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Link Listing - July 17, 2008

csteen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:14:58 GMT

Today

No Events

Tomorrow

Saturday
Jul 19 2008

Microsoft Access SIG, North Texas PC User Group
King of Glory Lutheran Church, 6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 75240

Next Two Weeks

Monday
Jul 21 2008

HUNTUG Meeting - Virtualization by Blain Barton, Microsoft
Intergraph Corporation, Building 15B, 170 Graphics Drive, Madison, AL, 35758
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Dallas ASP.Net User Group
7000 State Highway 161 , Irving, TX, 75039
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Dallas .NET New Technology Study Group
15950 Dallas Parkway, Suite 500, Dallas, TX, 75248
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group
6055 Rockside Woods Blvd, Lower Level, Cleveland, OH, 44131
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Maryland and Pennsylvania .NET User Group July Meeting
1525 Greenspring Valley Rd, Stevenson, MD, 21153
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Data Services with Silverlight 2
4 British American Blvd, Latham, NY, 12110
Thursday
Jul 24 2008

DC ALT.NET Meeting
1600 K St NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC, 20006
Monday
Jul 28 2008

Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group July Meeting
1900 Gallows Rd , Vienna, VA, 22182
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Delaware DotNet Grok Talk
Robinson Hall, Rm 206, Newark, DE, 19716
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Dynamic Data With Rachel Appell
Delaware Technology Park, 1 Innovation Way, Newark , DE, 19711
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Richmond Meet and Code Dinner
4880 Cox Rd., Glen Allen, VA, 23238

Y Exclamation

paul — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:36:00 GMT

There are too many Biz Blogs circulating in the Tech sphere and to them Carl Icahn is a real life Gordon Gekko riding in to save the day. The truth is that the Carl Icahn's of the world profit without ever creating value. Jerry and David created the number one web destination from one server and a little attitude, it takes a community to keep it growing.

MVC Framework - A Needle In a Haystack

timbarcz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:54:00 GMT

This is the third in an ongoing series of articles about my team's transition to the Asp.NET MVC Framework. In my last post I blogged a bit about how I haven't quite got comfortable enough with the new MVC framework to feel über productive. What augments the feeling is the difficulty of finding quality information. The data is few and far between and only sometimes relevant.

I was struggling yesterday to find information on the ComponentController class. Things I was finding were from the Preview 2 release but finding something on the Preview 3 release was a bit more challenging. Things are rapidly changing...

Read the rest at: http://www.timbarcz.com/blog/MVCFrameworkANeedleInAHaystack.aspx

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Formatting Output with String.Format() Part 2 - Left and Right Alignment

timbarcz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:47:00 GMT

I recently posted some code that could have taken advantage of format strings available when using the ToString() for integer output. The other day I was building a report for a moonlighting gig where some of the text had to be right aligned and left aligned. String.Format() does that as well. I've seen some goofy attempts at formatting text, presumably not realizing...

Read the rest at: http://www.timbarcz.com/blog/FormattingOutputWithStringFormatPart2LeftAndRightAlignment.aspx

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NYCDOTNETDEV Meeting

paul — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:25:00 GMT

Speaker Idol Competition

Tonights NYCDOTNETDEV Meeting - Five technical presentations, with a panel of judges including Mary Jo Foley
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM Register here

MVC Framework - Learning to Walk

timbarcz — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:35:00 GMT

A few days ago I posted that our team was making the transition from webforms to MVC. Since then a few days have gone by and I wanted to post my some struggles and successes (however few) in recent days. First, it's been tough wrapping my head around the shift from web forms to MVC. I would caution anyone making a similar shift or considering it, that...

Read the rest at: http://www.timbarcz.com/blog/MVCFrameworkLearningToWalk.aspx

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DNS Bug

paul — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:04:00 GMT

Dan Kaminsky: Upgrade Your DNS Now!

Dan Kaminsky is a well-known and respected security researcher, particularly famous for his work with DNS -- the fundamental naming technology which powers the Internet. When he announced a protocol-level flaw in DNS affecting almost every available implementation, vendors and other security researchers paid attention.

Now it's time for administrators and users to pay attention. On August 7, the Internet might get much more dangerous. Patches are available to ameliorate the problem. In this video, recorded at Foo Camp 2008, Dan explains how he discovered the flaw and what you need to do to keep your users and their data safe.

Link Listing - July 15, 2008

csteen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:58:20 GMT

ASP.NET

West Wind Ajax Toolkit updated [Via: Rick Strahl ]

WPF

Clicking or DoubleClicking on an Item in a ListView [Via: Matthias Shapiro ]

Code Camps

Silicon Valley Code Camp Registration Open [Via: Beth Massi ]

Link Collections

The Morning Brew #136 [Via: Chris Alcock ]
Daily Find #90 [Via: Tim ]
Links (7/15/2008) [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]

Miscellaneous

How to: Use the Jet Engine to import comma or tab delimited files. [Via: Jan Schreuder ]

ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC Tip #20 – How to Unit Test Data Access [Via: swalther ]

Community

Pittsburgh .NET User Group (Pgh.NET) Summer Slam VII [Via: zxue ]
July 22nd - Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Nerd Dinner [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Jobs

Dew Drop - July 15, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

Wednesday
Jul 16 2008

Philly.NET - An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight
45 Liberty Blvd., Suite 210, Malvern, PA, 19355
Wednesday
Jul 16 2008

Colorado Springs SQL Server Users Group Meeting
7450 Campus Dr Colorado Springs, CO 80920, Colorado Springs, CO, 80920
Wednesday
Jul 16 2008

Capital DotNetNuke User Group
1900 Gallows Rd, Vienna, VA, 22182

Tomorrow

Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Pittsburgh Technology Council Summer Slam VII
253 N Shore Dr., Pittsburgh, PA, 15212
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

North Houston DNUG July Meeting
3200 College Park Drive , The Woodlands, TX, 77384
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Midlands PASS Monthly Meeting
250 Berryhill Road, Suite 502, Columbia, SC 29210, Columbia, SC, 29210
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

NetDug User Grou Meeting
500 S 10th St, Boise, ID, 83709
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Philly ALT.NET Meeting - Building Maintainable Applications with WPF
30 N 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Charlottesville .NET User Group
One SNL Plaza (SNL HQ), Charlottesville, VA, 22902
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Richmond SQL Server Users Group July Meeting
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

HRSSUG July Meeting
5501 Greenwich Rd, Virginia Beach, VA, 23462

Next Two Weeks

Saturday
Jul 19 2008

Microsoft Access SIG, North Texas PC User Group
King of Glory Lutheran Church, 6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 75240
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Maryland and Pennsylvania .NET User Group July Meeting
1525 Greenspring Valley Rd, Stevenson, MD, 21153
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Data Services with Silverlight 2
4 British American Blvd, Latham, NY, 12110
Thursday
Jul 24 2008

DC ALT.NET Meeting
1600 K St NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC, 20006
Monday
Jul 28 2008

Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group July Meeting
1900 Gallows Rd , Vienna, VA, 22182
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Delaware DotNet Grok Talk
Robinson Hall, Rm 206, Newark, DE, 19716
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Dynamic Data With Rachel Appell
Delaware Technology Park, 1 Innovation Way, Newark , DE, 19711

Making Good On a Promise

timbarcz — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:06:00 GMT

Last week I blogged a about Unappreciated Open Source projects. In the post I made a commitment:

From here on I've resolved to donate a dollar any time I download a free library or webcast where a donate link is presented. Why $1? In all honesty it is something I can commit to.

I'm thoroughly looking forward to watching the...

Read the rest at: http://www.timbarcz.com/blog/MakingGoodOnAPromise.aspx

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Link Listing - July 14, 2008

csteen — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:43:28 GMT

MSBuild

New (beta) MSBuild Tasks Suite - FreeToDev MSBuild Tasks Suite [Via: Greg ]

ASP.NET

Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal - new and improved [Via: oazabir ]

WCF

Integrating Castle Windsor and NHibernate with WCF - Throwing the WCF facility and some Rhino Tools in the mix [Via: Jan Van Ryswyck ]

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: July 14, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
The Morning Brew #135 [Via: Chris Alcock ]
LINKBLOG for July 14, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ]
Dew Drop - July 14, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
Daily Find #89 [Via: Tim ]

Miscellaneous

Using an ORM? Think Objects! [Via: scott ]
Getting IronRuby Up and Running [Via: Justin Etheredge ]
Optimizing LINQ Queries [Via: scott ]

ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1) [Via: ScottGu ]
ASP.NET MVC Tip #19 – Use the nVelocity View Engine [Via: swalther ]
Make Routing Ignore Requests For A File Extension [Via: Haacked ]

Community

Bartlesville .NET User Group July Meeting [Via: okcodemonkey ]
MN Unified Communications User Group Meeting - August 14 [Via: TwinCitiesITandDevEvents ]
Architecture Journal Issue 17 - Call for Papers [Via: smguest ]
NYC .NET Developers Group Presents “Speaker Idol” on 7/17/2008 [Via: peterlau ]
July 2008 St. Louis DNN Users Group [Via: Chris Hammond ]
Ann Arbor Give Camp - Wrap-up [Via: Michael Eaton ]

Silverlight

Silverlight news for July 14, 2008 [Via: Emil Stoychev ]
Using LINQ to XML in Silverlight 2 [Via: Martin Mihaylov ]
Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2008 -- #324 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Web

Cleanup your html with JQuery [Via: Torkel Ödegaard ]

Virtual Earth

Behind the Maps - The Technology of Virtual Earth [Via: Public Sector DPE Team ]

Tools

Announcing the .NET Extension Library [Via: karl ]

Book Reviews

Book Review: Code Leader (Wrox) by Patrick Cauldwell [Via: Lee Brandt ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

Tuesday
Jul 15 2008

WMI Basics - Understanding WMI and Getting/Setting Values
Smooth Fusion, 5502 58th Street, Suite 500, Lubbock, TX, 79414

Tomorrow

Wednesday
Jul 16 2008

Philly.NET - An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight
45 Liberty Blvd., Suite 210, Malvern, PA, 19355
Wednesday
Jul 16 2008

Colorado Springs SQL Server Users Group Meeting
7450 Campus Dr Colorado Springs, CO 80920, Colorado Springs, CO, 80920
Wednesday
Jul 16 2008

Capital DotNetNuke User Group
1900 Gallows Rd, Vienna, VA, 22182

Next Two Weeks

Thursday
Jul 17 2008

North Houston DNUG July Meeting
3200 College Park Drive , The Woodlands, TX, 77384
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Midlands PASS Monthly Meeting
250 Berryhill Road, Suite 502, Columbia, SC 29210, Columbia, SC, 29210
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

HRSSUG July Meeting
5501 Greenwich Rd, Virginia Beach, VA, 23462
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

NetDug User Grou Meeting
500 S 10th St, Boise, ID, 83709
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Philly ALT.NET Meeting - Building Maintainable Applications with WPF
30 N 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Charlottesville .NET User Group
One SNL Plaza (SNL HQ), Charlottesville, VA, 22902
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Richmond SQL Server Users Group July Meeting
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Saturday
Jul 19 2008

Microsoft Access SIG, North Texas PC User Group
King of Glory Lutheran Church, 6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 75240
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Maryland and Pennsylvania .NET User Group July Meeting
1525 Greenspring Valley Rd, Stevenson, MD, 21153
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Data Services with Silverlight 2
4 British American Blvd, Latham, NY, 12110
Thursday
Jul 24 2008

DC ALT.NET Meeting
1600 K St NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC, 20006
Monday
Jul 28 2008

Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group July Meeting
1900 Gallows Rd , Vienna, VA, 22182

Database TDD

paul — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:12:00 GMT

NJ SQL UG Meeting Tonight

Success in object-oriented agile development is currently being achieved with a technique known as test driven development TDD. In database development however, TDD practices are not wide-spread and development teams struggle with applying the TDD principles to the SQL language. This is a problem, because it leads to poorly tested code. In turn, not having the appropriate test cases, makes it difficult to improve your existing database design. Not implementing TDD practices in the database, overtime, leads to a decaying architecture and can hinder the evolution of the overall application.

Speakers: Dennis Lloyd Jr and Sebastian Meine from SQLity

Aplicaciones Compuestas con WPF

vbpuntonet — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:12 GMT

El equipo de patterns & practices de Microsoft ha publicado el conjunto de guías titulado: Composite Application Guidance for WPF. El cual contiene una implementación de referencia que emplea patrones de diseño, conceptos y técnicas para la construcción de aplicaciones compuestas con WCF. Incluye además ejemplos de inicio rápido, laboratorios, temas "como se hace", etc.

La implementación de referencia ilustra cómo se pueden enfrentar muchos de los retos presentes en la construcción de aplicaciones basada en módulos independientes pero colaborativos.

Mas información en:

Using MVC Framework In the Wild, Our Transition to the ASP.NET MVC Framework

timbarcz — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:10:00 GMT

We recently decided that with the effort we're putting into our website and some changes that we're making that now would be as good of time as ever to make the switch to the new Asp.net MVC Framework. We're no Google, but we're currently receiving around 18,000 unique visitors a day and 300,000 page views and hope to grow that number as we make our site easier to use for our customers. I hope to rely heavily...

Read the rest at: http://www.timbarcz.com/blog/UsingMVCFrameworkInTheWildOurTransitionToTheASPNETMVCFramework.aspx

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Link Listing - July 13, 2008

csteen — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:14:57 GMT

WPF

WPF.JoshSmith [Via: Josh Smith ]

SQL Server

Get ready for SQL Server 2008 RTM release! [Via: ssqa.net ]

Miscellaneous

Yielding Great Rewards [Via: Will Smith ]
What you don't know about Copy & Paste in Visual Studio [Via: DotNet Kicks ]
Creating Text Summaries from HTML [Via: wifry ]
Rhino Commons With MS MVC [Via: Tim Scott ]

Community

Ann Arbor, Northwest Arkansas and Houston GiveCamp Events [Via: Chris Koenig ]
Giving -- and receiving -- at Give Camp [Via: john.mullinax ]
Knoxville GiveCamp organized by Nathan Blevins in concert with Ann Arbor, MI [Via: Wallym ]

Web

Nice login and signup panel Newsvine like using CSS [Via: Antonio ]

Tools

Low Cost Hardware Platform for .NET Micro Framework - USBizi [Via: Michael Schwarz ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

Monday
Jul 14 2008

Southern Maryland .NET User Group July Meeting
44423 Airport Road, California, MD, 20619

Tomorrow

Tuesday
Jul 15 2008

WMI Basics - Understanding WMI and Getting/Setting Values
Smooth Fusion, 5502 58th Street, Suite 500, Lubbock, TX, 79414

Next Two Weeks

Wednesday
Jul 16 2008

Philly.NET - An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight
45 Liberty Blvd., Suite 210, Malvern, PA, 19355
Wednesday
Jul 16 2008

Colorado Springs SQL Server Users Group Meeting
7450 Campus Dr Colorado Springs, CO 80920, Colorado Springs, CO, 80920
Wednesday
Jul 16 2008

Capital DotNetNuke User Group
1900 Gallows Rd, Vienna, VA, 22182
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

North Houston DNUG July Meeting
3200 College Park Drive , The Woodlands, TX, 77384
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Midlands PASS Monthly Meeting
250 Berryhill Road, Suite 502, Columbia, SC 29210, Columbia, SC, 29210
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

NetDug User Grou Meeting
500 S 10th St, Boise, ID, 83709
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Richmond SQL Server Users Group July Meeting
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

HRSSUG July Meeting
5501 Greenwich Rd, Virginia Beach, VA, 23462
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Philly ALT.NET Meeting - Building Maintainable Applications with WPF
30 N 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Charlottesville .NET User Group
One SNL Plaza (SNL HQ), Charlottesville, VA, 22902
Saturday
Jul 19 2008

Microsoft Access SIG, North Texas PC User Group
King of Glory Lutheran Church, 6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 75240
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Maryland and Pennsylvania .NET User Group July Meeting
1525 Greenspring Valley Rd, Stevenson, MD, 21153
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Data Services with Silverlight 2
4 British American Blvd, Latham, NY, 12110
Thursday
Jul 24 2008

DC ALT.NET Meeting
1600 K St NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC, 20006
Monday
Jul 28 2008

Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group July Meeting
1900 Gallows Rd , Vienna, VA, 22182

Now on XBOX Live!

paul — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:22:00 GMT

Xbox 360 and Netflix Team Up

I've been watching the Microsoft Press conference live from E3, Major Nelson has been Tweeting all the news.

Video, movies and TV content is coming to XBOX Live, but no one mentioned of it being streamed in Silverlight.

DotNetJunkies Server

Link Listing - July 17, 2008

AJAX

Sharepoint

WPF

Link Collections

Miscellaneous

ASP.NET MVC

Community

Jobs

Silverlight

Virtual Earth

Upcoming Events

Today

Tomorrow

Next Two Weeks

Y Exclamation

MVC Framework - A Needle In a Haystack

Formatting Output with String.Format() Part 2 - Left and Right Alignment

NYCDOTNETDEV Meeting

MVC Framework - Learning to Walk

DNS Bug

Link Listing - July 15, 2008

ASP.NET

WPF

Code Camps

Link Collections

Miscellaneous

ASP.NET MVC

Community

Jobs

Upcoming Events

Today

Tomorrow

Next Two Weeks

Making Good On a Promise

Link Listing - July 14, 2008

MSBuild

ASP.NET

WCF

Link Collections

Miscellaneous

ASP.NET MVC

Community

Silverlight

Web

Virtual Earth

Tools

Book Reviews

Upcoming Events

Today

Tomorrow

Next Two Weeks

Database TDD

Aplicaciones Compuestas con WPF

Using MVC Framework In the Wild, Our Transition to the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Link Listing - July 13, 2008

WPF

SQL Server

Link Collections

Miscellaneous

Community

Web

Tools

Upcoming Events

Today

Tomorrow

Next Two Weeks

Now on XBOX Live!