• Strange times in the world of Microsoft developers (Josh Smith)
• A Drawback of Agile (John Sonmez)
• Creating a Data Access Layer using Dynamics in WebMatrix (Steve Lydford)
• Caliburn Micro conventions for Windows Phone (Nigel Sampson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Internalizing Assemblies with ILMerge (Richard Carr)
• How to automatically edit source files of an entire Visual Studio solution using DXCore (Alex Skorkin)
• Community TFS 2010 Build Extensions – Stable Release (Mike Fourie)
• Progressive F# Tutorials August 2011 (Phillip Trelford)
• Lazy initialization of object in C# with Lazy class (Pranay Rana)
• C#: Check a number falls in which set of ranges (Raghav Khunger)
• Kinect – Calculator – Adjust Skeleton Movements To Mouse (Shai Raiten)
• Converting a LINQ query to PLINQ and View Internal CLR Details using the .NET SOS Debugger Extension (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Custom Field Templates On NuGet (Steve Naughton)
• Kinecting the Dots: Adding Buttons to your Kinect Application (Michael Crump)
• Managed Extensibility Framework – A Look (Abhishek Sur)
• Fluent Assertions 1.5 is done! Now it’s time for that summer. (Dennis Doomen)
• SkyDrive .Net API (Unofficial, but since there’s no official one available…) and Kinect Earth Move and SkyNet is here (not that one…) Skype + Netduino (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• CRUD Operation with ASP.NET MVC and EFCodeFirst Part-1 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• How to Create a Podcast RSS Feed in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Sencha Touch HTML5 Project Template for Visual Studio 2010 (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• ASP.NET: Disable autocomplete for a textbox (Raghav Khunger)
• What makes a successful blog? We ask the html5 doctor (Martin Beeby)
• Is WebMatrix a Threat to the Professional Developer? (Paul Stack)
• Did you miss the Google plus 1 for SEO? (Joel Oleson)
• Getting your NuGet Gallery Orchard Growing… (Greg Duncan)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Don’t Block The Event Loop (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• How to Use IIS Express for all new file based web sites and projects? and Could not load file or assembly ‘PresentationCore’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. : A solution (Abhijit Jana)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Structuring Your Personal Backlog to Make Things Happen (JD Meier)
• Please, no more Manifestos (Jim Bird)
• Fully Portable Scenario in Lokad.CQRS and Tape Storage in Lokad.CQRS for Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
• Article: Limiting Work in Progress and Scrum (Sean McHugh)
• Service Boundaries Aren’t Process Boundaries (Udi Dahan)
• Making Macto into an OSS project? Volunteers needed and Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part IV-IoC FTW and Macto: The boundaries of a prison (Oren Eini)
• A story about User Stories; Who writes them and how do you control the scope? (Dennis Doomen)
• The devil of regression testing (Malcolm)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Remove Assignments to Parameters and Testing JavaScript when the DOM gets in the way (Giorgio Sironi)
• 3 keys to dispersed team success (Georgina Laidlaw)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.5 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
• wp7 CollectionViewSource – sorting a listbox (Baba)
• XamlParseException from WP7 Mango and Caliburn.Micro (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone / SQL Server Compact resources (Erik EJ)
• Smooth…Springy…Scrunchy – WP7 List behavior (Erik Klimcz)
• Encrypting locally saved data on WP7/Mango with DPAPI (Greg Duncan)
• Document Toolkit July 2011 Update and Document Toolkit for LightSwitch RTM (Koen Zwikstra)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 26 – What is Input Scope? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Cinch news (Sacha Barber)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 1 – Passing the Smoke Test (András Velvárt)
• Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 5) (Peter Kuhn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 163: Jason Farrell on Android Development (David Giard)
• Windows Weekly 215: Google Huggle (Paul Thurrott)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 61 – Malcolm Sheridan on Web Deploy Live From DDD Sydney 2011 (Richard Banks)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 21 (Richard Hay)
• .NET Rocks! – Mobile Development Panel Discussion from NDC! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 3 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 4 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 5 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Functions – CHARINDEX() (Vishal)
• Listing Stored Procedures From Every Database (Tim Radney)
• Select from a table with no rows returned. (Martin Catherall)
• Survey: do you use database snapshots? (Paul S. Randal)
• How to re-create database quickly (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

• New version–Deliverpoint permissions management for sharepoint and new version – Lightning conductor 2010 web part (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Early Content–Two Upcoming Press Books in Safari Books Online Rough Cuts (Kim Spilker)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Virtualization: A Manager’s Guide – Only $6.49 w/code DD4JN (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2011 and Interesting Finds: July 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• This week in the OTN Architect Center (7/4-8/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #886 and The Morning Brew #887 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #155 (David Vidmar)
• Daily News Digest 07/04/2011 and Daily News Digest 07/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 26-June-2011 to 02-July-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for July 02, 2011 — #1113 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 075 for 7/4/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting .NET Links – July 3 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Link dump for July 1st through July 2nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily Links 04/07/2011 (Jax)
• .NET Tips – Links on ASP.NET C# MVC Visual Studio Tips – June 2011 (Abhijit Jana)

The Geek Shelf

Essential Windows Azure: Architecting and Developing Applications for the Cloud (Developer’s Library) by Kevin Hoffman

• Huge wave of official apps arrives at Windows Phone Marketplace; reaches 25,000 apps (damaster)
• From Silverlight To HTML5 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Web Workers in IE10: Background JavaScript Makes Web Apps Faster (Travis Leithead)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Video LINQ with SQL Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Entity Framework June 2011 CTP: TPT Inheritance Query Improvements and Entity Framework & WCF Data Services June 2011 CTP : Auto Compiled LINQ Queries and Entity Framework/WCF Data Services June 2011 CTP: Derived Entities with Related Data (Julie Lerman)
• Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 5, Monitoring Processes (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Microsoft makes the source available for the app that’s going to be used for Bing’s Streetside Wi-Fi/Cell Tower/GPS data gathering (i.e. see some of the code the Bing Streetside cars will be using as they [war]drive around your neighborhood) and XNA Game Development, from Beginner to Semi-Pro from the horse’s mouth (so to speak) (Greg Duncan)
• Quick Tip: Fixing those Stubborn References (Jeremy Likness)

Web Development

• News roundup: Paper.js, Fathom.js, test262 (Michael Kimsal)
• ASP.Net GridView with LinqDataSource (Dhananjay Kumar)
• MVC 3, "Third Times a Charm" references (Leon Bambrick)
• YUI and Loader changes for 3.4.0 (Dav Glass)
• Automatic ETag Management with Web API Message Handlers (Howard Dierking)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Web work: Not for the insecure? (Jessica Stillman)
• Feature Folly (Jim Highsmith)
• Ayende’s DDD Application: Macto (Oren Eini)
• OSS on Github – Tips and Tricks (Josh Arnold)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Convention Based View Model Location using Ninject in a MVVM/Silverlight Application (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 116: Eric Lawrence on Fiddler, IE Internals, and HTTP (Jon Galloway)
• Engadget Podcast 246 – 07.01.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Flight Kintroller Using Kinect for Windows SDK (Zhiming Xue)
• Cloud Cover Episode 49 – Access Control in the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 (Steve Marx)
• The Office Show: Office 365 – Part One (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• TWC9: Office 365, Internet Explorer 10 PP2, Choosing the Right collection class, ToneCheck (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 023 – “NDAs of Our Lives” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Windows Phone Radio – 34 (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

• Microsoft scoops 7 IDEA awards for design excellence (Steve Clayton)
• 20+ Rubyists to Follow on Google+ (Satish Talim)
• It’s OK to Ask and Answer Your Own Questions (Jeff Atwood)

Database

• FileLinking Using SSIS (Brian K. McDonald)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 2 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Quiz–June 2011 (William Vaughn)
• SQL Functions – ROW_NUMBER() (Vishal)

SharePoint

• 10 Best Practices and Recommendations for SharePoint 2010 SP1 and June 2011 CU (Joel Oleson)
• Localizing the SharePoint User Interface by Using Resource Files (Sanjay Arora)

Miscellaneous

• First step for Xbox LIVE on Windows 8: Games for Windows Marketplace merging with Xbox.com (damaster)
• Service Pack 1 is available for OneNote (and Office) 2010 (John Guin)
• Developer API for Google+: It’s coming (Rafe Needleman)
• Windows Live Writer – blogging’s unsung hero (Andrew Spooner)
• The Engadget app for Windows Phone is here (Tim Stevens)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 1, 2011 and Interesting Finds: July 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 109 (Scott Banwart)
• Today’s Links (7/1/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• This Week’s Link List (July 1, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Retrospective 29 – Certs and Agile Walkthrough (Peter Saddington)
• Link dump for July 1st (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB by Bill Evjen

• F# XAML Item Templates Now on Visual Studio Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• Announcing the Microsoft Entity Framework June 2011 CTP (EF Team)
• How far can you take HTML5 and canvas? (Kevin Roast)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part I (Luca Bolognese)
• jPlayer – The jQuery HTML5 Audio / Video Library (jPlayer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A New MSDN Forum For All Topics Related to F# Programming (Don Syme)
• Executing build tasks without a build server – Design (Rory Primrose)
• Reading RSS and Atom Syndication Feeds (Richard Carr)
• WCF RIA Services support for EF 4.1 and Snippets (Colin Blair)
• Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries (Entity Framework June 2011 CTP) (EF Team)
• Walkthrough: Table-Valued Functions (June CTP) (Pedro Ardila)
• Walkthrough: Enums (June CTP) (Pawel Kadluczka)
• June 2011 release of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (aka v2.0… or double the download size from the Feb 2010 release, or now 1.8GB of offline training, labs, information, goodness) (Greg Duncan)
• Upgrading from TFS 2008 and WSS v3.0 with SfTSv2 to TFS 2010 and SF 2010 with SfTSv3 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows Azure Stuck in Initializing – Try Different VM Size (Rinat Abdullin)
• Getting the innermost .NET Exception (Rick Strahl)
• Ninject and binding to an existing Method (or Property) (Derik Whittaker)
• Get Started with Office 365 Using the New Developer Training Kit (Bruce Kyle)
• Rx 1.0 Solves the Problem of Asynchronous Data Access (Abel Avram)
• Garbage Collection in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Web Development

• What’s the Difference Between a Value Provider and Model Binder? (Phil Haack)
• test262: Industry JavaScript Standards Test Available (Alex Chi)
• Website check list – Part 1 ASP.NET – 4 essential steps before going live (Peter Gfader)
• More CSS3 Navigation in Expression Web 4 (Pad Gallagher)
• Self-Initializing Fakes in PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
• Creating shapes on the fly and So what are zones really? (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Simple Example That’s Incredibly Complex (Rob Conery)
• Designing For Android (Dan McKenzie)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part III–Abstraction is as abstraction does (Oren Eini)
• Following the pattern (Eric Lippert)
• Kanban and Quad Biking (Karl Scotland)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A better way to check your Windows Phone app submissions (Arian Kulp)
• WP7 Cascade Behavior (Erik Klimcz)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 25 – Learn about Database Connection String (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Excellent Physics tutorial using Phyiscs Helper (Surf4Fun)
• Turnkey with LightSwitch (Laila Lotfi)
• Dial phone numbers from IE on Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Learning Video Executing Stored Procedure in LINQ to SQL and Video Executing SQL Query in LINQ to SQL and Video Fetching Tables and Columns name in LINQ to SQL (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Introducing Keyvan.TV (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Let’s Play TDD #119: Comments Lie (James Shore)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #51: TDD with Keith Burnell (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Evan (Larry Larsen)
• This is my next Podcast 013 – 07.01.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)

Community / Events

• Save the date: SharePint @ the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA (Andrew Connell)
• Open Source Hackathon at Pablo’s Fiesta (Steve Donie)
• What happens when students create their own collaboration tools? (Terri Griffith)
• Microsoft to retire, refocus Windows Phone MVP program (Mary Jo Foley)
• Six Years of Blogging (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) (Oracle TechBlog)
• Mono Consultants (Miguel de Icaza)

Database

• FileLinking Using SSIS (Brian K. McDonald)
• SSRS Importing an Assembly (David Dye)
• SSIS OLEDB Command and procedure output params (Josef Richberg)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Complete Downloadable List – Day 0 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Introduction – Day 1 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Functions – NTILE() (Vishal)
• Why Does It Hurt When I Audit? (Tim Ford)
• What’s UNPIVOT good for? (Quassnoi)
• The difference between REVOKE and DENY (Steve Jones)
• Excel 2010 Data Source "From Microsoft Query" Missing DSNs (Jes Schultz Borland)

SharePoint

• Using jQuery Templates with SharePoint List Data (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• CODE Magazine: 2011 Jul/Aug (CODE Magazine)
• Instant email: how we made Hotmail 10x faster (Dick Craddock)
• MSDN & TechNet Subscriptions 2.0 Experience Preview (Mark Curphey)
• Developer API for Google+: It’s coming (Rafe Needleman)
• MediaMall’s PlayLater brings DVR to internet video (Sean Buckley)
• The Windows Phone 7 Apps Everyone Should Have June 2011 [Apps] (Casey Chan)
• Why Big Software Companies Fail at Hiring Good Talents (Keyvan Nayyeri)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 06.20 ~ 06.30 (yuanjian)
• T-SQL, SQL Server BI Articles Link List – June 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ASP.NET, MVC, Silverlight, SharePoint, WPF, VS 2010, LINQ Articles in May-June 2011 (Admin)
• The Morning Brew #885 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (6/30/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 07/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 30 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Head First jQuery by Ryan Benedetti

• Reactive Extensions v1.0 Stable and v1.1 Experimental available now! (Rx team)
• Site-ready HTML5: Second IE10 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Developers Get Goody Basket Full of Mangos (Brandon Watson)
• ReSharper 6 is Released! (Hadi Hariri)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Working with Co-Variance and Contra-Variance in .NET 4.0 and Lazy Initializer to defer expensive Object creation in .NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• Think NuGet is only for Visual Studio (or IDE)? Think again… (Greg Duncan)
• Code refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 Part-4 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Reporting Performance Issues with PerfWatson (Robert Green)
• Eduasync part 14: Data passing in coroutines (Jon Skeet)
• Client Side Tracing for Windows Azure AppFabric Caching (Windows Azure Team)
• Microsoft – Domain Oriented N-Layered .NET 4.0 App Sample – Release: v2.01 Alpha (CodePlex)
• Customize State and Transitions of a Work Item (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Use it or lose it! [New Delay.FxCop code analysis rule helps identify unused resources in a .NET assembly] (David Anson)
• Manual Validation with Data Annotations (K. Scott Allen)

Web Development

• JavaScript: an acceptable use of double-equals? Just. (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Developers: just a few lines of JavaScript connects your site to Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive (Dare Obasanjo)
• IE 10 PP2 now available for download – HTML5 nears tipping point (Ryan Gavin)
• The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far (Simone Chiaretta)
• Lockdown Pt 1– Assessing and Securing Legacy Client-side Applications (Tim Kulp)
• datajs – JavaScript Library for data-centric web applications – Release: v1.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 2 – Variables and Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Pass cookie from Web Request to WebBrowser (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Facebook: A New Take on the Developer App (Alan McConnell)
• Cloud Coding and Beyond: Web Development Apps in the Chrome Web Store (Michael Mahemoff & Paul Kinlan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do the Opposite (J.D. Meier)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Split Temporary Variable (Giorgio Sironi)
• Event-Driven SOA: Events meet Services (Guido Schmutz)
• What is User Experience Design (UX Design) ? (David Kelley)
• Ninject and Convention Based Assembly Bindings (Derik Whittaker)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part I and Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part II–getting lost in the architecture (Oren Eini)
• Utilization and the Myth of Shared Resources (Cory Foy)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Breaking News: Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit updated to v1.4.4 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SLJS.org – a Silverlight -> Html/JS converter (Rob Ashton)
• Windows Phone ‘Mango’ OS beta available today! (Chris Koenig)
• Download Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2 (Mango) – Web and Offline Installer and Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 24 – Local Database Support, CRUD operation with Demo (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft Advertising SDK Update is Now Available (Doug Holland)
• Love Android – Take a look at this (Andy Robb)
• Mango OS Beta Coming to Retail Devices (Dani Diaz)
• WP7 Cascade Behavior (Erik Klimczak)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Guthrie at NDC! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Rx Workshop: Event Processing and Rx Workshop: Introduction (Charles Torre)
• The Fear Of Failure And What To Do About It (Roy Osherove)
• YUI Theater — Scott Schiller: “Probably, Maybe, No: The State Of HTML5 Audio” (51 min.) (Jenny Donnelly)
• Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: Web Workers Demo and Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: A look at Positioned Floats in IE10 and Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: A look at Web Worker Fountains in IE10 and Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: A look at Magnetic Poetry in IE10 and Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: A look at How Stuff Works in IE10 and Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Evan (Larry Larsen)
• OTN Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 3 of 4 (Bob Rhubart)
• SE Podcast #10 (Alex Miller)

Database

• Can you query a SSAS cube while it is processing? (James Serra)
• SQL Server: Grouping ID Example (Madhivanan)
• SQL Excursions Sessions – Powershell (Thomas LaRock)
• Poking Around Inside Management Studio (Michael Swart)
• The mystery of the NULL bitmap mask (Klaus Aschenbrenner)

Miscellaneous

• An API Isn’t Enough: You Need an App Directory (Alex Willen)
• Hex Conversion via a Batch File (Josh Poley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First iPhone and iPad Development – $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDJN8 (O’Reilly Media)
• Photosynth App Update and Best of Bing Maps Summer Xbox & Kinect Contest (The Bing Team) – Where’s Photosynth for WP7??

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 06.20 ~ 06.30 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Link Post 199 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily News Digest 06/29/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (6/29/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #884 (Chris Alcock)
• Link dump for June 28th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Silverlight Cream for June 28, 2011 — #1112 and SilverlightShow for June 20 – 26, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 29 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform by Andrew Troelsen

• Windows Phone Marketplace on the Web for Mango (Todd Brix)
• Building a Cloud OS for .NET Developers – Part 1 (Michael Kennedy)
• OData Updates in Windows Phone “Mango” (Glenn Gailey)
• OAuth and REST in Android: Part 1 (John Sonmez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Adding your own local content to the new Visual Studio Help Library (Greg Duncan)
• My CLR via C#, 3rd Edition book is E-Book deal of the day on May 26, 2011 (Jeffrey Richter)
• Code Metrics – Maintainability Index (Zain Naboulsi)
• EntityLock, implement a logic locking strategy in my domain (Gian Maria Ricci)
• MadProps.AppArgs (Matt Hamilton)
• Develop Microsoft Surface apps. Without a Surface (Steve Clayton)

Web Development

• NetAdvantage jQuery Controls are Theme Roller Ready (Murtaza Abdeali)
• 50 Fresh jQuery Tutorials 2011 (Dong Nguyen)
• Bin Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 (Phil Haack)
• Taking The M out of MVC – JSON, The dynamic Keyword, LINQ (Karsten Januszewski)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Canvas – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM94 (O’Reilly Media)
• Globalization, Internationalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC 3, JavaScript and jQuery – Part 1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Enabling RSS Site-wide in Orchard (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Annoying.Js – One include, many irritated users… (Greg Duncan)
• Project Silk Documentation Drop: New Chapters Ready for Review (Karl Shifflett)
• Netflix + OData + datajs sample released (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.1 RC (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Boards from Sys Admin to Sales (Amr Elssamadisy)
• Why ‘Ok’ Buttons in Dialog Boxes Work Best on the Right (Anthony)
• Basic unit testing with Typemock Isolator (Avi Kaye)
• Domain Driven Design Architecture with .Net eBook Released (We’re talking 475 pages of DDD…) – "N-Layered Domain-Oriented Architecture Guide with .Net 4.0" (PDF, XPS, with ePub and Mobi coming soon) (Greg Duncan)
• Enable and Equip Your Product Owners (Peter Saddington)
• Code Kata : "Simple" Database Design (S. Lott)
• All wannabe software testers out there … (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Code Snippets for the Dispose Pattern (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Testing in the Cloud (Vikas Hazrati)
• Symptoms of a centralized VCS (Jimmy Bogard)
• Marissa Mayer: I Learn Most When I Do Things I’m Not Ready To Do (Julie Zeveloff)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Catel – Part 6 of n: Bing Maps application for WP7 (Geert van Horrik)
• Metro List View double line (ep. 2) – from PSD to HTML (Adam Kinney)
• How to install Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (Mango) and How to choose a Contact and get Contact details in a WP7 app (Windows Phone Geek)
• Blending XNA with Blender – "Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part I" (Greg Duncan)
• The Midweek Download: May 25th Edition–Windows Phone releases beta of “Mango” developer tools plus Windows Live Messenger, Office 365 and IE9 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Entity Framework 4.1 Code First, Silverlight, and Shared Models with REST+JSON (Jeremy Likness)
• Download Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• New Addition to Windows Phone Quickstarts- Pivot and Panorama Controls (Nitya Ravi)
• Why is a Y in the Windows Phone Mango Camera API (Rene Schulte)
• Unity 3D and Silverlight in Harmony with SLARToolkit’s Augmented Reality (Rene Schulte)
• Silverlight & XNA- A tale of two cities (Simon Jackson)
• Blinking UI with a CaretBrush (Pavan Podila)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta 7.1 Installation behavior (Senthil Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steve Smith Tells Performance Stories (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Agile 2010 – Johanna Rothman – Agile Program Management (Agile Toolkit)
• Let’s Play TDD #108: Wishing for First-Class Functions (James Shore)
• AppFabric.tv – Troubleshooting WCF Performance (Part 1) (Ron Jacobs)
• Inside the Mango Developer Tools: App Platform and Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Search and Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Communications and Hot Apps: Assassins Creed, Ninja Boy +, Burglar Alarm, Windows Phone News, Rhapsody (Laura Foy)
• New behind-the-scenes videos and more on Marketplace (Michael Stroh)

Community / Events

• Houston Code Camp – Call for Speakers (Ben Scheirman)
• Join me next week in Boston for SPTechCon! (Andrew Connell)
• Can an open-source backer thrive inside Microsoft? This one says no (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone Garage (PubSec)
• Moving on to Greener Pastures (Kevin Griffin)
• MVPs Share Deep Tech-Ed Experience (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• SSRS 2008 R2: How to dynamically size your INDICATORS (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQL SERVER – Getting Columns Headers without Result Data – SET FMTONLY ON (Pinal Dave)
• Using Built-in System Functions – NEWID() and NEWSEQUENTIALID() (Vishal)
• The Ties that Bind Us….Community, People, Exceptional DBAs… (Robert Pearl)
• Bad T-SQL Song Lyrics or How My Music Playlists Torment Me By Reminding Me of So Many T-SQL Code Sins (Thomas LaRock)

SharePoint

• Using SharePoint List Data in Microsoft Expression Blend (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• Is Charles Petzold a guilty pleasure for you? (Devon Musgrave)
• Why Microsoft Is 3X Better Than Apple For Customer Support (AAPL, MSFT) (Mark Fidelman)
• Your tips for video conferencing interviews (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• My Phone might be coming back with the new web-based Windows Phone Marketplace? (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Find: May 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #860 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/25/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/26/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• SilverlightShow for May 16-22, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher

Top Links

• Strategies for becoming a better programmer (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Entity Framework CTP 5 (MS Downloads)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #181: Using Metadata in your MEF Exports (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Determining if Values are Coprime (Richard Carr)
• Ways of Throwing an Exception in C# (Abhishek Sur)
• Comment and Uncomment in Web Pages (Zain Naboulsi)
• Beautiful Hack: Using Mono’s Profiler to find Hard Memory Leaks and Mono Introspect: Binding GObject-based APIs for use in Mono and Using Key-Value Coding with MonoMac (Miguel de Icaza)
• Dynamic Language Integration in a C# World (Zenon Ochal)
• DXCore Components – BigHint and CodeRush Pro visualization features (Alex Skorkin)
• Big head, long tail (Eric Lippert)
• NHibernate Mapping Explorer Preview 2 (Alessandro Giorgetti)
• Developer Angst on Microsoft Visual C++ Futures (James Vastbinder)
• Build-time dependency resolving coming to Entity Framework. Now, how about those BI tools too? (Jamie Thomson)
• Create an Entity Framework Model and Use it in Multiple Projects (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Lost finding information about Windows Azure? (Bill Zack)

Web Development

• RenderAction with ASP.NET MVC 3 Sessionless Controllers (Keith Dahlby)
• Making ASP.NET deployment easy with the Package/Publish Web tool (Rachel Appel)
• jQuery Datepicker: Disable specific dates (Raghav Khunger)
• DLL-s needed to run ASP.NET MVC 3 RC on Windows Azure (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML5 Recipes: Geolocation (Romin Irani)
• HTML and Javascript injection (Skynet Code)
• What can developers do with 10k of code and HTML5? (Ziad Ismail)
• Introducing Apache Wave (Alex North)
• PHP 5.3 is quicker than PHP 5.2 (Rob Allen)
• How to install Drupal on Windows (Andy Robb)
• A review of Beginning Smartphone Web Development (Durward Pless)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ditching domain models for reads (Jimmy Bogard)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of App Performance Testing – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDPRT (O’Reilly Media)
• Balsamiq Weekly release: it’s the little things (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Double Dispatch: the next best thing with respect to Dependency Injection (Giorgio Sironi)
• Development Concerns Moving Away From The Controller (Rob Diana)
• Defying the Law of Repetitive Consequences with ORM (Stephen Forte)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Hash for the holidays [Managed implementation of CRC32 and MD5 algorithms updated; new release of ComputeFileHashes for Silverlight, WPF, and the command-line!] (David Anson)
• Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 2) (Mike Taulty)
• Just how productive is WP7 development compared to iOS, Android and mobile Web? (András Velvárt)
• Having fun with your webcam (Arian T. Kulp)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 133 – PowerScripting Podcast – Shane Hoey in Austrailia is Paging Dr. Scripto (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Let’s Play TDD #61: Questions of Design and Let’s Play TDD #62: Listening Carefully (James Shore)
• Pluralcast 30 : Developing for Distributed System with Scott Seely (David Starr)
• Windows-Weekly-185-W-H-S-R-I-P- (Paul Thurrott)
• Ping 85: The future of touchscreen, Top Bing searches, Kinect training, Photosynth & shop (Laura Foy)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 38 – Philip Laureano on Weaving IL Magic (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – December 6th, 2010 and CMAP Main Meeting and Atlanta/Raleigh Web Firestarters (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Get two SharePoint 2010 classes at once: development & SharePoint Designer (Andrew Connell)
• LeWeb & Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Speaking at NoVA Code Camp (Kevin Griffin)
• Lean Software & Systems Conference… Call for Papers & Registration Open (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Announcing the 2010 Encosia Holiday Giveaway (Dave Ward)
• Announcing the Caliburn.Micro Contest Winners! (Rob Eisenberg)

Database

• FOR XML a la Mode –a study on Modes, especially using For XML Path Mode to Concatenate Data (Julie Smith)
• Tip: Schema Qualify Objects in SPs (Jen McCown)

SharePoint

• Getting started with SharePoint Foundation 2010 (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 Publishing – NothingButSharePoint.com is LIVE (Joel Oleson)
• Introducing SharePoint Online and Workflows, Part 2. (Josh Topal)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010:10 Tips for OneNote Organization (Lonnie Webb)
• Review of Windows Phone 7–a closet iPhone lover’s confession (Joe Stagner)
• Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices (Abraham Murray)
• 20 Windows Keyboard Shortcuts You Might Not Know (How-To Geek)
• Where Will You Focus Your Mobile Development Efforts? (James Sugrue)
• From Photoshop to Photosynth (Steve Clayton)
• A running list of requests for the next Windows Live Writer (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 051 for 12/6/2010 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #745 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/06/2010 and Weekly Article Digest 12/06/2010 and Daily News Digest 12/07/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Leadership Blogs (J.D. Meier)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 6 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• Hilo: Windows 7 development walk-throughs (Somasegar)
• Greg Young at NDC2010 "7 Reasons DDD Projects #FAIL" (Vladimir Gitlevich)
• A new found respect for acceptance tests (Mark Needham)
• TWC9: WebMatrix and Razor, Debug MSBuild files, and beer fetching robots (Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• “Fake – F# Make” 1.33.0 released (Steffen Forkmann)
• XML Serialization (Richard Carr)
• Building a component that works with different versions of a library (Jeffrey Richter)
• NoRM: Another .NET Provider for MongoDB (Abel Avram)
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2010, the Quick Reference Poster… (Greg Duncan)
• A practical illustration of why the new C# 4.0 dynamic and optional parameter features are valuable (John V. Petersen)
• F# and Code Contracts: not quite there yet (Kurt Schelfthout)
• Sorting Items in the Toolbox and Icon vs List View in the Toolbox (Zain Naboulsi)
• .NET: Fated to Succeed? (Keith Ward)
• How the SetEntitySetAccessRule and EntitySetRights APIs came to be (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

• Understanding ASP.NET 4 URL Routing in 2 minutes and Implementing Routing in ASP.NET 4 applications (Hima)
• Sueetie: The World’s First Mobile Online Community (Dave Burke)
• JavaScript if Statements Syntax (Marc Grabanski)
• Book Review: HTML5 For Web Designers (Pete LePage)
• Working with Application Pool Identities (Steve Smith)
• Installing Umbraco To Windows 7 Ultimate – Step By Step (Peter Kellner)
• Sitemaps and Blog Engine Download (Dr. Dave)
• Expecting Windows Azure Admin Mode and VM Roles this Year (Rinat Abdullin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• dotCover 1.0 Beta Released (Hadi Hariri)
• Importance of Tooling and Statistics in CQRS World (Rinat Abdullin)
• How To Succeed With Scrum When Your Company Is Anti-Agile (Rob Diana)
• Why Small is Better (John Sonmez)
• Defining Development Experience (Richard Cirerol)
• patterns & practices – Windows Azure Guidance – Part 2 – Release Candidate (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Hosting WPF controls in a WinForms application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 Development (Jeff Blankenburg)
• WPF SendKeys or mocking the keyboard in WPF (Kirill Osenkov)
• Visual State Manager A-Z and Styles (followup) (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 57: Getting the Details on Recent Silverlight 4 Updates from John Papa (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• WebDevRadio Episode 79: July catchup (Michael Kimsal)
• StartUp Podcast Show #74 Kent Beck on Lean Startups, TDD and startups (Bob Walsh)
• CodeStock 2010 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal’s Live Podcast at CodeStock and CodeStock 2010 Part 2 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal Talks PowerShell at CodeStock (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Cloud Cover Episode 18 – ASP.NET Providers (Ryan Dunn)
• Windows Weekly 164: But I Digress (Paul Thurrott)
• NYC Silverlight 4 Firestarter (Part 1 of 4): The Silverlight 4 Platform Overview and (Part 2 of 4): Silverlight LOB Application Basics and (Part 3 of 4): A Little Fun With Media: Webcams, Mics, & A/V and (Part 4 of 4): Application Navigation & Windows (Emily Gibson)
• Video: The OData Protocol (Eric Hagan)
• Engadget Podcast 204: Q&A Bonanza – 07.09.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• jQuery Podcast 29 – Rey Bomb #3 (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp – Part 3 (Muhammad Mosa)

Community / Events

• GeekGolf 2010 on September 11, 2010: Golfing, Steak Dinner and Fun (Chris Woodruff)
• Open Letter to (and deal for) Silverlight Bloggers (Dave Campbell)
• What is ForkCan.com – Do you have what it takes to Share your code? (Fredrik Normen)
• The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta (Robert Cartaino)
• SQLAuthority News – Milestone – 1400th Post and Why do I blog (Pinal Dave)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread – Thread 0 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Crawling case sensitive repositories using SharePoint Server 2010 (Syed Anas Hashmi)
• Install Windows Server 2008 R2 and Sharepoint 2010 on a VM (Peter Bromberg)

Miscellaneous

• Free Microsoft Visio 2010 Stencils for I.T. Professionals (Blake Handler)
• Slides of My Presentation on Code Bubbles (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows-Friendly Cygwin Paths (Derek Greer)
• Something blue (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Windows PowerShell Community Extension project (Ed Wilson)
• How to edit very old posts with Windows Live Writer (Simone Chiaretta)
• Productivity Tip: Using Your Keystrokes Where They Add Value. (Rajiv Popat)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2010 — #899 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 9, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries this Week 07/09/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 58 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight, .NET 4.0 and LINQ Articles Link List (.NET Curry)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Wpf: Building Windows Ui with Windows Presentation Foundation   [PROGRAMMING WPF 2/E] [Paperback]

Top Links

• Repositories and the Save Method (K. Scott Allen)
• Using LINQPad to Query Stack Overflow (Nick Berardi)
• ‘Kinect for Xbox 360′™ is Official Name of Microsoft’™s Controller-Free Game Device (MS PressPass)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#: A failed attempt at F#-ish pattern matching (Mark Needham)
• Code Contracts Part 6 – Runtime Support (Kevin Hazzard)
• Opening GAC as folder (Greg Galipeau)
• List(T).ForEach or foreach, it doesn’t matter…or does it? (Mattia Baldinger)

Web Development

• Using Script reference Profiler to Improve the Performance of an ASP.NET AJAX page (Girish Dagdiya)
• jQuery AJAX with ASP.NET Web Forms & Sitefinity (Deran Schilling)
• Securing Dynamic Data 4 (Replay) (Steve Naughton)
• Google Sitemap Generation From A Custom SiteMapResult (Mike Brind)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The patterns & practices Way (J.D. Meier)
• Lokad.CQRS – Messages, Commands, Events and Ping Pong (Rinat Abdullin)
• Leadership Tip: Avoiding The Perils Of Organizational Procrastination. (Rajiv Popat)
• Silverlight Unit Testing (Jason Apergis)
• The Refactoring Dilemma (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Update: June 2010, User Interface Changes (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone 7 performance (Al Pascual)
• Getting offline help for Silverlight (and many other technologies) for VS2010.. (Cheryl Simmons)
• Coding4Fun Cannon – Coding for Windows Phone 7 (Clint Rutkas)
• Mahhala – Bag o’ Tricks (Rudi Grobler)
• What I’m Reading – 2 – Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook (Dave Campbell)
• Visual WebGui Rides the XAML Wave (Mitch Pronschinske)
• New tutorials on .toolbox on PathListBox and Fluid UI (Adam Kinney)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The History of Microsoft with Charles Simonyi: Part Two (Tina Wood)
• Technology & Friends Episode 92: Steve Smith on Performance and Scalability and Episode 93: David Truxall on Team Foundation Server (David Giard)

Community / Events

• DDD Exchange 2010 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Effective specifications for agile projects (Gojko Adzic)

Database

• Parameterized Report using a Stored Procedure (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Review of “The ART OF XSD – SQL Server XML Schema Collections” by ASP.NET MVP Hima Vejella (Jacob Sebastian)

SharePoint

• Lookup Foreign Key Values in External Lists (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s "Application Compatibility Toolkit" Updated to Support 64-bit Version of Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• New in PowerGUI 2.1 – Charts (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Google Chrome OS Will Allow Remote Desktop Access From Browsers [Google] (Erica Ho)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Best Android Apps – Only $9.99 use code DDBAA (O’Reilly Media)
• Xbox 360 Slim outed by Italian ad? (Tim Stevens)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 14, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Weekly Links #109 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 6/14/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for June 13, 2010 — #881 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #620 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #123 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck

Top Links

• Announcing: Silverlight Reporting on CodePlex (Pete Brown)
• A Train of Thought: Innovation and .Net Edition (Jeremy D. Miller)
• What Executives at Microsoft Taught Me (J.D. Meier)
• Are daily stand-ups necessary? (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Windows Services in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Fixing RIA Services’s “An EntityKey value cannot be null” with a CodeProcessor (Ingo Rammer)
• MDA: Callback On Garbage Collected Delegate (Sasha Goldshtein)
• SOLID By [C#] Example Or “Stop talking about SOLID and show me the code…” (Greg Duncan)
• Show the Full File Path in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tech Ed New Orleans– The Goods (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Model First in ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 (Wriju Ghosh)
• NHProfiler Integration (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Cache Layer (Gil Fink)
• .NET Framework Reference Enhancements Preview (Kimberly Wolk)
• Don’t repeat yourself; consts are already static (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)
• Same Markup: Explaining "@_jscript_version" and Styling New HTML5 Elements (Tony Ross)
• Creating a custom View Engine for ASP.NET MVC leveraging Text Template (T4) engine for rendering the view (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Browser Speed: It’s Not All About JavaScript and 20 Tips and Tricks For Writing Fast Web Applications (Pete LePage)
• Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring (John Dundon)
• jQuery Globalization Plugin from Microsoft (Scott Guthrie)
• Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework (Steve Sanderson)
• Using an iPhone with the Visual Studio development server (Dave Ward)
• Bing Health Map Shows Promise of Open Government Data (Adam DuVander)
• When can I use … is a great resource for browser compatibility advice (Erez Zukerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Energized Work" Now Online (James Shore)
• NCover 3.4.8: NUnit and IIS Improvements (Alan Johnson)
• Beyond Unit Testing => Specification of Intent (Bobby Johnson)
• You Need a Static Organizational Model (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Eric Evans: Domain driven design redefined and Udi Dahan: the biggest mistakes teams make when applying DDD and Evolution of DDD: CQRS and Event Sourcing (Gojko Adzic)
• Mockups 1.8: Editable Groups and much more (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Lokad.CQRS – Getting Started (Rinat Abdullin)
• Eric Evans: Folding Design into an Agile Process (Vladimir Gitlevich)
• Performance and Security (Pieter de Bruin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.12 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 – Sending Email from Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Microsoft releases Alpha version of IIS streaming for Silverlight and Apple devices (Steven Bink)
• Hosting cross-domain Silverlight applications (XAP) (Tim Heuer)
• IIS Media Services 4.0 – 32-bit and IIS Media Services 4.0 – 64-bit (MS Downloads)
• Tips and Tricks for INotifyPropertyChanged (Jeremy Likness)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using TFS for Source Control with InfoPath 2010 (Laura Har)
• Creating Rich Interactions Using Blend 4: Transition Effects, Fluid Layout, and Layout States (Silverlight TV #32) (John Papa)
• WebDev Radio Episode 78: Bob Silverberg on ColdFusion, ORM, testing and more (Michael Kimsal)
• Boagworld 214. When to hire a web designer (Paul Boag)
• New Videos in the Tailspin Spyworks series live. (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Telerik Wins Best of TechEd! (Stephen Forte)
• Employee of the year…#Typemock (Tal Druyan)
• Wrox Wins 2010 Code Project Members Choice Award (Jim Minatel)

Database

• Log Shipping for cheap DR (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2 (Pinal Dave)
• What are events SQL profiler eventclass numbers 65527,65528,65533,65534 (Simon Sabin)
• Stored Procedure vs Parameterized Query (Joel Cochran)
• Determine Permission for all Users at Object Level (Suprotim Agarwal)
• PowerShell I Heart You (Jorge Segarra)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Three Free Outlook 2010 PST File Management Tools (Blake Handler)
• Aviary Launches Online Music Creation Tool (Barb Dybwad)
• Seeing Microsoft in the big picture (Cal Evans)
• Small Basic V0.9 is here! (Vijaye Raji)
• Multiple Default Printers in Windows 7 (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Live Sync beta blends the best of Sync and Mesh (David Treadwell)
• PowerGUI 2.1 is available (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Adobe releases AIR 2, standalone SDK download coming soon (Jay Hathaway)
• Apple and Microsoft will face off for June 24 retail showdown (Joe Wilcox)
• Box.net finally gets a desktop sync client (Lee Mathews)
• Daily Dose – iPad Owners Exposed to Spam and Hacks (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Hackers: 25th Anniversary Ed. Only $9.99 Use code DDHAC (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Small Basic is an ideal programming language and environment for small people and beginners (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #619 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 10, 2010 — #879 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Learning WCF by Michele Leroux Bustamante

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Top Links

• BCL CodePlex Site Launch (BCL Team)
• Cassandra Jump Start For The Windows Developer (Nick Berardi)
• Theming in Windows Phone (Jaime Rodriguez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing the Preview release of “Feature Builder” (Cameron Skinner)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Afterward: Effective Events (Chris Burrows)
• Generating Random Letters (Deborah Kurata)
• Closing Just the Selected Files You Want (Zain Naboulsi)
• Setting up WCF Server/Client configuration for Anonymous Access (Derik Whittaker)
• Data Annotations in the Entity Framework and Code First (Jeff Derstadt)
• Multi-targeting and the C# and VB compilers (Ed Maurer)
• Dynamic Casting with .NET (Mike Ceranski)
• Sorting OData feeds by their title (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• New book: Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step by Step (Rosemary Caperton)
• Azure: A Glance at Apps Without Infrastructure (Rachel Appel)

Web Development

• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Refreshing An UpdatePanel With JavaScript (Scott Mitchell)
• Store images on Flickr using Flickrnet.dll and ASP.NET MVC (Bill Sternberger)
• Your JavaScript goes WHERE? (Chris Brandsma)
• Cleaner HTML Markup with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms – Client IDs (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Using jQuery and OData to Insert a Database Record (Stephen Walther)
• 7 Ways to Make Your API More Successful (Daniel Jacobson)
• Stack Overflow API Private Beta Starts (Jeff Atwood)
• HP Opens Snapfish Photo API, Gives Developers Access to 85 Million Members (Matthew Casperson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strengthening your domain: The double dispatch pattern (Jimmy Bogard)
• Quick example: why coding standards must be in place (Gunnar Peipman)
• Warming up Sites Before Running Selenium Tests with NUnit’s SetUpFixture (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF

• F# and Silverlight (Brian McNamara)
• Creating a Small Overlay Window (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Create Silverlight Apps Using Plug-in Components (Bruce Kyle)
• Using VertexPositionTexture on Windows Phone (Charles Petzold)
• Sometimes you just gotta do the best you can [Tip: Read-only custom DependencyProperties don't exist in Silverlight, but can be closely approximated] (David Anson)
• A RoleManager to apply roles declaratively to user interface (Andrea Boschin)
• What tools are the minimum to get started in Silverlight? (Tim Heuer)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 6 : Automated UI Testing (Phil Price)
• Fast and Easy Navigation in WPF or Silverlight Applications in Visual Studio 2010 (Karl Shifflett)
• Mix Session Viewer for Windows Phone 7 (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Roman Rubin and Venkatesh Ramakrishnan Push the Limits of Silverlight. (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Some Rough Draft TDD Demonstration Videos (Brett Schuchert)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 50: Behind the Scenes of the .NET Languages with Luca Bolognese (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #168: Exploring how to use Layer Diagrams in VS2010 (Derik Whittaker)
• Jim Somers (Antenna Software) chats with Gunther Lenz (Microsoft) (Gunther Lenz)
• FXG Import for Expression Blend- Mix 10 Video Segment Courtesy of Adam Kinney (Don Burnett)
• MSDN Radio: What you need to know about Silverlight (Emily Gibson)
• Cloud Faster: Microsoft Research at TechFest 2010 and Bill Buxton & Student Insiders (Laura Foy)
• The Feature Builder Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 and Feature Builder 101 – Creating the "Code" and Feature Builder 101 – Creating the "Map" (Michael Lehman)
• Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Bill Buxton & Erik Meijer – Perspectives on Design (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Free SQL Server Training in April (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Nothin But .Net Remote Pilot – Reviews (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Scottish Visual Studio 2010 Launch event with Jason Zander (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Get Cloud Ready: Attend FREE Windows Azure Firestarter Event April 6, 2010 (Windows Azure Team)
• OpenSource on .net at Microsoft TechDays (Sebastien Lambla)
• Demo Apps from MIX10 on Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)

Database

• Backup Meta-Data (Buck Woody)
• Finding meaningful error details to report execution failures (Ted Krueger)
• FizzBuzz Revisited (Jason Brimhall)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Cheat Sheet from MidnightDBA (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Official SharePoint 2010 Certifications and Microsoft Official Curriculum Training Courses (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Find And Replace With Regular Expressions In Vim / ViEmu (Derick Bailey)
• Very Thorough Dissection of Windows Phone 7 Series on AnandTech (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Becoming a Windows Search Ninja – “Mastering Windows Search using Advanced Query Syntax” and The Microsoft Desktop Player [Beta] – Your IT/Development Video/Cast/Whitepaper/Link/News Console (Greg Duncan)
• The dreaded “HR Interview” Part 1: The Phone Screen (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Windows Phone 7 Series Theme Now in Beta (Sarah Perez)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: slide:ology – Only $9.99! Use code DDSDG (O’Reilly Media)
• Note to Microsoft: I love the new phone, but… (Stephen Forte)
• 10 Tips to Keep yourself Sane while Working from Home (or alone) (Pete Brown)
• Visual Web Developer Team is Hiring (Bradley Bartz)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 31, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #571 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Phone examples (Coding4Fun)
• Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2010 — #825 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.29 ~ 03.31 (yuanjian)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – MAR ‘10 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net