Top Links
- Silverlight Integration Pack for Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 released! (Grigori Melnik)
- Project Silk: Patterns and Practices do Rich Web Apps (Simon J. Ince)
- dotPeek – Free .NET Decompiler is Available for Early Access (Jura Gorohovsky)
- Async 13: Expressions that contain await (Bill Wagner)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Checking for Microsoft Word DocX/DocM Revisions/Track Changes without using Word… (via OpenXML SDK, LINQ to XML or XML DOM) and LED fun, four characters at a time, with Netduino and ShieldStudio (Greg Duncan)
- Code Metrics – Lines of Code (Zain Naboulsi)
- Windows Azure ServiceBus pitfalls (Johan Olsson)
- NuGet for the Win! (Grigori Melnik)
- NUnrar – Unrar in pure C# – Release: v1.0.1 (CodePlex)
Web Development
- Ready, set, scaffold! Build ASP.NET MVC 3 applications quickly with MvcScaffolding (Rachel Appel)
- New NuGet Documentation Site (Phil Haack)
- HTML5 Intellisense in Visual Studio 2010/2008 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
- Google Tasks API (Αlex)
- HTML5 Prototypes–FileAPI, IndexedDB, Media Capture and Unobtrusive JavaScript in your ASP.NET pages. (Joe Stagner)
- And now… Raccoon Blog (Oren Eini)
- jsshell – Chrome Extention – Why it rocks! (Dan Watson)
- IE Pinned Sites Part 9: Patterns to make your pinned site code play nice in all browsers (Jennifer Marsman)
- Aviary Effects API Goes Public, Celebrates With Contest (Alex Stone)
- Gravatar API Enables One Avatar to Rule Them All (Allen Tipper)
- Awesomium – Free Indie License! (Chris Cavanagh)
- 10 Reasons Why Architects and Developers Should Care about Cloud Computing (Hanu Kommalapati)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Mind of a Leader: Content or Cliche (Nicholas Cardot)
- Build Software Like Toyota [Part 1/2] and Build Software Like Ford [Part 2/2] (Peter Saddington)
- Dealing with Frustration in the Workplace (K. Brian Kelley)
- When Your Team is Unhappy With Your Tools (Thursday Bram)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Beginner Resources (Arian Kulp)
- TouchStudio – Hello World (Jonathan de Halleux)
- What to look forward to in WPF vNext (Jonathan Allen)
- What is Character Spacing in Silverlight 5 Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Michael’s “Mega Collection of Silverlight 5 Beta” Demos (Michael Crump)
- Coming in Mango–Query the Contacts List (Jesse Liberty)
- Silverlight 4: End-to-End Application using Prism 4, WCF 4 and DataGrid Custom Behavior (Mahesh Sabnis)
- 16 Ways to Make your WP7 Game Better (Matt Lacey)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- How Do I: Deploying Windows Azure Applications (MS Podcasts)
- Chris Hawblitzel and Juan Chen: Introduction to Typed Assembly Language (TAL) (Charles Torre)
- Deep Fried Bytes Episode 70: Coding First with Entity Framework 4.1 (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
- Episode 147 – PowerScripting Podcast – Champions of the Scripting Games 2011 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Introduction to Office 365 (Tina Wood)
- SE Podcast #04 (Alex Miller)
- Bill Buxton Shows Us His Favorite Tech (Larry Larsen)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Productivity Power Tools Part 1 (Robert Green)
- New Channel 9 Series: Visual Studio Toolbox (Weston Hutchins)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast: Esther Shein Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- endpoint.tv – WF4 in the Real World – Microsoft Support ASP.NET MVC Wizard Framework (Ron Jacobs)
Community / Events
- MVPs to Play Major Role at Next Week’s Tech•Ed (Lonnie Webb)
- A Microsoft cheat sheet for Google I/O (Mary Jo Foley)
- Presenting a Free Webinar w/ Idera – Understanding SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata (Andrew Connell)
- Lessons Learned at Graduate School – Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon (Chris G. Williams)
- Windows Phone 7 Wednesdays by Telerik (Evan Hutnick)
- Announcing Pablo’s Fiesta 2011!!!!! (Joe Ocampo)
- Wintellect Azure Contest for XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle (Jeffrey Richter)
Database
- SSRS Series Part II: Working with Subreports, DrillDown Reports, Expressions and Custom codes, Databars, Indicators, Custom Sorting and Paging and many more (Niladri Biswas)
- SQL SERVER – Import CSV File into Database Table Using SSIS (Pinal Dave)
- Raise your hand if you have seen code that sends email from within a trigger in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
- Intro to Central Management Server (John Sterrett)
- Reliable Retry Aware BCP for SQL Azure (James Podgorski)
SharePoint
- From the trenches with SharePoint unit testing and Typemock (Avi Kaye)
- Track SharePoint 2010 Installations Across the Enterprise (Joel Oleson)
Miscellaneous
- MSFT-Skype: the interesting tidbits (Kip Kniskern)
- Questions we dread during interviews (Microsoft JobsBlog
) - Disk2vhd and native boot – Or how to capture and use an OS snapshot (Mike Ormond)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – May 12 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- The Morning Brew #850 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 05/11/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- 10-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
- Daily WP7 Development News May 11th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- SilverlightShow for May 02-08, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2011 — #1087 (Dave Campbell)
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