.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Axum (MS Downloads)
• James Clark Getting Involved in M (Chris Sells)
• Zip Me Up (Eric Lippert)
• Building .netcf with TeamCity (Chris Brandsma) – Link of the Day
• How To Have Visual Studio Load XSD Schemas Automatically (Keith Elder)
• Professional Refactoring in Visual Basic (Grant Palin)
• Code Access Security Cheat Sheet (Lee Richardson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Of Plans and Planning (Ade Miller)
• The BIG Merge (Oren Eini)

Silverlight

• Silverlight RIA calling Stored Procedures that don’t return tables (Tom)

Web Development

• Friday Books – Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Dave M. Bush)
• Sueetie YetAnotherForum.NET Following and Favorites Prep (Dave Burke)
• I’m a Web Developer At Heart (Phil Haack)
• Using jQuery in SharePoint to Display Notifications for Open Tasks (Jan Tielens)
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview 4 – Still No ASP.NET MVC Love (David Hayden)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• In The Brain of Mike Hadlow – Rhino Mocks and Automocking (Me)
• Joe Mistachkin: Eagle – Extensible Adaptable Generalized Logic Engine (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #108: Learning the Observer Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• The History of Microsoft – 1988 (Tina)
• Windows 7 Multi Touch Overview and Programming Windows 7 Multi Touch – Part 1 and Programming Windows 7 Multi Touch – Part 2 and New Windows 7 Videos on Channel 9 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Herding Code 46: Mistakes and News Recap (Jon Galloway)
• Out of the Browser – What’s the Big Deal? (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Radio TFS 20: Virtualizing Team Foundation Server (Radio TFS)
• Mark Wilson-Thomas: WPF and Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010 (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Silverlight Talks (Andy Beaulieu)
• Speaking in India at Tech-ed (Stephen Walther)
• TechEd North America 2009 Speaking Schedule (Eric Shupps)
• Silverlight FireStarter DC Online Registration (Frank La Vigne)
• Free seat in next weeks Calgary class!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference: HARRISBURG, PA (Joel Reyes)
• I’m speaking at StirTrek->May 8th (Rachel Appel)

SharePoint

• Running SharePoint on Windows 7 (Gunnar Peipman)

Database

• A couple of reasons I won’t be moving my databases to the cloud anytime soon (Denis Gobo)
• Future of Business Intelligence and Databases (Nupur Dave)

Miscellaneous

• NASA releases Silverlight powered Photosynths of the International Space Station and Mars Science Lab (Silverlight Team)
• There is a direct link to download a file on a release page – #030 and Hyperlink images in your wiki pages, new TinyMCE Editor, and new Flot stats chart (Sara Ford)
• Windows XP Inside Windows 7: The “XP Mode” (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Switching my Windows 7 Boot Disk from D to C with BCDBoot rather than BCDEdit (Scott Hanselman)
• Boxee Founder Avner Ronen on the Future of Your Living Room (Kevin Purdy)
• Accelerator Platform on Windows 7 (Jon Seitel)
• Part of your job should be to learn (Karl Seguin)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #343 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 07, 2009 — #589 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #79 (a.k.a. long overdue edition) (David Vidmar)
• Links (5/7/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for May 7th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Star Trek for Windows (Code Project)
• Live Framework Tools Updated in January CTP (Bruce Kyle)
• ForEach (Kirill Osenkov)
• DebuggerDisplay (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Cheap Way of Speeding Up Visual Studio I/O (Dmitri Nesteruk)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC and Validation Using IDataErrorInfo and Validation Application Block (David Hayden)
• T4 Templates in ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• Building AgiliTrain: Part 2 – MVC in Action (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Open Space Coding – Using the SSDS REST Library (Jamie Thomson)
• OpenID Delegate Plug-In for Graffiti (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• My Latest Book – Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX (Bill Evjen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD & Many to Many Object Relational Mapping and ALT.NET DDD Podcast (Udi Dahan)
• If You Have Anything to Suggest About the DSA Book Then Please Read This… (Granville Barnett)
• The Stack Overflow Development Process (Jeff Atwood)
• Understanding Code: Static vs Dynamic Dependencies (Patrick Smacchia)
• Getting Continuous Integration Working with CodePlex: Part I and Part II (Jon Henning) – Links of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Updated Adobe Illustrator to XAML Plug-In (Mike Swanson)
• Silverlight 2 in Review and Silverlight 3 (Yes Three) in Action Discussion (Chad Campbell)
• The ViewModel Pattern (David Hill)
• Using the EntLib Validation Block with WPF Part 2: Configuration Based Validation (Ade Miller)
• Microsoft Silverlight 3 Features (Eugen Ciuta)

.NET Community / Events

• Blogs I Enjoy #1 (Steve Clayton)

Database

• How to Enable xp_cmdshell and Ad Hoc Distributed Queries on SQL Server 2005 (Denis Gobo)
• String Comparison: Binary vs. Dictionary (Linchi Shea)

Miscellaneous

• svchost Viewer 0.3.0.0 RC 1 (Major Geeks)
• Advise Clients to Invest in Web Conferencing Rather Than Travel (Susan Harkins)
• "I Think That Maintaining Your Technical Chops Is a Full-Time Job." (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Most Awesomely Geeky Baby Shower Cake Ever! (Matt Blum)
• Books on My Reading List (Davy Brion)
• Adding Boxee to Windows 7 Media Center (WinBeta)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 31, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 01.31~02.01 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2009 — #503 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: February 1, 2009 and Innovation Notes: February 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day