Silverlight / WPF

• Creating a Custom Observable Collection in WPF (Pedro Sampaio)
• ViewModel + .NET RIA Services Part 2: Testability, Server Mocking and Dependencies (Nikhil Kothari)
• .NET RIA Services Simplifies Web Development Efforts (Bruce Kyle)
• Transforming Bounds (WPF3D Team)
• New York Times Silverlight Kit Now Open Source (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Have you seen Microsoft Interactive Canvas (MIC) in action? See why it won the Design Week award (Silverlight Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 expected as soon as next week (Mary Jo Foley)
• FluentNHibernate Contrib (FNH.Contrib) Is Alive! (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day
• string.Repeat() – smaller and faster version (Gunnar Peipman)
• EF4: What is and is not supported (Julie Lerman)
• Talking Points: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus (Part I) (Joel Reyes)

Web Development

• Essential tools for web developers (Jimmy Bogard)
• Twitter from ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• What ASP.NET developers should know about jQuery (Dave Ward)
• Selenium: Waiting for jQuery AJAX calls (Mark Needham)
• Retaining Pager Size in Dynamic Data GridViewPager (Steve Naughton)
• New release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Stripper Pattern (Oren Eini)
• Customizing container behavior part 2 of N – Defaults (Glenn Block)
• Commercial Suicide – Integration at the Database Level (Jak Charlton)
• NCover v3.1 unveiled! Bad code flees! (Joe Feser)
• Anxiety or Boredom Driven Process Improvement? (Karl Scotland)
• The fallacy of the always-valid entity (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Using code analysis again… (Marc Schneider)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 6 (Rajiv Popat)
• 10 ways to make automation difficult or ineffective (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Quicker Frameworks (Vladimir Gitlevich)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• AgileToolkit – Moving into the role of Scrum Master (Jill Tubaugh)
• Luca Bolognese: C# and VB.NET Co-Evolution – The Twain Shall Meet (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #53 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code 47: Joe Brinkman on Webforms vs ASP.NET MVC (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• TechEd 2009 SharePoint Developer Panel (Eric Shupps)
• Microsoft MVP Award Program Recognizes Top-Tier Technology Influencers! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• TeamCity.CodeBetter Project List (Kyle Baley)
• Upcoming Testing Conferences (2nd half of 2009) (Josh Poley)
• 100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter (Ken Denmead)
• SQLAuthority News – TechEd India 2009 – Day 1 – Authors Tech Session – SQL Server Cheat Sheet – Meeting Great People (Pinal Dave)
• TechEd 2009 – Day 2 (Todd O. Klindt)
• TechEd Day 2 (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• Requirements for SharePoint 2010 (Stephen Cummins)

Database

• Filtered Indexes v Indexed Views (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• Start Today Testing Compatibility with Windows Logo Toolkit RTM (Bruce Kyle)
• Why Do Computers Suck at Math? (Jeff Atwood)
• Strengths and weaknesses revisited (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• GBridge gets better with Google Apps support in v2.0 (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #347 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #118 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for May 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2009 — #592 (Dave Campbell)
• Technology Related Links for May 13th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 13th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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