June 10, 2009 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Checking Out PLINQO to Generate LINQ to SQL Code with CodeSmith

I’ve just started taking a look at PLINQO to generate LINQ to SQL code for a sample project I’m working on. So far, I’m impressed. PLINQO looks really promising. If you’re using CodeSmith, you should definitely take a look at it. If you haven’t tried CodeSmith for code generation in .NET, you can get a free trial.

I’ll be posting the sample application when it’s complete.

Technorati Tags: .net,code generation,codesmith,plinqo,linq to sql

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Dew Drop – June 10, 2009

Web Development

Using ASP.NET 3.5’s ListView and DataPager Controls: Editing Data (Scott Mitchell)
Getting Started With Selenium For ASP.NET Developers (Bobby Johnson)
11 keystrokes that made my jQuery selector run 10x faster (Dave Ward)
Deploying ASP.NET Applications to Medium Trust Servers (Dan Wahlin)
Creating an MVC Project in Visual Studio 2010 (Troy Goode)
Tip #76: Did you know… How to hide a non-visual control in your designer? (Reshmi Mangalore)
ASP.NET MVC Installer For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 And Roadmap (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
ASP.NET MVC TDD using Visual Studio 2010 (Maarten Balliauw)
Using the Ajax control toolbox with jQuery (and ASP.NET MVC) (Jay Kimble)
Opinionated Input Builders for ASP.Net MVC using partials – Part 1 and Part 2 – Html Layout for the Label (Eric Hexter)

.NET / Visual Studio

Breaking All The Rules with WCF (Scott Hanselman)
Team Foundation Server 2010 – Eventing Service – Subscribing to events (Subodh Sohoni)
Windows 7 Libraries – Managed Code (Yochay Kiriaty)
Very simple IronRuby MVC sample application (Ivan Porto Carrero)
Parallel Computing with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Jason Olson)
F#: Useful for scripting (Mark Needham)
What is the “VSIX Project” template? (Aaron Marten)
From DSLs & Models to “Quadrant” w/ “Oslo” May CTP (Chris Sells)
Coding with Security Policy in .NET 4 part 2 – Explicit uses of CAS policy (Shawn Farkas)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Zen and the Art of Project Management (Nate Kohari)
Whats do you like most in your IoC of choice? (Andrew Stopford)
Influencer – The Power to Change Anything (J.D. Meier)
Code Contracts Primer – Part 2: Handling Legacy Code (Derik Whittaker)
CAEAP just released their Enterprise Architecture Doctrine (Mike Walker)
Defining and refining conventions (Jimmy Bogard)
HBR on Rebuilding Trust (Brad Appleton)
Let your Inversion of Control tool work for you (Joshua Flanagan)
Another Refactoring Exercise: Design Patterns Recommended!-) (Brett Schuchert)

Silverlight / WPF

SilverLight 2.0: Setting the Background of a Button (Michael C. Neel)
Silverlight Kit Webinars (Michael S. Scherotter)
Bindable WPF RichText Editor with XAML/HTML Convertor (Michael Sync)
WPF and Silverlight Difference Whitepaper (Mike Taulty)
Bing Maps with Silverlight (Mark Harrison)
.NET RIA Services roadmap update (Tim Heuer)
StackPanel, DockPanel and scrolling items (Marcelo Lopez Luiz)
Getting the App’s Startup Assembly in WPF Designer? (Rick Strahl)
System.Xaml: Method calls from Xaml (Lester Lobo)
Release Roadmap for .NET RIA Services (Brad Abrams)
Silverlight toolkit with ADO.NET Data services , Master-Details with Accordion (Phani Raj)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Peter Vogel uses Code Generation (Carl Franklin)
Silverlight powered Photosynths for NASA (Adam Kinney)
Ian Carmichael: The History and Future of the CLR and .NET Framework++: Moving Forward and Staying Compatible with the Past (Charles Torre)
Regions in Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Phil Haack – ASP.NET, MVC, and Ninjas On Fire (Robert Hess)
Interview on Windows Azure, hosted by David Giard (Jennifer Marsman)
Two Must-See Videos from MIX09 (Frank La Vigne)
The Vendor Client Relationship (In Real World Situations) (Max Pool)

Community / Events

Slides and Links from Silverlight FireStarter DC. (Frank La Vigne)
Updated list of conferences on the road to the SharePoint Conference 2009 (SharePoint Team)
Community Tour 2010 (Steve Andrews)
MVPs Love Bing! (Jas Dhaliwal)
2009 Summer Scripting Games (Osama Sajid)
NYC .NET User Group Next Meeting -> June 18th (Stephen Forte)

PowerShell

Powershell over Bing = geek coolness (Jamie Thomson)

Database

Type Coercion with Windows Azure Tables, and the Twitpocalypse (Steve Marx)
SQL SERVER – Performance Counters from System Views (Kevin McKenna)
Are you making the most of the OUTPUT clause? (Martin Bell)
SQL Server 2005/ SQL Server 2008 – Rebuild or Reorganize ALL Indexes in a Database (Rob Reynolds)

SharePoint

SharePoint IT Pro and Developer Training (MS Downloads)
Home grown Solution for migrating versioned documents into a SharePoint Document Library (Sean Wallbridge)

Miscellaneous

A new generation of programmers begins (Brad Abrams)
Top 100 Most Influential Twitter Tools (Jurgen Appelo)
An Overview of Wrox Series (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Nomad.NET is a Powerful, Tabbed File Manager (The How-To Geek)
Regular Expressions for Regular Programmers (Jeff Atwood)
Some quick updates (Chad Myers)
Dev Chair : Beanstalk is Subversion without the hassle (Grant Robertson)
Adding Sidetone to Skype (Randall Maas)
Subversion 1.6, Tree Conflicts, and the Incompatibility of Subversion 1.5: What You Need to Know (Rob Reynolds)

More Link Collections

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies – June 9, 2009 (Sanjeev Agarwal)
Interesting Finds: June 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #365 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for June 09, 2009 — #610 (Dave Campbell)
The Technology Post for June 9th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
New and Notable 329 (Sam Gentile)
CloudNews for 9th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Creators Club Communiqué 30 (Kathleen Sanders)

Book of the Day

Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5 (2nd Edition) (Microsoft .Net Development Series): Mark Michaelis: Books

ISBN: 0321533925
ISBN-13: 9780321533920

Technorati Tags: .net framework,powershell,silverlight,wpf,wcf,xaml,sql server,sharepoint,subversion,windows 7,ria services,jquery,asp.net mvc,tdd

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