Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Silverlight

• Building Custom User Control in Silverlight 2.0 + How to Build Code Snippet for VS (Tamir Khason)
• Dynamic Silverlight Part 3: Integrating Silverlight with ASP.NET MVC (John Lam)
• Register XAP File Extension in IIS (Corey Schuman)
• Tip of the Day: Core Silverlight Presentations From MIX08 - Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)

Misc

• Music to Code By (Russell Ball)
• A Load of Performance Testing Info (Brent Strange)
• A Question of Programming Ethics (Jeff Atwood) - This is scary stuff.
• Gartner Case Study: Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management for Distributed Platforms, 2008 (MS Downloads)
• Work on Your Vocabulary. The Word For Today Is “CodableValue” (Eric Gunnerson) - Info on some HealthVault types.
• The IE8 VPC - IE8 the Easy Way (Greg Duncan)
• MOSS 2007 with SP1 (Slipstream) OfficeServerwithSP1.exe Released (Joel Oleson)
• Windows Command Reference (MS Downloads)

.NET

• You Can Watch and Influence the Future of VB and C# (Julie Lerman)
• Using the Factory Pattern for Reading Object Graphs in .NET (Philippe Leybaert)
• Book Excerpt: Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for .NET Framework 3.5 (Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, and Chris Bowen)
• DirectX SDK (March 2008) (MS Downloads)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 (MIX08) Resources (Vishal R. Joshi)
• MIX08 Sessions Published (Brad Abrams)
• A Few Reasons to Like NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• ASP.NET MVC Session at MIX08, TDD and MvcMockHelpers (Scott Hanselman)

Events/Community

• Life on the Bus (The Code Trip)
• MIX08 Day 3 (Peter Walke)
• SD West 2008 - Get the Code! (Michele Leroux Bustamante)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-03-07) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for March 7, 2008 and LINKBLOG for March 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Morning Coffee 156 (Harry Pierson)

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