Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

.NET / Visual Studio

• ADO.NET Data Services: Creating a Custom Data Context #1 and #2: The Client and #3: Updating (Mike Hadlow)
• Rhino.Queues.Storage.Disk and Rhino Queues (Oren Eini)
• Recursive Command and Windows Forms Data Binding (Mo Khan)
• Recursing Into Recursion – Memoization and Task Parallel Library and Async Computation Expressions (Matthew Podwysocki)
• New Additions to the Team Foundation Server Setup and Admin FAQ (Charles Sterling)
• Movipa Mini Game Released! (XNA Team)
• Monadic Philosophy Part 4 – The Parser Monad in F# (Harry Pierson)
• C# Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 – Release v2.0 and NHibernate Entity Generator – Release v0.1.0.0 (CodePlex)
• How To: Set Custom Visual Studio Add-In Menu Icons Without a Satellite DLL (Roy Osherove)
• StructureMap: Advanced-Level Usage Scenarios (Part 1: Type/Convention Scanners) (Chad Myers)
• The Weekly Source Code 31 – Single Instance WinForms and Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Promises SP ‘Milestone’  for Visual Studio 2008 (Gavin Clarke)
• Simple .NET PDF Merger (Michael Ulmann)

Silverlight / WPF

• The WPF Application Class: Overview and Gotcha (Jason Kemp)
• Page Switching with Parameters (the Short Version) (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 2 Samples: Dragging, Docking, Expanding Panels (Part 1) (Martin Grayson)
• NameScope, My Name Is Marlon You Know (Marlon Grech)

Design / Methodology

• Conventionalism Over Confucianism (Kevin Hurwitz)
• The Fly in the Soup of the Iteration (Raymond Lewallen) – Link of the Day
• Beautiful Code (Karl Seguin)
• Thinking About Cloud Computing and Unreadable LINQ (Oren Eini)
• TDD and Fail Code (Rob Conery)
• Query Objects with the Repository Pattern Part 1 and Part 2 (Chad Myers)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #28 – Test If Caching Is Enabled and ASP.NET MVC Application Building #1: Family Video Website – Upload the Videos (Stephen Walther)
• Building Custom ASP.NET MVC Controls (Timothy Khouri)
• Date Functions in Calculated Fields (Amber)

Events / Community

• Oslo Talks at the PDC (Chris Sells)
• Have Fun. Raise Money. Help Kids. I Give You the Charity Fragathon (Chris G. Williams)
• New PDC Sessions Announced: Live Mesh, Live Platform, Virtual Earth (Kip Kniskern)
• Ratings and Reviews for CodePlex Projects (Sara Ford)

Miscellaneous

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 8: Behind the Scenes at Microsoft.com (Keith Elder)
• SQL Server – Effect of Order of Join in Query (Pinal Dave)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 1, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #59 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for August 1, 2008 — #340 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the Week August 2 2008 (Chris Love)
• Bookmarking the Web – w31/2008 (Erwin)
• 10 Not to Be Missed .NET Articles – July 2008 (Schalk Neethling)

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