Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Integration for VAB Update for Enterprise Library 4.0 (Martin Bennedik)
• Margins and Padding in WPF (Dan Rigsby)
• Updated Silverlight Uploader for SL2 Beta 1 (Josh Twist)
• What Do You Think of My Silverlight ‘How Do I’ Videos? (Jesse Liberty)

Blogging

• 100 ‘Why Not’ Activities for Bloggers (Jason Boom)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How Do I… ? New Entity Framework Videos (ADO.NET Team)
• VSX Survey (Spring 2008) Invitation (VSX Team)
• Enterprise Library 4.0 DAAB with Unity Screencast (David Hayden)
• The Emergence of Choice in the .NET Ecosystem (James Avery)
• XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Aaron Skonnard)
• F# and Unit Testing - Some New Developments (Matthew Podwysocki)
• The Weekly Source Code 27 - Suck Less Libraries (Scott Hanselman)
• VSX Community Letter for May 2008 (Ken Levy)
• Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep Part Deux: If It Looks Like a Duck, It Might Be a WinForm (Jacob Lauzier)
• Need a “WHERE field IN (x, y, z)” Clause with LINQ (John Papa)
• Strongly Typed Property Names (Paul Stovell)
• Lambda and Expression Trees (Josh Twist)

Web Development

• Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters - Building the New Code Camp Web Site (Part II) (Peter Kellner)
• ASP.NET Tips: What to Gather to Troubleshoot - Part 6 - Recycle Due to MemoryLimit (Tom)
• Creating a Custom ViewEngine for the ASP.NET MVC Framework (Maarten Balliauw)
• RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC Part 1 - Setup (Ryan Lanciaux)
• MVC Storefront: Client Progress Meeting (Rob Conery)
• The MVC Storefront Challenge! (Jimmy Bogard)
• Rob’s Not So Lazy MVC Storefront (K. Scott Allen)
• PHP Sucks, But It Doesn’t Matter (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Elevated Privilege without RunWithElevatedPrivelege (Daniel Larson)
• Developing for SharePoint on Your Local Computer (Martin Hinshelwood)
• LINQ4SP - How to Create a New Item with a Lookup to Another List (Agnes Molnar)
• Creating MOSS Pages Using RPC (Ton Stegeman)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Community Games on Xbox Live Beta (David Weller)
• Microsoft Certification Policy Changed (Harold van de Kamp)
• A GUI Interface in VB to Track an IP Address? (John Papa) - Link of the Day
• 10 Things to Consider Before Writing a Book (John Papa)
• Techmeme Adds Search, Becomes Useful to the General Public (Brad Linder)
• Service Update: New Build Released (Live Mesh Team)
• MSN Toolbar Released - Yes Another Toolbar. Is This One Different? (Kip Kniskern) - Note: Only works with Silverlight 1.0 at the moment.
• stackoverflow Podcast #6 (Jeff Atwood)
• Announcing the Totally Unofficial Build a Better Twitter Contest (Molly Wood)
• GRADED: The Worst ‘10 Worst Consoles’ List of All Time (John Brownlee)
• Is ALT.NET Duplicitous? (Casey Charlton)
• Search Training Material Available on TechNet! (Michal Gideoni)
• How Google Friend Connect Works (Peter Chane, Sami Shalabi & Mussie Shore)

PowerShell

• WPF From PowerShell - Select-Grid (Joel Bennett)
• The Future Is Here Today (Jeffrey Snover)

Design / Methodology

• Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates and Roots (Jimmy Bogard)

Career

• Why Did You Hire Me? (Keith LaFerriere)

Events / Community

• F# and Functional Programming at Philly ALT.NET Wednesday Night! (Brian Donahue)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #69 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for May 20, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links Today (2008-05-20) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 20, 2008 — #278 (Dave Campbell)
• May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF (Scott Guthrie)
• Visual Studio Links #30 (Darren Stokes)
• May 21st: Posts I Liked (Manish Agrawal)
• The Morning Brew #98 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day