Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

I have decided to eliminate the Silverlight/WPF section for the time being. Silverlight-related posts will move into the Web Development section and WPF will go into .NET/Visual Studio. I may bring the section back if the volume of interesting posts picks up again.

Another note, I’m having issues loading some of the MSDN Blogs pages this morning… could just be DNS issues on my machine. If any of those links give you trouble, give them another try later on in the day.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Basic IntelliSense (Oren Eini)
• Custom Range Control in C# (Bharath K. A.)
• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR Release (Charles Sterling)
• Screencast: Creating Your First WCF Service and Screencast: Configuring WCF Services with Endpoints (Aaron Skonnard)
• SubSonic: Added Wildcard Methods (Rob Conery)
• CR/R! Wrap-Up (Jay Kimble)
• New Outlook VSTO AddIn: How to Disable Reply To All and Forward in Outlook 2007 (Scott Hanselman)
• WcfTestClient Change in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Dan Rigsby)
• Metadata for ADO.NET Data Services (Marcelo)
• How C# Array Initializers Work (Bart de Smet)
• WPF Photo Print - Source Code (Chris Cavanagh)
• The Return of the CLR (Sam Gentile)
• Remember Yield? (Wesley Bakker)

Design / Methodology

• Enabling Change by Hard Coding Everything: The Smart Way (Oren Eini)
• Services in Domain-Driven Design (Jimmy Bogard)
• Software Architecture Certifications (Larry Clarkin)
• How Healthy Is Your Code (Joe Ocampo)
• Recommended Podcasts on UX Design (Maggie Longshore)
• Why Data as a Service Isn’t a Bad Idea (Gil Fink)
• A Theory of Everything for Software Development (Jurgen Appelo)

Web Development

• A Simple jQuery Client Centering Plugin (Rick Strahl)
• AJAX Control Toolkit Released for .NET 3.5 SP1 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• New ASP.NET MVC Videos and Tutorials (Stephen Walther) – Link of the Day
• Localize Text in JavaScript Files in ASP.NET (Mads Kristensen)
• A Personal Guide to Getting Started with Silverlight (Jesse Liberty)
• ASP.NET Futures - Generating Dynamic Images with HttpHandlers Gets Easier (Scott Hanselman)
• MVC Storefront Part 19a: Windows Workflow Follow-Up (Rob Conery)
• LINQ to JSON (Mike Ormond)
• Microsoft Expression Media 2 Scripting Guide for Windows (MS Downloads) – Examples in VB, C#, VBScript and JavaScript

Events / Community / Blogging

• Announcing: IndyHall Labs (David Martorana)
• Nine Questions with Rachel Reese (Chris G. Williams)
• 30+ Plugins to Make Your WordPress Blog More Social (Sean P. Aune)
• Announcing the Debut of MVP TV (Angela Binowski)
• Influence Our Products, Chat with Microsoft Experts! (Lindsay Rutter)
• Collabio Game Explores Social Networking Data Mining… and Social Psychology (Rob Knies)

Miscellaneous

• 6 Answers About Telecommuting (Mike Gunderloy)
• Red Gate & Reflector: My Concerns (Jay Kimble)
• What the Customer Wants You to Know (Nick)
• NY Giants - Final 2008 Roster Projection (John Papa) – Born and raised in Pennsylvania, but I’ve always been a Mets and Giants fan.
• Flickr Finally Launches Embeddable Slideshow Widget (Brad Linder)
• Atari: The Golden Years - A History, 1978-1981 (Steve Fulton – via Slashdot)
• Microsoft Showcases Holiday Games, Zune at X’08 Canada (Frank Caron)

More Link Collections

• Visual Studio Links #67 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight News for August 21, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• LINKBLOG for August 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• WSOAC#29 - REST Explained (Dilip Krishnan)
• Links (8/21/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 267 - ASP.NET MVC (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: August 21, 2008 - [Final Cut] (Jason Haley) – Jason’s new format/layout is looking pretty sharp.
• Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2008 — #353 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #164 (Chris Alcock)

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