I’m catching up a bit after the birth of our third daughter, Rubina Mae Ashcraft, on Tuesday afternoon. My sincere thanks to everyone who sent their congratulations on Twitter and Facebook. Apologies to the many great blog posts that have not been included.

Congrats to all the new and renewed Microsoft MVPs this week too!

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Create Reflection Effect on Images Using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask in WPF (Anum Lodhi)
• WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI. (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Coding Contest (Dino Esposito)
• Handling Events within Silverlight Control Templates – AutoCompleteBox Example (Dan Wahlin)
• Choosing Colors to Complement Your User Interface with Expression Design and Experimenting with User Interface Colors with Expression Design and Creating a Sample Icon using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Application – Animal Testing Breaks Hearts (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TweetCraft – A World of Warcraft Twitter client (Dan Fernandez)
• Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper (Eric Hexter)
• "XNAVATARS" – PART 1 (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Meffifying Windows Azure (Glenn Block)
• VSTS 2010 TMap Process Template 1,2 and 3 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 3 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• MCsla on the Olso May CTP (Rockford Lhotka)
• Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems (K. Scott Allen)
• IronRuby 0.6 Released! (Jimmy Schementi)
• Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 Post Beta 1 (Muhammad Mosa)
• Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 4 ) (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner (Jimmy Bogard)
• “Controllerless” MVC: A high-level overview of my attempt (Erik)
• Which Unit Testing Framework? (John Resig)
• Agile Is NOT a Risk Management Strategy (Jurgen Appelo)
• Domain Driven Design: Conformist (Mark Needham)
• Is your Organization out of Alignment? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

• XHTML 2 Cancelled (Timothy)
• Restricting BlogEngine.NET Comments to Sueetie Registered Users Only (Dave Burke)
• SubSonic 3.0 is Released (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Successful Cross Platform .NET Development – Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover and The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove (Scott Hanselman)
• Whirlwind Around .NET 4 (Eric Mork)
• Scott Ambler on the Agile Process Maturity Model (Carl Franklin)
• This Week C9: Speech Recognition, Army of 1, TweetCraft and more (Dan Fernandez)
• Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo) (Jose Fajardo)
• What’s New in Software Development: NeverFail Software Adopts Hyper-V (Bruce Kyle)
• Downloading Prism and 10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Episode #123: Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Object Invariant Conditions (Derik Whittaker)
• Herding Code 52: The Alan Stevens and G. Andrew Duthie Debate Continues! (Jon Galloway)
• Conversation with Stuart Halloway (Corey Haines)
• Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing (Jeff Wilcox)
• Using WPF in Office Add-Ins (John Wiese)

Community / Events

• AgiliTrain and Rachel Appel Announce New Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Automatically create a SQL Server table in a new database. (George Mastros)
• DRY SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room and DELETE Documents from CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• SQL SERVER – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Free Windows 7 Training Resources (Blake Handler)
• Bringing a Bit of Twitter to Bing (Sean Suchter)
• The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
• MSDN / Technet Subscribers Get Windows 7 July 13th (Keith Elder)
• An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two (Ken Sipe)
• Who is developing the software profession? (Maggie Longshore)
• Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2 available as a free download (Jose Barreto)
• The fallacy of the standardized developer machine/image (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Announcing The Social Way To Get Things Done: Zoho Projects 2.0 (Rodrigo Vaca)
• How to display ads on your project from The Lounge – #045 (Sara Ford)
• Kodu Nears Xbox Launch and Want to Compare Search Engines? and Follow @Microsoft on Twitter (…and All the Rest!) (Sarah Perez)
• Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress” (Jason N. Gaylord)
• All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions (Jeff Atwood)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #382 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 3rd July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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Just an FYI for readers, the Dew Drop posts are going to be interrupted for a day or two sometime in the next couple of weeks. We’re expecting our third girl on July 8th, but it could be as soon as today.

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Domain Driven Design Quickly (Ade Miller)
• Self-Organization and Complexity (Brad Appleton)
• The “collaboration” piller (version 1) (Brian Marick)
• Hungarian Notation – Use What Works Spit Out The Bones (Dave M. Bush)
• D3: Building Great Software is a Battle, Don’t Leave Any Assets on the Sidelines (Dan Simmons)
• UX Team of One (Frank La Vigne)
• Are You in a Claustrophobic Team? (Max Pool)
• Lessons in Software from Alok Srivastava (J.D. Meier)
• New DDDD Content (Jonathan Oliver)
• Threat Analysis & Modeling Tool – TAM 3.0 (Jossie Tirado)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MGraph Visualizer Plug-in for Intellipad! (Chris Sells)
• The void is invariant (Eric Lippert)
• Sticky DataTips: A new way to view variables in the Visual Studio 2010 debugger (Habib Heydarian)
• Explore C# 4’s New Dynamic Types and Named/Optional Parameters (Joydip Kanjilal)
• New CodePlex project: a simple Undo/Redo framework (Kirill Osenkov)
• How to execute a special build on TFS using Team Foundation Object Model (TFS APIs) – Part 1 (Subodh Sohoni)

Web Development

• AJAX Features in ASP.NET MVC (Dino Esposito)
• How we do MVC – View models (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET WebForms vs. MVC (Michael Ceranski)
• Displaying SQL Server Messages using ASP.NET and ADO.NET (Malcolm Sheridan)

Silverlight / WPF

• Fun With Speech Recognition in WPF (Frank La Vigne)
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-4 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• WPF Toolkit: Charting release (Jeff Wilcox)
• WPF3D Lighting and Shading (Jordan)
• Game Programming with Silverlight. (Mike Snow)
• Principles of Design Series: Learning about Points, Lines, and Form using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Prism Eventing (Eric Mork)
• Google I/O 2009 – AJAX APIs to Navigate User-Generated Content (Me)
• ARCast.TV – Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell (Bob Familiar)
• New Screencast: Working with Property Grids (Dan Rigsby)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #122: Creating Custom Functions w/ NAnt (Derik Whittaker)
• Tales from the Toolshed (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Demo of SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Features – Configure DW Storage and Demo of SQL Server 2008 DW features: Configuring tempdb for Data Warehouse (Joe Longtin)
• The History of Microsoft – 1995 (Tina)
• Netcast #14 – Not Dead Yet (Todd O. Klindt)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 139: Fearless Change with Linda Rising (SE-Radio Team)
• Toolshed Tooltip #15 – Intro from Episode 3, meet MVP’s Stan Schultes, Don Demsak and Jessica Moss. and Toolshed Tooltip #16 – Expression Blend 2 Video, Animation and VS Integration Intro (Russell Fustino)
• Prism’s Event Aggregator (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Yochay Kiriaty – Windows 7 Developer Training Kit (Robert Hess)
• Ping 18: Ballmer apologizes, Paul Allens latest move, Surface fun, Security Beta (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• July Community Events (Eric Shupps)
• Events This Week – June 29th, 2009 and Microsoft Local Impact (G. Andrew Duthie)

SharePoint

• Want A Job? Learn SharePoint, Says Gary Blatt – 100% of the Federal Government has licenses, but they can’t find developers to implement their sites. (James Turner)
• Visio design templates for SharePoint 2007 (Joris Poelmans)

Database

• Approaches to "UPSERT" (Ken Downs)
• After disabling TDE you still requires the certificate to restore the database (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Policy-Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium? (Ed Bott)
• Musings About Project Natal (Frank La Vigne)
• AutoSave Adds Reassurance to Notepad++ Editing (Kevin Purdy)
• Get Firefox’s Ctrl+K Shortcut in Internet Explorer (The How-To Geek)
• The "Risk" of Open Source Software Support (Tim Barcz)
• Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You (Scott Hanselman)
• Oracle Woos Microsoft OracleClient users (Julie Lerman)
• How to Contribute to Open Source (When You’re Not Exactly Scott Hanselman) (Sara Chipps)
• How to stop that annoying beep on your server (Simon Sabin)
• Survey of Surveys on IT Spend for 2009 (Mike Walker)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LI (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #379 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 29, 2009 — #624 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 29th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• SharePoint: Recommended links June 2009 (Tobias Zimmergren)
• Daily Find #122 (Tim Boland)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Moving the Mouse Pointer Programmatically and Hiding the Mouse Pointer (Richard Carr)
• MSpec… for Boo! (Aaron Jensen)
• Creating audio signals in .Net (Coding4Fun)
• F#: Setting properties like named parameters (Mark Needham)
• Generating Code with Visual Studio’s T4 (Michael Ceranski)
• Changing Configuration Settings in a Desktop Client Application (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (Mike Walker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Agile methods to deliver on a fixed-budget, fixed-time commitment (Andy Singleton)
• Cloud Computing Design Patterns (Bob Nadler)
• Another Kata: Expression Tokenizer (Brett Schuchert)
• Elegant Code Project Structure Purse Fight (Chris Brandsma)
• It’s the subleties and Facilitation Antipattern: Repetitor (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Don’t Create Aggregate Roots (Udi Dahan) – Link of the Day
• Making your code easier to understand context/specification style unit tests (Ian Cooper)
• Microsoft ESB Toolkit (Mike Walker)
• Fighting Fabricated Complexity (Patrick Smacchia)
• A Craftsman sometimes has to create his own tool (Sergio Pereira)
• What Investing Can Teach You About Software Development (Part 2) (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Real World Refactoring (Joshua Flanagan)
• Simple Python testing in Silverlight with unittest (Jimmy Schementi)
• The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
• Yes… Agile Isn’t Project Managment… (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

• Never worry about ASP.NET AJAX’s .d again (Dave Ward)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 4 Introduction For Database Support With SQL Alchemy. (Ryan Svihla)
• Principals, Code-Behind, & View Engines (K. Scott Allen)
• ASP.NET DropDownList with Custom Paging (Malcolm Sheridan)
• VS2010 Beta1 Web Application Project Database package and SMO options (Xinyang Qiu)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls (Mike Ormond)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Wrap Panel (Deepak Kapoor)
• YouTube video in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• WPF discussions 090626 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening! (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 113: The Rural Juror (Paul Thurrott)
• ThirstyDeveloper #67 – Open Spaces and unmeetings (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Toolshed Tooltip #14 – Developer Community Update by MVP Don (XML) Demsak from Episode 3 (Russell Fustino)
• Major Nelson Show #323: Geoff Keighly, Worms 2 and behind the scenes at E3 (Larry Hryb)
• SharePoint development: using SharePoint as an application development platform and SharePoint Web Content Management / Publishing – Episode 9 (Rob, Nick & Brett)

Community / Events

• Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q2 2009) (Jurgen Appelo) – Congrats to Scott for making #1 and to Justin for his debut at #43!
• NDC09 Trip Report (Phil Haack)
• C’Mon Get Meta! (Jeff Atwood)
• Nayyeri.NET Turns Four (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Happy Blog-day, Keyvan!

SharePoint

• Community Kit For SharePoint (Dave Mann)
• How to Build a Change Control System in SharePoint (Dux Raymond Sy)

Database

• MVP Helps To Jumpstart SQL Server 2008! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Management Studio New Features and SQL SERVER – Maximum Number of Index per Table (Pinal Dave)
• Hyperlinks in custom reports (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• Firefox 3.5 coming June 30th, Fennec updated today (Brad Linder)
• The Five Best and Five Worst Mountain Dews of All Time (Curtis Silver) – Diet Code Red FTW!
• Organizational Chaos Followup (Jesse Liberty)
• 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills (Smashing Magazine)
• Bing Toolbox (Sunshine)
• Review: "Programming Clojure", by Stu Halloway (Ted Neward)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #378 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 06.22 ~ 06.28 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #59 (Grant Palin)
• Links of the week #82 – “Back From Holidays in Croatia” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Links (6/28/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting the Current Application’s Memory Usage (Richard Carr)
• Useful VS Key Sequences/Shortcuts (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Effective EF with Oracle (Julie Lerman)
• F#: More thoughts on the forward & application operators (Mark Needham)
• Mapping WF 3 activities to WF 4 (Matt Milner)
• Work-Stealing in .NET 4.0 (Jennifer Marsman)
• D3: Fun with Concurrency and Model First – Part 1 and D3: Fun with Concurrency and Model First – Part 2 (Dan Simmons)

Silverlight / WPF

• Behaviors, Triggers and Actions snippets (Rudi Grobler)
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-2 and Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-3 (Faisal Hossain Khan)

Web Development

• The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex, and it does change your code a bit (David Ebbo)
• Adding Events to User Controls (Peter Vogel)
• A case of lost session variables when using out of process session state (Tess Ferrandez)
• Tip #84: Did you know… How to set a Start page for your Web Site in Visual Web Developer? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• ASP.NET – Creating a Custom Tag Cloud (Michael Ceranski)
• Is It Too Late To Change JSON? (Phil Haack)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Open Spaces at work (Larry Clarkin) – Link of the Day
• Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services (Brad Abrams)
• Making Blenders for the Blind is Like Making Software for Normal People (Chris Love)
• Fluent Interface for NH Facility – Take 1 (Tuna Toksoz)
• The Rush (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Focuses on IoC Containers for Configuration (David Hayden)
• Silverlight Geek – An interview with Jesse Liberty (Adam Kinney)
• When agile goes bad, slides and pointers (Sebastien Lambla)
• Iterators at the Summer Games (Eric Lippert)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• "I’m a VB" Interview: Julie Lerman, Visual Basic MVP and "I’m a VB" Interview: Bill Wolff, Visual Basic MVP and "I’m a VB" Interview: Bill Vaughn, Visual Basic MVP (Beth Massi)
• This Week C9: Revolution 9 – The Future of Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez)
• 10-4 Episode 25: Fixing PIA Pains with Type Equivalence (Jason Olson)
• Herding Code 51: Greg Young on Our Grand Failure – Thoughts on DDDD (Jon Galloway)
• Show: Episode #3 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Road Thoughts – Visible Metrics (Corey Haines)
• VSTO: How to Add a Button into the Office Ribbon (Jennifer Marsman)
• Collaborative Knowledge Sharing and Decision Making… (Clemens Reijnen)

Community / Events

• Ajax Survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are Almost Tied Among .NET Developers (Simone Chiaretta)
• Useful jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Plugins with ASP.NET MVC (Elijah Manor)
• Two VANs on Castle Project (Tuna Toksoz)
• Architecture Summit in Southfield, MI (Jennifer Marsman)

SharePoint

• Automated Builds with VSeWSS 1.3 (Paul Andrew)
• Belgian MVP Releases SharePoint Tool Basket on CodePlex! (Lorna Williamson)

Database

• DBA SQLCLR Procedures (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : 17892 Logon failed for login due to trigger execution. Changed database context to ‘master’. (Pinal Dave)
• SQLDBCrypt – Open Source Database Encryption For SQL Server. (Rajiv Popat)
• Can’t depend on sp_depends? Try using sp_refreshsqlmodule and Adding time offsets passed in to a datetime to generate localized datetime (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Download Free WebRadio Add-in for Windows Home Server (Blake Handler)
• Bing cashback 101 (Raju Malhotra)
• Firefox 3.5 coming June 30th, Fennec updated today (Brad Linder)
• Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do upgrades really cost? (Ed Bott)
• When Windows Home Server crashes… (Rockford Lhotka)
• Zoho: We’re launching something, sometime next week (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Download seven Windows 7 chapters (Devon Musgrave)
• 200 Twitter Mashups (John Musser)
• 11 Magazines This Magazine Likes (Jason English)
• Designing input for a script (Ed Wilson)
• WMI: Improving your WMI application performance in fan-out scenario (Andy Cheung)
• Create a Syslog Sender/Receiver Using the MS Winsock Control (Gustav Brock)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2009 — #623 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 26th June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 335 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 26th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)

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Watch Dan Fernandez & company talk about Revolution 9, and the future of Channel 9 (as well as Channel 8, Channel 10, Coding4Fun and MIXOnline).

Good luck guys!

Alvin

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing console output from a Windows form in C# (Tom Hearn)
• Treating Warnings as Errors in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Mmm, Curry (Eric Lippert)
• Walkthrough: Adding an existing Visual Studio solution to another solution (Habib Heydarian)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Generating Microsoft Office Documents with the Open XML SDK (Vikas Goyal)
• CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic inside Visual Studio 2008 (Mark Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

• F# in Silverlight (Luke Hoban)
• WPF 2D Physics Plus (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight Canvas Panel (Deepak Kapoor)
• Expression Design Resources (Mike Ormond)
• WPF Chart Controls!!! (Marc Schweigert)
• Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000! (Tim Heuer)
• My Sillveright-Prism Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Validation and ViewModel (Josh Twist)
• Creating NikeClone with Silverlight, Part 1 (Faisal Hossian Khan)

Web Development

• The Weekly Source Code 43 – ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinner (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• OSX MonoDevelop MVC? (Tobin Harris)
• A Better SMTP Development Server (Lee Dumond)
• ASP.NET GridView with Custom Paging UI (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET – Creating a Custom Tag Cloud (Michael Ceranski)
• The “Anti-For” Campaign (Matthew Podwysocki)
• jQuery Dialog – With Validation Controls and Does jQuery Make Us Lazy? (Dave M. Bush)
• JSON Hijacking (Phil Haack)
• Declaring Security (Eric Lawrence)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 13 (Rajiv Popat)
• Safe refactoring: Removing object initializer, introducing builder (Mark Needham)
• How Wise Are You Being With Your Work Time? (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Becoming a better developer, or “How to sidestep a question” (Kyle Baley)
• Pair Programming and Pandemics (Pouya Yousefi)
• Programmer Confidence and Arrogance (Jay Fields)
• How To? Highly Complex Query Generating Based On Security Needs (Derick Bailey)
• Making Blenders for the Blind is Like Making Software for Normal People (Chris Love)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• AgileToolkit Podcast – Nationwide – Kevin Fisher – AVP of Product Management – Value of Alignment (Bob Payne)
• Margaret Burnett: Gender and Software (Charles Torre)
• Video: Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session (Brian Peek)
• The NY Times/Silverlight Open API toolkit (Jit Ghosh)
• Commanding in Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Demo of SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Features – Configure DW Storage and Demo of SQL Server 2008 DW features: Configuring tempdb for Data Warehouse (Joe Longtin)

Community / Events

• Free Microsoft Hyper-V Training Course 6319 (Blake Handler)
• ScrumMaster Certification Course in Waltham, MA (Bob Familiar)
• Pragmatic Patterns for Architects: Recordings Available (David Makogon)
• Enthusiast and Fanatic Badges (Jeff Atwood)
• Principles of Design Series: Learning about Unity using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• MSDN Webcast: Enterprise Library 4.1 (Lindsay Rutter)

SharePoint

• Belgian MVP Releases SharePoint Tool Basket on CodePlex! (Lorna Williamson)
• SharePoint SP2 Update (Bob Fox)
• SharePoint BDC Part 1: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog (Tobias Zimmergren)

Database

• Live Meeting: Creating a Star Schema and OLAP Cubes (Trevor Dwyer)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of Logon Trigger On All Servers – Solution (Pinal Dave)
• Not a fan of the Report Manager in SSRS? Using SSRS procedures to get the job done (Ted Krueger)
• How to Avoid Database Restore Issues by a Simple Script Edit – A DB Restore Work-around (Hugo Shebbeare)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Upgrade, Retail & Special 50% Off Pre-Order Pricing! (Blake Handler)
• Running localized versions of Small Basic (Vijaye)
• PowerPoint—Customizing the Ribbon (William Vaughn)
• Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do those upgrades really cost? (Ed Bott)
• Is programming a generic skill? (Eric Gunnerson)
• 200 Twitter Mashups (John Musser)
• Which Windows 7 version is best for you? Pre-order your copy today! (Taimur Asad)
• Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest (Rafe Needleman)
• Coding Dojo #18: Groovy Bowling Game (Mark Needham)
• An Introduction to Functional Languages (Ken Sipe)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 25, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #376 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2009 — #622 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 25th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Links (6/25/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 25th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading a Microsoft Project file (mpp) in C# (Tom Hearn)
• Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines (Aaron Marten)
• Expressions Cheat Sheet (Jimmy Bogard)
• Client-side properties and any remote LINQ provider (Damien Guard)
• Adding and removing websites to/from security zones programmatically (C#) (Dennis Dietrich)
• It Already Is A Scripting Language (Eric Lippert)
• Correlating Downloads to Usage With Visual Studio 2010 (Joe Kuemerle)
• Using SqlHelper in a .Net application (Sam Tyson)
• iTextSharp – The easy way (Dave M. Bush)
• Providing Safe Alternatives (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• Google Releases Virtual Keyboard AJAX API (Andres Ferrate)
• Mind if my MVC T4 template changes your code a bit? (David Ebbo) – Link of the Day
• JavaScript implementation of "M" (Chris Sells)
• Developer Tools for Google Chrome (Ian Fette)
• Two frameworks are better than one (Simone Chiaretta)
• Better JavaScript class generation (Jay Kimble)
• Share Your Work in the Wave Samples Gallery (Pamela Fox)
• Learning to Create Icons using Expression Design (Arturo Toledo)
• Testing MVC Elements and Interactions with Mock Container (Rinat Abdullin)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 2 Controllers, Views and Testing (Ryan Svihla)
• Debugging with Different Browsers in Visual Studio 2008 (Michael Ceranski)
• .NETOOP high level configuration storage decision. (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Where are my Entities and my Repositories? and Which model is best? That’s not the question. (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Ubiquitous Language in Product Development (Dave Laribee)
• Avoid Using NHibernate With NUnit 2.4.6 (Davy Brion)
• Using Typemock Isolator for Integration Tests (Francis K. Cheung)
• Security Design Reviews (Jossie Tirado)
• QTB: Agile Adoption – How to stuff it up (Mark Needham)
• Just Be Honest and Tell the Truth (Jeff Perrin)

Silverlight / WPF

• ToggleButton Command for Prism (Corey Schuman)
• Giving WPF Some Love (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• From Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition: UI Element Binding (Pete Brown)
• Expression Design for Developers part 4 – Using Layers and Exporting to XAML (Joel Cochran)
• Using Binding to position a Collection of elements – Take 2 (Josh Twist)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! #458 – Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack at NDC! (Carl Franklin)
• WebDevRadio Episode 67: MySQL with Keith Murphy (Michael Kimsal)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #121: Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark (Donn Felker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #59 (Jeff Atwood)
• How to use a delegate (Jennifer Marsman)
• Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session Posted (Brian Peek)
• ThirstyDeveloper #66 – HAML with a side of SASS (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

• Spark v1.0 and presentation for MPLS ALT.NET (Louis DeJardin)
• TDD Master Class almost full (Roy Osherove)
• Silverlight Ads on Xbox LIVE Announced at Cannes (Silverlight Team)
• VAN: Doing 2 Part Series on Castle development July 1st and 8th at 8pm (Ryan Svihla)
• Looking for a charity for CodePlex project owners to donate advertisement revenue (Sara Ford)

PowerShell

• Control your PC with your voice … and PowerShell (Joel Bennett)
• New Powershell Survey on Connect (Osama Sajid)

Database

• Repost: Watch out for SQL Server Parameter Sniffing (Chris Brandsma)
• Better Know A SSIS Transform – The Sort Transform (Devin Knight)

Miscellaneous

• PM Tip #10: Interview Tips for Landing a Great Program Management Job (Brad Abrams)
• Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs and The iPhone Software Revolution (Jeff Atwood)
• Audio files from Ghostbusters (Larry Hyrb)
• Become a Gmail ninja with tips from Googlers (Jason Clarke)
• XBOX 360 & ZUNE BUZZ (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Birdies: Cute Free Twitter Icons For Your Blog (Smashing Magazine)
• Zune HD video hands-on quickie (Paul Miller)
• Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest (Rafe Needleman)
• Introducing Microsoft Hohm – Save Energy & Money and Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) in Windows 7 (Nic Fillingham)
• FriendFeed Adds File Sharing. No Movies, But MP3s Are Fine. (MG Siegler)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 24, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #376 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2009 — #621 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 24th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• New and Notable 334 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 24th June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Need a visualization of "M" in your programs? (Chris Sells)
• First run on Visual Studio 2010! (cisterni)
• LINQ : 2 nice things I just found (Sacha Barber)
• Storyboard: Architectural Inspections – VSTA2010 – AppArchGuid (Clemens Reijnen)
• If At First You Don’t Succeed – Retrying Mail Operations in .NET (Lee Dumond)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Master Page Advice, Tips, and Tricks (Scott Mitchell)
• Creating Crystal Report with Multiple Tables in ASP.NET (Rasaiyah Raveen)
• Structure of my ASP.NET Web Applications (Dave M. Bush)
• Your Sueetie Inbox is now Available (Dave Burke)
• Application-wide action filters in ASP.NET MVC (Maarten Balliauw)
• View Debug Statements Remotely from an ASP.NET application (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Using Fiddler with IIS (Mark Needham)
• MVC – Using Custom Routes (Michael Ceranski)
• ASP.NET Ajax – Script Combining and moving ScriptResource.axd’s to Static Scripts and These are the little bugs that lead to madness (Scott Hanselman)
• Tip #83: Did you know… You can get the name of the calling method from the stack using reflection? (Katerina Rohonyan)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 1 Getting Started (Ryan Svihla)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD and SharePoint is it worth doing? (Andrew Woodward)
• Enterprise Library 5.0: Some Architecture Changes (Bob Brumfield)
• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 (Zhiming Xue)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 12 (Rajiv Popat)
• Agile Is a Risk Management Strategy (Jurgen Appelo)
• Back to Basics – Trust Nothing as User Input Comes from All Over (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• From Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition: UI Element Binding (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 7 Dos and Don’ts in Getting Started in User Centered Design (Craig Shoemaker)
• Prism Commands (Erik Mork)
• Expert to Expert: Web Programming, JavaScript and Flapjax (Charles Torre)
• New Editor Box Selection (Chris Granger)
• Episode #120: Learning the Decorator Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• Conversation with Ken Auer (Corey Haines)
• Toolshed Tooltip #13 – MSBuild talks to Twitter from Episode 2 (Russell Fustino)
• Bill Dudney and Chris Adamson on iPhone 3.0 SDK Development (The Pragmatic Programmers)

Community / Events

• .NET Fireside Chats – Nick Berardi on ‘ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming’ (Me)
• 52 Robot Geeks on Twitter (Anton Olsen)
• .NET Framework 4 Application Compatibility with the Development Team June 24 10am PST (Charles Sterling)
• Events This Week – June 23rd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 RTM set for July 13th (Steven Bink)
• Doing Geek Speak Live Wednesday: Deploying WCF Services and Speaking at CodeStock and Deep Fried Bytes Live! (Keith Elder)
• GoDaddy Hosting available now for Microsoft BizSpark Startups (Murray Gordon)
• VersionOne Agile Project Management and Agile Best Practices Webinars (Mike Cottmeyer)

PowerShell

• PowerShell trainings (Osama Sajid)
• PowerShell Remoting Protocol Documentation Available (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Started with Parallel Programming (Haytham ElFadeel)
• Engineers Are The Best Deal – So Stock Up On Them (Auren Hoffman)
• Small Basic Color Picker (Vijaye)
• How I Set Up My Mac (Scott C. Reynolds)
• 10 Useful Outlook 2007 Plug-ins and Tricks (Shoban Kumar)
• Six Sources of Influence (J.D. Meier)
• Morro, aka Microsoft Security Essentials, Now in Public Beta (Sarah Perez)
• Accidental Prescience and the Secrets of Project Natal (Scott Hanselman)
• Enterprise Mashups (Jamie Thomson)
• Security – Don’t overlook the obvious! (Joe Webb)

More Link Collections

• The June Microsoft Silverlight links (Al Pascual)
• LINKBLOG for June 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #375 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 23, 2009 — #620 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for June 23, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• The Technology Post for June 23rd, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Creators Club Communiqué 31 (Kathleen Sanders)
• CloudNews for 23rd June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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Web Development

• Spark View Engine – Release: Spark v1.0 (CodePlex via Chris Alcock) – Link of the Day
• The Perfect Web Framework (Chad Myers)
• Making a Sharp Dressed Web Form – Thin ASP.NET 8 (Chris Love)
• Make Web Requests Programmatically in .NET (Deepak Choudhari)
• MVC – Using Custom Routes (Michael Ceranski)
• Ben Livshits and Emre Kiciman – AjaxView, Performance Profiling of AJAX web sites (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied among .NET developers (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When DDD Should Be Considered (Jérémie Chassaing)
• NH Prof: Architectural Overview (Oren Eini)
• Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development (J.D. Meier)
• We Are Not Doing DDD – Part Two – CQS (Jak Charlton)
• Reducing Resistence to Dependency Injection (Patrick Kua)
• NCover v3.1.4 released! (Joe Feser)
• A Kanban Sidebar – Take 2 (Karl Scotland)
• Seams: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Developing Windows Services with .NET (Henning Krause)
• NHibernate – <natural-id/> (Oren Eini)
• How to Get Started Testing, Publicizing Your Applications on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
• Announcing: Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 (Carl Perry)
• Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for Entity Framework (Diego Vega)
• Feature CTP Walkthrough: POCO Templates for Entity Framework and Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework (Alex James)
• Why Doesn’t C# Implement "Top Level" Methods? (Eric Lippert)
• (VS2010 Beta1) Native Parallel Programming: ConcRT example — Debugging TwentyFour (Feng Yuan)
• “The” IronRuby Tutorial (Jimmy Schementi)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Using Windows Search in your applications (Josh Twist)
• The Rest of EF4 – Feature CTP1 Released today (Julie Lerman)
• F#: Continuation Passing Style and Visual Studio/Resharper: Changing the order of arguments (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML node loop example: finding all named object instances (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Sahil Malik’s Sharepoint Checklist (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Dynamic IT, Trends in IT Operations (Bob Familiar)
• Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight and Skins for WPF and Silverlight (Jared Bienz)
• Principles of Design Series: Learn about Emphasis using Expression Design (Arturo Toledo)
• Toolshed Tooltip #11 – DotNetNuke and Web Installer from Episode 2 and #12 – Virtual PC from Episode 2 (Russell Fustino)
• Ping 17: Microsoft sues over ClickFraud, Soapbox scales down, Project Natal & Bing on Fallon (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Yet There is an Iran (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Met Eric Evans at ParisJug (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Girl Developer the News (Sara J. Chipps)
• Free Webinar: 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation (Steve McConnell)

Database

• Get Performance Tips Directly from SQL Server (Ian Stirk)
• NH Prof: NHibernate Profiler vs. Sql Profiler (Oren Eini)
• Exporting XML data from SSIS – nugget (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – 2005 – 2008 – Delete Duplicate Rows (Pinal Dave)
• Replace Your Case When Then Else Syntax With the Sign Function In SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Sample MOSS 2007 WCM site now available – Adventure Works Travel (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7 (Greg Hitchcock)
• The Upcoming Smashing Book (Smashing Magazine)
• Tethering iPhone 3G on Windows 7 (Keith Elder)
• Services from Zoho, Software from Microsoft: Announcing Zoho Office for SharePoint (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Flash 10 for smartphone beta coming this October (Ross Miller)
• Windows 7 RTM: Scheduled for July 13, 2009! and Microsoft’s Windows 7 Entertainment Center: Part 2 (Stephen Chapman)
• Small Basic API Reference (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #374 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for June 22nd, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 21st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (6/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are garbage collectors slow? (Granville Barnett) – Link of the Day
• Doing Agile in a Team of One – Day 2 and the End of Sprint 1 (Andrew Woodward)
• Agile Self-Organization versus Lean Leadership (Brad Appleton)
• Best Practices in Gathering Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint and TDD (Sahil Malik)
• Inconvenient Accessibility Makes Self-Documenting Code (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Seams: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• A small web design rant: beware of the RADical designer (Peter Van Ooijen)
• What’s in a controller? That which we call an action… (Javier G. Lozano)
• Agile Behavior: Nurture Knowledge Database (Patrick Smacchia)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Box Selections and Multi-Edit in Visual Studio 2010 (Coding4Fun)
• .Net Framework 4.0: Using memory mapped files (Gunnar Peipman)
• Assigning MSBuild Properties to SQLCMD Variables (Gert Drapers)
• Fantastic on-going Entity Framework Tips Series from EF’s Alex James and Visual Studio’s Database Publishing Wizard and the new 1-Click Web Deployment and EF4: Model-Defined Functions Level 1 & 2 (Julie Lerman)
• TFS 2010 – WorkItems Linking and Automation Workflow implementation for Closing Linked Workitems (Subodh Sohoni)

Web Development

• Recent Member Activity now in Sueetie User Profiles and Three Wolves Howling at the JSON Date Moon (Dave Burke)
• Using claims for driving web sites… without writing any code (Vittorio Bertocci)
• 50 Fresh JavaScript Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow (Smashing Magazine)
• Finally found what I have been looking for: JavaScriptMVC (Peter Eysermans)

Silverlight / WPF

• Control-Oriented Vs. Data-Oriented Programming in Silverlight (Dan Wahlin)
• Microsoft Expression 1..2..3 (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 24: Monitoring Workflow Services (Ron Jacobs)
• Toolshed Tooltip #9 – VSTS DB Pro from Episode 2 and Toolshed Tooltip #10 – SQL Reporting Services from Episode 2 (Russell Fustino)
• Major Nelson Show #323: E3 2009 and Iraq (Larry Hryb)
• Windows 7 Application Compatibility (Matthijs Hoekstra)

Community / Events

Announcing "Agile Database Techniques" Workshop (Shawn Wildermuth)

SharePoint

• My checklist for optimizing SharePoint sites (Chris O’Brien)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool v1.1 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• A Man Who Goes Against His Instincts… (Max Pool)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 21, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #373 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 06.15 ~ 06.21 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #58 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2009 — #619 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 99 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Discoveries This Week 06/21/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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