.NET / Visual Studio

• Mutable Linq Expressions and NH Prof: Release Candidate is out (Oren Eini)
• Why Are Mutable Value Types Even Possible? (Davy Brion)
• LINQ to SQL and alternate Providers (Rick Strahl)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Available for the MSDN Subscribers today (Jimmy) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• Guiding User Input with the JQuery Masked Edit Plugin :Thin ASP.NET Part 4 (Chris Love)
• Sueetie Profile Updates: Following and Friends and Sueetie Profile Updates: Member Bios (Dave Burke)
• Developing SharePoint WebParts using User Controls and Web Applications (Greg Galipeau)
• Creating a Jump menu in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Summary of Agile (Dave Schinkel)
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Book Review (Mark Needham)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• JSConf audio podcasts (Michael Kimsal)
• Major Nelson Show #319 :Gel, Gamerscore Reset and Fight Night Round 4 (Larry Hryb)
• Just A Video Update (Sara Chipps)
• NZsynth Building a Clickable Mosaic with DeepZoom and Silverlight 2 (Nigel Parker)

Community / Events

• Lehigh Valley .NET May 18 – Intro to Silverlight 2 and 3 and May 19 – Pittsburgh .NET – Lap around Silverlight 3 and C64 Emulator (Pete Brown)
• Tech·Ed Visual Studio Tips with Sara Ford and Volunteering at Tech·Ed 2010 in New Orleans (Steve Andrews)

SQL Server

• SSIS Import all text files. Use RegEx parse out strings and Stop mirroring for server reboot (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Subversion Key Points Condensed (Dave Schinkel)
• Social Media Blogs Top 200 (Jurgen Appelo)
• Server Fault Public Beta Nears (Jeff Atwood)
• Twitter Services That Are Useful To Me (Rhonda Tipton)
• Book Review: Code Leader by Patrick Cauldwell (+ a digression on contracts) (Patrick Smacchia)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #349 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 05.11 ~ 05.17 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #53 (Grant Palin)
• Links (5/17/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 94 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Discoveries This Week 05/17/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day