I like contractual programming. Spec# is an attempt to introduce it into C#.

50 silverlight samples

Quoted: It's great to see so many Silverlight-based widgets, samples, demos and applications appearing out there. I spent a happy hour this morning searching around the Internet for examples and samples, and thought I'd aggregate the fruits of my research below.

This is a great book of anecdotes and miscellaneous info about the development of Windows. Both interesting and useful/practical. Lots of insight on the decisions behind the design and why those "crazy" features everybody loves to criticize actually make some sense.

My favorite anecdote is that back in the 90s the Microsoft network produced packets at a much higher rate than the standard network stress testing app at the time. The app was called "hell" so his tiny section on this is called "The Microsoft corporate network: 1.7 times worse than hell".

Quoted: The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows

Tons and tons of multimedia about MS developments of various sorts. A bit of everything.

Video of first talk on Orcas, the next version of Visual Studio. Looks pretty cool. Really heavy emphasis on web development - CSS, AJAX, etc. with much improved UI for all this.

Pretty interesting video on using an analog input board to control WPF via analog controls (rotary knob, slider, photosensitive cell). The Phidget device looks pretty interesting in and of itself. I'll have to take a peek at it.

Quoted: theWPFblog.com is a resource devoted to providing insight and tutorials on WPF from the perspective of a Flash developer.

Interesting new products. They aren't available in the company store yet. I've heard that at least some of their functionality will be part of Orcas for editing XAML. Cool!
Wow - I just downloaded the Blend trial and it's a kind of crazy blend between Macromedia Director and Visual Studio. It's essentially a very cool XAML editor complete with the C# (or whatever language) code behind. I'm psyched!