Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

Silverlight / WPF

• TemplatePanel (aka MasterPage) for Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
• Property, Dependency Property and Threading (Amit Raz)
• Sparkling Client Podcast on The Bubble Chart (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Business Application Development faster with IdeaBlade (Tim Heuer)
• Adding Microsoft Silverlight to your Java Applications (Zhiming Xue)
• Some Upcoming Silverlight Talks and Silverlight Gaming ++ (Andy Beaulieu)
• WPF 3D Just Got A Bit Easier (Sacha Barber)
• Generic XAML loading control (Corey Schuman)
• I Command Silverlight (Rishi)

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Lambda Expressions and Anonymous Types (Scott Mitchell)
• Live Services explained by James Senior Esq. (Adam Kinney)
• “Essential LINQ” book to be published tomorrow (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• Dances With Workflows (Chris G. Williams)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: magic semicolons (Julian M. Bucknall)
• ASP.NET Social Networks – Making Friends (Part 2) (DotNet Tutor)
• Learn About ASP.NET MVC Via NerdDinner (Phil Haack)
• Free ASP.NET MVC eBook – NerdDinner.com Walkthrough (Scott Hanselman)
• Getting Around the 4MB Limit in ASP.NET (Srinath M.)
• Querying an ASP.NET SiteMap using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Better support for 3rd party controls and Dynamic Data in ASP.NET 4.0 and DevExpress Grid and Dynamic Data (Scott Hunter)
• Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET – Using a DropDownList for Editing in a Data Control (Mike Ormond)
• Nerddinner and a Free Book! (Rob Conery)
• NerdDinner.com and Two Views of ASP.NET MVC Views (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: Invariants or Contextual Validation? (Casey Charlton)
• Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Let’s Hear it for the Zealots! (Uncle Bob Martin)
• 100 Million Lines of Code in Your Car (Nick Berardi)
• Lunch Discussion with Hashrocket (Corey Haines)
• Test Driven Development with SharePoint (Spence Harbar)
• I Love Easy Extensibility (Davy Brion)
• Loops are gotos (Eric Lippert)
• OO: Micro Types (Mark Needham)

Community / Events

• A Culture of (Potential) Assholes: Sexual Harassment in IT (Alan Stevens) – Link of the Day
• Me, Pluralsight, Twitter and Facebook (Aaron Skonnard)
• Shout Out to Derik Whittaker & Dimecasts.NET (Dave Schinkel)
• SharePoint Saturday – March 14th (Bob Familiar)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 152 – Code Generation and T4 with Kathleen Dollard (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks: Debugging chat (Tess Ferrandez)

Database

• SDS goes full circle (Jamie Thomson)
• Designing a document database: Authorization and Designing a document database: Attachments (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• 10 Best Practices For Building SharePoint Solutions (ssa)

PowerShell

• How to Create an Object in PowerShell (James Brundage)

Miscellaneous

• Transcript – Windows 7: To the Beta and Beyond (MS Downloads)
• Interesting Windows 7 nuggets emerge from Microsoft (Geoff Spick)
• Ultimate Round-Up For Version Control with Subversion (Glen Stansberry)
• OpenWith.org Tells Your Mom How to Open That File (Kevin Purdy)
• The Basics of the Windows Server 2008 Distributed File System (DFS) (Jose Barreto)
• Hire the Best – Debugging (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Sharpening the Saw and Why Can’t Error Messages Be Fun? (Jeff Atwood)
• More IE8 Extensibility Improvements (Matthew David Crowley)
• Why I Love My Job (and Wouldn’t Want to Do Anything Else) (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Research Releases “PersonalVibe” Activity Logger for Social & Software Engineers (Blake Handler)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #304 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 303 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2009 – 2 — #537 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 21 (Kathleen Sanders)
• CloudNews for March 10th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: March 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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