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Dew Drop – July 6, 2009

ISBN: 0596517742
ISBN-13: 9780596517748

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I’m catching up a bit after the birth of our third daughter, Rubina Mae Ashcraft, on Tuesday afternoon. My sincere thanks to everyone who sent their congratulations on Twitter and Facebook. Apologies to the many great blog posts that have not been included.

Congrats to all the new and renewed Microsoft MVPs this week too!

Silverlight / WPF

How to Create Reflection Effect on Images Using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask in WPF (Anum Lodhi)
WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI. (Brian Lagunas)
Silverlight Coding Contest (Dino Esposito)
Handling Events within Silverlight Control Templates – AutoCompleteBox Example (Dan Wahlin)
Choosing Colors to Complement Your User Interface with Expression Design and Experimenting with User Interface Colors with Expression Design and Creating a Sample Icon using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated (Jeff Wilcox)
Silverlight Application – Animal Testing Breaks Hearts (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

TweetCraft – A World of Warcraft Twitter client (Dan Fernandez)
Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper (Eric Hexter)
"XNAVATARS" – PART 1 (Pedro Daniel Güida)
Meffifying Windows Azure (Glenn Block)
VSTS 2010 TMap Process Template 1,2 and 3 (Clemens Reijnen)
Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 3 (Yochay Kiriaty)
MCsla on the Olso May CTP (Rockford Lhotka)
Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems (K. Scott Allen)
IronRuby 0.6 Released! (Jimmy Schementi)
Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 Post Beta 1 (Muhammad Mosa)
Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 4 ) (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner (Jimmy Bogard)
“Controllerless” MVC: A high-level overview of my attempt (Erik)
Which Unit Testing Framework? (John Resig)
Agile Is NOT a Risk Management Strategy (Jurgen Appelo)
Domain Driven Design: Conformist (Mark Needham)
Is your Organization out of Alignment? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

XHTML 2 Cancelled (Timothy)
Restricting BlogEngine.NET Comments to Sueetie Registered Users Only (Dave Burke)
SubSonic 3.0 is Released (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Successful Cross Platform .NET Development – Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover and The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove (Scott Hanselman)
Whirlwind Around .NET 4 (Eric Mork)
Scott Ambler on the Agile Process Maturity Model (Carl Franklin)
This Week C9: Speech Recognition, Army of 1, TweetCraft and more (Dan Fernandez)
Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo) (Jose Fajardo)
What’s New in Software Development: NeverFail Software Adopts Hyper-V (Bruce Kyle)
Downloading Prism and 10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Episode #123: Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Object Invariant Conditions (Derik Whittaker)
Herding Code 52: The Alan Stevens and G. Andrew Duthie Debate Continues! (Jon Galloway)
Conversation with Stuart Halloway (Corey Haines)
Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing (Jeff Wilcox)
Using WPF in Office Add-Ins (John Wiese)

Community / Events

AgiliTrain and Rachel Appel Announce New Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

Automatically create a SQL Server table in a new database. (George Mastros)
DRY SQL (Jamie Thomson)
PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room and DELETE Documents from CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
SQL SERVER – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s Free Windows 7 Training Resources (Blake Handler)
Bringing a Bit of Twitter to Bing (Sean Suchter)
The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
MSDN / Technet Subscribers Get Windows 7 July 13th (Keith Elder)
An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two (Ken Sipe)
Who is developing the software profession? (Maggie Longshore)
Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2 available as a free download (Jose Barreto)
The fallacy of the standardized developer machine/image (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Announcing The Social Way To Get Things Done: Zoho Projects 2.0 (Rodrigo Vaca)
How to display ads on your project from The Lounge – #045 (Sara Ford)
Kodu Nears Xbox Launch and Want to Compare Search Engines? and Follow @Microsoft on Twitter (…and All the Rest!) (Sarah Perez)
Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress” (Jason N. Gaylord)
All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions (Jeff Atwood)
Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)

Book of the Day

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory: Books

ISBN: 0321534468
ISBN-13: 9780321534460

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Dew Drop – June 30, 2009

Just an FYI for readers, the Dew Drop posts are going to be interrupted for a day or two sometime in the next couple of weeks. We’re expecting our third girl on July 8th, but it could be as soon as today.

Design / Methodology / Testing

Domain Driven Design Quickly (Ade Miller)
Self-Organization and Complexity (Brad Appleton)
The “collaboration” piller (version 1) (Brian Marick)
Hungarian Notation – Use What Works Spit Out The Bones (Dave M. Bush)
D3: Building Great Software is a Battle, Don’t Leave Any Assets on the Sidelines (Dan Simmons)
UX Team of One (Frank La Vigne)
Are You in a Claustrophobic Team? (Max Pool)
Lessons in Software from Alok Srivastava (J.D. Meier)
New DDDD Content (Jonathan Oliver)
Threat Analysis & Modeling Tool – TAM 3.0 (Jossie Tirado)

.NET / Visual Studio

MGraph Visualizer Plug-in for Intellipad! (Chris Sells)
The void is invariant (Eric Lippert)
Sticky DataTips: A new way to view variables in the Visual Studio 2010 debugger (Habib Heydarian)
Explore C# 4’s New Dynamic Types and Named/Optional Parameters (Joydip Kanjilal)
New CodePlex project: a simple Undo/Redo framework (Kirill Osenkov)
How to execute a special build on TFS using Team Foundation Object Model (TFS APIs) – Part 1 (Subodh Sohoni)

Web Development

AJAX Features in ASP.NET MVC (Dino Esposito)
How we do MVC – View models (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
ASP.NET WebForms vs. MVC (Michael Ceranski)
Displaying SQL Server Messages using ASP.NET and ADO.NET (Malcolm Sheridan)

Silverlight / WPF

Fun With Speech Recognition in WPF (Frank La Vigne)
Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-4 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
WPF Toolkit: Charting release (Jeff Wilcox)
WPF3D Lighting and Shading (Jordan)
Game Programming with Silverlight. (Mike Snow)
Principles of Design Series: Learning about Points, Lines, and Form using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Prism Eventing (Eric Mork)
Google I/O 2009 – AJAX APIs to Navigate User-Generated Content (Me)
ARCast.TV – Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell (Bob Familiar)
New Screencast: Working with Property Grids (Dan Rigsby)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #122: Creating Custom Functions w/ NAnt (Derik Whittaker)
Tales from the Toolshed (Jas Dhaliwal)
Demo of SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Features – Configure DW Storage and Demo of SQL Server 2008 DW features: Configuring tempdb for Data Warehouse (Joe Longtin)
The History of Microsoft – 1995 (Tina)
Netcast #14 – Not Dead Yet (Todd O. Klindt)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 139: Fearless Change with Linda Rising (SE-Radio Team)
Toolshed Tooltip #15 – Intro from Episode 3, meet MVP’s Stan Schultes, Don Demsak and Jessica Moss. and Toolshed Tooltip #16 – Expression Blend 2 Video, Animation and VS Integration Intro (Russell Fustino)
Prism’s Event Aggregator (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Yochay Kiriaty – Windows 7 Developer Training Kit (Robert Hess)
Ping 18: Ballmer apologizes, Paul Allens latest move, Surface fun, Security Beta (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

July Community Events (Eric Shupps)
Events This Week – June 29th, 2009 and Microsoft Local Impact (G. Andrew Duthie)

SharePoint

Database

Approaches to "UPSERT" (Ken Downs)
After disabling TDE you still requires the certificate to restore the database (Martin Bell)
SQL SERVER – 2008 – Policy-Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium? (Ed Bott)
Musings About Project Natal (Frank La Vigne)
AutoSave Adds Reassurance to Notepad++ Editing (Kevin Purdy)
Get Firefox’s Ctrl+K Shortcut in Internet Explorer (The How-To Geek)
The "Risk" of Open Source Software Support (Tim Barcz)
Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You (Scott Hanselman)
Oracle Woos Microsoft OracleClient users (Julie Lerman)
How to Contribute to Open Source (When You’re Not Exactly Scott Hanselman) (Sara Chipps)
How to stop that annoying beep on your server (Simon Sabin)
Survey of Surveys on IT Spend for 2009 (Mike Walker)

Book of the Day

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Martin Fowler: Books

ISBN: 0321127420
ISBN-13: 9780321127426

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