Top Links

• Developing a Windows Phone 7 Jump List Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• Using HTML5 Web Storage for Interprocess Communication (Jeff Prosise)
• Using NuGet without committing packages (David Ebbo)
• .NET Reflector 7 Released (Paulo Morgado) – Winners in my Reflector contest have been selected and will be notified shortly.

.NET / Visual Studio

• YACE (Yet Another Comment Extension) for VS2010 – Small, big, bigger and Red! SharpComments and "Bart Simpson’s Guide to Windows Azure" [How can I beat that title?] (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Tuples and Tuple Factory Methods and ANTS Memory Profiler 7.0 (James Michael Hare)
• Installing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Uplevel NuGet (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• patterns & practices : Composite Services Guidance – CTP2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Introducing formlets for jQueryUI (Joel Bjornson)
• Revisiting Some (Old) Tags in HTML 5 (Kirupa)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes) (Abhishek Sur)
• I’m developing my own Foursquare client for the Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Prism 4 Region Navigation with Silverlight Frame Navigation and Unity (Karl Shifflett)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – intro to Isolated Storage and All about Splash Screens in WP7 – Creating animated Splash Screen (Windows Phone Geek)
• Creating gradients using colors from other objects in Expression Design (Elliot Meacham)
• Phone updates: process and timing (Eric Hautala)
• Testing Network Availability (Jesse Liberty)
• Not your regular photo and video camera on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Talkin’ C++ with Kate Gregory (Charles Torre)
• Silverlight Essentials Video Training (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 65: 3D Graphics (John Papa)
• Developers: a new kind of IDE arrives in Cloud9 (First look!) (Robert Scoble)
• Saving energy with the .NET Micro Framework (Fabien Royer)

Community / Events

• More FREE Windows Phone 7 training events (Rudi Grobler)
• Do You Dig Design? Announcing the New UX Lightning Series at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Steve Ballmer + Imagine Cup + Governor of PA = BEST DAY EVER! (Lindsay Lindstrom)
• A Great Week with MVPs (Lonnie Webb)
• What we wish we could show you about Microsoft TechFest (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Free Training: Multicore Programming on the .NET Platform, 4/20/2011 and Join us in Washington DC: Free One-Day Course on Parallelism, 3/25/2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• WCF RIA Services Validation Webinar (Brian Noyes)
• GitHub on LinkedIn (Chris Wanstrath)
• Interview with SQL Server MVP Joe Webb (Brad M. McGehee)

Database

• SQL Server: SSMS 2008 Intellisense Stops Working after Installing VS 2010 SP1 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Latch Statistics (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint: Create Dashboards with KPI, Scorecard and Report using Excel Services (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Dynamics CRM 2011 and SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

• CodePlex: Pull Request Conversations, Inline Diff Enhancements (Matt Hawley)
• Retro gaming on Windows Phone 7 (Luke)
• Safer and Faster Downloads in IE9 (Ritika Virmani,)
• The problem with calling legacy/native apps from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #810 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 10th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2011 — #1058 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 Unleashed by Bart De Smet

Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Improving the In-Memory Database (Rob Tiffany)
• Command Changes in Prism 4 (Brian Noyes)
• Automatic compilation of Linq to SQL queries (Gunnar Liljas)
• Design Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Windows Azure (Bill Zack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Choosing Visual Studio StartUp Projects (Richard Carr)
• Binary Attachments In WCF With MTOM and Visual Studio 2005 2008 2010 Put Curly Braces On Same Line (Deepak Kapoor)
• A Brief Introduction to F# (Mike Ormond)
• Dependency Graph in Visual Studio 2010 – View Assembly Dependencies (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Command / Query service in WCF (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Running Multiple Versions of Visual Studio Side-By-Side and Change the Order of Your Application Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• How The Garbage Collector Can Cause Random Slowness (Edward Elliott)
• How to get domain name from URL (Raghav Khunger)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (XVIII) – Adding Edit Functionality (II) (Rob Ashton)
• ΝUnit Inspired Task Runner (cigwork)
• Simulating projectile motion with the Animation Manager using C++ (Jerry Joyce)
• Creating the Parallax and Scrolling Background (Michael C. Neel)

Web Development

• Writing for the Windows Azure for PHP portal (Maarten Balliauw)
• Short review of "Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ASP.NET: How to avoid ArgumentNullException in StructureMap controller factory and ASP.NET MVC: Comparing same view on ASP.NET and Razor view engine (Gunnar Peipman)
• jHash: Easily Manage Browser History / window.location.hash (Chris Pietschmann)
• WebSharper 2.0 Beta available (Adam Granicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Preface" Now Online (James Shore)
• It Starts with Strategy (J.D. Meier)
• [Tool Review] – Project Management with Bacon (ScoutMaster)
• Book Review – The Checklist Manifesto (Steve Jones)
• How to convert Subversion repository to Mercurial (Hg)–it’s easier than you think! (Igal Tabachnik)
• Team Communication: Learning models (Mark Needham)
• Book Review – The Nomadic Developer (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Controlling a Missile Launcher via a Windows Phone 7 device (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• CHART OF THE DAY: Windows Phone 7 Has The Least Expensive Paid Apps (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG) (Jay Yarow)
• Blend Bits 18–Sample Data (Mike Taulty)
• Capital FM app for Windows Phone 7 (Luke)
• ChevronWP7: an early Christmas present for Windows Phone 7 owners (Steven Hodson)
• Developing Phone 7 apps on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Pieter de Bruin)
• I can see my home screen with Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mark Russinovich: Windows Azure, Cloud Operating Systems and Platform as a Service (Charles Torre)
• YUI Theater — Nate Koechley: “A Taxonomy of Touch” (36 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Demo of Image Optimizer (Mads Kristensen)

Community / Events

• Survey results: Open source developer preferences (Jonathan Wanagel)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU 6 includes small changes to .dtsx files (Jamie Thomson)
• Get the Current Stored Procedure Name in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Usage of FAST Hint and SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Challenge – Error While Converting Money to Decimal (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Achitecture – Competitive Differentiation (James Vastbinder)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management Leads the Pack According to Gartner! (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• A first look at Office 365 (damaster)
• How WordPress Saved the Web (Marc Grabanski)
• We Hold These Tweets To Be Self-Evident [COMIC] (Matt Silverman)
• CodePlex supports Windows Live Writer! (Gunnar Peipman)

More Link Collections

• Weekly Link Post 172 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Distributed Weekly 78 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2010 — #999 and Silverlight Cream for November 26, 2010 — #1000 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #738 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting by Aaron Erickson

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)

The Geek Shelf

Expert WCF 4: Maximizing Windows Communication Foundation by Shy Cohen

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Top Links

• Using Web Services from an XNA 4.0 WP7 Game (Michael Cummings)
• CodePlex: Search Project Openings, New Ad Format, and more (Matt Hawley)
• The Weekly Source Code 52 – You keep using that LINQ, I dunna think it means what you think it means. (Scott Hanselman)
• Unity Extension For Disposing Build Trees On TearDown (Rory Primrose)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF & Mex are correct, but why is my metadata not published???? (Derik Whittaker)
• Retrieve Security Information of Files using .NET (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Working with the bit.ly API to shorten URLs (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services: Part I and Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part II: Query Methods (Stephen Forte)
• Hide the Quick Find and Quick Replace Tool Window After the First Match and Auto Hide All Tool Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Command Image Changing Extension (Ryan Molden)
• Run Cassandra As A Windows Service (Nick Berardi)
• Connection Pooling in ADO.NET (Hima Bindu Vejella)
• A Couple Useful Powershell Commands for working with Ruby/IronRuby (Bobby Johnson)

Web Development

• common css mistakes/putting a stop to them (Niels Matthijs)
• Announcing jQuery Fundamentals: An Open-Source jQuery Training Curriculum (Rebecca Murphey)
• Adding HTML5 placeholder attribute support through progressive enhancement (Robert Nyman)
• Parameterization vs. Web.Config Transformation (Vishal Joshi)
• Build a List Tree with the Beauty of jQuery (Stoimen Popov)
• Start Using CSS3 Today: Techniques and Tutorials (Vitaly Friedman)
• The query parameter ‘$format’ begins with a system-reserved ‘$’ character but is not recognized (Chris Love)
• Issues with modal overlays on the web (Janko Jovanovic)
• Reactive programming with WebSharper (Joel Bjornson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Real Customer Involvement" Now Online (James Shore)
• Get to No as fast as possible (Tim Hibbard)
• p&p – Windows Azure Guidance – Part 2, Drop 1 (CodePlex)
• Setting up automatic test runs after compilation in VS2010 (Eric Hexter)
• Make the JavaScript Test Pass (K. Scott Allen)
• Automating scheduled tasks (Jimmy Bogard)
• Less is More Redux (Peter Bromberg)
• Modeling Websites and Native Code (Somasegar)
• TestApi v0.5 Released! (Ivo Manolov)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Device Requests (Brandon Watson)
• Revisiting the Code Not Taken [Updated analysis of two ways to create a full-size Popup in Silverlight] (David Anson)
• Three Hotfixes for WPF Memory Leaks (Jonathan Allen)
• Silverlight 4: Accessing Windows 7 Taskbar using the new COM API (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Time categories with WPF and Exchange (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• CinchV2 : Article 2 (Sacha Barber)
• IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta Now Available (Silverlight Team)
• Using d:DesignSource for design-time DataGrid grouping with sample data (Jack Ukleja)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Patterns of Parallel Programming – TechEd Talk Online (Ade Miller)
• Video: 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 minutes! (Sara Ford)
• Video: What’s New in Expression Blend 4 (Eric Hagan)
• StartUp Podcast Show #71 Nilofer Merchant on the New How of business (Bob Walsh)
• Community Megaphone Show #12 with guest Frank La Vigne (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Wizards of Smart – Heroku, Cloud, and Iron Ruby (Jonathan Birkholz)

Community / Events

• Survey for Interesting Finds followers (Jason Haley)
• SQLAuthority News – Interview with SQL Server MVP Madhivanan – A Real Problem Solver (Pinal Dave)
• Training classes for DevExpress Silverlight products? (Oliver Sturm)
• Behind the scenes with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team: ‘I think about this really as a first release’ (Chris Ziegler)
• Rock out in the Microsoft candidate experience lobby (Kelly)
• Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint – with the MVP Experts (Melissa Travers)

Database

• Replace SQL Server DateTime records of a column with UTC time (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Shrink, Damn’d Log! Shrink, I Say! (Jeremiah Peschka)
• XQuery Lab 57 – Getting Started with OPENXML (Jacob Sebastian)

SharePoint

• Give me your tired, your poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free… With open arms we welcome Notes Admins and Developers to SharePoint (Joel Oleson)
• Defining Actions for External Content Types in BCS Meta Man (Hrayr Diloyan)
• Mapping the Office Item Type for External Content Types in BCS Meta Man (Phill Duffy)

Miscellaneous

• Inside the Microsoft Certified Master Program (Brent Ozar)
• Announcing Windows Embedded Handheld (Chris Koenig)
• Interviewing .NET Developers (JP Hamilton)
• Introducing Zoho Wiki 2.0 (Susan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #624 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 17, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for June 17, 2010 — #885 (Dave Campbell)
• Highlights from the Google I/O Wave Developer Sandbox (Pamela Fox)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

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Top Links

• Microsoft StyleCop : StyleCop 4.4 (Jason Allor)
• Using Push Notification from Your Windows Phone Application (Yochay Kiriaty)
• MonoTouch 3.0.4 – iPhone OS 4, beta 3 (MonoTouch Team)
• CQRS isn’t the answer – it’s just one of the questions (Udi Dahan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ADO.NET Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (MS Downloads)
• LINQ: Mean, Median, and Mode (Deborah Kurata)
• Saving lines – the usage of ternary and null-coalescing operators (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Every Program There Is, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic for Visual Studio 2010 (aka v2010 1.1 and/or 10.1.1) released and still very free (registration not even required) (Greg Duncan)
• Another Error Creating Control in the Design View with Object Reference Not Set in Visual Studio 2010 (Anh Phan)
• Querying a WebService using LINQ – LINQ to CountryInfo (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Parallelizing Windows Applications in .NET 4.0 (Tanzim Saqib)
• The story of a wicked bug (András Velvárt)
• Code Kata: Compressing Lists (Ted Neward)
• Announcing the Growl for Windows Target for NLog (and another reason to love Growl) (Ryan Farley)
• Assembly Private Bin Path Pitfall (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Visual Studio CSLA Extension for ADO.NET Entity Framework – Beta 1 (CodePlex)
• Some Performance Notes on Enumerable LINQ Operators (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• F#: My current coding approach (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• Modern CSS Layouts, Part 2: The Essential Techniques (Zoe Mickley Gillenwater)
• Localization, FubuMVC Style Part 1 of 2 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Archiving your contact form data. (Joe Stagner)
• Tip #106 Did you know … How to create the aspnetdb.mdf file? (Xinyang Qiu)
• OData and Messenger across the web (Alex James)
• jQuery Templates and Data Linking (and Microsoft contributing to jQuery) (Scott Guthrie)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Retrospectives" Now Online (James Shore)
• Windows IA (Information Architecture) (J.D. Meier)
• A Fool with a Tool is still a Fool (Mike Walker)
• Do Architects Need to Code? (Rockford Lhotka)
• Agile Techniques For Risk Management (Jared Richardson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Changing the watermark text in a DatePicker control (Cheryl Simmons)
• Expression Blend Samples – PathListBoxUtils for Expression Blend 4 RC and StackOverflow Desktop Client in C# and WPF – Release v0.4 (CodePlex)
• Silverlight 4 And ReSharper 5 = Pain (Davy Brion)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #14 – Dynamically Loading a Control from a DLL on a Server and #15 – Setting Default Browse in Visual Studio (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight security overview paper has been officially published (Nick Kramer)
• Navigating the Windows Phone 7 Documentation (Charles Petzold)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mark Miller and Karen Mangiacotti Live in Richmond, VA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 54: Keeping Track of Community Events with Andrew Duthie (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Video of a webinar I did – Group Wisdom, Group Genius, and Leading Agile Teams (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Mario Cardinal on Layered Architectures (Eric Hagan)
• Silverlight TV 24: eBay’s Silverlight 4 Simple Lister Application (John Papa)
• Office Casual – The Quick Access Toolbar (Tina Wood)
• DryadLINQ (TechFest)
• Enterprise Content Management Features of SharePoint 2010-Episode 46 (Rob, Nick & Brett)

Community / Events

• Do You Want be on Silverlight TV? (John Papa)
• At Last – Test-Driven Academy (Vagif Abilov)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Jump-Start Events (John O’Donnell)
• We’re taking OData on the Road! (Chris Sells)

Database

• That No SQL Thing: Scaling Graph Databases (Oren Eini)
• SET clause in SQL Server (2008/2005) (Dukagjin Maloku)
• SQLAuthority News – List of Master Data Services White Paper (Pinal Dave)
• FOR XML Workshop – Understanding FOR XML EXPLICIT (Jacob Sebastian)
• Is SQL Azure a newbies springboard? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Database Size Limit increased from 4GB to10 GB (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• Plan Your Server Farm with Capacity Management Resource Center for SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Office 2010 Filter Packs" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• On Working Remotely (Jeff Atwood)
• The Microsoft Research Team + Bing = Endless Possibilities (Kristin Meldahl)
• Excerpt from upcoming title: Microsoft Access 2010 Plain & Simple (Devon Musgrave)
• Use MSDN/TechNet Product Keys for Office Professional Plus 2010 or Visio Professional 2010 from before May 1st? Then your likely missing some features… (i.e. You may be using an ‘intended to enable Terminal Services capability.’ key) (Greg Duncan)
• SmartArt Diagram Improvements (Office Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Fashioning Technology – Only $9.99 use code DDFTK (O’Reilly Media)
• Select-String -Context (Jeffrey Snover)
• Photoshop CS5 Imaging Tip: content-aware spot healing and fill tools (Sebastian Anthony)
• Application Analytics and Browsing Forks (Matt Hawley)
• Social Networking – it’s not just virtual (Kenji Yamaguchi)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #595 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2010 — #857 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 6-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 53 (Kathleen Sanders)
• OData Roundup #3 (Alex James)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Expert’s Voice in .Net)

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Top Links

• Windows programming: The "it works on my machine" syndroma (Patrick Smacchia)
• Visualizing the Windows Phone Accelerometer (on a Zune HD) (Charles Petzold)
• Beta Version of WCSF for VS2010 Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Coding4Fun – Paint With Light (Randall Maas)
• A Checklist for OData Feed publishers (Phani Raj)
• Download Your Free Copy of DZone’s Latest Refcard on Lean Software Development! (Lyndsey Clevesy)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Convert Text to Morse Code (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 Professional Whitepaper (MS Downloads)
• SonicFileFinder 2.2 Released (Roland Weigelt)
• Delete to the Beginning or End of a Word (Zain Naboulsi)
• CSLA 4 business rules subsystem and CSLA 4 business rule chaining (Rockford Lhotka)
• Editor Guidelines UI – Extension #4 (Sara Ford)
• Automatic Properties, Collection Initializers, and Implicit Line Continuation support with VB 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Creating a Time UUID (GUID) in .NET (Nick Berardi)
• RIA Services and Entity Framework POCOs (Julie Lerman)
• Add an attribute to an MSXML node (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Dotfuscator 4.6.5000 ships, includes VS 2010 RTM support and offline Runtime Intelligence (Joe Kuemerle)

Web Development

• Expression Web 3 SP2 (MS Downloads)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Render Template to String (Joey Bratton)
• jsTree and Nested XML Data Stores (Charles Chen)
• A Custom ASP.NET MVC Model Binder for Repositories (Mike Hadlow)
• Open Data Protocol AKA OData (Mike Ceranski)
• Adding Google Charts to your ASP MVC Applications (John V. Petersen)
• ASP.NET MVC and CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 8 Tips for Performance Metrics (Jurgen Appelo)
• Defining the Last Responsible Moment (Karl Scotland)
• Turning a bug into a feature (Eric Lippert)
• Mind your boomerangs and Twist 2.0: acceptance testing – the productive way (Gojko Adzic)
• Scrum Flow at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
• Refactor This: Answers and Refactor This: Results (Oren Eini)
• The performance implications of IEnumerable vs. IQueryable (Chris Sells)
• Red For The Right Reason: Fail By Assertion, Not By Anything Else (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 6 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Managing service references and endpoint configurations for Silverlight applications (Tim Heuer)
• Creating a Silverlight Client for @shanselman ’s Nerd Dinner, using oData and Bing Maps (Anoop Madhusudanan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Software Engineering Radio Episode 159: C++0X with Scott Meyers (SE-Radio Team)
• Pete at MIX10: Richard Costall – Silverlight Manic Miner for Windows Phone 7 (Pete Brown)
• Episode 108 – PowerScripting Podcast – SharePoint 2010 with Gary LaPointe (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• This Week in Silverlight 4.1.2010 and Silverlight Consulting Life – MSDN Bytes Interview (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Improving perceived WPF app startup performance with MEF and a Splash Screen (Marc Schweigert)
• Ping 54: Windows Phone 7 Training Kit, 64GB Zune, Microsoft helps electric cars (Laura Foy)
• Herding Code 77: Eric Hexter on MvcConf, C4MVC, and MvcContrib (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Games Studio Writer John Sutherland – from Pong to Natal (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Visual Studio 2010 : /* Life Runs on Code */ (Rachel Appel)
• DevExpress Training Dates Available (Oliver Sturm)
• Behind the Scenes of the Developer Launch (Eddie Amos)
• 24 Hours of PASS: Celebrating SQL Server 2008 R2 (Glenn Berry)
• ReMIX Atlanta and .NET Rocks Roadshow – sign up today! (Glen Gordon)

Database

• Avoid SQL Injection with Parameters and Understanding SARGability (to make your queries run faster) (Simon Sabin)
• MongoDB vs. SQL Server – INSERT comparison part deux (Denis Gobo)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (5/30) AWE must be enabled on 64-bit servers (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Retrieve and Explore Database Backup without Restoring Database – Idera virtual database (Pinal Dave)
• Comparing Red Gate SQL Prompt to SQL Server IntelliSense (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A DMV a Day – Day 6 (Glenn Berry)
• Delay Validation with SSIS Tasks (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Maximizing SharePoint 2010 on a Mac + iPhone or iPod + iPad (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Integrating the Git bash into Console (Jimmy Bogard)
• HP takes aim at iPad (Steve Clayton)
• New Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria (CEC) program website live (Steven Bink)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning iPhone Programming – Only $9.99 Use code DDLPP (O’Reilly Media)
• Developing with the Google Wave APIs – For a grade! (Pamela Fox)
• Daily Dose – iPhone OS 4.0 To Be Revealed Thursday (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Update on upcoming books: Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, and ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 05, 2010 — #831 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #573 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #114 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: April 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Resources to help you create an Azure App Today! (Jeff Barnes)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010

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Top Links

• The jQuery Templating Plugin and Why You Should Be Excited! (Chris Love)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 1 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Beta Version of SCSF for VS2010 available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Knights, Knaves, Protected and Internal (Eric Lippert)
• Unit Test the Behavior, Not the Implementation (Karl Seguin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding a set of Nodes in an XML String and XML Literals: Handling Empty Elements (Deborah Kurata)
• Automatically generating states with VS2010 UML tools and T4 (Manuel Naujoks)
• Visual Studio Tip of the Day Start Page – Extension #3 (Sara Ford)
• FluentPath now on CodePlex (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Tips and Tricks: Apply (or Don’t Apply) Cut or Copy commands to blank lines (Brittany Behrens)
• Hide or Show the Solution File in Solution Explorer (Zain Naboulsi)
• Interview question (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

• “Demystifying The Cloud – An Introduction to Cloud Computing” free ebook which includes the three popular services, Amazon, Google and Azure (Greg Duncan)
• Tip#102: Did you know… How to specify tag specific formatting (Deepak Verma)
• Google APIs Get Faster Thanks to Smart Optimizations (Matthew Casperson)
• Presenting IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 (Lawrence Moroney)
• Building A Custom ActionResult in MVC 2 To Download Excel Files (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET AJAX Modal Popup on Mouse Over (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 9: Developing and Agile Friday: "Test-Driven Development" Now Online (James Shore)
• Law Of Demeter: Extension Methods Don’t Count and Red/Green/Refactor, For The Right Reasons (Derick Bailey)
• In TDD Red is not ‘does not compile’ (Ian Cooper)
• Filing a Great Bug (Matt Gradwohl)
• Ninja Level Productivity Tip: Evading an Unwanted Meeting in 3 Easy Steps (Russell Ball)
• Pipes and Filters Pattern in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Two Week Tetris Applying Otazo’s Truths to Managing Development (Tucker Croft)
• Finding the assumptions in stories (Mark Needham)
• Klocwork Beefs Up Security in Agile Source Analysis (Mitch Pronschinske)

Silverlight / WPF

• RIA Services and Validation (Nikhil Kothari)
• Windows Phone 7 + Silverlight Performance (Andy Beaulieu)
• Prism Template Pack for Visual Studio 2010 (David Hill)
• The platform giveth power, don’t taketh it away [Tip: Do not assign DependencyProperty values in a constructor; it prevents users from overriding them] (David Anson)
• Data binding user settings in Windows Phone applications (Jeff Wilcox)
• Installing Silverlight applications without the browser involved (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TypeMock Video: The Goals of Unit Testing (TypeMock)
• Research Perspectives on JavaScript with Erik Meijer, Ben Livshits and Ben Zorn (Charles Torre)
• XAML, Expression Blend and the Future of Multi-Touch Technology (Eric Hagan)
• The Thirsty Developer 89: McNuggets Go Tribal (Dave Bost)
• This Week In Silverlight 3.25.2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Silverlight TV 18: WCF RIA Services Validation (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 Series Shazam App: MIX 2010 Keynote (Laura Foy)
• Package and Re-use a SharePoint List (Laura Harring)

Community / Events

• Goodbye Intel, Joining Microsoft as an Architect Evangelist (Doug Holland)
• Project Natal ‘experience’ to premiere at E3 on June 13th (Paul Miller)
• Daily Dose – De Icaza Interview About .Net Taken Down (Mitch Pronschinske)
• There’s Still Time to Participate in This Year’s Imagine Cup (Anthony Salcito)
• Be a Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” (John Wiese)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Improves Developer, User Experience (Bruce Kyle)
• SQL SERVER – Generate Report for Index Physical Statistics – SSMS (Pinal Dave)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 5: network optimization again) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Exam 70-541 – TS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Labs "Canvas for OneNote" Updated for Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Review: The Nomadic Developer (Me)
• New Stuff Coming From Bing This Spring (Todd Schwartz)
• Process Explorer (yes, that Process Explorer) v12 Released and Development/Test Environments, Windows Activation and You (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7 Series theme coming soon to Windows 7 thanks to Rainmeter (Imran Hussain)
• What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies? (Kat Neville)
• Microsoft Semantic Search (Trevor Dwyer)
• Windows 8: The SKUs are Here to Stay (Stephen Chapman)
• Sharing 2.0 (Piero Sierra)
• Windows Live™ ID Support, Download Page Ads, and Other Changes (Matt Hawley)
• David Pogue’s Windows 7: The Missing Manual Is Here! – Ingenious Tips and Tricks, Disarming Humor (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 25-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: March 25, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #568 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2010 — #820 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 47 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

Programming WPF

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Top Links

• The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework is releasing at MIX 2010 (Silverlight Team)
• Sharing Solutions between VS 2008 and VS 2010 (Oliver Sturm)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released (Scott Guthrie)
• WebForms vs MVC (again) (Karl Seguin)
• A Visual Look At The LINQ SelectMany Operator (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Pre-Order Visual Studio 2010 Professional upgrade today, and save hundreds (Omar)
• Printing the File Path in the Page Header (Zain Naboulsi)
• Introducing the Visual Studio Extension of the week and Visual Studio Color Theme Editor – Extension #01 (Sara Ford)
• How to merge your referenced assemblies into the output assembly for improved usability (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Upcoming: Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 (Devon Musgrave)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Zen Coding and ReSharper PowerToys (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 – SEO Enhancements with MetaKeywords and MetaDescription properties (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Binding a select in a client template (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Issue with dependent assemblies when rebuilding a WAP and the Workarounds (Anh Phan)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released! (Phil Haack)
• Did you miss the IIS7 FastCGI Update ? (Joe Stagner)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – From Blocking to Async (Matthew Podwysocki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Tips to get the most out of your coding time (Hatim Rih)
• Agile Friday: "Done Done" Now Online and The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 7: Releasing (James Shore)
• Gallio/MbUnit very slow? and Gallio.Utility.exe considered evil (Oliver Sturm)
• Advanced Castle Windsor – generic typed factories, auto-release and more (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail (Mark Suster)
• You can’t learn the basics from the pros (Oren Eini)
• Good list to help run a brainstorming session (Jason Haley)
• Pairing isn’t the Solution (Jay Fields)
• FIT vs SLIM (Gojko Adzic)
• Multi-User Systems and Concurrency (Richard Carr)
• Why Programmers Can’t Program (Dave M. Bush)
• Code Bubbles – A very interesting coding UX (John V. Petersen)

Silverlight / WPF

• SNEAK PEEK: New Silverlight application themes (Tim Heuer)
• WPF Text Clarity Improvements (Brittany Behrens)
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 3) – Silverlight Styles and Themes (Me)
• Silverlight 4 Book Discount Codes and Avast Ye XAML Heads (Frank La Vigne)
• SNEAK PEEK: .toolbox design school for Silverlight and Expression (Adam Kinney)
• WCF Ria Services For Real (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How to Parallelize Your Application – Part 1 Why Do It? and Part 2 Threads v Tasks and Part 3 Using Tasks (Bruce Kyle)
• Two Introductory VS2010 Entity Framework Videos on Pluralsight on Demand (Julie Lerman)
• Free TekPub Episode: Using Mercurial with CodePlex (Matt Hawley)
• Episode #6 – Julie Lermon on Learning The Entity Framework (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 13: MVVM Light Toolkit (John Papa)
• Video of FOSDEM IronRuby presentation (Ivan Porto Carrero)

Community / Events

• RJ and The Microsoft Military Community: We Still Serve (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Welcome Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00004 (Jeff Atwood)
• Geek out about SharePoint with SharePoint MVPs (Joseph Mirabella)
• SketchFlow and Blend at Mix 2010 (Christian Schormann)
• Meet SilverlightShow at MIX and Get a FREE T-shirt (Emil Stoychev)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Checklist for Analyzing Slow-Running Queries (Pinal Dave)
• The Busy Developer’s Guide to SQL Server Modeling (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Learning SQL Server (Martin Bell)
• If timestamp is deprecated, why do none of the current db tools support rowversion? (Julie Lerman)
• SSIS – XML Source Script (Simon Sabin)
• System Variables, Stored Procedures or Functions for Meta Data (Buck Woody)

Miscellaneous

• eBook Pricing (Jim Minatel)
• The incomplete list of impolite WP7 dev requests (Chris Sells)
• Poll: Which office software suite have you chosen? (Ed Bott)
• 2010 Shaping Up As Big Year for Speech Recognition (Zig Serafin)
• MSDN Windows Developer Center Redesign (Pete Brown)
• Introducing the Google Wave Extensions Gallery (Dan Peterson)

More Link Collections

• Creators Club Communiqué 45 (Kathleen Sanders)
• The Morning Brew #558 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 11, 2010 — #812 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB

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Top Links

• CodePlex now supporting native Mercurial and Using Mercurial on CodePlex and First Mercurial project on CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• The WebForms Rant (Karl Seguin)
• Making DevExpress & ReSharper Play Nicely (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK (MS Downloads)
• DSLs in Boo is out! (Oren Eini)
• Develop Web Apps in F# with WebSharper (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Some Astoria tips I learnt today (Marlon Grech)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part –2) (Mehfuz Hussain)
• Selecting Static Results with Dynamic LINQ (Keith Dahlby)
• Telerik Data Services Wizard New Feature:DataServiceKey (Stephen Forte)
• IntelliSense Suggestion Mode — vstipEdit0012 and How to customize what files to search with Find in Files — vstipFind0005 (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Using CDN Hosted jQuery with a Local Fall-back Copy (Jon Galloway)
• IIS Application Warm-Up Module (Gunnar Peipman)
• Daily Dose – YouTube and Vimeo Foster HTML5 Escalation (Mitch Pronschinske)
• When will WebForm vs MVC become like ListView vs Repeater? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Explore CSS Properties Panel in Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MbUnit AssertEx (Andrew Stopford)
• Don Reinertsen on Second Generation Lean Product Development (Christophe Louvion)
• Controls Do Not Make You More Productive (Justin Etheredge)
• Management By Intimidation Is Downright Stupid And Risky. (Rajiv Popat)
• Automapper: First thoughts (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• How can I sort data virtualized items in WPF? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Aspen – part 6 of X – Reusing ObjectContex among Repositories during a DomainSerivce operation. (Fredrik Normen)
• Known Issue – Controls Deriving From A Generic Base Class Must Be In Separate Assembly (Karl Shifflett)
• Scrubbing with Thumbnails with the SMF Player (Michael S. Scherotter)
• XamlPadSample Step 1c-Project (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV Special – Designing Multi-tenant Applications on Windows Azure (Bob Familiar)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “Spontaneous combustion of rancid management” (Devon Musgrave)
• jQuery Podcast 8 – api.jquery.com (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Herding Code 69: Scott Bellware on HTML Specialists (Jon Galloway)
• Erik Meijer and Team: Cloud Data Programmability – Connecting the Distributed Dots (Charles Torre)
• MSBuild Interview on CodeCast (Chuck England)

Community / Events

• Advanced Agile: Beyond the Low-Hanging Fruit – webinar by Mary Poppendieck 3 February 2010 (Christophe Louvion)
• An Introduction to Silverlight – Thursday 4th March 2010 at Microsoft, Edinburgh (Mike Perrin)
• Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-Visual Studio Tools For Architects (Jeff Barnes)
• Available for Microsoft Solutions Architecture (Sam Gentile)

Database

• “Excel found unreadable content” when exporting a Reporting Services report (Jamie Thomson)
• Use sys.dm_os_performance_counters to get your Buffer cache hit ratio and Page life expectancy counters (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Free SharePoint Reports with No Server Install (Joel Oleson)
• How ComponentOne Web Parts Improve the SharePoint Experience (Eve Turzillo)
• Operating System Requirements of SharePoint 2010 (Umesh Unnikrishnan)

Miscellaneous

• Write better knols with object embedding and PicApp (Cedric Dupont)
• O’Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales (Cory Doctorow)
• Running MobileShell on Windows 7 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Microsoft, don’t give up on Steve Ballmer just yet (Joe Wilcox)
• Office 2010 System Requirements (Alex Dubec)
• ShellMenuNew Cleans Up the Windows Explorer "New" Menu (The How-To Geek)
• Is the Zune Phone Enough? (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 — #784 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 – 2 — #785 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Azure Resources (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Help Me Get Started Using Visual Studio (Charlie Calvert)
• New and Notable 396 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Designing a system with DSLs (Oren Eini)
• Adding Workdays to a Date (Chad Juliano)
• Using Exception.Data to Append Data to Error Stack (Dave Schinkel)
• What’s the difference between conditional compilation and the conditional attribute? (Eric Lippert)
• C# – A Simple Way to Process Command Line Arguments (Michael Ceranski)

Web Development

• ASP.NET AJAX Preview 5 (Chris G. Williams)
• On the Road to iTextFileResult: Getting the Results from System.Web.MVC.WebFormViewEngine (Jay Kimble)
• Lucene.net vs. Indexing Services, or “How to conquer your fear of index management” (Kyle Baley)
• Box goes mobile with new OpenBox API (Josh Lowensohn)
• Simplifying Cross Browser Compatibility Testing (Mike Ormond)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CodeRush TestRunner (Andrew Stopford)
• NHibernate Profiler v1.0 Released (Oren Eini)
• Pressure, Expressed in Initial Development Time (Jay Fields)
• Wither the Repository (Jimmy Bogard)
• Improving Testability of GUI Code, an Example (Brett Schuchert)
• Agile is never ‘no process’ (Ian Cooper)
• Git local pre-commit hook and "git commit -a" and "git add" (Jason Meridth)
• Using the Specification Pattern for Querying (Chris Missal)
• Why do I develop with passion!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• What is your basic navigation structure for WPF/WinForms/Silverlight/Swing/Cocoa applications? and Graceful Shutdown Braindump (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• The three stages of learning team leadership and Immediate and delayed satisfaction in software development (Roy Osherove)
• Bloggers compare Git notes (Ryan Menezes)
• Who decides what is a bug and what should be fixed? (Shrini Kulkarni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Caliburn RC3 (Rob Eisenberg)
• TreeView Selector (Rudi Grobler)
• Using Large Message Requests in Silverlight with WCF (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stack Overflow Podcast #67 (Jeff Atwood)
• Podcast: Are You Doing What It Takes to Succeed at Implementing SharePoint? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• What are .NET Services? (Nigel Watling)
• InfoPath 2010 Overview Video and Building forms with InfoPath 2010 (S.S. Ahmed)

Community / Events

• CodePlex Foundation (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft creates the CodePlex foundation (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• PDC09 $500 discount ends September 15 (Devon Musgrave)
• PDC 2009 – Patterns of Parallel Programming (Doug Holland)
• Evolving the PDC09 Event Site (Mike Swanson)
• Congratulations to the TeamCity.Codebetter.Com team! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• SQLAuthority News – Why I am Going to Attend PASS Summit Unite 2009- Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• Simone Chiaretta turns 35 and gives away a Mindscape Mega Pack professional subscription (Simone Chiaretta)
• How to contribute to open source without writing a single line of code (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Database

• Using Mirroring to Reduce DB Migration Downtime (Part 1) and (Part 2) (Ted Krueger)
• SQL 2008 Express Download – Getting the exe and Does debugging in SQL 2008 require sysadmin privileges (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Azure Does Stored Procedures (Stephen Forte)
• Be Careful When Uninstalling SQL 2008 R2 CTP (Ken Simmons)

PowerShell

• What’s new in PowerShell 2? (Joel Bennett)
• XP and W2K3 Release Candidate Versions of PowerShell are Now Available for Download (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Deployment Services benefits even small shops/individuals (Andrew Connell)
• Data Visualization and Infographics Resources (Cameron Chapman)
• New Windows 7 advert (Steve Clayton)
• Collision Physics With Small Basic (Vijaye)
• Friday Fun: Survival Kit For Microsoft Employees Owning iPhone (Krishnan Subramanian)
• September’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Microsoft’s Bing 2.0: Coming this fall (maybe even next week) (Sumeeth Evans)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #431 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for September 10, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for September 10, 2009 — #689 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #538 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 369 and New and Notable 370 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 10th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (9/10/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day