Web Development

• Walkthrough: full example of using MvcContrib grid w/jQuery datatable. (Paul Whitaker)
• Microsoft Releases Updated neXpert 1.1 Add-on for Fiddler (Web Debugging Proxy) (Blake Handler)
• New Book: Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 In C# and VB (Bill Evjen)
• PostBack Ritalin v1.0 (Dave Ward)
• ASP.NET MVC Open Source is Good (Jim Minatel)
• Upload a Document to the SharePoint Document Library using a Webservice (Harsh Bardhan)
• Putting the M in MVC – Part III (K. Scott Allen)
• BlogEngine.NET 1.5 Release Candidate (Mads Kristensen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Adventures with IL Merge (Jimmy Bogard)
• Issue with the first release of MUrl sample and Twitter (Brian Loesgen)
• Why Developers Hate WF and Why They Should Get Over It (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• Pygments for Windows Live Writer (Harry Pierson)
• Efficiently Searching Code Elements by Name (Patrick Smacchia)
• Resharper templates: Don’t forget the Macros (John Teague)
• F# Data Abstraction Layer For C# (Matthew Cochran)
• Workflow Savepoints (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Writing rich logging solution (Gunnar Peipman)

Silverlight / WPF

• Boss Launch… LAUNCHED (Andy Beaulieu)
• Running Silverlight 2 and 3 On Same Machine – Redux! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• WPF : Dynamic Search Driven List Results (Sacha Barber)
• March Madness (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 3 – Experimenting with WCF’s Binary XML Encoder (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDDD: Aggregate Versioning & Persistence Schema (Jonathan Oliver)
• The Big List of Agile Practices (Jurgen Appelo)
• Do We Create Type Systems In Dynamic Languages? (Justin Etheredge)
• Coding: It’s all about the context and DDD: Only for complex projects? (Mark Needham)
• Companies Aren’t Progressive (But People Are…) (Max Pool)

Community / Events

• List of Microsoft’s Windows Live Team Blogs (Blake Handler)
• “The essential ingredient is the workers” (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• My Appearances in the 2nd Quarter (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Management Studio New Features and SQL SERVER – Logical Query Processing Phases – Order of Statement Execution (Pinal Dave)
• SDS and Relational Model (Vishwas Lele)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 65 – PowerScripting Podcast – Lance Robinson from /N Software (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Episode 131: Adrenaline Junkies with DeMarco and Hruschka (SE-Radio Team)
• Take your Applications to the Cloud and Beyond – PDC, Visual Studio, Azure, Office 14 and Windows 7 (Nigel Parker)

Miscellaneous

• WordPress Plugins News: Coffee2Code Plugin Marathon, Plugin Podcast, Plugin Developer Center, Plugin Checklist (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Customize XBMC with These Five Awesome Skins (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• What Stack Overflow Can Teach You and Almost Perfect (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #322 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 04, 2009 — #563 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 04.01~04.05 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #47 (Grant Palin)
• Links (4/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 88 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Discoveries This Week 04/03/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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

.NET / Visual Studio

• Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio April 2009 CTP and Live Framework SDK (MS Downloads)
• FitNesse.NET Tips and Tricks (Me)
• ReSharper Helper – AutoHotkey Script (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Oslo Based Solution for Deploying BizTalk Applications (Yossi Dahan via Chris Sells)
• Mix: Getting my head around Oslo, M and MGrammar (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• All the 10-4’s (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Wrapping Windows 7 APIs with some .NET (Coding4Fun)
• ViEmu/ReSharper Update (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Building a WPF Application: Part 6 (Christopher Bennage)
• Friday Books – Silverlight 2 Recipes (Dave M. Bush)
• WPF blogs (Jaime Rodriguez)
• What I Use for Silverlight Development (Pete Brown)
• My Silverlight War Room and Guitar Chords and Silverlight (John Papa)

Web Development

• RESTful WCF Part 2 of n (Sacha Barber)
• What I Do When My jQuery Code Doesn’t Work (K. Scott Allen)
• Seadragon Ajax (Mike Ormond)
• Using the ASP.NET AJAX ModalPopup in an ASP.NET 3.5 Application (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Free ASP.NET MVC eBook (Michael Ceranski)
• Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 5 – Views (Justin)
• Using the ASP.NET AJAX ModalPopup in an ASP.NET 3.5 Application (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Makes Code Unbearable to Work With (Dave Schinkel)
• What’s taking so long? [Diagnosing the startup performance of your .NET application] (Eric Burke)
• Ray Ozzie on the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2.0 (J.D. Meier)
• BDD on Creatine (Mo Khan)
• What makes a system hard to work with? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Teams are the Building Blocks of Agile Organizations (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Mapping Gestures to Features (Scott Lawrence Holmes)

Database

• Designing a document database: Views (Oren Eini)
• SDS Architecture in the cloud (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Data Services and Entity-Attribute-Value models (Jamie Thomson)

Community / Events

• NINE Questions with David Penton (Chris G. Williams)
• Elegant Coders on geekSpeak (David Starr)
• 1st ISV Software Architecture Workshop in NYC (Gunther Lenz)
• MVP Releases The Bloggers Guide to Connected Systems (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Jeff and Joel at MIX 09: Live Podcast (Jeff Atwood)
• Progressive Audio Webinar (William Vaughn)
• TechEd 2009 Attendee Party Cancelled (Scott Lock)
• My first MVP Summit and what I got from it (Simone Chiaretta)
• What Would You Want From a F# User Group? (Rick Minerich)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Codeplex Releases "Inbox Zero" AutoArchive Add-in for Outlook 2007 (Blake Handler)
• Verizon Opens FiOS TV Platform to Developers (Eric Rabe)
• Hosting your OSS project on github (Aaron Jensen)
• Is Windows 7 reliable enough to release now? (Ed Bott)
• Kumo home page (Kip Kniskern)
• Site Compatibility and IE8 (Tony Ross)
• New Zune.net Features (Steve Clayton)
• Windows 7: A Few More Changes from Beta to RC… (Chaitanya)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 12, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #306 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 12, 2009 — #539 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 03.10~03.13 (yuanjian)
• Interesting Finds: March 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for March 12th, 2009 (Zoli Erdos)
• Links (3/12/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day