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Silverlight

• Silverlight 2 and HTML 5 – Being Online/Offline and Part 2 (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight Data Binding and Value Converters (Tim Heuer)
• Concepts to Become a Silverlight Master (Series Part 4 – Security) (Bart Czernicki)

Web Development

• Using JSON in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Password: You’re Doing It Wrong (Karl Seguin)
• How to Implement Trackback Handler in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Using Client Templates, Part 1 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• ASP.NET – Client Side State Management – Control State (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology

• The Onion Architecture: Part 2 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Scrum Bestiary – The Cow (Ade Miller)
• The Holy Grail – Application Development Without Developers (Kevin Hurwitz)
• Experience Should Guide, Not Constrain (Simon Brown)
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Lock-Free Operations (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Building an Object-Oriented Parasitic Metalanguage (Jeff Moser)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSTest Projects Won’t Upgrade to VS2008 (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Overloading Entity Framework Methods: More GetObjectStateEntries (Julie Lerman)
• Fluent NHibernate Project (Matt Hinze)
• Monadic Philosophy Part 2 – The LINQ Monad and IPy Post 2.0 Roadmap Clarifications (Harry Pierson)
• Rosario – Import Visio Documents in the Diagrams (Clemens Reijnen)
• Batching++ (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
• Lazy Loading with the LazyList (Rob Conery)
• Marker Interfaces and C# Attributes (Alex Mueller)
• Pimp Your VSTT Exception Tests (Dennis Dietrich)

SharePoint

• So *That’s* What a List View Web Part Is (Mike Walsh)
• Get Thee to a SharePoint Group! (Paul Galvin)
• Creating a Scope and Tab for MOSS Search Center (Scot Hillier)
• Announcing SharePoint Pod Show (Rob Foster)
• SharePointPlan.com (Bill English)
• Our New Site Goes Live – Focusing on Agile SharePoint Development (Andrew Woodward)

Database

• SQL Mirroring Setup Made Easy (Michael Watson)

Miscellaneous

• My Blog Leaderboard – It’s All About the Sharers (Sarah Perez)
• Dear Adobe, Can We Please Have a 64-bit Flash Player? and Suddenly, 64-bit Windows Is Mainstream (Ed Bott)
• Get Your Business Plan Unstuck (Mike Gunderloy)
• stackoverflow Podcast #16 (Jeff Atwood)
• Live Mesh: Next Update Announced (Sunshine)
• .NET Rocks! – John Bristowe on Advancing Your Career (MS Downloads)
• There Are Some Things a Good Developer SHOULD Know (Oren Eini)
• Software I Can’t Work Without (Sergio Pereira)
• New and Improved Subscriber Download UI Is LIVE! (Chris DeLuca)
• Microsoft Launches Windows Live FrameIt – Customize Your Photo Feeds (Chris)
• Microsoft Office 14 to Arrive Late 2009/Early 2010 (Emil Protalinski)
• Adobe’s Photoshop Express Gets Printing, Desktop Uploader (Josh Lowensohn)
• EverNote Over OneNote (Joshua)

Other Link Lists of Note

• Link Listing – July 29, 2008 and Link Listing – July 30, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight News for July 30, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Interesting Finds: July 30, 2008 and Innovation Notes: July 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 30, 2008 — #338 and Silverlight Cream for July 30, 2008 – 2 — #339 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #148 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #260 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Programming .NET 3.5: Jesse Liberty, Alex Horovitz: Books

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Design / Methodology

• The Onion Architecture: Part 1 (Jeffrey Palermo) – Link of the Day
• Agile Software: Business Impact and Business Benefits (Steve McConnell)
• WCSF Application Architecture Tutorials – Layering and Design Patterns (David Hayden)
• A New Template for Team Foundation Server: .NET Objectives Agile Process Template and an Update to the Kanban Template (Charles Sterling)
• ARCast.TV – Roy Osherove on Test Driven Development (Bob Familiar)
• What Is an Architect? (Steve)
• Make Your Code More Maintainable: The Evils of the return Statement (Calvin Hsia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Cars SmashPack (Rudi Grobler)
• Tip of the Day #23 – How to Capture the Mouse Wheel Event (Mike Snow)
• Effects and Transitions for Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Partial Classes – They Have Only One Real Use, Right? (Granville Barnett)
• .NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman on the Entity Framework (MS Downloads)
• Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (J. Barnes)
• Asynchronously Preloaded LINQ Queries (Omer van Kloeten)
• How to Show Log4Net Info in NUnit (from NHibernate) (Chris Brandsma)
• Two Cool Debugger Tips That I Learnt Today (Daniel Moth)
• Integrating StructureMap with WCF (Jimmy Bogard)
• Implementing IExpandProvider for NHibernate.LINQ (Shawn Wildermuth)

Web Development

• Super Simple MVC Ajax with jQuery Demo (Phil Haack)
• jQuery Documentation Alternatives (Karl Swedberg)
• Getting SharePoint and ASP.NET AJAX to Work Together (Todd Snyder)
• Missing Dynamic Data Templates – VS 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 (Harish)
• Helping Visitors Search Your Site by Creating an OpenSearch Provider (Scott Mitchell)
• Batch JavaScript Libraries for Increased Performance (Steven Smith)

Events / Community

• Philly.NET Workshop – Slides, Code and Lessons Learned (Brian Donahue)
• Upcoming Northeast Developer Events – August (Chris Bowen)

Miscellaneous

• Is Money Useless to Open Source Projects? (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft’s Plans for Post-Windows OS Revealed (David Worthington)
• The Great Thing About Me Is That There’s So Many of Me (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Using Excel as an XML Editor (Mike Taulty)
• Monadic Philosophy (Harry Pierson)

Link-O-Rama

• Links (7/29/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Visual Studio Links #58 (Darren Stokes)
• WSDAC#13 – SCRUM Resources and WSOAC#26 – To ESB or not to ESB… and WMOC#13 – REST Twitter Client with WCF (Dilip Krishnan)
• Interesting Finds: July 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #147 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Refactoring: Ruby Edition (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series): Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler: Books

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Some Finalizer Pitfalls and Not All Bytes Are Exactly 8 Bits (Oren Eini)
• Finalizer vs. Application: A Race Condition From Hell and Guaranteed, Finalization Order Is Not (Sasha Goldshtein)
• CBR/CBZ Comics in C# (thund3rstruck)
• ReSharper 4.0 Lambda Refactoring (David Starr)
• Countdown to F# CTP (Chris Smith)
• There’s Usually an Easier Way (Mike Hadlow)
• Extended DSL Model Explorer – Release v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Migratory Compromises (Dave Laribee)
• The Poetry of Testing and Prevention v. Cure (Part 3) (James Whittaker)
• Three Qualities That Every Piece of Code Should Have (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Going Full Circle with TDD (Kyle Baley)
• .NET Rocks! – Christian Weyer on the Internet Service Bus (MS Downloads)
• Five Questions with Kyle Larsen (Michael Hunter)
• Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History (David Starr)
• SOA Patterns Chapter 2 for Free Download (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Futures Is Out! (Vladimir Milev)
• Using CSLA Light, Part 1 and Part 2 (Rocky Lhotka)
• Expression Blend Training Resources (Frank La Vigne)
• WPF Photo Print (.NET 3.5 SP1) (Chris Cavanagh)
• Behold! Silverlight Streaming! (John Holliday)

Web Development

• Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Released (John O’Brien)
• How to Encrypt Query String Parameters in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #26 – Create a Lightweight Control View Engine (Stephen Walther)

Database

• Quick Tip: Generate Change Script for SQL Modifications (Ryan Lanciaux)
• SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Now Available (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• SQL Server Data Services (Aghy)
• SQL Server – Simple Example of Recursive CTE – Part 2 – MAXRECURSION – Prevent CTE Infinite Loop (Pinal Dave)
• SSDS Demo Code Now on CodePlex (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Magazine Articles for July (Arno Nel)
• Question to SharePoint Developers (Gunnar Peipman)

PowerShell

• DevHawk’s Slightly Useful PowerShell Configuration and Some PowerShell Scripts (Harry Pierson)

Events / Community

• Events This Week – July 28th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the Summer of Arcade and Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 Releases This Week (Larry Hryb)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Guthrie on MIX and Matthew Manela on the MSDN Code Gallery (MS Downloads)
• Cuil Shows Us How Not to Launch a Search Engine (Rafe Needleman)
• Nerd Test Results (Frank La Vigne) – My results are on my About Me page.
• Academics to Get a Glimpse of Microsoft’s Sphere (Ina Fried)
• Windows Live Wave 3: New Photo Feed Service – Windows Live FrameIt (Chris)
• IE8 and Reliability (Andy Zeigler)
• Tigerpress – A Free WordPress Theme (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2 (PhotoshopNews.com)
• The Mojave Experiment (Sunshine)
• Must-Have Software and Tools – July 2008 Edition (Tim Boland)

Link-O-Rama

• Weekly Links #11 (Grant Palin)
• Clearing a Blog Backlog (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.29 (gOODiDEA)
• Silverlight News for July 29, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
• Everyman Links for July 28, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2008 — #337 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #146 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #258 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Lessons Learned in Software Testing: Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord: Books

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Data Structures and Algorithms Book (Granville Barnett)
• CSLA .NET 3.5.1 RC0 Available (Rocky Lhotka)
• Relational-Object-XML-Object with LINQ to SQL & LINQ to XML (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 5 (Justin Etheredge)
• More Fun with ‘yield return’ (Mike Hadlow)

Design / Methodology

• SCRUM — As Explained by Ken Schwaber (Manish Agrawal)
• The Data Disconnect (Justin Etheredge)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC: Avoiding Tag Soup (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, More Databinding Help with the DataView (Phani Raj)

Database

• Different Foreign Keys for Different Tables (Kenneth Downs)
• Simple Example of Recursive CTE (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• A New Search Engine Appears: Will You Use It? (Robert Scoble) – No.
• Understanding the Hardware (Jeff Atwood)

Link-O-Rama

• New and Notable 259 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: July 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2008 — #336 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight News for July 28, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Weekly Link Post 52 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (7/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #145 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – July 27, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) (Pragmatic Programmers): Michael Nygard: Books

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Some Observations on Saving to a File and Testing Interleaved Async File Writing and Mocking the File System (Oren Eini)
• Using Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (LDS) in Windows Server 2008 (Bart de Smet)
• Default Files in Visual Studio Test Projects (David Starr)
• Sneak Peeks Into the F# Project System, Part Two (Brian)

Silverlight

• Silverlight 2.0 – Concepts to Become a Silverlight Master (Series Part 3 – Blend) (Bart Czernicki) – Link of the Day
• Silverlight Problems That Affect Me (Rob Eisenberg)
• In-State Animation in a Nutshell (Jesse Liberty)

Design / Methodology

• The Difference Between Best Effort and Assurance (Oren Eini)
• The Request/Response Service Layer (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• The ASP.NET MVC Definition (Michael C. Neel)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #25 – Unit Test Your Views Without a Web Server (Stephen Walther)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: July 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 258 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for July 26, 2008 — #335 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – July 26, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Bookmarking the Web – w30/2008 (Erwin)

Book of the Day

Programming WPF: Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths: Books

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