• Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC (Scott Guthrie)
• Eduasync part 4: Filling in AsyncTaskMethodBuilder (Jon Skeet)
• Using DataContracts with WCF Web API (Glenn Block)
• WindowsPhoneMvp Quickstart (Brendan Kowitz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Advantage data providers to read DBF-files (Gunnar Peipman)
• TFS API Part 36 – Create Build Definitions (Shai Raiten)
• Using guid id in nhibernate, index fragmentation (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Aligning Numbers on the Decimal Separator (Ron Petrusha)
• Manning Deal of the Day: “Natural User Interfaces in .NET” MEAP and Paper Book for $25 (Joey deVilla)
• Using Lazy to Solve Deadlocks in Resource Caches (Rick Brewster)

Web Development

• Step by step instructions to deploy ASP.NET MVC 3 to Windows Azure (Bart Czernicki)
• What are jQuery Class Selectors and ID selectors Explain them? (Hima)
• Playing with dapper Micro ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3.0 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• ASP.NET MVC and Multiple Submit Buttons (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Timepicker–nice extension to jQuery UI Datepicker (Gunnar Peipman)
• WCF REST Service with JSON Data (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A Not Very Short Introduction To Node.js (Anders Janmyr)
• HowTo: migrate an established WebApp to Azure (Code Inside Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting up to BAT: Building a True DSL (John Sonmez)
• Richardson’s Maturity Model as a tool for understanding not measurement (Glenn Block)
• What is Domain Driven Design? (Jak Charlton)
• Time Management Checklist and How To Set Goals and Achieve Them (JD Meier)
• Effective Tests: Test Doubles (Derek Greer)
• Do What You Say You Are Going to Do (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Dependency Injection (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Upcoming Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone “Mango” and Advanced Silverlight Trainings in Redmond (Dave Campbell)
• “That’s a HUGE List!” – WP7 Jump List (Erik Klimczak)
• (YANCWP7AM) Yet Another No Code Windows Phone 7 App Maker – FollowMyFeed (Greg Duncan)
• What is Line Stacking Strategy in Silverlight TextBlock control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Display PDFs in your Windows Phone 7 application (Nick Randolph)
• Release an App for Windows Phone 7 in 7 Days for a Chance to Win a New HTC 7 Trophy Phone (Nigel Parker)
• Windows Phone Launchers (Paul Sheriff)
• Consider this when downloading large files on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 156: Jon Galloway and Jesse Liberty on Remote Pairing (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 398: We discuss our Brink experience, Gatling Gears and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 208: Fake Hustle (Paul Thurrott)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 16 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 016 – “More Mango Madness” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #91: That Pause Was Air Quotes (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

• SQL SERVER – Attending MVP Open Day – May 2011 (Pinal Dave)
• The Microsoft week ahead: What’s on for TechEd 2011? (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Compression Estimator – Codeplex (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 15 – SQL Server Agent – Job ownership (Ted Krueger)
• SQL CLR Stored Procedure using Visual Studio 2010 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 05.10 ~ 05.16 (yuanjian)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 069 for 5/15/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #852 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 08-May-2011 to 14-May-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2011 — #1089 (Dave Campbell)
• Android development resource links (Mendelt Siebenga)

The Geek Shelf

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft’s Silverlight-based Local Impact Map (Adam Kinney)
• Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode (Corey Schuman)
• Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 – Introduction (Boyan Mihaylov)
• "Follow the Cursor" Animation – lets do it with behaviors (Jose Fajardo)
• Debugging XMAL Parser Exceptions (Kirstin Juhl)
• Enhance Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Reporting with Silverlight (Sandeep Chanda)
• Understanding Performance in your WPF Application (Margaret Parsons)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Repository is Dead: Long Live Repository (Greg Young)
• Night of the living Repositories and Find the bug (Oren Eini)
• IT Architecture is not Enterprise Architecture (Mike Walker)

Web Development

• How we do MVC (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET Survey Questions for the Community (Sam Gentile)
• ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!) (Scott Hanselman)
• Friday Books: RESTful .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• I Spose I’ll Just Say It: Still Waiting for a GOOD Reason to Learn MVC (Joe Brinkman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 2nd Level Cache (Oren Eini)
• Fluent Ado.Net and API design (Chris Brandsma)
• Idiomatic F# – Functional vs. Imperative (Chris Smith)
• Using Obscure Windows COM APIs in .NET (Jeff Moser)
• EF4 EF4 EF4 (Julie Lerman)
• Jon Skeet: Planning C# In Depth 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Adding CLR Fields (Harry Pierson)
• Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• .NET Trick – Persisting Data Without Using a Database (Michael Ceranski)
• HowTo: Create RSS Feeds with Linq to XML / XLinq (Robert Muehsig)
• Part 3 of My DSL for Developers Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What about DataLoadOptions for Entity Framework ObjectContext? (Muhammad Mosa)
• Pro Tip: Don’t co-opt .net conventions for your own purposes (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Cloud Computing and Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
• CLR 4 ThreadPool Enhancements (Daniel Moth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #104: Navigate your codebase like a pro with ReSharper 4.5 (Ray Houston) – Link of the Day
• Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Cloud Computing Timescales and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Preparing for "The Cloud" and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Current Shiny Toys (Mike Taulty)
• Herding Code 44: Microbusiness (Jon Galloway)
• The History of Microsoft – 1986 (Tina)
• Manuel Fähndrich and Peli de Halleux – The Synergy of Code Contracts and Pex (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• The Painting of IndyHall 2.0: THIS WEEKEND! (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• Dates Updated for Windows 7 Application Compatibility Labs (Bruce Kyle)
• CodeStock 2009 (Chris G. Williams)
• Those who can do, those who can’t blog? (Sara Chipps)
• MVPs Shine Silverlight Together at MVP Global Summit! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference (Zhiming Xue)
• MSDN session on ASP.NET MVC (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

• The Case for Multiple DBs in Multi Tenancy situations (Anne Epstein)
• Normaliser Component v2 : SSIS and Installation order for Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Team Explorer and SQL Server 2008 (Jamie Thomson)
• New book: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying (K. Jones)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler and SQL SERVER – Leading Zero to Number (Pinal Dave)
• The real headquarters of Oracle (Simone Chiaretta)
• Please Mr. DBA, Change default passwords and use strong passwords (Ted Kreuger)

Miscellaneous

• Delicious Tech Tweets (Elijah Manor)
• MSDN Mag 6/2009 Editor’s Note Sneak Peak – On Aggregates (Howard Dierking)
• Recent Changes to IE Content on MSDN (Lance Leonard)
• Why we should attack our own systems? (Gunnar Peipman)
• What is this blog? (Silverlight Team)
• TeamCity 4.5 is live! (Richard Cirerol)
• Windows Mobile 6.5: Standard and Professional and Windows 8 and Windows 9: Various Tidbits (Stephen Chapman)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate out in the wild! (Taimur Asad)
• A Multitouch Pad for Windows (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 3009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #334 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2009 — #577 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 23rd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (4/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Exporting Visual Studio Solutions with SolutionFactory (Ben Scheirman)
• NHibernate Mapping – <set/> (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Fluent Ado.Net (Chris Brandsma)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #2 (Damien Guard)
• F#: A day of writing a little twitter application (Mark Needham)
• NHibernate’s Future Queries And Their Fallback Behavior (Davy Brion)
• How to use wcftestclient as svc file debugger for VS2008 SP1 (Xinyang Qiu)
• CUMUY PRESENTS: XNA GS (Pedro D. Güida)
• T4 Editor by Tangible Engineering (Oleg Sych)

Web Development

• Striped GridView the Easy Way w/ jQuery (Dave M. Bush)
• Handling MouseEnter and MouseLeave Events in jQuery (Dan Wahlin)
• How to choose between ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Language Envy – Juicy, a simple webserver (Sergio Pereira)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #50 – Create View Models (Stephen Walther)
• A Closable jQuery Plug-in (Rick Strahl)
• Creating A Tabbed Menu Control For ASP.NET MVC (Justin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• X Tests are not X Tests (Michael Feathers)
• Agile practices are not just about management. (Mike Hadlow) – Link of the Day
• "I don’t have time to test!" (jlockwood)
• DDDD: Event Storage (Jonathan Oliver)
• Death to the Space Infidels! (Jeff Atwood)
• NCover v3 rocks! (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Layout Manager for Prism v2 (Ron Gramann)
• WPF : More Mediator Goodness (Sacha Barber)
• Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend—Part 1 (Markus Egger)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Value of Web Forms and Design Constraints (Pixel8 Podcast)
• Tips and Advice – Team Rooms (Bob Payne)
• The Thirsty Developer 58: Applying SOA (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• deCast – Building an Azure App Part II: Azure Table Storage (Rob Bagby)
• Episode 66 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scott Herold talks VESI and Vizioncore (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 13th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming April geekSpeaks (Glen Gordon)
• 5 Blogs ASP.NET MVC Developers Should Be Following (Justin Etheredge)
• 300 Posts (Davy Brion)
• Logo Contest Winner for serverfault.com (Jeff Atwood)
• Tips and Tricks for creating User Group communication channels with your members. (Eric Hexter)
• ASP.NET MVC – CMAP HOL Group Meeting – Thursday, April 16th at 6:30pm (Christopher Steen)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Updates Reporting Services, Office Integration, Data Mining, and More (Bruce Kyle)
• Tip: Using Full Text Search With a Table-Valued Function (Rob Conery)
• SQL SERVER – Check if Current Login is Part of Server Roll Member (Pinal Dave)
• ExecuteSQLExecutingQuery : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Copy SQL Server Database (Ted Krueger)

PowerShell

• Using Script Functions in the PowerShell Pipeline ( Take Two ) (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Ten Quirky Issues with Cross-Platform Version Control (Eric Sink)
• The Apple Tax (Steve Clayton)
• LiveLessons Python Fundamentals Review (Mike Riley)
• Free Book Download: Collaboration in the Cloud – How cross-boundary collaboration is transforming business (Clemens Reijnen)
• How to view revisions for entire wiki – #014 and How not to apply wiki formatting in your CodePlex wiki page – #015 (Sara Ford)
• On Learning Boo (Ian Cooper)
• From Imperative to Functional – Transposing Maps (Matthew Podwysocki)
• “Microsoft Virtualization” Learning Snack & free e-book (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Link Round up on .NET RIA Services (March 13th) (Brad Abrams)
• The Morning Brew #326 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #111 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2009 — #569 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 13th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• VSTS Rangers Released Team Test Quick Reference on CodePlex! (Angela Binkowski)
• Live Framework Examples Interop with Many Technologies (Bruce Kyle)
• Simple example of using a Subquery in NHibernate when using ICriteria (Derik Whittaker)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Getting Arguments and Writing an IronPython Debugger: REPL Console and Pygments for WL Writer v1.0.1 (Harry Pierson)
• Re-Enabling Features in CodeRush v2009.1.2 After They Are Disabled (Keith Elder)
• Windows 7 Libraries .NET Sample Library – an Overview and Understanding Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty) – Links of the Day
• Measuring performance under Visual Studio (Daniel Moth)
• How to calculate CRC in C#? (Tamir Khason)
• Building Domain Specific Languages in C#, Part 2 (Neal Ford)
• Castle NHibernate Facility – Configuration (Tuna Toksoz)
• Why You Should Upgrade to .NET 3.5 (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• DDDBlog Implementation. Part 1 (Vinay D.)
• ASP.NET MVC – Controller to View (Dave M. Bush)
• Reflecting over JSON Data to Simplify Control Updates with jQuery and 5 Reasons You Should Take a Closer Look at ASP.NET MVC (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Unit Testing Part 1: JsUnit (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET RefCardz (Mike Ormond)
• HowTo: From the view to the controller in ASP.NET MVC with ModelBinders (Robert Muehsig)

Silverlight / WPF

• Binding Dynamic Properties in XAML, ASP.NET… (Chris Cavanagh)
• Calling JavaScript functions from Silverlight 2 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #106 – Setting Default Browser from within VS (Mike Snow)
• Do you have any feedback on the AutoCompleteBox API? (Jeff Wilcox)
• VideoWicki – A Open-Book Design-To-Delivery Silverlight 3 Project (Jesse Liberty)
• Sports, Powered by Silverlight (Steve Sklepowich)
• Managing Silverlight 3 navigation behavior (Tim Heuer)
• A Twitter Application in WPF (Carole Snyder)
• Animating when data changes (Josh Twist)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Designing Rhino DHT – A fault tolerant, dynamically distributed, hash table and Reviewing NChord: A codebase that makes me twitch (Oren Eini)
• What is Agility? Part 1 – Business Agility (Brad Appleton)
• Pragmatic vs Theoretical Development Practices (Chris Love)
• "Technology moves fast. Evolution Moves slow." (Daniela Panfili)
• DDD: Only for Complex Projects? (Mark Needham)
• What’s Wrong With This Picture? (Kirstin Juhl)
• tour of the month: the landmark tour (James Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Tips and Advice – Listener Email – Self Organizing Teams (Bob Payne)
• .NET Rocks! – Don Kiely on AJAX at DevConnections! (Carl Franklin)
• MSDN Radio – Chunk Cloud Computing (Johan Lindfors)
• ALT.NET Podcast #18: Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net (James Avery)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 6th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MVPs Play Critical Role at Tech Ed North America (Jas Dhaliwal)

Happy Birthday Channel 9!

• Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Eric Lippert: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Anders Heljsberg: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Mark Russinovich: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Erik Meijer: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Scott Guthrie: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Larry Osterman: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles Torre)
• Bill Hill: On Channel 9, Niners and Homo Sapiens 2.0 (Charles Torre)
• Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe (Charles Torre)
• Jeff Sandquist: Channel 9 Through the Years (Charles Torre)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Press UK: 40% off 25 books (Devon Musgrave)
• Microsoft Office Military Appreciation Edition – $50 (Julie Lerman)
• New Zune Hardware Coming This Year (Jason Chen)
• Windows 7 reaches escrow build, RC imminent? (Lee Mathews)
• How to create a new CodePlex project wiki page – #009 (Sara Ford)
• Tips for Real Time Web working on new friendfeed (Robert Scoble)
• Introducing the WMI Blog (James Brundage)
• Adobe AIR Developer’s Toolbox: Resources and Tutorials (Paul Andrew)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #323 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 06, 2009 — #564 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-04-06 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 12 (Mike Snow)
• CloudNews for April 6th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fluent NHibernate: Auto Mapping and Base Classes and I Think You Mean a Many-to-One Sir (James Gregory)
• Agile in the Trenches (David Starr)
• How Do You Know Your Tests Are Good? (Laila Bougria) – Link of the Day
• Back to Basics: Refactoring Code (Rachel Appel)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Avoiding Custom Delegates (Brad Abrams)
• Test Examples with MBUnit and jpboodhoo.bdd (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introduction to Static Reflection (James Gregory)
• Entity Framework-Enabled Providers Lists (David Sceppa)
• F# and WCF: Data Contracts (Ray Vernagus)
• Why No var on Fields? (Eric Lippert)
• Directed Graph Markup Language (DGML) (Cameron Skinner)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Kick-Off! Spend Your $100 Wisely! (Tom Hollander)

Web Development

• Disallow Navigation on ForeignKey FieldTemplate – Dynamic Data (Stephen Naughton)
• JavaScript Array Fun (Rick Strahl)
• Control Workflow Behavior with Custom Lists (Again) (Paul Galvin)
• SQL Cache Dependency with SQL Server, LINQ and ASP.NET 3.5 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Sueetie: New and Improved Wiki User Account Creation (Dave Burke)
• Using CSLA .NET for Silverlight to Build Line-of-Business Applications (Rocky Lhotka)
• Windows Azure – Accessing the Request.Url Property (David L.)

.NET Community / Events

• Code Cast 19 – Peter Provost on Agile, Visual Studio 2010, and Architecture Tools (David Starr)
• Events This Week – January 26th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Daniela Is Blogging in English About UX and Design (Simone Chiaretta)
• CodePlex 2008 – A Year in Review (Sara Ford)

Miscellaneous

• Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (Jane Maliouta)
• Google Chrome User Experience Research (Ian Fette)
• DSLs: Definitely a Bad Idea! (Paul Vick)
• Painful Reminder: Focus on Core Competencies (and Back Stuff Up) (Scott Hanselman)
• Managing Server Features with PowerShell Cmdlets on Windows 2008 Server R2 Beta (Xin Li)

More Link Collections

• CloudNews for January 26th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for January 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – January 26, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2009 — #498 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #273 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day