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Top Links

• The paradox of choice: best of breed or cheapest of the bunch (Oren Eini)
• Inversion Of Control Containers And Factories Aren’t Mutually Exclusive (Davy Brion)
• Mocking Mocking and Testing Outcomes. (Uncle Bob Martin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Framework Inheritance Types (Gil Fink)
• Drag and drop code onto the Toolbox — vstipTool0007 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Quick Tip: Parse String to Nullable Value (Keith Dahlby)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API: Introduction to Working with Location in .NET 4 Beta 2 (Pete Brown)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• D.C. and the Wrapper Factory (Dennis Dietric)
• Coding: The collecting parameter pattern and TDD: Removing the clutter (Mark Needham)
• Being provoked by your uncle (Mark Nijhof)
• Understanding And Avoiding The Serious Perils Of F-You-Code. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• XamlPadSample-Step 1d-Window (Rob Relyea)
• Pants on the Ground: The Silverlight Application (Charles Petzold)
• Configuration & Decoupled Modules (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 140: It’s Finger Friendly (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9 – Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Talks and WebCast (Cameron Skinner)
• Why we all need celebrity programmers (Roy Osherove)
• As A Movement, ALT.NET Has Been Dead For A While (Davy Brion)

Database

• SQL Server Cursors (Richard Carr)
• Time is no use for recording Time (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Sample Databases for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (December 2009) Samples Refresh 4 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Theme Builder" Beta for Office 2007 (Blake Handler)
• Windows 3.11 in-a-browser is retrocomputing awesome (Lee Mathews)
• It’s an awesome time to be a Developer (Pete Brown)
• Steam shows massive adoption of Windows 7 by gamers (Sebastian Anthony)
• Dynamic Blog Posts DynaPosts (Jesse Liberty)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 23, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 – 2 — #785 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link #89 (Grant Palin)

The Geek Shelf

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

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Top Links

• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 5. The Startable Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• The Value Driven Agile Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• I Am Not CodeMash (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learning to LINQ, provider that is – Writing a LINQ To Wikipedia provider walkthrough (Greg Duncan)
• Some Common Operations using List – Part II (Suprotim Agarwal)
• InjectionFactory and Automatic Factories in Unity 2 – Tutorials and Examples (David Hayden)
• Search for the currently-selected string without bringing up the Find window (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Accessing a Web Service Using Sys.Net.Webrequest (Anup Hosur)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pair Programming continued (Mark Nijhof)
• Programmer Tip: Have The Spine To Question Authority (And Your Manager). (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 3 of X – Repository implementation and Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 4 of X – DomainService, using DTO and Unity (Fredrik Normen)
• Persistable View Models & XAML for Config (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 139: Big Trouble In Little Paul (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9 – Clint Rutkas, Photoshop results, MVC 2 resources galore (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• On self-promotion, lies, and being a woman (Rachel Andrew)
• What three events brought you here? (Paul S. Randal)
• Interview with Silverlightshow.net and a sneak preview of my next articles (András Velvárt)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Get Server Version and Additional Info (Pinal Dave)
• Scripting Indexes (Patrick LeBlanc)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates Live Meeting Console & Outlook Conference Add-In for Office 2010 and Microsoft Releases "System State Analyzer Tool" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• New, Improved Comments with @reply (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Post… 1/11/2010 through 1/16/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

The Geek Shelf

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

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.NET / Visual Studio

• It’s time for you to consider replacing SourceSafe (Anthony Borton)
• How the TFS team is listening (Ben Scheirman)
• Get ready to “go live” with Team Foundation Server 2010 beta 2! (Brian Keller)
• Switch Connection String Being Used Based on Constructor Flag (Dave Schinkel)
• Team Build without Tests Lists (David Starr)
• Why NHibernate Entities Need A Public Or Protected Parameterless Constructor (Davy Brion)
• SourceSafe Still? TFS2010 may be the TFS tipping point for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Create Breakpoints With Hit Count In Visual Studio 2008 (Deepak Kapoor)
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)
• Fun with Func<T,TResult> Delegates, Events and Async Operations (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• How To Speed Up Your Website By 80% Or More (Alan Skorkin)
• Programming ASP.NET 3.5 (Dave M. Bush)
• thinking out loud: asp.net mvc & nhaml (Christopher Bennage)
• Efficient Server Side Paging With ASP.NET And jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Mobile Website Development With Netbiscuits (Robert Birkenheuer)
• Tip#98: Did you know… The default Application Pool Identity in IIS 7.5 (Windows 7) changed from NetworkService to AppPoolIdentity? (Katerina Rohonyan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strive for Functional Cohesion (Chris Eargle)
• xProfiler – A generic OR/M Profiler (Oren Eini)
• Please pass the duct tape (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Thoughts On Intellectual Honesty And Personal Ambitions (Davy Brion)
• Choosing a career path; which way do I go? (Joe Webb)
• Test Plan Template (Josh Poley)
• Lean and Kanban Collection (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Healthy Team Habits with Team System (David Starr)
• Announcing the guide for claims based identity and access control (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Delegate Mapper (Greg Young)
• Learn one thing a day and QTB: Agile Governance – Managing the Enterprise Issues (Mark Needham)
• Just some thoughts on the term ‘Pragmatic’ (Corey Haines)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 11. and Dissecting Remarkable Code And Design – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Quit Living in the Past – Practices Evolve and How we do things – Preamble and Contents and How We Do Things – Who we are, Where we were, Where we stand (Scott C. Reynolds)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor) (Daniel Grunwald)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V2: What’s new? (Laurent Bugnion) – Link of the Day
• My Favorite Silverlight Extensions APIs – Part 1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Mouse Over ComboBox Open (Behavior) (Jacek Ciereszko)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Re-architecting Applications for Internationalization (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: SQL Azure, MVC 2, New Channel 9 Content (Dan Fernandez)
• Connected Show Podcast: Paul Thurrott on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Brian Johnson)
• A Great Screencast on Skinning for WPF and Silverlight (Frank La Vigne)
• Engadget Podcast 165 – 10.02.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 86 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• PDC 2009: Patterns of Parallel Programming Survey (Ade Miller)
• Hello, authors! (Devon Musgrave)
• Jon Skeet, you will always be an MVP (Ted Neward)
• 10 Years at patterns & practices (J.D. Meier)
• My Software Development journey: Year 3-4 (Mark Needham)
• Concept Camp 2009 Review (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• Did you know you can use Amazon’s SimpleDB for free? (Just keep the data and transfer below 1GB per month, and keep the queries limited) (Greg Duncan)
• The problem with len()? (Martin Bell)
• SQLAuthority News – Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition and SQL SERVER – Choose Right Edition of SQL Server Express for Your Application (Pinal Dave)
• Calculating The Percentage Of Null Values In A Column With Transact SQL (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Install SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Jie Li)

Miscellaneous

• This Week in Search 10/2/09 (Marissa Mayer)
• Do you sign the default contract? (Oren Eini)
• Nerd Gear – What to wear? (Sara J. Chipps)
• Marketplace is live on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones (Thomas Ricker)
• October’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Google Wave’s unproductive email metaphors (Robert Scoble)
• Lookbehind in Regex searches (Rick Strahl)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #447 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 2, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2009 — #703 and Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2009 — #704 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for October 2, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #92 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #73 (Grant Palin)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (Kirill Osenkov)
• CloudNews for 2nd October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (10/4/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #554 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links for the week – 2009.10.02 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• A Feed You Should Read #6 – Bite my bytes, Links of the week (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 113 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 376 (Sam Gentile)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/04/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• 12 Tips To Speed-up Your Windows Forms Applications (Denis Basaric)
• Microsoft Windows 7 SDK (ISO) and Windows Media Center SDK (MS Downloads)
• Instantiating interfaces (Oren Eini)
• (Mis)using C# 4.0 Dynamic – Type-Free Lambda Calculus, Church Numerals, and more (Bart de Smet)
• ExpressionVisitor shipping in .NET 4.0 (David Kean)
• DAL: Save Data Using a Stored Procedure and Using Linq with Microsoft Word and Excel (Deborah Kurata)
• Wow, the hatred for ‘var’ lives on (Derik Whittaker)
• Displaying custom HTML in WebBrowser control and Developing Delicious applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• Observations on the ‘if’ statement (Chris Brandsma)
• A GC API that would be convenient (Patrick Smacchia)
• A Look At Tasks In The System.Threading.Tasks VS2010 Namespace (Sacha Barber)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #13: More more than one person (Eric Gunnerson)
• Fluent NHibernate 1.0RC (James Gregory) – Link of the Day
• TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster! and TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Cleaner Stack Traces (Jamie Cansdale)
• LinqToSQL A Detailed Review (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Tabbed Thumbnails and Previews in Native Code (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• NPR Opens 80,000 Transcripts via New Transcript API (Andres Ferrate)
• Windows Azure Sample Application Riviera (Deepak Kapoor)
• Announcing Sueetie Themes (Dave Burke)
• DinnerNow.net 3.1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 released (Habib Heydarian)
• Dysfunctional JavaScript (James Hart)
• ASP.NET MVC – Some Frequently Asked Questions (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Book Review: Web Design for ROI (Tim Barcz)
• Signed Access Signatures and PHP SDK for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Snapshot Panel in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• Prototyping a Drupal Module for Google Wave (Pamela Fox)
• The Design and Development Benefits of CSS (Tom Lerchenfeld & Josh Frankel)
• ASP.NET disk-based caching (Karl Seguin)
• How to use Ninject 2 with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
• Range-Specific Requests in ASP.NET (Scott Mitchell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft Updated (Ade Miller)
• Benchmarks are useless, yes, again and Taking advantage on the Data Transfer Tier (Oren Eini)
• Kanban In Time-Boxes: The Cadence of WIP and Sprints (Derick Bailey)
• Continuous learning and getting left behind (Jimmy Bogard)
• Thoughts on agile design and platforms (Eric Gunnerson)
• the difference between model-view-viewmodel and other separated presentation patterns (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Should I use MEF for my general IoC needs? (Glenn Block)
• My favorite form of a “TODO” in code (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Spearmen, Javelin Throwers, and the State Pattern. Oh My! (Troy Goode)
• Convention over Configuration – The Next Generation? (Udi Dahan)
• Adjusting NHibernate mapping for tests (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Builders hanging off class vs Builders in same namespace and Impersonators: Why do we need them? (Mark Needham)
• Does A Kanban System Eschew Iteration (Karl Scotland)
• Brian Harry on Agile delivery of VSTS (Keith Pleas)
• Refactoring Day 15 : Remove Duplication and Refactoring Day 16 : Encapsulate Conditional (Sean Chambers)
• What a difference a framework can make… (Sebastien Lambla)
• Circular Refactoring (Sergio Pereira)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 5. (Rajiv Popat)
• Why the Re-Think? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• So What’s a Silverlight Value Converter Anyway? (Dan Wahlin)
• SilverX converts Flash video to Silverlight (Jay Hathaway)
• Adding a Rotating Button to the Swivel Behavior Demo and Silverlight 2 Animation – Book Review (John Papa)
• WPF: Dynamic Search UI (JP Hamilton)
• Silverlight triggers (Rockford Lhotka)
• Wpf Drag & Drop behaviour (Martin Hinshelwood)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 118: Microsoft Gets Its Mojo Back (Paul Thurrott)
• Great VSTS 2010, Agile, and Scrum Webcasts Available Soon! (Angela Binkowski)
• This Week C9: Win7 API’s, Spec# and Boogie, Expression 3 Starter Kits (Brian Keller)
• Team System Videos Online! (David Starr)
• Major Nelson Show #328: Xbox 360 System update, BIGS 2 and Trials HD (Larry Hyrb)
• Ping 25: Comedians, SQL server, Photosynth, Facebook, Zune, Bingle (Laura Foy)
• Video: Smart & Lean Organizations (Max Pool)
• Episode 80 – PowerScripting Podcast – Klaus Graefensteiner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• CodePlex Editor Role (Harry Pierson)
• Microsoft Technology Roadmap at PDC in LA (Michele Leroux Bustamante)

Database

• Data Mining – Handling Missing Values the Database (Eran Kampf)
• Scripting Objects with Magic (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Introduction to Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server 2008 and Evaluate the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) (Pinal Dave)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 2 (Martin Bell)
• Keeping Your Code in Sync With Your Database (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Free Copy of Windows 7 and Free Windows 7 Training for I.T. Professionals & Developers from Microsoft (Blake Handler)
• More Growl for Windows from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)
• Rate Your Employer Sites – It’s About Damn Time (Dave Schinkel)
• Windows 8: Next-Generation GUI Confirmed and Windows 8 to Include Data Center Automation (Stephen Chapman)
• Writing PowerShell cmdlets in F# — May CTP (Steve Gilham)
• Wave 2 of Windows 7 Client and Windows Server 2008 R2 – NOW LIVE ON MSDN SUBSCRIBER DOWNLOADS! (MSDN Subscriptions Blog)
• Latest Article About Nerding it Up (Sara J. Chipps)
• Presenting using Windows 7 (Rudi Grobler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 15, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for August 14, 2009 and LINKBLOG for August 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Everyman Links for August 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Community Convergence LIII (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #413 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #87 – “Snow Patrol” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #66 (Grant Palin)
• Links (8/16/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Post… 8/10/2009 through 8/16/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Weekly Link Post 106 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/16/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• New and Notable 356 and New and Notable 357 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 14th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

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It’s must-see web TV this week when Arnold and Dudley have to fend off Gordon Jump’s advances… wait… that was a diff’rent show…

Watch Dan Fernandez & company talk about Revolution 9, and the future of Channel 9 (as well as Channel 8, Channel 10, Coding4Fun and MIXOnline).

Good luck guys!

Alvin

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