Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Silverlight

• Dispatch My Stuff to the Right Thread (Dino Esposito)
• Silverlight For the Enterprises - Fundamentals (Hanu Kommalapati)

.NET

• Two LINQ to SQL Myths (K. Scott Allen)
• XLinq’n in the New World - Data Access Comparisons with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)
• Slightly Different Way to Assert That Exceptions Are Thrown (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• AddItem Extension Method for BulletedList, CheckBoxList, DropDownList, ListBox, RadioButtonList (Raj) - For those who miss the AddItem method from their VB6 days.
• Hacking IronRuby (Oleg Tkachenko)
• Peek at Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Christin Boyd)

SharePoint

• Getting Started with SharePoint Development (Paul Andrew)
• Add DOC to PDF and Other Conversions to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Aspose)
• Migrating From CMS2002 to MOSS 2007: XML Placeholder Controls (Joris Poelmans)
• Synchronizing OneNote 2007 and WSS 3.0 (Mike Walsh)

Web Development

• JavaScript: The Good Parts - Book Review (Sergio Pereira)
• Exposing Windows Workflow as Web Services (Prabhjot Bakhsi)
• The Most Used JavaScript Library Is… jQuery (Simone Chiaretta) - According to a css-tricks.com survey.

SQL Server

• Introducing Database Security (Ken Downs)

Miscellaneous

• Upcoming Events of Note (John Musser)
• Phil Haack Is Stealing My Thunder (Max Pool) - Max, what font did you use in your awesome ‘rendering’?   
• XML: The Angle Bracket Tax (Jeff Atwood) - Link of the Day

Link-O-Rama

• LINKBLOG for May 11, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links Today (2008-05-11) (Matt Hinze)
• Interesting Finds: May 11, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links (5/11/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.12 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #91 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 41 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Link Listing - May 11, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Double Shot #205 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

.NET

• Prism, CAB, and WinForms Futures (Glenn Block)

PowerShell

• In Praise of TypeConverters - Spread the Love (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Zune Clock Has Arrived (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Twitter This, Twitter That… (Rick Strahl)
• Turning Off Automatic Syncing in Zune - How’s It Done? (Mike Walsh)
• SlickEdit 2008 at First Glance (Dave Campbell)
• Hello World! (Chris Deluca) - A developer on the MSDN Subscriber Downloads site begins blogging.
• Create a Deep Zoom Panorama with Windows Live and First of Many New Live Developer Articles (John O’Brien)
• Wix Widgets, Some Ideas (Amit Knaani)
• Three Reasons to Use Disqus (Fred Wilson)
• My Verdict on Disqus: Two Thumbs Up (Matthew Ingram)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-10) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for May 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Everyman Links for May 9, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Career

• Why You Should Define Your Worst Projects (Celine Roque)
• Live Mesh Are Hiring (Steve Clayton)

Visual Studio

• 6 Useful Visual Studio Tweaks You Need to Know (Shahar Yair)
• Introducing RockScroll (Scott Hanselman) - Awesome free tool written by Rocky Downs. Link of the Day.

WPF / Silverlight

• Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview (MS Downloads) - This 5/9 refresh works with the .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta.
• Metadata - A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, Hey! I’m Over Here (Karl Shifflett)
• Death, Taxes, and Deep Zoom (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Build a Game in Silverlight and Win an Xbox 360! (Joe Stagner)
• Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 - Part One (Faisal Khan)
• How to Convert an Excel Graph to a Silverlight Application (Andrej Benedik)
• BBC Goes DeepZoom (Steve Clayton)

.NET

• Another Domain Developer’s View of Entity Framework and Lazy Loading (Julie Lerman)
• Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep: Skinning Your WinForms Applications (Jacob Lauzier)
• SecureString in .NET 2.0 (Satheesh Babu)
• Using LINQ to Perform “WHERE IN (Value1, Value2)” Queries (Dan Wahlin)
• LINQ Query Operators: Lost That foreach Already! (Jimmy Bogard)
• Taming Trees: Building Branching Structures (Rod Stephens)
• TypeConverters: There’s Not Enough TypeDescripter.GetConverter in the World (Scott Hanselman)
• The Weekly Source Code 26 - LINQ to Regular Expressions and Processing in JavaScript (Scott Hanselman)
• Read Brian’s Blog on F# (Bryan Bell)
• Shoutcast.NET - Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Fun, Fun, Fun with ADO and Unicode Characters (Gary Sherman)

Web Development

• ASP.NET AJAX Best Practices (Tanzim Saqib)
• Creating Great Thumbnails in ASP.NET (Matt)
• String Performance: An Analysis (Tom Trenka) - A performance analysis of JavaScript string operations in various browsers.
• Implement MetaWeblog API in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Miscellaneous

• DZone Refcardz (dzone) - Free PDF cheatsheets quick reference cards.
• 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog From Sucking (Tess Ferrandez)
• Having Fun with Project Managers! (or: Why You Should Lock Your Desktop) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Behind Live Mesh: What Is MOE? (Richard Chung)
• Remoting with PowerShell QuickStart (Krishna Vutukuri)
• SharePoint End User Security (Arpan Shah)

Link-O-Rama

• WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News - 2008/05/09 (Rob Relyea)
• Link Listing - May 8, 2008 and Link Listing - May 9, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: May 9, 2008 and Innovation Notes: May 09, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-09) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #66 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for May 9, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for May 09, 2008 — #271 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.10 (gOODiDEA)
• New and Notable 240 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

.NET

• Enhancing Mappers with LINQ (Jimmy Bogard)
• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS Kick My Axx - Part VII - Merge Modules/GAC (Dave Campbell) - CR was created for just that purpose… to kick our axxes…
• Brain Teaser #3 (Ben Martens)
• Mock Framework Benchmarks (Aaron Jensen)
• Link to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers (Charlie Calvert) - I believe I’ve posted this link before.
• The LINQ SelectMany Operator and IEnumerable ForEach Extension Method (Justin Etheredge)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 110 - Microsoft Research: Spec# (Scott Hanselman)
• Debugging IronPython Code in Visual Studio (Harry Pierson)
• .NET and Web 3.0 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Designing with Lambdas - Part IV (Sergio Pereira)
• How Do I Get a Hotfix for .NET or Visual Studio? (Tess Ferrandez)
• LINQ to SQL Instantiation (Brian Mains)
• VS2008 SP1 Beta and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta Is Now Available (Lai Hoong Fai)

Web Development

• MVC Storefront, Part 9: The Shopping Cart (Rob Conery)
• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Providing Visual Feedback with the UpdateProgress Control (Scott Mitchell)
• The Revenge of Captain AJAX (Daniel Larson)
• ASP.NET MVC - Using Post, Redirect, Get Pattern (Matt Hawley)

WPF

• Making Your WPF Applications Speak (Frank La Vigne)
• WPF, From This to That… Wow! (Glenn Block)
• Whitepaper: WPF Application Quality Guide (WPF Team)
• Video: How Do I: Create and Use a Converter to Change DataTypes (Todd Miranda)
• Standalone Validation Block (Marc)

Design / Methodology

• Your API Fails, Who Is at Fault? (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Writing Unreliable Software (Oren Eini) - Link of the Day
• Project Failures - Blame the Process, or the People? (Casey Charlton)

Blogging / Community

• 12 Reasons to Start Twittering (Michael S. Hyatt)

SQL Server

• SQL Teaser: @@ROWCOUNT (Denis Gobo)
• How to Log When a Function Is Called? (Denis Gobo)
• SSMS Tools PACK 1.0 Is Now Available (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Announcing LINQ4SP (Agnes Molnar)
• SharePoint Extranet Topology (Joris Poelmans)
• Server Side Integration of SharePoint and Facebook (Brendon Schwartz)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Transactions QuickStart (Lee Holmes)
• Fun With Script cmdlets (James Brundage)
• WPF From PowerShell - Updating Windows (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Are Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman the Same Person? (Troy DeMonbreun)
• Microsoft Gears Up to Release Xbox 360 with New Chips (Paul Thurrott) - I’m really hoping for Salt & Vinegar.
• Book Review: C# in Depth (David Hayden) - Just got this book myself, and it is fantastic so far.
• Opera 9.5 Looking Good (Mike Gunderloy)
• Bookpool May Sale - 45% Off MS Press, Cisco Press, and New Releases (Angela Binkowski)
• Best Programming Jokes (Timm Webb)
• MSDN and TechNet Are Virtualized (Chad Brooks)
• Zoho Wiki : Improved Free Plan, Domain Level Permissions, etc. (Arvind)

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing - May 7, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: May 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-08) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #65 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for May 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for May 08, 2008 — #270 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (5/8/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Microsoft Oriented Crumbs #3 and Weekly SOA Crumbs #16 and Weekly Software Development and Architecture Crumbs #3 (Dilip Krishnan)
• Everyman Links for May 8, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #90 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Why You Should Wrap Your ASP.NET Session Object (Shahar Abramovich)
• New Release of SmartTools for SharePoint (Jan Tielens)

Miscellaneous

• 3 Places to Keep Your Pocket Code (Besides Your Pocket) (Max Pool)
• Day-to-Day with Subversion (Bil Simser) - Link of the Day
• 35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Messenger TV Is Coming Soon (Sunshine)
• Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop (Michael Arrington)
• OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Announcement (OOO Marketing)
• Halo, Office 2007, Safari Now on U3 (With the Help of One Man) (Everything USB)
• iRex’s iLiad Book Edition e-book Reader (John Brownlee)
• Amazon Kindle on the Road (Rick Strahl)
• How to Make Late Software Even Later (Casey Charlton)
• Social Networks/Blogging and Self-Improvement (Rhonda Tipton)
• Intwition Shows You Who’s Tweeting About Your Blog (Brad Linder)
• Service Pass-Through in Neuron ESB (David Pallmann)

.NET

• A Limitation of Lambda Expressions and Overloaded Extension Methods (Omer van Kloeten)
• Covariance and Contravariance, Part Eleven: To Infinity, but Not Beyond (Eric Lippert)
• Do You Really Need a Data Access Layer with LINQ? (Jason Young)
• Introducing Machine.Specifications (or MSpec for Short) (Aaron Jensen)
• Exception Handling - Do’s and Don’ts (Misbah Arefin)
• Building an F# Powered Indexing System (Kurt)
• A .NET Cryptography Primer, Part Four (Will McGurk)

Silverlight / WPF / Popfly

• The Silverlight Tutorials & Book & More and Dynamically Creating and Destroying Containers and Dynamically Creating User Controls That Fire Events Back to You (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF For Line of Business Applications (Marc)
• Silverlight, WCF and LINQ to SQL (John Papa)
• Capping Your Actor’s Speed (Ben Anderson)
• Creating a Computer Game with My Granddaughter (Michael Leonard)
• Prism vs Framework XXX (Glenn Block)
• Great Silverlight 2 Demo: Healthcare Demonstrator (Tim Sneath)
• Popfly Game Creator: Video Walk-Thru (Jason Flynn)

Visual Studio

• Unescape My Strings (Sergio Pereira)
• Announcing: XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) (David Weller)
• Using Database Projects for Visual Studio (Ira)

Events / Community

• Our .NET Community (Julie Lerman)

SQL Server

• Should SQL Server Have the CREATE [OR REPLACE] PROCEDURE Syntax? (Denis Gobo)
• What’s the Difference in a GDR, a Cumulative Update, and a Service Pack? (Joe Webb)
• How to Rename Database Objects to Comply with Naming Conventions (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #64 (Tim Boland)
• Links Today (2008-05-07) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 07, 2008 — #269 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for May 7 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links (5/7/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #89 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 239 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day