Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Misc

• No Surprise Here – Offshoring Losing Popularity (Frank Kelly)
• Launching the Microsoft Tester Center (Charles Sterling)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 102 – Mike Pizzo on the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Scott Hanselman)
• UsWare vs ThemWare (Jeff Atwood)
• FiOS Subscribers are 96% Happy (weaz) – I love my FiOS Internet & FiOS TV!
• C# Algorithms Book Review (Julian M. Bucknall)
• DevHawk’s Inessential List of Tools (Harry Pierson)
• Lead-Developer Compression Ratios (Larry O’Brien)
• Ruby Code Samples for the Live Search API (MS Downloads)
• Is Xbox 360 Past Its Peak? and FTP7 for Windows Server 2008 RTM Is Released (Paul Thurrott)
• Google Book Search Adds a Social Layer (Alex Chitu)

Silverlight/WPF

• First Look at Using Expression Blend with Silverlight 2 (Scott Guthrie)
• Grabbing the Visual Tree for an Item Displayed by an ItemsControl (Josh Twist)
• Microsoft to Launch New MSN Toolbar Beta – Powered by Silverlight (Chris)

Web Development

• Microsoft’s Flurry of API News for MIX08 (John Musser)
• LinkedIn Style Themes For the AjaxControlToolkit Tab Container Control (Matt Berseth)
• What I Learned About MVC on Day One (Nick Berandi)

Visual Studio

• FAQ: How Do I Prevent FxCop 1.36 From Firing Warnings Against Generated Code? (David M. Kean)
• Immediate Window – A Forgotten Tool (null)

.NET

• CSLA .NET 3.5 Property Code Reduction (Rocky Lhotka)
• The Managed MMC 3.0 Snap-In Cookbook (Bart De Smet)
• LINQ to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers (Charlie Calvert)
• New Object-Oriented Features in C# 3.0 (Thiru Thangarathinam)

PowerShell

• Frank’s at It Again: Another Free PowerShell Book (Jeffrey Snover)
• PowerGUI Now Officially Released! (Jeffrey Snover)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for February 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Morning Coffee 151 (Harry Pierson)
• Links (2/28/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #43 (Chris Alcock)

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