.NET / Visual Studio

• Precedence vs order, redux (Eric Lippert)
• RunAs in C# (Eugene Rosenfeld)
• Why do I see ExecutionEngineException, StackOverflowException and OutOfMemoryException on the heap when debugging .net applications? (Tess Ferrandez)
• Building a Hybrid C# / IronPython App Without Dynamic Type and Compiling Python Packages into Assemblies (Harry Pierson)
• EF4 – New Properties for Entity Properties? (Julie Lerman)
• Rough Notes on Unity (Mike Taulty)

Web Development

• August JSMag now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Siesta: Painless REST via ASP.NET MVC (Nate Kohari) – Link of the Day
• See how I used Firebug to learn jQuery (Dave Ward)
• Part 3: MS Azure and Green Computing (Peter Koen)
• Engineering POV: IE6 (Dean Hachamovitch)
• How to create a DropDownList with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
• 5 Different Ways of Showing and Hiding Content of an ASP.NET Panel using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Louis DeJardin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Field Guide to Team Distribution (Ade Miller)
• Refactoring for Agility (Brad Appleton)
• Web Work 101: Communication Methods (Celine Roque)
• Choose The Right Goals (Davy Brion)
• Get a Rails-Stylee Interactive Shell For Your NHibernate Backed Domain Model (Tobin Harris)
• Dreyfus Model: More thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Planning Poker – An Agile Estimation Tool (Michael Ceranski)
• The benefits of XCopy deployment (Patrick Smacchia)
• Refactoring Day 10 : Extract Method (Sean Chambers)
• UI Patterns Refactored – Divide and Conquer (Mendelt Siebenga)
• DDDD: Distributing A Single Bounded Context (Jonathan Oliver)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Windows Presentation Foundation in Office Clients (Beth Massi)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 21: Hierarchical Data (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight 3 “toast” notifications (Tim Heuer)
• WPF Wonders: 3D Drawing with Textures, Transformations, and Realism (Rod Stephens)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Vishwas Lele on Real-World Azure (Carl Franklin)
• Inside Windows 7: Reliability, Performance and PerfTrack (Charles Torre)
• ThirstyDeveloper Podcast #71 – Talking Silverlight with Tim Heuer (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Daryl Zuniga and Mike Barnett – Xml Documentation from Code Contracts for .Net (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Countdown to PDC09: Discounts, Workshops, and Tweets (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 24: Facebook, IPhone, Zune, SkyFinder (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Presenting Expression for Developers on a European ReMix Tour (Adam Kinney)
• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow of Silverlight Goodness Comes to DC (and a bunch of other places) (Frank La Vigne)
• Events this Week – August 10th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MICROSOFT ARCHITECT COUNCIL | Innovation is the Name of the Game (Zhiming Xue)
• MVP Leads Love Twitter! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• Using Multi-Value Parameters in SQL Server Reporting Services (Tom Hearn)
• Microsoft delivers test versions of SQL Server 2008 R2 (Mary-Jo Foley)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online CTP August 2009 (MS Downloads)
• Developer Tip Get column names for a SQL query (Jonathan Cogley)
• SQL2008 R2 – Whats New – Unicode Compression (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) Announced (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Discussion – Effect of Missing Identity on System – Real World Scenario (Pinal Dave)
• A PG blog Dedicated to SSRS Integration with SharePoint (Reza Alirezaei)
• Why Use Named Pipes? (K. Brian Kelley)
• Column order doesn’t matter… generally, but – IT DEPENDS! (Kimberly Tripp)

Miscellaneous

• Get Some Green For Your Green-Themed Site (Adam DuVander)
• Test Google’s New Search Infrastructure (Alex Chitu)
• The Lounge’s James Avery on Bootstrapping Your Own Company (Bobby Johnson)
• VMWare Acquires SpringSource (Cameron Christoffers)
• Easy Transfer makes the Windows 7 migration easier (Debra Shinder)
• Coming Soon: Trilogy Stickers (Jeff Atwood)
• Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (Updated) (Jason Kincaid)
• Zune HD hits FCC in prolific photo shoot, 16GB and 32GB capacities (Ross Miller)
• Recession Proof Your Programming Skills (Listmania-ed) (Nick Berardi)
• Here I go again! Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition (for EF4) (Julie Lerman)
• Xbox 360 System Update now available (Larry Hyrb)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets Consolidated! Azure, Win7 and TFS, OH MY! (Angela Binkowski)
• LINKBLOG for August 10, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #409 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 353 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 10th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Spark View Engine – Release: Spark v1.0 (CodePlex via Chris Alcock) – Link of the Day
• The Perfect Web Framework (Chad Myers)
• Making a Sharp Dressed Web Form – Thin ASP.NET 8 (Chris Love)
• Make Web Requests Programmatically in .NET (Deepak Choudhari)
• MVC – Using Custom Routes (Michael Ceranski)
• Ben Livshits and Emre Kiciman – AjaxView, Performance Profiling of AJAX web sites (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied among .NET developers (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When DDD Should Be Considered (Jérémie Chassaing)
• NH Prof: Architectural Overview (Oren Eini)
• Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development (J.D. Meier)
• We Are Not Doing DDD – Part Two – CQS (Jak Charlton)
• Reducing Resistence to Dependency Injection (Patrick Kua)
• NCover v3.1.4 released! (Joe Feser)
• A Kanban Sidebar – Take 2 (Karl Scotland)
• Seams: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Developing Windows Services with .NET (Henning Krause)
• NHibernate – <natural-id/> (Oren Eini)
• How to Get Started Testing, Publicizing Your Applications on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
• Announcing: Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 (Carl Perry)
• Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for Entity Framework (Diego Vega)
• Feature CTP Walkthrough: POCO Templates for Entity Framework and Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework (Alex James)
• Why Doesn’t C# Implement "Top Level" Methods? (Eric Lippert)
• (VS2010 Beta1) Native Parallel Programming: ConcRT example — Debugging TwentyFour (Feng Yuan)
• “The” IronRuby Tutorial (Jimmy Schementi)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Using Windows Search in your applications (Josh Twist)
• The Rest of EF4 – Feature CTP1 Released today (Julie Lerman)
• F#: Continuation Passing Style and Visual Studio/Resharper: Changing the order of arguments (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML node loop example: finding all named object instances (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Sahil Malik’s Sharepoint Checklist (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Dynamic IT, Trends in IT Operations (Bob Familiar)
• Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight and Skins for WPF and Silverlight (Jared Bienz)
• Principles of Design Series: Learn about Emphasis using Expression Design (Arturo Toledo)
• Toolshed Tooltip #11 – DotNetNuke and Web Installer from Episode 2 and #12 – Virtual PC from Episode 2 (Russell Fustino)
• Ping 17: Microsoft sues over ClickFraud, Soapbox scales down, Project Natal & Bing on Fallon (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Yet There is an Iran (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Met Eric Evans at ParisJug (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Girl Developer the News (Sara J. Chipps)
• Free Webinar: 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation (Steve McConnell)

Database

• Get Performance Tips Directly from SQL Server (Ian Stirk)
• NH Prof: NHibernate Profiler vs. Sql Profiler (Oren Eini)
• Exporting XML data from SSIS – nugget (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – 2005 – 2008 – Delete Duplicate Rows (Pinal Dave)
• Replace Your Case When Then Else Syntax With the Sign Function In SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Sample MOSS 2007 WCM site now available – Adventure Works Travel (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7 (Greg Hitchcock)
• The Upcoming Smashing Book (Smashing Magazine)
• Tethering iPhone 3G on Windows 7 (Keith Elder)
• Services from Zoho, Software from Microsoft: Announcing Zoho Office for SharePoint (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Flash 10 for smartphone beta coming this October (Ross Miller)
• Windows 7 RTM: Scheduled for July 13, 2009! and Microsoft’s Windows 7 Entertainment Center: Part 2 (Stephen Chapman)
• Small Basic API Reference (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #374 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for June 22nd, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 21st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (6/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Ribbon: Introductory Tutorial (MS Downloads)
• NHibernate Mapping – <map/> (Oren Eini)
• Updated Dbfile project on CodePlex (Jason Haley)
• How to Iterate Through All the Properties of a Class (Deepak Choudhari)
• Visual Studio 2010: Multiple web.config versions (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using the WPF Visualizer to debug applications in Visual Studio 2010 and An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part I) (Habib Heydarian)
• yield return and Continuation-Passing Style (Kirill Osenkov)
• Delayed execution with yield, or “How to abdicate, cede, and relent” (Kyle Baley)
• F#: Tuples don’t seem to express intent well (Mark Needham)
• Talking Points: Building App Using .NET Workflow (Joel Reyes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Dynamic Type Check (Martin Fowler)
• NDepend: Product Review (Chris Brandsma)
• I Hardly Recognize You (Eric Brechner - a.k.a. I.M. Wright)
• nDepend and CruiseControl.NET (Rob Reynolds)
• Balsamiq Awesomeness (Tim Boland)
• Specifying Inversion of Control through Contracts for Interfaces (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Three Levels of Control (Jurgen Appelo)
• Coding: Putting code where people can find it (Mark Needham)
• When Side Effects and Laziness Collide (Matthew Podwysocki)
• ARCHITECT COUNCIL | Pragmatic Patterns for Architects (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Using Explicit Arrange,Act,Assert scopes in tests – thoughts? (Roy Osherove)
• Castle ActiveRecord and registering classes at runtime (Ryan Svihla)
• Don’t Ask Me If It’s Possible (K. Scott Allen)
• Don’t Cross the Streams (Scott Densmore)

Web Development

• Test Your Site in Different Browsers Using Adobe BrowserLab (Alex Chitu) – Looks like MS Expression Web 3’s SuperPreview.
• jQuery Autocomplete with a Hidden Value (Ben Scheirman)
• New Storage Features Come to Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Displaying a Confirmation Dialog with the JQuery UI Dialog (Chris Love)
• jQuery – Dialog (Dave M. Bush)
• Bing Maps for Enterprise (formerly Virtual Earth) Licensing FAQ (Chris Pietschmann)
• ASP.NET MVC and the templated partial view (death to ASCX) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• HTML 5 – The Future of Application Development? (Michael Ceranski)
• ASP.NET MVC Training Kit (Mike Ormond)
• Update on Windows Azure (Joe Stagner)
• Learning jQuery 1.3 Review (Steve Pietrek)
• An Alternative Approach to Strongly Typed Helpers (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• Branching out, or "How to live life outside ASP.NET MVC" (Kyle Baley)
• Simple group slicing in XSLT (Marcelo Lopez Liuz)

Silverlight / WPF

• FAQ: how to prevent {x:Null} from being written by XAML writer (Rob Relyea)
• Image generation in PHP using WPF (Timmy Kokke)
• Robozzle (Coding4Fun)
• Adventures with Silverlight 3.0 and SharePoint – Part 1 (Tom)
• Sync Multi Select Listbox with ViewModel (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight: Pong and Silverlight and WPF: The XAML Continuum (Mike Taulty)
• Fluent Silverlight – Auto Wiring INotifyPropertyChanged (Ray Houston)
• Upcoming SilverUnit Preview (Roy Osherove)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• p&p SharePoint Development Guidance v2 – What’s in Drop 10? (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• .NET Rocks! – Dan Simmons Talks EF Version 4 (Carl Franklin)
• Louis Lafreniere: Next Generation Buffer Overrun Protection with gs++ (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET # 114 – How to Create a Custom Performance Counter (Derik Whittaker)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “I hardly recognize you” (Devon Musgrave)
• Margus Veanes and Pavel Grigorenko – Qex – Symbolic SQL Query Exploration (Peli de Halleux)
• Episode 71 – PowerScripting Podcast – Doug Hazelman from Veem (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Quinton Wall on "The Seed of Hope" (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Video: Typemock Basics Tutorial – Lesson 1 (Part 1) (Me)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video segment 5 available (Rockford Lhotka)

Community / Events

• Surprise Philly ALT.NET Meeting With Scott Bellware! (Brian Donahue)
• You’re Invited for Half-Day Windows 7 Application Compatibility Labs Across the US (Bruce Kyle)
• Surprises abound at Microsoft’s E3 Press Briefing (Chris Poirier)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 6/10/2009 – Evan Light on BDD (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Will Code for Green contest (Sara Ford)
• Winner of the F# Programming Contest (Kean Walmsley)
• Prism Training Class July 7-9 (Joe Stagner)

Database

• Solution: SQL Server Report Builder 2.0 Errors (William Vaughn)
• SQL SERVER – Connect Item – Vote for Feature Request Function TRIM (Pinal Dave)
• Your testbed has to have the same volume of data as on production in order to simulate normal usage (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Free "Bing" Search Software & Resources (Blake Handler)
• BingTones for your phone (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Hardware Launches Exclusive Features for Windows 7 (MS PressPass)
• YouTube XL: YouTube launches TV sized video browser (Brad Linder)
• Free Training for Getting Started as a Developer (Bruce Kyle)
• Homer Simpson’s Toothpick Method of Blogging (Michael Krakovskiy)
• Achieve Your Goals by Putting Them Online (Darrell Etherington)
• Creating, Saving, Sharing Themes in Windows 7 (Katie Frigon)
• Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month (Ed Bott)
• Zune HD to include Xbox Live games? (Kip Kniskern)
• You 2.0 Free E-Book (J.D. Meier)
• iPhone Gaming Framework: Stage 1 Tutorial and Stage 2 Tutorial (Craig Giles)
• I Stopped Reading Your Blog Years Ago and Jobs at Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)
• Registered Member News: The Microsoft Action Pack is Going Digital – 02June06 (John McClelland)
• Windows 7: More From Wzor (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft is Getting Things Right This Time (Steve Clayton)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 2 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 will follow the same RTM, GA dates as Windows 7 (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Contributing to PHP Open Source Projects – Weird? (Joe Stagner)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds, June 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #360 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 02, 2009 — #606 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 2nd (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 2nd June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/1/2009+ (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) and Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Agent and Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) and F# May 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Scalar and Void Functions (Dan Rigsby)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet (Dan Fernandez)
• IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 and IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 (Harry Pierson)
• General Download of VS2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 (Jason Zander)
• Surface Development Part 3: ScatterView (Jennifer Marsman)
• WinFormsMVC (Steve Andrews) – Link of the Day
• IronRuby CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 and IronRuby 0.5 Released (Jimmy Schementi)
• Entity Framework 4 Persistence-Ignorance First Look (Muhammad Mosa)
• Parallel Stacks – another new VS2010 debugger window and VS2010 Fix for "not all anonymous methods are the same" (Daniel Moth)
• First few VS 2010 extensions are now available (Quan To)
• C# 4 and the dynamic keyword – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 and Back to Basics: Using Fusion Log Viewer to Debug Obscure Loader Errors (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Start Page Customization (Adrian)
• VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 Released (Michael Ceranski)
• .NET Framework 4.0: Using System.Lazy (Gunnar Peipman)
• Parameter Count Mismatch Error (Shahar Yair)
• T4 Toolbox: LINQ to SQL schema generator (Oleg Sych)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Can you justify your actions with regards to this pattern? (Oren Eini)
• An Agile CM Manifesto: Lame Oxymoron or Long Overdue? (Brad Appleton)
• Reducing Code Coupling – Introduction and Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit 2nd Ed. (Grant Palin)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 1 (Rajiv Popat)
• Art Of Unit Testing (The Samurai Book)– Get it now, it’s done. (Roy Osherove)
• Caricature Ready for Beta (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• To CI or not to CI, did not realize it was still even a question? (Derik Whittaker)
• Throttling the Agile Enterprise (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• 3 essentials to quickly learning Blend (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight Visual Studio helper files (Tim Heuer)
• NET RIA Services: Building Data-Driven Business Applications with Microsoft Silverlight3 and Microsoft ASP.NET (Jeff Barnes)

Web Development

• jQuery Progressbar (Dave M. Bush)
• Book review: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Simone Chiaretta)
• CSS Tabeless Design Basics – Positioning Content with Floats instead of Tables (Dave Schinkel)
• Automatically minify and combine JavaScript in Visual Studio (Dave Ward)
• Password FieldTemplates for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Consume an ASP.NET WebService returning List<> with Dates using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties (John Resig)
• ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing (Maarten Balliauw)
• FireAtlas – FireBug for ASP.NET Ajax (Joe Stagner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ten Things that Annoy Miguel Castro (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – David Makogon on Architecting Interface to Improve Testability (Bob Familiar)
• 10-4 Episode 20: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Brian Keller)
• MetraTech: Polymorphic Iterators, Concurrency, CRM and MetraFlow and Luke Hoban: Latest version of F# Released – What’s the story? What’s next? and Microsoft Manufacturing Toolkit (Charles Torre)
• New Screencast: Custom Sprocs in Entity Framework (Dan Rigsby)
• Geneva Server, Windows CardSpace Geneva, Information Cards and PHP Interoperability (Donovan Follette)
• Catching up with Paul Culmsee-Episode 24 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)
• History of User Experience (Pixel8 Podcast)

Community / Events

• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow – Summer 2009 (Zhiming Xue)
• The state of Open Source in the .NET ecosystem: A five year summary (Oren Eini)
• Twitter contest: what can you code in 130 characters? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• CMAP Hands On Labs Group Meeting – Silverlight – Thursday, May 21st at 6:30pm (Christopher Steen)

Database

• SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: ) (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS and SSRS Usergroup Available Online (Simon Sabin)
• IDENTITY vs. ROWGUID (Rob Teixeira)

PowerShell

• V2 Quick Tips: Finding Extra Outputs From Your Script (James Brundage)

SharePoint

• SharePoint on SharePoint: Launch of new website (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Blogging about Pex, let us know! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Mozilla’s Jetpack to bring next generation add-ons (Josh Lowensohn)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 3 – Detailed Notes (Justin Etheredge)
• CardSpace v2 moving into a new role? (Keith Brown)
• Kumo, Bing, or ???: Are secrets extinct? (Kip Kniskern)
• Ray Ozzie Asserts Microsoft’s Position In The Cloud (Leena Rao)
• A first glimpse of virtualization in Windows 7 (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Learn iPhone Development for Free (Rob Bazinet)
• How to receive email notifications for work items – #033 (Sara Ford)
• Microsoft’s Beginner’s Guide To Cloud Computing (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for May 20, 2009 — #597 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 20th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• CloudNews for May 20th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for May 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF WF Samples for .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Classic JukeBox (Coding4Fun)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Pluralization and New Webcast: ADO.Net Data Services (Dan Rigsby)
• Result: Directing Workflow With A Return Status And Value (Derick Bailey)
• Sneak Peek – Using Code Generation Templates with the Entity Framework 4.0 (Alex James)
• CLR and DLR and BCL, oh my! – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 and The Weekly Source Code 42 – Tree Trim, Plugins, and MEF (Scott Hanselman)
• A lap around Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 1 (Taimur Asad)
• Building CSLA .NET 3.6 in Visual Studio 2010 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Entity Framework 4.0 Sneak Previews (Marc Schweigert)
• Implementing TeamCity for .NET Projects, Part 2: Triggering Builds and Implementing TeamCity for .NET Projects, Part 3: Running Tests, Nightly Builds, and Creating Artifacts (Richard Cirerol)
• Checking for EF to TSQL Query Compilation Changes in VS2010 Beta1 (Julie Lerman)
• Should Call Hierarchy display compiler-generated member calls? (Kirill Osenkov)
• Yield, I thought I knew you! (Louis Salin)
• Uninstalling Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Surface Development Part 2: Surface Controls (Jennifer Marsman)
• Latest Docu builds available (Joshua Flanagan)
• Sensor and Location .NET Library for Windows 7 (Adam Kinney)
• F# Actors Revisited (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• Examining ASP.NET 2.0′s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 14 (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET WebForm Routing with SiteMaps (Chris Cavanagh)
• ASP.NET 4 Beta 1: WebForms Routing extension methods (Scott Galloway)
• ASP 4 – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Tip#63: Did you know…How to specify a fixed port for Visual Studio Development Server while using WAPs? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 and VS2010 Beta 1? (Marc Schweigert)
• How do Mobile Browsers Behave? (John Resig)

Silverlight / WPF

• New York Times Application Sample for WPF, Silverlight, REST Services (Bruce Kyle)
• Just Built My First SL3 / Dev 10 App (Jesse Liberty)
• .NET RIA Services Update with new Silverlight project template and Silverlight Visual Studio helper files (Tim Heuer)
• XAML2009 and System.Xaml.dll Preview (in .NET FX 4 Beta1) (Rob Relyea)
• Windows Media Center Brings Netflix To Consumers Using Silverlight (Sunshine)
• Silverlight Frankenstein (Rod Paddock)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Agile Talk on Agility (Ade Miller)
• In The Brain of David Ross: NBehave and Behavior Driven Development (Me)
• Beyond top-down design (Jimmy Bogard)
• A First Look at Moq (Brett Schuchert)
• Announcing Pablo’s E-Books! Book #1: Pablo’s SOLID Software Development (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day
• Caricature ready for beta (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Commercial Suicide – Integration at the Service Level (Jak Charlton)
• Introducing Typemock Racer 1.0 – Find multithreaded deadlocks (Roy Osherove)
• IOC Container, Go Hide! (Jérémie Chassaing)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Vance Morrison: CLR Through the Years (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #111: Introduction to AutoMapper (Eric Polerecky)
• Video: Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Dan Wahlin)
• Interactivity Without Code and Who’s Using Silverlight? Ebay (Silverlight Team)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners: Presenting Azure: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus – Raleigh, NC June 18, 2009 (Nandita)
• Enter to win a free pass to the SharePoint Conference 2009! (SharePoint Team)
• DC ALT.NET – 5/27/2009 – Introduction to Pair Programming (Matthew Podwysocki)

SharePoint

• Use Custom Lists for More Effective Workflow Auditing (Paul Galvin)
• How to configure the SharePoint people picker to search for users in other domains and Tip of the week : search for documents in SharePoint Server 2007 from within Office or Internet Explorer (Joris Poelmans)
• TDD with SharePoint – the best movie ever (Roy Osherove)

Database

• SQL Server – Download PDF SQL Server Cheat Sheet (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Google Releases "OffiSync" Google Docs Integration for Microsoft Office and Microsoft’s "Side-Project" Paint.Net Upgraded for Windows 7 and MSDN Blogger Recommends Free "Photoshop Texture Importer" for Paint.Net (Blake Handler)
• Mogulus Rebrands With A Killer Domain: Livestream.com (MG Siegler)
• Flock 2.5 Brings Beefed Up Facebook Chat and Twitter Search (Stan Schroeder)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0: Learn Programming Now! (Devon Musgrave)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 1 – Know Your Audience and Part 2 – Rehearse! (Justin Etheredge)
• CodePlex projects now indexed by Koders and also available in Black Duck Open Source Knowledge Base (Sara Ford)
• The Bathroom Wall of Code (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft to show “Kumo” next week? (Kip Kniskern)
• RubyMine Interview on InfoQ (Rob Bazinet)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 19, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #351 (Chris Alcock)
• Some resources about Visual Studio Extensibility (Kirill Osenkov)
• Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2009 — #596 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 19th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Creators Club Communiqué 28 (Kathleen Sanders)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof New Feature: Error Detection (Oren Eini)
• Project-wide controller survey through reflection (Jimmy Bogard)
• Code Generation in Visual Studio 2008 (Darrel Carver)
• Odd issues with Nant and and lack of (or addition of) xmlns in your files (Derik Whittaker)
• Sneak Preview: N-Tier development with Entity Framework 4.0 (Diego Vega)
• Sneak Preview: Model Defined Functions (Alex James)
• Online TechTalk about POCO and other EF4 Features (Danny Simmons)
• Stay in Sync with Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Null Is Not Empty (Eric Lippert)
• My HP Mini Runs Visual Studio 2010 (Stephen Walther)
• Created HTML Help Documentation with Sandcastle (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Install the Surface SDK SP1 Workstation Edition on x64 (Brian Peek)
• Axum – Ping Pong with Dataflow Networks (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight / WPF

• Write a Sortable ObservableCollection for WPF (Brian Lagunas)
• WCF Binary Bindings in Silverlight 3 and Tips: Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services (John Papa)
• Alpha Video with Silverlight 3 Pixel Shaders (Michael S. Scherotter)
• More Pixel Shader Effects for Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Who made my text circular? (Coding4Fun)

Web Development

• Twitter from ASP.NET and Twitter from ASP.NET – Simple GUI (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC Subdomain Routing (Juliën Hanssens)
• Emulating the UpdatePanel in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 with AjaxHelper (Dan Wahlin)
• setInterval is (moderately) evil (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Tip #61: Did you know… How to create an ASP.Net Dynamic Data Web Site? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• JavaScript for C# Developers: Functions are Objects (Julian M. Bucknall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• About RIA design (Daniela Panfili)
• Balsamiq And A Sneak Preview Of My ‘Decoupling Workflow’ Presentation (Derick Bailey)
• Why Messaging #4 – So hows it going? (Dru Sellers)
• Who left the PartialMock out in the sun? It stinks! (Jimmy Bosse)
• How Do You Deal With Exceptions? (Justin Etheredge)
• Coding Dojo #14: Rock, Scissors, Paper – TDD as if you meant it (Mark Needham)
• IronRuby just got a mocking framework – kind of (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Why a LeanSSC? Why a Lean Certification? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Kona 3: Learning Behavior Driven Development (BDD) (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #110: Learning the State Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• The History of Microsoft – 1989 (Tina)
• 10-4 episode 19: Service Discovery with WCF (Ron Jacobs)
• 7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0 (Scott Koon)
• Phil Winstanley and Dave Sussman Reflect on WebDD09 (Mike Ormond)
• Data Access Menu – panel discussion video now online (Jeffrey Palermo)

Community / Events

• db40 – A Q&A with Refcard Co-Author Eric Falsken (Kirk Knoernschild)
• IronRuby at RailsConf 2009 (Jimmy Schementi)
• SQLAuthority News – TechEd India 2009 – Day 2 – In-Person Meeting with Industry Leaders – Community Party (Pinal Dave)

Database

• SQLCat white papers a must read for performance and scalability (Simon Sabin)
• Viewing Windows Azure log files using SSIS (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Using MOSS and WSS SharePoint Workflow to Resize Images in an Image Library (Tom Hearn)

Miscellaneous

• Drop.io launches Present.io public beta (Christina Warren)
• Was 1971 the best year to be born a geek? (Cory Doctorow) – YES!!!
• Virtual PC Beta (Mike Ormond)
• Windows 7′s Best Underhyped Features [Screenshot Tour] (The How-To Geek)
• Zune HD (xYz) positioned to take on Apple, Sony, Nintendo and Google? (Thomas Ricker)
• Asteroids v2 (Vijaye)
• Go Retro: Get Windows 98 Themes for Windows 7 and Make Media Center Black (Sarah Perez)
• Office 2010 Updates (Sumeeth Evans)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #348 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 14, 2009 — #593 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (5/14/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Technology Post for May 14th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 14th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 320 (Sam Gentile)

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