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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Documenting Your SharePoint Application Design – Part 2, The Process (Rob Foster)
• Discussion: OO 101 Solutions and the Open Close Principle at the Architecture Level (Oren Eini)
• The Injected Context (Jarod Ferguson)
• Teaching Someone to Test Using an Isolation Framework (Derik Whittaker)

Web Development

• Emulating Classical Inheritance in JavaScript Destroys the Purity of the Language (Brian Reindel)
• A Web Developer’s Responsibility (John Resig)
• jQuery Character Table (Sergio Pereira)
• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 2) – ASP.NET MVC vs. ASP.NET Web Forms (Nick Berardi)
• The Benefit of Writing Mapping Files by Hand (Anne Epstein)
• Using ASP.NET and jQuery to Highlight a Row in GridView without a PostBack (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Looking at Oxite the "Glass Half-Full" Way (Simone Chiaretta)
• jQuery – Loading Partial Content (Dave M. Bush)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• GUI Toolkits and Does the .NET Community Need an Eclipse? (Andrew Stopford)
• Using T4 Templates with GDR Database Projects (Patrick Sirr)
• VS 2010 for Web Developer Previews (Vishal R. Joshi)
• MSchema: An Example – Part 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Building IronRuby with Mono (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Oslo == 42 (Erik Wynne Stepp) – Link of the Day
• Introducing the New Task Type (Daniel Moth)
• Read and Use FM Radio (or Any Other USB HID Device) from C# (Tamir Khason)
• EF Designer Bug Workaround for 0..1 Associations to Derived Types (Error Code 3034) (Julie Lerman)

Silverlight

• HyperVideo Continuing the Dialog and HyperVideo – Getting Started (Jesse Liberty)

PowerShell

• PowerShell ISE Can Do a Lot More Than You Think and My PowerShell_ISE Profile (Jeffrey Snover)
• PowerShell 2 CTP3 – Custom Accelerators, Finally! (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Surprises in the Windows 7 License Agreement (Ed Bott)
• Convert PDF to Word for Free (Manish Agrawal)
• Software as a Service Is a Matter of Trust (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft Forum – Creating a New Community Anti-Pattern (Colin Jack)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #253 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 30, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Tech Twitterings #9 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: December 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 30, 2008 — #471 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for December 30th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• MSchema: An Example – Part 1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Array Slicing Extension Method (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)

Silverlight / WPF

• Exploring a Model-View-ViewModel Application; WPF Password Manager, Cipher Text (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight ToolTips – Positioning and Customizing (Corey Schuman)
• Security and Silverlight (John Papa)

Web Development

• What Would You Choose for New .NET Web Development? (Davy Brion)
• Windows Azure – Final Updates to PhotoStore App! (David L.)
• Understanding the jQuery Object Returned from a jQuery Selector Query (Rick Strahl) – Link of the Day
• My Baseline ASP.NET MVC Modifications (Oren Eini)
• Interesting Use of XML Literals as a View Engine (Phil Haack)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Architecting for Green Computing (Abel Avram)
• Hard Work and Practice in Programming (Tim O’Reilly)
• Do Not Put Presentation Concerns in the Controllers! and Architecture Advice: Scale the Architecture to Fit the Application (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Retro Gaming at Its Best (Eric Gunnerson) – Miner 2049er was my favorite game on the Atari 5200 and Atari 800.
• Revisiting the Daily Reputation Cap and Programming: Love It or Leave It (Jeff Atwood)
• Finding a Good Cheap Home for Side Projects with Unfuddle (Russell Ball)
• Windows 7 Beta: Notes and Observations (Paul Thurrott)
• I Love to Code (Phil Haack)

More Link Collections

• Weekly Links #33 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #252 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 29, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Most Popular Posts of 2008 (Ade Miller)
• Visual Studio Links #93 (Darren Stokes)
• Links of the Week #65 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: December 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for December 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2008 — #470 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for December 29th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Container-Managed Application Design, Prelude: Where Does the Container Belong? (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Unit Testing in Silverlight Land with Typemock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
• Learning Culture and Nothing Fails Like Success – Why Continuous Improvement Is Continuous (Scott Bellware)
• SOA Principles of Service Design (Colin Jack)
• Thinking Only of the Junior Developer (Chris Brandsma) – Link of the Day
• Junior vs Senior Developers? (Davy Brion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Closures to Simplify Asynchronous Programming and Caution When Eager Loading in the Entity Framework (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What Is Microsoft Waiting for Providing a Descent Path API? (Patrick Smacchia)
• Tired of Working with Big Visual Studio Solutions? (Davy Brion)
• Fixing the VS2010 CTP Expiration Problem (Darren Stokes)

Web Development

• New Features in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (Simone Chiaretta)
• ViewData Mechanics and Segmentation (Excerpt from ASP.NET MVC in Action) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• When Is a ASP.NET Project Not an MVC Project (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Reverse Engineering the WMD Editor (Jeff Atwood)
• Page Design with CSS Using Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• Accessible News Slider Plugin for jQuery Is Making a Comeback (Brian Reindel)
• New Sueetie Wiki Setup Doc Roundup (Dave Burke)
• Windows Azure – End to End App Dev Journal (David L.)

.NET Community

• Elegant Code Cast 18 – Chris Tavares on EntLib, Unity and More (David Starr)
• Xmas Present from DZone: My First Article Resyndicated to DZone .NET Zone (Simone Chiaretta)
• DZone Syndicates Top .NET Articles and My Interview on High on Coding About ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Miscellaneous

• WordPress 2.8 Survey: What Do You Want in the Next Version of WordPress? (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Extract an msi Before Installing It. (Like the ASP.NET MVC RC msi) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• My Software Is Being Pirated (Jeff Atwood)
• My Bests of 2008 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Small Basic: Tetris – Sample of the Week (Vijay)
• SQL Server Management Studio Startup Options (Richard Carr)
• Windows 7 Beta Review (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Triple Shot Links #13 (Russell Ball)
• Silverlight Cream for December 26, 2008 — #467 and Silverlight Cream for December 27, 2008 — #468 and Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2008 — #469 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: December 27, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• My Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2008 and Weekly Link Post 74 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (12/28/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• 40+ JavaScript and jQuery Resources That Will Make You a Better Web Developer (Brian Reindel)
• LINKBLOG for December 27, 2008 and LINKBLOG for December 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

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Silverlight

• Custom VSM VisualStateManagers in Silverlight 2.0 (Justin Angel)
• Passing Parameters Into Silverlight Applications (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to Debug Crashes and Hangs (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

• Some Interesting Things I Am Finding About Windows Azure and ASP.NET Podcast Show #133 – Windows Azure Table Storage – Video (Wallace B. McClure)
• Using JsonResult in ASP.NET MVC AJAX (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• SharePoint in 2008 – An Interesting Road (Woody Windischman)
• Sueetie – Release: Sueetie Community Site Project Source and DIFFs (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Don’t Mess With the Bloggers (Justin Etheredge)
• Windows 7 Beta Screenshots (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Discoveries This Week 12/26/08 (Rick Minerich)
• Interesting Finds: December 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• WSDAC#29 – Database Sharding Primer and WSOAC#41 – SoaML and SOA Adoption and WMOC#29 – Getting Started with Windows Azure (Dilip Krishnan)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 4 (Denis Gobo)

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Merry Christmas to everyone!

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting App Arch Guide Knowledge in VSTS2010 – Part 3 – Create Diagrams from Code (Clemens Reijnen)
• IronPython for the Daily Grind (TFS Sample Included!) (JP. Hamilton)
• Working with Inheritance in ADO.NET Data Services (Phani Raj)
• Using ExportProvider to Customize Container Behavior Part I (Glenn Block)
• Language Envy – Episode 0 (Sergio Pereira)
• 10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010 (Jason Olson)
• Capturing and Streaming Sound by Using DirectSound with C# (Tamir Khason)

Web Development

• View, Models and ViewModels – Part 1 (Javier G. Lozano)
• Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design (Maarten Balliauw)
• DosPecesCreations: Some Initial Thoughts on Building My First Rails App (Russell Ball)
• Using ASP.NET and jQuery to Pass Multiple Values from a GridView to Another Page (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Apply ASP.NET Authentication and Authorization Rules to Static Content with IIS 7.0’s Integrated Pipeline Feature (Scott Mitchell)
• DotNetNuke – Release: 05.00.00 (CodePlex)
• Wrox Blox Merry Christmas: New Features in ASP.NET SP1 (Jim Minatel)
• How to Call Controllers in External Assemblies in an ASP.NET MVC Application (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Craftsmanship, Part 1 (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• Pragmatic Version Control Using Git Book Review (Mike Riley)
• NH Prof Deep Dive: Applying the Open Close Principle at the Architecture Level and NH Prof Deep Dive: Implemented the Unbounded Result Set Warning (Oren Eini)
• Many-to-Many Relationships with Data Attached in NHibernate (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight

• …Any Suggestions for Learning [Silverlight]? (Dave Campbell)

PowerShell

• Early Christmas Present from PowerShell Team: Community Technology Preview-3 (CTP3) of Windows PowerShell V2 (Hemant Mahawar)
• PowerShell V2: ParameterSets (Jeffrey Snover)
• Windows PowerShell CTP2 to CTP3 Conversion Guide and Dreaming in PowerShell V2 : Lottery Numbers with Get-Random and Write-CommandBlogPost and PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Get-Font and PowerShell + XNA: New-SpriteFont and Merry Christmas from PowerShell: The CodeDownloader Module (James Brundage)
• PowerShell 2 CTP3 – First Impressions and PoshCode Updated for CTP3 (Joel Bennett)
• Unique Lottery Numbers with Advanced Array Functionality (Dr. Tobias Weltner)
• Configuring PowerShell for Remoting – Part 1 (Krishna Vutukuri)

Miscellaneous

• Interesting Collaboration Tool to Check Out (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Best of 2008: 5 Most Popular Posts (Dave Ward)
• 12 Warmup Exercises Before CES 2009 (Toon, Lydon, & Norman)
• CloudNews for December 22nd, 2008 and CloudNews for December 23rd, 2008 (Sameer & Mayank Gupta)
• Free Version 4.0 of Yugma Online Conferencing App Is Here (Samuel Dean)
• Top 10 MediaShifting Stories of 2008 (Mark Glaser)
• 10 Programming Languages Worth Exploring (Steve Rowe)
• Windows Azure Q&A with Amitabh Srivastava (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for December 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #251 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #92 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: December 24, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 25, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 24, 2008 — #466 (Dave Campbell)

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