Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Web Development

• Microsoft’s Biggest Mistake with ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Custom ASP.NET Page Tracing (Karl Seguin)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 126 - Chat with John Resig, Creator of jQuery (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC Application Building #2: Family Video Website - Add the Database (Stephen Walther)
• Pagination Class for ASP.NET MVC (Mohammad Jahedur Rahman)
• How to Create a Blog that Is Both Visitor and SEO Friendly - Part One - Blog Setup and Part Two - Blog Posts and Part Three - Tips For ASP.NET Developers (Dana Coffey)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Async Computation Expressions - Resource and Exception Management (Matthew Podwysocki)
• LINQ to AD - Grade B (John Papa)
• CSLA .NET ObjectFactory Attribute (Rockford Lhotka)
• Future Focus: Document Map Margin (Charlie Calvert) – RockScroll FTW!
• A Few Things You Can’t Do with EF Queries Which You Won’t Find Out Until Runtime (Julie Lerman)
• Converting Image Files to PDF (Code Project)
• Exploring the F# Language Series Part 4 - Imperative Features (Kevin Hazzard) – This is just a placeholder for now.
• The Most Funny Interface of the Year… IQueryable<T> (Bart de Smet)
• Karvonite - Agile Persistence Framework - Release: August 2008 CTP (MSDN Code Gallery)

Silverlight

• Mocking and IoC in Silverlight 2, Castle Project and Moq Ports (Sean)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Descriptive Names Versus Abbreviations for UI Elements (Peter Eysermans)
• IronRuby .NET Test Plan (James Deville) – Link of the Day
• Testability in .NET (Jacob Proffitt)
• Multi Tenancy - User Interface and Multi Tenancy - Approaches and Applicability (Oren Eini)
• Create Better Experiences for Your Visitors (Mads Kristensen)
• Code Review Rights and Responsibilities and Code Review Options (Steve Rowe)

Database

• Introducing Table-Valued Parameters - Part 1 (Himanshu Vasishth)

SharePoint

• Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint 1.2 and x64 Development Environments (Paul Andrew)
• Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS) on CodePlex (Joris Poelmans)
• patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance - Release: 8-14-2008 Drop (CodePlex)
• SQL Server 2008 Support for SharePoint Products and Technologies (Jie Li)

Events / Community

• Defining Community: My Quest (Steve Andrews)

Miscellaneous

• New 3D Photo Viewer From Microsoft Research (Sarah Perez)
• Nine Questions with Chris Williams (Rachel Appel)
• We Are the Masters of the Twitterverse (Chris G. Williams)
• AutoMount Removable Drives in PowerShell v2 (CTP2) (Joel Bennett)
• Confirmed: Microsoft to Proceed Directly to Windows 7 Server (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• New and Notable 265 (Sam Gentile)
• LINKBLOG for August 15, 2008 and LINKBLOG for August 16, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for August 15, 2008 — #348 (Dave Campbell)
• Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #11 - August 15, 2008 (Bob McIllree)
• Weekly Link Post 55 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day