• Writing F# Type Providers with the F# 3.0 Developer Preview – An Introductory Guide and Samples (Don Syme)
• Using Entity Framework Code First with Stored Procedures that have Output Parameters (Dan Wahlin)
• Raising the right PropertyChanged with C# 5′s Caller Info Attributes (Rob Fonseca-Ensor)
• Are You a Software Developer — or a Leader? (Eric Spiegel)
• Why no ForEach method on IEnumerable interfaces (Mark Zhou)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Integrate Validation Block with WCF (Ercan Anlama)
• How to change Default Performance Report Name in Visual Studio 2010 ? and Setting Up Noise Reduction Option for Performance Reports in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Abhijit Jana)
• C# Runtime Compilation (Richard Carr)
• What’s new in C# 5.0 and VB.Net? (Samuel Jack)
• Dynamic Properties 1.0.0.0 (Tomáš Jecha)
• Setting the Initial Rotation in a C# Metro Applicatio​n and Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 1 and Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 2 (Derik Whittaker)
• FSharp for beginners : Finding Square of Range of Numbers in F# (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Working with Many-to-Many Relationships in OData via WCF Data Services (Nick)
• Installing TFS 11 Build Server from the BUILD Conference in Anaheim (Tim Elhajj)
• WCF in .NET 4.5/Visual Studio 11 (Sam Gentile)
• ReadOnlyDictionary in .net 4.5 and Solution Explorer gets new features in VS 2011 (Arun Mahendrakar)
• An example of inheritance gone wrong (Joh)
• Telerik OpenAccess ORM – What’s new in the latest internal build (OpenAccess ORM Team)
• Matching Records (Phillip Trelford)
• Bidirectional Entity Foreign Key Names in EF Code First (Steve Smith)
• Solution for “Tool makepri.exe cannot be found. Please install Windows Modern SDK” (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Dealing with types in WinRT and Detecting design mode in Windows 8/WinRT and Quick tip: Select the correct INotifyPropertyChanged in Windows 8 / WinRT and Quick tip: Killing a Metro-style app in Windows 8 and Breaking change: Raising PropertyChanged with string.Empty in WinRT / Windows 8 and Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT) (Laurent Bugnion)
• LLBLGen Pro, Entity Framework 4.1, and the Repository Pattern (Matt J. Cowan)
• Internals of .NET Objects and Use of SOS (Abhishek Sur)
• Unintended Api Changes – .NET 4.0 Breaking Changes (Alois Kraus)

Web Development

• Consuming Cross-Domain WCF REST Services with jQuery using JSONP (Gary Stafford)
• Selecting and Installing JavaScript Developer Tools for Linux and The Difference between HTML DIV and HTML SPAN (Joe Stagner)
• jQuery: Collecting the results from a collection of asynchronous requests (Mark Needham)
• (Yet another) nHibernate sessionmanager for ASP.NET (MVC) (Peter van Ooijen)
• 10 articles on ASP.NET MVC Extensibility to land on Simple-Talk in the next months (Simone Chiaretta)
• ECMAScript.next: new details, reacting to Dart complaints (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Show raw Text Code from a URL with CodePaste.NET (Rick Strahl)
• Rail 3.1 CI setup with Jenkins, Test Unit & SimpleCov on OS X Lion. (Ryan Svihla)
• RFC: Web Platform Installer (WebPI) with an offline feed mode for bandwidth savings (Scott Hanselman)
• Facebook Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love (Daniel Andrés Torvisco)
• rails_best_practices 1.0.0 & 1.0.1 released (Richard Huang)
• Ruby 1.9.3 Release Candidate 1 Released (What’s new?) (Peter Cooper)
• JSON Stock Queries (Omar Shahine)
• WebForms MVP New Release 1.4.0.0 – Castle users *must* update (Tatham Oddie)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Type Code with Subclasses (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Even Backlogs Need Grooming (John Sonmez)
• A Kanban Visualisation TIP (Karl Scotland)
• "Strict" Unit Testing — Everything In Isolation Is Too Much Work (Steven Lott)
• Selling Features We Don’t Have (Mike Cottmeyer)
• JustMock Q2 2011 SP1 Internal Build (Chris Eargle)
• Adopting the Metro Style for Line of Business Apps (Bil Simser)
• NCrunch (William E. Kempf)
• In Retrospect: About Requirements Management (Dennis Doomen)
• Some Thoughts On Service Oriented Architecture (Mike Hadlow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 7 : Accessing collections on non-UI Threads and WPF 4.5 – Part 8 : No more airspace problems (Integrating WPF with win32) (Jonathan Antoine)
• Physics Helper XAML for Metro WinRT (Andy Beaulieu)
• Getting around the Caching in the Silverlight Image Control (Derik Whittaker)
• Fetching selected value from List Box in Silverlight and Local Database application for windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 2000 WPF Things #394 – Specify Canvas Child Element Position Using Two Properties (Sean Sexton)
• Drag and Drop in 30 Seconds (Jesse Liberty)
• XNA to SilverXNA-part 7 Breaking the mould (Simon Jackson)
• Visual State Manager and Coroutines (Nigel Sampson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 018: Joel gets an MBA in LEGO (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Coding QA Episode 65 – Testing Strategies for a Toaster (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• TWC9: Build Sessions, VS 11, MoXaml Power Toys, Sync Fx Toolkit (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Nic Fillingham)
• Herding Code 121: Sara Chipps updates us on Girl Develop It at one year (Jon Galloway)
• Technology & Friends Episode 175: Richard Campbell on Windows 8 and Build (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 035 – “Is That A Sea Ray In Your Pocket!?” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 412: Gears of War 3 launch (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 160 – PowerScripting Podcast – Boe Prox on PoshPAIG (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Gillmor Gang 9.24.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 105 – 09.24.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 59 – Using the Windows Push Notification Service with Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #121: Marc Köhlbrugge, founder Betali.st (Bob Walsh)
• The Engadget Show – 025: We ride an electric bike, check out the new Keepon and get serenaded by Jonathan Coulton (Brian Heater)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Ryan Dunn Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Windows Weekly 227: We’re Having Twins! (Paul Thurrott)
• This is my next Podcast 025 – 09.23.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Scaling with RavenDB video (Oren Eini)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 71 – Jake Ginnivan on the Intricacies of COM Interop and VSTO (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Tulsa Tech Fest – October 7th – Top 3 reasons you should go! (Caleb Jenkins)
• It’s that time of year again: CodeCamps! (John Petersen)
• The //Build Report–Thoughts on the Event (D’Arcy Lussier)
• Killer Build Interviews and XAML Sessions. (Michael Crump)
• Presenting “Taking Baby Steps with Node.js” at Agile.NET 2011 Europe (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Database

• SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2 Available at PASS 2011 Summit (Glenn Berry)
• Download all SQL Server DENALI CTP3 Demo VHD 36 files at once (Jose Chinchilla)
• PerformancePoint – Using SSAS Actions (Devin Knight)
• SQL Server Job Monitoring (OceanWanderer)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Download CTP3 Demo VHD Including Fully Configured Services and Integration with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 and SQLAuthority News – Online Session – Ancient Trade of Performance Tuning – Index, Beyond Index and No Index (Pinal Dave)
• Aggregates with multiple tables (Naomi Nosonovsky)
• Reporting Key Errors can be time-consuming (Chris Webb)

SharePoint

• APress Deal of the Day – 26/Sept/2011 – Pro SharePoint 2010 Solution Development Combining .NET, SharePoint, and Office 2010 (Tatworth)
• Installing TFS 11 Extension for SharePoint from the BUILD Conference in Anaheim (Tim Elhajj)

Miscellaneous

• Building WebKit on Windows (Ashod Nakashian)
• Announcing BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed (Charles Young)
• Bounty Reasons and Post Notices (Jeff Atwood)
• Windows 8. “Don’t worry, nothing has changed for traditional desktop development” And that’s the problem (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Scala: Replacing a trait with a fake one for testing (Mark Needham)
• Yes, Google Drive Is Coming. For Real This Time. (MG Siegler)
• Running Windows Programs on Linux – a tutorial. (Joe Stagner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 24, 2011 and Interesting Finds: September 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 09.20 ~ 09.25 (yuanjian)
• Distributed Weekly 121 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #945 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading September 24, 2011 and Geek Reading September 25, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Links of the week #162 (David Vidmar)
• Pie in the Sky (September 23, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Link dump for September 24th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 082 for 9/26/2011 (Giant Post-Build Edition) and The Maker Geek Roundup 001 for 9/26/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #716 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 — #1148 and Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 – 2 — #1149 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 18-September-2011 to 24-September-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 51 – #Giveaway and #Agile #Videos (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter

• Phoney Tools 1.0 Released! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• TouchStudio – Script Your Phone ON Your Phone! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• BDD Antipattern: The technical spec (or why geeks need to speak business) (John Rayner)
• 12 Behavior Anti Patterns You Will Face As a Software Team Leader (Roy Osherove)

.NET / Visual Studio

• OData Service for TFS 2010, try it out on CodePlex (Colin Thompkins)
• Using C# keywords as variables (Jef Claes)
• Message Queue Shootout! (Mike Hadlow)
• VS2010 SP1 New Features: Unit Tests for Framework 3.5 (Zain Naboulsi)
• CodeRush Tip – How to locate key bindings and CodeRush Tip – Where are my CodeRush settings stored? (Rory Becker)
• Converting Between Integers and Strings Using Any Base and Generating and Parsing Roman Numerals and Converting Between Integers and Spreadsheet Column Labels (Jonathan Wood)
• How to parse source code using the DXCore integrated code parsers (Alex Skorkin)
• Testing a RockPaperAzure Bot in a Winform (Brian Hitney)
• "Multi-Targeting Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1" (with an official State Machine support for WF4) (Greg Duncan)
• 5 Cool Hacks And Prototypes For .NET devs – Node.js in Azure, Kinect as Windows 7 controller, WCF web sockets, WPF over Web and more (Anoop Madhusudanan)

Web Development

• IBM getting into the HTML5 authoring game with open source Maqetta (Greg Duncan)
• A Little Something for Those Getting Started with CSS… (Joey deVilla)
• Toggling Enabled Controls with jQuery (Matt Hamilton)
• Rounded Corners and Shadows – Dialogs with CSS (Rick Strahl)
• Silverlight vs. HTML5: Both are important to our future (Bill Wagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Rabu Workflow: How Do We Get Customers to Participate? (James Shore)
• Effective Tests: A Test-First Example – Part 3 (Derek Greer)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Parameterized Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• NUnit Identity Assertions (Richard Carr)
• Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: Getting rid of globals (Oren Eini)
• STRIPS for Classical Plan Representation and Planning (Billy McCafferty)
• 5 Reasons Why You Should Stop Estimating User Stories (Michael)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Installing Silverlight OOB application using a Setup project (After2050)
• Generic Multi-Select MVVM ListBox Drag and Drop Helper with Custom Feedback for Silverlight 4.0 (Graeme Grant)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save Captured Image (Windows Phone Geek)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 9 – Navigation and structure (Peter Kuhn)
• Jesse Liberty’s "Windows Phone From Scratch" Tutorials (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono VI: File Access and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono VII: Database (Nick Randolph)
• Azure For App Developers (Dani Diaz)
• Giving Microsoft a Passing Grade from a Failed Certification. (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2010 Seattle Simulcast (Part 4 of 6): Windows Development with Visual Studio 2010 (MS Podcasts)
• Technology & Friends Episode 151: Justin Etheridge on LINQ (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 011 – “Go Ahead, Be Phoney!” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Imagine Cup: The Redmond Judging and Ping 97: Azure & Toyota, Kinect Window, ICE, WP7 Challenge (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Headed to MIX11 – Stay up-to-date (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MIX’11 Live Blogging Tuesday and Wednesday, Lots of Google News, Steve Jobs Biography, More (Paul Thurrott)
• Rock, Paper, Azure Tournament Information (Brian Hitney)
• Imagine Cup Day 3–Workshops, Showcase and Round 2 Finalists (Bob Familiar)
• One bus ride at a time: a novel approach to career and creativity (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Philly Code Camp 2011.1 (Joel Cochran)
• Microsoft Silent as Xbox Indies Marketplace Exploited (Michael C. Neel)
• Rube Goldberg and the Micro Framework at Mix (Rob Miles)
• 10 Reasons I Love MIX (Steve Clayton)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Blogging While on the Move with a Windows Phone (Lonnie Webb)
• UX Sketch Club returns (Michelle Flynn)
• Windows Phone 7 Hackfests in Vancouver and Toronto This Saturday! (Joey deVilla)
• MIX11 announcements for Windows Phone 7 [Rumors] – by Daniel Rubino (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Student Developers – Win with Windows Phone 7! (Luke)

Database

• DataLength function in SQL Server (Amit Bansal)
• SSIS Job Ownership (Jason Brimhall)
• How to examine IO subsystem latencies from within SQL Server (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – expressor Studio Includes Powerful Scripting Capabilities (Pinal Dave)
• When changing column data types use ALTER TABLE TableName ALTER Column syntax, don’t drop and recreate column (Denis Gobo)
• Getting Session ID in SQL Azure programmatically (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Get weekly transactions showing Monday’s date (Naomi)

SharePoint

• Adding jQuery to Every Page in a SharePoint (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Book Review: DSLs in Action (Stephen Harrison)
• Understanding Windows Azure CDN Billing (Windows Azure Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 11th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #831 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 04/11/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 04/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 11, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Azure Whitepapers Roundup (JD Meier)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide by Dan Wellman

Top Links

• 36 Hour Free Offer: jQuery Fundamentals Training (Scott Guthrie)
• PMI Agile Certification… The PMI Agile Project Professional (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Tekpub’s Second Open House (Rob Conery)
• How To Find Out Which NuGet Packages Depend on Yours (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to Import Export Data Tips in Visual Studio 2010 ? and Workaround For Non Serializable Types and Search Multiple Strings Using Regular Expression and “View this as root” – A Solution Navigator features in VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools (Abhijit Jana)
• Default parameters in C# (Eric Gunnerson)
• endpoint.tv – WCF Web API – Content Types (Ron Jacobs)
• Reimplementing LINQ to Objects: Part 45 – Conclusion and List of Posts (Jon Skeet)
• Windows 7 Recipe – Taskbar Single Instance (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Task Parallel Library 3 of n (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• HowTo: Fileupload with ASP.NET MVC (Code Inside Team)
• Contoso Karate Feature Demo Available for Download (Joe Stagner)
• Making HTML5 Come Alive with the Canvas API (Jeff Prosise)
• Daily Dose: HTML5 Goes Mobile: The-M-Project Open Source Framework (Katie McKinsey)
• Ruby on Rails vs ASP.NET MVC slides, demos and video are online (Simone Chiaretta)
• How EnableViewStateMAC Makes ViewState Secure ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Mobile Web Facts and Best Practices (Rob Tiffany)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 5 – Effective Testing (Karl Seguin)
• Git: Oops! I didn’t mean to commit on that remote tracking branch! and Git: D’OH! I didn’t want to delete that branch! (Derick Bailey)
• Unit Testing 101: Are You Testing Your JavaScript? (Christian Johansen)
• BAM! – PMI Agile Certification is Here (Peter Saddington)
• Interview:Ron Jeffries on the Potential of Agile (Ron Jeffries)
• In Pursuit of Quality, let’s Call Quality as something else (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Getting Up to BAT: Hiring an Automation Lead (John Sonmez)
• Why the Ok Button is No Longer Okay (Anthony)
• Nurturing curiosity & inspiring the pursuit of discovery (Garr Reynolds)
• The Impact of Accidental Complexity on Estimates (Jay Fields)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Filtering in MVVM architecture (Gian Maria Ricci)
• More answers about our first software update (Michael Stroh)
• Windows Phone 7 Development QuickStarts (Greg Duncan)
• ‘Content’ is NOT ‘Text’ in XAML (Paul Sheriff)
• WP7 ToastPrompt in depth (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Building on Azure: InterGrid/Green Button (Charles Torre)
• RunAs Radio show #200… not our most technical show… (Paul S. Randal)
• IIS Deploy & Run ASP.NET Websites Videos & Tutorials (24) and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Add Social Networking Features to your Site (Joe Stagner)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #189: Entity Framework: Making changes to the T4 Templates (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• The NYC Code Camp 2011 Retrospective! (Rachel Appel)
• Attending The Microsoft MVP Summit 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Reminder: Register for the PowerShell Deep Dive Conference & submit your sessions (Travis Jones)
• Careers 2.0 Launches (Joel Spolsky)
• Community Branching (Dane Morgridge)
• Come and see me and other F# guru’s in Seattle! (Robert Pickering)

Database

• PHP on Windows and SQL Server Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Writing Better Queries Presentation Materials (Joe Webb)
• Configuring Antivirus for SQL Servers (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – 2000 – DBCC SQLPERF(waitstats) – Wait Type – Day 24 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Fundamentals of Storage Systems, IO Latency and SQL Server (Wesley Brown)

SharePoint

• Shared calendars in Sharepoint 2010 (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• IE9 Feedback: Platform Previews through Beta (Justin Saint Clair)
• The Kinect’s Past (James Ashley)
• 5 questions you may not want to ask your interviewer (Chris Rosenau)
• API Jobs: Technical Evangelism as a Career (Mike Borozdin)
• WordPress 3.1 released, features massive writing workflow and admin overhauls (Sebastian Anthony)
• Android 3.0 SDK Now Available to All Developers (Stan Schroeder)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 23, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 23 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• 23-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #799 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 23th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Zone Daily News Headline – February 24, 2011 (Silverlight Zone)
• Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2011 — #1051 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• Creating a NuGet Package in 7 easy steps – Plus using NuGet to integrate ASP.NET MVC 3 into existing Web Forms applications (Scott Hanselman)
• Idle Detection and Running under Lock on your WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Axum and the new Visual Studio Async CTP (Don Burnett)
• Collaborative design (Simon Brown)
• IE9 on Windows Phone (Dean Hachamovitch)
• CSS Support in ReSharper 6 (Jura Gorohovsky)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio and IE9 start playing nice again (Jef Claes)
• F# Intellisense in Emacs – in progress (Laurent Le Brun)
• WCF – interchangeable data-contract types (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Accessing the Toolbar Inside Tool Windows with the Keyboard (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Change the default Icon on your jQuery UI Accordion (Hajan Selmani)
• Basic JavaScript Part 10: The Module Pattern (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Revisiting Charting with ASP.NET and LINQ (K. Scott Allen)
• W3C Says Final HTML5 Spec is Due in 2014 (Katie McKinsey)
• (pre)Maturely Optimize Your JavaScript (Kyle Simpson)
• jQuery CSS Property Monitoring Plug-in updated and Monitoring Html Element CSS Changes in JavaScript (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Write a Lean and Agile Contract (Dan Puckett)
• The President and the CEO of an Application (Jay Fields)
• Three Components of a Successful Project (Brian Swan)
• Using Generic TestFixtures To Run Tests In Multiple Browsers With WatiN (Davy Brion)
• Telling the complete story (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)
• Getting Friendly With Presets, Part III (Elliot Meacham)
• Introducing the CachedRepository Pattern (Steve Smith)
• YouTrack as a Hosted Service Goes Beta! (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Garbage-Collected Teardown (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Accelerating the Windows Phone Ecosystem (Andy Lees)
• Make YouTube links Windows Phone 7–compatible (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 Tombstoning with MVVM and Sterling (Jeremy Likness)
• WPF 4: Parallel processing of the Data using .NET 4 Parallel Extension Capabilities (Mahesh Sabnis)
• New Release: ReactiveUI 2.1 (Paul Betts)
• Silverlight 4: Interoperability with Windows 7 Taskbar using COM (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight 4 February 2011 Update Released Today (Tim Heuer)
• WP7 – Backup Service (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• Windows Phone 7′s multitasking uses zoomed-out cards to check on your apps (Tim Stevens)
• 9 of 10 – Make your life easy. Use our common controls, and use them right! (Alfred Astort)
• Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.1 (CodePlex)
• Building the Next Great Mobile Software Developer Opportunity (Terry Myerson)
• Talking about Data Binding in WP7 | Coding4fun TextBoxBinding helper in depth (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Entering the WebMatrix! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 105: Brad Wilson on MVC 3 (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 139 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brian and Ben from DevFarm (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Interview with Gearbox co-founder Brian Martel about Duke Nukem Forever (Tina Wood)
• Windows Phone 7 announcements from Mobile World Congress 2011 and Ping 92: Cut & Paste on Windows Phone, Kinect rocks, Team Coco, Halo reach wins (Laura Foy)
• Video: Reactive Phone Programming For Windows Phone 7 (Jesse Liberty)
• Pluralcast 36: K. Scott Allen on MVC 3 (David Starr)
• Authors Cast: Scott Millett on Professional ASP.NET Design Patterns (Lee Dumond)

Community / Events

• Community, community, community, community… (Paul S. Randal)
• Microsoft Career Conference 17th Feb (Rob Miles)
• Speaking at Dahlgren .NET Users Group (Kevin Griffin)
• Richmond Code Camp XI (Kevin Hazzard)
• Events This Week – February 14th, 2011 and Richmond Code Camp XI – Call For Speakers is Open! (DEvHammer)
• New Group – Agile Lean Europe (ALE) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Agile & Scrum Training (Michelle Flynn)
• Kanban workshop for leader/managers–Part II (Dror Helper)
• MVPs for Office 365: MVP Award Program Interviews our Office 365 Guest Bloggers! (Lonnie Webb)
• Finding love at Microsoft: A story of bowling, bug fixes and business (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• Another SQL Server FILESTREAM Best Practice guide (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – LCK_M_XXX – Wait Type – Day 15 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Can I Add Controls to a Reporting Services Report? (Paul Turley)
• Heap Inserts and Replication (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

• Designing Dashboards and Scorecards using SharePoint PerformancePoint Services 2010 and SSAS – Part 2 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• The Importance of Net Neutrality (Jeff Atwood)
• WinZip releases new System Utilities Suite, we go hands-on (Erez Zukerman)
• What would Feynman do? (Eric Lippert)
• Developers, is the Nokia-Microsoft deal good for you? (Joe Wilcox)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: App Savvy – $11.99 (Save 50%) Code DDSVE (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup 059 for 2/14/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 182 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 14 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #792 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 14th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for February 14, 2011 — #1047 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 02/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Coding4fun: 10 .Net Programming Projects for Wiimote, Youtube, World of Warcraft, and More by Dan Fernandez & Brian Peek

Top Links

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing Interfaces, 2nd Edition – $19.99 (Save 50%) Code DDD2F (O’Reilly Media)
• Using Windows Phone Gestures as Triggers (Nigel Sampson)
• Demystifying Silverlight Dependency Properties (Dan Wahlin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Why I Believe Visual Studio LightSwitch will be a Win and Extending a Legacy Application by Associating Local Data with External Data (Dan L. Moyer)
• Call a Method Asynchronously using Delegate BeginInvoke and EndInvoke Pattern (Suprotim Agarwal)

Web Development

• Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery, HTML 5 Style (Mike Ormond)
• FubuMVC’s Internal Runtime, the Russian Doll Model, and how it compares to ASP.Net MVC and OpenRasta (Jeremy Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Prebuilt Fixture (Giorgio Sironi)
• Foundations of Programming: Why Markdown? (And why not Word?) (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM Framework Explorer update and top MVVM Frameworks (Jeremy Alles)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 15 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 500 Metro Style WP7 Icons (Bil Simser)

Community / Events

• Ubelly picks from CES (Andrew Spooner)
• SQLAuthority News – Free Trip on SQL Cruise (Pinal Dave)
• Announcing Philly Code Camp 2011.1 – Saturday, April 9, 2011 (John V. Petersen)
• HIMSS back in Chicago, as is ignorance about health IT (Neil Versel)
• Agile 2011 Early Bird Submissions (Mike Cottmeyer)

Database

• SQL Server Compact 4.0 release on Jan 13? (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Override Variables (9/31) (Jason Strate)
• SSMS Addin Wrapper – Source Code and Usage (Don Halloran)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Phone 7 comes to Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” and Media Center set-top boxes (damaster)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #766 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 01/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML by Eric T Freeman

Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 5 – IResult and Coroutines (Rob Eisenberg)
• The ThreadPool is dead (Josh Twist)
• Developing for the Windows Phone 7 – Part 4: Tombstoning (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Philly Code Camp 2010.2 – Sponsors and Philly Code Camp 2010.2 – ASP.NET Track (Nick Berardi)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Database Guide (Pieter de Bruin)
• Re: How to change the default browser in Visual Studio programmatically and NGem (Daniel Fisher)
• LINQ Joins (Richard Carr)
• Syncing Visual Studio settings (David Vidmar)
• Creating a RESTful WCF service and Sending parameters to a RESTful WCF service (Dennis Delimarsky)
• CodePlex ClickOnce publishing from directly within Visual Studio (Greg Duncan)
• Modified Description of Adding Inheritance into T4 Template from Chapter 18 and Chapter List for Programming Entity Framework, 2nd Edition and Designing Repositories – Now I don’t feel so bad (Julie Lerman)
• Visual T4 for Visual Studio 2010 and Hello World of VS (Daniel Cazzulino)
• WF 4 Persistence, Tracking, and Bookmarks: Practical Approach (Mohamad Halabi)
• Developing A ‘touchy’ Twitter browser – Using Visual Studio 2010 + Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch devices beta (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• How to change the default browser in Visual Studio programmatically with PowerShell and possibly poke yourself in the eye (Scott Hanselman)
• Show Previous Versions and Open With and Using Custom File Extension Associations and Understanding Find Symbol (Zain Naboulsi)
• Hidden Toolbox Search feature in VS 2010 (Brian Noyes)
• Introducing Code Contracts (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Castle Windsor (incl. Core with DynamicProxy and Dictionary Adapter) v2.5 final is out (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Removing Event Handlers using Reflection (Hedley Muscroft)
• Extension method: DateTime.IsInFuture() and Extension method: IEnumerable<DateTime?>.AreChronological() (Jef Claes)
• Coroutines for Asynchronous Sequential Workflows using Reactive Extensions (Rx) (Jeremy Likness)
• Reading Barcodes from an Image – II (James Fitch)

Web Development

• Article:Book Excerpt and Interview: Pro HTML5 Programming (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 – Razor View Engine (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Creating a sitemap module for Orchard (Rudi Grobler)
• How to Get Started with the Windows Azure CDN (Windows Azure Team)
• The Web is Not Platform Independent (John Sonmez)
• The Web is all about Composition (Mark Nijhof)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Setting up database unit testing as part of a Continuous Integration build process [VS2010 DB Tools - Datadude] (Jamie Thomson)
• Day 20 – Ask Better Questions, Get Better Results and Day 22 – Design Your Day with Skill (J.D. Meier)
• Distributed Agile: Initial observations and Ultimate configurability (Mark Needham)
• A Design Is Only As Deep As It Is Usable (Louis Lazaris)
• Book Review: Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Some thoughts on Application Architecture (Rockford Lhotka)
• Note on the Productivity and Managing Tasks and Rx works nicely with DDD and Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
• How Big Is Your Bucket? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Power of Simplicity (Eric Daugherty)
• Waste #1: Partially Done Work (Michael Stine)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 + Windows Azure = Cool Game Platform (Bob Familiar)
• Sending toast notifications on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• BindingNavigator for WPF (Part 2 – Using) (Christian Nagel)
• Silverlight UI testing with Selenium and Ruby (Louis Salin)
• Effective Data Representation in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) using Data Triggers (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.12 Review (Michael Crump)
• Passing Data Between Pages (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Windows Phone 7 and Image Overlays (Nick Randolph)
• MediaElement, MediaPlayerLauncher and ApplicationBar in Windows Phone (Ricky Tan)
• BindingFinder-Utility (and sample code) to find all Bindings in a XAML UI project (Rob Relyea)
• My favorite of the leaked Windows Phone 7 handset images (Steven Hodson)
• A Pluggable Architecture for Building Silverlight Applications with MVVM (Weidong Shen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 366: Shank, Summer of Arcade ends and more (Larry Hyrb)
• TWC9: Windows Phone videos, MVC for HTML 5, CoApp, Lab Management RTM (Dan Fernandez)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 228 – Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Engadget Podcast 209 – 08.20.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• ARCast.TV – Rocky Lhotka on Patterns, Architecture and MVVM (Bob Familiar)
• Windows Weekly 170: The Little Dicky Mouse (Paul Thurrott)
• WinExtra on Windows Ep. 15: Adapting for the future (Steven Hodson)
• CodeTV: What is Windows Azure (Tanzim Saqib)
• Montage of Windows Phone 7 Ads and Partner Messaging (Don Burnett)
• Technology & Friends Episode 112: Phil Winstanley on Exception Driven Development (David Giard)
• Start-Up Podcast Show #80 Josh Clark, Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps (Bob Walsh)
• Implementing Parallel Patterns using .NET 4 (Stephen Toub)
• Screen cast – Developing A ‘touchy’ Twitter browser using Surface toolkit for Windows Touch devices beta (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Behind The Curtain – Episode #2 (Michael Lehman)
• King of Bing Maps: Winners Announced! (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Followup on the Latest Microsoft Connect SUX Post and The Tech Events Initiatives (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• I’ll be presenting at the New York City SharePoint User Group, September 1 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows Phone Jump Start Still Jumping (Rob Miles)
• Develop With Passion® is teaming up with Skills Matter (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Speaking at Tech.Ed Next Week (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Running Silverlight Outside the Browser and with Elevated Trust (Svetla Stoycheva)
• Introduction to MongoDB – A Free Live Webcast – August 24 @ 10am PT (O’Reilly Media)
• DBA Tracy Hamlin Wins the 2010 Exceptional DBA of the Year Award (Brad M. McGehee)
• Social Media – The Way of Becoming Antisocial (James R. Eggers)
• Happy News on The jQuery Course (Marc Grabanski)
• MSDN Event: Parallelism in Visual Studio 2010 – Redux (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Windows phone developers join me at Teched EMEA (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Microsoft Intern Tony Menard on video game testing and white water rafting (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

Database

• Convert VarChar to Currency in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Storage – Part 2 and SQL SERVER – Computed Columns – Index and Performance and SQL SERVER – ORDER BY Does Not Work – Limitation of the Views Part 1 (Pinal Dave)
• Difference between @@IDENTITY, SCOPE_IDENTITY, IDENT_CURRENT (Samrat Banerjee)
• The Lazy DBA Series: SQL Trace / Profiler and The Lazy DBA Series: Monitoring (Ted Krueger)
• Where did the SQL Server Profiler Template disappear? and SQL Server Profiler and the C drive space issue (Pradeep Adiga)
• Don’t, don’t, don’t change the server name if you are using replication (Simon Sabin)
• Application databases and external integration points and Database assisted denormalization (Oren Eini)
• Using SORT_IN_TEMPDB to improve Index Performance (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Differential backup of master database? (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• Become The Next Photoshop Evangelist (Ben Forta)
• Office 15: What’s Microsoft’s new mystery application? (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Microsoft: Kinect on PC ‘a possibility’ (Tim Ingham)
• Microsoft Office 15 details and screenshots leak (Andrew Lyle)
• Beginner Developer Learning Center – Find your path to success! and How Bing is out-innovating Google (Bob Familiar)
• Microsoft’s Phoenix takes flight (maybe) (Ed Bott)
• A Quick guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell Part-4. (Md. Marufuzzaman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Algorithms in a Nutshell – Only $9.99. Use code DDAN9 (O’Reilly Media)
• A Recipe to Promote your Site (Robert Cartaino)
• Guest tools for Hyper-V – Change your DVD from within the guest (Simon Sabin)
• Using C#-style Events In Ruby (Davy Brion)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 20, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 21, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2010 — #928 and Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2010 – 2 — #929 and Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2010 — #930 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 20, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 21, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Transmedia and the Distributed Story, Where Freemium Begins, The Wiki Requirement (Dave Burke)
• Distributed Weekly 64 (Scott Banwart)
• Weekly Link Post 158 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #670 (Chris Alcock)

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Expert WCF 4: Maximizing Windows Communication Foundation by Shy Cohen

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Top Links

• Announcing availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 (Somasegar)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning XNA 3.0 – Only $9.99 Use code DDLXN (O’Reilly Media)
• Introducing Autofac 2.1 RTW (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Steve Jobs admits iTunes for Windows is a sub-standard app (Jon Johansen)
• Understanding T4: MSBuild Integration (Oleg Sych)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Fluent Email in .NET (Luke Lowrey)
• Generic Types (Richard Carr)
• How to Create, Develop, Deploy Windows Azure App (Bruce Kyle)
• Optional Parameters and Auto-Implemented Properties (Deborah Kurata)
• How to use WMI from a .NET Application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using the Undo and Redo Stack and Change the Tooltip Font Size (Zain Naboulsi)
• Making the Most of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Zachariah Young)
• Ship It!! Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 Now Available (Jason Zander)

Web Development

• XML and XSL Transformation in ASP.NET MVC – XmlActionResult (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Lazy Loading jQuery Collapsible Panel in ASP.Net Using JSON (Satheesh Babu)
• What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 – ClientID Generation for a Cleaner MarkUp (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Automating ASP.NET MVC deployments using Web Deploy (Jeffrey Palermo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Working with Legacy code #3 : Build a safety net. (Andrew Stopford)
• Application Architecture Guide Layer Diagrams – Patterns & Practices (David Hayden)
• Productivity Tip: Reducing Your Talk-Time And Getting Some Real Work Done. (Rajiv Popat)
• What is a Domain Event? (Greg Young)
• Why Agile Results? (J.D. Meier)
• Balsamiq Biweekly Release: version 1.7! (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Event Bubbling and Tunneling (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• SpellChecker in WPF (Abhishek Sur)
• 30 seconds from File|New to a new CRUD Silverlight application with Telerik’s new LINQ Implementation (Stephen Forte)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight – Part Three (Corrina Barber)
• WPF: Binding to Anonymous Types from LINQ (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 151: Paul’s Tent Pole (Paul Thurrott)
• Whirlwind 9: Introducing C# 4 and Whirlwind 10: What’s new in C# 4: Dynamic Lookup and Whirlwind 11: What’s new in C# 4 – Named & Optional Parameters (Bruce Kyle)
• Episode 109 – PowerScripting Podcast – v2 Experts Panel (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast 13 : Women in Technology (David Starr)
• Engadget Podcast 191 – 04.11.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Major Nelson Show 356: PAX East wrap up and Splinter Cell Conviction (Larry Hyrb)
• Introducing AppFabric: Moving .NET to the Cloud by Aaron Skonnard and What’s new in Silverlight 4: Part 2 by Mike Taulty (Matthijs Hoekstra)

Community / Events

• The local Microsoft .Net Community and why you SHOULD attend a CodeCamp (Dave Isbitski)
• SQLAuthority News – Spot the SQLAuthority Baby Contest – SQL Server Cheat Sheet (Pinal Dave)
• Watch the Visual Studio 2010 launch live! (Joseph Mirabella)
• The Worldwide MVP Community Joins Together This Week (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• That No SQL Thing – Document Databases (Oren Eini)
• SQL SERVER – What is MDS? – Master Data Services in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
• A DMV a Day – Day 11 and A DMV a Day – Day 12 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (11/30) database mirroring failover is instantaneous (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• What NOT to Migrate into SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Download Free "Visual Studio Theme" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Awesomium 1.6 Alpha (Chris Cavanagh)
• Making presentations that stick (Garr Reynolds)
• Daily Dose – Yahoo’s CTO Quits (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 11, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #577 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 10, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2010 — #836 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #115 (David Vidmar)
• Cheetsheet: 2010 04.08 ~ 04.11 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #100 (Grant Palin)
• Everyman on Specializing, Community Interaction, Inventing the Future, Solar Paint (Dave Burke)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/12/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 140 (Rhonda Tipton)
• 10 New Articles; 10 More Ways to Learn the Google Wave APIs (Pamela Fox)

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Professional Visual Studio 2010

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Top Links

• Dear Apple, Why Do You Continue to Give Me the Big Middle Finger? (Wally McClure)
• Windows Phone 7 UX, Part 1: Usability (Mike Strobel)
• MonoTouch and iPhone OS 4 (MonoTouch Team)
• What key [binding] does what again? The “Visual Studio 2010 Keybinding Cards” for C++, C#, F# and VB (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# April 2010 CTP (MS Downloads)
• CSLA 4 highlights (Rockford Lhotka)
• Finding the location of vsixInstaller.exe programmatically (Roy Osherove)
• XAML IntelliSense – Extension #5 (Sara Ford)
• How To Develop for the Cloud in Visual Studio 2010 (Windows Azure Team)
• Make Selection Uppercase or Lowercase (Zain Naboulsi)
• Binding the DXGrid to an XPO datasource (Oliver Sturm)
• Fix Uninstall Issues with Visual Studio Versions (Peter Bromberg)
• Upgrading Visual Studio Solutions with PowerShell (Matt Milner)

Web Development

• Benefits of GPU-powered HTML5 (Frank Olivier)
• Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Building a TMNT Game with jQuery (Marc Grabanski)
• Using Windows Azure Drive in PHP (or Ruby) (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Platform Developer Creativity (Peter Ritchie)
• Domain-Driven Design Review (Giorgio Sironi)
• The Perils Of Finding Harry Potters Of The Software Development World. (Rajiv Popat)
• Architectural changes, or “How to decide if and when to start over” (Kyle Baley)
• Where we are with acceptance testing and our BDD journey today (Ian Cooper)
• Maybe vs Null Object Patterns (Mark Needham)
• Do you have an Action Plan to Tackle your Technical Debt? (Derik Whittaker)

Silverlight / WPF

• Demos not to miss next week at NAB: 3D video in Silverlight! 1080p H.264 running on a Netbook! (Silverlight Team)
• Uploading Windows Azure Blobs From Silverlight – Part 1: Shared Access Signatures (Steve Marx)
• Using XNA libraries in your Silverlight Windows Phone 7 applications (Tim Heuer)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 8 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Building Facebook Applications (not clients, but hosted in Facebook apps) with Silverlight (Greg Duncan)
• Using commands with ApplicationBarMenuItem and ApplicationBarButton in Windows Phone 7 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlytics: Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework + Windows Azure + Live Labs Pivot (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Tip: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” Error in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 (Michael Sync)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – ASP.NET MVC Contrib with Jeffrey Palermo (Scott Hanselman)
• James Senior: Introducing Web Camps (Charles Torre)
• TWC9 – VB 2010, Collect app usage for free, donut caching, painting with light (Dan Fernandez)
• Introduction to Windows 7 Libraries and Integrating with Shell Libraries, Part 2 and Federated Search (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Cloud Cover Episode 8 – Shared Access Signatures (Ryan Dunn)
• endpoint.tv – AppFabric Dashboard Overview (Ron Jacobs)
• jQuery Podcast 19 – jQuery in Action, 2nd Ed. (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Building Windows Phone 7 Applications with Silverlight and C# 4.0 and beyond by Anders Hejlsberg (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Microsoft Shows Off Finger/Stylus Combo Multitouch Magic (Kyle VanHemert)

Community / Events

• Watch Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4, Silverlight 4 Launch Online (Bruce Kyle)
• Philly .NET Code Camp and Windows Azure (Charles Chen)
• Visual Studio 2010 Launch Details (Don Burnett)
• VS2010 Launch is Monday April 12! (Jason Zander)
• Cameron Skinner Tour: Modeling and architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Making the Most of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Zachariah Young)
• Spring Speaking Rollup 2010: Recent Talks and Upcoming Talks at Microsoft WebCamps (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio Extensibility – Code Camp 2010.1 Presentation (Nick Berardi)
• More Microsoft Women Worth Watching: Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• What Does Elegant Code Mean to Me? (John Sonmez)
• Free training on Microsoft Web Platform in Web Camps (Lawrence Moroney)

Database

• MongoDB experts model the move from a relational database to MongoDB (Andy Oram)
• re: NoSQL, meh (Oren Eini)
• A DMV a Day – Day 10 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (9/30) data file shrink does not affect performance and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (10/30) database mirroring detects failures immediately (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Working with the SharePoint Theming Engine (Kolby Hoover)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Has ‘Ripple’ Effect on Washington State Economy (MS PressPass)
• It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor (Matt McGee/Search Engine Land) (Matt McGee)
• The Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is old news, the IP TV is the new generation. (Al Pascual)
• 20 Ways to Fail Miserably as a Corporate Web Worker (Dawn Foster)
• Mobile Development is like Console Development (Steve Tibbett)
• JavaRa Updates and Removes Old and Redundant Java Versions (The How-To Geek)
• Things to install on a new machine – revisited (Roy Osherove)
• Daily Dose – Intel’s Mind Reader (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Apple Becoming the New Microsoft? (Rob Bazinet)
• Weekend Reading: Microsoft’s Women Worth Watching, Glo, Moodle and Of Course Baseball (Dominic Carr)
• Mercurial: Early thoughts (Mark Needham)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 9, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 09, 2010 — #835 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Getting started with Visual Studio 2010 ALM Features (Charles Sterling)
• New and Notable 411 (Sam Gentile)
• F# Discoveries This Week 04/09/2010 (Rick Minerich)

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ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action

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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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Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

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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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