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)

 

Book of the Day

 

Silverlight

• My Commitment to Support Silverlight 2 Developers (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 2/WPF Tutorials (Links) (Michael Sync)
• Adobe AIR vs Microsoft Silverlight: It’s All About Numbers (Duncan Riley)

Misc

• The Difference Between an Evangelist and a Geek (Jesse Liberty)
• XBox Achievement Generator (G. Andrew Duthie)
• How To: Fix Up Your Sad, Pathetic Cubicle (Adam Pash)
• WCF, Federated Security and Custom Authentication Tokens, Oh My! (Oren Eini)
• Amazon Kindle (Scott Hanselman) – Scott reviews Amazon’s eBook reader.
• Blog Roll: VSTS MVPs and Blog Roll: VS Team Test Team (Charles Sterling)
• Adobe AIR Tutorial for HTML / JavaScript Developers (Pete Freitag)
• Enterprise Architecture: Earning Our Keep (Nick Malik)

.NET

• WPF or WinForms, Choose Wisely (Bil Simser)
• Bet Trained on Web Client Software Factory 2.0 (Glenn Block)
• Refreshing BlogML Library (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• IronScheme (Andrew Stopford)

Web Development

• Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without ViewState or Postbacks (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Getting ASP.NET MVC to Do the Dirty Work (Kyle Baley)
• Write Your Own Lolcats Widget (I Can Has Cheezburger?) (Gath Adams)

Visual Studio

• Downgrade a VS 2008 .sln or .csproj to VS 2005 (Tobias Hertkorn)

SQL Server

• T-SQL Query to Find the Second-Highest Column Value in a Table (Raj)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Training For the Desktop (Chandima Kulathilake)
• Getting Sites and Webs During Feature Activation in SharePoint (Bil Simser)
• Base Class For Skinned Web Parts and Generator Tool (Sasa Popovic)

 

Link Blogs

• LINKBLOG for February 25, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – February 25, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

 

Book of the Day

 

.NET

• Sandcastle and API Documentation (Brian Peek)
• Generic Extension Methods (Oren Eini)
• C#/.NET History Lesson (James Kovacs)
• MAF Screencasts (Daniel Moth)

Web Development

• Paging Result Sets in SQL Server 2005 (Kevin S. Goff)

Silverlight/WPF

• Learning Silverlight 2 – More Things You Can Do Today (Jesse Liberty)
• VS 2008 and WPF (Rhonda Tipton)
• Twitterlight: A Silverlight Twitter Client (Steve Holstad)
• Your First Silverlight 1.1 and Ajax Project (Al Pascual)
• Adobe Ships Flex 3 – Keeping an eye on the competition…

Misc

• A Tortoise’s Guide to Blogging (Darren Rowse)
• MS Launches Private Beta of IE8 (Brad Linder)
• Your Brain Is in 10 Kinds of Trouble (Leon Bambrick)
• SpongeBob SquarePants Thermometer Wants to Sing in the Wrong Place (Jesus Diaz)
• IronMonkey (Andrew Stopford)
• Who’s Slowing You Down at Work? (Abhay Bakshi)
• MSDN Search Gadget (Mike Ormond)

SharePoint

• External Storage Option for Binary Large Objects (BLOBS) in Windows SharePoint Services and MOSS 2007 (Joris Poelmans)
• Outlook As a SharePoint Client, Online and Offline (Todd Klindt)
• Adding Custom SharePoint Toolbar and ToolbarButtons in Code (Paul Robinson)

 

Link Blogs

• Interesting Finds: February 24, 2008 and Interesting Finds: February 25, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links (2/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 30 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Community Server Byte for February 24, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Link Listing – February 24, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

 

Book of the Day