April 2009 – Page 3 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – April 24, 2009

Silverlight / WPF

Microsoft’s Silverlight-based Local Impact Map (Adam Kinney)
Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode (Corey Schuman)
Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 – Introduction (Boyan Mihaylov)
"Follow the Cursor" Animation – lets do it with behaviors 🙂 (Jose Fajardo)
Debugging XMAL Parser Exceptions (Kirstin Juhl)
Enhance Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Reporting with Silverlight (Sandeep Chanda)
Understanding Performance in your WPF Application (Margaret Parsons)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Repository is Dead: Long Live Repository (Greg Young)
Night of the living Repositories and Find the bug (Oren Eini)
IT Architecture is not Enterprise Architecture (Mike Walker)

Web Development

How we do MVC (Jimmy Bogard)
ASP.NET Survey Questions for the Community (Sam Gentile)
ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!) (Scott Hanselman)
Friday Books: RESTful .NET (Dave M. Bush)
I Spose I’ll Just Say It: Still Waiting for a GOOD Reason to Learn MVC (Joe Brinkman)

.NET / Visual Studio

NHibernate 2nd Level Cache (Oren Eini)
Fluent Ado.Net and API design (Chris Brandsma)
Idiomatic F# – Functional vs. Imperative (Chris Smith)
Using Obscure Windows COM APIs in .NET (Jeff Moser)
EF4 EF4 EF4 (Julie Lerman)
Jon Skeet: Planning C# In Depth 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
__clrtype__ Metaclasses: Adding CLR Fields (Harry Pierson)
Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
.NET Trick – Persisting Data Without Using a Database (Michael Ceranski)
HowTo: Create RSS Feeds with Linq to XML / XLinq (Robert Muehsig)
Part 3 of My DSL for Developers Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
What about DataLoadOptions for Entity Framework ObjectContext? (Muhammad Mosa)
Pro Tip: Don’t co-opt .net conventions for your own purposes (Scott C. Reynolds)
Cloud Computing and Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
CLR 4 ThreadPool Enhancements (Daniel Moth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

DimeCasts.NET Episode #104: Navigate your codebase like a pro with ReSharper 4.5 (Ray Houston) – Link of the Day
Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Cloud Computing Timescales and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Preparing for "The Cloud" and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Current Shiny Toys (Mike Taulty)
Herding Code 44: Microbusiness (Jon Galloway)
The History of Microsoft – 1986 (Tina)
Manuel Fähndrich and Peli de Halleux – The Synergy of Code Contracts and Pex (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

The Painting of IndyHall 2.0: THIS WEEKEND! (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
Dates Updated for Windows 7 Application Compatibility Labs (Bruce Kyle)
CodeStock 2009 (Chris G. Williams)
Those who can do, those who can’t blog? (Sara Chipps)
MVPs Shine Silverlight Together at MVP Global Summit! (Jas Dhaliwal)
Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference (Zhiming Xue)
MSDN session on ASP.NET MVC (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

The Case for Multiple DBs in Multi Tenancy situations (Anne Epstein)
Normaliser Component v2 : SSIS and Installation order for Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Team Explorer and SQL Server 2008 (Jamie Thomson)
New book: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying (K. Jones)
SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler and SQL SERVER – Leading Zero to Number (Pinal Dave)
The real headquarters of Oracle (Simone Chiaretta)
Please Mr. DBA, Change default passwords and use strong passwords (Ted Kreuger)

Miscellaneous

Delicious Tech Tweets (Elijah Manor)
MSDN Mag 6/2009 Editor’s Note Sneak Peak – On Aggregates (Howard Dierking)
Recent Changes to IE Content on MSDN (Lance Leonard)
Why we should attack our own systems? (Gunnar Peipman)
What is this blog? (Silverlight Team)
TeamCity 4.5 is live! (Richard Cirerol)
Windows Mobile 6.5: Standard and Professional and Windows 8 and Windows 9: Various Tidbits (Stephen Chapman)
Windows 7 Release Candidate out in the wild! (Taimur Asad)
A Multitouch Pad for Windows (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 23, 3009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #334 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2009 — #577 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for April 23rd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Links (4/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

RESTful .NET: Build and Consume RESTful Web Services with .NET 3.5: Jon Flanders: Books

ISBN: 0596519206
ISBN-13: 9780596519209

Technorati Tags: .net development,teamcity,sql server,oracle,asp.net mvc,nhibernate,linq,wpf,silverlight,windows 7,windows mobile 6.5,DSLs,entity framework,ado.net

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ASP.NET MVC with S#arp Architecture – Philly .NET Code Camp 2009.1 Slides and Code

Thanks to everyone who came out to Philly.NET’s Code Camp last Saturday! I had a great time meeting many of the attendees and other speakers. I think I’ve learned some good lessons from my first public .NET speaking engagement and hope to refine and improve my talk and give it again soon.

I presented ‘ASP.NET MVC Development with S#arp Architecture’ on Rachel Appel’s ASP.NET track. If you are interested in checking out the slides or my sample code, you can get them here:

There is a great list of useful links at the end of the slideshow. Make sure to check them all out if you are working with ASP.NET MVC.

Technorati Tags: s#arp architecture,asp.net mvc,spark viewengine,jquery,jquery ui,philly .net,code camp,javascript,nhibernate

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Dew Drop – April 23, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

HealthVault SDK (MS Downloads)
Web Browser in C# (Kapil Soni)
Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio ShortcutsAnother List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts (Amit Raz)
Using Active Record to write less code and Ode to ReSharper and NHibernate Tidbit – using <set/> without referencing Iesi.Collections (Oren Eini)
VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR R2 is Out (David Starr)
Show me the memory: Tool for visualizing virtual memory usage and GC heap usage. (Tess Ferrandez)
ReSharper coolness of the day: generated constructor visibility (Joe White)
HowTo: Tweet with C# (Robert Muehsig)
MCsla – Fixing up output from mgx (Rockford Lhotka)
Functional C# – Composing Through Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)
__clrtype__ Metaclasses: Customizing the Type Name (Harry Pierson)
Dogfooding Ukadc.Diagnostics (Josh Twist)

Silverlight / WPF

Intro to Composite App Frameworks with Prism (David Makogon)
Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Network Awareness (Ashish Shetty)
Silverlight and DOM events (Malcolm Sheridan)
Video Drivers, Prison Riots, and Silverlight (Stephen Forte)
Silverlight 3 – Knowing When Images Are Loaded (Mike Taulty)
Databinding the videogame, part 2: mapping terrain types to GUI (Joe White)
Silverlight, Web Services and DataSets (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Agility Cycle – Part 2 (Brad Appleton)
Simple Management Tip: Tracking 1:1 Conversations (Steve Rowe)
DDD: Making implicit concepts explicit (Mark Needham)
Second Order Agile Scaling (Mike Cottmeyer)
Nice Acceptance Test Framework: Cucumber (Jim Holmes)
NDepend and the quality of the Cruise Control .NET code base (Patrick Smacchia)
Source Control Only Team Projects (David Starr)
Who has been a great leader in your career and what made them a great leader? (Denis Gobo)
When Surrogate Keys Attack (and validation isn’t there) (Howard Dierking)
Stubs: Comparison with other mocking frameworks (Jonathan de Halleux)
UX thoughts – In defense of eye candy, an “A List Apart” article (András Velvárt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Jeff Atwood talks Stack Overflow (Carl Franklin)
Hervey Wilson on the Geneva Framework (Donovan Follette)
Code Cast 26 – Prism 2.0 (David Starr)
Stack Overflow Podcast #50 (Jeff Atwood)

Community / Events

Linguistics on the job, on the stage … and in space? (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
Let Your NoVa Code Camp Geek Flair Fly (G. Andrew Duthie)
Test Your Application on Windows 7 at TechEd 2009 (Yochay Kiriaty)
Harnessing the Power of Community 2.0 (Dux Raymond Sy)

Web Development

Any ASP.NET Debugging requests? (Tom)
Tip # 53: Did you know… How to edit the templates for gridview in VS designer? (Deepak Verma)
Scripting ASP.NET MVC Views Stored In The Database (Phil Haack)
I Spose I’ll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
Life and Times of an ASP.NET MVC Controller (K. Scott Allen)
Stopping the panic: how to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial performances. Don’t run in debug mode (Simone Chiaretta)
Finally played with ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Julie Lerman)

PowerShell

V2 Quick Tip: Starting a new elevated process from a PowerShell script (James Brundage)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Zune Lyrics" Plug-in for Zune Software (Blake Handler)
NH Prof: An important milestone (Oren Eini)
Super discount on MS Certification Exams (Chris G. Williams)
Microsoft pubCenter beta goes public (Kip Kniskern)
Windows 7 RC completed, build 7100 (Steven Bink)
Office 2010 Revealed: Redux and Windows Mobile 6.5 Miscellaneous Debris (Stephen Chapman)
How to subscribe to all project updates via RSS – #021 and There are now separate RSS feeds for Reviews and Releases – #022 (Sara Ford)
Best source code comments (Daniel Moth)
Ink Input and Tablet PC (Win 7 Team)
Did You Know? How to tell if a bug has been fixed? (Kalen Delaney)
Source Code with a Sense of Humor (Michael Ceranski)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for April 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: April 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #333 (Chris Alcock)
Tech Twitterings #25 (Elijah Manor)
New and Notable 314 (Sam Gentile)
CloudNews for April 22nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

The Ultimate CSS Reference: Tommy Olsson, Paul O’Brien: Books

ISBN: 0980285852
ISBN-13: 9780980285857

Technorati Tags: .net development,powershell,silverlight,prism v2,stack overflow,windows 7,windows mobile 6.5,asp.net mvc,resharper,oslo,agile,nhibernate,nhprof,functional programming

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