The gang over at Channel 9 have just released the first beta of their Visual Studio Achievements project. I tried it out last night and it’s very cool. Here’s what it’s all about:

Bring Some Game To Your Code!

A software engineer’s glory so often goes unnoticed. Attention seems to come either when there are bugs or when the final project ships. But rarely is a developer appreciated for all the nuances and subtleties of a piece of code–and all the heroics it took to write it. With Visual Studio Achievements Beta, your talents are recognized as you perform various coding feats, unlock achievements and earn badges.

You can read the full announcement here and grab the beta from the Visual Studio Gallery here.

• Hanselminutes.com: Rewriting a 5 year old VB.NET WebForms application as an ASP.NET Web Pages application with Razor (Scott Hanselman)
• WinRT and Mono (Miguel de Icaza)
• Signing in to Windows 8 with a Windows Live ID (Steven Sinofsky)
• Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 3 (Derik Whittaker)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Complete Collection (James Michael Hare)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Create Work Item in TFS for Specific Visual Studio 2010 Profiler Report (Abhijit Jana)
• How to create a memory mapped file with C# (Windows Vista / Windows 7) and FaxSendDocument API does not return when called from a Windows service (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Visual Basic (VB) Call Hierarchy (Zain Naboulsi)
• Building Metro Style Apps with C++ and JavaScript (Raman Sharma)
• An Xml Serializable PropertyBag Dictionary Class for .NET (Rick Strahl)
• Speeding up ForEach loops with parallel programming – Task Parallel Library (Bill Osuch)
• Dependency Management in .Net: install2 (Derek Greer)
• FSharp for beginners: what is List.map function? (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• Simple CSS3 Login Form Using SASS (Paul Cowan)
• 20 JavaScript Frameworks Worth Checking Out (Siddharth)
• PDF reporting using ASP.NET MVC3 (Patrick Kalkman)
• SEO And Accessibility With HTML5 PushState, Part 1: Introducing PushState and SEO And Accessibility With HTML5 PushState, Part 2: Progressive Enhancement With Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
• Simple, fast and useful MiniProfiler for ASP.NET MVC (Hajan Selmani)
• Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Applications on Windows 8 Developer Preview (Harish Ranganathan)
• The HTML5 Article Tag – Fixing the World Wide Web (Joe Stagner)
• Version 3.0 (beta) of the SQL Server Drivers for PHP Released! (Brian Swan)
• Compressing JS on the fly (John Whish)
• What good Web Developers should know about sending E-mail (Doug Rathbone)
• Use the Windows Azure CDN for Assets (Brian Hitney)
• Being Skeptical About Node.js – My first steps (Drew Peterson)
• Cross-Site Request Forgery explained (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Creative Problem Solving Process (J.D. Meier)
• Software Developers are Extroverted – Developer Stereotype Busted! (Peter Saddington)
• Is OR/M an anti pattern? (Oren Eini)
• Why Event Sourcing? (Rinat Abdullin)
• How architects talk about COBIT (Juan Mestas J.)
• Some Thoughts On Service Oriented Architecture (Part 2) (Mike Hadlow)
• Agile, Power, and Culture (Johanna Rothman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Book review: XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming: Developing for Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360 (keyboardP)
• OData Quickstart for Windows Phone Updated—Now with VB! (Glen Gailey)
• So I Was Wrong About Silverlight On Windows 8 … (Jon Davis)
• Using the ShareLinkTask of Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) (Matthieu)
• Nuance adds WP7 support, gives devs better service with NDEV Mobile developer program (Michael Gorman)
• 2000 WPF Things #395 – Rich ListBox Content using Data Binding, part I (Sean Sexton)
• Design and Deploy Visual Studio Light Switch 2011 Application in Windows Azure – Part 1 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Solution for “The program can’t start because MFPlat.dll is missing from your computer” (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Mango ‘Augmented Reality’ 101: showing a video background (Joost van Schaik)
• Fake Windows Phone Marketplace (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jeremiah Peschka Stores Data in CorrugatedIron (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Defrag: TPM & Bitlocker, Search Service, How to Pick Wifi Hardware (Larry Larsen)
• Welcome Golnaz to Channel 9 (Charles Torre & Golnaz Alibeigi)
• Make: Live Episode 17: 3D Modeling & Printing (preview video) (Becky Stern)
• How to Defend Against the OWASP Top Ten Web Security Threats (JavaZone)
• Backbone – Introduction & Views (Joey Beninghove)
• Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp – Part 6 (Muhammad Mosa)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Area Code Camps, etc. (G. Andrew Duthie)
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• Looking for a XAML expert (Oren Eini)
• Richard Hundhausen Speaking in Chicago About TFS 11 and Scrum in October! and Tech.Days Online Event Coming October 27th, 2011. Sign up today! (Angela Dugan)
• Georgia Tech football player goes pro… at Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
• Build, one week later (Bill Wagner)
• Why I Work for Microsoft Research (Janie Chang)
• Building on the Momentum of BUILD (Steve Clayton)
• Headspring sponsoring Open Source Hackathon (Steve Donie)
• Announcing my new position at Neudesic (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Screencast: 5 Effective Ways to Deliver Dynamic Presentations #BeDynamic (Dux Raymond Sy)
• What is a Microsoft Regional Director? (James Serra)
• Caffeinating Your Development Lifecycle in Bellevue on October 13th (Martin Hinshelwood)

Database

• ALTER AUTHORIZATION sql to change owner of a database (Jack Vamvas)

SharePoint

• Speeding Up WebPart Development in SharePoint (Avi Kaye)
• Schedule Publishing in Non-Publishing Sites (Kovilur G. Krishnan)

Miscellaneous

• Job Hunt: What every student should know about resumes (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Announcing the Microsoft Research series from Microsoft Press (Devon Musgrave)
• The work of Microsoft Research (Steve Clayton)
• How To Build Your Own Windows 8 Tablet Using Existing Hardware (Awais Imran)
• Windows Phone Marketplace is Now Live on the Web (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows Phone Live is now “My Windows Phone”, with Microsoft Scrapbook (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 26, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #717 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly Article Digest 09/26/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/26/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/27/2011 and Silverlight Cream Top 5 News for September 19-25, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #946 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/26/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Silverlight Cream for September 26, 2011 — #1150 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action, Second Edition by Bear Bibeault

• Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–Revealing Module Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
• Kinect Toolkit v1.1 (CodePlex)
• HTML5 Part 2: Canvas (Jennifer Marsman)
• 31 Days with WP7 – A Collection of Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorials You Must Read (Kunal Chowdhury)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Monadic Parsing in F# (Frank Thomsen)
• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 3 and Revised Windows Azure Portal: 2nd August 2011 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Developing a “Real” Outlook Social Connector Provider (Greg Duncan)
• Surround with feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• WCF RIA Services Toolkit (August 2011) – And Updated NuGet Packages (Jeff Handley)
• C#: DateFormat separator issue with ToString() method (Raghav Khunger)
• TFS API Part 39 – Show Deleted Items in Source Control (Shai Raiten)
• PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension – Release: v1.4.1 (CodePlex)
• BugTracker.NET – Release: v3.5.2 (CodePlex)
• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – August Update (MS Downloads)
• Using schema with NHibernate and SqlLite (Gian Maria Ricci)

Web Development

• Use ASP.NET’s HttpHandler to bridge the cross-domain gap (Dave Ward)
• HTML5 Periodic Table of Elements (as in HTML5 Tags… ) (Greg Duncan)
• Consuming a POX WebService in .NET and C# – Searching ISBN Numbers. (Joe Stagner)
• PHP 5.4 features poll: the results and Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Foreign Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript performance: Array.prototype versus [] (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 5 – Ranges, Loops and Comprehensions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Measuring Mobile Site Performance Using the W3C Navigation Timing API (Joe Marini)
• Improve PHP Performance with Phalanger for .NET and Mono (Jonathan Allen)
• Update Wijmo Charts in Real Time (Kevin Griffin)
• A client side Glimpse to your PHP application (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows Azure Security Review (Buck Woody)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: OverloadedGetterSetter (Martin Fowler)
• Challenge: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)
• Choosing the Correct CI Tool (Paul Stack)
• Which is easier, Scrum or Lean? (Matt Barcomb)
• An Agile Retrospective by Jeff Sutherland (Aaron Bjork)
• Sample Application for .NET 4.0 – Layered Architecture and DDD Patterns Sample Applications (JD Meier)
• TDD Or Not TDD Guest blog by @avi_kaye (Tal Druyan)
• Requirements-Driven Development For The Lose (Peter Saddington)
• Announcing Git Support for Google Code Project Hosting (Dave Borowitz)
• Is it worth it? (Joh)
• 5 Big Usability Mistakes Designers Make on Carousels (Anthony)
• Thoughts on MicroOrms (Chris Brandsma)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Writing a Multiplayer Game (in WPF) (Paulo Zemek)
• Building a Simple Windows Phone Dialer App (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone emulator keyboard shortcuts (Arian Kulp)
• WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers : From Core Data to LINQ to SQL (Kevin Hoffman)
• Using Custom Themes in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jason Beres)
• Adding a system-wide keyboard hook to your WPF Application (LearnWPF)
• Understanding XAML Screen Layout (Paul Sheriff)
• 2000 WPF Things #356 – RadioButton Basics (Sean Sexton)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 2– The SystemTray (András Velvárt)
• What is Visual Tree and Logical Tree in WPF? (Abhijit Jana)
• Installing the RTM version of NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch (Pamela Brasil)
• Announcing TouchDevelop v2.0 beta: script sharing in the cloud (Nikolai Tillmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Channel 9 Exit Interview: Tina Moving to Xbox Team (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #128: 2^7 (James Shore)
• Run as Radio Podcast – A little Denali (Kevin Kline)
• Yet Another Podcast #45–Rey Bango (Jesse Liberty)
• Pranking Softies: The Faces of Microsoft campaign (Dan Fernandez & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Saturday DC – The Conference (G. Andrew Duthie)
• I’m Speaking at the SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast 2011 Conference in Chicago (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Looking for Agile Authors (Johanna Rothman)
• Webcasts: Microsoft Press Author Presents Windows 7 Troubleshooting Series (Kim Spilker)
• BUILD Windows Conference Sells Out, Content Will Be Available Online (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• Report Authoring on the SSIS Catalog [link] (Jamie Thomson)
• Microsoft SQL Server Internals & Architecture Matter! (Kevin Kline)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Finding Apostrophes in String and Text – Day 3 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• TSQL Tip O’ the Week – 8/2/11 – Records Per Day (Andy Lohn)

Miscellaneous

• New Formats for Free Microsoft Press eBooks (Carl Diltz)
• Putting the “I” in Health IT (Bill Crounse)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Tap, Move, Shake: Early Release – Only $15.99 w/code DDSHK #iPhone #iPad (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 204 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading August 2, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Link dump for August 2nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 08/03/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 1-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #908 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (8/2/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Just Published: July 1-31 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (Beck Andros)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices (Best Practices (Microsoft)) by Ed Wilson

Top Links

• Thoughts on WebMatrix (Rob Conery)
• Monads in C#-4. Linq loves Monads! (Mike Hadlow)
• Announcing release of ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released – The Microsoft January Web Release in Context (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Variables and Function in F# (Dhananjay Kumar)
• SharpDevelop 4.0 Final (Christoph Wille)
• So you want to get that TFS-powered project from CodePlex… (Dennis Delimarsky)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Constraining Generics with Where Clause (James Michael Hare)
• Query to find methods with parameters having default values (Jason Haley)
• Fast String Sort in C# and F# (Stefan Savev)
• Customize the Debugging Windows : Change Debugging Window View as per your requirements (Abhijit Jana)
• Hey .NET Developers! Its Christmas All Over Again! (Mike Ceranski)
• Not as easy as it looks (Eric Lippert)
• Mono Releases Mono Packager for Mac (James Vastbinder)
• Phonetic String Comparison with Soundex (Jonathan Wood)
• Your Own Sandbox (Miguel de Icaza)
• UppercuT v1.0 and 1.1–Linux (Mono), Multi-targeting, SemVer, Nitriq and Obfuscation, oh my! (Rob Reynolds)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0: Learn Programming Now! (Valerie Woolley)

Web Development

• When we can use HttpContext.Current.Items to stores data in ASP.NET? (Abhijit Jana)
• MVC Music Store v2.0 (CodePlex)
• WebMatrix, Razor, MVC3 and Orchard Release Today! (Chris Koenig)
• Creating a Code 39 Barcode using HTML, CSS and Javascript (Connect Code)
• Book Review – HTML5: Up and Running (Gil Fink)
• WebMatrix and Web Deploy v2.0 (MS Downloads)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 and NuGet 1.0 Released (Including Source Code!) (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor Syntax – RenderBody, RenderPage and RenderSection (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Unobtrusive jQuery and HTML 5 MSDN Flash Article (Simon Ince)
• Scaffold your ASP.NET MVC 3 project with the MvcScaffolding package and MvcScaffolding: Standard Usage (Steve Sanderson)
• Table footer statistics for YUI 2 DataTable (Matt Parker)
• Gritty Technical Info on Windows Azure Web Roles (Part I) (Adron Hall)
• Orchard 1.0 – We’re ready for production ! (Joe Stagner)
• Getting Started with WebMatrix (Wes Yanaga)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mocks, Stubs and Unreadable Tests: Clearly I’m Doing This Wrong (Derick Bailey)
• Back to Basics: Unit Testing, Automated Blackbox Testing, and Conclusions! (John Sonmez)
• Challenges in Agile Adoption: Distributed Teams and Getting Left Behind (Mitch Pronschinske)
• How Developers Should ‘Read’ Exceptions (Davy Brion)
• Stardate 2011.14.1: Friday’s Book (Kyle Szklenski)
• The Product Owner and Governance? and The Adoption Side of the Story (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Keeping The Crowds Out For The First Couple Of Sprints. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Posting A Photo From Windows Phone 7 To A Web Service (Chris Love)
• 6 of 10 – Embedding web content should be done with extreme caution. (Alfred Astort)
• There’s a blob on your web page – but don’t wipe it off [New Delay.Web.Helpers assembly brings easy Amazon S3 blob access to ASP.NET web sites!] (David Anson)
• How to change the StartPage of the Windows Phone 7 Application in Visual Studio 2010? (isenthil)
• Silverlight TV 57: Performance Tuning Your Apps (John Papa)
• Kinect hand tracking with WPF 4 and Bing Maps 3-D (Josh Blake)
• Windows Phone 7 App Submission Checklist (Matthias Shapiro)
• Silverlight 4 receives InfoWorld’s 2011 Technology of the Year Award (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• On WebMatrix with Rob Conery (Scott Hanselman)
• New Home Page, Smooth Streaming added to Channel 9 today (Cara, Duncan Mackenzie & Geoffrey)
• E2E: Herb Sutter and Erik Meijer – Perspectives on C++ (Charles Torre)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 384: CES, Cruises, Ducks, M&M’s and Eminem (Larry Hyrb)
• Excel 25th Anniversary – Part Two (Tina Wood)
• The One Thing: Paul Swider and SharePoint 2010 (Paul J. Swider)
• CodeMash 2011 – WebMatrix Launch Keynote (James Senior & Nic Fillingham)
• Cloud Cover – Hard Hat Edition (Wade Wegner)
• The Office Show – Social Networking with Office (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone 7 and XBox 360 Game Camps in NY (Bob Familiar)
• Online YUI 3 Introductory Course Fri, Jan 21st (Luke Smith)
• Speaking at DC .NET on Jan 18th (Kevin Griffin)
• Last Call for Speakers 24 Hours of PASS (Jason Strate)
• CodeMash Day 0: Craft, Podcasts, music and games (Bill Wagner)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Create XML Document (13/31) and 31 Days of SSIS – Instant Excel Spreadsheet (14/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Quick Look at SQL Server Configuration for Performance Indications (Pinal Dave)
• Removing Time From A Datetime Value (Joe Webb)
• Identity Columns: Are You Nearing The Limits? (Michelle Ufford)

SharePoint

• How to pass InitParams to Silverlight Application which is hosted as SharePoint 2010 web parts? (Abhijit Jana)
• Using the Dialog Platform (Dallas Tester)

Miscellaneous

• Ballmer, Microsoft and the future (Todd Bishop)
• Steve Ballmer finally shows who’s in charge of Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• The Amazing Life Of Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• It’s Official: 2010 the Biggest Year in Xbox History (Microsoft Blog Admin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2011 and Interesting Finds: January 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 85 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2011 — #1026 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #770 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 01/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

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Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 6a – Screens, Conductors and Composition (Rob Eisenberg)
• This Developer’s Life 1.0.5 Homerun (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone 7 RTM charting using the Silverlight Control Toolkit (Bart Czernicki)
• Enterprise Library Integration Pack for Silverlight – what do you want to see in it? (Grigori Melnik)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #8: Choosers and 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #9: Debugger Tips (Jeff Blankenburg)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Executing WMI Queries (Richard Carr)
• Syncing many Dynamics AX instances to a single TFS 2010 Team Project (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The Watch Window: Moving Values Between Watch Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• NuPack, OpenWrap, and CoApp – A Roundup on Package Managers for .NET/Windows (Abel Avram)
• One man’s debugging tale – How he hunts down a bug in NuPack, with his friends WinDbg and Reflector (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Conflicts between ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanels & jQuery functions (Hajan Selmani)
• CSS 2.1 Implementation Reports (Adrian Bateman)
• Beginning to define a Learning Taxonomy for ASP.NET and Microsoft based Web Development. (Joe Stagner)
• Hosting a WCF service on GoDaddy and Web services – do you use/develop them? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Comparing onion skin features in Microsoft SuperPreview and Adobe BrowserLab (Adam Kinney)
• Carousel Part 2: Doing the degradation dance (Niels Matthijs)
• How to access the new Certificate Enrollment Web Services programmatically (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• Search All Stack Exchange Sites (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting Results the Agile Way is Now Available in Print (J.D. Meier)
• Agile: The curse of meetings (Mark Needham)
• Getters and Setters (Steve Tibbett)
• How To Estimate Software (James Iry)
• Aspect Oriented Programming with Action<> (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM Implementation Toolkits Help (Andrew Connell)
• Memory Leak Hotfixes for WPF 4 (Jossef Goldberg)
• Resource for Getting Started Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications (Joe Stagner)
• Back-Chaining in WP7 (James Ashley)
• You WILL buy Windows Phone 7 and You WILL NOT buy Windows Phone 7 (Joe Wilcox)
• World’s first profiler for Windows Phone 7 (Martin Esmann)
• Profile your Windows Phone 7 Application for Free (Michael Crump)
• An Asynchronous Delegate Command for your WPF MVVM Apps – AsyncDelegateCommand (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Windows Phone 7 ads reveal Samsung Focus for AT&T, November 8th date and shiny new website (Sean Hollister)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Cloud Cover Episode 29 – Working with CSPack (Ryan Dunn)
• Windows Weekly 177: Find Free Food (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone Radio Episode Number 2 (Brian Seitz)
• TWC9: NuPack, WebMatrix Beta 2, MVC View Engines Reviewed (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• .NET Gadgeteer (Clint Rutkas)
• Let’s Play TDD #32: Rounding Off Pennies (James Shore)

Community / Events

• The Agile Tour: Is It Coming to You? (Jared Richardson)
• Calling All Industry Professionals for the Imagine Cup (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

Database

• Display Dates in a Particular Format in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Security Auditing a Database (thirster42)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 Add-ins and Feature Pack Downloads (Pinal Dave)
• Passing multiple ranges to stored procedure and Parsing the Address field to its individual components (Naomi)
• Exclude Offline databases from Maintenance Plan (Pradeep Adiga)

SharePoint

• Silverlight Task Control For SharePoint 2010 – Example of High Touch Integration (Abhijit Jana)

Miscellaneous

• Q&A: Microsoft’s Bob Muglia details cloud strategy (John Gallant & Eric Knorr)
• Microsoft kills Live Labs; leader resigns, team goes to Bing (Nick Eaton)
• Recommended Book: DSLs In Action (Davy Brion)
• New in Zoho Invoice: Invoice Template Gallery (Deepa)
• Projects in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Zork for Kindle makes e-paper a next-gen gaming platform (Erez Zukerman)
• IPv6 is not the future, but the now… An IPv6 Learning Roadmap, from Prerequisites to Level 300 (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft Expression Encoder Captures Surprisingly Good HD Screencasts [Video] (Kevin Purdy)
• Plays Well With Others – Acing the Interview (Kevin E. Kline)
• The Secret of Networking: it’s a lot easier than you think (Ryan Graves)
• Understanding Genuine Geeks And Nerds – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
• Algorithms and Data Structures – The Science of Computing (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 8, 2010 and Interesting Finds: October 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 8, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 10.01 ~ 10.09 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for October 09, 2010 — #963 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One by Deke McClelland

Top Links

• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #2: Page Navigation (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Living Dangerously: Refactoring without a Safety Net (John Sonmez)
• Deploying your Windows Phone 7 Application to the actual hardware. (Michael Crump)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Public static fields gone from F# 2.0 (Ian Voyce)
• Installing the F# PowerPack on Linux / Mono (2#4u)
• Like CodePlex? Like your Local TFS? Would like to have the best of both? Here’s one way… Sync them with the TFS Integration Platform (Greg Duncan)
• C# 5.0 and Beyond – My Wish List (James Michael Hare)
• WCF: The right way. A Quick Reference Guide. (Nic Roche)
• More Novice F# Computation Expression Bind/Return Mechanics (Neil)
• SystemSounds in F# (Rey Dacoco)
• Exporting Your Command Window Aliases and External Tools List (Zain Naboulsi)
• Extension Analyzer V3 (Mynor Ivan Muralles)
• Recommended Book: IronRuby Unleashed (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• jQuery Alert Dialogs Plug-in (Gil Fink)
• ASP.NET MVC Custom Model Binding (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Inside an HTML5 Interactive Experience: Never Mind the Bullets (Tim Sneath)
• What is the difference between Web Farm and Web Garden ? (Abhijit Jana)
• AntiXSS V4.0 Released (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Technical Debt Is Like Your Friend, The Mafia Bookie (Derick Bailey)
• CQRS Lifehacks From Lokad Production (Rinat Abdullin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone tests loyalty of Microsoft’s developer fan base (Todd Bishop)
• Sample: WPF Picture Viewer for VS2010 (Jason Zander)
• Windows Phone 7: Navigation (Jesse Liberty)
• Get Your Windows Phone 7 Apps Ready for Marketplace! (Joey deVilla)
• What were your top 5 Pain Points in Learning WP7 Development? (Pete Brown)
• WP7 – Why will my Photo or Camera task launchers not work on my device (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 94: Silverlight and HTML5 (Jon Galloway)
• InfoPath 2010 Discussion with Eric Harlan (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Announcing Windows Phone Radio (Brian Seitz)
• TWC9 – ASP.NET Fix, Xamalot, MVC tools Embed PPT (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Let’s Play TDD #28: Integrating Year and Failing Fast (James Shore)
• Cloud Cover Episode 28 – SQL Azure with David Robinson Part 11 (Ryan Dunn)

Community / Events

• Half a Geek Couple and Lovin’ It (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Welcome New Silverlight MVPs for October 2010 (Tim Heuer)
• Proud to be a Microsoft Silverlight MVP – October 2010 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• If You Missed the Windows Phone Firestarter in Philly You Are in Luck and Dude I am XAPing That (Dani Diaz)
• Interested in PEX & MOLES? Wish you could go to a five hour workshop on them? Here’s the next best thing… (Greg Duncan)

Database

• Executing ad-hoc queries with RavenDB and New RavenDB features (Oren Eini)
• Index Black Ops Part 5 – Page Splits and Index Black Ops Part 6 – Fill Factor vs. Page Splits (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Edit Page on List Forms (Greg Galipeau)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft names 3 presidents: DelBene, Lees and Mattrick (Todd Bishop)
• The Nav 9 Slate PC and The new UXMagic.com (Don Burnett)
• Easy Mail Delivery with a SMTP Smart Host (Nick Berardi)
• Convert Tweets to Emails with Google AppsScript (Tomas Vitvar)
• New book: Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 1, 2010 and Interesting Finds: October 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 70 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 1, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Oct-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Phone 7 Application Development (Developer’s Library) by Corey Schuman

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Top Links

• A sneak peek at IE9 UI: What do you think? (Kip Kniskern)
• Fluent Validation with MEF and PRISM (Jeremy Likness)
• First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–III) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• TWC9: LightSwitch available, Windows Phone, OData, HTML 5 File API (Dan Fernandez)
• Script Junkie (Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Public Application Settings (Richard Carr)
• F# for puzzles (Morse code decoder) (Brian McNamara)
• How to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• The Profiler New Features: Starring & Renaming (Oren Eini)
• MSDN Keeps getting better (Cameron Skinner)
• Managing business object locks on application level (Gunnar Peipman)
• VS2010 Parallel Stacks – Debugging enhancement in VS2010 (Hima)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-In-One book is close to the finish (András Velvárt)
• Big Enhancements to our documentation: Now with a Version Selector! (Charles Sterling)
• Coding4Fun: Feeling the Earth Move (Arian T. Kulp)
• 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 Minutes (Wes Yanaga)
• Enumerable.Skip vs Seq.skip (Mauricio Scheffer)
• The Misnamed and Misunderstood Object Browser and The Object Browser: Browsing Scope and The Object Browser: Navigation and References (Zain Naboulsi)
• CSLA 4 version 4.0.1 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• Lazy(Of T) class in .Net Framework4.0 (Venu Gopal)
• ANTS Performance Profiler 6 (Ryan O’Neill)
• Microsoft won’t stop .Net on Android (Rodney Gedda)
• PSSCor2: GC Heap Analysis Commands and Demonstrating CLR Side-by-Side Execution (Sasha Goldshtein)
• MSBuild Extension Pack August 2010 Release (Mike Fourie)
• Know Your Debugger Part 2: Ok, I’m Broken. Now What? (Dane Morgridge)
• Must I release everything when using Windsor? (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Strong naming an assembly without having the actual source code (Marlon Grech)
• Windsor 2.0 and Log4Net (Jonathan McCracken)
• Behaviour – Lesson 7 (Simon Jackson)
• Microsoft Surface and Magical Object Interaction (Josh Blake)
• Introducing CountdownEvent (Dror Helper)
• What’s New for Office 2010 Developers white paper is live (Frank Rice)
• Debugging the Undebuggable (Gil Zilberfeld)
• NHibernate – prepare_sql and some considerations on mapping very long string fields (Giorgetti Alessandro)

Web Development

• File uploads and MVC Controllers (Jason Grundy)
• jQuery Plugin Checklist: Should You Use That jQuery Plug-In? (Jon Raasch)
• ASP.NET MVC HTML Helpers (Dane Morgridge)
• A quick primer on .NET web frameworks (Chad Myers)
• Great Twitter Accounts to keep up to date on jQuery news (Matthew David)
• Elegant MVC with Spark – The way views were meant to be (Robert Greyling)
• Enhancing the Store Locator ASP.NET MVC Application to Include Directions (Scott Mitchell)
• New DevNugget: Installing Microsoft WebMatrix (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Chakra: Interoperability Means More Than Just Standards (Allen Wirfs-Brock)
• More on SVG (Jennifer Yu)
• Extending the SiteMap (Rudi Grobler)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Buffering (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Empathy and web design (Janko Jovanovic)
• PHP: What is More Powerful Than list() (Stoimen Popov)
• NetBeans vs. Vim for PHP development (Giorgio Sironi)
• Get File Length over http before you download it (Peter Bromberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 4: Adopting XP (James Shore)
• First Experiences With RSpec/BDD (Davy Brion)
• I am an Exception Extremist (John Sonmez)
• We’re Not Paid To Write Code (Phil Haack)
• The Downside Of Providing An API Through Extension Methods and Compiler|Interpreter Warnings Are Important Learning Opportunities (Davy Brion)
• Day 26 – Solve Problems with Skill and Day 27 – Do Something Great and Day 28 – Find Your One Thing (J.D. Meier)
• Design Patterns by Metaphors – Part I (Creational Patterns) (Kiran Kumar G)
• The Case of the Unit Test and the Native DLL (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Why Hg branches are broken (or at least less useful) (Jimmy Bogard)
• Prototyping NUI on paper (Steve Clayton)
• The Open Source Project Spec: With Reference To Me (Jesse Liberty)
• Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources (Aquil Akhter)
• Programmer Tip: The Meaning Of Mentorship And How You Grow As A Person (Rajiv Popat)
• Introducing Yeti: The YUI Easy Testing Interface (Reid Burke)
• A Case for Feature Branches (Matt Stine)
• Multitouch on Windows book update (Josh Blake)
• posh-git Release v0.2 (Keith Dahlby)
• Coding: Mutating parameters (Mark Needham)
• Test Behavior, Not State (Jared Richardson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Deep Linking Into A SketchFlow Prototype (Christian Schormann)
• DroppyPop for WP7 Update (Andy Beaulieu)
• Think twice before putting another grid inside a WPF window (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WCF RIA Services Part 6 – Validating Data (Brian Noyes)
• WP7 Tip: tombstoning simplified (James Ashley)
• On Socks and Windows Phone 7 and Calling JavaScript Functions in Windows Phone 7 and XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – The Microphone (Mike Ormond)
• Eeny, meeny, miny, moe and TimeslotPanel (Rudi Grobler)
• Creating a Toast Like Notification Popup on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• My favorite feature of the WPF and Silverlight Tools update (Carole Snyder)
• Loading a static XML file to your Windows Phone/Silverlight App (Cheryl Simmons)
• My “Hello World” Windows Phone 7 Application (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Forms and WPF Interop: Sharing WPF Resources (Christian Nagel)
• Your phone can turn into a robot [LayoutTransformer works great on the Windows Phone platform] (David Anson)
• Saving State: Execution Model Best Practices for Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• i2W: An iPhone Developer’s First Windows Phone 7 Application (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF DataGrid Control – Performing Update and Delete Operations (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Flashing Text (using behavior/storyboard) in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 4 Application Template Themes by Microsoft (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7 and Compression using Accept-Encoding Header (Nick Randolph)
• Dual Targeting WPF and Silverlight (and Windows Phone 7) and 10 things Beginning Silverlight and WPF Developers Need to Know (Pete Brown)
• Windows Phone 7 security for developers (Steven Hodson)
• Introducing the concept of “Places” and Redirecting an initial navigation (Peter Torr)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ethan Winer, Very Old School (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Silverlight TV 42: Apply and Customize the New Silverlight Themes (John Papa)
• Steve Anonsen and John Rivard: Inside LightSwitch and Wes Dyer and Jeffrey Van Gogh: Rx Virtual Time (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 92: Dru Sellers and Rob Reynolds on Nu (Jon Galloway)
• geekSpeak Recording – WCF Extensibility with Scott Reed and MSDN Radio: Shazzam and Windows Phone 7 with Walt Ritscher and MSDN Radio: Game Building for Windows Phone 7 using XNA/Game Studio with Dan Waters (Emily Gibson)
• New Show on Channel 9: Web Camps TV (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Phone Design Days Presentations (Don Burnett)
• Web Camps TV #1 – ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and Razor Tips with Phil Haack and New: Windows Azure Storage Helper for WebMatrix (James Senior)
• Bytes by MSDN: Brandon Watson and Tim Huckaby discuss Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Rockford Lhotka and Tim Huckaby discuss Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Tim Huckaby and Mike Benkovich discuss Developing Apps for Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams and Billy Hollis discuss Silverlight 4 and Bytes by MSDN: Richard Campbell and Mike Benkovich and Bytes by MSDN: Bill Lodin and Mickey Williams discuss Windows Azure Resources and Bytes by MSDN: Brian Noyes and Rob Bagby discuss Service Bus and Windows Azure and Bytes by MSDN: Clemens Vasters and Rob Bagby discuss "Project Sydney" and Hybrid Apps (Bytes by MSDN)
• MSDEV Video Series Highlights Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) (Bruce Kyle)
• Video of Windows Phone 7 in action and a true image of the LG E900 surface (Phone Arena)
• Free Webcast: Get to SharePoint 2010 – Strategies for Effective Upgrades and Migrations (Joel Oleson)
• BPC10 Screencast: How to Best Gather Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Community Megaphone Show #16 with guest John Blumenauer (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• jQuery Podcast 32 – Dave Ward (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Cloud Cover Episode 23 – AppFabric Service Bus (Ryan Dunn)
• Countdown to PDC10: And the winner is . . . (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• The Programmer’s Body (Scott Hanselman)
• Ever thought of being a writer? (Ted Neward)
• The patterns & practices symposium Redmond 2010 (Grigori Melnik)
• 20 MVPs and 4 former MVPs at SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Keep the Fire(starters) Burning: Web Platform Edition! (Jim O’Neil)
• DreamSpark provides Free Windows Marketplace for Mobile (Chris Koenig)
• Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins) (Jeff Atwood)
• Imagine Cup 2011 to be hosted in New York City (Bob Familiar)
• Typemock Sponsors See# Party 2010 (#ssp2010) (Britt King)
• Interview with Ken Schwaber, Part1 (Dan Mezick)

Database

• Display DDL Triggers in your SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Adding Column is Expensive by Joining Table Outside View – Limitation of the Views Part 2 and SQL SERVER – Plan Cache – Retrieve and Remove – A Simple Script (Pinal Dave)
• Don’t index on dates (Simon Sabin)
• Database indexes are your friend (Jimmy Bogard)
• Generate Insert Query in SQL (Abhijit Desai)
• The Lazy DBA Series: Wizards! (Ted Krueger)
• Ten Things I Hate to See in T-SQL (Michael Swart)

SharePoint

• Tips and Tricks for setting up a SharePoint 2010 development environment (Greg Galipeau)
• SharePoint 2010 and SQL Hotfix Dependencies (Joel Oleson)
• I’m Done with SharePoint (William Vaughn)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server Update Rollup 1 Released (Nigel Wilks)
• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Update to Increase Video Performance and "Sort Sections" OneNote PowerToy Upgraded for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Windows Live Sync to be named Windows Live Mesh (Allison Omahony)
• Microsoft Offers New Certification Exam Discount (Brad M. McGehee)
• Become a Better Mindmapper: Chuck Frey Shows You How (Chance Brown)
• PowerShell, GAC, and build servers (Christopher Bennage)
• Docs.com Update adds tags support, search, sort and filter, and new Social Doc Templates (damaster)
• Auto-Wiring Ruby Events (Davy Brion)
• Page Tab Floatie (Jeff Cardon)
• Programmer Superstitions (Jesse Liberty)
• How to prepare questions for your interview (Angela McLaughlin)
• Installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS on Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 and Two Must-Have Tools for a More Readable Web (Scott Hanselman)
• Our Product Strategy: How Zoho Services Fit Together (Sridhar Vembu)
• Startup Business Checklist 2010 (Steve Smith)
• Microsoft’s FUSE Labs releases teamcrossword beta (Steve Clayton)
• Call phones from Gmail (The Gmail Team)
• My new Kindle 3 review–comparing against Kindle 2 (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 25, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 27, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #673 and The Morning Brew #674 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Aug-2010 and Tech Tweets for 26-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/27/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 65 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 25, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 26, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 27, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2010 – 2 — #933 and Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2010 — #934 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Archives 14th Aug 2010 – 28th Aug 2010 (Abhijit Jana)

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Professional ASP.NET MVC 2 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jon Galloway

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Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

• announcing the Lightning conductor 2010 (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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Top Links

• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 SP1 for Windows Phone 7 (Laurent Bugnion)
• On The Value Of Fundamentals In Software Development (Alan Skorkin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Testing NHibernate Mappings (Mike Hadlow)
• Fibonacci numbers in F# (Bob Palmer)
• Delete Horizontal White Space and Cut or Delete the Current Line (Zain Naboulsi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Staying Sane as a Technical Manager, Part 2 and Analyzing Code with NDepend (Aaron Lerch)
• Boundary Analysis (Simon Ince)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: Best of April Fools Day with Clint Rutkas and Christian Liensberger (Dan Fernandez)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Enable Identity Insert – Import Expert Wizard (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Picasa" Plug-in for Windows Live Writer (Blake Handler)
• Lazy PowerShell Coalesce-Args (Keith Dahlby)
• Microsoft offers Office 2010 free to MS Partner University "grads" (Lee Mathews)
• iPhone SDK 3.2 Now Available on iPhone Dev Center (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 4, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 3, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 03, 2010 — #829 (Dave Campbell)

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Software Requirements: Practical Techniques for Gathering and Managing Requirements Throughout the Product Development Cycle. (Pro-Best Practices)

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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)

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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction