Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to SQL, EF, and the Thunderdome Solution (Ian Cooper)
• C# 4.0, Dynamic Programming and JSON (Nikhil Kothari)
• Microsoft "Oslo": What’s in a Name? (Brian Loesgen)
• Introducing "Oslo" (Aaron Skonnard) – Link of the Day
• More PDC 2008 Bits Exploration: Visual Studio 2010 (Ted Neward)
• WPF and Silverlight Toolkit (Faisal Khan)
• WPF Developers: PDC Wrap-Up and Visual Studio Tooling Update (Tim Sneath)
• Tiny Victories Inside Microsoft – SmallestDotNet Makes Headway (Scott Hanselman)
• NH Prof: A Guided Tour (Oren Eini)
• C# 4.0 Feature Focus – Part 3 – Intermezzo: LINQ’s New Zip Operator (Bart de Smet)
• LINQ to SQL – Goneburger (John-Daniel Trask)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC and Rhino Tools Sample (Davy Brion)
• LiveFX: Windows Live Services and Live Mesh Converge and LiveFX: Recursing Hierarchical DataEntries and LiveFX: Comparing Performance of Local Versus Cloud LOE (Jamie Thomson)
• Chad & I Get Opinionated About the ASP.NET MVC (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Unobtrusive JavaScript Part 2 — Separating Content, Style and Behavior (John Teague)
• Windows Azure from a Developer’s Perspective (Dare Obasanjo)
• Bin Deploying ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• Using Encoder Templates in Your Silverlight Application (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #67 – Silverlight Performance Tips and #68 – Great Silverlight Sessions to Watch from PDC 2008 and #69 – Silverlight 2 Developer Reference (Mike Snow)
• Debugging a WCF REST/AJAX Serialization Problem (Rick Strahl)
• Reading RSS Powered by FeedFlare Using ASP.NET and LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology

• Crazy Talk: Reducing ORM Friction (Rob Conery)
• Test First or Test Driven, Who Cares? (Tim Barcz)

Events / Community

• Events This Week – November 3rd, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Rare, Exclusive Interview with the Channel 9 Guy About the MDC @ the PDC (J. Barnes)
• PDC2008 Keynote and Session Video Links (Mike Swanson)
• Where to Download "The Goods" for PDC 2008 (Habib Heydarian)

Database

• Random in SQL – SQL For Programmers (Dave M. Bush)
• Gotchas in Management Studio 2008 (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• How We Did It – Allowing Connecitons to Multiple SSRS Servers with Report Viewer and Explorer Web Parts (Pej Javaheri)
• Recommended Books (Paul Galvin)

Miscellaneous

• Will Windows Azure Succeed? (Stephen Forte)
• Microsoft Azure vs Google App Engine (Jon Paul Davies)
• Tips for Preparing for a Technical Presentation (Scott Hanselman)
• The "Unlocked" Windows 7 Taskbar Is Also Unfinished (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2008 — #418 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for November 3rd, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)
• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 9 (Mike Snow)
• LINKBLOG for November 3, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #108 (Tim Boland)
• Everyman Links for November 3, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #215 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 04, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

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