Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

I’ll spare everyone the April Fool’s Day pranks. I was considering posting all Java/Flash/Linux links, but decided to spare you.

Silverlight/WPF

• Prism Review, Part I (Paul Stovell)
• Prism Talk at WPF Bootcamp (Glenn Block)
• Silverlight Rehab Session Recorded Last Week (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight Super TextBox (ComboBox, Masked TextBox and More) (Robert Linders)

Mike Snow Gets His Own Silverlight Section

• Introduction
• Part I: Setup and Installation
• Part II: Creating a Silverlight Application Project with Visual Studio 2008
• Part III: Silverlight Game Support and Current Limitations
• Part IV: Building the Game Interface Using the Grid Control

Miscellaneous

• Two Exceptional Books from Pragmatic Bookshelf (Meera Subbarao)
• Programming Is All About Passion (Soon Hui)
• Livescribe Starts Shipping… Barely (Ina Fried)
• 10 Guerilla Airline Travel Tips for the Geek-Minded Person (Scott Hanselman)

Visual Studio

• IronPython Studio 1.0 for Isolated and Integrated VS Shell (vsxteam)
• First Impressions on Professional Visual Studio Extensibility (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Web Development

• GridView jQuery Plugin Row MouseOver and Click Styles (Muhammad M. Mosa Soliman)
• Integrate PayPal Checkout Button with ASP.NET 2.0 (Anthony Grace)
• Inline ASP.NET Tags… Sorting Them All Out (Naspinski)
• 5 Firefox Extensions Any Web Developer Must Have (Shahar Abramovich)
• Setting Up Authentication in ASP.NET MVC (Justin Etheredge)
• Rendering Individual Controls for AJAX Callbacks (Rick Strahl)

Blogging

• WordPress Updates to v2.5, New Features Abound (Jason Harris)
• Twitter in Plain English (Frank La Vigne)
• WPF Disciples in 3D (WPF Disciples)

SQL Server

• SQL Server 2008 - HierarchyId - How Do You Move Nodes/Subtrees Around (Simon Sabin)

.NET

• PTOM: The Dependency Inversion Principle (Jimmy Bogard)
• Reflector Add-In Starter Kit (C#) and Updated Add-Ins Page (Jason Haley)

Link Collections

• Visual Studio Links #15 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: March 31, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for March 31, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2008 - #241 (Dave Campbell)
• Finds of the Week - March 30, 2008 (Chinh Do)
• Link Listing - March 31, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #63 (Chris Alcock)

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