.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

Web Development

• Using ASP.NET Routing Without ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• Upload Multiple Files in ASP.NET using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Community for ASP.NET MVC – Release: Azure MVC v1 – C# (CodePlex)
• Mixing ASP.NET, jQuery and JSON (Dave M. Bush)
• Donut Hole Caching in ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• Custom Controller Factory in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Announcing PHP SDK for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• jQuery Sortable Plug-in and unwanted Clicks (Rick Strahl)
• Why these jQuery worst practices aren’t. (Scott Koon)
• Maintaining Cookieless Session Values in Dynamically Generated Hyperlinks (Rafay Ali)

.NET / Visual Studio

• "Olso": Hot or Not? (Chris Sells)
• string.Repeat() extension method (Gunnar Peipman)
• Sneak Preview: Model First in the Entity Framework 4.0 (Noam Ben-Ami)
• Sneak Preview: Deferred Loading in Entity Framework 4.0 (Faisal Mohamood)
• Debug Diag script for troubleshooting .NET 2.0 Memory leaks (Tess Ferrandez)
• New Name for Test and Lab Tools (Jason Zander) – Link of the Day
• Announcing FsCheck 0.6: Dot is the new pipe (Kurt Schelfthout)
• C# – object, var and dynamic demystified (Michael Ceranski)
• Reversi for Windows Mobile (Ziad Elmalki)
• Get Internet Connectivity for Your .NET Mobile Device Emulators (Mamta M.)
• Debugging and PDBs (Marcelo)

Silverlight / WPF

• Matchingo – A Silverlight Memory Game (CodePlex)
• CoverFlow – built using Silverlight 3′s ‘Projection’ feature (Jose Fajardo)
• Expression Blend 3: Trying a Drag-and-Drop Behavior (Part 2) (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guidance (Tim Heuer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t mock my integration tests (Oren Eini)
• Success and statistics (Jimmy Bogard)
• Testability vs. Testing (Dino Esposito)
• Road Thoughts – Frameworks (and Honesty) (Corey Haines)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kenn Scribner on REST (Carl Franklin)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #109: Learning Hudson: Setting up a simple build (Derik Whittaker)
• Stored Procedure Panel from Tech Ed 09 posted online and Surviving the Downturn: Panel discussion now online from Tech Ed 09 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Inside Microsoft’s home of the future (Robert Muehsig)
• Mocking – VISUG session (screencast) (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Announced, CTP Coming This Summer (Denis Gobo)
• IDENTITY a fraud? and When are you upgrading to SQL Server 2008? (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

• SharePoint: SPList.HasView() extension method (Gunnar Peipman)

Community / Events

• Social Media Blogs Top 200… Your Nominations Please! (Jurgen Appelo) – Vote for me! 
• IndyHall Welcomes Scott Bellware’s TDD and Web Testing Workshops, June 2nd and 3rd (Alex Hillman)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 training in Sydney next week – and it’s FREE (Anthony Borton)
• Ayende’s Post #4000 (Dave Laribee)
• Microsoft MEF Q&A with Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira (Aslam Kahn)
• The DZone interviews Hamilton Verissimo on MEF (Brad Abrams)
• Visual Studio and Mono at TechEd (Darren Stokes)
• French MVP Becomes the #1 Visual Basic Contributor (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Tech Ed BookStore (Julie Lerman)
• TechEd 2009 – Embrace Open Source on CodePlex (DPR301) (Sara Ford)
• Stack Overflow Developer Days Conference (Jeff Atwood)
• SQLAuthority News – TechEd India 2009 – Day 0 – Day 1 – Authors Tech Session – SQL Server Cheat Sheet – Catch Me Live (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Random Developer Quotes (Oren Eini)
• Windows 7 Taskbar in 10 Minutes – Part III: JumpList (Gunther Lenz)
• Is Microsoft about to purchase SeeqPod’s assets? (Brad Linder)
• IE8: Nine Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Windows 7 Removes the Need for QuickTime (Keith Elder)
• Twitter changes @reply settings again, users protest (Jay Hathaway) – Boo!
• Just what is Kumo, anyway? (And is it open source?) (Kip Kniskern)
• Asteroids (Vijaye)
• What kind of open are you looking for? (Seth Godin)
• The book shelf of a Connected Systems MVP (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Microsoft "Pink" specs leak out: Tegra, Snapdragon, OMAP 3, oh my? (Nilay Patel)
• All You Need To Know About Giving A Presentation (Steve Clayton)
• Some Programming Languages to Consider Learning (Steve Rowe)
• What can the Rails Maturity Model do for me? (Rob Bazinet)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 12, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #346 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2009 — #591 (Dave Campbell)
• Technology Related Links for May 12th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 12th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Daily Find #121 (Tim Boland)

Book of the Day

• The Influence of MVC on My WPF (Christopher Bennage) – Link of the Day
• More on Moonlight 2.0 Preview 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight – Navigating Data (Dave M. Bush)
• Recreating Frogger in Silverlight – Part 2 and Part 3 (Michael Ceranski)
• The New York Times Silverlight Kit (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Creating a MVVM “Hello World” Application in 30 seconds (Rudi Grobler)
• Document Toolkit: Customizing the document viewer (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft to turn .Net Micro Framework code, support over to the community (Mary Jo Foley)
• LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery) (Peter Kellner)
• Pay attention to the difference between Expression.Lt & Expression.LtProperty (Derik Whittaker)
• Introduction to MapReduce for .NET Developers (Eran Kampf)
• A Developer’s Guide to Preparing for Windows 7 (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

• Google’s Latitude Apps Give a Glimpse of New Latitude API (Andres Ferrate)
• Tweetpoll – My first Windows Azure application is live (Jamie Thomson)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements (Mike Ormond)
• Querying SharePoint List Items using jQuery (Jan Tielens)
• GridView Plugin For JQuery (Justin)
• Dynamic Data Preview 4 Released (Scott Hunter)
• Smooth Cascading Effect with ASP.NET Panels using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Dynamic Data in Regular Websites/Web Applications (David Fowler)
• Cleaner, Faster Ajax in ASP.NET (Gil Shabat)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing “Where’s The Dollar?” and Understanding the Problem (Chris Missal)
• Yet another reason to love TestDriven.net (Sebastien Lambla)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 4 (Rajiv Popat)
• Who’s In Charge Of The Time? (Davy Brion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ted Neward on Oracle buying Sun (Carl Franklin)
• 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing (Brian Keller)
• E-VAN Videos Reminder (Colin Jack)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #52 (Jeff Atwood)
• Cannon PI Title Sequence (Frank La Vigne)
• Podcast: Meg Edwards – My Journey with GTD Lists (Meg Edwards)
• Andy Lester: Land the Tech Job you Love (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Incorporating Your Beta Feedback into RC and Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features (Yochay Kiriaty)

Community / Events

• .NET’s Most Influential People in 2009 (Jay Kimble)
• See and Be Seen Among the Stars at the INETA Booth at Tech·Ed and 9Q w/ Kathleen Sanders (Chris G. Williams)
• Announcing Silverlight FireStarter DC: June 6 (Frank La Vigne)
• Announcing the Formation of the Lean Software & Systems Consortium (Karl Scotland)

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Step by Step: What’s new for 2008? (Ken Jones)

PowerShell

• Fun with Alerts (“‘a”) (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Tools and Programs I use in my everyday work (Agnes Molnar)
• It’s Not About the Tools, It’s About the Strategy (Celine Roque)
• 8 Essential Applications (Corey Schuman)
• Are You an Information Junkie? (Dawn Foster)
• 4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks (Samuel Dean)
• Interesting and Ignored Tags Now Support Wildcards (Jeff Atwood)
• Clearing The Confusion On Security And Clouds (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Recipe for Spark build/dev machine on Virtual PC (Louis DeJardin)
• Guess Who Owns Kindledx.com? Amazon. Guess Who Forgot To Set It Up? Amazon. (MG Siegler)
• Live Search PR push in anticipation of “Kumo” (Kip Kniskern)
• Marketing Ideas to Help Sell Your Ideas (Sam’s Club Cup Pt. 2) (Max Pool)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #342 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2009 — #588 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for May 6th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours): Rob Eisenberg, Christopher Bennage: Books ISBN: 0672329859 ISBN-13: 9780672329852

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# developers: date basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• To MVC or to WebForms? (Chad Myers)
• CMS vs Code It Yourself (Dave M. Bush)
• How I handle JSON dates returned by ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward)
• Tip#57: Did you know… How to manage web site configuration through a web interface (Deepak Verma)
• ASP.NET MVC brings FUN back inside web development, on .NET (Simone Chiaretta)
• The strange case of the disappearing Feature: AdapterGroup (Scott Galloway)
• Creating Visual Studio Templates from your Web Projects (Rick Strahl)
• PHPPowerPoint 0.1.0 (CTP1) released! and Book review: Learning Ext JS (Maarten Balliauw)
• Move Over ASP.NET WebForms and MVC! (Jonathan Oliver)
• ASP.NET 400 Bad Request with restricted characters (Joshua Flanagan)
• How to Create A JQuery Plugin (Justin)
• IRouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Cross browsing experience with Expression Web and IE8 (Giorgio Sardo)
• Windows Live Web Toolbar – How to integrate into your site (Hackersoft)
• Develop Provider-Based Features for Your Applications (Miguel A. Castro)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tally Rows in a DataSet that Match a Condition (Beth Massi)
• Why I love ReSharper, Part X of N (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Dovetail DataMap (Kevin Miller)
• What’s Been Happening in Fluent NHibernate Land? (James Gregory)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NHibernate Unit Testing (Oren Eini)
• Why Messaging #1 – Intro (Dru Sellers)
• Don’t Worship at the Altar of Accuracy (Steve Rowe)
• Weak/Strong APIs (Mark Needham)
• All Your Repositories Are Belong To Us (Jonathan Oliver)
• Why agile transitions initiatives might fail (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Validation – Part 2 – Client-Side and The 7 Phases of Unit Testing (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft Previews Great WPF and Silverlight Apps with Facebook OpenStreams API (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 3 – Simple Control for Online/Offline and Silverlight 3 – Simple “Flip Control” built on PlaneProjection (Mike Taulty)
• TestAPI v0.2 Released (Lester Lobo)
• Round Gel-like button template for WPF (LearnWPF)
• Databinding the videogame, part 6: logical coordinates (Joe White)
• Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Local Data Store (Ashish Shetty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #105: Getting your Func along with your Action on (Derik Whittaker)
• The Future of SQL Data Services with Nigel Ellis (Zach Skyles Owens)
• The Thirsty Developer 60: SQL Server 2008 for developers (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Taking PeepCode for a spin (Sergio Pereira)

Community / Events

• Distributed Development at Agile 2009 (Ade Miller)
• Top 10 .NET Twitterers (Me)
• NINE Questions with Shawn Weisfeld (Chris Williams)
• My upcoming speaking/teaching schedule (Derik Whittaker)
• Events This Week – April 27th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL2005 and SQL2008 should not be installed side by side (Simon Sabin)
• Quick Data Model creation off SSAS Data Source in SSRS (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server Encryption and Symmetric Key Encryption Tutorial with Script (Pinal Dave) – Link of the Day

SharePoint

• sharepoint guidance v2 – drop 8 (Erwin Van Der Valk)

Miscellaneous

• Call for JavaScript authors (Michael Kimsal)
• More Office 2010 screenshots surface and Microsoft said to reveal "Kumo" in June (Ben)
• NH Prof feedback (Oren Eini)
• Windows Live Profile (April) update is here! (damaster)
• At This Point, I’d Prefer Java Developers Over .NET Developers (Davy Brion)
• Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Vine to alert you in the time of crisis (Taimur Asad)
• Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 Available for Download (Kevin Purdy)
• 40% off IronPython In Action Book (Michael Ceranski)
• Five Windows 7 chapters free to all (Devon Musgrave)
• Improvements to AutoPlay (Arik Cohen)
• Is Google trying to out-Digg Digg? (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #336 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #114 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for April 27, 2009 — #581 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 91 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 315 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Repository’s Daughter (Oren Eini)
• There is no right way (Chris Brandsma)
• Build the right feature, build the feature right! (David L.)
• Poco, Mef, and custom type systems. Are you ready to take the red pill? (Glenn Block)
• Design By Contracts meets Automated White box Testing (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Overcoming Fear of Unit Testing Disease (Julie Lerman)
• Validation – Part 1 – Getting Started (Karl Seguin)
• If You Aren’t The Caretaker, Why Are You The Product Owner? (Max Pool)
• Prototyping with SketchFlow (Somasegar) – Link of the Day
• The big picture of the SharpDevelop code base (Patrick Smacchia)
• AutoSpec and AutoTest.NET – AutoSpec for .NET (Rob Reynolds)
• 10,000 Hours to Graceland (Rod Paddock)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate Futures (Oren Eini)
• Unlambda .NET – With a Big Dose of C# 3.0 Lambdas (Bart de Smet)
• Functional C# – Forward Functional Composition and Functional C# – Reverse Functional Composition (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Programming Microsoft Agent in Windows Forms (Mohammad Elsheimy)
• ReSharper coolness of the day: TODOs and NotImplementedException (Joe White)
• Data Synchronization and the Compact Framework (Joel Ross)
• Static Method Interception in .NET with C# and Mono.Cecil (Justin Etheredge)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight – Databinding to a Web Service (Dave M. Bush)
• Silverlight 3 Hidden Features: TextBox.CaretBrush (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Databinding the videogame, part 4: terrain collection and Databinding the videogame, part 5: making the map 2-D (Joe White)
• Silverlight 3 Navigation API (Thanigainathan Siranjeevi)

Web Development

• Getting up and Running Quickly with ScrewTurn Wiki & SQL Server (Dave Schinkel)
• You should NOT use ASP.NET MVC if. . . (Jeffrey Palermo)
• 7 New APIs – Aviary, Google and ProgrammableWeb (John Musser)
• Suteki Shop is now a sample application on the official MVC Framework site (Mike Hadlow)
• 6 Tips for ASP.NET MVC Model Binding (K. Scott Allen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Northeast Roadshow – Silverlight with WCF, WCF REST, and ADO.NET Data Services (Brian Johnson)
• DDD: Videos from Øredev (Casey Charlton)
• Major Nelson Blogcast – Show #317 : Wolverine, The Maw DLC and Todd McFarlane (Larry Hryb)
• SE Radio Episode 133: Continuous Integration with Chris Read (Volker Mosthaf)

Database

• SQL Server Except and Intersect (Richard Carr)
• Import directory of XML files into SQL Server 2005 (Ted Krueger)
• T- SQL – How to get all descendants of a given element in a hierarchical table (Paolo Costa)
• SQL SERVER – List All the Tables for All Databases Using System Tables (Pinal Dave)

Community / Events

• Awarded INETA Community Champion for Q1 2009 (Ben Scheirman)
• Party with Palermo location confirmed for Tech Ed 2009 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• SQLAuthority News – Starting the SQL Journey – How Did I Get Started With SQL? (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Press Releases Free Sample Chapters of Upcoming Windows 7 Books and Microsoft’s MSDev.com Releases Free Web Seminars: "A Developer’s First Look at Windows 7" (Blake Handler)
• Organize your Personal Resources – Just use a Wiki! (Dave Schinkel)
• What you need to know about the Windows 7 Release Candidate (Ed Bott)
• Has The Virtualization Future Arrived? (Jeff Atwood)
• Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock (Kip Kniskern)
• PowerShell CmdLet Name Changes (Gary Lapointe)
• Crossing Domain Boundaries: Name Resolution (Oleg Sych)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #335 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2009 – 2 — #579 and Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2009 — #580 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for April 25, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #50 (Grant Palin)
• Links (4/26/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Happy π Day!

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 is on CodePlex and Consuming the Twitter REST API with HttpClient (WCF REST Starter Kit) and Screencast: HttpClient + Twitter REST API in under 3 minutes (Aaron Skonnard)
• Solving Azure configuration problems (Gunnar Peipman)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #10: Adding additional data to healthvault (Eric Gunnerson)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Stepping Thru Code and Writing an IronPython Debugger: Debugging Just My Code (Harry Pierson)
• Visual Studio 2010 Screencast: C# 4.0 Language + IDE + WPF Shell + Editor (Kirill Osenkov)
• Deploying .NET Applications – Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce (Mo Khan)
• F# game running on the console (Joh)
• REST Starter Kit++ (Sam Gentile)
• LL vs. LR vs. GLR (Paul Vick)
• Functional Programming in .NET – Adding Extensibility (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Custom Domain Names in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Debugging .NET Applications – Podcast Alert (Tim Barcz)
• Azure Services White Papers (Wriju Ghosh)

Web Development

• S#arp Architecture 1.0 RC 2 Released! (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed (Jason Haley)
• Rant: IE and local JavaScript and Watir: opening/reopening specific page in IE (Joe White)
• Accessing Windows Azure Blob Storage from PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Create Interactive Buttons in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• SharpArchitecture_1.0.48.410_RC2.zip (10.1 MB) (Billy McCafferty)

Silverlight / WPF

• Port your XNA Game to Silverlight (Andy Beaulieu)
• Displaying Today’s Date with XAML (Christopher Bennage)
• Visibility pattern in Silverlight (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight for PHP Developers (Mike Ormond)
• Flexible layout on steroids (Rudi Grobler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• p&p Guidance as Actual Books (David Starr)
• It’s All About The Benjamins, Baby. (Derick Bailey)
• If you cannot do a source pull and compile you are doing it wrong! (Derik Whittaker)
• Unit Testing File I/O Operations (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 3 (Justin Etheredge)
• Test First Development and Making a Cake (Leon Bambrick)
• Dime Casts.Net # 92 – Creating SOLID Code: Liskov Substitution Principle (Stephen Bohlen)

Community / Events

• INETA Board of Directors (Chris G. Williams)
• INETA Board of Directors (Steve Andrews)
• Free Microsoft Robotic Studio Training (Frank La Vigne)
• Starting a User Group, Entry #4 (Jason Haley)

Database

• Designing a document database: Aggregation and Designing a document database: Aggregation Recalculating (Oren Eini)
• Using SqlDependency and ServiceBroker With Sql Server Express (Keith Elder)

Miscellaneous

• Is a Yahoo! search deal the reason for Kumo? (Kip Kniskern)
• Announcing Botomatic.com – Build Your Own Twitter Bot (Steve Marx)
• Sample of the week: Super Pong (Vijay)
• Happy Pi Day (Scott Mitchell)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links 2009-03-13: Article series special (Gunnar Peipman)
• Silverlight Cream for March 13, 2009 — #540 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: March 13, 2009 and Interesting Finds: March 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for March 13th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 14 (Denis Gobo)
• Discoveries This Week 03/13/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Contradictory Observations (Martin Fowler)
• Inspiration for Next Generation UX (Nikhil Kothari)
• Ongoing Maintenance & Debt Reduction (Chris Missal)
• Backflows are self-regulating (Corey Ladas)
• Different Kind Of Factory? (Davy Brion)
• Procrastination and the Bikeshed Effect (Jeff Atwood)
• (Almost) Frictionless Testing: Specifications (Erik Peterson)
• Application Compatibility Testing — Overview (Grant George)
• Debugging the Future (Advanced .NET Debugging) Video Presentation (Michael Kennedy)
• The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (Joe Stagner)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading process output (Gunnar Peipman)
• Building Domain Specific Languages in C# (Neal Ford)
• Triggering events on UI components (WinForms) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• How to start Visual Studio programmatically (Kirill Osenkov)
• Thinking about C# 4.0, VB 10 and Dynamic (Mike Taulty)
• Re-attaching objects – My Foray into Linq to Sql and the Entity Framework (part 2 of 2) (Greg Galipeau)
• WCF and MSMQ (Steve Stefanovich)
• T4 Tutorial: Making Code Generators Extensible (Oleg Sych)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• jQuery – Sliders (scrollbars to the rest of us) (Dave M. Bush)
• Use jQuery to catch and display ASP.NET AJAX service errors (Dave Ward)
• Creating Dynamic ASP.NET SiteMap using LINQ (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate 2 (Nick Berardi)
• ASP.NET MVC: Reducing duplication for partial models (Mark Needham)
• How to Learn ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Handling Null Session and Request Variables (Jarzebowski Mark)
• Wanna see ASP.NET MVC RTM-ed? Help test MVC RC2 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Chapter 6 – Understanding HTML Helpers (Stephen Walther)
• Hotfix Available for ASP.NET MVC Crashes With Azure/Power Commands/Resharper (Joe Cartano)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Silverlight for workflow creation (Tim Heuer)
• two very promising WPF application frameworks on codeplex (Jaime Rodriguez)
• What’s This? No Intellisense for WPF’s Xaml View. (Tom Krueger)
• Win Your Copy – WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008 (Izzy Schwartz)

Community / Events

• Philadelphia’s Pre-SXSW Mixer @ National Mechanics (Alex Hillman)
• Some Great New Mix09 Sessions Posted (Brad Abrams)
• At the MVP Global Summit… (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 3 – Party Day and SQL Celebrity Photos (Pinal Dave)

Database

• Another Item for the Wish List and SqlClient Wish List and More Data-Centric Visual Studio IDE Requests (William Vaughn)
• SQL 2008 Cluster Installation Guide (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• First Look at New Office 14 Roadmap and Resources Available to Get Started with Windows 7 and Quick Applications Help You Get Stared with Live Services Development (Bruce Kyle)
• Sobees Gives You Twitter+Facebook+YouTube+RSS (Larry Larsen)
• Convert PDF and HTML to .mobi to read on your Kindle (Lee Mathews)
• What should I do during a lunch interview? (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Looking Forward to Viveri: An Experimental Search Site (Sarah Perez)
• Developing at the Speed of Microsoft (Sean Biefeld)
• My Phone Team Is Listening: Tighter Integration With Windows Live Services In Future (Sunshine)
• Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.3 and Lightroom 2.3 GMs (PSN Editorial Staff)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #299 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: March 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 298 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for March 3th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Tidy Up Your Xaml And Code Behind, Use UserControls Inside Templates (Amit Raz)
• Styling ListBox And Animating ListBoxItem In Silverlight 2 (Faisal Khan)
• two very promising WPF application frameworks on codeplex (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #97 – Creating Sprites from 3D Models – EnvyGames (Mike Snow)
• how to build an outlook style application (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio (2005, 2008, 2010) Tips and Tricks (Angela Binkowski)
• The Twitter Search API made easy with Linq to XML (Jan Tielens)
• C# moved to #1 for Programming Book Sales According to O’Reilly’s Radar (Gunther Lenz)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Setting a Breakpoint (Harry Pierson)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 beta release (Rockford Lhotka)
• Introducing Maestro – A DSL for Actor Based Concurrency and Exploring MapReduce with F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• What’s the point of Value types? (Mike Hadlow)
• Things I liked most out of TFS2008 (Laila Bougria)
• ADO.NET EF v LINQ to SQL (Take 4) (Chad Moran)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: object inheritance (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• jQuery, the who, what, where, why and how (Coding4Fun)
• 40 Useful JavaScript Libraries (Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Must use !important on your CSS class for Text color to work on ASP.NET Validation Controls (Dave Schinkel)
• OAuth MVC.net Revisited (Owen Evans)
• CRUD with ASP.NET MVC (screencast) (Maarten Balliauw)
• 43,439 reasons to use append() correctly (Josh Powell)
• 50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials for Designers and Developers (Paul Andrew)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why aren’t software architects held accountable? (Simon Brown)
• Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Dependency Properties (Brad Abrams)
• DDD: The Specification Pattern and DDD: The Post That Should Have Preceded The Last (Casey Charlton)
• Next Generation Project Planning Tool: LiquidPlanner 2.0 (Steve McConnell)
• A story about ‘getting it done’ (Corey Haines)
• Manage Your Projects, Not Just Your Schedule (Part 4) (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Agile Architecture Method Revisited (J.D. Meier)

Community / Events

• Microsoft’s own private Macworld (Todd Bishop)
• MIX ’09 Plans (Nikhil Kothari)
• CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, March 3rd, 6:30pm – DotNetNuke, CMS for the Masses (Christopher Steen)
• Events This Week – March 2nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• ALT.NET Seattle 2009, some impressions (Ian Cooper)
• Alt.Net Seattle Review (Eric Hexter)
• MVPs Deliver Smart Business Solutions (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 2 – Most Contributing MVP of Year (Pinal Dave)
• Construx Offers Free Training for Laid-Off Software Workers (Pam McIlroy) – Link of the Day

PowerShell

• A guide to Advanced Functions (Joel Bennett)
• Powershell “CmdLet” and SharePoint (Liam Cleary)

SharePoint

• Guide to SharePoint Performance Optimization (Marwan Tarek)

Database

• SQL Server Upgrade Technical Reference Guide (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Two New Windows 7 Guides for IT Professionals (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Opens Office 14 Kimono, Slightly (J. Nicholas Hoover)
• Microsoft to start testing ‘Kumo’ search service and First screenshot of Microsoft’s Kumo (Ina Fried)
• Xbox Friends Watch Gamercard now on Channel 9 profile page (Adam Kinney)
• My Phone Team Is Listening: Tighter Integration With Windows Live Services In Future (Sunshine)
• Facebook comes to Windows Live FrameIt, PowerToy now available for download (damaster)
• Introducing NLP (Mo Khan)
• Why am I seeing this dialog? (IE8) (Frank Olivier)
• Ed Bott: The end justifies the means (Paul Thurrott)
• OhGizmo Preview: Pixar’s Up (Evan Ackerman)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #298 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #109 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2009 — #532 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 03.01~03.03 (gOODiDEA)
• Weekly Links #42 (Grant)
• CloudNews for March 2nd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 297 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day