Web Development

• Web Development as Tag Soup (Jeff Atwood)
• DropThings: Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal – New and Improved (Brad Abrams)
• The Weekly Source Code 30 – Spark and NHaml – Crazy ASP.NET MVC ViewEngines (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 Available (Bertrand Le Roy)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #22 – Return a View Without Creating a Controller Action (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Known Type Provider (Davy Brion)
• What a C# Coder Should Know Before They Write VB (Kathleen Dollard)
• Running Your Build/Source Code From a RAM Disk (Eric Hexter)
• Update Model – A Question of Identity – Part 1 of 3 (Lawrence Jones)
• NHibernate.LINQ with ADO.NET Data Services (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Evolution of C# Delegate Syntax From .NET 1.x to 3.5 (Bart Czernicki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Patch Management Approaches Using Centralized SCM and How a Blocking Remote Call Can Take Down an Application (Oren Eini)
• No Slow Unit Tests with xUnit.net (Ade Miller)
• Mocking Dilemma, Solved! (Davy Brion)
• The Code Reuse Myth (Brian Reindel)
• Leveraging Unit Tests as Functional Tests, Load Tests, and Service Monitors (Schalk Neethling)
• The Undercover Adventure (Part 2): I Want to Know What You Mean. What You Meant. What You Will Mean. Every Time. (Anne Botha)

Silverlight

• Check Out Our New Learn Page! (Jesse Liberty)
• Fun Silverlight Game: Crayon Cannon (Dan Fernandez)
• Silverlight 2.0 – Concepts to Become a Master Series (Part 1 – .NET/C#) and (Part 2 – WCF) (Bart Czernicki)

Events / Community / Blogging

• Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Fundamentals in Big Apple (Sam Gentile)
• Events This Week – July 21st, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Has/How/Why Tech Blogging Has Failed You (Robert Scoble)
• PEST (James Whittaker)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Declarative Data Validation Presentation – Charlotte Developers Guild (Karl Shifflett)
• Upcoming Conferences with Plenty of SharePoint Oriented Content (Lawrence)
• WordPress Tips + Things You Can Do After Installing WordPress (Amit Agarwal)

Miscellaneous

• Review: The Annoted Turing by Charles Petzold (Michael C. Neel)
• Live Mesh Updated (Sarah Perez)
• Live Mesh Tutorial: Synchronizing Messenger Plus! Skins, Scripts Etc. (Sunshine)
• Pre-Beta Mac Client for Live Mesh – Review Only (Chris)
• What I Look For in an Interview Candidate (Pete Brown)
• How to Become a Good Developer? (Gunnar Peipman) – Link of the Day

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing – July 20, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• New and Notable 255 (Sam Gentile)
• Visual Studio Links #55 (Darren Stokes)
• Weekly Links #10 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2008 — #330 and Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2008 – 2 — #331 (Dave Campbell)
• Five Minutes Past Noon Coffee 170 (Harry Pierson)
• Bookmarking the Web – w29/2008 (Erwin)
• The Morning Brew #141 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Foundations of Programming – Learning Application (Karl Seguin) – Link of the Day
• .NET Is Like the Galaxy, They’re Both Big and Getting Bigger (Tim Stall)
• Binsor: The Castle Windsor XML Configuration Killer (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Expressions and Lambdas (Jimmy Bogard)
• Microsoft Robotics Studio 2008 CTP July (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP (MS Downloads)
• Beginners Guide to Threading in .NET Part 4 of n (Sacha Barber)
• AppDomains and Remoting Lifetime Service (Sasha Goldshtein)

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating a Silverlight Game (Boyan Mihailov)
• Popfly Games: Now with High Score Tracking! (Adam Nathan)
• Learning WPF with BabySmash and Back to Basics – Making Assumptions and When to Turn to Books and Learning WPF with BabySmash – Making a Transparent Window with Substance (Scott Hanselman)
• Custom Tab Style (Sacha Barber)
• Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control (Part 3) (Mike Taulty)

Web Development

• Abidar 1.0 Beta 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• PowerShell ASP – Too Cool! (Jeffrey Snover)

Events / Community

• NYC .NET Developers Users Group – Special Meeting 7/31 (Stephen Forte)

Miscellaneous

• Workflow Capabilities Available in BizTalk Services (Zhiming Xue)
• How Can I Help You With Your WCF/WF/Neuron/Messaging Needs Today? (Sam Gentile)
• Dealing with Bad Apples (Jeff Atwood)

Link-O-Rama

• LINKBLOG for July 18, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for July 18, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• Visual Studio Links #54 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology

• Separation of Concerns by Example: Part 5 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Developer != Designer (Scott Hanselman)
• Dependency Injection and Policy Based Design (Christopher Diggins)
• DTO – Not Only for Web Services (Gunnar Peipman)
• More Distributed Development Best Practices (Ade Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

• Porting Flash Code/Content to Silverlight? (Zhiming Xue)
• Silverlight 2 Control Unit Tests (Schalk Neethling)
• Yosemite Deep Zoom Project From xRez Is Now Live (Adam Kinney)
• Tip of the Day #20 – How to Increase the Isolated Storage Quota For Your App (Mike Snow)
• Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control (Part 1) and (Part 2) (Mike Taulty)
• Three New Videos on Data Binding (Jesse Liberty)
• Serious Challenge for Unit Testing in Silverlight (Rocky Lhotka)
• Learning WPF with BabySmash – Customer Feedback and a WPF Font ComboBox (Scott Hanselman)
• July Popfly Update (Popfly Team)
• 10 Silverlight 2 Gotchas Resolved (Antoni Dol)

.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Rocks! – Aaron Skonnard Puts BizTalk and WCF Together (MS Downloads)
• Building LINQ Expressions for ADO.NET Data Services (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Many Projects Don’t Lead to a Good Solution (Davy Brion)
• To var or Not to var (Josh Twist)

Web Development

• Proof of Concept: A Simple DI Solution for ASP.NET WebForms (Michael Puleio)

Events / Community

• Sam Gentile PhillyNJ.NET July 31, 2008 and Capital Area .NET Advanced WCF Demo Code (Sam Gentile)
• Philly.NET Hands-On Lab: ALT.NET MVP (Model View Presenter) @ DeVry University, July 29th (Bill Wolff)

Miscellaneous

• Core Strength (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Tips for Coworking with Friends (Celine Roque)

Link-O-Rama

• Visual Studio Links #53 (Darren Stokes)
• Morning Coffee 169 (Harry Pierson)
• Silverlight Cream for July 17, 2008 — #327 and Silverlight Cream for July 17 – 2 — #328 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight News for July 18, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Innovation Notes: July 17, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for July 18, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #139 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #251 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link Listing – July 17, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology

• Entities and the Law of Demeter (Jimmy Bogard)
• TDD and Hard to Test Areas, Part 1 (Ian Cooper) – Link of the Day
• Incremental Migration (Martin Fowler)

Silverlight / WPF

• Great User Experience Example in a Business Application (Brad Abrams)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 120 – The Odd Couple – A Developer and a Designer Talk About Working with XAML (Scott Hanselman)
• P[e]op[le]Fly (Glen Gordon)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Recursing Into Linear, Tail and Binary Recursion (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 5: Developing .NET Software on a Mac (Keith Elder)
• Some RichTextBox Tricks (Patrick Smacchia)
• The Missing .NET #6: Version Tolerant Serialization (Jason Kemp)
• Scale Cheaply – Memcached (Karl Seguin)
• Long Paths in .NET, Part 3 of 3 Redux (Kim Hamilton)
• Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 2: Cache<KEY, VALUE> (Chad Myers)

C#/VB Pursefight

• Declaring Event Handlers in C# Is Just Painful, Prove Me Wrong Please (Chris Love)
• Creating Event Handlers in C# – The Definitive Guide (Keith Elder)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Hacks (lessthandot)
• Waegis Will Be Live Tomorrow (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Kill Your Users Table (Schalk Neethling)
• HTTP Request Flow Diagram (Simone Chiaretta)

SQL Server

• An Introduction to New T-SQL Programmability Features in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

Events / Community

• User Groups This Week (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Northern NJ .NET User’s Group Meeting: July 8, 2008 (Rachel Appel)

Miscellaneous

• You Don’t Need a Muse: How to Get Your Work Done When You’re Not Inspired (Celine Roque)
• Might Microsoft’s Midori Be ‘Cairo’ Revisited? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Identi.ca Gets a Reply Tab, Actually Becomes Useful (Sarah Perez)
• Is This the Time That 3D Sticks? (Robert Scoble)
• Bash vs PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Morning Coffee 166 (Harry Pierson)
• Silverlight News for July 8, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• LINKBLOG for July 7, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2008 — #319 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #131 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Assemblies – Part 3 – the v3.x Subset (Daniel Moth)
• Remove Icon From WPF Window (Dan Rigsby)
• How to Create a Two Level Master-Detail Application with ComboBoxes (Shahar Abramovich)
• Silverlight SDK Samples – Release: Silverlight 2 Clock (MSDN Code Gallery)
• A Big List of Popfly Games (Sarah Perez)
• Xaml vs XAML (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Application Life Cycle (Tom)
• Building Accessible Web Forms with ASP.NET (Peter Eysermans)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 114 – Website Scaling War Stories with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 3 Released! (Maarten Balliauw)
• ThinDoc: Zero Footprint Full Screen Adobe-Free PDF Viewer (Jacob Lauzier)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release (Scott Guthrie) - Link of the Day
• Updated Northwind Demo for ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 (Scott Hanselman)
• First Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 (Aaron Lerch)
• ASP.NET Memory: Thou Shalt Not Store UI Objects in Cache or Session Scope (Tess Ferrandez)
• JavaScriptSerializer Undeprecated in .NET 3.5 SP1 (Dan Rigsby)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Image Processing Preview App (Glenn Chittenden Jr.)
• LINQ in Action: Marguerie, Eichert, Wooley [Manning] (Peter Bromberg) - "Our ‘best book on C# 3.0 / LINQ’ poll showed this book as the clear winner. This review tells why."
• LINQ Performance Pitfall – Deferred Execution (Omer van Kloeten)
• Updated Entity Framework Samples (Elisa Flasko)
• BackgroundWorker (Daniel Moth)
• WCF Metadata (Dan Rigsby)
• The Problem(s) with Value Types and A Good Coding Font Makes a Difference (Philippe Leybaert)

Design / Methodology

• Design Inference and the REST Interface (Chris Wallace)
• Why Unit Tests Matter and How They Will Actually Save You Time (Dan Wahlin)
• Why Agile Doesn’t Really Work (David Starr)

Miscellaneous

• Paglo Launches Public Beta With "Share-Its" (Harrison Hoffman)
• [ANN] Dimecasts.net Is Alive and Kicking (Derik Whittaker)
• Facebook to Open Source Facebook Platform (Michael Arrington)
• Get the ODF Office Plugin Now (Sarah Perez)
• 8 Ways to Use a Whiteboard in Your Home Office (Celine Roque)
• Tips for Public Speaking (Shy Cohen)
• Even Easier Way to Obtain MSFT Hotfixes (Spencer Harbar)
• Twelve Tips for Optimizing SQL Server 2005 Query Performance (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Readies New "Don’t Blame Windows" Tool (Mary Jo Foley)

Windows 7

• Microsoft Reveals Nothing About Windows 7… Read All About It!!! (Paul Thurrott)
• Video: Windows 7 and Multi-Touch (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Putting Multiple Fingers on Microsoft’s Windows 7 (Robert Scoble)
• Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 for 2010 (17 Screenshots) (wepokers)

Events / Community

• PDC2008 Site and Registration Is Live (Adam Kinney)
• PDC2008 Registration Opens with Preliminary Sessions (Mike Swanson)
• Ray Ozzie to Keynote PDC2008 (Denise Begley)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Silverlight Forums (Nick)
• Windows 2008 and SharePoint Better Together Part 1 (Bob Fox)

Blogging

• Add Geotwitter to Your Website/Blog (Al Pascual)

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing – May 26, 2008 and Link Listing – May 27, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Visual Studio Links #32 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: May 27, 2008 and Interesting Finds: May 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links: ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight 2, C#, Entity Framework, WPF, Javascript (Robert Muehsig)
• Links Today (2008-05-27) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2008 — #285 and Silverlight Cream for May 28, 2008 — #286 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for May 27, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (5/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #102 (Chris Alcock)

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

Silverlight/WPF/Popfly

• EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo – Part 1: Propagating EntitySpaces Data (Jon Davis)
• Simplify Using 2D Graphics in WPF and Silverlight (Andrej Benedik)
• DrawingBrush and Deep Clone in Silverlight (Tamir Khason)
• Cracking Open Zip Files in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 (Josh Twist)
• Creating Music For Popfly Game Creator (Ben Anderson)
• AutoComplete for Silverlight TextBoxes (Nikhil Kothari)
• http://www.codeplex.com/sdlsdk (Jimmy Schementi)

.NET

• LINQ to XML, Namespaces and VB (Daniel Moth)
• Command-Query Separation and Immutable Builders (Matthew Podwysocki)
• What Arrays and Pointers Have in Common – or – Why Arrays Start at Zero (Karl Seguin) – Link of the Day
• Recent ADO.NET Entity Framework Provider News – Demos and Downloads (David Sceppa)
• Stream Processing XML in IronPython and Deserializing XML with IronPython (Harry Pierson)
• F# in 20 Minutes – Part I (Chris Smith)
• LINQ.Flickr 1.3 (Mehfuz)
• SharePoint as a WCF Host (Sahil Malik) - This link doesn’t appear to be working right now, but the title piqued my interest. So, I’m hoping it will be working very soon.

Visual Studio

• 11 More Visual Studio Shortcuts You Should Know (Amit Raz)
• Becoming a Jedi – Part 1 of N (James Kovacs)

Miscellaneous

• What’s Your Circle of Interest? (Paul Stovell)
• Addict-o-matic: The Newest Metasearch (Mike Gunderloy)
• 25 WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• The Bookshelf (James Kovacs)
• stackoverflow Podcast #4 (Jeff Atwood)
• Measuring Programmer Job Satisfaction (Jess)
• Office Open XML Is Now an ISO Standard! (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Blogs From the Live Mesh Team (Mesh Team)

SQL Server

• SQL Server 2005: Get Full Information About Transaction Locks (Mladen Prajdić)

PowerShell

• PowerShell + WPF (Rob Relyea)
• Next Windows PowerShell Will Have GUI, Remote Management Support (Scott M. Fulton, III)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #24 (Darren Stokes)
• Links Today (2008-05-06) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2008 — #268 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #88 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – May 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Silverlight/WPF/Popfly

• Silverlight Attached Properties for WPF Developers (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight Behaviors (Nikhil Kothari)
• Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight (Brad Abrams)
• Binding to Anonymous Types in an Xbap or Silverlight Application (Mike Hillberg)
• Popfly Game Creator Video Tutorials (Popfly Team)
• Creating Controls in Code (Jesse Liberty)
• Developers Can Create Some Amazing Stuff Using Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio – Available for Download Now (Dave)
• Unity and Silverlight: It Can Be Done! (Chris)
• Patterns & Practices: Prism Contrib (CodePlex)
• Editing the Appearance of Actors, Scenes, etc… (Ben Anderson)
• WPF From PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

Visual Studio

• ReSharper 4.0 vs. CodeRush/Refactor! — Smack Down Results (Derik Whittaker)

.NET

• .NET Is Crap? (Chris Cavanagh)
• Entity Framework Q&A – Lazy Loading, ObjectContext, and LINQ (John Papa)
• Collection Initializer Expressions (Paul Vick)

Web Development

• Book: ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls (Joe Stagner)
• MVC Storefront, Part 8: Testing Controllers, Iteration 1 (Rob Conery)
• ASP.NET Tips: What to Gather to Troubleshoot – Part 2 – High Memory (Tom)
• Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Book (Only $16 on Amazon for a Short Time) (Scott Guthrie) - That’s only $1 for every 100 pages. I ordered my copy. I’ll be putting my copy of Pro ASP.NET 2.0 book up on Bookmooch if anyone is interested.   Link of the Day
• Contrasting Two MVC / LINQ to SQL Applications for the Web (K. Scott Allen)
• How the Flickr API Now Handles Video (Raymond Yee)
• ASP.NET Crash: StackOverflowException with Server.Transfer (Tess Ferrandez)

Design/Methodology

• Domain-Driven Design: Reading Toward Deeper Insight (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Behind Live Mesh: Live Desktop Architecture (Alex Himel)
• Protected Semantics, Part Five: More on Immutability (Eric Lippert)
• Good Code Is… (Casey Charlton)
• Understanding Model-View-Controller (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Development For the Masses (Eric Shupps)

Miscellaneous

• A Programming Job Interview Challenge #2 (Shahar Yair)
• Presdo: Twitter For Your Calendar? (Bob Walsh)
• Live Mesh Synch: How to Check Sync Progress to the Cloud (Kip Kniskern)
• MacBook Pro, iWork, Expression Studio 2 and Other Rumblings… (David Hayden)
• Subversion as a Deployment Tool (Sijin Joseph)
• Yes, You Too Can Be a Metrosexual Developer! An Interview with Justice Gray (Mike Duncan)
• How to Create SMART Tasks (Mike Gunderloy)
• Video: James Whittaker on Software Testing (Brian Keller)
• Spolsky’s Paradox (J. Kealy)
• I Updated My Resources Lists (Marc)
• Share and Annotate Web Pages in Google Reader (Alex Chitu)
• Centralizing Your WCF Configuration with Neuron ESB (David Pallmann)

Zune

• Zune Spec Video (Steve Clayton)
• Zune Multiplayer Games in Action (Adrian Covert)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-05) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 5, 2008 — #267 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight Resources (Mike Snow)
• The Morning Brew #87 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.06 (gOODiDEA)
• New and Notable 238 (Sam Gentile)
• Link Listing – May 5, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Silverlight/WPF

• Popfly Game Creator Alpha Goes Live! (Ben Anderson) – Some great info from a developer on the Popfly team… Link of the Day
• patterns & practices: Prism – Release Drop 05-02-2008 (CodePlex)
• Update to Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight Released (Dan Wahlin)
• The Story of Ruby and Python in Silverlight (Jimmy Schementi)

Web Development

• Code Based Repeater for ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• Json.NET 2.0 Released (James Newton-King)

.NET

• Smart Thread Pool – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Remote Desktop Client Wrapper for RDP 6.1 ActiveX Control – Release v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Unit Testing Events (Patrick Klug)
• Managed Extensibility Framework (Krzysztof Cwalina)
• Unattended Installation For the .NET Framework 3.5 (Jacob Hodges)

Events/Community

• ESB Guidance Webcast Next Friday (May 9th 2008) (Brian Loesgen)
• PDC 2008 Conference Scheduling Using a Genetic Algorithm (Mike Swanson)

Miscellaneous

• Twitter 101: Clarifying the Rules for Newbies (Corvida)
• Neuron ESB Management Experience (David Pallmann)
• Scale and Performance Lessons Learned From a Live Deployment and SearchBeta Hardware Configuration (Dan Blood)
• Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo! Offer: Full Text of Ballmer Letter to Yang and Yahoo! Responds to Withdrawal – Issues Statement (Kip Kniskern)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight Cream for May 3, 2008 – #265 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2008 – 2 – #266 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.04 (gOODiDEA)
• Innovation Notes: May 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Silverlight/WPF

• Keeping Up With Silverlight (Dave Campbell)
• Expression Studio 2 Ready For Download (John Papa)

Popfly

• Popfly Introduces Game Creator Alpha (Popfly Team)
• Video: First Look at Popfly Game Creator Alpha (Adam Nathan & Suzanne Hansen) - Link of the Day
• Popfly Game Creator Alpha Launches! (Dan Fernandez)
• Popfly Game Creator! (What I’ve Been Doing the Last 6 Months) (Adam Nathan)
• Why Build a Game Creator? (John Montgomery)

Web Development

• MVC Storefront, Part 7: Helpers and Routing and Part 8: Testing Controllers, Iteration 1 (Rob Conery)

.NET

• Video: XNA Framework Games Running on Zune (Mike Klucher)
• 10 Tips to Improve Your LINQ to SQL Application Performance (Sidar Ok)
• IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 (Harry Pierson)
• Adventures in F# – F# 101 Part 9 (Control Flow) (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Help and IntelliSense for the Expression Encoder Object Model (deanro)
• How the Garbage Collector Works – Part 1 and Part 2 (dotnetfacts)

Design/Methodology

• Composition vs. Inheritance… (Jay Kimble)
• When to Make an Action Invisible or Disabled (Dan Rigsby)
• How to Not Screw Up Your Application Object Model – Don’t Go All OOP on Me! (Keith Elder)

Blogging

• Minor Spaces Update, and More From Windows Live Blogs (Kip Kniskern)
• Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict (Sarah Perez)
• RFC: OpenTweets – Why Is Microblogging Centralized? (Scott Hanselman)
• Witty Twitter 0.1.8.3 Published (Keith Elder)
• ReMIX Bling For My Blog (Philip Beadle)
• Snooze Chatty Twitter Friends (Gina Trapani)

SharePoint

• My Personal Web Part Project (Liam Cleary)
• Colleagues, Social Distance & Relevance in People Search, and other Social Networking tools in SharePoint (Mark Arend)
• New “stsadm -o updatealert” Command in the SharePoint Administration Kit (Mike Walsh)
• Some SP 2007 Books at Bargain Prices! (Mike Walsh)

SQL Server

• Testing for SQL Server Vulnerabilities (Denis Gobo)

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell v2 CTP 2 (MS Downloads)
• Announcing the Release of Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) of Windows PowerShell v2 (Hemant Mahawar)

Miscellaneous

• I Am Not a Technical Writer (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Web Worker 101: Cashflow Management (Mike Gunderloy)
• Microsoft’s Cloud Jigsaw (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft Pro Photo Tools (Mark Harrison)
• Neuron-ESB 2.0 Ships! (Brian Loesgen)
• Map Your Mind 2.0 (Rafe Needleman)
• Free Full Version of WinRAR 3.62 (Windows) (slickdeals) – I know some people prefer 7zip these days, but I’m still a WinRAR guy.

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 2, 2008 and Interesting Finds: May 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #23 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for May 2, 2008 – #264 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 236 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.03 (gOODiDEA)
• Link Listing – May 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day