Top Links

• Introducing Knockout, a UI library for JavaScript (Steve Sanderson)
• MVVM Study – Segue – Introducing Caliburn.Micro (Rob Eisenberg)
• Code Contracts Part 8 – An Interview with the Microsoft Code Contracts Team (Kevin Hazzard)
• Layout Designer prototype is now open-source on CodePlex (Kirill Osenkov)
• StoryTeller One Point Oh! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Hands-On Lab: "Building an RSS Newsreader for Windows Phone 7” (Blake Handler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TFS Project Server integration CTP (Pieter de Bruin)
• LINQ Projection (Richard Carr)
• OData Explorer (Gil Fink)
• Application Settings – make sure you know what to save and where (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Architecture Journal Article: Models and Application Life-Cycle Management (Clemens Reijnen)
• Abusing PrintfFormat in F# (Mauricio Scheffer)
• Whitepapers on the Parallel Computing Developer Centre (Mike Taulty)
• Removing Dead Tracks (Duplicates that don’t exist) from iTunes using C# (Scott Hanselman)
• Read and Recommended: Essential C# 4.0 (Stephen Forte)
• Longest and Shortest Type Name in .NET 4.0 using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Output vs Immediate Window and Setting Bookmarks and Organizing Bookmarks (Zain Naboulsi)
• Enumerator Structs: Optimizing for the Common Case (Sasha Goldshtein)
• ConnectionStringSettings parameter injection in Unity (Rory Primrose)
• Changing the Team Project Collection of the Team Build Controller (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Hobby Programming – Creating your first robotic simulation using Microsoft Robotic Dev Studio and Visual Programming Language (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• What a Difference 8 Years Makes (In Code) and Are Code Generated POCOs Really POCO? (K. Scott Allen)
• Another Nice DevExpress CodeRush Refactoring (Peter Kellner)

Web Development

• Asp.Net MVC: My Personal View Rules (Chris Brandsma)
• Sharpening Your Markup with "Razor" (Jonathan McCracken)
• Paging on a Datalist (Dave M. Bush)
• Expression Web 4 Add-Ins (Minal Agarwal)
• Stepping into ASP.NET MVC source code with Visual Studio debugger (Gunnar Peipman)
• “Razor” the new ASP.NET View Engine (Fredrik Normen)
• Is Razor just a wolf in Spark’s clothing? (Robert Greyling)
• Developers Wanted: Help create an open source Wave-based forum (Pamela Fox)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design-Build-Run (Simon Brown)
• How to do agile when we only have 50 crap developers? (Gojko Adzic)
• SCRUM, SCRUM… SCRUM..! (Clemens Reijnen)
• When the going gets tough – automate it! (Dror Helper)
• How to annoy your customer with usability problems and new Test Lint Beta – with command line runner (Roy Osherove)
• Four Things to Know when Writing Comments (Stoimen Popov)
• What is a PM? and Types of Scenario Tools (J.D. Meier)
• Castle Windsor 2.5… the final countdown – beta 1 released (and Core, DynamicProxy, Dictionary Adapter) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Developing Application-Wide (Patrick Smacchia)
• 3 Aspects of Team Boundaries (Jurgen Appelo)
• Programmer Tip: Don’t Be The Ego Centric Veteran Who Knows It All. (Rajiv Popat)
• TFS API Part 27 – Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases Mapping (Shai Raiten)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WCF RIA Services Part 3 – Updating Data (Brian Noyes)
• Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon (Rudi Grobler)
• MVVM Light Messaging (Chris Koenig)
• Great Features for MVVM Friendly Objects Part 2 – Change/Dirty Tracking (Damon Payne)
• A Sliver of Silverlight on ActiveTuts (Mike Taulty)
• Fixing Data Binding Problems in WPF/Silverlight (Jonathan Allen)
• Silverlight PivotViewer – The Full Guide and Silverlight PivotViewer – Add Collection To Your Silverlight Application (Shai Raiten)
• How to Convert a SketchFlow Prototype into a Production Application… And why you shouldn’t! (Jag Reehal)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 361: Crackdown 2 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• MultiTouch Behavior for Windows Phone 7: Videos #wp7dev (Laurent Bugnion)
• Pluralcast 19 : OData with Matt Milner (David Starr)
• Windows Weekly 163: The Legacy Problem (Paul Thurrott)
• Video: Embracing Your Failures (CodeStock 2010) (Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: IIS Express & SQL Compact, .NET on a bike, Zip support coming to System.IO (Dan Fernandez)
• Technology & Friends Episode 99: Mike Amundsen on Hypermedia (David Giard)
• DirectCompute Lecture Series 250: Integration with the Graphics Pipeline (Gus Class)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 19 – NoSQL and RavenDB with Rhys Campbell (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• I’m joining Pixel Lab! (Adam Kinney)
• Upcoming Community Events (Chris Koenig)

Database

• SSIS gotcha: Beware of multiple outputs from a synchronous script component and Why a SQL or BI developer should learn .Net (Jamie Thomson)
• Count Occurrences of Characters in a String – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Index Levels, Page Count, Record Count and DMV – sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats and SQL SERVER – PowerShell Version Info (Pinal Dave)
• Log file configuration metrics for 17000 databases (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Azure Partitioning Pattern (J.D. Meier)

SharePoint

• Deleter Methods – Business Connectivity Services (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• Intellectual property and the independent worker (Simon Sabin)
• Workshop Planning Framework – The Six P’s (J.D. Meier)
• Microsoft Presentation for Game Developers to Extend PC Games Lifecycles (Richard Hay)
• Install Consolas Font for Use in Xcode (Rob Bazinet)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 4, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 5, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #635 and The Morning Brew #636 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 3, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 4, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Your Own Race, Tell Me A Story, Content Anticipation, MenuPad (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #112 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 7/5/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2010 — #896 and Silverlight Cream for July 05, 2010 — #897 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #124 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Post… 6/25/2010 through 7/4/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

The Geek Shelf

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

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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

• Text Sharp – Visual Studio 2010 text clarity tuner (Sergey Vlasov)
• Code Name Dublin Tutorials (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft donates .NET Micro Framework to open source (Gavin Clarke)
• Linq to Sql profiler – transactions (Oren Eini)
• Pluralsight On-Demand! v2.0 released today (Aaron Skonnard)
• XNA Role Playing Game (RPG) Starter Kit (Coding4Fun)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Testing Asynchronous Client-Side Usage and Request/Response Service Layer: Conclusions (Davy Brion)
• Creating something from nothing – and knowing it [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET refined!] (David Anson)
• Closing over the loop variable, part two (Eric Lippert)
• NHunspell – 0.9.2 released and two cool C# & VB.Net Code Projects too (Greg Duncan)
• Fun with LINQ Aggregate (Mike Hadlow)
• Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Azure Summary (Tony Rasa)
• Creating Windows 7 Multitouch Applications (Zhiming Xue)
• Why Future should be in your future (Jason Grundy)

Web Development

• Making ASP.NET MVC Actions be Transactional By Default (Scott Kirkland)
• T4MVC 2.5.00 update: multiple output files and minified javascript support (David Ebbo)
• Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Remove dependencies inside one iteration (Andy Singleton)
• Usability and Touch (Jason Ipock)
• Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: How to Break Bad Work Habits (Karen Leland)
• Applied Modularity – Part 1 (Kirk Knoernschild)
• The Extensible Test Runner You’ve Been Waiting For (Mark Miller)
• UX Design Tools & Techniques (Jeffrey Dunn)
• Back to Basics: Usage of Static (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• How to deal with bad decisions made by the team and How to start agile development in your team (Roy Osherove)
• I recant my IoC! IoC containers in dynamic languages are silly. (Ryan Svihla)

Silverlight / WPF

• Learning Prism (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) MVVM Fundamentals (Damian Schenkelman)
• Reproducing a WPF memory leak (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight’s CollectionViewSource (Bea Stollnitz)
• Updates made to WPF graphing application (Josh Smith)
• How to create a Module based Silverlight application (Part 1) (Fredrik Normén)
• New WPF Features: UIA Virtualization (Lester Lobo)
• Double event firing in VB/XAML. How common? (Rob Relyea)
• A ChildWindow management service for MVVM applications (Andrea Boschin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: Web Application Security with Keith Brown (MS Podcasts)
• Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Part III (Charlie Calvert)
• Ping 38: Facebook SDK, MSN Video, Bing, Bill Gates, IE8 (Laura Foy)
• Silverlight Podcast: IIS7 Media Services 3.0 (Silverlight Team)
• Episode 92 – PowerScripting Podcast – The BSonPosh module with MVP Brandon Shell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Developers Meet at "Geek Heaven" in Los Angeles (MS PressPass)
• GiveCamp – Code for non-profits in your community (Andy Singleton)
• Developers, Architects Meet at PDC (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft PDC 2009 – Patterns of Parallel Programming Workshop (Doug Holland)
• Building extensible RIAs at PDC (Glenn Block)
• Not at PDC? You can still take part – Party Underground @ PDC, See the keynotes and more… (Greg Duncan)
• Make: Philly meeting November 22nd (Matt Mets)
• PDC week! Panel on OSS + ASP.NET (Bertrand Le Roy)
• PDC 2009 Day 0: Vista is through and PDC 2009: Scuttling huge chunks of Vista architecture for a faster Windows 7 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• PDC 2009: Day 0 (Paul Thurrott)
• Reporting Live from the Windows 7 Seminar: Boot Camp (Yochay Kiriaty)

Database

• Do not use the float data type (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – 2005 2008 – Backup, Integrity Check and Index Optimization By Ola Hallengren (Pinal Dave)
• Article of the Week – Kimberly L. Tripp (Partitioned Tables and Indexes) (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Free e-book: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Devon Musgrave)

SharePoint

• External Content Type in SharePoint Designer – SQL Server (Nick Swan)
• Automate Activation/Deactivation of SharePoint Features (Jim Holmes)
• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 1 – Introduction to the new List View (Greg Chan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft makes available new high performance Windows Server test build (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google Chrome Feed Preview (Alex Chitu)
• The High Cost of Losing a Developer (Dave Laribee)
• Social Software 2.0: Enterprise Process Ubiquity (Hutch Carpenter)
• Don Dodge Dumps Microsoft After it Dumps Him (Zoli Erdos)
• Office 2010 Beta Available for Download via MSDN and TechNet (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LVII (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #478 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 16, 2009 — #733 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 16, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 16-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/16/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• New and Notable 390 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Linq to Sql Profiler is now on public beta (Oren Eini)
• Useful Query Editor Query – 1 (Jason Haley)
• "M" For Language Definition in November 2009 CTP (Chris Sells)
• Loading Enterprise Library validation rules from external file (Gunnar Peipman)
• Enum conversion. Why Oh Why? (Jason Jarrett)
• An Improved Entity Framework Tip for EF4 thanks to Zeeshan (Julie Lerman)
• Microsoft Surface SDK WE now available to MSDN Subscribers (Eric Havir)
• MPI Cluster Debugger launch integration in VS2010 (Daniel Moth)
• ADO.NET Data Services : Efficient Error Handling across Application Tiers (Phani Raj)
• November 2009 Release of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK (Sam Gentile)
• DevExpress 2009.3 Tools Released: CR_ClassCleaner, Refactor_UpdateNamespace, DX_SourceOutliner and More! and TDD Support Refactorings for CodeRush/Refactor!Pro: Refactor_MoveTypeToFileInProject (and more!) (Steve Bohlen)
• More Data Binding (David Fowler)

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.0 – and semantic markup and ASP.NET 4.0 – New Project Templates (Mike Ormond)
• ASP.NET MVC: Validating objects using Enterprise Library validation application block (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using the jQuery UI Datepicker with ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates (Jason Grundy)
• Capturing and Transforming ASP.NET Output with Response.Filter (Rick Strahl)
• It’s Time for This: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC (Rob Conery)
• Consuming a Portable Area with a Web Forms application (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Rotate ASP.NET Hyperlink Controls in the Same Position using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Anchor (Steven ‘Doc’ List) – Link of the Day
• DTO’s, DDD & The Anemic Domain Model (Jarod Ferguson)
• How to annoy your teammates (Jimmy Bogard)
• Code Coverage: What Is It Good For? (Dave Laribee)
• KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 1 The high level design (Muhammad Mosa)
• TDD: Combining the when and then steps and A reminder to talk to the rubber duck (Mark Needham)
• How We Do Things – Specification (Using the right tools) (Scott C Reynolds)
• Surviving Without Random Lies In The World Software Development. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Developer, developer, developer… (Dax Pandhi)
• MVVM – This might hurt a little… (Avi Pilosof)
• Prototype of OpenStreetMap Silverlight Control using DeepEarth and Bing Maps SDK (Chris Pietschmann)
• SketchFlow in the Real World (Frank La Vigne)
• A MVVM framework “…three hour tour…” (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight: Images (Deborah Kurata)
• The Silverlight HVP Spec (Jesse Liberty)
• Bug correction in Messenger and new feature in EventToCommand (MVVM Light Toolkit V3 alpha) (Laurent Bugnion)
• XAML 2009 Features: Named Object References (Lester Lobo)
• Magellan Installer (Paul Stovell)
• MVVM Study Part 4: Naked WPF (Rob Eisenberg)
• Silverlight: Avoid Caching When Using WebClient Class (Steve Pietrek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Patrick Dussud – Inside Garbage Collection and E2E: Erik Meijer and Dave Campbell: Data, Databases and the Cloud (Charles Torre)
• Videos: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 with Jim Nakashima (Charlie Calvert)
• TWC9: C9 Live at PDC, Teamprise, SDKs galore, (Dan Fernandez)
• Interviews at TechEd Europe 2009 – MVP Laurent Bugnion (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Using Web Service APIs in Your Apps (Twin Cities .NET User Group Talk Video) (John Sheehan)
• Engadget Podcast 171 – 11.13.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Announcing Channel 9 Live at PDC09 (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Silverlight Developers Guide to PDC09 (Adam Kinney)
• IndyHall 201: How IndyHall Communicates with it’s Community (Alex Hillman)
• Small Milestone (Davy Brion) – Congrats, Davy!
• Author news: Steve McConnell speaking in Bellevue, WA (Devon Musgrave)
• Going to PDC09? Want to Meet the WPF Team? The WPF team will be at PDC ready to chat with you! (Jay)
• Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day Four (Jimmy Bosse)
• Skills Matter Lean and Kanban Exchange (Karl Scotland)
• PDC09: Pre-Conference Workshop on Silverlight 3 (Mike Taulty)
• PDC 2009 Preview: The move to Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 (Scott M. Fulton, III)

Database

• Geek City: UPDATE Locks (Kalen Delaney)
• Undetectable Distributed Deadlocks (Emtucifor)
• Identify procedures that call SQL Server undocumented procedures (George Mastros)
• SQL Server 2008 Enterprise feature coming to SQL Server Standard 2008 R2 – Backup Compression (Greg Duncan)
• SQLAuthority News – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server and SQL SERVER – Whitepaper Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• Beginning stages of a DR plan for SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• RoundhousE DB Migration: Action Shots (Rob Reynolds)

SharePoint

• Removing a Dead SharePoint Web Part (Charles Chen)

Miscellaneous

• My excuses for not blogging about the Microsoft/Teamprise deal (Eric Sink)
• Sign-up & Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Software & Services (Blake Handler)
• Signing PowerShell Scripts – Automatically (Joel Bennett)
• This week in search 11/13/09 (Johanna Wright)
• ASP.NET Interview Questions For New College Graduates (Dave M. Bush)
• Small Basic Programs in 25 lines (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2009 — #731 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for November 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Could You Go Back To Coding Without Resharper? (Davy Brion)
• Bolding Text in Microsoft Word using .NET (Deborah Kurata)
• F# First Class Events – Async Workflows + Events Part I (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Surface Developer Tip: Track extra input data (Robert Levy)
• Dynamic Loading of .Net Assemblies (Ryan Svihla)
• The Weekly Source Code 45 – Kicking Butt on Windows 7 *and* Windows XP (Scott Hanselman)
• Multi-Monitor Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Show CodeRush Xpress 9.2 Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• .NET 4: Monitor.Enter replaced by Monitor.Enter (Daniel Moth)
• Introducing Web Friendly Feeds aka Friendly Feeds (Updated for CTP2) and Its ALIVE !!! ADO.NET Data Services V1.5 CTP 2 is now in the wild!! (Phani Raj)

Web Development

• Odd/Even Looping in ASP.NET MVC (Rick Strahl)
• querySelectorAll on old IE versions: something that doesn’t work (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Simplify Iteration in Your MVC Views (Steve Sanderson)
• jQuery and MVC: JSON Form Submission (Steve Andrews)
• Using Sizzle (Kris Gray)
• My Enemy, My Self (Rob Conery)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Right on schedule (Eric Brechner)
• Rhino Mocks 3.6 (Oren Eini)
• What’s the Difference, Part Four: into vs into (Eric Lippert)
• Breaking changes in Ncover 3.0 integration with Cruise Control .Net (Eric Hexter)
• how do i adapt a simple vs complex model (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• The Double Loop Learning Conversation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• 8 techniques to find problems in your unit tests within 30 seconds (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

• Simple Color Animation in Blend for a Button State (Adam Kinney)
• Get out of the way with the tray ["Minimize to tray" sample implementation for WPF] (David Anson)
• Wpf Scale Transform Behaviour (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Help drive VS/Silverlight user experience (Tim Heuer)
• 56 vector arrows in XAML (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Steve Michelotti of e.imagination on High Performance Web Solutions (Zhiming Xue)
• Jon Skeet on C# 4.0 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Code Cast 31 – Agile for Families (David Starr)
• Sod This 6 – Catching up (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Disentangling Our Tangled Web-Overview – Refactoring and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Disentangling Our Tangled Web-Overview – Overview (Howard Dierking)
• Ping 27: Code7 contest, Get a Mac- Getting tired, Google fears Bing, Swiss street viewing (Laura Foy)
• Visual Studio Tutorial: Part 1 – Overview and Layout (Keith Elder)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Code .NET Service Bus with Matt Milner (Jeff Brand)
• Tool Shed Tooltip #23 – Expression Encoder 3 (Part 1 of 2) – Overview and Screen Capture (Russell Fustino)
• C# 4.0 / The Future of C# (Matthijs Hoekstra) – Link of the Day
• PDC Classics – PDC 2003, Introducing Longhorn in Los Angeles (Robert Hess)
• SharePoint Branding-Episode 29 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)
• Misfit Geek Podcast – Episode #3 Tim Heuer on SIlverlight 3 (Joe Stagner)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #137: Exploring Reflection: Using Reflection to find Markers (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Get Early Bird Registration at The patterns & practices Summit (Ade Miller)
• Hat in Hand (Corey Haines)
• IASA New England September 2009 – Virtualization and the Cloud (Bob Familiar)
• Events This Week – August 31st, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Win $50,000 developing an Xbox 360 game (Larry Hyrb)
• How Community Matters (Davy Brion)
• Reflections on #Agile2009 (Karl Scotland)
• Understanding the MVP Program – Part 2 (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• Up and Running and SQuirrel SQL and SQL Server Express 2005 (Eric Anderson)
• SQL Azure Script Verifier (Jamie Thomson)
• Scripting Server Side Traces (Joe Webb)
• SQL Azure Migration Wizard (Jim O’Neil)
• Problems when installing SQL Server 2005 on an upgraded Windows XP SP3 with MSXML6 SP2 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• SQL SERVER – Download Script of Change Data Capture (CDC) (Pinal Dave)
• Decompressing on Compression in SQL Server 2008…. (Robert Pearl)

SharePoint

• WCF, Silverlight, and SharePoint… Oh my! (Tom)
• SPDocGen – SharePoint Documentation Generator (Sezai Komur)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell for developers (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Microsoft vs. the World (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Weird things said in job interviews Part 4 (Matt Aberham)
• Essential Tool List Reloaded (Russell Ball)
• Test Drive Google Android OS on Windows 7 (Taimur Asad)
• 7 Stages of new language keyword grief (Phil Haack)
• Bing Maps Imagery Release, August 2009 (Sunshine)

More Link Collection

• The Morning Brew #423 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2009 — #680 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for August 31, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• CloudNews for 31st August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 364 (Sam Gentile)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/31/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Links (8/31/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: September 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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Silverlight / WPF

• Physics Behaviors for Silverlight 3! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms (Brad Abrams)
• Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer (Corey Schuman)
• Using Blend with Prism Apps in Silverlight 3 (John Papa)
• MVVM Foundation demo (Josh Smith)
• Creating a Range Slider in WPF (and other cool tips and tricks for UserControls) (Josh Twist)
• MVVM with Type-Safe INotifyPropertyChanged (JP Hamilton)
• Day #16: Silverlight AutoComplete TextBox (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Restricting Access to your WCF Service to a known Silverlight Client and Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Take your ideas from concept to completion with Expression Blend 3 and Watch us on ‘The Visual Kitchen’ to see all-new capabilities of Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 (Silverlight Team)
• A .NET RIA Services Data Load Batch Manager (Scott McCraw)

Web Development

• It is done… S#arp Architecture 1.0 RTM (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Sueetie now running ScrewTurn Wiki 3.0 RC1 (Dave Burke)
• Anti-XSS 3.0 Released (Jossie Tirado)
• Using the ValidationSummary control with ASP.NET MasterPages (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Cloud Computing with Windows Azure (Michael Ceranski)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.3 Is Released (Rob Conery)
• Resource Files and ASP.NET MVC Projects (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Useful C# method for unit testing (Avi Pilosof)
• The Anemic Domain Model Pattern and Unshackle Your Domain (Greg Young)
• Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Introduction and Part 1: Why (Derick Bailey)
• Architecture Astronauts and Over Engineers (Harry Pierson)
• Pex v0.15.40714.1: Better performance, less Bugs… (Jonathan de Halleux)
• The Database Doesn’t Matter or Don’t Pollute Your Domain (Tim Barcz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• What’s New in CodeRush 9.2 (Mark Miller)
• F#: Passing command line arguments to a script (Mark Needham)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aaron Erickson Identifies the Seven Deadly Firms (Carl Franklin)
• Demo Videos from Blend/SketchFlow Launch Online (Christian Schormann)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #127: Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to validate expectations (Derik Whittaker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #61 (Jeff Atwood)
• 10-4 Episode 27: Server-Driven Paging with ADO.NET Data Services (Jonathan Carter)
• ThirstyDeveloper #68 – Scraping the web (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Tips and Tricks for Improving SharePoint 2007 Performance-Episode 27 (Rob, Nick, and Brett)
• What Is Windows Azure…For Dummies (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Laura Rogers! (Amanda Murphy)
• Why Choose the Best Practices Conference? (Bill English)
• Super User Semi-Private Beta Begins (Jeff Atwood)
• Revive your User Group, part III (Joe Webb)
• Code 7 and Say Hello to LA and PDC (Jim O’Neil)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET 7/22/2009 – Naked JavaScript (Matthew Podwysocki)

Database

• Storage Size And Performance Implications Of A GUID PK (Derick Bailey)
• Data Dump to Excel through SSIS and SSRS (Guiseppe Scarfone)
• IsNumeric, IsInt, IsNumber (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Four Different Ways to Find Recovery Model for Database (Pinal Dave)
• Operand type clash: date is incompatible with int error when trying to do +1 on a date data type in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• WCF errors from SharePoint event receiver and Getting paid for your SharePoint software, part 2 (Eugene Rosenfeld)

Miscellaneous

• Google Reader’s Social Evolution (Alex Chitu)
• Try InfoPath 2010 and Win an Xbox! (Amanda Murphy)
• Office 2010 is Surprisingly Coming with Free Web Bits (Tom Milnes)
• Star Gates: Small Basic Sample of the Week (Vijaye)
• Favorite Windows 7 Feature #2: Aero Peek (Scott Lock)

More Link Collections

• 30 Great Posts and Tutorials on Silverlight and Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Interesting Finds: July 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #391 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 — #640 and Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 – 2 — #641 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 15th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 342 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing console output from a Windows form in C# (Tom Hearn)
• Treating Warnings as Errors in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Mmm, Curry (Eric Lippert)
• Walkthrough: Adding an existing Visual Studio solution to another solution (Habib Heydarian)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Generating Microsoft Office Documents with the Open XML SDK (Vikas Goyal)
• CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic inside Visual Studio 2008 (Mark Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

• F# in Silverlight (Luke Hoban)
• WPF 2D Physics Plus (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight Canvas Panel (Deepak Kapoor)
• Expression Design Resources (Mike Ormond)
• WPF Chart Controls!!! (Marc Schweigert)
• Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000! (Tim Heuer)
• My Sillveright-Prism Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Validation and ViewModel (Josh Twist)
• Creating NikeClone with Silverlight, Part 1 (Faisal Hossian Khan)

Web Development

• The Weekly Source Code 43 – ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinner (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• OSX MonoDevelop MVC? (Tobin Harris)
• A Better SMTP Development Server (Lee Dumond)
• ASP.NET GridView with Custom Paging UI (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET – Creating a Custom Tag Cloud (Michael Ceranski)
• The “Anti-For” Campaign (Matthew Podwysocki)
• jQuery Dialog – With Validation Controls and Does jQuery Make Us Lazy? (Dave M. Bush)
• JSON Hijacking (Phil Haack)
• Declaring Security (Eric Lawrence)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 13 (Rajiv Popat)
• Safe refactoring: Removing object initializer, introducing builder (Mark Needham)
• How Wise Are You Being With Your Work Time? (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Becoming a better developer, or “How to sidestep a question” (Kyle Baley)
• Pair Programming and Pandemics (Pouya Yousefi)
• Programmer Confidence and Arrogance (Jay Fields)
• How To? Highly Complex Query Generating Based On Security Needs (Derick Bailey)
• Making Blenders for the Blind is Like Making Software for Normal People (Chris Love)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• AgileToolkit Podcast – Nationwide – Kevin Fisher – AVP of Product Management – Value of Alignment (Bob Payne)
• Margaret Burnett: Gender and Software (Charles Torre)
• Video: Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session (Brian Peek)
• The NY Times/Silverlight Open API toolkit (Jit Ghosh)
• Commanding in Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Demo of SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Features – Configure DW Storage and Demo of SQL Server 2008 DW features: Configuring tempdb for Data Warehouse (Joe Longtin)

Community / Events

• Free Microsoft Hyper-V Training Course 6319 (Blake Handler)
• ScrumMaster Certification Course in Waltham, MA (Bob Familiar)
• Pragmatic Patterns for Architects: Recordings Available (David Makogon)
• Enthusiast and Fanatic Badges (Jeff Atwood)
• Principles of Design Series: Learning about Unity using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• MSDN Webcast: Enterprise Library 4.1 (Lindsay Rutter)

SharePoint

• Belgian MVP Releases SharePoint Tool Basket on CodePlex! (Lorna Williamson)
• SharePoint SP2 Update (Bob Fox)
• SharePoint BDC Part 1: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog (Tobias Zimmergren)

Database

• Live Meeting: Creating a Star Schema and OLAP Cubes (Trevor Dwyer)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of Logon Trigger On All Servers – Solution (Pinal Dave)
• Not a fan of the Report Manager in SSRS? Using SSRS procedures to get the job done (Ted Krueger)
• How to Avoid Database Restore Issues by a Simple Script Edit – A DB Restore Work-around (Hugo Shebbeare)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Upgrade, Retail & Special 50% Off Pre-Order Pricing! (Blake Handler)
• Running localized versions of Small Basic (Vijaye)
• PowerPoint—Customizing the Ribbon (William Vaughn)
• Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do those upgrades really cost? (Ed Bott)
• Is programming a generic skill? (Eric Gunnerson)
• 200 Twitter Mashups (John Musser)
• Which Windows 7 version is best for you? Pre-order your copy today! (Taimur Asad)
• Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest (Rafe Needleman)
• Coding Dojo #18: Groovy Bowling Game (Mark Needham)
• An Introduction to Functional Languages (Ken Sipe)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 25, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #376 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2009 — #622 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 25th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Links (6/25/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 25th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• VSTS Rangers Released Team Test Quick Reference on CodePlex! (Angela Binkowski)
• Live Framework Examples Interop with Many Technologies (Bruce Kyle)
• Simple example of using a Subquery in NHibernate when using ICriteria (Derik Whittaker)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Getting Arguments and Writing an IronPython Debugger: REPL Console and Pygments for WL Writer v1.0.1 (Harry Pierson)
• Re-Enabling Features in CodeRush v2009.1.2 After They Are Disabled (Keith Elder)
• Windows 7 Libraries .NET Sample Library – an Overview and Understanding Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty) – Links of the Day
• Measuring performance under Visual Studio (Daniel Moth)
• How to calculate CRC in C#? (Tamir Khason)
• Building Domain Specific Languages in C#, Part 2 (Neal Ford)
• Castle NHibernate Facility – Configuration (Tuna Toksoz)
• Why You Should Upgrade to .NET 3.5 (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• DDDBlog Implementation. Part 1 (Vinay D.)
• ASP.NET MVC – Controller to View (Dave M. Bush)
• Reflecting over JSON Data to Simplify Control Updates with jQuery and 5 Reasons You Should Take a Closer Look at ASP.NET MVC (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Unit Testing Part 1: JsUnit (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET RefCardz (Mike Ormond)
• HowTo: From the view to the controller in ASP.NET MVC with ModelBinders (Robert Muehsig)

Silverlight / WPF

• Binding Dynamic Properties in XAML, ASP.NET… (Chris Cavanagh)
• Calling JavaScript functions from Silverlight 2 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #106 – Setting Default Browser from within VS (Mike Snow)
• Do you have any feedback on the AutoCompleteBox API? (Jeff Wilcox)
• VideoWicki – A Open-Book Design-To-Delivery Silverlight 3 Project (Jesse Liberty)
• Sports, Powered by Silverlight (Steve Sklepowich)
• Managing Silverlight 3 navigation behavior (Tim Heuer)
• A Twitter Application in WPF (Carole Snyder)
• Animating when data changes (Josh Twist)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Designing Rhino DHT – A fault tolerant, dynamically distributed, hash table and Reviewing NChord: A codebase that makes me twitch (Oren Eini)
• What is Agility? Part 1 – Business Agility (Brad Appleton)
• Pragmatic vs Theoretical Development Practices (Chris Love)
• "Technology moves fast. Evolution Moves slow." (Daniela Panfili)
• DDD: Only for Complex Projects? (Mark Needham)
• What’s Wrong With This Picture? (Kirstin Juhl)
• tour of the month: the landmark tour (James Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Tips and Advice – Listener Email – Self Organizing Teams (Bob Payne)
• .NET Rocks! – Don Kiely on AJAX at DevConnections! (Carl Franklin)
• MSDN Radio – Chunk Cloud Computing (Johan Lindfors)
• ALT.NET Podcast #18: Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net (James Avery)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 6th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MVPs Play Critical Role at Tech Ed North America (Jas Dhaliwal)

Happy Birthday Channel 9!

• Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Eric Lippert: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Anders Heljsberg: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Mark Russinovich: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Erik Meijer: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Scott Guthrie: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Larry Osterman: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Bill Hill: On Channel 9, Niners and Homo Sapiens 2.0 (Charles Torre)
• Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe (Charles Torre)
• Jeff Sandquist: Channel 9 Through the Years (Charles Torre)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Press UK: 40% off 25 books (Devon Musgrave)
• Microsoft Office Military Appreciation Edition – $50 (Julie Lerman)
• New Zune Hardware Coming This Year (Jason Chen)
• Windows 7 reaches escrow build, RC imminent? (Lee Mathews)
• How to create a new CodePlex project wiki page – #009 (Sara Ford)
• Tips for Real Time Web working on new friendfeed (Robert Scoble)
• Introducing the WMI Blog (James Brundage)
• Adobe AIR Developer’s Toolbox: Resources and Tutorials (Paul Andrew)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #323 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 06, 2009 — #564 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-04-06 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 12 (Mike Snow)
• CloudNews for April 6th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit is now available (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight 3: Navigation Application Template Extra themes posted! (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight – RESX Files and Internationalization (Dave M. Bush)
• Creating applications with .NET RIA Services Part 4 – Adding a DomainDataSource (Martin Mihaylov)
• Enable multiple selection in Silverlight ListBox and Using Blur and DropShadow effects in Silverlight 3 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight out-of-browser support: What kind of apps can you build? (Ashish Shetty)
• Scripting C# Silverlight apps with IronPython (Jimmy Schementi)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #103 – Cool Silverlight Tutorial Blogs and #104 – How to Enable GPU Acceleration (Mike Snow)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Oslo Is Running My House and X10 Grammar (Kris Horrocks via Chris Sells)
• A Real World Application of MGrammar (Oslo) (hexadecimal)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Command Routing (Harry Pierson)
• An FAQ about EF/Astoria/LINQ to SQL: Is the data filtered on the server or on the client? (Julie Lerman)
• Ten C# Keywords That You Shouldn’t Be Using (Justin Etheredge)
• What’s New in CodeRush & Refactor! Pro 9.1 (Mark Miller)
• Visual Studio Team Test Quick Reference Guide 1.0 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Getting Started with the Live Framework (Mike Ormond)

Web Development

• Rolling a Bubble – ASP.NET MVC is Ms-PL (Rob Conery)
• Putting the M in MVC – Part II (K. Scott Allen)
• Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Open Source MS-PL (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Scott Guthrie)
• Open Source License For System.Web.Mvc (Phil Haack)
• Back to the future! Exploring ASP.NET MVC Futures (Maarten Balliauw)
• Binding Links with ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX (Wallace B. McClure)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Enterprise adoption of Agile? What should you have been told/taught? (Brian Marick)
• DDDD: Double Dispatch (Jonathan Oliver)
• Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 3 (Justin Etheredge)
• Don’t be afraid of complex constraints (Karl Seguin)
• Master Craftsman Teams. (Uncle Bob Martin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Softies pranking Softies: A step-by-step video for pranking co-workers (Dan Fernandez)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 139 – David Penton with Pat Helland on Cloud Computing – MP3 Audio (Wallace B. McClure)
• MIX09 Video Outtakes with Scott Guthrie (Tina)

Community / Events

• Announcing the "WPF for LOB" Training Tour.. (Jaime Rodriguez)
• CodeClimber Q1 report (Simone Chiaretta)
• The "Jan Tielens" SharePoint Challenge by Christophe (Jan Tielens)

SharePoint

• Video: SharePoint Designer 2007 (April 2009 Announcement) (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Designer 2007 now Free! (Stephen Cummins)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Very Powerful and Feature-Rich Backup, Zip and FTP Utility SQLBackupAndFTP (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• After a 12-year downhill slide, SGI is no more (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Microsoft Blogger Releases "Change Windows 7 Login Screen" PowerToy (Blake Handler)
• Book giveaway (Michael Kimsal) – JavaScript for Programmers
• I Am Not A Helpdesk (Davy Brion)
• Resizing images without loss of quality (Gunnar Peipman)
• Should Competent Programmers be "Mathematically Inclined"? (Jeff Atwood)
• Wubbzy to Promote World Autism Day (Jenny Williams)
• Microsoft Office on iPhone? (Raju Vegesna)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #320 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 01, 2009 — #560 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 1st, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Improve your NHibernating with NHProf (Hiberlog)
• Top 10 Favorite Performance Counters in Load Testing Using VSTS 2008 (Mohammad Ashraful Alam)
• DateTime.MaxValue (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Contextual Sessions with NHibernate – Part 2 (Javier G. Lozano)
• CodeRush/Refactor Pro refactors Javascript too (Jay Kimble)
• C#: Extensions methods != Open classes (Mark Needham)
• Mapping Objects with AutoMapper (K. Scott Allen)

Silverlight / WPF

• Building a WPF Application: Part 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• Prism 2.0 is Live (Blaine Wastell)
• Silverlight LinkLabel Control – Release: v1.1 (CodePlex)
• just released: composite application guidance for wpf and silverlight – February 2008 (Erwin van der Valk)
• MVP TV – Changing Silverlight 2’s Control Appearance and Behaviour. (Jas Dhaliwal)
• New Release: Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) (J.D. Meier)
• WPF Kid Stuff: Extracting a Control Template (Shafqat Ahmed)
• Prism v2 – Guidance and Patterns for WPF and Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 2 GDR1 Now Available… (Tim Sneath)
• Dependency Properties and Silverlight 2 (Corey Miller)
• Deep Zoom Composer – February 2009 Preview Released (Sunshine)
• Tracking Down Memory Leaks in WPF and Silverlight (Vladimir Milev)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: What Kind of Applications Is It Suited To? (Casey Charlton)
• D3: Modeling Part 1 – Real-World Relationships (Danny Simmons)
• "Inappropriate Intimacy" points to the bleeding out of your domain logic (Ian Cooper) – Link of the Day
• Types of testing (Laila Bougria)
• MSTest Digest #1 (Steve Andrews)
• Presenter Logic || Domain Service Logic || Repository Logic? (Sean Biefeld)

Web Development

• Fixing this blog for Internet Explorer 8 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #47 – Using ResolveUrl in an HTML Helper (Stephen Walther)
• Oxite: what’s new and how to stay up to date with it (Simone Chiaretta)

SharePoint

• SharePoint and TDD – The other view (Andrew Woodward)
• Debugging SharePoint solutions using Visual Studio (DigiMortal)
• SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part One (Eric Shupps)

Community / Events

• Mix09: Developing RESTful Services & Clients w/ M (Chris Sells)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 150 – Uncle Bob Martin, this time with feeling (Scott Hanselman)
• Team System on Twitter (Steve Andrews)

SQL Server

• How To Name Default Constraints And How To Drop Default Constraint Without A Name In SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• How to Keep Innovating (Bill Buxton)
• Windows 7 Beta Brings New Functionality to Games Explorer (Brandon LeBlanc)
• The secret driven-development/design acronyms (Damien Guard)
• Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation (Karen Wong)
• Are You An Expert? (Jeff Atwood)
• Google Releases Google Mobile for Windows Mobile and The Best Whitepaper I’ve Read In Years: Cloud Computing from UC Berkeley (Steve Clayton)
• The Hulu Plugins Just Keep Coming! (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #290 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 18, 2009 — #521 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for February 18th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 292 (Sam Gentile)
• Daily Find #118 (Tim Boland)
• Creators Club Communiqué 18 (Kathleen Sanders)

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