Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Wow…

I was thrilled to see that I got my Live Mesh invite email last night. However, when I tried to install the client software on my laptop, I got this error:

“Product does not support running under an elevated administrator account or with UAC disabled.”

I’m not sure why I have to enable UAC to use Live Mesh, but I won’t be turning it back on any time soon. Maybe I’ll give it a try in an XP VPC.

Miscellaneous

• Software + Service (Ashish Jaiman)
• Ray Ozzie’s Latest Memo - Software Plus Services Strategy and Live Mesh - First Look Whitepaper and Microsoft’s Software Plus Services Website Goes Live (Steve Clayton)
• Two New Rosario Specifications (Charles Sterling)
• Books: We Need More ‘So What’, ‘Now What’ and ‘What For?’ and Less Just ‘What’ (Scott Hanselman)
• The Problem with Software Registration (Jeff Atwood)

Blogging/Writing

• Writer, the web-based distraction-free writing… (Kevin Purdy)
• Be a WindowsClient.Net Blogger (mpochimcherla)
• let Matt = CodeBetter + 1 (Matthew Podwysocki)

.NET

• A Great XPath Query Tool (Shahar Yair)
• Why Can’t I Access a Protected Member From a Derived Class, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
• United States Postal Service (USPS) Web Tools Wrapper (JohnnyCantCode)
• Video: John Lam on IronRuby (Dave Laribee)
• RoboChamps - Simulated Robotics League (Bob Familiar)
• Faster Builds with MSBuild Using Parallel Builds and Multicore CPUs (Scott Hanselman)
• InfoQ Interview: Framework Design Studio Released (Brad Abrams)
• Interesting Extension Hack to Get Around NullReferenceExceptions (Nick Berardi)

Web Development

• AJAX Images Sliders Part 2: Intervals with On Demand (David Cilley)
• Five More Principles of Effective Web Design (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Book Review: ASP.NET Ajax in Action [5 Stars] (Rachel Appel)
• ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 5 (Rob Conery)
• 47 ASP.NET MVC Resources to Rock Your Development (Craig Shoemaker)

Silverlight/WPF

• An Introduction to Using a DataGrid Control in Silverlight 2.0 (Abhilash Nedumpurath)
• Pimp My ListView (Rudi Grobler)
• A Few Noteworthy SL Samples (Scott McCraw)
• Explore Silverlight Project Hierarchy with Silverlight Spy 2 (intelligent adventurer) - Link of the Day

PowerShell

• How Could You Top CTP1? and Changes in Upcoming CTP (Jeffrey Snover)

SQL Server

• So Do You Think Deciding Between a Clustered or Non-Clustered Index Is Difficult? (Denis Gobo)
• Column Headings from SQL Results - Easier Way (Rhonda Tipton)
• Clustered or Non-Clustered? Why Not Both? (Kalen Delaney)
• SET vs SELECT - When to Use What (vivekamar)

Design/Methodology

• Composition vs Inheritance (Christopher Diggins)
• Refactoring Code Is Like Doing the Dishes (Max Pool)

Link Collections

• Links Today (2008-04-24) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #60 (Tim Boland)
• Morning Coffee 164 (Harry Pierson)
• Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2008 - #258 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for April 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (4/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #81 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #194 (Mike Gunderloy)
• WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News - 2008/04/25 (Rob Relyea)

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