Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Misc

• Build Your Own Music Database for Demos and Samples (Brian Noyes)
• Code Camps Are About Building Community, Not Presentations (David Hayden)
• Dead Code: Code Smell #1 (Derik Whittaker)
• Visual Studio Team System Briefings (Chris Love)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Dispose Patterns by Example (Roger Lamb)
• Return of SmartPart v1.3 for SharePoint 2007 Released (Jan Tielens)

WPF

• WPF 3.5 Data Validation - Shorter Syntax (Karl Shifflett)

.NET

• Ruby Has Ranges, and So Does C# (Steven Harman)
• C# Generics - Parameter Variance, Its Constraints and How It Affects WCF (Pawel Pabich)
• Uploading a File to HealthVault (Eric Gunnerson)
• DDD with ADO.NET Entity Framework? (Billy McCafferty)
• ASP.NET’s New LinqDataSource Control Simplifies Data Access (Thiru Thangarathinam)

Visual Studio

• Code Performance Analysis in Visual Studio 2008 (Maarten Balliauw)

Web Development

• CRUD Operations in Silverlight Using ADO.NET Data Service (Michael Sync)
• Great ASP.NET AJAX Web Portal Starter Kit: dropthings.com (Brad Abrams)
• Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications (Kyle Beyer)

Other Link Blogs

• Link Listing - February 12, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: February 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for February 13, 1008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• 2 Links Today (2008-02-13) (Matt Hinze)
• links for 2008-02-14 (Sam Buchanan)
• The Morning Brew #32 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day (Valentine’s Day Edition)