Yes - the link blog has been quiet lately, but we're back with a vengeance, and a different style...

Jeremy Miller, in TDD Design Starter Kit - State vs. Interaction Testing, shows us how to write a C# class with no regard for unit testing, and then how to go back and design the same class for testability. Along the same lines, Roy Osherove has slides and sample code available for his latest presentation on “Testing Legacy Code”. The sample code demonstrates a number of useful refactoring strategies to make legacy code testable.

Rick Strahl has been kicking out some killer ASP.NET 2.0 posts lately, including “ASP.NET projects aren’t ‘real’ projects in VS.NET 2005”, “Script Callbacks in ASP.NET 2.0 – interesting, but lacking”, and “Adding default Namespaces and Control libraries in ASP.NET 2.0 with web.config”.

There is a new episode of MSDN TV available: Report Authoring Tips & Tricks with Brian Welcker. Of course the huge news this week for Reporting Services was that SSRS will be available in ALL SQL Server 2005 editions, including Express, and the Report Builder (an ad-hoc tool for end users), will be available in Standard and Workgroup editions (it was previously going to only be available in the pricier Enterprise edition). Wow!

• Roy Osherove: Test Coverage and testing angles
• Scott C. Reynolds: The Growth of the Corporate Software Developer Part III – Knowledge
• Jeffrey Palermo: Trying out the Model-View-Presenter pattern - level 300
• Brandon Paddock: Good Microsoft, Bad Microsoft
• Larry Osterman: What is a BUGBUG?
• Brendan Tompkins: Applying Behavior Analysis Theory to the Software Industry
• Jeffrey Palermo (again) : General application architecture revisited - level 400

• Jeff Atwood: Necessity.
• Drew Marsh: Thoughts on AJAX.
• Ben Reichelt: Hacking __doPostBack.
• Shawn Farkas: Safe Impersonation With Whidbey.
• Adi Oltean: Why Java VMs do not have a Pre-JIT feature?
• Adam Machanic's point is: you still can't access data without using T-SQL.

• Mark Miller has a new source code metric.
• Jason Bently: Server Control Development Tip #1.
• Mike Stall: Caveats about System.Diagnostics.StackTrace.
• Roman Rehak: Compressing Virtual PC files.
• Chris Webb rants about Reporting Services and Analysis Services.
• Mark Treadwell: How To Understate An Airbus Accident.
• Scott Mitchell: Don't forget to run the Install Services script after installing Enterprise Library.

• Larry Osterman: Concurrency and the CLR.
• The ieBlog tells the tale of an HTTP Detective Story.
• Adam Machanic sees a downward trend in data quality.
• Eric Sink's latest source control HOWTO: Branches.
• Mike Robert's: How To Setup A .NET Development Tree.
• Microsoft Analysis Services widens the lead in OLAP market share.
• Nick points to some posts with insight on how Borland copes in the Microsoft ecosystem.
• STA console applications may have garbage collection problems when COM interop is in play.
• Mosha talks about a free thin client for Analysis Services (with code!).

• Cathi Gero presents a DataAdapter for CSV files.
• Tom Rizzo talks about the new edition of SQL Server 2000.
• Mike Roberts: Goodbye Web Forms (via Jason Bock).
• Jeffrey Palermo presents reasons to avoid the GAC.
• Richard Hundhasen has an extensive list of O/R Mappers.
• Brendan Tompkins: A Better ASP.NET State Pattern.
• Walt Ritscher likes the Foxit PDF Reader as a replacement for Adobe.