Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

My Anna Banana is 4 today. Cupcake party at preschool… yum!

.NET

• Mutating Readonly Structs (Eric Lippert)
• XLinq’n in the New World - Speed Comparison with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)
• Video: Building an Inventory Screen with TDD (Ben Scheirman & Chad Myers)
• DataContracts and Object References (Aaron Skonnard)
• What’s New in the SP1 Beta for LINQ to SQL (ADO.NET Team)
• Can’t Find the Entity Data Source? (Diego Vega)
• Finally, a SelectedItems Option (yaaay) (Ian Suttle)
• AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft v2 in the Works (Dan Fernandez)
• Scribd.Net - Release 2008.03.17.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Dear Developers, Don’t Hardcode Copyright Years (David Walsh)
• MVC Storefront, Part 10: Shopping Cart Refactoring and Membership (Rob Conery)
• Working with the GridView and the System.Data.Linq.Binary Type (Dan Wahlin)
• Google Doctype - Documenting the Open Web (Google) (via DotNetKicks)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Visualization Application: NFL Free Agency Movement (Pete Brown)
• First Moonlight Release (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Regex and WPF (Will)
• WebCam Control for WPF - Initial Release and Silverlight Controls Library - Initial Release (CodePlex)

Events / Community

• ALT.DayOf.NET? (Steven Harman)

PowerShell

• Doug Finke’s Amazing 7 Minute C# => PowerShell Demo and TIOBE: PowerShell on Its Way to the Top 20 (Programming Languages) (Jeffrey Snover)
• WPF From PowerShell - Something Useful (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Software Developers Never Change (Nick Berardi)
• Xbox 360 Spring Update to Include Motion Control and Game Install Support? (Joshua Fruhlinger)
• Gears of War 2 for Xbox 360 Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• A Good List of Mobile Optimized Websites (Amit Chopra)
• Measuring Progress (Casey Charlton)
• The 4 Core Principles of Agile Programming (Joe Winchester)
• ALT.NET Podcast - Management Crisis! (Andrew Tokeley)
• Creating Your Visual Online Identity (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Neuron ESB Channel Model (David Pallmann)

SharePoint

• LINQ4SP - Simple Query (Agnes Molnar)

Career

• How to Become a Development Team Leader (Andrew Tokeley) - Link of the Day

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 14, 2008 and Innovation Notes: May 14, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-14) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for May 14, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.15 (gOODiDEA)
• May 15th: Posts I Liked (Manish Agrawal)
• Link Listing - May 14, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• New and Notable 241 (Sam Gentile)

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