• Some Finalizer Pitfalls and Not All Bytes Are Exactly 8 Bits (Oren Eini)
• Finalizer vs. Application: A Race Condition From Hell and Guaranteed, Finalization Order Is Not (Sasha Goldshtein)
• CBR/CBZ Comics in C# (thund3rstruck)
• ReSharper 4.0 Lambda Refactoring (David Starr)
• Countdown to F# CTP (Chris Smith)
• There’s Usually an Easier Way (Mike Hadlow)
• Extended DSL Model Explorer – Release v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Migratory Compromises (Dave Laribee)
• The Poetry of Testing and Prevention v. Cure (Part 3) (James Whittaker)
• Three Qualities That Every Piece of Code Should Have (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Going Full Circle with TDD (Kyle Baley)
• .NET Rocks! – Christian Weyer on the Internet Service Bus (MS Downloads)
• Five Questions with Kyle Larsen (Michael Hunter)
• Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History (David Starr)
• SOA Patterns Chapter 2 for Free Download (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Futures Is Out! (Vladimir Milev)
• Using CSLA Light, Part 1 and Part 2 (Rocky Lhotka)
• Expression Blend Training Resources (Frank La Vigne)
• WPF Photo Print (.NET 3.5 SP1) (Chris Cavanagh)
• Behold! Silverlight Streaming! (John Holliday)

Web Development

• Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Released (John O’Brien)
• How to Encrypt Query String Parameters in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #26 – Create a Lightweight Control View Engine (Stephen Walther)

Database

• Quick Tip: Generate Change Script for SQL Modifications (Ryan Lanciaux)
• SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Now Available (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• SQL Server Data Services (Aghy)
• SQL Server – Simple Example of Recursive CTE – Part 2 – MAXRECURSION – Prevent CTE Infinite Loop (Pinal Dave)
• SSDS Demo Code Now on CodePlex (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Magazine Articles for July (Arno Nel)
• Question to SharePoint Developers (Gunnar Peipman)

PowerShell

• DevHawk’s Slightly Useful PowerShell Configuration and Some PowerShell Scripts (Harry Pierson)

Events / Community

• Events This Week – July 28th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the Summer of Arcade and Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 Releases This Week (Larry Hryb)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Guthrie on MIX and Matthew Manela on the MSDN Code Gallery (MS Downloads)
• Cuil Shows Us How Not to Launch a Search Engine (Rafe Needleman)
• Nerd Test Results (Frank La Vigne) – My results are on my About Me page.
• Academics to Get a Glimpse of Microsoft’s Sphere (Ina Fried)
• Windows Live Wave 3: New Photo Feed Service – Windows Live FrameIt (Chris)
• IE8 and Reliability (Andy Zeigler)
• Tigerpress – A Free WordPress Theme (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2 (PhotoshopNews.com)
• The Mojave Experiment (Sunshine)
• Must-Have Software and Tools – July 2008 Edition (Tim Boland)

Link-O-Rama

• Weekly Links #11 (Grant Palin)
• Clearing a Blog Backlog (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.29 (gOODiDEA)
• Silverlight News for July 29, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
• Everyman Links for July 28, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2008 — #337 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #146 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #258 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Lessons Learned in Software Testing: Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord: Books

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• Data Structures and Algorithms Book (Granville Barnett)
• CSLA .NET 3.5.1 RC0 Available (Rocky Lhotka)
• Relational-Object-XML-Object with LINQ to SQL & LINQ to XML (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 5 (Justin Etheredge)
• More Fun with ‘yield return’ (Mike Hadlow)

Design / Methodology

• SCRUM — As Explained by Ken Schwaber (Manish Agrawal)
• The Data Disconnect (Justin Etheredge)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC: Avoiding Tag Soup (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, More Databinding Help with the DataView (Phani Raj)

Database

• Different Foreign Keys for Different Tables (Kenneth Downs)
• Simple Example of Recursive CTE (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• A New Search Engine Appears: Will You Use It? (Robert Scoble) – No.
• Understanding the Hardware (Jeff Atwood)

Link-O-Rama

• New and Notable 259 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: July 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2008 — #336 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight News for July 28, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Weekly Link Post 52 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (7/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #145 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – July 27, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) (Pragmatic Programmers): Michael Nygard: Books

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• SilverlightFlyoutPanel (Ola Karlsson)
• Improved XAML “Loading” Animation (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight Games and Today and More on the Way (Adam Kinney) – I spent way too much time playing HexMinesweeper last night.
• Hanselminutes Podcast 122 – BabySmash! (Scott Hanselman)
• Tip of the Day #21 – How to Work with Shapes, Brushes and Gradients (Mike Snow)
• .NET Rocks! – Brian Noyes: WPF Update and .NET Rocks! – Adam Nathan on Popfly and Silverlight (MS Downloads)
• Expression Encoder 2 VB.NET Update (James Clarke)
• Syncfusion Announces Essential Studio 2008 Volume 3 (Marissa Keller-Gusman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Generating MD5 Hash Out of C# Objects (Hasler Thomas)
• Rosario – Create Custom Team Architect UML Diagram Menu Items (Clemens Reijnen) – Link of the Day
• Video: New Error Checking Feature in Visual Studio Service Pack 1 (Charlie Calvert)
• Karvonite – Agile Persistence Framework – Release: July 2008 CTP (MSDN Code Gallery)

Design / Methodology

• The Scope of an Application (Oren Eini)
• Prevention v. Cure (Part 2) (James Whittaker)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 7: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee – Part 2 (Keith Elder)
• Stack Overflow Beta Design (Jeff Atwood)

Web Development

• Graffiti Extras 1.2 Released (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Make Your Website Mobile and iPhone Friendly – Add Home Screen iPhone Icons and Adjust the ViewPort (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, Master-Details View with the DataView, Part 2 (Phani Raj)

SQL Server

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 RTM on July 31st? (Steven Bink)

Blogging / Social Networking

• How to Make Your Blog More Personal (Darren Rowse)
• Blogs to Take Note Of (Cameron Skinner)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 123 – Dare Obasanjo on Social Networking (Scott Hanselman)
• StackOverflow.com Podcast: Subscribe for Education, Stay for Entertainment (Jay Fields)

Miscellaneous

• Invoking PowerShell From VBScript (COM) (Jeffrey Snover)
• 5 Ways to Deal with Difficult Clients (Mike Gunderloy)
• Beta Release of Office Outlook Connector Adds Calendar Syncing (Ed Oswald)
• HD View for Firefox 1.21 (MS Research) - Aids in the display of and interaction with very large images.
• 21 Months Later, Vista Is Still More Secure Than XP (Ed Bott)
• July 2008 Technical Reading List (Scott Hanselman)
• Mojave Experiment Gets a Web Site (Ina Fried)

Link-O-Rama

• Links of the Week July 25th (Chris Love)
• Silverlight Cream for July 25, 2008 — #334 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: July 25, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 257 (Sam Gentile)
• Visual Studio Link #57 (Darren Stokes)
• Morning Coffee 171 (Harry Pierson)
• Everyman Links for July 25, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (Pragmatic Programmers): Johanna Rothman, Esther Derby: Books

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• How to Review NHibernate Application (Oren Eini)
• IronRuby at OSCON (John Lam)
• LINQ Farm: More on the LINQ Aggregate Operators (Charlie Calvert)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 4 (Justin Etheredge)
• .NET Rocks! – Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton on Mono (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology

• Coding Without Comments (Jeff Atwood)
• Code Commenting? Try Business Commenting. (Avi Pilosof)
• Impedance Mismatch and System Evolution and Default Architecture: Layers (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• The MVC Minefield (Michael C. Neel)
• GridView or Repeater? (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Easy Ways to Make Your Technical Blog More Visible and Programmable (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• Book Review: The Productive Programmer – Neal Ford (Shawn Wildermuth)
• HD View Control for Internet Explorer (MS Research)
• Converting Columns to Date From DateTime Does Not Result in a Scan in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

Silverlight

• Silverlight a Flash Competitor, Not AIR Says Kevin Lynch (Schalk Neethling)
• An Adobe Evangelist Gives His Opinion on Silverlight (Dion Almaer)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 25, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Link (7/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #144 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series): Michael Feathers: Books

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.NET / Visual Studio

• MSTest, Why I Hate You… You Cause Me Too Much Friction and RhinoMocks New Arrange, Act, Assert Does Not Seem to Work Under MSTest… Odd (Derik Whittaker)
• ADO.NET Data Services Support for LINQ to NHibernate (David Hayden)
• Using Speech in Visual Studio (Phil Denoncourt)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 3 (Justin Etheredge)
• Professional Visual Studio 2008 (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Silverlight

• Tall Skinny Data Columns Using Improved WrapPanel for Silverlight (Matt Perdeck)
• Silverlight at Gamefest (Tim Heuer)
• Drawing Fractal Trees – Part 3 (Avi Pilosof)
• Getting Information About the SubImages of the MultiscalImage Control (Martin Mihaylov)

Design / Methodology

• Some Points About Services Layer (Gunnar Peipman)
• Prevention v. Cure (Part 1) (James Whittaker) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• ASP.NET Cookies – Client Side State Management (Gil Fink)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #24 – Retrieve Views From Different Folders (Stephen Walther)

SQL Server

• .NET Rocks! – Andy Leonard on Unit Testing Your Database (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Online Resources (Joe Webb)
• SQL Server 2005 – Track Down Active Transactions Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• stackoverflow Podcast #15 (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft Announces Reorganization – Platforms & Services Division Will Be Split Up (Gregor Herdmann)
• Getting Started With PowerShell 2 – Part 3 (Joel Bennett)
• More Information on Windows Live Wave 3 (damaster)
• Caligari trueSpace 7.6 for FREE?!? (Chris G. Williams)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 23, 2008 (Ilia Iordinov)
• Interesting Finds: July 23, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 256 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight News for July 24, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.24 (gOODiDEA)
• Everyman Links for July 23, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #143 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2008 — #333 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day

Professional Visual Studio 2008: Nick Randolph, David Gardner: Books

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.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to NHibernate in 10 Minutes (Matt Hinze)
• Ward & I Talk Over the EF Vote of No Confidence Document (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Learn How to Use NHibernate with the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series (Scott Hanselman)
• T4 Templates in Visual Studio for Code Generation Screencast (David Hayden)
• Running a x64 Build Server. Challenges Overcome. (Eric Hexter)
• Return a List<T> or ObservableCollection<T> (John Papa)
• 5 Things I Like Better About Visual Studio Than NetBeans (Jim Hoffman)
• C# Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy (MS Downloads)
• What New Windows SDK Features Do You Want? (Win SDK Team)

Events / Community

• Yay! Philly Geek Dinner (Lindsay Rutter)
• CodePlex Project Discussions Mailing Lists (J. Wanagel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Measuring Testers (James Whittaker)
• Dealing with Code Un-Coverable by Tests (Patrick Smacchia)
• Unit Test Boundaries (Phil Haack)
• Update Model – A Question of Identity – Part 2 of 3 (Lawrence Jones)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 6: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee – Part 1 (Keith Elder) – Can’t wait to listen to this one, but I just finished episode 3 of DFB.
• Software Plus Services and Developers (Matt Rosoff)
• How to Communicate Design Decisions to Clients (Brian D. Armstrong)

Silverlight / WPF

• Dynamically Selecting Theme in Silverlight 2 Applications (Zhiming Xue)
• Building a Silverlight Application: A Designer’s Perspective (Corrina Barber)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 1 (Christopher Bennage)
• Silverlight and Multi-Touch Tablets (Bart Czernicki)

SharePoint

• Notes on the Recently Released Infrastructure Update for SharePoint (Chandima Kulathilake)
• LINQ4SP – Query Evaluation (Daniel Leiszen)
• SharePoint Gradual Upgrade Disabled When Using a SQL Instance Named SharePoint and Database Gotchas When Upgrading SPS 2003 to MOSS (Scott Lock)

Web Development

• AJAX Panels with ASP.NET MVC (Timothy Khouri)
• Forcing Client Windows to Pop Up as Windows in Tabbed Browsers (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #23 – Use POCO LINQ to SQL Entities (Stephen Walther)
• My Thoughts on ASP.NET’s MVC (Karl Seguin)
• A Sneak Peek at ASP.NET AJAX 4.0′s Client-Side Templating (Dave Ward)

Miscellaneous

• Computer Manuals (Larry Clarkin)
• The Best Tech Tools and Fitness Plans to Get in Shape (Adam Pash)
• Metered Internet: The Death of Web Work? (Mike Gunderloy) – Link of the Day
• Looking Back – A Review of My Most Popular Blogs (Chris Love)
• Introducing Xbox LIVE Community Games (XNA Team)
• .NET Rocks! – Kirk Munro on PowerShell and PowerGUI (MS Downloads)
• BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 / WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Scalable Fabric (Sarah Perez)
• Games for Windows – LIVE Is Now FREE (Kevin Unangst)
• Building Tiny, Ultra Low Power PCs (Jeff Atwood)

SQL Server

• Introduction to Log Viewer (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: July 21, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #91 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight News for July 22, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2008 — #332 (Dave Campbell)
• WMOC#12 – Terrarium Is Back! and WSOAC#25 – REST Eye For an SOA Guy (Dilip Krishnan)
• Links (7/22/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #142 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

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Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Validation Simplified (Sacha Barber)
• Build a WPF Application: Part 0 (Christopher Bennage)
• Digging Deeper: Templates and the Visual State Manager (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Drag, Drop, Import and Export (Michael Washington)
• Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control (Part 4) (Mike Taulty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Yet More on to Var or Not to Var (Josh Twist)
• Mocking Dilemma (Davy Brion)
• The New Crop of .NET Screencasts (Sergio Pereira)
• IronEditor – Release v1.0.0.46 (CodePlex)
• Sneak Peeks Into the New F# Project System, Part One (Brian)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• Linq2WMI – Release v.3 (CodePlex)
• Using Generics and Anonymous Methods to Your Advantage (Maurice)
• CustomFxCop – Release: Custom FxCop Rules (MSDN Code Gallery)

Web Development

• IronRuby with ASP.NET MVC Working Prototype (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET Query Strings – Client Side State Management (Gil Fink)
• Adding OpenSearch to Your Website and Getting in the Browser’s Search Box (Scott Hanselman)
• RSS and Atom Refcard Available – Download Now (Jill Tomich)

Miscellaneous

• The Difference Between Derivation and Innovation and Patterns for Using Distributed Hash Tables: Locking (Oren Eini)
• History Tables (Ken Downs)
• Twhirl Gets Pushy with Identi.ca (Rafe Needleman)
• Scaling Hyper-V (James O’Neill)

Link-O-Rama

• New and Notable 254 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: July 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 51 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (7/20/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight News for July 21, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.21 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #140 (Chris Alcock)
• WPF Links – 21 July 2008 (Rudi Grobler)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Poll Results: Threading, Mock Frameworks and Unit Test Frameworks (Roy Osherove)
• Presumed Hostile – Your Application Is Out to Get You (Michael Janke)
• Lessons That I Learned From Waegis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Using an ORM? Think Objects! (K. Scott Allen)
• The Blame Game: How Necessary Is Traceability? (Max Pool)
• Understanding Dependency Injection (Mohammad Azam)
• Using Flip Video’s Mino for Programming (Mike Riley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting Them to Play Nice (Part 3) (Tom Hollander)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1) (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Building a Configuration Binder for MEF with POCO Support (Sidar Ok)
• Doing Nothing in .NET (Chris Love)
• IsNull Extension Method (Steven Smith)
• LINQ Farm: More on Set Operators (Charlie Calvert)
• ASP.NET Client Side State Management – Hidden Fields (Gil Fink)

Events / Community

• Community Megaphone Silverlight Map (Frank La Vigne)
• Philly.NET – An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight – July 16th (Community Megaphone)
• Philly ALT.NET Meeting – Building Maintainable Applications with WPF – July 17th (Community Megaphone)
• Learning NHibernate? Join the Email List with 600 Other Users (Jeffrey Palermo)

SharePoint

• FarPoint Has Released Their Spread Control for SharePoint (Bob Mixon)
• GetActiveFeatureDefinitions – A SharePoint PowerShell Function (Darrin Bishop)
• SharePoint Toolbox – Release: Project Site v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 – Introduction to SPARSE Columns – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 13, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight News for July 14, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• LINKBLOG for July 13, 2008 and LINKBLOG for July 14, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Link Post 50 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links #9 (Grant Palin)
• Links (7/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: July 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #135 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #51 (Darren Stokes)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Audit Options with NHibernate and Refactoring DRY Tests with ReSharper’s Inline Method (Matt Hinze)
• A .NET Assembly for Cloning Objects with Arbitrary Field Value Changes: IcManipulator (Rick Minerich)
• Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library 4.0 and Visual Studio 2008 Webcast and Dependancy Injection with Microsoft Enterprise Library Unity Application Block Webcast (David Hayden)
• MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting Them to Play Nice (Part 1) (Tom Hollander)
• F# Complier v1.9.4.19 (MS Research)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #18 – Parameterize the HTTP Context (Stephen Walther)

SharePoint

• Creating Re-Usable Email Templates for SharePoint Designer 2007 Workflows (Jordan Hull)
• An Introduction to Agile SharePoint Dev (Andrew Woodward)

Silverlight / WPF

• Green Eggs and Blend and Styles and Templates – Three Videos and The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight (Jesse Liberty)
• JSON Serialization and Deserialization in Silverlight (Martin Mihaylov)
• What Is Silverlight (John Stockton)

Design / Methodology

• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Safe/Unsafe Cache and Shutdown Performance: Just Exit! and Sharing WCF Contracts as Visual Studio File Links(Sasha Goldshtein)
• Layer Diagram (Cameron Skinner)
• When to Use Many-to-One(s) vs. Many-to-Many with NHibernate (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Team System Templates (Charles Sterling)
• Does Exploratory Testing Have a Place on Agile Teams? (Johanna Rothman)
• David Chappell on Software + Services (Bill Zack)
• Over Specification in Tests (Roy Osherove)
• Adding a Customer Field to a UI (Kyle Baley)
• I’ll Get to Your Application in a Minute – First, We Need to Build the Framework (Jeffrey Palermo)

Events/ Community

• Updates to the Community Megaphone Plug-In and Silverlight Summer User Group Events (Frank La Vigne)

Database

• SSIS Nugget: Conditionally Email a File Containing Error Rows (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server 2008 User Account – sa or sysadmin (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Sobees Update (Sébastien von Roth)
• Speeding Up PowerShell Startup (Jeffrey Snover)
• Five Best Windows Backup Tools (Adam Pash)
• Chinese Video Site 56.com Is Back (Brad Linder)
• Posty Updated – Now Has Tons More Features, Plans for Identi.ca Support and Jason Calacanis Retires From Blogging, Listen Up Bloggers – This Means Something (Sarah Perez)
• Looking at the Live Mesh Peer-to-Peer Synch and What Microsoft Can Learn from the Apple Application Store (Chris)
• Live Mesh Service Update: New Build, New Features Coming Today (0.9.3103.2) (Sunshine)
• The Story of the Ribbon (Nicole)
• Book Review: Code Leader – Using People, Tools and Processes to Build Successful Software (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Stack Overflow Badge Feedback (Jeff Atwood)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 11, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Interesting Finds: July 11, 2008 – short edition (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #88 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for July 11, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 — #323 (Dave Campbell)

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Requirements Debate

• It’s Not the Client’s Job to Know What He Needs – It’s Our Job to Find Out (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Doctors We Ain’t (Dave Laribee)

Design / Methodology

• Separation of Concerns By Example: Part 4 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Ward Bell and I Wade Into O/R Mapping Issues (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How Microsoft’s p&p Teams Do Daily Standup Meetings (Ade Miller)
• Too Much Quality (Jacob Proffitt)
• Enterprise Architect – Joke or Joker? (Richard Veryard)
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Read-Write Cache and Practical Concurrency Patterns: Thread-Local Cache (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Channel 9 – C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team (Granville Barnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• #region. Sliced Bread or Sliced Worms? (Eric Gunnerson)
• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code (Matthew Podwysocki) – Link of the Day
• Anonymous Delegates, How I Love Thee (Josh Twist)
• Very Simple .NET Thumbnail Creation Code (Brad Abrams)
• CLR Security Team CodePlex Site (Shawn F.)
• Looking at EF Performance – Some Surprises (Julie Lerman)
• Mocking Expensive Template Methods (Davy Brion)
• Back to Basics – Everyone Remember Where We Parked (That Memory)! (Scott Hanselman)
• 5 Things I Like Better About NetBeans Than Visual Studio (Jim Hoffman)
• Scrubbing Null Values From a DataReader (John Papa)
• How to Navigate Around Your Code in Visual Studio (Ged Mead)
• Mastering F# Lists (Chris Smith)
• Identity Framework for .NET (René Løhde)
• MSDN Code Gallery – Functional C# – Release: v0.1 (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight / WPF

• Learning WPF with BabySmash – MVC or MVP and the Benefits of a Designer (Scott Hanselman)
• How About Some LIVE Silverlight Service Debugging? (Tim Heuer)
• Animation Hands on Lab for Silverlight 2 (Adam Kinney)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #17 – How to Run an ASP.NET MVC Application (Stephen Walther)
• SubSonic: New Code Samples and a SubStage Walkthrough (Rob Conery)
• Static Singletons for ASP.NET Controls (Rick Strahl)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 – Introduction to SPARSE Columns (Pinal Dave)
• Installing Clustered SQL Servers – Outline, Checklists, Document Sheets (Chad Boyd)
• Observations on Embedded Databases (Oren Eini)

Events / Community

• Community Megaphone Plug-In for Windows Live Writer (Frank La Vigne)
• Find Nearby Events with Windows Live Writer Search Mobile and Community Megaphone (G. Andrew Duthie)
• NINE Questions with Rachel Appel (Chris Williams)

Miscellaneous

• My First-Hand Experience with Microsoft Surface (Archis Gore)
• The Saga of an Ultimate Virtualization Rig: Part 3 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows XP Ain’t the Only OS Retiring This Year: Goodbye Windows 3.11 (Brad Linder)
• The Phone Screen (Alex Mueller)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #87 (Tim Boland)
• Link Listing – July 9, 2008 and Link Listing – July 10, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Double Shot #245 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2008 – Early Edition (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (7/10/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Visual Studio Links #49 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #134 (Chris Alcock)

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