Web Development

• Adding OpenID to Your Web Site in Conjunction with ASP.NET Membership (Dan Hounshell)
• Showing Some MVC Support (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #21 – Fake the Data Context (Stephen Walther)

Silverlight

• Brad Abrams – Program Manager .NET Framework on Silverlight and .NET (Schalk Neethling)
• Bubbly Skin Updated for Beta 2 (Corrina Barber)
• Silverlight 2 + NHibernate.LINQ == Sweet (Shawn Wildermuth)

.NET / Visual Studio

• StructureMap: Medium-Level Usage Scenarios (Chad Myers)
• Exposing Custom Performance Counters in .NET (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Lambda and Scope in C# (Leon)

Design / Methodology

• Too-Smart-Business-Object Anti-Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• Ward’s Wiki Is Still a Great Resource (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Bellware Driven Design (Greg Young)
• Patterns for Using Distributed Hash Tables (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Distributed in Memory Cache / Storage (Oren Eini)
• PowerShell Laptop Stickers (Jeffrey Snover)
• Live Mesh Tutorial: Synchronizing Windows Live Messenger Content (Chris)
• Local Tweets on AIR (Sarah Perez)
• New Show: Countdown to PDC2008 (Mike Swanson)

Link-O-Rama

• New and Notable 253 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: July 19, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for July 20, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Requirements Debate

• It’s Not the Client’s Job to Know What He Needs – It’s Our Job to Find Out (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Doctors We Ain’t (Dave Laribee)

Design / Methodology

• Separation of Concerns By Example: Part 4 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Ward Bell and I Wade Into O/R Mapping Issues (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How Microsoft’s p&p Teams Do Daily Standup Meetings (Ade Miller)
• Too Much Quality (Jacob Proffitt)
• Enterprise Architect – Joke or Joker? (Richard Veryard)
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Read-Write Cache and Practical Concurrency Patterns: Thread-Local Cache (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Channel 9 – C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team (Granville Barnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• #region. Sliced Bread or Sliced Worms? (Eric Gunnerson)
• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code (Matthew Podwysocki) – Link of the Day
• Anonymous Delegates, How I Love Thee (Josh Twist)
• Very Simple .NET Thumbnail Creation Code (Brad Abrams)
• CLR Security Team CodePlex Site (Shawn F.)
• Looking at EF Performance – Some Surprises (Julie Lerman)
• Mocking Expensive Template Methods (Davy Brion)
• Back to Basics – Everyone Remember Where We Parked (That Memory)! (Scott Hanselman)
• 5 Things I Like Better About NetBeans Than Visual Studio (Jim Hoffman)
• Scrubbing Null Values From a DataReader (John Papa)
• How to Navigate Around Your Code in Visual Studio (Ged Mead)
• Mastering F# Lists (Chris Smith)
• Identity Framework for .NET (René Løhde)
• MSDN Code Gallery – Functional C# – Release: v0.1 (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight / WPF

• Learning WPF with BabySmash – MVC or MVP and the Benefits of a Designer (Scott Hanselman)
• How About Some LIVE Silverlight Service Debugging? (Tim Heuer)
• Animation Hands on Lab for Silverlight 2 (Adam Kinney)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #17 – How to Run an ASP.NET MVC Application (Stephen Walther)
• SubSonic: New Code Samples and a SubStage Walkthrough (Rob Conery)
• Static Singletons for ASP.NET Controls (Rick Strahl)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 – Introduction to SPARSE Columns (Pinal Dave)
• Installing Clustered SQL Servers – Outline, Checklists, Document Sheets (Chad Boyd)
• Observations on Embedded Databases (Oren Eini)

Events / Community

• Community Megaphone Plug-In for Windows Live Writer (Frank La Vigne)
• Find Nearby Events with Windows Live Writer Search Mobile and Community Megaphone (G. Andrew Duthie)
• NINE Questions with Rachel Appel (Chris Williams)

Miscellaneous

• My First-Hand Experience with Microsoft Surface (Archis Gore)
• The Saga of an Ultimate Virtualization Rig: Part 3 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows XP Ain’t the Only OS Retiring This Year: Goodbye Windows 3.11 (Brad Linder)
• The Phone Screen (Alex Mueller)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #87 (Tim Boland)
• Link Listing – July 9, 2008 and Link Listing – July 10, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Double Shot #245 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2008 – Early Edition (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (7/10/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Visual Studio Links #49 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #134 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Amazing Introduction to NDepend (Patrick Smacchia)
• VB.NET: The Ugly Duckling (Tony Davis)
• DimeCast #20 – Testing Abstract Classes with Rhino Mocks (Derik Whittaker)
• A Sneak Preview of Typemock Racer : Thread Deadlock Finder and Non Paged CLR Host (Roy Osherove)
• Mocking the LINQ to SQL Data Context (Andrew Tokeley)
• Code Generation in Visual Studio Using T4 Templates – Screencast and Sample (David Hayden)
• Keeping LINQ Code Healthy (K. Scott Allen)
• Use This NHibernate Wrapper to Keep Your Repository Classes Simple (Jeffrey Palermo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Spartan Programming (Jeff Atwood)
• Design Patterns – A Deep Dive 3 (Sunny Chaganty)
• Taking on Dependencies (Eric Gunnerson)
• Super Models, Part 2: Avoid Mutators (Dave Laribee)
• Testing the NuSoft Framework (Joel Ross)

Silverlight / WPF

• Tip: Maximal and Minimal Zoom Level in the MultiscaleImage Control (Martin Mihaylov)
• Tip of the Day #15 – Communicating Between JavaScript and Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Using Silverlight to Create a Video Player (David)
• Tutorial on Styles & Templates Now Available (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Video Blog: TooltipService and Custom ToolTip (Corey Miller)
• Newton Physics Extensions for WPF (Chris Cavanagh)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #15 – Pass Browser Cookies and Server Variables as Action Parameters (Stephen Walther)
• Three Quick Ways to Avoid Widows (Karl Swedberg)
• Deploying ASP.NET MVC on ASP.NET 2.0 (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls (Joe Stagner)
• SubSonic 2.1 Released (Rob Conery)
• User Input in Sheep’s Clothing (Phil Haack)

SharePoint

• Custom Event Content Type (Becky Bertram)
• Branding SharePoint – Part 3: Changing the Look and Feel of SharePoint Components – Intro and Web Parts (Heather Solomon)

SQL Server

• Did You Know the History of SQL Server? (Kalen Delaney)

Miscellaneous

• jpboodhoo.com Launches (finally)!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Everyone Could Use a SecondBrain (Bob Walsh)
• 3 More Ways to Supercharge Firefox (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Microsoft Certified Architect Program (Bill Zack)
• Recipe for Making an MVP (Charles Sterling)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #85 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: July 8, 2008 and Innovation Notes: July 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (7/8/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight News for July 9. 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Silverlight Cream for July 8, 2008 — #320 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #132 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik RadControls for WPF Beta 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
• How to Load CAL Modules from a Website (or Other Locations) (Erwin Vandervalk)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Refactoring with ReSharper, Some Very Nice C# Fixes I Often Use and Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt Outs – Building the Code Camp Web Site (Article 5) (Peter Kellner)
• Using the Entity Framework in a Layered Architecture (John Papa)
• Favorite Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Shortcuts (Corey Schuman)
• MbUnit in Visual Studio Team System 2008 and MbUnit v3 Beta 3 Updates (Andrew Stopford)
• Parallel Extensions – Using Futures to Calculate Pi in Hexidecimal (Bart de Smet)
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 11 of N (Sam Gentile) – Nice post on WCF (pronounced Indigo) – Link of the Day
• C# Singleton Pattern vs. Static Classes (Sam Allen)
• Exploring MEF Extensibility Points (Sidar Ok)
• Back to Basics – Do Namespace Using Directives Affect Assembly Loading? (Scott Hanselman)
• Basic MSBuild Script (Davy Brion)

Design / Methodology

• Swimming Upstream Is Hazardous (K. Scott Allen)
• The Immaturity of In Browser Testing (Jay Fields)
• Get Your Func On (Karl Seguin)
• Beauty vs. Usability – A Tale of Two Masters (Sara Chipps)

Web Development

• ASP.NET ViewState – Client Side State Management (Gil Fink)
• Is Your Website Ready for IE8? (J. Barnes)
• Kill Your Users Table (Rob Conery)
• ASP.NET and Dynamic Languages (Jimmy Schementi)

SQL Server

• SQL Server 2008 – Introduction to New Feature of Backup Compression and Deprecated DataType vardecimal (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Why Can’t Microsoft Ship Open Source Software? (Jeff Atwood)
• Identi.ca Early Adopter Tips (Sara Perez)
• Book Review: IT Architectures and Middleware (2nd Edition) and Book Review: The Sciences of the Artificial (3rd Edition) (Evan Hoff)
• PowerShell Script Repository and Code Signing (Joel Bennett)
• Self-Evangelism (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 3, 2008 and Silverlight News for July 4, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 4, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #84 (Tim Boland)
• Visual Studio Links #46 and Visual Studio Links #47 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for July 3, 2008 and LINKBLOG for July 4, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.04 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #129 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Inter-Column Communication in a WPF GridView (Marlon Grech)
• Talking About Prism with InfoQ (Glenn Block)
• Silverlight DevNuggets Episode 2 Is Now Up (Pete Brown)
• Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 2 of 2) Navigation (Pete Brown)
• Free Silverlight 2 Refcard From DZone (Wei-Ling Chen)
• Flash One Step Closer to Being Indexable – Is Silverlight Next? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• PDF for Silverlight (Amyuni Tech)
• Silverlight Password Box (Maciej Gren)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A Lap Around Microsoft "Velocity" – Cache It NOW! (Bart de Smet)
• Implementing IUpdatable (Part 1) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Architecting LINQ to SQL, Part 10 (Ian Cooper)
• Tree Surgeon 2.0 Released (Matt Hinze)
• Checking Your Source Code and Comments (John Kilmister)

SQL Server

• Database Performance: The Web Layer (Ken Downs)
• SQL Server Cheatsheet (Pinal Dave)

Design / Methodology

• Gunther Lenz on "Practical Software Factories with .NET" (Aslam Khan)
• ASP.NET Design Patterns, Test Driven Development and Agile Development Book List (Stephen Walther)
• What Topics Are Architects Interested In? (Bill Zack)
• Inherit to Be Reused, Not to Reuse (Peter Provost)
• The Collective Agile Discussion (David Starr)
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 10 of N (Sam Gentile)

Web Development

• Abidar – ASP.NET Task Scheduling Framework (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Working with ASP.NET MVC and MvcContrib (Alex Mueller)
• How to Programmatically Tell If an IIS AppPool Is 32-bit or 64-bit (Scott Hanselman)
• Extending ASP.NET MVC OutputCache ActionFilterAttribute – Adding Substitution (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET Client Side State Management (Gil Fink)

Miscellaneous

• Listen to Podcasts in Less Time (Jeff Atwood)
• Free Security Book: HAC (Josh Poley)
• Selecting a SharePoint List in a Webpart Toolpart (Ton Stegeman)
• Famous Quotes from Bill Gates – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• 13 FriendFeed Tools for Twitter Refugees (Calley Nye)
• Relativism, Crucibles and Criticism (Matt Hinze)
• Soft Skills for the Programmer (Brian Reindel)
• ALT.NET Canada Open Spaces Is Now Taking Requests (Kyle Baley)

Green News

• Tesla 4-Door Model S Sedan Will Be $60,000 (Jason Chen)
• Why I’m Buying a Tesla Sedan (Robert Scoble)
• Tesla Confirms Model S Sedan, 225-Mile Range and $60k (Damon Lavrinc) – Link of the Day
• Getting Wrapped Up in Solar Textiles (Sarah H. Wright)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: June 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #44 (Darren Stokes)
• Daily Find #82 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight News for July 1, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• LINKBLOG for June 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• WMOC#9 – Lambdas and Extension Method Scoping and WSDAC#9 – Command Line DSL the Ultimate! (Dilip Krishnan)
• Silverlight Cream for June 30, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #126 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – June 30, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Long list of quality posts today. Enjoy!

.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Synchronized Dictionary (Schalk Neethling)
• F-In-Box (via DotNetKicks) – A .NET Flash container control.
• .NET Rocks! – Naveen Yajaman on Visual Studio Tools for Applications (MS Downloads)
• VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension (Phil Haack)
• The Dreaded No Such Interface Supported Error (Darren Stokes)
• Oh That No-Confidence Vote on E.F. and Jimmy Nilsson on LINQ to SQL and EF (Julie Lerman)
• Dissecting LINQ Expression Trees – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Back to Basics: var != Dim (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day (tie)
• WCF Unity (CodePlex)
• Twitter WCF Client (Petar Vucetin)
• An xUnit.net Assert.Throws Code Snippet (Ade Miller)
• Foundations of Programming Ebook (Karl Seguin)
• Pex – Automated Exploratory Testing for .NET (MS Research)
• Design of LINQ to SQL – What Was I Thinking or Was I? (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• The var War is Brewing (Derik Whittaker)

Web Development

• Resolving HttpContext Members Using Ninject Providers (Matt Hinze)
• Tools to Block and Eradicate SQL Injection (Joe Stagner)
• Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection (MS Downloads)
• MVC Storefront: What’s Next with Episode 15 (Rob Conery)
• Hosting an Entire ASP.NET MVC Request for Testng Purposes (Chad Myers)
• Examining ASP.NET 2.0′s Membership, Roles and Profile – Part 11 (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET MVC Content Aggregator (Simone Chiaretta)
• Doesn’t Anyone Bookmark Anymore? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #1 – Create New HTML Helpers with Extension Methods (Stephen Walther)

Design / Methodology

• Separation of Concerns By Example: Part 2 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Looking at nServiceBus – Added to Tonight’s Presentation (Sam Gentile)
• DSL + UML = Pragmatic Modeling (Cameron Skinner)
• Designing Controllers (Sean Chambers)
• The Art of Software Estimation (Joel Ross)
• Features Do Not Exist (Only Benefits) (Max Pool)
• Does Our Addiction on Visual Tooling Harm the Rate of Innovation in the .NET World? (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day (tie)

Silverlight / WPF

• Composite Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight and PrismAG (Gunther Lenz)
• Client-Side Database with Silverlight? (Peter Bromberg)
• Silverlight Soft-Body Physics (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight 2 Media Player Project Now Open Source (Tim Heuer)
• Fish Eye Control in Silverlight (Andrew Woodward)
• Silverlight 2 Samples: Animating Controls (Martin Grayson)
• Dynamic Data Entry with WPF and LINQ (Beth Massi)
• WPF Flickr Viewer Using LINQ to XML (Sacha Barber)
• CSLA Light Data Portal and N-Level Undo (Rocky Lhotka)
• Tweening Equations for Silverlight (Adam Kinney)

Miscellaneous

• Evernote 3.0 Polishes Interface, Add Mac Client (Kevin Purdy)
• Dime Casts – Great Ten Minute Development Tutorials (Rhonda Tipton)
• Replacing Notepad with Notepad 2 and Quite Tip: Making Firefox Work with SharePoint (Brian Ellis)
• Microsoft VP Confirms Windows 7 Ship Date: January 2010 (Paul Thurrott)
• Revisiting the XML Angle Bracket Tax (Jeff Atwood)
• ATM Fail! (FAIL Blog) – Windows activation message on an ATM screen. Nice.
• PowerShell Authenticode Signatures and Trust… (Joel Bennett)
• Discovering Great XP and Vista Themes (Sarah Perez)

SharePoint

• Indexing and Searching Documents in Multiple Languages (Part I) (Patrick Tisseghem)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for June 24, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• Interesting Finds: June 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for June 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (6/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• WSDAC#8 – MVP MVC and Everything In-Between and WMOC#8 – Functional Programming in C# and WSOAC#21 – Service Design (Dilip Krishnan)
• Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #122 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Retrieve and Process an RSS Feed in Silverlight 2 (Pete Brown)
• Stylize Standard WPF Tabs Into Aqua Gel (Shafqat Ahmed)
• Beta 1 of the AgDataGrid Suite for Silverlight 2 (Schalk Neethling)
• Look Ma’ No Code (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight’s XAML Relative URI’s and "Site of Origin" (Shawn Wildermuth)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ViewModel Pattern Extended with the Dynamic Language Runtime (Nikhil Kothari)
• Role-Playing Game Tutorial #2 Now Available (XNA Team)
• ASP.NET – Preventing SQL Injection Attacks (Schalk Neethling)
• Binding Private and Internal Members Using the CompositionContainer (David Kean)
• Should LINQ to SQL Go Open Source? (Leon Bambrick)
• Building Custom Paging with LINQ, ListView, DataPager and ObjectDataSource (Muhammad M. Mosa Soliman)
• .NET Rocks! – F# Moves Forward (MS Downloads)
• NDepend – Deep Code Metrics (John-Daniel Trask)
• Objectively Evaluating O/R Mappers (or How to Make It Easy to Dump NHibernate) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• LINQ to MSI – Part 2 – Queryable Without an I (Bart de Smet)
• WYSIWYG Progress Circle for .NET Framework (C#) (Umut Tezduyar)

PowerShell

• Getting Credentials From the Command Line (Jeffrey Snover)
• Visual Studio Startup Script (Ade Miller)

Design / Methodology

• An Introduction to Software Factories (Gunther Lenz)
• The 5 Types of Poor Architects (Buu Nguyen)
• Refactoring an Established Domain Model (Sean Chambers)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 118 – Lean Software Development with Tom and Mary Poppendieck (Scott Hanselman)
• Your New Process (Some Assembly Required) (Max Pool)

SharePoint

• Redirection Web Part – Example (Liam Cleary)

SQL Server

• SQL Server 2008 – Four Key Pillars and Introduction to Policy Management – Enforcing Rules on SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Database Performance 1: Huge Inserts (Ken Downs)

Miscellaneous

• SnagIt 9 Is Released and Ready For Download (John Papa)
• MobileMe vs. Live Mesh (Sarah Perez)
• Speeding Up Vista Boot Time (Peter Provost) – Nice tip.
• A Smart Social Media Play From… Coca-Cola? (Josh Catone)
• PodiPodi Wants to Be Your Web Command Line (Mike Gunderloy)
• Bill G. Interview on the BBC (Nick Mayhew)
• Software Development and Programming Podcasts (Alan Lok) – Link of the Day
• Bill Gates’ Phone Number (Steve Clayton)
• Return of the ’70s Weirdos (Paul Thurrott)

Link-O-Rama

• Innovation Notes: June 20, 2008 and Interesting Finds: June 21, 2008 and Interesting Finds: June 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 20, 2008 — #305 and Silverlight Cream for June 22, 2008 — #306 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for June 20, 2008 and LINKBLOG for June 21, 2008 and LINKBLOG for June 22, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Bookmarking the Web – w25/2008 (Erwin)
• Silverlight News for June 22, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Visual Studio Links #40 (Darren Stokes)
• Everyman Links for June 21, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Link Post 47 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (6/22/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #120 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.06.23 (gOODiDEA)

Book of the Day

Here’s today’s Dew Droplet. It’s a Dew Drop, only bite-sized to improve the WAF during vacation.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Functional C# – Learn From F# and LINQ (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Performing Join Queries with NHibernate CreateAlias (Billy McCafferty)
• The Missing .NET #5: Tracepoints (Jason Kemp)
• Making Web Requests in the ASP.NET AJAX (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Ninject Hits 1.0 (Joel Ross)
• Dizzy Has Added a Few More Methods (Justin Etheredge)
• Visual Studio as My IronPython Editor (Haibo Luo)

Design / Methodology

• Hook Methods (Dave Laribee)
• Everything You Wanted to Know About MVC and MVP but Were Afraid to Ask (Phil Haack)
• Separation of Concerns – How Not to Do It (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Poor Man’s UI Composition (Francis K. Cheung)
• Silverlight Streaming Publishing Plugin for Expression Encoder 2 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A Custom Shader Effect Tutorial for WPF and 3rd Party Silverlight Controls (Adam Kinney)
• Pushing Data to a Silverlight Clients with a WCF Duplex Service – Part I (Dan Wahlin)
• Changes in the New DeepZoom Composer (Martin Mihaylov)
• Protecting My Intellectual Property / XAML (Rudi Grobler)

Miscellaneous

• What Happens When You Go Away on Vacation for a Month? (Lisa Olson)
• What’s the Buzz? : BuzzNumbers Can Tell You (Frank Arrigo)
• Coming Soon to a Computer Near You (Maryann Lawlor)

Link-O-Rama

• LINKBLOG for June 16, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for June 16, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #116 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: June 17, 2008 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology

• Whatever Happened to UI Consistency? (Jeff Atwood)
• SimpleStateMachine on CodePlex (Kyle Baley)
• Architecting Twitter (Oren Eini)
• This Is Agile Working Well (David Starr)
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 3 of N (Sam Gentile)

Web Development

• URL Rewriting Across App Domains (Joel Ross)
• MVC Storefront: Dependency Injection (Rob Conery)
• Microsoft’s Silverlight Boss on How Silverlight 2 Fits in with Media and RIA Scenarios (RIA News Desk)
• Where Is Silverlight Going? (or — Why Silverlight Will Succeed) (Peter Bromberg)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Quick Blurb: Test Tools Toolbar in Visual Studio and Useless Icons (Omer van Kloeten)
• Introducing BabySmash – A WPF Experiment and Learning WPF with BabySmash – Configuration with DataBinding (Scott Hanselman)
• NDepend – Static Analysis Made in Heaven (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• We Don’t Need No String.Format Binding! (Paul Stovell)

Events / Community

• LessThanDot: A New Community Site Has Been Launched (Denis Gobo)

SQL Server

• PIVOT Table Example (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Injection Continued (Tom)

SharePoint

• Things to Think About When Planning a SharePoint Solution (Ishai Sagi)

Miscellaneous

• Acrobat.com Beta and MinWin: Is It or Isn’t It Part of Windows 7? (Paul Thurrott)
• Acrobat.com – Game Changer or Me Too? (Mike Gunderloy)
• 6 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Be a Web Worker (Celine Roque)
• Tip: Path Variable Expansion in Vista (Pete Brown)
• Catching Up with the Plumbers (James Kovacs)
• Welcome to the World of Git (Jeremy Jarrell)
• When the Going Gets Tough or, How to Improve Your Life as a Developer (Michael Eaton)
• Staying Humble (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Data Programmability Advisory Council (Jarod Ferguson)
• Large USB Flash Drive Performance (Jeff Atwood)
• SilckEdit 2008 Review (Mike Riley)
• Live Mesh Desktop Wallpapers (Chris)
• Introducing the Microsoft Store (Sumeeth Evans)

Blogging

• Announcing Brevity (Frank La Vigne)
• Windows Live Writer Plugin for DotNetKicks Alpha (John Papa)
• Windows Live Writer CTP Released and The New Live Writer SDK (Scott)

PowerShell

• WPF & PowerShell – Part 7 (Sharing Hosts) (James Brundage)

Link-O-Rama

• Visual Studio Links #35 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: June 2, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #73 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for June 2, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Software Development and Architecture Crumbs #6 (Dilip Krishnan)
• The Morning Brew #106 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• How to Build Your Very Own Provider Model – Part 3 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• MVC Storefront: Best Episode Yet Is on Its Way Monday (Rob Conery)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Tooling Updates and Update NUnit Test Project Templates (Joe Cartano)

.NET / Visual Studio

• BooLangStudio: Boo in Visual Studio (Oren Eini)
• SubSonic: Update on 3.5 Plans (Rob Conery)
• Dark Side with Blue Hues (John Papa) - Nice VS theme.
• A Major Silverlight PITA and Two Annoying 3.0 Limitations (Lee Richardson)
• Sandcastle – May 2008 Release (v2.4.10520) (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• 6 Great Tools For Writing a Book (John Papa)
• Glide Unveils New Version of Web OS (Brad Linder)
• Flowchart.com Offers Online Drawing Tools (Mike Gunderloy)
• The 33 Languages of SQL Server (Joe Webb)

Design / Methodology

• What the &@$#* Is a ‘Best Practice’ Anyway? (Derik Whittaker) - Link of the Day
• Simple State Machine (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Create Custom Policy Programmatically (Andrew Woodward)
• Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (MS Downloads)

Career

• Develop Your Skills at Microsoft (Gretchen Ledgard)

Events / Community / Blogging

• Why You Want to Book Your PDC2008 Ticket Now (Tim Sneath)
• Professionalism, Programming, and Punditry and Success as a Metric (Scott Hanselman)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2008 and Innovation Notes: May 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #34 (Darren Stokes)
• Links Today (2008-05-30) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 30, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for May 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #72 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.31 (gOODiDEA)
• Everyman Links for May 30, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day