Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Sick today, so the Dew Drop is a bit late.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing Lucene.Net (Andrew Smith)
• Visual Studio 2010 to Come with ‘Black Box’ (Ina Fried)
• VSTS 2010: Check Out All the Latest News (Angela Binowski)
• Simple Introduction to Extensible Applications with the Managed Extensions Framework (Brad Abrams)
• IComparer vs IEqualityComparer (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Object Oriented F# - Creating Classes (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Announcing Visual Studio 2010 (Dan Fernandez)
• Team Developer + Team Data = Team Developer! (Gert Drapers)
• Generic C# WinForms (Chris Brandsma)
• More MEF Samples and Launch of MEF Contrib (Glenn Block)
• Trivial but Useful Extension Method (Avi Pilosof)
• VSTS 2010 and .NET 4.0 and Architectural Validation and Synchronization (Cameron Skinner)
• How Do Locks Lock? (Jeff Moser)
• Our Cries Have Finally Been Answered Then? (Granville Barnett)
• LINQ Farm: Preserving Formatting with LINQ to XML (Charlie Calvert)
• Visual Basic Guru Moves to Microsoft’s "Oslo" Team (Darryl K. Taft)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Which Microsoft Virtualization Solution to Use for Software Testing (Dennis Dietrich)
• Reflection - Iteration 7 (Sara Chipps)
• Decorator Pattern (David Hayden)
• Unit Testing Coming to a Workflow Near You (Michael C. Kennedy)
• Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling (Jeremy D. Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

• Kuler Add-In for Expression Blend (Frank La Vigne)
• Kuler for Expression Design and Blend (Corey Miller)
• Isolated Storage - Might Be Easier Than You Think and Dependency Property System - Deeper Dive Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlayout - Simple Actionscript Layout Library (Chris Cavanagh)
• Book Review: Manning’s Silverlight 2 in Action - Chad Campbell and John Stockton (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Multi-File Upload Controls and Patterns (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #47 - How to Implement a Password Box and #48 - How to Implement a ComboBox and #49 - How to Implement a Progress Bar and #51 - How to Enable and Disable Controls and #52 - How to Popup a Browser Window and #53 - MessageBox Is Now Available in Silverlight 2 (Mike Snow)
• XAML and WPF Coding Guidelines (Paul Stovell)
• Step Into The Art & Technology (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Surprised by WPF DataGrid (Mike Taulty)
• What’s New in Silverlight 2 RC0 (Denislav Savkov)

Web Development

• Column Ordering, Paging and Filtering in the MVC Framework (Mike Hadlow)
• Book Review: DHTML Utopia (Larry Clarkin)
• What Is ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Rachel Appel)
• Service Referencing ADO.NET Data Service and A Simple Balloon Shooting Silverlight Game (Xinyang Qiu)
• My MVC Starter Template (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
• AJAX Enhancements in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Use UTF-8 Encoding in HTTP Requests (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

• SQL IF/WHILE Blocks - SQL For Programmers (Dave M. Bush)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (August 2008) (MS Downloads)
• Using Covering Indexes to Improve Query Performance (Joe Webb)

SharePoint

• Writing Extension Methods for SharePoint (Adam Buenz)
• Linq4SP RC1 (Agnes Molnar)

Events / Community

• Events This Week - September 29th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #13: Staying Sane in Today’s Software Development World with Billy Hollis (Keith Elder)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Launches Phone Data Manager Beta (Brad Linder)
• Getting Started with EUnit (Mitchell Hashimoto)
• Statistical Validation of the IE8 XSS Filter (Russ McRee)
• PowerShell’s Security Guiding Principles (Lee Holmes)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 29, 2008 and Interesting Finds: September 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Blog Carnival #5 (Eyal Lantzman)
• Triple Shot Links #3 (Russell Ball)
• LINKBLOG for September 29, 2008 and LINKBLOG for September 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for September 29, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Visual Studio Links #75 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2008 — #382 and Silverlight Cream for September 30, 2008 — #383 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #190 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #302 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #12 - October 1, 2008 (Bob McIlree)
• Silverlight News for September 30, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)

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