Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

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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