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Top Links

• TWC9: 2009 – The Year in Review (Dan Fernandez) – The Channel 9 crew wraps up the series for 2009.
• Azure Blob Storage plugin for Windows Live Writer now available (James Clarke) – A cool new plugin for WLW.
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK v1.0 Released (Service Bus and Access Control) (Greg Duncan) – Greg spots the v1.0 SDK release on MS Downloads.
• ASP.NET MVC 2 and Visual Studio 2010 (Phil Haack) – Phil gives an update on MVC v2 following the announcement of the delay of VS2010 and its upcoming RC release.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Dminor (MS Research)
• An RSS Dashboard in F#, part two (IObservables) (Brian McNamara)
• Visual Studio 2008 Server Explorer Missing… (Doug Holland)
• WCF RIA Service – How to configure the WCF Service maximum items returned by the Query (Fredrik Normén)
• OR-ing criteria with NHibernate, or “How to include it all” (Kyle Baley)
• Securing WCF REST Service using Windows Authentication (Mahesh Sabnis)
• When using LINQ don’t forget about deferred execution (Mark Meyerovich)
• What’s A PkgDef? And Why? (Bill Weinberger)
• F#: The use keyword and using function and F#: Word Count – A Somewhat Failed Attempt and F#: Word Count using a Dictionary (Mark Needham)
• Another Cool Resharper Refactoring (Peter Kellner)
• The Sieve of Eratosthenes and F# (Scott Seely)
• Visual Studio Code Formatting (Steve Andrews)
• Enabling Logging In Your Agatha Service Layer and Agatha 1.0 (Davy Brion)

 

Web Development

• Adding a bit of Spark to Nerd Dinner and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine Pt2 [Extending ASP.NET MVC - Replacing the View Engine Pt2] and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine Part 1 [Extending ASP.NET MVC - Replacing the View Engine Part 1] (Mike Ormond)
• want brevity in .net mvc code? switch to f#. (Alex Pedenko)
• JavaScript Part 5 – The Client Side (Leon Gersing)
• .closest(Array) in jQuery 1.4 (John Resig)
• Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part I (Harish Ranganathan)
• Google Sites Data API Prototype (Kris Gray)
• Extreme Web UI Scalability – Part 2 (Jonathan Oliver)
• Passing anonymous objects to MVC views and accessing them using dynamic (David Ebbo)
• Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information? (Anh Phan)
• SmtpClient and Locked File Attachments (Rick Strahl)
• What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS (Tim Wright)
• Using conventions with Passive View (Mark Nijhof)
• OData gunning for ubiquity across Microsoft products (Jamie Thomson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practices of an Agile Developer (Chris Missal)
• Effectus: Building UI based on conventions and Effectus: Fatten your infrastructure (Oren Eini)
• Open Source Licensing, Copyright Notices, Contributions: What To Do? (Davy Brion)
• Agile Tenet #2 – Welcome Changing Requirements (Julie Stickler)
• Pex 0.20.v0.20.41218.2: Beavers, new Event View and bugs fixes (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 12 & 13 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• If Value is the Problem, What Can I Do About It? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Leadership Tip: The Best Management Is Management You Cannot See. and Career Tip: Focus On Being A Happy Hedgehog Over The Long Term. (Rajiv Popat)
• The Polyglot Tester (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Advanced Unity: Connecting Implementations to Open Generic Types (Jarod Ferguson)
• Coding: An outside in observation (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• HVP – Core Scaffolding and Updated News (Jesse Liberty)
• The Completion of the 31 Days of Silverlight and Day #20: Adding Audio to Silverlight Events (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Architecting SL4 Applications with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM – Part 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• View-the-box (Rudi Grobler)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 135: Sleeping With Scissors (Paul Thurrott)
• Entity Framework Unit Testing with TypeMock Isolator (Muhammad Mosa)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 017 – Behavior Driven Development (Eric Nelson)
• Wes Dyer: Controlling Concurrency in Rx (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Silverlight 4 tutorial : adding avatar support to the business template (David Rousset)
• Major Nelson Show 344: VGA’s, GH Van Halen, Borderlands and Splinter Cell Conviction (Larry Hyrb)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Coding 4 Fun (Nic Fillingham)
• Codecast interviews about the Editor and Extensibility (Quan To)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Migrating to SQL Server from Other Database Products and SQLAuthority News – Migrating DTS Packages to Integration Services (Pinal Dave)
• AdventureWorks Community Sample Databases available for SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)
• XBoxGames Databases for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: SharePoint Administrator’s and Developer’s Guide to Code Access Security (Andrew Connell)
• My First SharePoint 2010 feature! Adding jQuery… (Wesley Bakker)
• Visualizing Data using XSLT: Following up on SPC 2009’s session on Building SharePoint Mashups With SPD, Bing Maps and REST Services (Doreen Grieb)

 

Miscellaneous

• Diagram of Geek Culture (Ibrahim Evsan)
• Looking for that perfect icon? Search a repository of 125,723 or easily browsing 331 icon sets at Icon Finder (Greg Duncan)
• Trying MonoDevelop On OS X, Part Two (Davy Brion)
• Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 GM Versions (PSN Editorial Staff)
• Readable Regular Expressions Revisited (Joshua Flanagan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 19, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 17, 2009 — #758 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for December 19, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links #84 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.15 ~ 12.20 (yuanjian)
• Interesting Post… 12/13/2009 through 12/20/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (12/20/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• So you want to write a Storage Engine… (Paul S. Randal)
• Holiday Reading: Free eBooks and Good Blogs (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Not another NDepend review, link roundup (Peter Eysermans)

 

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