Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

.NET

• Book Review: LINQ in Action (Patrick Smacchia)
• WCSF 2.0 Hidden Gem - Creating Interface Projects (Glenn Block)
• Polymorphism and the Validation Application Block (Tom Hollander)
• ‘Move with Replace’ C# Method (TD)

Events/Community

• Speaking on SOA: The Paradigm Shift and IO in Denver Tuesday (Sam Gentile)
• What’s on the Cards For MIX08? (Chris)

Visual Studio

• Visual C++ in Visual Studio 10 Will Use SQL Server Compact Instead of NCBs (Granville Barnett)
• Problems That Are Fixed in Visual Studio 2005 Team System Database Pro Post SR1 Rollup Package 1 and How To: Output Trace String on a Machine Where Visual Studio Is Not Installed (Scott Cate)
• Test Case Generator - Release v1.2.0.0 (CodePlex)
• The Future of IntelliSense (SteveX)
• Setting the Default Browser Inside Visual Studio (Jimmy Bogard)

Misc

• The Coming Death of Indian Outsourcing (Sramana Mitra)
• Obsolete Skills (Brad Kellett) - Great list of things no longer in demand.
• Comic Reader - Alpha Release (CodePlex) - A .NET app that reads CBZ and CBR files.

SharePoint

• 10 Solutions Every SharePoint Developer Should Know How to Create and Hiding Individual Menu Items on SharePoint Toolbars (Scot Hillier)
• MSDN Forums For SharePoint Developers (Ishai Sagi)

Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 1, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

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