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Top Links

• Mix10 Session Downloader (Frank La Vigne)
• HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating (Stephen Walther)
• Prism 4.0 Plans (Blaine Wastell)
• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton Tells UI Developers to ‘Do It Naturally’ (Joe Wilcox)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Review of RedGate .NET Reflector Pro (Scott Seely)
• Cleaning up a folder structure from Visual Studio artifacts from the shell (Simone Chiaretta)
• Collapsing or Expanding All Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
• Working with WCF: Part Two – Your First Host and A Bit About Configuration (James Bender)
• TMap for VS2010 Process Template Explained… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Protecting PowerShell Scripts with Team Foundation Server (TFS) (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Coding4Fun Cannon – Project Overview (Clint Rutkas)
• XNA Tutorial Gets Game Developers Ready for Windows phone 7 (Bruce Kyle)

 

Web Development

• Take Control Of Web Control ClientID Values in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Building Social Web Applications – Only $9.99! Use code DDBSW (O’Reilly Media)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing deeper (Matthew Podwysocki)
• IE9 Finally Ready to Join the HTML5 Party (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Translator v2 widget and APIs (Kip Kniskern)
• Announcing the OData Explorer (Phani Raj)
• OData.org updated, gives clues about future SQL Azure enhancements (Jamie Thomson)
• Windows Phone 7 user agent (Mads Kristensen)
• OData rocking at MIX10 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Microsoft <3 jQuery (James Senior)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton on Design (Ina Fried)
• Take a look at the Windows Phone 7 Series “Metro” book (Devon Musgrave)
• Parallel Pair Programming (Mark Needham)
• Measuring Technical Debt (Mitch Ruebush)
• The Complexity Hammer (Steve Rowe)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part I (Christian Schormann)
• Silverlight 4: GPU Accelerated PlaneProjection (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 is NOT the same full Silverlight 3 RTM (Bart Czernicki)
• Testing a WPF UI using Ruby, Cucumber and WiPFlash.dll (Ben Hall)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services and Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight for Symbian Beta available now (Sunshine)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 4 : Direct Hosting of WPF content (Paul Harrington)
• Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application (Pete Brown)
• Control input focus from ViewModel objects (Josh Smith)
• MVVM Light V3 released at #MIX10 and What’s new in MVVM Light V3 and Sample code for my #mix10 talk online (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight 4 RC News (Don Burnett)
• Some steps for moving WCF RIA Services Preview to the RC version. (Fredrik Normen)
• Windows Phone 7 Series will have themes… sort of (Nilay Patel)
• WPF : Re-usable MVVM Ready Breadcrumb control (Sacha Barber)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• In your hands: IE 9 – Surfing on Metal with GPU Powered HTML5 and In your hands: IE9 and SVG – Past, Present and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web and In your hands: IE 9 Performance – From JS to COM to DOM to HTML5 on GPU and In your hands: Introducing the IE9 Developer Platform Preview (Charles Torre)
• “Build Your Own MVVM Framework” is Online (Rob Eisenberg)
• J.B. Rainsberger – Value Objects (Corey Haines)
• Covariance and Contravariance in .NET 4.0 (Martin Esmann)
• Silverlight TV 16: Top Features in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight (John Papa)

 

Community / Events

• MIX10 Day 2 Keynote – IE9, OData and Azure (Me)
• MIX10 – Day 1 and MIX10 – Day 2 – First IE9 Platform Preview, OData SDKs, “Dallas” CTP2 (Sunshine)
• Getting Started With nServiceBus on VAN Mar 31 (Zachariah Young)
• Philly.Net Code Camp 2010.1 is Coming… (Mitch Ruebush)
• IE9 Platform Preview Feedback (Justin Saint Clair)
• Side Projects, Community Involvement, Etc. (Derick Bailey)
• What’s Up at Mix: IE9, JQuery and Open Data (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• Using linked servers, OPENROWSET and OPENQUERY (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and WITH NO_WAIT during ALTER DATABASE (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Chat Web Part for SP 2010 – Sandbox Solution (Lightning Tools)
• Advanced donut caching: using dynamically loaded controls (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Zune 4.2 (MS Downloads)
• An Interview Question That Prints Out It’s Own Source Code (In Ruby) (Alan Skorkin)
• Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office Released – Automate Office documents without Office (Greg Duncan)
• Daily Dose – IBM Stops Disclosing Number of U.S. Employees (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Office 2010 Assessment & Planning (Brian Shiers)
• About the Platform Preview (Justin Saint Clair)
• Microsoft Bing: Behind the Scenes of the Decision Engine (Stefan Weitz)

 

More Link Collections

• Great Blog Posts on Expression Blend 4 for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #561 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 408 (Sam Gentile)
• Mix 10 Rollup Post (Scott Hanselman)

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• PowerCommands for Reflector 1.3 and Introducing Query Editor (Jason Haley)
• F# First Class Events – Composing Events Until Others (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Learning Scala via C# Part 1 – What Is Scala? (Justin Etheredge)
• TFS Build: _PublishedWebsites for exe and dll projects. Part 2 (Mike Hadlow)
• Using LINQ to Convert an Array Into a Generic List with C# (Peter Kellner)

 

Web Development

• Generate Metatags for ASP.NET Pages Dynamically (Deepak Choudhari)
• qTip Tooltip with jQuery UI ThemeRoller Support (Elijah Manor)
• Build pretty clean URL for your dynamic pages using JavaScript (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• A generic way to find ASP.NET ClientIDs with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
• Using Adaptive Streaming with Encoder 3 (Jeff Paries)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Technical Debt Quadrant (Martin Fowler)
• UI Mockups (Oren Eini) – Link of the Day
• Performance Counters Added to MassTransit (Chris Patterson)
• The Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Is Here! (David Hill)
• There’s Only One Thing You Can Learn From Code Coverage (Davy Brion)
• Integrating Exception Handling Into the Development Cycle (Lee Dumond)
• Cosmo: project status panel (Leon Bambrick)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 1 & 2 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• IncaBlocks Released, Thanks AgileZen and Kanban! (Michael C. Neel)
• The Art of Unit Testing (Michael Sonsino) – A review of Roy Osherove’s awesome book.
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 15. (Rajiv Popat)
• Gone are the Days of Simple Developer Tools (Rob Bazinet)
• A simple way to know you’re missing some leadership skills (Roy Osherove)
• Defining the problem : How business works (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Reducing Code Coupling – Dependency Injection (Grant Palin)
• Releasing psake v1.00 & psake v2.00 (James Kovacs)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pixel8 – Magic, Mind-Controlled Interfaces and What Makes an Experience Architect (Craig Shoemaker)
• ARCast.TV: Juval Lowy on The EnergyNet, the Next Software Boom (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Donald Farmer on Gemini (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV Special – Jim Wilt on Increasing Solution Adoption Success Using Architectural Skills (Bob Familiar)
• Immo Landwerth: Future Directions of Native Image Generation via NGen (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #70 (Jeff Atwood)
• Interview with Fujitsu on Document Scanning Systems with SharePoint-Episode 36 (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)
• Countdown to PDC09: Coding4Fun Meets PDC (Larry Larsen)
• PDC09 Workshop: Microsoft Technology Roadmap (Robert Hess)
• Water Cooler Interview with Eric Shupps (Kirk Evans)

 

Community / Events

• p&p Summit 2009: Developing for Multi-Core (Ade Miller)
• PDC 2009 – I can’t wait! (Brad Abrams)
• Unbridled Endorsement of the Best Code Camp Ever (Sara J. Chipps) – Philly.NET FTW!!!
• I’ll Give Away Signed Books + Mentoring Workshop Seats @ SharePoint Conference 2009 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow new dates announced! Arming you with Windows 7 and Silverlight keys to success. (Dave Isbitski)
• Southern Maryland GiveCamp Announced! : GiveCamp.org (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Awesome Scrum Developer Training coming to Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus (Peter Kellner)
• SQL University and why you should be attending (Ted Krueger)

 

Database

• UDF Overhead – A simple example (Dave Ballantyne)
• Considering surrogate keys for Unknown members (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Enable Automatic Statistic Update on Database (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure CTP 2 (Jim O’Neil)

Miscellaneous

• Integrated Interface for Google’s Services (Alex Chitu)
• Windows 7 on Family Guy: First Sneak Peek: (Blake Handler)
• Re-imagining the Desktop with 10/GUI (Frank La Vigne)
• Writing WMI providers FAQ series – 3 – Is it better to use embedded objects or association in a CIM model? (Kapil Mathur)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #455 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for October 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 14-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 14th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 382 (Sam Gentile)
• Double Shot #562 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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Thanks to everyone who came out to Philly.NET’s Code Camp last Saturday! I had a great time meeting many of the attendees and other speakers. I think I’ve learned some good lessons from my first public .NET speaking engagement and hope to refine and improve my talk and give it again soon.

I presented ‘ASP.NET MVC Development with S#arp Architecture’ on Rachel Appel’s ASP.NET track. If you are interested in checking out the slides or my sample code, you can get them here:

• Slide Deck
• Sample Code

There is a great list of useful links at the end of the slideshow. Make sure to check them all out if you are working with ASP.NET MVC.

 

 

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Long list today because I skipped the weekend post. I was busy at Philly.NET Code Camp 2009.1 on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came out to my S#arp Architecture talk, especially Nick and Sara.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# String.Empty Example and Issues (Sam Allen)
• C# “” better than string.Empty? (Dave M. Bush)
• NHibernate Mapping – <one-to-one/> and NHibernate Mapping – <join/> (Oren Eini)
• More on the lock-free stack/queue: memory fences (Julian M. Bucknall)
• LINQ to Z3 – Theorem Solving on Steroids – Part 0 (Bart de Smet)
• Extension Methods in C#: cool but at what cost? (Christopher Diggins)
• Introduction to HealthvaultDevelopment #11: Data filtering (Eric Gunnerson)
• C# Regions are not Useful? Give me a Break (Dave Schinkel)
• F# Basics – Infix Operators (Jason Olson)
• How does C# Lambda expressions work? (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Keep Your IQueryable In Check (Justin Etheredge)
• The sorry tale of the Visual Studio Web Site (Mike Hadlow)
• Developing Surface Applications (Luis Cabrera)
• How Relationships are Modeled in "MSchema" (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• .Net RIA Services and Multi-table Joins (Bob Baker)
• View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)
• A WPF Countdown Timer in PowerShell 2.0 (Joel Bennett)
• Some facts about Silverlight 3 and where it’s going (Peter Bromberg)
• Navigation system in WPF (Lester Lobo)
• Silverlight Layouts Part 1 (Charlie Calvert)
• Silverlight 3 Out of Browser – Quick Rant and It took me under 5 minutes to realize the power of behaviors… (Jose Fajardo)
• Cracking an XPS in WPF and WPF Quick Tip: Converters as MarkupExtensions (Josh Twist)
• Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Support Publishing To DeepZoomPix! (Sunshine)
• WPF : Dynamic Search Driven List Results (Now uses AppDomain) and WPF : Blend 3 Interactions / Behaviours (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight 3 – Out of Browser Applications with Cached Extensions (Mike Taulty)
• SuperPreview with Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)

 

Web Development

• Just Noticed some Great Tutorials by the Author of Learning ExtJS (Peter Kellner)
• ASP.NET Session State shared between IE Tabs and IE8 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Minimize Code by Using jQuery and Data Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Unit Testing Part 2: JSSpec (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC Free eBooks (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• The performance implications of the expression tree-based ActionLink helper and How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications (Simone Chiaretta)
• Native JSON Parsing: What does it mean? (Rick Strahl) – Link of the Day
• OpenRasta, or “How to speak REST” (Kyle Baley)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• "Don’t be a plumber" is horrible advice. (Leon Gersing)
• What do I expect from guidance? and Repository is the new Singleton and Where is the ROI? (Oren Eini)
• The Agility Cycle – Part 1 (Brad Appleton)
• Put Performance Concerns Into Perspective and Gotta Love Refactoring (Davy Brion)
• Decoupling Workflow And Forms With An Application Controller (Derick Bailey)
• First Order Agile Scaling and The Software Requirements Balancing Act (Mike Cottmeyer)
• AJAX Architectures Condensed (Dino Esposito)
• Leader vs. Ruler: Which One Are You? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Ditching the Micro-Optimization Fetish (Justin Etheredge)
• Half-a-Book Review: SOA Patterns (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• F#: Refactoring that little twitter application into objects and I don’t have time not to test! and Coding: Applying levels of abstraction (Mark Needham)
• 10 ways to reduce cost of software testing (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Saga Persistence and Event-Driven Architectures (Udi Dahan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week on C9: Office 2010, PowerShell for OpenXML, and would you help a robot (Brian Keller)
• Another Video Blog (Sara Chipps)
• ViewModel (MVVM) in Raw Silverlight 2 (Erik Mork)
• CodeCast: Oslo and M with Paul Vick (Chris Sells)
• Herding Code 43: Javier Lozano on the "M" in MVC (Jon Galloway)
• deCast – Building an Azure App Part III: Hosting Web Services and Silverlight (Rob Bagby)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video series pre-purchase offer (Rockford Lhotka)
• Major Nelson Show #316 : Lode Runner and photo editing laptops (Larry Hryb)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Announces "OfficePalooza" Two Week Contest Event for VBA Office Programmers (Blake Handler)
• Virtual ALT.NET Meeting about S#arp Architecture (Chad Myers)
• Philly .NET Code Camp Notes (Erik Peterson)
• Code Camp 2009.1 – Gooey GUI… Programming in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)

 

Database

• C Style operators in SQL Server 2008 (Darrel Carver)
• The Relational Model (Ken Downs)
• SQLAuthority News – Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 and SQLAuthority Book Review – Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide by Michael Coles (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Mobile 6.5 coming May 11, WM 6.5 phones not so much (Brad Linder)
• SharePoint sheds the “Office” label with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Google Pushing Chrome to Internet Explorer Users (Keith Elder)
• There is a “Are you sure you want to navigate away?” alert when editing your wiki? – #018 and You can enlarge the wiki text area – #019 (Sara Ford)
• New Windows Live Mobile Client and FeedMe: An RSS/Podcast Client for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
• Low Bandwidth View and other Hidden (and Future) Features of MSDN (Scott Hanselman)
• Evernote’s New Twitter Functionality (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows 7 RC to be released publicly on May 5 (Lee Mathews)
• Microsoft Technology Roadmap Links and Resources (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Five: Reification (Eric Lippert)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 17, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 19, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #330 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2009 — #573 and Silverlight Cream for April 19, 2009 — #574 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #49 (Grant Palin)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 18 (Denis Gobo)
• Squeezed Links: April 2009 (Max Pool)
• New and Notable 313 (Sam Gentile)
• Weekly Link Post 90 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for April 17th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

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