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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating High Quality Images with C# and GDI (Tom Hearn)
• LINQ to SQL cheat sheet (Damien Guard)
• Painting on the DataGridView and Converting Month Abbreviations to Month Numbers (Deborah Kurata)
• Nhibernate Unit of Work & multiple requests (Oren Eini)
• Four switch oddities (Eric Lippert)
• Linq to Mocks is finally born (Daniel Cazzulino) – Link of the Day
• Testing with NHibernate and SQLite (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.3 for .NET 2.0 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Six things that will happen when you uninstall your MSDN documentation (Roy Osherove)

Web Development

• Twitter Announces Retweet API (Andres Ferrate)
• A Simple ScriptManager for ASP.NET MVC (Chris Pietschmann)
• 3 New APIs for Gamers: World of Warcraft in 3D, LEGO and GamePro (John Musser)
• What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 (Harish Ranganathan)
• JavaScript: Not for the faint at heart? (Scott Koon)
• PHP Linux Windows ASP.NET Performance – Redux ! (Joe Stagner)
• Fun With Wacky JavaScript Type Comparison (Nick Berardi)
• Windows Azure Reference Application released to MSDN Code Gallery (Lamont Harrington)
• All Programming Is Web Programming (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Will Microsoft support distributed teams and cloud deployments? (Andy Singleton)
• To Test The Untestable Bug. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• “Hero Mode Refactoring” AKA Enemy Of Brown Field Development (Ryan Svihla)
• Refactoring Day 13 : Extract Method Object (Sean Chambers)
• DDD is a dense book (Greg Young)
• Modularity by Example (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 4. (Rajiv Popat)
• Singletons Are Evil Part 2 (Scott Densmore)
• TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster! (Jamie Cansdale)

Silverlight / WPF

• Triggers in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• Linq For Silverlight Developers (Jesse Liberty)
• More Silverlight application themes and fixes (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #135: Exploring StructureMap: Learning how to setup profiles (Derik Whittaker)
• SharePoint MVP Debuts on The Water Cooler Show (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Easing in Silverlight Animations (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Behind the Scenes: Office Labs (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Virtual Architect Council Events in August (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight 3 FireStarter Will Be Streamed Online (Frank La Vigne)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET 8/26/2009 – jQuery UI with Richard Worth (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Session Sneak Peek for the SharePoint Conference 2009 (SharePoint Team)
• Friending and Reputation (Chris Brogan)

Database

• Recover a database without the ldf file (Ted Krueger)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 1 (Martin Bell)

PowerShell

• Growl for Windows – From PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Exchange 2010 buzz grows louder (Mary-Jo Foley)
• How to "Send To" DZone from Google Reader (Me)
• Convert Google Reader Items to PDFs (Kevin Purdy)
• Microsoft NERD gets a logo (Steve Clayton)
• Powershell 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Release Candidate (Osama Sajid)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #412 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (8/13/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 355 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 13th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Non-Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Removing Warnings from CSharp Compile Cycle (Dave M. Bush)
• Install the Surface SDK on Windows 7 and/or x64 (Brian Peek)
• Getting Started with Oslo Using ‘M’ (Bruce Kyle)
• IronRuby MVC progress (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Dynamic Stack Trace (Harry Pierson)
• SUBMITTING YOUR XNA GAME TO XLCG (Pete)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: Sample Application First Steps (Casey Charlton)
• Security Hot Spots (J.D. Meier)
• C# Design Patterns – The Facade Pattern (Justin)
• Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• DDD: Repository pattern (Mark Needham)
• Need Help Spotting that Hard to Test Code? (Chris Missal)
• Framework Design Guidelines: LINQ Support (Brad Abrams)
• Extreme Programming workflow simulation (Corey Ladas)
• Your Data Retrieval Code Should Be Readable Too (Davy Brion)
• What Isolation\Mocking and unit testing framework are you using? (Roy Osherove)
• Real Life – Code Reuse (Tim Barcz)
• Refactoring: reduce variable scope (Gunnar Peipman)

Silverlight / WPF

• The Knowledge Chamber: Silverlight 3.0 for Great Business Apps (Brad Abrams) – Link of the Day
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) (Jeff Barnes)
• Silverlight Chord Finder (John Papa)
• MVVM Screencasts (Lester Lobo)
• Silverlight Sneak Peek: Building line-of-business with Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• .Net libraries in Silverlight (Louis Salin)
• And now for something completely crazy: Binding without WPF (Josh Twist)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #98 – Silverlight 3 Game Programming Book (Mike Snow)

Web Development

• How-To add a custom validation method to the jQuery validator plug-in and Java script: access properties of a complex JSON object (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• JavaScript for C# Programmers: the with Statement Considered Harmful (Julian M. Bucknall)
• How does Web Deployment with VS10 and MSDeploy Work? (Vishal R. Joshi)

Community / Events

• .NET Fireside Chats – Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek (Me) – Get a promo code for 30% off the Coding4Fun print or ebook, plus a free chapter to download and a chance to win a copy of the book!
• NINE Questions with Lou Vega and NINE Questions with Suzanna Moran (Chris G. Williams)
• Web Application Testing with Selenium and RSpec Workshop for Developers, Testers, and Teams in Austin, Tuesday, April 28th (Scott Bellware)
• Getting Ready for MIX09 (Mike Swanson)

Database

• Designing a document database: Storage and Designing a document database: Scale and Designing a document database: Concurrency (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server – Index Maintenance (Michael Ceranski)
• Enforcing parent child relationship with Path Hierarchy model (Simon Sabin)
• Enhancing Visualisation of Common Elements Across Groups Using Color in Reporting Services 2005, Part 1 (Thomas Williams)

Miscellaneous

• Verizon Customers – Just Say No! (Lidija Davis)
• Microsoft Big Brains: Mark Russinovich (Mary Jo Foley)
• PortableApps.com suite 1.5 released (Brad Linder)
• Skimming the ‘Cream (Dave Campbell)
• Microsoft would still “like to sit down” with Yahoo! on search deal (Kip Kniskern)
• Help Make Picnik Even More Awesome! (Lisa)
• A sneak peek at the Windows 7 Release Candidate (Ed Bott)
• Change in Toolbar Management (Frank Olivier)
• This title has not yet been released. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Live Mesh Introduces Online Media Viewer and Twitter Rename Plugin for Windows Live Writer (Sarah Perez)
• Did Joel Spolksy nearly drive my coworker insane? (Paul Vick)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for March 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #303 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 09, 2009 — #535 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for March 9th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• In Search of Wild Repository (Mike Hadlow)
• Unit Testing in VB.NET – with TypeMock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
• Hardcoding Considered Harmful – or Is It? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Improving Our Industry: It’s Time to Educate Outward, to Improve Inward (Derick Bailey)
• TDD Using Dependency Injection – Step 1. Refactoring (Andrew Woodward)
• Pex – Automated Whiteboard Testing for .NET (v0.9.40105.0) (MS Research)
• SOA Is Dead? It’s About Time! (Kurt Cagle)
• Getting Started with Automated White Box Testing (and Pex) (Jonathan de Halleux & Nikolai Tillmann)
• Agile in 6 Words (Brian Button)
• Leadership 101: Calm in a Storm (Jim Holmes)
• Bad Apple Behaviors (David Starr)
• The Story of the Lazy-Loading Lunchbox (Dylan Beattie) – Co-Link of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• How Would the CLR Be Different? (Matthew Podwysocki) – Co-Link of the Day
• Microsoft "Oslo" MGraph – the Next XML? (Lars Corneliussen)
• Fluent NHibernate: Mapping Private and Protected Entities (James Gregory)
• Installing Team Explorer 2008 on Windows 7 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• NHibernate + XML Columns (Joey Beninghove)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Validation Framework – xVal – jQuery Validation Support (David Hayden)
• Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Managing Static Files & Browser Caching (Joel Ross)
• jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation (John Resig)
• SSL Certificates and WWW. Prefix on Domain Names (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Resizable WYMEditor with jQuery UI Resizable (Marc Grabanski)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #81 – How to Scale Your Silverlight Control (Mike Snow)

.NET Community / Events

• Are YOU Going to the Microsoft Developer Conference? (James Bender)
• Presenting Keynote at MDC in Washington, DC (Stephen Walther) – I’ll be there. DM me on Twitter to track me down.
• Top 20+ jQuery Tweeple to Follow (Elijah Manor)
• Developer Faceoff: Sergio Pereira vs. Angelo Anolin (Max Pool)
• Where in the World Do Stack Overflow Users Come From? (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code Episode 31: Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC (K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon, Jon Galloway)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Joe Duffy on ‘Concurrent Programming on Windows’ (Me) – Q&A with Joe and a free chapter excerpt download from his book!

PowerShell

• DateTime Casts Are Language Primitives (Lee Holmes)
• Switching Website Root with PowerShell (Jim Holmes)

Database

• Transact SQL e-Learning Collection Now Available (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• Free Themes, Gadgets, Wallpaper for Windows 7 Beta (Lee Matthews)
• Office 14 Revealed: Part 2 – Security and Part 3 – A More Far-Reaching Fluent UI and Part 4 – Improving Desktop TCO (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft (Finally) Updates Live Mesh for Windows 7 Compatibility and Windows 7 Beta Users: Run, Don’t Walk, to Download the MP3 Patch (Paul Thurrott)
• My Favorite Feature in Windows 7 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Select Testers Get Office 14 Alpha Release (Mary Jo Foley)
• How to Telecommute (as If You’re Right in the Office) (Joel Durham Jr.)
• DSLs: Ready for Prime-Time? (Ted Neward)
• Exchange 14 Video (KC Lemson)
• Refcardz — Free Cheat Sheets for Developers (DotNetShoutout)

More Link Collections

• Creators Club Communiqué 13 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 — #484 and Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 – 2 — #485 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for January 13th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for January 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.13~2009.01.14 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #264 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for January 14, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Link Listing – January 13, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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