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Nederlandse CodeCamp 2009

Maurice — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Op 21 november 2009 organiseren de SDN, Stichting dotNed en VBcentral samen het derde Nederlandse Code Camp. Dit is een dag lang met code, code sharing, freaking en gezellig samenzijn. Een evenement door ontwikkelaars, voor ontwikkelaars. De regie ligt voor een belangrijk deel bij de deelnemers! Het aantal plaatsen voor deelnemers is wel beperkt tot maximaal 150. Wacht dus niet te lang met beslissen want voor je het weet is er geen plaats meer. Vergeet bij je aanmelding niet op te geven welke onderwerpen je interesse hebben. Bovendien nodigen we iedereen graag uit om zelf een sessie in te vullen.

Op de website, www.codecamp.nl, vind je meer informatie en kan je je aanmelden.

Combined DevelopMentor instructors blog feed.

Maurice — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Michael Kennedy, one of the co instructors from DevelopMentor, has created a combined feed from all the blogs of the various DevelopMentor. An awesome group of people with a lot of knowledge to share. Highly recommended in you RSS reader.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/DevelopmentorInstructors

If you want to check out a list of the individual blog feeds look here.

Enjoy!

www.TheProblemSolver.nl
Wiki.WindowsWorkflowFoundation.eu

Getting started with the .NET RIA Services

Maurice — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

A recent article I wrote for the MSDN website just went live.

Read is here.

Technology Related Links for May 12th

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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Series Post #11

Below is my first pass at the links of the day. I have others that I’ll add to a later post or to tomorrow’s post. But wanted to get some of the earlier posts in your hands.

Daily Quote - Great quote: "LOL no waterfall isn't "better". Agile/scrum/tdd/any dogmatic practice won't cure our problems" (Posted by Amanda Laucher)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

About Axum – K. Scott Allen
Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Eric Lippert (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Value Class Pattern - Microformats

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC - Localization Helpers - Matt Hawley (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC Validation using IDataErrorInfo with DefaultModelBinder – David Hayden (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
IgnoreRoute in ASP.NET Routing is Order Dependent – Steve Smith
Integrating ActiveReports into ASP.NET MVC – Billy McCafferty (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Using DayPilot with ASP.NET MVC – Craig Stuntz (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

Book Review - Magento Beginners Guide (Suggested by Packt Publishing)
PHP and script.aculo.us Web 2.0 Application Interfaces – Packt Publishing

Cloud Computing

Cisco Unified Service Delivery: The Pathway to Cloud Services (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Microsoft unveils Open Government Data Initiative (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Desktop and Server Technology

10 Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers You Might Not Know Of (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
A Simple foaf+ssl Identity Provider (IdP) (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Web Design and Layout

Why Does Clean Markup Matter in Web Design? – Webdesigner Depot (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

20+ Wicked Proof of Concepts for Better use of jQuery/CSS (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Build an Auto-Scrolling Slideshow That Works With and Without JavaScript - Jenna Smith (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Google Charting (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Masonry (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Tooltip for any event – CursorMessage (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery URL Parser - Mark Perkins (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Replacing images at time intervals - jQuery HowTo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Slider for Dynamic Applications using script.aculo.us (part 1) – Packt Publishing

Podcasts and Videos

Diving into PHP: Day 15 – Jeffrey Way (Suggested by Nettuts)
Website Scalability (Suggested by Developer Fusion)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Localization in WPF - Fabrice Marguerie (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
Silverlight 3 RIA Services: DataForm, Validation – Peter Bromberg

Technology Announcements and News

Miscellaneous

Script I whipped up to fix my mysql charset issues – Jeff Schoolcraft

Other Resources

Dew Drop - May 12, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

--- NotAtTechEd
Tample, FL - Day of DotNetNuke – Due May 13th, 2009

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

---May 2009 NY/NJ/CT/PA Area Microsoft User Group Meetings - Peter Laudati
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Hartford, CT – 2nd CTDOTNET Code Camp (.NET) – June 13th, 2009
Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
Chicago, IL – Chicago Code Camp – May 30th, 2009
Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
Portland, OR – Open Source Bridge – June 17th-19th, 2009
Scranton, PA – WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – May 21st, 2009
Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Reston, VA – Silverlight FireStarter DC - June 6, 2009

Technology Related Links for May 8th, 2009

Anonymous — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Series Post #9

Daily Quote - The Rule of Software Development... "Fast, good, cheap: pick any two." (Posted by Elijah Manor)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

Microsoft Axum – A .NET language for safe, scalable and productive parallel programming through isolation, actors and message-passing – Greg Duncan (Suggested by Jon Galloway)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Making the untestable testable with Anonymous Methods and Dependency Injection - Karl Seguin (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
NUnit 2.5 had been Released - Mark Levison (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
Pseudocode or Code? – Jeff Atwood
The BIG Merge – Oren Eini
The S#arp framework: the SharpModelBinder - Luis Abreu (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

Databind a Combobox to an Enum Property – Version 2.0 – Marcus Wyatt (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
I’m a Web Developer At Heart – Phil Haack
Modifying the default unit tests for an ASP.NET MVC project to use Moq - Kevin Hoffman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Using complex types to make calling services less… complex – Dave Ward (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

ASP.NET MVC book: Chapter 1: Plumbing – Jeff Putz (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Technical Book Club: Code Complete – Software Construction: Building Software - Software for Students (Suggested by MSPress)
Technical Book Club: How to Participate – Software for Students (Suggested by MSPress)

Cloud Computing

Eight Best Practices for Building Scalable Systems (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
How much Azure juice am I drinking? (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
Spending on Cloud Computing Going Up, Up, Up - Ann All (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Web Design and Layout

3 CSS Coding Tips That Will Save You Hundreds of Wasted Hours (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
10 Great CSS Selectors you must know - Rakesh Sharma (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Make your forms beautiful with CSS – Dave Harfield (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

3 ways to define a JavaScript class - Stoyan Stefanov (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
15+ Excellent jQuery Plugins To Enhance HTML Forms (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
15 Exceptional JQuery Resources And Tutorials - Patrick Lin and Karthik Viswanathan (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Ask JW: How do I Make AJAX Requests With jQuery? – Jeffrey Way (Suggested by jQuery)
Create A Tabbed Content Rotator Using jQuery - Raymond Selda
How to implement a Post-to-Wall Facebook-like using PHP and jQuery - Antonio Lupetti (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
How to: jQuery Driven Social Bookmark Counters – Tripwire Magazine
How to Make AJAX Requests With Raw Javascript - NetTuts
jQuery Edge: Versatile .index() – Brandon Aaron (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Plugin: jquery-jsonp - (Suggested by jQuery)
Plugin: jQuery – Galleriffic (Suggested by jQuery)
Preventing Form Caching With Javascript And jQuery - Ben Nadel (Suggested by jQuery)
Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery – Quark Ruby (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Microsoft Desktop and Server Technology

4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks - Samuel Dean (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Podcasts and Videos

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Add Windows GridView control in WPF dynamically in C# - Raveen Rasaiyah (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
Matchingo - A Silverlight Memory Game (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Social Networking

12 Rules For Bringing 'Social' To Your Business - Dion Hinchcliffe (Suggested by George Dearing)
Twitter: bDule by Sobees (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)

Technology Announcements and News

Should You Freelance in a Recession? – Freelance Folder (Suggested by Dana Coffey)
The Steve Ballmer Memo: Microsoft cuts 3000 jobs – Davey Winder

Other Resources

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

LAST CALL: Las Vegas, NV – Open Force ‘09 – Due May 8th, 2009
Tample, FL - Day of DotNetNuke – Due May 13th, 2009

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

---Announcing the Summer 2009 MSDN “Suburban” Roadshow Series
---West Michigan Tech Events (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)
---May 2009 NY/NJ/CT/PA Area Microsoft User Group Meetings - Peter Laudati
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Hartford, CT – 2nd CTDOTNET Code Camp (.NET) – June 13th, 2009
Chicago, IL – Chicago Code Camp – May 30th, 2009
Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
Scranton, PA – WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – May 21st, 2009
Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Reston, VA – Silverlight FireStarter DC - June 6, 2009

Technology Links for May 7th, 2009

Anonymous — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Series Post #8

Daily Spoof – CannonPI featuring Microsoft Employees

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

.NET MF moves to Developer Division – Colin Miller (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
.NET’s Most Influential People in 2009 – Jay Kimble (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Dependency Injection with the Spring Framework - Tutorial - Lars Vogel
Multithreading: immutability – Luis Abreu

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC "Models": The lonesome folder! - Hadi Hariri (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Dynamic Data in Regular Websites/Web Applications – David Fowler
Dynamic Data Preview 4 Released - Scott Hunter
How to create a syndication feed for your website – Scott Mitchell
Using Behaviour-Driven Development with ASP.NET MVC – Part 1 – Tim Ross (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Cloud Computing

A couple of reasons I won't be moving my databases to the cloud anytime soon – Denis Gobo

Web Design and Layout

35 Examples Of Masterful Lighting Effects In Web Design – Angela Rohner
Creating a stylish Minimal Contact form – devSnippet
Create Vista Like Button With Photoshop - Flashtoons

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

10 Transition Effects: The art of Showing/Hiding Content – devSnippent (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
15 Excellent jQuery Navigation Techniques and Solutions – Henry Jones (Suggested by Dana Coffey)
Acid.JS Library 3.0 Has Been Released With 6 New Additions - Martin Ivanov
Function’less event handlers in jQuery - James Padolsey (Suggested by jQuery)
Guestbook.XML – The New AJAX Guestbook – Martin Ivanov
How to check if checkbox is checked using jQuery – jQuery HowTo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
How to realize a calendar with Mootools (STEP I) – moonKiki
jQuery 1.3.2 Cheat Sheet (Suggested by jQuery)
jQuery Magic – Why I Love Enclosures – Yet Another WebDev Blog (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Plugin – GridView for jQuery – Geek Daily (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Using jQuery in SharePoint to Display Notifications for Open Tasks - Jan Tielens (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Microsoft Desktop and Server Technology

How To Get your Windows 7 Release Candidate Product Key (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Microsoft Open Government Data Initiative to Help Foster Transparency and Collaboration – Microsoft (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
Microsoft Student Partners Opportunity
PowerShell Plus command completion makes life so easy. – Joe Brinkman
Running SharePoint on Windows 7 - Gunnar Peipman (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
Switching my Windows 7 Boot Disk from D to C with BCDBoot rather than BCDEdit – Scott Hanselman

Mobile Devices

Facebook for your Windows Mobile 6 phone - Peter Laudati

Podcasts and Videos

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Technology Announcements and News

Forget Kindle DX. How about the ZuneBook? - ZDNet
Why IT Should Start Throwing Data Away - PCWorld

Miscellaneous

8 Essential Applications – Corey Schuman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Other Resources

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

Las Vegas, NV – Open Force ‘09 – Due May 8th, 2009
Tample, FL - Day of DotNetNuke – Due May 13th, 2009

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

---Events This Week (and next) – G. Andrew Duthie
---May 2009 NY/NJ/CT/PA Area Microsoft User Group Meetings - Peter Laudati
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Hartford, CT – 2nd CTDOTNET Code Camp (.NET) – June 13th, 2009
Des Moines – IA – Iowa .NET ugMix – May 7th, 2009
Chicago, IL – Chicago Code Camp – May 30th, 2009
Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
Scranton, PA – WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – May 21st, 2009
Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Reston, VA – Silverlight FireStarter DC - June 6, 2009

Technology Related Links for May 6th, 2009

Anonymous — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Series Post #7

Daily Quote - Great quote: "The mind can only absorb what the seat can endure" ~ @mrrodd (Posted by Dan Wahlin)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

CLR Inside Out - Understanding the CLR Binder (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
Microsoft to turn .Net Micro Framework code, support over to the community – Mary Jo Foley

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Top 5 Programmer Mistakes – Bill Tudor (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ELMAH and Exception Driven Development FTW – Scott Hanselman

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

A Fast and Easy Way to Take an ASP.NET Application Offline - Rafay Ali (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ControllerActionInvoker and CreateActionResult - Implicit Action Results – David Hayden (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Dynamic Data Preview 4 – Scott Hunter
Iterating on an ASP.NET MVC Model Binder - K. Scott Allen
MonoDevelop Developin ASP.NET MVC Applications on the Mac - Miguel de Icaza

Books

Cloud Computing

3 perspectives on cloud management - Jennifer Kavur (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
AppZero strives for portability in the cloud - David Worthington (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Cloud computing as a business continuity plan - Mark Clarke (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Citrix Announces Citrix C3 Lab Built on Amazon Web Services to Connect Cloud Computing to the Corporate Datacenter (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Do You Want a "Cloud Desktop?" Gladinet's Release Candidate is Here - Sarah Perez (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
SoftLayer Launches CloudLayer Suite - Rich Miller (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
Steering Clear of a Cloud Boondoggle - Jim Damoulakis (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Web Design and Layout

18 Seriously Helpful Cheat Sheets for Easier Coding – Henry Jones (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Code Your Own Online “Paint Shop” App: New Plus Tutorial – NetTuts (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

15+ Excellent jQuery Plugins To Enhance HTML Forms - jQuery
20 New examples of advanced jQuery UI’s in action. - (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Ask JW: How do I Make AJAX Requests With jQuery? – Jeffrey Way (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Create an Image Rotator with Description (CSS/jQuery) – Soh Tanaka (Suggested by jQuery)
Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips - Jon Hobbs-Smith (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery UI DatePicker instead of AJAX Control Toolkit CalendarExtender in ASP.NET - Arnold Matusz (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Pimp Up List Sorting Using JQuery - AzamSharp
Plugin: jQuery plugin jPlayer (Suggested by jQuery)
Useful Ajax Tutorials and Demo for web developer - raj

Microsoft Desktop and Server Technology

IE Testing VPC Images Updated – Pete LePage (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
PowerShell to the clipboard – Buck Woody (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
Windows XP Mode Beta
Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features – Channel 9

Podcasts and Videos

10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing – Channel 9
Software Engineering Radio: elease It with Michael Nygard (Suggested by Devpodcasts)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

How to Zoom In and Out with a Mouse Wheel in Silverlight - Silver Enlightenment (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
New York Times Silverlight Kit – MSDN (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
Open source codecs for Silverlight 3 - Atsushi Eno (Suggested by Miguel de Icaza)

Social Networking

Harvest Reports Consuming Space - Community Server Forums (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)

Technology Announcements and News

Is Dell cooking up an Android-powered netbook? - Engadget
Kindle DX: Amazon's 9.7" Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)
Web learning startup takes top spot in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup - Mass High Tech Staff (Suggested by Microsoft Press)

Miscellaneous

NINE Questions with Kathleen Sanders – Chris Williams

Other Resources

Dew Drop - May 6, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

Las Vegas, NV – Open Force ‘09 – Due May 8th, 2009
Tample, FL - Day of DotNetNuke – Due May 13th, 2009

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

---Events This Week (and next) – G. Andrew Duthie
---May 2009 NY/NJ/CT/PA Area Microsoft User Group Meetings - Peter Laudati
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Hartford, CT – 2nd CTDOTNET Code Camp (.NET) – June 13th, 2009
Des Moines – IA – Iowa .NET ugMix – May 7th, 2009
Chicago, IL – Chicago Code Camp – May 30th, 2009
Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
Scranton, PA – WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – May 21st, 2009
Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Reston, VA – Silverlight FireStarter DC - June 6, 2009

Technology Related Links for May 4th, 2009

Anonymous — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Series Post #5

Quote of the day - "Requirements are like water. They're easier to build on when they're frozen." (Posted by Elijah Manor)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Are Helper Classes Evil? - Nick Malik (Suggested by Brad Wilson)
Choosing the Right Scrum Management Tool - Tommy Norman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
NHibernate Filters - Oren Eini
NHibernate Search – Oren Eini
Philip Wadler and Erik Meijer: On Programming Language Theory and Practice – Charles (Suggested by Channel 9)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Part 1) - Kazi Manzur Rashid
ASP.NET MVC Tip: Turn on compile-time View Checking - Adrian Grigore (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Custom Error Pages in ASP.NET – Bean Software
Hierarchical GridView With Clickable Rows - Srikanth Reddy
Letting ASP.NET Handle Image File Extensions in IIS 6 - Jason Gaylord
Leverage ASP.NET Control Adapters for a (slightly) Better UX - Jess Chadwick (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
REST Based WCF Service in ASP.NET 3.5 - Kalyan Bandarupalli
Yet Another Forum v1.9.3 Released (Suggested by Dave Burke)

Cloud Computing

Azure Developer Challenge – Steven Martin (Suggested by MicrosoftPress)
Google Aims to Woo the Enterprise With Its Cloud - Stacey Higginbotham (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Internal clouds: The storm is coming, corporate IT be prepared - NetApp (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Resources for learning programming in The Cloud - Joe Stagner
The Real Meaning of Cloud Security Revealed - F5 DevCentral (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Web Design and Layout

13 Great Free Text Editors For Programmers & Web Developers - Anoop Engineer (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
40 Outstanding CSS Techniques And Tutorials - Ar-bent-ing (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

12 jquery tooltip for web developer - raj (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
25 Open Source JavaScript Libraries And Frameworks - Open Source Release Feed (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
How to build a personal mashup page with jQuery - The EZPZ Way
jLinq (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
jQuery 1.3 Cheat Sheet Wallpaper - G. MeanTime (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Tabs Plugin with Images - Code Zest (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Simulate Gravity with jQuery - Gaya Kessler (Suggested by jQuery)
yUML and jQuery for Large Diagrams - Tobin Harris (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Microsoft Desktop and Server Technology

Mobile Devices

5 Tips for Making Great iPhone Photos – Chase Jarvis (Suggested by Dana Coffey)

Podcasts and Videos

ASP.NET QA Podcast (Suggested by Phil Haack)
Executive Strategies for Agile Transition - Charlie Kennedy and Tom Paider (Suggested by devpodcasts)
John Rose: Static Managed Runtimes and Dynamic Byte Codes – Going Deep on Channel 9 (Suggested by devpodcasts)
WebDropDown Multi-Select - Selections Handled on the Client - Craig Shoemaker on Infragistics Community
WebDropDown Multi-Select - Selections Handled on the Server - Craig Shoemaker on Infragistics Community
Will Windows 7 be pure win or utter fail? – CNET UK (Suggested by devpodcasts)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

A Quick Note on XAML Namespaces in Silverlight/WPF - Frank LaVigne (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
Silverlight DataGrid Control - Mahesh Chand (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
Silverlight Game Gallery – Joe Stagner
The first version of the WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit is available - Adam Kinney (Suggested by Scott Cate)

Social Networking

Here's a Reason to Rethink Community Building - Judy Shapiro (Suggested by George Dearing)

Technology Announcements and News

10 Most Anticipated Ultraportables and Netbooks of 2009 - PCWorld on MSN
FCC gives go-ahead for DirecTV transfer to Liberty Media - Scott M. Fulton
New Amazon Device Debuts Wednesday
Verizon to Offer Free Wi-Fi to Broadband Subscribers
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters - LA Times (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Miscellaneous

Tutorials for Visual Effects & Motion Graphics – Video Copilot (Suggested by Tim Heuer)

Other Resources

Get to know… Steve Andrews – NINE Questions with Chris Williams
Dew Drop – May 4, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

--Events This Week (and next) – G. Andrew Duthie
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Hartford, CT – 2nd CTDOTNET Code Camp (.NET) – June 13th, 2009
Chicago, IL – Chicago Code Camp – May 30th, 2009
Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
Scranton, PA – WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – May 21st, 2009
Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009

Technology Related Links – Post #1

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT

I’m going to try to put together a list of links I grab and post them to intermittent blog posts. I’d like to do a post like this once a day or at the very least once a week, but let’s see where things go. :) Anyway, here’s the first batch of links summarized by technology. Some of these may be a couple of weeks old, so please bare with me as the first list is quite lengthy. I’ll also add in recently released books, software releases and updates, and upcoming technology events.

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord.

ASP.NET – jQuery Enhancements

Script and CSS Management in ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid

ASP.NET – MVC

6 Tips for ASP.NET MVC Model Binding – K. Scott Allen (OdeToCode)
File Uploads in ASP.NET MVC v1.0 - Justin Etheredge
HowTo: From the view to the controller in ASP.NET MVC with ModelBinders - Robert Muehsig
IRouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC – Keyvan Nayyeri
Making a Thin Contact Form – Chris Love
Returning PDFs from an ASP.NET MVC action - Louis DeJardin

Books – Hot off the Press

Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery - Richard York (Wrox)
Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 - Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Scott Guthrie (Wrox)

Cloud Computing

SalesForce.com Adds .NET Offering – Steve Smith

CSS

From Table Hell to Div Hell - Geir Wavik
The Mystery of CSS Sprites - Smashing Editorial

Image Editing

Become an Illustrator Master - StayUpdate
Paint.NET Plugin Lets You Open Photoshop Files – Jason Fitzpatrick
Ultimate Collection of Useful Photoshop Plug-Ins - Vailancio Rodrigues

JavaScript/jQuery

18 jQuery scripts and tutorials to improve your portfolio - Mirko
5 easy tips on how to improve code performance with huge data sets in jQuery – jQuery HowTo
Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery - Alen Grakalic
Glimmer jQuery Library – MIX Labs
Google AJAX APIs - Google
jsPDF generates PDF documents using pure JavaScript – James Hall
Plugin – FullCalendar – Adam Shaw
Plugin – ImageSwitch - Hieu Pham
Plugin – OpenID - Jarrett Vance
Plugin – Page Peel 1.2 - John McMullen
Twitter JSON/JSONP API – jQuery HowTo

JSON

JSON Serialization of a DataReader – Rick Strahl

.NET Interop

Using Obscure Windows COM APIs in .NET - Jeff Moser

OCR/ICR

Tessnet2 a .NET 2.0 Open Source OCR assembly using Tesseract engine - Rémi Thomas
Windows Image Acquisition – Scott Hanselman

Silverlight

A comprehensive list of Silverlight Controls for developers – Tim Heuer

Social Networking

5 Free Online Twitter Background Generators - SingleFunction

Software

.NET Reflector v5.1.4.0 - RedGate
Cosmos – C# Bootable OS – A Codeplex Project
2007 Office System Service Pack 2 - Microsoft
Windows Live Writer 2009 Release Candidate – Microsoft

TDD

TDD Tests are not Unit Tests – Stephen Walther

Upcoming Technology Events

Boston, MA – No Excuses Boston Geek Dinner – April 30th, 2009
Hartford, CT – 2nd CTDOTNET Code Camp (.NET) – June 13th, 2009
Scranton, PA – WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – May 21st, 2009

Paging with the Silverlight RIA services DomainDataSource

Maurice — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Using the declarative DomainDataSource that is part of the upcoming Silverlight 3 RIA services makes it quite easy to work with data. All you need to do is add a DomainDataSource control to the the XAML, point it to the generated DomainContext class (in this case NorthwindContext) and tell it which method to use to load the data from the web service(in this case LoadCustomers). Next add a DataGrid to display the data and you are good to go.

     <UserControl xmlns:dataControls="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Data.DataForm"  x:Class="LOBUsingRIAServices.CustomerListPage"

                 xmlns:data="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Data"  

                 xmlns:riaControls="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Ria.Controls"

                 xmlns:web="clr-namespace:LOBUsingRIAServices.Web"

                 xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" 

                 xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">

        <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">

            <riaControls:DomainDataSource x:Name="CustomerDataSource"

                                          LoadMethodName="LoadCustomers">

                <riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>

                    <web:NorthwindContext />

                </riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>

            </riaControls:DomainDataSource>

            <data:DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding Data, ElementName=CustomerDataSource}" />

        </Grid>

    </UserControl>

Pretty simple and that is the way I like it

Adding paging.

Sometimes the lost of data to load can get somewhat large and you might not want to load all data. In that case all you need to do is add a PageSize and the DomainDataSource will only load enough data to display on a single page. You can do this by just setting the PageSize on the DomainDataSource but as we also need a control to allow the user to page trough the data it is easier to also add the DataPager control. Now you have the option of setting the PageSize on the DomainDataSource or the DataPager. I found that setting it on either would work just was well except for the initial load where the DataPager shows page 0 when the PageSize is set on the DomainDataSource while it is set to 1, the correct value, when set on the DataPager. I assume this is just a small bug in the current preview.

Another thing you can specify is the LoadSize. This determines how many rows are loaded with each request and if not set equals the PageSize. Setting this to double the PageSize will improve the responsiveness of the the client application so might be a good idea if the data isn’t too large.

    <UserControl xmlns:dataControls="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Data.DataForm"  x:Class="LOBUsingRIAServices.CustomerListPage"

                 xmlns:data="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Data"  

                 xmlns:riaControls="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Ria.Controls"

                 xmlns:web="clr-namespace:LOBUsingRIAServices.Web"

                 xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" 

                 xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">

        <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">

            <riaControls:DomainDataSource x:Name="CustomerDataSource"

                                          LoadMethodName="LoadCustomers"

                                          LoadSize="40">

                <riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>

                    <web:NorthwindContext />

                </riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>

            </riaControls:DomainDataSource>

            <data:DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding Data, ElementName=CustomerDataSource}" />

            <dataControls:DataPager Source="{Binding Data, ElementName=CustomerDataSource}" 

                                    PageSize="20" />

        </Grid>

    </UserControl>

The DataPager control is quite easy to use as well. Just drop it below the DataGrid and point it to the DomainDataSource to use and it just works. One problem I ran into was adding the DataPager above the DataGrid though. When I did that the DataPager didn’t show up on the UI so the user could not page through the data even though it still limited the data to the first page.

Using progressive loading

Another nice option is delayed loading. When using progressive loading all you need to do is specify the LoadSize on the DomainDataSource. The DomainDataSource will now load the specified number of rows, wait a bit and load the next set of rows. It will keep on doing this until all data is loaded. The nice thing here is that all the data is loaded but the UI still stays responsive for the user. De the default interval between load requests is 0.75 seconds but this can be fine tuned using the LoadDelay time span on the DomainDataSource.

    <UserControl xmlns:dataControls="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Data.DataForm"  x:Class="LOBUsingRIAServices.CustomerListPage"

                 xmlns:data="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Data"  

                 xmlns:riaControls="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Ria.Controls"

                 xmlns:web="clr-namespace:LOBUsingRIAServices.Web"

                 xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" 

                 xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">

        <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">

            <riaControls:DomainDataSource x:Name="CustomerDataSource"

                                          LoadMethodName="LoadCustomers"

                                          LoadSize="10"

                                          LoadDelay="0:0:0.25">

                <riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>

                    <web:NorthwindContext />

                </riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>

            </riaControls:DomainDataSource>

            <data:DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding Data, ElementName=CustomerDataSource}" />

        </Grid>

    </UserControl>

And all of this was done without writing any code add everything was completely declarative. Of course it is just a matter of setting properties so doing so from code is easy enough.

Enjoy!