Silverlight / WPF

• Physics Behaviors for Silverlight 3! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms (Brad Abrams)
• Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer (Corey Schuman)
• Using Blend with Prism Apps in Silverlight 3 (John Papa)
• MVVM Foundation demo (Josh Smith)
• Creating a Range Slider in WPF (and other cool tips and tricks for UserControls) (Josh Twist)
• MVVM with Type-Safe INotifyPropertyChanged (JP Hamilton)
• Day #16: Silverlight AutoComplete TextBox (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Restricting Access to your WCF Service to a known Silverlight Client and Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Take your ideas from concept to completion with Expression Blend 3 and Watch us on ‘The Visual Kitchen’ to see all-new capabilities of Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 (Silverlight Team)
• A .NET RIA Services Data Load Batch Manager (Scott McCraw)

Web Development

• It is done… S#arp Architecture 1.0 RTM (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Sueetie now running ScrewTurn Wiki 3.0 RC1 (Dave Burke)
• Anti-XSS 3.0 Released (Jossie Tirado)
• Using the ValidationSummary control with ASP.NET MasterPages (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Cloud Computing with Windows Azure (Michael Ceranski)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.3 Is Released (Rob Conery)
• Resource Files and ASP.NET MVC Projects (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Useful C# method for unit testing (Avi Pilosof)
• The Anemic Domain Model Pattern and Unshackle Your Domain (Greg Young)
• Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Introduction and Part 1: Why (Derick Bailey)
• Architecture Astronauts and Over Engineers (Harry Pierson)
• Pex v0.15.40714.1: Better performance, less Bugs… (Jonathan de Halleux)
• The Database Doesn’t Matter or Don’t Pollute Your Domain (Tim Barcz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• What’s New in CodeRush 9.2 (Mark Miller)
• F#: Passing command line arguments to a script (Mark Needham)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aaron Erickson Identifies the Seven Deadly Firms (Carl Franklin)
• Demo Videos from Blend/SketchFlow Launch Online (Christian Schormann)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #127: Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to validate expectations (Derik Whittaker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #61 (Jeff Atwood)
• 10-4 Episode 27: Server-Driven Paging with ADO.NET Data Services (Jonathan Carter)
• ThirstyDeveloper #68 – Scraping the web (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Tips and Tricks for Improving SharePoint 2007 Performance-Episode 27 (Rob, Nick, and Brett)
• What Is Windows Azure…For Dummies (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Laura Rogers! (Amanda Murphy)
• Why Choose the Best Practices Conference? (Bill English)
• Super User Semi-Private Beta Begins (Jeff Atwood)
• Revive your User Group, part III (Joe Webb)
• Code 7 and Say Hello to LA and PDC (Jim O’Neil)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET 7/22/2009 – Naked JavaScript (Matthew Podwysocki)

Database

• Storage Size And Performance Implications Of A GUID PK (Derick Bailey)
• Data Dump to Excel through SSIS and SSRS (Guiseppe Scarfone)
• IsNumeric, IsInt, IsNumber (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Four Different Ways to Find Recovery Model for Database (Pinal Dave)
• Operand type clash: date is incompatible with int error when trying to do +1 on a date data type in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• WCF errors from SharePoint event receiver and Getting paid for your SharePoint software, part 2 (Eugene Rosenfeld)

Miscellaneous

• Google Reader’s Social Evolution (Alex Chitu)
• Try InfoPath 2010 and Win an Xbox! (Amanda Murphy)
• Office 2010 is Surprisingly Coming with Free Web Bits (Tom Milnes)
• Star Gates: Small Basic Sample of the Week (Vijaye)
• Favorite Windows 7 Feature #2: Aero Peek (Scott Lock)

More Link Collections

• 30 Great Posts and Tutorials on Silverlight and Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Interesting Finds: July 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #391 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 — #640 and Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 – 2 — #641 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 15th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 342 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 Released (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Biggest Suprises in Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 3 and CSLA .NET 3.7 (Rockford Lhotka)
• SketchFlow Map: A Mini Tutorial, Part I and Creating a Minimal Workspace for SketchFlow (Christian Schormann)
• Physics Helper 3: Coming Soon! and Silverlight 3 Released! (Andy Beaulieu)
• UI Virtualization (Bea Stollnitz)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 1: Navigation Basics (Brad Abrams)
• What’s new in Expression Encoder 3 (James Clarke)
• Editing a ToolTip Style in Blend 3 and SketchFlow Controls (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight Charting gets an update – and a TreeMap! [Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 release now available!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 3 Released – Exciting Stuff Here! (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 (RC) Released! (Jeff Barnes)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Wiki Released (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 3 Released! What is new/changed? (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3 + .NET RIA Services July Preview (Nikhil Kothari)
• Welcoming Silverlight 3 RTW and What Happened to the asp:Silverlight Control? (Pete Brown)
• See the Light: Silverlight 3 & Expression 3 Launch and Get Silverlight 3 and Microsoft Expression 3 Now (Silverlight Team)
• Simplify Your XAML with Resources and Control Templates (Srinath MS)
• One way to avoid messy PropertyChanged event handling (Josh Smith)
• Silverlight 3, Blend 3 and the MVVM Light Toolkit (Laurent Bugnion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft MSDN Blogger Recommends ".NET Version Detector 2009" (Blake Handler)
• Combining Assemblies Using ILMerge (Richard Carr)
• Bart’s Control Library – Not What You Think It Is – Part 0 (Bart de Smet)
• DAL: DataTable Visualizer and Populating a Business Object from a DataTable and Enum: Binding to the Description Attribute (Deborah Kurata)
• Entity Framework 4.0: How to use POCOs (Gunnar Peipman)
• Views into CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Typed Datasets: A First Step to .NET Flexibility (Susan Sales Harkins)
• Monotouch – Mono (.NET) for the iPhone/iTouch (Wally McClure)
• Visual Studio Database Professional GDR R2 – Support for SQL 2008 (Simon Sabin)
• F#: Downloading a file from behind a proxy (Mark Needham)
• WCF Proxy Generator – Significant Updates (Michele Leroux Bustamante)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Modeling Inheritance in "M" (Chris Sells)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 4. (Rajiv Popat)

Web Development

• RSS Feeds and Google Sitemaps for ASP.NET MVC with LINQ To XML (Mike Brind)
• Say Hello to Sueetie Marketplace! (Dave Burke)
• Tip #88: Did you know… To not stress your server, limit the number of concurrent requests (Carlos Aguilar Mares)
• A (less) simple include for ASP.NET (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Getting the element that has the focus via JavaScript (Peter Eysermans)
• Cheesy ASP.NET MVC Project Upgrader for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Keeping ELMAH’s Error Log Size In Check (Scott Mitchell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Scott Guthrie: Silverlight 3 is here! and Scott Guthrie and Christian Schormann: Web Programming, Design Tools and Silverlight 3 (Charles Torre)
• This Week C9: Scott Hanselman, Silverlight, Expression Studio 3, C#/CLI (Dan Fernandez)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – The .NET Micro Framework with Colin Miller (Scott Hanselman)
• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: SoC – Overview and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: SoC – The Big Picture and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: SoC – Principles to Practice (Howard Dierking)
• Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Launch Video – well sort of. (Tina)

PowerShell

• PowerBoots makes me want to use PowerShell! (Chris Sells)

Database

• Best practices on setting NOCOUNT and NOCOUNT and linked servers (Martin Bell)
• String concatenation with max types stops plan caching (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Standby Servers and Types of Standby Servers (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Office 2007 Ribbon & Toolbar Learning Resources (Blake Handler)
• Google accounts on Twitter (Karen Wickre)
• Converting data from Passwords Plus to SplashID (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Know What Questions to Ask During a Job Interview [Job Search] (Azadeh Ensha)
• How to add Hulu Desktop icon to Windows Media Center and Windows 7 RC users will be able to install Windows 7 Upgrade discs (Brad Linder)
• Test Your Skills With ‘Toughest Developer Puzzle’ (Bruce Kyle)
• Windows 7 Hardware Requirements (Debra Shinder)
• Microsoft’s "Gazelle" browser detailed — it’s more of a research project (Nilay Patel)
• Thoughts on the Chrome OS announcement (Ted Neward)
• Brizzly: A Twitter Reader From The People Who Brought You Google Reader (MG Siegler)
• Gmail New Mail Notifications for Windows 7 (Michael Kennedy)
• Rants and Raves #3 (Joel Cochran)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 10, 2009 — #634 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 10th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• SQL Server Resources – 7/11/09 (Rhonda Tipton)

Happy Silverlight 3 RTW Day!

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Blend 3 with SketchFlow Available for Download and SketchFlow Concepts: An Overview (Christian Schormann)
• Improved HitTest Method for Silverlight 3 and "Printing" in Silverlight 3 with WriteableBitmap (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight 3 Relase Download Links and Installation Instructions (Bart Czernicki) – Link of the Day
• Get Browser Information In Silverlight (Deepak Kapoor)
• Silverlight 3 + ClearType (Chris Cavanagh)
• Syntax Highlighting TextBoxes in WPF – A Sad Story (Harry Pierson)
• http://silverlight.live.com (Kirill Osenkov)
• Silverlight Spy and Silverlight 3 RTW (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes! (Tim Heuer)
• Day #10: Styling Silverlight Controls (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Announcing Expression Encoder 3 (Silverlight Team)
• Asynchronous Execution, Animation and more in MVVM with Caliburn (Rob Eisenberg)
• Expression Blend 3 and the New ‘Make Into Control’ Feature (Malcolm Sheridan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft MSDN Blogger Recommends ".NET Version Detector 2009" (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2 Available (Zhiming Xue)
• Task Parallel Library: Parallel Invoke (Dariusz Parys)
• Querying on Child Count With NHibernate (Tuna Toksoz)
• Modeling DSLs with F# and Units of Measure (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Use the "Oslo" Repository to Store Service Config (Chris Sells)
• Adding Attachments to a Document in CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ICustomQueryInterface and CLR V4 (Mike Stall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learn The Art of Unit Testing (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Behind Every Failed Project Are Reasons That Are Simple And Straight Forward. (Rajiv Popat)
• Preventing fragile tests – how can isolation frameworks help or hinder your goal? and Minimizing unit Test Fragility – 8 features in Typemock Isolator to help (Roy Osherove)
• It’s all in the details (Steve Jones)
• Is that a Property or a Method? (Derik Whittaker)
• Code Quality (Peter Waldschmidt)
• Avoid the trap of perfectionism (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Does Kanban Respect People, Self Organisation and Continuous Improvement and Kanban Is My First Language (Karl Scotland)

Web Development

• Easy Retweet Button (John Resig)
• Tip #87: Did you know… How to reuse a web page by converting into an ASP.NET User Control? (Web Dev Tools Team)
• Invoke JavaScript using the ASP.NET Wizard Control (Malcolm Sheridan)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.2 Is Released (Rob Conery)
• Preview of Windows Azure SDK for PHP Submitted for Zend Framework (Bruce Kyle)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #188 – Kanban Boards for Agile Project Management with Zen Author Nate Kohari (Scott Hanselman)
• Agile 2009 – Conference preview with Johanna Rothman (Bob Payne)
• MVC Public Service Announcement Video Series (Bobby Johnson)
• Expert to Expert: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Inside the .NET Reactive Framework (Rx) (Charles Torre)
• ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Session Video Available Now (Mike Ormond)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Services Is Now Microsoft SQL Azure, More Software + Services News Next Week At WPC09 (Sunshine)
• How to get data out of Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains (thirster42)
• Push your DBA skills over the edge by becoming a better developer and Go ahead and click it! I triple dog dare you!!! (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Request SQLAuthority.com Stickers and SQL Server Cheat Sheet (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Detecting a tap on a UITextView (Ben Scheirman)
• Launch a Process as Standard User from an Elevated Process (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Favorite Windows 7 Feature #1: Download status in the task bar (Scott Lock)
• Windows Azure Project Attire! (David Lemphers)
• Waegis After a Year (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd (Larry Hyrb)
• Telerik Ships Alpha "M"-Based Comparison Tool (Chris Sells)
• Azure Explanation for the Code Phobic (Matthew McDermott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #387 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2009 — #633 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for July 9, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links for the Week of 2009.07.10 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 9th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (7/9/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Gallio with NCover (Andre Loker)
• Lifecycle of an open source project (Chad Myers)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Monster Objects (Chris Missal)
• Pex 0.13 Released: Unit Tests as Inputs, Fuzzing and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, F# Beta 1 support (Nikolai Tillman)
• Taming the Pex beast: Well-behaved enums, multi-dimensional arrays and booleans (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Coding Dojo #16: Reading SUnit code (Mark Needham)
• Integration via the Cloud (Mike Ormond)
• ThoughtWorking: Why the Next Five Years Will Be About Languages (Ted Neward)
• The Holy Grail is NOT Automation (Tim Barcz)
• Why Messaging #5 – Bus vs Broker (Dru Sellers)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 1 (Rob Reynolds)
• Agile (Wrongfully) Assumes Craftsmanship (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 launching July 10 (Emil Protalinski) – Link of the Day
• Formatting Your WPF Data – String.Format is in the House! (Amit Raz)
• If you can’t beat XAML, improve it (Josh Twist)
• Expression Web 3 tools simplify debugging and Silverlight video encoding (Silverlight Team)
• Our 7 Goals for XAML (Rob Relyea)
• Blend 3: Photoshop Import – Supported Features (Janete Perez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate – Executable DML and Why Defer Loading in Entity Framework isn’t going to work (Oren Eini)
• Questions from Pinky on "Oslo" (Chris Sells)
• POCO in the Entity Framework : Part 2 – Complex Types, Deferred Loading and Explicit Loading (Faisal Mohamood)
• Azure: New Support for the Cloud, New Skills Not Required (Jason Zander)
• GetHashCode and LINQ to objects (Josh Twist)
• EDM Modeling: Self-Referencing Many to Many Relationships and More Designer Improvements – Deleting Entities from the model and from the store schema (Julie Lerman)
• Integrated and Isolated Shell for VS 2010 Beta 1 (Quan To)
• Review: IronPython in Action (Scott Koon)
• May CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released, Including Visual Studio 2010 Support (Windows Azure Team)

Web Development

• Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (Alex Mueller)
• ELMAH for Error Logging and Reporting in ASP.NET & ASP.NET MVC (Billy McCafferty)
• CSS Image Mouseover with <li> (Dave Schinkel)
• Disabling HTML Input Elements (Chris Cavanagh)
• Easily put Google services on your site with Web Elements (Jay Hathaway)
• Google shows Native Client built into HTML 5 (Stephen Shankland)
• IP Address Location In ASP.NET (Suprotim Agarwal)
• The power of SubSonic unleashed (Yordan Georgiev)
• ASP.NET MVC and Localization (Mike)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Nicholas Blumhardt on Autofac (Carl Franklin)
• An introduction to Windows 7 Libraries for .NET development (Adam Kinney)
• Surupa Biswas: CLR 4 – Resilient NGen with Targeted Patching (Charles Torre)
• Caleb Baker on Geneva Server and SAML 2.0 Interoperability (Donovan Follette)
• Interoperability demo between PHP, Windows CardSpace and Geneva Server (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #55 (Jeff Atwood)
• The Joys and Pains of a Long Lived Codebase — The Video (Jeremy D. Miller)
• When to use Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Chris Pendleton – Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control (Robert Hess)
• The History of Microsoft – 1991 (Tina)

Community / Events

• Facebook .NET Programmers Group Session on XNA 3.0 (Brian Peek)
• Shout Out to Ryan Reese – CSS Guru (Dave Schinkel)
• Journeyman Calendar Up! (Corey Haines)
• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshows – Reston and Richmond (Pete Brown)
• Cloud Computing User Group Meeting, June 18, 2009 (Zhiming Xue)

SharePoint

• You Can Pry SharePoint Designer From My Cold, Dead Hands (Paul Galvin)

Database

• SQL Server Grouping (Richard Carr)
• SQL Server and Reporting Services Workshop (William Vaughn)
• New Windows Azure Storage Features – May 2009 (Brad Calder)

PowerShell

• Adding Custom Cmdlet Help for Providers (June Blender)
• PowerShell 2.0 – Differences Between Win7Beta and Win7RC (Osama Sajid)

Miscellaneous

• FCC Action Needed to Protect Consumer Choice (Eric Rabe)
• Ballmer’s internal email on ‘Bing’ and Woz: Microsoft Bing ‘astounding’ (Todd Bishop)
• Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave. (Lars Rasmussen)
• Customize Google Using Server-Side Scripts and Play Games in Google Talk and Google Wave (Alex Chitu)
• Google Wave: A Whole New Communication and Collaboration Platform for the Web (Andres Ferrate)
• Meaning of life (Jimmy Bogard)
• SourceForge Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Ohloh Corporation (SourceForge)
• Steve Ballmer Quote-O-Rama (Brian Lam)
• Don’t Forget to Goof Off Occasionally (Darrell Etherington)
• Verizon Wireless to carry Palm Pre, Storm 2 "in about six months" (Darren Murph)
• Server Fault: Calling All Lusers (Jeff Atwood)
• Expression Design for Developers part 3 – Editing Your Art (Joel Cochran)
• Some quick takes on Bing (Kip Kniskern)
• More details about the Zune HD and Zune/Xbox Live integration and Announcing Bing (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected (Rafe Needleman)
• Twilver: A new Silverlight Twitter App (Sarah Perez)
• How (and why) to set a default release – #039 (Sara Ford)
• Bing in the changes (Steve Clayton)
• Windows Mobile 7 UI: Still Under Construction and Windows 7 Entertainment Center (Stephen Chapman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #357 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 28, 2009 — #603 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 28th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 28th, May 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (5/28/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Agile Startup: Build and Deploy (James Shore)
• IndyHall 201: The Iterative Process (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• Back on Repositories and Paging. Introducing Reporting. (Jérémie Chassaing)
• CRISP Builds and BOOK: Clean Code – A Handbook of Software Craftsmanship (Brad Appleton)
• 5 Ways to Get Your Clients to Follow Your Work Process (Celine Roque)
• Feature Crews: kanban systems for software engineering in the large (Corey Ladas)
• Using complex types to make calling services less… complex (Dave Ward)
• Functional Programming and Collective Intelligence – III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Gunnar Peipman)
• Kona: Continuous Integration and Better Unit Testing (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity” CTP3 (MS Downloads)
• NHibernate Mapping – <property/> and NHibernate Mapping – <component/> (Oren Eini)
• Declarative Workflow with MassTransit (Chris Patterson)
• Coding: Passing booleans into methods (Mark Needham) – Link of the Day
• Visual Studio debugger related attributes cheat sheet (Tamir Khason)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF String.Format in XAML with the StringFormat attribute and The Free Office WPF Ribbon (blagunas)
• Patterns and practices in the Composite Application Library – part 1 (Pencho Popadiyn)
• [MVVM + Mediator + ACB = cool WPF App] – The MVVM (Marlon Grech)
• 5 Random Gotchas with the WPF DataGrid (Vincent Sibal)
• Silverlight 3 Beta – Capturing a Screenshot (Mike Taulty)

Web Development

• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: A Look at JSON Serialization (Scott Mitchell)
• Using the ASP.NET MVC Futures AsyncController (Maarten Balliauw)
• Web Application Project generated CodeBehind .designer file not being updated (Rick Strahl)
• One little gotcha to remember when upgrading to ASP.NET MVC RTM (Simone Chiaretta)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight Spy – Visual Debugging Silverlight Applications (Adam Kinney)
• p&p SharePoint Development Guidance v2 – What’s in Drop 6? (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• Gazelle – Operating System Architecture and Web Browser Security (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #99: Creating SOLID Code: Refactoring the SOLID episode on DI to use StructureMap (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• SilverlightShow starts "Shared Experience" initiative (Ivan Dragoev)
• Speaking Dates + Sexiest Female Developer Contest (Sara J. Chipps)
• Magenic webinars in April 2009 (Rockford Lhotka)
• MVC Course is Coming Online! (K. Scott Allen)
• Open Source Club continues to focus on Rawr for April (Sara Ford)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 and SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, April 2009 (MS Downloads)
• A Quick Look At Compression In SQL 2008 (Denis Gobo)
• Where’s my Data? (Kirstin Juhl)

SharePoint

• SharePoint: Clean code for sequential workflow (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• First screenshots of build Windows 7 build 7077 leak (Emil Protalinski)
• Introduction to 3D Using Flash CS4 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• OpenOffice.org 3.1 RC1 released (Brad Linder)
• In Defense of Editing (Jeff Atwood)
• Delivering a quality upgrade experience (Windows 7 Team)
• Upgrading from Windows 7 Beta to the Release Candidate (Paul Thurrott)
• How to leave comments on a CodePlex project wiki page – #010 (Sara Ford)
• More on IE 7 Compatibility Mode (G. Andrew Duthie)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #324 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2009 — #565 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for April 7, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• CloudNews for April 7th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 311 (Sam Gentile)
• Creators Club Communiqué 23 (Kathleen Sanders)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Size Matters (Leon Gersing)
• Idealistic vs. Practical (Christopher Bennage)
• Entities: Required Properties And Properties That Shouldn’t Be Modified (Davy Brion)
• Why “No Issues” Is Not An Acceptable Answer (Derick Bailey)
• Architecture By Baseball: The Presentation (Larry Clarkin)
• Simple Usability (Phil Haack)
• QTB: Lean Times Require Lean Thinking (Mark Needham)
• Persistence Patterns in MSDN Magazine (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Domain Driven Design & Test Driven Development\Design using Entity Framework, Part 2.A Unit Testing Entities With Moq 3 (Muhammad Mosa)
• My 100th blog post: Top 5 development practices you should care for (Patrick Smacchia)
• Comparing Moq to Rhino Mocks (Tim Van Wassenhove)
• Scrum Gathering Agile Architecture Talk (Mike Cottmeyer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: The Ins and Outs of Query Operators (Scott Mitchell)
• C# Optimization Revisited Part 2: Concurrency (Ade Miller)
• AgDLR 0.5 (Harry Pierson)
• Overview of Windows Azure (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

• What’s new in JScript for IE8 (Shreesh Dubey)
• Fiddler Plugin: Casaba Security’s Watcher tool (Marwan Tarek)
• Opening a WAP IIS Project when IIS Virtual doesn’t exist (Rick Strahl)
• Setting up your Dynamic Data Site with a Domain Service Layer (Steve Naughton)
• 10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 3 Behaviors: Interactivity Without Code (Christian Schormann)
• Behaviors in Expression Blend 3 (Andy Beaulieu)
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight, now in VB Flavor (Bob Brumfeld)
• Silverlight Contrib 2009.1.0 Released! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New goodies coming out with WPF 4 (Marlon Grech)
• Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Silverlight Application (Tim Sneath)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – The Star Wars Scroller (Velvart Andras) – Link of the Day
• A MUST READ: Microsoft .NET RIA Services Overview (Joel Reyes)
• Versioning note , writing SL 3.0 applications with Astoria v1.5 Sl 2.0 SDK Library (Phani Raj)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Krzysztof Cwalina on Creating Reusable Frameworks (David Solivan)
• ScottGu’s Mix09 Silverlight for Business Applications Demo (Brad Abrams)
• Erik Meijer and Matthew Podwysocki – Perspectives on Functional Programming (Charles Torre)
• Talking Functional Programming with Erik Meijer (Matthew Podwysocki)
• ASP.NET MVC Sessions At Mix (Phil Haack)
• WPF Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for Building Business Apps (Beth Massi)
• SharePoint for Developers Part 2: Working with Features (Kirk Allen Evans)
• 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 2 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• RESTful Web Services with WCF Screencast (Michael Kennedy)
• Review: Coding in Objective-C 2.0 screencasts (Victor Agreda, Jr.)

Events / Community

• NINE Questions with Donn Felker (Chris G. Williams)
• LOLGeeks (Frank La Vigne)
• Mix 09 Trip Report (Jesse Liberty)
• 1st Annual Silverlight MIXer (John Papa)
• Recognizing Women in Technology for Ada Lovelace Day (Maggie Longshore)
• Dream Build Play 2009 and XNA Game Studio 3.1 Announced at GDC! (Kathleen Sanders)
• Nothin’ but .NET – Reaching out (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Happy Ada Lovelace Day!! – Video Blog (Sara J. Chipps)
• Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference – Albany, NY April 15, 2009 (Nandita)

Database

• Implementing a document database: simple queries (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Application Lifecycle Management for SharePoint (Clemens Reijnen)

Miscellaneous

• Notepad++ version 5.3 software update (Ben)
• Plan Your Web Working Career Path (Darrell Etherington)
• Is Software Engineering The Most Important Profession in the World? (Steve Clayton)
• Windows Home Server PP2 recognizes Windows 7 (Taimur Asad)
• Extending Your Brand to the Desktop with Windows 7 (Tim Sneath)
• Geeky T-Shirt ideas (Roy Osherove)
• Syntax Highlighting for PHP and CSS files (Sara Ford)
• Blogalogue: What makes a developer “senior”? (Trevor Green)
• Overcoming Fear of Clouding (Bill Zack)
• Making Web Applications Look Like Desktop Applications Using Chrome (Rhonda Tipton)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: “Snap on Center” and other little things (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Gephardt jumps on the PHR bandwagon (Neil Versel)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 24, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #314 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2009 — #549 and Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2009 – 2 — #550 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for March 24, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Twitterings #21 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: March 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for March 24th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Boss Launch Beta (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight RPG: Steel Saga (Avi Pilosof)
• Silverlight 3 Beta – Downloads You May Have Missed (Bart Czernicki)
• Compile your XNA 2D games to run in Silverlight with SilverSprite (Bill Reiss)
• Silverlight, XAML & Prism: Diving in Head First at the Shallow End of the Pool (Bobby Johnson)
• Creating Sound Using MediaStreamSource in Silverlight 3 Beta and Using Blur to make Dialogs Pop in Silverlight 3 (Pete Brown)
• Building Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta Applications on the Same Machine (Jeff Wilcox) – Link of the Day
• Silverlight sans Xaml (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK 0.5 (Jimmy Schementi)
• Silverlight 3 Beta install experience for users (Tim Heuer)
• Exploring the CoreCLR Inside Silverlight (Tim Sneath)
• Silverlight 3: Array Helper (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight Spy update for SL3 and IE8 (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Internationalization – Resource Files (Dave M. Bush)
• IronRuby 0.3 (Harry Pierson)
• HowTo: Setup IIS7 as development server in Visual Studio 2008 (Robert Muehsig)
• More reminders / gotchas from the trenches with Azure (Wally McClure)
• Lego 3d Scanner (Coding4Fun)
• A Few SQL Server CE and Entity Framework Gotchas (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• jQuery – Auto Scrolling the Slider (Dave M. Bush)
• Hotfix for "Design view does not update HTML" and to "Designer inserts a lot of  " (Mikhail)
• ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Development Overview & Dynamic Data (Scott Hunter)
• ASP.NET MVC for RoR developers: do as locals do (Simone Chiaretta)
• One tool to test them all: Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview (Peter Eysermans)
• Why Internet Explorer 8 disappoints web developers (Paul Thurrott)
• IE8 Built-in Developer Tools (Marcelo)
• New CodePlex project: MvcSiteMap – ASP.NET MVC sitemap provider (Maarten Balliauw)
• Creating an Ajax Login Form With jQuery (Justin)
• Virtual Earth 101 (Jim Duffy)
• Cascading or Dependant Field Templates for ASP.Net 4.0 Preview (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Emergence Of Knowledge In Software Development (Derick Bailey)
• Over Communication is the Best Strategy for Organizational Change (Mark Schneider)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jim Duffy Lives on a Virtual Earth (Carl Franklin)
• Q&A with Scott Guthrie at MIX09 and Q&A with Bill Buxton at MIX09 and Q&A with Dean Hachamovitch at MIX09 (Dan Fernandez)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #95: Building a Progressive Fluent Interface (Derik Whittaker)
• My podcast list (Larry Clarkin)
• Episode 63 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Brandon Shell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• .NET Fireside Chats – Holger Schwichtenberg (Me)
• MIX 09 Roundup: 8 Sessions on Live Services Available Now (Angus Logan)
• Upcoming MSDN Unleashed Events (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Watch the Oslo Mix ’09 Talk: Developing RESTful Services and Clients with "M" (Chris Sells)
• What happens at Mix, gets exposed to everyone (Corey Miller)
• DC ALT.NET 3/25 – Introduction to TDD (Matthew Podwysocki)
• CodeStock 2009 Call for Speakers (Elijah Manor)
• Photos from MIX09 Part 3 (Frank La Vigne)
• 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – Behind The Scenes! and 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 1 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Microsoft MIX 2009 Wrap-Up (Justin Etheredge)
• Events This Week – March 23rd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – SCOPE_IDENTITY Bug with Multi Processor Parallel Plan and Solution (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 Client Design and SQL Server 2008 XML Indexing (Jose Barreto)
• Spring cleaning your indexes – Part I (Kimberly L. Tripp)
• Using return types as parameters in T-SQL (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Working with Structured Data in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Part2): Exposing LOB Data (Reza Alirezaei)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 on deck (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Releases Updated Documentation for Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 and Microsoft Releases Official "First Look" Windows 7 Training Courses (Blake Handler)
• Windows Home Serve available on MSDN (David Vidmar)
• Improving upon vanilla virtualization with cloud computing (Dan Shookowsky)
• Reaching For The Clouds (Jason Ipock)
• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Three: Homoiconic (Eric Lippert)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers (Spence Harbar)
• Getting syntax highlighting for your powershell scripts (take 2) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Federating Windows Search with Enterprise Data Sources (Brandon Paddock, Scott Dart & Alwin Vyhmeister)
• RE: IE8 Beta Feedback (Allison Burnett)
• A Brief Collection of Convenient Lies About Functional Programming (Michael Feathers)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #313 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 — #546 and Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 – 2 — #547 and Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 – 3 — #548 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 307 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for March 23rd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio April 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Evening with Fluent NHibernate (Howard Dierking) – Link of the Day
• Introduction to NHibernate, pt.5 (Ian Cooper)
• Live fx Helper Class – extra methods : Live Framework (Jamie Thomson)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 Release Candidate available (Rockford Lhotka)
• T4 Toolbox – Release: 9.3.21.1 (CodePlex)
• M is to DSL as Drag & Drop is to programming (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Media 2 SP2 (MS Downloads)
• Silverlight 3 Release Date (RTW) Surprise (Bart Czernicki)
• New official Silverlight Blog (Brian Goldfarb)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video training series (Rockford Lhotka)
• Dragging has NEVER been so easy (Rudi Grobler)
• Silverlight 3 Sample Application: Slidentity and Silverlight 3: Navigation URI Routing (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3: Array Helper (Michael Sync)
• Using the new Silverlight 3 Perspective tools to emulate 3D (Jeff)
• WPF Toolkit – March 2009 Release (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Patterns and Origins: Sueetie User Avatars (Dave Burke)
• Internet Explorer Global Variable Blow ups (Rick Strahl)
• Json.NET 3.5 Beta 3 (CodePlex)
• Why I don’t use OpenWeb() (Gary Lapointe)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Great Managers Have No Secrets (Jurgen Appelo)
• Test Review #3 – Unity (Roy Osherove)
• To Inject Or Not To Inject (Justin Etheredge)
• The Successor Value Pattern (Michael Feathers)
• Coding: Making the debugger redundant (Mark Needham)

Community / Events

• Sexiest Bachelor Developer Results!!! (Sara J. Chipps)
• MIX Slides, Code, and Session Recording (Stephen Walther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Bonus Episode – PowerScripting Podcast – The Missing Interviews (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Thirsty Developer 56: Quick Basic Gorillas (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• The History of Microsoft – 1981 (Tina)

Database

• Differentiating between environments within SQL Server Management Studio (Leon Bambrick)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #312 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2009 — #545 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #76 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: March 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Discoveries This Week 03/20/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 86 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (3/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

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)

Book of the Day

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)

Book of the Day