Design / Methodology / Testing

• Technical Debt – Definition and Resources (Brad Appleton)
• Lessons Learned from Bruce Lee (J.D. Meier)
• Brownfield Application Development in .NET: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• The Problem with Big Design Up Front is the "Big" not the "Up Front" and Designing the Work (Scott Bellware)
• Where do developers care for Software Quality? (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• UX Thoughts – Learning Phase Tools II (András Velvárt)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC: How to combine scripts and other resources (Gunnar Peipman)
• DinnerNow.net 3.0 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is here! (Habib Heydarian)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons Part 7: Refactoring, Deployment And Wrap-Up (Ryan Svihla)
• Improving the AJAX Control Toolkit with the Lightweight Test Automation Framework (LTAF) (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Day #4: Communicating Between Two Silverlight Controls and Day #5: Silverlight Drag and Drop (Jeff Blankenburg)
• “XNAVATARS” – PART 2 – NO SHADOWS? (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Porting DinnerNow.NET to Azure (Vishwas Lele)

Miscellaneous

• Revive your User Group, part II (Joe White)
• Experimenting with PowerShell (Jose Barreto)
• 5 Things You Can Do With Aviary Screen Capture (Thursday Bram)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2009 — #628 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for July 3, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 07.01 ~ 07.05 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Link Post 100 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

I’ve just started taking a look at PLINQO to generate LINQ to SQL code for a sample project I’m working on. So far, I’m impressed. PLINQO looks really promising. If you’re using CodeSmith, you should definitely take a look at it. If you haven’t tried CodeSmith for code generation in .NET, you can get a free trial.

I’ll be posting the sample application when it’s complete.

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Should We Return Null From Our Methods? (Lee Dumond)
• Stop Using Structs Everywhere (Chris Eargle)
• High Test Coverage Ratio is a good thing, Anyway! (Patrick Smacchia)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Test Category Filters (Rob Reynolds)
• The Fallacy Of ReUse (Udi Dahan)
• Art Of Unit Testing available at Amazon (Roy Osherove)
• What Investing Can Teach You About Software Development (Part 1) (Jeremy Jarrell)
• What Do You Value? and Productivity in the Cloud… (Mike Cottmeyer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Releases Sensor & Location Platform Development Kit for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• LINQ in Action samples available in LINQPad (Fabrice Marguerie)
• Connection Pooling: Implemention (Oren Eini)
• VS2010 help for the WPFer (Rudi Grobler)
• Parallel Stacks – Method View (Daniel Moth)
• Getting and compiling T4 Toolbox source code (Oleg Sych)
• Operation could destabilize the runtime – Reflection.Emit and common pitfalls (Mehfuz Hossain)
• F#: Explicit interface implementation (Mark Needham)
• Generic Value Object (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Web Development

• How to Bridge the Client-Server Gap using AJAX and jQuery-Part 1 (Jonathan Chaffer & Karl Swedberg)
• Multi-targeting of web projects using Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 (Bala Chirtsabesan)
• Book review: jQuery in Action (Peter Eysermans)
• ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and VS 2010 plan now public (Jeffrey Palermo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week on C9: Project Natal, Qex for SQL, and Bing for Devs (Dan Fernandez) – Link of the Day
• 10-4 Episode 22: Simplifying Data-Driven Web Applications (Jonathan Carter)

Community / Events

• 20 Developers to Follow on Twitter (Ben Parr)
• MSDN Roadshow Slide Decks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Bridging the gap between communities – ColdFusion and SOTR (Sebastien Lambla)

Database

• T-SQL MERGE: My New Friend (Charles Chen)
• Thinking outside the box – impressive (Trevor Dwyer)
• SQLAuthority News – Using SQL Server 2008 Extended Events – White paper By Jonathan Kehayias (Pinal Dave)
• Favorite SSMS Options – and some gotchas (Kimberly L. Tripp)

SharePoint

• WCF and SharePoint: context != context (Waldek Mastykarz)

Miscellaneous

• WINDOWS 7 FAQ: Top Answers to First Time User’s Questions and Free Ringtones for Your Mobile Phone "Hidden" Within Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Outliers (Dave Burke)
• Twitter finally verifies verified accounts rumor (Jay Hathaway)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 6, 2009 and LINKBLOG for June 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links #56 (Grant Palin)
• June 7th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
• Discoveries This Week 06/07/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# BootCamp – Questions and Answers – part I – Introduction (Steffen Forkmann)
• Using Reflection in C# to Figure Out if an Integer List Has Values (Peter Kellner)
• NHibernate Mapping – <list/> (Oren Eini)
• DDD and the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Evgeny Salamatov)
• LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0 (Damien Guard)
• Create a Generic List at Run Time and Quickly Find All "TODO’s" in Your .NET Project (Srinath M.)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – TeamCity Integration Coming (Rob Reynolds)
• Review: CryptoLicensing for .NET (Roy Osherove)
• NCover v3.1.2 released! (Stephen Ward)
• Analyze and explore the evolution of .NET Framework by yourself (Patrick Smacchia)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: 1.8.0.2 Beta (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JSMag June 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating Rails Like Flash Feature in .NET The Flash Control (Mohammad Azam)
• Control TextBox’s AutoComplete Action (Chris Love)
• Sueetie Content Parts and List View Controls, Oh My (Dave Burke)
• Free ASP.NET 4.0 beta hosting available (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML Editor FieldTemplate for Dynamic Data Using AJAX Control Toolkit Editor (Stephen Naughton)
• How to Use Microsoft.Web.Administration : Using Scripts to Automate Management : Managing and Maintaining IIS 7.0 : The Official Microsoft IIS Site (Stuart Manning)
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Scott Guthrie)
• GridView Selection and Postback using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• clientscript as the view controller (Jay Kimble)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BOOK: Agile Testing and Sensing and Sense-making in the Agility Cycle (Brad Appleton)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class (Chris Missal)
• Bricks and Mortar: Building a Castle (James Kovacs)
• Simple Nested Closure (Matt Hinze)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Yes, I’m going to finish "Build Your Own CAB" (sorta) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Refactoring guard clauses, or “How to ask politely” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik Releases RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta (Ina Tontcheva)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• XAML: Using Generic Types in XAML 2009 and Empty string in XAML (Rob Relyea)
• Ocean for Silverlight – Enables Sharing Business Objects With WPF (Karl Shifflett) – Link of the Day
• Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework (Jeff Wilcox)
• Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the Eye (Jennifer Marsman)
• Sync Multi Select Listbox with ViewModel (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 – Inside the Thread Pool (Charles Torre)
• Windows 7 RC2 Build 7224 Videos (Stephen Chapman)
• Netcast #11 – The Two Silos (Todd O. Klindt)
• Ping 14: Bing, VPlay, Zune HD, Celebrifeed, Mediaroom (Laura Foy)
• Show: Episode 2 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Microsoft’s Project Natal demo video has us jumping with anticipation (Nilay Patel)

Community / Events

• 2009 E3 Xbox.com Press Kit (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Shane Young! (Amanda Murphy)
• SharePoint Conference Washington DC (Bob Mixon)
• Foundation Series, Session 4, Wed June 10th (Brian Donahue)
• 2009 E3 Xbox Media Briefing (Larry Hryb)
• SQLAuthority News – Summary of TechEd India 2009 – A Grand Event (Pinal Dave)
• God Bless Xbox: Microsoft’s E3 News Roundup [Roundup] (Matt Buchanan)
• Breaking News: Atlassian Acquires GreenHopper (Max Pool)
• LosTechies welcomes Sharon Cichelli "Girl Writes Code" (Joe Ocampo)
• Free Virtual Expo on SharePoint – June 10 (Joel Oleson)

SharePoint

• Reading Digital Signatures from InfoPath Forms in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Workflow (Tom Hearn)
• SharePoint: Some users doesn’t receive alerts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Tip: Don’t use "&" in instance.xml when creating a WSP (S.S. Ahmed)

Database

• How to execute multiple SQL scripts (Martin Bell)
• Log Shipping for DR and failing back in case of disaster. The cheap way! (Ted Krueger)
• Microsoft Reporting Services (Sub Reports, Charts, Parameters, Expression Editor, etc) (Jorge Paulino)

Miscellaneous

• New details emerge about Microsoft Exchange & Outlook Mobile (PhoneArena Team)
• Google to sell eBooks by year’s end and Rumor: Google bringing the BBC iPlayer to the US? and Microsoft’s Bing 411 offers phone numbers, directions over the phone (Brad Linder)
• Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate? and Bing Search Bars are now everywhere! (damaster)
• Microsoft "Project Natal" invents a better Wii (Joel Johnson)
• Web v.Next (John Stockton)
• Bing Goes Live—Here’s What You Can Do With It (Kevin Purdy)
• Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads (Kevin Purdy)
• Oh dear, there IS a Club Bing (Kip Kniskern)
• The Rotting Stink of Corporate IT (Sara J. Chipps)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 1 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Project Natal is going to change the games forever! (Taimur Asad)
• Gmail Notifier Plus Adds Email Alerts to the Windows 7 Taskbar (The How-To Geek)
• Acer launching world’s first Android-based netbook in Q3 (Thomas Ricker)
• Make Bing your default search provider in IE (Paul Thurrott)
• The Ultimate USB *Key* Drive » Lacie iamaKey 8GB (Matt Walker)
• Adobe releases trio of Labs goodies for designers, developers (Lee Mathews)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 8: Deliver with Confidence and Style (Justin Etheredge)
• Google Docs gets x’ier with .docx and .xlsx support (Josh Lowensohn)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #359 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2009 — #605 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 325 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 1st (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 1st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Vici MVC finally released as part of the Vici Project (Philippe Leybaert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof & Teaching NHibernate and NHibernate Queries – Should I use HQL or Criteria? (Oren Eini)
• .Net Service Bus: How to make training kit examples authenticate without problems (Gunnar Peipman)
• Sorting Filters in Dynamic Data (DD v1.0) (Stephen Naughton)
• The Future of GhostDoc (Roland Weigelt) – Link of the Day
• Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 1 (Jason Meridth)
• SharpCouch: Use anonymous type to create JSON objects and CouchDB/Futon: ‘_all_dbs’ call returns databases with leading ‘c/’ (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• SketchFlow: Rapid prototyping that works (Silverlight Team)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 1 (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Architecture Different Based on Where You Live? and Do Architecture Principles Matter? (Mike Walker)
• Internal DSLs, method chaining and discoverability (Sebastien Lambla)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Browser 1 Released! (Tom Hearn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WebCast on SOA in the E-VAN (Udi Dahan)
• Major Nelson Show #321: Zune HD, CellFactor and Steve Wiebe (Larry Hryb)
• Road Thoughts – History (Corey Haines)

Community / Events

• A eulogy: DevelopMentor, RIP (Ted Neward)
• IE8/Win7 MSDN Roadshow Coming to Reston & Richmond This Week and June is Silverlight Month in DC (Frank La Vigne)
• Pictures from Tech Ed 2009 and Party with Palermo posted and Austin Code Camp was a hit! (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Join the Bing community (Kip Kniskern)

Database

• null IS NOT NULL (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – List All Objects Created on All Filegroups in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Whats the most important thing when performance tuning? (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• REVIEW: First Look at Microsoft’s New BING Search Engine (Blake Handler)
• Gametrak Freedom Xbox 360 motion controller up for pre-order with Squeeballs (Darren Murph)
• Top 10 Reasons Why Employees Leave in IT (Dave Schinkel)
• Top 25 Hitler Rants (Jurgen Appelo)
• Apparently Bing Is Something Of A Hit (Michael Arrington)
• Daily news blogs about .NET and related creatures (Roy Osherove)
• Bosom Buddies: How to make Google Chrome use Microsoft Bing for Search (Scott Hanselman)
• Just Bing It! – Start Bing’ing the Internet! (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #358 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #82 – “Finally on Sunday” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #55 (Grant Palin)
• Easy links to remember for asking sharepoint questions (Ishai Sagi)
• Weekly Link Post 96 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (5/31/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• New jQuery Ribbon release! (Mikael Söderström)
• First Look: Google Wave (Paul Thurrott)
• ASP.NET 4.0: Modifying ClientID of controls (Gunnar Peipman)
• Sample Code for New Windows Azure Blob Features (Steve Marx)
• Using ‘Tracing Images’ feature in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Debuggable Self-Host Windows Service Projects (Brian Noyes)
• NHibernate – Coarse Grained Locks (Oren Eini)
• Pretty Printing Exceptions (Chris Cavanagh)
• Installing the Couch(DB) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio 2010 (Kathleen McGrath)

Silverlight / WPF

• ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
• Cider/Blend/Other tools – Please don’t hardcode knowledge of “WindowsBase.dll” for XAML component model attributes, etc… (Rob Relyea)
• Google Wave: the sky is falling and Flash/Silverlight are dead (Tim Heuer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Persistence Patterns: Cascading Updates (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• xUnit.NET: Running tests written in Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Needham)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 5 (Build IT!) and Part 6 (Source Control & What NOT to Check In) and Part 7 (TortoiseSVN Global Ignore List) and Part 8 (Next Steps) (Rob Reynolds)
• Git Getting Stronger (Mike Riley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 48: Dustin Campbell on Visual Studio 2010 (Jon Galloway)
• Bing: Test Drive Microsoft’s New Search Engine (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 63: F# with the Nomadic Developer (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

• Why Should I go to a Code Camp? (Dave Schinkel)

PowerShell

• PoshCode Poll: How do you want Search to work? (Joel Bennett)

SharePoint

• Modifying Built-in Content Types in SharePoint (Bob Mixon)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Create Multiple Filegroup For Single Database (Pinal Dave)
• Service Master Key Backup (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

• REVIEW: First Look at Microsoft’s New BING Search Engine (Blake Handler)
• The Stack Overflow Trilogy (Jeff Atwood)
• All electronics should label their energy use (Rob Relyea)

More Link Collections

• May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 324 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Generic Method for Loading Interfaces in C# (For a Plugin System) (Tom Hearn)
• Combining Arrays (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 will allow mobile development, Microsoft affirms (WindowsForDevices)
• Vista, Visual Studio 2008, SharedView and Azure (Chris)
• MGDisplay: Visualize Parsed "Oslo" Grammars (Chris Sells)
• Reading embedded files at runtime (Gunnar Peipman)
• Entity Framework VB Samples Now Available on CodeGallery! (Elisa Flasko)
• dropkick – an idea for deployments (Dru Sellers)
• Background Garbage Collection in CLR 4.0 (Tess Ferrandez)
• F#: Testing asynchronous calls to MailBoxProcessor (Mark Needham)
• .NET Cheat Sheets (Michael Ceranski)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 2 and Part 3 (Rob Reynolds)
• Running ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 CTP1 on Windows 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Move Command Link Column to End Column – Dynamic Data (Stephen Naughton)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK Documentation is now available! (VSX Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Heisenbugs (Chris Missal)
• More Persistence Patterns in MSDN (Jeremy D. Miller)
• xUnit.NET: Running tests written in Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Needham)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 4 (Rajiv Popat)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Validation with the Data Annotation Validators (ASP.NET Tutorials)
• Friday Books – Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and jQuery ProgressBar (Dave M. Bush)
• jQuery Resource Collection and ASP.NET CheckBoxList Align When Wrapping (Elijah Manor)
• Writing A Page To A String (Phil Haack)
• Indonesian MVP Releases Open Source IIS Log Analyzer! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Tip#66: Did you know… how to insert quotes values automatically while typing the attrib values? (Deepak Verma)

Silverlight / WPF

• Prism Quick Start Kit (David Hill)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 (Jesse Liberty)
• I have a Silverlight for PHP Developers article in this months PHP Architect Magazine. (Joe Stagner)
• Adventures in MVVM – Commanding with List Boxes (Brian Genisio)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Multi-touch in WPF 4 Beta 1 and A Motion Capture Viewer written in Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Google Wave Video Demo Makes a Little More Sense of Wave (Adam Pash)
• Video: Silverlight 2 Video Reflection (Nigel Parker)
• This Week on C9: Bing, Changes to .NET FX 4.0, & play Apple IIe games on your Xbox (Dan Fernandez)
• 10-4 Episode 21: Web Tooling Improvements (Drew Robbins)
• 10 MorphX tricks in 10 minutes (Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan)
• Mike Ormond interviews me about the MVC Framework (Mike Hadlow)

Community / Events

• Demos for Silverlight 2 Controls and ASP.NET MVC talks at DevDays 2009 (Fritz Onion)
• 1/2 Day Windows 7 AppCompat Lab Engagement at Reston MTC, 6/8-6/12 (Free) (Zhiming Xue)
• Join The Bing Webcast At June 1st @ 10am PT (Sunshine)

Database

• Get local lab and instances going. Replication /.SQL Agent (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between Candidate Keys and Primary Key (Pinal Dave)
• Report Builder 2.0 &ndash; Promising, but Supported? (William Vaughn)
• Grouping datetime values in half hour blocks in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• MSDN Mag 7/2009 Editor’s Note Sneak Peek (Howard Dierking)
• LightBox Makes Simple Touch-Ups a Snap (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Is Hulu Coming to Xbox 360? (Mark Wilson)
• Rants and Raves #1 (Joel Cochran)
• Some quick takes on Bing and Our first look at Bing: 5 things that stand out (Kip Kniskern)
• Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine (Laura Foy)
• 7 free Windows 7 tweaking utilities (Lee Mathews)
• First night with Bing (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters (Sridhar Vembu)
• Windows 7 SP1 Build 7138: Redux and EXCLUSIVE: Windows 7 UI Animations – The Early Days (Stephen Chapman)
• How to connect to a CodePlex TFS server using Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 – #040 (Sara Ford)
• Integrate the New Hulu Desktop into Media Center and Microsoft Launches Real-Time Browser: IE8 Bundled with OneRiot (Sarah Perez)
• Adding Custom Search Providers to Windows 7 plus Advanced Search Tricks (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 29, 2009 — #604 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 29th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 29th, May 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using the BizTalk WCF Service Consuming Wizard (MS Downloads)
• Get the Windows API Code Pack for the Microsoft .NET Framework (Bruce Kyle)
• MassTransit Now Speaks XML By Default (Chris Patterson)
• Oslo May 2009 CTP: Intellipad Changes (Dan Rigsby)
• A simpler, conventions based DependencyProperty structure for silverlight using CustomControlBase (Roy Osherove)
• IronPython how cool it is (Ryan Svihla)
• Oslo May 2009 Sample Downloads and Documentation (Sam Gentile)
• Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 (Microsoft Surface Blog)
• Parallel Stacks – Tasks view (Daniel Moth)
• Actors in F# – The Bounded Buffer Problem (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight / WPF

• eBay Releases New Silverlight Sidebar for Internet Explorer 8 (Blake Handler)
• Robust, Reusable Drag-and-Drop Behavior in Silverlight (Charlie Robbins)
• Book RTM’d today: Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Devon Musgrave)
• SocketsLight – Silverlight Sockets Framework (Alexey Zakharov)
• WPF and Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 Home Page (Karl Shifflett)
• List of features to track in WPF4 and the details on beta1 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Document Toolkit: a better document service (Koen Zwikstra)
• WCF Binary Bindings in Silverlight 3 (John Papa)
• Tool to find unused Resources in WPF/Silverlight XAML files (Rob Relyea)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• PTOM: Black-box analysis of legacy applications (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – The Arrowhead Anti-Pattern (Chris Missal)
• Designing protocols (Jim Johnson)
• The 5 dysfunctions of teams in code (Mark Needham)
• Jumping In To Windows Azure Storage Services (Jason Ipock)
• Azure for Architects – Recent Updates (Jeff Barnes)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 3 (Rajiv Popat)

Web Development

• if IE Conditional CSS using ASP.NET Themes and Programming SEO – Tags and Keywords (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET 4.0 SEO features: Description and keywords (Gunnar Peipman)
• Setting Focus to Control in an IFRAME using JQuery (Thomas Williams)
• Tip#64:Did you know … How to convert a GridView column from asp:BoundField to asp:TemplateField in Design View? (Bala Chirtsabesan)
• Announcing The Messenger Web Toolkit Interactive SDK! (Sunshine)
• First Look at Google Maps API v3 (Marc Grabanski)
• ASP.NET Routing in Windows Azure Using WebForms (Michael Kennedy)
• WordPress Theme Development Frameworks (Paul Andrew)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Axum! (Carl Franklin)
• Search engineer stories (Patrick Riley)
• Raja Krishnaswamy and Jesse Kaplan: CLR 4 – Inside No-PIA and Shawn Farkas: CLR 4 – Inside the new Managed Security Model (Charles Torre)
• Misfit Geek Podcast (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET MVC Screencast on T4 Templates (David Hayden)
• .NET 4, VS 2010 and Office: New Features in .NET 4 for Office Developers (John Wiese)
• ConnectedShow Podcast – PHP SDK for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Code Frameworks with Javier Lozano (Jeff Brand)
• Geek Speak on Game Programming (Andy Beaulieu)

Community / Events

• Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009 (Brad Abrams)
• MVPs Headline at 3rd Microsoft Community Day! (Jas Dhaliwal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101: What’s a Host Header Site Collection? (Zach Rosenfield)
• Create MySites using C# and the SharePoint 2007 object model and Check that a user has a SharePoint MySite (Brendon Schwartz)
• Lightning Conductor Web Part – upcoming release (Nick)

Database

• 4000 character limit in SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• Pivots to the Rescue – Providing Flexible SQL Server Queries (Dan Wahlin)
• Myth : I don’t need point in time recovery so I don’t need the transaction log (Simon Sabin)
• Compression tools are a must for any DBA (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Skype 4.1 Beta Adds Screen Sharing and Other New Features (Adam Pash)
• Extending Google Chrome (Alex Chitu)
• TweetDeck vs. Seesmic (Elijah Manor)
• Windows 8: Tracking Work Internally with WorkTrack and Midori: The Next Security OS? (Stephen Chapman)
• Five Books To Read If You Want My Job (Steve Rowe)
• Head to Head: iPod Touch or the new Zune HD? (Taimur Asad)
• You can assign work items to a planned release – #038 (Sara Ford)
• Create a Twitter Account for Your Home Server with New Add-in @WHSTweet (Sarah Perez)
• Consulting Fail, or How to Get Removed from my Address Book (Michael Janke)
• Today Skyfire is an Integer (Larry Larsen)
• Google’s browser forges ahead as Chrome 3 hits dev channel (Lee Mathews)
• 8 Questions (and answers) about the Zune HD (Joel Johnson)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 7: The Four Rs (Justin Etheredge)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2009 — #601 and Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2009 – 2 — #602 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #356 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 323 (Sam Gentile)
• Creators Club Communiqué 29 (Kathleen Sanders)
• CloudNews for 27th, May 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• The Technology Post for May 27th (Jason N. Gaylord)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Comparing XML files in C# Using Microsoft’s Diff and Patch Tool (Tom Hearn)
• Windows Ribbon: Samples (MS Downloads)
• Oslo May 2009 CTP Available Now (Chris Sells)
• How to Download, Install, Walkthrough Visual Studio 2010 Team System, Team Foundation Server Betas (Bruce Kyle)
• My favourite underused keyword in C# is… and My new favourite keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio (Josh Twist)
• What is a VSIX? (Quan To)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.3 beta available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Azure Samples (Steve Clayton)
• New version of Power Threading Library posted today! and Announcing Wintellect’s Power Live Framework Library (Jeffrey Richter)
• Another clever pattern for dealing with EF Change Tracking across processes (Julie Lerman)
• May Oslo SDK Available – Now with Quadrant (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Set Based Operations in Ado.net Data Services Part II (Phani Raj)
• Visual Studio 2010 – How It Should Have Looked (Bart Czernicki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How TDD and Pairing Increase Production (James Shore) – Link of the Day
• NUnit’s Assert.That (Peter Seale)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – You’re Doing it Wrong! (Chris Missal)
• The Zen of Inversion of Control (Jon Stonecash)
• Resume Driven Design (Michael Janke)
• The Role of Sketching in Software Development (Jared Bienz)
• Isn’t Kanban Just a Task-board? (Karl Scotland)
• Utils and Common is Dead! – Part 2 (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
• Pair Programming: Refactoring (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• Live Twitter stream of notable people in the .NET community (John Sheehan)
• Top 5 jQuery Modal Plugins (Elijah Manor)
• Using ASP.NET 3.5′s ListView and DataPager Controls: Deleting Data (Scott Mitchell)
• GridView Confirmation Box Using JQuery BlockUI (Azam)
• ASP.NET Web Design Software (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET 4.0 SEO features: Response.RedirectPermanent() (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit with Visual Studio 10 Beta 1 (WebDevTools Team)

Silverlight / WPF

• Drag and Drop Files in WPF (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• .NET RIA Services: Get your metadata from anywhere! (Brad Abrams)
• WPF NotifyIcon control! (Coding4Fun)
• DataSet and Silverlight (Chris Robinson)
• Silverlight and WPF Controls (Jared Bienz)
• ViewModels and CheckListBoxes (Josh Twist)
• Resharper template for DependencyProperty in silverlight (Roy Osherove)
• WPF 4.0 Data Binding Change (great feature) (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: VPlay from Microsoft Research (MS Research)
• New Web Test Debugging Features in Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Brian Keller)
• Maoni Stephens and Andrew Pardoe: CLR 4 Garbage Collector – Inside Background GC and Esurance: Developing for the Mobile Web and CLR 4: Debugging and Profiling API Enhancements (Charles Torre)
• Episode 136: Past Present and Future of MDA with David Frankel (SE-Radio Team)
• The GeekDads Episode 45: Geek of the Week (Ken Denmead)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #113: Saying Hello to the Spark View Engine (Donn Felker)
• Integrating 3D into Expression Blend with ZAM 3D Tutorial (Adam Kinney)
• Modularity in Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• VPlay: Video Performance in surface computing (Eric Havir)

Community / Events

• NEW Reduced prices for Scott Bellware’s TDD and Web Testing Workshops, June 2nd & 3rd (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• DC ALT.NET – Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 – Pair Programming with Jonathan Cogley and CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 – Dissecting DevEvents.com: A Look at a Real World .NET MVC Implementation (Christopher Steen)
• Sign up Now for XAMLFest WPF, Silverlight Training Event Online Next Week (Bruce Kyle)
• Core Coding Experience Live Meeting the Visual Studio Team (Charles Sterling)
• Agilepalooza! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• SharePoint Community Comes to Springfield (Dave Bost)
• LIDNUG: Free Online Virtual Chat with Me Today (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• When a decimal isn’t a decimal – beware (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server does support regular expressions in check constraints, triggers are not always needed and Is an index seek always better or faster than an index scan? (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of Logon Trigger On All Servers (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tip – UNION vs. UNION ALL (Michael Ceranski)
• Bulk Insert into SQL Server using SqlBulkCopy (Malcolm Sheridan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces New Zune HD and Microsoft’s Expression Blend & Design Team Recommends "Rooler" Free Screen Measurement Tool (Blake Handler)
• Adobe previews Acrobat.com Presentations (Chris)
• How to create a planned release – #037 (Sara Ford)
• Create a Twitter Account for Your Home Server with New Add-in @WHSTweet (Sarah Perez)
• When Word of Mouth Got a Permalink – Companies, Customers and Twitter (Scott Hanselman)
• Safeguarding Windows 7 – Parental Controls (Vladimir Rovinsky)
• Server Fault Public Beta Launches (Jeff Atwood)
• Gates is 2nd Most Creative Person in Business (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft: Zune HD is real (Paul Thurrott)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 6: Tape Thyself (Justin Etheredge)
• Microsoft’s Bing Logo Leaked By Way Of Favicon? (MG Siegler)
• Whatever happened to Live Clipboard? (Jamie Thomson)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #355 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for 26th May, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• The Technology Post for May 26th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Everyman Links for May 26, 2009 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Windows 7 and the joy of good design (Dwight Silverman)
• Waiting, it isn’t as simple as twiddling your thumbs (Oren Eini)
• Subverting TDD as a design tool (Jimmy Bogard)
• Strict Mocks and Characterization Tests (Brett Schuchert)
• Testing that an event was raised (Roy Osherove)
• A Metaphor for Flow and Flaccid Kanban (Scott Bellware)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 2 (Rajiv Popat)
• yUML Direction Control and Scaling (Tobin Harris)
• Coding: Setters reduce trust and Pair Programming: It’s not about equal keyboard time (Mark Needham)
• Always Valid (Greg Young)
• Books I Recommend Often… (Mike Cottmeyer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Zentity v1.0 (MS Research)
• Model First in Entity Framework 4 (Gil Fink)
• Sandboxing in .NET 4.0 (Shawn Farkas)
• Getting to know ClickOnce Deployment (Karl Shifflett)
• Relaxing on the Couch(DB) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Can you make money on OSS tooling in the .NET world? (Oren Eini)
• What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 1 (Justin Van Patten)
• How We Do It: Building the Visual Studio Product Line (Beth Massi)
• Why doesn’t IEqualityComparer use Equals() in LINQ’s Intersect? (with a stroll down the lane of GetHashCode and the Birthday Paradox) (Billy McCafferty)
• Performance of Fibonacci numbers algorithms and .Net Framework 4.0: Introducing BigInteger and Visual Studio 2010: How to crash Windows 7 (Gunnar Peipman)
• MassTransit Saga Enhancements for Event Processing (Chris Patterson)
• Surface Development Part 5: Futures and Resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• Tangible T4 Editor for VS 2010 Beta 1 (VSX Team)
• M Language Changes Coming in Next CTP and Entity Framework Samples now in Visual Basic (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 5 Reasons to learn about extending VS 2010 (Quan To)
• Upgrading EF projects to EF4? Don’t forget to target .NET 4.0 and A Look at Lazy Loading in EF4 (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• Cropping with ASP.Net (Coding4Fun)
• Friday Books – Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC Opinionated Software (Tony Rasa)
• Sueetie Profile Updates: Member Favorites (Dave Burke)
• Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009 (Simone Chiaretta)
• 9 New APIs: Google, Yahoo, Wolfram, plus Tweets, Jobs and Music (John Musser)
• Generate an image from a Photoshop file (.psd) in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 with Ria Authentication service (Thanigainathan Siranjeevi)
• WF\WPF sample using System.Xaml (Lester Lobo)
• SilverUnit Project Template and new version (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
• Which came first, the View or the Model? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 2 years ago I gave up on Silverlight (Karl Seguin)
• I’m committed to Two Tool Development (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Modularity in Prism (Erik Mork)
• Taskbar and Libraries .NET Library for Windows 7 and Multi-touch .NET Library for Windows 7 (Adam Kinney)
• This Week on C9: VS 2010 Beta 1, Windows API Code Pack, & a WPF Jukebox (Dan Fernandez)
• Jason Zander: Perspectives on Visual Studio 2008 and the Future of VS (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• Architect Factory Coming to Microsoft NERD in Cambridge June 2nd (Bob Familiar)
• IASA New York IT Architect Regional Conference 2009 (Bill Zack)
• Windows Live Messenger Hackathon: May 27th (Sarah Perez)
• CANCELLED: Developer Dinner in Reston, Va (Marc Schweigert)
• Win a Free Seat to the Silverlight Tour at the Silverlight FireStarter DC! (Frank La Vigne)
• Publishers Offering Support for User Groups (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• DELETE TOP x rows avoiding a table scan and UPDATE and DELETE TOP and ORDER BY : Part 2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 – Register for the CTP (Simon Sabin)
• Here Is Yet Another Reason For Upgrading To SQL Server 2008 From SQL Server 2000 (Denis Gobo)
• Use guid.comb in your database if you need guid keys but don’t want to take a big performance hit (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Multi-Value Parameters in SSRS (Emtucifor)
• Table-valued parameters in SQL Server 2008 (Part 3) (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "MapLook" Outlook 2007 Add-In for Google Maps & Microsoft Virtual Earth (Blake Handler)
• US Government Launches Data.gov (Andres Ferrate)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 5: Presentation Settings for Visual Studio (Justin Etheredge)
• True Success (Sara J. Chipps)
• How to Motivate Programmers (Jeff Atwood)
• Wolfram Alpha searching for its niche (Tom Krazit)
• How to customize your CodePlex Work Item template, in a way – #035 and Filter by work items that you’re tracking (Sara Ford)
• Windows 7 – Seamless Apps in Windows Virtual PC (Virtual XP) and Application Compatibility (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Mobile 7: Still on Schedule (Stephen Chapman)
• A Visual History of the Internet (Steve Clayton)
• Do you have Truth Tables in your programming toolbox? (Jonathan Cogley)
• Thinking Big – Search Scale and Performance on a Budget (Nathan Treloar)
• Exclusive: Microsoft to remove 3 app limit from Windows 7 Starter (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Computing with a Silver Lining (Michael Sparks)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 22, 2009 and LINKBLOG for May 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: May 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2009 — #599 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 22nd (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 22nd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 05.18 ~ 05.24 (yuanjian)

Book of the Day