Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Events/Community

• DevWeek 2008 Wrap-Up (Aaron Skonnard) - Aaron’s demos from the conference.
• Top 5 Most Important Sessions From MIX08 (with Video) (Michael C. Kennedy)

Silverlight/WPF

• Tutorial on Encoding Screen Recordings for Silverlight Using Expression Encoder 2 (James Clarke)
• Rich Internet Applications Using Silverlight 2.0 (Bob Familiar)
• Tutorial: Data From a SQL DB Via WCF (Using LINQ) (Jesse Liberty)
• Debugging in WPF - WPF Desciples Tips and Tricks (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight Sidebar Gadgets on Windows Vista 64-bit Edition (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight 2.0 Timetable Revealed (Sunshine)

Design/Methodology

• Using VSTS for Agile Development (Stephanie Saad)
• Re-Looking at xUnit.net RC2 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Framework Design Studio Published (Brad Abrams)

Web Development

• Unity IoC and ASP.NET MVC Framework Screencast (David Hayden)
• Unity Application Block and Unity Application Block Documentation for VS2005 (MS Downloads)

.NET

• The NHibernate FAQ Blog (Oren Eini)
• Generating Random Strings in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The Static Keyword (Shay Friedman)
• extsharp (Google Code) (via Matt Hinze) - Write ExtJS code in C#

Miscellaneous

• Awesome Technical Book Sale at Bookpool.com (Angela Binkowski)
• Clay Shirky on Colbert (Cory Doctorow)
• Love at First Byte (Dan Rigsby)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 107 - Digital Photography Explained (for Geeks) with Aaron Hockley (Scott Hanselman)
• Stephen Covey Speaks at Microsoft (J.D. Meier)
• TwitterLocal: Find Fellow Twitterers in Your Neck of the Woods (Simon Kerbel)
• Windows 7 Build 6519 Screenshot Gallery, Part 2 (Paul Thurrott)

Career

• Programming Language Jobs and Trends (Gustavo Duarte)

Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for April 4, 2008 - #244 (Dave Campbell)
• Links Today (2008-04-04) and Links Today (2008-04-05) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for April 4, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• New and Notable 231 (Sam Gentile)

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