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Top Links

• Test Lint: A Unit Testing Helper for VS 2010 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing Callbacks (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Practice Software Patterns – Component Patterns (Caleb Jenkins)
• Windows Azure platform AppFabric Labs SDK V1.0 (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft adds XNA Game Studio 4.0 to its Windows Phone 7 arsenal (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tips and Tricks: Clipboard Ring and Toolbox Snippets (Weston Hutchins)
• Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# – Pre Order now (Wally McClure)
• Printing in Different Fonts and Colors (Zain Naboulsi)
• Reducing overloading ceremony with C# 4.0 optional parameters (Russell Ball)
• Controlling the DGML Double-Click (Cameron Skinner)
• VS2010 TMap Testing Template | Initial Work Items #1 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Sharing Code Analysis files between projects in Visual Studio 2010 (Derik Whittaker)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• POCO Template Code Generation Options (Sheetal Gupta)

Web Development

• Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action (Me)
• One Year of Production ASP.NET MVC (Chris Missal)
• We moved your ASP.NET website cheese, in a good way (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC And Convention Based Forms – Part 1 (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Javascript: Function scoping (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• mnmal: designeriphone: “Good design means never having to say… (Leon Gersing)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Designing Social Interfaces – Only $9.99! Use code DDDST (O’Reilly Media)
• Does an organization need to be fully committed to agile/lean/scrum? (Mark Needham)
• Strengthening your domain: Encapsulated collections (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF

• Article: The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer Toolbox and Article: How to Get Started in WPF or Silverlight (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stories from the Dallas GiveCamp (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ARCast.TV: An Overview of MVC4WPF (Part 1 of 3) and ARCast.TV: An Overview of MVC4WPF (Part 2 of 3) (MS Podcasts)
• Brian Beckman: On Analog Computing, Some Beckman History, and Life in the Universe (Charles Torre)
• Video: Microsoft listens to the MVPs (Joseph Mirabella)
• Techfest 2010: Mobile Surface (Larry Larsen)
• Windows 7 Text-to-Speech from .NET 4 and WPF with Pete Brown (Don Burnett)
• TechFest 2010: Microsoft ICE – Image Composite Editor (Laura Foy)
• Don’t be original, just be good (Scott Berkun)

Community / Events

• Boston Geek Dinner – March 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Where to See Me At MIX10 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Chat with the SharePoint MVP Experts (Paul Andrew)
• NorCal Weekly .Net is Up Now! Catch All for the .Net Events in Northern California! (Peter Kellner)
• pluralsight office hours 3/11/2010 with dan sullivan (Meagon Marshall)
• The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework at Mix (Michael S. Scherotter)
• SXSW 2010: The Complete Social Media Guide (Matt Silverman)
• My program at #MIX10 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Spend a Day with Miller in Vegas! (Free CodeRush Training) (Mark Miller)
• Speaking at MIX! (Glenn Block)

Database

• ORMs – A Developer’s Dream, A DBA’s Nightmare? (Mike Ormond)
• SQL SERVER – Force Index Scan on Table – Use No Index to Retrieve the Data – Query Hint (Pinal Dave)
• New e learning course on Business Intelligence and Did you know you can shrink a transaction log even when log shipping? (Simon Sabin)
• How to script all stored procedures in a database (Naomi)
• Asp.Net Membership/Role/etc Provider scripts for SqlAzure (Jason Haley)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2 & RBS: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should (Andrew Connell)
• Lightning Storm Forums release 1.0.0.14 (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Adobe, Microsoft "working closely" on Flash for Win Phone 7 (Electronista Staff)
• New Kodu build! (Stephen Coy)
• Use Windows Live Writer with Posterous (Sarah Perez)
• Making your PowerShell ISE cool with SQL Ice – SQLIse now available as part of the SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) v2.1 release and Using PowerShell to demo PowerShell via PowerShellPoint! (aka “PowerPoint for PowerShell’ers…” or “We don’t need no stink’n PowerPoint to present PowerShell!”) (Greg Duncan)
• PowerShell in the Enterprise (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Insert Tag Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer (that works with Windows 7) (Jeff Wilcox)
• Finding awesome stuff online with Google Reader Play (Garrett Wu)
• Now playing: Apps Script for Google Docs (Evin Levey)
• Create Outlook Appointments from PowerShell (Buck Woody)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #557 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 — #810 and Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 – 2 — #811 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

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Top Links

• T4MVC 2.6.13: now officially in MvcContrib, with a few new features (David Ebbo)
• A Vision of the Future for Home and Work Experiences by Microsoft Surface (Arturo Toledo)
• Game Developers Have a Great Opportunity with Windows Phone 7 Series (Ron Pessner)
• pluralsight and InnerWorkings (Meagon Marshall)
• 10 things Microsoft did right in 2010 (so far) (Joe Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Go To a Line Number and Print with Line Numbers / Summary Info Poll and Reuse the Same Editor Window When Opening Files (Zain Naboulsi)
• Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive) (Scott Mitchell)
• Tuning C++ build parallelism in VS2010 (Dan (VS Team))
• ThinkGearNET Library (Brian Peek)
• VB and C# coevolution (Scott Wiltamuth)
• Slicing and Dicing Strings with CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
• When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Combining Higher Order Functions in C# and How to tell if a type is a delegate (Mike Hadlow)
• The yield statement cannot be used inside an anonymous method or lambda expression and Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in F# (Oliver Sturm)
• IronRuby Unleashed Is Out Now (Justin Etheredge)
• WCF Service Cannot Be Activated Because of ASP.NET Compatibility and WCF Data Service Error – Request Error (Keith Elder)
• .Net, Native, P/Invoke marshaling just like magic… “Marshaling with C# Pocket Reference” (Think “Marshalling Guide for the Busy Dev Guy”) (Greg Duncan)
• XNA Game Studio 4 News (GDC 2010) (Greg Duncan)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• TMap for VS2010 Testing Process Template RC published on Codeplex. and VS2010 TMap Testing Template | Initial Work Items #1 (Clemens Reijnen)
• MindBlaster Article Posted (Brian Peek)
• Save a diagram to Image File (Cameron Skinner)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part II: Semantic Changes and +=/-= (Chris Burrows)
• Michael Klucher on XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in C# (Chris Sells)
• Using Copy-On-Write In Multithreaded Code To Reduce Locking Overhead (Davy Brion)
• FluentPath: a fluent wrapper around System.IO (Bertrand Le Roy)

Web Development

• Deleporter: Cross-Process Code Injection for ASP.NET (Steve Sanderson)
• Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Profiling Apps 1 of N: The MVC ActionLink (Hadi Hariri)
• Working with the HTML5 Community (Adrian Bateman)
• ASMX ScriptService mistakes: Installation and configuration (Dave Ward)
• Displaying Multimedia Content In A Floating Window Using FancyBox (Scott Mitchell)
• Using Lucene – External Indexes (Oren Eini)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• VCS Survey (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Animations – Big Teams (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Git/Branch-Per-Feature – Composable Deployments/Releases? (Joey Beninghove)
• Some Day Kanban Will Fail 75% of the Time (Jurgen Appelo)
• The 8th Phase (Karl Seguin)
• Getting real: Book review and Pair Programming: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Review: The Productive Programmer (Grant Palin)
• CQRS Performance Engineering: Read vs Read/Write Models (Derick Bailey)
• State Pattern Misuse (Greg Young)
• The Dissatisfied Designer (Dave Laribee)
• Cut the abstractions by putting test hooks (Oren Eini)
• Work is a Rubber Ball that Bounces Back (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF / Silverlight Quick Tip: INotifyPropertyChanged for indexer and Binding to a Dictionary in WPF and Silverlight and Tracing WPF in Visual Studio 2010 (Pete Brown)
• WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity (Scott Hanselman)
• Small Basic – Now with SilverLight (Vijaye)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 : Focus and Activation (Paul Harrington)
• Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog ( again ) (Mike Taulty)
• A syntax highlighting TextBlock for Silverlight 3 (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Catastrophic Failure Message (Kathleen Dollard)
• Silverlight Challenge: Creating a DependencyProperty (Christopher Bennage)
• Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel (Glenn Block)
• Pixel Perfect Development (Dave Schinkel)
• Simplified INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation with WeakReference Support and Typed Property Access API (Daniel Cazzulino)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Toad + ,NET = Datadude for Oracle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 157: Hadoop with Philip Zeyliger (SE-Radio Team)
• endpoint.tv – Install/Uninstall AppFabric & Referencing Caching Libraries (Ron Jacobs)
• Video of My Last Iteration Planning Meeting with CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast – MDT 2010 with Keith Garner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Conversation with Gary Bernhardt (Corey Haines)
• Ping 51: TechFest, Ballmer, Xbox, Android & Tina Wood! and What is the Cloud? (Laura Foy)
• Videos of developer sessions at Oredev (including mine on .net debugging) (Tess Ferrandez)
• David Anderson on kanban – radio interview (Christophe Louvion)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport – Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night – SharePoint 2010 Pro Summit Edition (Andrew Connell)
• I love Codeplex! (Arian T. Kulp)
• Silverlight @ #MIX10 – The Next Web Now (Silverlight Team)
• You Can Sponsor Philly Code Camp (Nick Berardi)
• Microsoft at SXSW 2010 (Dominic Carr)
• Windows Live Wave 4 at Mix? Follow our liveblog and find out (Kip Kniskern)
• Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10 (John Papa)
• 2010 Summit – in a word, “more!” (Joseph Mirabella)
• Speaking on “Ignite your coding” (Glenn Block)
• Getting ready for MIX10 (Ed Bott)
• Events This Week – March 8th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Looking for more SharePoint 2010 Info? Check out these Free Webcasts by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• MIX10, Coding4Fun Show, and You! (Brian Peek)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Improve Performance by Reducing IO – Creating Covered Index and SQLAuthority Book Review – Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Pinal Dave)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 4: network optimization) (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Server Locking & Block Scripts (Joe Webb)
• Why abbreviate schema names? (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Readying SharePoint For Teleworking (Will Kelly)
• Accessibility and SharePoint 2010 (Tim McConnell)
• Configure SharePoint Server 2010 for Mobile Device Access (Office Team)
• Training from Microsoft on SharePoint 2010 (Paul Andrew)
• Beyond F5 deployment – my top 5 benefits of Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Kodu (MS Downloads)
• A Trip Down Memory Lane – Presentations over 10 years old (Scott Hanselman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDNUT (O’Reilly Media)
• Remote File Explorer in PowerGUI and PowerShell in the Enterprise (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Office Web Apps to graduate with Windows Live Wave 4: gives clue to final release date? (damaster)
• The incomplete list of impolite WP7 user feature requests (Chris Sells)
• UITableView Example Code (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/9/2010 – Special Edition (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: March 8, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 9, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #555 and The Morning Brew #556 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2010 — #809 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Mar-2010 and Tech Tweets for 9-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• My new home page, refreshed [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!] (David Anson)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.9.2010 (Bob Familiar)

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Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET

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Top Links

• Introducing Typemock Test Lint (Roy Osherove)
• Developer Certification WTF? (Uncle Bob Martin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Go To a Line Number (Zain Naboulsi)
• DataTemplate in Generic.xaml – it should be the next ToString()! (Rob Relyea)
• Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes) (Scott Guthrie)
• Comparing LINQ to SQL vs the classic SqlCommand (Al Pascual)
• Building Hello MEF – Part IV – DeploymentCatalog and Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel (Glenn Block)
• Windows Azure Tools from 3rd parties (Hanu Kommalapati)

Web Development

• Goodbye Http Handler, Hello FileResult (Mike Ceranski)
• Preview Tools in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: JavaScript: The Good Parts – Only $9.99! Use code DDJSG (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Your Developers Don’t Want To Swap Pairs – Practical Agility (Alan Skorkin)
• Less is More, Slower is Better (J.D. Meier)
• Ubiquitous and unambiguous ? (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Leadership Tip: Stop Cloning Teams. Encourage Diversity In The Approaches Taken. (Rajiv Popat)
• A movement called weekend testing – What it can do you and your testing career? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Role Specific Interfaces: DIP And ISP In Action (Derick Bailey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Thirsty Developer 87: Ironing It All Out with Jimmy Schementi (Dave Bost)
• Major Nelson Show 352: Xbox LIVE Profile Policy change, SXSW community event and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast – MDT 2010 with Keith Garner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• A Great SlideShare from the always outspoken and beloved Scott Barnes of Readify.Net (Don Burnett)
• My "What’s New in Silvelright 3" Video from 0reDev Last Fall (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Lessons learned from building the NHibernate Profiler (Oren Eini)

Community / Events

• MIX10, Coding4Fun Show, and You! (Brian Peek)
• Ready to test those Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series apps? (Jeff Wilcox)
• My First Week as a Developer Evangelist (Sara Ford)
• Introducing the MVC Melee!!! (Sara J. Chipps)
• A few announcements for those in the UK (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• Geek City: More About Nonclustered Index Keys (Kalen Delaney)
• 03-08-2010 – SetFocus BI/SQL Master’s Program Tip: Sending an email inside of SSIS to a Gmail account (Kevin Goff)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL SERVER 2008 R2 Pricing (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft set to destroy Apple in every games market (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #554 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #110 (David Vidmar)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/8/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Links #95 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #25 – MSMVPs.com (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 135 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 406 (Sam Gentile)

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Ironpython in Action

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Top Links

• Providing Metadata to you MEF exports (Derik Whittaker)
• The Biggest Driver For Domain Modeling Decisions (Michael Nichols)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Neat Sample: F# and Bing API (Jomo Fisher)
• Better error messages – Part 1 (Arian T. Kulp)
• Turn on Line Numbers (Zain Naboulsi)
• Rule "Previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008" failed (Sergio Pereira)

Web Development

• It’s Official. IP Banning is the First New Feature of Gummy Bear 1.3 (Dave Burke)
• GetRouteUrl in ASP.NET 4 Web Forms Routing (David Hayden)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, Repositories and Separation of Concerns (Billy McCafferty)
• Who is code wanderer? (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Power of Blue Books for Platform Impact (J.D. Meier)
• Tip For Triggering Genuine Conversations: Letting The Lurkers Hang Around. (Rajiv Popat)
• On Small Applications (Udi Dahan)

Silverlight / WPF

• Text-To-Speech in Silverlight Using WCF (Brian Lagunas)
• WPF: Now with Less Fuzz (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WebDevRadio Episode 73: Podcast Child… Slight Return (Michael Kimsal)

Database

• Rhino Divan DB – Performance (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces May 12th Launch Date of Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• The Most Common Things You Do To A Large Data File With Bash (Alan Skorkin)
• SQLAuthority News – Office 2010 Readiness Check – Are you ready for Office 2010? (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox (Paul Miller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 06, 2010 — #808 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.01 ~ 03.07 (yuanjian)

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Programming WCF Services: Develop Cloud Applications with WCF for .NET 4.0

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Top Links

• New drop of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) available (Bart de Smet)
• Better Application Services and CQS using S#arp Architecture 1.0 Q3 2009 (Billy McCafferty)
• TWC9: 100th Episode! WPF, VS2010 RC tips, Bonus Footage (Brian Keller)
• NUnit vs. MsTest: NUnit wins for Unit Testing. (Roy Osherove)
• Pex and Moles become Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools (Nikolai Tillman)
• Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox (Paul Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Functional I/O (or at least “O”) (Ashley Nathan Feniello)
• Visual Studio Test Professional (VSTS) 2010: Organization of artifacts (Subodh Sohoni)
• MSBuild 4 Detailed Build Summary (Cliff Hudson)
• Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls” (Mayuri Diwan & Nichole Baker)
• Use F6 to Jump Between Split Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Functional C#: Using Join and GroupJoin (Mark Needham)
• Updated Data Model Designer Extension Starter Kit (Julia Kornich)
• XTrace.cs – C# trace with printf formatting (Hans Dietrich)
• Working with WCF: Part One: Introduction and Your First Service (James Bender)
• Why is CruiseControl.Net Hiding My Test Results? (Chris Missal)
• My Visual Studio Color Settings (Keith Elder)

Web Development

• When Session Objects Get Created With No Session Variables (Dave M. Bush)
• Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from ORCS Web (Ben Byrd)
• Use ASP.NET 4 Browser Definitions with ASP.NET 3.5 (Stephen Walther)
• Microsoft is “All In” the Cloud (Bill Zack)
• BSON Serialization (Karl Seguin)
• Passivity, or “How to help your views leave the nest” (Kyle Baley)
• Javascript: The ‘new’ keyword (Mark Needham)
• I am moving… to the cloud! (Rudi Grobler)
• Detecting Ajax Events on the Server (Doug Neiner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 22 minute meeting (Scott Berkun)
• The case against Rock Star developers (Stephen Forte)
• How Ruby Taught Me To DRY Up My Code With Lambda Blocks and Don’t Expose IList Just So You Can Assert Against Its Contents (Derick Bailey)
• Getting code ready for production (Oren Eini)
• A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, CQS, Repositories and Separation of Concerns (Billy McCafferty)

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows Phone 7 Series for Designers and Developers (Christian Schormann)
• Excited about Windows Phone Development! and WPF: Now with Less Fuzz (Pete Brown)
• Turn your head and check out this post [How to: Easily rotate the axis labels of a Silverlight/WPF Toolkit chart] (David Anson)
• MVVM for Dummies (Martin Hinshelwood)
• WPF4 RC has better text clarity. RTM will be even better. (Rob Relyea)
• Request for Feedback (WPF VNext) (Lester Lobo)
• Another review of Advanced MVVM (Josh Smith)
• Creating a Custom Silverlight Pre-Loader (Brian Lagunas)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 146: Google Fatigue (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Announces the Windows Home Server YouTube Channel (Blake Handler)
• Video Trip Report: If this is Tuesday, this must be Cairo (Scott Hanselman)
• Cloud Cover Episode 3 – Worker Role Endpoints (Ryan Dunn)
• Microsoft Research: Tools to Help Resolve Concurrency Problems (Robert Hess)
• jQuery Podcast 14 – Phil Haack (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• A Conversation with Bill Buxton and Albert Shum; Microsoft’s UX Gurus (Nic Fillingham)
• Herding Code 75: Barry Dorrans on Developer Security (Jon Galloway)
• Your Rx.NET Prescription Has Been Refilled (Jeffrey van Gogh)

Community / Events

• Join us at MIX, March 15-17th 2010! (Zhiming Xue)
• SharePoint and Office 2010 Keynotes (Mike Walker)
• Going to Vegas with my Phone… (Seema Ramchandani)
• PyCon 2010: Python in the browser (Jimmy Schementi)
• Headspring continues to hire: we will train contract-to-hire positions (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• Default value for OLE DB Destination FastLoadMaxInsertCommitSize in SQL Server 2008 (Jamie Thomson)
• How to archive data from a table to a local or remote database in SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

 patterns & practices – SharePoint Guidance: Drop 6 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• PsyMUD: a MUD for Linux (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft Announces May 12th Launch Date of Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• LEAKED: More Juicy Microsoft Courier Details and Pics (Barb Dybwad)
• Windows Phone 7 Series Themes for 6.5 Devices (Sarah Perez)
• Outlook Folder Macros for Getting Things Done (Jonathan Cogley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2010 — #807 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Gone With The Week (Mar 1 – 5, 2010) (MSDN Magazine)

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Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0

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Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Series for Designers and Developers (Christian Schormann)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Details Announced (Frank La Vigne)
• Soft Skills are Actual Skills (David Starr)
• Erik Meijer: Rebel with a Cause (Charles Torre)
• Pex 2010 (aka Pex 0.90.50303.0) now available on MSDN Subscribers Downloads (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• My First Windows C++ Application in Ages: Hello World in Win32 with Visual C++ 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Using Mongo With LINQ (Rob Conery)
• DiffPlex 1.0 Released!! (Matt Manela)
• Creating and Sharing Project & Item Templates (Aaron Marten)
• Is select (System.Uri) broken? (Oren Eini)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part I: Locks (Chris Burrows)
• Combining Higher Order Functions in C# (Mike Hadlow)
• Split Your Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Poll: IoC Containers for .NET (Oliver Sturm)
• Empty Nothings (Dustin Campbell)
• Mercurial Is Getting Better for .NET Projects (Rinat Abdullin)
• Beta of VS Team Explorer with Cross Platform Support (Somasegar)
• Maximum number static fields allowed in mscorlib? (David Kean)
• How to set the startup program for debugging a project for the entire team (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Functional C#: Using Join and GroupJoin (Mark Needham)
• Too much reuse (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• HTML Agility Pack Rocks Your Screen Scraping World (Lee Holmes)
• JavaScript Magazine March 2010 Now Available (Michael Kimsal)
• Introducing oEmbed (Cory Isakson)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – jQuery Integration (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Tab Isolation (Andy Zeigler)
• Using Other Web Servers on Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Using Delegate and Undelegate in jQuery 1.4.2 (Jordan Boesch)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Sit Together" Now Online (James Shore)
• Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria Overview (MS Downloads)
• Refining My TDD Strategy (Russell Ball)
• The 22 minute meeting (Scott Berkun)
• Architecture Lives Here (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Solution: Testing Web Services with MSTest on Team Build (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Getting Started with Agile Results (J.D. Meier)
• Field Vs. Property: Does It Really Matter? and When Do You Specify Expected Parameters In Stub Methods? (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• 1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight (Christopher Bennage)
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 2) – Silverlight/WPF Project Frameworks (Me)
• Favorite Tool and Library Downloads for Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Learning the M-V-VM pattern for XAML development (Tim Heuer)
• Persisting the Configuration (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• endpoint.tv – Announcing Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 (Ron Jacobs)
• This Week in Silverlight – March 4 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• MSDN Live Meeting: SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform (Katrien De Graeve)

Community / Events

• SharePoint MVP Chat brought to you by MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• NYC .NET Developer’s User Group->Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
• Steve Ballmer on Cloud Computing: We are all in! (Sunshine)
• Schedule for my session at MIX10 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Spring 2010 jQuery Talks (John Resig)

Database

• ROI and the DBA (Buck Woody)
• Exploring SQL Server Modeling through MCsla (Rockford Lhotka)
• More SQL Azure Samples (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009 Release 2) (Chris Sells)
• Something for the weekend – Whats the most complex query? (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Order of Columns in Update Statement Does not Matter (Pinal Dave)
• NoSQL DB, Objectivity/DB 10 Beefs Up Java and Adds C# .NET support (Mitch Pronschinske)

SharePoint

• How to connect SharePoint BDC to Oracle through TNS (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to Spend $9.5 Billion on Research in 2010 (Jeremy Kirk)
• Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales (Cory Doctorow)
• A Preview of Windows Phone 7 Series Capabilities (Zhiming Xue)
• Apple Tops Google and Microsoft as the World’s Most Admired Company for 2010 (Skipper)
• Run XP Mode in VirtualBox Instead of Virtual PC (The How-To Geek)
• Did a Microsoft VP really suggest an Internet tax for cybersecurity? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Daily Dose – Facebook Going Public, But Not For a While and Kiln: A DVCS for Fog Bugz (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Offers Free Guides to a 21st-Century Education (Rob Bayuk)
• Tip of the Day: Online Career Events (Anne Cheng)
• Surface and Healthcare at HIMMS (Eric Havir)
• Free Risk (like game) – TurboRisk v2 (Now includes IDE to edit/compile/test your own AI players) (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #553 (Chris Alcock)
• Creators Club Communiqué 44 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Links (3/4/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: March 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)

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Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

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Top Links

• Big update for the Project Rosetta site today (Adam Kinney)
• ASMX and JSON – Common mistakes and misconceptions (Dave Ward)
• Help Me Connect the Southern Community (Keith Elder)
• MEF will not get easier, it’s cool as ICE (Maarten Balliauw)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Team Explorer codename "Eaglestone" (MS Downloads)
• Lambda Expressions: Join (Deborah Kurata)
• Clearing Your DataTips — vstipDebug0014 and Using Incremental Search and Make Object ID — vstipDebug0015 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tool for generating DGML graphs showing why your object can’t be collected (VisualGCRoot) (Tess Ferrandez)
• String.Empty vs “” vs String. IsNullOrEmpty (Peter Bromberg)
• Windows Server AppFabric (formerly Dublin) Beta 2 is Available! (Sam Gentile)

Web Development

• jQuery to the Rescue: Changing style and target for all external links on my site (Pete Brown)
• Changing an Existing DNN Module and Sharing ObjectDataSource From Codebehind (Dave M. Bush)
• How to package and deploy COM component (Xinyang Qiu)
• Asynchronous DataContext (Wesley Bakker)
• Return Multiple Objects Using ASP.NET MVC’S JsonResult Class (Malcolm Sheridan)
• CSS Crunch: new IE Extension for developers (Giorgio Sardo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is MSpec an Internal DSL?…And is that okay? (Richard Cirerol)
• What is Projection? (Chris Missal)
• Acceptance testing best practices (Gojko Adzic)

Silverlight / WPF

• 1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight (Christopher Bennage)
• New WPF Showcase Submission: LAN Bridger (Jay Esguerra)
• Where the Wild Things Are: an Adventure in Silverlight (Act I) (Justin J. Moses)
• Solution: Getting Silverlight to build on Team Build 2010 RC (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 12 – WCF and Polling HTTP (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Brad Frazer on Copyright, SLAs and more (Carl Franklin)
• p&p Claims Identity and Access Control Guide – A look into the Single Sign On scenario and p&p Claims Identity and Access Control Guide is now available (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• StoryTeller Video from Pablo’s Fiesta (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Silverlight TV 12: The Best Blend 3 Video Ever! (John Papa)
• TechFest 2010 Keynote (TechFest)
• Introduction to Creating Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 2010 (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• Upcoming events (Simon Brown)
• Windows Phone is Sponsoring Microsoft’s Mix 10 Conference this year.. (Don Burnett)
• The Explore Microsoft internship – a Gateway to Redmond (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Agile Coach Camp, North Carolina, March 19-21 (Mike Cottmeyer)

Database

• Output = MAXDOP 1 (Dave Ballantyne)
• The March 2010 “SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit” update now includes VS2010 goodness (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Rollback TRUNCATE Command in Transaction (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS – Access Denied with UNC paths – The file name is a device or contains invalid characters and SQL Server service accounts and SPNs (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Lightning Conductor Calendar View (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Free ebook: Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows Activation Technologies: an unauthorized inside look (Ed Bott)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First iPhone Development – Only $9.99! Use code DDHFP (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 4, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #552 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2010 — #806 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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Head First iPhone Development: A Learner’s Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone

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• CSSColorEditor lets you … edit CSS colors (visually) (Erez Zukerman)
• MSDN WPF Samples Consolidated (Karl Shifflett)
• How to install Reactive Extensions for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 on VS2010 RC (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Second patch now available for IntelliSense crashes in VS 2010 RC (Brittany Behrens)
• Spark bits for MVC 2 RC2 (Louis DeJardin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Shortest .NET program I have ever written (or smallest solution anyway) (Pete Brown)
• Visual Studio Visible White Space (Richard Carr)
• Lambda Expressions: Join (Deborah Kurata)
• Code signing Visual Studio 2010 extensions (VSIX) (Jeff Wilcox)
• MSMQ Studio 0.9.2.0 (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
• How to quickly setup the best free Diff/Merge tool with VS 2010 (Daniel Cazzulino)
• The Weekly Source Code 51 – Asynchronous Database Access and LINQ to SQL Fun (Scott Hanselman)
• String.Empty vs “” vs String. IsNullOrEmpty (Peter Bromberg)

Web Development

• Improving CSS With .LESS (Scott Mitchell)
• Using C#, ASP.NET, and ADO.NET To Develop A Multi-Tier App From Start To Finish (Dave Verschleiser)
• Expression Web 3: what’s in it for ME? (Chris Leeds)
• Refactoring CSS and Javascript using Coderush/Refactor (Keith Elder)
• Building a Star Rating System with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: HTML & CSS: The Good Parts – Only $9.99! Use code DDHTM (O’Reilly Media)
• JQuery Validator Cheat Sheet (Chris Brandsma)
• Bing Maps JS: Calculate Area of Circle and Draw Circle on Map (Chris Pietschmann)
• How IE8 Determines Document Mode (Marc Silbey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How A Good Manager Is Like A Ninja (Alan Skorkin)
• The Mythical Man-Month – book review (Gunnar Peipman)
• My biggest mistakes and Highest Paid Opinion Wins (Scott Berkun)
• Software Productivity Tools-> The Missing Link? (Stephen Forte)
• Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with SpecFlow and ASP.NET MVC (Steve Sanderson)
• Find Your Drive – The Keys to Motivation (J.D. Meier)
• Riskiest thing first vs Outside in development (Mark Needham)
• Git is teh SUCK (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF

• WCF RIA Services Silverlight Business Application – Using ASP.NET SiteMap for Navigation (Fredrik Normen)
• Making VS2010 and/or your WPF applications happy in Remote Desktop/RDP Land and Expression Hands on Labs/Tutorials – Introduction to Silverlight, Styling and Skinning, DeepZoom, SketchFlow and New Blend 3 Features (Greg Duncan)
• Enabling Silverlight 4 on Visual Studio 2010 RC (Zhiming Xue)
• 4 Free WPF Utilities I Use Every Day, that come with source! (LearnWPF)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Rick Rashid introduces TechFest 2010 and Project Gustav: Immersive Digital Painting and Mobile Surface and Natural User Interfaces with Physiological Sensing (TechFest)
• U-Prove CTP: A Developer’s Perspective and Announcing Microsoft’s U-Prove Community Technical Preview (CTP) and Deep Dive into U-Prove Cryptographic Protocols (Vittorio Bertocci)
• TechFest 2010: Project Gustav (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• MVP Global Summit 2010 Wrap-Up (Me)
• Birds of a Feather at Tech·Ed 2010…Submit Your Idea! and Localized MSDN Flash Newsletter for DC-MD-VA-WV (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Architect Cafe Webcast Series (Bill Zack)
• Microsoft Natal Device Is Seen at TechFest (Zhiming Xue)
• Calling all readers of developer Training Kits—UPDATE (Michael Zuberbier)

Database

• The new Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 in Visual Studio 2010 RC without Geometry Types. (Al Pascual)
• Execute Package Task Packages fail for no apparent reason (Simon Sabin)
• Do You Get A Benefit From Compressing Backups If You Already Have Compressed Data? (Denis Gobo)
• Choosing operating modes for mirroring over a WAN (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Performance Comparison – INSERT TOP (N) INTO Table – Using Top with INSERT (Pinal Dave)
• Updated AzureTableQuery to Use Azure Storage Client Extensions (Jason Haley)

SharePoint

• Using Filters and the Business Connectivity Services object model (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• PowerGUI Pro with MobileShell Released (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• A Taste of Azure – Great Examples of Azure At Work (John McClelland)
• XBOX Project Natal – my first impressions and predictions for a green Christmas (Steve Clayton)
• Look Up Information From Your Phone (Office Team)
• Stacks and stacks of data – Your copy of the Stack Overflow’s (and family) public data is a download away (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #551 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2010 — #806 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds – March 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)

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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives

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• New Offers for Visual Studio 2010 (Somasegar)
• Call for Speakers for Philly.NET Code Camp 2010.1 (Nick Berardi)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 : Performance tuning (Paul Harrington)
• Location sensor for Windows 7 – It’s about time! (Arian T. Kulp)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Rhino DivanDB – A full coding sample – Embedded (Oren Eini)
• Release Candidate of Database Projects available and GDR Power Tools update (Barclay Hill)
• NServiceBus 2.0 RTM (Udi Dahan)
• Making VS2010 and/or your WPF applications happy in Remote Desktop/RDP Land (Greg Duncan)
• Marshal.ReleaseComObject Considered Dangerous (Paul Harrington)
• Import and Export DataTips — vstipDebug0013 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Consuming WCF 3.5 REST Service in Windows Mobile 6 Emulator and Windows Mobile Device (Mahesh Sabnis)

Web Development

• Difference between ASP.NET Sessions, Application variables and Cache objects. (Al Pascual)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Rails: Live Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDRAS (O’Reilly Media)
• Building a Star Rating System with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
• Sharing ObjectDataSource From Codebehind (Dave M. Bush)
• Discover which Control Raised a PostBack (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Evaluating enhancements (Simon Brown)
• User Stories and TFS2010 – Like Carmel and apples and Visual Studio 2010 makes Testing/QA professionals officially happy (it’s true!) – Test Professional and Test Case WorkItem Type (Greg Duncan)
• Getting Results the Agile Way – The Book on Getting Results (J.D. Meier)
• The Problems With Acceptance Testing (James Shore)
• Thought experiment: The Curry Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Agile lets people be people (Patrick Kua)
• An Evolution of Test-Specification Styles – My Journey to MSpec (Richard Cirerol)
• Intro To Git (Jesse Freeman)
• New Site for Agile Managers and Team Leaders (Jurgen Appelo)
• A reminder about context switching (Mark Needham)
• MSpec Live Templates (Hadi Hariri)
• Book Review – Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (Russell Ball)

Silverlight / WPF

• LocBaml for .NET 4.0 (Michael Sync)
• Using the RawImage in a WPF application. (Luis Cabrera)
• WPF : A Fun Little Boids Type Thing (Sacha Barber)
• Running CSLA .NET 3.8.2 under .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Live Geometry (Kirill Osenkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Oren Eini on Creating DSLs in Boo (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Connected Show Podcast – Is That A Phone In Your Pocket?! (Brian Johnson)
• The Engadget Show – 006: Avner Ronen, the first Windows Phone 7 Series device, Dell Mini 5, and more! (Chad Mumm)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #165: Introduction to Nhibernate.Burrow (Derik Whittaker)
• Destination Adapter Comparison : SSIS Video Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 50: Multi-Point Server, IE6 Funeral, 3 Designs for Windows Phone (Laura Foy)
• Silverlight TV 11: Dynamically Loading XAPs with MEF (John Papa)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Iron with Jimmy Schementi (Jeff Brand)
• Pluralcast #10 : Reading Code with Alan Stevens (David Starr)
• The Verification Corner – Specifications in Action with Spec# (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• SMX West 2010, Steve Ballmer Edition (Aya Zook)
• Silverlight Design Day Registration Open for Boston (Adam Kinney)
• Events This Week – March 1st, 2010 and Post-MSDN Roadshow Geek Dinner in Richmond This Wednesday! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Headspring Agile Boot Camp, March 24-26 – sign up now – Austin, TX (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Microsoft Shows off Mobile Surface at TechFest 2010 (Hammad)
• March Community Calendar (Joel Cochran)
• Announcing New England GiveCamp (Jim O’Neil)
• The 1st of March: Did you know Stir Trek: Iron Man Edition is on May 7, 2010? (Jeff Blankenburg)

Database

• How Do You Drive Your DBA Mad? (Andy Warren)
• Powershell for Batch Operations (Grant Fritchey)
• Have you backed up your keys lately? (Buck Woody)
• Ten years of SQL Server (Jamie Thomson)
• Getting SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express installed on Windows 7 (Matt Milner)
• Execute Package Task Packages fail for no apparent reason (Simon Sabin)
• Why do you need a primary and a secondary access key for Windows Azure storage? (Jennifer Marsman)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Site Definition Upgrade Discussion with Microsoft’s Sean Livingston (Joel Oleson)
• Walkthrough of enabling CRUD for SharePoint 2010 external lists using Visual Studio 2010 (SharePoint Team)
• Lightning Conductor Calendar View (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Google welcomes Picnik (Brian Axe)
• WHS Add-in WHS Mobile version 1.5.4.0 available (Ben Palmer)
• Bing Autosuggest – History Repeats Itself – and That is a Good Thing (Robert Williams & Todd Schwartz)
• Attracting Talent (Eric Lippert)
• Introducing Robots API v2: The Rise of Active Robots (Dan Peterson)
• Play Guitar By Flexing Alone: Microsoft Research’s Muscle-Computer Interface (Wilson Rothman)
• Zune (phone) news (Kip Kniskern)
• My MacGyver Moment (Jeremiah Peschka)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.02.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #550 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #109 (David Vidmar)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

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Top Links

• Multithreading for the future (Arian T. Kulp)
• The Case for ViewModel (Nikhil Kothari)
• MIDI Music in WPF Applications (Charles Petzold)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 (MS Downloads)
• Visual Studio Word Wrap (Richard Carr)
• Using GetProperties() in C# (Rhonda Tipton)
• Navigate Backward and Navigate Forward — vstipEdit0024 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Generic Co- and Contravariance in Visual Basic 2010 (Binyam Kelile)

Web Development

• How to Search Twitter Profiles by Web or API (Adam DuVander)
• The Future Of CSS Typography (Inayaili de Leon)
• SiteMapProvider for Dynamic Data (.Net 3.5 SP1 and .Net 4.0) (Steve Naughton)
• Session Time Out Tricks (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are tools necessary for acceptance testing, or are they just evil? (Gojko Adzic)
• Leadership Tip: Stepping Out Of The Frame And Being The Guy That Takes The Picture. (Rajiv Popat)
• Failure Is Not An Option, It Is A Requirement. (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Coding 4 Fun – Never miss a message again (Arian T. Kulp)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 351: PAX East, SXSW and Battlefield Bad Company 2 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 103- PowerScripting Podcast – MVPs Brandon Shell and Oisin Grehan (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• F# – Hello WPF and MDCC TechTalk – Parallel Computing Platform (Martin Esmann)

Community / Events

• Austin Texas The Techie Town (Phil Haack)

Database

• Rhino Divan DB – Design (Oren Eini)
• Coding Concepts are Cross Language, just because it is SQL means it can suck (Derik Whittaker)
• SQL SERVER – Data and Page Compressions – Data Storage and IO Improvement (Pinal Dave)
• Using diskpart to check disk partition alignment (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Executing BCS External Content Type Methods in C# (Hrayr  Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• Scripting Heroku Backups (Ben Scheirman)
• On Desginers, Developers and the Adobe and Microsoft worlds (Bob Bartholomay)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Windows 7: The Definitive Guide – Only $9.99! Use code DDW7G (O’Reilly Media)
• My First MobileShell Client (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Using Orca to manage MSI packages (Gunnar Peipman)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #549 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 28, 2010 — #805 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (2/28/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 134 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/1/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: March 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)

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Pro WPF in C# 2010

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