.NET / Visual Studio
- Charcoal Visual Studio Settings (Dave Donaldson)
- SSDS: Getting a List of Authorities in C# (Jamie Thomson)
- Microsoft Posts Touchless SDK on CodePlex (Jeffrey Schwartz)
- Frustration Friday – How NHibernate Can Waste Your Day (Casey Charlton)
Web Development
- A Guide to Learning ASP.NET MVC Beta 1 (Stephen Walther) – Link of the Day
- Silverlight 2 Interview on HerdingCode PodCast (Brad Abrams)
- Why the Web Application Installer Rocks (Rob Conery)
- WCF vs ASMX Web Services (Keith Elder)
- MVC Contrib – MvcContrib.org – Release: v0.0.1.168 for MVC Beta 1 (CodePlex)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Test Automation Brain Dump (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Transitioning from NAnt to Rake (Dave Laribee)
- MSTest 2008 Reports for CruiseControl.NET (Jonathan de Halleux)
- Architecture By Baseball: The General Manager (Larry Clarkin)
Database
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, October 2008 (MS Downloads)
- Scaling Out SQL Server Reporting Services (Joe Webb)
- Microsoft Sync Framework v1.0 (Joel Reyes)
Miscellaneous
- Google Chrome to Add Greasemonkey Support (Alex Chitu)
- PowerShell: Emit-XML (Jeffrey Snover)
Events / Community
- Re-cap of the Philly Code Camp (and My Code Sample) (Erik Peterson)
- Stack Overflow Search – Now 51% Less Crappy (Jeff Atwood)
- .NET Rocks! – Catching Up with Charles Petzold (Carl Franklin)
- Microsoft PDC to Feature Various Technologies (Paul Krill) – Most generic headline ever. I think you could reuse this for every tech conference.
- Not Going to PDC? You Won’t Miss Much! (Stephen Chapman)
- Omar Shahine on Growing Up with Microsoft (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
- Add "Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0" to Your PDC Schedule (Daniel Moth)
- The Next SharePoint Best Practices Conference Announced (Bill English)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 17, 2008 (Jason Haley)
- LINKBLOG for October 17, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
- Silverlight Cream for October 17, 2008 — #398 (Dave Campbell)
Book of the Day
User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Mike Cohn: Books