Top Links
- All Updated Windows Phones Are Not Alike (Brandon Watson)
 - Should I use HTML5 or Silverlight? One man’s opinion. (Scott Hanselman)
 - Spatial Types in the Entity Framework (Pedro Ardila)
 - LightSwitch: 10 Times As Many Silverlight Developers As Today (Michael Washington)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- DLR in C# using Scripting Language (Abhishek Sur)
 - WCF scales up slowly with bursts of work (Dustin Metzgar)
 - EasyNetQ, a simple .NET API for RabbitMQ (Mike Hadlow)
 - Blog Post: PLINQO for NHibernate, Beta 1 Released! (T. DuPont)
 - Using CSLA 4: Data Portal Configuration draft online (Rockford Lhotka)
 - Meet the new Microsoft® Surface® Input Simulator (Luis Cabrera)
 - Top Failed Bots (Brian Hitney)
 - MEFing up RIA Services Part 2: Kyle’s Turn (Colin Blair)
 - Something "sort" of handy… [IListExtensions adds easy sorting to .NET list types – enabling faster search and removal, too!] (David Anson)
 - dotCover 1.1, dotTrace 4.5 Performance Beta 2 (Jura Gorohovsky)
 
Web Development
- Updating JavaScript Benchmarks for Modern Browsers (Mike Belshe)
 - CSS3 Gradients in IE10 Platform Preview 1 (Jennifer Yu)
 - Built-in GZip/Deflate Compression on IIS 7.x (Rick Strahl)
 - ASP.NET MVC: Implementing CheckBoxList (Gunnar Peipman)
 - Continuous Integration In PHP w/Jenkins (Eric Hogue)
 - Best Windows Hosting Offers (including plenty of free stuff) (Andy Robb)
 - How to get a source code enlistment set-up for Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
 - Anecdotally, datajs delivers quiet success (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- 10 Tips for Agile Adoption in the Enterprise (Peter Saddington)
 - A Mockery review (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Using Fakes (Richard Carr)
 - A minimal actor framework, part 2 (Oren Eini)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Uploading Data back to Azure (Rob Tiffany)
 - Working with WP7 ListPicker SelectedItem and New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.4.0 officially released and Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Implementation and Best Practices (Windows Phone Geek)
 - 20 useful Expression Blend tips & tricks (Alex Knight)
 - Event to Command in WPF MVVM application (Gian Maria Ricci)
 - Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–The Third Dimension (Mike Taulty)
 - Step-by-Step Using ImplicitDataTemplate in Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Silverlight Games: Add Images and use the mouse to move images (Sam)
 - Housebuilding with John Papa and Sliverlight 5 at MIX11 (Greg Duncan)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Conversation with Herb Sutter: Perspectives on Modern C++(0x/11) (Charles Torre)
 - Herding Code 111: John Papa on the Open Source Fest at MIX11 (Jon Galloway)
 - Episode 146 – PowerScripting Podcast – Directors from PowerShellCommunity.org (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
 - SE Podcast #03 (Alex Miller)
 - MAUI: Mobile Assistance Using Infrastructure and Microsoft Private Cloud Security Overview (Larry Larsen)
 - Web Camps TV #11 – MVC Turbine with Javier Lozano (Drew Robbins)
 - Hot Apps: Max & The Magic Marker, Gadget Watch, 4th & Mayor, Shuriken Ninja, Back Track (Laura Foy)
 - Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Hardware Model Shop (Clint Rutkas & Nic Fillingham)
 - Get Your CodeRush Training Here (Mark Miller)
 
Community / Events
- Developing SharePoint 2010 Solutions Using External Data and Services – May 25, 2011 (Zhiming Xue)
 - Author news: Azure deep dives with Jeffrey Richter (Devon Musgrave)
 - SilverlightShow, CodeStock and Devlink lined up for the next couple of month. (Michael Crump)
 - What do you ask when interviewing a company? (Microsoft JobsBlog
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Database
- Working with large XML files in Management Studio (Simon Sabin)
 - SQL Server DBA Tip 7 – Server Security and grouping – Schema Control (Ted Krueger)
 - How do you create or update stored procedures. (Martin Catherall)
 - Policy-Based Management and Local Password Policy (Jorge Segarra)
 
Miscellaneous
- Bing Maps Control for iOS (MS Downloads)
 - Code-Named “Dryad” Ships in Beta! (Ade Miller)
 - "Climbing Mt PowerShell" comic now available (Greg Duncan)
 - Microsoft announces OAuth 2.0 support for Messenger Connect (Kip Kniskern)
 - Oracle Plans to Transfer Hudson IP to Eclipse (Mitch Pronschinske)
 - ‘Walshied’ Windows Phone 7 that won’t update? There’s a fix for that (Mary Jo Foley)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Interesting .NET Links – May 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
 - Daily News Digest 05/04/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 - Web Dev Tweets 4-May-2011 and 3-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
 - The Morning Brew #845 (Chris Alcock)
 - Silverlight Cream for May 04, 2011 — #1084 (Dave Campbell)
 - Daily WP7 Development News May 4th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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