• Inside the C++/CX Design (Jim Springfield)
• In bed with Roslyn (Ivan Towlson)
• F# String extension methods rather than using RegEx (Carl Nolan)
• Writing Software as a Kaizen Event (Stephen Forte)
• The Return of the CDC Zombies: The Zombie Pandemic Graphic Novel (Patricia Vollmer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Dynamic resolution rules joy (Oren Eini)
• WCF web api + developer APi keys (Baba)
• An update on Visual Studio performance (Visual Studio Blog)
• Regular Expressions with Timeout in .NET 4.5 (Abhishek Sur)
• More on Metro (Dennis Vroegop)
• Exploring NuGet (Tim Murphy)
• Some non-generic collections (Simon Cooper)

Web Development

• Adding data to jQuery UI autocomplete (John Whish)
• You have blank page when you run an asp.net mvc site in Azure Compute emulator (Nicolas Humann)
• Coordinating multiple ajax requests with jquery.when (Joshua Flanagan)
• ASP.NET vNext (Nigel Parker)
• Backbone Events and Aggregator Update (Michael Nichols)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming Amazon EC2 – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Questions About the Cloud? Learn from Windows Azure Partners And Accelerate Your Move to the Cloud (Himanshu Singh)
• Connect Your Web Site to Your Windows 8 App (Rahul Lalmalani)
• Mobile Development: Detecting Devices & Features (Christopher Bennage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: Retrospectives (John Rayner)
• Getting stuck and agile software teams (Mark Needham)
• Stop Thinking During Refactoring (Vikas Hazrati)
• Balsamiq Release: Custom Icons! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Test Studio’s R2 Release: Simplifying the Complex (Jim Holmes)
• Subversion 1.7 and the new workspace (Gian Maria Ricci)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Code to Search in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 2000 WPF Things #413 – Creating a Grid from the Visual Studio Designer (Sean Sexton)
• Dropbox for Windows Phone – DropboxClient rel.2 and Windows Phone 7 Skydrive Library – Skydrive WP7 rel. 1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Coding QA Episode 67 – Learning From Experience (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Patrick Elmore Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Ping 121: Kinect award, Bing Halloween, Hadoop, Windows 8 changes (Laura Foy)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 8: Code Bubbles (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Community / Events

• MicroChef creates culinary classics for a cause (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• I’m speaking at CodeMash in 2012 (Bill Wagner)
• Training on MonoTouch for the iPhone and Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
• RavenDB Course, January 2012, Sandusky, OH (Oren Eini)
• Spend the night with Windows Phone (Brian Seitz)
• Git and GitHub Revised Course (Satish Talim)
• MVPs Provide Great Advice During MVP Twitter Chat (MVP Award Program)
• MS Dev WNY – Buffalo Area Developers Group Kicks Off! (Jim O’Neil)
• Ten reasons to attend Web & Phone UX Tour on November 3rd (Katrien de Graeve)

Database

• Using SQL Server to Get the Column Names and Corresponding Datatypes in Particular Table (Christian D. Yellington)
• Setting up SSIS Auditing Part 2 (Mike Davis)
• SQL Server: LPAD and RPAD functions equivalent (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – DATEDIFF – Accuracy of Various Dateparts (Pinal Dave)
• Finding orphaned database users (Arthur Olcot)
• Self-service ETL with Data Explorer (Chris Webb)
• sp_configure OR sys.configurations? and do you back these up? (Martin Catherall)

SharePoint

• Announcing NetAdvantage for SharePoint (Jason Beres)

Miscellaneous

• A deeper dive into Windows 8: can Microsoft’s big bet pay off? (Ed Bott)
• Introducing the [Your App Here] Advertising Campaign (JC Cimetiere)
• 7 tips for people new to presenting at technical conferences (Mark Pearl)
• Paint.NET 4.0 “fine grained history” and other stuff (Rick Brewster)
• The Walking Dead – IT Pro style. (Scott Barnes)
• New Public APIs in ICS (Tim Bray)
• Open Letter To Whoever Designed the Turn-By-Turn Feature for Windows Phone (Kevin Griffin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 20, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #735 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/20/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 19-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/20/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #964 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 20 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

• Balsamiq Mockups 2.1! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• 7 Chrome Tips Developers & Designers May Not Know (Elijah Manor)
• Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–The Prototype Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
• Text templating using Razor the easy way (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 1 and Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 2 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Surround with feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• How to initialize the initial state from an external source (Xiang Li)
• Creating a Many To Many Mapping Using Code First (Gil Fink)
• Can we get a little Unity? and Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Preview 2 Released and Baby NUI… Using the Kinect as a Baby Monitor (Greg Duncan)
• Custom Mail headers and EWS (Henning Krause)

Web Development

• Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1 Released – What’s New? (Peter Cooper)
• Introduction to HTML5 : Part 1 (Samaj Shekhar)
• JavaScript: handy hint for jQuery document ready handlers (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Build Accessible web sites with Visual Studio – WCAG reporting (Doug Rathbone)
• Developers – introducing our GitHub code sample library with samples for iOS, PHP, ASP.NET and more (Dare Obasanjo)
• HTML5 Part 1: Semantic Markup and Page Layout (Jennifer Marsman)
• PHP 5.4 features poll: the results (Giorgio Sironi)
• Ajax Control Toolkit July 2011 Release and the New HTML Editor Extender (Stephen Walther)
• Streaming your music at home on the cheap… Using IIS to stream your music to your Windows Phone 7 (or iPhone/Android) (Greg Duncan)
• How to Deploy Web Roles Quick & Easy (Maor David-Pur)
• Welcome to Adobe Edge (Michael Chaize)
• New WebSocket Protocol: Secure and Extensible (Ian Fette)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 5 – Ranges, Loops and Comprehensions (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Sad Truth About Agile Planning (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Praveen on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• What is a Team? (John Sonmez)
• No Organizational Charts in Agile? (Peter Saddington)
• Standup isn’t about what you say, it’s about what you hear (Bill Wagner)
• Why Another DVCS? (Eric Sink)
• Supercharge Isolate.Verify (Dror Helper)
• Disruptive versus iterative change (Jimmy Bogard)
• Challenge: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building a Simple Windows Phone Dialer App (Mike Gold)
• Windows Phone 7 Serialization: DataContract Serialization (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• There’s a new Windows Phone 7 project place in town… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Logo Refresh Fits A Square Peg In A Round Hole (Jordan Crook)
• Animating ViewBox for WPF (LearnWPF)
• Creating a Silverlight 5 Helper for ASP.NET MVC3 Razor (Pete Brown)
• Hosting a WPF control inside a Windows Form and Dealing with HWND in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
• 2000 WPF Things #355 – Implementing Three-State CheckBox Dependent Behavior (Sean Sexton)
• Be careful with phone navigation! (Arian Kulp)
• Location Services–Using the Emulator (Jesse Liberty)
• How to Prepare Your Class Library to Support Application Library Caching? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman Frames Our Entities (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 156 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brandon Shell on The Coud, Bunnies and VDI (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• New Windows Phone “How Do I” Video Series (Adam Kinney)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 4 (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Ping 111: Mango Refresh, Could Server Heat, Avatar Kinect, Microsoft donations (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Android Developer Labs 2011 (Tim Bray)
• Upcoming Events for August 1st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Agile 2011 Conference – Salt Lake City (Hadi Hariri)
• Microsoft Build conference for Windows 8 sells out (in spite of a dearth of details) (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone ads land Brandon Foy a job at Microsoft (Kip Kniskern)
• Paul Betts is a GitHubber (Chris Wanstrath)

Database

• SQL Server “Denali”: Project Apollo (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Wildcard – Querying Special Characters – Day 2 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Find Table/Column Usages Searches Database Schema (Alexey Korsun)
• Rolling your own index lookups (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

• New SharePoint 2010 Implementers Courseware, Two Courses: Internet Sites Implementers and Enterprise Content Management Implementers (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Author news: Mark & Aaron discuss their just-published Sysinternals book (Devon Musgrave)
• August Oracle Technology Network Member Discounts (Oracle TechBlog)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 1, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 077 for 8/1/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Today’s Links (8/1/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #907 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #157 (David Vidmar)
• Daily News Digest 08/01/2011 and Daily News Digest 08/02/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Secure Code, Second Edition by Michael Howard

Top Links

• Strategies for becoming a better programmer (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Entity Framework CTP 5 (MS Downloads)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #181: Using Metadata in your MEF Exports (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Determining if Values are Coprime (Richard Carr)
• Ways of Throwing an Exception in C# (Abhishek Sur)
• Comment and Uncomment in Web Pages (Zain Naboulsi)
• Beautiful Hack: Using Mono’s Profiler to find Hard Memory Leaks and Mono Introspect: Binding GObject-based APIs for use in Mono and Using Key-Value Coding with MonoMac (Miguel de Icaza)
• Dynamic Language Integration in a C# World (Zenon Ochal)
• DXCore Components – BigHint and CodeRush Pro visualization features (Alex Skorkin)
• Big head, long tail (Eric Lippert)
• NHibernate Mapping Explorer Preview 2 (Alessandro Giorgetti)
• Developer Angst on Microsoft Visual C++ Futures (James Vastbinder)
• Build-time dependency resolving coming to Entity Framework. Now, how about those BI tools too? (Jamie Thomson)
• Create an Entity Framework Model and Use it in Multiple Projects (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Lost finding information about Windows Azure? (Bill Zack)

Web Development

• RenderAction with ASP.NET MVC 3 Sessionless Controllers (Keith Dahlby)
• Making ASP.NET deployment easy with the Package/Publish Web tool (Rachel Appel)
• jQuery Datepicker: Disable specific dates (Raghav Khunger)
• DLL-s needed to run ASP.NET MVC 3 RC on Windows Azure (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML5 Recipes: Geolocation (Romin Irani)
• HTML and Javascript injection (Skynet Code)
• What can developers do with 10k of code and HTML5? (Ziad Ismail)
• Introducing Apache Wave (Alex North)
• PHP 5.3 is quicker than PHP 5.2 (Rob Allen)
• How to install Drupal on Windows (Andy Robb)
• A review of Beginning Smartphone Web Development (Durward Pless)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ditching domain models for reads (Jimmy Bogard)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of App Performance Testing – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDPRT (O’Reilly Media)
• Balsamiq Weekly release: it’s the little things (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Double Dispatch: the next best thing with respect to Dependency Injection (Giorgio Sironi)
• Development Concerns Moving Away From The Controller (Rob Diana)
• Defying the Law of Repetitive Consequences with ORM (Stephen Forte)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Hash for the holidays [Managed implementation of CRC32 and MD5 algorithms updated; new release of ComputeFileHashes for Silverlight, WPF, and the command-line!] (David Anson)
• Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 2) (Mike Taulty)
• Just how productive is WP7 development compared to iOS, Android and mobile Web? (András Velvárt)
• Having fun with your webcam (Arian T. Kulp)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 133 – PowerScripting Podcast – Shane Hoey in Austrailia is Paging Dr. Scripto (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Let’s Play TDD #61: Questions of Design and Let’s Play TDD #62: Listening Carefully (James Shore)
• Pluralcast 30 : Developing for Distributed System with Scott Seely (David Starr)
• Windows-Weekly-185-W-H-S-R-I-P- (Paul Thurrott)
• Ping 85: The future of touchscreen, Top Bing searches, Kinect training, Photosynth & shop (Laura Foy)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 38 – Philip Laureano on Weaving IL Magic (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – December 6th, 2010 and CMAP Main Meeting and Atlanta/Raleigh Web Firestarters (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Get two SharePoint 2010 classes at once: development & SharePoint Designer (Andrew Connell)
• LeWeb & Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Speaking at NoVA Code Camp (Kevin Griffin)
• Lean Software & Systems Conference… Call for Papers & Registration Open (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Announcing the 2010 Encosia Holiday Giveaway (Dave Ward)
• Announcing the Caliburn.Micro Contest Winners! (Rob Eisenberg)

Database

• FOR XML a la Mode –a study on Modes, especially using For XML Path Mode to Concatenate Data (Julie Smith)
• Tip: Schema Qualify Objects in SPs (Jen McCown)

SharePoint

• Getting started with SharePoint Foundation 2010 (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 Publishing – NothingButSharePoint.com is LIVE (Joel Oleson)
• Introducing SharePoint Online and Workflows, Part 2. (Josh Topal)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010:10 Tips for OneNote Organization (Lonnie Webb)
• Review of Windows Phone 7–a closet iPhone lover’s confession (Joe Stagner)
• Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices (Abraham Murray)
• 20 Windows Keyboard Shortcuts You Might Not Know (How-To Geek)
• Where Will You Focus Your Mobile Development Efforts? (James Sugrue)
• From Photoshop to Photosynth (Steve Clayton)
• A running list of requests for the next Windows Live Writer (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 051 for 12/6/2010 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #745 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/06/2010 and Weekly Article Digest 12/06/2010 and Daily News Digest 12/07/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Leadership Blogs (J.D. Meier)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 6 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)

The Geek Shelf

C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0), The (4th Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Anders Hejlsberg

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Top Links

• Announcing availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 (Somasegar)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning XNA 3.0 – Only $9.99 Use code DDLXN (O’Reilly Media)
• Introducing Autofac 2.1 RTW (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Steve Jobs admits iTunes for Windows is a sub-standard app (Jon Johansen)
• Understanding T4: MSBuild Integration (Oleg Sych)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Fluent Email in .NET (Luke Lowrey)
• Generic Types (Richard Carr)
• How to Create, Develop, Deploy Windows Azure App (Bruce Kyle)
• Optional Parameters and Auto-Implemented Properties (Deborah Kurata)
• How to use WMI from a .NET Application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using the Undo and Redo Stack and Change the Tooltip Font Size (Zain Naboulsi)
• Making the Most of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Zachariah Young)
• Ship It!! Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 Now Available (Jason Zander)

Web Development

• XML and XSL Transformation in ASP.NET MVC – XmlActionResult (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Lazy Loading jQuery Collapsible Panel in ASP.Net Using JSON (Satheesh Babu)
• What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 – ClientID Generation for a Cleaner MarkUp (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Automating ASP.NET MVC deployments using Web Deploy (Jeffrey Palermo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Working with Legacy code #3 : Build a safety net. (Andrew Stopford)
• Application Architecture Guide Layer Diagrams – Patterns & Practices (David Hayden)
• Productivity Tip: Reducing Your Talk-Time And Getting Some Real Work Done. (Rajiv Popat)
• What is a Domain Event? (Greg Young)
• Why Agile Results? (J.D. Meier)
• Balsamiq Biweekly Release: version 1.7! (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Event Bubbling and Tunneling (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• SpellChecker in WPF (Abhishek Sur)
• 30 seconds from File|New to a new CRUD Silverlight application with Telerik’s new LINQ Implementation (Stephen Forte)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight – Part Three (Corrina Barber)
• WPF: Binding to Anonymous Types from LINQ (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 151: Paul’s Tent Pole (Paul Thurrott)
• Whirlwind 9: Introducing C# 4 and Whirlwind 10: What’s new in C# 4: Dynamic Lookup and Whirlwind 11: What’s new in C# 4 – Named & Optional Parameters (Bruce Kyle)
• Episode 109 – PowerScripting Podcast – v2 Experts Panel (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast 13 : Women in Technology (David Starr)
• Engadget Podcast 191 – 04.11.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Major Nelson Show 356: PAX East wrap up and Splinter Cell Conviction (Larry Hyrb)
• Introducing AppFabric: Moving .NET to the Cloud by Aaron Skonnard and What’s new in Silverlight 4: Part 2 by Mike Taulty (Matthijs Hoekstra)

Community / Events

• The local Microsoft .Net Community and why you SHOULD attend a CodeCamp (Dave Isbitski)
• SQLAuthority News – Spot the SQLAuthority Baby Contest – SQL Server Cheat Sheet (Pinal Dave)
• Watch the Visual Studio 2010 launch live! (Joseph Mirabella)
• The Worldwide MVP Community Joins Together This Week (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• That No SQL Thing – Document Databases (Oren Eini)
• SQL SERVER – What is MDS? – Master Data Services in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
• A DMV a Day – Day 11 and A DMV a Day – Day 12 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (11/30) database mirroring failover is instantaneous (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• What NOT to Migrate into SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Download Free "Visual Studio Theme" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Awesomium 1.6 Alpha (Chris Cavanagh)
• Making presentations that stick (Garr Reynolds)
• Daily Dose – Yahoo’s CTO Quits (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 11, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #577 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 10, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2010 — #836 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #115 (David Vidmar)
• Cheetsheet: 2010 04.08 ~ 04.11 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #100 (Grant Palin)
• Everyman on Specializing, Community Interaction, Inventing the Future, Solar Paint (Dave Burke)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/12/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 140 (Rhonda Tipton)
• 10 New Articles; 10 More Ways to Learn the Google Wave APIs (Pamela Fox)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Visual Studio 2010

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Top Links

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Code – Only $9.99! Use code DDBCD (O’Reilly Media)
• Effective Model-Based Testing with Spec Explorer Full Class (Nico Kicillof)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 3 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Of Tailors and Tooling (rant) (Ward Bell)
• Effective Prototyping with Expression Blend and Visual Studio 2010 (Eric Hagan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Nine reasons to use F# (Brian McNamara)
• Testing the Lock-Free Queue (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Close All But This on the File Tab Channel (Zain Naboulsi)
• The Problem with Immutability (Kathleen Dollard)
• Your feedback about our Developer Training Kits told us to do this (Devon Musgrave)
• Moving XML nodes from one document to another (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

• PHP on Windows Training Kit Updated (Bruce Kyle)
• Stack Overflow API Private Beta Starts (Jeff Atwood)
• Hosting WCF 4.0 Service on IIS 7.5 with SSL (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Google’s Gmail is Now an App Platform (Matthew Casperson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Usability On The Cheap and Easy (Jeff Atwood)
• Strengthening your domain: Avoiding setters (Jimmy Bogard)
• How Agile is Agile? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: More Bug Fixes and a Company Update (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• TDD with complex infrastructures (Gojko Adzic)
• How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF : Design Time Data (Sacha Barber)
• Designing a Microsoft Silverlight Powered Cannon for Windows Phone 7 Series (Peter VanRysdam)
• Demo Apps from MIX10 on Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Lino Tadros goes Old School on us. (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• DIY Media Centers with Ceton Tuners (Larry Larsen)
• Discussion around Sandbox Solutions and SharePoint 2010-Episode 45 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Bill Buxton & Microsoft Student Insiders at MIX10 (Laura Foy)
• Comment Driven Development – the art of removal (Swedish MSDN Team)
• Bruno Sonnino on DiskPie Pro in WPF (Pete Brown)

Community / Events

• The Channel 9 Live GeekLympics at MIX10 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SharePoint 2010 Launch Community Parties – How do I do one? (Joel Oleson)
• Get ready for the Stack Overflow party (Joel Spolsky)
• USA Imagine Cup 2010: Vote For The Top Student Tech Innovation Now Thru April 23rd! (Hong Choing)
• Scottish Visual Studio 2010 Launch event with Jason Zander (Martin Hinshelwood)

Database

• List SQL Server Instances using the Registry (Buck Woody)
• Internet Facing Reporting Services Instance (thirster42)
• Index DMV usage considerations (Ted Krueger)
• FileNameColumnName property, Flat File Source Adapter : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• OData Query Option top Forces Data To Be Sorted By Primary Key (Peter Kellner)

Miscellaneous

• Ford, Microsoft Team Up to Help Electric Vehicle Owners Recharge More Effectively, Affordably (MS PressPass)
• Designing tools you’ll use (Dick Craddock)
• Re-evaluating Open Source for Sustaining Competitive Advantage for Hosted Applications (Daniel Crenna)
• The default experience for MSDN Library is now Lightweight (Kimberly Wolk)
• That Moment Where the World Stops (J.D. Meier)
• The new guy (Eric Brechner)

More Link Collections

• Flagged Links #72 (Jason Bock)
• Interesting Finds: April 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #572 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2010 — #826 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 31-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

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.NET / Visual Studio

• The future of debugging is here! Visual Studio 2010 now supports stepping back in the debugger. (Habib Heydarian)
• IronPython and IronRuby CTPs for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 (Harry Pierson)
• Workflow Foundation Part III: Participating in persistence (Henning Krause)
• Visual Studio 2010 Training Course on Channel 9 (Jason Olson)
• Tutorial: Getting Started with TFS in VS2010 (Jason Zander)
• Force .NET application to run in 32bit process on 64bit OS (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – October Preview (G. Andrew Duthie)
• C# Static interfaces and Take 2 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 2 (Justin Van Patten)
• A tour of the new Channel 9 Learning Center and Download Visual Studio 2010 Express Editions (Dan Fernandez)
• Busting Visual Studio Myths – or How I learned to counter “that guy’s” anti-VS/.Net comments – or how I convinced my boss that Feature X doesn’t have Problem Y (Greg Duncan)
• New Visual Studio 2010 Built-in C# Snippets Cheat Sheet (John Sheehan)
• IronRuby and IronPython for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 (Jimmy Schementi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates (Karl Shifflett)
• Interesting findings in the diff between .NET Fx v4 Beta1 and Beta2 (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• Lambdas aren’t just for managed code (Scott Seely)

Web Development

• Facebook Churning Out API Updates (Adam DuVander)
• ASP.NET Substitution Control and DotNetNuke – Collecting Profile at Registration (Dave M. Bush)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Web Tools Overview (Mike Snow)
• The Microsoft Ajax Library and Visual Studio Beta 2 (Stephen Walther)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• All the wonderful colors of code coverage (Dennis "D.C." Dietrich)
• Being Business Focused: Risk (Dru Sellers)
• 31 Days of Refactoring eBook (Simone Chiaretta)
• Testing Time – The Best of Both Worlds (Jonathan Oliver)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part III: Agree on Action (Patrick Kua)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Custom Properties and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Mozilla and Microsoft work together on WPF\ClickOnce plugins (Brad Abrams)
• Two birds, one stone [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 2 and DataVisualizationDemos update] (David Anson)
• Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit October 2009 Release Update (Ning Zhang)
• Silverlight out-of-browser and initParams (Josh Twist)
• New WPF Features: TextFormattingMode for clear text (Lester Lobo)
• Uninstall Silverlight SDK RTM before installing VS 2010 Beta 2 (Mike Snow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aaron Skonnard Builds a Real Cloud App (Carl Franklin)
• Pat Brenner: Visual Studio 2010 – MFC and Windows 7 (Charles Torre)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET 4 and Scott Hunter on The Big Picture and new Templates and Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET 4 and Phil Haack (and son!) (Scott Hanselman)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #71 (Jeff Atwood)
• Channel 9 makes you smart(er) – Channel 9 Learning Center opens with VS2010/.Net 4 and Windows 7 courses (free of course) (Greg Duncan)
• New Parallel Capabilities of the Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)
• deCast – Patterns-Based Silverlight – Part II – The Repository Pattern (Rob Bagby)
• Functions and Classes in C# (Sam Stokes)
• Windows 7 and your Xbox 360 (Tina)
• Creating an External List in SharePoint by Using Business Data (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – October 21st, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 7 Launch Client Developer Track Content Available Here (Dave Bost)
• SharePoint Conference Notes on SharePoint 2010 – Day 3 (Greg Galipeau)
• PDC09: Application Deployment with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Robert Hess)
• Live Webcast of Windows 7 Launch Event in NYC 10/22/09 (Zhiming Xue)
• StackOverflow DevDays (Steve Rowe)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Difference Between Candidate Keys and Primary Key (Pinal Dave)
• Wildcard – Match One Character using Underscore (_) (Patrick LeBlanc)

SharePoint

• #spc09 ECM for the Masses: How SharePoint 2010 Delivers On The Promise (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Expands Office 2010 Web Apps Technical Preview (Blake Handler)
• Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You (Bing Team)
• RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my! (Marissa Mayer)
• Building an iPhone app (Aaron Jensen)
• FolderSize Displays What’s Eating Your Hard Drive Space (Adam Pash)
• Refactoring: Ruby Edition available. (Jay Fields)
• 7 Ways to Change the World (Jim O’Neil)
• Google Music Service: The Screenshots (Michael Arrington)
• Lightroom Beta 3 now available (Ryan Brenizer)
• How We Made GitHub Fast (Tom Preston-Werner)
• Burger King selling a Windows 7 Whopper in Japan (Vladislav Savov)
• SinkOverflow (Steve Tibbett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 21, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #460 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 21, 2009 — #713 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #566 and Double Shot #567 (Mike Gunderloy)
• XAML/WPF Web News (2009-10-20) (Rob Relyea)
• CloudNews for 21st October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing PowerBuilder 12 .NET (Yakov Werde)
• Debugging .NET apps for .NET 4.0 (Tom)
• Rhino Divan DB – Consideration (Oren Eini)
• Global Exception Handler (WinForms) and Nullable Data Types (Deborah Kurata)
• Dev Tip Build Your Solutions from the Context Menu (Jimmy Bosse)
• Thoughts on C# 4.0’ optional parameters (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• CodeRush Test Runner In-source UI Preview (Mark Miller)
• F# First Class Events – Async Workflows + Events Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer (MS Downloads)
• Lucene.net: The Main Concepts (Simone Chiaretta)
• Simple Example of Twilio and Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Kanban Board Is A Production Leveling Task Board (Derick Bailey)
• Is Agile a mystery? (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Answer: The lazy loaded inheritance many to one association OR/M conundrum (Oren Eini)
• DDD: Repository Implementation Patterns (Jimmy Bogard)
• Your code via NDepend (Brendan Kowitz) – Link of the Day
• Modularity Pattern – Manage Relationships (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Coding: Reduce fields, delay calculations (Mark Needham)
• The Conversation Conversation and Noodling on Kanban… Part One (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Why Declarative UIs Are Important (Shawn Wildermuth)
• brownfield development – other ideas? (Howard Dierking)

Silverlight / WPF

• U.S. Army using Silverlight for Resourcing Troops (Adam Kinney)
• Compiling pixel shaders for Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• More Silverlight MVVM fun (Rockford Lhotka)
• Service Locator in MVVM (Marlon Grech)
• Expression Blend 3.0 TFS Source Control (Doug Holland)
• UI without code or XAML: PropertyGrid, DataForm, etc. (Kirill Osenkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen on the Legal Side of Software! (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV: The Cloud Part 1, What it Means to the User and ARCast.TV: The Cloud Part 2, What is Microsoft Doing (MS Podcasts)
• Creating DSLs in Oslo (Amanda Laucher)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #66 (Jeff Atwood)

Community / Events

• Western European ReMix Tour 2009 (Brad Abrams)
• Webinars Next Week (William Vaughn)
• I’m A Lucky Programmer Too! (Chris Missal)
• Windows 7 Compatibility Labs and Seminars in Washington DC region (Ashish Jaiman)
• MVP Releases Windows Azure Community Site (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Random Thoughts on Day 2 of the Nothing But .NET Course (Russell Ball)
• Thanks and A Software Development School Idea (Corey Haines)
• Get Windows 7 Ultimate for free… by throwing a party (Nilay Patel)
• Please, please, please post StructureMap questions to the list (Jeremy D. Miller)

Database

• Microsoft Downplays SQL Server Database Vulnerability (Brian Prince)
• Handling Temp tables in reporting services (Simon Sabin)
• Using Oslo to Speed Up Database Development (Stephen Forte)
• SQL SERVER – What is Data Mining – A Simple Introductory Note (Pinal Dave)
• Using a Calendar for a Date Hierarchy Parameter with SSAS 2008 and SSRS 2008 (riverguy)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Governance and best practices, some thoughts (Joris Poelmans)

Miscellaneous

• WorldWide Telescope’s New Frontier (Rob Knies)
• 3 Ways to Track Your Rank on Twitter (Adam DuVander)
• Using Ruby Blocks And Rolling Your Own Iterators (Alan Skorkin)
• Zoho Projects : Add Task Notes, Log Time from My Timesheet, View Unread Chat Topics (Celina B.)
• WL Movie Maker PM Mike Torres Part 2: a LiveSide interview (Kip Kniskern)
• “Weekly” Release: FogBugz Wiki integration and more! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• New Feature in Zoho Share : Add to Favorites (Rajasekaran Gopalan)
• The Ultimate Windows Console Replacement (Michael Ceranski)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #425 (Chris Alcock)
• Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Web Slice, Accelerator, Search Provider resources (Hanu Kommalapati)
• CloudNews for 2nd September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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