Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows)

First new and notable with the new Graffiti blog.

WCF/Cloud Services

• Aaron has his latest in his series of WCF screencasts, this time showing how to host WCF services within traditional Windows services
• Aaron also has a geekSpeak webcast on Cloud Services today

Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008

• According to this post, you may start downloading the SP2 Beta for Vista and Win2K8 today if you are either an MSDN or TechNet subscriber

ASP.NET/ASP.NET Dynamic Data/ASP.NET MVC/ASP.NET AJAX/Silverlight

• ScottGu has his latest of super link posts on all the above

Enterprise Architecture

• The latest Carnival of Enterprise Architecture is out

Tools

• Brad Wilson has released xUnit.net 1.1 which has some breaking changes so check them out
• Blaine has posted about the road map for the next version of the Web Client Software Factory, which is slated for the VS2010 timeframe

CLR

• Maoni has the scoop of what's new in the CLR 4.0 GC