.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

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)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 6 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Trains and Interoperability (Larry Clarkin)
• Introduction to the Stubs Framework (Jonathan de Halleux) – Link of the Day
• Refactoring a Switch Statement (Chris Brandsma)
• Lessons Learned from the NUnit Code Base (Patrick Smacchia)

.NET / Visual Studio

• More Curry? (Mike Hadlow)
• SYTYAWD Are You Using Regular Expressions (Jeff McWherter)
• Call Hierarchy Navigation in Visual Studio 2010 (Kirill Osenkov)
• XML Comments: filterpriority and Reading All Bytes from a Stream (Scott Dorman)
• Reading an XML File Using LINQ and A Quick Way to Find C++ Method Signatures for C# Interop (Tom Hearn)
• Introducing tweet#, the Complete Fluent C# Library for Twitter (Daniel Crenna)

Silverlight

• Pie Chart and Column Chart Videos Post (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• Working with Web Pages in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)

PowerShell

• Capture Console Screen (PowerShell Team)
• Test-PSCmdlet (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• IE8 in Windows 7 Beta (Paul Cutsinger)
• How-To: Getting Started with .VHD Files in Windows 7 (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)

More Link Collections

• Triple Shot Links #15 (Russell Ball)
• Silverlight Cream for January 10, 2009 – #481 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day