Slight change in name from today onwards, as I discovered that Harry Pierson is already using the name ‘Morning Coffee’ for his regular link roundup – so from today this will be known as ‘The Morning Brew’

Software

Future of Ajax.NET Professional – Michael Schwarz announces that he is ceasing development of Ajaz.NET Professional – one of the earliest ASP.NET Ajax libraries

Update – Generate Insert statement from table for SQL Server – A useful bit of TSQL to create insert statements for all data in a table (recommended by Simon Harriyott – thanks for the tip)

Information

Using VS 2008 to Create New ASP.NET 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Projects – ScottGu covers some of the backward compatibility support in VS 2008

C# 3.0 New Language Features (Part 1) – First part of a brief overview of the new bits – this one gives an introduction for Implicit Typing, Object and collection initializers and extension methods

Using XML Schema for Validating User Input – A slightly different way of validating user input – certainly looks like an easy way of getting some rich functionality using existing technologies developers are already familiar with

Community

CodeCampServer OSS project call for participation – Jeffrey Palermo announces an new open source project using the new MVC framework, and a number of other best practices.