Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

This should be entitled Daily Silverlight Bits today. There’s a little IE8, ASP.NET MVC, and a couple of other tidbits thrown in for good measure.

Silverlight

• Silverlight 2.0 Video Tutorials (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight’s XamlWriter! (mehrantoosi)
• Xap! App! Pow! Packaging and Application Startup in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 - Part 1 and Part 2 (Pete Brown)
• Live From the MIX08 Keynote in Vegas (Jeff Barnes) - Great outline of the keynote contents.
• Download Links for MIX08 Announcements (Tim Sneath)
• Silverlight 2 Videos and Tutorials Available (Jesse Liberty)
• Dynamic Silverlight Part 1: Hello, World! (John Lam)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Control Samples (Kathy Kam)
• Silverlight 2 Controls (Brad Abrams)
• Setting Up Silverlight 2 Remote Debugging on Mac OS X (Dennis Dietrich)
• MIX08 Key Messages, Announcements, Software, and Keynote (Sam Gentile)
• Installation Tips For Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 (Bradley B.)
• Deep Zoom (Seadragon) Silverlight 2 MultiScaleImages at MIX (Scott Hanselman)

Not Silverlight

• Apple Stabs Adobe in the Back and Microsoft Hit Multiple Internet Home Runs (Robert Scoble)
• Odd string.Replace Chaining Behavior (Rick Strahl)
• C# 4 Idea: Iterator Blocks and Parameter Checking (Jon Skeet)
• Koders.com Does CodePlex and WTF IE8 Testing Movement #24 (Bil Simser)
• Here Comes IE8 Beta 1 (Now Available) (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows “Workstation” 2008 Clobbers Vista in Benchmark Testing (Randall Kennedy)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (Brad Abrams)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Screencast Tutorials (Scott “Not Evil” Hanselman)
• Book Review: Pro C# w/.NET 3.0 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Implementing Interfaces: ICloneable and IComparable (Ira)
• RIA Development on the Microsoft Stack Using Flex (XML Journal)
• Announcing the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition 2.0 (SKS:EBE) Final Release! (Lawrence)
• Translating the Web For the Entire World (Rob Knies)
• Slipstream Versions of Vista (with SP1) For Several Languages Now Available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads (Julie H. Cairn)
• Developer Day Ireland (Ian Cooper)
• Design The Code Trip Swag (Tim Heuer)
• Strings Don’t Add Up (Timm)
• Agile Planner - Release v1.0.0 (CodePlex) - Looks like a very useful iteration planning tool for Agile teams.
• Scribd.Net - Release v1.0.0.10 (CodePlex)
• Confessions (PowerShell) (Jeffrey Snover)
• Web Slices Can Help Popularize Feed Syndication (Jon Udell)
• 12 Top, Free Ways to Collaborate Online (Samuel Dean)

Link Collections

• Link Listing - March 4, 2008  and Link Listing - March 5, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: March 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Morning Coffee 154 (Harry Pierson)
• The Morning Brew #47 (Chris Alcock)
• LINKBLOG for March 5, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• 3 Links Today (Matt Hinze)

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