Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

More SP1 == More Gooder

• Growing List of Content About WPF 3.5 SP1 (Rob Relyea)
• .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta: Changes Overview (Patrick Smacchia) - Some metrics.
• Using Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta With Silverlight (Dave)
• DataContracts Without Attributes (POCO Support) in .NET 3.5 SP1 (Aaron Skonnard)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 “Background Compiling” for C# (David Hayden)
• Video: WPF 3.5 SP1 Graphics with David Teitlebaum (Adam Kinney)

.NET

• Beware of List.Find() (Shahar Abramovich)
• Is IQueryable the Right Choice For Me? (Bart De Smet)
• Free .NET 3.5 and .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kits (J. Barnes)
• The ALT.NET Podcast! (Dave Laribee)
• Beyond Mocks - The Partial (Karl Seguin)
• The Power of Programming with Attributes (K. Scott Allen)
• Quickly Copy Rows From DataReader to DataTable (Srinath)
• 10 Tips to Improve Your LINQ to SQL Application Performance (Sidar Ok)
• Building an F# Powered Indexing System (Part 2) (Kurt)
• XLinq’n in the New World - Structure Modification Comparisons with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)
• Lazy Instantiation One-Liner of Instance Fields with the Coalesce Operator (Frank-Leonardo Quednau)

Web Development

• Using AjaxRepeater Control, ASP.NET AJAX (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• Dynamic Data Website: Setting Selection in a List From the URL (Anh Phan)
• DefaultDotAspx.com: A Knowledge Base About ASP.NET and Other Topics (via DotNetKicks)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Best Practices: Decoupling Behavior From the View (Marco De Sanctis)
• Silverlight 2 Programming: The Designer Rule (Jay Kimble)
• Silverlight 2 ListBox Abuse (Pete Brown)
• How to Add a MouseDoubleClick Event to Any WPF Control (Amit Raz)

Events / Community

• Factoids on Philly Code Camp This Saturday (Sam Gentile) - Really wish I was able to go, but it’s my daughter, Anna’s 4th birthday party.

Design / Methodology

• MVP & MVC Simply Put (Andrew Stopford)
• Behavior Driven Development: As Human As Possible (Leon Bambrick) - Link of the Day
• Whiteboard Wednesday: The Probability of Getting Tasks Done (Max Pool)
• Is HTML a Humane Markup Language? (Jeff Atwood)

Miscellaneous

• Tests for Husbands and Wives (Tiabla on flickr) - Ah, the good old days…
• Free Designer Templates for Office 2007 and Bill Gates Talks Windows 7… Again (Paul Thurrott)
• Computer Programming: Art, Science or Both? (Jon Erickson)
• I Can Has Manbabies?!? (Justin Yu)
• Software’s Classic Mistakes - 2008 (Steve McConnell)
• Grape: A New Desktop (Thom Holwerda)
• Architect Team Blog Roll (Charles Sterling)
• stackoverflow Podcast #5 (Jeff Atwood)
• Running Challenge for .NET Developers (Simone Chiaretta)
• A Jedi Mesh (Steve Clayton)
• Topic Networks: How Neuron ESB Implements Publish-Subscribe (David Pallmann)
• Squilbo SQL Tool Needs Beta Testers! (Tobin Harris)
• Xbox 360 Spring Update Bringing 80 New Functions? (Mark Wilson)

Link-O-Rama

• Visual Studio Links #27 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: May 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-13) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for May 13, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (5/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.14 (gOODiDEA)
• Link Listing - May 13, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #93 (Chris Alcock)

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