Patterns – Page 5 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – May 14, 2008

More SP1 == More Gooder

Growing List of Content About WPF 3.5 SP1 (Rob Relyea)
.NET 3.5 SP1 Beta: Changes Overview (Patrick Smacchia) – Some metrics.
Using Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta With Silverlight (Dave)
DataContracts Without Attributes (POCO Support) in .NET 3.5 SP1 (Aaron Skonnard)
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 “Background Compiling” for C# (David Hayden)
Video: WPF 3.5 SP1 Graphics with David Teitlebaum (Adam Kinney)

.NET

Beware of List.Find() (Shahar Abramovich)
Is IQueryable the Right Choice For Me? (Bart De Smet)
Free .NET 3.5 and .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kits (J. Barnes)
The ALT.NET Podcast! (Dave Laribee)
Beyond Mocks – The Partial (Karl Seguin)
The Power of Programming with Attributes (K. Scott Allen)
Quickly Copy Rows From DataReader to DataTable (Srinath)
10 Tips to Improve Your LINQ to SQL Application Performance (Sidar Ok)
Building an F# Powered Indexing System (Part 2) (Kurt)
XLinq’n in the New World – Structure Modification Comparisons with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)
Lazy Instantiation One-Liner of Instance Fields with the Coalesce Operator (Frank-Leonardo Quednau)

Web Development

Using AjaxRepeater Control, ASP.NET AJAX (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
Dynamic Data Website: Setting Selection in a List From the URL (Anh Phan)
DefaultDotAspx.com: A Knowledge Base About ASP.NET and Other Topics (via DotNetKicks)

Silverlight / WPF

WPF Best Practices: Decoupling Behavior From the View (Marco De Sanctis)
Silverlight 2 Programming: The Designer Rule (Jay Kimble)
Silverlight 2 ListBox Abuse (Pete Brown)
How to Add a MouseDoubleClick Event to Any WPF Control (Amit Raz)

Events / Community

Factoids on Philly Code Camp This Saturday (Sam Gentile) – Really wish I was able to go, but it’s my daughter, Anna’s 4th birthday party.

Design / Methodology

MVP & MVC Simply Put (Andrew Stopford)
Behavior Driven Development: As Human As Possible (Leon Bambrick) – Link of the Day
Whiteboard Wednesday: The Probability of Getting Tasks Done (Max Pool)
Is HTML a Humane Markup Language? (Jeff Atwood)

Miscellaneous

Tests for Husbands and Wives (Tiabla on flickr) – Ah, the good old days…
Free Designer Templates for Office 2007 and Bill Gates Talks Windows 7… Again (Paul Thurrott)
Computer Programming: Art, Science or Both? (Jon Erickson)
I Can Has Manbabies?!? (Justin Yu)
Software’s Classic Mistakes – 2008 (Steve McConnell)
Grape: A New Desktop (Thom Holwerda)
Architect Team Blog Roll (Charles Sterling)
stackoverflow Podcast #5 (Jeff Atwood)
Running Challenge for .NET Developers (Simone Chiaretta)
A Jedi Mesh (Steve Clayton)
Topic Networks: How Neuron ESB Implements Publish-Subscribe (David Pallmann)
Squilbo SQL Tool Needs Beta Testers! (Tobin Harris)
Xbox 360 Spring Update Bringing 80 New Functions? (Mark Wilson)

Link-O-Rama

Visual Studio Links #27 (Darren Stokes)
Interesting Finds: May 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-05-13) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for May 13, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (5/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Interesting Finds: 2008.05.14 (gOODiDEA)
Link Listing – May 13, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #93 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era: Mary Jo Foley: Books

ISBN: 0470191384
ISBN-13: 9780470191385

Technorati: .net development, visual studio 2008, wpf, silverlight, wcf, neuron esb, xbox 360, alt.net

Dew Drop – May 6, 2008

Silverlight/WPF/Popfly

Silverlight Attached Properties for WPF Developers (Marlon Grech)
Silverlight Behaviors (Nikhil Kothari)
Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight (Brad Abrams)
Binding to Anonymous Types in an Xbap or Silverlight Application (Mike Hillberg)
Popfly Game Creator Video Tutorials (Popfly Team)
Creating Controls in Code (Jesse Liberty)
Developers Can Create Some Amazing Stuff Using Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio – Available for Download Now (Dave)
Unity and Silverlight: It Can Be Done! (Chris)
Patterns & Practices: Prism Contrib (CodePlex)
Editing the Appearance of Actors, Scenes, etc… (Ben Anderson)
WPF From PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

Visual Studio

ReSharper 4.0 vs. CodeRush/Refactor! — Smack Down Results (Derik Whittaker)

.NET

.NET Is Crap? (Chris Cavanagh)
Entity Framework Q&A – Lazy Loading, ObjectContext, and LINQ (John Papa)
Collection Initializer Expressions (Paul Vick)

Web Development

Book: ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls (Joe Stagner)
MVC Storefront, Part 8: Testing Controllers, Iteration 1 (Rob Conery)
ASP.NET Tips: What to Gather to Troubleshoot – Part 2 – High Memory (Tom)
Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Book (Only $16 on Amazon for a Short Time) (Scott Guthrie) – That’s only $1 for every 100 pages. I ordered my copy. I’ll be putting my copy of Pro ASP.NET 2.0 book up on Bookmooch if anyone is interested. Link of the Day
Contrasting Two MVC / LINQ to SQL Applications for the Web (K. Scott Allen)
How the Flickr API Now Handles Video (Raymond Yee)
ASP.NET Crash: StackOverflowException with Server.Transfer (Tess Ferrandez)

Design/Methodology

Domain-Driven Design: Reading Toward Deeper Insight (Peter Van Ooijen)
Behind Live Mesh: Live Desktop Architecture (Alex Himel)
Protected Semantics, Part Five: More on Immutability (Eric Lippert)
Good Code Is… (Casey Charlton)
Understanding Model-View-Controller (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

SharePoint Development For the Masses (Eric Shupps)

Miscellaneous

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #2 (Shahar Yair)
Presdo: Twitter For Your Calendar? (Bob Walsh)
Live Mesh Synch: How to Check Sync Progress to the Cloud (Kip Kniskern)
MacBook Pro, iWork, Expression Studio 2 and Other Rumblings… (David Hayden)
Subversion as a Deployment Tool (Sijin Joseph)
Yes, You Too Can Be a Metrosexual Developer! An Interview with Justice Gray (Mike Duncan)
How to Create SMART Tasks (Mike Gunderloy)
Video: James Whittaker on Software Testing (Brian Keller)
Spolsky’s Paradox (J. Kealy)
I Updated My Resources Lists (Marc)
Share and Annotate Web Pages in Google Reader (Alex Chitu)
Centralizing Your WCF Configuration with Neuron ESB (David Pallmann)

Zune

Zune Spec Video (Steve Clayton)
Zune Multiplayer Games in Action (Adrian Covert)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: May 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-05-05) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for May 5, 2008 — #267 (Dave Campbell)
Silverlight Resources (Mike Snow)
The Morning Brew #87 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: 2008.05.06 (gOODiDEA)
New and Notable 238 (Sam Gentile)
Link Listing – May 5, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB (Programmer to Programmer): Bill Evjen,Scott Hanselman,Devin Rader: Books

Technorati: .net development, asp.net mvc, sharepoint, powershell, popfly game creator, silverlight, wpf, zune

Dew Drop – April 28, 2008

Silverlight

Silverlight Playground – Library v1.0.3037.0 Release (CodePlex)
Silverlight – The Song (Dan Wahlin)

.NET

From Zero to Logging with System.Diagnostics in 15 Minutes (Josh Twist)
Foundations of Programming – Pt 7 – Back to Basics: Memory (Karl Seguin) – Link of the Day
Immutability and Tail Recursion (Justin Etheredge)
Understanding Mock Objects: An Alternate Solution (Jimmy Bogard)

Events/Community

Some Suggestions to Have a Better Microsoft Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Building Online Community Brick by Virtual Brick (Aliza Sherman)
Slides From My ASP.NET Connections Orlando Talks (Scott Guthrie)

SQL Server

Getting Column Information Using T-SQL (Joe Webb)
Denormalization Patterns (Ken Downs)

Web Development

Customized Loading… Images (Rick Strahl)

PowerShell

Get-Random (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

Continuous Innovation in the Online Office (Mike Gunderloy)
Mr. Yuk Says Project Roadmaps Are Poisonous (Max Pool)
Extreme Patterns with Oren (Glenn Block)
Diff Tools to See Source File Changes (Patrick Smacchia)
Chapter 4: Learning and Adapting (Dan Bunea) – Dan continuous his online Agile mini-book.

Blogging

6 Years of Blogging! (Sam Gentile)
The Trouble with Blogrolls (Bryan Person)

Live Mesh

Live Mesh Technology Preview: A Closer Look – User Perspective, Part 2 (Sunshine)
Podcast: Windows Weekly #56 – Meet Mesh and Live Mesh Preview (Paul Thurrott)
Mesh Has the Potential to Be HUGE! (Jose Fajardo)
GillmorGang Talks Live Mesh (Steve Clayton)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-04-27) (Matt Hinze)
Links (4/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Useful Articles and Links 4 (bayarsaikhan)
Weekly Link Post 39 (Rhonda Tipton)
Interesting Finds: 2008.04.28 (gOODiDEA)
The Morning Brew #82 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great: Esther Derby,Diana Larsen,Ken Schwaber: Books

Technorati: .net development, agile development, silverlight, live mesh, powershell, sql server, blogroll, design patterns