Top Links

• VS 2010 Productivity Improvements, Part III (Somasegar)
• Multi-Tier Performance Tuning with ANTS Performance Profiler 6 (Jeremy Jarrell)
• HTML5, Native: Third IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• 7MC Gofer (Rudi Grobler)
• .NET Rocks! – Kevin Hazzard on Code Contracts (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Challenge: Dynamically dynamic (Oren Eini)
• Bounty for R# on Monodevelop (Greg Young)
• Self-localizing Error Messages (John Sonmez)
• C# 4.0 How-To – Book review and Lazy initialization in .NET – a short overview (Dennis Delimarsky)
• A RichTextBox that can bind to the Rtf property (Mike Baldini)
• Working with WCF: Part Six – Fault Contracts (James Bender)
• Key lookup in WCF Data Services (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• “Windows Azure Platform: Articles from the Trenches Volume 1” free eBook now available (Think the “We’ve been there, done that, learn from our mistakes and triumphs” Azure eBook) (Greg Duncan)
• Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2010 (Umair Saeed)
• Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0: Using Tasks (Jennifer Marsman)
• Change Tool Window Animations and Cycle Through Your Open Tool Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• More On System.Tuple And Serialization/Deserialization (Davy Brion)
• Full support for custom types in TFS Build 2010 build definition editor (Rory Primrose)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part IV: Making an OData feed from your Domain Service (Stephen Forte)
• Processing Command Line Arguments in an Offline ClickOnce Application (Joel Cochran)

Web Development

• Using ASP.NET Charting in ASP.NET MVC (Venkata Subbarao)
• Using ModelMetaData in ASP.Net MVC 2 to wire up sweet jQuery awesomeness (Eric Hexter)
• Updates to the IE Testing Center (Jason Upton)
• IE9 Platform Preview 3 Now Available (Mike Ormond)
• Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC = Released! (Jonathan McCracken)
• Checking Client Download Success with ASP.NET MVC (K. Scott Allen)
• How To: Put HTML5 (Pete LePage)
• Autocomplete Migration Guide (Jörn Zaefferer)
• Automating browser actions with Vimium and AutoHotKey (Kyle Baley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Presentation:Kanban for Video Game Development (Clinton Keith)
• Review: Agile Web Development With Rails, Fourth Edition (Part I) (Eric Anderson)
• Do ScrumMasters need to be Technical? (Mark Levison)
• Lokad.CQRS – Plugging NHibernate and Relational Databases into Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• TDD and Python (Steven Lott)
• Inspired – The Cognitive Surplus – Capturing Lost (Scott Lock)
• Tagging Releases in Source Control (Steve Smith)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• HyperVideo & Windows Phone 7 Project Update (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 4: Using Commanding Parameters for Performing Insert Operations (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Silverlight powers the new Windows Live Hotmail (Silverlight Team)
• Microsoft Expression Studio Learning Portal (Richard Hay)
• XNA Panoramic Menus For Windows Phone 7 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• NDC Presentation: Ruby for .NET Developers (Scott Bellware)
• Boagworld – CSS Trickster Chris Coyier (Paul Boag)
• ~7 Hours Recordings from the WIF Workshops (Joel Reyes)

Community / Events

• Meeting Wendy Friedlander (Sara J. Chipps)
• Effectively Planning, Tracking and Controlling Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 – A Free Live Webcast – June 25 @ 10am PT (O’Reilly Media)
• BizSparkCamp for Windows Phone 7: Life’s a Pitch (Sara Allison)
• From ALT.NET to NOT.NET (Joey Beninghove)

Database

• Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 2 and How To Stay Current with SQL Server Cumulative Updates (Glenn Berry)
• My Productivity Tools (Joe Webb)
• SQLAuthority News – Meeting Bryan Oliver and Learning Wisdom of Life (Pinal Dave)
• Creating reports that the end user can customize (Jacob Sebastian)

Miscellaneous

• Play Games "Missile Command" & "Tower Defense" Within Excel 2010 and Free "National Geographic Photo of the Day" Desktop Wallpaper Changer for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Learning Powershell (Grant Fritchey)
• How To: Read PDFs in Apple’s iBooks with a little help from Dropbox (Jay Hathaway)
• Managing Your Hiring Effort (Jim Holmes)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Python Cookbook, 2nd Ed – Only $9.99 Use code DDPCK (O’Reilly Media)
• The 7.9 WEI PC (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft Windows Live Wave 4 Finally! (Richard Hay)
• Even Copy & Paste Gets a Revamp in Office 2010 (Sarah Perez)
• Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 – Part 1 – Building a WEI 7.9 and RFC for building a GOM (God’s Own Machine) (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #628 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for June 23, 2010 — #888 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Roger Jennings

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Top Links

• When will WebForm vs MVC become like ListView vs Repeater? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using xUnit.Net with .Net 4.0 (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC Don’t Serve the Same Master (K. Scott Allen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A new and *good* "VB" (Jimmy Nilsson)
• New Book Project – Learning WCF 2nd Edition (Brian Noyes)
• Hidden Gems: Why .NET Developers Need to Take a 2nd Look at Project Rosetta (John Papa)
• Leveraging VS2010’s Entity Data Model Designer for .NET 3.5 Projects and Some Visual Studio tips I picked up recently (Julie Lerman)
• How many PCs in the world have the .NET Framework installed? (Scott Hanselman)
• Using the VSIX Manifest Editor (Lance Collins)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 7. How to Write a Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Reading ID3 Tags from MP3 Files (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• .NET Framework 4.0 Poster (Prashant Khandelwal)

Web Development

• JavaScript version of Flash (Michael Kimsal)
• Are Enterprise AJAX Applications Doomed…Or Are We? (Roy Goffey)
• FastCGI for IIS6 and IIS5.1 has been released. (Lawrence Moroney)
• Book Review: 51 Tips, Tricks, and Recipes with jQuery & ASP.NET Controls (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Constructor over-injection anti-pattern (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Do You Know What’s Really Going On? (Davy Brion)
• Value Driven… The Book’s Layout (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The limits of innovation (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• Cutting Edge Silverlight4 COM+ Features (Justin Angel)
• FlexibleBehavior class: More on reuse and Behaviors (Bob Bartholomay)
• Exploring: XamlPad to XamlDesigner (Rob Relyea)
• Sometimes it takes a village to solve a problem [Workaround for a Visual Studio 2008 design-time issue with the WPF Toolkit when Blend 3 is installed] (David Anson)
• Extract styles in Expression Blend (András Velvárt)
• Avoiding issues when typing text in Bindings (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 42: How to Get More Business from Microsoft Pinpoint (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #159: Working with Partials in Spark: Part 2 (Derik Whittaker)
• Office Casual: Ribbon Hero (Tina Wood)
• The Dev Behind Ribbon Hero and Build a CableCard MCE PC with Ceton TV Tuner (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Whither Alt.Net? (Ian Cooper)
• Active vs. Activist (Derick Bailey)
• Your story: the Microsoft interview (Microsoft JobsBloggers)
• On ALT.NET and patience (Sergio Pereira)
• Talking in Las Vegas: MIX2010 and MVVM (Laurent Bugnion)

Database

• .NET Culture and SQL Server (Steve Burch)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 to be released in May and Use alter table alter column to change datatypes for a column in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Remote DB maintenance auditing promotion (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Upgrades HealthVault Connection Software for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• MSDN Flash Editorial for January 18th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Bing Maps out of beta (Kip Kniskern)
• Apple’s Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is Critical (Michael Robertson)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Your Body: The Missing Manual — Only $9.99! Use discount code YBMM9 (O’Reilly Media)
• 3 Microsoft Visio 2010 Beta Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• Console Battle Heats Up Between Wii and XBox: Netflix, ESPN Rumors Up the Stakes (Natania Barron)
• Daily Dose – IBM has the Most Patents, but Microsoft’s Could be Worth More (Mitch Pronschinske)
• “Everything I need to know [about developing software] I learned from Dungeons and Dragons.” (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 19, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2010 and Independent Consultant Notes: January 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #520 and The Morning Brew #521 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 19-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software (Programmer to Programmer)

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Top Links

• ReSharper 5.0 has awesome ASP.NET MVC support (Jeffrey Palermo) – R# FTW again.
• Why MVC Turbine? (Javier G. Lozano) – Javier explains Turbine’s raison d’être.
• Ye Olde Kamera – Silverlight 4 Webcam & Old Movie Shader (Rene Schulte) – Another very cool SL4 post from Rene.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Much Ado About Monads – State Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• Looking Ahead to ASP.NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• Dynamic types and ASP.NET MVC (Hadi Hariri)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Personal Retrospectives (Diana Larsen)
• 10 Ways to Know Thyself (JD Meier)
• Memory obesity and the curse of the string (Oren Eini)
• “MEF in 2 hours or less”, I am all for it. and Autofac 2 is on the way, now in Beta! (Glenn Block)
• Rich Assertion Messages using CCI (and without expression trees) (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Welcome to the OCGM Generation! Part 2 (Ron George)
• The legend of free tools (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

• Polling Video – A Viable sub-second alternative? (Jesse Liberty)
• WCF RIA Services – Dynamically create a criteria on the client-side (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight 4 – WebCams.OnceMoreWithAudio() (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight tutorial: HOW TO build CommandLink Control in Silverlight with Expression Blend 3 and Behaviors (Vibor Cipan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Huey Wegner Migrate Us to SQL Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• MEF & Silverlight 4 Beta – Part 1, Introduction and Part 2, Imports & Exports and Part 3, Catalogs and Part 4, Recomposition and Part 5, the PackageCatalog and Part 6, Locating Defaults & ExportProviders (Mike Taulty)
• ASP.NET MVC FireStarter (Part 1 of 5): Intro to ASP.NET MVC & the MVC Design Pattern (Emily Gibson)
• Major Nelson Show 345: Last show of 2009 (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• Retrospective of 2009, Planning for 2010 (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• AltNetConf email list is back! (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Running a Small User Group – The Tools (K. Brian Kelley)
• Looking back at 2009, and forward to 2010 (Pete Brown)
• SQLAuthority News – 1200th Post – An Important Milestone (Pinal Dave)

Database

• Measure Statement Performance with PowerShell (Buck Woody)
• Dimension cubes (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• How to Start Freelancing (Without Quitting Your Job) (Gina Trapani)
• The (Near) Final Word on Multi-Monitor Taskbars for Windows 7 – Ultramon vs. DisplayFusion (Scott Hanselman)
• 2000-2009: Microsoft’s decade of shattered dreams and Ten resolutions Microsoft should make for 2010 (Joe Wilcox)
• 24 Years of Windows Box Art (Larry Larsen)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #508 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2009 — #766 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.21 ~ 12.31, bye 2009 (yuanjian)
• Tech Tweets for 30-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

The Geek Shelf

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Ribbon: Introductory Tutorial (MS Downloads)
• NHibernate Mapping – <map/> (Oren Eini)
• Updated Dbfile project on CodePlex (Jason Haley)
• How to Iterate Through All the Properties of a Class (Deepak Choudhari)
• Visual Studio 2010: Multiple web.config versions (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using the WPF Visualizer to debug applications in Visual Studio 2010 and An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part I) (Habib Heydarian)
• yield return and Continuation-Passing Style (Kirill Osenkov)
• Delayed execution with yield, or “How to abdicate, cede, and relent” (Kyle Baley)
• F#: Tuples don’t seem to express intent well (Mark Needham)
• Talking Points: Building App Using .NET Workflow (Joel Reyes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Dynamic Type Check (Martin Fowler)
• NDepend: Product Review (Chris Brandsma)
• I Hardly Recognize You (Eric Brechner - a.k.a. I.M. Wright)
• nDepend and CruiseControl.NET (Rob Reynolds)
• Balsamiq Awesomeness (Tim Boland)
• Specifying Inversion of Control through Contracts for Interfaces (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Three Levels of Control (Jurgen Appelo)
• Coding: Putting code where people can find it (Mark Needham)
• When Side Effects and Laziness Collide (Matthew Podwysocki)
• ARCHITECT COUNCIL | Pragmatic Patterns for Architects (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Using Explicit Arrange,Act,Assert scopes in tests – thoughts? (Roy Osherove)
• Castle ActiveRecord and registering classes at runtime (Ryan Svihla)
• Don’t Ask Me If It’s Possible (K. Scott Allen)
• Don’t Cross the Streams (Scott Densmore)

Web Development

• Test Your Site in Different Browsers Using Adobe BrowserLab (Alex Chitu) – Looks like MS Expression Web 3’s SuperPreview.
• jQuery Autocomplete with a Hidden Value (Ben Scheirman)
• New Storage Features Come to Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Displaying a Confirmation Dialog with the JQuery UI Dialog (Chris Love)
• jQuery – Dialog (Dave M. Bush)
• Bing Maps for Enterprise (formerly Virtual Earth) Licensing FAQ (Chris Pietschmann)
• ASP.NET MVC and the templated partial view (death to ASCX) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• HTML 5 – The Future of Application Development? (Michael Ceranski)
• ASP.NET MVC Training Kit (Mike Ormond)
• Update on Windows Azure (Joe Stagner)
• Learning jQuery 1.3 Review (Steve Pietrek)
• An Alternative Approach to Strongly Typed Helpers (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• Branching out, or "How to live life outside ASP.NET MVC" (Kyle Baley)
• Simple group slicing in XSLT (Marcelo Lopez Liuz)

Silverlight / WPF

• FAQ: how to prevent {x:Null} from being written by XAML writer (Rob Relyea)
• Image generation in PHP using WPF (Timmy Kokke)
• Robozzle (Coding4Fun)
• Adventures with Silverlight 3.0 and SharePoint – Part 1 (Tom)
• Sync Multi Select Listbox with ViewModel (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight: Pong and Silverlight and WPF: The XAML Continuum (Mike Taulty)
• Fluent Silverlight – Auto Wiring INotifyPropertyChanged (Ray Houston)
• Upcoming SilverUnit Preview (Roy Osherove)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• p&p SharePoint Development Guidance v2 – What’s in Drop 10? (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• .NET Rocks! – Dan Simmons Talks EF Version 4 (Carl Franklin)
• Louis Lafreniere: Next Generation Buffer Overrun Protection with gs++ (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET # 114 – How to Create a Custom Performance Counter (Derik Whittaker)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “I hardly recognize you” (Devon Musgrave)
• Margus Veanes and Pavel Grigorenko – Qex – Symbolic SQL Query Exploration (Peli de Halleux)
• Episode 71 – PowerScripting Podcast – Doug Hazelman from Veem (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Quinton Wall on "The Seed of Hope" (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Video: Typemock Basics Tutorial – Lesson 1 (Part 1) (Me)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video segment 5 available (Rockford Lhotka)

Community / Events

• Surprise Philly ALT.NET Meeting With Scott Bellware! (Brian Donahue)
• You’re Invited for Half-Day Windows 7 Application Compatibility Labs Across the US (Bruce Kyle)
• Surprises abound at Microsoft’s E3 Press Briefing (Chris Poirier)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 6/10/2009 – Evan Light on BDD (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Will Code for Green contest (Sara Ford)
• Winner of the F# Programming Contest (Kean Walmsley)
• Prism Training Class July 7-9 (Joe Stagner)

Database

• Solution: SQL Server Report Builder 2.0 Errors (William Vaughn)
• SQL SERVER – Connect Item – Vote for Feature Request Function TRIM (Pinal Dave)
• Your testbed has to have the same volume of data as on production in order to simulate normal usage (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Free "Bing" Search Software & Resources (Blake Handler)
• BingTones for your phone (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Hardware Launches Exclusive Features for Windows 7 (MS PressPass)
• YouTube XL: YouTube launches TV sized video browser (Brad Linder)
• Free Training for Getting Started as a Developer (Bruce Kyle)
• Homer Simpson’s Toothpick Method of Blogging (Michael Krakovskiy)
• Achieve Your Goals by Putting Them Online (Darrell Etherington)
• Creating, Saving, Sharing Themes in Windows 7 (Katie Frigon)
• Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month (Ed Bott)
• Zune HD to include Xbox Live games? (Kip Kniskern)
• You 2.0 Free E-Book (J.D. Meier)
• iPhone Gaming Framework: Stage 1 Tutorial and Stage 2 Tutorial (Craig Giles)
• I Stopped Reading Your Blog Years Ago and Jobs at Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)
• Registered Member News: The Microsoft Action Pack is Going Digital – 02June06 (John McClelland)
• Windows 7: More From Wzor (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft is Getting Things Right This Time (Steve Clayton)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 2 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 will follow the same RTM, GA dates as Windows 7 (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Contributing to PHP Open Source Projects – Weird? (Joe Stagner)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds, June 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #360 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 02, 2009 — #606 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 2nd (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 2nd June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/1/2009+ (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# BootCamp – Questions and Answers – part I – Introduction (Steffen Forkmann)
• Using Reflection in C# to Figure Out if an Integer List Has Values (Peter Kellner)
• NHibernate Mapping – <list/> (Oren Eini)
• DDD and the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Evgeny Salamatov)
• LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0 (Damien Guard)
• Create a Generic List at Run Time and Quickly Find All "TODO’s" in Your .NET Project (Srinath M.)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – TeamCity Integration Coming (Rob Reynolds)
• Review: CryptoLicensing for .NET (Roy Osherove)
• NCover v3.1.2 released! (Stephen Ward)
• Analyze and explore the evolution of .NET Framework by yourself (Patrick Smacchia)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: 1.8.0.2 Beta (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JSMag June 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating Rails Like Flash Feature in .NET The Flash Control (Mohammad Azam)
• Control TextBox’s AutoComplete Action (Chris Love)
• Sueetie Content Parts and List View Controls, Oh My (Dave Burke)
• Free ASP.NET 4.0 beta hosting available (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML Editor FieldTemplate for Dynamic Data Using AJAX Control Toolkit Editor (Stephen Naughton)
• How to Use Microsoft.Web.Administration : Using Scripts to Automate Management : Managing and Maintaining IIS 7.0 : The Official Microsoft IIS Site (Stuart Manning)
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Scott Guthrie)
• GridView Selection and Postback using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• clientscript as the view controller (Jay Kimble)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BOOK: Agile Testing and Sensing and Sense-making in the Agility Cycle (Brad Appleton)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class (Chris Missal)
• Bricks and Mortar: Building a Castle (James Kovacs)
• Simple Nested Closure (Matt Hinze)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Yes, I’m going to finish "Build Your Own CAB" (sorta) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Refactoring guard clauses, or “How to ask politely” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik Releases RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta (Ina Tontcheva)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• XAML: Using Generic Types in XAML 2009 and Empty string in XAML (Rob Relyea)
• Ocean for Silverlight – Enables Sharing Business Objects With WPF (Karl Shifflett) – Link of the Day
• Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework (Jeff Wilcox)
• Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the Eye (Jennifer Marsman)
• Sync Multi Select Listbox with ViewModel (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 – Inside the Thread Pool (Charles Torre)
• Windows 7 RC2 Build 7224 Videos (Stephen Chapman)
• Netcast #11 – The Two Silos (Todd O. Klindt)
• Ping 14: Bing, VPlay, Zune HD, Celebrifeed, Mediaroom (Laura Foy)
• Show: Episode 2 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Microsoft’s Project Natal demo video has us jumping with anticipation (Nilay Patel)

Community / Events

• 2009 E3 Xbox.com Press Kit (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Shane Young! (Amanda Murphy)
• SharePoint Conference Washington DC (Bob Mixon)
• Foundation Series, Session 4, Wed June 10th (Brian Donahue)
• 2009 E3 Xbox Media Briefing (Larry Hryb)
• SQLAuthority News – Summary of TechEd India 2009 – A Grand Event (Pinal Dave)
• God Bless Xbox: Microsoft’s E3 News Roundup [Roundup] (Matt Buchanan)
• Breaking News: Atlassian Acquires GreenHopper (Max Pool)
• LosTechies welcomes Sharon Cichelli "Girl Writes Code" (Joe Ocampo)
• Free Virtual Expo on SharePoint – June 10 (Joel Oleson)

SharePoint

• Reading Digital Signatures from InfoPath Forms in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Workflow (Tom Hearn)
• SharePoint: Some users doesn’t receive alerts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Tip: Don’t use "&" in instance.xml when creating a WSP (S.S. Ahmed)

Database

• How to execute multiple SQL scripts (Martin Bell)
• Log Shipping for DR and failing back in case of disaster. The cheap way! (Ted Krueger)
• Microsoft Reporting Services (Sub Reports, Charts, Parameters, Expression Editor, etc) (Jorge Paulino)

Miscellaneous

• New details emerge about Microsoft Exchange & Outlook Mobile (PhoneArena Team)
• Google to sell eBooks by year’s end and Rumor: Google bringing the BBC iPlayer to the US? and Microsoft’s Bing 411 offers phone numbers, directions over the phone (Brad Linder)
• Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate? and Bing Search Bars are now everywhere! (damaster)
• Microsoft "Project Natal" invents a better Wii (Joel Johnson)
• Web v.Next (John Stockton)
• Bing Goes Live—Here’s What You Can Do With It (Kevin Purdy)
• Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads (Kevin Purdy)
• Oh dear, there IS a Club Bing (Kip Kniskern)
• The Rotting Stink of Corporate IT (Sara J. Chipps)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 1 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Project Natal is going to change the games forever! (Taimur Asad)
• Gmail Notifier Plus Adds Email Alerts to the Windows 7 Taskbar (The How-To Geek)
• Acer launching world’s first Android-based netbook in Q3 (Thomas Ricker)
• Make Bing your default search provider in IE (Paul Thurrott)
• The Ultimate USB *Key* Drive » Lacie iamaKey 8GB (Matt Walker)
• Adobe releases trio of Labs goodies for designers, developers (Lee Mathews)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 8: Deliver with Confidence and Style (Justin Etheredge)
• Google Docs gets x’ier with .docx and .xlsx support (Josh Lowensohn)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #359 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2009 — #605 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 325 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 1st (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 1st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• VSTS Rangers Released Team Test Quick Reference on CodePlex! (Angela Binkowski)
• Live Framework Examples Interop with Many Technologies (Bruce Kyle)
• Simple example of using a Subquery in NHibernate when using ICriteria (Derik Whittaker)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Getting Arguments and Writing an IronPython Debugger: REPL Console and Pygments for WL Writer v1.0.1 (Harry Pierson)
• Re-Enabling Features in CodeRush v2009.1.2 After They Are Disabled (Keith Elder)
• Windows 7 Libraries .NET Sample Library – an Overview and Understanding Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty) – Links of the Day
• Measuring performance under Visual Studio (Daniel Moth)
• How to calculate CRC in C#? (Tamir Khason)
• Building Domain Specific Languages in C#, Part 2 (Neal Ford)
• Castle NHibernate Facility – Configuration (Tuna Toksoz)
• Why You Should Upgrade to .NET 3.5 (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• DDDBlog Implementation. Part 1 (Vinay D.)
• ASP.NET MVC – Controller to View (Dave M. Bush)
• Reflecting over JSON Data to Simplify Control Updates with jQuery and 5 Reasons You Should Take a Closer Look at ASP.NET MVC (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Unit Testing Part 1: JsUnit (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET RefCardz (Mike Ormond)
• HowTo: From the view to the controller in ASP.NET MVC with ModelBinders (Robert Muehsig)

Silverlight / WPF

• Binding Dynamic Properties in XAML, ASP.NET… (Chris Cavanagh)
• Calling JavaScript functions from Silverlight 2 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #106 – Setting Default Browser from within VS (Mike Snow)
• Do you have any feedback on the AutoCompleteBox API? (Jeff Wilcox)
• VideoWicki – A Open-Book Design-To-Delivery Silverlight 3 Project (Jesse Liberty)
• Sports, Powered by Silverlight (Steve Sklepowich)
• Managing Silverlight 3 navigation behavior (Tim Heuer)
• A Twitter Application in WPF (Carole Snyder)
• Animating when data changes (Josh Twist)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Designing Rhino DHT – A fault tolerant, dynamically distributed, hash table and Reviewing NChord: A codebase that makes me twitch (Oren Eini)
• What is Agility? Part 1 – Business Agility (Brad Appleton)
• Pragmatic vs Theoretical Development Practices (Chris Love)
• "Technology moves fast. Evolution Moves slow." (Daniela Panfili)
• DDD: Only for Complex Projects? (Mark Needham)
• What’s Wrong With This Picture? (Kirstin Juhl)
• tour of the month: the landmark tour (James Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Tips and Advice – Listener Email – Self Organizing Teams (Bob Payne)
• .NET Rocks! – Don Kiely on AJAX at DevConnections! (Carl Franklin)
• MSDN Radio – Chunk Cloud Computing (Johan Lindfors)
• ALT.NET Podcast #18: Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net (James Avery)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 6th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MVPs Play Critical Role at Tech Ed North America (Jas Dhaliwal)

Happy Birthday Channel 9!

• Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Eric Lippert: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Anders Heljsberg: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Mark Russinovich: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Erik Meijer: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Scott Guthrie: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Larry Osterman: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Bill Hill: On Channel 9, Niners and Homo Sapiens 2.0 (Charles Torre)
• Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe (Charles Torre)
• Jeff Sandquist: Channel 9 Through the Years (Charles Torre)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Press UK: 40% off 25 books (Devon Musgrave)
• Microsoft Office Military Appreciation Edition – $50 (Julie Lerman)
• New Zune Hardware Coming This Year (Jason Chen)
• Windows 7 reaches escrow build, RC imminent? (Lee Mathews)
• How to create a new CodePlex project wiki page – #009 (Sara Ford)
• Tips for Real Time Web working on new friendfeed (Robert Scoble)
• Introducing the WMI Blog (James Brundage)
• Adobe AIR Developer’s Toolbox: Resources and Tutorials (Paul Andrew)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #323 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 06, 2009 — #564 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-04-06 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 12 (Mike Snow)
• CloudNews for April 6th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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

.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing XML with IronPython. XmlWriter and the ‘with’ Statement (Luis Diego Fallas)
• Basics of LINQ and Lambda Expressions (Abhishek Sur)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NUnit: Tests with Context/Spec style assertions (Mark Needham)
• Development Psychology, Technical debt and The next feature syndrome (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• iPhone Controls, New Icons and Much More! (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Web Development

• MVC ViewPage Compile Error, or “How to exist in both places” (Kyle Baley)
• 20 Most Interesting jQuery Plugins – February 2009 (AjaxLine)

Database

• Fighting Back Against the SQL Server 2005 Tools Installation Program (John Papa)

Community / Events

• ALT.NET Seattle Day Two (Phil Haack)

Miscellaneous

• Using GoToMeeting with Windows 7 (Peter Kellner)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for February 28, 2009 — #531 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: March 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Twilight 1.5: Multiple Views with MVVM (Bryant Likes)
• Silverlight-based Gaming is about to explode (Adam Kinney)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 5 (Christopher Bennage)
• Learn Prism (Blaine Wastell)
• ElementRecycler for Silverlight and WPF (Chris Cavanagh)
• Creating Master Pages in Windows Presentation Foundation (Azam)
• Title less Windows in WPF (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight Tip of Day #97 – How to get an Image’s Source File Name (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight Adoption – A Few Numbers (Mike Ormond)
• Creating Layout Tables in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• Hypervideo put to work (Jesse Liberty)
• Live Search from Silverlight (John Papa)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Refactoring: extract interface (Gunnar Peipman)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #8: Related items (Eric Gunnerson)
• Ninject 2 hits beta status (Simone Chiaretta)
• My Foray into Linq to Sql and the Entity Framework (Part 1 of 2) (Greg Galipeau)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Introduction and Writing an IronPython Debugger: MDbg 101 and Writing an IronPython Debugger: Hello, Debugger! and CodeHTMLer Language Definition for Python (Harry Pierson) – Links of the Day
• Code Cast #24 – Matt Podwysocki on Functional Programming (David Starr)
• Friday Books – LINQ in Action (Dave M. Bush)
• Visual Studio Challenge: Learn a New Menu Command (Julie Lerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Refactoring legacy code (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Paying Down Your Technical Debt (Jeff Atwood)
• QuickGraph on Code Contracts (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Design Guidelines: Serialization Technology (Rob Relyea)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 151 – Fit and Fitness with Ward Cunningham and James Shore (Scott Hanselman)
• Why You Want To Be A Craftsman Instead Of A Cowboy (Justin)
• Coding: Implicit vs Explicit modeling (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: prototypes and privacy (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Chapter 5 — Understanding Models and ASP.NET MVC Sample Application at www.ASP.net/MVC (Stephen Walther)
• "Variable is assigned but its Value is never used" Warning (Rick Strahl)
• xVal 0.8 (Beta) Now Released (Steve Sanderson)

SharePoint

• MOSS 2007 and .NET framework 3.5 SP1 – Second part (Agnes Molnar)

Database

• It is SQL (Structured Query Language) NOT SBQL (Structured Business Query Language) (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• The ALT.NET Conference: loving it (Simone Chiaretta)
• ALT.NET Seattle Day One (Phil Haack)
• Twitter – A Real Challenge for Blogging (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Miscellaneous

• Whiners that Fail (Uncle Bob)
• Thoughts on "Whiners that Fail" (Anne Epstein)
• Project subdomain URLs and separate RSS feed for reviews (Sara Ford)
• The new Windows Live FrameIt is here! SDK now available for download (damaster)
• Mozilla Bespin: Cloud code editing via browser (Dave Rosenberg)
• Windows 7 Friday: New Security Features and Options (Denny Boynton)
• Introducing Canvas for OneNote (Nathan Fish)
• Spore opens its API (David Pescovitz)
• Microsoft 2019 (Steve Clayton)
• 5 ways to enhance your Wikipedia experience (Jay Hathaway)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – February 26, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for February 27, 2009 — #530 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-02-28 (Gunnar Peipman)
• New and Notable 296 (Sam Gentile)
• Let’s Wax Functional 02/27/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for February 27th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: February 27, 2009 and Interesting Finds: February 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• 5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week (Simon Mackie)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 13 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Separating Configuration from Data Lowers Total Cost of Ownership (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Injecting Fakes/Stubs into StructureMap When Using Profiles (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Integrating Fluent NHibernate and Windsor NHibernate Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Oslo Tool: SQL Schema –> MSchema (Chris Sells)
• Working with IDs in the Entity Framework (Josh Twist)
• Asynchronous Fire and Forget with Lambdas (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• The Problems with NHibernate (Buddy Lindsey)
• Microsoft Windows 7 SDK: Beta and Microsoft .NET Services White Paper (Dec 2008 CTP) (MS Downloads)

Web Development

• JavaScript Tools (Mike Hadlow)
• An Argument for Moving ASP.NET MVC Controllers to a Separate Assembly (Billy McCafferty)
• The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String (Updated Edition) (Eric Lawrence)
• Enumeration-Based Dropdowns in .NET MVC (Steve Andrews)
• xVal – A Validation Framework for ASP.NET MVC (Steve Sanderson)

Silverlight / WPF

• The WPF Mindset (Ryan Cromwell)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #80 – How to Crop an Object (Mike Snow)
• Creating a Silverlight Control That Stays Square and Dazzling Silverlight Toolkit Pie Charts with Overlays (Pete Brown)
• Using Encoder 2 Templates for Existing Media (Tim Heuer)
• Fun with List Bindings in Silverlight 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)

PowerShell

• Managing Remote Desktop Services (aka Terminal Services) Using Windows PowerShell (Shanmugam Kulandaivel)
• Should I Refinance? PowerShell the Financial Advisor (Lee Holmes)
• Get-USB – Using WMI Association Classes in PowerShell (James Brundage)
• Develop a Complete WMI Inventory Tool in Windows PowerShell (Don Jones)

.NET Community / Events

• MDC Giveaways (Frank La Vigne)
• James Whittaker Netcast (Steve Rowe)
• ALT.NET Podcast Episode 14: Object Databases (Mike Moore)

Miscellaneous

• The Office 14 Wave: What to Expect and Office 14 and Windows Mobil 7: Another Day, Another Roadmap… and First Office 14 Screenshot? (Stephen Chapman)
• SOA Still Alive and Well–Sell It to the Business (David A. Chappell)
• Visualization – The Browser Wars (Max Pool)
• A Year in the Life of Caffeinated Coder: Part Deux (Russell Ball)
• Google’s New Favicon (Marissa Mayer)
• Getting Windows 7 Up and Running in VPC 2007 (Kirstin Juhl)
• Building a Hackintosh (Ben Scheirman)
• Windows 7 in 2010? Ha! Try July 2009 (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Discoveries This Week 01/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for January 9th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for January 09, 2009 — #480 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight News for January 10, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Link Listing – January 10, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day