Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Silverlight/WPF

• Popfly Game Creator Alpha Goes Live! (Ben Anderson) - Some great info from a developer on the Popfly team… Link of the Day
• patterns & practices: Prism - Release Drop 05-02-2008 (CodePlex)
• Update to Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight Released (Dan Wahlin)
• The Story of Ruby and Python in Silverlight (Jimmy Schementi)

Web Development

• Code Based Repeater for ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• Json.NET 2.0 Released (James Newton-King)

.NET

• Smart Thread Pool - Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Remote Desktop Client Wrapper for RDP 6.1 ActiveX Control - Release v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Unit Testing Events (Patrick Klug)
• Managed Extensibility Framework (Krzysztof Cwalina)
• Unattended Installation For the .NET Framework 3.5 (Jacob Hodges)

Events/Community

• ESB Guidance Webcast Next Friday (May 9th 2008) (Brian Loesgen)
• PDC 2008 Conference Scheduling Using a Genetic Algorithm (Mike Swanson)

Miscellaneous

• Twitter 101: Clarifying the Rules for Newbies (Corvida)
• Neuron ESB Management Experience (David Pallmann)
• Scale and Performance Lessons Learned From a Live Deployment and SearchBeta Hardware Configuration (Dan Blood)
• Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo! Offer: Full Text of Ballmer Letter to Yang and Yahoo! Responds to Withdrawal - Issues Statement (Kip Kniskern)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight Cream for May 3, 2008 - #265 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2008 - 2 - #266 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.04 (gOODiDEA)
• Innovation Notes: May 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)

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