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Top Links

• What’s the difference between a destructor and a finalizer? (Eric Lippert)
• New SL4 Feature: Commanding (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Server-side resizing with WPF: now with JPG (Bertrand Le Roy)
• 18 Questions to ask yourself when choosing continuous integration and build automation tools (Roy Osherove)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• RTM’d today: CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Using Repository Pattern with Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• Tips and Tricks: Ctrl+E to Search in New Project Dialog and Extension Manager (Weston Hutchins)
• IntelliSense Suggestion Mode — vstipEdit0012 (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

ASP.NET: Aligning Text (Deborah Kurata)

Unwinding the page lifecycle events (Joe Stagner)

Using jQuery to check all CheckBoxes in an iframe (Sam Tyson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Good Programming Practices And New Year’s Resolutions (Justin Etheredge)
• Flag Parameters are Evil! (Or at least unclear) (Jim Holmes)
• My 3 part series on Agile Program Management on Port 25 (Sara Ford)
• Rejecting Dependency Injection Inversion (Oren Eini)
• Advanced StructureMap: Diagnosing problems (Jimmy Bogard)
• Constructor over-injection smell – follow up (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and Drupal and Open Source Silverlight video players (Corey Schuman)
• PDF for Silverlight Preview (Koen Zwikstra)
• Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 5 of X – New Repository implementation (Fredrik Normen)
• Silverlight 4 – Writing a Windows-Only Application via COM Interop? (Mike Taulty)
• XamlPadSample Step 1b-fullscreen and XamlNodeLoop Sample – changing Name to x:Name during Save (Rob Relyea)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – My .NET Story (Carl Franklin)
• Misfit Geek Podcast Episode #4 – Scott Hunter on Web Forms in ASP.NET 4 (Joe Stagner)
• Expert to Expert: Inside LINQ-to-SharePoint (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 69: Scott Bellware on HTML Specialists (Jon Galloway)
• Introduction to Test Case Management in Visual Studio 2010 with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Kathleen McGrath)
• Dec MSDN Unplugged – Get ready for Visual Studio 2010 (Nigel Parker)
• Office Casual at CES: How to see important stuff in Outlook 2010 (Tina Wood)
• endpoint.tv Screencast – Lab: Introduction to Workflow in .NET 4 (Ron Jacobs)

 

Community / Events

• Roanoke Code Camp Call for Speakers (Frank La Vigne)
• Careers Success Stories (Jeff Atwood)
• The Current State of the Web: Why It’s Pointless to Debate Which Language, Framework or Architecture is the Best (Jonathan Carter)
• The MVVM landscape at MIX10 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Applications and Other Things I’ve Written Professionally over the Years (Pete Brown)

 

Database

• Transact-SQL Delayed Execution (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Execution Plan – Estimated I/O Cost – Estimated CPU Cost – No Unit (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft – Follow best practices! (Dave Ballantyne)

 

SharePoint

• Free SharePoint Reports with No Server Install (Joel Oleson)
• BCS Meta Man Alpha 2 released (Nick Swan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Fixing Powershell’s Busted Resolve-Path Cmdlet (Harry Pierson)
• Bing Adds Impressive, Advanced Recipe Search Results (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Masterminds of Programming — Only $9.99! Use discount code MMPE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• Kodu Tutorial #2 Edit Mode Tools (Stephen Coy)
• Azure platform CTP accounts are about to expire‏ (Dukagjin Maloku)
• Beta of Amazon Kindle SDK presents unique problems to software makers (Tim Conneally)

 

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 21-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #523 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LIX (Charlie Calvert)
• Links (1/21/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

 

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server MVP Deep Dives

 

 

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Top Links

• Comparing NHibernate and EF4 (Chris Sells)
• Add a Flickr widget to any web site with jQuery (Dan Hounshell)
• WPF for the Web guy…a story of pain, despair and learning (Scott Galloway)
• Passing NULL into Overloaded Methods in unit tests… (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight TV Episode 3: Multi-Touch 101 with Silverlight (John Papa)
• Bill Gates launches new site, offering peek inside his mind (Todd Bishop)
• Windows Phone teaser for Mix10 (Kip Kniskern)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing a Parallelized Octree in F# (Ade Miller)
• The Project Location Is Not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
• Looks the same – with half the overhead! [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code gives more compact output; Can you do better?] (David Anson)
• A new feature request for C# I would like is fall through exceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• Controlling Application Lifetime In Topshelf and Configuring Topshelf Using A StructureMap Container (Kevin Miller)
• Functional collectional parameters: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Using Generate from Usage — vstipEdit0011 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Much Ado About Monads – Creating Extended Builders Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• UML Modeling and Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Provost)

Web Development

• My Favorite Helpers For ASP.NET MVC (Rob Conery)
• IIS Tools – truck load of them at www.iis.net (Harish Ranganathan)
• Build an AJAX-Enabled Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Part 3 (Bogdan Zamfir)
• Large or asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET MVC (Daniel Crenna)
• ASP.NET Support in ReSharper 5 (Hadi Hariri)
• Implementing a jQuery Modal Window in ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Click and Retrieve the Value of a GridView Cell using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Using Custom Security Attributes in ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ceranski)
• Performance Optimizations Made By Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo JavaScript Minimizers (Nick Berardi)
• HttpContext.Items and Server.Transfer/Execute (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Collaboration Patterns – Part 1 and Collaboration Patterns – Part 2 (Andy Warren)
• When the design violates the principle of least surprise, you don’t close it as By Design (Oren Eini)
• If It’s Not Working, Change Your Approach (JD Meier)
• Pollyanna Pixton on Agile Leadership (Christophe Louvion)
• Good Managers Sometimes Have to Play Assholes (Jurgen Appelo)
• Scrum Anti-Pattern: NOT Prioritising Stories Within Sprints (Karl Scotland)
• Using Glance to visualize Code Metrics (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Themes (Deborah Kurata)
• Creating torn images (Coding4Fun)
• My Silverlight 4 Book Now Available for Pre-Order (Frank La Vigne)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.8 (Koen Zwikstra)
• XamlPadSample – Step 1 (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 39: CLR 4 Security and Sandboxing (Jason Olson)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #80 (Jeff Atwood)
• Craig Mundie shows off the future of NUI (Laura Foy)
• MVC 2 – Template Helpers and MVC 2 – Areas and MVC 2 – DataAnnotations and Parallel Computing (Martin Esmann)
• This Week in Testing Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 2) (Dror Helper)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Follow up, 6 months later, On Managing People with Chris Sells (Scott Hanselman)
• Authoring and Running Manual Tests in Visual Studio 2010 using Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16 & 18, 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Asking the Mountain To Come To You (Rob Conery)
• What do I have in store and hope for 2010 (Chris Woodruff)
• Life With My Geek: The Cave Phenomenon (Elle Starr)
• Zoho Reaches Out To Open Source Community (Krishnan Subramanian)
• My CodeMash 2010 experience (Bill Wagner)
• ALT.NET: Looks Like its Introspection Time Again! (Steve Bohlen)
• What can you get with 10KB of Ruby or Python code? (Jimmy Schementi)

Database

• Performance Tuning Methodology Preferences (Buck Woody)
• XML Validation in SQL Server Intergration Services (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Step by step (aka Dummies or Busy Dev Guy) guide to installing SharePoint 2010 in a virtual machine free eBook (Reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• How to Remove Corrupted SharePoint Sites – Preparing for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade (Joel Oleson)
• BCS Secure Store Services (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Google Chrome OS the Easy Way (Chris Leeds)
• Introducing the Windows Experience Pack (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Intuit and Microsoft Sign Deal to Serve SMBs (Ben Kepes)
• Free ebook: First Look Microsoft Office 2010 (Devon Musgrave)
• “What’s New for Developers in Outlook 2010” (Greg Duncan)
• Perform asynchronous asset management using Windows Powershell cmdlets for WMI (Kapil Mathur)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: The Sustainable Network — Only $9.99! Use discount code TSNE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Research Works on “Mental Tagging” of Images (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Jan 20, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: January 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #522 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 20, 2010 — #783 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

 

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Top Links

• When will WebForm vs MVC become like ListView vs Repeater? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using xUnit.Net with .Net 4.0 (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC Don’t Serve the Same Master (K. Scott Allen)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• A new and *good* "VB" (Jimmy Nilsson)
• New Book Project – Learning WCF 2nd Edition (Brian Noyes)
• Hidden Gems: Why .NET Developers Need to Take a 2nd Look at Project Rosetta (John Papa)
• Leveraging VS2010’s Entity Data Model Designer for .NET 3.5 Projects and Some Visual Studio tips I picked up recently (Julie Lerman)
• How many PCs in the world have the .NET Framework installed? (Scott Hanselman)
• Using the VSIX Manifest Editor (Lance Collins)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 7. How to Write a Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Reading ID3 Tags from MP3 Files (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• .NET Framework 4.0 Poster (Prashant Khandelwal)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript version of Flash (Michael Kimsal)
• Are Enterprise AJAX Applications Doomed…Or Are We? (Roy Goffey)
• FastCGI for IIS6 and IIS5.1 has been released. (Lawrence Moroney)
• Book Review: 51 Tips, Tricks, and Recipes with jQuery & ASP.NET Controls (Elijah Manor)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Constructor over-injection anti-pattern (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Do You Know What’s Really Going On? (Davy Brion)
• Value Driven… The Book’s Layout (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The limits of innovation (Scott Berkun)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Cutting Edge Silverlight4 COM+ Features (Justin Angel)
• FlexibleBehavior class: More on reuse and Behaviors (Bob Bartholomay)
• Exploring: XamlPad to XamlDesigner (Rob Relyea)
• Sometimes it takes a village to solve a problem [Workaround for a Visual Studio 2008 design-time issue with the WPF Toolkit when Blend 3 is installed] (David Anson)
• Extract styles in Expression Blend (András Velvárt)
• Avoiding issues when typing text in Bindings (Laurent Bugnion)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 42: How to Get More Business from Microsoft Pinpoint (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #159: Working with Partials in Spark: Part 2 (Derik Whittaker)
• Office Casual: Ribbon Hero (Tina Wood)
• The Dev Behind Ribbon Hero and Build a CableCard MCE PC with Ceton TV Tuner (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Whither Alt.Net? (Ian Cooper)
• Active vs. Activist (Derick Bailey)
• Your story: the Microsoft interview (Microsoft JobsBloggers)
• On ALT.NET and patience (Sergio Pereira)
• Talking in Las Vegas: MIX2010 and MVVM (Laurent Bugnion)

 

Database

• .NET Culture and SQL Server (Steve Burch)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 to be released in May and Use alter table alter column to change datatypes for a column in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Remote DB maintenance auditing promotion (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Upgrades HealthVault Connection Software for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• MSDN Flash Editorial for January 18th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Bing Maps out of beta (Kip Kniskern)
• Apple’s Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is Critical (Michael Robertson)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Your Body: The Missing Manual — Only $9.99! Use discount code YBMM9 (O’Reilly Media)
• 3 Microsoft Visio 2010 Beta Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• Console Battle Heats Up Between Wii and XBox: Netflix, ESPN Rumors Up the Stakes (Natania Barron)
• Daily Dose – IBM has the Most Patents, but Microsoft’s Could be Worth More (Mitch Pronschinske)
• “Everything I need to know [about developing software] I learned from Dungeons and Dragons.” (Greg Duncan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 19, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2010 and Independent Consultant Notes: January 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #520 and The Morning Brew #521 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 19-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

 

The Geek Shelf

Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software (Programmer to Programmer)