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Top Links

• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Drag and Drop (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Code Comments, What Are They Good For? (Russell Ball)
• EntLib 5 and Unity 2 Beta 2 Downloads (David Hayden)
• S#arp Architecture 1.5 Beta 1 released (Alec Whittington)
• Silverlight 4 PathListBox for Motion Path Animation (Andy Beaulieu)
• Compiled or Bust? (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• GAT/GAX Dev10 RC Available (Bob Brumfield)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part III: Breaking Changes (Chris Burrows)
• MSDTC Woes With NServiceBus And NHibernate (Davy Brion)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Image Insertion – Extension #2 (Sara Ford)
• Cleaning Up a Folder Structure From Visual Studio Artifacts From the Shell (Simone Chiaretta)
• C++, Java and .NET: Lessons Learned from the Internet Age (Matt Raible)
• Functional C#: Continuation Passing Style (Mark Needham)
• Encoding fun with XmlWriter and StreamWriter (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Do you know the minimum builds to create on any branch? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows 7 Taskbar Features in .NET 4 (Jason De Lorme)

Web Development

• On Building a Data-Driven E-Commerce Site (Chris Sells)
• Got SQL Azure? Then you’ve got OData (OData.org)
• An even better way to run T4MVC: a VS AddIn (David Ebbo)
• The New JavaScript Engine in Internet Explorer 9 (Shanku Niyogi)
• SVG in IE9 Roadmap (Jennifer Yu)
• I spy a Live Framework portal (Jamie Thomson)
• NHibernate, HttpModules, ASP.NET JSON Web Services and Database Transactions (Jason Grundy)
• Getting started with node.js on Windows (Scott Koon)
• An easy way to set up an OData feed from your SQL Azure database (Stephen Forte)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 8: Planning and Agile Friday: "Slack" Now Online (James Shore)
• Essential and accidental complexity (Mark Needham)
• Getting Things Done (Ben Yoder)
• Rhino Mocks Examples, with a fix (Sharon J. Cichelli)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part II and Blend 4: About Path Layout, Sidebar – More About ListBox Than You Ever Wanted To Know (Christian Schormann)
• Synchronous Web Service Calls in Silverlight using JavaScript (Daniel Vaughan)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
• 10 Favorite Open Source Fonts You Can Embed in WPF or Silverlight (Robby Ingebretsen)
• GetObject vs StartObject in System.Xaml (Michael Shim)
• Developing a Windows Phone 7 Application that consumes OData (Phani Raj)
• Silverlight 4 RC API listing in one big text file (Nick Kramer)
• Silverlight 4 RC RichTextBox changes (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mix10 Session – 6 Things Every jQuery Developer Must Know (Elijah Manor)
• SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell-Episode 44 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Techfest: NUI Movement (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Author news: An interview with Jeffrey Richter (Devon Musgrave)
• MIX 10 Wrapup (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Azure Firestarter Event: April 6th, 2010 (Steve Marx)
• Upcoming Webcast: LINQPad: Version 2 and Beyond – Live Event March 23, 2010 (O’Reilly Media)
• Get Ready to Party – SharePoint 2010 Community Launch Party! (Joel Oleson)

Database

• PowerShell: Read Excel to Create Inserts (Buck Woody)
• Kill your temp tables using keyboard shortcuts : SSMS and SSIS Lookup component tuning tips (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions & Answers Needs Your Help (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Stay Interview Instead of Exit Interview (Andy Warren)
• Microsoft Releases Updated Free Panoramic "Image Composite Editor" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Windows XP Mode to no longer require hardware virtualization [Updated: Now with links to the 32/64 update/patch] (Greg Duncan)
• Can Microsoft out Microsoft Apple? (Stephen Forte)
• How to Launch the Recycle Bin from the Start Menu Search Box (The How-To Geek)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #563 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 46 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition)

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Top Links

• Popfly Game Engine updated to run on Windows Phone 7 Series (Ben Anderson)
• The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript Released (Matthew Podwysocki)
• 36 Best Business Books that Influenced Microsoft Leaders (J.D. Meier)
• Writing a StarCraft Bot in F# (Chris Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Collapse to Definitions with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with WCF: Part Two – Your First Host and A Bit About Configuration (James Bender)
• Implementations of Slideshow in C# and Clojure (Craig Andera)
• Architecture Analysis Practices with VS2010 Direct Graphs and Layer Diagrams (Clemens Reijnen)
• Visualizing large code bases with VS2010 (Cameron Skinner)
• New Controls Added to the Community Control Gallery (Jay Esguerra)

Web Development

• Announcing the Border Radius Support plugin (Scott Koon)
• Session and Cache are By Reference (Peter Bromberg)
• Bundler Now Supports Css And .less (Justin Etheredge)
• XmlWriter, encodings and BOM (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Filtering RSS Feed using LINQ and Binding to an ASP.NET GridView (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Remove page flicker in IE8 (Wesley Bakker)
• Now Available: Command-line Tool for PHP to Deploy Applications on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• ASP.NET Forms Authentication to Azure Table Storage (J.D. Meier)
• DisplayAttribute “Prompt” or Watermark in Dynamic Data 4 (Visual Studio 2010 & .Net 4.0) (Steve Naughton)
• Web Client Guidance Nears Completion (Blaine Wastell)
• Update on the open source .NET Data Services Client (OData Team)
• More Standards Documentation Available (John Hrvatin)
• Test drive 104 new Professional-grade tests for web standards (Jason Upton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Anti Patterns Catalog (Leon Gersing)
• Challenge: Learn One New Thing Today (Buck Woody)
• Scrum Gathering Musings (Karl Scotland)
• Working With Assertions Made on Arguments in Rhino Mocks (Chris Missal)
• Application Events: Modeling Selection vs De-Selection as Separate Events? (Derick Bailey)
• Do you know that every user story should have an owner? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Serializing models for RouteValueDictionary and later model binding (Matt Hinze)
• How UX can get anything they want (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part II (Christian Schormann)
• Physics Games in Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight for Symbian Beta available now (Sunshine)
• Let it ring – WriteableBitmapEx for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Released at Mix (Michael S. Scherotter)
• WPF : Re-usable MVVM Ready Breadcrumb control (Sacha Barber)
• Confessions of a ListBox groupie [Using IValueConverter to create a grouped list of items simply and flexibly] (David Anson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Agile 2009 – Bob Martin – The software craftsmanship movement (Bob Payne)
• .NET Rocks! – Instrumenting Applications with Runtime Intelligence (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Rhino ETL Video (Oren Eini)
• Ken Schwaber and and Sam Guckenheimer: Professional Scrum Development and Introducing RxJS – Reactive Extensions for JavaScript and Erik Porter and Nathan Heskew: Introducing Orchard (Charles Torre)
• Managing SharePoint Designer 2010 Video (SharePoint Designer Team)
• Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight (John Papa)
• Unit Testing Silverlight & Windows Phone Applications – talk now online (Jeff Wilcox)
• Covariance and Contravariance in .NET 4.0 (Martin Esmann)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #167: Setting Up Basic Mappings w/ Fluent NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• The MIX10 Photo Montage (Me)
• MIX10 Favorites (Joel Cochran)
• MSDN Flash Editorial for March 15th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Designing practical workshops (Gojko Adzic)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Mirroring Configured Without Domain – The server network address TCP://SQLServerName:5023 can not be reached or does not exist (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• MozyHome to branch out and cover Windows Home Server (Ben Palmer)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99! Use code DDQB2 (O’Reilly Media)
• Cloud Computing is a bad metaphor (Scott Berkun)
• WorldWide Telescope Map App released and Windows Live Wave 4 leaked! (Sunshine)
• iPhone 3.2 SDK Beta 5 Now Available for iPad (Taimur Asad)
• Testing the Internet Explorer Platform Preview (IE9) – reviewing the good, the bad and the main letdown (Robert Nyman)
• Microsoft’s preview release plans for IE9 are a good start, but I want more! (Lee Mathews)
• Early Peek at Internet Explorer 9 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Phone 7 Gets Its First Twitter App: Twikini (Greg Kumparak)
• IE9: Microsoft’s new browser gets no respect at all (Ed Bott)
• Your Best Foot Forward: Writing An Effective Technical Cover Letter (Eric Anderson)
• Windows Phone 7 Series’ cutting room floor is an extravaganza of bright colors and chunky fonts (Chris Ziegler)

More Link Collections

• Linkblogging: 2009 Q4 (Pete Seale)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #562 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for March 17, 2010 — #814 (Dave Campbell)

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Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

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Top Links

• Mix10 Session Downloader (Frank La Vigne)
• HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating (Stephen Walther)
• Prism 4.0 Plans (Blaine Wastell)
• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton Tells UI Developers to ‘Do It Naturally’ (Joe Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Review of RedGate .NET Reflector Pro (Scott Seely)
• Cleaning up a folder structure from Visual Studio artifacts from the shell (Simone Chiaretta)
• Collapsing or Expanding All Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
• Working with WCF: Part Two – Your First Host and A Bit About Configuration (James Bender)
• TMap for VS2010 Process Template Explained… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Protecting PowerShell Scripts with Team Foundation Server (TFS) (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Coding4Fun Cannon – Project Overview (Clint Rutkas)
• XNA Tutorial Gets Game Developers Ready for Windows phone 7 (Bruce Kyle)

Web Development

• Take Control Of Web Control ClientID Values in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Building Social Web Applications – Only $9.99! Use code DDBSW (O’Reilly Media)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing deeper (Matthew Podwysocki)
• IE9 Finally Ready to Join the HTML5 Party (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Translator v2 widget and APIs (Kip Kniskern)
• Announcing the OData Explorer (Phani Raj)
• OData.org updated, gives clues about future SQL Azure enhancements (Jamie Thomson)
• Windows Phone 7 user agent (Mads Kristensen)
• OData rocking at MIX10 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Microsoft <3 jQuery (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton on Design (Ina Fried)
• Take a look at the Windows Phone 7 Series “Metro” book (Devon Musgrave)
• Parallel Pair Programming (Mark Needham)
• Measuring Technical Debt (Mitch Ruebush)
• The Complexity Hammer (Steve Rowe)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part I (Christian Schormann)
• Silverlight 4: GPU Accelerated PlaneProjection (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 is NOT the same full Silverlight 3 RTM (Bart Czernicki)
• Testing a WPF UI using Ruby, Cucumber and WiPFlash.dll (Ben Hall)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services and Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight for Symbian Beta available now (Sunshine)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 4 : Direct Hosting of WPF content (Paul Harrington)
• Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application (Pete Brown)
• Control input focus from ViewModel objects (Josh Smith)
• MVVM Light V3 released at #MIX10 and What’s new in MVVM Light V3 and Sample code for my #mix10 talk online (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight 4 RC News (Don Burnett)
• Some steps for moving WCF RIA Services Preview to the RC version. (Fredrik Normen)
• Windows Phone 7 Series will have themes… sort of (Nilay Patel)
• WPF : Re-usable MVVM Ready Breadcrumb control (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• In your hands: IE 9 – Surfing on Metal with GPU Powered HTML5 and In your hands: IE9 and SVG – Past, Present and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web and In your hands: IE 9 Performance – From JS to COM to DOM to HTML5 on GPU and In your hands: Introducing the IE9 Developer Platform Preview (Charles Torre)
• “Build Your Own MVVM Framework” is Online (Rob Eisenberg)
• J.B. Rainsberger – Value Objects (Corey Haines)
• Covariance and Contravariance in .NET 4.0 (Martin Esmann)
• Silverlight TV 16: Top Features in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight (John Papa)

Community / Events

• MIX10 Day 2 Keynote – IE9, OData and Azure (Me)
• MIX10 – Day 1 and MIX10 – Day 2 – First IE9 Platform Preview, OData SDKs, “Dallas” CTP2 (Sunshine)
• Getting Started With nServiceBus on VAN Mar 31 (Zachariah Young)
• Philly.Net Code Camp 2010.1 is Coming… (Mitch Ruebush)
• IE9 Platform Preview Feedback (Justin Saint Clair)
• Side Projects, Community Involvement, Etc. (Derick Bailey)
• What’s Up at Mix: IE9, JQuery and Open Data (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• Using linked servers, OPENROWSET and OPENQUERY (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and WITH NO_WAIT during ALTER DATABASE (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Chat Web Part for SP 2010 – Sandbox Solution (Lightning Tools)
• Advanced donut caching: using dynamically loaded controls (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Zune 4.2 (MS Downloads)
• An Interview Question That Prints Out It’s Own Source Code (In Ruby) (Alan Skorkin)
• Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office Released – Automate Office documents without Office (Greg Duncan)
• Daily Dose – IBM Stops Disclosing Number of U.S. Employees (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Office 2010 Assessment & Planning (Brian Shiers)
• About the Platform Preview (Justin Saint Clair)
• Microsoft Bing: Behind the Scenes of the Decision Engine (Stefan Weitz)

More Link Collections

• Great Blog Posts on Expression Blend 4 for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #561 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 408 (Sam Gentile)
• Mix 10 Rollup Post (Scott Hanselman)

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Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

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Architectural constructs (Simon Brown)

Structuring the software design process (Simon Brown)

jqueryvsmootools.com – great comparison site (Michael Kimsal)

Introducing Blend 4 – For Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)

Pessimistic Locking (Richard Carr)

.NET Rocks! – Phil Haack Introduces MVC 2 (Carl Franklin)

Bing API, Version 2 (MS Downloads)

Expression Blend 4 Beta Feature Overview available for download (Adam Kinney)

The Difference Between A Developer, A Programmer And A Computer Scientist (Alan Skorkin)

MIX10 Day 1 Keynote – Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7 Series (Me)

Interesting Finds: March 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)

VS 2008 CloudServiceItems.vsi (Jason Haley)

Silverlight 4 and RIA Services Release Candidate Available NOW (Brad Abrams)

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Index (Brad Abrams)

The Morning Brew #560 (Chris Alcock)

REST: Resources, URI’s and Representations (Cory Isakson)

Prism – A Look Ahead (David Hill)

Silverlight 4 RC Announced, Plays Nice with Visual Studio Again (David Makogon)

Semantic Code: Migrating From A Chatty Interface To A Simple One With A Data Transfer Object (Derick Bailey)

A Type Safe IDataReader Wrapper (Derick Bailey)

Entity Framework 4.0: Optimal and horrible SQL (Gunnar Peipman)

Windows Phone Series 7 Emulator Images (Don Burnett)

MIX10 Day 1 wrap-up: five trends you might have missed (Ed Bott)

Tech Tweets for 15-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Three (Eric Lippert)

Events This Week – March 15th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

PS for your VS – PowerConsole a PowerShell console for VS 2010 (Greg Duncan)

Code Access Security and .NET 4.0 (Jason De Lorme)

How to know if you’re a coding optimist or pessimist (Jeremy D. Miller)

Windows Phone 7 Series actually looks pretty good (Joe Wilcox)

Silverlight TV 15: Announcing Silverlight 4 RC (John Papa)

Silverlight TV 14: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight (John Papa)

The Book Shelf: Lean Software Development An Agile Toolkit (John V. Petersen)

Office OpenXML SDK 2.0 RTW (John Wiese)

The Silverlight definitive diff lists (Koen Zwikstra)

Surface + Dungeons and Dragons = Surfacescapes (Larry Larsen)

Windows Phone 7 Keynote Announcements from MIX 10 (Laura Foy)

Ping 52: Nic Fillingham, Windows Phone 7, XNA and Channel 9 Live (Laura Foy)

We’re at MIX! (Lyndsey Clevesy)

Using FTP to access Windows Azure Blob Storage (Maarten Balliauw)

Adventures in Scrum: Lesson 1 – The failed Sprint (Martin Hinshelwood)

Adventures in Scrum: Lesson 2 – For the record (Martin Hinshelwood)

Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Wikipedia Lookup (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight 4 RC and Windows Phone Marketplace Unveiled at MIX (Mitch P.)

VMware Hires Key NoSQL Developer (Mitch P.)

Daily Dose – XML Co-Inventor Joins Android Team; Scorns Apple (Mitch P.)

Three Windows Phone 7 Series devices, all in a row (Nilay Patel)

#Ebook Deal of the Day: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Only $9.99! Use code DD97T (O’Reilly Media)

Jeff Handley on WCF RIA Services for Silverlight 4 (Pete Brown)

New Videos up on Channel 9: WPF with C++ and WCF RIA Services (Pete Brown)

Pete Blois on Windows Phone 7 in Blend 4 and Rooler (Pete Brown)

Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (RC) (Pete Brown)

Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application (Pete Brown)

SQL SERVER – MAXDOP Settings to Limit Query to Run on Specific CPU (Pinal Dave)

SQL SERVER – Quick Note of Database Mirroring (Pinal Dave)

AgiliTrain Announces Two New Windows Phone Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)

Start preparing for the Silverlight Pivot control now (Silverlight Team)

Recap of MIX10 Day 1 (Silverlight Team)

SSMS – Please get keyboard shortcuts working for schemas (Simon Sabin)

Introducing Windows Phone 7 Development Tools (Somasegar)

Pluralcast # 11 : Parallel Programming in .NET 4 (David Starr)

Using Microsoft Surface for Agile Planning (Stephanie Saad)

Bing for Nokia S60 (Stimulant)

Sort Items in an XML file using LINQToXML and Load it in a Dictionary (Suprotim Agarwal)

Windows Phone 7 ROM Build 7.0.0.6077 (Taimur Asad)

The Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (Rene Schulte)

Mix Session: Windows Phone UI and Design Language (Christian Schormann)

New in the Silverlight 4 RC: XAML Features (David Poll)

A guide to what has changed in the Silverlight 4 RC (Tim Heuer)

Getting Started with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Development (Tim Heuer)

Visual Studio 2010 Text Clarity: ClearType Options (Paul Harrington)

Expanding Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)

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Top Links

• First Encounters of the MEF Kind (Mike Ceranski)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 5 – Magellan and more with Paul Stovell (Richard Banks)
• Why does Visual Studio 2010 convert my projects? (Richa Prasad)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Layered diagram extensions (Pieter de Bruin)
• Visual Studio Team System 2005 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer) (MS Downloads)
• Better error messages – Part 2 (Aeshen) and Better error messages – Part 3 (Aeshen) (Arian T. Kulp)
• Using FTP to access Windows Azure Blob Storage (Maarten Balliauw)
• Bruger Test Automation med Visual Studio 2010 (Martin Esmann)
• NHibernate Tip: Use set for many-to-many associations (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Collapsing Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• node.js: First thoughts (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Be Honest And Committed To Shipping – Whether It Is In Or Outside Your Organization. (Rajiv Popat)
• Are You Playing Checker or Chess? – YAGNI Revisited (Tim Barcz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio Special – Niklas Gustafsson om Axum (Dag König)
• Screencast: Best Practices in SharePoint User Management (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Major Nelson Show 353: Wil Wheaton, MW2 Stimulus Package and Supreme Commander (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 105- PowerScripting Podcast – PSCX 2.0 with Keith Hill and Oisin Grehan (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• New Videos up on Channel 9: WPF with C++ and WCF RIA Services (Pete Brown)

Community / Events

• Mix Session: Windows Phone UI and Design Language (Christian Schormann)
• Watch Microsoft MIX10 Live Keynotes March 15 & 16 (Zhiming Xue)

Database

• SQL SERVER – MAXDOP Settings to Limit Query to Run on Specific CPU (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS – Please get keyboard shortcuts working for schemas (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: CouchDB: The Definitive Guide – Only $9.99! Use code DDCDB (O’Reilly Media)
• Daily Dose – Apple Doesn’t Win Case Against Users of "i" (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #559 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #111 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #96 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 136 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (3/14/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

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Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions

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Top Links

• What do you think of the EntLib 5.0 configuration tool? (Tom Hollander)
• patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide Layer Diagrams (Pre Release) (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Just because it’s virtual doesn’t mean it isn’t real… Using Visual Studio Lab Management to help virtualize your ALM (Greg Duncan)
• VS2010 TMap Testing Template | The Test Infrastructure (Clemens Reijnen)
• Windows Azure Platform Training Roadmap (Bill Zack)
• How to Convert Tabs to Spaces and Vice Versa (Zain Naboulsi)
• T4 Tutorial: Integrating Generated Files in Visual Studio Projects (Oleg Sych)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation to create OData feeds (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

• Get The Drop On ASP.NET MVC DropDownLists (Mike Brind)
• Using T4 Templates to Create Strongly Typed View Names (Mohammad Azam)
• What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 – Better ViewState Control (Suprotim Agarwal)
• MvcFutures (Tony Rasa)
• Asp.Net MVC 2 Areas (Chris Brandsma)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Where do you start? (Simon Brown)
• Layer Diagram templates for P&P Architecture Guide (Cameron Skinner)
• My (very) short list of must read books for aspiring designers #mix10 (Robby Ingebretsen)
• Use Your Spine And Commitment To Avoid Or Stop Haggling Over Timelines. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Making WPF Binding Errors Exceptions (Jason Bock)
• I’m writing a MVVM book – What would you like to see in it? (Brian Lagunas)
• Article Published: Context Sensitive History. Part 2 of 2 (Daniel Vaughan)
• Henry Sowizral on Refacing C++ with WPF in Expression Design (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 147: Now More Random (Paul Thurrott)
• Format-PoshTable – A Video (Joel Bennett)
• ARCast.TV – IHI Shines Silverlight on Healthcare Improvement (Bob Familiar)
• Engadget Podcast 187 – 03.13.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Interview with "Uncle Bob" Martin (Gil Zilberfeld)

Community / Events

• What I’ll be doing at MIX10 – sessions, events and Channel 9 Live! (Adam Kinney)
• MIX10 Resources (Corey Schuman)
• Announcing events WPF for LOB & Windows 7 and .NET 4 (Karl Shifflett)
• MIX 2010 Twitter Map, powered by Bing Maps (Katrien De Graeve)
• Come Hang at Mix…MVVM Style (Rob Eisenberg)
• DLS @ SXSW – Microsoft booth tour (Victor Agreda, Jr.)
• AgiliTrain is Giving Away Three Seats to Silverlight Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Upcoming Wave Developer Events (Pamela Fox)

Database

• Optimistic Locking (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – Interesting Whitepaper – We Loaded 1TB in 30 Minutes with SSIS, and So Can You (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• How Apple should combat Windows Phone 7 Series gaming (Imran Hussain)
• UppercuT – Custom Extensions Now With PowerShell and Ruby (Rob Reynolds)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 14, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 13, 2010 — #813 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.08 ~ 03.14 (yuanjian)
• New and Notable 407 (Sam Gentile)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/14/2010 (Pete Brown)

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jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide

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Top Links

• .toolbox – Free online Silverlight and Expression Blend training (Adam Kinney)
• Southern Maryland GiveCamp is One Week Away – Help Still Needed! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Ms-PL Source Release for System.Web.Mvc 2 (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Printing the File Path in the Page Header and Automatic vs. Default in Fonts and Colors (Zain Naboulsi)
• Getting an Assembly From the GAC (Jim Holmes)
• That Splitting Thing (Oliver Sturm)
• Visual Studio Addin failed to load (Patrick Smacchia)
• dotTrace 3.1 64-bit disabled inside Visual Studio 2008 (Sergio Pereira)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation to create OData feeds (Stephen Forte)
• TOC and excerpts for Richter’s CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• SQL Style Extensions for C# (Leon Bambrick)
• Announcing the MEF Contrib Documentation Project (Chris Woodruff)
• Including Existing Templates in a VSIX Container (Aaron Marten)

Web Development

• Daily Dose – ASP.NET MVC 2 Has Arrived (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Goodbye Http Handler, Hello FileResult (Mike Ceranski)
• ASP.NET: Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory (Michael C. Neel)
• Azure: The true cost of web and worker roles (David Makogon)
• Get The Drop On ASP.NET MVC DropDownLists (Mike Brind)
• A better way to auto-run T4MVC when you build (David Ebbo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail (Mark Suster)
• Leadership Tip – Letting The Critic Speak Up Whenever Needed. (Rajiv Popat)
• The cult of busy (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• “Advanced MVVM” Book Review (Justin Angel)
• Previewing fonts in WPF with no code or executable (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Microsoft User Experience Kit launched today at SXSW (Silverlight Team)
• The MIX10 Trivia Application – Silverlight, WCF, ASP.NET (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 4: Implicit Themes and a Sneak Peek (Brian Lagunas)
• A Designer-friendly Approach to MVVM (András Velvárt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Thirsty Developer 88: Coding 4 Fun with Clint Rutkas (Dave Bost)
• GDC 2010: XNA Game Studio 4.0 (Tina Wood)
• SP Tech Con Interviews-Episode 43 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• endpoint.tv – WF4 in the Real World – Microsoft CRM (Ron Jacobs)
• Cloud Cover Episode 4 – CDN (Ryan Dunn)
• jQuery Podcast 15 – John Resig (1.4.1 – 1.4.2) (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Connected Show Podcast: The One About The News (Brian Johnson)
• Community Megaphone Show #5 with guest Steve Michelotti (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #85 (Jeff Atwood)

Community / Events

• SketchFlow and Blend at Mix 2010 (Christian Schormann)
• AgiliTrain is Giving Away Three Seats to Silverlight Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)
• IE9 and MIX10: six big questions for Microsoft (Ed Bott)
• Mike Swanson on MIX10 (Frank La Vigne)
• Some of the ways to keep up with MIX10 (Devon Musgrave)
• What to expect (and what not to) from Mix (Kip Kniskern)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 CTP 1 and SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (March 2010 Update) (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 with Powershell (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Your Interview: Question & answer game plan (Part 3 of 3) (Ryan Graves)
• Facebook Add-ons for IE8 (Giorgio Sardo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 12, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• F# Discoveries This Week 03/12/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Resources from MSDN Event – Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, SharePoint 2010 (Dave Bost)

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IronRuby Unleashed

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• The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework is releasing at MIX 2010 (Silverlight Team)
• Sharing Solutions between VS 2008 and VS 2010 (Oliver Sturm)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released (Scott Guthrie)
• WebForms vs MVC (again) (Karl Seguin)
• A Visual Look At The LINQ SelectMany Operator (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Pre-Order Visual Studio 2010 Professional upgrade today, and save hundreds (Omar)
• Printing the File Path in the Page Header (Zain Naboulsi)
• Introducing the Visual Studio Extension of the week and Visual Studio Color Theme Editor – Extension #01 (Sara Ford)
• How to merge your referenced assemblies into the output assembly for improved usability (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Upcoming: Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 (Devon Musgrave)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Zen Coding and ReSharper PowerToys (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 – SEO Enhancements with MetaKeywords and MetaDescription properties (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Binding a select in a client template (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Issue with dependent assemblies when rebuilding a WAP and the Workarounds (Anh Phan)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released! (Phil Haack)
• Did you miss the IIS7 FastCGI Update ? (Joe Stagner)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – From Blocking to Async (Matthew Podwysocki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Tips to get the most out of your coding time (Hatim Rih)
• Agile Friday: "Done Done" Now Online and The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 7: Releasing (James Shore)
• Gallio/MbUnit very slow? and Gallio.Utility.exe considered evil (Oliver Sturm)
• Advanced Castle Windsor – generic typed factories, auto-release and more (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail (Mark Suster)
• You can’t learn the basics from the pros (Oren Eini)
• Good list to help run a brainstorming session (Jason Haley)
• Pairing isn’t the Solution (Jay Fields)
• FIT vs SLIM (Gojko Adzic)
• Multi-User Systems and Concurrency (Richard Carr)
• Why Programmers Can’t Program (Dave M. Bush)
• Code Bubbles – A very interesting coding UX (John V. Petersen)

Silverlight / WPF

• SNEAK PEEK: New Silverlight application themes (Tim Heuer)
• WPF Text Clarity Improvements (Brittany Behrens)
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 3) – Silverlight Styles and Themes (Me)
• Silverlight 4 Book Discount Codes and Avast Ye XAML Heads (Frank La Vigne)
• SNEAK PEEK: .toolbox design school for Silverlight and Expression (Adam Kinney)
• WCF Ria Services For Real (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How to Parallelize Your Application – Part 1 Why Do It? and Part 2 Threads v Tasks and Part 3 Using Tasks (Bruce Kyle)
• Two Introductory VS2010 Entity Framework Videos on Pluralsight on Demand (Julie Lerman)
• Free TekPub Episode: Using Mercurial with CodePlex (Matt Hawley)
• Episode #6 – Julie Lermon on Learning The Entity Framework (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 13: MVVM Light Toolkit (John Papa)
• Video of FOSDEM IronRuby presentation (Ivan Porto Carrero)

Community / Events

• RJ and The Microsoft Military Community: We Still Serve (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Welcome Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00004 (Jeff Atwood)
• Geek out about SharePoint with SharePoint MVPs (Joseph Mirabella)
• SketchFlow and Blend at Mix 2010 (Christian Schormann)
• Meet SilverlightShow at MIX and Get a FREE T-shirt (Emil Stoychev)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Checklist for Analyzing Slow-Running Queries (Pinal Dave)
• The Busy Developer’s Guide to SQL Server Modeling (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Learning SQL Server (Martin Bell)
• If timestamp is deprecated, why do none of the current db tools support rowversion? (Julie Lerman)
• SSIS – XML Source Script (Simon Sabin)
• System Variables, Stored Procedures or Functions for Meta Data (Buck Woody)

Miscellaneous

• eBook Pricing (Jim Minatel)
• The incomplete list of impolite WP7 dev requests (Chris Sells)
• Poll: Which office software suite have you chosen? (Ed Bott)
• 2010 Shaping Up As Big Year for Speech Recognition (Zig Serafin)
• MSDN Windows Developer Center Redesign (Pete Brown)
• Introducing the Google Wave Extensions Gallery (Dan Peterson)

More Link Collections

• Creators Club Communiqué 45 (Kathleen Sanders)
• The Morning Brew #558 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 11, 2010 — #812 (Dave Campbell)

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Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB

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• 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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