Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

HOT NEWS

• Microsoft Wants to Purchase Yahoo (Offers $44.6 Billion) (BBC News)

Events

• Whew, Been Busy!!! (Mitch Ruebush)
• First Half 2008 Conference Speaking Schedule (Scott Hanselman)
• MIX08 (Scott Guthrie)

Misc

• Invoking a WCF Service From a CLR Trigger (Sam Shiles)
• 30 Things to Do to Keep From Getting Bored Out of Your Skull at Work (Leo Babauta)
• Test Data Builders: An Alternative to the Object Mother Pattern (Nat Pryce)
• 101 Design Patters & Tips for Developers (SourceMaking)
• Holy Halftones! Microsoft Launches Comic Featuring Superhero Techies (Paul McDougall)

Career

• Wanted: Rock Star Developer for Channel9/10 (Dan Fernandez)

.NET

• Creating a Transparent Panel in .NET (Tobias Hertkorn)
• Expression Tree Basics (Charlie Calvert)
• WPF Application Quality Guide v0.1 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• Quiz – C# and .NET Secrets (Rainer Stropek)

Web Development

• Web Client 2.0 Closer Than You Think (Glenn Brock)
• Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ – Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• MVC with Entity Framework… a Twist on Brad Abrams’ Example (Julie Lerman)
• Writing a Book: Service-Based Enterprise AJAX on the Microsoft Platform (Daniel Larson)
• Microsoft Ajax Library Book Published (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight: Overview (via Sam Buchanan)

PowerShell

• Advanced PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)

SharePoint

• Installing MOSS From Scratch (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The Legend of the Single, Multi-Terabyte, Replicating SharePoint Database (Jose Barreto)
• MOSS Reporting Services Native Mode Options for Adding Reports to SharePoint Sites (Kathy Hughes)
• SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard (CodePlex)

Visual Studio

• Best VS Fonts/Colors EVER (Ryan Lanciaux)
• Visual Studio 2008 Extensibility Known Issues Document Has Been Updated (Quan To)

Other Link Blogs

• New and Notable 221 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for January 31, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• 2 Links Today (2008-01-31) (Matt Hinze)
• links for 2008-02-01 (Sam Buchanan)
• The Morning Brew #23 (Chris Alcock)
• Concentrated Codesqueeze: January 2008 (Max Pool)

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