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Top Links

• Sigh: a tale of relationship (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 2 for Developers (Uzair)
• Enterprise Library 5.0/Unity 2.0 – second batch of deliverables (Grigori Melnik)
• I like strong typing and compilation errors (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone 7 development: Using isolated storage (Gunnar Peipman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Workflow Services – Visual Design of Workflows with WCF and WF 4 (Leon Welicki)
• MSBuild Property Functions (2) (Dan Moseley)
• Setting a Breakpoint Filter (Zain Naboulsi)
• .NET Memory Leak: XslCompiledTransform and “leaked” dynamic assemblies (Tess Ferrandez)
• Purging all headers & footers in PowerPoint presentations with the OpenXML SDK 2.0 (Andrew Connell)
• AutoMapper 1.1 released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Entity Framework 4, WCF & Lazy Loading Tip (Dane Morgridge)
• Avoiding Leaking Connections With NHibernate And TransactionScope (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Character Count with jQuery and ASP.NET Web Forms (Deran Schilling)
• JSMag May 2010 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• YUI 3.1.1 and YUI 2.8.1 Released (Eric Miraglia)
• Port of “Out of this World” to JavaScript (Andre Vrignaud)
• ASP.NET MVC Tabular Display Template (Phil Haack)
• HTML5 and Same Markup: Second IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Zencoder Wants To Be The Amazon Web Services Of Video Encoding (Leena Rao)
• Multi-Tenancy in ASP.NET MVC with IoC (Louis DeJardin)
• Eloquent JavaScript is an interactive, free JavaScript book (Erez Zukerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Consistency in the code base and incremental refactoring (Mark Needham)
• Notes From A Project Applying Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing and CQRS : Part 1 and Part 2 (Michael Nichols)
• Using FitNesse to test web services (Gojko Adzic)
• The Agile Way and Motivation, Skills, and Feedback (J.D. Meier)
• Managers As Cheerleaders, or Why Charts Matter and Agile Techniques For Risk Management (Jared Richardson)
• Developer Growth Spurts (Joel Cochran)
• Code Contracts: Unit testing contracted code (Gunnar Peipman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Spy: A must have tool for any Silverlight Developer (Aashish Gupta)
• “Programming Windows Phone 7” — Updated Source Code (Charles Petzold)
• The joys of being an early adopter… [Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example to go with the April Developer Tools Refresh] (David Anson)
• Handy Tools Complimentary to Deep Zoom Composer (Zhiming Xue)
• Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (2 – Services) and KoodibooK Book Publishing – WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC2, Azure (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #13 – Silverlight Mobile Development (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight XAP Signing Certificate promotion from Thawte (Tim Heuer)
• Digitally Signing a XAP Silverlight (John Papa)
• Use the Camera in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator? Yes, you can… kind of and Windows Phone Developer Training Kit, now April and VS2010 RTM Fresh… (Greg Duncan)
• Text Trimming in Silverlight 4 (Dan Wahlin)
• Windows Phone 7 development: Using WebBrowser control (Gunnar Peipman)
• XML Photo Album In Silverlight (John)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ivar Jacobson Live in New York City (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• IE9 and same markup: A look at DOM events in IE9 and IE9 and same markup: A look at CSS3 borders and corners in IE9 and IE9 and same markup: A look at SVG in IE9 (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #173: Creating and using the Application Bar w/ Windows Phone 7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone Push Notification (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Video Interviews Part 1 – Steve Souders, Google’s Performance Evangelist Talks Performance and Mobile & Yahoo!’s Gonzalo Cordero Discusses BayJax (Rey Bango)
• IE9 HTML5 Demo (Nic Fillingham)
• Manual Deskterity : An Exploration of Simultaneous Pen + Touch Direct Input (TechFest)
• Francisco Tolmasky talks about Atlas, Cappuccino and 280 slides (Ryan Taylor)
• SlickEdit: More Than Just An Editor (Eric Hagan)
• Screencast – Git Part 2 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• MSDN Radio: Chatting with Scott Guthrie (Emily Gibson)

Community / Events

• See Critical Path Training at TechEd and get a free SharePoint 2010 book! (Andrew Connell)
• Open Space facilitation (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Enabling Innovation Through Research (Steve Clayton)
• Win a free ticket + hotel for the umbraco Codegarden ‘10 (Simone Chiaretta)
• At Last – Test-Driven Academy, Guest Post by Vagif Abilov (Tal Townsend)
• Web API Roadshow (Jonathan Carter)

Database

• SQL Server PowerShell Provider follows the Version of PowerShell on the Host and other errata (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• BCS Meta Man – Adding and Removing Methods (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Happy half-birthday Google Dashboard! Six months in and 100,000 users a day (Yariv Adan)
• The Secret To Getting More Ideas (And Better Ones Too) (Alan Skorkin)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Facebook: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDFBM (O’Reilly Media)
• The 5 Steps to Secure Collaboration (JG Chirapurath)
• Booking Review: Ruby For Rails (Russell Ball)
• Health IT Future is in the Cloud (Bill Crounse)
• Printing multiple PowerPoint presentations with Windows PowerShell (Andrew Connell)
• Trying To Get Vim Intellisense Working. Help?! (Derick Bailey)

More Link Collections

• Flagged Links #74 (Jason Bock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2010 — #856 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #594 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 5-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: May 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

Professional WCF 4: Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4

I’m going uncategorized this week while I’m at the MVP Global Summit.

Top Links

• Learning about MEF in SL4 from Mike Taulty (Glenn Block)
• Microsoft "Finally" Announces Windows Phone 7 Series (^_^) (Blake Handler)
• The Vision of an Educational iPhone Application (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Pex 0.23.50215.2: Visual Studio 2010 RC support (Jonathan de Halleux)

The Rest of ‘Em

Windows Azure Platform at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

Diagnostic Trace Display Using WPF (Don Kackman)

ARCast.TV – Using Architectural Skills to Increase Solution Adoption Success Rates (Bob Familiar)

Pluralsight at the MVP Summit 2010 and MVPs receive free Standard subscription to Pluralsight On-Demand! (Aaron Skonnard)

Windows Phone 7 Series: An Exciting Journey (Christian Schormann)

Tech Twitter Roundup!! (Angela Binkowski)

Interesting Finds: February 15, 2010 and Independent Consultant Notes: February 15, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)

Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02.16.2010 (Bob Familiar)

The Morning Brew #539 and The Morning Brew #540 (Chris Alcock)

Windows Phone Series 7 Link Roundup (Chris Sells)

Silverlight Cream for February 14, 2010 — #798 (Dave Campbell)

Links of the week #108 (David Vidmar)

Weekly Links #92 (Grant Palin)

When It Comes To IOC Containers, We Seem To Be Pretty Loyal (Davy Brion)

New book: CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)

Back to Basics – Using MasterType Directive (Gil Fink)

Event Storage and Persistence Ignorance (Greg Young)

Mind that collation : SSAS (Jamie Thomson)

PowerShell – background task that speaks to me (Jason Jarrett)

Our “Extension Properties” Story (Jeremy D. Miller)

Silverlight TV 8: Inside Look at the Code for the Silverlight for Facebook App (John Papa)

Advanced MVVM is now available in paperback (Josh Smith)

Entity Framework ObjectContext and Reporting (Julie Lerman)

Defining Constraints in an EF4 model that don’t exist in the database (Julie Lerman)

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate WPF & Silverlight Designer Known Issues (Karl Shifflett)

Windows Phone 7 Series: Bold move for Microsoft (Kip Kniskern)

New Castle Windsor feature – typed arguments (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Security in GWT, or “How to lay the foundation” (Kyle Baley)

Ping 48: Windows Phone 7, Bill Gates, Hayden Planeterium, Norwegian Google Prank (Laura Foy)

Flickr API Tips From an Expert (Matthew Casperson)

Digg’s Read-Write API (Matthew Casperson)

Introduction to the Reactive Extensions to JavaScript (Matthew Podwysocki)

Book Review: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Michele Mauro)

Introducing Windows Phone 7 Series (Deb Sommer)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 1 – WebClient and XML (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 2 – RSS,ATOM,JSON (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 3 – HTTP POST (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 4 – Cross Domain HTTP (Mike Taulty)

Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part II – Code Formatting) (Minal Agarwal)

Daily Dose – Hibernate 3.5 CR1 JPA 2 Compliant (Mitch Pronschinske)

Daily Dose – Will a Unified App Store Work This Time? (Mitch Pronschinske)

The 16th of Diduary: Did you know Intellisense has different modes? (Jeff Blankenburg)

#Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Data Analysis – Only $9.99! Use code DDHFD (O’Reilly Media)

Weekly Release: Flash Player 10 and more (Peldi Guilizzoni)

WPF Tip: Identifying WPF Applications (Pete Brown)

SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure Optimization Tips – Best Practices (Pinal Dave)

Episode 102- PowerScripting Podcast – James Brundage from Microsoft (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Announcing Spec Explorer 2010, Release 3.1! (Robert DuWors)

Weekly Link Post 132 (Rhonda Tipton)

AutoMapper question…any ideas… (Scott Galloway)

Patch for VS 2010 RC Intellisense Crash Issue Now Available (Scott Guthrie)

Pluralcast #9 : Pex from Microsoft Research (David Starr)

Why do teams succeed? (Stephen Forte)

Windows Phone 7 Series Video Walkthrough (Taimur Asad)

Behind the scenes at Xbox LIVE (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

CodeBlog: Writing a Blogging Extension for Visual Studio 2010 (Weston Hutchins)

Visual Studio 2010 IDE Settings Tips and Tricks (Wriju  Ghosh)

HTML Code Snippets — vstipEdit0018 (Zain Naboulsi)

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Top Links

• Your First S#arp Project in 15 Minutes (Billy McCafferty)
• AutoMapper 1.0 RTW (Jimmy Bogard)
• MVC Turbine v2.0 for MVC2 (.NET3.5) (Javier G. Lozano)
• .NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentStack (Justin Etheredge)
• Wrapping about Collections (K. Scott Allen)
• Warmup – Getting Started (Rob Reynolds)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Araxis Merge 2010 Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Integration (Doug Holland)
• The customer is always right [Updated free tool and source code to prevent a machine from going to sleep!] (David Anson)
• Tangible T4 for VS2010 – Tangible T4 Editor V1.6 for VS2008 and VS2010 now available (Greg Duncan)
• Hosting MEF within application and libraries. (Glenn Block)
• Functional C#: Writing a ‘partition’ function (Mark Needham)
• A Kick in the Monads – Writer Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Beta Release of Windows Azure Drive (Brad Calder)
• .NET Gem Fun (Tobin Harris)
• Windows Azure Tools and SDK 1.1 Released (Windows Azure Team)
• Using Sensors in Your Application – Native Implementation, Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• CSLA .NET 3.8.2 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build an Astoria service (Stephen Forte)
• Windows Azure General Availability (Doug Hauger)
• The 2nd of Diduary: Did you know about "Block Replace" in Visual Studio 2010? (Jeff Blankenburg)

Web Development

• Stupid API Rant: the SalesForce Web Service API (Andrew Connell)
• Zend Framework Supports Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Creating a WCF Service for JSON (Chris Love)
• ASP.NET: Mega Menus (Deborah Kurata)
• Applying CSS Styling via Metadata (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• It is less expensive to do it inefficiently! (Oren Eini)
• Gherkin style specification testing in .NET (Ryan Lanciaux)
• Are We Continuously Improving Or Just Continuously Changing? (Derick Bailey)
• How I Approach a Defect (Chris Missal)
• “Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines” – aka the UX Guide for Windows 7 and Vista free eBook (Greg Duncan)
• Slicing the day (Mark Nijhof)
• Software on the Cheap (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Do you care about performance? – .NET Performance Testing and Optimization (Wally McClure)
• Style follows semantics (Eric Lippert)
• Limitations of the Dreyfus Model (Patrick Kua)

Silverlight / WPF

• ASP.Net server-side image resizing with WPF (Bertrand Le Roy)
• What’s new in Silverlight 4? NYC Silverlight meetup presentation available for download (Dave Isbitski)
• New Silverlight 3 Behavior for Toggling DataGrid Row Detail Visibility (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Quick tip: Commenting out properties in XAML (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight 3 – Open, Edit and Save a Text File to a Location outside the Isolated Storage (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Quick tip about changing SketchFlow’s startup page name (Silverlight) (Pavan Podila)
• Moving a WPF Window with Custom Chrome (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 3 Applications broken with new WCF Data Services release (Phani Raj)
• Silverlight 4 & MEF – Switching on functionality based on application context (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pixel8 Podcast – Silverlight 4 with Jeff Prosise (Craig Shoemaker)
• .NET Rocks! – Kent Brown and Ed Pinto on WCF 4.0 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Code to Live – Sara Ford (Josh Holmes)
• 22 Visual Studio 2010 Testing, ALM, Coded UI, Test Elements, Lab Management and more videos (Greg Duncan)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #81 (Jeff Atwood)
• Ping 46: iPad, Ballmer & Gates, MS Paint, Office & Olympics (Laura Foy)
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Development Tools Overview (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Don’t Think Chrome OS Will Compete With iPad? Watch This Video. (MG Siegler)

Community / Events

• Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election Begins (Jeff Atwood)
• Saying Farewell to CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-How To Architect Killer Apps with Windows 7 (Jeff Barnes)

Database

• Script: open transactions with text and plans (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Watch Seventy-Two Changes at Microsoft (Jia Wu)
• WHS Add-in ‘Codename Umbrella’ beta preview released (Ben Palmer)
• Can Microsoft close the app gap with Apple’s iPad? (Ed Bott)
• Greasemonkey comes to Chrome – get your userscripts ready! (Jay Hathaway)
• GTDInbox Firefox add-on turns Gmail into a todo list (Jason Clarke)
• Windows 7 Running on the Apple iPad via Citrix (Jesus Diaz)
• How Will We Make Decisions in the Future? (Bruno Aziza)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — Only $9.99! Use discount code BPAHJ (O’Reilly Media)
• Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures (Office Team)
• Microsoft and cloud interoperability (Steve Clayton)
• Gmail Chrome extensions (Christos Apartoglou)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #530 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• A Feed You Should Read #22 – TechNet Blogs (Greg Duncan)
• Some Recent Notable Silverlight Posts (Karen Corby)
• New and Notable 398 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.Net MVC in Action

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Top Links

• The Weekly Source Code 48 – DynamicQueryable makes custom LINQ expressions easier (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing the Managed Assembly TekPub Giveaway (John Sheehan)
• Context and Best Practices (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate new feature: Lazy Properties (Oren Eini)
• I just installed Visual Studio 2010, now how do I get Code Contracts? (Melitta Andersen)
• Relating CSLA .NET experience (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to detect the text encoding of a file (Sergio Pereira)
• Microsoft-Compatible APIs in Mono 2.4 (Tapas Pal)
• Automapper: Don’t forget Mapper.Reset() at the start (Mark Needham)
• Agatha Vs NServiceBus? (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• URL Routing in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• Simple (?) AJAX Upload For ASP.NET (Charles Chen)
• Populate an ASP.NET ListBox from JSON results using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ASP.NET: ListBox Scrollbar (Deborah Kurata)
• CSS Basics: The Box Model (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• MVC or WebForms: It’s more about client side vs server side (Ian Cooper)
• Pumping ‘Iron’ for JavaScript (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Gracefully Failing (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Coding: The Collecting Parameter Pattern (Mark Needham)
• Giving feedback to defensive people (Patrick Kua)
• Career Growth and Finding Your Way Forward (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft Releases a Cross-Platform Silverlight Client for Facebook (Me)
• Binding UI Events from View to commands in ViewModel in Silverlight 4 (Slobodan Pavkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – oData (Carl Franklin)

• Community Megaphone Show #2 with guest Joel Cochran (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #160: A deeper look into AutoMapper: Projection and Flattening Objects (Derik Whittaker)
• Show Us Your Tech: Juan Goni Edition (Larry Larsen)
• The Visual Studio Documentary Mardi Brekke-Hutchings and Dee Dee Walsh full length interview (Tina Wood)
• I. M. Wright podcast: "Spontaneous Combustion of Rancid Management" (Devon Musgrave)

Community / Events

• How to Participate in the SQL Community – Draft #1 (Andy Warren)
• O’Reilly Webcast tomorrow, Jan 27, Top 10 Treats in EF4 (Julie Lerman)
• If you build it, they will come… (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• The Code Retreat Tour 2010 (Corey Haines)
• The Center for the Advancement of Enterprise Architecture as a Profession (CAEAP) (Bob McIlree)

Database

• Attaching a Database (Buck Woody)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 R2 – Release Date in May 2010 (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Time-out occurs While Waiting for Buffer Latch (Viswa)

SharePoint

• SPWeb.AssociatedGroups.Contains Lies (Keith Dahlby)

Miscellaneous

• Ebookpie.com launches with Wrox Chapters and ebooks (Jim Minatel)
• Unlock thumbnail previews for Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7 (Ed Bott)
• New in PowerGUI 2.0: Snapshots (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Daily Dose – SourceForge Blocks the "Axis of Evil" and Then Some (Mitch Pronschinske)
• SmartDraw 2010: An Easy-to-use Diagramming Tool (Will Kelly)
• The Astoria Team Is hiring !!! (Phani Raj)
• The PowerScripting Centennial (Lee Holmes)
• Ballmer’s tablet bumble (Robert Scoble)
• Office 2010 Technology in Action at the Winter Games in Vancouver (Office Team)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Using Drupal — Only $9.99! Use discount code UD999 (O’Reilly Media)
• Documentary Featuring Bill Gates Scores at Sundance (Sarah Perez)
• The Tablet Could Spur A Media Revolution, But It Will Be Out Of Apple’s Hands (Jason Kincaid)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #526 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 26, 2010 — #787 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

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

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Top Links

• Free C# Legacy Chapters (Jim Minatel) – Get get free PDF chapters from Wrox’ Professional C#.
• How to mock extension methods (Daniel Cazzulino) – “without paying for a TypeMock Isolator license to do it “
• AutoMapper DSL design post-mortem (Jimmy Bogard) – Jimmy talks about some of the things he’s like to change about AutoMapper’s design.
• Comparing Resource Dictionaries in Unit Tests (Christopher Bennage) – A test Christopher came up with while working on ÜberProf.
• Entity Framework Podcast and Unit Testing Video (Muhammad Mosa) – Really nice video about EF… highly recommend you check it out.
• Limited Time Expression Holiday Promotion in the US (Silverlight Team) – Get 30% off Expression 3 products!

.NET / Visual Studio

• Traceability in VS2010 (Clemens Reijnen)
• POCO Proxies Part 1 (Jeff Derstadt & Diego Vega)
• Resetting Visual Studio Experimental Instance to its super-clean initial state (Daniel Cazzulino)

Web Development

• IE 6, 7, 8 Only CSS (Kris Gray)
• Performance of JavaScript Looping Techniques (Elijah Manor)
• Guided Tour: jQuery – Array wannabes (Sergio Pereira)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Review: Clean Code (Grant Palin)
• Agile Tenet #3 – Deliver Frequently and Agile Tenet #4 – Work Together Daily (Julie Stickler)
• The Static Spider Web Pattern (Justin Etheredge)
• Fidelity – The Lost Dimension of the Iron Triangle (Karl Scotland)
• Duke Nukem Forever & Reworking code (Mark Needham)
• You know what they say about assuming (Joel Cochran)
• How QuickNet Found 2 Bugs That You And I Didn’t (Davy Brion)
• Understanding The Application Controller Through Object Messaging Patterns (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blacklight v4.3(Dec09) released (Martin Grayson)
• Day #22: Using The Farseer Physics Engine in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Working with Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Buttons with WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight exception handling using WCF RIA Services and WCF Services (Fredrik Normen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 for web developers, part 1 of 2 and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 for web developers, part 2 of 2 and ASP.NET MVC, part 1 of 2 and ASP.NET MVC, part 2 of 2 and Silverlight 4.0 (The Swedish Web Team)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 018 – IronPython (Eric Nelson)
• Francesco Logozzo – Static Checking with Code Contracts for .NET (Jonathan de Halleux)
• InfoPath 2010 – Customize a SharePoint List Form (Nick Dallett)
• Jafar Husain: Silverlight Toolkit and Rx, Part 1 (Jeffrey van Gogh)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Research Celebrates 2009 (Rob Knies)
• How our Customer Experience Improvement Program improved Gibraltar 2.1 (Kendall Miller)
• Twitter Killed the jQuery Star (Elijah Manor)

Database

• SQL SERVER – ORDER BY Clause and TOP WITH TIES (Pinal Dave)
• Explore BI Features of SQL Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Design Patterns: Entry 2.5 (Charles Chen)
• BDC Meta Man 4.0.0.7 Released Yesterday (Lightning Tools)
• Santa’s SharePoint Governance Strategy (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• The Top 10 URL Shortening Services (Garin Kirkpatrick)
• Windows PowerShell 2.0 SDK (Hemant Mahawar)
• HOW TO: Boost Your Resume Over the Winter Break (David Spinks)
• Microsoft removes Custom XML features from Office 2007 (Ed Bott)
• …and the rest of the 2009 Most Searched goes to… (Kristin Meldahl)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Secrets of Social Media Marketing (Dave Burke)
• Powershell: Load assembly without locking file. (Jason Jarrett)
• A peek behind the scenes at Hotmail (Arthur de Haan)
• Adding list of users to group (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #504 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #102 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for December 22, 2009 — #760 (Dave Campbell)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Choosing between Active Record, Fluent NHibernate and NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Stephen Forte)
• VB / C# Language Parity (Chris Williams)
• .NET Voice Recorder (Coding4Fun)
• Understanding the NHibernate Type System (Me)
• NHibernate Caching and Assigned Ids – A Potential Pitfall (Anne Epstein)
• Update on Maybe Monad: Q&As and Caveats (Rinat Abdullin)
• The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security (Mike Hadlow)
• Hybrid App Debugging – Threading (Harry Pierson)
• What’s the difference between "as" and "cast" operators? (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• A S#arp Project Case Study (Billy McCafferty)
• An AutoMapper success story (Jimmy Bogard)
• jQueryPad (Paul Stovell)
• Who has the Best Cloud? Developers Weigh In (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ASP.NET Profiles in Web Application Projects (Lee Dumond)
• 8 Awesome Mashups Made Possible by APIs (Barb Dybwad)
• Add filepath to ConvertTo-HTML (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Using MvcContrib ScriptInclude, Stylesheet, And T4MVC (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD Triage (Uncle Bob Martin)
• My take on Duct Tape Programming (Wally McClure)
• How NH Prof integrate with a profiled application (Oren Eini)
• Measure twice, cut once (Larry Clarkin)
• Our Biggest Enemy Isn’t Developers Who Refuse To Move Forward, It is Developers Who Pretend To Move Forward (Justin Etheredge)
• The catalogue metaphor and command-query seperation architectures (Ian Cooper)
• Pragmatic Thinking & Learning Reviewed (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Critical Thinking and Dissent is a Requirement (Michael C. Neel)
• [pre-release] Better Image Handling, Assets Folders… (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control (plus or minus 199) (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Live Smooth Streaming Now Released – IIS Media Services 3.0 (Silverlight Team)
• A basic MVVM framework (Lester Lobo)
• Rant: Silverlight – You Do Not Want “Blue Balls” (Mike Taulty)
• The “magic” of type converters (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals, Chapter 2 of 13 and Introducing Microsoft Office Starter 2010 (Charles Torre)
• Peer to Peer Series Part 5: Direct Connect Peers via WCF (Jeff Brand)

Community / Events

• Windows 7 At PDC09 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Motorcycling racing and Microsoft (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Functional Programming Fundamentals Lectures (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Share Your Expertise as a Microsoft Ambassador (John McClelland)
• Open Hand? Or Closed Fist? (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Queries Waiting for Memory Allocation to Execute (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft planning ‘Starter’ edition of Office 2010 and Microsoft Exchange 2010 goes RTM (Cristian)
• The Zune HD vs. the iPod Touch (Part 2) (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Walt Mossberg: Windows 7 is ‘best version of Windows ever’ (Todd Bishop)
• Exchange 2010 is Code Complete and on its way to General Availability (Sumeeth Evans)
• Barnes and Noble ‘confirms’ color Plastic Logic e-book reader for Spring 2010 (video) (Thomas Ricker)
• Measuring Windows 7 performance (Ed Bott)
• Developers – Must Learn – Booting Windows 7 from a VHD (Karl Shifflett)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 8-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #451 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for 8th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (10/8/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #558 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 378 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for October 08, 2009 — #707 (Dave Campbell)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Imaginet and Telerik Introduce Free Team Workload Management Tools (Charles Sterling)
• Extending the Entity Framework Provider Model to support DDL (Alex James)
• Lightweight Debugging for Hybrid C#/IronPython Apps (Harry Pierson)
• MVP Writes ‘How To’ Guide For Live Writer Plugins (Jas Dhaliwal)

Web Development

• October 2009 JSMag now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Type Safe Session Variables and Forms Authentication – Manual Authentication (Dave M. Bush)
• Creating a Filtering User Interface With jQuery In a Web Forms Application: Part 1 (Scott Mitchell)
• Deploying the CrystalReportViewer Control to a Production Web Site (Bob Clegg)
• MvcContrib working on Portable Areas (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Exploring the ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assemby (Maarten Balliauw)
• Working with SVG files in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Doing AJAX the easy way with JQuery and MVC (Michael Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: My First Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using a service bus for queries (Oren Eini)
• How to Collaborate with Remote Employees with Office Communicator 2007 R2 (Scott Hanselman)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 2 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Rambling on Cyclomatic Complexity (Patrick Smacchia)
• AutoMapper Introduction and Samples from NETDUG (Richard Cirerol)
• The Zen of “Go Away” Rates (Russell Ball)
• Echoes from the Stone Age (Uncle Bob Martin) – Link of the Day
• Book Club: Integration tests are a scam (J.B. Rainsberger) and Software Development Apprenticeship: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• More On Caliburn & Silverlight’s SaveFileDialog (Christopher Bennage)
• Animated Dotted Text Outlines: Getting the Flicker Out (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight 3 online and offline Docs updated (Sam Landstrom)
• Updated Silverlight getting started for beginners (Tim Heuer)
• The Visual Guide to WPF Font Weights (LearnWPF.com)
• WPF Wonders: Building Control Templates (Rod Stephens)
• Silverlight for Windows Embedded (Rudi Grobler)
• Sheldon (Paul Stovell) - “Sheldon is a WPF command line control, and code to integrate it with IronPython. It’s designed as a sample that demonstrates how a WPF application might be made scriptable.”

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Expert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman – Inside Clojure (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 61: CodePlex Foundation, Bing Visual Search, Microsoft Ajax CDN, Zune HD Release (Jon Galloway)
• Ping 32: MyPhone, Pressure sensitive Keyboards, Microsoft TAG, Anti- Virus (Laura Foy)
• Spaghetti Code Talks PHP Bridge (Jeff Brand)
• Expression Blend tutorial: Brushes, gradients, fills and strokes (webcast) (Vibor Cipan)
• CCR at MySpace (Michael S. Scherotter)

Community / Events

• Call For JavaScript Authors – JSMag (Michael Kimsal)
• Page O’ Nerds (Dave Schinkel)
• Upcoming Silverlight Talks (Andy Beaulieu)

Database

• Alternating Background Colors in Reporting Services (Joe Webb)
• T-SQL To find Out If An Index Is Clustered Or Non Clustered (Denis Gobo)
• Easier Management of SQL Azure Databases with SQL Azure Manager (Stephen Forte)
• SQL SERVER – Query Optimization – Remove Bookmark Lookup – Remove RID Lookup – Remove Key Lookup (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• We’re excited to announce a new sister site the SharePoint Pod Show! (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)

Miscellaneous

• InfoQ has to be the best online resource for software development (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Free VMWare Player 3 can now create virtual machines (Lee Mathews)
• Choosing a smart password (Michael Santerre)
• EXCLUSIVE: Windows 8 and Windows 9 Kernels to Support 128-bit Architecture? and Windows 8 User Interface and Multi-Tier Distributed Applications (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft considering making Zune services available to Apple users (Sumeeth Evans)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #449 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 6-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 377 (Sam Gentile)
• Double Shot #556 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 6th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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Web Development

• Creating Your First MVC ViewEngine (Nick Berardi)
• Integrating ActiveReports into ASP.NET MVC (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• An annoying IE position: Relative and OverFlow-Y Bug (Rick Strahl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• "Geneva" Beta 2 (MS Downloads)
• VB.Net and the Case of the Iffy Ifs (Anne Epstein)
• NH Prof New Feature: Queries by Url and Review: C# in Depth (Oren Eini)
• Reserved and Contextual Keywords (Eric Lippert)
• CSLA: Make GUIDs required with a custom validation rule (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows 7 Taskbar in 10 Minutes – Part II: Icon Overlay (Gunther Lenz)
• Axum – Introduction and Ping Pong Example (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Sneek Peek at StoryTeller (i.e. my FitNesse killer for .Net) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Update on the Entity Framework in .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 (EF Team)
• Sneak Preview: Persistence Ignorance and POCO in Entity Framework 4.0 (Faisal Mohamood)
• Microsoft .NET Services – New White Papers Released (Jeff Barnes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• AutoMapper and IoC (Jimmy Bogard)
• Agility Is Not Just About Software Development (Pamela Poole)
• Debugging: Get to a stage where it works (Mark Needham)
• XYZ Is Bad For Performance (Sasha Goldshtein)

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview (Brad Abrams)
• Multicast Comes to Silverlight! (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guidance (Tim Heuer)
• Source Code and Live Demo of Frogger Clone Now Available (Michael Ceranski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Kevin Hazzard on Dynamic Languages (Bob Familiar)
• Expert to Expert: Martin Fowler and Chris Sells – Perspectives on Domain Specific Languages and Chris Sells: On the History of DevCon, DSLs and Oslo (Charles Torre)
• Sesha Mani on what’s new with Geneva Framework beta 2 and Chuck Reeves deep diving into the structure and design of Geneva Framework beta 2 and Matt Steele on what’s new with Geneva Server beta 2 and Jan Alexander on the claims transformation language in Geneva Server beta 2 (Donovan Follette)
• Table-valued parameters in SQL Server 2008 (Part 2) (Martin Bell)
• The Thirsty Developer 62: Website Scalability (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• At TechEd 2009 – SharePoint Overview and Roadmap (Tom Rizzo)
• Spaghetti Code Talks UI Patters with Adam Grocholski (Jeff Brand)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – Tech-Ed 2009 Edition (May 11th, 2009) (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Why can’t developers just get along………………… (Wally McClure)
• Episode 69 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jason Gallaugher joins us from Rove (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• FREE .NET / C# Tutorial from pluralsight (Marc Schneider)
• TechEd 2009 – Day 1 (Todd O. Klindt)

Database

• Using one Parameter for Multiple Datasets in Reporting Services (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – How to Drop Primary Key Contraint and SQLAuthority News – Release of SQL Server 2008 R2 Announced (Pinal Dave)
• Creating A XSD Schema From A Table In SQL Server With FOR XML Syntax (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Writing IE8 Accelerators once to save me from typing again and again (Adam Kinney)
• 8 Essential Applications (Corey Schuman)
• RTM’d today: Windows Internals, Fifth Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows 7 to be ready for holiday shopping season (Ed Bott)
• How to hyperlink an image on a wiki page – #032 (Sara Ford)
• Windows 7 Boxshots (Steven Bink)
• Learning Sinatra from a New Found Source (Rob Bazinet)
• Microsoft: ‘June 2009 will be an important month for Zune lovers… hold off from buying an iPhone/Pre’ (Thomas Ricker)
• The Web Browser Address Bar is the New Command Line (Jeff Atwood)
• My first blog post on Windows Surface (Marlon Grech)
• A Developer and Her Netbook: Cheap .NET Coding (Sara Chipps)
• Windows 7 Ship Date and Office 2010 Tech Preview (Steve Clayton)
• Windows 7: Our Next Engineering Milestone (Steven and Jon)
• Media Streaming with Windows 7 (Scott, Tim and the Devices & Media team)
• IE8 on Windows 7: The New Taskbar (Helen Drislane)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #344 and The Morning Brew #345 (Chris Alcock)
• LINKBLOG for May 11, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2009 — #590 (Dave Campbell)
• Technology Related Links for May 11th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Weekly Link Post 93 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for May 11th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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Web Development

• jQuery UI DatePicker instead of AJAX Control Toolkit CalendarExtender in ASP.NET (Arnold Matusz)
• JSMag May 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Customizing ASP.NET’s CreateUserWizard Control To Display a Fixed Set of Security Questions (Scott Mitchell)
• PTOM: Breaking Free from HttpContext (Colin Ramsay)
• jQuery – Accordion and DotNetNuke CSS in your Module Settings (Dave M. Bush)
• Put Your Pages and Views on Lockdown (Phil Haack)
• jQuery & MicrosoftAjax “happy together” (Marc Schneider)
• A Fast and Easy Way to Take an ASP.NET Application Offline (Rafay Ali)
• Iterating on an ASP.NET MVC Model Binder (K. Scott Allen)
• More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Maarten Balliauw)
• Project Huron Wants YOU to Test Cloud-Based Data Services (Dana Coffey)
• Win Your Copy: JavaScript for Programmers (Me)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Windows 7 SDK: RC (MS Downloads)
• AutoMapper feature – custom type converters (Jimmy Bogard)
• Drools on Windows (Part 3 of 22) – Object Interop (Dana Stevens)
• .NET Platform Invoke Paradigm in Java (J/Invoke) (Vitaly Shelest)
• Checking XML for Semantic Equivalence in C# (Justin Etheredge)
• Windows 7 for Developers – File Dialogs from .NET (Mike Taulty)
• Atom feeds with the Windsor WCF Facility and Windsor WCF Facility: MessageAction and MessageEnvelopeAction (Mike Hadlow)
• C#: Using Virtual Leads to Confusion? (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Software Craftsman’s Bookshelf (Gøran Hansen)
• NUnit 2.5 RTM (Andrew Stopford) – Link of the Day
• How design rot (Oren Eini)
• A testing survey on a large project (Jimmy Bogard)
• Code Generation Should be the Nuclear Option (Justin Etheredge)
• ELMAH and Exception Driven Development FTW (Scott Hanselman)
• Enterprise Constraints and Feedback (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Book Review: WPF In Action with Visual Studio 2008 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Expression Blend Tutorial: Customizing the Look of a Radio Button (Frank La Vigne)
• Recreating Frogger in Silverlight – Part 1 (Michael Ceranski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WPF Design Surface Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 (Adam Kinney)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #107: Testing MVC Routes (Kyle Baley)
• Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview – Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Andy Lester: Land the Tech Job you Love (The Pragmatic Programmers)

Community / Events

• F# Community Roundup (Chris Smith)
• Microsoft Connected Health Conference (Eric Gunnerson)
• Stored Procedure panel at Tech Ed 2009 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• You’re invited to XamlFest Boston – May 27 + May 28 (John Pelak)
• Stack Overflow Moderator Voting Now Open (Jeff Atwood)
• My MVC Best Practices talk (Sebastien Lambla)
• Sod This at TechEd (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)

PowerShell

• PowerShell V2 – backward compatibility (Osama Sajid)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration by Ross Mistry (Pinal Dave)
• Handling long running queries with a stop sign (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Debugging SharePoint Workflows (Vishwas Lele)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft wants to take Seadragon to Windows 8, Windows Mobile 7, everywhere (Long Zheng)
• Revitalizing a Technical Career (Jeremy D. Miller)
• You can sort the project directory by top-rated releases – #028 and Why some projects have a Download Now button on their homepage – #029 (Sara Ford)
• What’s in your svn:ignore? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Functionally Implementing Intersperse (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Google Contacts Open to Non-Gmail Users and OpenOffice.org 3.1 Available at a Server Near You (Kevin Purdy)
• Getting up and running on git-svn (5 minute quickstart) (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Git, SSH, PuTTY, GitHub, Unfuddle, the kitchen sink (Sergio Pereira)
• Windows 7 RC Available: Why You Should Upgrade From XP (Simon Mackie)
• I Just Logged in as You: How It Happened (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #341 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #116 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2009 — #586 and Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2009 – 2 — #587 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 318 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for May 5th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 27 (Kathleen Sanders)

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