Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Silverlight/WPF

• Silverlight 2 WrapPanel and ViewBox (Marc)
• Prism: Composite WPF Guidance (Brian Noyes)
• Reusable WPF Transitions Project Is Live! (Brad Abrams)
• Uploading Files Directly to Silverlight Streaming Site - An Update (Zhiming Xue)
• Porting Silverlight 2 to WPF (Straylight)

.NET

• Change the Order of Data Members in Data Contracts in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• LINQFarm: Understanding IEnumerable<T>, Part I (Charlie Calvert) - Link of the Day
• Designing with Lambdas - Part III (Sergio Pereira)
• LINQ to CSV Library (Matt Perdeck) - via Arjan
• CC.NET Community Plugins - Release v1.0.421.10385 Beta (CodePlex)
• Multi-Column Grouping with Linq2Sql (Derik Whittaker)
• Why .NET IEnumerable Predicates Are Cool (Straylight)

Web Development

• Working with XML Data Using LINQ, a TreeView, and a ListView - Editing Data (Miroslav Kadera)
• The Weekly Source Code 25 - OpenID Edition (Scott Hanselman)
• MVC Storefront, Part 6: Catalog Completion and Initial UI (Rob Conery)
• 500,000 SQL Injection Attacks This Week (Anthony Grace)

Career

• Building a Career on Bursty Work (Mike Gunderloy)

Blogging

• Feedburner Moves to Google Accounts and Google Analytics for Blogs (Ionut Alex Chitu)
• DotNetKicks PlugIn for Windows Live Writer (John Papa)

Miscellaneous

• Making the ALT.NET Geek Code Badge Video (Adam Kinney)
• Podcast #3 - stackoverflow (Jeff Atwood)
• Neuron 2.0 - The WCF and SOA Enabler (Sam Gentile)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Search Deployment Guidance (Chandima Kulathilake)
• How We Did It - Tag Driven Information Architecture Using MOSS 2007 for the New Zealand Ministry of Transport (Provoke Team)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #62 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: April 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-04-29) (Matt Hinze)
• Visual Studio Links #22 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for April 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (4/29/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly SOA Crumbs #15 and Weekly Microsoft Oriented Crumbs #2 and Weekly Software Development & Architecture Crumbs #2 (Dilip Krishnan)
• Silverlight Cream for April 29, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #84 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.04.30 (gOODiDEA)
• WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News - 2008/04/30 (Rob Relyea)

Book of the Day

.NET

• Managed Extensibility Framework (Brad Abrams)
• Making spec# a Priority (Matthew Podwysocki)
• C# in Depth (Eric Lippert) - Jon Skeet’s new book is now available.
• Caliburn and Prism (Rob Eisenberg)
• I Want spec# (Greg Young)
• Implementing Generic Caching (Dave)

Silverlight/WPF

• Viewbox for Silverlight 2 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Heterogeneous Hierarchies in the WPF Elements MultiColumnTreeView (Ivan Towlson)
• Silverlight Photo Album Control - Release v0.8 (CodePlex)

Events/Community

• Become a Member of “Partner Huddle” - A MS Partners’ Group on Facebook (Zhiming Xue)
• IASA Conference in NYC on May 22-23 (Zhiming Xue)

Design/Methodology

• UI Matter: Make the Simple Things Simple and Hard Things Possible (Patrick Smacchia)
• Individual Empowerment and Agile (Eric Gunnerson)
• The Microsoft Client Continuum… from Rich Clients to Rich Internet Applications (Jeff Barnes)

Miscellaneous

• How To: Setup a MOSS Development Environment (Eric Charran)
• Officelabs.com Is Live (Steve Clayton)
• Remote Video Conferencing + Whiteboard - PalBee (Jason Harris)
• Microsoft Internal Memo Details Windows 7 - Windows Live Ties (Paul Thurrott)
• Programmers Don’t Read Books - But You Should (Jeff Atwood)
• JPEG XR: The (R)evolution of JPEG (MS Research)
• Get Mesh (and Why We Require UAC) (John Macintyre) - Thanks for the UAC explanation, John.
• Wix.com Launch Time! (Amit)

Blogs/Blogging

• Some of the Silverlight Blogs I Read (Jaime Rodriguez)

Visual Studio

• TFS 2008 SP1 - An Impressive List of Features (Anthony Borton)

Career

• Thoughts on Being a Solution Architect (Tom Hollander)

SQL Server

• Query Analyzer Shortcuts - Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Optimization Rules of Thumb - Best Practices - Reader’s Article (Praveen Barath)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
• Links Today (2008-04-28) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for April 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #83 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Silverlight

• Silverlight Playground - Library v1.0.3037.0 Release (CodePlex)
• Silverlight - The Song (Dan Wahlin)

.NET

• From Zero to Logging with System.Diagnostics in 15 Minutes (Josh Twist)
• Foundations of Programming - Pt 7 - Back to Basics: Memory (Karl Seguin) - Link of the Day
• Immutability and Tail Recursion (Justin Etheredge)
• Understanding Mock Objects: An Alternate Solution (Jimmy Bogard)

Events/Community

• Some Suggestions to Have a Better Microsoft Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Building Online Community Brick by Virtual Brick (Aliza Sherman)
• Slides From My ASP.NET Connections Orlando Talks (Scott Guthrie)

SQL Server

• Getting Column Information Using T-SQL (Joe Webb)
• Denormalization Patterns (Ken Downs)

Web Development

• Customized Loading… Images (Rick Strahl)

PowerShell

• Get-Random (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Continuous Innovation in the Online Office (Mike Gunderloy)
• Mr. Yuk Says Project Roadmaps Are Poisonous (Max Pool)
• Extreme Patterns with Oren (Glenn Block)
• Diff Tools to See Source File Changes (Patrick Smacchia)
• Chapter 4: Learning and Adapting (Dan Bunea) - Dan continuous his online Agile mini-book.

Blogging

• 6 Years of Blogging! (Sam Gentile)
• The Trouble with Blogrolls (Bryan Person)

Live Mesh

• Live Mesh Technology Preview: A Closer Look - User Perspective, Part 2 (Sunshine)
• Podcast: Windows Weekly #56 - Meet Mesh and Live Mesh Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Mesh Has the Potential to Be HUGE! (Jose Fajardo)
• GillmorGang Talks Live Mesh (Steve Clayton)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-04-27) (Matt Hinze)
• Links (4/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Useful Articles and Links 4 (bayarsaikhan)
• Weekly Link Post 39 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.04.28 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #82 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

I moved my domain to a new host last night. Performance and availability of the blog should be improved.

Miscellaneous

• HealthVault Vocabulary Browser (Eric Gunnerson)
• Choosing the Right Workflow Tool for Your Project (Paul Andrew)

Blogging

• Alert: Possibly Related Posts Feature on WordPress.com Blogs (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman) - Link of the Day

.NET

• Red-Black Trees (Part 5) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• SCSF 2008 - Go Get It! (Glenn Block)
• Variable Scoping in Anonymous Delegates in C# (Rick Strahl)
• A Smarter (or Pure Evil) ToString with Extension Methods (Scott Hanselman)
• Creating GUIDs in Two Steps or Less (Jason Randolph Huggins)

SharePoint

• David Isbitski - SharePoint Development - Making Sense of It All and Pegasus Imaging Releases Workflow Activities for WF and SharePoint (Paul Andrew)
• Great Article About SharePoint Timer Jobs on MSDN (John Holliday)

Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2008 - #260 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day

Events/Community

• Hallway Conversations (Dave Laribee)
• Slides and Code From Presentation in Atlantic City (Jesse Liberty)
• Raising the Bar (Jimmy Bogard)
• Heading to Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) Where We’ll Show PowerShell CTP2 (Jeffrey Snover)
• Speaking Dates: Sam Gentile 2008 (Sam Gentile)
• Call For Open Source Awards 2008 Nominations (Allison Randal)

Design/Methodology

• TeamLive.com Launch (Dave Gouge)
• The Anatomy of a ‘Small’ Software Design Change (Phil Haack) - Link of the Day
• Being a ‘Nice’ Programmer (Dave)
• Donald Knuth Rips on Unit Tests and More (slashdot)

.NET

• Linq2Sql - Explicit Construction of Entity Exception (Derik Whittaker)
• xUnit.net Goes 1.0 and Unit Testing F# (Matthew ‘CodeBetter’ Podwysocki)
• Hack: Parallel MSBuilds From Within the Visual Studio IDE (Scott Hanselman)

Silverlight/WPF

• User Controls: Tutorial Available (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Flickr Example (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight Streaming Video Uploading (Zhiming Xue)

Web Development

• Visual Studio’s JavaScript Editor Really Needs a Function/Class Viewer! (Rick Strahl)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 109 - ASP.NET Dynamic Data with Scott Hunter (Scott Hanselman)
• Wix: The Bold Web Content Creator (Mark Hendrickson)
• Where Should the ASP.NET Team Release Stuff? (Scott Galloway)
• 51 Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples (noupe)

Miscellaneous

• Can Something Really Be Miscellaneous? (Mike Hall) - This is.  
• Hardy Heron Makes Linux Worth Another Look (Kevin Purdy)
• ARS Technica Articles on Commodore Amiga (Michael Janke)
• Building Your Own Home Theater PC (Jeff Atwood)
• Now Available: Wrox Blox on Extending the MOSS Publishing HTML Editor Field Control (Andrew Connell)
• CBS SportsLine Founder to Launch OPEN Sports Network (Jason Kincaid)
• What Is This Live Mesh and Why Do I Care as a Developer? (Marc)
• One of My Favorite, Unsung Features in Visual Studio (Julia Lerman)
• WordPress 2.5.1 Security Update (Christian Warren)
• Do You Want a Live Mesh Invite? Have an Invite to Share? (Long Zheng)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 25, 2008 and Interesting Finds: April 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 234 and New and Notable 235 (Sam Gentile)
• Links Today (2008-04-25) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for April 25, 2008 and LINKBLOG for April 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #61 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2008 - #259 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.04.26 (gOODiDEA)

Book of the Day