Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

Miscellaneous

• New and Improved MSDN Site (Angela Binkowski)
• Please Question the Need for Whitespace (Jonathan Cogley)
• Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity? (Jeff Atwood)
• DLR Resources & Jobs (Harry Pierson)

 

Blogging

• WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek (Matthew Mullenweg)
• Rethinking Twitter (Russell Ball)

 

.NET

• Number of Types in the .NET Framework (Brad Abrams)
• Getting LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities to Use NOLOCK (Scott Hanselman)
• Mono.Cecil vs. System.Reflection (Patrick Smacchia)
• RicherTextBox (Svetoslav Savov)

 

Web Development

• Email Something Huge: Introducing the Big Mailer Utility (Michael C. Kennedy)
• A Simple FormatDate Function for JavaScript (Rick Strahl)

 

Visual Studio

• MS Tests Failing Due to Security Errors (Rick Strahl)
• Visual Studio 2008 Theme (Corey Schuman) – Another nice-looking dark theme for VS.
• Second CodePlex Project – Virtual Earth Gets IntelliSense (Tim Heuer)
• Adding an Existing File to a Project Without Copying It (Darren)

 

Silverlight

• How Do I Write That in JavaScript? (Jesse Liberty)
• Live Demo of ScottGu’s Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Digg Application (Matt Berseth)
• Showing off the Power of Silverlight 2.0 – Windows Media Player Redone (Jose Fajardo)
• Easing Animations in Blend (Corey Schuman)

 

SQL Server

• Reduce Locks for DELETE and UPDATE Commands in SQL Server 2005 with TOP Clause (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• SQL Server 2008 and Unstructured Data (Jose Barreto)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Dispose Patterns By Example (Roger Lamb)

 

Link Collections

• Weekly SOA Crumbs #11 (Dilip Krishnan)
• Links Today (2008-03-17) (Matt Hinze)
• Bits for March 17, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Finds of the Week – March 16, 2008 (Chinh Do)
• The Morning Brew #55 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day

 

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