Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Web Development

• jQuery Ajax Uploader Plugin (with Progress Bar!) (Steve Sanderson)
• Announcing the Web Platform Installer Release Candidate and Murach’s ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with C# 2008 (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET Supported on Server Core - Windows Server 2008 R2 (Bill Staples)
• MVC Storefront: Episode 25 Preview (Rob Conery)
• Web Platform Installer Now Supports XP - And the Master Plan Continues (Scott Hanselman)
• RenderPartial vs RenderAction (Derik Whittaker)
• 20 Amazing jQuery PlugIns and 65 Excellent jQuery Resources (Specky Boy)
• Adding a Property (Column) in Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
• HowTo: Basics of ASP.NET MVC or Why MVC? (Robert Muehsig)
• Partial Page Updates with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (and Action Filters) (Maarten Balliauw)

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating a Silverlight Fade In and Out Popup Window (Amit Raz)
• IronPython and WPF Part 5: Interactive Console (Harry Pierson)
• Details on Silverlight 3 (Sarah Perez)
• XAML Power Toys from Karl Shifflett (Adam Kinney)
• Graphing - Silverlight Toolkit (Jesse Liberty)
• Naming and Conventions in XAML (Anders Bursjöö)
• Silverlight Tooltips - Positioning and Customizing (Corey Schuman)
• Adding Store and Forward Support to the Prism EventAggregator (Ade Miller)
• Custom Slider for Silverlight 2 Media Players (MSDN Code Gallery)
• A Big Change Is Coming Today (Popfly Team)
• Deep Zoom Composer Updated: Seajax Support, New API, and More! (Sunshine)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Opening the Current Directory from the Command Line (Jeremy Jarrell)
• What’s New with Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (Sarah Perez)
• CodeRush Shortcuts and Templates - Quick Start Sheets (Mark Miller)
• Dustin Campbell on the Future of VB in VS2010 (Ted Neward)
• Model and Work Item Integration (Cameron Skinner)
• Connect to a MySQL 5.0 Database with ADO.NET (Eugen Ciuta)
• Working with Large Models in Entity Framework (Srikanth Mandadi)
• Database Project Import Scripts Add-In (Patrick Sirr)
• Setting Properties for WiX in MSBuild (Jason Kemp)
• Renaming Properties, Methods and Variables (Dave M. Bush)
• Windsor WCF Integration (Mike Hadlow)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Framework Design Guidelines: Supporting Experimentation (Brad Abrams)
• .NET Systems Need Software Architecture Too (Simon Brown)
• Elementary Application Security Part 1: Look Both Ways Before Crossing the Street (Jason Ipock)
• ORM Is NOT Inherently Evil (Davy Brion)
• Code Contracts - TDD in a DbC World (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Refactoring: Getting Started Is the Hardest Part (David Yancey)
• Slightly Different Way to Write Unit Tests (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Dealing with Parameters in Expressions and Strongly-Typed Reflection (Jimmy Bogard)
• PTOM: Bend 3rd Party Libraries to Your Will with the Adapter Pattern (John Teague)
• Getting Started with Automated White Box Testing (and Pex) (Jonathan de Halleux & Nikolai Tillmann)

patterns & practices Pocket Guides (J.D. Meier)

• Service Architecture
• Rich Client Application Architecture
• RIA Architecture
• Mobile Application Architecture
• Web Application Architecture
• Agile Architecture
• Series for Application Architecture

Events / Community

• Events This Week - November 24th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Øredev 2008 Summary (Tim Heuer)
• Chat with Beth Massi at PDC08 (Chris G. Williams)
• Boodhoo Take 2 (Brian Donahue)
• Stack Overflow Is You (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• The World’s Greatest SharePoint Admin Book Is Here (Shane Young)
• Announcing Isolator for SharePoint with a Free Full License for Bloggers (Roy Osherove)
• Creating and Deploying SharePoint Solution Files (Joydip Kanjilal)

Database

• SQL Server - Interesting Observation About Order of ResultSet without ORDER BY (Pinal Dave)
• Database Thaw (Martin Fowler)

Career

• The Dangers of Testing as Part of an Interview (Dave M. Bush)
• Resumes Are Dead. Social Media Is Your New Resume. (Zoli Erdos)
• Outsourcing Sites: Threat or Opportunity? (Mike Gunderloy)
• Download the Free Inaugural Issue of Productive Magazine (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Presentation Styles (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• 10 Reasons the Zune Beats the iPod. Seriously. (Jeff Blankenburg)
• How to Clean Up a Folder Tree with NAnt (Simone Chiaretta)
• Subversion Upgraded with New Features (Andy Singleton)
• SaaS Is Here to Say (Unreasonablemen)
• A New Live Mesh App: Flickr2Mesh (Sarah Perez)
• Diskeeper 2009 Features Detailed (Cristian)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2008 — #437 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for November 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.11.21~2008.11.25 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #230 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 25, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

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