Top Links

• Extending "Windows 8" apps to the cloud with SkyDrive (Steven Sinofsky)
• Have a new Windows Phone feature idea? Try Suggestion Box (Michael Stroh)
• Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Now Available! (Cliff Simpkins)
• jQuery 1.7 Beta 1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Kindle Fire as iPad killer? Yes. It’s the price, stupid. (Molly Wood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to enable Tier Interaction Profiling ( TIP ) in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio macro to group files (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Using the Settings Contract (Derik Whittaker)
• Nullable Types’ Subtlety (Mehdi Khalili)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Using LINQ to XML to Query Data on the Web (Robert Green)
• Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure: A Rangers dog fooding perspective (Willy-P. Schaub)
• NMigrate (Nicolas Dorier)
• Lambdas and events in C++ (Timo Heinäpurola)
• Migrating smart clients to WinRT (Rockford Lhotka)
• Good ol’ DebuggerDisplay attribute (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Avoid Parallel Hierarchies (Chris Eargle)
• F Sharp for beginners: Modules in F # (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 10 Great Questions to ask about the Windows Azure Platform (Eric Nelson)
• RadChart for Windows 8 WinRT – A Prelude (Georgi Atanasov)
• ILMerge get’s a rev… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Development Tip – Dispatching calls to the UI thread (Avi Pilosof)
• An example of a testable Azure Table Storage (Peter von Lochow)

Web Development

• Converting a .NET DateTime object to a JavaScript Date object (Jason Gaylord)
• filter.js – Client side search filtering using JSON and jQuery (Josh Software Team)
• Amazon Silk scares me…but in a good way (Cal Evans)
• HTML Encoded Expressions in ASP.NET4 (Hima)
• ASP.NET MVC Dictionary Binding (Sazzad Hossain)
• Mvc.ValidationTookit Alpha Release: Conditional Validation with MVC 3 (Simon J. Ince)
• APress Deal of the Day – 29/Sep/2011 – Pro HTML5 Programming (Tatworth)
• What’s the best Windows Azure role size for Ruby or Node.js applications? (Larry Franks)
• Bing Maps REST Services SDK (PDF) and Bing Maps AJAX Control SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• Skipping Windows Azure Startup Tasks When Running in the Emulator (Steve Marx)
• An old guys guide to building modern websites (Paul Boag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CQRS is too complicated (Rob Ashton)
• T-shaped Agile (Lee Cunningham)
• Model-Driven Approach to Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE) (Jeevak Kasarkod)
• Why you should care about information hiding (Gregory Moeck)
• Architectural Mirages (Boris Lublinsky)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 9 : binding to static properties (Jonathan Antoine)
• Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone (MS Downloads)
• Fix for Expression Blend 4 crashing on startup (Brent Schooley)
• What is Frame Rate Counter in WP7? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Enabling Frame Rate Counters for HTML Applications in Windows 8 (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #397 – Rich ListBox Content Using Data Binding, part III (Sean Sexton)
• Using Silverlight with an Apple Mac? Why? Give Expression Blend a try (Surf4Fun)
• Design and Deploy Visual Studio Light Switch 2011 Application in Windows Azure – Part 2 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Windows Phone Icons Maker v1.0 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Guy Smith-Ferrier Does Mind Control! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SE Podcast #20 (Alex Miller)
• Panel Discussion: Using Reference Architectures – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 12: Saying Goodbye (MS JobsBlog)
• Goodbye 9: Nic Fillingham Exit Interview (Charles Torre & Larry Larsen)
• Behind the Windows 8 Metro UI (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Implode!, Stub Hub, Collapse, Falling Skies, Pro Football Weekly (Laura Foy)
• Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘WCF RIA POCO Domain Services’ available online (Silverlight Show)
• AppFabric.tv – How to Invoke a Child Workflow (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• A Coder Interview With Daniel Vaughan (The Code Project)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 7, October 5, 2011 (Michelle, Matt & Gina)
• FREE Web Workshops on Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ALM tools by Imaginet (Angela Binkowski)

Database

• Microsoft Drivers 3.0 for SQL Server for PHP CTP1 (MS Downloads)
• SQLAuthority News – Various Ways to Stay in Touch with SQLAuthority.com – Best Practices (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Table Columns Disappear in Access (Seth Phelabaum)
• Change Database Owner (Tim Radney)
• Handling Transient Connection Failures in SQL Azure (Neil Mackenzie)

PowerShell

• stupid powershell tricks #1 (Jim Christopher)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft and Amazon: Two browsers, two clouds and two different paths taken (Mary Jo Foley)
• Hiring Questions–The phone book (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone Mango release and we want your feedback! (Cheryl Simmons)
• Custom Ringtones on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Weekly Link Post 210 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading September 28, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #719 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #948 (Chris Alcock)
• Web Dev Tweets 27-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/28/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 09/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 by Dino Esposito

• New Book Available: Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4 (Karl Shifflett)
• Visual Studio 2010 Books on C#, Visual Basic, F#, VS IDE, and VS Extensibility (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Jeff Wilcox’s “Metro” design guide for developers, v1.00 (Jeff Wilcox)
• Task Parallel Library: 5 of n (Sacha Barber)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Working with TypeDescriptor in C# (Jonathan Wood)
• Handling Updates with the WCF Data Services Toolkit (Jonathan Carter)
• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #4 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Fun with F# – Life, the solar system and everything (in 101 samples) (Greg Duncan)
• How To Fix Visual Studio File Templates (Steve Smith)
• An efficient format for OData (Alex James)
• Getting Lazy with .NET 4.0 and Collection Initializers in .NET (Abhijit Jana)
• A random walk in Rx (John Rayner)

Web Development

• jQuery Modal Dialog in an ASP.NET page. (Joe Stagner)
• HTML 5 and CSS 3 Support for Expression Web (Jonathan Allen)
• Round tripping a timestamp field with EF4.1 Code First and MVC 3 (Julie Lerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Free Agile & Scrum Tools for Project Planning and Prioritizing (Mike Cohn)
• 10 Tips for Learning How to Run a Virtual Team (Thursday Bram)
• Find Code Cyclomatic Complexity with NDepend (Hajan Selmani)
• Building An Awesome Organization – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Mapping to Your Database is a Private Affair (Peter Ritchie)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK (MS Downloads)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 8 – Music and sound effects (Peter Kuhn)
• Pixel Scrolling for WPF Lists (Abhijit Jana)
• WPF databinding trick (part 1) (Jeremy Alles)
• Hack: OAuth security flaw for Windows Phone 7, iPhone and other Mobile platforms (Nick Randolph)
• Microsoft’s Belfiore spins on about Windows Phone updating mess (Steven Hodson)
• How to Disable Pivot / Panorama swipe gesture: Sliding inside Pivot Item (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Dutch Double Touch (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (MS Podcasts)
• Herding Code 108: Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Web Design (Jon Galloway)
• What’s new with WCM with Andrew Connell-Episode 58 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Defrag 002: Gov’s Probs, Media Center, Dropped WiFi and Countdown to MIX11: Joe Belfiore Talks Phone (Larry Larsen)
• The Office Show – Finances (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• Cloud Cover Episode 41 – Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 (Wade Wegner)
• Silverlight Show: Recording of webinar ‘Switching on the Cloud for Silverlight’ by Gill Cleeren (Silverlight Team)
• Chatting with the Kinect Team’s Alex Kipman, Kudo Tsunoda, and Darren Bennett (Tina Wood)
• Boagworld: Live ‘end of season one’ show (Paul Boag)
• TWC9: New Mix Sessions announced, dissecting IE9 Performance, Azure Toolkit for WP7 (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Gamefest 2011 – Open to All! (XNA Team)
• You’re Invited: 10 Tips to Supercharge Your Unit Tests – Thursday, March 31 (Avi Kaye)
• Don’t Miss this Opportunity! Agile Scrum Development Practices with the Experts – April 28th (Public Sector Team)
• Are you up to the challenge? (Dani Diaz)

Database

• Does SSIS in Denali solve the “relative paths” problem? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server: Count based on Condition (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How Many Bytes Are In My Column? – T-SQL Functions (Steve Jones)
• NOLOCK for Developers (Eric Humphrey)

Miscellaneous

• Thoughts on Visual Complexity from Bing UX designer (Steve Clayton)
• Bing Feature Update: Bing News with Real-Time Twitter feed and Enhanced Entertainment Sharing (Betsy Aoki)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 25, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 95 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Links– 2010_12 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2011 — #1064 and Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2011 — #1065 (Dave Campbell)
• Week Retrospective 25 – Scrum Backlog Tips and 3 Types of Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• WebDev Tweets 24-Mar-2011 and 23-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Silverlight Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold

Top Links

• New Bing Bar available for download today (Joshua Schnoll)
• Updating and Publishing a NuGet Package – Plus making NuGet packages smarter and avoiding source edits with WebActivator (Scott Hanselman)
• ReSharper 6 Bundles Decompiler, Free Standalone Tool to Follow (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Longs for 64-bit Applications, and Other Interviewer Gems (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Distributed authorization with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• ILSpy: The Open-Source .NET Assembly Browser and Decompiler (Christoph Wille)
• AppHarbor – Azure Done Right AKA Heroku for .NET (Rob Reynolds)
• Refactorings – Inline Method (Alex Skorkin)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Insight vs ELMAH (Tom DuPont)
• CAML.Net Intellisense – now with added Feature upgrade schema (Chris O’Brien)
• Status Update: accessing Facebook with MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
• What is the Difference Between Path.GetTempFileName and Path.GetTempPath (Peter Kellner)
• Subversion and Monodevelop (Peter van Ooijen)
• Looking inside a double (Eric Lippert)
• Updating Plug-ins on the Community Site (Mark Miller)
• Asycnhronous Service Calls with Coroutines (Matt Hamilton)

Web Development

• Merging jQuery Deferreds and .animate() (Dan Heberden)
• Using MVC 3 with non-English Locales and Handling Optimistic Concurrency Exception with EF and MVC 3 (Rick Anderson)
• Making WIF local STS to work with your ASP.NET application and 5 minutes WIF: Make your ASP.NET application use test-STS (Gunnar Peipman)
• Adding a Custom Button to TinyMCE – REVISED (Stoimen Popov)
• Cross-domain Ajax: Implementation and Considerations (Dino Esposito)
• Can you use PHP without frameworks nowadays? (Giorgio Sironi)
• Enabling Dragging of an Image to Pin a Site to the Windows Taskbar in IE9 (Scott Hanselman)
• datajs DateTime sample (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• W3C Geolocation API in IE9 (Andy Zeigler)
• Microsoft WebSockets Prototype (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• It’s OK to Fail in Agile (Peter Saddington)
• What are you working on? (Steve Smith)
• How to torture your project manager (Scott Berkun)
• Multi-page Reports in Gallio/MbUnit v3.3 (Yann Trevin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Tip – How to automatically sync your OneNote documents to the Cloud (Dave Isbitski)
• Silverlight 5, HTML5 and WPF (James Ashley)
• Books on Building Games for Windows Phone (and Xbox, and Windows) (Joey deVilla)
• Would you like to write about Windows Phone 7 Development? (Mike Ormond)
• How to use WCF services to access SQL Azure Database from Windows Phone 7 app – Part 4 (Per Ola Sæther)
• Asynchronous Web and Network Calls on the Client in WPF (and Silverlight and .NET in general) and More on Asynchronous Service Calls in WPF – a MVVM Touch from Matt Hamilton (Pete Brown)
• Flashcards.Show Version 2 for the Desktop, Browser, and Windows Phone (Yochay Kiriaty)
• All about UriMapping in WP7 and Passing WP7 Memory Consumption requirements with the Coding4Fun MemoryCounter tool (Windows Phone Geek)
• Push Notification Status (Mark Hopkins)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #87: InvalidDollars (James Shore)
• Silverlight TV 62: The Silverlight 5 Triad Unplugged (John Papa)
• Countdown to MIX11: Boot Camps Are Where You Should Camp Your Booty (Larry Larsen)
• List of Microsoft Web Development Walkthroughs and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Sending Mail (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• MVP Tweets (Richard Hay)
• Learn How to Manage Your Website In The Cloud with Windows Azure in A Free Webinar February 22, 2011 with SiteCore (Windows Azure Team)
• ASPInsiders Twitter List (Elijah Manor)
• Come celebrate the Beauty of the Web (Ryan Gavin)
• MSMVP Event: Bringing Exceptional Expertise to the Local Store (Lonnie Webb)
• Jeffrey Richter, Wintellect, and Windows Azure (Jeffrey Richter)

Database

• How to Interpret SELECT @@VERSION in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server: Storing Images and Other BLOB types (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – LOGBUFFER – Wait Type – Day 18 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Parsing the FullName field to individual components (Naomi)

SharePoint

• Using RefreshCommandUI with the Server Ribbon (Dallas Tester & Fred Mameri)

Miscellaneous

• Bing releases the new “Bing Bar”, just for Matt Cutts (Kip Kniskern)
• MetroTwit v5 packs more features into the slick Windows Twitter app (Lee Mathews)
• #Video Deal/Day: McCullough & Berglund on Mastering #Git – Save 50% w/code DDBRG (O’Reilly Media)
• New Interview Questions for Senior Software Engineers (Scott Hanselman)
• Ruby on NetBeans lives! (Thomas Enebo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #795 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 17th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for Jan 7-13, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for February 17, 2011 — #1048 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 02/17/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 17-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links– 2010_07 (Joe Stagner)

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle: SDL: A Process for Developing Demonstrably More Secure Software by Michael Howard

Top Links

• Setting the record straight (Yusuf Mehdi)
• Reflections on recent news (Hadi Hariri)
• Microsoft adds H.264 support to Google Chrome (Ed Bott)
• Pairing is Conversation (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)

.NET / Visual Studio

• First CodeGuru Reference Card now available, the C# 4.0 Cheat Sheet (Registration required) (Greg Duncan)
• Moving or Selecting Between Matching Braces vstipEdit0075 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tip : Override ToString() in Objects (Steve Smith)
• CodeSmith Generator 5.3.4 with NHibernate 1.2.1 Released (T. DuPont)
• Fun with Noun Pluralization libraries and the .NET Framework (Scott Hanselman)
• CLR Profiler for .NET Framework 4 is now available (Jossef Goldberg)
• Red Gate to Monetize .NET Reflector (Ed Blankenship)
• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 8: Working with Proxies (Arthur Vickers)
• Clipboard Tools – Smart Cut and Smart Copy (Alex Skorkin)
• How to determine event subscriptions at runtime (Merrick Chaffer)
• A Simulator for Knuth’s MIX Computer (George Tryfonas)

Web Development

• jQuery 1.5′s AJAX rewrite and ASP.NET services: All is well (Dave Ward)
• Dynamically Adding Drop down using JQuery (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Redirecting Routes To Maintain Persistent URLs (Phil Haack)
• RenderPage And Data in ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Pages (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Should Cloud APIs Focus on Client Libraries More Than Endpoints? (Phil Leggetter)
• MSDN Magazine Pivot Viewer Source Code (Howard Dierking)
• The MVC 3.0 IDependencyResolver interface is broken. Don’t use it with Windsor. (Mike Hadlow)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• PragPub Celebrates Agile’s 10th Anniversary (Joey deVilla)
• Apple, Google, or Microsoft? – Which Does Agile Better? (Peter Saddington)
• Lean Principle #6 – Respect People (Kelly Waters)
• Stardate 2011.31.1: Why Me(ssage Brokers)? (Kyle Szklenski)
• The Waterfall Comfort Blanket (Julian Holmes)
• Service location is (not) always evil (Rob Ashton)
• Test Driven Source Control–Safe Points and What are you going to do about it? (Roy Osherove)
• What is Code Metrics (Shai Raiten)
• If Software Was Like The Super Bowl (K. Scott Allen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Build Your First Silverlight Application for Windows Phone 7 (Justin Whitney)
• Windows Phone 7 Development for Android Dev’s Series (Greg Duncan)
• WCF – Silverlight debugging tips (Hima Bindu Vejella)
• Windows Phone Design Guidelines and Life Cycle: Page State Management (Jesse Liberty)
• Tombstoning Pivot Controls in Silverlight for Windows Phone and Tombstoning Panorama Controls in Silverlight for Windows Phone and Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #3 (Jeff Prosise)
• Windows Phone Training Kit – Update (Yochay Kiriaty)
• WP7 Toolkit LongListSelector fix in the latest build: 60973 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Blend Bits 21 – Importing… (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stephen Toub: Inside TPL Dataflow (Charles Torre)
• Video: Good C# Habits Can Encourage Bad JavaScript Habits (Elijah Manor)
• Unit Testing in C++ (Avi Kaye)
• WebMatrix Launch–CodeMash 2011 Recordings Available on Channel 9 (wesy)
• Jeremy on innovation at Microsoft (Kelly Fife)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Archives (Clint Rutkas, Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
• AuthorsCast: Julie Lerman on Programming Entity Framework, Second Edition (Part 1 of 2) and Part 2 of 2 (Lee Dumond)

Community / Events

• Presenting at the Expression Blend online group in February (Adam Kinney)
• Australian SharePoint Conference lures global gurus (Paul J. Swider)
• Tech-Ed Israel: MVPs Raise the Bar (Lonnie Webb)
• Microsoft Virtual Tech Days – 9th to 11th Feb 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
• The Nineys are Here! (John Papa)

Database

• Importing and Exporting SSIS Packages Using PowerShell (Chad Miller)
• What SQL Server Service Pack Do I Have Installed? (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_wait_stats Explanation – Wait Type – Day 3 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Restirct access to Local System Administrators on SQL Server (Pradeep Adiga)
• Implementing end-to-end ordered delivery using Microsoft BizTalk Server and SQL Server Service Broker – New whitepaper on TechNet Wiki (Tim Wieman)

Miscellaneous

• Variadic Powershell Functions With Optional Named Params (Harry Pierson)
• Windows Phone 7 Update To Be Released On February 7th? (Dr. Usman)
• Search wars: Microsoft outdoes Google’s copying claim by alleging fraud (Joe Wilcox)
• 4 New PowerShell cmdlets (Josh Topal)
• Gimp Paint Studio expands GIMP with new brushes, presets (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Feb 2nd Links: Visual Studio, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JQuery, Windows Phone (Scott Guthrie)
• The Morning Brew #784 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 2 February 2011 – #18 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Recipes – Helping the Community (Joel Reyes)
• Silverlight Cream for February 02, 2011 — #1039 (Dave Campbell)
• WebDev Tweets 2-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 2th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks by Rachel Andrew

Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook by Dentler Jason

Top Links

• OData Client for Objective-C (Claudio Caldato)
• CinchV2 :Version2 of my Cinch MVVM framework part 3 of n (Sacha Barber)
• Prototypes and Inheritance in JavaScript (K. Scott Allen)
• Windows Phone 7 UI Design and Interaction Guide Updated (Andre Vrignaud)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Real world authorization implementation considerations (Oren Eini)
• D3: Implementing the WCF Service and EF Query Tuning (Danny Simmons)
• MSDN: Double the Azure (Somasegar)
• Taking JetBrains Resharper 5 for a spin. (Joe Stagner)
• General usage of ThreadPool (Dennis Delimarsky)
• OData and optimistic concurrency (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Settings Automatically Saved On Exit — vstipEnv0026 (Zain Naboulsi)
• NHibernate Mapping Generator 2.0 Beta 1 (CodePlex)
• Caching workflow activities to increase performance (Rory Primrose)
• Debugging Distributed Transactions: Transactional Deadlocks, Part 2 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• .NET and Azure Samples Showcase .NET Technologies Used in a Layered Architecture (Abel Avram)
• How do you use the following SDK tools… (Luis E. Cabrera)

Web Development

• Website Performance : Crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s (Karl Seguin)
• Dissecting the IE9 Fish Tank demo: PNG based sprite sheet animation with Canvas (Adam Kinney)
• I just wanted a bunch of Buttons with a Mouse-Over / Hover behavior. (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How do you introduce software architecture? (Simon Brown)
• Agile Friday: "The XP Team" Now Online (James Shore)
• SRP: Single Responsibility Principle (Andy Stopford)
• Agile Beyond Software (Dan Mezick)
• I have been outed! Sorta. (Chris Smith)
• Improving testability with the Castle Dictionary Adapter (Ben Hall)
• Application Performance Tuning Philosophy (Danny Simmons)
• The Five Levels of Incompetence (Paul Vick)
• Code ownership in Agile teams (Dror Helper)
• TDD, small steps and no need for comments (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Chromium WebBrowser updates (Chris Cavanagh)
• Creating a Connected Experience (Don Burnett)
• Does Microsoft have a secret weapon for Windows Phone 7? (Ed Bott)
• MVVM Light Hotfix for Windows Phone 7 developer tools beta (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Phone 7 database – Upgrade to Beta Release of Phone Tools (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• New Videos and Tutorials for this Week. (Joe Stagner)
• Mike Francis’ walkthrough of the Windows Phone 7 “app store” Marketplace and Chris K’s posted presentations on Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• Building a Dynamic Collection Solution for PivotViewer (Larry Larsen)
• Start-Up Podcast Show #76 Shawna Pandya, Co-Founder of CiviGuard (Bob Walsh)
• YUI Theater Comes to Boxee, Courtesy of Chad Auld and the Brilaps Team (Eric Miraglia)
• Understanding the Value of Prism (Silverlight TV #37) (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Creators Club Communiqué 57 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Devopalooza at VS Live! Redmond (Stephen Forte)

Database

• News Flash: SQL Server Paging Still Sucks! (John Sonmez)
• SQLAuthority News – Guest Post – Walkthrough on Creating WCF Data Service (ODATA) and Consuming in Windows 7 Mobile application (Pinal Dave)
• Changing a data source isn’t saved and Report Builder 3.0 (Simon Sabin)
• T-SQL tip: Use a role for EXECUTE permissions (Stuart Ainsworth)
• What happened to my memory? Part 2 (Jeremy Carter)
• SQL University: Introduction to Indexes, Part the Third (Grant Fritchey)

SharePoint

• Lightning conductor 2010 web part– improved treeview and XSL view (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Instant Replay (Stephanie Horstmanshof)
• Microsoft Employees to get a Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)
• Creating your first PowerGUI Script Editor Add-On (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• PowerShell Cookbook (site, not book)–Short, simple yet still sweet… (Greg Duncan)
• A behind-the-scenes look at designing the new Hotmail: part one (Michael Kopcsak)
• “Be What’s Next”, Microsoft’s new motto (Michael Gillett)
• 5 Questions to Ask Before Taking that Telecommuting Job (Simon Mackie)
• Poem to MonoTouch (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2010 — #908 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #649 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• 7 hand-picked posts from CodeClimber (aka the 7 Link Challenge) (Simone Chiaretta)

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Writing Secure Code: Practical Strategies and Proven Techniques for Building Secure Applications in a Networked World by Michael Howard

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Top Links

• Bing 404 Plugin for WordPress (Caleb Jenkins)
• CinchV2 : More sneak previews (Sacha Barber)
• Creating Scrollable Edit Content in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• DebuggerDisplay Name and Type Parameters (Richard Carr)
• Gemli.Data: Basic LINQ Support (Jon Davis)
• 15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Paul Harrington)
• Swap the Current Anchor Position (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Simple Accordion Menu With jQuery & ASP.NET (Steve Boschi)
• Designing websites for accessibility in Expression Web – Part II (Minal Agarwal)
• Part 3 – A Cascading Hierarchical Field Template & Filter for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Isolation At Work: Good Or Bad? (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Great-Circle Arcs on the Sphere (Charles Petzold)
• WPF (and Silverlight): Choose your Fonts and Text Rendering Options Wisely (Pete Brown)
• Updates and New Home for Sticky Plugin (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

•  Windows Weekly 159: Gypsy Stole My iPhone (Paul Thurrott)
• Coding4Fun Show – NUI with Josh Blake (Brian Peek)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Subquery or Join – Various Options – SQL Server Engine knows the Best (Pinal Dave)
• How to refresh the local IntelliSense cache in SQL Server Management Studio (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Re-Enable DreamScene on Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Navigation Rethink, Cloned Goals, Cap’n Crunch, The Blink Test (Dave Burke)

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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

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Top Links

• Testability and Entity Framework 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• Announcing: GiveAQuiz.com! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Ask for forgiveness, not for permission (Mark Needham)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Deep Cloning Using Binary Serialization (Richard Carr)
• Rendering RSS feeds in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Design by Contract with Microsoft .Net Code Contract (Fredrik Normen)
• A Speedy Alternative to F# DelegateEvents (Rick Minerich)
• “Getting Started with Extending Visual Studio” page now available on the MSDN Visual Studio Dev Center (Greg Duncan)
• Remove the Navigation Bar (Zain Naboulsi)
• Viewing Persisted Workflow State (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Data Services Expressions – Part 5 – Sorting (Vitek Karas)

Web Development

• 7 Awesome CSS3 Techniques You Can Start Using Right Now (Christina Warren)
• Button Maker lets you make CSS-only buttons for the Web (Erez Zukerman)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – MooTools Integration (Matthew Podwysocki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Server Naming and Configuration Conflicts (Udi Dahan)
• NUnit for .NET 4 (Grant Palin)
• Send me bugs that are caught in end-to-end testing (Brian Marick)
• Are we done testing yet? (Anand Pradhan)
• Simple Branching Strategy Part 1: Back to Basics (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using lambdas for WPF animation (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #28 – Text Trimming (Mike Snow)
• A Circular Gradient Brush for Silverlight (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight 4 Theme refresh including RIA Services templates (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ASP.NET Soup to Nuts: Web Application Design and Architecture (MS Podcasts)
• TWC9: Windows Live Essentials, CodeRush vs Resharper, Silverlight Unit Testing (Dan Fernandez)
• This Week in Test Episode 1 – Rietveld! (Roy Osherove)
• jQuery Podcast 25 – Meeno Van Slooten (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Community Megaphone Show #11 at Richmond Code Camp (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• Nothin But ReSharper – Remote (June 28th, 2010) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Expression Studio 4 Launch on June 7th (John Papa)
• Socks, Beads, and Fun at TechEd New Orleans (Eve Turzillo)

Database

• Authors Needed for the SQL Server Standard (Andy Warren)
• Removing old files with SSIS (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Convert IN to EXISTS – Performance Talk (Pinal Dave)
• Couch Potato 1.1 Bookmarklet – Expand/Collapse (Elijah Manor)
• How to skip a Table or Database while using sp_MSforeachdb or sp_MSforeachtable (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• announcing the Lightning conductor 2010 (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Mobile website updated to Wave 4 (damaster)
• Google Chrome’s Developer Tools Improve Productivity (Ian Fette)
• 10 things you should know about AT&T’s new smartphone data plans (Joe Wilcox)
• How a Silly Phone for Teens Reveals Microsoft’s Plan for Us All [Cloud] (John Herrman)
• Bing says thank you for a great first year (Yusuf Mehdi)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 53 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 4, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Recent ebook giveaways from Microsoft Press (Devon Musgrave)
• Silverlight Cream for June 03, 2010 — #875 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

• Using Filters in BCS Meta Man (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

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Top Links

• MEFedMVVM changes >> from cool to cooler (Marlon Grech)
• Creating a Simple Report Writer in Silverlight 4 (Pete Brown)
• Understanding T4: <#@ parameter #> directive (Oleg Sych)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Optional Parameters (Richard Carr)
• SharpDevelop 3.2 RTW (Christoph Wille)
• Interface contracts – forcing code contracts through interfaces and Invariant code contracts – using class-wide contracts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Code Kata: RoboStack (Ted Neward)
• C# 4.0/BCL 4: What’s New Series (Sam Gentile)
• Careful with those enumerables (Sergio Pereira)
• Multiple Startup Projects (Zain Naboulsi)
• If you’re still using Xml configuration with StructureMap, I need your help (Jeremy D. Miller)

Web Development

• ASP.NET and F# (I.) – Creating MVC web applications in F# (Tom)
• HTML Agility Pack gets LINQ’able (and more) in the new v1.4 release (Greg Duncan)
• How to Localize an ASP.NET MVC Application (Mike Ceranski)
• Visual Studio 2010 with jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 2 (Nigel Parker)
• Sueetie Now a WebApplication Project and Here’s Why (Dave Burke)
• S#arp Architecture 1.5.2 released (Alec Whittington)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Entrepreneurship Tip: Trying Not To Play Safe Even When It Comes To Pricing. (Rajiv Popat)
• Balsamiq: 7-day demo, larger canvas, transparent PNGs… (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Coding: Paying attention and Learnings from my first project of 2010 (Mark Needham)
• Graph DB Sharding Strategies: Gravity (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Cinch (Again) (Sacha Barber)
• Control styles in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
• geoGallery, a WinPhone7 sample (Levente Mihály)
• Silverlight SDK for Bing 1.4 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 358.75: Happy (US) Mother’s Day (Larry Hyrb)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 10 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Azure FireStarter Videos Up on Channel 9 (Bruce Kyle)

Community / Events

• So how did the first Typemock Partner Academy go? (Richard Fennell)
• E3 2010 Microsoft Xbox 360 Info and Game List (Isaac Steinberg)

Database

• Create Date Ranges for Consecutive dates in a SQL Server Table (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Mirroring Hands On with Developer Edition (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table for Each Index – Solution 3 – Powershell (Pinal Dave)
• DBA Survivor by Tom LaRock – Book Review (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint

• Good news for site collection administrators (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Office 2010 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• The one Microsoft Demo VM to rule them all? (Think “Win Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, VS2010, SharePoint 2010, Office Web Apps 2010, FAST, Office Com Server, Exchange 2010, Office/Project/Visio 2010…”) [Now with Download URL’s for FDM] (Greg Duncan)
• MSMQ Studio 0.9.4 is released (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
• MSDN Magazine May Issue is Live (nparker)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Excel – Only $9.99 use code DDHFE (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 9, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Links of the week #118 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #104 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 144 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #596 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/10/2010 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action