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.NET / Visual Studio

• Choosing between Active Record, Fluent NHibernate and NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Stephen Forte)
• VB / C# Language Parity (Chris Williams)
• .NET Voice Recorder (Coding4Fun)
• Understanding the NHibernate Type System (Me)
• NHibernate Caching and Assigned Ids – A Potential Pitfall (Anne Epstein)
• Update on Maybe Monad: Q&As and Caveats (Rinat Abdullin)
• The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security (Mike Hadlow)
• Hybrid App Debugging – Threading (Harry Pierson)
• What’s the difference between "as" and "cast" operators? (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• A S#arp Project Case Study (Billy McCafferty)
• An AutoMapper success story (Jimmy Bogard)
• jQueryPad (Paul Stovell)
• Who has the Best Cloud? Developers Weigh In (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ASP.NET Profiles in Web Application Projects (Lee Dumond)
• 8 Awesome Mashups Made Possible by APIs (Barb Dybwad)
• Add filepath to ConvertTo-HTML (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Using MvcContrib ScriptInclude, Stylesheet, And T4MVC (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD Triage (Uncle Bob Martin)
• My take on Duct Tape Programming (Wally McClure)
• How NH Prof integrate with a profiled application (Oren Eini)
• Measure twice, cut once (Larry Clarkin)
• Our Biggest Enemy Isn’t Developers Who Refuse To Move Forward, It is Developers Who Pretend To Move Forward (Justin Etheredge)
• The catalogue metaphor and command-query seperation architectures (Ian Cooper)
• Pragmatic Thinking & Learning Reviewed (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Critical Thinking and Dissent is a Requirement (Michael C. Neel)
• [pre-release] Better Image Handling, Assets Folders… (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control (plus or minus 199) (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Live Smooth Streaming Now Released – IIS Media Services 3.0 (Silverlight Team)
• A basic MVVM framework (Lester Lobo)
• Rant: Silverlight – You Do Not Want “Blue Balls” (Mike Taulty)
• The “magic” of type converters (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals, Chapter 2 of 13 and Introducing Microsoft Office Starter 2010 (Charles Torre)
• Peer to Peer Series Part 5: Direct Connect Peers via WCF (Jeff Brand)

Community / Events

• Windows 7 At PDC09 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Motorcycling racing and Microsoft (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Functional Programming Fundamentals Lectures (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Share Your Expertise as a Microsoft Ambassador (John McClelland)
• Open Hand? Or Closed Fist? (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Queries Waiting for Memory Allocation to Execute (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft planning ‘Starter’ edition of Office 2010 and Microsoft Exchange 2010 goes RTM (Cristian)
• The Zune HD vs. the iPod Touch (Part 2) (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Walt Mossberg: Windows 7 is ‘best version of Windows ever’ (Todd Bishop)
• Exchange 2010 is Code Complete and on its way to General Availability (Sumeeth Evans)
• Barnes and Noble ‘confirms’ color Plastic Logic e-book reader for Spring 2010 (video) (Thomas Ricker)
• Measuring Windows 7 performance (Ed Bott)
• Developers – Must Learn – Booting Windows 7 from a VHD (Karl Shifflett)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 8-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #451 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for 8th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (10/8/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #558 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 378 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for October 08, 2009 — #707 (Dave Campbell)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• String interning and String.Empty (Eric Lippert)
• IronPython Post 2.6 Roadmap (Harry Pierson)
• ScottGu, DotNed, loads of new stuff and intellisense (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Dump Environment Folder Paths (Kirill Osenkov)
• Generically Constraining F# – Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• CSLA .NET version 3.7.1 available (Rockford Lhotka)

Web Development

• Playing with JQuery Validation library (Chris Brandsma)
• Forms Authentication – Managing Users (Dave M. Bush)
• PROBLEM: CSS Styles No Longer Apply For Anonymous Users (Scott Mitchell)
• Running Oxite blog engine on Windows Azure (Sergejus Barinovas)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• It’s Not About The Duct Tape It’s About The People (And More) (Alan Skorkin)
• Scenario Driven Tests (Oren Eini)
• Beating the duct programmer with generic domains, subdomains, and core domains (Ian Cooper)
• Ideas for Coding Kaizen (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Unit Test Definition 2.0 (Roy Osherove)
• How to keep your mouth shut (Scott Berkun)
• ANOTHER release! HUGE Performance boost, Smart Lorem Ipsum, z-Ordering shortcuts… (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Helpful extension methods for Show / Hide animations in Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
• An early look at the new Project Rosetta tutorial site (Adam Kinney)
• “Getting Started with Windows Presentation Foundation” (WPF) Cheatsheet/Refcard from DZone (Greg Duncan)
• Random Gradient Wallpaper Generator (Kirill Osenkov)
• Niagara’s Validation DSL – First Pass and Choosing a Data Access Layer for Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight is slowly becoming the real WPF/Everywhere (András Velvárt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steven Borg on All Things Team System (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Clemens Vasters on Architecture Implications of the Internet Service Bus (Bob Familiar)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Wes Dyer – Reactive Framework (Rx) Under the Hood 1 of 2 and E2E: Erik Meijer and Wes Dyer – Reactive Framework (Rx) Under the Hood 2 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 and Scott Guthrie: ASP.NET MVC 2 (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• UK Silverlight Apps: Trader Media Group & Autotrader (Mike Taulty)
• PDC09 Workshop: Getting the Most out of Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Robert Hess)
• Tool Shed Tooltip #27 – Expression Blend 3 – Behaviors (Russell Fustino)
• Windows 7 Sensor and Location – Developing Drivers Part 1 and Windows 7 Sensor and Location – Developing Drivers Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Thirsty Developer 74 – A Roundtable in the Cloud with David Chappell and Cumulux (Dave Bost)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Part One and The Visual Studio Documentary: Part Two (Tina)
• Episode 85 – PowerScripting Podcast – Lee Holmes on PowerShell v2 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Events this Week – September 28th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MVPs Headline At SQLBits! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• MassTransit at Skills Matter (Mike Hadlow)
• Looking for Seattle-area participants for CodePlex Usability Study (Sara Ford)
• Concept Camp 2009 Review (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• SQL Server All, Some and Any Operators (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries (Pinal Dave)
• Review of SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action (Denis Gobo)
• LINQPad Help For Creating Nasty Group by Query in Native SQL (Peter Kellner)

Miscellaneous

• Helios: Another Microsoft operating system project to watch (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Releases Free "Security Essentials" AntiSpyware & AntiVirus Software Starting Tomorrow and Microsoft’s TechNet Release 77 Windows 7 Tips (Blake Handler)
• PowerShelling in your application (Coding4Fun)
• Windows 7 in action: A smarter way to manage windows (Ed Bott)
• Writing WMI providers FAQ series – 2 – When a provider doesn’t support enumeration what will be the impact for the WMI consumer? (Kapil Mathur)
• De-clutter Google Reader with Absolutely Customisable (Nik Fletcher)
• Trusted Documents (Maithili Dandige) – Info from the Office 2010 team.
• Orphans at the Bookstore (Lee Dumond)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #442 and The Morning Brew #443 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q3 2009) (Jurgen Appelo)
• CloudNews for 28th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #549 and Double Shot #550 (Mike Gunderloy)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading and Writing Text Files in One Command (Richard Carr)
• Extending the ObservableCollection to add navigation methods such as MoveFirst, MoveNext, MoveLast, and MovePrevious. (Brian Lagunas)
• DAL: Using a Data Provider Factory and Count Lines Of Code (Deborah Kurata)
• Must Everything Be Virtual With NHibernate, Part III (Davy Brion)
• Tired of entering your login info every time you open a CodePlex hosted Solution in Visual Studio? and A Feed You Should Read #5 – Team System Rocks (Greg Duncan)
• What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part III – Service-Discovery Feature (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Understanding T4: Preprocessed Text Templates (Oleg Sych) – Link of the Day
• Pondering Axum + F# (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery (Dave M. Bush)
• Html Encoding Code Blocks With ASP.NET 4 (Phil Haack)
• MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano)
• Reimagining www.asp.net, Part Four: The Toolbox Experience (John Sheehan)
• Wine.com Uncorks Its API (Leena Rao)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer – Part 1 of 4 (Sara Chipps)
• Convert a Delimited String to a Generic List (Srinath MS)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Daily TDD Kata – now I’m doing what Jack does (Andrew Woodward)
• Become A Better Developer By Indexing Your Brain (Alan Skorkin)
• Distributed Source Control and Even tests has got to justify themselves (Oren Eini)
• Duct Tape Programming (Kirk Knoernschild)
• What Kind Of Developer Are You? (Davy Brion)
• Personal Kaizen: 15 Tips for your continuous improvement (Garr Reynolds)
• Debunking the duct tape programmer (Jeffrey Palermo)
• TDD: It makes you question what you’re doing and The Duct Tape Programmer: Some thoughts and Learning from others/Learning yourself (Mark Needham)
• Change is the only constant… (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Mockups for FogBugz, now shipping! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 17. (Rajiv Popat)
• UppercuT – Elegant Solution to Strong Naming (Rob Reynolds)
• Victory In Software Development (K. Scott Allen)

Silverlight / WPF

• Saving Files from Silverlight (using Caliburn) (Christopher Bennage)
• Blend Behaviors (David Hill)
• Using RelayCommands in Silverlight and WPF and MVVM Light Toolkit Messenger V2 beta (Laurent Bugnion)
• ColorPicker Control for WPF/Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 124: Never Too Much Cilantro (Paul Thurrott)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 38: The Present and Future of Workflow Foundation with Brian Noyes – Part 2 (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: WebsiteSpark, Win7 BootCamp, useful PowerShell scripts (Dan Fernandez)
• Ping 31: Ars Technica, Website Spark, Embedded Spark, Cougars (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Comparing myself to Uncle Bob Martin (Andrew Woodward)
• PDC09 $300 discount ends October 13 (Devon Musgrave)
• 7 Years As A Professional Software Developer (Davy Brion)

Database

• Keep your DBA guard up at all times (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – FILESTREAM Storage in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• Report Builder 2.0 and Stored Procedures (William Vaughn)
• SQL Server MVP Deep Dives a book written by SQL Server MVPs supporting a good cause (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• If you are using SharePoint 2007 + Windows 7 and getting SLOW transfer rates within document libraries… (Shane Perran)

Miscellaneous

• 11 Powerful Twitter Tips (Garin Kilpatrick)
• Why I think Programmer is a Dirty Word (Chris Woodruff)
• git instaweb (Jason Meridth)
• Writing WMI providers FAQ series – 1 – If a provider doesn’t support query capabilities, how is the query handled by WMI? (Kapil Mathur)
• XNA on the Zune HD (Joel Ivory Johnson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 26, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #91 – “Indian Summer” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Double Shot #548 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 374 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 25th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Weekly Links #72 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 112 (Rhonda Tipton)

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