Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

MIX08

• .NET Framework Libraries in Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 (Imran Shaik)
• MIX08 Session Overview: Building Great AJAX Applications From Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and VS2008 (Brad Abrams)
• Deep Zoom (Seadragon) Silverlight 2.0 MultiScaleImages at MIX and The Weekly Source Code 18 – Deep Zoom Edition (Scott Hanselman)
• A New Era of Expression (Somasegar)
• Information Overload (Rudi Grobler)
• Silverlight 2.0 + OOXML = TextGlow (James Newton-King)
• Released: Virtual Earth JavaScript IntelliSense Helper (Marc)
• MIX08 Day 2 Keynote Live Blog and A Great Early Silverlight 2 Showcase: TextGlow (Tim Sneath)

Misc

• The Ten Types of Twitter Users (Brendan Tompkins)
• 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets (Sven Lennartz & Vitaly Friedman)
• Console, Cygwin and Ruby on Rails (Sam Gentile)
• Code Review Thoughts (Ishai Sagi)

Silverlight/WPF

• MSBuild Tasks For Build Machines For WPF and Silverlight (Tamir Khason)
• Dynamic Silverlight Part 2: Managed JScript and flickr (John Lam)
• Silverlight 2 Tutorials – Source Code (Jesse Liberty)

.NET

• Dealing With PersonalImage (Eric Gunnerson)
• A Simple Trick to Code Better and to Increase Testability (Patrick Smacchia)
• Setting and Retrieving the Database ConnectionString in nHibernate (Peter van Ooijen)ADO.NET, Nullable Types, Casting DBNull and You (Alan Northam)
• Hidden Gem: Singleton Factory in C# (Shiva) – Some good suggestions in the comments section too.
• LINQ to Life – The Game of Life via LINQ (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Link Building 101 with ASP.NET MVC (Derik Whittaker)
• ASP.NET MVC Test Framework Integration Walkthrough (Joe Cartano)
• Happy Rendering Trails with IE8 (Bil Simser)
• Google Releases Contact API (Brad Linder)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Morning Coffee 155 – Dueling Conference Edition (Harry Pierson)
• The Morning Brew #48 (Chris Alcock)
• LINKBLOG for March 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – March 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

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