My blog reader’s bursting at the seams so I thought I’d try and play catch-up this morning – not quite down to a 0 inbox but not a bad effort. Here are a few things that grabbed me:

ASP.NET Related

• WebForms aren’t dead – Dave Sussman has his say on Web Forms vs MVC
• ASP.NET MVC 2 – A few posts by ScottGu on the next release of ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET MVC 2- Strongly Typed Html Helpers
• ASP.NET MVC 2- Model Validation
• Server-side resizing with WPF- now with JPG – Bertrand Le Roy revisits thumbnail image generation

Office Related

• VSTO Performance- Delay Loading and You (Stephen Peters) – Enabling lazy-loading of your add-in
• VSTO 2010 Runtime components explained (Aaron Cathcart) - Changes to the VSTO 2010 runtime

Silverlight Related

• Silverlight TV – Perspectives on Flash and Silverlight (via Adam Kinney)
• Flash to Silverlight Guide – Graphics, Images and Display List – Project Rosetta updated
• Image Blitting in Silverlight with WriteableBitmapEx – nice image effects in Silverlight

Web & IE Related

• IE Cumulative Security Update Now Available – install it asap
• HTML5 does databases – Pablo Castro talks about the database in the browser

Azure Related

• Colleague Eric Nelson has recently published a bunch of informative posts on practical aspects of Windows Azure
• Step by Step sign up for the 25 hour free Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special
• Step by Step sign up for the MSDN Subscriber offer for the Windows Azure Platform
• QandA- When do I get charged for compute hours on Windows Azure
• QandA- How do you avoid being charged unnecessarily for Windows Azure compute hours

Other Stuff

• What We Saw at CES- The Musical – Brilliant video of CES set to music (via Raymond Chen)
• 11 Most Painfully Obvious Newspaper Articles Ever – ties in well with my current news theme (also via Raymond Chen)
• How do I minimize a group of windows in Windows 7 from the taskbar – nice little tip for the taskbar
• T4MVC in MSDN Magazine – K.Scott Allen talks T4 templates for ASP.NET MVC in MSDN Magazine