Top Links
- Microsoft to Acquire Skype (MS News)
- HTML5 Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Scott Guthrie)
- Resco releases full official version of MobileForms Toolkit 2011 for Android! (Resco)
- Come to the May LASLUG Meetup (LA Silverlight User Group) – Meeting on 5/25 in Culver City. Also available on LiveMeeting for those over 100 miles away. Victor Gaudioso and company are giving away over $12,000 in prizes to attendees.
- Runtime Intelligence for Windows Phone 7 Apps extended until further notice. (Gabriel Torok)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Remote Debugging in Visual Studio: Squashing Bugs in their Native Environment (Clive Tong)
- Coded UI Test (CUIT) using Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
- Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes: Low Latency Sound Effects (Mike Taulty)
- Using an IoC container to create WCF service instances (Pieter de Rycke)
- Code Metrics – Calculating Metrics (Zain Naboulsi)
- Optional argument corner cases, part one (Eric Lippert)
- JustDecompile – Free (well, reg-ware), for everyone, forever, stand-alone .Net Decompiler from Telerik (Greg Duncan)
- Bringing Windows Azure to more devices (Somasegar)
- NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS (Windows Azure Team)
- Xbox LIVE Indie Games: New Control Your Game Release Feature (XNA Team)
- Microsoft.Activities and Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting now available via NuGet (Ron Jacobs)
Web Development
- Building a relational data model in ASP.NET MVC 3 w/EF Code First (Rachel Appel)
- When you live on the bleeding edge, be prepared for a few nicks [Minor update to the Delay.Web.Helpers ASP.NET assembly download to avoid a NuGet packaging bug affecting Razor installs] (David Anson)
- Seriously WebForms like ASP.NET MVC (Deran Schilling)
- Compiling MVC Views In A Build Environment (Phil Haack)
- HTML 5: How to use the canvas (Sam)
- Using Session with in HTTPHandler (Abhijit Jana)
- Exposing WCF REST Service over HTTPS (Dhananjay Kumar)
- My thoughts on WebMatrix (Jef Claes)
- IE Pinned Sites Part 7: How to implement Thumbnail Toolbar Buttons (Jennifer Marsman)
- Getting Fiddler and the .NET Framework to Play (better) Together (Howard Dierking)
- May 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
- AsyncController v/s SessionLess Controller (Imran Baloch)
- Using NetAdvantage jQuery Grid in ASP.NET MVC (Murtaza Abdeali)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Why I Still Love CQRS (and Messaging and Event Sourcing) (Jonathan Oliver)
- Some Thoughts on Agile Planning (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Scrum vs Continuous Deployment or why Scrum falls short for web applications (Matthias Marschall)
- How to Create a Burndown Chart in Google Docs (David J. Bland)
- PMI Agile Certification – The Race is On (Peter Saddington)
- Request for feedback: The Soft Side of Software Engineering (Devon Musgrave)
- The Ubiquitous Object (S. Lott)
- Article:Threat Modeling Express (Sahba Kazerooni & Rohit Sethi)
- Using Kinect for NUI Part 5 – Multiuser Scenarios (Deborah Hanamura)
- Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Table Truncation Teardown (Giorgio Sironi)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Copying XAML from Expression Design to Expression Blend (Elliot Meacham)
- SilverWii – That is connecting a WiiMote to a Silverlight OOB app via NESL (Native Extensions For Microsoft Silverlight) (Greg Duncan)
- Microsoft Announces Windows Azure Toolkits for iOS, Android and Windows Phone (Jeffrey Meisner)
- Tips: Concatenating strings in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Using the Windows Phone Pivot Control (Paul Sheriff)
- Silverlight 5 Games: Best in Class (Sam)
- Telerik ToDoLists reference application (James Ashley)
- Hot and Cold Observables in Rx and Coming in Mango–Sql Server CE (Jesse Liberty)
- Analytics Show Developers Want More PreEmptive (Brandon Watson)
- Missing Method Exception w/ Caliburn.Micro when using INavigationService (Derik Whittaker)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- How Do I: Correctly Terminate Multithreaded .NET Compact Framework Applications? (MS Podcasts)
- Defrag 005 – Sound card malfunction, App restrictions, Remote Access (Larry Larsen)
- Ping 100: HaloFest, Kinect you in Carbonite, Talking to the wall, Ping celebrates 100! (Laura Foy)
- Pluralcast 41 : Tiberiu Covaci on Asynchronous ASP.NET (David Starr)
- Talking Shop Down Under Episode 54 – BDDify and Mehdi Khalili (Richard Banks)
- Yet Another Podcast #34–MVC3 & NuGet (Jesse Liberty)
- Podcast- Jorge Gabuardi Gonzalez (Joe Stagner)
Community / Events
- Events This Week – May 9th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Presenting a Free Webinar w/ SharePoint Videos–Augmenting SPD2010 Workflows with VS2010 (Andrew Connell)
- Thoughts from ALT.NET Seattle (Ade Miller)
- US Kids – Remember to submit your game design to Kodu Cup! (Bradley G.)
- Microsoft slates ‘Mango’ VIP unveiling for May 24 in New York (Mary Jo Foley)
- Nate Muller: Microsoft’s Master Brewer (Microsoft JobsBlog
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Database
- SQL SERVER – Common Table Expression (CTE) and Few Observation and SQL SERVER – Resource Database ID – 32767 (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Server DBA Tip 10 – SQL Server Reporting – Offload the reporting factor (Ted Krueger)
- Making our MongoDB Code Run Faster (Karl Seguin)
- TSQL-Tuesday # 18: Using a Recursive CTE to Create a Calendar Table (Joe Casella)
SharePoint
- MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Office 365 – Enhance Productivity through SharePoint Online & Exchange Online (Lonnie Webb)
Miscellaneous
- Back to the Past: Bill Buxton Shows Off 35 Years of Tech Devices (MS News)
- Using WinDbg to inspect native dump files (Björn Carlsson)
- Coming Soon to MSDN Subscribers! (Mark Curphey)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Daily WP7 Development News May 9th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Silverlight Cream for May 09, 2011 — #1086 (Dave Campbell)
- The Morning Brew #848 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 05/09/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)
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