Bloated Dew Drop today since I was unable to get one out on Friday. Tomorrow morning should be a light one.
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Top Links
- The MVVM Twilight Zone (Josh Smith)
 - Code Contracts Part 2 – Preconditions (Kevin Hazzard)
 - Stack Exchange API Public Beta Starts (Jeff Atwood)
 - Essential Tools for the WPF Novice (Michael Sorens)
 - How about a Zune-style ChildWindow? (Jeff Wilcox)
 - MEFedMVVM v1.0 Explained (Marlon Grech)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Binary Serialization (Richard Carr)
 - Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1 (MS Downloads)
 - Presentation:The State of the Art on .NET (Amanda Laucher & Josh Graham)
 - Updated PowerCommands for Reflector (Jason Haley)
 - Convert a Generic List to a Datatable (Abhijeet Singhai)
 - C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series:Dynamic Primitive Type Part 2 and C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series:SortedSet in Framework 4 (Sam Gentile)
 - Include for LINQ to SQL (and maybe other providers) (Damien Guard)
 - Creating an F# Solution Template for Visual Studio 2010 (Daniel Mohl)
 - NHibernate Workbench (Felice Pollano)
 - Using Sandcastle to build code contracts documentation and Code Contracts: How they look after compiling? (Gunnar Peipman)
 - Windows Azure Most Wanted – MSMQ Azure and MSMQ Azure vs. Scalable Queue with Concurrency Locks (Rinat Abdullin)
 - Building a Simple Logging Http Module with Logging Application Block (Gil Fink)
 - VSGesture v2 for VS 2010 – Adding mouse gesture support to VS 2010 (No, not those “hand gestures” I see you doing at your screen… 😉 (Greg Duncan)
 - Interview:Don Syme Talks About F# 2.0, a First Class Citizen in Visual Studio 2010 (Don Syme)
 - C# 4.0 AccessPrivateWrapper – Instantiate and Access Private/Internal Classes and Members via dynamic + reflection (Anoop Madhusudanan)
 - Drowning one’s sorrows in the ThreadPool (Michael S. Kaplan)
 - Transaction Flows Across Reentrant AppDomain Calls and Transactional Workflows: Suspend-Enqueue-Unload-Resume Done Correctly on Second-Phase Commit (Sasha Goldshtein)
 - Talking Reactive Extensions (Matthew Podwysocki)
 - C# & SqlDependency – Monitoring your database for data changes (Richard McCutchen)
 - How To Enable Visual Studio 2010 Log (Shai Raiten)
 - Dynamic Type to do away with Reflection (Rick Strahl)
 - Querying a Hierarchical Parent-Child Structure in LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
 - cleartextonfoo and Visual Studio SWAG!! and Hide the Status Bar and Hide the Vertical and/or Horizontal Scroll Bars (Zain Naboulsi)
 
Web Development
- What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 2 Wrox Blox available for purchase (Simone Chiaretta)
 - ASP.NET MVC: Using jQuery context menu with tables (Gunnar Peipman)
 - How to programmatically change the physical directory for a web app in IIS 7.x (Keith Brown)
 - Using the Power of the Sueetie API for Good (Fighting Blog Spam) (Dave Burke)
 - Create a Twitter API proxy for your own! (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
 - Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Porting the HomeController, the map/reduce way and Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Porting the HomeController, the Right Way and Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Migrations (Oren Eini)
 - EmailTheInternet.com: Sending and Receiving Email in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
 - Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Sean Nolan, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and New Plugin Enables WordPress To Use Windows Azure Storage Services (Windows Azure Team)
 - Google + Pac Man = Statement? (Frank La Vigne)
 - 4 Steps to Consume Web Services Using Ajax (includes video tutorial) (Shivprasad Koirala)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Friday: "Collective Code Ownership" Now Online (James Shore)
 - Code Kata Setup (Louis Salin)
 - Trustworthiness… Then Trust (Mike Cottmeyer)
 - Ninject.RhinoMocks: Auto Mocking Container For .NET 3.5 and Compact Framework 3.5 and Albacore: Should We Continue To Support Ruby v1.8.6? (Derick Bailey)
 - Whole Agile (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
 - Presentation:Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams (Roy Osherove)
 - NCover 3.4.6: Bug Fixes (Stephen Ward)
 - Is your test method self-validating ? (Mehfuz Hossain)
 - Programmer Tip: True Alpha Geeks Breed Alpha Geeks. (Rajiv Popat)
 - PowerShell for acceptance testing (Dmitry Sotnikov)
 - "Intuitive" in one language may (at best) be "understandable" in another. Please plan accordingly…. (Michael S. Kaplan)
 - The Unit Testing Lounge (Tal Townsend)
 - Review: Designing with Web Standards (Grant Palin)
 - Project Greenfield: Implementing Source Version Control (Joel Cochran)
 - SketchFlow with a splash of balsamic (Rudi Grobler)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- F# PowerPack May 2010 – now for Silverlight (Dmitry Lomov)
 - Using Windows 7 taskbar features in WPF [pure XAML] (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - Navigating Microsoft content on Silverlight and Expression Blend (Adam Kinney)
 - SpinPaint for Windows Phone 7 (with a Rant about Touch) (Charles Petzold)
 - While should I need to waste so many resources and 1-3 minutes to get started? (Fredrik Normen)
 - Using DynamicObject to intercept and marshal property changes (Josh Smith)
 - Silverlight – DataBind to an Anonymous type (Who knew?) (Jason Jarrett)
 - Windows Phone 7 April CTP and TransitioningContentControl (Jeff Brand)
 - Windows Phone? Sounds exciting! (Jeff Wilcox)
 - You Already Are A Windows Phone 7 Programmer (Jesse Liberty)
 - WPFPerf Performance Profiling Tools for WPF 4 is now available! (Jossef Goldberg)
 - Dotfuscator 4.7.1000 with WPF obfuscation support (Joe Kuemerle)
 - Create Silverlight Master – Detail UI Using Data Sources Window Object DataSource (Karl Shifflett)
 - Document Toolkit 2 Beta 1 available (Koen Zwikstra)
 - Seesmic Releases Microsoft Silverlight Based Desktop 2 Preview (Richard Hay)
 - Evolution of input and "255 depth levels ought to be enough for anybody." – Bill Gates, 2010 (Rob Relyea)
 - Silverlight Tip of the Day #23 – Working with Strokes and Shapes (Mike Snow)
 - Right Click a TextBox and Display a ContextMenu using Silverlight 4 (Suprotim Agarwal)
 - A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services – Part 3 (Weidong Shen)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 04 of 18): Hello World (MS Podcasts)
 - TWC9: Silverlight Tools for VS, Azure Guidance, Rx, and Home Server (Dan Fernandez)
 - Windows Home Server Vail (Larry Larsen)
 - The Thirsty Developer 93: Talking Visual Studio with Jay Schmelzer (Dave Bost)
 - Video discussion about Visualization and Modeling Tools in VS2010 (Cameron Skinner)
 - Cloud Cover Episode 12 – Hosting WCF and Inter-Role Communication (Ryan Dunn)
 - Windows Weekly 157: Next of KIN (Paul Thurrott)
 - Boagworld 212. More skills to learn (Paul Boag)
 - Toby Richards and Mike Hickman Discuss MVP Engagement with Office 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)
 - StartUp Podcast Show #68 David Schenberg and BusyEvent.com (Bob Walsh)
 
Community / Events
- Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint (Melissa Travers)
 - A Week in the Life of a Community PM at Microsoft (Pete Brown)
 - SQL Immersion Event in Bellevue, WA in August! (Paul S. Randal)
 - Microsoft voted best workplace in Europe (Anne Cheng
)  - New England GiveCamp – Come Code for Charity (Jim O’Neil)
 - 10 Ways to Maximize Your Conference Experience (Dan Wilson)
 - Shame on you for stealing (Buck Woody)
 
Database
- Auto Generate AlphaNumeric ID’s in a SQL Server Table (Suprotim Agarwal)
 - SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Snapshot Isolation – Reduce the Blocking Transactions and SQLAuthority News – Downloads Available for Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 (Pinal Dave)
 - Virtual Lab: Creating the Basic SQL 2008 R2 Virtual Machine (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
 - Delete all data in database (when you have FKs) (Niikola)
 - Geek City: Clearing Plans for a Single Database (Kalen Delaney)
 
SharePoint
- SharePoint 2010 – Top 10 Resources to get you started… (SharePoint Team)
 
Miscellaneous
- A Book Review of Tribes by Seth Godin (Joe Webb)
 - Android 2.2: Froyo Is a Major Update (Alex Chitu)
 - 13,000+ Free Icons for Web and Desktop Development (David Vidmar)
 - J Allard leaving Microsoft over Courier axing? (Donald Melanson)
 - 10 Days for Office 2010: Reviewing the Dow Jones Industrial with Excel 2010 (Nate Oliver)
 - 24 things to do, and 100 things *not* to do (yet) for building a MicroISV (Leon Bambrick)
 - Accelerating change – we can’t do it alone (Pamela Passman)
 - 6 Git Commands To Get You Started (Nick Berardi)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 21, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 22, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
 - Daily Cloud Feed – May 20, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – May 21, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – May 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
 - Silverlight Cream for May 21, 2010 — #866 and Silverlight Cream for May 22, 2010 — #867 (Dave Campbell)
 - Distributed Weekly 51 (Scott Banwart)
 - The Morning Brew #605 (Chris Alcock)
 - Weekly Links #106 (Grant Palin)
 - Links of the Week #120 (David Vidmar)
 
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