I will eventually get this posted to Studio Styles. Until then, here is a dark theme for Visual Studio that I created. The green and orange give it a Halo-ish feel. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Downloads

HaloVibe theme for VS2008

HaloVibe theme for VS2010

My Xbox 360 NXE Avatar:

I didn’t see a ‘Soul Patch’ in the facial hair section… gotta log an enhancement request on MS Connect.

• Some Finalizer Pitfalls and Not All Bytes Are Exactly 8 Bits (Oren Eini)
• Finalizer vs. Application: A Race Condition From Hell and Guaranteed, Finalization Order Is Not (Sasha Goldshtein)
• CBR/CBZ Comics in C# (thund3rstruck)
• ReSharper 4.0 Lambda Refactoring (David Starr)
• Countdown to F# CTP (Chris Smith)
• There’s Usually an Easier Way (Mike Hadlow)
• Extended DSL Model Explorer – Release v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Migratory Compromises (Dave Laribee)
• The Poetry of Testing and Prevention v. Cure (Part 3) (James Whittaker)
• Three Qualities That Every Piece of Code Should Have (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Going Full Circle with TDD (Kyle Baley)
• .NET Rocks! – Christian Weyer on the Internet Service Bus (MS Downloads)
• Five Questions with Kyle Larsen (Michael Hunter)
• Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History (David Starr)
• SOA Patterns Chapter 2 for Free Download (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Futures Is Out! (Vladimir Milev)
• Using CSLA Light, Part 1 and Part 2 (Rocky Lhotka)
• Expression Blend Training Resources (Frank La Vigne)
• WPF Photo Print (.NET 3.5 SP1) (Chris Cavanagh)
• Behold! Silverlight Streaming! (John Holliday)

Web Development

• Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Released (John O’Brien)
• How to Encrypt Query String Parameters in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #26 – Create a Lightweight Control View Engine (Stephen Walther)

Database

• Quick Tip: Generate Change Script for SQL Modifications (Ryan Lanciaux)
• SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Now Available (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• SQL Server Data Services (Aghy)
• SQL Server – Simple Example of Recursive CTE – Part 2 – MAXRECURSION – Prevent CTE Infinite Loop (Pinal Dave)
• SSDS Demo Code Now on CodePlex (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Magazine Articles for July (Arno Nel)
• Question to SharePoint Developers (Gunnar Peipman)

PowerShell

• DevHawk’s Slightly Useful PowerShell Configuration and Some PowerShell Scripts (Harry Pierson)

Events / Community

• Events This Week – July 28th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the Summer of Arcade and Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 Releases This Week (Larry Hryb)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Guthrie on MIX and Matthew Manela on the MSDN Code Gallery (MS Downloads)
• Cuil Shows Us How Not to Launch a Search Engine (Rafe Needleman)
• Nerd Test Results (Frank La Vigne) – My results are on my About Me page.
• Academics to Get a Glimpse of Microsoft’s Sphere (Ina Fried)
• Windows Live Wave 3: New Photo Feed Service – Windows Live FrameIt (Chris)
• IE8 and Reliability (Andy Zeigler)
• Tigerpress – A Free WordPress Theme (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2 (PhotoshopNews.com)
• The Mojave Experiment (Sunshine)
• Must-Have Software and Tools – July 2008 Edition (Tim Boland)

Link-O-Rama

• Weekly Links #11 (Grant Palin)
• Clearing a Blog Backlog (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.29 (gOODiDEA)
• Silverlight News for July 29, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
• Everyman Links for July 28, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2008 — #337 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #146 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #258 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Lessons Learned in Software Testing: Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord: Books

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to NHibernate in 10 Minutes (Matt Hinze)
• Ward & I Talk Over the EF Vote of No Confidence Document (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Learn How to Use NHibernate with the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series (Scott Hanselman)
• T4 Templates in Visual Studio for Code Generation Screencast (David Hayden)
• Running a x64 Build Server. Challenges Overcome. (Eric Hexter)
• Return a List<T> or ObservableCollection<T> (John Papa)
• 5 Things I Like Better About Visual Studio Than NetBeans (Jim Hoffman)
• C# Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy (MS Downloads)
• What New Windows SDK Features Do You Want? (Win SDK Team)

Events / Community

• Yay! Philly Geek Dinner (Lindsay Rutter)
• CodePlex Project Discussions Mailing Lists (J. Wanagel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Measuring Testers (James Whittaker)
• Dealing with Code Un-Coverable by Tests (Patrick Smacchia)
• Unit Test Boundaries (Phil Haack)
• Update Model – A Question of Identity – Part 2 of 3 (Lawrence Jones)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 6: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee – Part 1 (Keith Elder) – Can’t wait to listen to this one, but I just finished episode 3 of DFB.
• Software Plus Services and Developers (Matt Rosoff)
• How to Communicate Design Decisions to Clients (Brian D. Armstrong)

Silverlight / WPF

• Dynamically Selecting Theme in Silverlight 2 Applications (Zhiming Xue)
• Building a Silverlight Application: A Designer’s Perspective (Corrina Barber)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 1 (Christopher Bennage)
• Silverlight and Multi-Touch Tablets (Bart Czernicki)

SharePoint

• Notes on the Recently Released Infrastructure Update for SharePoint (Chandima Kulathilake)
• LINQ4SP – Query Evaluation (Daniel Leiszen)
• SharePoint Gradual Upgrade Disabled When Using a SQL Instance Named SharePoint and Database Gotchas When Upgrading SPS 2003 to MOSS (Scott Lock)

Web Development

• AJAX Panels with ASP.NET MVC (Timothy Khouri)
• Forcing Client Windows to Pop Up as Windows in Tabbed Browsers (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #23 – Use POCO LINQ to SQL Entities (Stephen Walther)
• My Thoughts on ASP.NET’s MVC (Karl Seguin)
• A Sneak Peek at ASP.NET AJAX 4.0′s Client-Side Templating (Dave Ward)

Miscellaneous

• Computer Manuals (Larry Clarkin)
• The Best Tech Tools and Fitness Plans to Get in Shape (Adam Pash)
• Metered Internet: The Death of Web Work? (Mike Gunderloy) – Link of the Day
• Looking Back – A Review of My Most Popular Blogs (Chris Love)
• Introducing Xbox LIVE Community Games (XNA Team)
• .NET Rocks! – Kirk Munro on PowerShell and PowerGUI (MS Downloads)
• BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 / WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Scalable Fabric (Sarah Perez)
• Games for Windows – LIVE Is Now FREE (Kevin Unangst)
• Building Tiny, Ultra Low Power PCs (Jeff Atwood)

SQL Server

• Introduction to Log Viewer (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: July 21, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #91 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight News for July 22, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2008 — #332 (Dave Campbell)
• WMOC#12 – Terrarium Is Back! and WSOAC#25 – REST Eye For an SOA Guy (Dilip Krishnan)
• Links (7/22/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #142 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Expert 2008 Business Objects Tentative TOC (Rocky Lhotka)
• Project Anti-Patterns: Many projects in a Visual Studio Solution File (Chad Myers)
• Rules for CLR Add-Ins Contract and View Assemblies (Patrick Smacchia)
• IronPython 1.1.2 RC (Harry Pierson)
• .NET-Fu: Zero Delay Signing of an Unsigned Assembly (Schalk Neethling)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #20 – How to Unit Test Data Access (Stephen Walther)
• West Wind Ajax Toolkit Updated (Rick Strahl)
• New Modules for IIS7: Application Request Routing – Proxy and Load Balancing Module (Scott Hanselman)
• National Public Radio to Launch NPR API (Andres Ferrate)

Silverlight

• Tip of the Day #18: How to Set Browser Cookies (Mike Snow)
• CSLA Light Preview Release (Rocky Lhotka)
• Creating a Simple Pivot Table Using LINQ and RadTreeView for Silverlight (Emil Stoychev)

Design / Methodology

• Architecture by Baseball: Jargon (Larry Clarkin)
• Silver Bullet Anti-Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• Object-Firster or Data-Firster: DDD Is for CRUD Apps (Jarod Ferguson)
• What Is More Important – Design or Content? (Tom)

Events / Community

• Events This Week (G. Andrew Duthie)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2007 Infrastructure Update Released (Michael Watson)
• Using Regular Expressions to Build SPList Collections (Adam Buenz)
• PowerShell Building Blocks for SharePoint: Initial Release (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Learning Erlang – Erlang Gaining Momentum (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Joining Microsoft (Hamilton Verissimo)
• The Ultimate Software Gold Plating (Jeff Atwood)
• Xbox 360 New Xbox Experience Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Grouping in XQuery (Erik Wilde)
• WordPress Fun: A Free WordPress Theme (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open (Sunshine)
• Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008 (John Biggs)
• The Undercover Adventure (Part 1): Being a User Is Hard! (Anne Botha)
• Osla: Road to Microsoft’s Cloud (Darryl K. Taft)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 15, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Interesting Finds: July 15, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #90 (Tim Boland)
• Morning Coffee 168 (Harry Pierson)
• LINKBLOG for July 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #52 (Darren Stokes)
• Links (7/15/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2008 — #325 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – July 15, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #137 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for July 16, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Prism and Caliburn’s Future (Rob Eisenberg)
• Expression Encoder SDK Now Available (Pete Brown)
• Popup Control and Beta 2 Tutorials Available Now in PDF (Jesse Liberty)
• Browser Resize – How to Capture the Size of Your Browser When It Is Resized and Dynamically Loading and Display Images in Beta 2 and What’s New with Silverlight Tools Beta 2 (Mike Snow)
• What’s Changed in Silverlight 2 Beta 2? and Upgrading Your Silverlight 2 Projects to Beta 2 and Using ADO.NET Data Services in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Sites and Debugging ADO.NET Data Services… with Fiddler 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Available Plus Refreshed Screencasts (Mike Taulty)
• WPF GlassEffect for Non-Vista OS (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released, Now MSN Toolbar Works (Kip Kniskern)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Data Dude Extensibility – How IBM Integrated DB2 Into Visual Studio and Architecture Modeling in Rosario with Peter Provost (David Starr)
• Using the Visual Studio Tools for the Office System Power Tools v1.0.0.0 (Andrew Whitechapel)
• LINQ DataContext Logging with the Logging Application Block (Ade Miller)
• Functional C# Revisited – Into the Great Void (Matthew Podwysocki)
• VSX Developer Center Update – June 2008 (VSX Team)
• uCertify M70-533: Upgrade MCSD.NET Skills to MCPD Enterprise Developer Using C# Exam Preparation Kit (Muhammad M. Mosa Soliman)
• Give Way to the yield Keyword (Shay Friedman)
• Higher Order Function Demo (Justin Etheredge)

Web Development

• MVC + Facebook == Wonderful Development Platform (Nick Berardi)
• 5 Developer Add-Ons for Firefox 3 (Mike Gunderloy)
• How to Create a Package for Graffiti (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Design / Methodology

• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 7 of N (Sam Gentile)
• Creating a Culture of Quality (John Teague)

SharePoint

• Multiple RSS Aggregator Web Part Example (Zlatan Dzinic)
• SharePoint Quick Surveys 1.0.1 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Miscellaneous

• Opera 9.5 Web Browser Gets a New Look (Brad Linder)
• 10 Tips for Working with the Not-So-Tech-Savvy (Celine Roque)
• How to Be Jeff Atwood (Leon Bambrick)
• Microsoft Videos – Official News, Demos, How-To’s and More (Chris)
• Run Xbox Media Center From a USB Drive (Kevin Purdy)
• Xbox Jobs: Developers in Test (Josh Poley)
• Cube Desktop (Mike Taulty)
• The Greatest Invention in Computer Science (Jeff Atwood)

Events / Community

• Followup to Testing with Mocks (Wendy Friedlander)
• TechEd 2008 Notes: The Gentle Art of Pair Programming (Joe White)

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing – June 5, 2008 and Link Listing – June 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: June 6, 2008 and Interesting Finds: June 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight News for June 6, 2008 #2 (Emil Stoychev)
• Everyman Links for June 5, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Links Today (2008-06-06) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #76 (Tim Boland)
• Cool Links for Programmers (Shahar Abramovich)
• LINKBLOG for June 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for June 06, 2008 — #292 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Of Logical and Visual Trees in WPF (Mike Hillberg) - Link of the Day
• WPF Multipage Reports – Part I (Jan Repisky)
• PowerShell and WPF: WTF and WPF & PowerShell – Part 5 (Using WPF & PowerShell Modules) (James Brundage)
• Silverlight Training Videos (Sarah Perez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• We’re Talking Past Each Other on the Entity Framework (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Microsoft Source Analysis (Chris Brandsma)
• Writing Your Own Rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (Tobias Hertkorn)
• HowTo: Configure Microsoft Source Analysis (John Rudolf Lewis)
• Some LINQ Tricks (Papenoo pa)
• Return Within a C# Using Statement (Brendan Enrick)
• The Future of .NET, Visual Studio and More (Joni Moilanen)

Web Development

• Ending a Response Without Response.End() Exceptions? (Rick Strahl)

SharePoint

• LINQ4SP – Delete a List Item (Agnes Molnar)
• Super Easy Way to Add WCF to SharePoint 2007 (Sahil Malik)
• SharePoint Solutions Rant (Martin Hinshelwood)

Miscellaneous

• Feedbacks on Waegis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Book Review: C# in Depth (Patrick Smacchia) – I love this book.
• The Illusion of Technically Competent Managers (Max Pool)
• Pizza Hut Hops Onto the Adobe AIR Bandwagon (Jay Hathaway) - Does this mean Papa John’s will go with Silverlight?
• 6 Resources For Free Images (Mike Gunderloy)
• New Version of IE7 Pro Released and Tweet Your Xbox Live Status (Sarah Perez)

Blogging / Events / Community

• Forget About the Target on Your Back (John Papa)
• Massey University XNA Presentation (John-Daniel Trask)

SQL Server

• What’s Worse Than a Table Scan? (Kalen Delaney)

Link-O-Rama

• New and Notable 245 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2008 — #282 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (5/25/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Everyman Links for May 25, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• What’s in the .NET Framework Client Profile? (Pete Brown)
• Understanding InstanceContext in WCF (Dan Rigsby)
• Is the ADO.NET Team Abondoning LINQ to SQL? (Roger Jennings)
• How to Test C# Code Without Running an Application (Marlon Grech)
• What Is the Future of C# Anyways? (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Announcing the Release of Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (Jason Allor) - Link of the Day

Web Development

• How to Build Your Very Own Provider Model – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate and Spring (CodePlex)
• Firebug 1.2 – Good News for Web Devs (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVC Storefront, Part 11: Hooking Up the Shopping Cart and Components and Part 12: Mocking (Rob Conery)

Silverlight / WPF

• Brightness and Contrast Manipulation in WPF 3.5 SP1 (Tamir Khason)
• RemoteLINQ – How to Make Your LINQ Span the Globe (Joseph Ferner)
• WPF Property Grid (Shahar Yair)
• Windowing Demo for Silverlight 2 Beta (Tim Rule)
• Silverlight Interoperability (Wilco Bauwer)
• WPF & PowerShell — Part 3 (Handling Events) (James Brundage)

Blogging / Community / Events

• BlogAmp – Podcasting Made Easy? (Jay Hathaway)
• MSDN GeekSpeak on Wednesday May 28 – Connecting Silverlight 2 (Pete Brown)
• ScribbleLive: Liveblogging Doesn’t Get Much Easier (Brad Linder)
• A Clear Blog Purpose Will Make or Break Your Blog (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Coming Soon – Better HDI Videos? (Jesse Liberty)

Miscellaneous

• Guitar Hero 4 Guitar to Have More Buttons? (Jesus Diaz)
• Windows 7 to Add Native Support for Virtual Hard Disks (Sumeeth Evans)
• Proud to Be a Geek? (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Book Review: Managing Humans, by Michael Lopp (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Control uTorrent Downloads from Facebook with Morrent (Josh Lowensohn)
• Synchronizing Favorites with Live Mesh (Adam Kinney)
• This Is Not a Bug (David Starr) - That is a great idea. I may have to be a copycat.
• Interview with Craig Freedman About Indexing, Query Plans and Performance (Denis Gobo)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 23, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-23) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News – 2008/05/23 (Rob Relyea)
• LINKBLOG for May 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – May 23, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

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

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Integration for VAB Update for Enterprise Library 4.0 (Martin Bennedik)
• Margins and Padding in WPF (Dan Rigsby)
• Updated Silverlight Uploader for SL2 Beta 1 (Josh Twist)
• What Do You Think of My Silverlight ‘How Do I’ Videos? (Jesse Liberty)

Blogging

• 100 ‘Why Not’ Activities for Bloggers (Jason Boom)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How Do I… ? New Entity Framework Videos (ADO.NET Team)
• VSX Survey (Spring 2008) Invitation (VSX Team)
• Enterprise Library 4.0 DAAB with Unity Screencast (David Hayden)
• The Emergence of Choice in the .NET Ecosystem (James Avery)
• XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Aaron Skonnard)
• F# and Unit Testing – Some New Developments (Matthew Podwysocki)
• The Weekly Source Code 27 – Suck Less Libraries (Scott Hanselman)
• VSX Community Letter for May 2008 (Ken Levy)
• Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep Part Deux: If It Looks Like a Duck, It Might Be a WinForm (Jacob Lauzier)
• Need a “WHERE field IN (x, y, z)” Clause with LINQ (John Papa)
• Strongly Typed Property Names (Paul Stovell)
• Lambda and Expression Trees (Josh Twist)

Web Development

• Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters – Building the New Code Camp Web Site (Part II) (Peter Kellner)
• ASP.NET Tips: What to Gather to Troubleshoot – Part 6 – Recycle Due to MemoryLimit (Tom)
• Creating a Custom ViewEngine for the ASP.NET MVC Framework (Maarten Balliauw)
• RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC Part 1 – Setup (Ryan Lanciaux)
• MVC Storefront: Client Progress Meeting (Rob Conery)
• The MVC Storefront Challenge! (Jimmy Bogard)
• Rob’s Not So Lazy MVC Storefront (K. Scott Allen)
• PHP Sucks, But It Doesn’t Matter (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Elevated Privilege without RunWithElevatedPrivelege (Daniel Larson)
• Developing for SharePoint on Your Local Computer (Martin Hinshelwood)
• LINQ4SP – How to Create a New Item with a Lookup to Another List (Agnes Molnar)
• Creating MOSS Pages Using RPC (Ton Stegeman)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Community Games on Xbox Live Beta (David Weller)
• Microsoft Certification Policy Changed (Harold van de Kamp)
• A GUI Interface in VB to Track an IP Address? (John Papa) - Link of the Day
• 10 Things to Consider Before Writing a Book (John Papa)
• Techmeme Adds Search, Becomes Useful to the General Public (Brad Linder)
• Service Update: New Build Released (Live Mesh Team)
• MSN Toolbar Released – Yes Another Toolbar. Is This One Different? (Kip Kniskern) - Note: Only works with Silverlight 1.0 at the moment.
• stackoverflow Podcast #6 (Jeff Atwood)
• Announcing the Totally Unofficial Build a Better Twitter Contest (Molly Wood)
• GRADED: The Worst ’10 Worst Consoles’ List of All Time (John Brownlee)
• Is ALT.NET Duplicitous? (Casey Charlton)
• Search Training Material Available on TechNet! (Michal Gideoni)
• How Google Friend Connect Works (Peter Chane, Sami Shalabi & Mussie Shore)

PowerShell

• WPF From PowerShell – Select-Grid (Joel Bennett)
• The Future Is Here Today (Jeffrey Snover)

Design / Methodology

• Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates and Roots (Jimmy Bogard)

Career

• Why Did You Hire Me? (Keith LaFerriere)

Events / Community

• F# and Functional Programming at Philly ALT.NET Wednesday Night! (Brian Donahue)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #69 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for May 20, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links Today (2008-05-20) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 20, 2008 — #278 (Dave Campbell)
• May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF (Scott Guthrie)
• Visual Studio Links #30 (Darren Stokes)
• May 21st: Posts I Liked (Manish Agrawal)
• The Morning Brew #98 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day