• Designing the Start screen (Steven Sinofsky)
• Brain, Bytes, Back, Buns – The Programmer’s Priorities (Scott Hanselman)
• Prevent Forms Authentication Login Page Redirect When You Don’t Want It (Phil Haack)
• So what’s new in Orchard 1.3? (Bertrand Le Roy)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Waiting for Parallel Tasks to Complete (Richard Carr)
• TFSSCExplorerExtension for VS10 and 11 – Think "TFS Source Control Explorer Window Features++" or "zomg drag and drop in TFS Source Control Explorer Window!" (Greg Duncan)
• Macros Have Been Dropped from Visual Studio 11 (Jonathan Allen)
• Execute<T> With IronRuby (K. Scott Allen)
• That Tricky StackTrace (Mehdi Khalili)
• CSLA 4 version 4.2 beta 1 release (Rockford Lhotka)
• SignedXml.CheckSignature() can’t find the certificate for verification (Lars Wilhelmsen)

Web Development

• Use Visual Studio 2010 to Profile your ASP.NET Application which is hosted on IIS (Abhijit Jana)
• Is Node.cs a cure for cancer? (Oren Eini)
• A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript (Christian Heilmann)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.44 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Nancy takes another step forward (Andreas Håkansson)
• Support for Worker Roles in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
• Come Node With Me – Houston, We Have a Problem (Drew Peterson)
• Getting a Web Resource Url in non WebForms Applications (Rick Strahl)
• Lightbox Gallery Module for DotNetNuke 1.09.900 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Git: Getting the history of a deleted file (Mark Needham)
• Future mocking revisited (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• DataContract serialization on Windows Phone (Arian Kulp)
• Data Binding the Windows Phone Toolkit AutoCompleteBox and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Database Queries with LINQ (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7: Link in text with RichTextBox on mango (Håkan Reis)
• 2000 WPF Things #401 – DockPanel Element (Sean Sexton)
• Upgrading Windows Phone Projects To SDK 7.1 (Tim Murphy)
• Dynamic binding for your Silverlight applications (Vladimir Enchev)
• Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 7: Building control extensions with the extensibility toolkit (Gill Cleeren)
• patterns & practices – Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone 7 Survey Application – Mango Refresh Drop 1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C&B 2011: C++11 Panel – Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu and Scott Meyers and GoingNative Live at BUILD 1 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• Engadget HD Podcast 268 – 10.04.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Ping 119: Bing Deals, Windows Phone 8 and you, Windows 8 syncs, Killing a botnet and Hot Apps: Burn The Rope, Puzzle Quest 2, Talking Alarm Clock, De-BUGS, Monkey Mini Golf (Laura Foy)
• The GeekDads Episode #101: Han Shot First, Fahgettaboudit! (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• 7 Reasons to go to Øredev 2011 (Anders Janmyr)
• PASS Summit Tips and Tricks (Brent Ozar)
• Series of webcasts about ASP.NET MVC 3 (in Italian) (Simone Chiaretta)
• More BUILD reflections: The touch language of Windows 8 (Steve Clayton)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop RTW (Greg Duncan)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Wait Stats Book – Available as Kindle eBook – October Special (Pinal Dave)
• Oracle Joins the NoSQL Club (Abel Avram)
• Tip for Using SQLServer To Count By Alpha Names in a list (Peter Kellner)

SharePoint

• Guidance about Hybrid SharePoint Environments (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Enterprise iOS Applications – $7.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• How to give a perfect demo (Scott Berkun)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 5 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 4, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2011 — #1156 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #723 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #952 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 10/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework by Steven Sanderson

• Welcome to Building Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• NHibernate Work-Around is not really a Work-Around… (Phillip Haydon)
• Book Reviews: CoffeeScript and JavaScript Web Applications (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Silverlight 5 Incompatibility: Play by the Rules (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some special monads in F# – Part 1 of n – InfinityMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 2 of n – UndoMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 3 of n – DistributionMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 4 of n – Application: The Monty Hall problem (Steffen Forkmann)
• Parallel For Loop (Richard Carr)
• Downloading file as byte array from AZURE BLOB storage in WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Code Metrics – Creating Work Items from Code Metrics Results (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tip #109 Did you know … How to speed up build time by *only* building the currently selected project in a multi-project solution? (Mark Berryman)
• Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 6, Hiding Processes (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Answer: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)
• DXCore standard string providers list and How to specify the CodeRush user information and use it inside text expansions (Alex Skorkin)
• Code Kata Answers to Calculating averages (Mal)
• Photo Mosaics Part 4: Tables (Jim O’Neil)
• What’s Wrong With This Code? (#28) (K. Scott Allen)
• Lego my Robotics Developer Studio… "Robot Development Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio" book now available for purchase and Along came a spider… a .NET Gadgeteer FEZ Spider! and NUI Racing – Using Kinect (and C++) to drive TrackMaina (Greg Duncan)
• Annual SQL Connectivity Survey (Raghu Ram)
• Interactive IdP With SAML-P WIF Extension (Jimmy Larkin)

Web Development

• Building the Account at a Glance HTML5/jQuery Application (Dan Wahlin)
• What is the correct media type for JavaScript source code? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Running ClamAV (Antivirus Software) in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Rails 3 – Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD271 (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• IT projects; if you can’t beat them, change the game (Simon Brown)
• Think of Yourself as a Thinker (J.D. Meier)
• Creatively Thrashing With TDD (Rob Conery)
• Inversion of Control Course Published on Pluralsight (John Sonmez)
• Monsters Built Using Kanban (Peter Saddington)
• Rails Misapprehensions: The Dependency Injection Pattern (Nick Sutterer)
• How Microsoft Is Changing Version Control for Images (Rowan Puttergill)
• Thoughts on Mocking (Part 1 of 2) and (Part 2 of 2) (Gregory Brown)
• New book: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft, Second Edition (Valerie Woolley)
• Technical Debt and Open Source (Joe Mayo)
• One Year since TeamPulse V1 (Joel Semeniuk)
• Planning for a new level of verifications in automation (John Guin)
• Use, Reuse, and Architectures (Kyle Szklenski)
• Microsoft Visio 2010 Template: Application Architecture Pivot Diagrams (MS Downloads)
• Advantages Of Being A Polyglot Programmer (Davy Brion)
• Lessons in Software Reliability (Jim Bird)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Custom application Theme Step by Step (Windows Phone Geek)
• Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
• Fetching Picasa Images through RSS in WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• HTML 5 or Silverlight 5, which will Microsoft choose for the next O/S (Surf4Fun)
• What happens when I publish a Windows Phone ‘Mango’ application update? (Todd Brix)
• Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – OAuth client & basic infrastructure (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 2000 WPF Things #365 – SelectedDate and SelectedDates Properties of Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
• System.Threading.Tasks and updating the UI thread (Geoff Hudik)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Shaun Walker Talks A Little DNN 6 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Building Web Parts-Episode 65 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Surface 2.0 Stress Test Robot – PaTTY (Nic Fillingham)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 66 – A Chat About ALM (Richard Banks)
• Ping 113: 3D Human face, Windows 7, Microsoft Fashion, Excel Challenge (Laura Foy)
• New Async Programming Videos (Spotty)

Community / Events

• Coffee Talk: Introduction to Scrum – webcast event this Friday! (Martin Hinshelwood)
• SQLAuthority News – Pluralsight Giving Away Free Subscription to Quiz Participants (Pinal Dave)
• GirlDevelopIt Brings Affordable Programming Classes to Philly (Nicole Kline)
• Cricket brought me back to Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• Major update to SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 available (Erik EJ)
• Using SSIS lookup transformation editor with millions of rows (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – System and Time Data Types – Day 16 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• How I Scrapped MySQL for MongoDB in Three Hours (Mike Borozdin)

Miscellaneous

• Gorilla vs. Shark (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 08.08 ~ 08.16 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading August 15, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (8/15/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #917 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 078 for 8/15/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily News Digest 08/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Link dump for August 15th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Links of the week #158 (David Vidmar)
• Daily WP7 Development News 15 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life! by Chris Bernard

Top Links

• Architecture by Baseball: Conference on the mound (Larry Clarkin)
• StarFight (Paul Stovell)
• Making a generic UpdateSourceTrigger for PropertyChanged in Silverlight (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Remove and Sort – Namespaces using Shortcut in Visual Studio (Jonathan Wood)
• DXCore Services – LinkedIdentifiers and Clipboard Tools – Paste Replace Word (Alex Skorkin)
• MonoDevelop is the Third IDE for F# (Jonathan Allen)
• Create Web Application or Virtual Directory in IIS (Zain Naboulsi)
• IR Black Theme For Visual Studio (Rob Conery)
• [Book Review] “Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0” by Sachin Joshi from Packt Publishing (Greg Duncan)
• Immutable Array for .NET (Luigi Grilli)
• Rocket Framework for Windows – Release: v1.0.0 and FxCop Integrator for Visual Studio 2010 – Release: v1.1.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Format JavaScript with the IE9 developer tools (Jef Claes)
• New Book: Microsoft Expression Web 4 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Reuse your closures with functors (Giorgio Sironi)
• Stream.CopyTo() extension method and ASP.NET: Serializing and deserializing JSON objects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Calling a REST Based JSON Endpoint with HTTP POST and WCF (Wally McClure)
• 10 Predictions for Web Development in 2011 (Jolie O’Dell)
• Hosting the Razor Engine for Templating in Non-Web Applications (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• [Agile Guide] – Rotating Responsibility for Scrums and Retrospectives (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Inline Setup (Giorgio Sironi)
• How To Complete Stories Without Leaving Bugs Behind (Dan Puckett)
• 10 Interface Design Tips to Improve Your Business Application (Derek Singleton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Wpf tab control when you have photoshop images and Consistency from WPF and GDI+ in creating images from stream (Al Kampfer)
• Silverlight Spy Preview 2 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Pingback : A quick comparison of getting started on Windows Phone 7 Development and Android Development (Senthil Kumar)
• Help my Slider control does not work inside a Grid in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Shaun Walker on the state of DotNetNuke (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• WP7 Minute Show Episode 4: Search (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Agile, .NET or C++ User Groups Can Win One Year of Sponsorship + Product Licenses and More (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Marissa Mayer: Here’s What It Was Like Being The Only Female Geek At Stanford And Google (GOOG) (Jay Yarow)

Database

• Filtered Index Vs Indexed Views in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Plan Cache and Data Cache in Memory (Pinal Dave)
• If the SQL Server install fails… and the uninstall as well (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Procedure expects parameter error from SqlCommand (Ted Krueger)
• Thoughts on schemas and schema proliferation (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Get Datepart in SharePoint Designer Workflow (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

• 10 Webapps that Add Great New Features to Gmail [Productivity] (Amit Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream Monday WP7 App Review # 1 (Dave Campbell)
• 3 tips for getting a job in the new year (Eugenia Sawa)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Classic Shell Scripting – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDSKP (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft News of Note in 2010 (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman on State of the Web, One More Link, 25 Redesigns, Content Sharing Factors, China Blue (Dave Burke)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 28 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for December 27, 2010 — #1016 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 12/28/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities by Mike Liu

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Eclipse and VSTS (Pieter de Bruin)
• Lightweight Linq Parser (Brad Abrams)
• Building A Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 1 (Chris Patterson)
• Windows 7 Runtime Libraries Available for Vista and Windows Server 2008 (Zhiming Xue)
• Attach a Debugger When a Process Starts (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• 7 on 7: Sensor and Location API (Jim O’Neil)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 1: Introduction and Freescale Board Setup and Testing (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• WOHOO!!!, Debug Diag 64bit is finally released (Tess Ferrandez)

Web Development

• Don’t Look Now, But MapQuest Might Be Great (Adam DuVander)
• MVC Best Practices (Jimmy Bogard)
• Announcing the Zoho Projects API (Celina Balasingh)
• 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Simone Chiaretta)
• Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP developers (Maarten Balliauw)
• Verify JavaScript syntax using C# (Mads Kristensen)
• DotNetNuke 5.x Can’t Move Module On A Page (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD Invades Space Invaders (Michael Kennedy)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 6 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 18. (Rajiv Popat)
• Manual Mocking: Resisting the Invasion of Dots and Parentheses (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Cost Oriented Architecture of Cloud Applications (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Coding: Connascence – Some examples (Mark Needham)
• Uniqueness validation in CQRS Architecture (Jérémie Chassaing)

Silverlight / WPF

• Video Player Expression Blend 3 Behavior Library (MS Downloads)
• New WPF Features: ClearTypeHint (Lester Lobo)
• You ask: Should Silverlight use BAML? (Rob Relyea)
• WPF and databinding to dynamic properties (Torkel Ödegaard)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video on creating a PowerPack (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• 10-4 Episode 34: Debugger Enhancements and Improvements (Jason Olson)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Don Box – Perspectives on SOAP, Programming Data and M (Charles Torre)
• Screencast: SharePoint 2010 for Project Management Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Tekpub Production Calendar (Rob Conery)
• Developing Windows Azure applications for PHP, Ruby, and Java, using Eclipse (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Growing the next generation of computer scientists and business leaders (Kyle Ewing)
• Expression Blend Feedback Forum (Adam Kinney)
• "Oslo" at the 2009 PDC (Chris Sells)
• PDC2009: XAML Futures Talk (Rob Relyea)

Database

• Disable SQL Azure Firewall (Jason De Lorme)
• Windows Azure Tables: Expect Continuation Tokens, Seriously! (Steve Marx)
• Another Great SQL Azure Query Tool (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• Free Download: SharePoint Assessment WBS & Project Schedule (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Short Overview of SharePoint Features in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Jausovec)

Miscellaneous

• Set Up Windows Home Server to Automate Your Backups and Corral Your Media (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/10/29 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Dr. Explain Gives Your Software a Brain (Lee Dumond)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #465 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 – 2 — #718 and Silverlight Cream for October 28, 2009 — #719 (Dave Campbell)
• My Top 10 Personal Favorite And Overlooked Posts (Davy Brion)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #572 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 28th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 385 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• The future of debugging is here! Visual Studio 2010 now supports stepping back in the debugger. (Habib Heydarian)
• IronPython and IronRuby CTPs for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 (Harry Pierson)
• Workflow Foundation Part III: Participating in persistence (Henning Krause)
• Visual Studio 2010 Training Course on Channel 9 (Jason Olson)
• Tutorial: Getting Started with TFS in VS2010 (Jason Zander)
• Force .NET application to run in 32bit process on 64bit OS (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – October Preview (G. Andrew Duthie)
• C# Static interfaces and Take 2 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 2 (Justin Van Patten)
• A tour of the new Channel 9 Learning Center and Download Visual Studio 2010 Express Editions (Dan Fernandez)
• Busting Visual Studio Myths – or How I learned to counter “that guy’s” anti-VS/.Net comments – or how I convinced my boss that Feature X doesn’t have Problem Y (Greg Duncan)
• New Visual Studio 2010 Built-in C# Snippets Cheat Sheet (John Sheehan)
• IronRuby and IronPython for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 (Jimmy Schementi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates (Karl Shifflett)
• Interesting findings in the diff between .NET Fx v4 Beta1 and Beta2 (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• Lambdas aren’t just for managed code (Scott Seely)

Web Development

• Facebook Churning Out API Updates (Adam DuVander)
• ASP.NET Substitution Control and DotNetNuke – Collecting Profile at Registration (Dave M. Bush)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Web Tools Overview (Mike Snow)
• The Microsoft Ajax Library and Visual Studio Beta 2 (Stephen Walther)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• All the wonderful colors of code coverage (Dennis "D.C." Dietrich)
• Being Business Focused: Risk (Dru Sellers)
• 31 Days of Refactoring eBook (Simone Chiaretta)
• Testing Time – The Best of Both Worlds (Jonathan Oliver)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part III: Agree on Action (Patrick Kua)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Custom Properties and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Mozilla and Microsoft work together on WPF\ClickOnce plugins (Brad Abrams)
• Two birds, one stone [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 2 and DataVisualizationDemos update] (David Anson)
• Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit October 2009 Release Update (Ning Zhang)
• Silverlight out-of-browser and initParams (Josh Twist)
• New WPF Features: TextFormattingMode for clear text (Lester Lobo)
• Uninstall Silverlight SDK RTM before installing VS 2010 Beta 2 (Mike Snow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aaron Skonnard Builds a Real Cloud App (Carl Franklin)
• Pat Brenner: Visual Studio 2010 – MFC and Windows 7 (Charles Torre)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET 4 and Scott Hunter on The Big Picture and new Templates and Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET 4 and Phil Haack (and son!) (Scott Hanselman)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #71 (Jeff Atwood)
• Channel 9 makes you smart(er) – Channel 9 Learning Center opens with VS2010/.Net 4 and Windows 7 courses (free of course) (Greg Duncan)
• New Parallel Capabilities of the Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)
• deCast – Patterns-Based Silverlight – Part II – The Repository Pattern (Rob Bagby)
• Functions and Classes in C# (Sam Stokes)
• Windows 7 and your Xbox 360 (Tina)
• Creating an External List in SharePoint by Using Business Data (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – October 21st, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 7 Launch Client Developer Track Content Available Here (Dave Bost)
• SharePoint Conference Notes on SharePoint 2010 – Day 3 (Greg Galipeau)
• PDC09: Application Deployment with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Robert Hess)
• Live Webcast of Windows 7 Launch Event in NYC 10/22/09 (Zhiming Xue)
• StackOverflow DevDays (Steve Rowe)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Difference Between Candidate Keys and Primary Key (Pinal Dave)
• Wildcard – Match One Character using Underscore (_) (Patrick LeBlanc)

SharePoint

• #spc09 ECM for the Masses: How SharePoint 2010 Delivers On The Promise (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Expands Office 2010 Web Apps Technical Preview (Blake Handler)
• Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You (Bing Team)
• RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my! (Marissa Mayer)
• Building an iPhone app (Aaron Jensen)
• FolderSize Displays What’s Eating Your Hard Drive Space (Adam Pash)
• Refactoring: Ruby Edition available. (Jay Fields)
• 7 Ways to Change the World (Jim O’Neil)
• Google Music Service: The Screenshots (Michael Arrington)
• Lightroom Beta 3 now available (Ryan Brenizer)
• How We Made GitHub Fast (Tom Preston-Werner)
• Burger King selling a Windows 7 Whopper in Japan (Vladislav Savov)
• SinkOverflow (Steve Tibbett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 21, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #460 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 21, 2009 — #713 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #566 and Double Shot #567 (Mike Gunderloy)
• XAML/WPF Web News (2009-10-20) (Rob Relyea)
• CloudNews for 21st October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading from Text Files with StreamReader (Richard Carr)
• Chocolate Salty Bools (Lee Dumond) – Title of the day. Well done, Lee…
• How to keep you fingers on the keyboard within VSTS 2010 Architecture Edition (Clemens Reijnen) – Link of the Day
• When an object-relational mapper is too much, DataReader too little (Damien Guard)
• Must Everything Be Virtual With NHibernate, Part II (Davy Brion)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 – Code Coverage Settings Window Closes Unexpectedly (Doug Holland)
• Debugging a COM object (Runtime Callable Wrapper) with Visual Studio 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• .NET Access Control Service takes a REST (Keith Brown)
• BizTalk Project Creation Fails – or, Why did BizTalk in VS 2008 break? (Matt Milner)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Sorting and Filtering Chart Data (Scott Mitchell)
• DotNetNuke – Retrieving Host Access (Dave M. Bush)
• Working with Events, Part 3: More Event Delegation with jQuery (Louis-Rémi Babé)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD: Copying and pasting tests (Mark Needham)
• Agile Architecture, Lean Principles (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Do you plan your work? (Louis Salin)
• A Mess is not a Technical Debt. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 17. (Rajiv Popat)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Change is Good (Rob Reynolds)
• Best Time-Tracking Application: Klok (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• MultiBrowser or CrossBrowser Testing and deconstructing Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview (Scott Hanselman)

Silverlight / WPF

• A new way to get the full version of Expression Encoder 3 (James Clarke)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kent Tegels on SQL Server Integration Services (Carl Franklin)
• C# 4.0 Dynamic with Chris Burrows and Sam Ng (Charlie Calvert)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #142: Isolation Frameworks: Learning to use Partial Mocks (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Working from home & commuting via float plane (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Steal My Book (Roy Osherove) – I’ve almost finished ‘The Art of Unit Testing’ and it’s worth every penny. Do yourself a favor and go buy a copy.
• Chance to win a free HD Zune and free VSTS 2010 Training in a Northwest City near you! (Charles Sterling)
• Events this week – September 22nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Goodbye MSDN Magazine (Howard Dierking) – Good luck, Howard. Thanks for everything you have done for msdnmag!
• MVP Profile of the Week….. (Robert Pearl) – Greg Larsen, SQL MVP, is featured this week.

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight CTP2 (Sumeeth Evans)
• SQL SERVER – Insert Values of Stored Procedure in Table – Use Table Valued Function (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Google Wave in Internet Explorer (Lars Rasmussen)
• Introducing Google Chrome Frame (Ian Fette)
• XPS Essentials Pack Version 1.1 (MS Downloads)
• Setting up TortoiseSVN to use WinMerge (Derik Whittaker)
• Getting More Performance out of Windows Live Meeting (William Vaughn)
• Create Your Own Forum With Zoho Discussions (Stan Schroeder)
• Windows 8 Special: Features and Considerations (Stephen Chapman)
• Office Web Apps (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft Courier Multitouch Tablet Unveiled (Taimur Asad)
• Helping You Recover Your Work in Office 2010 (Nitie)
• Paint.NET 3.5 Beta 1 released – now with added shiny (Paul O’Brien)
• U need some .Net training and/or course materials? Then .Net U is for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 1: The Bing Translator (Runar Olsen)
• Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials (Melissa Scroggins)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #439 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 22, 2009 — #697 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for September 22, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 373 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 22nd September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #546 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Plunging into the sea of jQuery plugins – Part I (Xun Ding)
• Circular References no More (Ben Anderson)
• 10 Useful Tips For Ruby On Rails Developers (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show #136 – Rachel Appel on Dynamic Data (Wallace B. McClure)
• Test your site in all mainstream browsers without installing (Wesley Bakker)
• Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption Part 6 – The ESB Channel Model (Sam Gentile)
• Splitting DateTime – Unit Testing ASP.NET MVC Custom Model Binders (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #49 – Use the LinqBinaryModelBinder in your Edit Actions (Stephen Walther)
• DotNetNuke – FileUploadControl Danger! and ASP.NET MVC – Is The Grass Really Greener? (Dave M. Bush)
• New ASP.NET Architecture (Keyvan Nayyeri)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ReSharper 4.5 EAP (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Moving to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (Steve Marx)
• Code Contracts for .NET (Zhiming Xue)
• How to determine which language(s) were used to build a .NET assembly (Rick Minerich)
• Functional C# – Fun With Folds (Matthew Podwysocki)
• C#: Wrapping DateTime and Coding: Using "ToString" (Mark Needham)
• Create custom LINQ providers fluently (Mehfuz H.)
• Expert to Expert: Inside Concurrent Basic (CB) (Charles Torre)
• Ninject 2 Reaches Beta! (Nate Kohari)

Silverlight / WPF

• New themes: EDGE and INC (formerly “Executive”) (Dax Pandhi)
• Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET Framework 4 Serves as User Interface Base for Upcoming Beta of Visual Studio 2010 (Bruce Kyle)
• Please turn the fidelity higher please (Coding4Fun)
• Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 (Dave Campbell)
• Better Navigation (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight’s ProgressBar And Possible Memory Leaks (Davy Brion)
• Silverlight Unit Test Runner for ReSharper – January 2009 Update (Einar Ingebrigtsen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• links you’ve been asking for (James Whittaker)
• An Agile Workflow (Karl Scotland)
• Who’s Your Coding Buddy? (Jeff Atwood)
• Distributed Reliability Testing (Ian Fette)
• MVP Delivers Free Data Structures and Algorithms EBook! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Plunging your way to better code (Larry Clarkin)
• Silverlight Unit Testing, RhinoMocks, Unity and Resharper. (Justin Angel)
• Hallmarks of Good System Design (Marcus Bratton)

Database

• SQL Server In The Cloud Vaporware Or Inevitable? (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server 2010 Features Leaked! (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Find Relationship of Foreign Key and Primary Key using T-SQL – Find Tables With Foreign Key Constraint in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Paging in a sql result set (Peter Van Ooijen)

Community / Events

• Teamcity.Codebetter.com is alive and kicking (Derik Whittaker)
• Heading to MIX09? Get ready for MIXAPALOOZA (Nic Fillingham)
• How not to get help on an Open Source Project (Nick Berardi)
• Mix09 Wiimote/C4F Meetup? (Brian Peek)
• Speaking at DevTeach in June (Shawn Wildermuth)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7: Beta testers, not Microsoft, need more feedback (Mary Jo Foley)
• Muglia: Open source to permeate Microsoft (Matt Asay)
• Send Emails with .NET and Gmail (gatekiller)
• VB6 Runtime to ship and be supported in Windows 7 (Charles Sterling)
• Kodu: Visual Programming on the Xbox with P2P Level-sharing (Brady Forrest)
• Some Changes Since Beta for the RC (Chaitanya Sareen) – Some Windows 7 RC details – Link of the Day
• Updates to attachments: multi-select and progress bars (Wes Carr)
• 5 Tips For Making Better Use Of Your Time (Simon Mackie)
• Get Yer TwitStamp and Your ass is grass and I’m the lawn mower (Steve Clayton)
• Windows 7 Trigger-Start Services (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #295 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: February 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Twitterings #17 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 25, 2009 — #528 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for February 25th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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