• Reactive Extensions 6/5/2011 release available (Rx team)
• Silverlight: The Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated! (Mike Brown)
• Building an HTML/HTML5… Based Application for Phone 7 (David Kelley)
• HTML 5 Host Application Framework for WP7 "MANGO” (Don Burnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• OSX Style Checkboxes in C# (shelby67)
• Ordering data in LINQ Queries by more than one column (Abhijit Jana)
• Coded UI Test: Convert Normal CUIT to Data Driven CUIT using Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
• VS2010 Tip – How to Launch ILDASM from VS2010 IDE (Hima)
• Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010 – Review (Mike Fourie)
• Constructing a framework for the TFS Automation Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Wifi Network Backup Manager Utility (Shai Raiten)
• Implementing Storage Abstraction Layer to Support Very Large Messages in Windows Azure Queues (Valery Mizonov)

Web Development

• MyCollegeMyFriend – An Open Source Project developed using ASP.NET 2.0 – Dot Net logiX (Rahul Saxena)
• Keeping track of indexes while dragging in jQuery ui.sortable (Mats Lindh)
• Run “IIS Express” and “Cassini” simultaneously in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Abhijit Jana)
• Quick Tip: Entity Framework DB Initialization with ASP.NET Providers (Mike Brown)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Geolocation – Only $6.49 w/code DDGEC (O’Reilly Media)
• Object Auto Documentation – JavaScript (Vladimir Carrer)
• What you should know about HTTP pipelining (Brian Bondy)
• MVC3.1 Scaffolding Magic with Database (or Model) First , Not Just Code First (Julie Lerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing for the Agile Developer (Avi Kaye)
• Focus with Skill and Focus is the Key to Success at Microsoft (JD Meier)
• Verifying the Number of Calls to a Mocked Method (Richard Carr)
• Learning and Growth (Dru Sellers)
• Out of calibration (Eric Brechner)
• Test Driven Development in PHP (Eric Hogue)
• Running NUnit in the Windows Azure Emulator (J.P. Hamilton)
• Content Chunking: Designing Clear, Memorable Web Pages (Anthony)
• Effective Tests: Custom Assertions (Derek Greer)
• The evil tricks of “It Works On My Machine”, in reverse (Oren Eini)
• Convention Based Filters (John Teague)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 11 – Application State Management (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Reading Data from WCF Data Service in Silverlight 4 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 2) (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight 5: Vector and Bitmap Printing for Reports and more (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 5: Extending the Trusted Application model to the browser and HTML 5 (Surf4Fun)
• LightSwitch Things For Sale and I Want To Make Cars Not Car Engines and Silverlight DataTrigger is the Answer to View Model / MVVM Issues (Michael Washington)
• Useful Mango Developer Resources (Jaime Rodriguez)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 160: Charles Petzold on History and Science (David Giard)
• Windows Weekly 212: You’re Just Wrong Leo (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 020 – “Would You Like Xbox With That?” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #93: We Are Even Awesomer This Year (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• 15 for 365 – 15 Videos Office 365 for IT Pros (Greg Duncan)
• TWC9: The Nic-&-Tina-Have-Nothing-Intelligent-To-Say Edition (Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 19 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Agile2011 and Other Speaking Dates (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Velocity 2011 is underway (O’Reilly Media)
• FREE Windows Phone Development Webinar Series Starts in June and July (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone Garage – Greenville, SC on 6/17/2011 and DevExpress webinar series for Windows Phone (Chris G. Williams)
• Microsoft’s Silence is Infuriating .NET Developers (Jonathan Allen)

Database

• Should SQL Server Denali Run on Windows XP? (Brent Ozar)
• SELECT 101 FAQ’s FROM SQL Server Community INSERT INTO Free eBook (185 pages, PDF) (Greg Duncan)
• SQL Server–Partitioning FILESTREAM data with RANGE LEFT does not work (Jacob Sebastian)
• Concatenate Strings in SQL Server – Different ways (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Integration Services Balanced Data Distributor – SSIS Balanced Data Distributor and SQL SERVER – PHP on Windows and SQL Server Training Kit and SQL SERVER – Extending SQL Azure with Azure worker role – Guest Post by Paras Doshi (Pinal Dave)
• Don’t touch that Maintenance Plan Job (Adam Mikolaj)
• Non use of persisted data (Dave Ballantyne)
• Database Documentation with a Data Dictionary Part 2 (Andrew Zwicker)

Miscellaneous

• Mozilla is all set to release Firefox 5 on June 21 (Windows Valley)
• Sneak Peak at the UXMagic App for WP 7.1 (Don Burnett)
• Didn’t Microsoft already do that Wii U thing? (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #871 (Chris Alcock)
• Link dump for June 9th and Link dump for June 10th and Link dump for June 11th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Web Dev Tweets 9-Jun-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #152 (David Vidmar)
• Everyman on Influencers, Gaming vs Reputation Systems, Trusting in Facebook, Alvin meets Orson (Dave Burke)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 05-June-2011 to 11-June-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• My Picks This Week (weekly) (Krish)
• Silverlight Cream for June 12, 2011 — #1104 and Silverlight Cream for June 12, 2011 – 2 — #1105 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Head First Android Development by Jonathan Simon

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.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Language Details (Gotchas) (Chris Smith)
• Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework (MS Downloads)
• Query Editor: Writing Queries, Part 1 (Jason Haley)
• Über Prof goes live (Oren Eini)
• Using Windows Touch Gestures with .NET (Part 1: Configuration) (Jason Ipock)
• The Wisdom of Crowds: Implementing a Smart Ranking Algorithm (Lee Dumond)
• Populating a TreeView Control from a List (Deborah Kurata)
• Teamprise: Enabling TFS collaboration across heterogeneous platforms (Somasegar)
• Telerik “M” Compare and “Repository” Migration Tool November CTP (Stephen Forte)
• Announcing the new Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform (Silverlight Team)
• Three Umpires (Eric Lippert)
• JNBridgePro 5.0 Bridges Java and .NET (Mitch Pronschinske)
• On being Culture Aware (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• Preventing Security Development Errors: Lessons Learned at Windows Live by Using ASP.NET MVC (MS Downloads)
• zen-coding: turn those CSS selectors upside down (Leon Bambrick)
• ASP.NET Authentication – Multiple Domains w/ Same Application (Dave M. Bush)
• Server Side Validation With ASP.NET MVC And Data Annotations (Malcolm Sheridan)
• $.fadeTo/fadeOut() operations on Table Rows in IE fail (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft sees a silver lining in the cloud (Steve Clayton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Security Considerations for Client and Cloud Applications (MS Downloads)
• Dependency Injection 101 (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Fields and virtual members (Jimmy Bogard)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Processing Requests (Davy Brion)
• Electronic Kanban Tools and WIP Limits: LeanKitKanban and AgileZen Get It! (Derick Bailey)
• You say Tomato, I say Pomodoro (Joel Cochran)
• The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming and The Bridge Pattern – When a single class hierarchy is not enough (David Cooksey)
• Trying Out Personal Kanban (Or At Least My Interpretation Of It) (Joel Ross)
• Getting started with BDD (Behavior Driven Development) in .NET (Tom Janssens)
• Legacy Code: Sensing (Mark Needham)
• Reuse Creates Bottlenecks (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Can Agile Be Combined with Offshore? 12 Lessons Learned. (Peter DeYoe)
• 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design (Whitney Hess)

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services + Silverlight Behaviors Resources (Andy Beaulieu)
• XAML 2009 Features: Node Loop flexibility (Lester Lobo)
• Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released (Sunshine)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Live from DevReach, Sofia, Bulgaria (Carl Franklin)
• Pluralsight Training Videos on .Net Reflector (Jason Haley)
• Ping 37: SQL Server, Windows 7, Bing, Google, Bill Gates Birthday (Laura Foy)
• ASP.NET 4 / VS 2010 “Quick Hit” Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Talk: Stop Programming JavaScript by Luck (Sergio Pereira)
• SharePoint PodShow – A Conversation with Foxit Software Episode 37 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Thread Blocking Analysis in the VS2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – November 9th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Countdown to Microsoft PDC 2009 – part 2 (Lars Wilhemlsen)
• Party with Palermo: PDC ‘09 edition – 6 days and counting (Jeffrey Palermo)
• SQL Authority News – Training MS SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization And Performance Tuning (Pinal Dave)
• Next "Oslo" CTP to be released in conjunction with PDC (Sam Gentile)
• PDC and Python (in that order) (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• Does the S in SQL stand for Scary? (Coding4Fun)
• Fuzzy Logic and Regex come to T-SQL in SQL Server 2008 R2 – available now! (Jamie Thomson)
• Always include precision and scale with decimal and numeric (George Mastros)
• SQL Azure & SQL Server playing together (Steve Clayton)

SharePoint

• Determining if MOSS is Standard or Enterprise (Tom Hearn)
• StructureMap and SharePoint (Tony Rasa)

Miscellaneous

• What I Use and Kindle for PC Now Available (Paul Thurrott)
• A Good URL Regular Expression? (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Mark Russinovich on Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Devon Musgrave)
• PowerPack Creation Manual (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Tortoise more than just version control (Jimmy Bosse)
• Recent UI updates to GitHub (Kyle Neath)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Rocks! (Jeffrey Snover)
• Verizon – Google Droid Review (Tim Boland)
• Happy 5th Birthday, Firefox! (Simon Mackie)
• Download Podcasts with Powershell (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft’s Top 3 advances in Exchange Server 2010 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/10 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 7 Taskbar Tweaker Lets You Change Windows 7 Taskbar Functionality (Sarah Perez)
• Today in O’Reilly Answers – The Droid, Tip-of-the-Tongue Effect, Technology for Political Candidates, and more (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #474 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 09, 2009 — #727 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/9/2009 (Bill Zack)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Links and Azure Links and Workflow Links and New and Notable 388 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Posting on Sunday instead of Monday this week. I’m taking a day off with the family tomorrow. Back on Tuesday!

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.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate Perf Tricks and NHibernate Documentation (Oren Eini)
• Code Contracts CLR Inside Out Article (Melitta Andersen)
• WCF Extensibility part 4: Applying formatting to operations (Alex Thissen)
• BLinq – Linq to Bing Search APIs (Nikhil Kothari)

Web Development

• MyStream: Social Lifestreaming with ASP.NET 4.0 (Tanzim Saqib)
• Working with Themes in ASP.NET (Sheo Narayan)
• Tip #92: Did you know … How to select a master page using ‘Select a Master Page’ dialog? (Deepak Verma)
• Static Page Checking in ASP.NET MVC (Steve Andrews)
• Using Container-Level Access Policies in Windows Azure Storage (Steve Marx)
• jQuery SuperLoad and ASP.NET MVC with jQuery SuperLoad (Sergio Pereira)
• PHP toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services…And My XBox Demo (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ADO.NET Data Services and PHP (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Adding Google Gadgets to your web page in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• MvcContrib version control has moved to GitHub (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Important Updates to Live Services: Live Framework CTP Unavailable As of Sept 8 (Kevin Ledley)
• Microsoft Killed the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control (Chris Pietschmann)
• Last.fm tips and tricks (Donald Bell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Visitor Design Pattern and Gang of Four Design Patterns (Richard Carr)
• The Importance of Context (Aaron Lerch)
• Refactoring Day 22 : Break Method and Refactoring Day 23 : Introduce Parameter Object (Sean Chambers)
• Review of ANTS Memory Profiler (Scott Seely)
• RhinoMocks Exploration : RhinoMocks “Caching” Values? (Tim Barcz)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer Series and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Mapping Classes To Tables (Davy Brion)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 11. (Rajiv Popat)
• BOOK: Running an Agile Project (Brad Appleton)
• Using Unity to make Singleton-ness an implementation detail (Brian Button)
• Answer the User’s Questions (Christopher Bennage)

Silverlight / WPF

• Adding Behaviors Programmatically (Andy Beaulieu)
• Test driving a WPF App – Part 2: Adding some data (Brian Button)
• A Simple WPF Loading Animation (Brian Lagunas)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 23: Azure (Brad Abrams)
• How to install cool, custom fonts (like PDC09) into Windows and use it in your Silverlight application (or even Microsoft Word) (Dave Isbitski)
• How to Center a Silverlight App in HTML (Joel Cochran)
• Updates made to MVVM Foundation (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Kevin Hazzard on Dynamic Languages (MS Podcasts)

Community / Events

• Windows Azure World Tour 2009 (Steve Marx)
• Party with Palermo: PDC 2009 – save the date (Jeffrey Palermo)
• an update to the ch-ch-ch-changes and ASP Insiders (Chris Williams)
• Live Meeting with Phil Haack – MVC 2 – 08/26/2009 9am PST – 10 am PST ( 12pm-1pm EST) (Eric Hexter)
• Windows 7 Ship Party: Work hard and play hard (Ginny Cheng)
• New Question Asker Features (Jeff Atwood)
• DevHawk World Tour FY2010 (Harry Pierson)
• Giving up a year of my life (Wendy Friedlander)

Database

• SSMS Tip – Display Results in a Separate Tab (Rhonda Tipton)
• SQL Server StreamInsight CTP2 Available For Download and Scripting all jobs on SQL Server 2005/2008 into one file (Denis Gobo)
• SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online and SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 Migration White Papers (Pinal Dave)
• DAL: Save Data Using a SQL Statement (Deborah Kurata)
• How to fix Flash video performance in Firefox (Jason Clarke)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s PDC09 Releases Free "StarTrek-Like" Windows 7 Font (Blake Handler)
• Fun with PInvoke and Aero Peek (Joel Bennett) – Link of the Day
• 5 Awesome Firefox Add-ons for Windows or OS X (Garin Kilpatrick)
• What Everybody Should Know About Installing And Using Java On Ubuntu (Alan Skorkin)
• Your Blog is Your Mothership (Amber Riviere)
• Adobe adds video hosting to Photoshop.com (Brad Linder)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 3 (Martin Bell)
• Marketing Snake Oil (Rob Conery)
• Windows 7 and a Quick Launch Toolbar (Rick Strahl)

More Link Collections

• Linkblog, The Sequel (Pete Seale)
• More Consolidated Tech Tweets, It’s Been a Good Week (Angela Binkowski)
• Interesting Finds: August 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2009 — #670 and Silverlight Cream for August 22, 2009 — #671 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Post… 8/17/2009 through 8/22/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review of Scaling Lean & Agile Development (Ade Miller)
• Refactoring Exercise (Brett Schuchert)
• What I expect my Continuous Integration server to do for me. (Derik Whittaker) – Link of the Day
• What are you solving for? (Joe Ocampo)
• Why do we extract method? (Mark Needham)
• IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) (Mike Walker)
• Component-Driven Development and IoC Containers and Developing Component-Driven Applications powered by IoC Containers (Rinat Abdullin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Not Sure If I’ve Said Often Enough.. I LOVE LINQPAD!!! (Peter Kellner)
• Retrying Operations (Tony Rasa)
• From LINQ to XPath and Back Again (K. Scott Allen)
• DSL Tools Model Bus Sample (Peter Provost)

Web Development

• Forms Auth\Windows Auth – what is more common? (Brad Abrams)
• Twitter From ASP.NET – Friends vs Followers (Dave M. Bush)
• jQuery Tools vs jQuery UI (Marc Grabanski)
• More group slicing in XSLT (Marcelo Lopez Luiz)
• TUTORIAL: Creating an IE8 Accelator (Jeff Blankenburg)
• The .NET Newbie’s Guide to Customizing the DataGridView Control (Susan Sales Harkins)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Getting Your House in Order – Overview (Howard Dierking) – Be sure to check out Howard’s entire “Extreme ASP.NET Makeover” series on Channel 9.
• MSDN Webcast: XNA Game Studio 3.0 (Lindsay Rutter)
• Scott Hanselman – NerdDinner.com (Robert Hess)
• The History of Microsoft – 1992 (Tina)

Database

• SQL Server Summaries with ROLLUP and CUBE (Richard Carr)
• Removing replication and handling tables with identity seeds (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Boxee Alpha media center for Windows to go public on June 23 (Brad Linder)
• D&D-style map of C++ (Cory Doctorow)
• How to view stats for the entire lifetime of a CodePlex project – #043 (Sara Ford)
• How to Remove the .NET ClickOnce Firefox Extension (Scott Hanselman)
• SQLAuthority News – Rambling of Author and Technology Musing – Bing, Google, Windows 7, Books, Blogs, Twitter and Life (Pinal Dave)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #362 (Chris Alcock)
• List of Microsoft training kits (Gunnar Peipman)
• Random stuff surrounding Silverlight for June 4, 2009 and Silverlight Cream for June 04, 2009 — #608 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (6/4/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Everyman Links for June 4, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• New and Notable 326 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 4th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Code from Persistence.NET NHibernate Workshops and NHibernate Queries – Examples and NHibernate – Mapping a single domain model to multiple physical data models (Oren Eini)
• Incrementing a C# Variable Efficiently (Bashir Nabeel)
• More Extension Methods (Chris Cavanagh)
• Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey) (Chris Williams)
• A .NET (C#) Developer’s .gitignore File (Derick Bailey)
• Sneak Preview: Entity Framework 4.0 Testability Improvements (Diego Vega)
• “foreach” vs “ForEach” (Eric Lippert)
• Windows 7 Managed Code APIs (Yochay Kiriaty) – Link of the Day
• Id Generation for db4o (Tuna Toksoz)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 on msdn downloads (Wally McClure)
• .NET Framework 4 and VS Beta1 docs are posted (Jim Galasyn)
• Preview of Resharper for Visual Studio 2010 Coming Soon (JetBrains)
• Connecting VS2010 to TFS 2008 and Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Supports UML (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why Isn’t My Encryption.. Encrypting? (Jeff Atwood)
• Half-a-Book Review: IronRuby in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Web Development

• FireFox+Firebug vs IE8 Developer Toolbar (Chris Brandsma)
• New book: Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications (Devon Musgrave)
• ASP.NET MVC For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Phil Haack) – Coming in June.
• Book – ASP.NET MVC QUICKLY from Packt Publishing! (Joe Stagner)
• Dynamically Generate Meta Tags for ASP.NET Pages using LINQ To XML (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Free Typemock licenses – Welcome the ASP.NET Unit Testing Bundle (Roy Osherove)
• Unit Testing JavaScript with FireUnit (Stephen Walther)

Silverlight / WPF

• Realizing a Fisheye Effect in Silverlight (Charles Petzold)
• 3D Hit Testing (Jordan)
• MVVM and The Origins of Caliburn (Rob Eisenberg)
• New York Times WPF Kit (Michael S. Scherotter)
• How to customize holiday appearance in the Silverlight Calendar [Jason Cooke] (Kathy Kam)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• “Code Leader” book – what’s the missing piece? (Roy Osherove)
• Programming magic: Rituals and habits of effective programmers (Amy Bennett)
• The Flat Tire Principle for Source Control (Eric Hexter)
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Role and perception of Enterprise Architects needs to align better with business goals (Mike Walker)
• Unit Testing in EF v1 – the database conundrum and And now…Unit Testing in EF4 (Julie Lerman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Peter DaBetta and Adam Machanic on creating good SQL databases (Carl Franklin)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 31: Being Dynamic about IronPython with Harry Pierson – Part 1 and Episode 32: Being Dynamic about IronPython with Harry Pierson – Part 2 (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Code Cast 27 – Ade Miller (David Starr)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Silverlight 3 with Adam Grocholski (Jeff Brand)
• InfoStrat.VE: Integrating Virtual Earth 3D into WPF and Surface Applications for Mere Mortals (Marc Schweigert)
• Ping 12: Mac vs Microsoft, Ipod vs Zune: The Ad Campaign War (Laura Foy)
• Episode 70 – PowerScripting Podcast – Practical PowerShell: Best Practices from the Field (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• David Giard interviews Jamie Wright on CSLA .NET (Rockford Lhotka)
• Surface Development Part 1: What is the Microsoft Surface? (Jennifer Marsman)

Community / Events

• The dojo is open… www.ITSamuraiSchool.com (Billy McCafferty)
• .NET RIA Services at TechEd 2009 (Brad Abrams)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta1 Forums –Now Live (Charles Sterling)
• Speaking at CodeStock 2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Events This Week – May 18th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Energy Event – Mark Your Calendar – May 20, 2009 (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamic Languages at TechEd 2009 (John Lam)

Database

• SMO Script Index and FK’s on a database (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Increase Your Windows 7′s Portable’s Battery Life with "Power Management Reports" (Blake Handler)
• Flock 2.5 launches with support for Twitter, more services (Rafe Needleman)
• My Phone Beta Opened To All Users! (Sunshine)
• WMI Feature Announcement (Nandan Bhat)
• MAKE magazine projects as free PDFs (Mark Frauenfelder)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 1 – Know Your Audience (Justin Etheredge)
• Microsoft and Open Source (Harry Pierson)
• Eduify Launches Educational Tool for Students on Windows Azure (Sarah Perez)
• Windows 7 Learning Site Launched (Scott Lock)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #350 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for May 18th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Silverlight Cream for May 18, 2009 — #595 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for May 18, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #80 (David Vidmar)
• CloudNews for May 18th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Send Emails with .NET and Gmail (Stephen Hill)
• Parallel.For(.): A Deeper Dive – Parallel Programming in .Net 4.0 (Paul Jackson)
• VS10 and OSS (Andrew Stopford)
• Calculate sunset and sunrise time (Wouter Huysentruit)
• Implementing a WCF service firewall part I of N (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Uninstalling the Clickonce Support for Firefox (Brad Abrams)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Thumbnail Toolbars (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• Free Web Hosting + Free Web Tools = Free-kin’ Awesome!!! (Bob Familiar)
• Introducing Sueetie Groups (Dave Burke)
• Retrieving Database Information using ASP.NET and SQL Server 2005/2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)

Silverlight / WPF

• Prism V2 Refreshed and Building a Prism Application WebCast: Part II Available (Bob Brumfield)
• David Owens: WPF Search Text Box and XAML State of the Union – Feb 2009 and CodePlex: Bling Project Updated – Goal to Help Prototyping of Rich UI Design Ideas (Rob Relyea)
• New Silverlight media experience for WindowsClient.net and Testing Silverlight Applications (Tim Heuer)
• Tip: Invoking Blend from Visual Studio (Jim Galasyn)
• The Caliburn Beta is Live (Rob Eisenberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Technical Debt (Martin Fowler)
• Seamless test authoring with ReSharper and AutoHotKey (Jimmy Bogard)
• Agile UI design (Daniela Panfili)
• Starting with Test-driven development (Laila Bougria)
• Quality Must Be Built In – It Cannot Be Added On (Derick Bailey)
• Handy cheat sheet for Visual Source Safe (Leon Bambrick)
• Book Review: Clean Code (Jim Holmes)
• Great UI: Clarity and Color on the Presentation Layer (Mark Miller)
• Some Alternative Ways of Reading Context/Specification (David Starr)

Community / Events

• Learn .NET Best Practices From Top Area Developers (Denny Boynton)

SharePoint

• The SharePoint Object Model. . .of Doom 1 (Kyle Szklenski)

Database

• SQL Data Services – SQL Server in the Cloud! (Joe Stagner)

Miscellaneous

• The Slacker Media Player: Nostalgia (the Good Kind) in the Palm of Your Hand (Wil Wheaton)
• 10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) (Michael Feathers) – Link of the Day
• IE8 videos on Channel 9 (Sharon Cohen)
• Iterasi Now Supported in IE 8.0 (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #296 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – February 25, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for February 26, 2009 — #529 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 02.23~02.27 (yuanjian)
• Links (2/26/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: February 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for February 26, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• New and Notable 295 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for February 26th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day