.NET / Visual Studio

Compiler directive #Pragma reference (Abhijit Jana)

Surround generated code with #region while implement Interface (Abhijit Jana)

A working Test Track Pro Adapter for the TFS Integration Platform (MrHinsh)

With Visual Studio 2011, How To Add a Second Project To a Solution (Peter Kellner)

Web Development

Save 50% on O’REILLY: HTML5, jQuery and JavaScript Ebooks and Videos (DorisChen)

Creating a Custom ASP.NET MVC Project Template (Phil Haack)

Good JavaScript Reading, Part 2: JavaScript Gardens and Interventions (Joey deVilla)

ASP.NET MVC and Multiple Submit Buttons–Part 2 (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Let’s Play TDD #112: It’s in the (Grid)Bag (James Shore)

CQRS EventStore v2.0 Release (Jonathan Oliver)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Daily WP7 Development News June 6th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

Windows Phone 7 Mango Implicit Styles (Windows Phone Geek)

Fresh from E3: Xbox LIVE enhancements and new games for Windows Phone (Brian Seitz)

Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit (Clint Rutkas)

SilverlightShow for May 30 – June 05, 2011 (Dave Campbell)

Silverlight Cream for June 06, 2011 — #1102 (Dave Campbell)

Silverlight 5 Features Local File System Access without using COM API (Kunal Chowdhury)

Proof That Microsoft Can Innovate: Apple Just Lifted Some Windows Phone Features (AAPL, MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)

Calling SL4iA Readers – Help Me Make Silverlight 5 in Action Better (Pete Brown)

200% Reflective Class Diagram Creation Tool (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

David Neilsen Develops for the Cloud (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Audio of the 2011 E3 Xbox Media briefing (Larry Hyrb)

E3: Forza 4 Interview with Dan Greenawalt (Tina Wood)

Community / Events

Database

SQL SERVER – Three Puzzling Questions – Need Your Answer (Pinal Dave)

Using SQL DMVs – sys.dm_db_file_space_usage (Vishal)

SharePoint

Upgrading and Fixing Email Enabled Lists in SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)

MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Office 365: SharePoint Online & Instant Extranets (Lonnie Webb)

Miscellaneous

One click install NuGet Package and Console Applications (Unknown Author)

Windows Weekly 211: Windows 8 Revealed (Paul Thurrott)

Events This Week – June 6th, 2011 (Unknown Author)

The WeatherDotCom Widget for Orchard CMS (Unknown Author)

Microsoft .NET Framework 4 KB2468871 (MS Downloads)

WEDM 2011 SDK (MS Downloads)

Witch version of browser is used by the WebBrowser control? (Gian Maria Ricci)

Long-Awaited Forrst API Helps Connect Developers (Allen Tipper)

Building Trust with Your Team (Amr Elssamadisy)

Memory Mapped File Quirks [Greg] (BCL Team)

Xbox Live Getting Live TV, YouTube & Bing Voice Search (Ben Parr)

Halo 4 Is Coming: Here’s the Trailer [VIDEO] (Ben Parr)

Getting started with custom themes in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)

Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 6: Command-line (chadmyers)

The Morning Brew #867 (Chris Alcock)

Getting started with OpenNI and X-Box Kinect (donny)

The Ada Initiative (Dru Sellers)

Manage your screen captures in Expression Encoder (Elliot)

The Biggest Announcements Microsoft Made Today About The Future Of Xbox (MSFT) (Ellis Hamburger)

REST In Practice the book, RestBucks the sample (Glenn Block MSFT)

NHibernate.Envers – a quick introduction (Guardian)

Build incredible content-driven websites using Orchard CMS (hajan)

10 Million People Saying “Xbox Bing…” is 10 Million People Not Caring About Google (Holden Page)

Join us for BUILD (ieblog)

Daily Links 06/06/2011 (Jax)

Link dump for June 5th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

5 things you should know about Apple iCloud (Joe Wilcox)

Improved partition loading (Josef Richberg)

Planning Your Upgrade Well (K. Brian Kelley)

New Book: Introducing Microsoft WebMatrix (Kim Spilker)

Cloud Storage and more coming to Xbox LIVE (Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE’s Major Nelson)

Ping 103: DJ’ing with Windows 7, Hacker hired, Xbox usage, Panoramic street views (Laura Foy)

Cool tricks with Internet Explorer Developer Tools and datajs (Marcelo’s WebLog)

Harnessing PowerShell’s String Comparison and List-Filtering Features (Michael Sorens)

Microsoft mentors inspire future coders with retro gaming (Microsoft JobsBlog )

An end to the good times before they even start? … (mikehole)

Using null-coalescing to find item in multiple collections (noreply@blogger.com (Dror Helper))

Windows Client Developer Roundup 071 for 6/6/2011 (Pete Brown)

Processing.js 1.2 Released (ralph.whitbeck@gmail.com)

Messages and Distributed Systems (Rinat Abdullin)

Entity Framework 4.1 – Validation (Roopesh Shenoy)

A good leader won’t need to ask (Roy Osherove)

What to do if some people in the team just don’t want to take a task? (Roy Osherove)

Understanding “Why would Microsoft do that?” (Scott Barnes)

Interesting .NET Links – June 7 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)

Server Architecture Object Model Overview (SharePoint Developer Team)

NYC .NET Developers User Group-> Next Meeting June 16 (Stephen Forte)

Documenting Link Relations with Web API (Steve Michelotti)

Confirmed: Halo gets re-imaged [UPDATED: video] (Steven Hodson)

Bing on Xbox: You are The Controller (The Bing Team)

New Windows Azure Service Management API Features Ease Management of Storage Services (Windows Azure Team)

Developers Will Not get ‘Mango’ Through Update (WP7GIRL)

New Editing Features in Eclipse plug-in for Android (Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead)

More Link Collections

Cheatsheet: 2011 06.01 ~ 06.07 (yuanjian)

Top Links

• Using rake under IronRuby (Joshua Flanagan)
• Take Control of Logging and Tracing in Windows Azure (Mike Kelly)
• Best Practices (Peter Ritchie)
• WP7 Back Button in Games (Andy Beaulieu)
• Visual Studio Language & IDE Resources from TechEd North America 2010 (C#, VB, F#, IronPython, IronRuby) (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Microsoft E3 Xbox 360 Press Conference Details (Richard Hay)

.NET / Visual Studio

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step – Only $9.99 use code MDMVB (O’Reilly Media)
• MongoDB and C# (Craig G. Wilson)
• Querying namespace-based XML data in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Managed Menu Extension (MME) makes adding right click menus to VS2010 simple and easy (via MEF) (Greg Duncan)
• Why you need to tag your build servers in TFS and Ghost team foundation build controllers (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Road to MonoDevelop 2.4: Navigation (Miguel de Icaza)
• Manipulate Docx with C# without Microsoft Word installed with Open XML SDK (Ric Rodrigues)
• MDA: Callback On Garbage Collected Delegate (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using Conditional Mapping in Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• Project Euler Problem 1 and 2 in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Using Quick Find (Zain Naboulsi)
• XmlDictionary and Binary Serialization (Scott Seely)
• Hide and seek (Eric Lippert)
• Team Build Service Is Ready But Not Working (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

• Creating Add-Ins for Expression Web 4 (Jonathan Allen)
• Visual Studio 2010 JavaScript Intellisense Behavior (K. Scott Allen)
• Four Twitter Mashups Available as One API (Adam DuVander)
• Custom web faults with System.ServiceModel.Web 3.x (Matt Milner)
• Drupal Cheat Sheet Desktop Wallpaper (Smashing Magazine)
• Rely on Declarative Security Features in the Browser (David Ross)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: TeamRoom (Martin Fowler)
• Work In Process (WIP) Limits, Policies, Etc. (Derick Bailey)
• TDD: Driving from the assertion up (Mark Needham)
• Release Management, Features or Time (John Sonmez)
• From KFC Development to PVC Systems (Karl Scotland)
• Code Like Kudzu! (Jared Richardson)
• Asymmetry and emptiness: lessons from the tearoom (Garr Reynolds)
• Free Stand Up report – the Simplest and Easiest way to manage a distributed team (Andy Singleton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Master-Detail UI in Blend (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Memory Leak Hotfixes for WPF 3.5 SP1 (Jossef Goldberg)
• How to Enable Using the Binding Builder in WPF and Silverlight Applications and Using WPF and Silverlight UserControls (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Tip: Using LINQ to Select the Largest Available Webcam Resolution (Pete Brown)
• Printing Tip – Handling User Initiated Dialogs Exceptions (John Papa)
• CinchV2 is out there (Sacha Barber)
• Display Google Maps Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Chris Pietschmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 2010 E3 Xbox 360 Media Briefing (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 115 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Sizemore on TechEd 2010 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Designing in Microsoft Office 2010 (Tina Wood)
• This Week in Silverlight – Teched and Quizes (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Visual Studio Test Professional 2010: The Tool for the Modern Tester (Brian Keller)
• Ping 61: Azure Apps, Windows Live Essentials, E3, Colbert & Bing (Laura Foy)
• Security Talk Series: Using the SDL in Office 2010 (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – June 14th, 2010 and Do You Attend User Groups? Run a User Group? We’d Like to Hear From You! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Kinect, Xbox 360 “Slim” and More: Early Highlights from E3 (Barb Dybwad)
• Kinect Introduced at E3 (Owen Linderholm)
• New Hires in New York (Joel Spolsky)
• MVPs Todd Klindt, Kyle Rosenthal, and Stuart Celarier discuss TechEd 2010 New Orleans (Joseph Mirabella)
• The Top 10 Developer Mistakes That Won’t Scale (Brent Ozar)

Database

• Introduction to SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Server Management (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Shrinking NDF and MDF Files – Readers’ Opinion (Pinal Dave)
• Maps in Reports! (Grant Fritchey)

Miscellaneous

• Kinect for Xbox 360 Sets the Future in Motion – No Controller Required (MS PressPass)
• Xbox Kinect—beyond playing games (Bill Crounse)
• Kinect and Windows Live Messenger: soon to be bff? (Kip Kniskern)
• Daily Dose – The Winds of Change Blow for the OSI (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Connecting Windows Live Messenger and Xbox Live (Piero Sierra)
• Windows Live Sync Beta Transition Guide (Richard Hay)
• New Xbox 360 Slim Unveiled ! Shipping Today for $299 (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• T-SQL Tuesday #007 – Roundup (Jorge Segarra)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 06/14/2010 – TechEd Edition (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 149 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #621 (Chris Alcock)
• Code Generation 2010, new Xbox 360 launched and Umbraco 4.1 is out (Sara Allison)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed by Chad Carter

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# BootCamp – Questions and Answers – part I – Introduction (Steffen Forkmann)
• Using Reflection in C# to Figure Out if an Integer List Has Values (Peter Kellner)
• NHibernate Mapping – <list/> (Oren Eini)
• DDD and the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Evgeny Salamatov)
• LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0 (Damien Guard)
• Create a Generic List at Run Time and Quickly Find All "TODO’s" in Your .NET Project (Srinath M.)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – TeamCity Integration Coming (Rob Reynolds)
• Review: CryptoLicensing for .NET (Roy Osherove)
• NCover v3.1.2 released! (Stephen Ward)
• Analyze and explore the evolution of .NET Framework by yourself (Patrick Smacchia)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: 1.8.0.2 Beta (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JSMag June 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating Rails Like Flash Feature in .NET The Flash Control (Mohammad Azam)
• Control TextBox’s AutoComplete Action (Chris Love)
• Sueetie Content Parts and List View Controls, Oh My (Dave Burke)
• Free ASP.NET 4.0 beta hosting available (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML Editor FieldTemplate for Dynamic Data Using AJAX Control Toolkit Editor (Stephen Naughton)
• How to Use Microsoft.Web.Administration : Using Scripts to Automate Management : Managing and Maintaining IIS 7.0 : The Official Microsoft IIS Site (Stuart Manning)
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Scott Guthrie)
• GridView Selection and Postback using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• clientscript as the view controller (Jay Kimble)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BOOK: Agile Testing and Sensing and Sense-making in the Agility Cycle (Brad Appleton)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class (Chris Missal)
• Bricks and Mortar: Building a Castle (James Kovacs)
• Simple Nested Closure (Matt Hinze)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Yes, I’m going to finish "Build Your Own CAB" (sorta) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Refactoring guard clauses, or “How to ask politely” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik Releases RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta (Ina Tontcheva)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• XAML: Using Generic Types in XAML 2009 and Empty string in XAML (Rob Relyea)
• Ocean for Silverlight – Enables Sharing Business Objects With WPF (Karl Shifflett) – Link of the Day
• Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework (Jeff Wilcox)
• Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the Eye (Jennifer Marsman)
• Sync Multi Select Listbox with ViewModel (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 – Inside the Thread Pool (Charles Torre)
• Windows 7 RC2 Build 7224 Videos (Stephen Chapman)
• Netcast #11 – The Two Silos (Todd O. Klindt)
• Ping 14: Bing, VPlay, Zune HD, Celebrifeed, Mediaroom (Laura Foy)
• Show: Episode 2 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Microsoft’s Project Natal demo video has us jumping with anticipation (Nilay Patel)

Community / Events

• 2009 E3 Xbox.com Press Kit (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Shane Young! (Amanda Murphy)
• SharePoint Conference Washington DC (Bob Mixon)
• Foundation Series, Session 4, Wed June 10th (Brian Donahue)
• 2009 E3 Xbox Media Briefing (Larry Hryb)
• SQLAuthority News – Summary of TechEd India 2009 – A Grand Event (Pinal Dave)
• God Bless Xbox: Microsoft’s E3 News Roundup [Roundup] (Matt Buchanan)
• Breaking News: Atlassian Acquires GreenHopper (Max Pool)
• LosTechies welcomes Sharon Cichelli "Girl Writes Code" (Joe Ocampo)
• Free Virtual Expo on SharePoint – June 10 (Joel Oleson)

SharePoint

• Reading Digital Signatures from InfoPath Forms in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Workflow (Tom Hearn)
• SharePoint: Some users doesn’t receive alerts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Tip: Don’t use "&" in instance.xml when creating a WSP (S.S. Ahmed)

Database

• How to execute multiple SQL scripts (Martin Bell)
• Log Shipping for DR and failing back in case of disaster. The cheap way! (Ted Krueger)
• Microsoft Reporting Services (Sub Reports, Charts, Parameters, Expression Editor, etc) (Jorge Paulino)

Miscellaneous

• New details emerge about Microsoft Exchange & Outlook Mobile (PhoneArena Team)
• Google to sell eBooks by year’s end and Rumor: Google bringing the BBC iPlayer to the US? and Microsoft’s Bing 411 offers phone numbers, directions over the phone (Brad Linder)
• Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate? and Bing Search Bars are now everywhere! (damaster)
• Microsoft "Project Natal" invents a better Wii (Joel Johnson)
• Web v.Next (John Stockton)
• Bing Goes Live—Here’s What You Can Do With It (Kevin Purdy)
• Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads (Kevin Purdy)
• Oh dear, there IS a Club Bing (Kip Kniskern)
• The Rotting Stink of Corporate IT (Sara J. Chipps)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 1 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Project Natal is going to change the games forever! (Taimur Asad)
• Gmail Notifier Plus Adds Email Alerts to the Windows 7 Taskbar (The How-To Geek)
• Acer launching world’s first Android-based netbook in Q3 (Thomas Ricker)
• Make Bing your default search provider in IE (Paul Thurrott)
• The Ultimate USB *Key* Drive » Lacie iamaKey 8GB (Matt Walker)
• Adobe releases trio of Labs goodies for designers, developers (Lee Mathews)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 8: Deliver with Confidence and Style (Justin Etheredge)
• Google Docs gets x’ier with .docx and .xlsx support (Josh Lowensohn)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #359 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2009 — #605 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 325 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 1st (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 1st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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