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Misc

• No Surprise Here – Offshoring Losing Popularity (Frank Kelly)
• Launching the Microsoft Tester Center (Charles Sterling)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 102 – Mike Pizzo on the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Scott Hanselman)
• UsWare vs ThemWare (Jeff Atwood)
• FiOS Subscribers are 96% Happy (weaz) – I love my FiOS Internet & FiOS TV!
• C# Algorithms Book Review (Julian M. Bucknall)
• DevHawk’s Inessential List of Tools (Harry Pierson)
• Lead-Developer Compression Ratios (Larry O’Brien)
• Ruby Code Samples for the Live Search API (MS Downloads)
• Is Xbox 360 Past Its Peak? and FTP7 for Windows Server 2008 RTM Is Released (Paul Thurrott)
• Google Book Search Adds a Social Layer (Alex Chitu)

Silverlight/WPF

• First Look at Using Expression Blend with Silverlight 2 (Scott Guthrie)
• Grabbing the Visual Tree for an Item Displayed by an ItemsControl (Josh Twist)
• Microsoft to Launch New MSN Toolbar Beta – Powered by Silverlight (Chris)

Web Development

• Microsoft’s Flurry of API News for MIX08 (John Musser)
• LinkedIn Style Themes For the AjaxControlToolkit Tab Container Control (Matt Berseth)
• What I Learned About MVC on Day One (Nick Berandi)

Visual Studio

• FAQ: How Do I Prevent FxCop 1.36 From Firing Warnings Against Generated Code? (David M. Kean)
• Immediate Window – A Forgotten Tool (null)

.NET

• CSLA .NET 3.5 Property Code Reduction (Rocky Lhotka)
• The Managed MMC 3.0 Snap-In Cookbook (Bart De Smet)
• LINQ to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers (Charlie Calvert)
• New Object-Oriented Features in C# 3.0 (Thiru Thangarathinam)

PowerShell

• Frank’s at It Again: Another Free PowerShell Book (Jeffrey Snover)
• PowerGUI Now Officially Released! (Jeffrey Snover)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for February 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Morning Coffee 151 (Harry Pierson)
• Links (2/28/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #43 (Chris Alcock)

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.NET

• Creating Objeccts – Perf Implications (Oren Eini)
• Building Trees From Lists in .NET (Daniel Flower)
• Generational GC (Garbage Collector) – A Post-It Analogy (Tess Ferrandez)
• Invoking a .NET Program on Device Insert (Damon Payne)
• Creating IN Queries with LINQ to SQL (Rob Conery)
• CslaDataProvider: The Final Step (Rocky Lhotka)
• Looking For a Serious Programming Book That Has VB Code Samples? Check Out This List (Julie Lerman)
• XML Pathfinder: A Visual Basic Utility (salysle)
• 12 Essential Free Tools For .NET Developers (Boyan Kostadinov)
• LINQ To SQL: Support for Eager Loading, Really? (Patrik Löwendahl)

Misc

• Assert.That(this, Is.Easy); (Chris Patterson)
• Continuous Environment Validation (Oren Eini)
• Feed Your Face at Open Source Food (Lisa Hoover) – Not code-related… it’s a cool recipe site.
• 5 Great Code Search Engines (David Knight)
• Zoho Writer Update, Now Compatible with DocX Files (Simon Kerbel)

PowerShell

• Dr. Dobbs PowerShell Article (Jeffrey Snover)
• Wrox PowerShell Development Book Is Out (or Very Soon)! (Marco Shaw)

Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Gallery Is Live! (Quan To)
• VSX Videos on Channel 9 (Aaron Marten)
• Infragistics Announces Full Support for MS Visual Studio 2008 (.NETDJ News Desk)
• VSX Developer Center 2.0 (vsxteam)

Silverlight/WPF

• Silverlight Support in Swift 3D 5 (Frank La Vigne)
• Silverlight 2.0 (beta 1) Controls Screenshot (Danny Douglass)
• Adobe Responds to Silverlight (Justin Bezanson)
• Prism Is Alive! (Ohad Israeli)

SharePoint

• “How to Build a SharePoint Dev Box” Updated (Eli Robillard)
• New Free Features by Scott (Ishai Sagi)

Web Development

• Web Client Software Factor Source Code for Application Blocks – Feb 2008 and Web Client Software Factory – Feb 2008 and Web Client Software Factory Source Code – Feb 2008 (MS Downloads)

Link Collections

• Squeezed Links: February 2008 (Max Pool)
• Link Listing – February 26, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Double Shot #153 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: February 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for February 27, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (2/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #42 (Chris Alcock)

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PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell Quick Start (Peter Provost)

Misc

• SOA Governance – Interesting Article (Scott Lock)
• CodeSmith: Using the SchemaExplorer (Brian Mains)
• Test Driven Development vs Plain Old Unit Testing (Mark Levison)
• What Happened to the Download and Documentation of FxCop 1.35? (David M. Kean)
• I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users (Jeff Atwood)
• I <3 CI Factory (Chris Bilson)
• If I Could Have Only One Book (unknown man in Texas)
• Pragmatic Method for Increasing Your Team Communication Level (Artem)

Web Development

• AlligatorTags.com: Your Daily ASP.NET News With Teeth! (via DotNetKicks)
• Building a LinkedIn-Style Address Book With the ListView and LinqDataSource Controls (Matt Berseth)
• Popfly Nominated for C|Net WebWare 100! (Dan Fernandez)
• The Weekly Source Code 17 – ASP.NET MVC Community Code Edition (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC Framework Scaffold Generator. A Free Tool to Enjoy. (softmind)
• Unity – Release: Feb 26 Weekly Drop (CodePlex)

.NET

• Breaking Changes in the ThreadPool: The Movie (Michael C. Kennedy) – Michael doesn’t just like thread pools… he LOVES them!!!  
• LINQ: Killing Refection Softly (Patrik Löwendahl)
• Top 10 Reasons C# Is Better Than VB.NET (vbrad)
• .NET Micro Framework SDK v2.5 and Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition – February 2008 and Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition Source Code – February 2008 (MS Downloads)

SharePoint

• Using NAnt to Build SharePoint Solutions (Bil Simser)
• SharePoint SDKs Updated (Andrew Connell)
• Now There Are SharePoint Books in Kindle Format (Mike Walsh)
• Office SharePoint 2007 Training Standalone Edition (MS Downloads)

Silverlight

• Using Silverlight Isolated Storage for Local State Backup (Pete Brown)
• DLRScript Project – Revealed… (Jay Kimble)

SQL Server

• SELECT 1 vs SELECT * – An Interesting Observation (Pinal Dave)

Link Blogs

• Interesting Finds: February 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• 3 Links Today (2008-02-26) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for February 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #41 (Chris Alcock)

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Silverlight

• My Commitment to Support Silverlight 2 Developers (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 2/WPF Tutorials (Links) (Michael Sync)
• Adobe AIR vs Microsoft Silverlight: It’s All About Numbers (Duncan Riley)

Misc

• The Difference Between an Evangelist and a Geek (Jesse Liberty)
• XBox Achievement Generator (G. Andrew Duthie)
• How To: Fix Up Your Sad, Pathetic Cubicle (Adam Pash)
• WCF, Federated Security and Custom Authentication Tokens, Oh My! (Oren Eini)
• Amazon Kindle (Scott Hanselman) – Scott reviews Amazon’s eBook reader.
• Blog Roll: VSTS MVPs and Blog Roll: VS Team Test Team (Charles Sterling)
• Adobe AIR Tutorial for HTML / JavaScript Developers (Pete Freitag)
• Enterprise Architecture: Earning Our Keep (Nick Malik)

.NET

• WPF or WinForms, Choose Wisely (Bil Simser)
• Bet Trained on Web Client Software Factory 2.0 (Glenn Block)
• Refreshing BlogML Library (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• IronScheme (Andrew Stopford)

Web Development

• Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without ViewState or Postbacks (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Getting ASP.NET MVC to Do the Dirty Work (Kyle Baley)
• Write Your Own Lolcats Widget (I Can Has Cheezburger?) (Gath Adams)

Visual Studio

• Downgrade a VS 2008 .sln or .csproj to VS 2005 (Tobias Hertkorn)

SQL Server

• T-SQL Query to Find the Second-Highest Column Value in a Table (Raj)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Training For the Desktop (Chandima Kulathilake)
• Getting Sites and Webs During Feature Activation in SharePoint (Bil Simser)
• Base Class For Skinned Web Parts and Generator Tool (Sasa Popovic)

Link Blogs

• LINKBLOG for February 25, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – February 25, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

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