Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

PowerShell

• Free eBook Offer For Windows Server 2008 and PowerShell (Dave Glover)
• Online PowerShell Training (Jeffrey Snover)
• Tab Completion (Jeffrey Snover)

Misc

• Want Some WPF Improvements/Features? Tell Us. (Lester)
• No, Be a Jerk (Justin Gehtland)
• Confessions of a Software Developer* (Aaron Lerch)
• Neudesic Announces NuCon’08 Events (Sam Gentile) – I’ll be attending the NY event.
• Three Rules For Database Work (K. Scott Allen)
• The Weekly Source Code 14 – Fluent Interface Edition (Scott Hanselman)

.NET

• C# Generics Annoyance (Chris Brandsma)
• Why Threading Is Hard (Mike Stall)
• Learning .NET Debugging (Tess Ferrandez)
• HealthVault Device Driver Development Kit Available on MSDN (HealthVault Device Team)

SharePoint

• Open Source Faceted Search for MOSS 2007 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 (Part 1 of 2) (Neil Hodgkinson)
• SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Import Your CSS for SharePoint Themes (Heather Solomon)
• SharePoint Search Bench v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft SharePoint Will “Steamroll” Web 2.0 Market, Plus Eight More Predictions From Forrester (Jon Brodkin)

Web Development

• CruiseControl, VS2008 and ASP.NET MVC (Kyle Baley)
• 10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets (Omar AL Zabir)
• Troubleshooting Expired ASP.NET Session State and Your Options (Scott Hanselman)
• New Channel9 Interview with Scott Guthrie on Mix (Dan Fernandez)

Visual Studio

• StickyNotes Available for Visual Studio 2008 on the New MSDN Code Gallery (VSX Team)
• Known Issues for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 (VSX Team)

Other Link Blogs

• Interesting Finds: January 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for January 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (1/30/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Link Listing – January 30, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #22 (Chris Alcock)
• 1 Link Today (2008-01-30) (Matt Hinze)
• links for 2008-01-31 (Sam Buchanan)

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Visual Studio

• ADO.NET Performance Improvements in VS2008 (Julia Lerman)
• Visual Studio 2008 Comprehensive Product Comparison (Rob Caron)

Misc

• Don’t Tell… Ask (J.D. Meier)
• Essential Graphic Design Tools for .NET Developers (Aaron Stannard)
• Requirements: Knowledge and Understanding (Scott Sehlhorst)
• Top 10 Tips for Becoming the Best Blogger Ever (Justin Etheredge)
• Paying It Forward, Geek-Style (Andrew Schwam)
• Bulk Image Downloader for WordPress Users (Michael Sync)
• Top 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers (Ben Watson)

.NET

• When LINQ’s Power Really Sinks In (Julia Lerman)
• Lang.NET 2008: Day 1 Thoughts (Charles Nutter)
• Lack of Coverage Tools for .NET (Bil Simser)
• Jeremy Hearts C# 3.0 (Jeremy D. Miller)

WPF

• Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion – Final Chapters (Young Joo)
• Great Line-of-Business Controls for WPF (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Example Application Over Northwind with the Entity Framework (Brad Abrams)

Other Link Blogs

• Interesting Finds: January 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for January 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #21 (Chris Alcock)
• 1 Link Today (2008-01-29) (Matt Hinze)
• links for 2008-01-30 (Sam Buchanan)
• Link Listing – January 29, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

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Community

• New Software Architect’s User Group in Philly Area (Andrew Schwam)

WCF

• Load Testing Windows Communication Foundation Applications (Jeff Beehler)
• Detect Client IP in WCF 3.5 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Getting at the Detials (Jacob Proffitt)

.NET

• C# Delegates (BlackWasp)
• Book Review: C# 3.0 Cookbook [O'Reilly] (Peter Bromberg)

Career

• Prefer Design Skills (Martin Fowler)
• Senior Developers for ASP.NET and Silverlight Wanted! (Brad Abrams)

Web Development

• A Study of Ajax Performance Issues (Dion Almaer)
• ASP.NET MVC Link Collection (Simone Chiaretta)
• VS 2008 Web Deployment Project Support Released (Scott Guthrie)

WPF

• Binding EF Data to the (Free) Xceed WPF Data Grid (Julie Lerman)
• .NET Rocks! – Rocky Lhotka and Anthony Handley on WPF (MS Download)

Misc

• Source Control and Continuous Integration on the Cheap (Rob Conery)
• Lightweight Performance Testing with PowerShell (PowerShell Team)
• What Are Hot Buttons for Microsoft on the Programming-Language Futures Front? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Finally Understanding COM After Changing a Light Bulb (Jeff Moser)
• I’ve Got the Iteration #1 Blues (Jeremy D. Miller)

Other Link Blogs

• Best of January 2008 (Smashing Magazine)
• Monday (01-28-08) edition of the d’bug link farm (Brian Reindel)
• New and Notable 220 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: January 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for January 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• 6 Links Today (2008-01-28) (Matt Hinze)
• Links Listing – January 28, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• links for 2008-01-29 (Sam Buchanan)
• The Morning Brew #20 (Chris Alcock)

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.NET

• How To: Read From a Locked Text File (Anatoly Lubarsky)
• CLR Fun Stuff: How Is My C# Code Converted Into Machine Instructions? (Shafqat Ahmed)
• From the .NET Developer’s Journal Archives: A Talk With the Father of C# (Derek Ferguson)
• HashSet versus Dictionary Cage Match (Justin Etheredge)

Misc

• Deconstructing ObjectBuilder – What Is ObjectBuilder? (Chris Tavares)
• Hey PowerShell Guy, How Can I Sort the Contents of a Text File in Numerical Order? (Marc van Orsouw)
• Did You Know… You Can Create a Silverlight Streaming Application in Minutes? (Jesse Liberty)
• Google Docs in Firefox Sidebar (Ionut Alex Chitu)
• Two Days Left to Snag a Free R# 4.0 License (Russell Ball)
• How To: Add Holidays to Outlook 2007 Calendar (Keith Elder)
• Reminder: MIT Open Courseware (Jason Haley)
• How To: Create a Static IP Address For Your Home Server (Terry Walsh)
• Why Office Gurus Are Bad (and the Buses Who Hit Them) (Max Pool)
• Blog Survey Results (Daniel Moth)

WCF

• Authenticating Users With Supporting Tokens in WCF (Pablo M. Cibraro)
• WCF Latency Test Harness Release v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• HTML 5 Spec Released, Warts and All (Matthew Magain)

SQL Server

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Roadmap Clarification (Francois Ajenstat) Looks like 3Q for SQL Server.
• SQL Injection Cheat Sheet (Ferruh Mavituna)

Testing

• Using MVC to Unit Test WPF Applications (Josh Smith)
• Whitebox vs. Blackbox Testing (Location of Unit Tests) (Derik Whittaker)

Other Link Blogs

• Interesting Finds: January 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 219 (Sam Gentile)
• Links (1/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 26 (Rhonda Tipton)
• links for 2008-01-28 (Sam Buchanan)
• The Morning Brew #19 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – January 27, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

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Misc

• I Don’t Trust Me (Chad Myers)
• Copilot Is Now Free on Weekends (Joel Spolsky)
• Long Methods Are Natural (Michael Feathers)
• Latest DLR Hosting Spec (John Lam)
• Helvetica: The Documentary (Mike Swanson)
• Product Development Diciplines at Microsoft (Prakash Sundaresan)

Web Development

• Displaying [foo] on Every Page of an ASP.NET MVC Application (Aaron Lerch)

WPF

• WPF Basics: Expression Blend and Visual Studio – A Good Partnership (Ged Mead)

Other Link Blogs

• LINKBLOG for January 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof) Arjan has a lot of great links today.
• links for 2008-01-27 (Sam Buchanan)

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