Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Primary Election Day here in PA. Will all the little Hillamaniacs flood the polls or will voters smell what Barack is cookin’?

Miscellaneous

• 70-561 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ADO.NET Application Development - Section I - Connecting to Data Sources (Phil Denoncourt)
• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS Kick My Axx - Part IV - Load Report Failed (Dave Campbell) - I feel your pain, brother…
• Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned From BASIC (Jeff Atwood)
• Subversion Visually Explained in 30 Seconds (Inv)
• Should You Judge a Software Engineer Based on Their Hygiene? (Jason Kealey)
• Mashup Developers Get Chance to Romp in Sandbox (Rob Knies)

Events/Community

• Podcast Recapping MIX08 (Rocky Lhotka)
• TECHBash 2008 - I Am Speaking (Sam Gentile)

Design/Methodology

• The “Driving Force” Pattern - Part 1 of N (Dino Esposito)
• How to Evangelize Unit Testing (Ngu Soon Hui)
• Exception Management Architecture Guide (MS Downloads)

Web Development

• Photobucket for All! (Peter)
• jQuery AJAX Calls to a WCF REST Service (Rick Strahl)
• CSS Shorthand Cheat Sheet (Michael Leigeber)

Silverlight/WPF

• Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 and WPF Resource Management: What’s the Same and What’s Different? (LearnWPF)
• Silverlight Interop with Flash/Flex (Flashlight?) (Michael C. Neel)
• Silverlight Testing - Part 2 - Making the Test Easier to Understand (Eric Hexter)
• Book Review: Hello Silverlight - Upcoming Book from Manning Publications (Derik Whittaker)
• Chapter 1: Introducing WPF (Praveen Moosad)
• A Bug in WPF Static Resources? (Amit Raz)
• Networking in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 (Daniel Moth)

Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for April 21, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly SOA Crumbs #14 and Weekly Microsoft Oriented Crumbs #1 and Weekly Architecture Crumbs #1 (Dilip Krishnan)
• LINKBLOG for April 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 21, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.04.22 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #78 (Chris Alcock)

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