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Dew Drop – May 29, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

PDF Image Grabber (Lou Franco)
Windows Live Agents SDK Released (Scott)
The Unit Testing Story in F# Revisited (Matthew Podwysocki)
Some Great Free WinForms Controls – Krypton (Casey Charlton) – Not many people releasing good, free controls for WinForms lately.
NHibernate Many-to-Many Collections (OR Mapping Is Not One Table One Class) (Peter van Ooijen)
Propagating the ActivityID to a WCF Service (Josh Twist)

Web Development

MVC Storefront Challenge Kickoff (Jimmy Bogard)
Using jQuery to Directly Call ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods (Dave Ward)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Namespaces – Part 4 – The WPF Subset (Daniel Moth)
WPF Dialogs and DialogResult (Marlon Grech)
Keeping Focused on Silverlight and Data (John Papa)
Silverlight Rectangles, Paths, and Lines (Dave Campbell)

Design / Methodology

The Role of Architecture in Agile Development (Kevlin Henney)
Patterns in Practice: The Open Closed Principle (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
Test-Driven Development and Software Quality (John Smart)
Designing For Evil (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

MOSS Shopping Cart Beta 1.0 (CodePlex)
Getting Started with SharePoint and Silverlight – Part II (Joris Poelmans)
Building and Distributing Workflows in SharePoint Products and Technologies – Sample Code (MSDN Code Gallery)

Miscellaneous

SAAS: Connect Enterprise Apps with Hosted BizTalk Services (Jon Flanders & Aaron Skonnard)
Static vs Dynamic Languages – Attack of the Clones (Matthew Podwysocki)
Ideas for Writing Composable PowerShell Scripts (Joel Bennett)
Microsoft’s Survival Strategy (Maggie Shiels)
Windows 7 Multi-Touch Hi-Res Shots (Paul Thurrott)
‘Harold & Kumar 2’ Goes Interactive for DVD Release (Tim Briscoe) – Choose Your Own Adventure!
A Software Developer Trying to Get in Shape with the Wii Fit?? (Dan Wahlin)
Coding4Fun Book for Sale at Amazon! (Brian Peek)
g.ho.st and Glide Show Web OS Innovation at D6 (Rafe Needleman)
Sweetter 2.0 teta (via MoMB) – An Open Source Microblogging site.
Text 2 Mind Map – An Online Converter (via MoMB)

Blogging / Networking

The Social Media Resume: Making Your Mark in a Web 2.0 World (Celine Roque)

Events / Community / Presenting

Welcome to PDC08! (Brad Abrams)
stackoverflow Podcast #7 (Jeff Atwood)
Tips From My Technical Presentations (Chris Bowen)

Link-O-Rama

Daily Find #70 and Daily Find #71 (Tim Boland)
Visual Studio Links #33 (Darren Stokes)
Links Today (2008-05-28) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for May 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #103 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

10 Coding4Fun Projects with .NET for Programmers, Hobbyists, and Game Developers: Dan Fernandez, Brian Peek: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, powershell, wcf, wpf, silverlight, agile development, nhibernate, pdc08, windows 7, wii fit

Dew Drop – May 26, 2008

Silverlight / WPF

Of Logical and Visual Trees in WPF (Mike Hillberg) – Link of the Day
WPF Multipage Reports – Part I (Jan Repisky)
PowerShell and WPF: WTF and WPF & PowerShell – Part 5 (Using WPF & PowerShell Modules) (James Brundage)
Silverlight Training Videos (Sarah Perez)

.NET / Visual Studio

We’re Talking Past Each Other on the Entity Framework (Jeremy D. Miller)
Microsoft Source Analysis (Chris Brandsma)
Writing Your Own Rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (Tobias Hertkorn)
HowTo: Configure Microsoft Source Analysis (John Rudolf Lewis)
Some LINQ Tricks (Papenoo pa)
Return Within a C# Using Statement (Brendan Enrick)
The Future of .NET, Visual Studio and More (Joni Moilanen)

Web Development

Ending a Response Without Response.End() Exceptions? (Rick Strahl)

SharePoint

LINQ4SP – Delete a List Item (Agnes Molnar)
Super Easy Way to Add WCF to SharePoint 2007 (Sahil Malik)
SharePoint Solutions Rant (Martin Hinshelwood)

Miscellaneous

Feedbacks on Waegis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Book Review: C# in Depth (Patrick Smacchia) – I love this book.
The Illusion of Technically Competent Managers (Max Pool)
Pizza Hut Hops Onto the Adobe AIR Bandwagon (Jay Hathaway) – Does this mean Papa John’s will go with Silverlight?
6 Resources For Free Images (Mike Gunderloy)
New Version of IE7 Pro Released and Tweet Your Xbox Live Status (Sarah Perez)

Blogging / Events / Community

Forget About the Target on Your Back (John Papa)
Massey University XNA Presentation (John-Daniel Trask)

SQL Server

What’s Worse Than a Table Scan? (Kalen Delaney)

Link-O-Rama

New and Notable 245 (Sam Gentile)
Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2008 — #282 (Dave Campbell)
Links (5/25/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Everyman Links for May 25, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Service-Oriented Modeling (SOA): Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture: Michael Bell: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, powershell, wpf, wcf, linq, entity framework, microsoft source analysis, xna framework

Dew Drop – May 24, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

What’s in the .NET Framework Client Profile? (Pete Brown)
Understanding InstanceContext in WCF (Dan Rigsby)
Is the ADO.NET Team Abondoning LINQ to SQL? (Roger Jennings)
How to Test C# Code Without Running an Application (Marlon Grech)
What Is the Future of C# Anyways? (Matthew Podwysocki)
Announcing the Release of Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (Jason Allor) – Link of the Day

Web Development

How to Build Your Very Own Provider Model – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate and Spring (CodePlex)
Firebug 1.2 – Good News for Web Devs (Mike Gunderloy)
MVC Storefront, Part 11: Hooking Up the Shopping Cart and Components and Part 12: Mocking (Rob Conery)

Silverlight / WPF

Brightness and Contrast Manipulation in WPF 3.5 SP1 (Tamir Khason)
RemoteLINQ – How to Make Your LINQ Span the Globe (Joseph Ferner)
WPF Property Grid (Shahar Yair)
Windowing Demo for Silverlight 2 Beta (Tim Rule)
Silverlight Interoperability (Wilco Bauwer)
WPF & PowerShell — Part 3 (Handling Events) (James Brundage)

Blogging / Community / Events

BlogAmp – Podcasting Made Easy? (Jay Hathaway)
MSDN GeekSpeak on Wednesday May 28 – Connecting Silverlight 2 (Pete Brown)
ScribbleLive: Liveblogging Doesn’t Get Much Easier (Brad Linder)
A Clear Blog Purpose Will Make or Break Your Blog (Lorelle VanFossen)
Coming Soon – Better HDI Videos? (Jesse Liberty)

Miscellaneous

Guitar Hero 4 Guitar to Have More Buttons? (Jesus Diaz)
Windows 7 to Add Native Support for Virtual Hard Disks (Sumeeth Evans)
Proud to Be a Geek? (G. Andrew Duthie)
Book Review: Managing Humans, by Michael Lopp (Arjan Zuidhof)
Control uTorrent Downloads from Facebook with Morrent (Josh Lowensohn)
Synchronizing Favorites with Live Mesh (Adam Kinney)
This Is Not a Bug (David Starr) – That is a great idea. I may have to be a copycat.
Interview with Craig Freedman About Indexing, Query Plans and Performance (Denis Gobo)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: May 23, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-05-23) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News – 2008/05/23 (Rob Relyea)
LINKBLOG for May 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Link Listing – May 23, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager: Michael Lopp: Books

Technorati: .net development, sql server, silverlight, blogging, podcasting, wpf, wcf, c#, coding style, guitar hero