• PhoneThemeManager: allow your app to have the Light, Dark, or Inverted theme with 1 line of code (Jeff Wilcox)
• Is Programming Less Exciting Today? (Ted Neward)
• Avoid the volatile Modifier (Peter Ritchie)
• MVVM on MVC: HTML is not XAML (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Conclusion (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – A day in the life of … Plan, Code & Test (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows Forms Toolkit 0.3 and Json.NET 4.0 Release 7 (CodePlex)
• A Smarter Infrastructure: Automatically filtering an EF 4.1 DbSet (Matt Hidinger)
• "Building a large text file editor" Series – Part 1 of x (Greg Duncan)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: NFeature (Jason Jarrett)
• New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database (Glenn Gailey)
• Quick NLog Tip: Getting the Log Filename (Geoff Hudik)
• Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part 2 (Bill Osuch)

Web Development

• Exploring Client-Side MVC with Backbone.js (Christopher Smith)
• Binding UI controls using Fluent API (Yosif Yosifov)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First jQuery – $15.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Unit testing when Value Objects get in the way (Giorgio Sironi)
• Book Review: ASP.NET MVC 3 In Action (Chad Haney)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Blob Storage Stream Wrapper (Puja Pramudya)
• Templated Razor Delegates combined with Partial Views (Simon J. Ince)
• Windows Azure Service Bus Queues vs. Windows Azure Queues (Peter Laudati)
• Managed Dependencies vs. Dependency Injection In RequireJS (Ben Nadel)
• Node.js and Windows Azure: Creating a blog application using Node.JS and Windows Azure Table & Blob Storage Part 1 (Avkash Chauhan)
• Improving Performance by Batching Azure Table Storage Inserts (Brian Swan)
• Debugging IndexedDB Applications (Israel Hilerio)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 2 (Johanna Rothman)
• Finding with Git (Anders Janmyr)
• Software Release Management – Why You Can’t And Shouldn’t Force People to Use the Latest Version (Rob Reynolds)
• Programming & Barries to Entry (Cori Drew)
• An adoption strategy for testing with Visual Studio 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Shipped: xUnit.net 1.9 (Brad Wilson)
• How Do You Fix A Bug? (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Fresh WPF Elements 5 Features – DataGrid Grouping and Exporting! (Callum G.)
• Windows Phone: App Config Settings – Thinking Outside the Box (Geoff Hudik)
• "New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database" for Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
• Tutorial: Logging Into Facebook with Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) (Matthias Shapiro)
• Using CSLA 4: Windows Phone ebook available (Rockford Lhotka)
• 2000 WPF Things #481 – You Can Draw On an InkCanvas Control with the Mouse (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen Talks About SOPA, Piracy, and Intellectual Property (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 2 (Robert Green)
• Visual Studio for Business Analysts (MS Podcasts)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 011 – 01.25.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hot Apps: Z0MB1ES, ARMED!, Groupon, NewEgg, Lumia Music (Laura Foy)
• Web Camps TV #12 – Vishal Joshi Talks about WebMatrix v2 (Drew Robbins & Brady Gaster)
• The Engadget Show 29: Red Cameras, MakerBot and the coolest gadgets of CES 2012 (Brian Heater)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – Interview with Book Authors after 2 Months of Book Released (Pinal Dave)
• Meet Andrey Korshikov – SQL Server MVP from Russia (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• A Coder Interview With Michael Dunn (The Code Project)

Database

• A early look at the "SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Cook Book" (Think "Work in progress") (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Different Aspect of Policy Based Management – Quiz – Puzzle – 25 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Improving cube processing time (James Serra)
• Rebuild Your Indexes Online (When You Can) (Michael Swart)
• Thoughts on Test Driven Database Development (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Loading Reference Data from a SharePoint List using SSIS (Nick Haslam)

Miscellaneous

• The best way to list skills on your resume (Eugenia Sawa)
• Let Alice help you teach and learn programming… (Greg Duncan)
• Open WebOS 1.0 announced (Jason Kennedy)
• When are servers not servers? (Ted Neward)
• Installing and Configuring PeopleSoft Adapter for BizTalk Server 2010 (Vishal Mody)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 26, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Maker Geek Roundup 006 for 1/25/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #804 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1030 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-25 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 25 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming by Marijn Haverbeke

• Debugger Canvas on DevLabs (Somasegar)
• 3-Day Test Driven Development with Uncle Bob Martin in Philadelphia (EventBrite)
• Building a Cloud OS for .NET Developers – Part 2 (Michael Kennedy)
• ReSharper 6.0 Beta Available (Hadi Hariri)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Common Table Expressions (Abhijit Jana)
• Creating Windows Services, visually (well using the Component Designer and Visual Studio Windows Service template anyway) and MFCMAPI – Articles-a-pluza! (Greg Duncan)
• Linq to NHibernate – String.Equals with StringComparison option (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• Ordering data in LINQ Queries by more than one column (Pranay Rana)
• TFS API Part 38 – Create Label (Shai Raiten)
• RSA private key import from PEM format in C# (Tamir Khason)
• A nice, basic log4net setup (Andreas Hammar)
• Appending to a Windows Azure Block Blob (Steve Marx)
• Implementation of a Message Broker on BizTalk (Steinar Moen)
• Advanced scenarios with Windows Azure Queues (Maarten Balliauw)

Web Development

• Web Role Instances recreated, repaired while deploying MVC 3 Applications on Windows Azure (Harish Ranganathan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Classic Computer Science in JavaScript (Rey Bango)
• MiniProfiler: Lightweight profiler for ASP.NET web applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• Five little known files to help improve your web site (Greg Duncan)
• Certificates in Windows Azure (Jaime Alva Bravo)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier – Release: v4.22 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Principles (Avi Kaye)
• Is Agile Doomed? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Book Review: The Clean Coder by Uncle Bob Martin (Cory Foy)
• Balsamiq New Release: Partial PNG Export and more! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Mocking Generator Methods (Michael Foord)
• Visio 2010 WBS Modeler (MS Downloads)
• Questioning Team Accountability (Amr Elssamadisy)
• Parkinson’s Law and Iteration Zero (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Changing the Title in the Tile Icon of a Windows Phone 7 Application (Jayson Gaylord)
• 10 Silverlight 5 Demos (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 Competitions (Rudi Grobler)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Recommendations and Best Practices (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPF ListBox as Bar Chart (Christian Nagel)
• Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 2) (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 12 – Using Isolated Storage to Store and Retrieve Data (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Expression Blend templates for Windows Phone applications (Pam)
• Off-thread decoding of images on Mango, how it impacts your application ? (SL WP Perf Team)
• Panorama Template (Alex Knight)
• ShellToast on Windows Phone – when HTTP push is just too much (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ICSE 2011: Conversation with Kumiyo Nakakoji (Charles Torre)
• Episode 149 – PowerScripting Podcast – Vittorio Bertocci on Windows Azure Access Control Services (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Check Out New Windows Azure Jump Start Video Series (Windows Azure Team)
• Pluralcast 44 : Joe Hummel on High Performance Computing (David Starr)
• Let’s Play TDD #114: Icon Challenges (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Presenting a Free Webinar w/ Idera July 15, 2011 – Understanding SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata (Andrew Connell)
• Philly Nerd Nite Summer Update (Michelle & Melissa)
• What I learned at FOO Camp ’11 (Scott Berkun)
• Microsoft Gamefest 2011 – Seattle, WA August 22-23, London, England July 14-15, and Tokyo July 29! (Doug Holland)
• Upcoming Events for June 13th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New York City F# Meetup Group, June 16, Chris Marinos – Getting Your Func(tional) on with F# (Don Syme)

Database

• Time to start thinking about, and providing feedback on, what you’ll need to upgrade to Denali (aka next version of SQL Server) (Greg Duncan)
• SSIS Fuzzy Lookup Error (James Serra)
• SQL Server Instant File Initialization (PQW) (John Sansom)
• SSAS – Understanding KeyColumns Dimension Property (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Watch Online and Download – Inside of Next Generation SQL Server – Best Practices Analyzer using Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer and SQLAuthority News – BI Quiz Question – How to Optimize Cube? – Hints (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Migration Wizard (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Saving Table Space (Quick And Dirty) (David Forck)
• Using Catalog Views – sys.sql_expression_dependencies (Vishal)

SharePoint

• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Practical SharePoint Governance for Everyone (Deb Sorenson)

Miscellaneous

• Book Review – Eloquent Ruby (Dan Watson)
• Windows 7 on a Mac: my Boot Camp survival guide (Ed Bott)
• 11 things Microsoft did right in fiscal 2011 (Joe Wilcox)
• Microsoft files trademark for Kinect-like ad tech (John Callaham)
• Tip: Disabling spell check underlining in the OneNote Web Client (John Guin)
• New! Microsoft Press eReference Library Hosted by Safari Books Online (Kim Spilker)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Concurrent Programming in Mac OS X and iOS – Only $6.49 w/code DDCCR (O’Reilly Media)
• Why Microsoft Has Developers Horrified About Windows 8 (Peter Bright)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – June 13 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• SilverlightShow for June 6-12, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for June 13, 2011 — #1106 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 072 for 6/13/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #872 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Links 14/06/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 06/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan

• EF Code First and Data Scaffolding with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Scott Guthrie)
• White Paper: Flex, Silverlight or HTML5? Time to decide… (Colin Eberhardt)
• Pull Request Listing, Recent Releases in Followed Projects, and Projects You May Like (Matt Hawley)
• MSDN Patterns & Practices introduces Project Silk, a web guidance project (Rachel Appel)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The LINQ Set Operations — they’re not just for math! (James Michael Hare)
• Data Structures in C# (Rob Miles)
• New Windows Azure Connect Features Add New Locations, Enhance Interface (Windows Azure Team)
• Is Mono dead? Is Novell dying? (Rob Conery)
• Generate better NHibernate logs (Jose Romaniello)
• Must-have resource for Azure developers (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

• HTML 4 to 5 Cheat sheet, see what’s new and removed for Tags and Attributes. (Greg Duncan)
• Calling Web Service Page Methods with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
• Microsoft ASP.NET – Too many options (Peter Gfader)
• ASP.NET MVC: Getting selected values from CheckBoxList (Gunnar Peipman)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0 Beta Released (Andy Robb)
• New IE9 Developer Content on MSDN (IE Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The conflict between agile and architecture (part 1) (Simon Brown)
• My Work with Scrum.org (David Starr)
• Tips for UI Tests with GWT: HTML IDs, or “How to buy votes” (Kyle Baley)
• Getting up to BAT: Scaling Out (John Sonmez)
• Best practices: Dynamics of Software Development, 2006 Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Lifecycle of singleton objects (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins (Anthony T)
• A Fluent Backwards Design (Jeremy Likness)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building CTA Bus Tracker for WP7 – Part 1 (Erik Klimczak)
• Part 4b – Hello piggy and Part 4a – Raising the floor and Part 4c – Launching our pig and Part 4 – Three, two, one… launch! (Jo de Greef)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 175: Game Development with Andrew Brownsword (SE-Radio Team)
• At look at the Lync SDK with Marcelo Farjalla (Larry Larsen)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #47: WCF Web API with Glenn Block and Scott Seely (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Silverlight TV 71: Laurent Bugnion, Luigi Rosso, and Ward Bell Talk Silverlight 5 at MIX11 (John Papa)

Community / Events

• It’s Not Too Late to Attend – or Host – A Windows Azure Boot Camp Near You! (Windows Azure Team)
• May 2011 Edition of Philly Nerd Nite (Nerd Nite)
• Developer Stand up Comedy – Coding 4 Fun (Scott Hanselman)
• Join the Open Source Un-Contest and Get a Free eBook from O’Reilly (Joe Stagner)
• Announcement: Richard Hale Shaw Seminar in Ann Arbor (Bill Wagner)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Video – Best Practices Analyzer using Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 8 – Server Monitoring – Baseline (Ted Krueger)
• Which Database Is Right for Me? (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Database maintenance for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 design samples: Corporate portal with classic or claims-based authentication (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint: Create Dashboard with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SharePoint and Azure Integration Opportunities (Vishwas Lele)

Miscellaneous

• BizTalk 2010 VHD (MS Downloads)
• 2011 Ultimate Tools List for Mac (Ben Scheirman)
• Right click DMP your Windows Explorer – Creating file association and context menu for WinDbg (Greg Duncan)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Android Apps with Adobe AIR – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDAAR (O’Reilly Media)
• Commerce Tracking with Google Analytics for Android (Tim Bray)
• Install Ruby on Rails on Windows Easily with Rails Installer (David Hayden)
• ‘Walshied’ Windows Phone 7 that won’t update? There’s a fix for that (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Home Server 2011 Will Protect Your Data (Richard Hay)
• Musings on ebooks (Martin Fowler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: Cinco de Mayo 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 5 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 05/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #846 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 5th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2011 — #1085 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development: Creating Games using XNA Game Studio 4 by Chris G. Williams

• My Focus-themed Windows Phone emulator theme (Jeff Wilcox)
• Of memory and strings (Jon Skeet)
• Silverlight coming to Xbox, bringing WP7 games along with it? (Tim Stevens)
• Standards-based web, plug-ins, and Silverlight (Walid Abu-Hadba, Scott Guthrie & S. Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting the CLR Version (Richard Carr)
• How to use a WCF custom channel to implement client-side caching (Paolo Salvatori)
• DBX vs. Visual Studio and WinDbg: Part 1, Calling Functions and DBX vs. Visual Studio and WinDbg: Part 2A, Configuring Multiple Breakpoints (Sasha Goldshtein)
• IronPython Fully Implements Python 2.7 (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Productivity Power Tools – Enhanced Scroll Bar (Arian Kulp)
• MEF Logger – Creating plugins using MEF (fmsalmeida)
• Reference Architecture Framework for Discrete Manufacturing (MS Downloads)
• BizTalk Best Practices & Coding Guidelines for the IT Services Industry (Ambar Ray)
• Building a Nuget Server with gold plating (Mike Ceranski)
• Executing SQL queries on SQL CE 4 through Entity Framework (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Getting Started with Azure AppFabric Service Bus: Creating Namespace (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Automatically map similar schemas in BizTalk 2009 (and earlier!) (David Vidmar)

Web Development

• Convert HTML to Text (Jonathan Wood)
• ASP.NET MVC ActionResults explained (Rachel Appel)
• ASP.NET Deployment Needs To Be Fixed (Rob Conery)
• Image Manipulation With jQuery and PHP GD (Andy Croxall)
• Running JavaScript when the Web Page loads. (Joe Stagner)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Utility Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• jQuery.unbind() (Stoimen Popov)
• What Is New in EcmaScript 5? (Anders Janmyr)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Pumping Data Between Streams (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Tracking JavaScript Events using Google Analytics (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting up to BAT: Adding Smoke Tests to Your Build (John Sonmez)
• CQRS: Out of Sequence Messages and Read Models (Jonathan Oliver)
• Long Feedback Cycle on a 4 Year Old Project (Patrick Kua)
• [Guide] – Create the Perfect Agile Workshop (Peter Saddington)
• Agile with a Little Bit of Lean (sciske)
• Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: The baseline (Oren Eini)
• "Necessary" Refactoring (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)
• Mocks and Tell Don’t Ask (Ian Cooper)
• Code Management versus Project Management (Andy Singleton)
• Updating another automation test to increase stability (John Guin)
• It Takes Complexity to Handle Complexity (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Resharper 6 WPF binding validation (Daniel Fisher)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save Images and Building WP7 Custom Validation Control – Architecture & Basic Prototype (Windows Phone Geek)
• Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [4/6] and Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [5/6] and Using Pandora’s Artist Explorer service to discover new music on Windows Phone 7 and Pandora – hidden endpoints (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 – Creating Trial Applications (Pencho Popadiyn)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Here, HTML 5, Sterling Feedback and More (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight, HTML5, The Web, The Phone and All That (Joey deVilla)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Building Location Service Applications in Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
• Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application (Part 3) and A Silverlight Developer’s look at TFS 2010 Remote Hosting. (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono I: Getting Started and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono II: Basic Navigation and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono III: Shared Libraries (Nick Randolph)
• HTML vs. Silverlight vs. WPF (Paul Stovell)
• Windows Phone 7 XNA Game Tutorial For Ya (snoutholder)
• New Book: Building Enterprise Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and the Model View ViewModel Pattern (Kim Spilker)
• How to design a Custom Control by editing the Part Template? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cory Fowler Runs PHP on Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 150: Darcy Lussier on WP7 Offline Storage (David Giard)
• Episode 143 – PowerScripting Podcast – Chris Harris from Microsoft on SCOM 2012 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Weekly 202: Opera Not Oprah (Paul Thurrott)
• Let’s Play TDD #100: Twenty-Five Hours (James Shore)
• Lyssa Adkins – Coaching Agile Teams Agile 2010 (Agile Toolkit Podcast)
• Yet Another Podcast #30 Abby Fichtner–Microsoft Evangelist (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag 003 – Win7 Shutdown Slowdowns, Prob Step Recorder, MSI Failures (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Parachute Panic, Dog-A-Pedia, Hairdo For You, Chicks’n'Vixens, Soundtrckr (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 100: The Meta Episode (Dave Bost)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 50 – David Tchepak and Richard Banks (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Announcing Conshohocken.rb (Dane Morgridge)
• 14 Free SharePoint 2010 Webinars by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• Speaking at SharePoint Connections 2011 in Boston (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• ImagineCup 2011 Finals coming to Redmond (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MSDN Events Presents: WebMatrix to ASP.NET MVC Web Camp (Angela Binkowski)
• Windows Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter: Explore the Benefits of Windows Azure Data Storage and Compute Services (Jeffrey Richter)
• Learning Opportunities to Embrace the Cloud (Jim O’Neil)
• NUI at MIX11 (Josh Blake)
• Behind the Scenes in Japan, Windows Azure MVPs Help Drive Vital Communications (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• Developing with SQL Server: Three ways to get at data (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
• SQL Server: First and Last Day of Year, Quarter, Month and Week (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL University – Performance Week (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Win Windows Phone from Idera in 140 Characters – A Cartoon Challenge of SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Use a database how it was intended to be used (Denis Gobo)
• Announcing the Metro Early Adoption Program for SQL Server Code Name “Denali” (Wes Yanaga)
• SQL Azure Use Case: Shared Data Hub (Buck Woody)
• To TOP or not to TOP an EXISTS (GilaMonster)
• Is ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN NOT NULL to NULL always expensive? (Sankar Reddy)
• How I Avoid Two-Phase Commit (Jonathan Oliver)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 SDK Offline SDK (*.CHM) Updated (Andrew Connell)
• New Book: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer Reference (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server 2011, Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Now on MSDN, TechNet (Paul Thurrott)
• Calling Excel Math Functions From PowerShell (Doug Finke)
• Tekpub Download Upgrade Low-down (Rob Conery)
• Jetbrains announced appCode (CIDR) EAP – an Objective-C IDE for Mac and iOS development (Michael Hunger)
• Scaling and Queuing PowerShell Background Jobs (Travis Jones)
• Microsoft Customers Abandoned Again: SharedView No Longer Supported (William Vaughn)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #827 and The Morning Brew #828 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 5, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 04/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets: 4-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for April 04, 2011 — #1070 and SilverlightShow for March 28-April 3, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 05, 2011 — #1071 (Dave Campbell)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 Picks for March 28 – April 3, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 5th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed by Brian Loesgen

Top Links

• Two Caliburn Releases in One Day! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Windows Phone Pivot Control: Enable text wrapping for the Title (Jeff Wilcox)
• Not Everything Has a DeclaredType (Jason Bock)
• Academics, Enthusiasts to Get Kinect SDK (Rob Knies)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Visual Studio Code Snippets (Richard Carr)
• Getting Added And Deleted Items In A List Using LINQ (Abhijit Jana)
• Office 2010 Sample: Open XML SDK 2.0 Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Migrate MsTest of database edition to VS2010 (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Exploring Windows Azure Storage APIs By Building a Storage Explorer Application (Paolo Salvatori)
• Adding a Reference inside a NuGet project (Paul Betts)
• Creating an Internet Explorer Add-in Toolbar Button using C++ and ATL (Pete Brown)
• Extending the BizTalk ESB Toolkit – Orchestration (Scott Banwart)
• NuGet Fluent Cassandra (Nick Berardi)
• WiX It – A (The?) free and (all?) powerful Setup/MSI builder (Greg Duncan)
• Kinect for Windows SDK to Arrive Spring 2011 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Windows Azure for developers Task4: Error Attaching the debugger in Windows Azure SDK 1.3 and Windows Azure For Developers Task 5: Configuring Virtual Machine sizes (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Never Say Never, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• TypeInference where T : AssumptionsAreWrong (Bill Wagner)
• ColorPicker Controls for WinForms (Jonathan Wood)

Web Development

• Design style for OData in datajs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• User Interface for Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.0 (Jorge)
• Python 3.2 Released (Python.org)
• Last Session Debugging Value using Data Tips (Abhijit Jana)
• Custom Data Annotation Validator Part I : Server Code (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review: Object-oriented Software Metrics (Patrick Kua)
• Let’s Play Name That SDLC: Volume 1 (David J. Bland)
• Security in the Software Development Lifecycle (Srini Penchikala)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 0-60 with a Windows Phone 7 app (Andy Robb)
• Creating theme friendly UI in WP7 using OpacityMask (Windows Phone Geek)
• Our first Windows Phone update—and how to get it (Michael Stroh)
• Windows Phone 7 first update rolls in – not NoDo (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Attaching a Command to the WP7 Application Bar. (Michael Crump)
• What difference does a sprite sheet make? (Peter Kuhn)
• Simple menu for your WP7 application (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Udi Dahan Clarifies CQRS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Podcast 233 – 02.21.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• AuthorsCast: Stephen Baker on Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything (Lee Dumond)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #24 at CMAP Code Camp (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• How Should the PASS Nominating Committee Be Selected? and How To Write Better Queries WebCast (Joe Webb)
• CSLA .NET at Open Source Fest: MIX11 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Microsoft photographers’ book raises over $60K for the United Way (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• The life of a journalist at HIMSS (Neil Versel)
• Open Source Fest at MIX11 (John Papa)
• vNext (Rudi Grobler)
• Events This Week – February 21st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• Five Favorite Free SQL Server Downloads (Brent Ozar)
• Using SQL Server Compact 4.0 with Desktop Private Deployment and a Setup project (MSI) (part 2) (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server Concurrency Series from the CAT (Customer Advisory Team) and Free Training SQL Server Training DVD’s (or online) from Quest (reg-ware) – 12 Sessions, Two DVD’s, Zero cost… (Greg Duncan)
• Shameless Self-Promotion – Introduction to SQL Server [Book] (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL Server: First Day of Previous Month (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Jacob Sebastian – Filestream – Wait Types – Wait Queues – Day 22 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• What does a SQL Server developer need to know? (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• The Windows 8 tablet interface to feature live tiles similar to WP7 (Phone Arena)
• List of all post Windows 7 and Windows 8 builds (Brad Sams)
• Academic Earth – Free and easy access to full video courses and lectures (from Yale, UCLA, Harvard, Berkley, MIT, Stanford and more) and [Preview Book Review] "Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6" by Augusto Alvarez (Greg Duncan)
• Amazon Prime members now get streaming movies, TV shows (Lee Mathews)
• MVPs for Office 365: How to create a secured kiosk access with Office 365? (Lonnie Webb)
• Windows 8 roadmap: A picture is worth a thousand build numbers (Mary Jo Foley)
• Unicode 6.0.0 is [actually] released! (Michael S. Kaplan)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: 21 Recipes for Mining Twitter – $8.49 (Save 50%) Code DDMTW (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 02.14 ~ 02.22 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #797 (Chris Alcock)
• SilverlightShow for Feb 14 – 20, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for February 21, 2011 — #1049 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Article Digest 02/21/2011 and Daily News Digest 02/22/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 21th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities by Mike Liu

Top Links

• Spec Explorer 2010 Release 3.3 now available as a Visual Studio Power Tool! (Robert DuWors)
• Dev Bandwagon – Part 1 (Deran Schilling)
• The Truth About Value Types (Eric Lippert)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone 7 and 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #1: Project Template (Jeff Blankenburg)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Clipboard Ring (Richard Carr)
• Understanding C#: Equality, IEquatable, and Equals() (Andrew Stellman)
• Executing ad-hoc queries with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• WCF: The right way. A Quick Reference Guide. (Nic Roche)
• Monads in C#: Which Part Is The Monad? (Derick Bailey)
• A RPN Calculator in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Implementing Reliable Inter-Role Communication Using Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus, Observer Pattern & Parallel LINQ (Valery Mizonov)
• The Immediate Window: Running WinDbg and SOS (Son of Strike) Commands and The Immediate Window: Running Commands (Zain Naboulsi)
• New XNA Game Studio 4.0 Developer Education Content Available! (Team XNA)
• New book: Programming Windows Identity Foundation (Rosemary Caperton)
• Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition (Brian Noyes)
• Custom Windows Workflow activity for dependency resolution–Part 3 and Part 4 and Part 5 and Part 6 and Wrap up and Creating updatable generic Windows Workflow activities and Neovolve.Toolkit 1.0 RTW (Rory Primrose)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (IV) -Tracking Documents (Rob Ashton)
• Know Your Debugger Part 4: Modifying Your Application During Execution (Dane Morgridge)
• MonoTouch… help!? CATiledLayer not "quite" working (Craig Dunn)

Web Development

• Become a Cut, Copy, Paste JavaScript Programmer (Chris Love)
• ASP.Net MVC2 – All in One with JSON and Entity Framework (Justin Mathew)
• HTML5 Demo Sites (Mike Swanson)
• Bing Maps: Adding and tracking pushpins using JavaScript (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML5 Grows Up: The Genesis of Beauty of the Web (Tim Sneath)
• Construct a Sorted PHP Linked List (Stoimen Popov)
• AntiXSS V4.0 (MS Downloads)
• PHP Manager for IIS 7 Released (Brian Swan)
• ‘Test Drive ASP.NET MVC’ Version 1.1 is Available (Jonathan McCracken)
• Tutorial: Implementing a shopping cart with WebSharper (Adam Granicz)
• Distributed Cache in Azure: Part II (Brian Hitney)
• IE9’s faster, more capable Compatibility View List (Marc Silbey)
• Add-ons: Detecting and Displaying Add-on Version Numbers (Herman Ng)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making Agile Work Why Spend the Afternoon as well on Technical Debt? (Israel Gat)
• The Pepsi Challenge of Waterfall, Agile, and Kanban (Derek Huether)
• Concepts and features – an example (Jimmy Bogard)
• A DSL For Handling Zero, One, Many (Derick Bailey)
• ASP.NET Security Fix Now on Windows Update (Scott Guthrie)
• Article:Using Coding Katas, BDD and VS2010 Project Templates: Part 2 (Jamie Phillips)
• CQRS: Sagas with Event Sourcing (Part II of II) (Jonathan Oliver)
• BizTalk Patterns part 1 – Asynchronous Aggregation (Quoc Bui)
• What is Static Software Testing? (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• When Process Improvements Don’t Make Sense (John Sonmez)
• Build Automation for your Application using MSBuild and The Check In Dance (Steve Smith)
• Data Access Guidance (ADO.NET Team)
• Good Subjective, Bad Subjective (Robert Cartaino)
• What we don’t need in object-oriented programming (Giorgio Sironi)
• The Moving To-Do List (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• Is Enterprise Architecture Still Relevant for Cloud Computing? (Boris Lublinsky)
• You’re a Bad Programmer. Embrace It. (Jared Richardson)
• You can depend on me (Eric Brechner)
• How We Evaluate the Experiences We Engineer (Jess Holbrook)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• HTC Mondrian and Samsung Omnia 7 leak, while Windows Phone 7 gets its own YouTube channel and Microsoft to unveil 3 Windows Phone 7 devices (Phone Arena)
• WP7 Code: Distance Computations with the GeoLocation API (Dragos Manolescu)
• Expression Blend 4 SP 1 Now Supports Flash UI Components (Abel Avram)
• Windows Live Messenger confirmed for Windows Phone 7 (damaster)
• Step-by-Step Guide to Silverlight Shape Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Smart Dispatcher – Getting Back to the UI Thread (John Papa)
• Displaying Images in Silverlight 4 DataGrid using Converter (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Intro to IronRuby/DLR Scripting in C# Silverlight 4 Application (Chris Pietschmann)
• WPF DomainUpDown control (Marcin Kaluza)
• Hands-on : Windows Phone 7 Review (Michael Crump)
• Dotfuscator 4.9 Beta with Exception Tracking and Windows Phone 7 Support (Michael Letterle)
• The New Trade Me API and Windows Phone 7 Developer Competition (Nigel Parker)
• Windows Phone 7 Resources On Microsoft Platform Ready (Wes Yanaga)
• Creating Windows Phone 7 Application and Marketplace Icons (Rick)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 4 – Activity – User Photos and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 5 – Activity – User Comments (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Podium (Rudi Grobler)
• Trivia: Application Bar Icon and Color (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Getting Things Done with Lane Newsom (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Mark Relph Wants More Windows Applications! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The tech behind Kinect: Major subsystems, RGB camera, Depth Sensor (Tina Wood)
• jQuery Podcast 35 – jQuery UI 1.8.5 (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Video Tutorial – Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform (Nitin Bharti)
• Windows Phone Unleashed – Redmond (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Yet Another Podcast Show #3 – John Papa on MVVM and Patterns (Jesse Liberty)
• Let’s Play TDD #27: Yet Another Value Object (James Shore)
• Silverlight TV 47: Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Performance Tips (John Papa)
• Engadget Podcast 214 – 09.30.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #17 with guest David Giard (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Web Camps TV #5 – Building your own WebMatrix Helpers (Erik Porter & James Senior)
• endpoint.tv – WF4 Activities, Callbacks and Event Handlers (Ron Jacobs)
• The GeekDads Episode #77: Jar Jar is a Replicant (Ken Denmead)
• SQLBits videos (distinctly amateur) (Jamie Thomson)
• Cassandra Tutorial – Installing Cassandra (Jeremiah Peschka)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Events in and around Mid-Atlantic and Web Platform Firestarter Series is Underway – Sign Up for One Near You! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Meetup Event: App Pricing Strategy Panel + Intro to Microsoft Windows Phone/Marketplace, 10/13 (Zhiming Xue)
• If You Missed the Windows Phone Firestarter in Philly You Are in Luck (Dani Diaz)
• Speaking at the Software Architect 2010 conference (Simon Brown)
• Silverlight Sessions Coming to DevConnections Las Vegas November 1-4 (Dan Wahlin)
• Upcoming conferences and courses (Udi Dahan)
• Events–Future of Web Apps 2010 (Sara Allison)
• CSLA .NET training, Atlanta, Nov 8-10 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Microsoft via Pakistan, Purdue & Google (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

Database

• The Lone Ranger And Data Integrity (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Get Query Running in Session (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Released and How to flip a bit in SQL Server by using the Bitwise NOT operator (Denis Gobo)
• Common SQL Server Mistakes – Indexing Every Column (Steve Jones)
• Cleaning up excess contiguous spaces in strings. A mystery. (Phil Factor)
• Read Environment Variables in T-SQL (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Index Operations Showdown: Drop & Create vs. Create With Drop_Existing vs. Rebuild (Kendal Van Dyke)
• Find the largest tables in a database (Jeffrey Yao)
• If I had to draw circles to visualize SQL Joins, I would… cheat and use this… (Greg Duncan)

SharePoint

• Upgrading the SSP Database (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Biggerplate features 101 Business Mindmaps (Chance Brown)
• Diving into Windows 7 Embedded Compact Part One (Don Burnett)
• Radical language and platform shift (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Hotmail vs. Exchange Online (Brett Hill)
• Office skipped version "13" (makes you wonder what they will do in 2013!) (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Windows Live Mesh 2011 Review (Mike Fourie)
• Daily Dose – Chromium OS on the iPad (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows Live Essentials 2011 – Available Now (Nic Fillingham)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Closure: The Definitive Guide – Only $14.99. Use code DDSDF (O’Reilly Media)
• Bing Gets an IE9 Pinned Site Jumplist For Your Windows 7 Taskbar (Richard Hay)
• Why Professional Certification Might Be Good (Steven Lott)
• Windows Live Messenger for Zune (Sunshine)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 29, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #697 and The Morning Brew #698 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 29, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 30, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 09.16 ~ 09.30 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for September 20, 2010 — #957 and Silverlight Cream for September 30, 2010 — #958 (Dave Campbell)
• September 29th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• SQLAuthority News – Monthly Roundup of SQLAuthority Blog Posts (Pinal Dave)

The Geek Shelf

Brownfield Application Development in .Net by Donald Belcham

Top Links

• Visual Basic Comes to Windows Phone 7 (Brandon Watson)
• BizTalk 2010 RTM’d (Jon Fancey)
• Your Software Can Learn A Lot From ATMs (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using MemBus for messaging between application components (Gunnar Peipman)
• Non Deadlocking Read/Write Locker and Thread-Safe Collections (Tamus)
• Windows Server AppFabric How-To: Adding multiple persistence stores to an AppFabric installation (Emil Velinov)
• Entity Framework Extensions (Multiple entity updates) – Release: v1.0.0.4 and LinkedIn Developer Toolkit – Release: v1.0 Beta (CodePlex)
• Calculate Business Days using LINQ (Hajan Selmani)
• Show All Settings with Visual Basic Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.0 – September Update (MS Downloads)
• Using Google Docs as an Online Database (Ryan Farley)
• Using NHibernate To Persist And Query Ruby Objects (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Nested jTemplate, jQuery and JSON in ASP.NET (Aamir Hasan)
• How to remove Hyperlink from ASP.NET TreeView Control Nodes ? (Abhijit Jana)
• I Am Not A Fan Of Flash HTML5 Comparisons (Ben Forta) – or Silverlight v. HTML5?
• Developing a REST Web Service using C# – A walkthrough (Anshu Dutta)
• Windows Azure Diagnostics in PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Web Page Image Capture in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Agile vs. Waterfall the Wrong Fight? (Wille Faler)
• Github: A little help for merging pull requests (Kyle Neath)
• Zombie (Stakeholder) Management Strategy (Derek Huether)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Differences between WPF and *Silverlight Rendering Stacks (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Windows Phone 7 has tethering support, up to carriers whether to enable it (Chris Ziegler)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 – An Introduction and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 2 – The Core – Signature (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools Tutorial (Jason Zander)
• iPhone to Windows Phone 7: Launchers and Choosers (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone + VB developers = Great Mobile Apps (Somasegar)
• Handling picture orientation in CameraCaptureTask in Windows Phone 7 (Tim Heuer)
• Hosting a Silverlight application in a custom website (Unni Ravindranathan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV 46: What’s Wrong with my WCF Service? (John Papa)
• Updates to Office Web Apps (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Join the Microsoft Talent Network (Anne Cheng)
• Talking Is Good, Where Can I Do More? (Jeremiah Peschka)

Database

• SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 4 (MS Downloads)
• Check if Database Exists In SQL Server – Different ways (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Outer Join Not Allowed in Indexed Views – Limitation of the View 8 (Pinal Dave)
• Common SQL Server Mistakes – Multi Row DML Triggers (Steve Jones)
• Things good to know about SQL State Server (Jef Claes)

Miscellaneous

• Current Vim Plugin Set (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 Poster (MS Downloads)
• Hundreds of Microsoft Press ebooks now available in the Kindle Store (Devon Musgrave)
• The Complete Guide to Setting up Python Development Environment on Windows (Eran Kampf)
• The Presentation Zen Bento Box (Garr Reynolds)
• How to make OneNote 2010 speak to you (John Guin)
• Microsoft’s NGO Software License (Brad Smith)
• #MakerFaire #Ebook Deal of the Day – Only $9.99ea. Use code: DDMFB (O’Reilly Media)
• Using a 4×20 HD44780-controlled LCD Display with the Netduino (Pete Brown)
• Internet Explorer 9 System Requirements Clarification (Richard Hay)
• Office Web Apps Gets an Update, Now Has PowerPoint and Excel Embedding (Simon Mackie)
• Another nasty Zune gotcha coming your way and it’s gonna hurt (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #693 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Linq Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O’Reilly)) by Joseph Albahari

Top Links

• Coding4Fun: PicFx – Windows Phone Picture Effects Application – Part 1 (René Schulte)
• Recording Audio in Windows Phone 7 and Third Party HTML 5 Intellisense and Support in VS2010 (Don Burnett)
• Announcing the Windows Phone 7 Firestarters: free, in-depth training in your own backyard! (Dave Isbitski)
• The Need for Source Control (Gil Fink)
• Death to Best Practices (Ted Neward)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Moving to a deploy system based on Tfs Build (Al Kampfer)
• Boot Camp Extravaganza – Learn Windows Phone 7 Development (Angela Binkowski)
• .NET Debugging and C++ Debugging Resources (Sasha Goldshtein)
• If I run Dev Div… (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio: Hide Selection and Enum.TryParse (Deborah Kurata)
• IronRuby and the Reactive Extensions Together Again – Taming User Input (Matthew Podwysocki)
• How to verify a method call on a dependency (Gil Zilberfeld)

Web Development

• Google and Yahoo Add to Calendar Html Helpers for Asp.net MVC (Luke Lowrey)
• Upgrading from Oxite to Orchard (Rudi Grobler)
• Using Agatha’s Client-Side Caching (Davy Brion)
• Digg API Version 2 Coming Soon (Adam DuVander)
• DevForce in the Cloud: Prism Explorer (Ward Bell)
• An example of packaging web application containing database upgrade SQL file (Xinyang Qiu)
• Ask Satyam: Using YQL and YUI with YQLDataSource (Daniel Barreiro)
• SparkSense gets its first outing (Robert Greyling)
• Update to Azure’s AppFabric Access Control Service Supports Multi-Vendor Single Sign On (Bruce Kyle)
• Build a Blog Site in 15 Minutes with WebMatrix (Laurence Moroney)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• IoC patterns – partitioning registration (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Diversity in Agile – Women in Agile interviews available (Shane Hastie)
• Yoda and different kinds of trying (Scott Berkun)
• Learning and Situated cognition (Mark Needham)
• Teamly: Collaboration With Priorities (Thursday Bram)
• The 7 Hats of a Successful Remote Team Member (Avdi Grimm)
• Rules for Software Architects (Rockford Lhotka)
• How Should a Product Owner Participate in a Planning Poker Session? (Dan Puckett)
• Software, “It’s not what we do”. (David Starr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• JelloPhone for Windows Phone 7 (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight : Simple PopUp Behavior for VM, MVVM (Michael Washington & Hisowa)
• Getting the Silverlight Toolkit Controls to work on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight Tutorials Chapter 4: Introduction to Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• First batch of Windows Phone 7 applications may include Yelp and YouTube (Sean Hollister)
• Using OData with Windows Phone 7 SDK Beta (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Preview: WPF 4 Unleashed – Why WPF, and What About Silverlight (Ted Hu)
• Tombstoning with Windows Phone 7 (your mkop editor)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio: Exploring SharePoint and Silverlight with Paul Stubbs (Emily Gibson)
• Ping 69: Windows Phone 7 adds Voice, Mobile App Match, Bing Taxi, Halo 2600 (Laura Foy)
• Sparkling Client Show 102: Windows Phone 7 Development Heats Up (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Connected Show Podcast – Apache Stonehenge M2 (Brian Johnson)
• endpoint.tv – Workflow Services Security Pack (Ron Jacobs)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 24 – The Developer Experience Index (Richard Banks)
• New Internet Explorer 9 Videos (Joey deVilla)
• Countdown to PDC: It’s time to par-tay! (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – August 9th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Phone 7 developers – free training and app building workshops! (Glen Gordon)
• Win 3 ebooks at SilverlightShow Data Binding Webinar (Svetla Stoycheva)
• indieconf for freelance web professionals (Michael Kimsal)
• FREE SharePoint Events You Must Attend #in Aug 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Nothing has changed, and nobody’s happy (Daniel Crenna)
• Typemock Summer Sale (Gil Zilberfeld)

Database

• Working with Different Time Zones in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Best Practices for DBA Before Taking Vacation (Pinal Dave)
• Creating a baseline for SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• MongoDB – Now With Sharding (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Upgrading a SharePoint 2007 WCM site to SharePoint 2010 WCM (Andrew Connell)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Companion (Carol Vu)
• SharePoint and Office 2010 PowerPoint Files – Not a good mix (William Vaughn)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Research shows off a prototype ‘Menlo’ mobile phone (Mary-Jo Foley)
• How I work: Workstations for the Data Professional (Buck Woody)
• Updates on DSLs In Action – Into Copy Editing (Debasish Ghosh)
• With Each Step Forward, Microsoft Takes Two Back (Nick Berardi)
• Microsoft Office 2010 File Compatibility (Office Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: VMware Cookbook – Only $9.99. Use code DDVMC (O’Reilly Media)
• Promoting Properties Inside an Orchestration (Scott Banwart)
• How to Post Code To Your Blog and other Religious Arguments (Scott Hanselman)
• Should You Be Looking for Trends in Microsoft Stories? (Shawn Wildermuth)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #661 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 9, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for August 09, 2010 — #922 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 036 for 8/9/2010 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook by Gill Cleeren

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Top Links

• Writing plug-ins for ReSharper: Part 1 of Undefined (Hadi Hariri)
• Castle Windsor 2.1, Dynamic Proxy 2.2 and more released! (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Weekly Source Code 47 – ASP.NET 3.5 Dynamic Data: FilterRepeaters and Dynamic Linq Query Generation (Scott Hanselman)
• Don’t Let Your Code Marry An Axe Murderer (K. Scott Allen)
• A Ruby on Rails Tutorial for .NET Developers (Mike Ceranski)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The TekPub LINQ Challenge And The Sieve Of Eratosthenes (Justin Etheredge)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 2 – Simple Optimizations (Sasha Goldshtein)
• How to transform old properties to automatic properties with a simple search and replace (Daniel Cazzulino)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 1A. A Delegate Factory Facility (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• Running FubuMVC on Mono (OSX) (Tobin Harris)
• Using ASP.NET 3.5′s ListView and DataPager Controls: The Ultimate DataPager Interface (Scott Mitchell)
• Take your MVC User Controls to the next level (David Ebbo)
• Ambiguous Controller Names With Areas (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 4 – CDN (Karl Seguin)
• Building A Color Picker Using ASP.NET MVC And jQuery – Update (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Determining A Significant Change In A Web Page (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Non-functional Architectural Woes (Udi Dahan)
• Unit Testing Biztalk : Two possible frameworks (Roy Osherove)
• C# Test Builder Pattern: My current thinking (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and Desktop .NET Integration (Jeremiah Morrill)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Tutorial: Publish a Access 2007 database to the web and The Visual Studio Documentary: Tony Goodhew full length interview (Tina Wood)
• Hello Windows Azure! (Ryan Dunn)

Community / Events

• Pluralsight On-Demand! New Releases: Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, BizTalk and more! (Bob Familiar)
• Free Developer Training for WPF 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Upcoming Silverlight 4 talk: January 19 (David Makogon)
• OMG! Someone Stole My Code (Davy Brion)
• Wrox on the Road – Wrox authors coming to a conference near you (Jim Minatel)
• “Zero to XAML in 4 hours” – Free in person training from Microsoft and Paul Sheriff and Free in person day long Silverlight/Blend Training – “Silverlight Design Days – Free Blend Training on Tour” (Greg Duncan)
• Looking Back at my 2009 Technology Predictions (Stephen Forte)

Database

• The SQL developer gap (Warning: rant coming up) (Jamie Thomson)
• IN vs INNER JOIN (Gail Shaw)
• Mirroring SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 (part 2) (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Migration QuickStart (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Announces SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade: Test-SPContentDatabase – Key to Successful Upgrade (Joel Oleson)
• Business Connectivity Services PassThrough & RevertToSelf (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Android 2.1 SDK released for developers (PhoneArena Team)
• Coming Soon: Stack Overflow T-Shirts (Jeff Atwood)
• 4 Web Tools You May Have Missed (Darrell Etherington)
• 94 more secret Windows shortcuts (Ed Bott)
• Kodu for PC Technical Preview Available RIGHT NOW (Matthew MacLaurin)
• VUE Turns Your Mind-Mapped Ideas Into Presentations (Lisa Hoover)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: iPod: The Missing Manual, Eighth Edition — Only $9.99! Use discount code PTM89 (O’Reilly Media)
• Using Kolb’s Model to learn about iPhone Development (Patrick Kua)
• The New Slide Show in PowerPoint 2010 (Office Team)
• Coder’s Game: The Queue ICPC Challenge Problem (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #516 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2010 — #776 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: January 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate and Composite Keys (Anne Epstein)
• PDC09 Downloader Source Code (Frank La Vigne)
• Visual Studio 2010: Generating sequence diagrams on the fly (Gunnar Peipman)
• IntelliTrace: A graphical comparison (Habib Heydarian)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 2- The Repository (Julie Lerman)
• NHibernate Event Listener Registration With Fluent NHibernate (Rob Reynolds)
• Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all (Vladislav Savov)

Web Development

• T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action (David Ebbo)
• ASP.NET MVC: Creating reports using Chart control (Gunnar Peipman)
• Lot’s of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week (Bill Staples)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kitchen Agile (Leon Bambrick)
• CQRS – The Domain Events (Mark Nijhof)
• Managing to the Constraint (Mike Cottmeyer)
• User Interface Design Is Not About Lorem Ipsum And Pretty Boxes. (Rajiv Popat)
• Take 3: Python, ISP, IoC, and OCP need a fundamental rethink. (Ryan Svihla)
• What’s all this nonsense about Katas? (Uncle Bob Martin) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• SketchFlow: Including Multiple Tab Content In Word Export (Christian Schormann)
• WCF RIA Services – What you need to know when creating DTO/Presentation Model (Fredrik Normén)
• Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight 4 Fluid UI (Jesse Liberty)
• Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML 2009 Features: FactoryMethod\Arguments (Lester Lobo)
• Debugging Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Applications (Mike Taulty)
• The big Silverlight 4 Question (Peter Bromberg)
• EdgeCam – Silverlight 4 Webcam & Edge Detection Shader (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA) (Jossie Tirado)
• Life at Microsoft: The truth revealed…again! (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 – Out of Browser Evolves (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• PDC09 Session Downloader (Frank La Vigne)
• PDC09 RSS feed file for your podcast catcher of choice (i.e. Grab all the PDC sessions for your Zune, Reader, FeedDemon, etc) (Greg Duncan)
• PDC ‘09: Three Screens and a Cloud, Pt. 1 – Azure (David Makogon)
• Why I like Steven Sinofsky (Stephen Forte)
• Shut Up and Build Something (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• SQL Server String Index Functions (Richard Carr)
• Procedures with cursors and Missing foreign key constraints (George Mastros)
• First sighting of SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) (Jamie Thomson)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 for Oracle DBA (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 – Query Interfaces (Arnt Schøning)
• BCS Meta Man Alpha Release (BCS Meta Man Team)

Miscellaneous

• Testing for PowerShell Remoting: Test-PsRemoting (Lee Holmes)
• Fixing Search Results: PowerShell 2.0 is RTM (Joel Bennett)
• Azure and Hardware (Bill Evjen)
• Systems Management with NetPoint and PowerGUI (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Why Chrome OS Will Succeed (in a limited market) (Eric Anderson)
• MVPs Release Windows 7 Resource Kit (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Twitter in a Dead End (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why Google Chrome OS has already won (Robert Scoble)
• Foobar2000 v1.0 Beta — holy crap, it’s finally here! (Sebastian Anthony)
• BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Announced (Sam Gentile)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 20, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2009 — #737 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for the Week 2009.11.20 (Jeremiah Peschka)

Book of the Day