April 2009 – Page 9 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – April 4-5, 2009

Silverlight / WPF

Blend 3 Behaviors: A Sample Action (Christian Schormann)
Don’t Use a WPF Control in Windows.Resource (Amit Raz)
[MVVM + Mediator + ACB = cool WPF App] – Intro (Marlon Grech)
Friday Books – Introducing MS Silverlight 2 (Dave M. Bush)
Relative URIs in XAML, the underlying mechanism (Rob Relyea)
Share DataContext among navigation pages in Silverlight 3 (Tim Heuer)
Sharing Source and Skills – Source download (Jeff Wilcox)
Microsoft Health Common User Interface – Release 6.6.43.000 (CodePlex)
Expression Blend 3 Preview (Somasegar) – Link of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

What is Agility? (Brad Appleton)
DDD: Strategic Design: Core, Supporting, and Generic Subdomains and DDDD: Aggregate Versioning & Persistence Schema (Jonathan Oliver)
Are Some Software Development Challenges Too Complex for Agility? (Lee Cunningham)

.NET / Visual Studio

Using a Form in Place of a Control (Richard Carr)
I Heart ReSharper! (Mo Khan)
Functional C#: The hole in the middle pattern (Mark Needham)

Web Development

TipJar: Title Tags and Master Pages (Phil Haack)
Example: resizing uploaded image (Gunnar Peipman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Arun Kishan on The Windows Kernel (Carl Franklin)
This Week on C9: April Fools Day, open source MVC, ExceLINQ, and cool Silverlight apps (Dan Fernandez)
Keiji Kanazawa – Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

NINE Questions with Jim Duffy (Chris Williams)
Microsoft at HIMSS 2009 – It Starts… (Roberto Ruggeri)

Database

Use Joins, Not IN (Alex Ullrich)
SQL SERVER – Automated Index Defragmentation Script (Pinal Dave)
Thinking Aloud – Suggestions for Visual Studio BI Tools (William Vaughn)
SQL Server – Finding Redundant Indexes (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft: Server version of Windows 7 this year (Ina Fried)
Windows Live Users Can Now Easily Sign Up for Sites Using RPX (Angus Logan)
The Eight Levels of Programmers and I Happen to Like Heroic Coding (Jeff Atwood)
Shady Dealing Developers (Sara J. Chipps)
On Developer Wisdom (Peter Bromberg)
How to use social networking sites to contact recruiters (Ryan)
How to edit a project’s homepage / wiki? – #008 (Sara Ford)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for April 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: April 3, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Link Round up on .NET RIA Services (March 3rd) (Brad Abrams)
Silverlight Cream for April 03, 2009 — #562 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for April 3rd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
New and Notable 310 (Sam Gentile)
SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 16 (Denis Gobo)

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,agile,ddd,dddd,codeplex,xaml,silverlight,expression blend,resharper,sql server,channel9,mvvm,functional programming

Shout it

Dew Drop – April 3, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

Implementing Audit Trail using Entity Framework Part 1 and Part 2 (Morshed Anwar)
Rhino Queues, Take 6 (Ayende Rahien)
Getting Started with Live Tools for Visual Studio (Bruce Kyle)
Convert List/IEnumerable to DataTable/DataView (Chinh Do)
Gotta Love CodePlex (Darrel Carver)
Assigning Foreign Keys In NHibernate (Davy Brion)
Creating a functional programming model for MEF (Glenn Block)
Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library – an Overview (Yochay Kiriaty)
The Weekly Source Code 40 – TweetSharp and Introducing Tweet Sandwich (Scott Hanselman)
Refactorings Shipping in Refactor! Pro 9.1 (Mark Miller)
Twitter Poll Results: Favorite Visual Studio Add Ons (Jim Holmes)

Web Development

Review: jQuery in Action (Grant Palin)
Anatomy of a Cross-site Request Forgery Attack and CSRF Attacks and Web Forms (Phil Haack)
A Localization Handler to serve ASP.NET Resources to JavaScript (Rick Strahl)
File Uploads in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM (Justin Etheredge)
Multi-blog Obsession (Jacob Proffitt)

Design / Methodology / Testing

MbUnit 3 RTM (Andrew Stopford) – Link of the Day
Framework Design Guidelines Book: Extra Content from the DVD Posted (Brad Abrams)
testing sucks (James Whittaker)
TDD: Testing mapping code (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 3 – Experiencing ‘Out Of Browser’ Silverlight Application and Connecting it to a WebService (Harsh Bardhan)
Why DataBinding With ComboBoxes is NonTrivial (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

An Interview with Anders Hejlsberg: The Future of Computer Science (Allen Noren)
NINE Questions with Rich Quackenbush (Chris Williams)
Dream Build Play v3 (Coding4Fun)
Missed MIX? (Jennifer Marsman)
Announcing the "WPF for LOB" Training Tour (Karl Shifflett)
Upcoming Events (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Dimecasts.NET Episode #98: Learning about the Strategy Design Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
The History of Microsoft – 1983 (Tina)
dekePod Episode 013: The Mating Habits of the Pen Tool (Deke McClelland)
Herding Code Episode 41: Next Generation Twitter Client Discussion At MIX09 (Jon Galloway)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft has Windows 7 surprises up its sleeve (Barry Collins)
Required developer reading (Jimmy Bogard)
Fixing Reliability Issues in IE8 (Herman Ng)
How to add related projects to your project homepage – #007 (Sara Ford)
Show message for SSRS reports that do not return data (Ted Krueger)
How To Record Skype Calls For Free (Larry Larsen)
Many² ways you can set a variable value (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for April 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: April 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #321 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for April 02, 2009 — #561 (Dave Campbell)
Links (4/2/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
CloudNews for April 2nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Essential LINQ (Microsoft .NET Development Series): Charlie Calvert, Dinesh Kulkarni: Books

ISBN: 0321564162
ISBN-13: 9780321564160

Technorati Tags: .net development,skype,silverlight,powershell,asp.net mvc,ssrs,codeplex,mbunit

Shout it

Dew Drop – April 2, 2009

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit is now available (Adam Kinney)
Silverlight 3: Navigation Application Template Extra themes posted! (Brad Abrams)
Silverlight – RESX Files and Internationalization (Dave M. Bush)
Creating applications with .NET RIA Services Part 4 – Adding a DomainDataSource (Martin Mihaylov)
Enable multiple selection in Silverlight ListBox and Using Blur and DropShadow effects in Silverlight 3 (Nikolay Raychev)
Silverlight out-of-browser support: What kind of apps can you build? (Ashish Shetty)
Scripting C# Silverlight apps with IronPython (Jimmy Schementi)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #103 – Cool Silverlight Tutorial Blogs and #104 – How to Enable GPU Acceleration (Mike Snow)

.NET / Visual Studio

Oslo Is Running My House and X10 Grammar (Kris Horrocks via Chris Sells)
A Real World Application of MGrammar (Oslo) (hexadecimal)
Writing an IronPython Debugger: Command Routing (Harry Pierson)
An FAQ about EF/Astoria/LINQ to SQL: Is the data filtered on the server or on the client? (Julie Lerman)
Ten C# Keywords That You Shouldn’t Be Using (Justin Etheredge)
What’s New in CodeRush & Refactor! Pro 9.1 (Mark Miller)
Visual Studio Team Test Quick Reference Guide 1.0 (Martin Hinshelwood)
Getting Started with the Live Framework (Mike Ormond)

Web Development

Rolling a Bubble – ASP.NET MVC is Ms-PL (Rob Conery)
Putting the M in MVC – Part II (K. Scott Allen)
Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Open Source MS-PL (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Scott Guthrie)
Open Source License For System.Web.Mvc (Phil Haack)
Back to the future! Exploring ASP.NET MVC Futures (Maarten Balliauw)
Binding Links with ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX (Wallace B. McClure)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Enterprise adoption of Agile? What should you have been told/taught? (Brian Marick)
DDDD: Double Dispatch (Jonathan Oliver)
Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 3 (Justin Etheredge)
Don’t be afraid of complex constraints (Karl Seguin)
Master Craftsman Teams. (Uncle Bob Martin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Softies pranking Softies: A step-by-step video for pranking co-workers (Dan Fernandez)
ASP.NET Podcast Show 139 – David Penton with Pat Helland on Cloud Computing – MP3 Audio (Wallace B. McClure)
MIX09 Video Outtakes with Scott Guthrie (Tina)

Community / Events

Announcing the "WPF for LOB" Training Tour.. (Jaime Rodriguez)
CodeClimber Q1 report (Simone Chiaretta)
The "Jan Tielens" SharePoint Challenge by Christophe (Jan Tielens)

SharePoint

Video: SharePoint Designer 2007 (April 2009 Announcement) (MS Downloads)
SharePoint Designer 2007 now Free! (Stephen Cummins)

Database

SQL SERVER – Very Powerful and Feature-Rich Backup, Zip and FTP Utility SQLBackupAndFTP (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

After a 12-year downhill slide, SGI is no more (Scott M. Fulton, III)
Microsoft Blogger Releases "Change Windows 7 Login Screen" PowerToy (Blake Handler)
Book giveaway (Michael Kimsal) – JavaScript for Programmers
I Am Not A Helpdesk (Davy Brion)
Resizing images without loss of quality (Gunnar Peipman)
Should Competent Programmers be "Mathematically Inclined"? (Jeff Atwood)
Wubbzy to Promote World Autism Day (Jenny Williams)
Microsoft Office on iPhone? (Raju Vegesna)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #320 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for April 01, 2009 — #560 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for April 1st, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

JavaScript for Programmers (Deitel Developer Series): Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel: Books

ISBN: 0137001312
ISBN-13: 9780137001316

Technorati Tags: .net development,moq,davy brion’s helpdesk,javascript,asp.net mvc,asp.net ajax,sharepoint,sql server,iphone,coderush

Shout it

Mastodon
github.com/alvinashcraft