Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

.NET

• Brownfield Application Development in .NET (Kyle Baley)
• Comparing RegEx.Replace, String.Replace, and StringBuilder.Replace - Which Has Better Performance? (Roberto Farah)
• LinqToCodeModel Sample Class Library on Code Gallery (vsxteam)
• Things I Hate About .NET and I Still Say Use Stored Procedures! (Chris Love)
• Compiled Queries in Entity Framework (Julie Lerman)
• LINQ to SQL: Returning Complex Objects (Guy Barrette)
• Visual LINQ Query Builder (VLinq) - A Visual Studio Add-In to Help Build LINQ to SQL Queries (Greg Duncan)
• CSLA .NET v3.5 Is Now Available (Rocky Lhotka)

Silverlight/WPF

• LightReader - My Foray into the World of Open Source Software Development (Michael Eaton)
• Exploring Silverlight with Dynamic Languages (Jimmy Schementi)
• Xbox Friends Watch - Releasing v1 of the New Gamercard (Adam Kinney)
• Handling and Reporting WPF Data Binding Validation Errors and Exceptions (Karl Shifflett)
• String Format - Made Simple (Toolico) - A handy tool written in Silverlight.
• Is WPF Data Binding Thread Safe? (Shahar Abramovich)

Web Development

• Creating an Online Boggle Solver - Building the User Interface (Scott Mitchell)
• Building a VS2008 Styled Grid with the ListView and DataPager Controls (Matt Berseth)
• IE8 Beta with VS2008 (Xinyang Qiu)
• Client-Side Templating with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
• Scrolling Data Pagination Using Ajax(extjs), Json(jayrock) and LINQ (Jason Witty)

Design/Methodology

• Heavyweight Tests == Lots of Future Pain (Derik Whittaker)
• Using the Observer Pattern (Jack Altiere)
• Internals Are Evil (Oren Eini)
• The Past, Present and Future (?) of Mocking (Aaron Jensen)
• Reactive Programming (Paul Stovell)
• Database Refactoring Interview with Scott W. Ambler (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Some Thoughts About Random Generation (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Wireshark 1.0 Released (via DotNetKicks)
• Building a MOSS Workflow with Visual Studio 2008 and InfoPath (Scot Hillier)
• What Does S+S Mean For a Developer (David)
• SlickEdit Editing Toolbox (James Avery)
• How to Branch Properly (Dan)
• Book Review: jQuery in Action (Brian Reindel)

Events/Community

• HLS DevCon (Pete Brown)
• Agile Boot Camp for .NET Developers: April 30-May 2 (Spots Available) (Jeffrey Palermo)

Career

• The Most Important Quality of a Developer: Self-Criticism (Simone Chiaretta)
• Job Search Tip #1 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• 10 Ways to Learn New Things in Development (Ben Watson)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 2, 2008 and Interesting Finds: April 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-04-02) (Matt Hinze)
• Morning Coffee 160 (Harry Pierson)
• Silverlight Cream for April 2, 2008 - #242 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for April 2, 2008 and LINKBLOG for April 3, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #16 (Darren Stokes)
• The Morning Brew #65 (Chris Alcock)
• Bits for April 2, 2008 (Dave Burke)

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