.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)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using new technology will make it faster (Simon Brown)
• Doing Agile in a Team of One (Andrew Woodward)
• Fixing test failures using binary search (Oren Eini)
• Dee Hock on Hiring & Leadership (Brad Appleton)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 7 (Rajiv Popat)
• Notes on "Meeting the Challenge of Simplicity" (Tobin Harris)
• You know you buy into Testing and Testabilty when you wrap a singleton simply to create an abstraction… (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 available for the MSDN subscribers on Monday May 18th (Jose R. Guay Paz)
• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "MP4 Explorer" – Video Metadata Viewer for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Introducing DataLoadOptions for Entity Framework ObjectContext (Muhammad Mosa)
• Parallel Tasks – new Visual Studio 2010 debugger window (Daniel Moth)
• An update on caricature (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Axum – Ping Pong with Dataflow Networks (Matthew Podwysocki)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – UppercuT.config and UppercuT – Automated Builds – ConfigBuilder and Uppercut – Automated Builds – DeploymentBuilder (Rob Reynolds)

Web Development

• Comparing a S#arp Architecture ASP.NET MVC Project to Classic ASP.NET with LINQ to SQL (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Adding Client-Side Form Validation with JQuery: Thin ASP.NET Part 3 (Chris Love)
• Friday Books – ASP.NET Social Networking (Dave M. Bush)
• Learn How to Design Web Sites for Accessibility with Expression Web 2 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• 42 Different APIs Used in 7 Days – From MTV to NPR (John Musser)
• Tip#62: Did you know… How to add Ajax Control Toolkit to the toolbox? (Deepak Verma)
• Remembering Page Index when returning to a List Page (Steve Naughton)

Silverlight

• Writing Behaviors for Silverlight 3 – Part 1 and Part 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week C9 at TechEd 2009 with Jeff Hadfield and Greg Duncan (Dan Fernandez)
• New free screencast series on WPF by Ian Griffiths (Fritz Onion)
• Cannon PI – To Catch An Eagle (Mark Brown)
• Prism in Silverlight (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• TechEd North America 2009 Wrap Up (Andrew Connell)
• LINDUG: The LinkedIn .NET Users group (Darrel Carver)
• TechEd North America 2009 Wrap Up (Eric Shupps)
• Best T-Shirt spotted at Tech Ed (Julie Lerman)
• TechEd 2009 Thoughts (Ted Neward)
• SQLAuthority News – TechEd India 2009 – Day 3 – Product Group Meeting – Final Presentations – Meeting Friends (Pinal Dave)
• Watch my TechEd 2009 talk on CodePlex (Sara Ford)

SharePoint

• How to Emulate Network Shares in a SharePoint Document Library (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint on the iPhone? (Liam Cleary)

Database

• SQLCop, FxCop For SQL Server, Would You Be Interested in This? (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – How to Drop Temp Table – Check Existence of Temp Table (Pinal Dave)
• Time for another Date? (Martin Bell)
• SQL CLR Integration – Caveat Emptor (Michael Ceranski)

PowerShell

• Summer Scripting Games 2009 (Osama Sajid)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Taskbar in 10 Minutes – Part IV: Preview and Window Peek (Gunther Lenz)
• Amazon–; BookShelf++; (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Office 2010 technical preview leaks on torrent trackers and Wolfram Alpha is live and interesting, but not a Google killer (Lee Mathews)
• Microsoft Product Roadmap (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Remote Media Streaming on Windows 7 (Mike Ormond)

More Link Collections

• First Irregularly-Scheduled Linkblog (Peter Seale) – Check out Pete’s links and his opinion of link blogs in general.
• LINKBLOG for May 15, 2009 and LINKBLOG for May 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2009 and Interesting Finds: May 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #348 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 321 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2009 — #594 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-05-15 (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Technology Post for May 15th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 15th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• 10 cool things about f# that aren’t functional-specific (Russian Tequila)
• Book Review – RESTful .NET (Colin Jack)
• Decimal, what are those trailing zeros? (Jérémie Chassaing)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF NotifyIcon Released (Philipp Sumi) – Link of the Day
• Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 – Customization (Boyan Mihaylov)
• User-initiated operations in Silverlight (Ashish Shetty)
• Supporting ScreenReaders in Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Refactoring Silverlight ChildWindow for a non-modal use (Tim Heuer)

Web Development

• I’m Down With M.V.C., Yeah You Know Me! (Chris Patterson)
• CustomValidationControl and jQuery (Dave M. Bush)
• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover – Getting Your House in Order (James Kovacs)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Out of process session state vs. explicit state management and Unit tests vs. Integration tests (Oren Eini)
• The Big Agile Practices Survey Report (Part 1) and (Part 2) and (Part 3) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Lean or Kanban or Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Calling private methods from Unit Tests (Patrick Smacchia)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show #318 : First show from the new office (Larry Hryb)
• Quick "5 Minute Concepts" Video series for Powershell 2.0 (Osama Sajid)

Community / Events

• TDD and Web Testing Workshops in Philadelphia, June 2nd and 3rd (Scott Bellware)
• Join for XAMLfest Recorded Sessions, Online Live June 1 – 5 (Bruce Kyle)
• TSUG-VE (Cameron Skinner)
• 1000th Post (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• TechEd 2009 – Day 0 (Todd O. Klindt)
• Microsoft’s PDC 09 (Steve Clayton)
• Conversation with Jonathan Greenberg (Corey Haines)

Database

• SSIS Connect Digest 2009-05-10 (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – 10 Reasons for Database Outsourcing and SQL SERVER – Questions and Answers with Database Administrators (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• Copy-Acl (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Continuous Learning: 14 Ways to Stay at the Top of Your Profession (Bob Nadler)
• BOOK: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning (Brad Appleton)
• Windows 7 Boxshots (Steven Bink)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 9, 2009 and LINKBLOG for May 10, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 9, 2009 and Interesting Finds: May 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 05.01 ~ 05.10 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #52 (Grant Palin)
• Links (5/10/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Discoveries This Week 05/10/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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• More Articles on Trust (Brad Appleton)
• Stop Using Process Template X with Process Y (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• The insurance of software, or “How to take joy in being risk-averse” (Kyle Baley)
• Empowered, Whether You Like It or Not (Jurgen Appelo)
• Strategic Design (Jérémie Chassaing)

Web Development

• Image Transforms with the ASP.NET Generated Image Control (Scott Mitchell)
• The ASP.NET Diet Part 2 – Making a Thin Contact Form (Chris Love)
• JavaScript for C# Developers: Date Basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Ship It! Glimmer: a jQuery Interactive Design Tool (Karsten Januszewski)
• Move Over ASP.NET WebForms and MVC! (Jonathan Oliver)
• How to handle non-English characters in ASP.NET MVC routes (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Free ASP.NET MVC “NerdDinner” Tutorial Now in HTML (Scott Guthrie)
• Using of JSON Result in Asp.net MVC 1.0 (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Testability and TDD are not reasons to use the ASP.NET MVC Framework (Jeffrey Palermo)
• IRouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Tip #58: Did you know…How you can import/ export HTML Per Tag options in VS? (Ranjini Mathrubootham)
• Now Published: Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (Apress) (Steve Sanderson)
• Glimmer: visually build jQuery animations and stuff (Bertrand Le Roy)
• jQuery and Google Maps #2: AJAX Storing and Retrieving Points (Marc Grabanski)
• Book review: Learning Ext JS (Maarten Balliauw)
• Fame and Fortune await for those who play with IE8 (Mike Ormond)
• Validation – Part 3 – Server-Side and Presenting CodeBetter.Canvas (Karl Seguin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TweetSharp Has a New Demo Application (Casey Charlton)
• ClickOnce Application “This operation is only supported on Windows 2000 SP3 or later” Error (Ryan Farley)
• F#: Overloading functions/pattern matching (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Navigation Part 3 (David Hill)
• Gotchas for Web Services in Silverlight (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Where are the RIA “killer apps”? (Kas Thomas)
• “Getting Started with Silverlight” (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Brian Noyes on Selecting the Correct Client Technology (Bob Familiar)
• First Look of Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0 Available On Demand During May, June (Bruce Kyle)
• Harry Pierson: Intro to Lang.NET 2009 and Anders Hejlsberg and Gilad Bracha: Perspectives on Programming Language Design (Charles Torre)
• SharePoint for Developers Part 3 – Expression Blend and Silverlight and SharePoint for Developers Part 4 – Calling SharePoint Web Services from Silverlight (Kirk Evans)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 140 – ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Databinding with Wally McClure – audio (Wally McClure)
• An Introduction to the IE8 Developer Tools (Mike Ormond)
• Interview – Andrew Fryer with Mike Taulty on LINQ and DBAs (Mike Taulty)

Community / Events

• Arizona Events May/June 2009 (Dave Campbell)
• Announcing the re-release of MSDN Code Search Preview (Joe Stagner)
• The State of Things – A Brief Review Before Tech Ed. (Jesse Liberty)

Database

• Comparing the Chicago Highway System to your Disaster/Recovery Plans (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Solution to Puzzle – Shortest Code to Perform SSN Validation (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 SP1 is now on windows update (Simon Sabin)
• How To Disable Autogenerated Comments When You Script Out Objects (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Time and Space Tradeoffs in Version Control Storage (Eric Sink)
• Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Is Out, Boasts Serious Performance Boosts (Adam Pash)
• Miro wants you to adopt a line of code and help fund open video on the net (Cory Doctorow)
• Java vs .NET Developers (Greg Young)
• Windows Internals: Now with more content! (Devon Musgrave)
• Forms (Steve Tibbett)
• WriteRoom for Google Docs Adds Distraction-Free Writing to Your Browser (The How-To Geek)
• SharePoint 2007 SP2 available for download (Todd O. Klindt)
• Don’t Give Bile a Permalink – Finding Balance within The No Asshole Rule and The Weekly Source Code 41 – Searching Code, Sharing Code, and Reading Code (and Comments) (Scott Hanselman)
• Panda introduces cloud-based free antivirus (Seth Rosenblatt)
• How to receive email notifications for newly-submitted patches? – #023 (Sara Ford)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #337 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 28, 2009 — #582 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 26 (Kathleen Sanders)
• CloudNews for April 28th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

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Web Development

• Creating RSS Feeds Using ASP.NET 3.5 (Kevin Miller)
• Learning jQuery (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Spiff Up Your ASP.NET MVC Forms with jQuery (Justin Etheredge)
• Ask SM [CSS/JS]: Divs of Equal Height, Dealing with IE 6 (Chris Coyier)
• Default Control Focus with ASP.NET Master Pages and LINQ (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Oxite Updated (Sarah Perez)
• The CSS Corner: Using Filters In IE8 (Sylvain Galineau)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Does LINQ StinQ? Not with PLINQO! (Kevin Lawry)
• In-depth: How .NET managed services interact with the ServiceControlManager (SCM) (Kim Hamilton)
• DBProj.com (Gert Drapers)
• Use IOperationBehavior to Customize Operation Behavior in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Axiom 0.7.5.0 Beta 1 (Michael Cummings)
• Making c# lambda expressions more readable (Sean Biefeld)
• If you are still wondering how fast is ADO.NET vs ADODB (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using Enums in List Controls (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Training Kit (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Custom Expressions and the DLR – Part 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: RC Refresh (0.0.14293.004) (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: The Repository Pattern (Casey Charlton)
• BDD Question: Low Level Behavior And Wrapper Methods? (Derick Bailey)
• The valley of continuous learning (Louis Salin)
• Great UI and the Presentation Layer – Clarity and Shape (Mark Miller)
• A Little Chat About Code Sensible Code Generation (Sacha Barber)
• Challenge: Do You Truly Understand This Code? (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Testing Bindings In WPF (Christopher Bennage)
• Silverlight 2 gets minor update (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #95 – Working with Strokes in Shapes (Mike Snow)
• Carousel Video Posted – Parts 1 and 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Setting up a basic n-tier CSLA .NET for Silverlight project (Rockford Lhotka)

SharePoint

• Are SharePoint Developers Better Architects than Architects? (Adam Buenz)
• Please help – Visual Studio SharePoint development environment is very slow (Gunnar Peipman)
• Starting with JQuery and SharePoint – that did not work (Ton Stegeman)

Community / Events

• I’ll be at TechEd North America 2009 – Will you? (Andrew Connell)
• Network Instruments to Host Event in Philly (David Solivan)
• CodeStock 2009 “Call for Speakers” is Open (Michael C. Neel)
• Silverlight 2 Firestarter Event this Weekend – Malvern, PA (Pete Brown)
• User Group Meeting: Microsoft’s Cloud Services and Combining WCF and Business Activity Monitoring (Zhiming Xue)
• Tech Ed Connect (Jesse Liberty)
• Fun with Twitter for Mix09 (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s ‘Social Desktop’ prototype bridges PC and Web (Todd Bishop)
• Free app downloads any Google Book Search item as PDF and Theme GMail your way with a custom color scheme (Lee Mathews)
• The Bad Apple: Group Poison (Jeff Atwood)
• Top 10 Disney LEGO Sets We’d Like to See (Matt Blum)
• 25 random things about Microsoft (Meghan)
• Autoruns for Windows Updated for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
• Auto Twitterise Your Blog Posts (Steve Clayton)
• Much Ado About Monads – List Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #291 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 19, 2009 — #522 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-02-19 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Interesting Finds: February 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (2/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for February 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

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