Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

SQL Server

• How to Login to SQL Management Studio If Your Default Database Has Been Deleted (Derik Whittaker)
• SQL Server Alerts: Soup to Nuts (Robyn Page & Phil Factor)
• SQL Server 2008 Feb CTP, MS SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack CTP, Feb 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Books Online CTP (Feb 2008) (MS Downloads) - Updated samples are also available on CodePlex.
• Start PowerShell in Management Studio (Allen M. White)

.NET

• LINQ to SQL and Stored Procedures (David Hayden)
• .NET 3.5 Client Product Roadmap (Scott Guthrie)
• Visual LINQ: Watch Query Expressions as They Happen! (Jon Skeet)
• Creating Your Own Provider Framework (Joel Ross)

WPF

• The Importance of Learning Expression Blend (Josh Smith)

Misc

• 10 Things Project Managers Wish Developers Understood (Frank Kelly)
• Development of Further Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Martin Fowler)
• Blog Roll: VS Team System Team, Blog Roll: VS TFS Team and Blog Roll: VS Team System Development Team (Charles Sterling)
• Building Sandcastle Documentation with Team Build (Grant Holliday)
• It’s Not OK to Skip the Standup (Travis Illig)
• Top 10 Application Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen)

Visual Studio

• VSX: Migrating VS 2005 Packages to VS 2008 (Quan To)

Web Development

• Creating an AJAX-Enabled Calendar Control (Scott D. Smith)
• Silverlight 2.0: The Wait Is Almost Over (Kathleen Richards)
• ASP.NET Runtime Cheat Sheet: HttpRequest, HttpRuntime, AppDomain and Friends (Gustavo Duarte)
• Precompilation in ASP.NET 2.0 (K. Scott Allen) - An oldie but a goodie.
• A JavaScript Stack Trace in ASP.NET AJAX (Joel Rumerman)
• High Memory Usage with UserControls in IE (Using Debug Diag) (Tess Ferrandez)
• Creating CodeSmith Templates (Brian Mains)

Other Link Blogs

• Link Listing - February 18, 2008 and Link Listing - February 19, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: February 19, 2008 and Interesting Finds: February 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• 6 Links Today (2008-02-19) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for February 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (2/19/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #36 (Chris Alcock)

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