Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Learn Silverlight (John Stockton)
• Using LINQ to XML in Silverlight 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
• CSLA Light Data Portal Options (Rocky Lhotka)
• WPF Expression Blend 2 Tutorial: WPF Manufacturing Gauge Fan Custom Control (Steve Low)

Design / Methodology

• Trust & Transparency (Mo Khan)
• The Wonderful Awful Browser (Ken Downs)
• Obsolete in Isolation (Oren Eini)
• Model Driven Software Development and MDSD and DSL (Martin Fowler)
• My Guide to Effective Test Driven Development (Davy Brion)
• Maybe Normalizing Isn’t Normal (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day
• How I Use Hungarian Notation? (Gunnar Peipman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Parallel Extension Like Functionality Added to the Dizzy - Functional List Library and Getting IronRuby Up and Running (Justin Etheredge)
• Integrating Castle Windsor and NHibernate with WCF - Throwing the WCF Facility and Some Rhino Tools in the Mix (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Announcing the .NET Extension Library (Karl Seguin)
• Optimizing LINQ Queries (K. Scott Allen)
• Visual Studio IronPython Integration Deep Dive (MSDN Code Gallery)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #19 - Use the nVelocity View Engine (Stephen Walther)
• Make Routing Ignore Requests for a File Extension (Phil Haack)
• The Future of ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward)
• The Dangers of cookieless="AutoDetect" (Dave M. Bush)

SharePoint

• Getting GAC Path Using Reflection and Best Practice for Deploying Shared SharePoint Libraries (Adam Buenz)
• SharePoint Keeps on Going and Going and Going… (Bob Familiar)
• Take SharePoint Content Offline (Bob Mixon)

Miscellaneous

• XML Makes You Stoopid! (Ric Johnson)
• Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in the Top 100 Web Celebrities (Simone Chiaretta)
• WordPress 2.6 Released (Grant Palin)

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing - July 13, 2008 and Link Listing - July 14, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Daily Find #89 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: July 14, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Morning Coffee 167 (Harry Pierson)
• Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2008 — #324 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.15 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #136 (Chris Alcock)

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