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.NET / Visual Studio

• Reflector.Babel Addin (Jason Haley)
• Remote Controlled lunaring with Arduino (Tim Farley)
• Coding 4 Fun – Windows 7 Taskbar (Arian T. Kulp)
• Generic Types and Inheritance (Rick Strahl)
• Unity Configuration from Separate Configuration File (David Hayden)
• MVP Launches Bing Sharp API (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Performance comparison of nHibernate and Entity Framework (Julie Lerman)
• Preventing debugger property evaluation for side-effect laden properties (James Gregory)
• .Net Framework 4.0: C# and optional arguments and named parameters (Gunnar Peipman)
• Determine if a point is contained within a polygon (Jason Young)
• T4 Tutorial: Generating Code from DSL Models (Oleg Sych) – Link of the Day

 

Web Development

• SketchFlow Prototypes embedded in DotNetNuke (Christian Schormann)
• Facebook + ASP.NET MVC (Robert Schultz)
• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Rendering the Chart (Scott Mitchell)
• Book review: ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development and REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC on the MSDN Library (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• jHtmlArea – Adding Custom Toolbar Buttons (Chris Pietschmann)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Which test runner are you using ? (Jamie Cansdale)
• Refactoring @ Scale (Brad Appleton)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 6. (Rajiv Popat)
• Refactoring Day 18 : Replace exception with conditional (Sean Chambers)
• 10 Tips on how to think like a designer…and tell stories (Steve Clayton)
• Falling into the How Trap (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns (Jan Van Ryswyck)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Effects in Blend and C# (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Ribbon Controls – Windows 7 or WPF or MFC based (Rob Relyea)
• WPF Wonders: Transformations (and Robots!) (Rod Stephens)
• Silverlight 3 – Dynamically Loading and Merging Resource Dictionary (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Implementing the Model View ViewModel pattern (Erwin Van Der Valk)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Doug Hauger: Inside the Windows Azure Platform Business Model (Charles Torre)
• NDC Video: Michael Feathers – Design Sense (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Ted Neward – WCF Patterns (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Michael Feathers – Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Jeremy D. Miller – Convention Over Configuration (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Michael Feathers – Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Robert Martin – Clean Code III – Functions (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Robert Martin – Component Principles (Roy Osherove)
• ToolShed Tooltip #21 – Developer Community Update By MVP Keith Kabza (Russell Fustino)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #136: Exploring NDJango: Forms and Extensions (Alex Pedenko)

 

Community / Events

• The Agile PMI Community of Practice (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Database

• Multiple database support with Entity Framework (Muhammad Mosa)
• Scripting All The Jobs On Your SQL Server Instance Into Separate Files By Using SMO (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Quiz #5: SANs, Sex, and Mirrors (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL Azure CTP 1 (Jim O’Neil)

Miscellaneous

• 26 Free Awesome Windows 7 Themes (Blake Handler)
• Introducing Small Basic (MS Downloads)
• The 3 Pillars Of Job Satisfaction (Alan Skorkin)
• Adobe Shortcut App Makes Finding Hotkeys Easier (The How-To Geek)
• The TechNet Script Center Gallery (Ed Wilson)
• Sky not falling after the latest Firefox 3.5.2 dust-up with .NET plug-in (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Pulling from github on Windows (Mark Needham)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Do You Matter? (Dave Burke)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #415 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2009 — #668 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 359 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 18th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Resources on Retrospectives and Studies on Effectiveness of TDD? (Brad Appleton)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

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