Top Links
- EF Power Tools CTP1 Released (Andrew Peters & Rowan Miller)
- dotPeek–JetBrains replaces .NET Reflector (Gunnar Peipman)
- Quick Look at Reverse Engineer DB into Code First Classes (Julie Lerman)
- Mango Rumours (Full list by WinRumors) (Rudi Grobler)
.NET / Visual Studio
- What Happens during a PLINQ Query? (logicchild)
- .NET library for Google Data APIs announced (Senthil Kumar)
- A LINQ Style Mode Operator (Richard Carr)
- Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 (MS Downloads) – Hotfix available for users experiencing a beta expired notice.
- Microsoft Bringing "Ops" into Visual Studio (vNext) (Jim Moscater)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Productivity Power Tools Part 2 (Robert Green)
- Spring.NET Gets Visual Studio Add-in, CodeConfig, NuGet Packages (Roopesh Shenoy)
- Querying the Xbox Live Game Marketplace – from anywhere (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Code Metrics – Depth of Inheritance (DIT) (Zain Naboulsi)
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1 KB2478063 Service Pack 5 Feature Set 3.1 R2 November Edition RTW (Maarten Balliauw)
- Async 14: Working with APIs (Bill Wagner)
- A Tweeting .NET Micro Framework breathalyzer (Matt Isenhower)
- Refactorings for simplifying of .NET 4.0 parallel computing development (Alex Skorkin)
- "Sort" of a follow-up post [IListExtensions class enables easy sorting of .NET list types; today’s updates make some scenarios faster or more convenient] (David Anson)
- Two for one day – A cool Kinect hack and open source 3D development platform for interactive real time 3D projects (Greg Duncan)
Web Development
- Understanding Mask Options in jQuery Mask Editor (Murtaza Abdeali)
- Filter and display data with ASP.NET Web Forms (Part 2) (Christian Nagel)
- Web Application Configuration Analyzer 2.0 and Refactoring the Contoso Karate MVC LogOn Widget. (Joe Stagner)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Ed – $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDJS6 (O’Reilly Media)
- Adding Touch to A Web Site Using the jQuery SwipeTouch Plugin (Chris Love)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Michael Sahota)
- Stop Having Scrum Meetings? (Peter Saddington)
- Using Mocks (Richard Carr)
- Code is Liability, the Less the Better (Vikas Hazrati)
- Balsamiq New Release: Rename, Icons on the Right, Break Apart… (Peldi Guilizzoni)
- 7 Tenets Of Framework Selection (Rob Diana)
- Infographic: how Microsoft Research and product teams collaborate (Steve Clayton)
- New Book: Microsoft Project 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
- dotCover 1.1, dotTrace 4.5 Performance RC builds + known issue with MSTest (Jura Gorohovsky)
- Don’t Worry About Where To Start. Just Start. (Derick Bailey)
- "Design for Software: a playbook for developers" (Greg Duncan)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Simulating tombstone (suspended state) on Windows Phone 7 emulator (David Amador)
- Making your own WP7 Angry Birds (Jo de Greef)
- Update to Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 includes ACS and Storage Queues (Katrien de Graeve)
- Announcing Document Toolkit for LightSwitch (Koen Zwikstra)
- Text Searching in Silverlight 5 ComboBox and ListBox (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Building applications with HTML 5 using F#? Silverlight Game design with F#! OMG# (Surf4Fun)
- Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 4 (xpert360)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Radio Astronomy on DotNetRocks – ICRAR and SKA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- SharePoint 2010 Performance and Optimization–Episode 60 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
- SE Podcast #05 (Alex Miller)
- I/O Boot Camp – Getting Started With HTML5 (Pete LePage)
- Web Dev Radio Episode 87: Chronon for Java (Michael Kimsal)
- Benko and Daniel Wigdor on Rock & Rails and A Look at the SoundLab (Larry Larsen)
Community / Events
- PASS Summit 2013 Location: Charlotte, NC! (Brent Ozar)
- Azure Tech Jam (Brian Hitney)
- Mono Founder Miguel De Icaza Forges Ahead After Novell Dismissal (Jim Moscater)
- Vote for Your Favorite Google Science Fair Project! (Kathy Ceceri)
Database
- Troubleshoot Deadlocks using SQL Server Profiler 2005/2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
- SQL SERVER – Connecting to Server Using Windows Authentication by SQLCMD (Pinal Dave)
- How To: Use the Same Data Flow Column Twice As a Parameter in SSIS (Todd McDermid)
SharePoint
- Speaking at SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast Conference 2011 in San Antonio, TX – May 23-25 (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
- 10 Reasons SharePoint 2010 SP1 Will Rock Your World! (Joel Oleson)
- Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 2 of 5 (Vivek Soni) (SharePoint Developer Team)
- Creating a SharePoint 2010 Workflow using SPD 2010 and Visio 2010: How-To & FAQ (SharePoint Designer Team)
Miscellaneous
- Lync Training Download Package (MS Downloads)
- Microsoft’s Lync Online: What’s coming when (Mary Jo Foley)
- Must Have Games kicks off May 25; Angry Birds arrives June 29 (Michael Stroh)
- Video conferencing is a preferred method to phone interviews (Microsoft JobsBlog
) - DIY Hardware at Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
- Giant infographic showing Microsoft acquisitions (Steven Hodson)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – May 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily News Digest 05/18/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily WP7 Development News May 18th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- SilverlightShow for May 09-15 2011 (Dave Campbell)
- The Morning Brew #855 (Chris Alcock)
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