• My Visual Studio 2010 HTML5 Templates are Updated for jQuery 1.5.1 and Modernizr 1.7 (Rey Bango)
• ReSharper 6 Enhances Suggestions with Explanations (Hadi Hariri)
• Finding Code Smell Comments with PowerShell (Jim Holmes)
• async Samples 5: Exceptions and async methods (Bill Wagner)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Server AppFabric and WCF monitoring (Rockford Lhotka)
• Visual Studio 2010 Unlimited Load Test Virtual Users (Steve Smith)
• Published Applications AKA _PublishedApplications (Rob Reynolds)
• Memory Access Breakpoint for Large Ranges using VirtualProtect (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Loading Assemblies off Network Drives (Rick Strahl)
• Creating CodeRush Plug-ins: Actions and Tool Windows (Mark Miller)
• An ADO.NET SQL Helper Class (Jonathan Wood)
• Improving CLRProfiler 2: 19.7% in TryGetValue (Feng Yuan)

Web Development

• Using ActionFilters with ASP.NET MVC and NHibernate (Rob Conery)
• Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 2: Creating The Core Mobile Layout (Chris Love)
• New DevNugget: Get to Know Action Filters in ASP.NET MVC 3 with HandleError (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Developer Resources: HTML5 / IE9 Tutorials and Sample Code and Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility Cookbook (Doris Chen)
• Using HTML5 Local Storage and What JavaScript Library or Framework do you use ? (Joe Stagner)
• Revised JavaScript Dictionary Search (John Resig)
• JavaScript: How it all Began (Axel Rauschmayer)
• How to Add MVC 3 Project Types to the Azure Cloud Service Wizard (Jason Haley)
• NEW Eclipse Plugin CTP Eases Windows Azure Development for Java Developers (Windows Azure Team)
• Guest Post: The Cross-Browser Compatibility Myth (Heather Sonmez)
• SmartScreen® Application Reputation – Building Reputation (Ryan Colvin)
• Rails 3 Baby Steps – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Are You Ready for IE9 and Firefox 4? (Charles Hamilton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Design Patterns – $17.99 (Save 50%) Code DDHZP (O’Reilly Media)
• Stop Using Mocks (Karl Seguin)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Hard-Coded Test Double (Giorgio Sironi)
• Reviewing Data Analysis With Open Source Tools (Rob Diana)
• Mocking constructor (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Designing a Short Course on IoC: Day 3 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Configure properties of Test Plan in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) (Abhijit Zanak)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Custom Gauge Controls for Windows Phone 7: Part III (Badea Florin)
• 7Metro: Silverlight Theme (Alex Knight)
• “Cool” button creation in Expression Blend Tutorial (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7 “NoDo” Update Is Now Available For Download! (Dr. Usman)
• Revealing the “101 Apps” (Vol I) Table of Contents (Adam Nathan)
• WPF on Mono? It is a matter of funding. (Jonathan Allen)
• Adding Analytics to your Windows Phone 7 App with Preemptive Solutions (Michael Crump)
• Customizing WP7 Slider in different ways and WP7 TextBox Light theme problems – the solution and How to access a Control placed inside ListBox ItemTemplate in WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Linq: SelectMany (Jesse Liberty)
• Targeting mobile-optimized CSS at Windows Phone 7 (Mike O’Malley)
• New Release: ReactiveUI 2.2.1 (Paul Betts)
• A Smarter TextBlock Control for WP7 (Michael Wolf)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Access Show – Making Beautiful Access Web Applications (Tina Wood)
• Let’s Play TDD #96: Resources (James Shore)
• Countdown to MIX11: All Things Digital (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 95: Microsoft Atlanta, Kodu, Kinect HACK, KEXP to the Cloud (Laura Foy)
• Technology & Friends Episode 146: Heather Kostes and Nicole Moser on the MVP Program (David Giard)
• This Developer’s Life 1.1.5 Revolt (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Google’s Marissa Mayer Interviews Lady Gaga (GOOG) (Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry)
• AuthorsCast: Mark Russinovich on Zero Day: A Novel (Lee Dumond)

Community / Events

• Wanna Attend TEC2011 SharePoint #in Vegas for FREE? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone? (Vitaly Friedman)
• MobiZA – Android platform for the .NET developer (Rudi Grobler)
• Over 70 MVPs pack Bellevue Microsoft Retail Store (Lonnie Webb)
• Interview with SilverlightShow Eco Contest First Runner-up Peter Kuhn (Silverlight Show)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 3 (Glenn Berry)
• Dynamic Management Quickie: Exploring SQL Server’s system views and functions as you work (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – ObjectID in Negative – Local TempTable has Negative ObjectID (Pinal Dave)
• What Are Your Indexing Strategies? (Jason Strate)
• SQL Azure Use Case: Department Application Data Store (Buck Woody)

Miscellaneous

• OData for iOS resources (Glen Gordon)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• SilverlightShow for March 14-20, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2011 — #1063 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 22th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #818 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 03/22/2011 and Daily News Digest 03/23/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 21-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure Platform (Patterns & Practices)

Top Links

• On Her Majesty’s Secret Source Code: .NET Reflector 7 Early Access Builds Now Available (Bart Read)
• Identifying AppFabric Access Control Service users uniquely (Gunnar Peipman)
• HowTo: apply StyleCop Settings on several projects (Code Inside Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Insert Blank Lines (Richard Carr)
• Wrong Answer #2: Your own ThreadLocal and Wrong Answer #3: Your own Thread Local (Oren Eini)
• Simple HTTP Server in C# (David Jeske)
• Reporting in .NET Part II (Deborah Kurata)
• WCF by Example – Chapter XIII – Business Domain – Parent & Child Relationships (Enrique Albert)
• Team Foundation Server Administration tool v2.1 Released (Think “TFS2010 version”) and Retargeting VS2010 Unit Tests to .Net 3.5 (with VS2010 SP1) (Greg Duncan)
• Understanding Tag Specific Options and HTML Editor Tag Navigation (Zain Naboulsi)
• ADO.NET – Some Internals Uncovered (Abhishek Sur)
• Big delay while calling EnvelopedCms constructor (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• VSDB Common Pitfalls 1 (Gert Drapers)
• NDepend – Code Query Language (CQL) (Hajan Selmani)
• Fun with XNA and 2.5D (Michael C. Neel)
• .Config File Transformation (Oleg Sych)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# developers: writing a library (part 3) (Julian m. Bucknall)
• HTML5: The Geolocation API is scary (good) (Jef Claes)
• ASP.NET: Including JavaScript libraries conditionally from CDN and ASP.NET MVC 3: Using AppFabric Access Control Service to authenticate users (Gunnar Peipman)
• Bing Maps Ajax 7: Add a Simple Mini Map (Chris Pietschmann)
• My view of the future for Web-Enabled Applications (Bill Wagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Distributed Agile: Bringing onshore people offshore (Mark Needham)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Suite (Giorgio Sironi)
• How to Deal with Unknown Unknowns (Jurgen Appelo)
• Understanding Software Development Disasters – Part2 and Understanding Software Development Disasters – Part3 (Rajiv Popat)
• Find out where is the method that was called unexpectedly using fake objects (Dror Helper)
• Highly Recommended Book: The Passionate Programmer (Davy Brion)
• Should We Move a Failed Story Back? (Dan Puckett)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: Beating Expectations (Chris Sells)
• Header Editable Tab Control in Wpf (Amit Kumar Dutta)
• A Matter of Controls Part 3 (Dave)
• Windows Phone 7 Database Rapid Repository V2.0 Released (Sean McAlinden)
• Getting friendly with presets, Part II (Elliot Meacham)
• Using the Multi-Touch Behavior in a Windows Phone 7 Multi-Page application (Davide Zordan)
• Silverlight FAQ – 13 Questions for Beginners (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Bad Image Quality In .NET 4.0 WPF Project (Sacha Barber)
• WPF TaskDialog Wrapper and Emulator (Sean A. Hanley)
• Review of Windows Phone 7 OS: 2 months of real usage (Dennis Delimarsky)
• First thoughts from our WP7 competition winner and Top 7 Christmas Windows Phone 7 apps (Andy Robb)
• Treeview Anti-Pattern (Greg Gum)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 381: Call of Duty: Black Ops new downloadable content announced, Fallout New Vegas Dead Money and BF BC2 heads to Vietnam (Larry Hyrb)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 40 – Udi Dahan on SOA and NServiceBus (Richard Banks)
• Windows Weekly 187: Fez Edition (Paul Thurrott)
• Technology & Friends Episode 130: Martin Schray on Technical Evangelism (David Giard)
• Hanselminutes: Transitions – Exploring issues moving from small companies to large corporations (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Stack Overflow: Subscribe to Tags via Email (Jeff Atwood)
• Calling all Windows Phone 7 experts! Update your SME profile now! (Lisa Denbeste)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Securing TRUNCATE Permissions in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Stackoverflow amongst evil nofollow web abuse sites (Brian Bondy)
• Microsoft to add finger and hand rotation tracking to Kinect (Byron Hinson)
• A week with Google’s Chrome OS laptop, Day 5: My life in the cloud (Joe Wilcox)
• Searching for the Perfect Developer’s Laptop. (Michael Crump)
• Reading The Windows Event Log (Rhonda Tipton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 19, 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2010 — #1012 and Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2010 – 2 — #1013 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #754 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook by Dentler Jason

Top Links

• Using EF “Code First” with an Existing Database (Scott Guthrie)
• Prism 4.0 CTP Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch (Somasegar)
• MonoTools 2 for VisualStudio has been released (Miguel de Icaza)
• Introducing Microsoft Ribbon for WPF and Building a Simple Ribbon Application in WPF and Add more content to my Simple Ribbon Application (Varsha Mahadevan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft.Data and Positioning and NHibernate is lazy, just live with it (Oren Eini)
• Optimizing Regular Expression Performance, Part II: Taking Charge of Backtracking (Ron Petrusha)
• Sudoku Solver and Generator (Jörgen Pramberg)
• Better grilling with topological sorting (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Link an entity to a hierarchy with different Id type (Al Kampfer)
• Microsoft.Data – Let’s Inject Some Love Into the Conversation (Evan Nagle)
• Introducing Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ (Jason Zander)
• Quick Access Extension (Weston Hutchins)
• OData Synchronization with WCF Data Services (Nick)
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Creating New Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
• Defining Descriptive Text for Enumeration Members (Scott Mitchell)
• Parallel Tasks – .net 4.0 feature (Arun Mahendrakar)
• UIGlassButton Generator in MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
• Using ILMerge Internalization with Caution (Abel Avram)
• Netduino – .NET Micro Framework, open source, electronics platform, free (software), code walk though, cool… (Greg Duncan)
• How to use the ArcGIS iPhone SDK with MonoTouch (Al Pascual)

Web Development

• Free ASP.NET Source Code – Tailspin Spyworks gets a new landing page. (Joe Stagner)
• Now Available: Azure Security Notes PDF (J.D. Meier)
• Is ASP.NET MVC A Gateway to Ruby on Rails? (Dane Morgridge)
• Tell Me the Development Problems that Script Junkie Can Try to Solve via Solutions-based Content (Rey Bango)
• Add-on Performance Part 1: Measuring Add-on Performance (Herman Ng)
• Orchard – Release v0.5 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Let’s change the tune (Gojko Adzic)
• Using Reactive Extensions (Rx) to Simplify Asynchronous Tests (Jeremy Likness)
• Day 3 – Daily Outcomes – Use Three Stories to Drive Your Day and CRUD for Content (J.D. Meier)
• What Enterrpise Architects can Learn from Designers (Mike Walker)
• Container-friendly domain events (Jimmy Bogard)
• Going Down the CQS Rabbit Hole (Russell Ball)
• Open Thread: Does Working from Home Make You More Productive? (Simon Mackie)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Visualizing Data – Only $9.99. Use code DDVDT. Slashdot rated 9/10 (O’Reilly Media)
• Crowdsourced Testing, Changing the Game (Vikas Hazrati)
• I Took A Shot At Object Calisthenics (Pete Seale)
• Building Touchable Interactivity (Andrew Trice)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• I Started a CodePlex Project: The Extended WPF Toolkit (Brian Lagunas)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: The Sample (Davy Brion)
• Today’s Adventure: Getting the FourSquare Codeplex Project working on the latest Windows Phone Tools Beta (Don Burnett)
• Make sure the web.config pages/namespace can be used together with ASP.NET MVC 3 P1 and Razor (Fredrik Normen)
• Windows Phone 7 Game: BulletAsylum (Joey deVilla)
• No accelerometer support in the Windows Phone 7 emulator? Not the end. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Document Toolkit 2.0.0.4 (Koen Zwikstra)
• WP7 + XNA Tips, part 1 – Running The Emulator From the Command Line (Chris Williams)
• Simple Page Navigation (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Some Best Practices for Silverlight Application Development (XAML) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Book Review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Step by Step (Michael Crump)
• MVVM, MVP, or code behind–all ok, as long as you build a great Ux (Rob Relyea)
• Cinch V2 Article 5 Is Out There (Sacha Barber)
• What Codecs are supported in Windows Phone 7? (Wes Yanaga)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Enterprise Social Networking with SharePoint-Episode 48 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Booking your travel in Outlook with the new Bing add-in (Tina Wood)
• Jay Schmelzer: Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch (Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone gets back in the game with “7” (Don Burnett)
• ASP.NET Membership Training – 3 new Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Technology & Friends Episode 107: Michael Kimsal on JavaScript (David Giard)
• Polymorphic Podcast – 2010.08.03 Software Craftsmanship with David Starr (Craig Shoemaker)
• Countdown to PDC: Developers, Developers, Developers (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• GitHub Jobs Pre-Launch (Kyle Neath)

Database

• Getting started with PIVOT Queries in SQL Server 2005/2008 and SQL Server FILESTREAM feature and Differential Backups (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Performance – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Sync Framework for SQL Azure (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server Backup File Confusion – Log Shipping (Steve Jones)
• Order of Nested SCOPE Statements (Chris Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8, a repeat of Windows 7′s success? (Brody McKee)
• Why The IDE Has Failed Us (John Sonmez)
• Objective C: Parsing an XML file (Mark Needham)
• The new Hotmail is now available to everyone! (Mike Schackwitz)
• Microsoft hardware teasing us (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #657 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 3, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for August 03, 2010 — #917 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher

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Top Links

• Using Web Services from an XNA 4.0 WP7 Game (Michael Cummings)
• CodePlex: Search Project Openings, New Ad Format, and more (Matt Hawley)
• The Weekly Source Code 52 – You keep using that LINQ, I dunna think it means what you think it means. (Scott Hanselman)
• Unity Extension For Disposing Build Trees On TearDown (Rory Primrose)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF & Mex are correct, but why is my metadata not published???? (Derik Whittaker)
• Retrieve Security Information of Files using .NET (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Working with the bit.ly API to shorten URLs (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services: Part I and Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part II: Query Methods (Stephen Forte)
• Hide the Quick Find and Quick Replace Tool Window After the First Match and Auto Hide All Tool Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Command Image Changing Extension (Ryan Molden)
• Run Cassandra As A Windows Service (Nick Berardi)
• Connection Pooling in ADO.NET (Hima Bindu Vejella)
• A Couple Useful Powershell Commands for working with Ruby/IronRuby (Bobby Johnson)

Web Development

• common css mistakes/putting a stop to them (Niels Matthijs)
• Announcing jQuery Fundamentals: An Open-Source jQuery Training Curriculum (Rebecca Murphey)
• Adding HTML5 placeholder attribute support through progressive enhancement (Robert Nyman)
• Parameterization vs. Web.Config Transformation (Vishal Joshi)
• Build a List Tree with the Beauty of jQuery (Stoimen Popov)
• Start Using CSS3 Today: Techniques and Tutorials (Vitaly Friedman)
• The query parameter ‘$format’ begins with a system-reserved ‘$’ character but is not recognized (Chris Love)
• Issues with modal overlays on the web (Janko Jovanovic)
• Reactive programming with WebSharper (Joel Bjornson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Real Customer Involvement" Now Online (James Shore)
• Get to No as fast as possible (Tim Hibbard)
• p&p – Windows Azure Guidance – Part 2, Drop 1 (CodePlex)
• Setting up automatic test runs after compilation in VS2010 (Eric Hexter)
• Make the JavaScript Test Pass (K. Scott Allen)
• Automating scheduled tasks (Jimmy Bogard)
• Less is More Redux (Peter Bromberg)
• Modeling Websites and Native Code (Somasegar)
• TestApi v0.5 Released! (Ivo Manolov)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Device Requests (Brandon Watson)
• Revisiting the Code Not Taken [Updated analysis of two ways to create a full-size Popup in Silverlight] (David Anson)
• Three Hotfixes for WPF Memory Leaks (Jonathan Allen)
• Silverlight 4: Accessing Windows 7 Taskbar using the new COM API (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Time categories with WPF and Exchange (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• CinchV2 : Article 2 (Sacha Barber)
• IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta Now Available (Silverlight Team)
• Using d:DesignSource for design-time DataGrid grouping with sample data (Jack Ukleja)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Patterns of Parallel Programming – TechEd Talk Online (Ade Miller)
• Video: 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 minutes! (Sara Ford)
• Video: What’s New in Expression Blend 4 (Eric Hagan)
• StartUp Podcast Show #71 Nilofer Merchant on the New How of business (Bob Walsh)
• Community Megaphone Show #12 with guest Frank La Vigne (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Wizards of Smart – Heroku, Cloud, and Iron Ruby (Jonathan Birkholz)

Community / Events

• Survey for Interesting Finds followers (Jason Haley)
• SQLAuthority News – Interview with SQL Server MVP Madhivanan – A Real Problem Solver (Pinal Dave)
• Training classes for DevExpress Silverlight products? (Oliver Sturm)
• Behind the scenes with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team: ‘I think about this really as a first release’ (Chris Ziegler)
• Rock out in the Microsoft candidate experience lobby (Kelly)
• Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint – with the MVP Experts (Melissa Travers)

Database

• Replace SQL Server DateTime records of a column with UTC time (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Shrink, Damn’d Log! Shrink, I Say! (Jeremiah Peschka)
• XQuery Lab 57 – Getting Started with OPENXML (Jacob Sebastian)

SharePoint

• Give me your tired, your poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free… With open arms we welcome Notes Admins and Developers to SharePoint (Joel Oleson)
• Defining Actions for External Content Types in BCS Meta Man (Hrayr Diloyan)
• Mapping the Office Item Type for External Content Types in BCS Meta Man (Phill Duffy)

Miscellaneous

• Inside the Microsoft Certified Master Program (Brent Ozar)
• Announcing Windows Embedded Handheld (Chris Koenig)
• Interviewing .NET Developers (JP Hamilton)
• Introducing Zoho Wiki 2.0 (Susan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #624 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 17, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for June 17, 2010 — #885 (Dave Campbell)
• Highlights from the Google I/O Wave Developer Sandbox (Pamela Fox)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

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Top Links

• MVVM Coding by Convention (Convention over Configuration) (Jeremy Likness)
• Can I Do Perfect Scrum and Still Fail? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Integrating Twitter Into An ASP.NET Website Using OAuth (Scott Mitchell)
• Code contracts and inheritance (Gunnar Peipman)
• Visual Studio 2010: How to understand your code using Dependency Graphs, Sequence Diagrams, and the Architecture Explorer (Jennifer Marsman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updated C# all-in-one file (Kirill Osenkov)
• Service Operations for Any and All (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Think .Net Cache = System.Web.Caching? .Net 4 has a present for you, System.Runtime.Caching. and Extra .Net 4 Parallel Extension goodness in the Parallel Extension Samples, with RTM updates and a few new Projects (Greg Duncan)
• Book Review – Essential C# 4.0 (Brandon Cannaday)
• Assembly Resolution in MSBuild and Visual Studio Series Introduction (Chris Mann)
• Break Multiple Processes (Zain Naboulsi)
• Entity Framework 4.0 POCO Classes and Data Services (Chris Sells)
• ADO.NET Survey Results (Luiz Fernando Santos)

Web Development

• F# in ASP.NET, mathematics and testing (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using the Sueetie Cross-Application Footer Menu Control (Dave Burke)
• Building a Data Grid in ASP.NET MVC (Ali Bastani)
• Becoming a Great Web Developer (Marc Grabanski)
• New book: Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• DOM Range and HTML5 Selection (Jon Seitel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Information is the Most Transient Form of Power and ASP.NET Security Scenarios on Azure and Application Scenarios and Solutions (J.D. Meier)
• Agile: Chasing a points total (Mark Needham)
• Responsibility And Disaster (Michael Nichols)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Updated Bing App for Windows Phone (Justin Jed)
• IIS Media Services 4 – Changing the Game (Nigel Parker)
• Event-based property changes in pure XAML (Dennis Delimarsky)
• We’ve secretly changed this control’s DataContext – let’s see if it notices! [Workaround for a Silverlight data binding bug affecting various scenarios - including DataGrid+ContextMenu] (David Anson)
• Embedding the Silverlight version of the Open Media Player (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #18 – Elastic Scrolling (Mike Snow)
• IIS Media Services to Include a Version of PlayReady DRM for HTTP Streaming (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Corrinne Yu – Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team Microsoft: Part One and Office Casual: OneNote – An all too brief introduction (Tina Wood)
• Webcast: NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB (Michael Kennedy)
• Video Interviews Part 2 – Nicholas Zakas, Principal Front-end Engineer at Yahoo! on jQuery Performance and Menno van Slooten on his Automated UI Testing Framework for jQuery (Rey Bango)
• Silverlight TV 25: No More Boxes! Exploring the PathListBox (John Papa)
• MSDN Radio: SharePoint 2010 for Developers (Emily Gibson)
• JP Boodhoo’s Introduction to Machine.Specifications (Bobby Johnson)
• Executive Thoughts on SharePoint 2010 (Eric Swift)
• Silverlight Week – How to Choose a Mobile Platform (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Kelly Cassidy: Effective Prototyping with SketchFlow (Eric Hagan)

Community / Events

• “Unplugged” Chat with Me this Thursday (Scott Guthrie)
• It’s time to Party like is SharePoint 2010 Launch Day! (Joel Oleson)
• Women In Web Design: Group Interview (Smashing Editorial)
• Microsoft’s greatest strength: people (Eugenia Sawa)
• Deep dive on Silverlight unit testing at Tech Ed next month (Jeff Wilcox)

Database

• SQL Azure vs. SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 (MS Downloads)
• 5 Things SQL Server Should Truncate (Brent Ozar)
• Five things SSIS should drop (Jamie Thomson)
• Trusting Database Engine Tuning Advisor for Query Tuning and Five things wouldn’t miss in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding ALTER INDEX ALL REBUILD with Disabled Clustered Index (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Meme: Tagged: 5 things SQL Server should drop (Denis Gobo)
• Why LOB data makes shrink run slooooowly (T-SQL Tuesday #006) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Using Filters in BCS Meta Man (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) 2.0 Released – New Cmdlets, PowerShell 2 and XCopy, oh my and “If you want users to RTFM, write a better FM” (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft and LG partner to release Xbox 360 3D gaming (Matt Blowes)
• Firefox 3.7 will become 4.0 — Firefox 4, with updated Gecko, confirmed for later this year (Sebastian Anthony)
• Snagit 10 Released With New Capture Tools (Simon Mackie)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 11-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #598 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 415 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2010 — #859 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Programming C# 4.0: Building Windows, Web, and RIA Applications for the .NET 4.0 Framework (Animal Guide)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Please, it is just a ‘var’ (Chris Brandsma)
• WCF Extensibility part 5: Make your endpoints behave (Alex Thissen)
• Text Files and Reading Comma Delimited Files and Reading Fixed Length Files and Reading Comma Delimited Files: TextFieldParser and Reading Fixed Length Files: TextFieldParser and Retrieve a DataTable using Microsoft Access and Update a Microsoft Access Database (Deborah Kurata)
• ADO.NET Data Services Logical Operators (Deepak Kapoor)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series and Clean Web.Config Files (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Step by Step to Using MSpec (Machine.Specifications) with ReSharper (Sean Biefeld)
• Long time, no Euler (or YAEPS # 13) (Bill Wagner)
• LINQ to NHibernate: A Vast Improvement (Russell Ball)
• MSDN VSTS2010 doc’s – Modeling User Requirements (Clemens Reijnen)

Web Development

• Four Little Known, Helpful Methods, Properties, and Features for ASP.NET Developers (Scott Mitchell)
• jQuery Validation and ASP.NET MVC Forms (Chris Missal) – Link of the Day
• Highslide JS .NET v4.1.5 (Dave Ward)
• Windows Azure and Live ID Auth! (David Lemphers)
• Requiring SSL For ASP.NET MVC Controllers (Dan Wahlin)
• Book review: Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Iframe cross domain JavaScript calls (Mads Kristensen)
• CKEditor 3.0 is out (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using jQuery to Sort a List (Sam Tyson)
• Host .NET Applications on Rackspace Cloud Servers with Mono (Rinat Abdullin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Concepts & Features: A concept cover the whole range, a feature is constrained and A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Hydrating Entities (Oren Eini)
• Achieve Goals Using the S.M.A.R.T. Method (Azadeh Ensha)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Hydrating Entities (Davy Brion)
• The Largest Wicked Problem in Software is Politics and Management (Jak Charlton)
• How to Build Trust Remotely (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Refactoring Day 25 : Introduce Design By Contract checks (Sean Chambers)
• Configuring Team build using XUnit [From Client] (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 12. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Cursor from HCURSOR and A Real WPF WebBrowser and WPF Chromium WebBrowser source code! (Chris Cavanagh)
• A Plethora of Silverlight Behaviors/Triggers (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Get up to speed on SketchFlow FAST (Marc Schweigert)
• MsBuild pipeline for WPF & Silverlight (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight and Web Analytics – the Next Generation (Michael S. Scherotter)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Three New Videos on ASP.NET MVC (ASP.NET Site)
• Silviu Calinoiu: Inside Windows 7 – Fault Tolerant Heap (Charles Torre)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “My experiment worked! (Prototyping)” (Devon Musgrave)

Community / Events

• Agile 2009: The Scrum Bestiary, A Behavioral Taxonomy (Ade Miller)
• Behind the scenes with the woman who’ll be staffing the Microsoft Store in Scottsdale, AZ (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Visual Studio Team System Rangers Web Site Goes Live (Brian Keller)
• Lacking Confidence (Christopher Bennage)
• MVPs Headline at Epicenter! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Did You Know: Free SQL Server Training on SQL Saturday (Kalen Delaney)
• Entity Framework Tips & Tricks webcast this Thursday! (Julie Lerman)

Database

• SQL Azure Manager (Maarten Balliauw)
• SQL Server Express – A Complete Reference Guide (Pinal Dave)
• How to Setup Database Mirroring (Michael Ceranski)

SharePoint

• SharePoint – What’s It Good For? A Health Care Mini Case Study (Paul Galvin)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Updated ImageResizer PowerToy 2.0 for Windows 7 and 50 Fantastic Bing Tricks for Students, Librarians & Everybody Else (Blake Handler)
• More Advanced Ruby Method Arguments – Hashes And Block Basics (Alan Skorkin)
• www.officelabs.com and Garage: How Microsoft Supports Grassroots Innovation (Kirill Osenkov)
• Windows 7 Virtual PC FTW (For The Win) for virtual workstation development (Eric Hexter)
• Weird things said in job interviews: Part 2 (Anne Cheng)
• RSS: interesting or boring? (Hint @marshallk and @louisgray, we’re not normal) (Robert Scoble)
• Alton Brown: Safe and Scary Kitchen Hacks (Wilson Rothman)
• Helveticons (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Aug 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #420 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2009 — #674 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 362 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 25th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 33 (Kathleen Sanders)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft’s Silverlight-based Local Impact Map (Adam Kinney)
• Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode (Corey Schuman)
• Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 – Introduction (Boyan Mihaylov)
• "Follow the Cursor" Animation – lets do it with behaviors (Jose Fajardo)
• Debugging XMAL Parser Exceptions (Kirstin Juhl)
• Enhance Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Reporting with Silverlight (Sandeep Chanda)
• Understanding Performance in your WPF Application (Margaret Parsons)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Repository is Dead: Long Live Repository (Greg Young)
• Night of the living Repositories and Find the bug (Oren Eini)
• IT Architecture is not Enterprise Architecture (Mike Walker)

Web Development

• How we do MVC (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET Survey Questions for the Community (Sam Gentile)
• ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!) (Scott Hanselman)
• Friday Books: RESTful .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• I Spose I’ll Just Say It: Still Waiting for a GOOD Reason to Learn MVC (Joe Brinkman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 2nd Level Cache (Oren Eini)
• Fluent Ado.Net and API design (Chris Brandsma)
• Idiomatic F# – Functional vs. Imperative (Chris Smith)
• Using Obscure Windows COM APIs in .NET (Jeff Moser)
• EF4 EF4 EF4 (Julie Lerman)
• Jon Skeet: Planning C# In Depth 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Adding CLR Fields (Harry Pierson)
• Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• .NET Trick – Persisting Data Without Using a Database (Michael Ceranski)
• HowTo: Create RSS Feeds with Linq to XML / XLinq (Robert Muehsig)
• Part 3 of My DSL for Developers Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What about DataLoadOptions for Entity Framework ObjectContext? (Muhammad Mosa)
• Pro Tip: Don’t co-opt .net conventions for your own purposes (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Cloud Computing and Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
• CLR 4 ThreadPool Enhancements (Daniel Moth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #104: Navigate your codebase like a pro with ReSharper 4.5 (Ray Houston) – Link of the Day
• Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Cloud Computing Timescales and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Preparing for "The Cloud" and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Current Shiny Toys (Mike Taulty)
• Herding Code 44: Microbusiness (Jon Galloway)
• The History of Microsoft – 1986 (Tina)
• Manuel Fähndrich and Peli de Halleux – The Synergy of Code Contracts and Pex (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• The Painting of IndyHall 2.0: THIS WEEKEND! (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• Dates Updated for Windows 7 Application Compatibility Labs (Bruce Kyle)
• CodeStock 2009 (Chris G. Williams)
• Those who can do, those who can’t blog? (Sara Chipps)
• MVPs Shine Silverlight Together at MVP Global Summit! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference (Zhiming Xue)
• MSDN session on ASP.NET MVC (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

• The Case for Multiple DBs in Multi Tenancy situations (Anne Epstein)
• Normaliser Component v2 : SSIS and Installation order for Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Team Explorer and SQL Server 2008 (Jamie Thomson)
• New book: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying (K. Jones)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler and SQL SERVER – Leading Zero to Number (Pinal Dave)
• The real headquarters of Oracle (Simone Chiaretta)
• Please Mr. DBA, Change default passwords and use strong passwords (Ted Kreuger)

Miscellaneous

• Delicious Tech Tweets (Elijah Manor)
• MSDN Mag 6/2009 Editor’s Note Sneak Peak – On Aggregates (Howard Dierking)
• Recent Changes to IE Content on MSDN (Lance Leonard)
• Why we should attack our own systems? (Gunnar Peipman)
• What is this blog? (Silverlight Team)
• TeamCity 4.5 is live! (Richard Cirerol)
• Windows Mobile 6.5: Standard and Professional and Windows 8 and Windows 9: Various Tidbits (Stephen Chapman)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate out in the wild! (Taimur Asad)
• A Multitouch Pad for Windows (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 3009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #334 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2009 — #577 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 23rd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (4/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Feeling MIX envy this week, as are some others out there.

Silverlight / WPF

• Free theme: INCY (Dax Pandhi)
• Silverlight DependencyProperty Relay and Silverlight Asynchronous Loader Helper (Chris Cavanagh)
• Beginning Silverlight 3 (Robert Lair)
• Pro Silverlight 3 in C# (Silverlight Show)
• Very colorful comments about Prism 2 (Glenn Block)

.NET / Visual Studio

• && vs & and | vs ||… What’s the difference? (Dave M. Bush)
• Book Review: NHibernate In Action (Davy Brion)
• Highlight on Visual Studio 2008 Quality Features (Gunther Lenz)
• How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work (Jeff Moser)
• Batching Queries using the ADO.NET Data Services Client library (Phani Raj)

Web Development

• New in Sueetie User Profiles: Avatars! (Dave Burke)
• Adding Dynamic Data Previews to a New or Exiting Dynamic Data Website (Stephen Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Disambiguating a test fixture (Jimmy Bogard)
• Oppression, Revolution and the Future of Scrum — #2 (Tobias Mayer)
• DevelopWithPassion@GitHub (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Refinance Your Technical Debt Just Like Your Mortgage (Max Pool)
• Git – Distributed Version Control – New User Resources (Rob Reynolds)
• Foundations of Programming (foundationsof.com) – Link of the Day

Database

• Designing a document database: Looking at views (Oren Eini)
• Handling Report (RDL) Filters (William Vaughn)

Community / Events

• Mix 2009: So Much to Tell You about Blend… (Christian Schormann)
• Follow Silverlight updates on Twitter (Tim Heuer)
• Speaking at MIX (Stephen Walther)
• Suffering from Pre Mix Envy… again (Simone Chiaretta)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 153 – Scott’s Wife Mo interviews Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• How to: Install Office Communicator 2007 on Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Writing Re-usable Scripts with PowerShell (James Kovacs)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 15, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #307 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2009 — #541 and Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2009 – 2 — #542 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #75 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #44 (Grant Palin)
• Links (3/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Tidy Up Your Xaml And Code Behind, Use UserControls Inside Templates (Amit Raz)
• Styling ListBox And Animating ListBoxItem In Silverlight 2 (Faisal Khan)
• two very promising WPF application frameworks on codeplex (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #97 – Creating Sprites from 3D Models – EnvyGames (Mike Snow)
• how to build an outlook style application (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio (2005, 2008, 2010) Tips and Tricks (Angela Binkowski)
• The Twitter Search API made easy with Linq to XML (Jan Tielens)
• C# moved to #1 for Programming Book Sales According to O’Reilly’s Radar (Gunther Lenz)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Setting a Breakpoint (Harry Pierson)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 beta release (Rockford Lhotka)
• Introducing Maestro – A DSL for Actor Based Concurrency and Exploring MapReduce with F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• What’s the point of Value types? (Mike Hadlow)
• Things I liked most out of TFS2008 (Laila Bougria)
• ADO.NET EF v LINQ to SQL (Take 4) (Chad Moran)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: object inheritance (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• jQuery, the who, what, where, why and how (Coding4Fun)
• 40 Useful JavaScript Libraries (Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Must use !important on your CSS class for Text color to work on ASP.NET Validation Controls (Dave Schinkel)
• OAuth MVC.net Revisited (Owen Evans)
• CRUD with ASP.NET MVC (screencast) (Maarten Balliauw)
• 43,439 reasons to use append() correctly (Josh Powell)
• 50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials for Designers and Developers (Paul Andrew)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why aren’t software architects held accountable? (Simon Brown)
• Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Dependency Properties (Brad Abrams)
• DDD: The Specification Pattern and DDD: The Post That Should Have Preceded The Last (Casey Charlton)
• Next Generation Project Planning Tool: LiquidPlanner 2.0 (Steve McConnell)
• A story about ‘getting it done’ (Corey Haines)
• Manage Your Projects, Not Just Your Schedule (Part 4) (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Agile Architecture Method Revisited (J.D. Meier)

Community / Events

• Microsoft’s own private Macworld (Todd Bishop)
• MIX ’09 Plans (Nikhil Kothari)
• CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, March 3rd, 6:30pm – DotNetNuke, CMS for the Masses (Christopher Steen)
• Events This Week – March 2nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• ALT.NET Seattle 2009, some impressions (Ian Cooper)
• Alt.Net Seattle Review (Eric Hexter)
• MVPs Deliver Smart Business Solutions (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 2 – Most Contributing MVP of Year (Pinal Dave)
• Construx Offers Free Training for Laid-Off Software Workers (Pam McIlroy) – Link of the Day

PowerShell

• A guide to Advanced Functions (Joel Bennett)
• Powershell “CmdLet” and SharePoint (Liam Cleary)

SharePoint

• Guide to SharePoint Performance Optimization (Marwan Tarek)

Database

• SQL Server Upgrade Technical Reference Guide (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Two New Windows 7 Guides for IT Professionals (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Opens Office 14 Kimono, Slightly (J. Nicholas Hoover)
• Microsoft to start testing ‘Kumo’ search service and First screenshot of Microsoft’s Kumo (Ina Fried)
• Xbox Friends Watch Gamercard now on Channel 9 profile page (Adam Kinney)
• My Phone Team Is Listening: Tighter Integration With Windows Live Services In Future (Sunshine)
• Facebook comes to Windows Live FrameIt, PowerToy now available for download (damaster)
• Introducing NLP (Mo Khan)
• Why am I seeing this dialog? (IE8) (Frank Olivier)
• Ed Bott: The end justifies the means (Paul Thurrott)
• OhGizmo Preview: Pixar’s Up (Evan Ackerman)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #298 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #109 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2009 — #532 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 03.01~03.03 (gOODiDEA)
• Weekly Links #42 (Grant)
• CloudNews for March 2nd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 297 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• How I’m learning F# – Writing the First Program (James Eggers)
• Getting Started with Oslo – Introducing “M” and The M Programming Language – Part 0 – Intellipad, MrEPL, VS2008 project support and Excel integration (Bart de Smet)
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 – Episode 3: The Lifecycle (Clemens Reijnen)
• Test if classes are registered in unity (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Using Regular Expressions in C# vs PHP (Keith Elder)
• Book Review: Pro ADO.NET Data Services (John Papa)
• Creating reusable Entity Framework queries thanks to deferred execution (Josh Twist)
• Fun with LINQ – Find the Longest and Shortest Type Name in .NET 3.5 using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release Candidate (0.0.14287.000) and IronPython – Release: 2.0.1 and WLW Insert Links Plugin – Release: LinkBuilder Plugin v0.1.1 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• First attempts with Gallio (Andre Loker)
• DDD: Entities and Value Objects and DDD: Where is the Code? Another Brief Interlude (Casey Charlton)
• Assertion Driven Design (ADD) (David Starr)
• Application Architecture Videos (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• The open closed principle (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Coding: Assertions in constructors and Encoding user entered data (Mark Needham)
• The Curious Case of Software Quality (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why We Conduct Bug Bashes (Steve Rowe)

Web Development

• Posting data to a REST service using C# (Derik Whittaker)
• Friday Books – Building a Web 2.0 Portal w/ ASP.NET 3.5 (Dave M. Bush)
• Video explanation of jQuery (Simone Chiaretta)
• Chapter 3 – Understanding Controllers (Stephen Walther)
• AJAX History in a Dynamic Data Website (Stephen Naughton)

Silverlight / WPF

• Avoid having default values in XAML to do less during Load. (Rob Relyea)

Community / Events

• MSDN Live Events Coming to a City Near You! (David Solivan)
• Welcome to MVP TV! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• A Comprehensive Database Security Model (Ken Downs)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Reading XML File Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Understanding backups and log-related Trace Flags in SQL Server 2000/2005 and 2008 (Kimberly L. Tripp)

Miscellaneous

• Yet another feature in the new SilverlightShow: FAVORITES (Nikolay Raychev)
• A Failure in Microsoft’s Open Source Strategy (Chris Cyvas)
• Microsoft Releases Windows Media Center SDK for Windows 7 Beta (Blake Handler)
• Data Visualization with Physics (Andy Beaulieu)
• Sample of the Week: Bricks (Vijay) – Small Basic sample.
• Being coached on Getting Things Done and My letter to Microsoft as it gets back into retail (Robert Scoble)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: lots of little things (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Fun with Folds (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Real Ultimate Programming Power (Jeff Atwood)
• Advances in typography and text rendering in Windows 7 (Worachai Chaoweeraprasit)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 feature tour sneaks onto YouTube (Paul Miller)
• Introducing Bespin, online collaborative code editor (Simone Chiaretta)
• Microsoft readies Zune service for non-Zune devices, Marketplace appears in WinMo 6.5 screenshot (Thomas Ricker)
• Blogs are the Most Important Innovation of the 21st Century (Scott Mitchell)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 13, 2009 and LINKBLOG for February 14, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – February 12, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for February 13, 2009 — #516 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: February 13, 2009 and Interesting Finds: February 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• WPF/XAML News – 2009/02/13 (Rob Relyea)
• Discoveries This Week 02/13/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for February 13th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 11 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day