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.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Language Details (Gotchas) (Chris Smith)
• Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework (MS Downloads)
• Query Editor: Writing Queries, Part 1 (Jason Haley)
• Über Prof goes live (Oren Eini)
• Using Windows Touch Gestures with .NET (Part 1: Configuration) (Jason Ipock)
• The Wisdom of Crowds: Implementing a Smart Ranking Algorithm (Lee Dumond)
• Populating a TreeView Control from a List (Deborah Kurata)
• Teamprise: Enabling TFS collaboration across heterogeneous platforms (Somasegar)
• Telerik “M” Compare and “Repository” Migration Tool November CTP (Stephen Forte)
• Announcing the new Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform (Silverlight Team)
• Three Umpires (Eric Lippert)
• JNBridgePro 5.0 Bridges Java and .NET (Mitch Pronschinske)
• On being Culture Aware (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• Preventing Security Development Errors: Lessons Learned at Windows Live by Using ASP.NET MVC (MS Downloads)
• zen-coding: turn those CSS selectors upside down (Leon Bambrick)
• ASP.NET Authentication – Multiple Domains w/ Same Application (Dave M. Bush)
• Server Side Validation With ASP.NET MVC And Data Annotations (Malcolm Sheridan)
• $.fadeTo/fadeOut() operations on Table Rows in IE fail (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft sees a silver lining in the cloud (Steve Clayton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Security Considerations for Client and Cloud Applications (MS Downloads)
• Dependency Injection 101 (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Fields and virtual members (Jimmy Bogard)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Processing Requests (Davy Brion)
• Electronic Kanban Tools and WIP Limits: LeanKitKanban and AgileZen Get It! (Derick Bailey)
• You say Tomato, I say Pomodoro (Joel Cochran)
• The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming and The Bridge Pattern – When a single class hierarchy is not enough (David Cooksey)
• Trying Out Personal Kanban (Or At Least My Interpretation Of It) (Joel Ross)
• Getting started with BDD (Behavior Driven Development) in .NET (Tom Janssens)
• Legacy Code: Sensing (Mark Needham)
• Reuse Creates Bottlenecks (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Can Agile Be Combined with Offshore? 12 Lessons Learned. (Peter DeYoe)
• 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design (Whitney Hess)

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services + Silverlight Behaviors Resources (Andy Beaulieu)
• XAML 2009 Features: Node Loop flexibility (Lester Lobo)
• Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released (Sunshine)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Live from DevReach, Sofia, Bulgaria (Carl Franklin)
• Pluralsight Training Videos on .Net Reflector (Jason Haley)
• Ping 37: SQL Server, Windows 7, Bing, Google, Bill Gates Birthday (Laura Foy)
• ASP.NET 4 / VS 2010 “Quick Hit” Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Talk: Stop Programming JavaScript by Luck (Sergio Pereira)
• SharePoint PodShow – A Conversation with Foxit Software Episode 37 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Thread Blocking Analysis in the VS2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – November 9th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Countdown to Microsoft PDC 2009 – part 2 (Lars Wilhemlsen)
• Party with Palermo: PDC ‘09 edition – 6 days and counting (Jeffrey Palermo)
• SQL Authority News – Training MS SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization And Performance Tuning (Pinal Dave)
• Next "Oslo" CTP to be released in conjunction with PDC (Sam Gentile)
• PDC and Python (in that order) (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• Does the S in SQL stand for Scary? (Coding4Fun)
• Fuzzy Logic and Regex come to T-SQL in SQL Server 2008 R2 – available now! (Jamie Thomson)
• Always include precision and scale with decimal and numeric (George Mastros)
• SQL Azure & SQL Server playing together (Steve Clayton)

SharePoint

• Determining if MOSS is Standard or Enterprise (Tom Hearn)
• StructureMap and SharePoint (Tony Rasa)

Miscellaneous

• What I Use and Kindle for PC Now Available (Paul Thurrott)
• A Good URL Regular Expression? (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Mark Russinovich on Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Devon Musgrave)
• PowerPack Creation Manual (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Tortoise more than just version control (Jimmy Bosse)
• Recent UI updates to GitHub (Kyle Neath)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Rocks! (Jeffrey Snover)
• Verizon – Google Droid Review (Tim Boland)
• Happy 5th Birthday, Firefox! (Simon Mackie)
• Download Podcasts with Powershell (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft’s Top 3 advances in Exchange Server 2010 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/10 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 7 Taskbar Tweaker Lets You Change Windows 7 Taskbar Functionality (Sarah Perez)
• Today in O’Reilly Answers – The Droid, Tip-of-the-Tongue Effect, Technology for Political Candidates, and more (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #474 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 09, 2009 — #727 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/9/2009 (Bill Zack)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Links and Azure Links and Workflow Links and New and Notable 388 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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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)

Book of the Day