• New ASP.NET website launched (Scott Hanselman)
• 31 Days of Mango | Now In eBook Format! (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Microsoft to provide details on Windows 8 app store on Dec 6 (Brad Sams)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure (MS Downloads)
• Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript (Rick Waldron)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Custom XML Serialization (Gian Maria Ricci)
• CSLA 4 version 4.2 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• Managing the unmanaged… as in 5 tips toward understanding .Net Managed/Unmanaged Interop (Greg Duncan)
• Setting up TeamCity as a native NuGet Server (Hadi Hariri)
• New book: Developer’s Guide to Collections in Microsoft .NET (Kim Spilker)
• Eager-loading RFC (Mark Rendle)
• .NET access to the GPU for compute purposes (Daniel Moth)
• log4net object renders (Dru Sellers)
• Agent Ralph Plug-In for ReSharper (Josh Buedel) – Find and eliminate duplicate code.

Web Development

• 5 Minute Intro to HTML5 Canvas (John Papa)
• Cascading jQuery Combo Boxes in ASP.NET MVC (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Building an ASP.NET MVC 4 Solution with F# and C# (Daniel Mohl)
• ASP.NET website redesign: Now with less Beta, more Live (Jon Galloway)
• Using MVCContrib 3 Test Helpers with ASP.Net MVC 4 (beta) (Kevin LaBranche)
• How to lint your JavaScript with JSLint in real time (Maxim Mossienko)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First HTML5 Programming – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress (Sameer Borate)
• Custom request methods in Nancy (Andreas Håkansson)
• Working with Binary Data using Typed Arrays (Luke Hoban)
• Kendo UI from Telerik (Jake Rutherford)
• Windows Azure Cloud Services: How you can choose what is needed and how much it will cost? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.6.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The TeamCity Database Migration Documenation Could Use Some Work (Peter Ritchie)
• Future mocking with #IgnoreInstance (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Sharing Code Between Platforms (Peter Kuhn)
• ListBox ContextMenu with MVVM in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to navigate to other page from a user control in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF Asynchronous Wait Cursor using Task Parralel Library (Jacob L. Adams)
• Unifying Hardware Access across Windows Phone, Android, and iOS (Jonathan Allen)
• 2000 WPF Things #442 – WrapPanel Child Elements Can Be Clipped (Sean Sexton)
• Reflector: How to Add a WP7 Assembly List (Jason Haley)
• Async tests in Silverlight (Oren Eini)
• Infragistics Motion Framework 101 (Akshay Luther)
• Windows Phone geocoding with Rx (Muhammad Afzal)
• Beginning LightSwitch: Getting Started (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cool Projects at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Boagworld: Treat stats as indicators not as the end goal (Paul Boag)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Telerik JustCode (Robert Green)
• Let’s Play TDD #147: Finding the Dialog (James Shore)
• A Dev’s Game Dev castroll… (Or Chris shares the Game Dev podcasts he listens too) (Greg Duncan)
• GitHub has a Vimeo Channel! (Matt Ganucheau)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Rocks The Canadian Technology Community (Miguel Carrasco)
• .net awards rundown (Paul Boag)
• A Coder Interview with Kenny Kerr (The Code Project)
• Three years at IdentityMine–and more to come! (Laurent Bugnion)

Database

• I love SQL Server and cultures… NOT ! (Jérémie Chassaing)
• SSMS Tools Pack 2.1.0 is out. Added support for SQL Server 2012 RC0. (Mladen Prajdić)
• SQL SERVER – Effect of SET NO COUNT on @@ROWCOUNT (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 2: system tables and catalog views (Denis Gobo)
• Database Mirroring In A Windows Workgroup (Kendal Van Dyke)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 public beta reportedly due in February (Andy Weir)
• Our code needs to run on multiple platforms with different rules, so we follow none of them! (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft Confirms No Carrier IQ on Windows Phone 7 Handsets (Richard Hay)
• A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (Eric Ries)
• Working Hard? Or HardlyWork.In? (Peter Saddington)
• 10 Books to Gift the Geeky Creative in Your Life (Jocelyn K. Glei)

PowerShell

• Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 3) (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week November 21-27, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 2 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #994 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #765 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/01/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily Links 01/12/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 12/1/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 30-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Distributed Weekly 131 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

31 Days of Mango by Jeff Blankenburg

• ASP.NET MVC 3 and the @helper syntax within Razor (Scott Guthrie)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 for Silverlight and Unity 2.1 for Silverlight (MS Downloads)
• Why Windows Phone Will Beat Android (Doug Holland)
• Resources for Windows Phone 7 Development (Kim Spilker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: 5 Easy Ways to Combine Sequences (James Michael Hare)
• CodeRush Resources (Rory Becker)
• New version of the Inmeta Build Folder Extension (Terje Sandstrom)
• Dapper.Net – A Micro ORM that puts you back in control (Mike Ceranski)
• Mono Development 101: Build Linux Desktop Apps with .NET (Jason Gilmore)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Optional Update 1 and Unity 2.1 (MS Downloads)
• Spatial Types in the Entity Designer (Sarah McDevitt)
• Optional argument corner cases, part two (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Drawing Infragistics’ New Logo with the HTML5 Canvas (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Releasing Single / Multiple Files To Pre Compiled ASP.net Web Site (Abhijit Jana)
• Implementing MarkDown for comments (Julian M. Bucknall)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Canvas Pocket Reference – Only $5.49 (Save 50%) w/code DDCNV #HTML5 (O’Reilly Media)
• How to add Tweets to your blog and debugging basic JavaScript: Why did Twitter.com/JavaScript/Blogger JSONP Widget stop working? (Scott Hanselman)
• How to eliminate tempuri.org from your service WSDL (Ron Jacobs)
• Google Storage Open to All and Free Trial Use (David Hayden)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 10: Pinned Site Resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• More On PHP Deployment To Windows Azure (Karsten Januszewski)
• Windows Azure-Hosted Services: What to expect of latency and response times from services deployed to the Windows Azure platform (Emil Velinov)
• Book Review: Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Productivity Blogs (J.D. Meier)
• Using the Security Development Lifecycle Best Practices at Microsoft (MS Downloads)
• Visualizing the entire flow (Jimmy Bogard)
• Project Management: Dedicated vs. Shared Resources (K. Brian Kelley)
• Solo: Beautiful Project Management for Freelancers (Simon Mackie)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft Project 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Article:Are You a Whole Team? (Matthew Philip)
• Effective Tests: A Test-First Example – Part 6 (Derek Greer)
• Mocking MsCorlib members (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Adding Buy Now Functionality (Windows Phone Geek)
• A Letter to Some Listing to Silverlight Haters… (David Kelley)
• Active Federation using RIA Services and WIF (Yavor Georgiev)
• Adventures with PivotViewer Part 10: Let’s do the Timelapse Warp (xpert360)
• Coming In Mango–Local DB Part 2: Relationships (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV 72: Windows Phone Tips for Optimizing Image Quality (John Papa)
• A New NUI – Tobii Eyetracking Hardware (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• XAPfest LA 2011–June 4, 2011 (Wes Yanaga)
• Registration Open for Prism, Unity, WPF, MVVM Boise Training Event (Karl Shifflett)
• Full Day ASP.NET MVC 3 Training Event in Los Angeles on May 21st, 2011 (Scott Mitchell)
• Missed the #LifeatMS Twitter chat? Read the full transcript now (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• NYC .NET Developers User Group-> Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
• Dev Unplugged Contest Finalists (Carter Rabasa)
• Lindsay Lindstrom Chats About the Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition (Daniel Olivieri)
• From Zero to Silverlight in 1 Day! (Paul Sheriff)
• SQL SERVER – Vote for My Session in SQL PASS (Pinal Dave)

Database

• Integration of SSRS and .net using Iframe and URL Command Approach (Santosh Poojari)
• Sharding in SQL Azure (Simon Sabin)
• Stored procedures to retrieve directory listing – Undocumented XPs (Vishal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Foundation 2010 design samples (MS Downloads)
• Connecting to SharePoint Online Web Services (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Windows PowerShell 2.0 Core Help – May 2011 Update (MS Downloads)
• DoJ oversight of Microsoft ends (Evan Senter)
• Staying in Control of Your Default Search Provider (Herman Ng)
• Windows Azure Appliances are still in Microsoft’s plans (Mary Jo Foley)
• Office Web Apps on SkyDrive get a Spring update (Omar Shahine)
• Making Let Me Bing That For You Open Source (Phil Haack)
• Inspired by “Code” (Charles Petzold)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 12th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• 11-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #851 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design by Brett D. McLaughlin

• Silverlight Integration Pack for Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 released! (Grigori Melnik)
• Project Silk: Patterns and Practices do Rich Web Apps (Simon J. Ince)
• dotPeek – Free .NET Decompiler is Available for Early Access (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Async 13: Expressions that contain await (Bill Wagner)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Checking for Microsoft Word DocX/DocM Revisions/Track Changes without using Word… (via OpenXML SDK, LINQ to XML or XML DOM) and LED fun, four characters at a time, with Netduino and ShieldStudio (Greg Duncan)
• Code Metrics – Lines of Code (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Azure ServiceBus pitfalls (Johan Olsson)
• NuGet for the Win! (Grigori Melnik)
• NUnrar – Unrar in pure C# – Release: v1.0.1 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Ready, set, scaffold! Build ASP.NET MVC 3 applications quickly with MvcScaffolding (Rachel Appel)
• New NuGet Documentation Site (Phil Haack)
• HTML5 Intellisense in Visual Studio 2010/2008 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Google Tasks API (Αlex)
• HTML5 Prototypes–FileAPI, IndexedDB, Media Capture and Unobtrusive JavaScript in your ASP.NET pages. (Joe Stagner)
• And now… Raccoon Blog (Oren Eini)
• jsshell – Chrome Extention – Why it rocks! (Dan Watson)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 9: Patterns to make your pinned site code play nice in all browsers (Jennifer Marsman)
• Aviary Effects API Goes Public, Celebrates With Contest (Alex Stone)
• Gravatar API Enables One Avatar to Rule Them All (Allen Tipper)
• Awesomium – Free Indie License! (Chris Cavanagh)
• 10 Reasons Why Architects and Developers Should Care about Cloud Computing (Hanu Kommalapati)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Mind of a Leader: Content or Cliche (Nicholas Cardot)
• Build Software Like Toyota [Part 1/2] and Build Software Like Ford [Part 2/2] (Peter Saddington)
• Dealing with Frustration in the Workplace (K. Brian Kelley)
• When Your Team is Unhappy With Your Tools (Thursday Bram)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Beginner Resources (Arian Kulp)
• TouchStudio – Hello World (Jonathan de Halleux)
• What to look forward to in WPF vNext (Jonathan Allen)
• What is Character Spacing in Silverlight 5 Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Michael’s “Mega Collection of Silverlight 5 Beta” Demos (Michael Crump)
• Coming in Mango–Query the Contacts List (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 4: End-to-End Application using Prism 4, WCF 4 and DataGrid Custom Behavior (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 16 Ways to Make your WP7 Game Better (Matt Lacey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Deploying Windows Azure Applications (MS Podcasts)
• Chris Hawblitzel and Juan Chen: Introduction to Typed Assembly Language (TAL) (Charles Torre)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 70: Coding First with Entity Framework 4.1 (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 147 – PowerScripting Podcast – Champions of the Scripting Games 2011 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Introduction to Office 365 (Tina Wood)
• SE Podcast #04 (Alex Miller)
• Bill Buxton Shows Us His Favorite Tech (Larry Larsen)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Productivity Power Tools Part 1 (Robert Green)
• New Channel 9 Series: Visual Studio Toolbox (Weston Hutchins)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast: Esther Shein Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• endpoint.tv – WF4 in the Real World – Microsoft Support ASP.NET MVC Wizard Framework (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• MVPs to Play Major Role at Next Week’s Tech•Ed (Lonnie Webb)
• A Microsoft cheat sheet for Google I/O (Mary Jo Foley)
• Presenting a Free Webinar w/ Idera – Understanding SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata (Andrew Connell)
• Lessons Learned at Graduate School – Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon (Chris G. Williams)
• Windows Phone 7 Wednesdays by Telerik (Evan Hutnick)
• Announcing Pablo’s Fiesta 2011!!!!! (Joe Ocampo)
• Wintellect Azure Contest for XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle (Jeffrey Richter)

Database

• SSRS Series Part II: Working with Subreports, DrillDown Reports, Expressions and Custom codes, Databars, Indicators, Custom Sorting and Paging and many more (Niladri Biswas)
• SQL SERVER – Import CSV File into Database Table Using SSIS (Pinal Dave)
• Raise your hand if you have seen code that sends email from within a trigger in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Intro to Central Management Server (John Sterrett)
• Reliable Retry Aware BCP for SQL Azure (James Podgorski)

SharePoint

• From the trenches with SharePoint unit testing and Typemock (Avi Kaye)
• Track SharePoint 2010 Installations Across the Enterprise (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• MSFT-Skype: the interesting tidbits (Kip Kniskern)
• Questions we dread during interviews (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Disk2vhd and native boot – Or how to capture and use an OS snapshot (Mike Ormond)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 12 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #850 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/11/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• 10-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 11th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for May 02-08, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2011 — #1087 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter

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Top Links

• Sigh: a tale of relationship (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 2 for Developers (Uzair)
• Enterprise Library 5.0/Unity 2.0 – second batch of deliverables (Grigori Melnik)
• I like strong typing and compilation errors (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone 7 development: Using isolated storage (Gunnar Peipman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Workflow Services – Visual Design of Workflows with WCF and WF 4 (Leon Welicki)
• MSBuild Property Functions (2) (Dan Moseley)
• Setting a Breakpoint Filter (Zain Naboulsi)
• .NET Memory Leak: XslCompiledTransform and “leaked” dynamic assemblies (Tess Ferrandez)
• Purging all headers & footers in PowerPoint presentations with the OpenXML SDK 2.0 (Andrew Connell)
• AutoMapper 1.1 released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Entity Framework 4, WCF & Lazy Loading Tip (Dane Morgridge)
• Avoiding Leaking Connections With NHibernate And TransactionScope (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Character Count with jQuery and ASP.NET Web Forms (Deran Schilling)
• JSMag May 2010 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• YUI 3.1.1 and YUI 2.8.1 Released (Eric Miraglia)
• Port of “Out of this World” to JavaScript (Andre Vrignaud)
• ASP.NET MVC Tabular Display Template (Phil Haack)
• HTML5 and Same Markup: Second IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Zencoder Wants To Be The Amazon Web Services Of Video Encoding (Leena Rao)
• Multi-Tenancy in ASP.NET MVC with IoC (Louis DeJardin)
• Eloquent JavaScript is an interactive, free JavaScript book (Erez Zukerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Consistency in the code base and incremental refactoring (Mark Needham)
• Notes From A Project Applying Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing and CQRS : Part 1 and Part 2 (Michael Nichols)
• Using FitNesse to test web services (Gojko Adzic)
• The Agile Way and Motivation, Skills, and Feedback (J.D. Meier)
• Managers As Cheerleaders, or Why Charts Matter and Agile Techniques For Risk Management (Jared Richardson)
• Developer Growth Spurts (Joel Cochran)
• Code Contracts: Unit testing contracted code (Gunnar Peipman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Spy: A must have tool for any Silverlight Developer (Aashish Gupta)
• “Programming Windows Phone 7” — Updated Source Code (Charles Petzold)
• The joys of being an early adopter… [Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example to go with the April Developer Tools Refresh] (David Anson)
• Handy Tools Complimentary to Deep Zoom Composer (Zhiming Xue)
• Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (2 – Services) and KoodibooK Book Publishing – WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC2, Azure (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #13 – Silverlight Mobile Development (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight XAP Signing Certificate promotion from Thawte (Tim Heuer)
• Digitally Signing a XAP Silverlight (John Papa)
• Use the Camera in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator? Yes, you can… kind of and Windows Phone Developer Training Kit, now April and VS2010 RTM Fresh… (Greg Duncan)
• Text Trimming in Silverlight 4 (Dan Wahlin)
• Windows Phone 7 development: Using WebBrowser control (Gunnar Peipman)
• XML Photo Album In Silverlight (John)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ivar Jacobson Live in New York City (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• IE9 and same markup: A look at DOM events in IE9 and IE9 and same markup: A look at CSS3 borders and corners in IE9 and IE9 and same markup: A look at SVG in IE9 (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #173: Creating and using the Application Bar w/ Windows Phone 7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone Push Notification (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Video Interviews Part 1 – Steve Souders, Google’s Performance Evangelist Talks Performance and Mobile & Yahoo!’s Gonzalo Cordero Discusses BayJax (Rey Bango)
• IE9 HTML5 Demo (Nic Fillingham)
• Manual Deskterity : An Exploration of Simultaneous Pen + Touch Direct Input (TechFest)
• Francisco Tolmasky talks about Atlas, Cappuccino and 280 slides (Ryan Taylor)
• SlickEdit: More Than Just An Editor (Eric Hagan)
• Screencast – Git Part 2 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• MSDN Radio: Chatting with Scott Guthrie (Emily Gibson)

Community / Events

• See Critical Path Training at TechEd and get a free SharePoint 2010 book! (Andrew Connell)
• Open Space facilitation (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Enabling Innovation Through Research (Steve Clayton)
• Win a free ticket + hotel for the umbraco Codegarden ‘10 (Simone Chiaretta)
• At Last – Test-Driven Academy, Guest Post by Vagif Abilov (Tal Townsend)
• Web API Roadshow (Jonathan Carter)

Database

• SQL Server PowerShell Provider follows the Version of PowerShell on the Host and other errata (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• BCS Meta Man – Adding and Removing Methods (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Happy half-birthday Google Dashboard! Six months in and 100,000 users a day (Yariv Adan)
• The Secret To Getting More Ideas (And Better Ones Too) (Alan Skorkin)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Facebook: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDFBM (O’Reilly Media)
• The 5 Steps to Secure Collaboration (JG Chirapurath)
• Booking Review: Ruby For Rails (Russell Ball)
• Health IT Future is in the Cloud (Bill Crounse)
• Printing multiple PowerPoint presentations with Windows PowerShell (Andrew Connell)
• Trying To Get Vim Intellisense Working. Help?! (Derick Bailey)

More Link Collections

• Flagged Links #74 (Jason Bock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2010 — #856 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #594 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 5-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: May 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

Professional WCF 4: Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4

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Top Links

• SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009 Release 3) for Visual Studio 2010 RTM Now Available (Chris Sells)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Released! (Grigori Melnik)
• Project Natal caught in the wild (Tauqeer Ahmed)
• Microsoft SQL Server2008 R2 RTM – Express with Advanced Services (MS Downloads)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Basic 2010 Language Enhancements (Scott Mitchell)
• Conditional UIHint for Dynamic Data 2 and .NET 4 (Stephen Naughton)
• GAX 2010 and GAT 2010 (MS Downloads) – These two were in the MS Downloads ‘unofficial’ RSS feed, but the links are not currently working. I am guessing that they are coming soon, so try again later if they don’t work for you.
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Migration Guide (MS Downloads)
• [Insert Three Hour Tour and/or TPL Report Joke Here] – “A Tour of Various TPL Options” – 28 page free ebook about parallel programming options in .Net via the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and A trip down the .Net 4 System.Xml path, some pitfalls and how you can avoid them (Greg Duncan)
• HashSet, equality and identity (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Inserting Code Snippets and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Searching Breakpoints and Surround with a Code Snippet and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: How to Import and Export Breakpoints (Zain Naboulsi)
• Querying Literals in Entity SQL (Julie Lerman)
• Visual studio color styles (Torkel Ödegaard)
• NHibernate Get vs Load and Sub Types (Mike Hadlow)
• Modify VS 2010 Template to Reference System.Configuration (Peter Ritchie)
• Towards a Smaller .NET 4 – Details on the Client Profile and Downloading .NET (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

• jQuery + MVC = Progressive Enhancement (Simon Ince)
• Introducing Shrinkr The URL Shrinking Service built with ASP.NET MVC 2 (Muhammad Mosa)
• Put Blob Without Overwrite and Build Your Own Web Role: Running Hosted Web Core in Windows Azure and Changing Advanced FastCGI Settings for PHP Applications in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• One-Click Publish – What’s New Since Beta 2 (Yugang Wang)
• Asynchrony in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Handle JSON Exceptions Gracefully in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Easy Is Unit Testing Code Analysis Rules? (Jason Bock)
• Jeff Sutherland: How to make your team hyperproductive (Gojko Adzic)
• Partial Book Review: Beautiful Teams. (Derick Bailey)
• The R.E.A.L.I.T.Y. principles of Agile Software Certification. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Best-kept Secret in DDD Community (Vladimir Gitlevich)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Effective UI – Only $9.99 use code DDEUD (O’Reilly Media)
• Focusing on the controller’s responsibility (Matt Hinze)

Silverlight / WPF

• Aero Glass WPF Window (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Phone-y charts [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 4 and Windows Phone 7 Charting sample!] (David Anson)
• WPF: Validation Feedback with ValidationDecorator (Mike Strobel)
• Tip of the Day #111 – How to Configure your Silverlight App to run in Elevated Trust Mode (Mike Snow)
• New WPF Showcase Addition: Alfa Ebooks Manager (Jay Esguerra)
• Free Training – Building Silverlight Business Applications and Get Silverlight 4 – Simplified! (John Papa)
• Silverlight 4, MVVM and Test-Driven Development (Martin Hinshelwood)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Must See – Typemock Balloons Bash (TypeMock Team)
• Agile 2009 – Johanna Rothman – Manage Your Project Portfolio (Bob Payne)
• Herding Code 78: Ruby on Rails, View Engines, Web Security, Section 3.3.1 and Visual Studio 2010 with Rob Conery (Jon Galloway)
• MSDN Simulcast: Techniques in Advanced .NET Debugging with John Robbins (Part 2 of 3) and MSDN Simulcast: Techniques in Advanced .NET Debugging with John Robbins (Part 3 of 3) and MSDN Radio: XNA and Windows Phone 7 Series with Michael Klucher (Emily Gibson)
• Security Talk: MSF Agile + SDL (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• .toolbox events in May – Free Blend training in Chicago, New York, Boston and Austin (Adam Kinney)
• Second SharePoint MVP Chat Brought to you by MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• My Last Day at Microsoft (Brad Abrams)
• More Drupal 7 Details at DrupalCon (Mitch Pronschinske)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 4/27/2010 – What has Mono done for the .NET developer lately? (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Devscovery 2010 <- April 27-29 (Rachel Appel)
• Schedule for the Redmond WPF for LOB & Windows 7 and .NET 4 Event (Karl Shifflett)

Database

• That No SQL Thing: Modeling Documents in a Document Database (Oren Eini)
• New book: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, Second Edition (Karen Szall)
• Ted Kummert to make significant announcement related to SQL Server (Jamie Thomson)
• A DMV a Day – Day 21 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (20/30) restarting a log backup chain requires a full database backup (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – When are Statistics Updated – What triggers Statistics to Update (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• So You’d Like to Send Some Email (Through Code) (Jeff Atwood)
• Handy Categories on NSString (Ben Scheirman)
• iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2 Now Available for Download (Taimur Asad)
• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx – Part XI (Dave Campbell)
• Top 10 Benefits of PowerPoint 2010 (Office Team)
• Windows Live completes the Windows Experience (Piero Sierra)
• Thinking More Functionally with PowerShell (Russell Ball)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 04.20.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 20, 2010 — #842 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #584 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Learning Windows Azure platform Resources (Paul Mehner)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

.NET / Visual Studio

• Moving the Mouse Pointer Programmatically and Hiding the Mouse Pointer (Richard Carr)
• MSpec… for Boo! (Aaron Jensen)
• Creating audio signals in .Net (Coding4Fun)
• F#: Setting properties like named parameters (Mark Needham)
• Generating Code with Visual Studio’s T4 (Michael Ceranski)
• Changing Configuration Settings in a Desktop Client Application (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (Mike Walker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Agile methods to deliver on a fixed-budget, fixed-time commitment (Andy Singleton)
• Cloud Computing Design Patterns (Bob Nadler)
• Another Kata: Expression Tokenizer (Brett Schuchert)
• Elegant Code Project Structure Purse Fight (Chris Brandsma)
• It’s the subleties and Facilitation Antipattern: Repetitor (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Don’t Create Aggregate Roots (Udi Dahan) – Link of the Day
• Making your code easier to understand context/specification style unit tests (Ian Cooper)
• Microsoft ESB Toolkit (Mike Walker)
• Fighting Fabricated Complexity (Patrick Smacchia)
• A Craftsman sometimes has to create his own tool (Sergio Pereira)
• What Investing Can Teach You About Software Development (Part 2) (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Real World Refactoring (Joshua Flanagan)
• Simple Python testing in Silverlight with unittest (Jimmy Schementi)
• The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
• Yes… Agile Isn’t Project Managment… (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

• Never worry about ASP.NET AJAX’s .d again (Dave Ward)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 4 Introduction For Database Support With SQL Alchemy. (Ryan Svihla)
• Principals, Code-Behind, & View Engines (K. Scott Allen)
• ASP.NET DropDownList with Custom Paging (Malcolm Sheridan)
• VS2010 Beta1 Web Application Project Database package and SMO options (Xinyang Qiu)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls (Mike Ormond)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Wrap Panel (Deepak Kapoor)
• YouTube video in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• WPF discussions 090626 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening! (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 113: The Rural Juror (Paul Thurrott)
• ThirstyDeveloper #67 – Open Spaces and unmeetings (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Toolshed Tooltip #14 – Developer Community Update by MVP Don (XML) Demsak from Episode 3 (Russell Fustino)
• Major Nelson Show #323: Geoff Keighly, Worms 2 and behind the scenes at E3 (Larry Hryb)
• SharePoint development: using SharePoint as an application development platform and SharePoint Web Content Management / Publishing – Episode 9 (Rob, Nick & Brett)

Community / Events

• Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q2 2009) (Jurgen Appelo) – Congrats to Scott for making #1 and to Justin for his debut at #43!
• NDC09 Trip Report (Phil Haack)
• C’Mon Get Meta! (Jeff Atwood)
• Nayyeri.NET Turns Four (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Happy Blog-day, Keyvan!

SharePoint

• Community Kit For SharePoint (Dave Mann)
• How to Build a Change Control System in SharePoint (Dux Raymond Sy)

Database

• MVP Helps To Jumpstart SQL Server 2008! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Management Studio New Features and SQL SERVER – Maximum Number of Index per Table (Pinal Dave)
• Hyperlinks in custom reports (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• Firefox 3.5 coming June 30th, Fennec updated today (Brad Linder)
• The Five Best and Five Worst Mountain Dews of All Time (Curtis Silver) – Diet Code Red FTW!
• Organizational Chaos Followup (Jesse Liberty)
• 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills (Smashing Magazine)
• Bing Toolbox (Sunshine)
• Review: "Programming Clojure", by Stu Halloway (Ted Neward)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #378 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 06.22 ~ 06.28 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #59 (Grant Palin)
• Links of the week #82 – “Back From Holidays in Croatia” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Links (6/28/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Star Trek for Windows (Code Project)
• Live Framework Tools Updated in January CTP (Bruce Kyle)
• ForEach (Kirill Osenkov)
• DebuggerDisplay (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Cheap Way of Speeding Up Visual Studio I/O (Dmitri Nesteruk)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC and Validation Using IDataErrorInfo and Validation Application Block (David Hayden)
• T4 Templates in ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• Building AgiliTrain: Part 2 – MVC in Action (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Open Space Coding – Using the SSDS REST Library (Jamie Thomson)
• OpenID Delegate Plug-In for Graffiti (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• My Latest Book – Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX (Bill Evjen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD & Many to Many Object Relational Mapping and ALT.NET DDD Podcast (Udi Dahan)
• If You Have Anything to Suggest About the DSA Book Then Please Read This… (Granville Barnett)
• The Stack Overflow Development Process (Jeff Atwood)
• Understanding Code: Static vs Dynamic Dependencies (Patrick Smacchia)
• Getting Continuous Integration Working with CodePlex: Part I and Part II (Jon Henning) – Links of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Updated Adobe Illustrator to XAML Plug-In (Mike Swanson)
• Silverlight 2 in Review and Silverlight 3 (Yes Three) in Action Discussion (Chad Campbell)
• The ViewModel Pattern (David Hill)
• Using the EntLib Validation Block with WPF Part 2: Configuration Based Validation (Ade Miller)
• Microsoft Silverlight 3 Features (Eugen Ciuta)

.NET Community / Events

• Blogs I Enjoy #1 (Steve Clayton)

Database

• How to Enable xp_cmdshell and Ad Hoc Distributed Queries on SQL Server 2005 (Denis Gobo)
• String Comparison: Binary vs. Dictionary (Linchi Shea)

Miscellaneous

• svchost Viewer 0.3.0.0 RC 1 (Major Geeks)
• Advise Clients to Invest in Web Conferencing Rather Than Travel (Susan Harkins)
• "I Think That Maintaining Your Technical Chops Is a Full-Time Job." (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Most Awesomely Geeky Baby Shower Cake Ever! (Matt Blum)
• Books on My Reading List (Davy Brion)
• Adding Boxee to Windows 7 Media Center (WinBeta)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 31, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 01.31~02.01 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2009 — #503 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: February 1, 2009 and Innovation Notes: February 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day