Silverlight/WPF
- Keeping Up With Silverlight (Dave Campbell)
- Expression Studio 2 Ready For Download (John Papa)
Popfly
- Popfly Introduces Game Creator Alpha (Popfly Team)
- Video: First Look at Popfly Game Creator Alpha (Adam Nathan & Suzanne Hansen) – Link of the Day
- Popfly Game Creator Alpha Launches! (Dan Fernandez)
- Popfly Game Creator! (What I’ve Been Doing the Last 6 Months) (Adam Nathan)
- Why Build a Game Creator? (John Montgomery)
Web Development
- MVC Storefront, Part 7: Helpers and Routing and Part 8: Testing Controllers, Iteration 1 (Rob Conery)
.NET
- Video: XNA Framework Games Running on Zune (Mike Klucher)
- 10 Tips to Improve Your LINQ to SQL Application Performance (Sidar Ok)
- IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 (Harry Pierson)
- Adventures in F# – F# 101 Part 9 (Control Flow) (Matthew Podwysocki)
- Help and IntelliSense for the Expression Encoder Object Model (deanro)
- How the Garbage Collector Works – Part 1 and Part 2 (dotnetfacts)
Design/Methodology
- Composition vs. Inheritance… (Jay Kimble)
- When to Make an Action Invisible or Disabled (Dan Rigsby)
- How to Not Screw Up Your Application Object Model – Don’t Go All OOP on Me! (Keith Elder)
Blogging
- Minor Spaces Update, and More From Windows Live Blogs (Kip Kniskern)
- Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict (Sarah Perez)
- RFC: OpenTweets – Why Is Microblogging Centralized? (Scott Hanselman)
- Witty Twitter 0.1.8.3 Published (Keith Elder)
- ReMIX Bling For My Blog (Philip Beadle)
- Snooze Chatty Twitter Friends (Gina Trapani)
SharePoint
- My Personal Web Part Project (Liam Cleary)
- Colleagues, Social Distance & Relevance in People Search, and other Social Networking tools in SharePoint (Mark Arend)
- New “stsadm -o updatealert” Command in the SharePoint Administration Kit (Mike Walsh)
- Some SP 2007 Books at Bargain Prices! (Mike Walsh)
SQL Server
- Testing for SQL Server Vulnerabilities (Denis Gobo)
PowerShell
- Windows PowerShell v2 CTP 2 (MS Downloads)
- Announcing the Release of Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) of Windows PowerShell v2 (Hemant Mahawar)
Miscellaneous
- I Am Not a Technical Writer (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Web Worker 101: Cashflow Management (Mike Gunderloy)
- Microsoft’s Cloud Jigsaw (Steve Clayton)
- Microsoft Pro Photo Tools (Mark Harrison)
- Neuron-ESB 2.0 Ships! (Brian Loesgen)
- Map Your Mind 2.0 (Rafe Needleman)
- Free Full Version of WinRAR 3.62 (Windows) (slickdeals) – I know some people prefer 7zip these days, but I’m still a WinRAR guy.
Link-O-Rama
- Interesting Finds: May 2, 2008 and Interesting Finds: May 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)
- Visual Studio Links #23 (Darren Stokes)
- Silverlight Cream for May 2, 2008 – #264 (Dave Campbell)
- New and Notable 236 (Sam Gentile)
- Interesting Finds: 2008.05.03 (gOODiDEA)
- Link Listing – May 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Book of the Day
Windows PowerShell in Action: Bruce Payette: Books