Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

I’m trying out a new, one-post-per-weekend schedule. Weekday posts will remain daily.

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to REST Data (Stephen Forte)
• WPF Themes Update (Rudi Grobler)
• .NET Framework 4.0 Poster for Download (Stephen Toub)
• The Future of C#, Part Five (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Code Contracts for .NET 4.0 – Spec# Comes Alive (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Book Plug: The C# Programming Language (3rd Edition) and Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Demo (Brad Abrams)
• The Future of LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework (Julie Lerman)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• F# Zen – ROT13 (Chris Smith)
• Conversion Operator Behavior and Casting (Jimmy Bogard)
• Why Domain Specific Languages Are Important to Everyday Developers and MSchema and Decorator Tables (Shawn Wildermuth)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: v0.0.14189 (CodePlex)
• Microcode: Exploring More of .NET with Get-Assembly (James Brundage)
• A C# Library to Write Functional Code – Part V – The Match Operator (Luca Bolognese)

Web Development

• New Webcast: Syndication in .NET (Dan Rigsby)
• 10 Lessons Learned from Future of Web Design (Karl Swedberg)
• What’s New with Beginning ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Viewing a LOT of Images Effectively (Plus 700 Obama Newspaper Covers in Silverlight Deep Zoom) (Scott Hanselman)
• SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: LINQ Has Landed (Rob Conery)
• VS2008 SP1 Hotfix to Support "-vsdoc.js" IntelliSense Doc Files (Jeff King)
• A Veritable Cornucopia of Silverlight Toolkit Resources (Shawn Burke)
• Controlling Service References in Silverlight 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Creating Websites Using Templates in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The patterns & practices Top Ten (Ade Miller)
• Video – Core, an AOP Framework (Sergio Pereira)
• Prism v2 – Drop 5 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) (Erwin van der Valk)
• Unity and AOP Example (David Hayden)
• Decoupling Your Classes (Mike Hall)
• Putting It to the Test (Pamela Greene) – Testing Chromium
• Learning WPF M-V-VM (Karl Shifflett)
• Boy Scout Check-Ins (Jeff Moser)

Database

• SQL Server Scheduled Backups with NAnt (Boyan Kostadinov)
• Using a T-SQL Common Table Expression to Find Dupe Records (Stephen Forte)

Miscellaneous

• How to Talk to (Geek) Girls Online – Social Networking Etiquette (Dana Coffey)
• Time to Slow Down the Oslo Hype and What’s Your Worst Day as a Coder? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Flickr4Writer Service Pack Update (Tim Heuer)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #17: Discussions About Gnome, Linux and Software Development with Luis Villa – Part 2 and Episode #18: PDC 2008 Podcaster Roundtable with StackOverflow and Herding Code (Keith Elder)
• Parallel Programming and the Virtual PC Limitation (Daniel Moth)
• My Elevate-Process Script (Harry Pierson)
• Video NINE Questions with Richard Campbell (Chris G. Williams)
• Windows 7 Post-PDC Roundup, Links Galore (Emil Protalinski)
• 11 Great Free Portable Apps for Blogging on the Go! (Lee Matthews)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2008 — #422 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: November 7, 2008 and Interesting Finds: November 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for November 7, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #85 (Darren Stokes)
• New and Notable 277 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for November 7th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)

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