Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

.NET / Visual Studio

• What Books Should I Buy for CSLA .NET? (Rockford Lhotka)
• A Serialization Pitfall When Binding to a Serializable Object (Amit Raz)
• HowTo: First Steps with MEF (Hello MEF!) (Robert Muehsig)
• An Easy and Efficient Way to Improve .NET Code Performance (Patrick Smacchia)
• Reverse GEO Lookup in C# (Mads Kristensen)
• Debugging Parallel Applications with VS2010 (Daniel Moth)
• Limiting How Many Entities Are Returned from an ADO.NET Data Service (Marcelo)
• So, What’s New in the CLR 4.0 GC? (Maoni Stephens)
• Functionally Dynamic? (Jimmy Bogard)
• Advantages of Using Class Diagram (Dave M. Bush)
• Visual Studio Wish List Item #0001 - Managing Project Types, SDKs, Plug-Ins (Kevin Marshall)
• Juval Lowy Explains Service-Orientation (Kathryn Barrett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Multi-Tenancy Part 1: Strategy (Mike Hadlow)
• Dynamic Data: Models, MetaModels and Everything in Between (Jonathan Carter)
• Context/Specification and Parameterized Testing and Context/Specification - Available Frameworks (BDD) (Colin Jack)
• The Only Way to Test Private Methods (Davy Brion)
• Organizing BDD Context/Specs for Findability and PTOM: Command and Conquer Your UI Coupling Problems (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Advice on Using XamRibbon with Composite WPF (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Expression Blend 2 Tip for Demos (John Papa)
• Silverlight Toolkit and F1 Help (Jim Galasyn)
• IronPython and WPF Part 4: Background Processing (Harry Pierson)

Web Development

• jQuery - Class Manipulation (Dave M. Bush)
• Tech Twitterings via jQuery and Twitter (Elijah Manor)
• Simple JavaScript Event Model (Mads Kristensen)
• [ANN] Programming ASP.NET MVC by O’Reilly (Derik Whittaker)
• A Hidden Gem for Control Builder Writers (David Ebbo)
• Create an ASP.NET Dynamic Data Website Using ADO.NET Entity Framework (Suprotim Agarwal)

Database

• Some of My Reasons for Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Data Services Public CTP Announced and Cumulative Update Package 2 for SQL Server 2008 Has Been Released (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Data Access Layer Part II (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

• Ultimate Windows Tweaker Is Like Tweak UI for Vista (Kevin Purdy)
• Book Buying Frenzy (Jeff McWherter)
• Tutorial #10: Running a PowerPoint Slideshow from Your Windows Mobile Phone (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Xbox LIVE Community Games Is Open for Business (XNA Team)
• Xbox 360 NXE - Forget Games, The Xbox Is a Media Center (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft BizSpark Initiative For Start-Ups and Windows Azure Services Platform Starts Next Generation Software Development for ISVs (Gunther Lenz)
• OMG! Gmail Just Got Themes (Sarah Perez)
• IE8: What’s After Beta 2 (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Engineering Windows 7: Disk Space (Michael Beck)

More Link Collections

• Tech Twitterings #4 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: November 19, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for November 19th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2008 — #432 (Dave Campbell)
• Visual Studio 2010 Resources (Mike Taulty)
• LINKBLOG for November 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #227 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for November 19, 2008 (Dave Burke)

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