This is is my weekly link post.  It is here that I note the web sites and posts that I have run across that interest me – whether it be related to work or play.

Application Development/Design

• Scott Hanselman has posted a great article titled Back to Basics – Life After If, For and Switch – Like, a Data Structures Reminder.
• Timm Martin talks in depth about the C# Empty Enumerator.
• Mohammad Azam shows us how to Dynamically Assign Parameters to SQLDataSource.
• Matt Berseth has created an outstanding site for his ASP.NET Demo Gallery. I agree with Steve Pietrek, there is some awesome stuff here.
• Lars Corneliussen has posted a great article on the yield keyword titled Behind the scenes of the C# yield keyword.
• Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 28.
• Mohammad Azam has posted a great article on Creating Code Documentation Using XML Comments and XSLT.
• Shahed Khan talks about the automatic property in the post C# 3.0 tips, Automatic Property.
• Scott Mitchell has published Two New Master Page Tutorials.
• Tutorial Video(s): Creating Snippets in Visual Studio. 
• Article(s) from Code project: Understanding .NET Delegates and Events, By Practice ~ 
• Snippet(s): none  
• Tip(s): Increase your VS environment fonts for presentations ~ VS has a file window layout mode that you can customize ~ Set a breakpoint on a function from the Find Combo Box ~ Insert a snippet via “tab tab”

SQL Server & PowerShell

• Kenneth Downs talks about the numerous uses of the data dictionary in his post Using a Data Dictionary.
• Jason Massie gives a great review of Quest PowerGUI.
• Brent Ozar talks about his Webcasts on clustered indexes, defrags, SQL consolidation.
• Snippet(s):  Get days in a month

 Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

• Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.

Internet, Software and General Technology

• Found a great article on FreelanceSwitch that lists some Killer Tools to Get The Most Out of Your USB Thumb Drive.
• Jet Brains has released ReSharper 4.0 GA.
• The Google Docs Blog announces PDF support in Google Docs in the article Upload your PDFs!.
• Digital Streets shows us How to Concatenate Text in a Spreadsheet.

Blogging and Social Networking

• Dustin Wax gives advice on How to Write in 140 Characters or Less.   

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Jason Young has posted a wonderful article titled What a developer needs from their manager. I agree with each and every point.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Good update on New Horizons from Space.com.  
• Movie Trailers:  Death Race ~ The X-Files: I Want To Believe ~ Babylon AD   
• Funny Dilberts this week: 6/15 

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Great Link Blog Sources

• Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
• Steve Pietrek – Links
• Arjan Zuidhof – LinkBlog
• Christopher Steen – Link Listing
• Matt Hinze – Links Today
• Mike Gunderloy – Double-Shot
• David Vidmar – Links of the week
• Matt Goyer – Links
• Sam Gentile – New and Notable
• Chihn Do – Finds of the Week
• Craig Bailey – On Microsoft
• Alvin Ashcraft – Daily Links
• Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
• Darren Stokes – Visual Studio Links
• Chris Love – Links of the Week
• Scott Koon – Links
• Michael Koby – Daily Links
• Dilip Krishnan – Weekly SOA/MS Crumbs

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Happy Surfing.