
Generated by a Tool, not for Human Consumption (Sergio Pereira)
using – There’s More There Than You Are Using (Dave M. Bush)
WPF Color Picker (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

jQuery 1.3 Aftermath (John Resig)
Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 7) – The Controller (Nick Berardi)
Creating a Cool UI Effect on ASP.NET Panels Using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

This Application Has Unique Business Rule Needs (Ken Downs) – Link of the Day
Teaching, Symbology, and Intellectual Materialism – The Chasm Is a Vaccuum (Scott Bellware)
Leadership 101: Stop Talking and Listen (Jim Holmes)

PowerShell

Getting Started with PowerShell – Developer Edition (James Kovacs)

SharePoint

SharePoint Development and Application Lifecycle Management (Paul Andrew)

Database

SQL Server T-SQL Script for FizzBuzz Logic (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Technical vs. Managerial Career Ladder (David Starr)
Windows 7 – Should a Developer Invest in the Upcoming OS? (Bart Czernicki)
Don’t Use Arbitrary Limits (Justin Etheredge)
Windows 7, Mac OS Make Gains in January (Jonathan Skillings)
Book Review: Don’t Make Me Think (Max Pool)
Who the Frag Has Time for Open Source? (Sara Chipps)
Have Keyboard, Will Program (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

Links of the Week #70 (David Vidmar)
Links (2/1/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
LINKBLOG for February 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Weekly Link Post 79 (Rhonda Tipton)
Silverlight Cream for February 01, 2009 — #504 (Dave Campbell)
Link Listing – February 1, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
Weekly Links #38 (Grant Palin)
The Morning Brew #277 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition: Steve Krug: Books

Technorati Tags: wpf,visual studio,sharepoint,powershell,sql server,t-sql,fizzbuzz,windows 7,jquery,asp.net mvc

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Morning Dew Quick Review – ‘Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2’ by John Papa

If you are looking to build a business-focused application with Silverlight, chances are you are going to need to access data of some sort. This is the best book I have found to address this aspect of Silverlight development.

Virtually every method of data access currently available in Silverlight is covered here: LINQ, REST, WCF and more.

I read the book cover-to-cover, but I think it will serve best as a reference guide while developing line-of-business apps with Silverlight. Most of what you see written about Silverlight focuses on shiny UIs. This book gives you what you really need to build RIAs for real business requirements.

Definitely recommended.

Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2: John Papa: Books

Technorati Tags: silverlight,rest,json,linq to xml,linq to json,asmx,web services,wcf

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Dew Drop – February 1, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

Star Trek for Windows (Code Project)
Live Framework Tools Updated in January CTP (Bruce Kyle)
ForEach (Kirill Osenkov)
DebuggerDisplay (Fredrik Eriksson)
Cheap Way of Speeding Up Visual Studio I/O (Dmitri Nesteruk)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC and Validation Using IDataErrorInfo and Validation Application Block (David Hayden)
T4 Templates in ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
Building AgiliTrain: Part 2 – MVC in Action (Shawn Wildermuth)
Open Space Coding – Using the SSDS REST Library (Jamie Thomson)
OpenID Delegate Plug-In for Graffiti (Keyvan Nayyeri)
My Latest Book – Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX (Bill Evjen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

DDD & Many to Many Object Relational Mapping and ALT.NET DDD Podcast (Udi Dahan)
If You Have Anything to Suggest About the DSA Book Then Please Read This… (Granville Barnett)
The Stack Overflow Development Process (Jeff Atwood)
Understanding Code: Static vs Dynamic Dependencies (Patrick Smacchia)
Getting Continuous Integration Working with CodePlex: Part I and Part II (Jon Henning) – Links of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

Updated Adobe Illustrator to XAML Plug-In (Mike Swanson)
Silverlight 2 in Review and Silverlight 3 (Yes Three) in Action Discussion (Chad Campbell)
The ViewModel Pattern (David Hill)
Using the EntLib Validation Block with WPF Part 2: Configuration Based Validation (Ade Miller)
Microsoft Silverlight 3 Features (Eugen Ciuta)

.NET Community / Events

Blogs I Enjoy #1 (Steve Clayton)

Database

How to Enable xp_cmdshell and Ad Hoc Distributed Queries on SQL Server 2005 (Denis Gobo)
String Comparison: Binary vs. Dictionary (Linchi Shea)

Miscellaneous

svchost Viewer 0.3.0.0 RC 1 (Major Geeks)
Advise Clients to Invest in Web Conferencing Rather Than Travel (Susan Harkins)
"I Think That Maintaining Your Technical Chops Is a Full-Time Job." (Jeremy D. Miller)
Most Awesomely Geeky Baby Shower Cake Ever! (Matt Blum)
Books on My Reading List (Davy Brion)
Adding Boxee to Windows 7 Media Center (WinBeta)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for January 31, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: 2009 01.31~02.01 (yuanjian)
Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2009 — #503 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: February 1, 2009 and Innovation Notes: February 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Silverlight 2 in Action: Chad Campbell, John Stockton: Books

Technorati Tags: .net development,silverlight,wpf,enterprise library,sql server,windows 7,boxee,darth vader,asp.net mvc,asp.net ajax,ram disk

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