Top Links

• Not Really Interested In Lean (Phil Haack)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Interim Fix List (Jason Zander)
• Why are anonymous types generic? (Eric Lippert)
• Listen to your Phone – Getting User Feedback with System Information (Rene Schulte)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Mouse Clipping (Richard Carr)
• Answer: Your own ThreadLocal (Oren Eini)
• Finding a Relative Path in .NET (Rick Strahl)
• Bi-Directional SkipList in C# (David Jeske)
• WCF RIA Services DomainContext Abstraction Strategies–Say That 10 Times! (Dan Wahlin)
• Colorizing Source Code and A Convenient LogFile Class (Jonathan Wood)
• Problems with MSSCCI and VB6 (Shai Raiten)
• EF4 Code First Control Unicode and Decimal Precision, Scale with Attributes (Dane Morgridge)
• Use a Specific Port for the Development Server (Zain Naboulsi)
• Best Practices for Maximizing Scalability and Cost Effectiveness of Queue-Based Messaging Solutions on Windows Azure (Valery Mizonov)
• The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit December Update Available for Download (Maor David-Pur)
• Unbound Actions – Reopen last closed document (Alex Skorkin)

Web Development

• Basic JavaScript Part 4: Enforcing New on Constructor Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ASP.NET: Including JavaScript libraries conditionally from CDN (Gunnar Peipman)
• 5 Ways to Let Users Customize Content (Anthony Tseng)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile’s Secret Ingredient (Gil Zilberfeld)
• [Agile Guide] – Writing Good User Stories and Santa and Kanban – A Story (Peter Saddington)
• Integrating JavaScript Unit Tests with Visual Studio (Stephen Walther)
• 4 Cross-Browser Testing Tools (Charles Hamilton)
• Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 1 – Quality and Efficiency (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 4 Training (MS Downloads)
• Bootloader mode on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight and Visual Studio 2010 (Deborah Kurata)
• Slides: Application Development for Windows Phone 7 (Andrej Tozon)
• WPF ListView with better touch support (Al Kampfer)
• Top 7 Christmas Windows Phone 7 apps (Andy Robb)
• "And she’d say, ‘Can you see … what I’m saying?’" [How to: Localize a Windows Phone 7 application that uses the Windows Phone Toolkit into different languages] (David Anson)
• Windows Phone 7 Applications Must-Have Apps! (Don Burnett)
• Authentication in Silverlight using WCF and ASP.NET Membership Provider (Mahesh Sabnis)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #7 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Custom Application Bar to Feature in Chapter (Daniel Vaughan)
• Closing the Virtual Keyboard (SIP) and forcing binding in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Miguel de Icaza Builds .NET Apps on the Mac with MonoMac (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Pluralcast 31 : Lessons in Performance and Scalability (David Starr)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #183: Load Testing WCF Services w/ VS2010 (Derik Whittaker)
• Ping 87: Paramount on Windows Phone, H264 & Firefox, P Diddy, neosaurs, Microsoft is cool! (Laura Foy)
• Agile Release Planning Video (James Shore)
• WP7 Minute Episode III : Camera Integration (Daniel Egan)
• The Engadget Show – 016: Mitsubishi’s Frank DeMartin, iRobot, Aldebaran’s NAO robot, Ubisoft Battle Tag, CES ’11 preview, and more! (Chad Mumm)

Community / Events

• Ready to MIX it up? (G. Andrew Duthie)
• March 2nd to 4th in Portland, Oregon: The Art of Agile Delivery (Training) and February 28th and March 1st in Portland, Oregon: The Art of Agile Planning (Training) (James Shore)
• Your Chance to Speak at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Upcoming Free Developer Training for Web, Windows and Cloud (Dave Bost)
• First thoughts from our WP7 competition winner (Andy Robb)
• Jeremiah Peschka & Buck Woody Talk Database Communities (Brent Ozar)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 5 Released (Glenn Berry)
• Required Parameters [SSIS Denali] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Observation of the View (Pinal Dave)
• Sitting on the couch (Giorgio Sironi)

SharePoint

• New book: Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSEWSS) v1.3 Released (Paul Andrew)
• New SharePoint Development Team Blog (Zain Naboulsi)

Miscellaneous

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Using co-authoring features in Office 2010, Office Web Apps, and Office for Mac 2011 (Lonnie Webb)
• Microsoft Brings SBS into the Cloud (Paul Thurrott)
• Powershell, Me and the MCM part II (Jason Brimhall)
• A bulk image importer powertoy for OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
• Integration Between Zoho Apps: Part III (Raju Vegesna)
• Free calling in Gmail extended through 2011 (Robin Schriebman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 175 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 20 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #755 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/20/2010 and Weekly Article Digest 12/20/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0), The (4th Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Anders Hejlsberg

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Top Links

• First Encounters of the MEF Kind (Mike Ceranski)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 5 – Magellan and more with Paul Stovell (Richard Banks)
• Why does Visual Studio 2010 convert my projects? (Richa Prasad)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Layered diagram extensions (Pieter de Bruin)
• Visual Studio Team System 2005 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer) (MS Downloads)
• Better error messages – Part 2 (Aeshen) and Better error messages – Part 3 (Aeshen) (Arian T. Kulp)
• Using FTP to access Windows Azure Blob Storage (Maarten Balliauw)
• Bruger Test Automation med Visual Studio 2010 (Martin Esmann)
• NHibernate Tip: Use set for many-to-many associations (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Collapsing Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• node.js: First thoughts (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Be Honest And Committed To Shipping – Whether It Is In Or Outside Your Organization. (Rajiv Popat)
• Are You Playing Checker or Chess? – YAGNI Revisited (Tim Barcz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio Special – Niklas Gustafsson om Axum (Dag König)
• Screencast: Best Practices in SharePoint User Management (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Major Nelson Show 353: Wil Wheaton, MW2 Stimulus Package and Supreme Commander (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 105- PowerScripting Podcast – PSCX 2.0 with Keith Hill and Oisin Grehan (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• New Videos up on Channel 9: WPF with C++ and WCF RIA Services (Pete Brown)

Community / Events

• Mix Session: Windows Phone UI and Design Language (Christian Schormann)
• Watch Microsoft MIX10 Live Keynotes March 15 & 16 (Zhiming Xue)

Database

• SQL SERVER – MAXDOP Settings to Limit Query to Run on Specific CPU (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS – Please get keyboard shortcuts working for schemas (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: CouchDB: The Definitive Guide – Only $9.99! Use code DDCDB (O’Reilly Media)
• Daily Dose – Apple Doesn’t Win Case Against Users of "i" (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #559 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #111 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #96 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 136 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (3/14/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

The Geek Shelf

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions

• RIA Services Contrib – Release 0.51 (CodePlex)
• Silverlight Animation Tip (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Star Wars Scroller in Silverlight 3 and A Quick Note on XAML Namespaces in Silverlight/WPF (Frank La Vigne)
• Validation. Hey! You’re Done! (Jesse Liberty)
• Download M-V-VM Project Template/Toolkit (Lester Lobo)
• WPF design flaw of the day: no initial focus (Joe White)
• Playing around with Syntax Highlighter (Pete Brown)
• WPF : Attached Commands (Sacha Barber)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – Demos of new features (Velvárt András)
• More Validation Fun – But Not Done Yet (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Did You Know? Silverlight Class Library Can’t Be Named with “.Resources” (Michael Sync)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Wanted: A kickass .NET API for CouchDB (Richard Dingwall)
• NHibernate Validator and NHibernate, the database query cache and parameter sizes and NHibernate Search and NHibernate Filters (Oren Eini)
• Chess Program in C# (Jacques Fournier)
• Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer (Justin Etheredge)
• F#: Erlang style messaging passing and F#: Entry point of an application and F#: Stuff I get confused about (Mark Needham)
• Using IronRuby with RubyMine (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Projects, Assemblies, and Namespaces – oh my (Udi Dahan)
• A simple sample for C# 4.0 ‘dynamic’ feature (Kirill Osenkov)
• Functional Composition and Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• JavaScript book excerpt, discount and free shipping offer (Michael Kimsal)
• How to Set JavaScript Programmatically on a Page in ASP.NET with Parameters (Peter Kellner)
• jQuery Tabs Plugin with Images (Dave Schinkel)
• Using jQuery with Client-Side Data Binding Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Gotcha in IE7 (Christopher Bennage)
• yUML and jQuery for Large Diagrams (Tobin Harris)
• Swap images with user interaction in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical .NET Unit Testing – Free paper released (Jason Young)
• Agile Meets The Recession and The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part II (Bob McIlree)
• Artisanal Retro-Futurism ⊗ Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism (Brian Marick)
• How Many Bedrooms Did You Say? (Max Pool) - Link of the Day
• On Getting Rid Of Common Libraries… What About Don’t Repeat Yourself? (Davy Brion)
• A Culture of Microcomponents (Ben Scheirman)
• Pex 0.12.40430.3 : Exploration Tree View, Partial Stubs… and Stubs as Parameterized Models with Contracts (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Pair Programming: When your pair steps away (Mark Needham)
• The Hunt For Simplicity (Justin Etheredge)
• Mocking for IronRuby (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Remote Retrospectives with Twiddla (Jim Holmes)
• Your Application is a Rotting Old Shack, Now What? (Michael Janke)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 3 (Rajiv Popat)
• Can we avoid tooling to prevent spaghetti code? (Patrick Smacchia)
• Metadata Belongs With The Class, Not With Another Class (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Metadata Classes – A Force for Good or Evil? (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #178 – JavaFX and the Web’s Four Virtual Machines (Scott Hanselman)
• Jason Olson: Composing Programming Languages, F# and OO (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 64: CouchDB with Jan Lenhardt and Chris Anderson (Michael Kimsal)
• This week on C9: Windows 7 RC, Glimmer for jQuery, and ZOMG Ponies (Dan Fernandez)
• Recent Pluralsight On-Demand! library updates (Aaron Skonnard)
• 10-4 Episode 17: F# Intro (Jason Olson)
• Screencast: Windows Workflow Foundation workflow service context basics and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Creating Custom Context Bindings and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in .NET client applications and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in WF client applications (Matt Milner)
• Behaviors in Blend 3 – Podcast (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• FitNesse with Bob Martin – Part 2 (Stephen Wright)

Community / Events

• IT Samurai School coming soon… (Billy McCafferty)
• Best Practices Conference (William Vaughn)
• Devlicio.us Motto Contest Finals – Put your voice (Tuna Toksoz)
• Secure a Speaking Slot for Tech Ed North America 2010 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• On speaking, trolling, inciting and growing (Ted Neward)
• INETA Live – Call for Speakers (Steve Andrews)
• Axum, Reactive Framework and other Lang.net items (Matthew Podwysocki)
• What Should Microsoft Do For .NET Open Source? (Rob Conery)

Database

• Geek City: Controlling Lock Granularity (Kalen Delaney)
• Real World Perspectives on the Pros and Cons of Stored Procedures (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Doing my SQL myths session on Live meeting (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Example of DDL, DML, DCL and TCL Commands and SQL SERVER – Add or Remove Identity Property on Column and SQL SERVER – Roadmap of Microsoft Certifications – SQL Server Certifications (Pinal Dave)
• Create a new embedded Firebird database (DotNetFacts)

SharePoint

• Search and Natural User Interfaces – Part 2 (Nathan Treloar)
• SharePoint SDK 1.5 (April 2009) Released! (Randall Isenhour)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases “Sneak-Peek” Images of Upcoming Office 2010 and MSDN Blogger Recommends Free Windows 7 Federated Search Providers (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on devices, startups, IP and open source (Todd Bishop)
• Book: Growing Software (David Starr)
• Network Monitor (Netmon) 3.3 Overview (Will Gregg)
• Windows Virtual PC and the Microsoft Device Emulator (Brian Peek)
• Windows 7 setup secrets (Ed Bott)
• XP Mode in Windows 7 is no cop out (Lee Mathews)
• Top 10 Scenarios; ISVs Add Customer Value with Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• Glimmering with effects (Coding4Fun)
• Interviewing the Interviewee (Dave Schinkel)
• Pablo’s Topic of the Month – May 2009 Edition (Gregory Long)
• A Little Bit of Personality (Denise Trabona & Samuel Moreau)
• Wolfram Alpha Search Engine On Video (Jesus Diaz)
• Windows 7 Blame Feature (Nick Berardi)
• Codesqueeze Charity Kickin – Room To Read (Max Pool)
• Tips for CodePlex Projects hosting multiple applications – #026 (Sara Ford)
• iBrowz: A New RSS Reader for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
• Test driving Windows 7 RC and PowerShellPlus 3.0 on Virtual PC (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #339 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 01, 2009 — #584 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 — #585 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #51 (Grant Palin)
• New and Notable 317 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for May 1st, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (5/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Discoveries This Week 05/01/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory: Books ISBN: 0321534468 ISBN-13: 9780321534460