Dew Drop – July 3, 2008

Silverlight / WPF

• Consuming ASMX Web Services with Silverlight 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Composite Application Guidance Is Live (Glenn Block)
• Updating Silverlight.js (Tim Heuer)
• Microsoft: Silverlight Is Searchable, Too (Mary Jo Foley)

Web Development

• HttpModule for Timing Requests (Phil Haack)
• The Weekly Source Code 30 – VB.NET with XML Literals as a View Engine for ASP.NET MVC (Scott Hanselman)
• MVC Storefront Part 16: Membership Redo with OpenID (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #13 – Unit Test Your Custom Routes (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Showing Some Support for LINQ to SQL (Ian Cooper)
• Sandcastle Project Has Been Republished on CodePlex (Jonathan Wanagel)
• Active Conventions with NDepend – Part Deux (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• On Entity Framework, Concurrency (Mike Taulty)

Events / Community

• RockNUG Meeting – 7/9/2008 – Functional C# (Matthew Podwysocki)

SQL Server

• Interview with SSIS Guru Jamie Thomson (Denis Gobo)
• Efficient Paging in SQL Server 2005 (Justin Etheredge)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to Ratchet IE8 Security Another Notch in Beta 2 (Ed Bott)
• Internet Explorer 8 Security Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• New FriendFeed Greasemonkey Script (Sara Perez)
• Turning Off the Annoying Shutdown Event Tracker (Mike Azocar)
• Matthew Baldwin: writer, blogger, pretty okay guy (Ariel M. Stallings)
• Remote Control Extender, Convert Your IR Remote to RF (Matt Walker)
• stackoverflow Podcast #12 (Jeff Atwood)
• Future Tech: Seven Innovations That Will Change Your Life (Eric Griffith)
• Why Jeff Atwood Is Right (M. David Peterson)
• 55 Free High Quality Icon Sets (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)

Link-O-Rama

• LINKBLOG for July 2, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 2, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• 26 Not to Be Missed .NET Articles – June 2008 (Schalk Neethling)
• Silverlight Cream for July 2, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #128 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – July 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

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