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Web Development

• How We Did It: Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (Dave Pae)
• Upgrading ASP.NET MVC to RC? Don’t Forget the Futures… (Shawn Wildermuth)
• jQuery Delete Link with Downlevel Support and ASP.NET MVC RC Refresh (Phil Haack)
• The ASP.NET Diet Part 1 – Making a Thin Contact Form (Chris Love)
• T4 Templates: A Quick-Start Guide for ASP.NET MVC Developers (Abhishek Mishra)
• Have You Tried Microformats? (Larry Clarkin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tip #44: Did You Know… How to View the Project File While Still in Visual Studio? (Nichole Baker)
• Reflector.Snippy Addin Updated (v0.9.3.0) (Jason Haley)
• Refactoring the Refactored Switch Statement (Sean Timm)
• Improvements and Changes to Oslo SDK and Repository in January CTP (Alex Thissen)
• Some Thoughts on Structuring Modeling Projects in Visual Studio Team Architect and Alternate Image in Diagrams (Clemens Reijnen)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #5 – Do I Weigh Too Much? (Eric Gunnerson)
• Confessions of a .NET Programmer (Stephen Forte)

Silverlight / WPF

• patterns & practices: Composite WPF and Silverlight – Release: Prism V2 – Drop 10 and WPF Toolkit – January 2009 Release (CodePlex)
• Silverlight 3 and 4 to ‘Open Up New Areas’ (Gavin Clarke)
• Using the WPF Web Browser Control in a ToolTip (Marlon Grech)
• Prism v2 – Drop 10 (Composite Application Guidance) (Erwin van der Valk)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Dependency Inversion Principle (Gabriel Schenker)
• Domain Modeling (Bill Gibson)
• We Don’t Have Requirements Yet, But How Long Will This Take You? (Bob McIlree) – Link of the Day
• "Quality Doesn’t Matter That Much" — Jeff and Joel (Uncle Bob Martin)

.NET Community / Events

• MIX09: Objectified Screening, Scott Guthrie Interview, and More (Mike Swanson)
• New Local Philadelphia Area Cloud Computing User Group – Come Learn About Azure (Dave Isbitski)
• Silverlight 3 at MIX 09 (G. Andrew Duthie)

PowerShell

• Updated Twitter PowerShell Script (Mike Ormond)
• Managing Windows Update with PowerShell (James O’Neill)

Miscellaneous

• IE8 – User Experience Changes Since Beta 2 (Paul Cutsinger & Jess Holbrook)
• Overview of Platform Improvements in IE8 RC1 (Marc Silbey)
• Windows 7 – Our Next Engineering Milestone (Steven Sinofski)
• Free 3-Way Diff / Merge Tool (David Vidmar)
• Benefits of Twitter (Rhonda Tipton)
• Oops: Google Marked Every Site as "Harmful" This Morning (Kevin Purdy)
• Ruby 1.9.1 Arrives (Nick Plante)

More Link Collections

• Visual Studio Links #105 (Darren Stokes)
• CloudNews for January 30th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for January 30, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for Januar 30, 2009 — #502 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 286 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Further Reading on IoC Containers (Mike Hadlow)
• Discoveries This Week 01/30/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Managed Preview Handlers (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Circumventing the KB957543 .NET 3.5 SP1 Regression Bug (Omer van Kloeten)
• F# and Haskell, Estranged Cousins (Rick Minerich)
• Programming Team Foundation Server with the TFS SDK (Joydip Kanjilal)
• MSTest ReSharper 4 Plugin (Shawn Neal)
• IronPython and CodeDOM: Dynamically Compiling C# Files (Harry Pierson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• It’s More Than Syntax (Peter Ritchie)
• Rules of the Road (Peter Provost)
• First -Scrum- Impressions (Laila Bougria)
• Flaccid Scrum (Martin Fowler)
• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 7 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• TDD: Test DRYness (Mark Needham)
• Leadership 101: Integrity Is a Coin You Can’t Afford to Spend (Jim Holmes)
• New Agile Videos on Channel 9 (Ade Miller)

Web Development

• Overriding Global T4 Templates in ASP.NET MVC Project with Per Project Templates (David Hayden)
• A Lesson in DRY Learned with jQuery (Chris Missal)
• Is Classic WebForms More Mature Than ASP.NET MVC? (Jeffrey Palermo) – Link of the Day
• Alternating Styles in DataView (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Form Validation with ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate (Maarten Balliauw)
• 30 Essential Controls (Theresa Neil) – Tools for RIA development
• ASP.NET MVC RC 1 Source Code and MVC Contrib – Release: 0.0.1.214 – RC Release for MVC RC1 (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases Word 2007 XAML Generator Add-In (Blake Handler)
• Caliburn V1 Roadmap (Rob Eisenberg)
• Custom Animations in Silverlight (Gozzo Smith)
• XamlCruncher for Silverlight (Charles Petzold)

.NET Community / Events

• My Favorite MIX09 10k Challenge Entries (Pete Brown)
• TCSWeekly Episode 003 – Silverlight, Moonlight, Kaxaml, Facebook, Multi-Touch (Adam Kinney)

Database

• Using SQL 2008 Table Valued Parameters in Microsoft Access (Stephen Forte)
• School of Wrox – Week of Warehousing (Free Webinar Series) (Jim Minatel)

Miscellaneous

• More Windows 7 Themes, and an Amazing List of Free Stuff from Microsoft (Paul Thurrott)
• How Does Your Programming Lanuage Rate? (Michael Ceranski)
• 50% off All Manning Books for DZone Members (Wei Ling Chen)
• RTFLF – Read the *Expletive* Log File (Scott Hanselman)
• Hardware Is Expensive, Programmers Are Cheap II (Michael Janke)
• My Current .NET Application and Tools Stack (Eric Hexter)
• Bring on the Programmer Apologists (Chris Brandsma)
• HD vs. SD – Flip MinoHD vs Flip Ultra – Head to Head (Scott Hanselman) – I don’t agree with all of Scott’s perceived negatives of the MinoHD, but it’s an interesting review/comparison.
• The Sad Tragedy of Micro-Optimization Theater (Jeff Atwood)
• Behind Cable’s DOCSIS 3.0 Broadband Claims (Eric Rabe)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: The Myths of Innovation (Dave Burke)
• Google’s GDrive Inches Closer to Becoming a Reality (Lee Matthews)
• Github: Making Code More Social (Brady Forrest)
• Live Search Add-In for Firefox Adds Auto-Suggest (Kip Kniskern)
• How to Get Chrome’s “New Tab” Page in Firefox (Philipp Lenssen)

More Link Collections

• CloudNews for January 29th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Tech Twitterings #13 (Elijah Manor)
• Catching Up on Some Blog Reading (Mike Taulty)
• Links (1/29/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight Cream for January 29, 2009 — #501 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #276 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 285 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: January 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development (3rd Edition): Craig Larman: Books

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Leadership 101: Open That Door! (Jim Holmes)
• Programming By Numbers (Justin Etheredge)
• My 2 Most Cherished Mistakes (Davy Brion)
• True Swiss Don’t Like Mocks! (Gabriel Schenker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #23: Functional Programming in C# with Oliver Sturm and #24: Chatting About F# with Chris Smith and Dustin Campbell (Keith Elder)
• Anonymous Methods, Lambdas, Confusion (Mike Taulty)
• Much Ado About Monads – Maybe Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Long Division (Eric Lippert)
• Installing Oslo SDK and Creating an Oslo Repository from Scratch (Alex Thissen)
• Using Fluent-NHibernate and Traditional .hbm.xml Files in the Same Project (Derik Whittaker)
• Managed Extensibility Framework Preview 4, a Grab Bag of Goodies (Glenn Block)
• LiveFX: Mesh and Live Framework Clients Can Now Run Side-by-Side (Jamie Thomson)

Silverlight / WPF

• A Comprehensive List to Silverlight Controls for Developers (Tim Heuer) – Link of the Day
• Interesting Silverlight Data Binding "Feature" (Rocky Lhotka)
• Life Changer XAML Tip for Visual Studio (Fabrice Marguerie)
• Live Framework SDK – Revised WPF Photo Sharing Application (Mike Taulty)
• Display Images from a Database in a Silverlight DataGrid Control (Suprotim Agarwal)

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.0: ViewStateMode… Giving You More Control Over ViewState! and ASP.NET 4.0: Page.Keywords and Page.Description Simple, but Useful! (Scott Galloway)
• 15+ Tips to Speed Up Your Website, and Optimize Your Code! (nettuts via G. Andrew Duthie)
• Azure Issue Tracker Available for Download! Learn Cloud Programming the Dev Way – Through Code. (Dave Isbitski)
• Building AgiliTrain: Part 1 – Why ASP.NET MVC (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC 1 and T4 Templates – Add Controller… (David Hayden)
• PHPLinq 0.4.0 Released on CodePlex! (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

• How to Make Sure That the View Will Have the Underlying Table Changes by Using sp_refreshview (Denis Gobo)
• Using Ruby with SQL Server (Michael Ceranski)

PowerShell

• PowerShell LINQ: Skip-While and PowerShell LINQ: Take-Count and Take-While (Jared Parsons)

.NET Community / Events

• CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, February 3rd, 6:30pm – Building Data Centric Web Applications Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Christopher Steen)

Miscellaneous

• The Ultimate Dogfooding Story (Jeff Atwood)
• Introducing Measurement Lab (Vint Cerf & Stephen Stuart)
• IE8 Accelerator for FriendFeed (Adam Kinney)
• How to Make Your Own Theme Pack for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Link Listing – January 27, 2009 and Link Listing – January 28, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: January 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for January 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for January 28, 2009 — #500 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #275 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for January 28th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

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