• NuGet package for Sharp Architecture (Alec Whittington)
• 7 things Microsoft should do at MIX11 and probably won’t (Joe Wilcox)
• Introducing LLBLGen Pro QuerySpec: a new fluent query API (Frans Bouma)
• How Microsoft IT Does Cloud Computing and Cloud Scenarios Hub on TechNet (JD Meier)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ditto : with regard to AutoMapper (Michael Nichols)
• Historical Debugging (Intellitrace) on Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Part-2 and View Call Hierarchy window in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Improving the Visual Studio 2010 UI Menu System – Part 4 (mikefourie)
• Message Queue Shootout! (Mike Hadlow)
• C# Yield Return Fun (Rob Miles)
• [Book Review] NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook (Alec Whittington)
• OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 and Known Issue with OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 (beta) Dependency Checker (Brian Keller)
• NHibernate Examples (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• HTML Brain Teaser: When Divs and Headings Collide (Rob Conery)
• Getting Constructive On ASP.NET Deployment (Rob Conery)
• A jQuery Combo Box for ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Scott Guthrie on Microsoft WebMatrix (Devon Musgrave)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using NonActionAttribute to restrict access to public methods of controller (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Product Design And Expectations (Rob Diana)
• CodePlex: Pull Request Diff Notes, Adding Changesets, and a Vertical Splitter (Matt Hawley)
• NUnit Comparison Assertions (Richard Carr)
• Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: A broken home (controller) and Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: The case for the view model (Oren Eini)
• Why Sign Up and Sign In Should Never Go Together (Anthony)
• ALM Practices Part 4: Common Code Layout (Dennis Doomen)
• On deprecation (Grigori Melnik)
• It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be (Jef Claes)
• Software Craftsmanship promotes Competence Culture (Michael Sahota)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Nullable WPF ComboBox (seesharper)
• Extended WPF Toolkit Release 1.4.0 (Brian Lagunas)
• Building Caliburn.Micro’s NuGet Package (Rob Eisenberg)
• Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 6: Making a WP7 Application Bar (Chris Love)
• The Making Of An Windows Phone 7 App (Dani Diaz)
• Jounce Part 15: Asynchronous Sequential Workflows (Jeremy Likness)
• Null Reference from Simple Container in Caliburn Micro (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone 7, XNA and Farseer Physics. And source… and a game… and… (Greg Duncan)
• Announcing TouchStudio (Nikolai Tillmann)
• So what’s the difference between Custom Control and User Control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Introducing MIX11 Outsider for Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
• Windows Phone 7 Template for Social Reading Applications and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono IV: Content and Resource Files and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono VI: File Access (Nick Randolph)
• Wpf Over Websockets (WoW) – How to Pump WPF windows & animations to browsers over HTML5 Websockets And Canvas (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Hidden tricks of Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Webcam Support in Silverlight 4 to capture Video (Suprotim Agarwal)
• WPF–Show Dialog with backdrop (Tim Hibbard)
• Dependency Properties Made Easy (David Kelley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Get Started With the Azure Service Bus? (MS Podcasts)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 394: Michael Jackson Experince for Kinect and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 235 – 04.08.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 43 – Scalable Counters with Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Windows Phone Radio 22 (Brian Seitz)
• TWC9: Happy Birthday Ch9, MIX11, The Nineys & Channel 9 Live (Laura Foy & Nic Fillingham)
• Windows Weekly 203: The ROMs Are Out There (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• Viva Las Vegas – Team IE @ MIX11 (Scott Armstrong)
• Stack Overflow World-Wide MeetUps – Success! (Rebecca Chernoff)
• Tech Ed North America 2011 (Cameron Skinner)
• MVPs at Microsoft India TechEd 2011 (Lonnie Webb)
• Mix 2011: Silverlight 5, Windows Phone, IE9, HTML5, and a liveblog! (Kip Kniskern)
• A Geek’s Guide to Camping (Jim O’Neil)
• Imagine Cup US Finals Day 2–Be The Change! (Bob Familiar)
• What Am I Doing on the Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Team (JD Meier)

Database

• SQL Server: Monitor Long SQL Agent Jobs (Madhivanan)
• Bulk loading data into a merge replicated table and Compress Data Partition Snapshots with SSIS – SQL University (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Add New Column With Default Value and SQL SERVER – TempDB in RAM for Performance (Pinal Dave)
• Be careful when passing around parameters, make sure they are the same size and type (Denis Gobo)
• Observing – Optimize for Ad Hoc Workload server option (Kim Tessereau)
• Find Table Heaps Using Policy-Based Management (Jorge Segarra)
• I’m a DBA, what do I need those tools for! Oh, yeah… for that… and that… and that… and… (Greg Duncan)

SharePoint

• Download Guide for SharePoint Online Development (Bruce Kyle)

Miscellaneous

• [Book Review] "Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6" by Augusto Alvarez (Greg Duncan)
• Is Microsoft dead meat without a tablet? (Joe Wilcox)
• Quiz: How well do you know your Microsoft Empire? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem? (Rob Bazinet)
• ChevronWP7 updater pulled, places phones into ‘non-serviceable state’ of mind (Tim Stevens)
• RTM’d Today: Beyond Bullet Points, 3rd Edition: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Valerie Woolley)
• Bing turns on HTML5 UI (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 8, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 04.01 ~ 04.10 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Distributed Weekly 97 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 8th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• WebDev Tweets 7-Apr-2011 and 8-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Week Retrospective 27 – Podcast and Perfect Workshop Crafting (Peter Saddington)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 03-April-2011 to 09-April-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Weekly Links– 2010_14 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Links of the week #148 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2011 — #1072 (Dave Campbell)

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C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference by Joseph Albahari

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Top Links

• Linq to SQL Profiler 1.0 Released! (Oren Eini)
• .NET coming to Android in the form of MonoDroid (Imran Hussain)
• Getting Started With Machine.Specifications (MSpec) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Inversion of Control (IOC) with XAML (Rob Relyea)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSBuild Task Factories: guest starring Windows Powershell (Andrew Arnott)
• Using CTRL + ALT + B to Open the Breakpoints Window — vstipDebug0011 and Using CTRL + ALT + Down Arrow to Open the File Menu Dropdown List — vstipEnv0003 (Zain Naboulsi)
• XML Literals: Escaping Characters (Deborah Kurata)
• Code Metrics: Measuring LoC in .NET applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• How to package COM component (Xinyang Qiu)
• How VSIX extensions are discovered and loaded in VS 2010 (Mariano Blanco)
• TweeVo (Brian Peek)
• FluentNHibernate And NHibernate.Linq (Charles Chen)
• Will the real data object stand up? (Rockford Lhotka)
• Avoiding Memory Leaks With NServiceBus And Your Own Castle Windsor Instance (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft Semblio – A set of tools for educators to create rich interactive content/training, with extensibility via SDK, .Net and WPF (SDK free available today, rest coming soon) (Greg Duncan)
• C#: A lack of covariance with generics example and C#: Overcomplicating with LINQ (Mark Needham)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part – 3) (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Crystal Reports and Visual Studio 2010 (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• Making your ASP.NET application work as a service. and The Orchard Project as my new blog engine. (Al Pascual)
• Gummy Bear 1.2 is Fully Baked! (Dave Burke)
• Simple pager for ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Intro to jQuery Materials (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Announcing WeBlog – A Next Generation Blogging Platform (Mike Ceranski)
• Creating x.509 certificates with Pluralsight self-cert (Mike Hadlow)
• jQuery Custom Element and Global Events (Sergio Pereira)
• Partial Validation in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Steve Sanderson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microsoft XNA Test Tools (February 2010) (MS Downloads)
• Ubiquitous language leaking in the wrong direction (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Leadership Tip: Avoiding Generic Whining Within Your Organization. and Soul Searching Question For Managers: Why Do You Want Manage Your Team? and Avoiding The Typical Software Development World Stereotypes – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)
• You’ll Never Get Sustainable Progress For Free (Davy Brion)
• Using an ORM is like kissing your sister part 2 and CQRS and CAP Theorem and Why use Event Sourcing? (Greg Young)
• BigTable concerns, or “How to put your trust in the cloud” (Kyle Baley)
• Event Sourcing and the Event Pipeline (Jonathan Oliver)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 – Accessing System Devices with Com Interop, such as a Scanner. (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Beta 4 Networking. Part 8 – TCP Sockets (Mike Taulty)
• Magellan Forms and Magellan Major Changes (Paul Stovell)
• Silverlight Lessons Learned Materials (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Exchanging Data between XAP files using Local Collection API in Silverlight 3 (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Podcast 201 – The Making of a Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy and Hanselminutes Podcast 202 – A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP (Scott Hanselman)
• Missing Screencasts (Rob Conery)
• geekSpeak: Advanced ASP.NET with Shaun Walker, founder of DotNetNuke and Lock Contention, Using Intel Parallel Studio to Improve Performance and geekSpeak: Advanced ASP.NET with Shaun Walker, founder of DotNetNuke (MS Podcasts)
• Windows Weekly 144: I Have Really Big Spreadsheet Needs (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: Windows Phone 7 Series, Hanselcart, MS Deploy (Dan Fernandez)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #84 (Jeff Atwood)
• Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Working with Application ID and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Using the Taskbar Button Overlay Icons and Progress Bars and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar –Jump Lists, Part 1 and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump Lists, Part 2 and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Tabbed Thumbnails and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Custom Previews and Thumbnail Clips (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Cloud Cover – Episode 1 (Ryan Dunn)
• Engadget Podcast 184: MWC 2010 Roundup – 02.19.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Visual Studio Tutorial – Part 2 – Our First Project (Keith Elder)

Community / Events

• CodeStock 2010 Keynote: Rachel Appel (Michael C. Neel)
• MVPs Give Microsoft Reason to Listen (Toby Richards)
• RSS feed for SQL Server Connect feedback (Jamie Thomson)
• Visual Studio 2010 to launch on April 12 at DevConnections 2010 in Las Vegas (Imran Hussain)
• The 2010 MVP Summit from the eyes of a rookie (Joseph Mirabella)
• SQL Social Update – Bill Vaughn will be at the meeting on the 16th March (Simon Sabin)

Database

• SQL Server User-Defined Functions (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Recompile Stored Procedure at Run Time and SQL SERVER- IF EXISTS(Select null from table) vs IF EXISTS(Select 1 from table) (Pinal Dave)
• Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions (Seth Phelabaum)
• Renaming a computer and maintenance plans (Martin Bell)
• SQL Server Implicit String Conversion/Concatenation (XML parsing: line , character , unexpected end of input) (Chinh Do)

Miscellaneous

• Luke Wroblewski on Windows Phone 7 Series UX (Christian Schormann)
• Microsoft Releases Documentation for "Outlook Personal Folders File (.pst) Format Structure Specification" and Microsoft Releases "Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)" for Windows7 and Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "SharePoint Outlook 2007/2010 Connector" and Microsoft Releases Free "Software & Database Shapes" for Visio 2003 & 2007 Standard Editions (Blake Handler)
• The 21st of Diduary: Did you know that you can stop your mouse from interrupting sleep mode? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Windows Live Meeting – Can’t it be Better? (William Vaughn)
• Top 10 Windows Media Center Plug-Ins and Boosters (Kevin Purdy)
• A Feed You Should Read #24 – CodePlex.com (Greg Duncan)
• Getting ‘hands-on’ with Microsoft’s vision (Ian Sands)
• Check out Mercurial version control with my CodePlex repository (Jeffrey Palermo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 20, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 02.20 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #93 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 133 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 404 and New and Notable 405 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer)

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Top Links

• Old DRM’d Wrox ebooks are "upgradable" to DRM-free (Jim Minatel)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit – February Release is LIVE! (Zain Naboulsi)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Don Syme – Introduction to F#, 2 of 3 (Charles Torre)
• More “Windows Phone 7″ Confirmation (Stephen Chapman)
• Sqlite on the iPhone – Retrieving the last inserted row id with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The F# PowerPack Released on CodePlex (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Writing Efficient String Functions in C# (Armando)
• Registration Error while Hosting WCF Services in a Windows Server (Derik Whittaker)
• Writing object to object mapper: my mapper vs AutoMapper (Gunnar Peipman)
• CLR via C#, 3rd Edition Available Today (Doug Holland)
• WCF RIA Services Preview and the Visual Studio 2010 RC (Harish Ranganathan)
• Intellisense Crashing fix for VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Chaining simple assignments is not so simple (Eric Lippert)
• Open Government Data and .NET (Dan Kasun)
• Announcing touch.codeplex.com (Marc Schweigert)
• Craig Sutherland: Considering XAML for Config for CruiseControl.NET (Rob Relyea)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem – Design – Solution (Me)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Culture of Heroism (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Know Your Rules to Be Successful (J.D. Meier)
• FsUnit – Test Fsharp with Fsharp (David Cooksey)
• Challenge: Efficient querying (Oren Eini)
• Removing Generated code from NCover Reports (Derik Whittaker)
• Case Studies on Benefits of TDD (Jim Holmes)
• Rationalizing Assembly Reference (Patrick Smacchia)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Fixed the “jump” bug, Improved Performance, Fancy Duplicate, 2 New Control Types (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Discipline * Skill = Craftsmanship (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF

• FFT and oscilloscopes in Silverlight (Coding4Fun)
• This one time, at band camp… [A banded StackPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
• Getting Started with WPF : Hello World in Multiple Flavors (Pete Brown)
• Design and XAML on Different Document Tabs — vstipTool0009 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Addressing the Pre-Loader Issue (John Stockton)
• VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly (Andy Beaulieu)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Miniseries #1: Migration (Brian Hitney)
• Connected Show Podcast: Addicted to Spring.NET (Brian Johnson)
• geekSpeak Recording – Persistence Ignorance and Entity Framework 4 with Dane Morgridge (Emily Gibson)
• Countdown to MIX10: Let’s do it Live (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 85: Open Source at Microsoft with Hank Janssen (Dave Bost)
• New Expression Blend screencast series (András Velvárt)
• This Week in Silverlight – February 11th 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• Growing the Pool of SQL Server Speakers (Andy Warren)
• Join MSDEV Fan Page on Facebook (Bruce Kyle)
• 2010 Summit: More MVPs to take on presenting roles than ever before (Joseph Mirabella)
• 10 Things you need to know from X10 (Larry Hyrb)
• Creators Club Communiqué 41 (Kathleen Sanders)

Database

• The SQL Server Health Check (Buck Woody)
• A Simple Refactoring (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Do you do backups? Do you test them? (Simon Sabin)
• Running sp_helpdb against a snapshot shows wrong files on SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
• How to connect SharePoint Business Data Catalog to PostgreSQL (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

CodeProject Releases Wiimote Hardware Driver for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)

• PowerGUI Pro vs PowerGUI and A PowerShell present for Valentine’s Day (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Adobe Flash Now Supports InPrivate Browsing (Andy Zeigler)
• Teach, Learn and Play with Small Basic from Microsoft DevLabs (Joe Stagner)
• Fix for Message Size Issue in Outlook 2010 Beta (Office Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments – Only $9.99! Use code DDGHC (O’Reilly Media)
• My Extension Wish: Workflow in Wave (Pamela Fox)
• The 12th of Diduary: Did you know you can drag Windows Explorer to the command line? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback (Todd Jackson)
• Workaround to Catch Exceptions from Import-CliXml (Francisco Gomez Gamino)
• Getting Started in Objective-C with XCode (Brett Schuchert)
• I don’t like MSDN (Karl Seguin)
• Mighty Box, an App Launcher for Windows (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #538 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 11, 2010 — #796 (Dave Campbell)
• Comprehensive list of Visual Studio 2010 RC links (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Interesting Finds: February 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem – Design – Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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Top Links

• Dear Microsoft: Please Simplify Your Platform for Developers (Keith Elder)
• Image Blitting in Silverlight with WriteableBitmapEx (Adam Kinney)
• Externalizing Settings for Data-Dependent Unit Tests using Proteus DatabaseUnitTestBase (Steve Bohlen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Beware of Evil Wizards (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• Patterns and Origins: Sueetie SiteSettings and Patterns and Origins: The SueetieApplication Class (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC Mobile Detection & Redirection (matrixmesh)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: An F# attempt (Mark Needham)
• Leadership Tip: Stick To Your Core Values And Pass Them On Across Teams. (Rajiv Popat)
• There’s Nothing Courageous About Being Honest About Mistakes (Davy Brion)
• We Want Our Small Companies Back (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part II (Bob McIlree)

Silverlight / WPF

• Sketching, painting and Figure drawing (Pavan Podila)
• A WPF Behavior for Window Resize Events in .NET 3.5 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight : MVVM Library and File Upload (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms – Part 2 using Silverlight 4 (Fredrik Normen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 138: Live From CES 2010 (Paul Thurrott)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #79 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code 67: Udi Dahan on Scalability (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• Winners of the TekPub LINQ Challenge (Justin Etheredge)

Database

• Calculate the Number of Business Days in a Range (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – Download – Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure November CTP (32-bit) (Pinal Dave)
• Turning off the ghost cleanup task for a performance gain (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• How to Configure Legacy Devices to Run on Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Predictions for 2010 Part III- The Cloud (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: 2010 01.01 ~ 01.09 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #87 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for January 09, 2010 — #773 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: January 9, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• What Is Hot In Open Source? (weekly) (Krishnan Subramanian)

The Geek Shelf

Essential LINQ

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Top Links

• Microsoft Job Posting Confirms Xbox LIVE Windows Mobile Phones (Kat Hannaford) – Where’s my ZuneHD/WinMo/XboxLive device??? 
• Software Patents: Our Industry’s Nuclear Weapon (Davy Brion) – Davy’s argument against patents.
• Still waiting for a 64-bit Flash Player (Ed Bott) – Me too!
• Magellan Asynchronous Controllers (Paul Stovell) – Paul updates his WPF MVC framework to v1.1.
• 4th Web Client Guidance Drop Available on Codeplex and Proposed UX Design (Blaine Wastell) – p&p goodies… get ‘em while they’re hot.
• Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor) – Cool tip from Elijah.

.NET / Visual Studio

• More LINQ with System.Interactive – More combinators for your Swiss Army Knife (Bart de Smet)
• No more magic strings with VisualStateManager.GoToState (András Velvárt)
• Update on using MSDeploy for remote deployments. (Eric Hexter)
• Dealing with Nullable Types and IIf in VBNET (Kevin Jones)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Other attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

Web Development

• Gummy Bear 1.1 Is In The Can (Dave Burke)
• 4 JavaScript frameworks you may never have heard of (Michael Kimsal)
• Converting an RGB Color To Hex With JavaScript (Phil Haack)
• Using BindAttribute In ASP.NET MVC To Exclude Bindable Data (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Guidelines for consistent exception handling (Samir Bellouti)
• When mini benchmarks are important (Oren Eini)
• Recommended Book: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Davy Brion)
• Runtime Fault Injection using TestAPI (Lester Lobo)

Silverlight / WPF

• Getting the Absolute Position (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• WCF RIA Services DomainService life-cycle and adding Transactions (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight HVP Design – Configuration & Scenarios (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF : New Threading Component (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Jeffrey Van Gogh and Bart De Smet: Inside System.Interactive (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #156: Learning how to use Named Content Areas w/ Spark (Derik Whittaker)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: TWoC9 Day 3 (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Origins of a love affair (Damien Guard)
• Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

• Getting the ISO Week and Year (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• BCS Multiple Finder Methods for External Content Types (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Presenting Lessons I’ve Learned (Jay Fields)
• 10 Things to Do Before the New Year (Meryl Evans)
• Windows 7 Tip: Creating A Help Toolbar (Michael S. Scherotter)
• 50 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks (Steve Clayton)
• Stephen King’s On Writing… A Memoir Of The Craft (Mike Cottmeyer)
• DZone Daily Dose – 12/30 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 3 Microsoft Project 2010 Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Stormy weather? Who is monitoring the cloud? (Andy Singleton)
• Conversation Piece: Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
• How to pass arguments for remote commands and Bringing remote commands to your local session and Saving remote session to your local disk (Lukasz Anforowicz)

More Link Collections

• 2009′s Most Popular Articles (Scott Mitchell)
• The Morning Brew #507 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2009 — #766 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/29/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts (Simone Chiaretta)

The Geek Shelf

Windows 7 Inside Out

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Application Settings (Richard Carr)
• .NET 4.0 is so Lazy (Fredrik Normén)
• Lists in F# (Kathleen McGrath)
• Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010 (Daniel Moth)
• Gabriel Schenker introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate. (Zachariah Young)

Web Development

• Upload a File via WebRequest Using CSharp (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC is MUCH better than MS seems to think (Dino Esposito) – Link of the Day
• Fluent-API to add ActionFilters to Controllers – ASP.NET MVC Part 3 (Fredrik Normén)
• Unrecognized attribute ‘targetFramework’ – Asp.Net 4.0 (Jarod Ferguson)
• Configuring the PasswordRecovery To Send Email to an SSL-Enabled SMTP Client (Scott Mitchell)
• Free ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Beta Hosting to help you get up to FOUR ! (Joe Stagner)
• Combining JavaScript and CSS to Make Pages Load Faster (Peter Kellner)
• Calling the Google Closure Javascript Compiler – Code (Kim Major)
• Optimize your web site for search engines using the SEO Toolkit [UPDATED] (Lawrence Moroney)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework (MS Downloads)
• Easy Mockups with Balsamiq (Grant Palin)
• In response to "The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming" (Doug Rohrer)
• Interface Inheritance Esoterica (Phil Haack)
• Coding: Pushing the logic back (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and RIA: Ignoring a Property in Your Business Object and Silverlight and RIA: Sharing Your Business Object Files and Silverlight and RIA: Enum Properties (Deborah Kurata)
• Embedding IronPython in Silverlight – Importing (Jimmy Schementi)
• New WPF Features: Cached Composition (Lester Lobo)
• Announcing the Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Silverlight Team)
• Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released (Sunshine)
• Design feedback for Silverlight needed and Two Silverlight SDKs released – Bing and Facebook (Tim Heuer)
• Creating Custom Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
• Magellan and Composite WPF and Magellan and the Microsoft MVVM Toolkit (Paul Stovell)
• Paper 2010 First Preview + New Releases Imminent (Dax Pandhi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Videos on Channel9 (Andrew Connell)
• C9 Conversations: Yousef Khalidi on Cloud Computing (Charles Torre)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 39: Building Composite WPF Applications with Claudio Lassala (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Anders Hejlsberg full length interview (Tina Wood)
• This Week in Testing: Episode 3 – Magic Numbers (Roy Osherove & Gil Zilberfeld)
• PDC09: John Durant on newly announced SharePoint features (Robert Hess)
• How to Cancel Work using .NET4 CancellationToken (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Get Your BI Project Started with Free Developer Training on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
• Asp.Net Mvc 2 (Chris Canal) – Upcoming ScotALT.NET Meeting
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 11/24/2009 “Stop Talking, Start Teaching” with Jeff Casimir (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Travelogue: Oredev 2009 Wrap-Up (Stephen Bohlen)
• Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day One (Jimmy Bosse)
• My Twitter Notes from Scott Guthrie Keynote at DevConnections (Julie Lerman)

Database

• Using Transactions with SqlBulkCopy (Scott Mitchell)
• From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling (Chris Sells)
• Do not use spaces or other invalid characters in your column names (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Sharepoint Resource Available for SQL Server (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates "SyncToy" File Synchronization Program for Windows 7 and Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Virtual Router" Wifi Hotspot for Windows 7 and Microsoft’s Research Labs Releases "Social Web Experience Toolbar" for Internet Explorer (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft buys Teamprise: so what? (Joel Bennett)
• Google unveils the ‘Go’ programming language (Cristian)
• Microsoft to Release Vista Ultimate Extras on Windows 7 (Muhammad Ali)
• PowerPack Creation Manual (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Ditch these 6 words (Anne Cheng) – Resume tips.
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/11 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Wanted: Microsoft seeks Midori OS UI Architect (Stephen Chapman)
• Rejoice, surfers! Bing it up with free WiFi access across the US (Sebastian Anthony)
• A Discussion on Imperative vs. Declarative Programming (Bill Wagner)
• PowerShell your PDC (Greg Duncan)
• A Move Into The Cloud Is Inevitable (Justin Etheredge)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #474 (the real 474) (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 10, 2009 — #728 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 389 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• jQuery UI DatePicker instead of AJAX Control Toolkit CalendarExtender in ASP.NET (Arnold Matusz)
• JSMag May 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Customizing ASP.NET’s CreateUserWizard Control To Display a Fixed Set of Security Questions (Scott Mitchell)
• PTOM: Breaking Free from HttpContext (Colin Ramsay)
• jQuery – Accordion and DotNetNuke CSS in your Module Settings (Dave M. Bush)
• Put Your Pages and Views on Lockdown (Phil Haack)
• jQuery & MicrosoftAjax “happy together” (Marc Schneider)
• A Fast and Easy Way to Take an ASP.NET Application Offline (Rafay Ali)
• Iterating on an ASP.NET MVC Model Binder (K. Scott Allen)
• More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Maarten Balliauw)
• Project Huron Wants YOU to Test Cloud-Based Data Services (Dana Coffey)
• Win Your Copy: JavaScript for Programmers (Me)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Windows 7 SDK: RC (MS Downloads)
• AutoMapper feature – custom type converters (Jimmy Bogard)
• Drools on Windows (Part 3 of 22) – Object Interop (Dana Stevens)
• .NET Platform Invoke Paradigm in Java (J/Invoke) (Vitaly Shelest)
• Checking XML for Semantic Equivalence in C# (Justin Etheredge)
• Windows 7 for Developers – File Dialogs from .NET (Mike Taulty)
• Atom feeds with the Windsor WCF Facility and Windsor WCF Facility: MessageAction and MessageEnvelopeAction (Mike Hadlow)
• C#: Using Virtual Leads to Confusion? (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Software Craftsman’s Bookshelf (Gøran Hansen)
• NUnit 2.5 RTM (Andrew Stopford) – Link of the Day
• How design rot (Oren Eini)
• A testing survey on a large project (Jimmy Bogard)
• Code Generation Should be the Nuclear Option (Justin Etheredge)
• ELMAH and Exception Driven Development FTW (Scott Hanselman)
• Enterprise Constraints and Feedback (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Book Review: WPF In Action with Visual Studio 2008 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Expression Blend Tutorial: Customizing the Look of a Radio Button (Frank La Vigne)
• Recreating Frogger in Silverlight – Part 1 (Michael Ceranski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WPF Design Surface Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 (Adam Kinney)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #107: Testing MVC Routes (Kyle Baley)
• Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview – Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Andy Lester: Land the Tech Job you Love (The Pragmatic Programmers)

Community / Events

• F# Community Roundup (Chris Smith)
• Microsoft Connected Health Conference (Eric Gunnerson)
• Stored Procedure panel at Tech Ed 2009 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• You’re invited to XamlFest Boston – May 27 + May 28 (John Pelak)
• Stack Overflow Moderator Voting Now Open (Jeff Atwood)
• My MVC Best Practices talk (Sebastien Lambla)
• Sod This at TechEd (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)

PowerShell

• PowerShell V2 – backward compatibility (Osama Sajid)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration by Ross Mistry (Pinal Dave)
• Handling long running queries with a stop sign (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Debugging SharePoint Workflows (Vishwas Lele)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft wants to take Seadragon to Windows 8, Windows Mobile 7, everywhere (Long Zheng)
• Revitalizing a Technical Career (Jeremy D. Miller)
• You can sort the project directory by top-rated releases – #028 and Why some projects have a Download Now button on their homepage – #029 (Sara Ford)
• What’s in your svn:ignore? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Functionally Implementing Intersperse (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Google Contacts Open to Non-Gmail Users and OpenOffice.org 3.1 Available at a Server Near You (Kevin Purdy)
• Getting up and running on git-svn (5 minute quickstart) (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Git, SSH, PuTTY, GitHub, Unfuddle, the kitchen sink (Sergio Pereira)
• Windows 7 RC Available: Why You Should Upgrade From XP (Simon Mackie)
• I Just Logged in as You: How It Happened (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #341 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #116 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2009 — #586 and Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2009 – 2 — #587 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 318 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for May 5th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 27 (Kathleen Sanders)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Boss Launch Beta (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight RPG: Steel Saga (Avi Pilosof)
• Silverlight 3 Beta – Downloads You May Have Missed (Bart Czernicki)
• Compile your XNA 2D games to run in Silverlight with SilverSprite (Bill Reiss)
• Silverlight, XAML & Prism: Diving in Head First at the Shallow End of the Pool (Bobby Johnson)
• Creating Sound Using MediaStreamSource in Silverlight 3 Beta and Using Blur to make Dialogs Pop in Silverlight 3 (Pete Brown)
• Building Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta Applications on the Same Machine (Jeff Wilcox) – Link of the Day
• Silverlight sans Xaml (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK 0.5 (Jimmy Schementi)
• Silverlight 3 Beta install experience for users (Tim Heuer)
• Exploring the CoreCLR Inside Silverlight (Tim Sneath)
• Silverlight 3: Array Helper (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight Spy update for SL3 and IE8 (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Internationalization – Resource Files (Dave M. Bush)
• IronRuby 0.3 (Harry Pierson)
• HowTo: Setup IIS7 as development server in Visual Studio 2008 (Robert Muehsig)
• More reminders / gotchas from the trenches with Azure (Wally McClure)
• Lego 3d Scanner (Coding4Fun)
• A Few SQL Server CE and Entity Framework Gotchas (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• jQuery – Auto Scrolling the Slider (Dave M. Bush)
• Hotfix for "Design view does not update HTML" and to "Designer inserts a lot of  " (Mikhail)
• ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Development Overview & Dynamic Data (Scott Hunter)
• ASP.NET MVC for RoR developers: do as locals do (Simone Chiaretta)
• One tool to test them all: Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview (Peter Eysermans)
• Why Internet Explorer 8 disappoints web developers (Paul Thurrott)
• IE8 Built-in Developer Tools (Marcelo)
• New CodePlex project: MvcSiteMap – ASP.NET MVC sitemap provider (Maarten Balliauw)
• Creating an Ajax Login Form With jQuery (Justin)
• Virtual Earth 101 (Jim Duffy)
• Cascading or Dependant Field Templates for ASP.Net 4.0 Preview (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Emergence Of Knowledge In Software Development (Derick Bailey)
• Over Communication is the Best Strategy for Organizational Change (Mark Schneider)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jim Duffy Lives on a Virtual Earth (Carl Franklin)
• Q&A with Scott Guthrie at MIX09 and Q&A with Bill Buxton at MIX09 and Q&A with Dean Hachamovitch at MIX09 (Dan Fernandez)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #95: Building a Progressive Fluent Interface (Derik Whittaker)
• My podcast list (Larry Clarkin)
• Episode 63 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Brandon Shell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• .NET Fireside Chats – Holger Schwichtenberg (Me)
• MIX 09 Roundup: 8 Sessions on Live Services Available Now (Angus Logan)
• Upcoming MSDN Unleashed Events (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Watch the Oslo Mix ’09 Talk: Developing RESTful Services and Clients with "M" (Chris Sells)
• What happens at Mix, gets exposed to everyone (Corey Miller)
• DC ALT.NET 3/25 – Introduction to TDD (Matthew Podwysocki)
• CodeStock 2009 Call for Speakers (Elijah Manor)
• Photos from MIX09 Part 3 (Frank La Vigne)
• 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – Behind The Scenes! and 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 1 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Microsoft MIX 2009 Wrap-Up (Justin Etheredge)
• Events This Week – March 23rd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – SCOPE_IDENTITY Bug with Multi Processor Parallel Plan and Solution (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 Client Design and SQL Server 2008 XML Indexing (Jose Barreto)
• Spring cleaning your indexes – Part I (Kimberly L. Tripp)
• Using return types as parameters in T-SQL (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Working with Structured Data in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Part2): Exposing LOB Data (Reza Alirezaei)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 on deck (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Releases Updated Documentation for Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 and Microsoft Releases Official "First Look" Windows 7 Training Courses (Blake Handler)
• Windows Home Serve available on MSDN (David Vidmar)
• Improving upon vanilla virtualization with cloud computing (Dan Shookowsky)
• Reaching For The Clouds (Jason Ipock)
• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Three: Homoiconic (Eric Lippert)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers (Spence Harbar)
• Getting syntax highlighting for your powershell scripts (take 2) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Federating Windows Search with Enterprise Data Sources (Brandon Paddock, Scott Dart & Alwin Vyhmeister)
• RE: IE8 Beta Feedback (Allison Burnett)
• A Brief Collection of Convenient Lies About Functional Programming (Michael Feathers)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #313 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 — #546 and Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 – 2 — #547 and Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 – 3 — #548 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 307 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for March 23rd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day