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)
Book of the Day
ASP.NET AJAX in Action: Alessandro Gallo,David Barkol,Rama Vavilala,Scott Guthrie,Bertrand Le Roy: Books
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