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Top Links

• Three Monitors For Every User (Jeff Atwood)
• Ultimate List of Free Windows Phone 7 Software & Resources from Microsoft (Blake Handler)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 SP1 for Windows Phone 7 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part IV (Christian Schormann)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Set the Visual Studio Start Page News Channel and Auto-Load File Changes in Visual Studio and Func and Action Delegates (Richard Carr)
• Domain Specific Languages with Boo: AST Macros (Ryan Svihla)
• Parallel Tasks in .NET 4.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Cut or Delete the Current Line and Select the Current Word (Zain Naboulsi)
• Upgrading my MCPD Enterprise Application Development certification – Part 2 (Muhammad Mosa)
• Visual Studio: Box Selection and Box Selection and Stored Procedures and VS 2010: Box Selection New Features (Deborah Kurata)
• VS2010 Extension Manager (Gil Fink)

Web Development

• OAuth (Jason Meridth)
• ASP.NET: Using conditionals in data binding expressions (Gunnar Peipman)
• SimpleGeo is the Location Database API We’ve Wanted (Adam DuVander)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Four Circles of XP (Extreme Programming) and Rick Stacey’s Agreement and Certainty Matrix and 7 Management Interventions for Adapting and Adopting Processes (J.D. Meier)
• Mixing functional and object oriented approaches to programming in C# (Mark Needham)
• Utilizing Your Intellectual Surplus On Something That Is Useful And Fun. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Changing States using GoToStateAction (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Design-time data is still data (Josh Smith)
• Creating images with XAML (Kirill Osenkov)
• How can I update LabeledPieChart to use the latest toolkit? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Using SketchFlow for Presentations (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Some known WCF issues in Silverlight 4 (Yavor Georgiev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 150: There’s A Badge For That (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 190: iPad Edition – 04.04.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• First Pass Completed: Rough Draft TDD Demonstration Videos (Brett Schuchert)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 8 – Nick Blumhardt and Autofac 2.0 (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Microsoft TechDays – Open Source on .NET. April 14th, Shepherd’s Bush. (Mike Hadlow)

Database

• Enable or Disable SQL Server Authentication (Richard Carr)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (4/30) DDL triggers are INSTEAD OF triggers (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Introduction to Snapshot Database – Restore From Snapshot (Pinal Dave)
• A DMV a Day – Day 4 and A DMV a Day – Day 5 (Glenn Berry)

SharePoint

• In Place Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 – The Vertict? It’s better, but is it good enough? (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Picasa" Plug-in for Windows Live Writer (Blake Handler)
• Logging Robocopy errors to the Event Log using PowerShell (Joel Bennett)
• Daily Dose – Opera Alerts Microsoft About IE, Microsoft Criticizes Chrome (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 139 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 4, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 04, 2010 — #830 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/5/2010 (Pete Brown)
• A Feed You Should Read #27 – Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows (Greg Duncan)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Coming soon – PowerCommands for Reflector (Jason Haley)
• Consuming Fluent Interfaces (Matthew Doig)
• Gotchas: MSBuild Conditional Import Ignored by Visual Studio (Ade Miller)
• Building a DSL for Scheduling Tasks (Oren Eini)
• Using The WCF REST Starter Kit and REST Collections with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• What’s the Difference, Part Five: certificate signing vs strong naming (Eric Lippert)
• Image Processing in F#: From Image File to Array (Rick Minerich)
• Magical Dynamic Mystery Tour (Rob Conery)
• Changing Code In A Running Application (Joel Ross)
• Creative Idea for Improving Your ReSharper Skills (Russell Ball)

Web Development

• Make Bing Maps Sing In PHP (Adam DuVander)
• Customizing the SharePoint ECB with Javascript, Part 1 and Part 2 (Jan Tielens)
• JavaScript for the masses (Jay Kimble)
• Accessing the Visual Studio ASP.NET Development Server from iPhone (Jim Wilson)
• ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript Snippet Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC MvcSiteMapProvider 1.0 released (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Feature Branch (Martin Fowler)
• Planning for Rhino Mocks 4.0 (Oren Eini)
• StoryTeller on InfoQ (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Coding Dojo #22: Scala, lamdaj, Project Euler (Mark Needham)
• Noodling on Kanban… Part Two and Part Three (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 15. (Rajiv Popat)
• Git Lost (and Git Submodules) and Microsoft Source Server with Git (Jonathan Oliver)
• Exploring the Service Provider track – Fabrikam Shipping Part II (Solution) (Eugenio Pace)
• Agile Testing with VSTS 2010 and TMap: Part 01-User stories and Enrich VSTA 2010 Use case diagram with SketchFlow Screens (Clemens Reijnen)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 File Transfer Application (Giovanni Montrone)
• writing applications that target both wpf and silverlight with a single codebase (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• How you chose and learned Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• Using Silverlight 3 to Detect Network Changes (Malcolm Sheridan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #196 – Inside a Visual Studio Plugin – CodeRush with Mark Miller (Scott Hanselman)
• Melur Raghuraman: Inside Windows 7 – Diagnostics and Troubleshooting (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #138: Isolation Frameworks: Mocking Out/Ref Arguments (Derik Whittaker)
• Countdown to PDC09: Developers Go 3D! (Larry Larsen)
• geekSpeak Recording – Composite Application Development with David Kelley (Glen Gordon)

Community / Events

• An Eye Opening Apology (Alan Stevens)
• Silverlight Week in Seattle Sept 14 – 17 (Adam Kinney)
• MSDN Social Bookmarks going away (Dave Campbell)
• I [heart] Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)
• More details about Concept Camp (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Designing SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Cubes for Excel 2007 PivotTables (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Tip: Migrating data (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• How to: Choose between an ASP.Net Web Part and a SharePoint Web Part (Eugene Rosenfeld)
• SPDocGen – SharePoint Documentation Generator – Full Source Code Uploaded (Sezai Komur)

Miscellaneous

• How to Build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, Start to Finish (Adam Pash)
• Google Wave Arrives This Month: Are You Ready? (Ben Parr)
• Share your Search with Bing and Ping (Nicholas Kerr)
• 10 Geeky Movies to Raise Your Kids On – GeekDad Wayback Machine (Chuck Lawton) – Link of the Day
• Browser Speed Tests: Chrome 4.0 and Opera 10 Take On All Challengers (Kevin Purdy)
• New Gmail Themes Include One That They Won’t Call “Nintendo,” But I Will (MG Siegler)
• Zune software update coming September 15th alongside Zune HD launch (Ross Miller)
• Job Market Update and some Job Search Advice….. (Robert Pearl)

More Link Collections

• Links (9/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: September 3, 3009 and Interesting Finds: September 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2009 — #682 and Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2009 – 2 — #683 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #426 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 366 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 3rd September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #532 and Double Shot #533 (Mike Gunderloy)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Moving the Mouse Pointer Programmatically and Hiding the Mouse Pointer (Richard Carr)
• MSpec… for Boo! (Aaron Jensen)
• Creating audio signals in .Net (Coding4Fun)
• F#: Setting properties like named parameters (Mark Needham)
• Generating Code with Visual Studio’s T4 (Michael Ceranski)
• Changing Configuration Settings in a Desktop Client Application (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (Mike Walker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Agile methods to deliver on a fixed-budget, fixed-time commitment (Andy Singleton)
• Cloud Computing Design Patterns (Bob Nadler)
• Another Kata: Expression Tokenizer (Brett Schuchert)
• Elegant Code Project Structure Purse Fight (Chris Brandsma)
• It’s the subleties and Facilitation Antipattern: Repetitor (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Don’t Create Aggregate Roots (Udi Dahan) – Link of the Day
• Making your code easier to understand context/specification style unit tests (Ian Cooper)
• Microsoft ESB Toolkit (Mike Walker)
• Fighting Fabricated Complexity (Patrick Smacchia)
• A Craftsman sometimes has to create his own tool (Sergio Pereira)
• What Investing Can Teach You About Software Development (Part 2) (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Real World Refactoring (Joshua Flanagan)
• Simple Python testing in Silverlight with unittest (Jimmy Schementi)
• The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
• Yes… Agile Isn’t Project Managment… (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

• Never worry about ASP.NET AJAX’s .d again (Dave Ward)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 4 Introduction For Database Support With SQL Alchemy. (Ryan Svihla)
• Principals, Code-Behind, & View Engines (K. Scott Allen)
• ASP.NET DropDownList with Custom Paging (Malcolm Sheridan)
• VS2010 Beta1 Web Application Project Database package and SMO options (Xinyang Qiu)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls (Mike Ormond)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Wrap Panel (Deepak Kapoor)
• YouTube video in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• WPF discussions 090626 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening! (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 113: The Rural Juror (Paul Thurrott)
• ThirstyDeveloper #67 – Open Spaces and unmeetings (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Toolshed Tooltip #14 – Developer Community Update by MVP Don (XML) Demsak from Episode 3 (Russell Fustino)
• Major Nelson Show #323: Geoff Keighly, Worms 2 and behind the scenes at E3 (Larry Hryb)
• SharePoint development: using SharePoint as an application development platform and SharePoint Web Content Management / Publishing – Episode 9 (Rob, Nick & Brett)

Community / Events

• Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q2 2009) (Jurgen Appelo) – Congrats to Scott for making #1 and to Justin for his debut at #43!
• NDC09 Trip Report (Phil Haack)
• C’Mon Get Meta! (Jeff Atwood)
• Nayyeri.NET Turns Four (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Happy Blog-day, Keyvan!

SharePoint

• Community Kit For SharePoint (Dave Mann)
• How to Build a Change Control System in SharePoint (Dux Raymond Sy)

Database

• MVP Helps To Jumpstart SQL Server 2008! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Management Studio New Features and SQL SERVER – Maximum Number of Index per Table (Pinal Dave)
• Hyperlinks in custom reports (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• Firefox 3.5 coming June 30th, Fennec updated today (Brad Linder)
• The Five Best and Five Worst Mountain Dews of All Time (Curtis Silver) – Diet Code Red FTW!
• Organizational Chaos Followup (Jesse Liberty)
• 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills (Smashing Magazine)
• Bing Toolbox (Sunshine)
• Review: "Programming Clojure", by Stu Halloway (Ted Neward)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #378 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 06.22 ~ 06.28 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #59 (Grant Palin)
• Links of the week #82 – “Back From Holidays in Croatia” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Links (6/28/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Exporting Visual Studio Solutions with SolutionFactory (Ben Scheirman)
• NHibernate Mapping – <set/> (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Fluent Ado.Net (Chris Brandsma)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #2 (Damien Guard)
• F#: A day of writing a little twitter application (Mark Needham)
• NHibernate’s Future Queries And Their Fallback Behavior (Davy Brion)
• How to use wcftestclient as svc file debugger for VS2008 SP1 (Xinyang Qiu)
• CUMUY PRESENTS: XNA GS (Pedro D. Güida)
• T4 Editor by Tangible Engineering (Oleg Sych)

Web Development

• Striped GridView the Easy Way w/ jQuery (Dave M. Bush)
• Handling MouseEnter and MouseLeave Events in jQuery (Dan Wahlin)
• How to choose between ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Language Envy – Juicy, a simple webserver (Sergio Pereira)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #50 – Create View Models (Stephen Walther)
• A Closable jQuery Plug-in (Rick Strahl)
• Creating A Tabbed Menu Control For ASP.NET MVC (Justin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• X Tests are not X Tests (Michael Feathers)
• Agile practices are not just about management. (Mike Hadlow) – Link of the Day
• "I don’t have time to test!" (jlockwood)
• DDDD: Event Storage (Jonathan Oliver)
• Death to the Space Infidels! (Jeff Atwood)
• NCover v3 rocks! (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Layout Manager for Prism v2 (Ron Gramann)
• WPF : More Mediator Goodness (Sacha Barber)
• Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend—Part 1 (Markus Egger)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Value of Web Forms and Design Constraints (Pixel8 Podcast)
• Tips and Advice – Team Rooms (Bob Payne)
• The Thirsty Developer 58: Applying SOA (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• deCast – Building an Azure App Part II: Azure Table Storage (Rob Bagby)
• Episode 66 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scott Herold talks VESI and Vizioncore (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 13th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming April geekSpeaks (Glen Gordon)
• 5 Blogs ASP.NET MVC Developers Should Be Following (Justin Etheredge)
• 300 Posts (Davy Brion)
• Logo Contest Winner for serverfault.com (Jeff Atwood)
• Tips and Tricks for creating User Group communication channels with your members. (Eric Hexter)
• ASP.NET MVC – CMAP HOL Group Meeting – Thursday, April 16th at 6:30pm (Christopher Steen)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Updates Reporting Services, Office Integration, Data Mining, and More (Bruce Kyle)
• Tip: Using Full Text Search With a Table-Valued Function (Rob Conery)
• SQL SERVER – Check if Current Login is Part of Server Roll Member (Pinal Dave)
• ExecuteSQLExecutingQuery : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Copy SQL Server Database (Ted Krueger)

PowerShell

• Using Script Functions in the PowerShell Pipeline ( Take Two ) (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Ten Quirky Issues with Cross-Platform Version Control (Eric Sink)
• The Apple Tax (Steve Clayton)
• LiveLessons Python Fundamentals Review (Mike Riley)
• Free Book Download: Collaboration in the Cloud – How cross-boundary collaboration is transforming business (Clemens Reijnen)
• How to view revisions for entire wiki – #014 and How not to apply wiki formatting in your CodePlex wiki page – #015 (Sara Ford)
• On Learning Boo (Ian Cooper)
• From Imperative to Functional – Transposing Maps (Matthew Podwysocki)
• “Microsoft Virtualization” Learning Snack & free e-book (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Link Round up on .NET RIA Services (March 13th) (Brad Abrams)
• The Morning Brew #326 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #111 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2009 — #569 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 13th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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