Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft – Page 1440 – Daily links for Windows and .NET developers.

Poll Results – Who Is Your .NET Man-Crush?

Well, my readers have spoken, and ScottGu is the champion. If he were one of my readers, I’m sure he would be very proud (or creeped out). I might go with a bracket format next March and start with 16 prominent members of the .NET community. Let me know what you think, and please send suggestions.

Poll

Also, there is a new poll posted: “What is your primary .NET language?”. Please respond at your leisure. The poll will be open until the end of August. I’m hoping to gauge my readers’ preferences to help post links that are useful.

Technorati: man-crush, .net community, meaningless polls

Dew Drop – August 1, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

Using Regions in Code Files (Chris Love)
VS + ViEmu + (ReSharper Modded with AutoHotkey) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Playing with ADO.NET Data Services (Mike Hadlow)
How to Program Visual Basic 2008 – A Master Text (Joe Stagner)
.NET Rocks! – Issam Elbaytam and Scott Wileke on Active Reports and More (MS Downloads)
LINQ to AD – Refresh Release 1.0.1 Available (Bart de Smet)
Extension Methods Roundup: Intersect, Union, AsNullable and GroupEvery (Omer van Kloeten)
RockScroll FTW (Shawn Wildermuth) – I’ll have to give this tool another try. I had some serious performance issue in Visual Studio the last time I tried it.
Trusted Subsystem, WCF and IIS 5 – Revisited (Jimmy Bogard)
Monadic Philosophy Part 3 – The Parser Monad in C# (Harry Pierson)

Blogging / Community / Events

My Favorite .NET Link Blogs (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Thanks, Keyvan. There are a lot of good ones out there now. Personally, I’m a big fan of Arjan’s World.
Some Stuff You May Have Missed (Davy Brion)
Codestock Is One Week Away (Chris G. Williams)
15 Desktop Blogging Tools Reviewed (Glen Stansberry)
Stack Overflow Private Beta Begins (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

Programming Silverlight 2 – Jesse Liberty & Tim Heuer (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 – ASMX Services & XmlSerializer (Mike Taulty)
Learning WPF with BabySmash – Manually Managing ClickOnce and Some More Designer Goodness (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Methodology

Entities Dependencies Best Practices and Logging the AOP Way and Code Reivews Are Not Just About the Code (Oren Eini)
Getting Done the Lean Way (Raymond Lewallen)
.NET Rocks! – Stephen Forte on Remote/Distributed Teams (MS Downloads)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Tip #27 – Create ASP.NET MVC Specific Visual Studio Add-Ins (Stephen Walther)
Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 Release Candidate Now Available (Pete Brown)
How to Implement a Pingback Handler in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
New Messenger Library – and a Word About Windows Live Dev (dev.live.com) (Kip Kniskern)

Miscellaneous

Logic Puzzle: Buying Donuts Puzzle (Tom)
patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance – Vision Scope (CodePlex)

More Link Collections

Silverlight News for July 31, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
Interesting Finds: July 31, 2008 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 260 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: 2008.07.30-2008.08.01 (gOODiDEA)
Links (7/31/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Link Listing – July 31, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #149 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight News for August 1, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
Double Shot #261 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Programming Silverlight 2: Jesse Liberty, Tim Heuer: Books

Technorati: .net development, silverlight, wpf, babysmash, sharepoint, asp.net mvc, resharper, viemu

Broken RSS Feed Fixed

After doing some debugging and research, I’ve been able to fix the problem with my RSS feeds. It turns out that it hasn’t been working since I installed WordPress 2.6 several weeks ago. I removed extra line breaks from the end of several PHP files, and voila… it’s back! I’m not exactly sure which was the offending file, but it’s safe to say that none of your PHP files should have any line breaks after the final $> closing tag.

Thanks to Keyvan for getting the word out about my blog today. Some new visitors alerted me to the problem.

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