• Tail calls in F# (Keith Battocchi)
• What is a Closure? (Mike Hadlow)
• AspectableMef (Sacha Barber)
• Resources for Windows Phone Mango Developers (Larry Lieberman)
• Autofac 2.5 Released (Nicholas Blumhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XML Serialization of Arrays and Collections (Richard Carr)
• WCF Data Services June CTP: LINQ Improvements and Properties on Derived Types (Jenni Ripley)
• FluentValidation and PostSharp for RESTful WCF parameter validation – Part 4 (Naeem Khedarun)
• Exploring Topics and Queues by Building a Service Bus Explorer Tool–Part 1 (Paolo Salvatori)
• Project Templates and preinstalled NuGet packages (Marcin Doboz)
• Atari Lynx Emulator and Kinect Toolkit v 1.0 and Fluent Validation v3.0.0.1 and SQL Compact Code Generator – Build 1.2.0.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• MVC–Showing a setup screen on the first run (Michael Ceranski)
• Using PC Hardware more efficiently in HTML5: New Web Performance APIs, Part 2 (Jatinder Mann)
• Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: Pushpin Tooltips via Html Title Attribute and Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: InfoBox Description containing Html tags (Chris Pietschmann)
• Simulating Mouse Click Events in JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
• Evaluating jQuery Plugins for Use in your Projects (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Buzz Makes it Easy to Use HTML5 Audio (Rey Bango)
• Tweaking Add Item Templates for Better Script Performance (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Complex filtering in isotope.js (Pavan Podila)
• Client Express – Require and Exports (Mark Nijhof)
• Listing your MySQL Databases with PHP (James Harvey)
• Performance Tuning PHP Apps on Windows with Wincache (Brian Swan)
• Web optimizations and canvas exporting with data URLs (Brian Bondy)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier v4.24 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• design patterns (Mo Khan)
• My two cents on Scrum (Dinuka Arseculeratne)
• Patterns of Compositional Architecture and Patterns of Compositional Architecture: Policies (Josh Arnold)
• Windows Azure and Object-Oriented Testable Code (J.P. Hamilton)
• Wringing Metaphor from Thin Air : I am the customer (David Starr)
• Weekly Reminders for Changing Your Habits and Adopting New Practices (JD Meier)
• Nurturing Self-organizing Teams (Shane Hastie)
• Balance the System First (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Keystoning Features (Mark Nijhof)
• Make Incremental Improvements or Disruptive Change (Bill Wagner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Give us Feedback on my Windows Phone Book (Charles Petzold)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 27 – How to Detect whether the Network is Available? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 7.1 – Codeless Development using Commanding (Mahesh Sabnis)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Submitting to Marketplace (Per Ola Sæther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 216: You Got Your Dropbox In My Mesh (Paul Thurrott)
• This is my next Podcast 014 – 07.09.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• TWC9: EF June CTP, jPlayer, Kinect Gesture Toolkit, and a flying car (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 024 – “International Flavored Mango” (Ryan Lowdermilk and Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #95: Yes, We Are Lazy, But in a Good Way (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• Windows Phone Radio – 35 (Brian Seitz)
• Demo of Visual Voicemail on WP7 Mango (video) (Hyde13)
• Video: Team Leadership in the Age of Agile (Roy Osherove)

Community / Events

• Team SIMPLEX–MIRA at ImagineCup 2011 (New York City) and Microsoft ImagineCup 2011 in New York City – The Kick-Off and ImagineCup 2011 Opening Ceremony and Developing the ImagineCup WorldWide Finals Tracker app fro WP7 @ ImagineCup – Part 1 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Azure Sessions Not To Miss at WPC11 Next Week (Windows Azure Team)
• July Silverlight Giveaway by Mindscape, First Floor Software and more! (Michael Crump)

Database

• Free SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Training Course (James Serra)
• "Gotchas" With Using an SSAS Default Member (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 9 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 10 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY CUBE() (Vishal)
• Showing slowest parts of SQL query and How to merge (combine) date intervals in T-SQL (Jakub Dvorak)
• Getting Ahead of the Curve – Big Data (Kevin E. Kline)
• Learning From the Mistakes of Other DBAs (Brad M. McGehee)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Development–What’s in your rig? (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 – Now in New Mega Size! (Joel Oleson)
• Read the detail about SharePoint 2010 and Remote Blob Storage and Articles about Scaling SharePoint to Large Content Database Capacity (Paul Andrew)
• Understanding workflow starting parameters – Part 1 (SharePoint Designer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Wave 5 currently in Milestone 2 stage; to be tightly integrated with Windows 8 (damaster)
• Q&A: Putting A Training Course Together (Davy Brion)
• Think you have THE idea for an MMO, but don’t any any infrastructure or funds to build one? Wish there was a 30/70 deal for MMO’s too? (Greg Duncan)
• Zune branded subscription video coming soon? (Kip Kniskern)
• What’s on Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft priority list now? (Mary Jo Foley)
• A future game machine, try it now for free! (Surf4Fun)
• Installing Mango on your Samsung Taylor (Rudi Grobler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 07.01 ~ 07.10 (yuanjian)
• Retrospective 40 – Free Book Giveaways (Peter Saddington)
• Interesting .NET Links 9-July , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Friday Links 07-08-2010 (JD Meier)
• Link dump for July 8th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 03-July-2011 to 09-July-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

iPhone and iPad for Programmers (2nd Edition) (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul Deitel

• Continuous Client: Our multi-device dream but how do we build it? (Kelly Sommers)
• Implementation hiding – it’s important (Kyle Szklenski)
• The Busy Developers Guide to Mango. (Michael Crump)
• Managing Resources with Reactive Extensions (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Safe X (ml parsing with XLINQ) [XLinqExtensions helps make XML parsing with .NET's XLINQ a bit safer and easier] (David Anson)
• Atomicity, volatility and immutability are different, part one (Eric Lippert)
• NetOffice – A version independent Microsoft Office API proxy (Think "No More PIA" or "One Library, many Office versions") and There’s a new T4 editor in town… The (free) Devart T4 Editor for Visual Studio 2010 and/or 2008 (Greg Duncan)
• Book review : C# in Depth Second Edition (Patrick Smacchia)
• Feedback Opportunity: Command Complexity in Visual Studio (Sam Zaiss)
• All-In-One Code Framework – Release: 2011-05-26 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• New jQuery Plugin: FunkyFocus (Deran Schilling)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Canvas – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM94 (O’Reilly Media)
• JavaScript Server Roundup – The Lowdown on Several Engines (Rey Bango)
• HTML5 is more than cool (Rob Nyman)
• Creating Custom Ajax Control Toolkit Controls (Stephen Walther)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0 released (Maarten Balliauw)
• Lower the cost of Azure pricing through Tools, Promotions and Technology Decisions (Bart Czernicki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Tip #7 – Learning From the Past (Aaron Bjork)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Hook (Giorgio Sironi)
• Basic unit testing with Typemock Isolator (Avi Kaye)
• 5 Big Issues When Scaling Scrum (Sean McHugh)
• Effective Tests: Double Strategies (Derek Greer)
• Git For Subversion Users: Article And Presentation (Derick Bailey)
• Enable and Equip Your Product Owners (Peter Saddington)
• Enterprise Architecture Mind Maps (Mike Walker)
• 9 Ways To Increase Your Productivity While Working From Home (Nellie Akalp)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get Phone Network Information in WP7 Mango via code and Windows Phone 7 Mango: Using Viewbox control (Windows Phone Geek)
• SQL CE on Windows Phone 7.1 tips from an ISV (Linq, connection strings and creating/updating your DB’s schema) (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta 7.1 Installation behavior (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight 5 Features Ancestor Relative Source Binding (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Nodo vs Mango – Windows Phone ListBox Performance Improvements in Action (Rene Schulte)
• Visual Basic on Windows Phone 7 and XNA development? Supported! (Surf4Fun)
• How to configure Autofac on WindowsPhone7 (Brendan Kowitz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Steve Marx Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Silverlight TV 74: What’s New in RIA Services (John Papa)
• Defrag 006: Troubleshooting Windows 7, Outlook Crash, SSD speeds and Show Us Your Tech: ‘Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage (Larry Larsen)
• Video: British Airways 3D app on Windows Phone 7 Mango (Steve Clayton)
• Turn-by-Turn navigation in WP7 Mango Video (Windows Phone Geek)
• Let’s Play TDD #109: Zombie TDGotchi (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Donate Your Swag! MVP Organizes Bag Drive for Tornado Victims (Lonnie Webb)
• Events are Bustin’ Out All Over (Jim O’Neil)
• An opportunity for a viable .NET open source ecosystem (Joshua Flanagan)

Database

• Creating a Windows Sidebar gadget for a SQL Server Reporting Services Report walkthrough (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Copy Database from Instance to Another Instance – Copy Paste in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• How to drop all objects since a particular date (Simon Sabin)
• Using Built-in System Function – HOST_NAME() (Vishal)

SharePoint

• Develop Cloud-Based Collaborative Solutions with SharePoint Online and Office365 Beta (Jenni Ripley)
• Just Published: May 2-17 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (Beck Andros)

Miscellaneous

• Introducing the Colm Programming Language (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Wrox ebooks available for purchase on oreilly.com (Jim Minatel)
• Report: Microsoft to show tablet version of Windows 8 next week (Mary Jo Foley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Android Apps with Flex 4.5 – Only $9.99 w/code DDM98 (O’Reilly Media)
• 8 Reasons Web Workers Should Look Forward to Windows 8 (Simon Mackie)
• wp7applist Windows Phone 7 App Released (Richard Hay)
• My Phone might be coming back with the new web-based Windows Phone Marketplace? (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 26th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2011 — #1095 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #861 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

Top Links

• Simplify your Visual Studio 2010 Toolbar and Free Your Mind (Scott Hanselman)
• Async Samples 3 (Bill Wagner)
• My First Reflector 7 Addin– Silverlight Opener (Jason Haley)
• Autofac 2.4.5 Release (Nicholas Blumhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A LINQ Style Median Operator (Richard Carr)
• NHibernate Profiler update: Client Profile & NHibernate 3.x updates (Oren Eini)
• Manipulating LINQ To SQL command text (Chris Cavanagh)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Maor David-Pur)
• Using CSLA 4: Data Access draft available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Android Emulator – Increasing Performance Suggestions for MonoDroid and The Android Emulator Keyboard (Wally McClure)
• New NServiceBus Feature: 32-bit (x86) Host Process (Jonathan Oliver)
• EFProf First Look: profiling a DevForce SL app (Ward Bell)
• BusinessFailureScope activity with deep nested support (Rory Primrose)
• Internals to .NET (Abhishek Sur)
• Find your DataContext (Bob Bartholomay)
• Saving your API key with nuget.exe (David Ebbo)

Web Development

• Referencing HTML Elements via JavaScript (Kirupa)
• Change TextBox Style when DropdownList value Change in ASP.NET using jQuery and TextBox and Textarea Style Change on Focus using jQuery (Abhijit Jana)
• My FubuMVC, StructureMap, and StoryTeller Plans (Jeremy Miller)
• ASP.NET Accordions with jQueryUI (Joe Stagner)
• Using jQuery with ASP.NET Master Page (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Sueetie Celebrates Turning 3.1 (Dave Burke)
• How to find your location inside Internet Explorer 9 (Don Burnett)
• Keeping WebSockets alive (Jef Claes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Automation Is Also For Developers (Shai Raiten)
• NUnit Testing Framework (Richard Carr)
• Programmers make Excellent Testers – Arguments and Counter Arguments (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Random Thoughts on Good Programmers and Good Code (Jay Fields)
• Using AppHarbor for Continuous Integration (Chris Missal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Lazy Load XAML content from External File and Vice Versa (Abhijit Jana)
• Creating a Silverlight Out-of-Browser Splash Screen (Michael Wolf)
• Deal with Performance in WPF applications (Abhishek Sur)
• Windows Azure for Developers Task 7: Creating Service Account in new Silverlight based Azure Portal and Binding XML File to Data Grid in Silverlight (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF LiveLessons code demos (Jason Rainwater)
• Application Library Caching in Silverlight 4 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building a CoverFlow visualization using Quartz Composer (Pavan Podila)
• Jounce Part 13: Navigation Parameters (Jeremy Likness)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 390: Pax East – Xbox LIVE Enforcement: Tales from the Din Part 3: The Conclusioning and Show 391: The PAX East Show (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Phone Radio 21 (Brian Seitz)
• GDC 2011 – a quick overview! (Tina Wood)
• Monad tutorial, part 3 (Brian Marick)
• TWC9: Recap of VS 2010 SP1, IE9 RTW set for Mar 14, Hack your house & cockroaches (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Weekly 199: I Feel Funny In My Pants (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• Webinar – Neudesic’s Application Lifecycle Management for SharePoint (Senthil Kumar)
• Free Parallel Programming Workshops Coming to DC (Frank La Vigne)
• SVG Open 2011: Where SVG meets the Web (Patrick Dengler)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Download – Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 and SQL SERVER – Pending IO request in SQL Server – DMV (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Auto Converts True or False to a bit (Andy Lohn)
• A Small Collection of SQL Azure Queries (Glenn Berry)
• Ever had poor performance saving files in SSMS over slow network? (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Coding envy? Pex4fun on your WP7 phone (Jonathan de Halleux)
• ETL and Building Intelligence Behind Semantic Search (Lynda Moulton)
• More Deep Dive Info, Including Abstracts from the PowerShell Team (Travis Jones)
• Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Hits 10,000 Apps (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 12, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 416 (Sam Gentile)
• This Week’s Link List (March 11, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Distributed Weekly 93 (Scott Banwart)
• 14 Useful .NET Debugging Tips & Tricks in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 11, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Week Retrospective 23 – Agile Hippies and The Death of the Iteration (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 11th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 03/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 10-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #143 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention (Best Practices) by Marc McDonald

Top Links

• Using MEF to link view model locator and load assembly UIs dynamically (Rick Ratayczak)
• CodePlex: MVVM Light Toolkit – Release v3 SP1 (3) (Laurent Bugnion)
• Where Enterprise Architecture and Project Management Intersect (Bob McIlree)
• Database Deployment with the VS 2010 Package/Publish Database Tool (Rachel Appel)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Linqer – a nice tool for SQL to LINQ transition (Hajan Selmani)
• What to do when your Netduino locks up and Visual Studio won’t deploy to it (Pete Brown)
• Show All Settings with Web Development and Zero-Length Box Selection Video vstipEdit0009 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Password Generator – Release v2.2 (CodePlex)
• 14 Days Left to Submit XNA GS 3.1 Games on App Hub (Team XNA)
• Autofac 2.4 is here – come and “NuGet” it! (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• .NET 4 Coming to Server Core (Bruce Kyle)
• Using Dynamic Data with EF Code First and NuGet (David Ebbo)
• The Entity Framework DZone Refcard and FreeImage 3.15 out today… (Greg Duncan)
• Using a ToDo list more effectively (Hadi Hariri)
• Installing Nuget package with package manager console step by step overview. (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Spot the defect: Bad comparisons, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Code Issues – Try statement without catch or finally (Alex Skorkin)

Web Development

• Prefixing Input Elements Of Partial Views With ASP.NET MVC (Davy Brion)
• HTML5 Wish List for 2011: Interview with Michael Mullany (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• ASP.NET MVC: Fun With Routes (Jeremiah Clark)
• Using the Dojo Toolkit with Microsoft’s WCF (SitePen)
• Dependency Injection in MVC 3–with Views (John V. Petersen)
• Excerpt from upcoming title: Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET 4 (Kim Spilker)
• And now instead, 5 things Java envies PHP for (Giorgio Sironi)
• My Blog is Now Running on Ruby in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Drupal 7 and New Support for Microsoft Technologies (Joe Stagner)
• Treeble with YUI 3 DataTable (John Lindal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Myths of Kanban (Dan Puckett)
• Asynchronous Control Updates In C#/.NET/WinForms (Derick Bailey)
• Functional Style BDD Step Definitions (Phillip Trelford)
• A good coach seeks first to understand (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)
• The Language Divide (Gil Zilberfeld)
• How we systemically apply filters to our data access and A quick follow up about data restrictions (Joshua Flanagan)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• AutoComplete TextBox with WPF (Christian Nagel)
• Loading Data when the User Scrolls to the End of a List in Windows Phone 7 (Daniel Vaughan)
• Tasks: Launchers and Choosers–Windows Phone From Scratch #22 (Jesse Liberty)
• Integrating RadMap for Silverlight in ASP.NET – by @telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Integrating HTML into Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• $10,000 for your Windows Phone 7 app (Andrew Spooner)
• Making of – The first version of the presentation layer for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• “Create a Whimsical Animated Silverlight Background” (Mike Taulty)
• Developer Guidance – Onboarding Windows Phone 7 – Release: Fuel Tracker Source (CodePlex)
• WP7 TimeSpanPicker in depth (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 137 – PowerScripting Podcast – Adam Driscoll from Quest on the New vWorkspace PowerShell Module (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint Designer 2010 and the SharePoint Community-Episode 55 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Silverlight Training Course (Silverlight 4) – by @Ch9 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WP7 Minute Show Episode 7: Diagnostics (Richard Hay)
• Ping 89: OneNote on iPhone, Kinect Helicopter & Operation, Speller Contest, Atlanta (Laura Foy)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 3: Messaging (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• VIDEO SERIES – Microsoft WebMatrix (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – January 24th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Philly Tech Week now live, be a sponsor or event organizer today (Technically Philly)
• Philly Code Camp 2011.1 – Sponsors (Nick Berardi)
• My proposals for the #MIX11 open call (Laurent Bugnion)
• MIX11 BootCamps (Chris Koenig)
• A Note from Microsoft’s own Jennifer Marsman (Don Burnett)
• MIX11 Open Call Voting Started (Gil Fink)
• Coffee and Code at Cloud: Wednesday, January 26th (Joey deVilla)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – One Package, Unlimited Databases (24/31) (Jason Strate)
• Keeping Perspective: What Are You Building? (Joe Webb)
• SQL Server: Export Table to CSV (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – 2011 – Clipboard Ring – CTRL+SHIFT+V (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft SQL Server Licensing For Dummies.. (Robert Pearl)
• Backup file contents with SSIS – Defining the Design and Backup file contents with SSIS – Foreach Loop Container and file handling (Ted Krueger)
• SQL for Developers: Data Crunching (Tim Corey)
• Corrupting Databases for Dummies- Hex Editor Edition (Kendra Little)
• RTFM365, Week 7 (Jen McCown)

Miscellaneous

• Packtpub Microsoft Monday (Alec Whittington)
• Cursors in Powershell (Martin Bell)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming #Android – $17.99 (Save 50%) w/Code DDPAE (O’Reilly Media)
• Print from your phone with Gmail for mobile and Google Cloud Print (Tyler Odean)
• Manual Memory Management in Objective-C (Umair Saeed)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup 056 for 1/24/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #777 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for January 24, 2011 — #1034 (Dave Campbell)
• SilverlightCream top picks for January 17-23, 2011 and Daily News Digest 01/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 24 January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

Non-Designer’s Design Book, The (3rd Edition) [Paperback] by Robin Williams (Author)

Top Links

• Coding4Fun Toolkit for WP7 Overview and Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)
• Microsoft Web Farm Framework 2.0 (Scott Guthrie)
• XamlQuery – The Write Less, Do More, Silverlight Library – at CodePlex (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Installing NuGet packages directly from the command line (David Ebbo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tie the scrolling between two controls (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Notion Solutions is providing free VS2010 ALM Web Based Training. Four subjects, three session schedule choices, two companies, one great value (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Comparer<T>.Default (James Michael Hare)
• Visual Studio Testing Extensions now available on NuGet (Jeremiah Clark)
• Monads in C#-6. Introducing a simple parser (Mike Hadlow)
• Unknown breaking change in .NET 4? (Frans Bouma)
• An Autofac Lifetime Primer (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• NuGet-enabled WiimoteLib and ThinkGearNET (Brian Peek)
• Internals of loops (While, For and ForEach) (Abhishek Sur)
• CUDA – A basic parallelised task (Rob Ashton)

Web Development

• Falling for HTML5: Finding Love in the Little Things (Felicity Evans)
• How to get Razor intellisense for @model in a class library project (Deepak Verma)
• Microsoft Web Farm Framework Version 2 for IIS 7 -Beta (x86) and Microsoft Web Farm Framework Version 2 for IIS 7 -Beta (x64) (MS Downloads)
• Wolfram Alpha opens up API, makes it free for personal use (Erez Zukerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Manifesto 2.1 – “MoreAgile Manifesto” (Peter Saddington)
• Listening to feedback mechanisms (Mark Needham)
• Book Review – Extreme Programming Explained (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Manual of Style (in code) (JP Hamilton)
• Interface Segregation Principle (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using styles and resources to simplify your xaml (Nigel Sampson)
• Blend, Visual Studio and compile in x86 (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Simple Drag Selection in WPF (Ashley Davis)
• A classic memory game: Part 2 – The game logic, connecting the ViewModel and the View (Levente Mihály)
• New F# Empty Web Application (Silverlight) Template (Daniel Mohl)
• The Coding4Fun team has done it again, released another “Kit” that is… The Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
• Writing an Orchard widget: LatestTwitter (Maarten Balliauw)
• Does your Silverlight application really have to end in .XAP? (Michael Crump)
• Building Touch Interfaces for Windows Phones, Part 4 (Jeff Prosise)
• WP7 Saving To Isolated Storage (Daniel Egan)
• zTop app for WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Ralf Lämmel – Going Bananas (Charles Torre)
• Silverlight TV 58: Windows Phone Design Tips With Corrina (John Papa)
• Announcing Windows Azure Jump Start Training Videos (Katrien de Graeve)

Community / Events

• February 23rd Microsoft Developer Dinner for Partners: Take your SharePoint Solutions to the Cloud (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Let’s Chat Friday at the Linked In .NET User Group – Jan 21 (John Papa)
• Competition: win a free place in our class in February! (Paul S. Randal)
• A brain dump after reading Alt.Next (Dru Sellers)

Database

• SSRS – How to find all the reports that use one or more given columns? (Jacob Sebastian)
• 31 Days of SSIS – No More Procedures (20/31) (Jason Strate)
• Create a Business Intelligence Solution in SQL Server 2008 R2 – Free Training (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – 1600 Blog Post Articles – A Milestone (Pinal Dave)
• How to Delete Large amounts of data in a Batch. (Paul Theriault)
• Solving the ‘Events in Progress’ problem in MDX, Part 1 (Chris Webb)

SharePoint

• Deployment guide for SharePoint Foundation 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Eliminating large JS files to optimize SharePoint 2010 internet sites (Chris O’Brien)
• Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010: Support at Last (Dave McMahon)
• Why do my new list fields not appear on the New, Edit, or Display forms? (Ricky Kirkham)

Miscellaneous

• Google’s New CEO: Larry Page (Alex Chitu)
• Looking Up Email Addresses with PowerShell (David Levy)
• Scotty looks at the monitor and says, “Computer…” Ok, our tech still isn’t 23rd century, but we’re getting closer, and here’s a free ebook that shows you how, “The Ultimate Guide to Speech Recognition in Windows 7” (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft codenames: Do all roads really lead to ‘Rome’? (Mary Jo Foley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Best #iPad Apps – $8.99 (Save 50%) w/Code DDBSP (O’Reilly Media)
• Parsing Serial MIDI Messages with the Netduino (Pete Brown)
• New File menu in Zoho Sheet and IE 9 support (Ramesh)
• Microsoft Pivot Gets Re-Released (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 86 (Scott Banwart)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Jan-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #775 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 20 January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily News Digest 01/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Lisa Crispin

Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 View Model (MVVM) ApplicationBar (Michael Washington)
• Static analysis of Silverlight XAML: Basic concepts (Wolf Schmidt)
• TWC9: Best of 2010 (Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A C# Expression Evaluator and A Text Parsing Helper Class and An LCD Control (Jonathan Wood)
• So you’ve got that awesome SDK… (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Want your own “Gallery” (think something like the Visual Studio Gallery and future NuGet home) site and server? Check out the Orchard Gallery/Gallery Server Projects… (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch – New .NET Development Paradigm (Bill Zack)
• Go To Definition for CSS and Choosing CSS Versions and Change CSS Formatting (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to Convert an Enum to its String Value (Mike Snow)
• Open Generics and Autofac 2.3 and Autofac Project Status Update (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Internals of a Delegate (Abhishek Sur)
• DXCore Linked Identifiers feature and Refactorings – Rename and How to perform an existing refactoring from another one (Alex Skorkin)
• Ignore list for svn and .Net (Greg Galipeau)

Web Development

• HowTo: apply MVC2 & Html.DropDownListFor (Code Inside Team)
• Basic JavaScript Part 5: Hoisting (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Strongly Typed Route Data in ASP.NET MVC (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• PM Tips: Product Manager Tips (Brad Abrams)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Three weeks with Windows Phone 7 – a Mac users perspective (Damien Guard)
• Windows Phone 7 Useful Links for Tile Push Notifications (Jason Zander)
• Part 4 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers. (Michael  Crump)
• Navigating with the WebBrowser Control on WP7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Win7 Image Client for Bing, FlickR & Google and Funny Sounds, Radio Streams & Japanese – Win7 Mobile Apps (Mike Snow)
• What I Learned in WP7 – Issue #9 and What I Learned in WP7 – #Issue 10 (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutiae-nine with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 10 of 10 (Charles Torre)
• Engadget Podcast 222 – 12.25.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• SilverlightShow for 13-19 Dec 2010 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight vs XNA for Windows Phone 7 (Laura Foy)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 1 – Security Architecture and Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 2 – Identity Access Management (Larry Larsen)

Database

• Modifying SSRS Rendering (David Dye)
• Insert Rows in Temporary Table from Stored Procedure – SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP4 and SQL SERVER – Server Side Paging in SQL Server 2011 – Part2 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 and PostgreSQL through BCS (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Highlights of 2010 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Free Kindle Books: A Guide (Lauren Indvik)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 82 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #758 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 5 popular posts of 2010 (Jef Claes)
• Silverlight Cream for December 23, 2010 — #1014 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Professional iPhone and iPad Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Gene Backlin

Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 6c – Simple MDI with Screen Collections (Rob Eisenberg)
• Refactoring Switches Advanced (John Sonmez)
• Coding4Fun: PicFx – Windows Phone Picture Effects Application – Part 2 (René Schulte)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: New @model keyword in Razor (Scott Guthrie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Performance Of NHibernate With Ruby Objects Compared To Traditional C# Objects (Davy Brion)
• TMap® mit Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010 – Scrum 1.0-Prozess-Template (Clemens Reijnen)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming WCF Services, 3rd Ed – $19.99 (Save 55%) Code DDPWS (O’Reilly Media)
• Switch Between Design and Source in Web Projects (Zain Naboulsi)
• A New Attempt at Making Boo a First Class Language (Jonathan Allen)
• RavenDB–Image Gallery Project (XIII)– Understanding Indexes (Rob Ashton)
• CodeRush Plugins – Your first ‘Action’ Plugin – “DX_HelloWorld” (Rory Becker)
• StreamInsight and reference data (lists, databases, etc) (Mark Simms)
• More comfort reading values from lines in CSV-files (Daniel Fisher)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Webforms and Event Handling (2#4U)
• Populating Drop Down Lists in ASP.NET MVC (Mike Hadlow)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Using WebMail helper to send e-mail (Gunnar Peipman)
• Managing JavaScript Objects (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• jQuery Cookbook – Book Review (Chris Love)
• HowTo: create and remove Cookies with ASP.NET MVC (Code Inside Team)
• Reviews of two new books from O’Reilly about HTML and JavaScript (outcoldman)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Recorded Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• Knockout 1.1.0 + new project site launched (Steve Sanderson)
• Windows Azure Components (Buck Woody)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Cloud Application Architecture Patterns by David Platt (Bob Familiar)
• Scrum Does Not Have a ProductMaster Role (Vikas Hazrati)
• Many-to-many associations: from designer to database (Ivan Towlson)
• Microsoft Test Manager Gets Patched – Crash, Memory leaks, bugs and a few new buttons included in the hotfix (Greg Duncan)
• Automated Browser Testing: What’s in Your Toolkit? (Matt Stine)
• Critical Path Method – A Simple Explanation (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Autofac on Windows Phone 7 (Brendan Kowitz)
• Windows Phone 7 Unveiled! (Cigdem Patlak)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 13 – Uploading photos and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 14 – People (Dennis Delimarsky)
• A Browse Icon For Windows Phone 7 AppBar (Karsten Januszewski)
• Chromatic Aberration Effect with WPF, HLSL, and Lena (LearnWPF)
• Visual Studio Extensibility and MefedMVVM (Naeem Khedarun)
• Bubbling PropertyChanged Events in Silverlight (Simon Ince)
• Exiting out of a WP7 Application (Derik Whittaker)
• Jounce Part 2: Getting Started (Tagging and Binding) (Jeremy Likness)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #39: Torturing Myself and Let’s Play TDD #40: Fixed the Capital Gains Abstraction… I Think (James Shore)
• Office 365: The power to think big and be small, to be big and act fast and Microsoft’s Adaptive Keyboard at UIST (Larry Larsen)
• StartUp Success Podcast Show #86 Matt Spradley, Impirus Legal Websites (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

• Special Edition: Live Chat to Learn More About SharePoint from the MVP Experts and the Microsoft Certified Masters! and Pre-PDC event for MVPs! (Lonnie Webb)
• PASS Summit is upon us (Ted Krueger)
• Vote Early, Vote Often (Jeff Atwood)

Database

• Where Is The SQL Server ErrorLog File? (Joe Webb)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: SQL Server 2008 Admin’s Pocket Consult – $14.99 (Save 58%) Code: DDQ8A (O’Reilly Media)
• SQL SERVER – Could not connect to TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it (Pinal Dave)
• Maintaining version history in your database using Visual Studio 2010 (Jamie Thomson)
• RavenDB in comparison to CouchDB and Raven’s dynamic queries (Oren Eini)
• Cloud Storage by David Platt (Bob Familiar)
• Delete a service manually from Service Control Manager (Pradeep Adiga)

SharePoint

• BCS Meta Man 2.0.0.0 Release (Nick Swan)
• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Project Swimlane Reports in 4 Easy Steps (Lonnie Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Unveils Office 365: Productivity Heads to the Cloud (Ben Parr)
• Changes coming to Xbox.com (Larry Hyrb)
• Docs.com updated: Search Improvements, PDF, User Generated Templates (damaster)
• Six great new features at Xbox.com (Damien Guard)
• Does Microsoft really need a chief software architect? (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft announces next stage of cloud strategy: Office 365 (Erez Zukerman)
• Testing sites with Browser Mode vs. Doc Mode (Marc Silbey)
• What is Steve Jobs so afraid of? (Joe Wilcox)
• Simple Windows Powershell to Ease Preparing for Upgrade (Joel Oleson)
• Getting to Microsoft® Office 365: How Existing BPOS Customers Make the Transition (Josh Topal)
• Microsoft opening Bellevue store on November 18 (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #711 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 19 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for October 19, 2010 — #972 (Dave Campbell)

Top Links

• Performing Back Navigation w/out adding a page to the Back Stack in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Magellan 2.0 is here! (Paul Stovell)
• Windows Phone 7: The Revolution… is coming(??) (Kip Kniskern)
• iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Diving Deeper (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7: Almost There! How To Get Ready (Bob Caswell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The XOR Swap Algorithm and LINQ Partitioning (Richard Carr)
• Parallel Programming in F# (I.): Introducing the samples and Parallel Programming in F# (II.): Using PLINQ and Tasks and Parallel Programming in F# (III.): Aggregating data and Parallel Programming in F# (IV.): Financial dashboard example (Tomas Petricek)
• Use “Obsolete” attributes to indicate Obsolete Methods (Abhijit Jana)
• Use of Expression Trees in .NET for Lambda Decomposition and Notion of System.Nullable – A Look (Abhishek Sur)
• The Tier Interaction Profiler ( TIP ) (Cameron Skinner)
• Coming in Autofac 2.3 – OnRelease() (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• IronRuby, Nu project and Launchy at your service (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Using Ruby Classes In C# With IronRuby (Davy Brion)
• Get logging in Windows Azure with Enterprise Library (Tom Hollander)
• Keep Track of your Tasks With the Task List (Deborah Kurata)
• Visual Studio Extension: Save UML diagram as image (Gunnar Peipman)
• Revisiting Few C# Concepts – Delegates, Anon Methods, Lambdas, Expression Trees (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• The Object Browser: Creating a Keyboard Shortcut for Add to References and The Object Browser: Type-Ahead Selection and The Object Browser: Exporting Your Settings and Mark Methods and Types as Hidden from IntelliSense and the Object Browser (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual C++ 2010: What’s new for MFC library? (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• CSS 3.0 Maker helps you visually create next-gen CSS (Erez Zukerman)
• Rotate Ads using jQuery and ASP.NET AdRotator Control (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Add-ons, Installation Experiences, and User Consent (Herman Ng)
• Same Markup: Using <canvas>, <audio>, and <video> (Tony Ross)
• Connecting to Sql Server from WebMatrix using LINQ and Entity Framework Version 4 (Wally McClure)
• A different (for me) way to page (Karl Seguin)
• Coming in YUI 3.2.0: SimpleYUI (Eric Miraglia & Adam Moore)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Lokad.CQRS – Keeping It Simple and Focused (Rinat Abdullin)
• It’s hard work to KISS (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• The Third Object (Paul Stovell)
• 10 Strategies for Improving Results and The Results Frame (J.D. Meier)
• Use gitk to understand git and Use gitk to understand git – merge and rebase (Joshua Flanagan)
• One Build to Rule Them All (John Sonmez)
• Unit Testing in C++ is harder than.. (Roy Osherove)
• The Law of Conservation of Tradeoffs and Security Models: On Behalf Of (Oren Eini)
• Getting Predictable (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Leadership Tip: Too Many Drivers Will Not Take Your Car Anywhere. (Rajiv Popat)
• Billy sez: Design, Don’t Decorate (Ward Bell)
• Launching beta, or “How to decide when and where to cut corners” (Kyle Baley)
• Design Simplicity: Partially updating an object and Flow in software teams (Mark Needham)
• Team and pair games for building collaboration (Michael Sahota)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Tutorials: Isolated Storage and User Controls (Nigel Sampson)
• Learn Silverlight to get access to the developer demand (Al Pascual)
• Silverlight and Security Documentation (Cheryl Simmons)
• Silverlight Futures… (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone 7 App Demos (Mike Ormond)
• WPF Photo Print updated (Chris Cavanagh)
• Who’s the Boss (Rudi Grobler)
• Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – WP7 and Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – Android (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide Drop 2 is now out! and Writing a Twitter Application for Windows Phone 7 with oAuth and Flickr Uploader for Windows Phone 7 at Sam Judson’s Blog (Don Burnett)
• Frogger game on Windows Phone 7 using XNA (Dimitris-Ilias Gkanatsios)
• How can we improve Silverlight Spy? (Koen Zwikstra)
• Ninject.Extensions.Conventions ported to work w/ WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• WPF Auto-Complete Control (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Easy way to generate sample data for your Silverlight 4 Applications and Book Review: Silverlight 4 in Action by Pete Brown (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7 Clears The Last Big Milestone (Andy Lees)
• Adding shapes to your Windows Phone using some simple XAML and C# code (Sam)
• Silverlight book: Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook (Vibor Cipan)
• DevForce Meets Mvvm Light and Is Mvvm Light Right For You? and DevForce and RIA Services Compared Part 1: Getting Started (Ward Bell)
• Simple Silverlight Configurator/Pivot (View Model/MVVM) (Michael Washington)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• PAX Prime 2010 LIVE Show and PAX Prime: Xbox LIVE Enforcement: Tales from the Din Part 3: The Conclusioning (Larry Hyrb)
• Let’s Play TDD #6: Capital Gains Tax–Almost and Let’s Play TDD #7: Tax Rage (James Shore)
• TWC9: WP7 RTMs, Future of Silverlight, Excel Importer, Robot Gun Turrets (Brian Keller)
• SharePoint 2010 Search Discussion-Episode 49 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Windows Phone 7 Videos (Sunshine)
• WinExtra on Windows Ep. 17: tripping down memory lane (Steven Hodson)
• Engadget Podcast 211 – 09.04.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 27 – Mahesh Krishnan at TechEd (Richard Banks)
• Cloud Cover Episode 24 – Routing in Windows Azure (Ryan Dunn)
• Behind The Curtain – Episode #4 (Michael Lehman)
• Windows Weekly 172: Board Up The Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone 7 ad promises ‘the revolution is coming’ (video) (Vlad Savov)
• Contributing to Open Source Projects On GitHub For .NET Developers Part 1 and Contributing to Open Source Projects On GitHub For .NET Developers Part 2 and Connected Show Podcast – Steve Marx on Azure (Bobby Johnson)
• Inside Windows Phone #02: The Beta Release and the Roadmap to RTM and Inside Windows Phone #03: Optimizing Windows Phone Silverlight Applications (Jaime Rodriguez)
• A New Podcast for Developers – This Developer’s Life (Scott Hanselman)
• The Rematch – Webcast of my 101 VS tips in 55 mins via O’Reilly is now available (Sara Ford)

Community / Events

• MVP Mark Dunn Highlights the MVP Award Program (Lonnie Webb)
• SPSBmore SharePoint 2010 Hands-On Lab Resources (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Moving on from Microsoft (Andre Vrignaud)
• SilverlightShow Interview with Webinar Presenter Chris Anderson and Win a Free Ebook in SilverlightShow Webinar on Running Silverlight OOB and with Elevated Trust (Svetla Stoycheva)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Events (Wes Yanaga)
• Nothin But .Net – London(November,2010) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• A Community Divided (Joe Webb)
• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of September 6, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Few Notes on Fast Track Data Warehouse and SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Limitation of the View 3 (Pinal Dave)
• Parallelism in SSIS – Multiple Lookups (Todd McDermid)
• Normalization is from the devil (Oren Eini)
• Why You Still Count as a Person if You Have Used Microsoft Access—(or How Old Are You, Julie? (or the overuse of parenthesis in early 21st century Bloggery)) (Julie Smith)
• Building a Data Warehouse Part V: Application Development Options (Stephen Forte)
• “select *, %%bmk%% from tablename” while rebuilding the index (Pradeep Adiga)
• Make a T-SQL Query Sleep for a certain amount of time (Suprotim Agarwal)
• New book: Microsoft Access 2010 Inside Out (Devon Musgrave)

SharePoint

• Guide to Migrating from WSS 3.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows SBS 2008 (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Writing A Simple DSL (Davy Brion)
• Project Sector 5 – Work In Progress – Teaser (Kevin Griffin)
• Halo Reach A Big Hit With Some Big Hitters (Microsoft Blog Admin)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Hacking: The Next Generation – Only $9.99. Use code DDHKG (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Home Server Vail Preview Part 1 (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft counting down the days until Kinect launches (Steven Hodson)
• MS Research Releases Kodu Language and Grammar Specification (Bruce Kyle)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 4, 2010 and Interesting Finds: September 5, 2010 and Interesting Finds: September 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 040 for 9/6/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 4, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 09/03/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 66 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2010 — #940 and Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2010 — #941 (Dave Campbell)
• Things I Read This Week – 2010.08.03 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Articles Archive (Silverlight): March 2010 to August 2010 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Morning Brew #679 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Silverlight Blogs (John Papa)
• Links of the week #128 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework, Second Edition (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Steven Sanderson

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Top Links

• Changing Visual Studio’s Color Palette (Matthew Johnson) – An addin for VS2010 to work around the lack of built-in themes for the IDE.
• Essential F# DZone Refcard by Chance Coble & Ted Neward (Greg Duncan)
• T4MVC 2.6.10: fluent route value API, shorter way to refer to action, and more (David Ebbo)
• MVC Integration Changes in Autofac Beta 2.1.6 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• What the Office team will be talking about at CES (Rachel Bondi)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Open .sln File as Elevated User (Jason Haley)
• NHibernate vs. Entity Framework 4.0 (Oren Eini)
• BOOK : Murach’s C++ 2008 (Joe Stagner)
• Overloading Dynamic (Justin Etheredge)
• Creating WCF Service using Workflow 4.0 Beta 2 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• F#: Expressing intent and the forward/application operators (Mark Needham)
• AutoMapFilter meet IJoinedFilter (Wes McClure)

Web Development

• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC (Rob Conery)
• BOOK – ASP.NET 4.0 by Joydip Kanjilal (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET 4 SEO Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• UI Automation tools snake oil? (Jimmy Bogard)
• Don’t Strive For Perfection (Davy Brion)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber part 3: Scenario outlines and tabular templates (Gojko Adzic)
• Production profiling security considerations (Oren Eini)
• Agile Tenet #7 – Usable Doc as a Measure of Progress (Julie Stickler)
• FubuMVC Diagnostics Sneak Peek (Jeremy D. Miller)
• A web store using FubuMVC and CQRS and Test Driven Spikes (TDS) (Mark Nijhof)

Silverlight / WPF

• Extending the SLHVP Player to be a Platform (Jesse Liberty)
• Bing Maps 3D, WPF, and Windows 7 MultiTouch (Marc Schweigert)
• Silverlight 4 Beta – More on MEF and the PackageCatalog (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight – Navigate to a specific Page using a Hyperlink (Fredrik Normén)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pixel8 Podcast – ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta with Stephen Walther (Craig Shoemaker)
• Pluralcast #5: The Lean Sensei (David Starr)

Community / Events

• The Virtual PowerShell Group (Joel Bennett)
• Northeast Roadshow: Finding Developer Help (Chris Bowen)
• Community Coding Contest 2010 – Looking for Input and Prizes (Chris Pietschmann)
• Stack Overflow: Where We Hate Fun (Jeff Atwood)
• Predictions for 2010 Part I- Beyond .NET (Stephen Forte)
• 2010 Predictions, 2009 Predictions Revisited (Ted Neward)
• January 2010 Silverlight MVPs (Tim Heuer)
• Should PASS hold the conference on the East coast (Simon Sabin) – Yes! 
• Help Silverlight win a 2009 Crunchie for Best Technology Achievement (Silverlight Team)
• MVC 2 in Action book conducting public reviews (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Byebye 2009, welcome 2010! (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

• SQLPSX v2 – PowerShell for SQL Server has been PowerShell 2’ed (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server RDL Specification (Pinal Dave)
• TSQL Challenge – Remove duplicates from a string (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Azure CTP Testers Can Upgrade Their Accounts To Paid Commercial Subscriptions Starting Today (Denis Gobo)
• MySQL, Oracle And Cloud Computing (Krishnan Subramanian)

SharePoint

• Planning for Upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2010 (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Using Windows 7 GodMode to create keyboard shortcuts to settings (James Clarke)
• First Cousins Once Removed (Eric Lippert)
• The 50 Best Adobe Illustrator Tutorials from 2009 (Frank La Vigne)
• Workaround for Start-Transcript on native processes (Tianjie (James) Wei)
• Oh, no. My TortoiseSVN overlays are missing (Sergio Pereira)
• Case of the Missing PC Speaker Beep in x64 Win7 (Larry Larsen)
• An Exercise in De-Obfuscation (Lee Holmes)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 4-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #510 (Chris Alcock)
• Independent Consultant Notes: January 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• A Feed You Should Read #18 – F# Discoveries This Week (Greg Duncan)

The Geek Shelf

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

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Top Links

• Ten things thou shalt not tweet (Xeni Jardin)
• UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil (Michael Feathers)
• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: v1.8.0.3 (CodePlex)
• Extending NHibernate data with one-to-optional relationships (Louis DeJardin)
• F#: Expressing intent and the forward/application operators (Mark Needham)
• Comparing Bytes (Sean Timm)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part –1) (Mehfuz Hussain)

Web Development

• Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure? (Martin Hinshelwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Business Applications Could (Or Should) Look Like (Davy Brion)
• Handling Concurrency: It’s a Matter of Trust (Dan Simmons)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber part 2: Making scenarios easier to read with tables (Gojko Adzic)
• Unity/Moq – AutoMocker or AutoMockingContainer (Jason Jarrett)
• Test Soon Development: a case study (Ward Bell)
• Programmer Tip: Do Not Waste Your Professional Trump Card On Funny Things. (Rajiv Popat)
• Balsamiq Roadmap for 2010 (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Autofac as an IoC Container in Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight 4 – Make Commanding use lesser code (Fredrik Normén)
• Fluent Silverlight – Fluent API and inheritance (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• MEF and Prism exploration, MEF module loading (Glenn Block)
• Configuration Files for Silvelright HVP (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Dynamic Data Services in a WPF Application (Brady Kelly)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 2 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• F# Parallel Programming Video (Talbott Crowell)
• ARCast.TV – Real World Software + Services Architecture: The Winchester Ballistics Calculator (Bob Familiar)

Community / Events

• Byebye 2009, welcome 2010! (Maarten Balliauw)
• 2009 in Retrospective: Mike Cottmeyer Edition (Mike Cottmeyer)
• PowerShell, Virtually (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• SQL Server WHILE Loops (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Unique Nonclustered Index Creation with IGNORE_DUP_KEY = ON (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler? (Thom Holwerda)
• Enable the secret ‘GodMode’ in Windows 7 (Imran Hussain)
• New, Lower Careers Pricing (Jeff Atwood)
• Why Windows Media Center is dead (Daniel Cazzulino)

More Link Collections

• Top 9 Posts from 2009 (Bart de Smet)
• Interesting Finds: January 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #509 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #104 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #86 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/4/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Links (1/3/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 126 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Best of Sources of Insight 2009 (JD Meier)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net