Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

A Number of Annoying Visual Studio 2008 ASP.NET Related Bugs

A Brilliant Way to Quote

Creating a Data Access Layer for Paging in SQL Server 2005 (Part 2)

ReSharper 3.1 Released (via Mike Gunderloy)

Design Principles To Live By: Encapsulate What Varies (via Arjan’s World)

Test Everything! – Test Your Website with Over 100 Tools (via DownloadSquad)

ASP.NET MVC and Accessing Server Controls in CodeBehind

Are You a Problem Solver or a Developer?

Web Hosts Offering ASP.NET 3.5

Microsoft Needs You to Build Emacs.Net (via Chris Sells)

MemAnalysis – A Native Memory Leak Analysis Tool (via Steve Pietrek)

Google Safe Browsing Library for .NET Beta 2 (via DotNetSlackers)

Spicebird: Mozilla-Based Outlook Clone with Collaboration Features (via DownloadSquad)

Foundations of Programming Part 7 (sorta) – ActiveRecord

MS Popfly Named on of PC World’s 25 Most Innovative Products of 2007 (via Adam Nathan)

Book of the Day

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Catching up on the last several days…

Don’t Run Production ASP.NET Apps with debug=”true” Enabled. (via DotNetKicks)

Some Great Entity Framework Guidance About Performance in Client Applications (via DotNetSlackers)

How To: New ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Video Screencasts (ScottHa)

Don’t Unit Test GUI (via Arjan’s World)

Microsoft Volta – oh my oh my (via DotNetKicks)

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider (download)

Visual Studio Team System 2008 TFS Power Tools – Dec 2007 Release (download)

LINQ Quickly (book review)

Exception Handling Best Practices Part 1

XamlPadX v3.0 (download) (via DotNetKicks)

Read What Matters – AideRSS (service) (via Arjan’s World)

Book of the Day

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I’m posting this on the evening of the 20th because tomorrow I’m starting my holiday vacation. I probably will not be posting regularly again until January 2nd.

Foundations of Programming (Part 5) – Unit Testing

Choosing an API to Talk to the Entity Framework

How to Avoid Regression Bugs While Adding New Features (via CodeBetter)

Get a Free Copy of Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System by Sam Guckenheimer (via Public Sector Developer Weblog and DotNetSlackers)

LINQ ‘let’ Keyword (How Did I Miss That?) (via DotNetKicks)

Book of the Day:

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MappingEnumerable

Holiday Toys From the Visual Studio Ecosystem Team (via WinBeta)

Debug .NET Source Code (via Izzy)

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates for Visual Studio 2008 (download)

VS Refactoring Tools – 2008 Quicker Than 2005?

Quake 2 .NET Port with Visual Studio 2008 (v9.0) and Managed C++ (via DotNetKicks)

A State-Aware Generic List (via Arjan’s World)

VS 2008: The Road Ahead (via DotNetSlackers)

xUnit.net 1.0 RC1 Released

IMapper (Follow-up Article to MappingEnumerable)

Book of the Day: Lessons Learned in Software Testing by Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord

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Folder != Namespace

How to: Creating Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005/2008

ASP.NET v3.5’s Web.Config File (via DotNetKicks)

Moq: Linq, Lambdas and Predicates Applied to Mock Objects (ScottHa)

Book of the Day: The Non-Designer’s Design Book (2nd Edition) by Robin Williams (3rd Edition coming in Feb. ‘08)

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