Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 View Model (MVVM) ApplicationBar (Michael Washington)
• Static analysis of Silverlight XAML: Basic concepts (Wolf Schmidt)
• TWC9: Best of 2010 (Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A C# Expression Evaluator and A Text Parsing Helper Class and An LCD Control (Jonathan Wood)
• So you’ve got that awesome SDK… (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Want your own “Gallery” (think something like the Visual Studio Gallery and future NuGet home) site and server? Check out the Orchard Gallery/Gallery Server Projects… (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch – New .NET Development Paradigm (Bill Zack)
• Go To Definition for CSS and Choosing CSS Versions and Change CSS Formatting (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to Convert an Enum to its String Value (Mike Snow)
• Open Generics and Autofac 2.3 and Autofac Project Status Update (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Internals of a Delegate (Abhishek Sur)
• DXCore Linked Identifiers feature and Refactorings – Rename and How to perform an existing refactoring from another one (Alex Skorkin)
• Ignore list for svn and .Net (Greg Galipeau)

Web Development

• HowTo: apply MVC2 & Html.DropDownListFor (Code Inside Team)
• Basic JavaScript Part 5: Hoisting (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Strongly Typed Route Data in ASP.NET MVC (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• PM Tips: Product Manager Tips (Brad Abrams)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Three weeks with Windows Phone 7 – a Mac users perspective (Damien Guard)
• Windows Phone 7 Useful Links for Tile Push Notifications (Jason Zander)
• Part 4 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers. (Michael  Crump)
• Navigating with the WebBrowser Control on WP7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Win7 Image Client for Bing, FlickR & Google and Funny Sounds, Radio Streams & Japanese – Win7 Mobile Apps (Mike Snow)
• What I Learned in WP7 – Issue #9 and What I Learned in WP7 – #Issue 10 (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutiae-nine with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 10 of 10 (Charles Torre)
• Engadget Podcast 222 – 12.25.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• SilverlightShow for 13-19 Dec 2010 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight vs XNA for Windows Phone 7 (Laura Foy)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 1 – Security Architecture and Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 2 – Identity Access Management (Larry Larsen)

Database

• Modifying SSRS Rendering (David Dye)
• Insert Rows in Temporary Table from Stored Procedure – SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP4 and SQL SERVER – Server Side Paging in SQL Server 2011 – Part2 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 and PostgreSQL through BCS (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Highlights of 2010 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Free Kindle Books: A Guide (Lauren Indvik)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 82 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #758 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 5 popular posts of 2010 (Jef Claes)
• Silverlight Cream for December 23, 2010 — #1014 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Professional iPhone and iPad Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Gene Backlin

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Lambda Expressions: An Introduction and Lambda Expressions: Finding an Item in a Generic List and Delegates and Lambda Expressions: Syntax and Lambda Expressions: Predicate Delegates and Lambda Expressions: Action Delegates and Lambda Expressions: Func Delegates (Deborah Kurata)
• "M" Language Type Definitions for 280 Popular (and not so popular) Data Models (Chris Sells)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Enabling Bulk Inserts (Davy Brion)
• Team Build Property Reference Guide (Steve Andrews)
• LINQ to SQL, Lazy Loading and Prefetching (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• Model View Presenter via ASP .NET (Steven James Gray)
• Prevent Cut, Copy and Paste Operations in an ASP.NET TextBox using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NHProf in the real world: NHibernate Search integration (Oren Eini)
• Slutty Types (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
• Non-Technical Factors that Lead to Poor Architectures (Mike Walker)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part I: Ask for It (Patrick Kua)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 14. (Rajiv Popat)
• 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control, Part 2 (Rob Conery)
• How We Do Things – Testing Part 2 (Scott C Reynolds)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight DataForm for WPF? (Rudi Grobler)
• Manipulating Character Outlines in Silverlight (Charles Petzold)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video Posted for Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines (Brad Abrams)
• Episode 87 – PowerScripting Podcast – Sergei Antonov from the IIS team (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Herding Code 62: MonoTouch with Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton (Jon Galloway)
• Road2SPC Interview with Tom Rizzo (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Query Optimization – Remove Bookmark Lookup – Remove RID Lookup – Remove Key Lookup – Part 3 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Engineering SharePoint (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• My Tools of the Trade – 2009 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Lifehacker Readers’ Biggest Google Annoyances (Kevin Purdy)
• Installing Ubuntu on Hyper-V (Mike Hadlow)
• Intellects Don’t Appreciate Intelligence (Max Pool)
• Five Best Windows Task Manager Alternatives (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Find users in too many groups (Dmitry Sotnikov) – A PowerShell tip.
• Zoho Meeting: Instant PC Diagnostics with Remote Support (Hari)
• TIP: How to Run Programs as a Domain User from a Non-domain Computer (James Kovacs)
• Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication (MG Siegler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #452 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 11, 2009 — #709 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #93 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #74 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #7 – A Continuous Learner’s Weblog, Links (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 114 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/11/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• New and Notable 380 (Sam Gentile)
• Links (10/11/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• It’s time for you to consider replacing SourceSafe (Anthony Borton)
• How the TFS team is listening (Ben Scheirman)
• Get ready to “go live” with Team Foundation Server 2010 beta 2! (Brian Keller)
• Switch Connection String Being Used Based on Constructor Flag (Dave Schinkel)
• Team Build without Tests Lists (David Starr)
• Why NHibernate Entities Need A Public Or Protected Parameterless Constructor (Davy Brion)
• SourceSafe Still? TFS2010 may be the TFS tipping point for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Create Breakpoints With Hit Count In Visual Studio 2008 (Deepak Kapoor)
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)
• Fun with Func<T,TResult> Delegates, Events and Async Operations (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• How To Speed Up Your Website By 80% Or More (Alan Skorkin)
• Programming ASP.NET 3.5 (Dave M. Bush)
• thinking out loud: asp.net mvc & nhaml (Christopher Bennage)
• Efficient Server Side Paging With ASP.NET And jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Mobile Website Development With Netbiscuits (Robert Birkenheuer)
• Tip#98: Did you know… The default Application Pool Identity in IIS 7.5 (Windows 7) changed from NetworkService to AppPoolIdentity? (Katerina Rohonyan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strive for Functional Cohesion (Chris Eargle)
• xProfiler – A generic OR/M Profiler (Oren Eini)
• Please pass the duct tape (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Thoughts On Intellectual Honesty And Personal Ambitions (Davy Brion)
• Choosing a career path; which way do I go? (Joe Webb)
• Test Plan Template (Josh Poley)
• Lean and Kanban Collection (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Healthy Team Habits with Team System (David Starr)
• Announcing the guide for claims based identity and access control (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Delegate Mapper (Greg Young)
• Learn one thing a day and QTB: Agile Governance – Managing the Enterprise Issues (Mark Needham)
• Just some thoughts on the term ‘Pragmatic’ (Corey Haines)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 11. and Dissecting Remarkable Code And Design – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Quit Living in the Past – Practices Evolve and How we do things – Preamble and Contents and How We Do Things – Who we are, Where we were, Where we stand (Scott C. Reynolds)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor) (Daniel Grunwald)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V2: What’s new? (Laurent Bugnion) – Link of the Day
• My Favorite Silverlight Extensions APIs – Part 1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Mouse Over ComboBox Open (Behavior) (Jacek Ciereszko)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Re-architecting Applications for Internationalization (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: SQL Azure, MVC 2, New Channel 9 Content (Dan Fernandez)
• Connected Show Podcast: Paul Thurrott on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Brian Johnson)
• A Great Screencast on Skinning for WPF and Silverlight (Frank La Vigne)
• Engadget Podcast 165 – 10.02.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 86 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• PDC 2009: Patterns of Parallel Programming Survey (Ade Miller)
• Hello, authors! (Devon Musgrave)
• Jon Skeet, you will always be an MVP (Ted Neward)
• 10 Years at patterns & practices (J.D. Meier)
• My Software Development journey: Year 3-4 (Mark Needham)
• Concept Camp 2009 Review (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• Did you know you can use Amazon’s SimpleDB for free? (Just keep the data and transfer below 1GB per month, and keep the queries limited) (Greg Duncan)
• The problem with len()? (Martin Bell)
• SQLAuthority News – Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition and SQL SERVER – Choose Right Edition of SQL Server Express for Your Application (Pinal Dave)
• Calculating The Percentage Of Null Values In A Column With Transact SQL (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Install SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Jie Li)

Miscellaneous

• This Week in Search 10/2/09 (Marissa Mayer)
• Do you sign the default contract? (Oren Eini)
• Nerd Gear – What to wear? (Sara J. Chipps)
• Marketplace is live on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones (Thomas Ricker)
• October’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Google Wave’s unproductive email metaphors (Robert Scoble)
• Lookbehind in Regex searches (Rick Strahl)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #447 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 2, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2009 — #703 and Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2009 — #704 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for October 2, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #92 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #73 (Grant Palin)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (Kirill Osenkov)
• CloudNews for 2nd October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (10/4/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #554 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links for the week – 2009.10.02 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• A Feed You Should Read #6 – Bite my bytes, Links of the week (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 113 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 376 (Sam Gentile)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/04/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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