• Review: Microsoft Touch Mouse for Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft to focus on HTML5 and JavaScript for Office 15 development (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google’s “What’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander” patent whining (Steven Hodson)
• Microsoft Tweets Out An Email Showing It Tried To Work With Google On Buying Patents (MSFT, GOOG, AAPL) (Jay Yarow)
• Microsoft Research’s .NET Gadgeteer steps out into the light, shoots daggers at Arduino (video) (Joseph Volpe)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio QuickWatch (Richard Carr)
• C#: DateTime to Midnight datetime (Raghav Khunger)
• Announcing the August 2011 Release of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and NOW AVAILABLE: August 2011 Update of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (Windows Azure Team)
• The Time is Now to Try JustTrace (Chris Eargle)
• A .NET generic limitation (Patrick Smacchia)
• RavenDB Session Management with NServiceBus (Oren Eini)
• Visual Basic Sudoku Solver and Generator (ZiggyG)

Web Development

• Building Mobile JavaScript WebApps With Backbone.js & jQuery: Part I (Addy Osmani)
• Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–Revealing Prototype Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
• HTML5 Part 3: Audio and Video (Jennifer Marsman)
• PHP Static Analysis Tool Usage (Lorna Wilson)
• Dive into the summer with MSDN: HTML5 (Katrien de Graeve)
• Assetic: JavaScript and CSS files management (Giorgio Sironi)
• You can’t build a quality website in a factory (Paul Boag)
• Announcing Windows Azure Storage Analytics (Windows Azure Storage Team)
• Backbone: Don’t Route What Should Be A Command Or Event and Stop Using Backbone As If It Were A Stateless Web Server (Derick Bailey)
• Google App Engine Builds Steam, Updates Datastores and Task Queues (Romin Irani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Take Advantage Of Your BDD Framework (Davy Brion)
• Tim Kropp on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• Algorithmically Estimating Developer Time (Peter Saddington)
• Building Android projects with Jenkins, Ant and Mercurial (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Message-Oriented Architecture is a Misleading Term (Peter Ritchie)
• Getting version numbers and names right is hard (Matt Lacey)
• The forgotten control flow construct (Joh)
• Where is the greatest friction? (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• The War Between Developers, Designers and Project Managers (Joey deVilla)
• Choosing the Correct CI Tool (Paul Stack)
• New Manager, New Product Owner, Too Much Work (Johanna Rothman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): [Column] attribute and 7 Mistakes Developers make when implementing Windows Phone Custom Controls (Windows Phone Geek)
• Understanding NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch – Dealing with Charts (Part 1) (Mihail Mateev)
• Know your cookies (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 Feature Requests (Daniel Egan)
• Adding a system-wide keyboard hook to your WPF Application (LearnWPF)
• Using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to create HTML5 SVG Path Data. (Michael Crump)
• Working with animations on the Windows Phone (Surf4Fun)
• 2000 WPF Things #357 – RadioButton is a ContentControl (Sean Sexton)
• Summer Fun in the Mango Sun… Sample Data, Locations and Accelerometer (Greg Duncan)
• Simple Tips: Application Image Processing (Deborah Hanamura)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cristian Libardo Builds a CMS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SE Podcast #14 (Alex Miller)
• Interview: Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Hot Apps: Words By Post, Fractal Graphics, ScriptTD, Drynks, Penguin (Laura Foy)
• MVP Talks Hyper-V in Taiwan (Lonnie Webb)
• The GeekDads Episode #97: A Whole New World Behind the Grotto (Ken Denmead)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #55: Kinecting with the Cosmos with Jonathan Fay, Dr. Mark SubbaRao & Michelle Yehling (Part 2) (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Coding4Fun Kinect Turret (Greg Duncan)
• Rob Relyea: Kinect SDK Beta 1 Refresh is live (Dan Fernandez)
• Look who’s talking: Speech in Mango (Bill Pardi)

Community / Events

• Upcoming FubuMVC Webinar Series and FubuMVC Webinar: F101 – Behaviors, Configuration, and Runtime (Josh Arnold)
• HTML5 and IE workshop by the water, powered by Microsoft Webcafe – 25th August 2011 in Brussels (Katrien de Graeve)
• August Silverlight Giveaway by Telerik and First Floor Software! (Michael Crump)
• The First Day of School (Mike Desmond)

Database

• SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: Get T-SQL query metadata without executing it (Jakub Dvorak)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Efficient Query Writing Strategy – Day 4 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – T-SQL – Comparing table data/structure using UNION, EXCEPT and INTERSECT (Vishal)
• SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY function (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Managing Large Lists in SharePoint for Users and Site Admins (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Two New Free Xbox Live Games Next Week (August 10th) – Sudoku & Minesweeper (Hyde13)
• Developer interest in Android increases, approaches iOS (Joe Wilcox)
• Powershell to HTML (Jack Vamvas)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 3, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading August 3, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (8/3/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #909 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure Platform (Patterns & Practices) by Eugenio Pace

Top Links

• Installing, Configuring and Using Windows Server AppFabric and the "Velocity" Memory Cache in 10 minutes (Scott Hanselman)
• WeakReference Event Handlers (Paul Stovell)
• Decoupling the Presentation Layer & the Joy of Interfaces (Simon Gladman)
• Using LINQ Distinct: With an Example on ASP.NET MVC SelectListItem (Joe Mayo)
• Walkthrough: Extending VS 2010 to Support Additional Programming Languages (Weston Hutchins)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# int |> bigint (Mark Pearl)
• IntelliTrace – what and how? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Customize the Output Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• Deleting Windows Azure Queue Messages: Handling Exceptions (Steve Marx)

Web Development

• News Roundup: Boomerang, IE9, Bespin Updates (Michael Kimsal)
• MVC Turbine Resources (Javier G. Lozano)
• Internet Explorer Develop Tools: CSS (Pete LePage)
• Canvas Baby Steps: An Introduction to the HTML 5 Canvas Element (Rey Bango)
• Mapping Your Data with Bing Maps and SQL Server 2008 (Jonas Stawski)
• ActionFilter Overkill (K. Scott Allen)
• IE9 Includes Hardware Accelerated Canvas (Paul Cutsinger & Jatinder Mann)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "The Planning Game" Now Online (James Shore)
• Software Craftsmanship and Giving Back (Andrew)
• Delegating (Andy Warren)
• Automated UI Testing with Guia (Guia Project)
• Azure Canonical Application Architecture (J.D. Meier)
• Abstraction levels and dependencies (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Test-Driven-Development with SharePoint 2010 By Andreas Rudolf Aschauer, BSc (Tal Druyan)
• CI, Testing, and Build Management in the Cloud (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Share more puzzles on www.pexforfun.com (Nikolai Tillman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Config-free IHttpModule Registration (Nikhil Kothari)
• Uploading multiple files with Silverlight 4.0 (Andrea Boschin)
• Customer IApplicationService for Silverlight Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Word to XAML Converter Updated (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Lazy loading children in CSLA 4 and Silverlight (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Connected Show Podcast: CoApp: Do EPIC Schtuff! (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Yuri Gurevich – Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity, 1 of n (Charles Torre)
• Video: The Unique Development Processes of Relevance (Eric Hagan)
• Using Relative URLs with the ServerInfo Class in InfoPath 2010 (Laura Harrington)
• Interview with Victor Gaudioso on Silverlight (Silverlight Show)
• Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Listen to MVP Joe Shurman on KPRC Radio this Saturday Morning (Joseph Mirabella)
• Agile Atlanta in July… Dennis Stevens and Kanban! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• July 2010 Silverlight MVP Awards (Tim Heuer)

Database

• SSAS Cache Warming with an SSIS package (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread (Pinal Dave)
• Mythbusting – How many instances can you install on your server? (Simon Sabin)
• MySQL 5 Performance Tuning Toolkit (Ryan Svihla)
• My Performance Tuning Methodology (Buck Woody)
• Indexes are best utilized in WHERE, not JOIN (Ben Vegiard)
• XQuery Lab 62 – Revisiting simple TSQL SELECT operations using XQuery (Jacob Sebastian)
• Using Indexed Views to Replace Triggers (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Renaming Web Parts for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010: Not a safe control? (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Commands quick reference (Greg Galipeau)
• What’s Next in SharePoint Land and Project Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Coexistence (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• TweetStation: Elevating the Discourse (Miguel de Icaza)
• Kodu PC Build 1.0.64.0 is now live! and Kodu Tutorial Videos (Stephen Coy)
• ClearContext Evolves, Adds Project Management Tools to Outlook (Simon Mackie)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft Access 2010 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #634 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 1, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 55 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for July 01, 2010 — #894 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC by Jonathan McCracken

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Top Links

• Evil Date Parsing lives! Viva Evil Date Parsing!, explained (Michael S. Kaplan)
• In praise of ELMAH (Mike Hadlow)
• Get Started with F# via Higher order IEnumerable extension methods in C# (Rick Minerich)
• Snoop, Now even better, thanks to the Community (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A simpler F# MailboxProcessor (Luca Bolognese)
• The Soundex Algorithm (Richard Carr)
• The 13th of Diduary: Did you know that you can write apps for the Zune HD? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Search for Project Templates in the New Project Dialog — vstipProj0001 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Back to Basics: C# 4 method overloading and dynamic types (Scott Hanselman)
• Odd behavior of C# 4.0 "dynamic" (Oliver Sturm)
• What’s new with Entity Framework in Visual Studio 2010 RC (EF Team)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Optional URL Parameters (Phil Haack)
• Javascript: Passing functions around with call and apply and Javascript: Some stuff I learnt this week (Mark Needham)
• Review of “Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript” (Scott Koon)
• Handling errors with jQuery.load (Simon Ince)
• WCF and JQuery Exception Handling (Chris Love)
• Site Authentication Required, Except Default.aspx (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Integrating JavaScript Unit Tests with Continuous Integration (Francis K. Cheung)
• Nourishing Technology and product communities. (Peter Ritchie)
• Programmer Tip: Thinking About What Works For ‘You’ Or ‘Your’ Team. (Rajiv Popat)
• CQRS and Event Sourcing (Greg Young)
• Git: Remotes, contributions, and the letter N (James Gregory)
• Wanna see how Dovetail builds software (or not, it’s a free country)? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Resolution: Efficient Querying (Oren Eini)
• Composition versus Inheritance (Chad Myers)
• Premack’s Principle Applied To Software (K. Scott Allen)
• Kaikaku or Kaizen (Patrick Kua)

Silverlight / WPF

• Announcing: The WPF Feature Feedback and Voting Site and Announcing: touch.codeplex.com – Multi-touch for Silverlight 3/4 and WPF 3.5sp1 (Pete Brown)
• SG SLUG – What’s new in Silverlight 4? Presentation and Demo (Michael Sync)
• Surface Physics Download (Dave Brown)
• Silverlight for Developers (Part I) (Arian Kulp)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Jon Skeet – World’s Greatest Living Programmer, or just a nice English guy? (Scott Hanselman)
• Creating Visualizations for SQL Server Data Mining (MS Podcasts)
• Azure Miniseries #2: Deployment (Brian Hitney)
• Pluralcast #8 : The Economics of Cloud Computing (David Starr)
• CodeCast Interview: VS 2010 Shell with Weston Hutchins (Weston Hutchins)
• jQuery Podcast 11 – Yehuda Katz (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Reporters’ Roundtable Podcast: HTML 5 vs. Flash (Rafe Needleman)

Community / Events

• Where to Find Developer Events? (Dave Bost)
• FitNesse clinic, March 2nd, London (Gojko Adzic)
• ASP.beer Cancelled (Javier G. Lozano)
• Where I’ll be during the MVP Summit (Simone Chiaretta)

Database

• Is NoSQL Finally Going Mainstream? (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Whats missing in the SQL Certification process? (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – Download SQL Server 2008 Express Datasheet (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Search the Internet with Start Menu Search (Paul Thurrott)
• TED2010, Haiti and the Winter Games – Weekend Reading for February 12th (Dominic Carr)
• 10 ways Microsoft can save Windows Mobile — starting NEXT WEEK! (Joe Wilcox)
• Treat Your Presentation like a Performance to Nail Timing and Delivery (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Where the Multitouch Devices Are, pt. 2 (Larry Larsen)
• Why Google Buzz will fail…and how to fix it (Stephen Forte)
• eReading – Lending Books (Steve Jones)
• Office 2010 general available on June 15 2010 (Steven Bink)
• Microsoft And Partners Are About To Add A Big Fat Social Layer To Outlook (Robin Wauters)
• Mighty Box, an App Launcher for Windows (Sarah Perez)
• Building on PowerShell: Execution Policies (Lee Holmes)
• A Guide To Following The 2010 Winter Olympics Online (Leena Rao)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for February 12, 2010 — #797 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 02.08 ~ 02.13 (yuanjian)
• New and Notable 403 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action

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Top Links

• Visual Studio 2010 Launch is 12th April… (Mike Ormond)
• jQuery 1.4 Released! (John Resig)
• Deep Discounts for MIX 10 End Jan 15th (John Papa) – Today!
• ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation (Scott Guthrie)
• The Internet Isn’t Being Held Hostage (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Making NCloak fool Reflector (an implementation) (Paul Mason)
• DevExpress and a Stumper (Andy Warren)
• .Net Remoting Made Easy (Dave Verschleiser)
• Why Can’t I Access A Protected Member From A Derived Class? Part Six (Eric Lippert)
• Debugging Native memory leaks with Debug Diag 1.1 (Tess Ferrandez)
• Repeated menu options in Visual Studio for Data Dude (Simon Sabin)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 3 – Sieve Me One (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Missing LINQ – Beware of Generated Code and Spread The Word – Install .NETFx 4 Beta 2 via Windows Update (Mike Ceranski)
• 2010 Survey Results: What .NET Framework features do you use? (Scott Hanselman)
• Some Common Operations using List – Part I (Suprotim Agarwal)
• F#: Refactoring to sequence/for expressions (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• How you can force the Ajax Script Loader to use jQuery 1.4 (Dave Ward)
• jQuery Snippets & jQuery 1.4: What’s your opinion? (John Sheehan)
• T4MVC in MSDN Magazine (K. Scott Allen)
• What Would a Stack Overflow API Look Like? (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Reducing Code Coupling – Inversion of Control (Grant Palin)
• The future of UI will be boring (Scott Berkun)
• More on Context… Establishing Personas (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Higher Order Software Development (Vishwas Lele)
• The difference between continuous Integration tools and automated build tools (Roy Osherove)
• Knowing and not Knowing (Jeremiah Peschka)

Silverlight / WPF

• AutoMagically Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged (Justin Angel)
• Converting Hexadecimals to Colors in code for Silverlight and Flash to Silverlight Guide – Graphics, Images and Display List (Adam Kinney)
• WPF WebBrowser and JavaScript interaction (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight: SketchFlow (Deborah Kurata)
• Quick tip: Finding Silverlight 4 documentation fast (Laurent Bugnion)
• A Field Guide to WPF Presentation Patterns and Introducing MicroModels (Paul Stovell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Flash Podcast 019 – Windows Mobile Widgets (Eric Nelson)
• The Agile PMP on InfoQ (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Herding Code 68: New Year Shenanigans (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• Mix10 And Molecular Biology DNA Visualizer (Justin Angel)
• First Quarter 2010 Speaking Schedule (Chris Love)
• PDC09 Trip Report Kit available for download. Taking out the drudgery so you can focus on the fun. (Dave Isbitski)
• Software Craftsman Cooperative Membership (David Starr)
• Creators Club Communiqué 37 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Get Ready for the ‘MSDN Get Ready’ training events (Katrien De Graeve)
• Looking for a change? Come work with us! (Larry Hyrb)
• Platz on Pausch, Pikachu and pursuing your passions (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• 2010 TechEd PreCon: Multiparadigmatic C# (Ted Neward)
• The Sparkling Client Goes to Mix 2010! (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• NYC Microsoft BizSpark Camp for Windows Azure! (Stephen Forte)

Database

• The Database Design Process (Buck Woody)
• SQLAuthority News – Vote for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 – Vote for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and SQL SERVER – Initializing a Merge Subscription Without a Snapshot (Pinal Dave)
• Quickest way to get the row count of a table and User defined function performance is awful, Micorosft please sort this out (Simon Sabin)
• Find Out If You Are Using Deprecated Features In SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)
• Fluidity with "Quadrant’s" Unique User Interface (Kraig Brockschmidt)

SharePoint

• Adding jQuery to SharePoint (Tom Hearn)
• Free Developer Training for SharePoint (Bruce Kyle)
• How SharePoint Can Deliver Project Transparency (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Approve all items button in a SharePoint View (Greg Galipeau)
• Creating Comparison and Wildcard Filters for BCS in SharePoint Designer 2010 (Phill Duffy)
• BCS Creator and Updater methods for Dot Net Assembly (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• You should know Linux (Karl Seguin)
• Iconizer Catalogs Icons for Customization (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Windows 7 Step by Step — Only $9.99! Use discount code W7SS9 (O’Reilly Media)
• You are responsible for your education (Mark Nijhof)
• Developing Windows PowerShell Best Practices book (Ed Wilson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #518 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2010 — #778 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for January 14, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (1/14/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

The Geek Shelf

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

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.NET / Visual Studio

• First CTP of SQL Azure and Updated Training Kit Available! (Windows Azure Team)
• Metaprogramming (Me)
• Two Components for your Toolbox (Aaron Lerch)
• NHibernate DSL Built Using "Oslo" (Chris Sells)
• Why is covariance of value-typed arrays inconsistent? (Eric Lippert)
• Running Multiple Instances of a Windows Service Using TopShelf (Kevin Miller)
• Creating .Net Configuration Sections (Michael Cummings)
• Neat Visual Studio Test Options (Steve Andrews)
• Debug Composition from within Visual Studio (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Web Development

• New Features in Web Platform Installer v2 (Adam Kinney)
• Using JQuery to supplement CSS inadequacies (Dave Burke)
• Reimagining www.asp.net, Part Three: The Community Experience (John Sheehan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simplifying deployment (Simon Brown)
• Complex vs Complicated (Dru Sellers)
• Ship it, or Ship Out (Jak Charlton)
• CI Servers and Build Scripts and Continous Integration Workflow (Jonathan Oliver)
• XP As A Kanban System (Karl Scotland)
• TDD: Tests That Give Us a False Confidence of Coverage (Mark Needham)
• Being a Duct Tape Programmer (Michael C. Neel)
• BAM! Geometric Shapes, Multi-Line support, Oh my! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 18. (Rajiv Popat)
• Manifesto for Continuous Improvement and Why managing a software team can be more effective than "regular" management (Roy Osherove)
• The Duct Tape Programmer (Uncle Bob Martin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight VisualBrush and rounded corners (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight designer sample code is posted (Jim Galasyn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #199 – Monomania – Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware (Scott Hanselman)
• AgileToolkit Podcast – Jim Miller – The Product Owner Role and Business Alignmnet (Bob Payne)
• Scott Guthrie: Introducing WebsiteSpark and Web Platform Installer V2 RTM (Charles Torre)
• Web Application Toolkits and Web Application Toolkit: Template-Driven Emails and Web Application Toolkit: REST Services and Web Application Toolkit: Mobile Web Applications (Jonathan Carter)
• Xbox 360 Project Natal Creators panel from Tokyo Game Show 2009 (Larry Hyrb)
• Be Productive and Stop Using XML and Be Productive and Go Mouseless (Roy Osherove)
• Web Application Toolkits: FAQ (James Senior)
• InfoPath SharePoint integration videos now online (Kathy Hughes)
• Ade Miller on Developing for Multi-Core Computers (Keith Pleas)

Community / Events

• Announcing WebOSSFlame (Scott Koon) – Link of the Day
• Microsoft offers free software and support to small software companies (Justin Sargent)

Database

• Filtered indexes and filtered stats might become seriously out-of-date (Kimberly Tripp)
• SQL SERVER – Outer Join in Indexed View – Question to Readers (Pinal Dave)
• The last good date for your database (Steve Jones)

SharePoint

• Deploying Reporting Services WebParts to SharePoint WSS and MOSS (Tom Hearn)
• Planning for SharePoint 2010 – Upgrade Planning Part 2 Moving the Databases (Chandima Kulathilake)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge (Mary-Jo Foley)
• PowerShell Cookbook Now Available on iPhone (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft Releases Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit v3.5 (Blake Handler)
• Early debut for Windows 7 PCs (Todd Bishop)
• Ruby Exceptions And Exception Handling (Alan Skorkin)
• Good information is easy to find (Joe Webb)
• Kinda wishing I could keep using Delphi (Joe White)
• Microsoft Press Enters Strategic Alliance with O’Reilly (Tim O’Reilly)
• New Evernote beta brings face-lift, drawing tools (Josh Lowensohn)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #441 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (9/24/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Windows 7 and R2 Guides (Steven Bink)
• Weekly Bits #1 (Tim Boland)
• Tech Tweets for 24-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 24th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #548 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: September 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 10.0 (MS Downloads)
• Impersonation, WCF, and making updates to a database (Tom)
• Reading IPhone Text Messages using C# and SQLite (Tom Hearn)
• Call PowerShell Cmdlets from C# (Cody Batt)
• Bringing The Heat With Dynamic (Justin Etheredge)
• Open XML Format SDK 2.0 Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 – 52 C#/VB Code Snippets to help ease your Open XML coding (Greg Duncan)
• Understanding LINQ and LINQ to SQL (and EF) (Jason Young)

Web Development

• Designating Content Type (Chris Love)
• Google praises Microsoft’s HTML 5 thoughts (Tom Krazit)
• xVal v1.0 Now Available (Steve Sanderson)
• Create a SQL Azure CRUD Application with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• Integrating OpenID in an ASP.NET MVC Application using DotNetOpenAuth (Rick Strahl)
• How to create a three state menu using Photoshop and Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• ASP.NET AJAX Add-ons (FireAtlas & FireCookie) for Firefox’s Firebug (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Who Owns Quality (Alan Page)
• SDL ‘Merged’ Process Template White Paper. (Clemens Reijnen)
• NCover and NUnit Can Play Nicely on x64 (Justin Etheredge)
• TDD: Testing with generic abstract classes (Mark Needham)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 9. (Rajiv Popat)
• Growing developers: Ask for solutions instead of giving them (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
• The case for two-way mapping in AutoMapper (Jimmy Bogard)
• How A .NET Developer Hacked Out A Rake Task and An Alternate Way To Handle Task Dependencies In Custom Rake Tasks and A Failed Opportunity To Coach, Teach, And Help Others Improve (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Data Binding with WPF: Binding to XML (Me)
• XAML Power Toys v5 Will Be Available Sunday at 7:00pm PST (Karl Shifflett)
• Tell the Debugger to Ignore Silverlight Validation Exceptions (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Mario Cardinal on Layer Module Injection (MS Podcasts)
• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Butler Lampson – Abstraction, Security and Embodiment (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #141: Learning Nant: Creating Token Driving Configuration Files (Derik Whittaker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #68 (Jeff Atwood)
• Pumping Iron: Dynamic Languages on .NET (Martin Esmann)
• Video of the Continuous Integration workshop (Eric Hexter)

Community / Events

• Take the ASP.NET Website Survey (ASP.NET News)
• Author news: Mark Russinovich virtual roundtable on September 24 (Devon Musgrave)
• The CodePlex Foundation: Cautiously Optimistic (Bill Wagner)
• To Take or Not To Take the Nothin’ But .Net Training…That is the Question (Russell Ball)

Database

• PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Querying Your Servers with PowerShell (Josh Jones)
• Interacticely sorting columns in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Office Web Applications Tech Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Zune dreams: Microsoft’s refusal to say die (Carmi Levy)
• A Closer Look at Office Web Apps in Windows Live (damaster)
• DreamScreen: HP Beats Apple to the Punch With Sleek Tablet (Ben Parr)
• Batch Converting a Directory Tree of Videos Recursively with Handbrake for Streaming to an Xbox360 (Scott Hanselman) – No need to convert anything if you’re using PlayOn, TVersity or Nero MediaHome.
• Office Web Apps to be offered free to all Windows Live users (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• How To Access And Try Microsoft Office Web Apps Tech Preview (Sunshine)
• Reasons Why .NET Developers Love Their MacBook Pros (Elijah Manor)
• Microsoft’s AD cmdlets available for Win 2003 and later (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Office Web Applications First Look (David Tesar)
• Microsoft delivers a partial preview of its Office Web Apps (Ed Bott)
• These aren’t your father’s regexes (Morgan Kleene)
• Web Sandbox from Live Labs (Jim O’Neil)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #436 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: September 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 17, 2009 — #694 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (9/17/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 17th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review of Scaling Lean & Agile Development (Ade Miller)
• Refactoring Exercise (Brett Schuchert)
• What I expect my Continuous Integration server to do for me. (Derik Whittaker) – Link of the Day
• What are you solving for? (Joe Ocampo)
• Why do we extract method? (Mark Needham)
• IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) (Mike Walker)
• Component-Driven Development and IoC Containers and Developing Component-Driven Applications powered by IoC Containers (Rinat Abdullin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Not Sure If I’ve Said Often Enough.. I LOVE LINQPAD!!! (Peter Kellner)
• Retrying Operations (Tony Rasa)
• From LINQ to XPath and Back Again (K. Scott Allen)
• DSL Tools Model Bus Sample (Peter Provost)

Web Development

• Forms Auth\Windows Auth – what is more common? (Brad Abrams)
• Twitter From ASP.NET – Friends vs Followers (Dave M. Bush)
• jQuery Tools vs jQuery UI (Marc Grabanski)
• More group slicing in XSLT (Marcelo Lopez Luiz)
• TUTORIAL: Creating an IE8 Accelator (Jeff Blankenburg)
• The .NET Newbie’s Guide to Customizing the DataGridView Control (Susan Sales Harkins)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Getting Your House in Order – Overview (Howard Dierking) – Be sure to check out Howard’s entire “Extreme ASP.NET Makeover” series on Channel 9.
• MSDN Webcast: XNA Game Studio 3.0 (Lindsay Rutter)
• Scott Hanselman – NerdDinner.com (Robert Hess)
• The History of Microsoft – 1992 (Tina)

Database

• SQL Server Summaries with ROLLUP and CUBE (Richard Carr)
• Removing replication and handling tables with identity seeds (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Boxee Alpha media center for Windows to go public on June 23 (Brad Linder)
• D&D-style map of C++ (Cory Doctorow)
• How to view stats for the entire lifetime of a CodePlex project – #043 (Sara Ford)
• How to Remove the .NET ClickOnce Firefox Extension (Scott Hanselman)
• SQLAuthority News – Rambling of Author and Technology Musing – Bing, Google, Windows 7, Books, Blogs, Twitter and Life (Pinal Dave)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #362 (Chris Alcock)
• List of Microsoft training kits (Gunnar Peipman)
• Random stuff surrounding Silverlight for June 4, 2009 and Silverlight Cream for June 04, 2009 — #608 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (6/4/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Everyman Links for June 4, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• New and Notable 326 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 4th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) and Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Agent and Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) and F# May 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Scalar and Void Functions (Dan Rigsby)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet (Dan Fernandez)
• IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 and IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 (Harry Pierson)
• General Download of VS2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 (Jason Zander)
• Surface Development Part 3: ScatterView (Jennifer Marsman)
• WinFormsMVC (Steve Andrews) – Link of the Day
• IronRuby CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 and IronRuby 0.5 Released (Jimmy Schementi)
• Entity Framework 4 Persistence-Ignorance First Look (Muhammad Mosa)
• Parallel Stacks – another new VS2010 debugger window and VS2010 Fix for "not all anonymous methods are the same" (Daniel Moth)
• First few VS 2010 extensions are now available (Quan To)
• C# 4 and the dynamic keyword – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 and Back to Basics: Using Fusion Log Viewer to Debug Obscure Loader Errors (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Start Page Customization (Adrian)
• VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 Released (Michael Ceranski)
• .NET Framework 4.0: Using System.Lazy (Gunnar Peipman)
• Parameter Count Mismatch Error (Shahar Yair)
• T4 Toolbox: LINQ to SQL schema generator (Oleg Sych)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Can you justify your actions with regards to this pattern? (Oren Eini)
• An Agile CM Manifesto: Lame Oxymoron or Long Overdue? (Brad Appleton)
• Reducing Code Coupling – Introduction and Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit 2nd Ed. (Grant Palin)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 1 (Rajiv Popat)
• Art Of Unit Testing (The Samurai Book)– Get it now, it’s done. (Roy Osherove)
• Caricature Ready for Beta (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• To CI or not to CI, did not realize it was still even a question? (Derik Whittaker)
• Throttling the Agile Enterprise (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• 3 essentials to quickly learning Blend (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight Visual Studio helper files (Tim Heuer)
• NET RIA Services: Building Data-Driven Business Applications with Microsoft Silverlight3 and Microsoft ASP.NET (Jeff Barnes)

Web Development

• jQuery Progressbar (Dave M. Bush)
• Book review: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Simone Chiaretta)
• CSS Tabeless Design Basics – Positioning Content with Floats instead of Tables (Dave Schinkel)
• Automatically minify and combine JavaScript in Visual Studio (Dave Ward)
• Password FieldTemplates for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Consume an ASP.NET WebService returning List<> with Dates using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties (John Resig)
• ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing (Maarten Balliauw)
• FireAtlas – FireBug for ASP.NET Ajax (Joe Stagner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ten Things that Annoy Miguel Castro (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – David Makogon on Architecting Interface to Improve Testability (Bob Familiar)
• 10-4 Episode 20: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Brian Keller)
• MetraTech: Polymorphic Iterators, Concurrency, CRM and MetraFlow and Luke Hoban: Latest version of F# Released – What’s the story? What’s next? and Microsoft Manufacturing Toolkit (Charles Torre)
• New Screencast: Custom Sprocs in Entity Framework (Dan Rigsby)
• Geneva Server, Windows CardSpace Geneva, Information Cards and PHP Interoperability (Donovan Follette)
• Catching up with Paul Culmsee-Episode 24 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)
• History of User Experience (Pixel8 Podcast)

Community / Events

• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow – Summer 2009 (Zhiming Xue)
• The state of Open Source in the .NET ecosystem: A five year summary (Oren Eini)
• Twitter contest: what can you code in 130 characters? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• CMAP Hands On Labs Group Meeting – Silverlight – Thursday, May 21st at 6:30pm (Christopher Steen)

Database

• SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: ) (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS and SSRS Usergroup Available Online (Simon Sabin)
• IDENTITY vs. ROWGUID (Rob Teixeira)

PowerShell

• V2 Quick Tips: Finding Extra Outputs From Your Script (James Brundage)

SharePoint

• SharePoint on SharePoint: Launch of new website (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Blogging about Pex, let us know! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Mozilla’s Jetpack to bring next generation add-ons (Josh Lowensohn)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 3 – Detailed Notes (Justin Etheredge)
• CardSpace v2 moving into a new role? (Keith Brown)
• Kumo, Bing, or ???: Are secrets extinct? (Kip Kniskern)
• Ray Ozzie Asserts Microsoft’s Position In The Cloud (Leena Rao)
• A first glimpse of virtualization in Windows 7 (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Learn iPhone Development for Free (Rob Bazinet)
• How to receive email notifications for work items – #033 (Sara Ford)
• Microsoft’s Beginner’s Guide To Cloud Computing (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for May 20, 2009 — #597 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 20th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• CloudNews for May 20th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for May 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Agile Startup: Build and Deploy (James Shore)
• IndyHall 201: The Iterative Process (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• Back on Repositories and Paging. Introducing Reporting. (Jérémie Chassaing)
• CRISP Builds and BOOK: Clean Code – A Handbook of Software Craftsmanship (Brad Appleton)
• 5 Ways to Get Your Clients to Follow Your Work Process (Celine Roque)
• Feature Crews: kanban systems for software engineering in the large (Corey Ladas)
• Using complex types to make calling services less… complex (Dave Ward)
• Functional Programming and Collective Intelligence – III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Gunnar Peipman)
• Kona: Continuous Integration and Better Unit Testing (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity” CTP3 (MS Downloads)
• NHibernate Mapping – <property/> and NHibernate Mapping – <component/> (Oren Eini)
• Declarative Workflow with MassTransit (Chris Patterson)
• Coding: Passing booleans into methods (Mark Needham) – Link of the Day
• Visual Studio debugger related attributes cheat sheet (Tamir Khason)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF String.Format in XAML with the StringFormat attribute and The Free Office WPF Ribbon (blagunas)
• Patterns and practices in the Composite Application Library – part 1 (Pencho Popadiyn)
• [MVVM + Mediator + ACB = cool WPF App] – The MVVM (Marlon Grech)
• 5 Random Gotchas with the WPF DataGrid (Vincent Sibal)
• Silverlight 3 Beta – Capturing a Screenshot (Mike Taulty)

Web Development

• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: A Look at JSON Serialization (Scott Mitchell)
• Using the ASP.NET MVC Futures AsyncController (Maarten Balliauw)
• Web Application Project generated CodeBehind .designer file not being updated (Rick Strahl)
• One little gotcha to remember when upgrading to ASP.NET MVC RTM (Simone Chiaretta)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight Spy – Visual Debugging Silverlight Applications (Adam Kinney)
• p&p SharePoint Development Guidance v2 – What’s in Drop 6? (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• Gazelle – Operating System Architecture and Web Browser Security (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #99: Creating SOLID Code: Refactoring the SOLID episode on DI to use StructureMap (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• SilverlightShow starts "Shared Experience" initiative (Ivan Dragoev)
• Speaking Dates + Sexiest Female Developer Contest (Sara J. Chipps)
• Magenic webinars in April 2009 (Rockford Lhotka)
• MVC Course is Coming Online! (K. Scott Allen)
• Open Source Club continues to focus on Rawr for April (Sara Ford)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 and SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, April 2009 (MS Downloads)
• A Quick Look At Compression In SQL 2008 (Denis Gobo)
• Where’s my Data? (Kirstin Juhl)

SharePoint

• SharePoint: Clean code for sequential workflow (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• First screenshots of build Windows 7 build 7077 leak (Emil Protalinski)
• Introduction to 3D Using Flash CS4 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• OpenOffice.org 3.1 RC1 released (Brad Linder)
• In Defense of Editing (Jeff Atwood)
• Delivering a quality upgrade experience (Windows 7 Team)
• Upgrading from Windows 7 Beta to the Release Candidate (Paul Thurrott)
• How to leave comments on a CodePlex project wiki page – #010 (Sara Ford)
• More on IE 7 Compatibility Mode (G. Andrew Duthie)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #324 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2009 — #565 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for April 7, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• CloudNews for April 7th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 311 (Sam Gentile)
• Creators Club Communiqué 23 (Kathleen Sanders)

Book of the Day