Design / Methodology / Testing

• Poll Results: Threading, Mock Frameworks and Unit Test Frameworks (Roy Osherove)
• Presumed Hostile – Your Application Is Out to Get You (Michael Janke)
• Lessons That I Learned From Waegis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Using an ORM? Think Objects! (K. Scott Allen)
• The Blame Game: How Necessary Is Traceability? (Max Pool)
• Understanding Dependency Injection (Mohammad Azam)
• Using Flip Video’s Mino for Programming (Mike Riley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting Them to Play Nice (Part 3) (Tom Hollander)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1) (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Building a Configuration Binder for MEF with POCO Support (Sidar Ok)
• Doing Nothing in .NET (Chris Love)
• IsNull Extension Method (Steven Smith)
• LINQ Farm: More on Set Operators (Charlie Calvert)
• ASP.NET Client Side State Management – Hidden Fields (Gil Fink)

Events / Community

• Community Megaphone Silverlight Map (Frank La Vigne)
• Philly.NET – An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight – July 16th (Community Megaphone)
• Philly ALT.NET Meeting – Building Maintainable Applications with WPF – July 17th (Community Megaphone)
• Learning NHibernate? Join the Email List with 600 Other Users (Jeffrey Palermo)

SharePoint

• FarPoint Has Released Their Spread Control for SharePoint (Bob Mixon)
• GetActiveFeatureDefinitions – A SharePoint PowerShell Function (Darrin Bishop)
• SharePoint Toolbox – Release: Project Site v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 – Introduction to SPARSE Columns – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 13, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight News for July 14, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• LINKBLOG for July 13, 2008 and LINKBLOG for July 14, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Link Post 50 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links #9 (Grant Palin)
• Links (7/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: July 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #135 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #51 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

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)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik RadControls for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Emil Stoychev)
• Using the ToolTip Control in Silverlight 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Mega-FAQ (Laurent Duveau) – Link of the Day
• Silverlight Rich Text Editor – Release Beta 2.0 (CodePlex)
• New VSM Tutorials by Celso Gomes (Christian Schormann)
• Northwind N-Tier Blueprint Application Using WPF/WCF/LINQ to SQL (Cool Wayfarer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• DimeCasts.Net #9 – Creating Templates in Visual Studio and Code Annotations Are a Slick Feature From SlickTools (Derik Whittaker)
• ReSharper 4.0 Released and Profiling with dotTrace (Chris Brandsma)
• New Webcast: Creating Snippets in Visual Studio (Dan Rigsby)
• The Weekly Source Code 28 – iPhone with ASP.NET MVC Edition (Scott Hanselman)
• Managing Settings in Visual Studio (Chris Love)
• Bindable LINQ: Bindable Aggregates (Paul Stovell)
• Dizzy Published (Justin Etheredge)
• What Really Went Wrong? Check the Inner Exception (Peter van Ooijen)

SQL Server

• T-SQL Script to Divide One Column into Two Columns (Pinal Dave)

Design / Methodology

• The Cost of Defects (Evan Hoff)
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 8 of N (Sam Gentile)
• What Can a Hybrid Car Teach Us About Continuous Improvement? (Jeremy Jarrell)

SharePoint

• Podcasting Kit for SharePoint Released to CodePlex (William Cornwill)

Miscellaneous

• Why Are Our Programs Still Represented by Flat Files? (Rick Minerich)
• iPhone 3G. The G Stands for Groan.   (Chris Hollander)
• Syntactic Noise (Martin Fowler)
• RIA Job Openings on the Rise (Pete Brown)
• Separated at Birth? and Apple Bores at Microsoft-esque WWDC Keynote (Paul Thurrott)
• New Proof: Office 14 Slated for 2009 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Want to Try Out MobileMe? Check Out SproutCore (Jason Kincaid)
• DestroyFlickr Breathes AIR Into Flickr (Josh Lowensohn)

Events / Community

• Windows 7 at the PDC (Steve Clayton)

Link-O-Rama

• LINKBLOG for June 9, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for June 9, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
• WMOC #7: TechEd, Velocity and WSDAC #7: Enterprise Architecture, Scrum in 5 Minutes (Dilip Krishnan)
• Daily Find #77 (Tim Boland)
• Links of the Week June 8 2008 (Chris Love)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.06.10 (gOODiDEA)
• Silverlight Cream for June 09, 2008 — #295 (Dave Campbell)
• Finds of the Week – June 9, 2008 (Chinh Do)
• The Morning Brew #111 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Gadget of the Day

Design / Methodology

• Enterprise Architecture: A Joke, A Failure… or an Opportunity? (Bob McIlree) - Link of the Day
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 2 of N (Sam Gentile)
• Object Oriented Programming Has Failed Us (Dave M. Bush)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Support with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (Scott Guthrie)
• Logging Application Block and Unity Screencast – EntLib 4.0 (David Hayden)
• MvcContrib 0.0.1.117 Released to Match ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Brazilian Waxing, Choosing a JavaScript Framework and Why I Don’t Like ASP.NET AJAX (Peter Eysermans)

.NET / Visual Studio

• BackgroundWorker, Closure and Overridable Task (Patrick Smacchia)
• Coding Style Per Project (Sergio Pereira)
• Open Source Software in C# (via dzone)
• Announcing Visual Studio MythWeek!! (Nandita)
• How to Write a Terminal Services Add-In in Pure C# (Selvin)
• WCF Visualizers – Release v1.6 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Bindable LINQ 1.0 Beta 1 (Paul Stovell)
• LINQ to SQL with WCF in a Multi Tiered Action – Part 2 (Sidar Ok)

SQL Server

• Just Say No to Manual CRUD (Russell Ball)
• SQL Server Programming Hacks (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Understanding the Crawler Architecture in SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008 (Bill English)
• Where to Deploy My Silverlight XAP File? (Patrick Tisseghem)
• Even If Your PC Once Didn’t Support Datasheet View, It May Do So Later (Mike Walsh)

Miscellaneous

• Amiga Forever 2008: What’s New (via dzone)
• Welcome to Acrobat.com – Work. Together. Anywhere. (Erik Larson) - Adobe re-branding a number of its online beta offerings under the Acrobat name.
• Adobe Pushes Acrobat Into Online Office Space Against Microsoft, Google (Eric Lai)
• Adobe Acrobat Takes Big Online Leap (Elsa Wenzel)
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Launched (Cristian)
• FlixPulse: Twitter Movie Reviews (Matthew Hurst)

Link-O-Rama

• Weekly Link Post 44 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (6/1/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 1, 2008 — #288 (Dave Campbell)
• Finds of the Week – May 31, 2008 (Chinh Do)
• The Morning Brew #105 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – June 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Awesome Toy of the Day

Design / Methodology

• When Does Design Happen in Agile? (Ian Cooper)
• Does Programming to Interfaces Buy Us Anything? (Ben Northrop) - This guy’s just begging for a comment flame war. Don’t let Bellware see this one.  

Silverlight / WPF

• Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 – Part One and Part Two and Part Three and Part Four (Faisal Khan) - Nice four-part series on Silverlight animation. Link(s) of the Day.
• WPF Multipage Reports – Part II – Data Grouping (Jan Repisky)
• Revolutionizing the User Interface (Introducing MenuKiller for WPF) (Zlatan Dzinic)
• Awesome DeepZoom Demo (Pete Brown)
• Chiron (Jimmy Schementi) – "This contains Chiron.exe, the Silverlight development web server for Dynamic Languages, with a fix for the IPv4/6 issues."
• Trying Out Binding.StringFormat (Mike Hillberg)

.NET / Visual Studio

• REST Services and Metadata Endpoints in WCF and Extending WCF InstanceContext to Store Custom State (Dan Rigsby)
• What’s Wrong With this? (Alan Mendelvich) - I’m not a fan of this. Code readability issues should be resolved with proper naming conventions.
• WCF Callbacks: A Beginner’s Guide (Barry Dorrans)
• Detailed Code Metrics with NDepend (Maarten Balliauw)
• ReSharper Introspection Severity and the var Keyword (David Hayden)
• Utilizing Your .NET Projects Automated Acceptance Tests on Crystal Reports – Part 2 (Eric Landes)
• What’s on Your Entity Framework v2 Wish List? (John Papa)
• Foundations of Programming – Part 8 – Back to Basics: Exceptions (Karl Seguin)
• Fluent Interfaces and Readability (Joel Ross)
• No More null Checking on Your IEnumerables Before You Iterate Over Them (John)
• IronRuby and Rails (John Lam) – Congrats to John and the IronRuby team!

Web Development

• ViewData "dot" Notation Expressions in ASP.NET MVC (Matt Hawley)

SharePoint

• Pimp My Content Deployment Job (Stefan Goßner)
• Updating Pages Library with Default Page Content Type (Becky Bertram)
• Presentations for Introductory SharePoint Development (MS Downloads)
• One CAS Policy for Many Web Part Assemblies (Patrick Tisseghem)

Miscellaneous

• Deep Fried Bytes Podcast Is Live (Keith Elder)
• Pure Digital Flip Video Ultra Review (Scott Hanselman) - I need to get this for my wife.
• Get Your Learning On!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Holy Crap – I Like to Write Specs! (Mike Desjardins)
• Gmail Labs? (Ionut Alex Chitu)
• Automating the PowerShell Script Repository (Joel Bennett)
• Authorization and Encryption in Live Mesh (Steve Clayton)
• Turbografx Emulator Hits iPhone (Rob Beschizza) - Ok, now I officially need an iPhone.
• Strong Opinions, Weakly Held (Jeff Atwood)

Blogging / Community

• Calm Days for the .NET Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Great Podcast About the Development Community (Rhonda Tipton)
• Using FriendFeed’s Public Links (Sarah Perez)
• Community Call to Action: NOT Northwind (Scott Hanselman)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for May 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links Today (2008-05-29) (Matt Hinze)
• Squeezed Links: May 2008 (Max Pool)
• Links (5/29/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Everyman Links for May 29, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Link Listing – May 29, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #104 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• PDF Image Grabber (Lou Franco)
• Windows Live Agents SDK Released (Scott)
• The Unit Testing Story in F# Revisited (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Some Great Free WinForms Controls – Krypton (Casey Charlton) - Not many people releasing good, free controls for WinForms lately.
• NHibernate Many-to-Many Collections (OR Mapping Is Not One Table One Class) (Peter van Ooijen)
• Propagating the ActivityID to a WCF Service (Josh Twist)

Web Development

• MVC Storefront Challenge Kickoff (Jimmy Bogard)
• Using jQuery to Directly Call ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods (Dave Ward)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Namespaces – Part 4 – The WPF Subset (Daniel Moth)
• WPF Dialogs and DialogResult (Marlon Grech)
• Keeping Focused on Silverlight and Data (John Papa)
• Silverlight Rectangles, Paths, and Lines (Dave Campbell)

Design / Methodology

• The Role of Architecture in Agile Development (Kevlin Henney)
• Patterns in Practice: The Open Closed Principle (Jeremy D. Miller) - Link of the Day
• Test-Driven Development and Software Quality (John Smart)
• Designing For Evil (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• MOSS Shopping Cart Beta 1.0 (CodePlex)
• Getting Started with SharePoint and Silverlight – Part II (Joris Poelmans)
• Building and Distributing Workflows in SharePoint Products and Technologies – Sample Code (MSDN Code Gallery)

Miscellaneous

• SAAS: Connect Enterprise Apps with Hosted BizTalk Services (Jon Flanders & Aaron Skonnard)
• Static vs Dynamic Languages – Attack of the Clones (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Ideas for Writing Composable PowerShell Scripts (Joel Bennett)
• Microsoft’s Survival Strategy (Maggie Shiels)
• Windows 7 Multi-Touch Hi-Res Shots (Paul Thurrott)
• ‘Harold & Kumar 2′ Goes Interactive for DVD Release (Tim Briscoe) - Choose Your Own Adventure!
• A Software Developer Trying to Get in Shape with the Wii Fit?? (Dan Wahlin)
• Coding4Fun Book for Sale at Amazon! (Brian Peek)
• g.ho.st and Glide Show Web OS Innovation at D6 (Rafe Needleman)
• Sweetter 2.0 teta (via MoMB) - An Open Source Microblogging site.
• Text 2 Mind Map – An Online Converter (via MoMB)

Blogging / Networking

• The Social Media Resume: Making Your Mark in a Web 2.0 World (Celine Roque)

Events / Community / Presenting

• Welcome to PDC08! (Brad Abrams)
• stackoverflow Podcast #7 (Jeff Atwood)
• Tips From My Technical Presentations (Chris Bowen)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #70 and Daily Find #71 (Tim Boland)
• Visual Studio Links #33 (Darren Stokes)
• Links Today (2008-05-28) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for May 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #103 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• PHP Support in Expression Web 2 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Script#: Events/Delegates in an Atlas/MS Ajax Style Script (Jay Kimble)
• ASP.NET Tips: Expression Web vs Visual Studio (Tom)
• Microsoft Research’s DOLOTO Makes AJAX Twice as Fast (Rick Minerich)
• Slick Button Maker (Lou Franco)

.NET / Visual Studio

• EF: How Referential Integrity Works (Elisa Flasko)
• ReSharper 4 Beta Released and Downloaded (John Papa)
• Conditional Extension Method (Chris Cavanagh)
• VSX Developer Center Updated – May 2008 (VSX Team)
• How to Get the File Path of an Executing Assembly? (Soon Hui)
• Give Us Your Feedback: Take the Visual Studio Survey (Charlie Calvert)

Silverlight / WPF

• My Silverlight Session (Daniel Moth)
• Simple Skinnable and Theme Management in WPF User Interface (Alkampfer)
• Reusable Silverlight Popup Logic (Chuck Kinnan)
• WPF & PowerShell – Part 2 (Exploring WPF (and the Rest of .NET) with Scripts) (James Brundage)

Design / Methodology

• Viewing Your Backlog (David Starr)

Miscellaneous

• OpenID: Does the World Really Need Yet Another Username and Password? (Jeff Atwood) - Link of the Day
• Understanding Total Hits & Paging in the MOSS 2007 Search API (Andrew Connell)
• FriendFeed – Now Offers Rooms (Dolores Parker)
• 9 Firefox Extensions to Protect Your Privacy (Mike Gunderloy)
• Hot New Updates to SkyDrive (Sunshine)
• Guitar Hero World Tour Gets Official (Sean Fallon)
• Offline Wikipedia Viewer for the iRex Iliad (Amir)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 22, 2008 and Innovation Notes: May 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 22, 2008 — #280 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (5/22/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #100 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET

• Prism, CAB, and WinForms Futures (Glenn Block)

PowerShell

• In Praise of TypeConverters – Spread the Love (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Zune Clock Has Arrived (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Twitter This, Twitter That… (Rick Strahl)
• Turning Off Automatic Syncing in Zune – How’s It Done? (Mike Walsh)
• SlickEdit 2008 at First Glance (Dave Campbell)
• Hello World! (Chris Deluca) – A developer on the MSDN Subscriber Downloads site begins blogging.
• Create a Deep Zoom Panorama with Windows Live and First of Many New Live Developer Articles (John O’Brien)
• Wix Widgets, Some Ideas (Amit Knaani)
• Three Reasons to Use Disqus (Fred Wilson)
• My Verdict on Disqus: Two Thumbs Up (Matthew Ingram)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-10) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for May 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Everyman Links for May 9, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Why You Should Wrap Your ASP.NET Session Object (Shahar Abramovich)
• New Release of SmartTools for SharePoint (Jan Tielens)

Miscellaneous

• 3 Places to Keep Your Pocket Code (Besides Your Pocket) (Max Pool)
• Day-to-Day with Subversion (Bil Simser) - Link of the Day
• 35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Messenger TV Is Coming Soon (Sunshine)
• Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop (Michael Arrington)
• OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Announcement (OOO Marketing)
• Halo, Office 2007, Safari Now on U3 (With the Help of One Man) (Everything USB)
• iRex’s iLiad Book Edition e-book Reader (John Brownlee)
• Amazon Kindle on the Road (Rick Strahl)
• How to Make Late Software Even Later (Casey Charlton)
• Social Networks/Blogging and Self-Improvement (Rhonda Tipton)
• Intwition Shows You Who’s Tweeting About Your Blog (Brad Linder)
• Service Pass-Through in Neuron ESB (David Pallmann)

.NET

• A Limitation of Lambda Expressions and Overloaded Extension Methods (Omer van Kloeten)
• Covariance and Contravariance, Part Eleven: To Infinity, but Not Beyond (Eric Lippert)
• Do You Really Need a Data Access Layer with LINQ? (Jason Young)
• Introducing Machine.Specifications (or MSpec for Short) (Aaron Jensen)
• Exception Handling – Do’s and Don’ts (Misbah Arefin)
• Building an F# Powered Indexing System (Kurt)
• A .NET Cryptography Primer, Part Four (Will McGurk)

Silverlight / WPF / Popfly

• The Silverlight Tutorials & Book & More and Dynamically Creating and Destroying Containers and Dynamically Creating User Controls That Fire Events Back to You (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF For Line of Business Applications (Marc)
• Silverlight, WCF and LINQ to SQL (John Papa)
• Capping Your Actor’s Speed (Ben Anderson)
• Creating a Computer Game with My Granddaughter (Michael Leonard)
• Prism vs Framework XXX (Glenn Block)
• Great Silverlight 2 Demo: Healthcare Demonstrator (Tim Sneath)
• Popfly Game Creator: Video Walk-Thru (Jason Flynn)

Visual Studio

• Unescape My Strings (Sergio Pereira)
• Announcing: XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) (David Weller)
• Using Database Projects for Visual Studio (Ira)

Events / Community

• Our .NET Community (Julie Lerman)

SQL Server

• Should SQL Server Have the CREATE [OR REPLACE] PROCEDURE Syntax? (Denis Gobo)
• What’s the Difference in a GDR, a Cumulative Update, and a Service Pack? (Joe Webb)
• How to Rename Database Objects to Comply with Naming Conventions (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #64 (Tim Boland)
• Links Today (2008-05-07) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 07, 2008 — #269 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for May 7 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links (5/7/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #89 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 239 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

For anyone who has issues reading from an LCD or CRT for long periods of time, you can pick up a Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle. Sony’s device will display .doc, .rtf, .pdf, and .txt files out of the box. PDFs can be a little hard to read on the device because of how they are scaled, but there are 3rd party tools out there to convert PDF to RTF.

Matt talks about a free tool to print to PDF files. Another e-printing option built into Windows Vista is the “Microsoft XPS Document Writer” printer. You can create a portable document without installing any 3rd party tools. This option is for anyone who exclusively uses systems that can read the .xps format.

Peace out!