Top Links

• Installing, Configuring and Using Windows Server AppFabric and the "Velocity" Memory Cache in 10 minutes (Scott Hanselman)
• WeakReference Event Handlers (Paul Stovell)
• Decoupling the Presentation Layer & the Joy of Interfaces (Simon Gladman)
• Using LINQ Distinct: With an Example on ASP.NET MVC SelectListItem (Joe Mayo)
• Walkthrough: Extending VS 2010 to Support Additional Programming Languages (Weston Hutchins)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# int |> bigint (Mark Pearl)
• IntelliTrace – what and how? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Customize the Output Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• Deleting Windows Azure Queue Messages: Handling Exceptions (Steve Marx)

Web Development

• News Roundup: Boomerang, IE9, Bespin Updates (Michael Kimsal)
• MVC Turbine Resources (Javier G. Lozano)
• Internet Explorer Develop Tools: CSS (Pete LePage)
• Canvas Baby Steps: An Introduction to the HTML 5 Canvas Element (Rey Bango)
• Mapping Your Data with Bing Maps and SQL Server 2008 (Jonas Stawski)
• ActionFilter Overkill (K. Scott Allen)
• IE9 Includes Hardware Accelerated Canvas (Paul Cutsinger & Jatinder Mann)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "The Planning Game" Now Online (James Shore)
• Software Craftsmanship and Giving Back (Andrew)
• Delegating (Andy Warren)
• Automated UI Testing with Guia (Guia Project)
• Azure Canonical Application Architecture (J.D. Meier)
• Abstraction levels and dependencies (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Test-Driven-Development with SharePoint 2010 By Andreas Rudolf Aschauer, BSc (Tal Druyan)
• CI, Testing, and Build Management in the Cloud (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Share more puzzles on www.pexforfun.com (Nikolai Tillman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Config-free IHttpModule Registration (Nikhil Kothari)
• Uploading multiple files with Silverlight 4.0 (Andrea Boschin)
• Customer IApplicationService for Silverlight Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Word to XAML Converter Updated (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Lazy loading children in CSLA 4 and Silverlight (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Connected Show Podcast: CoApp: Do EPIC Schtuff! (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Yuri Gurevich – Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity, 1 of n (Charles Torre)
• Video: The Unique Development Processes of Relevance (Eric Hagan)
• Using Relative URLs with the ServerInfo Class in InfoPath 2010 (Laura Harrington)
• Interview with Victor Gaudioso on Silverlight (Silverlight Show)
• Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Listen to MVP Joe Shurman on KPRC Radio this Saturday Morning (Joseph Mirabella)
• Agile Atlanta in July… Dennis Stevens and Kanban! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• July 2010 Silverlight MVP Awards (Tim Heuer)

Database

• SSAS Cache Warming with an SSIS package (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread (Pinal Dave)
• Mythbusting – How many instances can you install on your server? (Simon Sabin)
• MySQL 5 Performance Tuning Toolkit (Ryan Svihla)
• My Performance Tuning Methodology (Buck Woody)
• Indexes are best utilized in WHERE, not JOIN (Ben Vegiard)
• XQuery Lab 62 – Revisiting simple TSQL SELECT operations using XQuery (Jacob Sebastian)
• Using Indexed Views to Replace Triggers (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Renaming Web Parts for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010: Not a safe control? (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Commands quick reference (Greg Galipeau)
• What’s Next in SharePoint Land and Project Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Coexistence (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• TweetStation: Elevating the Discourse (Miguel de Icaza)
• Kodu PC Build 1.0.64.0 is now live! and Kodu Tutorial Videos (Stephen Coy)
• ClearContext Evolves, Adds Project Management Tools to Outlook (Simon Mackie)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft Access 2010 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #634 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 1, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 55 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for July 01, 2010 — #894 (Dave Campbell)

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Top Links

• Microsoft Confirms Xbox Natal To Ship "Holiday 2010" (Kat Hannaford)
• NBDN Remote Pilot/Beta – February 8-12 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• TDD: 4 questions that will help you create the simplest thing that could possibly work (Roy Osherove)
• Silverlight HVP Proof Of Concept Released! (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• jQuery and ASP.NET UpdatePanel (Dave M. Bush)
• Bob Dylan Meets HTML5 (Molly E. Holzschlag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to effectively define a sufficient set of BDD scenarios/Acceptance tests? (Gojko Adzic)
• Event Driven Architecture: Publishing Events using an IOC container (Jarod Ferguson)
• 3 Ways to Know Something (JD Meier)
• How Dovetail uses StructureMap with NHibernate (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Architecture Journal 22: Taking BI Beyond the Business Analyst (Mike Walker)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms (Fredrik Normen)
• Silverlight and styles (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Silverlight 4 OOB: Please remove the My-Folders restriction. It doesn’t work anyways. (Ingo Rammer)
• The ultimate hack for Silverlight in Blend (Josh Smith)
• Fonts and Silverlight (Koen Zwikstra)
• iMeta Agility & Silverlight (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SQL Azure Lessons Learned: Telerik (Ben Riga)
• Mike Ziock: Microsoft Online Services Operations (Charles Torre)
• ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Framework Fundamentals and Practices and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: ASP.NET MVC and AJAX and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Rendering Markup and Working with Data and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Routing and Controllers (Emily Gibson)
• The Access Show: Access Developer contest – win an Xbox 360, Zune, or Windows 7 (Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• 2009 highlights and plans for 2010 – part 2 (Simon Brown)
• Blend and design-focused MIX10 Open Call Entries (Adam Kinney)

Database

• MERGE and OUTPUT – the swiss army knife of T-SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• How to obtain RecordCount (or Number of cases) from a DMX query (Steve Simon)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Content Type Publishing Setup (Charles Chen)
• Sharepoint and MbUnit (Andrew Stopford)
• SharePoint Visual Studio 2010 extensions on CodePlex SPVSX (Paul Andrew)
• Editing .cmp files to fix lookup field issues (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Leveraging WMI to Monitor Your Enterprise (Mike Ceranski)
• Video Review: Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Card for Digital Cameras and Your Life’s Workflow (Scott Hanselman)
• Why do big companies suck? (Scott Berkun)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #511 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 6-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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