Design / Methodology / Testing

• Just say No! to C# Regions and I still say Regions are not useful… but… (Saul Mora)
• Adding the fuel gauge (Simon Brown)
• Educate Developers Instead Of Protecting Them (Davy Brion)
• Refactoring Project Structure is just as important as Refactoring Code (Derik Whittaker)
• Piggyback on Derik Whittaker’s Post on Refactoring Project Structure (Dave Schinkel)
• The Big Agile Practices Survey (Jurgen Appelo)
• Survey Time! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Lessons from the Coding Dojo: Simple is Hard (JP Hamilton)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate mapping – <database-object/> (Oren Eini)
• “Is XML” Regex / Extension Method (Chris Cavanagh)
• Speeding up a local build (Jimmy Bogard)
• MEF: Dependencies are Queries? (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Free eBooks: ADO.NET Entity Framework, Powershell & C# (Robert Muehsig)
• Your Very First NHibernate Application – Part 2 (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Web Development

• A new flag to optimize ASP.NET compilation behavior (David Ebbo)
• JSON Compatibility Across Browsers (Saul Mora)
• Custom Route Constraint in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• Introducing new Sueetie Column: Feature Rich and Feature Rich: Gallery Server Pro – How to Create Secure Albums and Feature Rich: YetAnotherForum.NET – How to Create a Private Forum (Dave Burke)
• 10 Exceptional WordPress Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• Clean blend of javascript and csharp (Louis DeJardin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight with F#: Handling Keyboard Input (John Liao)
• GeoPlaces: WCF\WPF app (Lester Lobo)
• Poll, Don’t Wait for your Silverlight Applications (Louis Salin)
• Mediator v2 for MVVM WPF and Silverlight applications (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• p&p SharePoint Development Guidance v2 – What’s in Drop 7? (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• ARCast.TV – Enabling Accelerators on Your Web Site (Bob Familiar)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #102: Taking a look at how to modify the T4 templates used by Sharp Architecture (Kyle Baley)
• Episode 132: Top 10 Architecture Mistakes with Eoin Woods (SE-Radio Team)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #49 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herman Venter – The Common Compiler Infrastruture goes Open Source (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• Microsoft MSDN Events Unleashed – IE 8 and Windows 7 Development (Angela Binkowski)
• I’m an ASP Insider (Simone Chiaretta) – Congrats, Simo!
• Comments: Now with Flags and Votes (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• It’s official: SharePoint Server 2010 (Arpan Shah)
• Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 due to ship April 28th (Jie Li)

Database

• Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 White Paper Released (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Atlona’s Wireless USB to HDMI Video Adapter. FTW! (Everything USB)
• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Desktop Time Tracker" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• My MSDN Flash Editorial for April 13, 2009 (Dave Bost)
• Comma Quibbling (Eric Lippert)
• Where is the Xbox 360 Lite? (Steve Tibbett)
• Microsoft uncovers details on Office 2010 (Taimur Asad)
• Does Windows Azure Support Java? and Programming Language Interoperability in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Zune HD Specs, What We Do & Don’t Know (Ryan Rea)
• SkyDrive Adds New Silverlight-Enabled Features and Qik for Windows Mobile Updated (Sarah Perez)
• Mockups 1.6 Release: Linking Mockups, and More! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Office 2010 announced (Mark Harrison)
• Installing Visual SVN Server (Kevin Miller)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 15, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #328 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 15, 2009 — #571 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 15th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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