Top Links

• Silverlight in Action Book Update (Pete Brown)
• Introducing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Preview 1) (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 Released (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Service Location, Part 1: Introduction and Part 2: Controllers and Part 3: View Engines/View Pages and Part 4: Filters (Brad Wilson)
• Windows Phone 7 Design Resources – UI Guide and Design Templates (chriskil)
• Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 – Part 3 – UPDATE on Building a WEI 7.9 and RFC for building a GOM (God’s Own Machine) (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Grouping (Richard Carr)
• Reviewing CommunityCourses: A RavenDB application (Oren Eini)
• View local (offline) help in Visual Studio 2010 with this extension (Cheryl Simmons)
• Customize Your Toolbars in Visual Studio 2010: Toolbars Tab (Zain Naboulsi)
• First MonoTouch Book is out (MonoTouch Team)
• "Invalid provider type specified" when using CNG providers with .NET CMS classes and CryptoAPI and 5 bytes exponent public keys (Alejandro Campos Magencio)

Web Development

• Techniques for Preventing Duplicate URLs in Your Website (Scott Mitchell)
• Improving client-side development in Visual Studio (Dave Ward)
• A Custom jQuery Selector to Retrieve Labels for Inputs (Chris Love)
• ASP.NET MVC & Url Extensions (Dane Morgridge)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Using HttpNotFoundResult action result and ASP.NET MVC 3: New ViewModel is dynamic ViewData and ASP.NET MVC 3: Using HttpStatusCodeResult (Gunnar Peipman)
• UnitOfWork Action filter for ASP.NET MVC and nHibernate (Fredrik Normen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Examples of Code First Entity Framework Unit Tests and Code First Entity Framework Unit Test Examples (Jag Reehal)
• Comparing Architectural Options (Simon Ince)
• Vendor Lock-In Vs. Best Of Breed Tools (Derick Bailey)
• Review: Reflections on management (Brad A. White)
• TDD: Testing collections and TDD: Call your shots (Mark Needham)
• Telerik enters the Agile ALM space (Stephen Forte)
• Are You Agile? (Stoimen Popov)
• Is Cool a low bar? (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Data Validation in Silverlight 4.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• How to detect the theme being used in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Writing Windows Phone 7 Unleashed (Daniel Vaughan)
• Silverlight and WebSockets and Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (6–Validation) (Mike Taulty)
• Cinch V2 : Article 4 is out there (Sacha Barber)
• Foursquare for Windows Phone 7 Looks Great! (Sarah Perez)
• Windows Phone 7 Design Resources (Steve Clayton)
• Building OpenPOS: Part 10 – Code First (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Tribune does Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET MVC 3 and NEW ASP.NET Futures with Phil Haack and Morgan the Intern and ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 Released – Channel 9 Video and Hanselminutes Podcast 224, Oh My! (Scott Hanselman)
• ARCast.TV – SharePoint Deployment to Microsoft BPOS Cloud (Zhiming Xue)
• Another party sold on creating Windows Phone 7 apps (Don Burnett)
• Mike Sampson: Inside Rev9 (Charles Torre)
• UML with VS 2010 Part 4: Capturing Business Workflows and Part 5: Architecting an Application and Part 6: Designing a Project’s Physical Structure (Clint Edmonson)
• Technology & Friends Episode 105: Nathan Blevins on Lego Mindstorm (David Giard)
• New Video Series – Learning Microsoft WebMatrix. (Joe Stagner)
• Kent Beck’s Test Driven Development Screencasts (Mark Needham)

Community / Events

• CodeBetter/Devlicio.us/LosTechies MSDN Ultimate Giveaways (Tuna Toksoz)
• 3 FREE Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition with MSDN Subscription GiveAway (.NET Curry)
• Secrets of an online presentation (Gil Zilberfeld)
• CodeStock 2010 Featured Women in Technology (Joseph Mirabella)
• Silverlight Tour Coming to Atlanta Next Week (with a 10% discount) (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Powershell Remoting with SQL Server (Grant Fritchey)
• Whats coming in SQL 11 (Simon Sabin)
• The TechNet Wiki and Updated Security Checklists (Buck Woody)
• Windows 7 + SQL 2008 = Aaaaarrrgggghhh! (Brad Schulz)
• Count(*) or Count(1) ? (Dave Ballantyne)
• Six Tips For Avoiding Bad Table and Column Names (Bob Pusateri)
• Backup of a FILESTREAM database may include garbage files as well (Jacob Sebastian)
• Finding Cross-Database Dependencies (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• 7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint 2010 for Project Management Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint 2010 Virtual Labs (Greg Galipeau)

Miscellaneous

• 2 Buildings, 4 floors and FINALY super wireless internet access ! and Would you use an Off-Line Learning Application ? (Joe Stagner)
• Resume review & advice: what I look for in a resume (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Gamestorming: Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, & Changemakers. Only $9.99 use code DDGSG (O’Reilly Media)
• The Ultimate Developer Machine 2.0 (Pete Brown)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #652 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 27, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Links to Scott Guthrie’s Using LINQ to SQL Tutorials (Scott Mitchell)
• Tech Tweets for 27-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight in Action, Revised Edition by Pete Brown

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Capture Right, Middle and "X" Button Clicks (Richard Carr)
• Zoom in/out with Visual Studio 2010 editor (Brian Keller)
• Using Code Snippets and Understanding Object Binding and Using Object Binding (Deborah Kurata)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 3 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 02: Management, preserving and organization of manual test cases within VSTS 2010. (Clemens Reijnen)
• What Exactly Does One Do With “Oslo”? (Kraig Brockschmidt) – Link of the Day
• VS 2010 – Multi-Monitor Support (Michael Ceranski)
• Surface Developer Tip: The Core Interaction Framework (Robert Levy)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #4- ATOMPub (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

• When framework designers outsmart themselves [How to: Perform streaming HTTP uploads with .NET] (David Anson)
• Using the PHP Toolkit with ADO.NET Data Services (Phani Raj)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• behaviour-driven development (BDD) poll. (Andrew Stopford)
• SOA Patterns – Reservation (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Querying a Multi-Tenant Data Architecture (Scott Mitchell)
• Rules Of Standup – You Don’t Need To Justify Your Own Existence and Types Of Agile Projects And The Value Of Velocity (Alan Skorkin)
• Eliminate Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)
• .NET Naming Conventions (Josh Twist)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• How to find hidden problems in your project before it’s too late and Step #4 – Start doing code reviews – Seriously (Roy Osherove)
• Should We Change the Way We Name Interfaces in .NET? (Russell Ball)
• Return False on the Happy Path and The Secret Sauce (Dave Laribee)
• Why Messaging #6: Why not … (Dru Sellers)
• It’s Generic, not Multipurpose (Sergio Pereira)
• No weekly release this week, but we’ve been busy! (Peldi Guilizzoni) – An update on Balsamiq Mockups.

Silverlight / WPF

• YouCube 3.0 (Chromium WebBrowser) – Source Code (Chris Cavanagh)
• .NET RIA Services Part 4: Calling methods on the Server from Silverlight. (Al Pascual)
• 5 Minute Overview of MVVM in Silverlight (John Papa)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – 5 minutes of RIA Services (András Velvárt)
• Silverlight feature suggestions (Tim Heuer)
• Dispelling a Common WPF/SL Myth (Rob Eisenberg)
• Silverlight XAML Developer Experience Issues? (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight Delivers Next Gen. Home Video Experience – Without the Disk! (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Hall and McWherter Test ASP.NET! (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – David Hill gives us an introduction to the Application Architecture Guide (Bob Familiar)
• George Moore: Windows Azure Business Model for Developers – An Introduction (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 59: Web Standards with Milan Negovan (Jon Galloway)
• First videos of the structured editor prototype (Kirill Osenkov)
• New DevNugget: Silverlight Navigation Applications (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Netcast #23 – Special Holiday Show (Todd O. Klindt)
• Sod This 7 – Dynamic Again (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
• Tool Shed Tooltip #24 – Expression Encoder 3 – Part 2 (of 2) – Editing, Presets, Silverlight 3 players (Russell Fustino)

Community / Events

• PDC 2009: Workshop – “Getting the Most out of Silverlight 3” with “the Griffs” (Mike Taulty)
• How I got started with SQL Server (Ted Krueger)

Database

• Deriving a list of tables in dependency order (Jamie Thomson)
• Tired of changing collations! (Martin Bell)
• A Tool For Querying Multiple Databases (Scott Mitchell)
• SQL Express Surveys (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Difference between SQL Server Express and MySQL (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Announcing the release of patterns and practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Doloto: Making Ajax page downloads faster (Mary Jo Foley)
• Out of Beta: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• The Incredible Shrinking iPod Prices Undercut The Zune HD (MG Siegler)
• Has ‘beta’ lost its meaning? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Demystify Windows 7 Migration and Upgrade Options (Zhiming Xue)
• Sale – Microsoft certification exams – 15 to 25% off! (Keith)
• Help Us Improve Microsoft Windows Management Framework (Xin Li)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Sep 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #429 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for 8th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Free Microsoft SQL Azure training and a cool Migration Wizard utility (Greg Duncan)
• New and Notable 368 (Sam Gentile)
• Double Shot #536 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# BootCamp – Questions and Answers – part I – Introduction (Steffen Forkmann)
• Using Reflection in C# to Figure Out if an Integer List Has Values (Peter Kellner)
• NHibernate Mapping – <list/> (Oren Eini)
• DDD and the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Evgeny Salamatov)
• LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0 (Damien Guard)
• Create a Generic List at Run Time and Quickly Find All "TODO’s" in Your .NET Project (Srinath M.)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – TeamCity Integration Coming (Rob Reynolds)
• Review: CryptoLicensing for .NET (Roy Osherove)
• NCover v3.1.2 released! (Stephen Ward)
• Analyze and explore the evolution of .NET Framework by yourself (Patrick Smacchia)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: 1.8.0.2 Beta (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JSMag June 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating Rails Like Flash Feature in .NET The Flash Control (Mohammad Azam)
• Control TextBox’s AutoComplete Action (Chris Love)
• Sueetie Content Parts and List View Controls, Oh My (Dave Burke)
• Free ASP.NET 4.0 beta hosting available (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML Editor FieldTemplate for Dynamic Data Using AJAX Control Toolkit Editor (Stephen Naughton)
• How to Use Microsoft.Web.Administration : Using Scripts to Automate Management : Managing and Maintaining IIS 7.0 : The Official Microsoft IIS Site (Stuart Manning)
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Scott Guthrie)
• GridView Selection and Postback using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• clientscript as the view controller (Jay Kimble)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BOOK: Agile Testing and Sensing and Sense-making in the Agility Cycle (Brad Appleton)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class (Chris Missal)
• Bricks and Mortar: Building a Castle (James Kovacs)
• Simple Nested Closure (Matt Hinze)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Yes, I’m going to finish "Build Your Own CAB" (sorta) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Refactoring guard clauses, or “How to ask politely” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik Releases RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta (Ina Tontcheva)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• XAML: Using Generic Types in XAML 2009 and Empty string in XAML (Rob Relyea)
• Ocean for Silverlight – Enables Sharing Business Objects With WPF (Karl Shifflett) – Link of the Day
• Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework (Jeff Wilcox)
• Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the Eye (Jennifer Marsman)
• Sync Multi Select Listbox with ViewModel (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 – Inside the Thread Pool (Charles Torre)
• Windows 7 RC2 Build 7224 Videos (Stephen Chapman)
• Netcast #11 – The Two Silos (Todd O. Klindt)
• Ping 14: Bing, VPlay, Zune HD, Celebrifeed, Mediaroom (Laura Foy)
• Show: Episode 2 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Microsoft’s Project Natal demo video has us jumping with anticipation (Nilay Patel)

Community / Events

• 2009 E3 Xbox.com Press Kit (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Shane Young! (Amanda Murphy)
• SharePoint Conference Washington DC (Bob Mixon)
• Foundation Series, Session 4, Wed June 10th (Brian Donahue)
• 2009 E3 Xbox Media Briefing (Larry Hryb)
• SQLAuthority News – Summary of TechEd India 2009 – A Grand Event (Pinal Dave)
• God Bless Xbox: Microsoft’s E3 News Roundup [Roundup] (Matt Buchanan)
• Breaking News: Atlassian Acquires GreenHopper (Max Pool)
• LosTechies welcomes Sharon Cichelli "Girl Writes Code" (Joe Ocampo)
• Free Virtual Expo on SharePoint – June 10 (Joel Oleson)

SharePoint

• Reading Digital Signatures from InfoPath Forms in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Workflow (Tom Hearn)
• SharePoint: Some users doesn’t receive alerts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Tip: Don’t use "&" in instance.xml when creating a WSP (S.S. Ahmed)

Database

• How to execute multiple SQL scripts (Martin Bell)
• Log Shipping for DR and failing back in case of disaster. The cheap way! (Ted Krueger)
• Microsoft Reporting Services (Sub Reports, Charts, Parameters, Expression Editor, etc) (Jorge Paulino)

Miscellaneous

• New details emerge about Microsoft Exchange & Outlook Mobile (PhoneArena Team)
• Google to sell eBooks by year’s end and Rumor: Google bringing the BBC iPlayer to the US? and Microsoft’s Bing 411 offers phone numbers, directions over the phone (Brad Linder)
• Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate? and Bing Search Bars are now everywhere! (damaster)
• Microsoft "Project Natal" invents a better Wii (Joel Johnson)
• Web v.Next (John Stockton)
• Bing Goes Live—Here’s What You Can Do With It (Kevin Purdy)
• Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads (Kevin Purdy)
• Oh dear, there IS a Club Bing (Kip Kniskern)
• The Rotting Stink of Corporate IT (Sara J. Chipps)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 1 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Project Natal is going to change the games forever! (Taimur Asad)
• Gmail Notifier Plus Adds Email Alerts to the Windows 7 Taskbar (The How-To Geek)
• Acer launching world’s first Android-based netbook in Q3 (Thomas Ricker)
• Make Bing your default search provider in IE (Paul Thurrott)
• The Ultimate USB *Key* Drive » Lacie iamaKey 8GB (Matt Walker)
• Adobe releases trio of Labs goodies for designers, developers (Lee Mathews)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 8: Deliver with Confidence and Style (Justin Etheredge)
• Google Docs gets x’ier with .docx and .xlsx support (Josh Lowensohn)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #359 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2009 — #605 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 325 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 1st (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 1st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day