Top Links
- Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.10425 and Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.1.10425 (Experimental Release) (MS Downloads)
 - Signature Series 40% off until May 15 (Martin Fowler)
 - IE Pinned Sites Part 6: How to implement Overlay Icons (Jennifer Marsman)
 - Dynamic Types to Simplify Property Change Notification in Silverlight 4 and 5 (Jeremy Likness)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- WCF Extensibility – IParameterInspector (Carlos Figueira)
 - WCF 4.0 Features: Part #1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - C#/.NET Little Wonders: ElementAt() and Last() (James Michael Hare)
 - TFS – Fail a build when the warning count increases (Peter Gfader)
 - Calling Roles.GetRolesForUser in a WCF service (Rockford Lhotka)
 - Planning Mogade v2 (Karl Seguin)
 - Table Compares Windows Azure Developer Offerings (Bruce Kyle)
 - NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – April Update (Windows Azure Team)
 
Web Development
- Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 3 (ambilykk)
 - Getting Started with Script# (Nikhil Kothari)
 - Single Action Controllers with ASP.Net MVC (Derek Greer)
 - How To Scroll To Validation Summary ? (Abhijit Jana)
 - All you want to know about Web Storage (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Modules and namespaces in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Fun With WebMatrix Helpers in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Steve Lydford)
 - Walking Through the Orchard Part 2 – Conversion from Graffiti (John Papa)
 - Recovering the admin password in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
 - JavaScript Events (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Long Feedback Loops (Patrick Kua)
 - Reactive Extensibility of Lokad.CQRS App Engine (Rinat Abdullin)
 - When to Use White Text on a Dark Background (Anthony T.)
 - Performance from Day 1 (Paul Stovell)
 - Agile or Scrum? (Peter Saddington)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Comparing the MVC and MVVM patterns along with their respective ViewModels. (Rachel Appel)
 - Using Perspective Transforms inside ListBox ItemTemplate and WP7 Master – Detail Navigation with Repository Pattern (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Loading data during WP7 Page navigation – the slow, the fast and the incremental (Andreas Hammar)
 - Tooling in Mango and What’s Coming In Mango–Reminders (Jesse Liberty)
 - XNA for Windows Phone 7: a 3-day Online Training Course (Svetla Stoycheva)
 - The Case of the Confused ComboBox – A WPF/MVVM Bedtime Story (James Kovacs)
 - The science behind the Windows Phone keyboard (Michael Stroh)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- End User Adoption of SharePoint 2010-Episode 59 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
 - jQuery Podcast 42 – jQuery Mobile Keynote (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
 - Silverlight TV 70: Sockets Unplugged (John Papa)
 - Windows Phone Radio 25 (Brian Seitz)
 - Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Rasesh Shah Interview (Ryan Parsley)
 
Community / Events
- Free “State of .NET” Events! (Chris Koenig)
 - Dream.Build.Play Developer Twitter Chat on May 11 (XNA Team)
 
Database
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Feature Pack CTP Bring New Features and Tools (Abel Avram)
 - SQL SERVER – Denali – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets (Pinal Dave)
 - How to determine the current SSIS runtime environment (sognibene)
 - SQL Server DBA Tip 3 – Server Configuration – Model Database (Ted Krueger)
 - SQL University: SQL Azure & PowerShell (Grant Fritchey)
 - Better Living Through Caching (Jeremiah Peschka)
 - Daily Denali Delight – Day 6 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
 
SharePoint
- Incrementing the feature version through MSBuild (SharePoint Developer Team)
 
Miscellaneous
- Bliki: CrossPlatformMobile (Martin Fowler)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Cheatsheet: 2011 04.20 ~ 04.29 (yuanjian)
 - Daily News Digest 04/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 - Web Dev Tweets 27-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
 - Daily WP7 Development News April 28th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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