Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 Released (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Biggest Suprises in Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 3 and CSLA .NET 3.7 (Rockford Lhotka)
• SketchFlow Map: A Mini Tutorial, Part I and Creating a Minimal Workspace for SketchFlow (Christian Schormann)
• Physics Helper 3: Coming Soon! and Silverlight 3 Released! (Andy Beaulieu)
• UI Virtualization (Bea Stollnitz)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 1: Navigation Basics (Brad Abrams)
• What’s new in Expression Encoder 3 (James Clarke)
• Editing a ToolTip Style in Blend 3 and SketchFlow Controls (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight Charting gets an update – and a TreeMap! [Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 release now available!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 3 Released – Exciting Stuff Here! (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 (RC) Released! (Jeff Barnes)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Wiki Released (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 3 Released! What is new/changed? (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3 + .NET RIA Services July Preview (Nikhil Kothari)
• Welcoming Silverlight 3 RTW and What Happened to the asp:Silverlight Control? (Pete Brown)
• See the Light: Silverlight 3 & Expression 3 Launch and Get Silverlight 3 and Microsoft Expression 3 Now (Silverlight Team)
• Simplify Your XAML with Resources and Control Templates (Srinath MS)
• One way to avoid messy PropertyChanged event handling (Josh Smith)
• Silverlight 3, Blend 3 and the MVVM Light Toolkit (Laurent Bugnion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft MSDN Blogger Recommends ".NET Version Detector 2009" (Blake Handler)
• Combining Assemblies Using ILMerge (Richard Carr)
• Bart’s Control Library – Not What You Think It Is – Part 0 (Bart de Smet)
• DAL: DataTable Visualizer and Populating a Business Object from a DataTable and Enum: Binding to the Description Attribute (Deborah Kurata)
• Entity Framework 4.0: How to use POCOs (Gunnar Peipman)
• Views into CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Typed Datasets: A First Step to .NET Flexibility (Susan Sales Harkins)
• Monotouch – Mono (.NET) for the iPhone/iTouch (Wally McClure)
• Visual Studio Database Professional GDR R2 – Support for SQL 2008 (Simon Sabin)
• F#: Downloading a file from behind a proxy (Mark Needham)
• WCF Proxy Generator – Significant Updates (Michele Leroux Bustamante)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Modeling Inheritance in "M" (Chris Sells)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 4. (Rajiv Popat)

Web Development

• RSS Feeds and Google Sitemaps for ASP.NET MVC with LINQ To XML (Mike Brind)
• Say Hello to Sueetie Marketplace! (Dave Burke)
• Tip #88: Did you know… To not stress your server, limit the number of concurrent requests (Carlos Aguilar Mares)
• A (less) simple include for ASP.NET (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Getting the element that has the focus via JavaScript (Peter Eysermans)
• Cheesy ASP.NET MVC Project Upgrader for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Keeping ELMAH’s Error Log Size In Check (Scott Mitchell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Scott Guthrie: Silverlight 3 is here! and Scott Guthrie and Christian Schormann: Web Programming, Design Tools and Silverlight 3 (Charles Torre)
• This Week C9: Scott Hanselman, Silverlight, Expression Studio 3, C#/CLI (Dan Fernandez)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – The .NET Micro Framework with Colin Miller (Scott Hanselman)
• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: SoC – Overview and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: SoC – The Big Picture and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: SoC – Principles to Practice (Howard Dierking)
• Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Launch Video – well sort of. (Tina)

PowerShell

• PowerBoots makes me want to use PowerShell! (Chris Sells)

Database

• Best practices on setting NOCOUNT and NOCOUNT and linked servers (Martin Bell)
• String concatenation with max types stops plan caching (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Standby Servers and Types of Standby Servers (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Office 2007 Ribbon & Toolbar Learning Resources (Blake Handler)
• Google accounts on Twitter (Karen Wickre)
• Converting data from Passwords Plus to SplashID (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Know What Questions to Ask During a Job Interview [Job Search] (Azadeh Ensha)
• How to add Hulu Desktop icon to Windows Media Center and Windows 7 RC users will be able to install Windows 7 Upgrade discs (Brad Linder)
• Test Your Skills With ‘Toughest Developer Puzzle’ (Bruce Kyle)
• Windows 7 Hardware Requirements (Debra Shinder)
• Microsoft’s "Gazelle" browser detailed — it’s more of a research project (Nilay Patel)
• Thoughts on the Chrome OS announcement (Ted Neward)
• Brizzly: A Twitter Reader From The People Who Brought You Google Reader (MG Siegler)
• Gmail New Mail Notifications for Windows 7 (Michael Kennedy)
• Rants and Raves #3 (Joel Cochran)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 10, 2009 — #634 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 10th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• SQL Server Resources – 7/11/09 (Rhonda Tipton)

• jQuery, JSON, and ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 4 and Part 4a and Part 4b (Julian M. Bucknall)
• DomainDataSource Server Control: LINQ + Code Generation (Nikhil Kothari)
• SYTYAWD #4 Using Regular Expressions in JavaScript (Jeff McWherter)
• Abstracting Request State (Davy Brion)
• Use an Envelope Element in RESTful WCF Service Response (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The Yield Statement in C# (Michael Ceranski)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using LINQ with Unfriendly Collections (Simon Sabin)
• January CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released (Steve Marx)
• Real World Apps in Days not Weeks (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Azure SDK on Windows 7 Beta (David L.)
• How to Convert PDF to Image Using Ghostscript API (Lord TaGoH)
• Hard Lessons Learned from ClickOnce (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Deep Fried F# (Chris Smith)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #3: Configuring Our Application (Eric Gunnerson)
• C#, Lambdas, Closures, Value Types (Mike Taulty)
• Named Format Strings (James Hart)
• First Experience with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition, I Love It!!! (Peter Kellner)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Popup Menu (Philip Kin)
• Updated SLS Plugin for Encoder Available (Tim Heuer)
• CodePlex, Now with Silverlight (John Stockton)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #82 – How to Implement Double Click (Mike Snow)
• Command Helper Classes for Silverlight & WPF (Nick Kramer)
• Perenthia, a Silverlight-Based RPG in Beta (Adam Kinney)
• Prism V2 – Drop 9 Now Available (Bob Brumfield)
• Friday Books – Silverlight 2 in Action (Dave M. Bush)
• Tutorial #11: Creating a Navigation in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ux Tip 2 – UX Review (Corey Miller)
• Named Formats Pex Testimonium (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Getting Results From Software Development Teams (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Big Redesign in the Sky (Uncle Bob Martin)
• 12 Useful Web Tools for Designers (Jacob Gube)
• The Danger of Commenting Out Code and YAGNI: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)
• DDD: The Generic Repository (Greg Young)
• Future-Proofing a Design (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Test Case Reuse (in the Future) (James Whittaker)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 146 – Test Driven Development Is Design – The Last Word on TDD (Scott Hanselman)
• The Aggressive Class vs The Laid Back Class (Chris Missal)
• Eric Evans on Repositories (Mike Hadlow)
• Code Refactoring – Freaking Awesome (Mike Bernat)

SharePoint

• SPSiteBuilder 3.0 Re-released with Source (Keith Richie)
• Five Steps to More Successful SharePoint Solutions (Gunnar Peipman)

Database

• Using Fluent NHibernate to Map Composite Keys for a Table (Derik Whittaker)
• How to Implement a TypeOf Operator in SQL by Using sql_variant_property (Denis Gobo)

.NET Community / Events

• TCSWeekly, A New Client-Focused Show on Channel 9 (Adam Kinney)
• A New Side Project – Geeks Without Borders (James Johnson)
• Follow Up: Developer Dinner on Silverlight Business Applications (Marc Schweigert)
• MSDN Developer Conference – WOW! (G. Andrew Duthie) – It was a really great event. My full wrap-up post is coming soon!
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #83 – Go to MIX09 (Mike Snow)

PowerShell

• How to Make Your Own Module Repository and Using PowerShell to Protect Against Conficker (Enabling and Disabling AutoRun.inf) (James Brundage)
• Introduction to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets in Windows 7 (Lilia Gutnik)
• XML Part 1: Playing wit RSS Feeds and XML Content (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

• Search Twitter with Windows 7′s Federated Search (Lee Matthews)
• User Account Control (UAC) – Quick Update (Windows Team)
• Video Demonstration: The Best New Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts (Adam Pash)
• My 2009 Top 10 Technology Hit List (Russell Ball)
• What I Use (January 2009 Update) (Paul Thurrott)
• Planet of the Apes Font (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Hire the Best: Architecture (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Top 10 Things to Learn – 2009 Edition (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Live Mesh Team Joins Windows/Windows Live Org (Kip Kniskern)
• Google Chrome Installation and Updates (Ian Fette)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 15, 2009 and LINKBLOG for January 16, 2009 and LINKBLOG for January 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #117 (Tim Boland)
• CloudNews for January 15th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Visual Studio Links #100 (Darren Stokes)
• Links (1/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2009 — #487 and Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 — #488 and Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 – 2 — #489 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – January 15, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #266 (Chris Alcock)
• Discoveries This Week 01/16/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight News for January 16, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.15 ~ 01.17 (yuanjian)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 7 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day

Silverlight 2 in Action: Chad Campbell, John Stockton: Books

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing Agile (Diana Larsen)
• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 5 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Reading: Designing for the Social Web (Nikhil Kothari)
• DI/IOCs (Sacha Barber)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof Is in Public Beta (Oren Eini)
• Writing a Simple Windows Live Writer Plugin (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Creating T-SQL Static Code Analysis Rules (Gert Drapers)
• Building Domain Specific Languages in C# (Neal Ford)
• Baby Steps in Microsoft Robotics Studio (Leon Bambrick)
• .NET Technical Forecast 2009 (Brian Noyes)
• LINQ Query Syntax C# vs. VB vs. SQL (Paul Litwin via Frank La Vigne)
• 10-4 on Channel9 (Joel Reyes) – Episode 3 is up!

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.0 WebForms Podcast Is Now Up (Scott Galloway)
• Sueetie Wiki Now Ready for Pickup: Some Assembly Required (Dave Burke)
• An Introduction to jQuery, Part 1 (Rick Strahl)
• SYTYAWD #2 Are You Scared of JavaScript (Jeff McWherter)
• Live Framework SDK – Having a Single MeshObject (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight

• Silverlight 2 – Drag and Drop Part 1 of 2 (Corey Miller)
• Hosting Silverlight Content on a CDN (Tim Heuer)

.NET Community / Events

• ALT.NET Seattle 2009 Is Happening (Glenn Block)
• Party with Palermo: Alt.Net/MVP Summit Edition (Save the Date) (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008-2005 – Find Longest Running Query – T-SQL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Lessons Learned in 2008 (J.D. Meier)
• Hello, 2009 (John Lam)
• Windows 7 Beta 1 Performance – How Does the OS Compare to Vista and XP? (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
• Wetware Refactorings (Jeff Moser) – Link of the Day
• 2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited (Ted Neward)
• Ballmer’s CES Keynote Promises to Be a Snoozer (Non-Announcements Revealed!) (Erick Schonfeld)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #256 (Chris Alcock)
• Discoveries This Week 01/02/2008 (Rick Minerich)
• LINKBLOG for January 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Week Episode 5 (Denis Gobo)
• CloudNews for January 2nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day