.NET / Visual Studio
- Querying with LINQ to Entities vs ObjectQuery in EF (Julie Lerman)
- The Dark Side of LINQ (Eran Kampf)
- What Have We Been Up To? (James Lau)
- Adding Async Operations to Asynchronous Computation Expressions in F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
- PodCast: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity and MEF (Brad Abrams)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Rules for Spartan Programmers (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
- 7 Essential Guidelines for Functional Design (Dustin M. Wax)
- Pex (MS Research) – “Program EXploration is a white-box test generation tool.”
Web Development
- The HTML Theme: Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (Kyle Baley)
- Need a Simple Grid for ASP.NET AJAX? (Bertrand Le Roy)
Silverlight / WPF
- Compare on Kelley Blue Book with Silverlight and DeepZoom (Tim Heuer)
- Enter the Continuum Show (Adam Kinney)
SharePoint
- Getting Started with SharePoint and Silverlight – Part II – Update for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Joris Poelmans)
- SharePoint Best Practices Conference (Nick)
Miscellaneous
- Talented Interns Take Microsoft Research by Storm (Arash Asadpour)
- More on Microsoft’s ‘Speed Launch’ Prototype (Todd Bishop)
- Office Labs Releases Speed Launch (Steve Clayton)
- On Documentation for (and by) Developers (Peter Bromberg)
- Bad News, Good News (Jeff Atwood)
- Z3 (MS Research) – “An SMT solver that combines several theory solvers into a combined framework.”
More Link Collections
- Daily Find #92 (Tim Boland)
- Interesting Finds: August 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
- Visual Studio Links #61 (Darren Stokes)
- Silverlight News for August 5, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
- wmoc#14 – Framework Designer Tools and Oslo at the PDC (Dilip Krishnan)
- Link Listing – August 5, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
- The Morning Brew #152 (Chris Alcock)
Book of the Day
Pro WPF: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 3.0: Matthew MacDonald: Books
Technorati: .net development, linq, sharepoint, silverlight, asp.net ajax, vsx
ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed: Stephen Walther: Books
JavaScript: The Good Parts: Douglas Crockford: Books