Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some Finalizer Pitfalls and Not All Bytes Are Exactly 8 Bits (Oren Eini)
• Finalizer vs. Application: A Race Condition From Hell and Guaranteed, Finalization Order Is Not (Sasha Goldshtein)
• CBR/CBZ Comics in C# (thund3rstruck)
• ReSharper 4.0 Lambda Refactoring (David Starr)
• Countdown to F# CTP (Chris Smith)
• There’s Usually an Easier Way (Mike Hadlow)
• Extended DSL Model Explorer - Release v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Migratory Compromises (Dave Laribee)
• The Poetry of Testing and Prevention v. Cure (Part 3) (James Whittaker)
• Three Qualities That Every Piece of Code Should Have (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Going Full Circle with TDD (Kyle Baley)
• .NET Rocks! - Christian Weyer on the Internet Service Bus (MS Downloads)
• Five Questions with Kyle Larsen (Michael Hunter)
• Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History (David Starr)
• SOA Patterns Chapter 2 for Free Download (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Futures Is Out! (Vladimir Milev)
• Using CSLA Light, Part 1 and Part 2 (Rocky Lhotka)
• Expression Blend Training Resources (Frank La Vigne)
• WPF Photo Print (.NET 3.5 SP1) (Chris Cavanagh)
• Behold! Silverlight Streaming! (John Holliday)

Web Development

• Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Released (John O’Brien)
• How to Encrypt Query String Parameters in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #26 - Create a Lightweight Control View Engine (Stephen Walther)

Database

• Quick Tip: Generate Change Script for SQL Modifications (Ryan Lanciaux)
• SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Now Available (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• SQL Server Data Services (Aghy)
• SQL Server - Simple Example of Recursive CTE - Part 2 - MAXRECURSION - Prevent CTE Infinite Loop (Pinal Dave)
• SSDS Demo Code Now on CodePlex (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Magazine Articles for July (Arno Nel)
• Question to SharePoint Developers (Gunnar Peipman)

PowerShell

• DevHawk’s Slightly Useful PowerShell Configuration and Some PowerShell Scripts (Harry Pierson)

Events / Community

• Events This Week - July 28th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the Summer of Arcade and Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 Releases This Week (Larry Hryb)
• .NET Rocks! - Scott Guthrie on MIX and Matthew Manela on the MSDN Code Gallery (MS Downloads)
• Cuil Shows Us How Not to Launch a Search Engine (Rafe Needleman)
• Nerd Test Results (Frank La Vigne) – My results are on my About Me page.
• Academics to Get a Glimpse of Microsoft’s Sphere (Ina Fried)
• Windows Live Wave 3: New Photo Feed Service - Windows Live FrameIt (Chris)
• IE8 and Reliability (Andy Zeigler)
• Tigerpress - A Free WordPress Theme (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2 (PhotoshopNews.com)
• The Mojave Experiment (Sunshine)
• Must-Have Software and Tools - July 2008 Edition (Tim Boland)

Link-O-Rama

• Weekly Links #11 (Grant Palin)
• Clearing a Blog Backlog (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.29 (gOODiDEA)
• Silverlight News for July 29, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
• Everyman Links for July 28, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2008 — #337 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #146 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #258 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Lessons Learned in Software Testing: Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord: Books