Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

I’ve tried to keep the SP1 announcement noise to a minimum. I’m sure most of you have already heard the news.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 Release to Manufacturing (Peter Provost)
• Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: LINQ Perf Improvements (LINQ to Objects and LINQ to SQL) (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• Released: .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit (Charlie Calvert)
• ADO.NET: What’s New in VS 2008 SP1? (ADO.NET Team)
• Code Snippets for Common Tasks in ADO.NET Data Services (Phani Raj)
• Transparent Lazy Loading for Entity Framework – Release for VS2008 SP1 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Microsoft Worried Over .NET Fragmentation (David Worthington)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using CSLA Light Part 3 (Rocky Lhotka)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Silverlight Tools (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 2 Tools, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Installed & Working Together (Bart Czernicki)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 9: A Practical Look at Silverlight – Part 1 (Keith Elder)
• Tip: Binding and Getting Data Async From a Web Service (Emil Stoychev)
• DeepLOL (Sarah Perez)
• How IE8 Enables Silverlight Deep Linking and Browser Back/Forward Navigation (Michael Scherotter)
• Introduction to WPF DataGrid (Rudi Grobler)

 

Web Development

• Learn HTML. But Only If You Want To (Kyle Baley)
• 5 Useful Coding Solutions for Designers and Developers (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• "If Microsoft Is So Good at Testing, Why Does Your Software Suck?" (James Whittaker)
• Agile 2008 – Scrum and Kanban (Ade Miller)

 

Events / Community

• CodeStock 2008 Post-Stock (Rachel Appel)
• MSDN Events Are Back Again (Lindsay Rutter)
• Cool PDC2008 Contests (Lynn Langit)
• SharePoint Pod Show Number 2 Up (Nick)
• CodeStock Debrief (Chris G. Williams)
• Special Stack Overflow Development Team Podcast (Jeff Atwood)
• Philly ALT.NET Meeting – Wed, Aug. 13th (Brian Donahue)

 

Miscellaneous

• PR-less Launch Kicks Off a Stack Overflow of Praise (Robert Scoble)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Tips Book Helps Hurricane Katrina Survivors Rebuild Lives (Sara Ford) – Link of the Day
• Razume: Crowdsource Your Resume (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Live Wave 3: Messenger v9 – M1 Dogfood Build Review and Screenshots (Chris)

 

More Link Collections

• New and Notable 263 and New and Notable 264 – VS 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 RTM! (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight News for August 11, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• LINKBLOG for August 11, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #93 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.08.06~2008.08.12 (gOODiDEA)
• Everyman Links for August 11, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Link Listing – August 11, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight News for August 12, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• The Morning Brew #156 (Chris Alcock)

 

Books of the Day

 

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