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Top Links

• Simple Code First with Entity Framework 4 – Magic Unicorn Feature CTP 4 (Scott Hanselman)
• New Mono Runtime Features (Miguel de Icaza)
• iPhone versus Windows Phone 7 Coding Comparison (Don Burnett)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• XLinq default namespace gotcha (Adam Kinney)
• What’s up with code contracts? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• EF CTP4 Released! and EF CTP4 Walkthrough: Productivity Improvements and EF CTP4 Walkthrough: Code First (EF Team)
• A new book that explains Microsoft Surface development! … and a new library on codeplex! (Microsoft Surface Blog)
• Visual Studio VB 2010 Enhancements (Hima Bindu Vejella)
• New Visual Studio Tips Book: Tip Layout and Importing or Changing Your Environment Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• New goodies in the Q2 Release of Telerik OpenAccess : Part I (Stephen Forte)
• Administrative Report Pack for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Shai Raiten)
• Using Dovetail SDK Using Visual Basic.Net and Refreshing Component Guids in your Wix XML (Kevin Miller)
• What’s New in Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0 – Part 2 (Matteo Slaviero)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Cookbook (Dave M. Bush)
• The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 24: Dear EditorTemplates, Are We Done Posting Yet? (Evan Nagle)
• JavaScript vs Silverlight: An answer (Laurent Bugnion)
• FubuMVC for ASP.Net MVC Devs at MVCConf (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Late to the JQuery Party (John Sonmez)
• Sueetie Going Mobile Series: BlogEngine.NET (Dave Burke)
• Pragmatic Spark – Turning it up to eleven (Robert Greyling)
• Hard Working Model Binder (K. Scott Allen)
• Caching Improvements in Internet Explorer 9 (IE Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Albacore v0.2.0 Preview 1 Is Available (Derick Bailey)
• Test Lint Pro – Launch Sale and Typemock back to basics: Faking "Future" Instances (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Does A Kanban System Eschew Estimation? (Karl Scotland)
• Gotchas: The Profiler Uses Processor Resources Too! (Ade Miller)
• Veracity: The next step in DVCS (Eric Sink)
• Evolving Loosely-Coupled Frameworks & Apps (Udi Dahan)
• The fallacy of quick answers (Scott Berkun)
• Running CodedUI Test From Another Application (Shai Raiten)
• Testing with XPathNavigator.Evaluate (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Beta Tools (Brandon Watson)
• Reflectoron in Prism: a WPF MVVM tutorial. (Eli Arbel)
• Performance Profiling Silverlight 4 Step-by-Step (Jeremy Likness)
• Document Toolkit 2 Release Candidate (Koen Zwikstra)
• Getting started with shader effects in WPF (Kubajzz)
• Xaml Meets ASP.NET MVC – Create databound visualizations with Xaml + ASP.NET MVC using XamlAsyncController (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Silverlight 4 RIA services tutorial – Part 2 (Nikos Printezis)
• Designing for Multiple Orientations (Kirupa)
• Windows Phone 7 gets cloudy (Steve Clayton)
• Natural User Interface library (Coding4Fun)
• A Matter of Controls Part 2 (Dr. Dave)
• WPF 4 Series: Getting Started (WPF Team)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Seth Juarez on Machine Learning (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Social Networking for Developers – Part 1 – Every Developer Needs a Blog and Hanselminutes on 9 – Social Networking for Developers – Part 2 – Make your Blog Suck Less (Scott Hanselman)
• Video: The Windows Phone 7 Philosophy (Eric Hagan)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – ADP West 2010 – Jean Tabaka -Linchpin (Bob Payne)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #179: Parallel Programming w/ Task Parallel Library (Derik Whittaker)

 

Community / Events

• Speaking at SQL Server Connections in Las Vegas, November 1-4, 2010 (Glenn Berry)
• Back by Popular Request – Live Chats with MVP Experts (SharePoint Team)
• The 2nd ALT.NET tool night (Dror Helper)
• Books.. Check ‘Em Out! (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Better Coding Through Community (Dane Morgridge)

 

Database

• Changing the name of your SQL server (John Pertell)
• SQL SERVER – Datetime Function SWITCHOFFSET Example (Pinal Dave)
• Kung fu and the art of SQL Server (Stuart Ainsworth)

 

SharePoint

• New Book: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant (Valerie Woolley)
• How to set permissions for BDC Entities (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• Developer Perception on Mobile Platforms Survey Results (Abel Avram)
• Zappos Comes to its Senses, Allows Mobile Apps (Adam DuVander)
• DevCheatSheet.com, The Developer focused cheat sheet aggregator (just about all languages, all areas, all the time…) (Greg Duncan)
• Bill Gates Invests in Cleaner Car Technology (Jolie O’Dell)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDPEM (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2010 — #903 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #643 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting CodeRush Blog Series (Mark Miller)

 

The Geek Shelf

Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010 (Expert’s Voice in .Net) by Alex Mackey