Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Community

• Code Camp - So What If They Laugh at You? (Justin Saraceno)

WPF/Silverlight

• WPF and Silverlight 2.0 Themes - Reuxables (Pete Brown)
• WPF Master Pages (Rob Relyea)
• A RedmondMag Article on Silverlight 2.0 Beta Availability, MIX08 and … (Zhiming Xue)
• View Antique Books with Silverlight (or WPF) (G. Andrew Duthie)

.NET

• Discovering Empty Try/Catch Blocks (Christopher Bennage)
• C# .NET Gmail Tools (quamtar)
• Coming Soon to LINQ to SQL (Faisal Mohamood)
• ADO.NET Sync Services (Daniel Moth)
• .NET 3.5 Brings BREAKING Changes to ThreadPool (Michael C. Kennedy)

Misc

• HealthVault and Openness (Eric Gunnerson)
• Testy Development (Jacob Proffitt)
• Versioning Issues with Abstract Base Classes and Interfaces (Phil Haack)
• The Sweet Sound of a Million Microsoft Haters’ Heads Exploding (Craig Shoemaker)
• Do Not Learn Ruby (webmat)
• Tools for Authoring NAnt Build Files (Boyan Kostadinov)
• LINQ to Mock: MoQ Is Born (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Microsoft Research Virtual WiFi (MS Research)

Visual Studio

• VS 2008 JavaScript Support Still Not Quite Ready for Writing Rich Web Apps (Drew Marsh)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Office System Power Tools v1.0.0.0 and VSTS Management Model Designer Power Tool - Feb 2008 CTP (MS Downloads)

SharePoint

• SmartTools for SharePoint - Release v1.0 (CodePlex)

Other Link Blogs

• Link Listing - February 20, 2008 and Link Listing - February 21, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• LINKBLOG for February 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (2/21/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: February 21, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• 1 Link Today (2008-02-21) (Matt Hinze)
• The Morning Brew #38 (Chris Alcock)

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