Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

The blogosphere is buzzing about the VS2008/.NET 3.5 SP1 Beta.

SP1 Beta Chatter

• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta (Scott Guthrie)  - Link of the Day
• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 “SP1″ Beta (Brad Abrams)
• WCF Features/Improvements in .NET 3.5 SP1 & VS 2008 SP1 (Aaron Skonnard)
• VS 2008 Service Pack 1 News (Frank La Vigne) - Some info about the changes/enhancements in WPF.
• Introducing the Third Major Release of Windows Presentation Foundation (Tim Sneath)
• Introducing JScript Formatting in VS 2008 SP1 (Nichole Baker & Jeff King)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta (WebDevTools)
• VS2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta - Should You Fear This Release? (Scott Hanselman)
• WPF 3.5 SP1 Beta Release Results in WPF Week on Channel 9 (Adam Kinney)
• ADO.NET Data Services Framework Beta 1 Released (Marcelo)
• What’s New in the SP1 Beta? (ADO.NET Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The LINQ SelectMany Operator (Justin Etheredge)
• Thinking Concurrently in .NET (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Connected Component Labeling in F# (Brian)
• XLinq’n in the New World - Data Manipulation Comparisons with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Example Apps (Daniel Moth)
• Flow Diagram for Silverlight Cross-Domain Policy Checks (W. Kevin Hazzard) (via Frank)
• GPU-Accelerated Custom Effects For WPF and Using Effects in WPF (Part 2) and More Details on How Effects Work and Writing Custom GPU-Based Effects For WPF (Greg Schechter)
• IE8 Beta 1 Breaks Image Download in WPF Applications (LearnWPF)
• Silverlight Desktop (CodePlex) - “Allows you to dynamically load Silverlight controls into a resizable draggable window.”
• How to AddRange/RemoveRange in Silverlight ObservableCollection<T>? and DrawingBrush for Silverlight 2.0 (Tamir Khason)
• A Silverlight Beginning - The Verdict (Anthony Grace)

Web Development

• JSON Services in ASP.NET Ajax (Javier Crespo Alvez)
• Using the Unit of Work-Per-Request Pattern in ASP.NET MVC (Andrew Peters)

SharePoint

• Announcing: Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint - Developer User Guide and SharePoint Developer MSDN Web Cast Series (Paul Andrew)
• LINQ4SP - Code Generator (Agnes Molnar)
• How We Did It: Building a News Workbench on MOSS 2007 for Microsoft’s Corporate Intranet Portal (Sean Squires)

Miscellaneous

• Screencasts with Community Clips (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Introducing Waegis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• How to Create a Virtual Machine From a Physical One (Tom)
• gReader Comments Add Disqus Comments to Google Reader (Brad Linder)
• The Power of Peer Referrals (Jenneth Orantia)
• Hands On: A Week With Xobni (Scott Blitstein)
• Google Friend Connect: What’s the Point? (Mike Gunderloy)
• Google Friend Connect (Paul Thurrott)
• The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection - Part II (Bob McIlree)
• Cleaing Your Display and Keyboard (Jeff Atwood)
• Book: Working Effectively With Legacy Code (Steven Smith)
• SOA Modeling Datasheet (MS Downloads)
• WorldWide Telescope: The Universe at Your Fingertips (Rob Knies)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2008 — #272 and Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2008 - 2 — #273 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: May 12, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #26 (Darren Stokes)
• Links Today (2008-05-12) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #67 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.13 (gOODiDEA)
• Link Listing - May 12, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #92 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #206 (Mike Gunderloy)

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