.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Edition (Alexander Jung)
• The M Programming Language – Part 3 – Primer to MGrammar (Bart de Smet)
• Practical Oslo Examples Starting to Emerge… (Brian Loesgen)
• An IronPython Profiler (Curt Hagenlocher)
• WinForms – Change The Active Tab (Dave M. Bush)
• F#: Forcing type to unit for Assert.ShouldThrow in XUnit.NET (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pitfalls for software architects (Simon Brown)
• Optimize Communication, Throw the Boss Out (Jurgen Appelo)
• Your IoC Container Choice is Not a Feature of Your Application (Tim Barcz)
• DDD: Recognizing relationships between bounded contexts (Mark Needham)
• How To Correctly Sandbag Your Estimates (Max Pool)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 – Where is Silverlight Mobile? (Bart Czernicki)
• Running Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 on the Same Machine (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight 3 Quick Tip : Lambda Expressions for Async Web Service Calls (Pete Brown)
• Using the Navigation Framework in Silverlight 3 (Harsh Bardhan)
• Quick 3-d Update (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• YSlow: Add expires header to images in IIS 7 (Mads Kristensen)
• Subtext Is On The Move (Phil Haack)
• Subtext goes to Google Code (Simone Chiaretta)

Community / Events

• Coding In Public Slides and Video (Alan Stevens)
• One Week Left Before Silverlight Tour V3! (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Show #314 :MLB 2K9 and Cliff Bleszinski discusses Gears of War 2 Maps (Larry Hryb)
• Episode 64 – PowerScripting Podcast – Fred Baptiste talks PolyMon and PolyMonRT (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

PowerShell

• PingMonitor: interactive WPF UIs from PowerShell (1.0 or 2.0) (Joel Bennett)

SharePoint

• Looking for a good MOSS BDC Book? Check out SP 2007 Dev’s Guide to BDC (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever (Jeff Blankenburg) – Link of the Day
• First screenshots of build 7070 leak, RC-Escrow coming (Emil Protalinski)
• SQLAuthority News – Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009 (Pinal Dave)
• Functional Programming and Collective Intelligence (Matthew Podwysocki)
• This weeks Deal: Alien Hominid HD (Larry Hyrb)
• Wallpapers & Themes Pack from Windows 7 Build 7068 (Taimur Asad)
• The Ugly American Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Live Mesh, my initial thoughts (Kit Kai)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #317 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #46 (Grant Palin)
• Links of the week #77 (David Vidmar)
• Links (3/29/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 87 (Rhonda Tipton)

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Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Blend 3 Preview (MS Downloads)
• SketchFlow – Sketching and Prototyping in Expression Blend (Christian Schormann)
• Silverlight 3: Blog Post Summary (Andy Beaulieu)
• Blend 3 MIX Preview and TFS 2008 Integration (Brian Randell)
• .NET RIA Services is now public (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• What’s New in Silverlight 3? (Emil Stoychev)
• Perspective 3D in Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 3 as a Desktop Application (Out-of-Browser Applications) (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight 3: More Posts? (Mike Taulty)
• Compiling the Silverlight 3 Video’s Code (Jesse Liberty)
• Announcing Silverlight 3! SL3 Post Index (Pete Brown)
• A guide to Silverlight 3 new features and Silverlight 3 Out-of-browser Update Model (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3 and Silverlight Spy (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• A great set of performance tests for datareader,linq to sql, ef (Julie Lerman)
• Functional .NET – Lose the Magic Strings (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Geo Location Enables Developers To Choose Data Centers and Group Applications & Storage (Sriram Krishnan)
• Windows Azure Delivers New CTP Capabilities (Windows Azure Team)
• Using Extension Methods to Verify Assumptions (Craig Andera)

MIX09

• MIX09 Day 1 Keynote: A Roundup of Announcements and Releases (Me)
• Commerce Server 2009 Announced at MIX09 (ASP.NET News)
• New Experiences @MIX from the Microsoft Web Platform (Bill Staples)
• MIX09 Day 2 Scott Gu Keynote and MIX09 Day 2 and MIX09 Day 2 Bill Buxton Keynote (Dave Campbell)
• MIX 2009 Keynote Announcements: Day 1 (Denny Boynton)
• MIX09 Photos and MIX09 Photos Part 2 (Frank La Vigne)
• MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 1: Bill Buxton on Experience Design and MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 2: Scott Guthrie on Advancing User Experiences (Tim Sneath)
• A lap around MIX09 announcements (Simone Chiaretta)
• For MIX09 attendees: “First Look: Microsoft Silverlight 3” (Devon Musgrave)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released! and Subtext 2.1.1 Available Via the Web Platform Installer (Phil Haack)
• Sample chapter from ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Maarten Balliauw)
• WCF / Windsor Integration: Adding Behaviours (Mike Hadlow)
• Windows Azure Full Trust and FastCGI (PHP!) and PHP + ASP.NET in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Hosting Roles Under .NET Full Trust (Mohit Srivastava)
• Using 3rd Party Programming Languages via FastCGI (Windows Azure Team)
• Introducing Web Friendly Feeds aka Friendly Feeds (Phani Raj)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip – Return specific views for specific errors. (Scott Koon)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Documentation and Videos (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Microsoft Web Platform, Web Application Gallery, Web Platform Installer (and DasBlog) (Scott Hanselman)
• Reach your people everywhere, in real time! (Kevin)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released (Nick Berardi)
• ASP.NET MVC Goes RTM Before MIX09 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Live Messenger Web Toolkit (Scott)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ivory tower policies or mandates are counter productive (Derik Whittaker)
• If you’ve ever wondered what Query/Command Separation means (Jeremy D. Miller)
• "Architect" is a swear word. (Leon Bambrick)
• Patterns and Origins: SueetieConfiguration Class (Dave Burke)
• When Is One Container (IoC) Not Enough? (Dru Sellers)
• Your Software Project Has No Goal (Jurgen Appelo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ASP.NET MVC 1 with Phil Haack and First Look at Expression Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Abrams and Kothari Talk MIX09! (Carl Franklin)
• Tips and Advice – Self Organizing Teams (Bob)
• Scott Guthrie: Inside Silverlight 3 (Charles)
• endpoint.tv Screencast – Consuming REST services with HttpClient (Cliff Simpkins)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Johnny Lee on Computer Vision (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 137 – Microsoft Velocity Installation and Configuration with David Penton – audio (Wally McClure)
• Behind the scenes: How Scott Guthrie prepares for his MIX09 keynote (Tina) – Link of the Day

SharePoint

• Aging Calculated Fields in SharePoint (Bil Simser)
• Easy Installation of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3 (Paul Andrew)

Community / Events

• Talk – JavaScript at Rockford .NET (Sergio Pereira)
• Microsoft Developer Dinner Presenting Design your ASP.NET Application with Standards using Expression Web – March 25, 2009 Reston, VA (Nandita)
• The State of ALT.NET (Nick Berardi)

Miscellaneous

• First Google Chrome Extensions (Alex Chitu)
• 14 Twitter directories to find new friends (Don Reisinger)
• WordPress News Report: iPhone, Widgets API, WordCamps in Hong Kong and China, International WordPress.tv (Lorelle VanFossen)
• The curious case of Kumo: more than just a “test name”? (Kip Kniskern)
• Re-reading books (Mark Needham)
• Windows Azure Outage (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Xbox 360 and EA Bring Beloved HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT to Next Generation of Players (Sumeeth Evans)
• Internet Explorer 8 To Be Released At Noon EDT Today (March 19) (Sunshine)
• SQLAuthority News – 900th Article – 9 Best Practices – Important Milestones (Pinal Dave)
• Google Launches Chrome Experiments To Showcase JavaScript Applications (Robin Wauters)
• Improving the Education Experience with Internet Explorer 8 (Jatinder Mann)
• Mozilla Fennec (Firefox Mobile) Hits Beta (Brad Linder)
• WorldWide Telescope Web Client now available – bringing the universe closer to everyone (damaster)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #310 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for March 18, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• CloudNews for March 18h, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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Tons of goodies hitting MS Downloads this morning! Hello ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and Silverlight 3 Beta!!!

.NET / Visual Studio

• 10 C# Shorthands that improve productivity (Martijn Dijksterhuis)
• VSeWSS 1.3 Mar 2009 CTP and ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 (MS Downloads)
• Calling the Twitter API in C# and Twitter API – Get a list of your friends in C# (Wally McClure)
• Shorthand Repository Accessors (Tobin Harris)
• Functional .NET – Laziness Becomes You (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight / WPF

• Data-Driven RIA with Silverlight and Silverlight 3 Tools and Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Software Development Kit Beta 1 (MS Downloads) – Links of the Day
• Silverlight – Binding ResourceDictionaries (Dave M. Bush)
• Why is focus in WPF so tricky? [managing and understanding focus in a WPF application] (Eric Burke)
• Silverlight Smooth Streaming: UX Simulator (Tim Heuer)
• How to Re Style the AvalonControlsLibrary DataGridView (Marlon Grech)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Continuous Integration 101 (Davy Brion)
• A better Model Binder (Jimmy Bogard)
• "A" way of dealing with dates in automated tests (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Coding: Make it obvious (Mark Needham)
• API design values and decision matrix (Roy Osherove)
• Book Review: The Art of Lean Software Development (Jim Holmes)

Web Development

• Syndicating and Consuming RSS 1.0 (RDF) Feeds in ASP.NET 3.5 (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and Live Search API SDK (MS Downloads)
• WCF REST Screencasts/Videos (Aaron Skonnard)
• Sueetie.Core Overview (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has been released! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Retrieve Table Size with SQL Server and ASP.NET 3.5 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Signs That Your JavaScript Skills Need Updating (K. Scott Allen)
• Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 4 now available (Bertrand Le Roy)

Podcasts / Screencasts

• Code Cast #25 – MassTransit (David Starr)
• 2009.03.17 Digital Productivity Strategies for Developers (Craig Shoemaker)
• NHibernate performance with Ayende, David Penton, and Ben Scheirman (Jon Galloway)
• Channel 9 This Week: Joe Nalewabau, Red Nose Day, Windows 7 .NET wrappers, free MVC chapter (Dan Fernandez)
• Major Nelson Show #312 : Resident Evil 5 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 62 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ferdinand Rios and Jeffery Hicks from Sapien (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint Architecture and Small to Medium MOSS Deployments-Episode 19 (SharePoint Pod Show)
• The Thirsty Developer 55: RESTifarian (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Michael Foord Talks IronPython (.NET Rocks!)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 129: F# with Luke Hoban (SE Radio Team)
• Episode #93: Retrieving data from a REST based service using C# (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Tracking MIX09 (Tim Sneath)
• Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2009 edition – save the date! (Jeff Palermo)

SharePoint

• Why Proper Requirements is Key to SharePoint Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint Session State; The Guest That Just Won’t Leave (Todd Carter)

Database

• Enhancing Visualisation of Common Elements Across Groups Using Color in Reporting Services 2005, Part 2 (Thomas Williams)
• Indexing Best Practices for SQL Server 2008 (Jose Barreto)

PowerShell

• Confusion about PowerShell Script Signing (James Kovacs)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft SearchTogether Beta and Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x86) and IIS Powershell Snap-in (x86) and Microsoft WebDAV 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x86) and Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 for IIS 7 Beta 1 (x86) and Administration Pack for IIS 7.0 (x86) (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft’s Codeplex Releases "Outlook Attachment Reminder" (Blake Handler)
• Google Chrome 2.0 Beta (Alex Chitu)
• Inside Microsoft’s 2019 Vision Video (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 RTM speculation heats up and Twitter intrigue: Kumo “only the test name”: Live Search (Kip Kniskern)
• Designing Aero Snap (Stephan Hoefnagels)
• 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications (Paul Andrew)
• Virtua Health Joins the Growing Amalga Family (Roberto Ruggeri)
• The Windows Azure Malfunction This Weekend (Windows Azure Team)
• The Hardest Interview Puzzle Question Ever (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for March 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #309 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 17, 2009 — #544 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Twitterings #20 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for March 17th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t Make ‘Read-Only’ Fields Less Readable (Leon Bambrick)
• Refactoring: Introduce Constant (Gunnar Peipman)
• Learning StructureMap Through Tiny Goals (Chris Missal)
• My Thoughts About IRepository (Laila Bougria)
• Repositories and IQueryable, the Paging Case (Jérémie)
• p&p – Web Service with REST Application Pattern (Colin Jack)
• More About Test Case Reuse (James Whittaker)
• Code Noise Part 2! (David Yancey)
• Leadership 101: Build Broad Shoulders (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• EntityObject Class Constructors (Julie Lerman)
• Multiple Outputs from T4 Made Easy (Damien Guard)
• Reading Declarations (Eric Lippert)
• Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon: The Time Has Come – Your Win32 Application Will Change (Michael Chourdakis)
• Many-to-One Mapping with Composite-ID’s with FluentNHibernate and DimeCasts .NET #79 – Learning How to Use the XML Serializer (Derik Whittaker)
• Using the Kinetic Framework with a Non-Table-Based Entity (Joel Ross)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 147 – The New WPF-Based Text Editor in Visual Studio 2010 – Interview with a Dev (Scott Hanselman)
• AutoMapper – The Object-Object Mapper (Jimmy Bogard)

Web Development

• Matthew MacDonald’s Hot List of Useful Web Sites (Sara Peyton)
• jQuery, JSON and ASP.NET and Friday Books – Teach Yourself ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Introducing Azure Issue Tracker Sample Application (Joe Stagner)
• Do Not Blame ASP.NET WebForms (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• Method for Retrieving Movie Posters and ASP.NET Application Lockdown on IIS 7 (Mads Kristensen)
• New Release of the SmartTools for SharePoint Project (Jan Tielens)
• Firebug Rocks for CSS Manipulation (Jason Grundy)
• Speed Up Your JavaScript with Memoization and Queueing (Dion Almaer)
• Creating MVC "Areas" as Subfolders Under Views (Billy McCafferty)
• Redirecting with the Click of a Button (Scott Mitchell)

Silverlight / WPF

• Video: Learning CRUD and Data Forms in Silverlight 2 – Episode 1 and Episode 2 and Episode 3 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Control Creation (or Why Silverlight Needs a Blink Control) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #86 – How to Load External Images (Mike Snow)
• WPF Wonders: Properties and Events (Rod Stephens)
• My First Silverlight Part 3 – Create the Silverlight Web Part (Ton Stegeman)

.NET Community / Events

• CodeMash Wrapup (John Stockton)

Database

• SQL Server 2005,2008 – Find Longest Running Query – T-SQL – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Welcome to Windows 7 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Welcome to Black January: Microsoft, Intel, IBM and Others Lay Off Tons (Robert Scoble) – Best of luck to all those impacted by these cuts.
• WHS v2 and Power Pack 2 Announced (Michael Ceranski)
• Unlock Hidden Themes in Windows 7 and It’s a Windows 7 Love Fest (Sarah Perez)
• How to Remove Windows 7 Send Feedback, Watermark Text (Brad Linder)
• Tips on Upgrading from VSS to Subversion (Russell Ball)
• Microsoft to Release IE8 RC1 Next Week (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft Hiring Update (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Tips for Being More Productive (Dan Wahlin)
• Open Source Software, Self Service Software (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft to Merge Windows Live and Office Live (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #102 and Visual Studio Links #103 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 — #492 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 – 2 — #493 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 – 3 — #494 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 – 4 — #495 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for January 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• CloudNews for January 22nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (1/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #271 (Chris Alcock)

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