books – Page 58 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – March 13, 2008

Silverlight/WPF

WPF Resources (via XAML Dev)
Terralever Silverlight Case Study (G. Andrew Duthie)
Tip of the Day: More Ways to Learn Silverlight 2 (Jesse Liberty)
Great New Silverlight Control Skins (Brad Abrams)
Silverlight 2 TicTacToe Demo (Ricky Tan)
Adding Zooming Capabilities to Your Web Applications Using Silverlight 2.0 Deep Zoom (Zhiming Xue)
Silverlight 2.0 Beta Control Hierarchy (Jose Fajardo)
Workaround For Missing ElementName in Silverlight 2.0 Binding (Josh Twist)

Visual Studio

VS Language Futures – Richer Debugger Experience (Karl Shifflett)
New Edition of TFS Radio Out! (Charles Sterling)
Gettin’ Jiggy With VIM (Jean-Paul Boodhoo)
Requirements Management with Team System White Paper (MS Downloads)

.NET

Enum with String Values in C# (Stephan Sedich)
Advanced Mocking: Anonymous Test Spy (Jimmy Bogard)

Misc

Over 250 High Quality Royalty-Free Icons (via DotNetKicks)
Flock’s New Version: Gmail Integration May Attract Web Workers (Samuel Dean)
The IE8 Favorites Bar (Helen Drislane)
Microsoft WebDAV Extension for IIS 7.0 (x86) (MS Downloads)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 12, 2008 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 225 (Sam Gentile)
Links Today (2008-03-12) (Matt Hinze)
Our Daily Link (2008-03-12) (Trevor Green)
LINKBLOG for March 12, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Link Listing – March 12, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #52 (Chris Alcock)
Visual Studio Links #9 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Real World): Bruce Fraser,Jeff Schewe: Books

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Dew Drop – March 12, 2008

Silverlight/WPF

Tip of the Day: Content – It Ain’t Just Text (Jesse Liberty)
Wonderful WPF Applications: bTwitter (Frank Arrigo) – A pretty slick Twitter client written in WPF.
‘Prism’ Launches on CodePlex (Glenn Block)
Single Source Code Base for Silverlight and WPF Solutions (Brad Abrams)
Consume a JSON Object in Silverlight (Corey Schuman)
First Look at Binding in Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 (Josh Twist)
Silverlight 2.0 With DotNetNuke (Michael Washington)

Web Development

ASP.NET Routing… Goodbye URL Rewriting? (Chris Cavanagh)
(More) Kudos to the ASP.NET MVC Team (Brian Donahue)
ASP.NET MVC Cheesy Northwind Sample Code (Scott Hanselman) – Nothing wrong with a little cheese. Some simple sample code from Scott to check out.
Exploring ASP.NET AJAX Client-Side Library (Zeeshan Hirani)

.NET

How to Hide System.Object Members From Your Interfaces (Daniel Cazzulino)
if… else if… else if… else… : An Alternative (Philippe Leybaert)
Objects Have Dependencies, Methods Don’t (Jeffrey Palermo)
First Forays Into F# (Andrew Matthews)
SubSonic 2.1 Beta 2 Available Now (Rob Conery)
Introduction to SubSonic (Kent Sharkey)
Somee WCF Vocabulary (David Starr)
C# 4, Part 5: Other Bits and Bobs Which Probably Don’t Merit Inclusion (Jon Skeet)
Imdb Services – Release (CodePlex) – A .NET wrapper around the Imdb.com services.

Misc

Joining the Dynamic Languages Team (Harry Pierson) – Congrats to Harry on the move.
Choosing Your Own Adventure (Jeff Atwood) – Jeff moving on as well. Good luck! BTW – those books rule.
Manging Your Mind. Mindmaps, a Handy Tool For the Enterprise Architect (Dave Oliver)
Do You Want a PowerShell-Based Build Environment? (Jeffrey Snover)

Career

Software Startup Lessons (Part 1): The Basics (J. Kealy)

SharePoint

What to Know About SmartPart, and LoadControl() (Eli Robillard)

Events/Community

Microsoft Partner Events in Mid-Atlantic (Zhiming Xue)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 11, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Link Listing – March 10, 2008 and Link Listing – March 11, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Links Today (2008-03-11) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for March 11, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (3/11/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #51 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX (Pro – Developer): Dino Esposito: Books

Technorati: daily links, asp.net mvc, silverlight, wpf, asp.net ajax, microsoft events, sharepoint, c#, .net development

Dew Drop – March 11, 2008

Silverlight/WPF

We Need to Learn From Flash and Silverlight & WPF, What It Means to Me (Jose Fajardo)
Live Messenger Done With Silverlight 2.0 – The Beginning and Login Screen Layout (Jose Fajardo)
Silverlight 2.0 Regular Expression Evaluator and BlogEngine.NET Extension For Embedding a Silverlight Plugin (Sean)
Silverlight 2 – 2D Physics Revisited and XAML Loading Animation (Chris Cavanagh)
Calling JavaScript Functions From Silverlight 2 (Tim Heuer)
Webcast: Building WPF Applications in VS2008 and Expression Blend (Marc)
Tip of the Day: Routed Events (Jesse Liberty)
A Missing Items/Solutions – Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 (Jay Kimble)
Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Hints and Workaround: Installing Windows SDK after VS2008 breaks WPF Intellisense (XAMLdev)
Review: Blendables Layout Mix (Rudi Grobler)

.NET

Enforcing Single Instance With Argument Passing (Sean)
Have YOU Updated Your Windows SDK Recently? (Tim Sneath)
The Artist That Used to Be Known as Astoria and DataDeveloper.NET – A Resource For Developers Interested in Data Access (Julie Lerman)
Fitting LINQ to SQL Into a Real-World Data Layer (Justin Etheredge)
CSLA .NET 3.5 Code Reduction With Child Objects (Rocky Lhotka)

Career

10 Ways to Keep Employees Happy (IT Employees) (Derik Whittaker)
Creating a Great Workplace For Developers (Sarat Pediredla)
Interviewing the Employer (Andy)

Blogging

Blog Resources For English Language and Blog Writing (Lorelle VanFossen)

Visual Studio

Professional Visual Studio Extensibility – Finally Released (Keyvan Nayyeri)
MOSS2007 Testing Using Visual Studio Team System 2008 (Liam Cleary)

Web Development

Microsoft MVC and MbUnit (Andrew Stopford)
ASP.NET MVC in CodePlex and Extensible Unit Testing (Brad Abrams)

Events/Community

S3 Browser For Live Writer – Our First CodePlex Release (TheCodeTrip)
Speaking Dates and Schedule For Spring and Launch Into 2008… A Microsoft Geek’s Timeline (Sam Gentile)
Talks You Won’t See at the Local Code Camp (K. Scott Allen)

Misc

Tell Me… What Do You Want For WCF Adapter Documentation? (Mike McKeown)
The Role of Architects and Architecture (David Starr)
10 Ways to Improve Your Code (John K. Waters)
Binary vs. Source Compatibility (Mike Stall)
Inside Vista Sidebar (Lionel Laske)

Link Collections

New and Notable 224 (Sam Gentile)
Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #9 – March 4, 2008 (Robert McIlree)
Interesting Finds: March 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Our Daily Link (2008-03-10) (Trevor Green)
LINKBLOG for March 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Finds of the Week, March 9, 2008 (Chinh Do)
The Morning Brew #50 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Professional Visual Studio Extensibility: Keyvan Nayyeri: Books

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