Top Links

• How to Interface LightSwitch to a Windows Workflow Part 1 (Dan Moyer)
• Nokia will be allowed to customize every part of Windows Phone 7 (Sebastian Anthony)
• Oracle’s Entity Framework Beta Released Today (Julie Lerman)
• Acting on Feedback: IE9 Release Candidate Available for Download (Dean Hachamovitch)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Concurrent Collections (1 of 3) (James Michael Hare)
• IronRuby – Release v1.1.2 and ReSharper Settings Manager – Release v4.o (for R# 5.1) and WCF Data Services Toolkit Beta (CodePlex)
• Building a database installer with WiX, datadude and Visual Studio 2010 (Jamie Thomson)
• How Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server enable Compliance (Martin Hinshelwood)
• TEE 2010 SP1 (MS Downloads) – TFS Eclipse plugin updated
• Trivia Friday (Jimmy Bogard)
• Reach out and… Windows 7 Touch Development Guidance in a 26 page XPS form (Greg Duncan)
• NOW Available: Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February Release (Windows Azure Team)
• Creating a Color Picker with an Owner Draw ComboBox (Jonathan Wood)
• Elevate added to the NuGet gallery (Bill Wagner)

Web Development

• A JavaScript tip that’s jarring: remove falsy elements from array (Julian M. Bucknall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Manifesto 10 Year Reunion (Chris Matts)
• What Is Agile Management? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Cool Printable Kanban Card (Peter Saddington)
• The Important User Experience (UX) You Can’t See (Rob Tiffany)
• Web Testing with Selenium Sushi: A Practical Guide and Toolset (Michael Sorens)
• Balsamiq Release: Select on Layers, Linux 32bit installer and bug fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Cucumber tests on iPhone/iPad (Davor Crnomat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Implementing Windows Phone 7 DataTemplateSelector and CustomDataTemplateSelector (Windows Phone Geek)
• [TUTORIAL + VIDEO] Creating an RSS reader for Windows Phone 7 in 5 minutes (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• Not able to bind to Uid or Name property in XAML (Merrick Chaffer)
• Windows Phone 7 Navigation Memory Usage and Windows Phone 7 Navigation Memory Usage Just Got Scary and Windows Phone 7: Translator Sample, an example in what not to do! (Nick Randolph)
• Some curious facts about the Windows Phone 7 OS – from the emulator console (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ClickOnce, TaskDialogs, Common Controls and WPF Applications and Blend Bits 22–Being Stylish and Blend Bits 23–Templating Part 1 (Mike Taulty)
• Multiple View Models implies multiple DataContexts (Bill Wagner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Organizing your own Virtual Technical Conference – MVCConf Post-Mortem (Scott Hanselman)
• ARCast.TV: SharePoint Deployment to Microsoft BPOS Cloud (MS Podcasts)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 1 of n (Charles Torre)
• VIDEO – WebMatrix – Charts and the Chart Helper and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Data Visualization with the Chart Helper (Joe Stagner)
• First look at 5 features of IE9 RC and A look at three performance demos for IE 9 Release Candidate (Larry Larsen)
• Silverlight TV 61: Expert Chat on Deep Zoom, Touch, and Windows Phone (John Papa)
• New Video: Interview with Windows Phone 7 Developer–Ash Morgan (Wes Yanaga)

Community / Events

• Last Chance to Save on MIX11 – Register by Feb 11 (Kim Spilker)
• London SharePoint Best Practices Conference – April 11-13, 2011 (Andrew Connell)
• PAX East 2011 Tweet-up (Larry Hyrb)
• Congratulations to MIX11 Open Call Winners (Silverlight Show)
• Web Camp Coming to Mid Atlantic (Dani Diaz)
• Best Practices Europe Conference Sessions Announced! (Joel Oleson)

Database

• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) – Part 1: Basics of SSIS and Creating Packages (Karthik Anbarasan)
• SQL Server MVP Daily Paper and 31 Days of SSIS Conclusion (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION – Wait Type – Day 11 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Do Relational Database Vendors Care About Developers? (Karl Seguin)

SharePoint

• ­A step by step guide in designing BCS entities by using a SQL stored procedure (Jyoti Saikia)

Miscellaneous

• Pull Request Changes, Multi-Selection in Advanced View, and Advertisement Changes (Matt Hawley)
• Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate Product Guide and Internet Explorer Administration Kit 9 Release Candidate (MS Downloads)
• IE9 Release Candidate review: will Microsoft’s big browser bet pay off? and IE9 FAQ: how to install, uninstall, and tweak the IE9 RC (Ed Bott)
• ADIAD (Rod Paddock)
• Open Letter from CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft (Stephen Elop & Steve Ballmer)
• Starting and Stopping Services on Remote Servers using PowerShell (Steve Smith)
• Bing: Making search yours (Aidan Crook & Sanaz Ahari)
• Here’s a look at the Microsoft Log Parser from a different point of view, from the Computer Forensics’ side of the house OR Check out a ‘Query Analyzer/SSMS’ for Log Parser called Log Parser Lizard (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 89 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily News Digest 02/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 9-Feb-2011 and 10-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links– 2010_06 (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 10th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for Jan 31- Feb 06, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #790 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

iPhone for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul J. Deitel

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Top Links

• NHibernate donation campaign (Oren Eini)
• "Art of Agile Development" Going Online (James Shore)
• Chapter 1 of “SQL Server DMVs in Action” is now available for FREE (Ian Stirk)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observers (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Ninject 2 Dependency Injection Reaches GA (Mitch Pronschinske)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Virtual Space (Richard Carr)
• WDK 7.1.0 (MS Downloads)
• My Visual Studio 2008 is broken after uninstalling .NET Framework 4.0 (VS Team)
• Download code from the MonoTouch ebook (Wally McClure)
• DataTip Value from the Last Debug Session — vstipDebug0012 and Understanding Word Wrap — vstipEdit0022 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Issues Compiling VS2010 solutions (with web projects) from Nant (Derik Whittaker)
• WCF RIA Services and Audit – Historical changes (Fredrik Normen)
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 & .Net 4 – The Official MSDN Source (Greg Duncan)
• Behaviors with MSpec (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Column guides for Visual Studio 2010: An extension (Jeff Wilcox)
• No Intellisense with VS 2010 RC (and how to fix it) (Scott Guthrie)
• Setting up a continuous integration server for a CodePlex project using TeamCity and Mercurial (Bertrand Le Roy)

Web Development

• View/ViewModel Association – Convention and Configuration-based Approaches (Nikhil Kothari)
• Lucene.net Is Powering Subtext 2.5 Search (Simone Chiaretta)
• Profilers and ASP.NET (Tom)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Project code organization (Patrick Smacchia)
• Balsamiq – Help us design the “Components” feature (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Learning From Austin Powers: Your Product Does Not Need More Features. (Rajiv Popat)
• Code Kata (Julian M. Bucknall)
• The usefulness of interaction tests, or “How to question the method” (Kyle Baley)
• Initiate and Embrace change (Mark Nijhof)
• Get started with Microsoft Test Manager (Murray Gordon)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4, Experiment with Pluggable Navigation and a WCF Data Service (Mike Taulty)
• When Is It OK To Hack? (Jesse Liberty)
• Setting focus in XAML with no code (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Miniseries #4: Monitoring Applications (Brian Hitney)
• Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 1 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 2 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 3 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 4 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 5 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 6 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 7 (Dag König)
• Fez’ing with the .Net Micro-framework (Coding4Fun)
• TWC9: MIX10, Tweevo, Silverlight Augmented Reality, testing (Dan Fernandez)
• jQuery Podcast 13 – David Walsh (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Cloud Cover – Episode 2 (Ryan Dunn)

Database

•  SQL SERVER – INSERT TOP (N) INTO Table – Using Top with INSERT (Pinal Dave)
• Using SQL Server Management tools and Integrated Security/Windows Authentication from a non-domain joined machine (Greg Duncan)
• Outputting data to an XML file : SSIS video nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Turning on execution plans affects performance (Simon Sabin)
• Readonly Databases (Martin Bell)
• Using schemas to maintain order as a DBA (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Mobile Rendering (And Device Emulator Fun!) (Charles Chen)
• SharePoint Designer’s new workflow editor: keyboard shortcuts (SharePoint Designer Team)
• SharePoint Dialog Auto-Sizing and Master Page Customization (Zach Nation)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Hotkey to Pause Pandora (Lee Holmes)
• How I use Social Media: Part 4–LinkedIn (Amy Blankenship)
• Windows 7 memory usage: What’s the best way to measure? (Ed Bott)
• Lynda.com video tutorial site now has iPhone app (Erez Zukerman)
• Confirmed: Windows Mobile 6.5 to become Windows Phone Starter Edition (Nilay Patel)
• The 27th of Diduary: Did you know you can get 7 free songs every week? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Daily Dose – Vote for the New Eclipse Logo! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Entelligence: Windows Phone 7 Series (Michael Gartenberg)
• NUI, Lolcats and other trending topics at Microsoft (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• PowerShell – Speak Number of Lines of Code (Keith Elder)
• Developers, save us from the Microsoft undead (Joe Wilcox)
• iPhone OS Coming to More Devices? (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – FEB ‘10 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 27, 2010 — #804 (Dave Campbell)
• Friday Potpourri: Azure, Bing Maps, Oomph, and more (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Azure Resources for Decision Makers (Murray Gordon)

The Geek Shelf

Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity

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Top Links

• Visual Studio First Launch Sequence (Sasha Siddhartha)
• Cause and Effect and Developer Productivity and Denying Productivity and How the Mainstream Lost Software Development Productivity (Scott Bellware)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Detecting User Inactivity (Richard Carr)
• Say hello to Uber Prof (Oren Eini)
• Writing object to object mapper: first implementations (Gunnar Peipman)
• WCF Data Services and EF POCOs that are in their own Assembly (Julie Lerman)
• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 (Kirill Osenkov)
• Generating Structured Text with StringTemplate (Mike Ceranski)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 10. Configuration with type converters (Mike Hadlow)
• Built-in Charting Controls (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series) (Scott Guthrie)

Web Development

• More amazing JavaScript demos (Michael Kimsal)
• Adding variable output behavior to your FubuMVC actions (Joshua Flanagan)
• Behind the Curtain (Jesse Liberty)
• AutoScroll an ASP.NET Multiline TextBox using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Understanding The Significance Of Weak Ties In Your Professional Life. (Rajiv Popat)
• BDD with SpecFlow and MSpec Boo DSL (Andrew Stopford)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight for Developers (Part I) and (Part II) and (Part III) (Arian T. Kulp)
• Data Binding, Currency and the WPF TreeView (Chris Sells)
• Background Stars (Dave Brown)
• BBQ Shack ? Ocean v2 for Visual Studio 2008 (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 101- PowerScripting Podcast – Matthew Giles from Connect-SMART (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

•  Headed To Austin and Speaking at the .NET User’s Group (Phil Haack)
• A TED responsibility (Robert Scoble)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Find the Size of Database File – Find the Size of Log File (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Use a Zune Remote Control with Windows Media Center (Henry Juliao)
• Mapping Out the Microsoft Application Platform at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
• The 8th of Diduary: Did you know how many things the Windows key can do? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: R in a Nutshell – Only $9.99! Use discount code DDRNT (O’Reilly Media)
• Innovators Use Bing (Steve Clayton)
• Generating Getters and Setters in Eclipse (Rhonda Tipton)

More Link Collections

•  The Morning Brew #534 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #107 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #91 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #23 – The Code Project (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/8/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 131 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (2/7/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

The Geek Shelf

Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 3 (Expert’s Voice in Silverlight)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: The Ubiquitous Language (Casey Charlton)
• The Other Kind of Exception Handling (Davy Brion)
• The Only Japanese You Need as a Software Developer. Ever. (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Code Review with NDepend (Laila Bougria)
• Cost? (Greg Young)
• TestDriven.Net 2.19: Release Notes (Jamie Cansdale)
• Eager Read Derivation (Martin Fowler)
• The Cost of Messaging (Oren Eini)
• Mocks vs. Stubs (James Kovacs)
• Framework Design Guidelines: System.DBNull (Brad Abrams)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Is the Future, but the Future Isn’t Silverlight (Scott Koon)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #91 – How to Apply Themes from the Silverlight Toolkit and Silverlight Tip of the Day #92 – How to Load Images from a Stream (Mike Snow)
• Integrating Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC (Tim Heuer) – Link of the Day
• Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF, Part 2 (Walt Ritscher)
• XAML Guidelines and Best Practices (Corey Schuman)
• Eclipse and Silverlight, Another Interoperability Journey Has Begun (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Add-In: CopySourceAsHTML (Gunnar Peipman)
• Quickly Setting Up and Using NHibernate’s Second Level Cache (Davy Brion)
• UrlScan and ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) (Scott Hanselman)
• Tour de BCL and An Intro to Barrier (Jason Olson)

Web Development

• How AJAX Is Included as a First Class Concept in Both ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (Anil)
• Validator Toolkit for ASP.NET MVC – Release v1.3 (20090208) (CodePlex)
• Looking at the Past of Community Server (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• WebForms or MVC? What About the Third Option? (Mads Kristensen)
• JavaScript for C# Programmers: Object Basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• It’s Not Just About the Code & Product; Your Website’s "Experience" Is What Matters (Dave Schinkel)
• Another Way to Test Ajax Methods (John Teague)
• How to Use Ninject to Inject Dependencies Into ASP.NET MVC ActionFilters (Simone Chiaretta)
• A Breaking Change Between Versions of ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward)
• S#arp Architecture Trunk Is Compatible with MVC RC (Billy McCafferty)
• JavaScript vs Silverlight vs … (Dave M. Bush)

.NET Community / Events

• Events This Week – February 9th, 2009 and MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow – Correction (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Developer Dinner: What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 (WebForms, AJAX and jQuery)? (Marc Schweigert)
• Announcing – Government Software Developers Group on Facebook (Nandita)
• Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development in .NET Workshop in Austin, Tuesday, March 24th (Scott Bellware)
• New Visual Studio Team System Web Site: http://www.tfsexamples.com/ (Charles Sterling)
• My First Video Blog (Sara J. Chipps)
• Hanselman’s List of Podcasts for .NET Programmers (Scott Hanselman)
• Register Now for Lang.NET Symposium 2009 (Harry Pierson)
• You’re Invited: "7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint for Project Management Success" Webcast (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SQL Server MVPs Provide a Helping Hand (Jas Dhaliwal)

Miscellaneous

• The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture (Jeff Atwood)
• On the Origin of Darwin by Means of Extreme Summary, or the Abbreviation of a Voluminous Life in the Struggle for Brevity (Dave Banks)
• How Important Is the Job Title to You? (Angela McLaughlin)
• Living in the Clouds – OpenDNS (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Early Peek Offered for Microsoft My Phone (Bruce Kyle)
• Google Sync (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Live Mesh Video Player Available (Sarah Perez)
• My Blogging Toolbox (Tim Heuer)
• Free eBook on Microsoft Virtualization Solutions (Jose Barreto)
• Keyboard Thoughts (Scott Mitchell)
• Recognizing Improvements in Windows 7 Handwriting (Yvonne)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links #39 (Grant Palin)
• LINKBLOG for February 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for February 09, 2009 — #512 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.02.10 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #283 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – February 9, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• CloudNews for February 9th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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