And that's it, summer is over. ASP.NET MVC ScottGu returns with ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios Jeff Palermo has published another excerpt from his upcoming  ASP.NET MVC in Action book, this time the Basics of MVC Routes LINQ K. Scott Allen on Stupid LINQ Tricks ALT Languages F# Releases September CTP! ESB/WCF/WF Really excited to see Part 4 of Jesse's ESB series . Not only is Jesse doing a great job of teaching you about ESBs, but he is implementing one in WCF Calling

Agile/Software Development/ALT.NET The Art of Agile Development: Collective Code Ownership Raymond provides an entry into lean methodologies Jeffery was on the Software Quality Isn't Optional panel and the video is available The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool . You can get it from here . Another e-book called Data Structures and Algorithms by Granville Barnett and Luca Del Tongo and is hosted on DotNetSlackers .  The book is a free PDF download.

A quick one while I am on vacation. .NET 3.5 SP1 Mr. Hanselman has come out with the mother of all .NET 3.5 SP1 posts with Hidden Gems - Not the same old 3.5 SP1 post , which includes coverage of all the areas including my WCF changes . Announcing Entity Framework & ADO.NET Data Services RTM! Orcas SP1 Improvement: Asynchronous WCF HTTP Module/Handler for IIS7 for Better Server Scalability WCF Request Throttling and Server Scalability IronRuby/Ruby Part 7 of Justin's outstanding Learning

Of course, this is so much more than a Service Pack with the release now of ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and the Entity Framework among others. In my area of interest, CSD, there are some significant changes for REST programming (1st class citizen now) as well as some other additions: There were several enhancements to WCF in .NET Framework SP1 that make it easier for developers to build and deploy a broader, more scalable set of Web Services: Improvements in writing REST based services ranging

I have been real busy, among other things, doing a full review and change cycle on my Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture talk that I am doing tonight . The entire deck has changed. There has been even more strides towards full asynchronous messaging. To that end, I have worked with the CSD folks to truly understand the behavior of the One Way messaging and its implications on blocking/asynchronous behavior. I will present those findings tonight. Silverlight My friend Ambrose , and

WF/CSD WF can be a tricky thing. As Cliff blogs , the CSD folks have added two great prescriptive guidance articles for WF to the MSDN Online Library : an article by Jon Flanders to help choose between sequential workflows and state machines, and a major article by Michele Leroux Bustamante explaining the five most common WF deployment scenarios. Read Cliff's blog for more details and the links. Silverlight New Silverlight 2.0 series on Concepts to Become a Silverlight Master - Part 1 .NET/C#

.NET/C#/Functional Programming The very useful CR_Documentor 2.0 has been released with Sandcastle Preview and is now open source code Mathew has a boatload of links, resources, slide deck and code in Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code Video: Meet the C# Design Team with Anders Hejlsberg - they discuss 4.0 Back To Basics - Everyone Remember Where We Parked (that memory)! WCF/MSMQ Nice follow-up to Tom's  Building a publish/subscribe message bus using WCF and MSMQ

Its about time to clear out the backlog. CLR/.NET/Visual Studio/TDD/ALT.NET Jeremy has a nice piece here, Before you use an IoC tool, some concepts to know first Favorite Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Shortcuts (Corey Schuman) [via Alvin ] MbUnit in Visual Studio Team System 2008   and   MbUnit v3 Beta 3 Updates (Andrew Stopford) [via Alvin ] Castle Visual Studio Integration 0.3 Released Tree Surgeon 2.0 Released Microsoft StyleCop, Totalitarian Rules Composite Application Guidance for WPF

BizTalk/WCF/SOA Steve Maines talks about the changes in WCF/WF with .NET 3.5 SP1 Jean-Paul Smit has released a Biztalk Solution Factory on Codeplex . His post about it is here . [ via Santosh – read his post ] Microsoft has a new whitepaper "Integrating Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with the Windows Communication Foundation" on one of the adapter web pages at   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/bb545017.aspx , as well as part of the MSDN library at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627292.aspx

Enjoying cup of Starbucks and Deep Purple Live in Stockholm 1970 (via Zune marketplace). WCF/WF My good friend Marjan has worked hard with us Influencers (I wish I wasn’t so busy) to come up with a stellar bunch of Webcasts! Must see! One of the key things we are “influencing” is Oslo. We have not been able to say really anything up to this point, but as my Neudesic colleague Brian notes , the first public announcement was made at TechEd of a CTP of *some* of the Oslo stuff pre-PDC