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Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

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Top Links

• Favor – Help Us Test .NET 4 Beta 2 on Windows Update (WU) (Scott Hanselman)
• The Illusion of Performance (John Stockton)
• Introducing the Portable Extensible Metadata (Irinel Crivat)
• Visual Studio 2010 Ranger News (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit updated (Pieter de Bruin)
• Creating Ribbon Applications on Windows 7 (Zhiming Xue)
• Visual Studio Myth Buster (Innovation Showcase)
• The Project Location is not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 3. How to resolve arrays (Mike Hadlow)
• Searching and Navigating Code in Visual Studio 2010 (Brittany Behrens)
• The RDLc Disconnect – they’ve done it again (William Vaughn)
• Pasting a single selection into a box selection and Zero-length box selection (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• IE8 Accelerator Creation Guide (Innovation Showcase)
• SEO Tips for Developers : Page Speed (Chris Missal)
• Of Web Browsers and Humanity (K. Scott Allen)
• Awesomium v1.5 (Chris Cavanagh)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 5 – Nginx (Karl Seguin)
• Search Engine Optimization got a lot easier (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mocks, the removal of test detail, and dynamically-typed languages (Brian Marick)
• Know Your Product Specifications (Buck Woody)
• Designing the Entity Framework 2nd level cache (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned from Tony Robbins and 10 Ways to Improve How You Manage Information (JD Meier)
• Separating Passion & Common Sense from Bad Decisions (Dave Schinkel)
• I. M. Wright: “One to one and many to many” (Eric Brechner)
• All about the “M” (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to create great work environments (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 – How to Capture Audio and Video from a Web Cam (Innovation Showcase)
• Free Developer Training for WPF 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Silverlight, Bing Maps, Vectors and “Did I blog this or did I just dream it?” (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight: Tooltip for each ListBox item (Steve Pietrek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ivar Jacobson on the Unified Process (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Community Megaphone Podcast – Show #1 with guest Kevin Griffin (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• SilverlightShow Eco Contest – win a trip to MIX10 (Adam Kinney)
• The Software Craftsman Cooperative (David Starr)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 1/27/2010 – Clojure (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Announcing the Microsoft Azure Application Development contest for U.S. state and local government partners! (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Looking back at 2009, and looking forward at 2010 (Simone Chiaretta)

Database

• Find Out What Percent Of The Log Is Being Used For Each Database In SQL Server 2005 and 2008 and Interview with Brent Ozar about the book Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Find Busiest Database (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• How To Install SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (Standalone) on VMWare (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint 2010 List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 published (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• How to not suck at a techincal interview (Brad Cunningham)
• Where is Rename-Computer? (Lee Holmes)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Apprenticeship Patterns — Only $9.99! Use discount code AP999 (O’Reilly Media)
• Intellisense in MobileShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• ZScreen is now a more kick-ass screenshot tool, especially on Windows 7 (Lee Mathews)
• The science behind Project Natal (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #517 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2010 — #777 (Dave Campbell)
• F# Discoveries This Week 01/13/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• What You Wanted to Know: Top “How to” Posts of 2009 (Silverlight Team)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Use Extension Methods to Phase Out a Bad API (Brian Noyes)
• .NET Services SDK (MS Downloads)
• Observing global hotkeys in C# / F# (Steffen Forkmann)
• Entity Framework Profiler (Oren Eini)
• What’s new in VB 2010 (Chris Williams)
• Multiple outputs from T4 made easy – revisited (Damien Guard)
• Creating something from nothing, asynchronously [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET improved!] (David Anson)
• Visual Studio 2010: UML modeling projects and Visual Studio 2010: Visualizing dependencies (Gunnar Peipman)
• ADO.Net Entity Framework Community Technology Preview Released! (EF Team)
• .NET Collection Enumeration Performance, part 1 (Matthew Wilson)
• New Entity Framework Feature CTP for VS2010 Beta 2 (Julie Lerman)
• Model First with the Entity Framework 4 (Noam Ben-Ami)
• It’s time to rip up EntityBag and throw it away (Dan Simmons)
• Classic Rock evolved into Heavy Metal (Rene Schulte) – Rock Scroll for VS on steroids.
• Automapper Auto Profile Registration. (Eric Hexter)
• On Your Mark… Get Set… Go! It’s Time to Get Ready for the Windows Azure Platform (Gunther Lenz)
• Visual Studio 2010 Power +25 with PowerCommands 10.0 (Greg Duncan)
• F# 1.9.7 Language Specification Now Available (Don Syme)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 1: Introduction and Freescale Board Setup and Testing (Pete Brown)
• New .NET Features from Telerik (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Improvements to VS 2010 Text Selection (Brittany Behrens)
• Accessing Windows Azure Blobs Using Custom Storage Domain Names and Introducing the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (Brad Calder)
• Visual Studio 2010 should be free….. (Stephen Forte)
• Using the New Windows Azure CDN with a Custom Domain (Steve Marx)
• It is only 8, how can it be legacy??? and CSLA .NET 3.8.0 released and available! (Rockford Lhotka)

Web Development

• Using CSS Selectors (Chris Love)
• Embedding Google Search Appliance Results in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Adding uberVU badge to your blog (Gunnar Peipman)
• A RouteHandler for IHttpHandlers (Phil Haack)
• Solving Confusing Browser Security Prompts with Protocol-Relative Hyperlinks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Localize ASP.NET MVC 2 DataAnnotations validation messages (Maarten Balliauw)
• Developing for the web using VS 2010 and .NET 4 (Somasegar)
• Google offers JavaScript programming tools (Stephen Shankland)
• Sort the Items of an ASP.NET DropDownList using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Note to self on HTTP namespace reservations (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Analysis Paralysis : Getting Carried Away With UML (Charles Chen)
• Design software as a long running process (Simon Brown)
• Re: "It’s OK not to unit test" or what you do on your time is your business. (Leon Gersing) – Link of the Day
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Dave M. Bush)
• Simple names are not so simple, Part Two, plus, volcanoes and fried foods (Eric Lippert)
• Now Available: patterns & practices Application Architecture Book (J.D. Meier)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Serialization (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Recursive Common Table Expressions (Kevin Jones)
• TestDriven.Net 2.24: XCopy Deployable Test Runners (Jamie Cansdale)
• It’s Okay To Write Unit Tests (Justin Etheredge)
• Outcomes and Sync Steps (Karl Scotland)
• Agile Architecture Deck & Code (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Consistency in the code base and TDD: Useful when new on a project (Mark Needham)
• Organizational Myopia? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Debugging: It’s all about finding Albuquerque. (Leon Bambrick)
• Excuse me sir, What Planet is this? (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Selective Unit Testing – Costs and Benefits (Steve Sanderson)
• The code is the truth, but it is not the whole truth (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight, RIA Services, and Your Business Objects (Deborah Kurata)
• Introduction to WPF 4 Multitouch (Jaime Rodriguez)
• The Silverlight Toolkit – now in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Jeff Wilcox)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 2: EventToCommand behavior (Laurent Bugnion)
• New WPF Features: Bindable Run and Xaml 2009 Features: Built in Types (Lester Lobo)
• Drawing Shapes – Silverlight WriteableBitmap Extensions III (Rene Schulte)
• SVG to XAML or Canvas (from SixPairs.com) and WPF4 Summary, Features, & Forums (Rob Relyea)
• WPF : Callout Popup (Sacha Barber)
• The XXI Olympic Winter Games on NBCOlympics.com: Brought to you in Full HD With Silverlight and Smooth Streaming (Silverlight Team)
• Grouping data in a Silverlight DataGrid (Tim Heuer)
• Creating Custom Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks – Dean Guo Takes Us Into Project Trident (Carl Franklin)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 6 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• Noah Coad: An Overview of Visual Studio Express 2010 (Dan Fernandez)
• 10-4 Episode 35: PreEmptive Solutions Runtime Intelligence (Drew Robbins)
• Microsoft MVPs Attend Windows 7 Launch Party in NYC! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Countdown to PDC09: Big Brains Descend Upon PDC and Teach Us How to Dream (Larry Larsen)
• TDD Space Invaders Video and Downloads and Webcast: Building Modern Apps in ASP.NET WebForms (Michael Kennedy)
• Recommended books part III (Roy Osherove)
• Toolshed: Episode 5 – Its All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Office Casual – How to Twitter in Outlook with TwInbox and Life at Microsoft: The truth revealed…again! (Tina Wood)
• Thirsty Developer 77: Sku’s a Changing with Visual Studio 2010 (Dave Bost)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Debugging Crash Dumps with Tess Ferrandez and VS2010 (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• "I am sure a lot of you are frustrated at your colleagues, not being here at this conference. Not…" (Sebastian Hermida)
• Announcing O’Reilly Answers – Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions. (Allen Noren)
• Conferences and the Twitter Phenomenon #SPCONN09 (Andrew Connell)
• Announcing Channel 9’s first live broadcast – This Week on C9 this Friday! (Dan Fernandez)
• Quick note: PDC attendees save 25% on certification exams (Devon Musgrave)
• DevExpress CodeRush with Refactor Pro Giveaway and Whiskerino 2009: A Beard Growing Contest (Elijah Manor)
• Day 1 of PASS (Joe Webb)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL PASS Summit, Seattle 2009 – Day 3 (Pinal Dave)
• The Underground at PDC (Tim Heuer)
• Upcoming US Events with Google Wave Presentations (Pamela Fox)

Database

• Don’t start your procedures with SP_ and Don’t prefix your table names with tbl (George Mastros)
• SQL 2008 – The Power of the MERGE Command (Michael Ceranski)
• Shocking news for SQL 2008 R2 (Simon Sabin)
• Test your Full Recovery model by restoring backups (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Upgrading a SharePoint 2007 Publishing Site Master Page to SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Changes in Rendering (Andrew Connell)
• Pre-register for SharePoint 2010 Beta (Vasudev)

Miscellaneous

• Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac Upgraded to Support Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Google Chrome Converts User Scripts into Extensions (Alex Chitu)
• PayPal Releases PayPal X and Launches $50,000 Developer Challenge (Andres Ferrate)
• LiveLabs Thumbtack back from the dead (Dave Campbell)
• It takes real balls to do it right (Derik Whittaker) – Well-deserved kudos to JetBrains.
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• How to Make Zune-Compatible Movies with Movie Maker and Re-Install All Your Apps with One Click (Sarah Perez)
• November’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Gmail: Choose which messages get downloaded for offline use (Maria Khomenko)
• New Enterprise PKI Management Console (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #470 and The Morning Brew #471 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2009 — #725 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Nov-2009 and Tech Tweets for 5-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #577 and Double Shot #578 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links (11/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• SharePoint 2010 Development Resources (Mike Walker)
• Arturo’s Top 20 Resources for Learning Silverlight/Blend (Mike Taulty)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• How to use MongoDB from PowerShell and F# (Doug Finke)
• ReSharper Discount and Free Upgrade to ReSharper 5 (David Ridgway)
• Dense code (Oren Eini)
• Getting Started with IronPython (Charlie Calvert)
• .Net Framework 4.0: System.IO.File supports now IEnumerable (Gunnar Peipman)
• Learning Scala via C# Part 2 – The Basics (Justin Etheredge)
• VS 2010 Intellisense Improvements (Michael Ceranski)
• UppercuT and Mono Migration Analyzer (Rob Reynolds)
• CSLA .NET 3.8 Beta 2 MVVM support and CSLA .NET 3.8.0 Beta 2 available (Rockford Lhotka)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Finally Some Real Improvements For Automated Testing In .NET and Prefixing Instance Fields? (Davy Brion)
• Unit Testing: An Introduction and Unit Testing: Execution and Unit Testing: Code Coverage (Deborah Kurata)
• Injecting an ILogger property with Autofac (Louis DeJardin)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part IV: Apply It Immediately (Patrick Kua)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 17. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2008 v5.0.0.1 Released and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer (Karl Shifflett)
• Introducing the WPF 4 Calendar control (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• Fun with CollectionViews (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Audio Player for WordPress (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – CxO Level Discussion about Cloud Computing (Bob Familiar)
• Integration Test Brought to you by Powershell & NUnit – with a Little Specification Syntax for Flavoring (Jason Jarrett)
• Major Nelson Show #336: NPD’s, Borderlands and more Tasty conversation (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 168 – 10.25.2009: The Engadget Show 002 with Steve Ballmer (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 89 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell V2 Launch Party with Jeffrey Snover (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Weekly 127: Hasta La Vista Baby (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• How to display long text in SSMS (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – Advanced T-SQL with Itzik Ben-Gan – A Dream Coming True (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions (Ed Bott)
• Scala: Converting an input stream to a string (Mark Needham)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/10/26 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Fixing Icon Overlays for Dropbox + TortoiseSVN (Rinat Abdullin)
• Light it Up: List of Applications that use new Windows 7 Features (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Store – engaging with consumers directly (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #462 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #95 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #76 (Grant Palin)
• New and Notable 384 (Sam Gentile)
• Weekly Link Post 116 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (10/25/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio April 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Evening with Fluent NHibernate (Howard Dierking) – Link of the Day
• Introduction to NHibernate, pt.5 (Ian Cooper)
• Live fx Helper Class – extra methods : Live Framework (Jamie Thomson)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 Release Candidate available (Rockford Lhotka)
• T4 Toolbox – Release: 9.3.21.1 (CodePlex)
• M is to DSL as Drag & Drop is to programming (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Media 2 SP2 (MS Downloads)
• Silverlight 3 Release Date (RTW) Surprise (Bart Czernicki)
• New official Silverlight Blog (Brian Goldfarb)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video training series (Rockford Lhotka)
• Dragging has NEVER been so easy (Rudi Grobler)
• Silverlight 3 Sample Application: Slidentity and Silverlight 3: Navigation URI Routing (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3: Array Helper (Michael Sync)
• Using the new Silverlight 3 Perspective tools to emulate 3D (Jeff)
• WPF Toolkit – March 2009 Release (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Patterns and Origins: Sueetie User Avatars (Dave Burke)
• Internet Explorer Global Variable Blow ups (Rick Strahl)
• Json.NET 3.5 Beta 3 (CodePlex)
• Why I don’t use OpenWeb() (Gary Lapointe)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Great Managers Have No Secrets (Jurgen Appelo)
• Test Review #3 – Unity (Roy Osherove)
• To Inject Or Not To Inject (Justin Etheredge)
• The Successor Value Pattern (Michael Feathers)
• Coding: Making the debugger redundant (Mark Needham)

Community / Events

• Sexiest Bachelor Developer Results!!! (Sara J. Chipps)
• MIX Slides, Code, and Session Recording (Stephen Walther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Bonus Episode – PowerScripting Podcast – The Missing Interviews (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Thirsty Developer 56: Quick Basic Gorillas (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• The History of Microsoft – 1981 (Tina)

Database

• Differentiating between environments within SQL Server Management Studio (Leon Bambrick)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #312 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2009 — #545 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #76 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: March 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Discoveries This Week 03/20/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 86 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (3/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Creating RSS Feeds Using ASP.NET 3.5 (Kevin Miller)
• Learning jQuery (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Spiff Up Your ASP.NET MVC Forms with jQuery (Justin Etheredge)
• Ask SM [CSS/JS]: Divs of Equal Height, Dealing with IE 6 (Chris Coyier)
• Default Control Focus with ASP.NET Master Pages and LINQ (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Oxite Updated (Sarah Perez)
• The CSS Corner: Using Filters In IE8 (Sylvain Galineau)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Does LINQ StinQ? Not with PLINQO! (Kevin Lawry)
• In-depth: How .NET managed services interact with the ServiceControlManager (SCM) (Kim Hamilton)
• DBProj.com (Gert Drapers)
• Use IOperationBehavior to Customize Operation Behavior in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Axiom 0.7.5.0 Beta 1 (Michael Cummings)
• Making c# lambda expressions more readable (Sean Biefeld)
• If you are still wondering how fast is ADO.NET vs ADODB (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using Enums in List Controls (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Training Kit (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Custom Expressions and the DLR – Part 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: RC Refresh (0.0.14293.004) (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: The Repository Pattern (Casey Charlton)
• BDD Question: Low Level Behavior And Wrapper Methods? (Derick Bailey)
• The valley of continuous learning (Louis Salin)
• Great UI and the Presentation Layer – Clarity and Shape (Mark Miller)
• A Little Chat About Code Sensible Code Generation (Sacha Barber)
• Challenge: Do You Truly Understand This Code? (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Testing Bindings In WPF (Christopher Bennage)
• Silverlight 2 gets minor update (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #95 – Working with Strokes in Shapes (Mike Snow)
• Carousel Video Posted – Parts 1 and 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Setting up a basic n-tier CSLA .NET for Silverlight project (Rockford Lhotka)

SharePoint

• Are SharePoint Developers Better Architects than Architects? (Adam Buenz)
• Please help – Visual Studio SharePoint development environment is very slow (Gunnar Peipman)
• Starting with JQuery and SharePoint – that did not work (Ton Stegeman)

Community / Events

• I’ll be at TechEd North America 2009 – Will you? (Andrew Connell)
• Network Instruments to Host Event in Philly (David Solivan)
• CodeStock 2009 “Call for Speakers” is Open (Michael C. Neel)
• Silverlight 2 Firestarter Event this Weekend – Malvern, PA (Pete Brown)
• User Group Meeting: Microsoft’s Cloud Services and Combining WCF and Business Activity Monitoring (Zhiming Xue)
• Tech Ed Connect (Jesse Liberty)
• Fun with Twitter for Mix09 (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s ‘Social Desktop’ prototype bridges PC and Web (Todd Bishop)
• Free app downloads any Google Book Search item as PDF and Theme GMail your way with a custom color scheme (Lee Mathews)
• The Bad Apple: Group Poison (Jeff Atwood)
• Top 10 Disney LEGO Sets We’d Like to See (Matt Blum)
• 25 random things about Microsoft (Meghan)
• Autoruns for Windows Updated for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
• Auto Twitterise Your Blog Posts (Steve Clayton)
• Much Ado About Monads – List Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #291 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 19, 2009 — #522 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-02-19 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Interesting Finds: February 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (2/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for February 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Graphical Paths with Gradient Colors (Charles Petzold)
• Where Does Silverlight and WPF Belong? (Chris Love)
• Why Silverlight Is the Future and Silverlight Online Goodies (Rocky Lhotka)
• New Tutorial: DataGrid Binding via Data Entities & WCF (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• VSTS Has a New Web Site (Cameron Skinner)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.1 Released (for Windows and Silverlight) (Rocky Lhotka)
• A Story of TFS WTFery (Ben Scheirman)
• Model Driven Template/Scaffolding AddIn for Visual Studio (Eric Hexter)
• Developing with Microsoft Business Rules Engine (Mohamad Halabi)

Web Development

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Streaming Video, but Were Afraid to Ask, and Then Some… (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Why to Use a CSS Framework? and More About CSS Frameworks (Daniela Panfili)
• Html and Uri String Encoding without System.Web (Rick Strahl)
• Chapter 1 – An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC (Stephen Walther) – Link of the Day
• Trying to Extend the ASP.NET MVC (T4) Item Templates to Create Multiple Files (Eric Hexter)
• Building AgiliTrain: Part 3 – Data Validation (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Friday Books – CSS: The Missing Manual (Dave M. Bush)
• REST Fundamentals (Kalyan Bandarupalli)
• Slide Elements in Different Directions (Karl Swedberg)
• Minifying HTML and JavaScript Using Microsoft Expression Web (Jason N. Gaylord)
• How to Use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile: Why Do We Integrate Early? (Mark Needham)
• The Essence of Great UI – An Overview (Mark Miller)
• S.O.L.I.D. By Example: Open Closed Principle (Bobby Johnson)
• Bounded Context, Extension Methods, and Fluent API’s (JP Hamilton)
• UX Patterns (and not UI Architecture Patterns) (Christopher Bennage)
• Why ‘Should Attach View to Presenter’ Is an Invalid Unit Test / Observation (Derick Bailey)
• Software Development "Lessons Learned" (Jarod Ferguson)
• The Next Level of Code Analysis Using ‘NDepend’: An Interview with Patrick Smacchia (Suprotim Agarwal)

.NET Community / Events

• Introducing .NET Shout Out (Joe Stagner)
• MSDN Webcast: ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 3.5 Overview (Lindsay Rutter)
• MVPs Headline at TechEd 2009! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• Managing Files with SQL Server 2008′s FILESTREAM Feature (Thiru Thangarathinam)
• Some Simple Code to Show the Difference Between Newid and Newsequentialid (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Performance Is Important – Why Jeff Atwood (CodingHorror.com) Is Wrong and Right About Performance (Wallace B. McClure)
• New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes (Octavian "Vivi" Costache)
• Mobile Manager for Netflix (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Learning and Understanding (Gabriel Schenker)
• Suggested Sites & Privacy (Jane Kim)
• UAC Feedback and Follow-Up (Jon DeVaan & Steven Sinofsky)
• The History of Microsoft – 1975 (Tina @ Channel9)
• Pulling the Sword from the Stone: Amazon’s Kindle Books to Be Available on Mobile Phones (Chris Webb)

More Link Collections

• CloudNews for February 5th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• jQuery Week? (Thomas S. Williams)
• Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2009 — #508 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for February 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (2/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #281 (Chris Alcock)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 10 (Denis Gobo)
• Interesting Finds: February 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fluent NHibernate: Auto Mapping and Base Classes and I Think You Mean a Many-to-One Sir (James Gregory)
• Agile in the Trenches (David Starr)
• How Do You Know Your Tests Are Good? (Laila Bougria) – Link of the Day
• Back to Basics: Refactoring Code (Rachel Appel)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Avoiding Custom Delegates (Brad Abrams)
• Test Examples with MBUnit and jpboodhoo.bdd (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introduction to Static Reflection (James Gregory)
• Entity Framework-Enabled Providers Lists (David Sceppa)
• F# and WCF: Data Contracts (Ray Vernagus)
• Why No var on Fields? (Eric Lippert)
• Directed Graph Markup Language (DGML) (Cameron Skinner)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Kick-Off! Spend Your $100 Wisely! (Tom Hollander)

Web Development

• Disallow Navigation on ForeignKey FieldTemplate – Dynamic Data (Stephen Naughton)
• JavaScript Array Fun (Rick Strahl)
• Control Workflow Behavior with Custom Lists (Again) (Paul Galvin)
• SQL Cache Dependency with SQL Server, LINQ and ASP.NET 3.5 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Sueetie: New and Improved Wiki User Account Creation (Dave Burke)
• Using CSLA .NET for Silverlight to Build Line-of-Business Applications (Rocky Lhotka)
• Windows Azure – Accessing the Request.Url Property (David L.)

.NET Community / Events

• Code Cast 19 – Peter Provost on Agile, Visual Studio 2010, and Architecture Tools (David Starr)
• Events This Week – January 26th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Daniela Is Blogging in English About UX and Design (Simone Chiaretta)
• CodePlex 2008 – A Year in Review (Sara Ford)

Miscellaneous

• Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (Jane Maliouta)
• Google Chrome User Experience Research (Ian Fette)
• DSLs: Definitely a Bad Idea! (Paul Vick)
• Painful Reminder: Focus on Core Competencies (and Back Stuff Up) (Scott Hanselman)
• Managing Server Features with PowerShell Cmdlets on Windows 2008 Server R2 Beta (Xin Li)

More Link Collections

• CloudNews for January 26th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for January 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – January 26, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2009 — #498 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #273 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day