Top Links

• Introducing IIS Express (Scott Guthrie)
• Caliburn v1.1 Released! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Entity Framework Repository & Unit Of Work T4 Template on CodePlex (Dane Morgridge)
• Windows 8 Plans Leaked: Numerous Details Revealed (Stephen Chapman)
• Introducing the PivotViewer Control for Silverlight (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Understanding C#: Using BackgroundWorker to make your UI responsive (Andrew Stellman)
• Organize Using (C# Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with Zip Files in .NET (Richard Lee)
• Generating MD5 and SHA1 checksums for a file (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WCF by Example – Introduction (Enrique Albert)
• How to host WCF services in IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 (Merrick Chaffer)
• Elegant infoof operators in C# (read Info Of) (Patrick Smacchia)
• How I understood monads, part 2/2: have we met before? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• COM Apartments (Marius Bancila)
• Ghost team foundation build controllers (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The Archivist Is Live! (Karsten Januszewski)
• NHibernate 2nd level cache: Doing it wrong? (Mark Needham)
• Do We Need If Blocks? (John Sonmez)
• OData and Workflow Foundation (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• One of the reasons the section color addin was easy to write (John Guin)
• Performance Impact of Server-side Generated GUIDs in EF (Lei Li)
• Developing with Messenger Connect: Recognizable & intuitive and Social Distribution and Realtime Shared Experiences with Messenger Connect and Identity (authentication, profile & relationships) and Windows Live Messenger Connect is now available (Angus Logan)

Web Development

• JavaScript tests now available on the IE Testing Center (Alex Chi)
• HTML5Rocks.com (RJ Owen)
• Mobile Web Toolkits (Brendan Kowitz)
• Action Filter versus Controller Base Class (K. Scott Allen)
• An overview of Open Data Protocol (OData) (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)
• 50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers (Vitaly Friedman)
• Measuring Web Page Performance (Anderson Quach)
• Filling Address Fields using HTML5 Geolocation and jQuery (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Which TFS2010 “Agile” Project Template one is right for you? One side-by-side of MS Agile v5, MS Scrum v1[Beta] and Scrum For TFS(SfTS) v3 (Greg Duncan)
• NCover 3.4.10: NCover Explorer Fixes (Alan Johnson)
• Business Driven Test Management with Microsoft Test Manager (Clemens Reijnen)
• Don’t do it alone (Paul Boag)
• Principles of Programming Architecture (Dave M. Bush)
• Intuition and ‘quit thinking and look’ (Mark Needham)
• Visualize First. Build Later. (Dave West)
• Isolator 6.0.4 is out! (Doron Peretz)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Enhanced ListView Operations using MVVM (Izhar Lotem)
• Using WrapPanel and DockPanel in Windows Phone 7 With Blend (Matthias Shapiro)
• A Convention based Approach for wiring your Views to ViewModels in MVVM – AutoViewModelLocator (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Silverlight Bing Maps: Draw Circle Around a Latitude/Longitude Location (Chris Pietschmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2010/2008 and Microsoft Test Manager Screen Casts – [HE] (Shai Raiten)
• Roger Peter’s great video on using the Facebook Developer Toolkit with Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• Windows Weekly 162: Geeks Who Love Too Much (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Live Messenger Connect SDK (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 63: Sweet deal from MS, Burger King & Xbox, IE 9 and Zune (Laura Foy)
• Consistent UX, Composite Apps and Windows 7 with Jack Henry (Jared Bienz)
• Technology & Friends Episode 97: Brian Jackett on Powershell (David Giard)
• geekSpeak Recording – Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (Emily Gibson)
• The Archivist: Your friendly neighborhood tweet archiver (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• Join the OData Mailing List (Mike Flasko)
• What I learned at FOO Camp ‘10 (Scott Berkun)
• SQL Saturday 42 Musings (Jeremiah Peschka)
• One of the great things about TechEd … (Ed Wilson)

Database

• SQL Server Instance Checklist (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQLAuthority News – Exam 70-433 – MCTS – Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development and SQL SERVER – Outer Join Not Allowed in Indexed Views (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• 3 Ways to Accelerate Your SharePoint Career (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Get FULL Access to SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Book Online (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Chrome Extension Development (Sergio Pereira)
• TechSmith Lights Up Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft leaks plans for a Windows 8 app store (Jay Hathaway)
• The OneNote Test Team is Hiring! (John Guin)
• Microsoft’s Support Sets Us Apart (Barbara Gordon)
• Cloud computing in healthcare – private, public, or somewhere in between (Steve Aylward)
• Xbox 360 is hiring for Kinect (Jason Pankow)
• What I would do if I was in charge of Windows 8 (Miguel de Icaza)
• Co-Authoring Using Office 2010 (Sarah Perez)
• C++ killed my grandpappy – Is C++ hard and where are the C++ coders hiding? (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft removing your 3D glasses (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft details early Windows 8 improvements to OEMs (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 29, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #631 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 28, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Venkat Subramaniam

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Top Links

• Wanted: Virtual Alt.Net Community Contributors, Organizers, and Presenters (Steve Bohlen)
• Yahoo YUI Compressor vs. Microsoft AJAX Minifier vs. Google Closure Compiler (Nick Berardi)
• Drop-down Lists and ASP.NET MVC (K. Scott Allen)
• How to return all the skipped identity values from a table in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 – It’s still not meeting data developer’s needs (William Vaughn)
• How to use Reference Highlighting — vstipEdit0010 and Using the Call Hierarchy (C# Only) — vstipTool0005 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Building an External DSL in C# (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Much Ado About Monads – Creating Extended Builders (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Visual Studio TFS Branching Guide 2010, aka Team Foundation Server Branching Guide III, released (by guess who? Yep,the ALM Rangers…) (Greg Duncan)
• Article Published on Creating a LINQ Provider (Charlie Calvert)
• Wi-Fi Warthogs (Tim Higgins)
• Clarification on Developer and Trial Azure Account Pricing (Dave Isbitski)
• A Definite Assignment Anomaly (Eric Lippert)
• Vanilla Yet Composable HTTP Services With WCF 4 and Windsor (Howard Dierking)

Web Development

• SEO Tips for Developers : Site Structure (Chris Missal)
• My picture of an MVC-WebForms marriage (Jimmy Bogard)
• Editable Routes Using App_Code (Phil Haack)
• Expression Web Queries (Minal Agarwal)
• FubuMVC – Define your actions your way (Joshua Flanagan)
• Book Review: 51 Tips, Tricks, and Recipes with jQuery & ASP.NET Controls (Elijah Manor)
• Page Action Mapping in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Balsamiq’s First release of 2010: Draggable Tabs and bug fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• How do you get motivated? (Scott Berkun)
• Are ORMs Solving Anything? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Product Planning in Office 2010 (Scott Gordon)
• Use 3 Stories to Drive Your Day (JD Meier)
• 10 Things To Improve Your Development Career (Ted Neward)
• Poor use of DI versus need for DI and Starting fresh (Jimmy Bogard)
• Dependency Injection Inversion Rejection (Davy Brion)
• Strategic Design (Responsibility Traps) – Eric Evans (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Create First Silverlight Application and Create First WPF Application (Karl Shifflett)
• Caliburn v1.1 Release Candidate Available! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Matrix3DEx 1.0 – When PlaneProjection is not enough (Rene Schulte)
• Source viewer added to the Silverlight SDK sample browser (Karl Erickson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jason Olson Digs into the CLR 4.0 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• WebDevRadio Episode 72: Groovy Grails Griffon Greatness at CodeMash (Michael Kimsal)
• Pluralcast #6 : The Language Tour, Part 1 and Pluralcast #7 : The Language Tour, Part 2 (David Starr)
• 10-4 Episode 38: What’s New with WCF4 – Simplified Config (Ron Jacobs)
• Ping 44: Science of Natal, Kodu, HP, Free SEO (Laura Foy)
• GitHub for the Rest of Us Screencast (Chris Wanstrath)
• Silverlight TV Episode 2: Perspectives on Flash and Silverlight (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Employees Quick to Help in Haiti (MS PressPass)
• Greener Pastures (Ben Scheirman)
• Free Developer Training for Windows Mobile 6.5 (Bruce Kyle)
• Wanna Attend "Delivering SharePoint Success" Mentoring Workshop This Thursday, Jan 21, in Washington DC for FREE? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Events this Week – January 18th, 2010 and MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow: Windows Azure (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Mac MVP Contributes to Apple Script Book (Emily Freet)
• Nothin But .Net 2010 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• iPhone 4.0 and Apple Tablet Confirmed for January 27 (Taimur Asad)
• “SharePoint 2010: Bits from the Edge” the day long free virtual SharePoint conference (Feb 16, North America, Feb 18, Europe) (Greg Duncan)
• Codemash 2010 and the Smartphone Throwdown – Windows Mobile vs iPhone vs Android vs Blackberry vs Palm (Keith Elder)
• A rant about women (Scott Berkun)

Database

• Tools and Processes for “Fitting it all in” (Buck Woody)
• Activity Monitor to gather statistics and health of SQL Server 2008 (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS Query Command(s) completed successfully without ANY Results (Pinal Dave)
• Interesting case of watching log file growth during a perf test (Paul S. Randal)
• Deploying a database solution in Visual Studio Database Professional – Tip (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• WebCast tomorrow on SharePoint 2010 for Developers (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Theme – Nothing But 7up (Anum Lodhi)
• Delayed Screen Captures in PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
• The Great Newline Schism (Jeff Atwood)
• 5 desktop apps that’ll make swift work of FaceVille — er, Facebook! (Sebastian Anthony)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First iPhone Development — Only $9.99! Use discount code HFPD9 (O’Reilly Media)
• A Review of “24 Deadly Sins of Software Security: Programming Flaws and How to Fix Them” (Stephen Robillard)
• New Windows Live Mail Wave 4 screenshot revealed! (John Hsu)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 01/19/2010 (Bob Familiar)
• LINKBLOG for Jan 18, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #519 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 18, 2010 — #782 (Dave Campbell)
• Great TFS2010 Resources (Cameron Skinner)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 01.10 ~ 01.18 (yuanjian)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Jan-1010 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Link Post 128 (Rhonda Tipton)

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LINQ in Action

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Changing log4net connection string at runtime (Ben Scheirman)
• New Book: Developing for Microsoft Surface (Eric Havir)
• Exact rules for variance validity (Eric Lippert)
• One-Way (Or Fire And Forget) Requests With Agatha (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Resolving ASP.NET Web.Config Inheritance (Tom Hearn)
• jQuery, Each() and Async Gets (Dave M. Bush)
• Configuring a Sueetie Blog to Support Microsoft LiveWriter (Dave Burke)
• Google Wave API Articles: Extensions Debugging & Robot-to-Gadget Communication (Pamela Fox)
• What’s New in Expression Web 3.0 Service Pack 1.0 (Minal Agarwal)
• How important is medium trust to you? (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• More WebSequenceDiagrams.com Awesomeness (Charles Chen)
• So Now You’re an Agilist, What’s Next? (Video) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Applied Modularity – Retrospectives (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Setting Architecture Review Board Member Expectations (Mike Walker)
• How To Use Windsor to Change a Deployed Application’s Behavior Without Touching a Single Line of Existing Code (Rob Reynolds)
• Stop the assembly line! Fix that software deployment! (Andy Singleton)
• ÜberProf and Continuous Integration (Oren Eini)
• Persistence model and domain anemia (Jimmy Bogard)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 11 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• First QuickNet Release Is Out (Davy Brion)
• What’s a better game than Devshop? (Leon Bambrick)

Silverlight / WPF

• BugCamSmash – Motion Detection with Silverlight 4 Beta (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight 4 Augmented Reality Proof Of Concept (Rene Schulte)
• Caliburn Silverlight Navigation Walkthrough: Introduction (Rob Eisenberg)
• Hacking Kaxaml to work on .NET 4.0 (Mike Taulty)
• RIA – Should a service return the IQueryable<T>? (Fredrik Normén)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• PDC09 Backstage during the keynote (Ben Riga)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 10 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #76 (Jeff Atwood)
• This Week in Testing Episode 6 – Analyze This! (Gil Zilberfeld & Dror Helper)
• VSX212: Adding a Language Service into Visual Studio 2010 and VSX106: Introduction to DSL (Sherry Toly)
• Fabrikam Jets – Integrating Codename "Dallas" with AppFabric Access Control (Jack Greenfield)
• Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast? (Min Li Chan)

Community / Events

• Testing with Pex and QuickCheck – 7th January 2010 @ Microsoft’s offices, Edinburgh (Mike Perrin)
• You Can Benefit From Open Sourcing Your Code (Davy Brion)

Database

• SQL Server Best Practices: Protect CmdExec (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 Star Join Query Optimization (Pinal Dave)
• TwitterCache now hosted on SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Fantastic blog series on SharePoint 2007 Content Deployment (Andrew Connell)
• Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 – a key ECM enhancement (Chris O’Brien)
• Walkthrough of creating a SharePoint 2010 external list using Visual Studio 2010 Beta (SharePoint Team)
• BCS Meta Man – upscale SPD External Content Type (Lightning Tools Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Targets Programming Newbies with New Vedea Visualization Language (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Microsoft’s Updated List of FREE Windows Holiday Software (Blake Handler)
• Introducing Google Public DNS (Prem Ramaswami) – Link of the Day
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/4 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Motorola Droid 2.0 Details Leaked (Taimur Asad)
• Get those pixels working for you (Scott Hanselman)
• Sometimes you just need to CodingHorror it! (Nick Berardi)
• Minimizing the Ribbon: Exposed (Jon Gordner)
• Techniques for Being Ready-to-Publish at Any Time (Julie Stickler)
• PowerGUI 1.9.6 Released (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Normal booting is old school [Windows 7 tricks detailed: USB key install, VHD creation, and native VHD boot/dual-boot!] (David Anson)
• Microsoft’s Bing Bar takes the clutter and complexity out of browser toolbars (Joe Wilcox)
• OpenCV cvLoadImage IOError (Tony Rasa)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #491 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 03, 2009 — #747 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: December 3, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (12/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Web Deployment Painkillers: VS 2010 & MS Deploy (Vishal Joshi)
• Search For This Line In IntelliTrace (Habib Heydarian)
• Dynamic objects and ReSharper (Hadi Hariri)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Primitives (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Some Love for VB.NET 10 Too (Kevin Jones)
• EF POCOs and GetObjectStateEntry (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• Emulate ASP.NET validation groups with jQuery validation (Dave Ward)
• New Endpoint Options Enable Additional Application Patterns (Mohit Srivastava)
• .nodeName Case Sensitivity (John Resig)
• Where does this go? Applying SoC to dynamic data – Part 2 (Peter Blum)
• T4MVC now has a real home and a dedicated forum! (David Ebbo)
• GraffitiCMS to be released as open source (Julian M. Bucknall)
• MSDN – Converting an existing ASP.NET application to Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• 2010: The Year of Microsoft on the Web? (Stephen Chapman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Now Available: Final PDF of the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, Second Edition (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• Using the exploration result object model: Basics (Wolfgang Grieskamp)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 10 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• The joy of MSpec (Mike Hadlow)
• Kanban Trail Markers (Karl Scotland)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Beta – Using Silverlight as Drop Target (Brian Lagunas)
• EdgeCam Shots – Saving Silverlight 4 Webcam Snapshots to JPEG (Rene Schulte)
• State, Element, and Storyboard Pickers (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Handling Network Outage in Silverlight with Caliburn (Rob Eisenberg)
• New WPF Features: MultiTouch (Lester Lobo)
• Refresh the cached EntitySet after a SubmitChanges – WCF RIA Services (Fredrik Normén)
• What’s New in Silverlight 4 – Download and Run! (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks – Bowen and Cummings on XNA (Carl Franklin)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #75 (Jeff Atwood)
• The Visual Studio Documentary – Alan Cooper, the Father of Visual Basic (Tina Wood)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Guided Tour inside the Windows Azure Cloud with Patrick Yantz (Scott Hanselman)
• Our Picks for Must See PDC Videos (Bruce Kyle)

Community / Events

• Central Jersey .NET Agile Firestarter – Saturday December 12, 2009 (Stephen Forte)
• PDC 2009 review (Steve Clayton)
• New Event Series! Meet the… (Alex Hillman)
• Albacore: Come join the discussion! (Derick Bailey)

Database

• SQL Server Single Character Functions (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column (Pinal Dave)
• How to Get Table Sizes in SQL Server (Keith Elder)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 (Gert Drapers)
• The Observer Effect In Action (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

• 5 Reasons Why Executive SharePoint Ignorance is Not Bliss (Part 1) (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s TechNet Releases "Explore as Administrator" PowerToy for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Windows 7’s solution to beta software (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Land the Tech Job You Love (Matt Stine)
• How Big is Your Processor Cache? Find out with Coreinfo (Ade Miller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #484 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 — #742 and Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 – 2 — #743 – updated (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 24, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 24-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Visualizing Concurrency, F# and More (Matt Davey)
• Vacation of Fluent NHibernate: Introduction (Bobby Johnson)
• Providing Feedback (Cameron Skinner)
• Running IronPython Scripts from a C# 4.0 Program (Charlie Calvert)
• Getting Loopy (Coding4Fun)
• Creating something from nothing [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET!] (David Anson)
• Simple Kick Start Example using MEF (Preview (Derik Whittaker)
• .Net Framework 4.0: Enumerating file system objects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Upcoming ADO.Net Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (EF Team)
• Looking for questions or feedback on IntelliTrace (Habib Heydarian)
• Consuming Services with WCF (Herbjörn Wilhelmsen)
• Working with AS400-iSeries-System i Stored Procedures in .NET (Joel Cochran)
• Toolbox Search (Josh)
• Box Selection and Multi-Line Editing (Brittany Behrens)
• VSIX and MSI (Quan To)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard October CTP (Stephen Forte)
• Extending Visual Studio 2010 UML Designers – Part 1: Getting Started (Peter Provost)
• Speeding up data access by using Linq to SQL or EF (Jason Young)

Web Development

• Website Background Services Are Hot (Pete Seale)
• Playing with JQuery Validation Library, Part 2 (Chris Brandsma)
• ClientIDMode in ASP.NET 4.0 (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft Expression Super Preview Tool – Completely Useless ? (Dave Schinkel)
• Authentication – Assigning Permissions to Roles (Dave M. Bush)
• TIP: How To Generate a Fully Qualified URL in ASP.NET (E.g., http://www.yourserver.com/folder/file.aspx) (Scott Mitchell)
• jQuery Enlightenment is a Worthy Purchase (Marc Grabanski)
• Conditional UIHint (Steve Naughton)
• Building HtmlHelper Extension Methods for ASP.NET MVC (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Manage Your Windows Azure Application From PowerShell (Steve Marx)
• ASP.NET MVC View Model Patterns (Steve Michelotti)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strategy rather than code (Simon Brown)
• Is software engineering still relevant? (Bob Stout)
• SOA Manifesto (Colin Jack)
• Hierarchical Namespace Component (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Hypervideo, Closed Captions & Accessibility (Jesse Liberty)
• Introducing the WPF 4 Calendar Control (Pete Brown)
• WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• WPF Comics Book Reader – Release v2.8 (CodePlex)
• New WPF features: Custom Speller Dictionary (Lester Lobo)
• Caliburn v1 RTW for WPF, Silverlight 2.0 and 3.0! (Rob Eisenberg) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Wolfgang Grieskamp and Keith Stobie: Spec Explorer – An Overview (Charles Torre)
• .NET Rocks! – Doug Seven on Visual Studio 2010 (Carl Franklin)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #149: Introduction to NDepend, adding NDepend to your Nant Script (Derik Whittaker)
• Free Webcast: How to Effectively Utilize Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Developing Data-tier Applications using Visual Studio 2010 (Elisa J.)
• A Feed You Should Read #9 – 10-4 (Greg Duncan)
• Ping 35: Hanselman, Windows 7 launch, Sharepoint 2010 Beta, Pointless apps (Laura Foy)
• deCast – Patterns-Based Silverlight – Part III – The Pipeline Pattern (Rob Bagby)
• SpecExplorer: Model-Based Testing made practicable (Jonathan de Halleux)
• ThirstyDeveloper Podcast – Windows Mobile 6.5 with Loke Uei Tan and Anand Iyer (Dave Bost)
• Polymorphic Podcast 2009.10.26 – ASP.NET AJAX Preview 6 with Stephen Walther (Craig Shoemaker)
• SharePoint Conference 2009 Interview – one real, one fun (Andrew Connell)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Conference 2009 – Wrapup (Andrew Connell)
• Joining Windows (Harry Pierson)
• Sam Gentile Presentation: WF4, WCF4, and Dublin: Whats New in VS2010 (Sam Gentile)

Database

• FYI: A new barrier to SQL Azure adoption (Jamie Thomson)
• Amazon Releases Relational Database As A Service – My Initial Thoughts (Krishnan Subramanian)
• SQL SERVER – How to Enable Index – How to Disable Index – Incorrect syntax near ‘ENABLE’ (Pinal Dave)
• Dealing with Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation errors and Interesting Increase Key Value Post By CSS SQL Server Engineers (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• #spc09 The Future of SharePoint Project Management (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Sharing VSeWSS experiences (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• CIO MAG: Windows 7 Bible: Your Complete Guide to the Next Version of Windows (Bob Familiar)
• Free e-book: Windows 7 troubleshooting tips (Devon Musgrave)
• Microsoft Opens Up the PST Format (Paul Thurrott)
• PST File Format Documentation coming… (Greg Duncan)
• Advice for Public Speakers (Bill Wagner)
• Windows7 Trigger Start Services – Part 1: Introduction (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub (Tekkub Stoutwrithe)
• 7 on 7: Direct2D and DirectWrite (Jim O’Neil)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines 10/26/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Interesting Finds: October 26, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #463 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 26th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #569 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Code from Persistence.NET NHibernate Workshops and NHibernate Queries – Examples and NHibernate – Mapping a single domain model to multiple physical data models (Oren Eini)
• Incrementing a C# Variable Efficiently (Bashir Nabeel)
• More Extension Methods (Chris Cavanagh)
• Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey) (Chris Williams)
• A .NET (C#) Developer’s .gitignore File (Derick Bailey)
• Sneak Preview: Entity Framework 4.0 Testability Improvements (Diego Vega)
• “foreach” vs “ForEach” (Eric Lippert)
• Windows 7 Managed Code APIs (Yochay Kiriaty) – Link of the Day
• Id Generation for db4o (Tuna Toksoz)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 on msdn downloads (Wally McClure)
• .NET Framework 4 and VS Beta1 docs are posted (Jim Galasyn)
• Preview of Resharper for Visual Studio 2010 Coming Soon (JetBrains)
• Connecting VS2010 to TFS 2008 and Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Supports UML (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why Isn’t My Encryption.. Encrypting? (Jeff Atwood)
• Half-a-Book Review: IronRuby in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Web Development

• FireFox+Firebug vs IE8 Developer Toolbar (Chris Brandsma)
• New book: Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications (Devon Musgrave)
• ASP.NET MVC For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Phil Haack) – Coming in June.
• Book – ASP.NET MVC QUICKLY from Packt Publishing! (Joe Stagner)
• Dynamically Generate Meta Tags for ASP.NET Pages using LINQ To XML (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Free Typemock licenses – Welcome the ASP.NET Unit Testing Bundle (Roy Osherove)
• Unit Testing JavaScript with FireUnit (Stephen Walther)

Silverlight / WPF

• Realizing a Fisheye Effect in Silverlight (Charles Petzold)
• 3D Hit Testing (Jordan)
• MVVM and The Origins of Caliburn (Rob Eisenberg)
• New York Times WPF Kit (Michael S. Scherotter)
• How to customize holiday appearance in the Silverlight Calendar [Jason Cooke] (Kathy Kam)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• “Code Leader” book – what’s the missing piece? (Roy Osherove)
• Programming magic: Rituals and habits of effective programmers (Amy Bennett)
• The Flat Tire Principle for Source Control (Eric Hexter)
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Role and perception of Enterprise Architects needs to align better with business goals (Mike Walker)
• Unit Testing in EF v1 – the database conundrum and And now…Unit Testing in EF4 (Julie Lerman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Peter DaBetta and Adam Machanic on creating good SQL databases (Carl Franklin)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 31: Being Dynamic about IronPython with Harry Pierson – Part 1 and Episode 32: Being Dynamic about IronPython with Harry Pierson – Part 2 (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Code Cast 27 – Ade Miller (David Starr)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Silverlight 3 with Adam Grocholski (Jeff Brand)
• InfoStrat.VE: Integrating Virtual Earth 3D into WPF and Surface Applications for Mere Mortals (Marc Schweigert)
• Ping 12: Mac vs Microsoft, Ipod vs Zune: The Ad Campaign War (Laura Foy)
• Episode 70 – PowerScripting Podcast – Practical PowerShell: Best Practices from the Field (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• David Giard interviews Jamie Wright on CSLA .NET (Rockford Lhotka)
• Surface Development Part 1: What is the Microsoft Surface? (Jennifer Marsman)

Community / Events

• The dojo is open… www.ITSamuraiSchool.com (Billy McCafferty)
• .NET RIA Services at TechEd 2009 (Brad Abrams)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta1 Forums –Now Live (Charles Sterling)
• Speaking at CodeStock 2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Events This Week – May 18th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Energy Event – Mark Your Calendar – May 20, 2009 (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamic Languages at TechEd 2009 (John Lam)

Database

• SMO Script Index and FK’s on a database (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Increase Your Windows 7′s Portable’s Battery Life with "Power Management Reports" (Blake Handler)
• Flock 2.5 launches with support for Twitter, more services (Rafe Needleman)
• My Phone Beta Opened To All Users! (Sunshine)
• WMI Feature Announcement (Nandan Bhat)
• MAKE magazine projects as free PDFs (Mark Frauenfelder)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 1 – Know Your Audience (Justin Etheredge)
• Microsoft and Open Source (Harry Pierson)
• Eduify Launches Educational Tool for Students on Windows Azure (Sarah Perez)
• Windows 7 Learning Site Launched (Scott Lock)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #350 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for May 18th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Silverlight Cream for May 18, 2009 — #595 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for May 18, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #80 (David Vidmar)
• CloudNews for May 18th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Send Emails with .NET and Gmail (Stephen Hill)
• Parallel.For(.): A Deeper Dive – Parallel Programming in .Net 4.0 (Paul Jackson)
• VS10 and OSS (Andrew Stopford)
• Calculate sunset and sunrise time (Wouter Huysentruit)
• Implementing a WCF service firewall part I of N (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Uninstalling the Clickonce Support for Firefox (Brad Abrams)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Thumbnail Toolbars (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• Free Web Hosting + Free Web Tools = Free-kin’ Awesome!!! (Bob Familiar)
• Introducing Sueetie Groups (Dave Burke)
• Retrieving Database Information using ASP.NET and SQL Server 2005/2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)

Silverlight / WPF

• Prism V2 Refreshed and Building a Prism Application WebCast: Part II Available (Bob Brumfield)
• David Owens: WPF Search Text Box and XAML State of the Union – Feb 2009 and CodePlex: Bling Project Updated – Goal to Help Prototyping of Rich UI Design Ideas (Rob Relyea)
• New Silverlight media experience for WindowsClient.net and Testing Silverlight Applications (Tim Heuer)
• Tip: Invoking Blend from Visual Studio (Jim Galasyn)
• The Caliburn Beta is Live (Rob Eisenberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Technical Debt (Martin Fowler)
• Seamless test authoring with ReSharper and AutoHotKey (Jimmy Bogard)
• Agile UI design (Daniela Panfili)
• Starting with Test-driven development (Laila Bougria)
• Quality Must Be Built In – It Cannot Be Added On (Derick Bailey)
• Handy cheat sheet for Visual Source Safe (Leon Bambrick)
• Book Review: Clean Code (Jim Holmes)
• Great UI: Clarity and Color on the Presentation Layer (Mark Miller)
• Some Alternative Ways of Reading Context/Specification (David Starr)

Community / Events

• Learn .NET Best Practices From Top Area Developers (Denny Boynton)

SharePoint

• The SharePoint Object Model. . .of Doom 1 (Kyle Szklenski)

Database

• SQL Data Services – SQL Server in the Cloud! (Joe Stagner)

Miscellaneous

• The Slacker Media Player: Nostalgia (the Good Kind) in the Palm of Your Hand (Wil Wheaton)
• 10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) (Michael Feathers) – Link of the Day
• IE8 videos on Channel 9 (Sharon Cohen)
• Iterasi Now Supported in IE 8.0 (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #296 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – February 25, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for February 26, 2009 — #529 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 02.23~02.27 (yuanjian)
• Links (2/26/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: February 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for February 26, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• New and Notable 295 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for February 26th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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