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Top Links

• Kaxaml Update + Downloads + A Request (Robby Ingebretsen)
• AndAnd.NET (Andrew Stopford)
• Using Unit of Work Pattern with Entity Framework (Gil Fink)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing .NET 4.0 (the book that is) (Mike Ormond)
• New Visual Studio Process Template Certification Program (Stephanie Saad)
• The 6th of Diduary: Did you know you can record a user’s actions for debugging? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Scoop: Reflector v6 pro RTM to be released by the 15th of this month (Patrick Smacchia)
• Functional C#: LINQ vs Method chaining (Mark Needham)
• Using and Abusing the F# Dynamic Lookup Operator (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Integrating ELMAH for a WCF Service (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Performance: Using LCG to copy property values of two objects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Query Continuations in Data Services (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

• View Models in ASP.NET MVC (Simon Ince)
• MVC Turbine v2.0 for MVC2 RC2 (.NET 3.5) (Javier G. Lozano)
• Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part I) (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Traditional architecture makes me flinch (Oren Eini)
• Programmer Tip: Consider Looking For Your Own Sources Of Motivation. (Rajiv Popat)
• CQRS – Event Sourcing (Mark Nijhof)

Silverlight / WPF

• ViewModel Active Awareness in a Prism Based Application (Daniel Vaughan)
• Rules of MVVM?? (Michael Sync)
• WPF Quick Tip: How to Restrict Window Size in WPF 4 and Creating Customized UserControls (Deriving from ContentControl) in WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• Test Driven Silverlight Body Snatchers (Jesse Liberty)
• Help Me Figure Out What to Write (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: Sara Ford, recognize touch gestures, make Windows 7 into a hotspot (Dan Fernandez)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #82 (Jeff Atwood)
• jQuery Podcast 10 – appendTo (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Don Box – feelings for XML (Rob Relyea)

Community / Events

• Philly Alt.NET “Practical DDD in .NET” Presentation: That’s a Wrap! (Steve Bohlen)

Database

• Interesting UNION with ORDER BY behavior (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Paging With SPListItemCollectionPosition (Charles Chen)

Miscellaneous

• Google Voice Quick Reference Cheatsheet v2.0 Speeds Through Phone Menus (Adam Pash)
• Over 200 DRM-free Microsoft Press eBooks now available (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2010 — #793 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekend Reading, February 5th (Dominic Carr)
• Required Reading – January 2010 Week 1 (Mike Ceranski)
• New and Notable 401 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

Testing Computer Software, 2nd Edition

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Telerik Offers Free Developer Team Management Tools (Justin Sargent)
• First step in troubleshooting complex issues: Define and scope your issue properly (Tess Ferrandez)
• Sorry, but I just don’t get Oslo (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Big Huge Objects and WCF (Kirstin Juhl)
• ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 Feature: Projections (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part- I (Mahesh Sabnis)

Web Development

• Embeddable Google Document Viewer (Alex Chitu)
• Build an AJAX Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Adding Menu Components (Bogdan Zamfir)
• NetFlix API (Dave Cook)
• The Future of the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Map Control (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Matching links with regular expression in HTML (David Vidmar)
• Building a RESTful application with SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)
• XML, XPath, and Namespaces (Robert L. Bogue)
• How Subtext’s Lucene.net index is structured (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• SOA may be failing, but the approaches will live on (Simon Brown)
• Exceptional and Substitutable (Dave Laribee)
• Recommended Books: Ship It! (Davy Brion)
• Your unit test may smell if…….! (Derik Whittaker)
• There are Two Types of Developers (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How do you use Pex in Visual Studio? Your Input Is Needed! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Is face to face pairing better? and Spend at least 50% of your time with your team (Roy Osherove)
• Impersonators: Using them in showcases (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 Navigation: Even more on Dynamically Loaded Pages (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight 4 to do for PCs what HD DVD couldn’t (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Using the ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight client library in x-domain and out of browser scenarios – II (Forms Authentication) (Phani Raj)
• New articles about the MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.1 (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Expression Blend Sketchflow (CodeFest)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 36: What Happens In The Speaker’s Lounge is Supposed to Stay In the Speaker’s Lounge (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) – Link of the Day
• 10-4 Episode 32: MEF Preview 7 (Jason Olson)
• Video Killed the Radio Star (Jennifer Marsman)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #139: Learning the Specification Pattern (Tim Barcz)
• Screencast: Project Planning 101 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• ThirstyDeveloper #72 – A Lot of Something (Dave Bost)
• Ade Miller and Patterns of Parallel Programming (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Author Interview: Simone Chiaretta & Keyvan Nayyeri on ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Me)
• Interview on DZone About ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• TechEd Australia – 25 Visual Studio 2008 IDE Tips (Sara Ford)
• Death of a user group, or “How to give up” (Kyle Baley)

Database

• Updating Existing Data with SSIS (Tim Mitchell)
• RESTful Northwind on SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Extracting Data (again) (George Mastros)
• Spools in Execution Plans (Grant Fritchey)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Desktop Screen Background (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• How to: Add a folder to a SharePoint list using C# (Eugene Rosenfeld)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft: The Apple Best Buy Slides Are Legit, Too (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• US Government Opens-Up to OpenID and Information Cards (Andres Ferrate)
• ImageResizer PowerToy Updated for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
• How would Apple Market their OS without Windows? (Stephen Chapman)
• WorkScore: A Social Resume (Thursday Bram)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 9, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #430 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009 — #687 and Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009 – 2 — #688 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 9th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #537 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Silverlight

• Book Review: Silverlight 2 In Action (Davy Brion)
• Dispatcher, Cross-Thread Property Setting & Lambda Expressions (Jesse Liberty)
• EntitySpaces 2009 Q2 – Can you Query me now? (Mike Griffin)

Web Development

• MVC ViewPage Compile Error, or “How to exist in both places” (Kyle Baley)
• Quake Live Review and Rant – Why is this interesting? (Scott Hanselman)
• Talking Points: ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) (Joel Reyes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Video – Getting Started with LINQ in .NET 3.5 (Dan Wahlin)
• What’s the point of Value types? (Mike Hadlow)
• LINQ – Using Quantifiers like Any, Contains and All while Querying Objects (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Default Values and Smarter Property Assessors (Tim Barcz)
• ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 Coming! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 is on its way (John Papa)
• Creating DTOs using AutoMapper (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Perceived Requirements or “All Users Lie” (Casey Charlton)
• Typemock NUnit Results to TeamCity (Stephen Wright)
• What Johannes Kepler Can Teach Us About Debugging (Scott Mitchell)
• What’s in Your Wallet? and What’s in your wallet? – Part 2 (Mike Glenn)
• Stuck between a rock and a hard place (Corey Haines)
• Trade Offs: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)

Community / Events

• Media from AltNetSeattle 2009, Redmond, WA (Weston M. Binford III & others) – Link of the Day
• ALT.NET “Mean” – How do we fix it? (Chad Myers)
• A busy quarter, DDD and stuff (Sebastien Lambla)
• ALT.NET Seattle Day Two and ALT.NET Seattle Day 3 and I’m Speaking At Mix 2009 (Phil Haack)
• A Coalition of the Willing (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Experiencing ALT.NET Seattle 2009 Open Spaces (Scott Hanselman)
• Alt.Heros – Shanselman, benscheirman and What are YOU going to do about it? (Roy Osherove)
• SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 1 – Summit Welcome and Keynotes (Pinal Dave)

Database

• I Am But a Humble Filing Clerk (Ken Downs)

PowerShell

• Where Did That Come From? (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Bites from the Apple: Form and Function (Agen Schmitz)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Flip! (Dave Burke)
• Windows Server 2008 Web Edition – Ready For Primetime (Bart Czernicki)
• Updated Reading List (Davy Brion)
• Spore API Contest Challenges Developers to Have Some Fun (Kevin Farnham)
• 10 Stories Behind Dr. Seuss Stories (Stacy Conradt)
• Live Search to get new features…oh and a new brand, too (Kip Kniskern)
• The Promise and Peril of Jumbo Frames (Jeff Atwood)
• True Learning – not comfortable, easy or safe (Roy Osherove)
• Code Cast #24 – On Functional Programming (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Building Domain Specific Languages with Boo – Full book now available (Ayende Rahien)
• Five things every Windows beta tester should know (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #297 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #73 (David Vidmar)
• Links (3/1/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 83 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: The Ubiquitous Language (Casey Charlton)
• The Other Kind of Exception Handling (Davy Brion)
• The Only Japanese You Need as a Software Developer. Ever. (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Code Review with NDepend (Laila Bougria)
• Cost? (Greg Young)
• TestDriven.Net 2.19: Release Notes (Jamie Cansdale)
• Eager Read Derivation (Martin Fowler)
• The Cost of Messaging (Oren Eini)
• Mocks vs. Stubs (James Kovacs)
• Framework Design Guidelines: System.DBNull (Brad Abrams)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Is the Future, but the Future Isn’t Silverlight (Scott Koon)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #91 – How to Apply Themes from the Silverlight Toolkit and Silverlight Tip of the Day #92 – How to Load Images from a Stream (Mike Snow)
• Integrating Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC (Tim Heuer) – Link of the Day
• Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF, Part 2 (Walt Ritscher)
• XAML Guidelines and Best Practices (Corey Schuman)
• Eclipse and Silverlight, Another Interoperability Journey Has Begun (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Add-In: CopySourceAsHTML (Gunnar Peipman)
• Quickly Setting Up and Using NHibernate’s Second Level Cache (Davy Brion)
• UrlScan and ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) (Scott Hanselman)
• Tour de BCL and An Intro to Barrier (Jason Olson)

Web Development

• How AJAX Is Included as a First Class Concept in Both ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (Anil)
• Validator Toolkit for ASP.NET MVC – Release v1.3 (20090208) (CodePlex)
• Looking at the Past of Community Server (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• WebForms or MVC? What About the Third Option? (Mads Kristensen)
• JavaScript for C# Programmers: Object Basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• It’s Not Just About the Code & Product; Your Website’s "Experience" Is What Matters (Dave Schinkel)
• Another Way to Test Ajax Methods (John Teague)
• How to Use Ninject to Inject Dependencies Into ASP.NET MVC ActionFilters (Simone Chiaretta)
• A Breaking Change Between Versions of ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward)
• S#arp Architecture Trunk Is Compatible with MVC RC (Billy McCafferty)
• JavaScript vs Silverlight vs … (Dave M. Bush)

.NET Community / Events

• Events This Week – February 9th, 2009 and MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow – Correction (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Developer Dinner: What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 (WebForms, AJAX and jQuery)? (Marc Schweigert)
• Announcing – Government Software Developers Group on Facebook (Nandita)
• Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development in .NET Workshop in Austin, Tuesday, March 24th (Scott Bellware)
• New Visual Studio Team System Web Site: http://www.tfsexamples.com/ (Charles Sterling)
• My First Video Blog (Sara J. Chipps)
• Hanselman’s List of Podcasts for .NET Programmers (Scott Hanselman)
• Register Now for Lang.NET Symposium 2009 (Harry Pierson)
• You’re Invited: "7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint for Project Management Success" Webcast (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SQL Server MVPs Provide a Helping Hand (Jas Dhaliwal)

Miscellaneous

• The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture (Jeff Atwood)
• On the Origin of Darwin by Means of Extreme Summary, or the Abbreviation of a Voluminous Life in the Struggle for Brevity (Dave Banks)
• How Important Is the Job Title to You? (Angela McLaughlin)
• Living in the Clouds – OpenDNS (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Early Peek Offered for Microsoft My Phone (Bruce Kyle)
• Google Sync (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Live Mesh Video Player Available (Sarah Perez)
• My Blogging Toolbox (Tim Heuer)
• Free eBook on Microsoft Virtualization Solutions (Jose Barreto)
• Keyboard Thoughts (Scott Mitchell)
• Recognizing Improvements in Windows 7 Handwriting (Yvonne)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links #39 (Grant Palin)
• LINKBLOG for February 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for February 09, 2009 — #512 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.02.10 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #283 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – February 9, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• CloudNews for February 9th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day