Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 (MS Downloads)
• Explaining Refactoring to Management (Mark Levison)
• Frame rate counters in Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Windows Phone 7 – The First Fart Application (Shai Raiten)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Game of Clue (C#2010) (Christ Kennedy)
• The Future of .NET Open Source Software Delivery (Rob Reynolds)
• The DXCore Visualize Toolbar (Rory Becker)
• Profiling an application with Visual Studio – Memory allocation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Graph Colouring, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Introduction to Project Hilo (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools Walkthrough (Pete Brown)
• F# asyncronous programming (Wiston Gubantes)
• Reset Toolbars (Zain Naboulsi)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release v5.1.14810.002 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• YUI 3.2.0 Preview Release 1: Touch Event Support, Gestures, Transitions, CSS Grids, ScrollView, Uploader, and More (Eric Miraglia)
• Fluent Validation – Release: v1.3 (CodePlex)
• YouTube’s shiny new HTML5 embed code is now live (Jay Hathaway)
• ASP.NET MVC Routing Basics (Dane Morgridge)
• LINQ to JS (Arun Mahendrakar)
• IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality (Mike Swanson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do architects define the software development process? (Simon Brown)
• How To Build Custom Rake Tasks; The Right Way (Derick Bailey)
• A Pattern for Using Scrum and Kanban (Karl Scotland)
• Mono & OpenStack on GitHub (Kyle Neath)
• The State of Enterprise Architecture (Mike Walker)
• NCover 3.4.12: Memory Improvements and Bugfixes (Alan Johnson)
• Article:Skills for Scrum Agile Teams (Prasad Prabhakaran)
• RavenDB Authorization Bundle Design (Oren Eini)
• Code Contracts and Automated Testing are pretty much the same thing (Patrick Smacchia)
• Is That How You Talk To People? (Davy Brion)
• YouTrack for OSS Projects (Hadi Hariri)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 User Interface Guide Includes Templates, Behaviors (Bruce Kyle)
• Work-around for VS 2010 & Silverlight Add Reference Hint Path Bug (Andy Schwam)
• Connected Experiences: Out of Brower- Article Viewer in Silverlight Part 1: and Connected Experiences: Silverlight to Win Phone 7 and Connected Experiences: Silverlight to Windows Phone 7 Part Two (Don Burnett)
• Silverlight UI Automation Testing using Prism 4.0 (Jeremy Likness)
• Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control (Part–I) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Expression Encoder Screen Capture codec now available (Jamie Lang)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 119 – PowerScripting Podcast – Adam Driscoll on the PowerGUI Visual Studio Extensions (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Visual Studio 2010 – Database Projects (MSpl)
• Ping 67: Visual Studio Power Tools, Facebook on Its Way to a Billion, Kinect, and More (Laura Foy)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 22 – Troy Hunt on Developers and Security (Richard Banks)
• UML with VS 2010 Part 1: Brainstorming a Project and Part 2: Organizing Features Into Use Cases and Part 3: Modeling the Business Domain (Clint Edmonson)
• This Week In Silverlight 7.23.2010 – Early Windows Phone 7 Reviews (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 26th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Agile: Developer attendance at showcases (Mark Needham)
• Blend-O-Rama Redux (Joel Cochran)
• Employee Developer Program (Brandon Watson)
• MSDN Flash Poll #4 – Job Profiling (Mike Ormond)
• Turkish MVPs Help Translate Visual Studio 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – Perisisted and Storage (Pinal Dave)
• Defensive Db Programming Chapter 03 (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

• Feature upgrade (part 3) – introducing SPFeatureUpgrade kit (Chris O’Brien)
• Social Squared July Release (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Steering Cutting Edge Research, the Microsoft Way (Jose Hector)
• Microsoft Releases "Word 2010: Interactive Menu to Ribbon Guide" (Blake Handler)
• Rubik’s Cube iPhone app (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Street-Fighting Math: down and dirty guide to approximation and problem-solving (Cory Doctorow)
• PureText lets you copy formatted text and paste it back as plain text and What the Zuk: an ode to Total Commander (Erez Zukerman)
• How is opportunity like lightning? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Loose lips sink ships (Kip Kniskern)
• 5 Key Events in the history of Cloud Computing (Kaushik Raghupathi)
• Windows 7 SP1 beta download goes public (Lee Matthews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Links (7/26/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #651 (Chris Alcock)
• Listiki Releases Crowdsourcing Widget, 3 Weeks Left to Switch to OAuth and Lemmings on Windows Phone 7 (Sara Allison)

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User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn

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Top Links

• Simple Code First with Entity Framework 4 – Magic Unicorn Feature CTP 4 (Scott Hanselman)
• New Mono Runtime Features (Miguel de Icaza)
• iPhone versus Windows Phone 7 Coding Comparison (Don Burnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XLinq default namespace gotcha (Adam Kinney)
• What’s up with code contracts? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• EF CTP4 Released! and EF CTP4 Walkthrough: Productivity Improvements and EF CTP4 Walkthrough: Code First (EF Team)
• A new book that explains Microsoft Surface development! … and a new library on codeplex! (Microsoft Surface Blog)
• Visual Studio VB 2010 Enhancements (Hima Bindu Vejella)
• New Visual Studio Tips Book: Tip Layout and Importing or Changing Your Environment Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• New goodies in the Q2 Release of Telerik OpenAccess : Part I (Stephen Forte)
• Administrative Report Pack for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Shai Raiten)
• Using Dovetail SDK Using Visual Basic.Net and Refreshing Component Guids in your Wix XML (Kevin Miller)
• What’s New in Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0 – Part 2 (Matteo Slaviero)

Web Development

• jQuery Cookbook (Dave M. Bush)
• The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 24: Dear EditorTemplates, Are We Done Posting Yet? (Evan Nagle)
• JavaScript vs Silverlight: An answer (Laurent Bugnion)
• FubuMVC for ASP.Net MVC Devs at MVCConf (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Late to the JQuery Party (John Sonmez)
• Sueetie Going Mobile Series: BlogEngine.NET (Dave Burke)
• Pragmatic Spark – Turning it up to eleven (Robert Greyling)
• Hard Working Model Binder (K. Scott Allen)
• Caching Improvements in Internet Explorer 9 (IE Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Albacore v0.2.0 Preview 1 Is Available (Derick Bailey)
• Test Lint Pro – Launch Sale and Typemock back to basics: Faking "Future" Instances (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Does A Kanban System Eschew Estimation? (Karl Scotland)
• Gotchas: The Profiler Uses Processor Resources Too! (Ade Miller)
• Veracity: The next step in DVCS (Eric Sink)
• Evolving Loosely-Coupled Frameworks & Apps (Udi Dahan)
• The fallacy of quick answers (Scott Berkun)
• Running CodedUI Test From Another Application (Shai Raiten)
• Testing with XPathNavigator.Evaluate (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Beta Tools (Brandon Watson)
• Reflectoron in Prism: a WPF MVVM tutorial. (Eli Arbel)
• Performance Profiling Silverlight 4 Step-by-Step (Jeremy Likness)
• Document Toolkit 2 Release Candidate (Koen Zwikstra)
• Getting started with shader effects in WPF (Kubajzz)
• Xaml Meets ASP.NET MVC – Create databound visualizations with Xaml + ASP.NET MVC using XamlAsyncController (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Silverlight 4 RIA services tutorial – Part 2 (Nikos Printezis)
• Designing for Multiple Orientations (Kirupa)
• Windows Phone 7 gets cloudy (Steve Clayton)
• Natural User Interface library (Coding4Fun)
• A Matter of Controls Part 2 (Dr. Dave)
• WPF 4 Series: Getting Started (WPF Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Seth Juarez on Machine Learning (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Social Networking for Developers – Part 1 – Every Developer Needs a Blog and Hanselminutes on 9 – Social Networking for Developers – Part 2 – Make your Blog Suck Less (Scott Hanselman)
• Video: The Windows Phone 7 Philosophy (Eric Hagan)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – ADP West 2010 – Jean Tabaka -Linchpin (Bob Payne)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #179: Parallel Programming w/ Task Parallel Library (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Speaking at SQL Server Connections in Las Vegas, November 1-4, 2010 (Glenn Berry)
• Back by Popular Request – Live Chats with MVP Experts (SharePoint Team)
• The 2nd ALT.NET tool night (Dror Helper)
• Books.. Check ‘Em Out! (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Better Coding Through Community (Dane Morgridge)

Database

• Changing the name of your SQL server (John Pertell)
• SQL SERVER – Datetime Function SWITCHOFFSET Example (Pinal Dave)
• Kung fu and the art of SQL Server (Stuart Ainsworth)

SharePoint

• New Book: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant (Valerie Woolley)
• How to set permissions for BDC Entities (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Developer Perception on Mobile Platforms Survey Results (Abel Avram)
• Zappos Comes to its Senses, Allows Mobile Apps (Adam DuVander)
• DevCheatSheet.com, The Developer focused cheat sheet aggregator (just about all languages, all areas, all the time…) (Greg Duncan)
• Bill Gates Invests in Cleaner Car Technology (Jolie O’Dell)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDPEM (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2010 — #903 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #643 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting CodeRush Blog Series (Mark Miller)

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Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010 (Expert’s Voice in .Net) by Alex Mackey

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Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta Released (Scott Guthrie)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Released (Brandon Watson)
• ClickOnce Releases (Matt Hawley)
• MultiTouch Behavior: Update for Windows Phone 7 tools beta (Laurent Bugnion)
• Announcing Blake.NUI – a multi-touch NUI library (Joshua Blake)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Understanding C#: Namespaces and assemblies (a quick .NET tutorial) (Andrew Stellman)
• XNA Game Studio 4.0 Beta is Live! (Kathleen Sanders)
• App Inventor for Android, VB Revisited (Rob Bazinet)
• Working with Tabs in the Toolbox and Find Your Development Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• Hello World XNA Game Studio 4 Part 2 Linking to Autodesk’s SoftImage Mod Tool (Don Burnett)
• Getting Started with Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (Bart de Smet)

Web Development

• Getting Request.Form Data Out of XDomainRequest In ASP.NET (Karsten Januszewski)
• Request for Real-World Web Applications (WebDevTools Team)
• Adding ASP.NET Membership to your OWN Database. (Joe Stagner)
• jQuery JavaScript Templates Tutorial: Nesting Templates (Rey Bango)
• MVC in Practice: Designing Models (Stoimen Popov)
• How To Clear the Data From an Umbraco to Start From Scratch (Peter Kellner)
• WebForms refactoring: Eliminating redundant evenhandlers using a dictionary to map controls (Jef Claes)
• Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 3 Adding E-Mail Support (Chris Love)
• Introducing the Windows Azure Platform Appliance (Ryan Dunn)
• Just Announced at WPC: the Windows Azure Platform Appliance (Windows Azure Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Review: Brownfield Application Development in .NET (Grant Palin)
• Social Learning without the Technology – 7 Patterns to try out (Sumeet Moghe)
• Full Coverage by Tests Driven Development (Patrick Smacchia)
• Linchpin: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• “Quality is value to some person” restated (Brian Marick)
• Want to learn Team Foundation Server 2010 ALM? (Stephen Forte)
• Typemock Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Command Handlers and the Domain Model (Greg Young)
• Resharper 5.1’s Test Runner Is Broken (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• UnityServiceBehavior updated to support named resolutions (Rory Primrose)
• Windows Phone CTP vs Windows Phone Beta (Koen Zwikstra)
• Uninstalling Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP (Nick Berardi)
• Announcing Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft’s Windows Phone Developer Tools get a major update ahead of dev phone launch (Tim Conneally)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Released (Blend Team)
• ‘ServiceReferences.ClientConfig’ in the .xap application package Error in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone Manipulation Classes and Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Available (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 118 – PowerScripting Podcast – James Hamilton and Thomas Lee Talk Hotmail and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• A Few C plus plus TDD videos (Brett Schuchert)
• This Week In Silverlight – Phones are here! (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 12th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft PDC10 Announced (Mike Ormond)
• Microsoft PDC10 Announced–Book hotel early (Tim Heuer)
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start–Four free three hour (12 hours total) virtual sessions to jumpstart your WinPhone7 development (Space is limited) (Greg Duncan)
• Upcoming Events (Brent Ozar)
• We are hosting 2 great Windows Phone 7 community events in July 2010 (Michelle Flynn)
• Improvements to Badge System (Jeff Atwood)
• Free Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 Training (Rudi Grobler)

Database

• SQL Server DMV Starter Pack E-Book Published (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – How do I Learn and How do I Teach (Pinal Dave)
• HOWTO: Update Records in a Database Table With Data From Another Table (MS SQL Server) (Scott Mitchell)
• Change Data Capture rundown 100 (setup) (Ted Krueger)
• Handy indexes for versioning with RavenDB (Scott Galloway)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Guidance from the Patterns & Practices Group (Andrew Connell)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Admin’s Pocket Consultant – Only $9.99 use code DDMAC (O’Reilly Media)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Research Unveils Next Generation of WorldWide Telescope at 11th Annual Faculty Summit (Tony Hey)
• Microsoft Releases Bing Travel Planner for Outlook 2010 (Blake Handler)
• App Inventor for Android (Mark Friedman)
• Announcing SharpRobotica.com …the softer side of robotics (Billy McCafferty)
• Destination Arcade to launch with the Summer of Arcade (Larry Hyrb)
• More handy Script Editor Add-Ons (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Effectively Planning, Tracking & Controlling Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Graph Colouring With Simple Backtracking, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• Realizing the Promise of Cloud Computing with Microsoft (Robert Wahbe)
• Today At Microsoft – Tablets, Partners, Twitter and Martians. (Microsoft Blog)
• New Windows Home Server Vail Beta This Week? (Richard Hay)
• Value of Windows Azure Platform Appliance for SaaS (Rinat Abdullin)
• Mobile Browser Cache Limits, Revisited (Ryan Grove)
• Project Management in Java: A Confused .NET Developer’s Perspective (Ryan Svihla)
• App Inventor lets you build your own Android app (well, soon: it’s in closed beta) (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows 7 SP1 Beta Now Available for Download (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft set to launch Outlook Facebook Social Connector today (Tom Warren)
• Is Microsoft Still Huge? (Zhiming Xue)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 12, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #641 (Chris Alcock)

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Essential Windows Azure: Architecting and Developing Applications for the Cloud (Developer’s Library) by Kevin Hoffman

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Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 1 – Configuration, Actions and Conventions (Rob Eisenberg)
• Introducing WebMatrix (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft WebMatrix in Context and Deploying Your First Site (Scott Hanselman)
• The Controlled Calculator: An example of combining models while showing other features of Spec Explorer (Robert DuWors)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The PowerGUI Visual Studio PowerShell extension is now officially a v1 (RTW/RTM, Released, Stable, etc, etc) (Greg Duncan)
• Using the Tika Java Library In Your .Net Application With IKVM (Kevin Miller)
• Custom Query Options on the WCF Data Services Client (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• TFS Event Handler for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Introducing Stacky: A .Net Client Library for the StackOverflow API (Luke Foust)
• Navigating Bookmarks (Zain Naboulsi)
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Extending LINQ – Adding Query Operators (Scott Mitchell)
• First MonoTouch Book is out (Miguel de Icaza)
• Hosting Windows PowerShell 2.0 under CLR 4.0 and The Case of The Failed Demo – StackOverflowException on x64 (Bart de Smet)
• Building Setup Project In devenv.com Command Line Fails, Works In IDE (Shai Raiten)
• Named Arguments versus Object Initializers (K. Scott Allen)

Web Development

• Microsoft’s WebMatrix, The Simple ASP.NET Editor (Chris Love)
• WebMatrix & Razor: A new option for beginning developers (Dan Fernandez)
• ASP.NET MVC, jQuery & JSON (Dane Morgridge)
• Determining an ASP.NET Page’s View State Footprint (Scott Mitchell)
• New Windows Azure Book Now Available for FREE Download! (Windows Azure Team)
• In the YUI 3 Gallery: Base64 and Y64 encoding (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Generic Activity Indicator for Ajax Requests (Rey Bango)
• Using Stringify With the New window.msPerformance in Internet Explorer 9 (Karsten Januszewski)
• A GPU-Powered Shopping Experience with Amazon.com (Seth McLaughlin)
• Resources: Windows Azure for PHP developers (Glen Gordon)
• Pssst…Yeah you….Script Junkie…Check out this code… (Bob Familiar)
• Does Azure Debugging Cost Too Much? (Jonathan Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A short diagramed guide of a few Model-View-* patterns (Greg Duncan)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day – Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps – Only $9.99. Use code DDTAP (O’Reilly Media)
• Interview: Mike Cottmeyer on Agile in the Enterprise (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Group feedback (Mark Needham)
• Show Covering Tests with dotCover (Hadi Hariri)
• Short-Burst Work (J.D. Meier)
• Self-assessment – what have YOU learned lately? (Brian McNamara)
• The great Standup Report controversy (Andy Singleton)
• Do Story Points Relate to Complexity or Time? (Vikas Hazrati)
• xUnit.net – Release: v1.6.1 (CodePlex)
• Your design sucks (Paul Boag)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft® Silverlight™ for Symbian Developer Tools (MS Downloads)
• Vuvuzela for Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
• Using IDataErrorInfo for validation in MVVM with Silverlight and WPF (Jag Reehal)
• Banana SplitButton [A WPF-specific fix for SplitButton and some code analysis improvements for the Silverlight version, too] (David Anson)
• XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 version 6.1 Silverlight 4 Support and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 for Cider version 2.1 Silverlight 4 Support (Karl Shifflett)
• File Explorer using Silverlight 4 COM Interoperability (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Printing in Silverlight 4 (Markus Egger)
• Three essential plugins for Expression Blend (Avivo)
• Smooth Morphing with Transition Effects (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Don’t forget to Encrypt your Windows Phone 7 Data (Rob Tiffany)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – James Kovacs on psake (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 117 – PowerScripting Podcast – Bartek Bielawski, Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson Scripting Games 2010 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• This Week In Silverlight – Kin RIP and Welcome new MVPs (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – ADP 2010 West – Ryan Martens – Rally Dev and the addition of Agile Zen (Bob Payne)
• Intro to "Small Basic" with Vijaye Raji (Robert Hess)
• Ping 64: IIS Express, IE Reversing the Trend, RIP Kin, Hulu Plus and more… (Laura Foy)
• The GeekDads Episode #71: Must Have Bacon Beer! (Ken Denmead)
• Lane McCullough: Dell hardware running IE 9 Canvas demos and Simon Calvert & Scott Hunter: WebMatrix and the new Razor Syntax (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 6th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• CodePlex: Upgrading all TFS servers to TFS 2010 (Matt Hawley)
• Area 51: Asking the First Questions (Robert Cartaino)
• Announcing a Ruby with Shoes Course (Satish Talim)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Upper Case Shortcut SQL Server Management Studio (Pinal Dave)
• Network compression and database mirroring (Simon Sabin)
• Virtual Lab: Setting up Database Mail on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
• Setting Up Replication And Manually Initializing The Subscriber (Shaun Stuart)

SharePoint

• Practical Powershell for SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
• Feature upgrade (part 2) – a sample to play with (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Notepad++ version 5.7 software update (Ben Palmer)
• Sacrificing some IDE capabilities (Jay Fields)
• New book: Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step (Carol Vu)
• Firefox 4 Beta 1 now available for download (Darren Murph)
• Reader Feedback: Is CompSci Education Failing? (Keith Ward)
• Developing for the iPhone and Android: The pros and cons (Jonathan Hassell)
• Remove Firefox 4.0′s big, ugly, unmovable orange button (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #637 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

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IronPython in Action by Michael J. Foord

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Top Links

• Microsoft StyleCop : StyleCop 4.4 (Jason Allor)
• Using Push Notification from Your Windows Phone Application (Yochay Kiriaty)
• MonoTouch 3.0.4 – iPhone OS 4, beta 3 (MonoTouch Team)
• CQRS isn’t the answer – it’s just one of the questions (Udi Dahan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ADO.NET Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (MS Downloads)
• LINQ: Mean, Median, and Mode (Deborah Kurata)
• Saving lines – the usage of ternary and null-coalescing operators (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Every Program There Is, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic for Visual Studio 2010 (aka v2010 1.1 and/or 10.1.1) released and still very free (registration not even required) (Greg Duncan)
• Another Error Creating Control in the Design View with Object Reference Not Set in Visual Studio 2010 (Anh Phan)
• Querying a WebService using LINQ – LINQ to CountryInfo (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Parallelizing Windows Applications in .NET 4.0 (Tanzim Saqib)
• The story of a wicked bug (András Velvárt)
• Code Kata: Compressing Lists (Ted Neward)
• Announcing the Growl for Windows Target for NLog (and another reason to love Growl) (Ryan Farley)
• Assembly Private Bin Path Pitfall (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Visual Studio CSLA Extension for ADO.NET Entity Framework – Beta 1 (CodePlex)
• Some Performance Notes on Enumerable LINQ Operators (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• F#: My current coding approach (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• Modern CSS Layouts, Part 2: The Essential Techniques (Zoe Mickley Gillenwater)
• Localization, FubuMVC Style Part 1 of 2 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Archiving your contact form data. (Joe Stagner)
• Tip #106 Did you know … How to create the aspnetdb.mdf file? (Xinyang Qiu)
• OData and Messenger across the web (Alex James)
• jQuery Templates and Data Linking (and Microsoft contributing to jQuery) (Scott Guthrie)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Retrospectives" Now Online (James Shore)
• Windows IA (Information Architecture) (J.D. Meier)
• A Fool with a Tool is still a Fool (Mike Walker)
• Do Architects Need to Code? (Rockford Lhotka)
• Agile Techniques For Risk Management (Jared Richardson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Changing the watermark text in a DatePicker control (Cheryl Simmons)
• Expression Blend Samples – PathListBoxUtils for Expression Blend 4 RC and StackOverflow Desktop Client in C# and WPF – Release v0.4 (CodePlex)
• Silverlight 4 And ReSharper 5 = Pain (Davy Brion)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #14 – Dynamically Loading a Control from a DLL on a Server and #15 – Setting Default Browse in Visual Studio (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight security overview paper has been officially published (Nick Kramer)
• Navigating the Windows Phone 7 Documentation (Charles Petzold)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mark Miller and Karen Mangiacotti Live in Richmond, VA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 54: Keeping Track of Community Events with Andrew Duthie (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Video of a webinar I did – Group Wisdom, Group Genius, and Leading Agile Teams (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Mario Cardinal on Layered Architectures (Eric Hagan)
• Silverlight TV 24: eBay’s Silverlight 4 Simple Lister Application (John Papa)
• Office Casual – The Quick Access Toolbar (Tina Wood)
• DryadLINQ (TechFest)
• Enterprise Content Management Features of SharePoint 2010-Episode 46 (Rob, Nick & Brett)

Community / Events

• Do You Want be on Silverlight TV? (John Papa)
• At Last – Test-Driven Academy (Vagif Abilov)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Jump-Start Events (John O’Donnell)
• We’re taking OData on the Road! (Chris Sells)

Database

• That No SQL Thing: Scaling Graph Databases (Oren Eini)
• SET clause in SQL Server (2008/2005) (Dukagjin Maloku)
• SQLAuthority News – List of Master Data Services White Paper (Pinal Dave)
• FOR XML Workshop – Understanding FOR XML EXPLICIT (Jacob Sebastian)
• Is SQL Azure a newbies springboard? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Database Size Limit increased from 4GB to10 GB (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• Plan Your Server Farm with Capacity Management Resource Center for SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Office 2010 Filter Packs" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• On Working Remotely (Jeff Atwood)
• The Microsoft Research Team + Bing = Endless Possibilities (Kristin Meldahl)
• Excerpt from upcoming title: Microsoft Access 2010 Plain & Simple (Devon Musgrave)
• Use MSDN/TechNet Product Keys for Office Professional Plus 2010 or Visio Professional 2010 from before May 1st? Then your likely missing some features… (i.e. You may be using an ‘intended to enable Terminal Services capability.’ key) (Greg Duncan)
• SmartArt Diagram Improvements (Office Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Fashioning Technology – Only $9.99 use code DDFTK (O’Reilly Media)
• Select-String -Context (Jeffrey Snover)
• Photoshop CS5 Imaging Tip: content-aware spot healing and fill tools (Sebastian Anthony)
• Application Analytics and Browsing Forks (Matt Hawley)
• Social Networking – it’s not just virtual (Kenji Yamaguchi)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #595 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2010 — #857 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 6-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 53 (Kathleen Sanders)
• OData Roundup #3 (Alex James)

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Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Expert’s Voice in .Net)

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Top Links

• HTML5 Video (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Scrum and the C-Word (David Starr)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools April 2010 Refresh (Tim Heuer)
• Adding an Application bar to your Windows Phone (both globally and locally) in XAML (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows phone capabilities security model (Jaime Rodriguez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Collection Initializers and ToString and the Visual Studio Debugger (Deborah Kurata)
• Twitter lists in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Every Program There Is, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Remove Projects from the Recent Projects List and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Free your Document Windows and What’s new in Code Analysis for Visual Studio 2010 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Add Service Reference – How to Avoid Generating Already Existing Classes (Gil Fink)
• LINQ to GPU (with Brahma) (Greg Duncan)
• Pure Virtual Function Call: Repro Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
• ReSharper Settings Manager – Release v2.1 (CodePlex)
• More with Discovery, Day 3 (Scott Seely)

Web Development

• E-commerce APIs: Store Site in a Box (Adam DuVander)
• Asynchronous TreeView in ASP.NET MVC (Tomasz Pęczek)
• More on Custom Page Styling in ScrewTurn Wiki (Dave Burke)
• Tip: Replacing Html.Encode Calls With New Html Encoding Syntax (Phil Haack)
• VWD Available on Web Platform Installer (Now in Four Languages) (Van)
• Tip #105: Did you know … How to include empty directory when package a web application? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Update Your Windows Azure Website in Just Seconds by Syncing with Blob Storage (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Incremental Design and Architecture" Now Online (James Shore)
• SOA Anti-pattern: Nanoservices (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Why Software Sucks…and What You Can Do About It – book review (Gunnar Peipman)
• Do You Like Pain? (Jared Richardson)
• A Lean Way of Life (J.D. Meier)
• Get Moles for free on Visual Studio Gallery (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Coding: Generalising too early (Mark Needham)
• Mocking HttpContext with JustMock and Playing with aspx page cycle using JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Unit Test Runs Stale Code Because Code Coverage Is Enabled in Visual Studio (Sasha Goldshtein)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend for Windows Phone: Update Available (Christian Schormann)
• Creating WPF UIs for PowerShell with PowerBoots and Visual Studio WPF Designer (Joel Bennett)
• Don’t Wanna Know Plugin for Seesmic Desktop Platform (Adam Kinney)
• IContextAware services to bridge the gap between the View and the ViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 3 (Marlon Grech)
• Be careful when installing the Blend Windows Phone 7 Add-In (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #8 – Detecting Alt, Shift, Control, Window & Apple Keys Combinations (Mike Snow)
• Consuming REST/POX and REST/JSON services in Silverlight 4 (Carlos Figueira)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kate Gregory Live in St. Louis, MO (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Startup Podcast Show #66 Tom Foremski, SiliconValleyWatcher.com (Bob Walsh)
• WebDevRadio Episode 76: Lithium Framework for PHP (Michael Kimsal)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #172: Code Contracts: Validating state with Assert, Assume, ForAll, Exists (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight TV 22: Tim Heuer on Extending the Silverlight Media Framework (John Papa)
• Paul and Kimberly interview from MVP Summit (Paul S. Randal)
• Debugging Sandboxed Code in InfoPath 2010 Forms (Laura Harring)

Community / Events

• Wrox Sponsoring Hello World Mobile App Dev Conference at AppCon Las Vegas Aug 24 (Jim Minatel)
• Typemock Academy – The Event (Gil Zilberfeld)
• MSDN Meeting recording & links – MIX 2010 update (Silverlight 4, IE9, Windows Phone 7 dev) (Katrien De Graeve)
• pluralsight joins the .net rocks road trip tour with on-demand! (Meagon Marshall)

Database

• A DMV A Day – Day 30 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (29/30) fixing heap fragmentation (Paul S. Randal)
• Writing A Transact SQL (TSQL) Procedure For SQL Server 2008 To Delete Rows From Table Safely (Peter Kellner)
• MongoDB vs. SQL Server 2008 Performance Showdown (Michael Kennedy)
• Ensure your view and function meta data is up to date. (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Deployment guide for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 and the Lightning conductor web part (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Office Ribbon in OneNote 2010 (Jeff Cardon)
• Speculation About the "Courier" Project (Frank Shaw)
• Introducing Microsoft® Surface® Design and Development Training (Luis Cabrera)
• An immersive experience for homebuilders on Surface (Eric Havir)
• Developing Docs and Docs.com and Facebook User Content (Pat Kinsel)
• “Halo” Studio to Release New Game on Multiple Consoles (Samuel Axon)
• IMDb app for Windows Mobile released (Uzair Ghani)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 29, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 29, 2010 — #851 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #591 (Chris Alcock)
• Creators Club Communiqué 52 (Kathleen Sanders)
• The Big List of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML Development Tools, Libraries, Projects, and Books (Rey Bango)
• Netcast List April 2010 (Steve Rowe)
• Interesting Finds: April 30, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• April 30th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2010 (Scott Guthrie)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

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Top Links

• Build Your Own Pivot Server in Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• Eliminating Comments: the Road to Clarity (John Sonmez)
• WinForms to XAML UI Converter (Rob Relyea)
• IronRuby Drops – Does it Make a Sound? (Scott Bellware)
• Silverlight and WPF Tip: Fitting items in a ListBox (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Free copies of F# for Scientists! (Jon Harrop)
• Fun with turtle-graphics in F# (Brian McNamara)
• Visual Studio 2010 Recent Projects Improvements and Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense Improvements (Richard Carr)
• Custom Extension Types with VSIX (Aaron Marten)
• WCF Data Services Friendly Feeds and Issues with EntityPropertyMapping (EPM) (Chris Woodruff)
• IEnumerable IsNullOrEmpty (Daniel Vaughan)
• Tabbed thumbnails in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Book Review: C# in Depth – What You Need to Master C# 2 and 3 (Gil Fink)
• Smart vs. Block vs. None: The Indenting Smackdown and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using Generate from Usage and Brace Matching Rectangle and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Insert Documents to the Right of Existing Tabs and Recent Files and Navigate Open Document Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Got a great idea for a Windows Phone 7 game, but haven’t used the XNA Studio before (nor maybe any game dev either)? Here’s a ground-up XNA 2D tutorial series to help get you started (Greg Duncan)
• Data Services Expressions – Part 3 – Filters and Data Services Expressions – Part 4 – Accessing properties (Vitek Karas)
• AsyncEnumerator Survey for Microsoft (Jeffrey Richter)
• Keep Offline Help Up-to-Date in Visual Studio 2010 (WPF SDK Team)
• Error Creating Control Issue in the Design View in Visual Studio (Anh Phan)
• What on Earth is a Lambda Expression? (Simon Ince)
• Gemli – Do We Need An XPath-to-Object Mapper? (Jon Davis)
• What happens to C# 4 optional parameters when compiling against 3.5? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• OBFUSCATORS PAGE UPDATED (Pedro D. Güida)
• CSLA 4 Preview 4 available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Daily Dose – MonoTouch 3.0; Seems Unfazed by Apple’s New Terms (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Tip: Anonymous Event Handlers in VB.NET (Pete Brown)
• Have you seen Pivot yet? and What’s new in System.Data.Services (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• C#: Java-ish enums and Functional C#: Using custom delegates to encapsulate Funcs and Coding: Another outside in example (Mark Needham)
• Moving Suteki Shop from Linq-to-SQL to NHibernate and NHibernate Get vs Load and sub types (Mike Hadlow)
• Select is broken? (.NET 4) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Extending NServiceBus: Avoiding Two-Phase Commits and NServiceBus Distributed Transaction Woes (Jonathan Oliver)

Web Development

• Use the Factery API to Get Important Text From Searches (Adam DuVander)
• PHP Developers Get SDK for SQL Server Reporting Services (Bruce Kyle)
• PHP: What You Need To Know To Play With The Web (Christian Heilmann)
• Quick bit.ly API tip – Usernames are Case-Sensitive (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Sending JSON to an ASP.NET MVC Action Method Argument (Phil Haack)
• How to install Subtext (and Umbraco) Using WebPI (Simone Chiaretta)
• Update on the OData Explorer (Phani Raj)
• JavaScript Prototypes versus Closures (Simon Ince)
• Web Deployment Projects Released to Beta (WDP for VS 2010) (Vishal Joshi)
• Web Deployment Projects for 2010: Microsoft Listens (Michael C. Neel)
• How to use Google Data API in ASP.NET MVC. Part 1 – Google Analytics (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Setting the Frame properties in Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• Flip your Tip: Keeping the Event-delegation Tooltip in View (Karl Swedberg)
• POSTing JSON Data to MVC Controllers and Posting JSON Data to MVC Controllers and A Simple JSON Model Binder (Javier G. Lozano)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "No Bugs" Now Online (James Shore)
• A Guide to Parallel Programming – Drafts of Chapters 2 and 5 (Ade Miller)
• All Solved Problems Are Easy (Derick Bailey)
• Diagnostic Data Adapters, Coded UI & Test Type Extensibility – Some of the things you’ll find on the VS2010 Test SDK Page (Greg Duncan)
• Customer, Developer, Tester (Ian Cooper)
• Linfu Duck Typing Part 1 – Revealing Secrets (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Starting Conversations Or A Movement By Finding A Few Remarkable Nuts. and Entrepreneurship Tip: Working With Programmers Who Are Straightforward – Part 1. and The Least You Can Do Is Give No Excuses For Your Laziness And Boring Dreams. (Rajiv Popat)
• CQRS/DDDD – What’s New (Rinat Abdullin)
• Film Making: A Better Software Development Metaphor (Rod Paddock)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Bounded Contexts (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Pomodairo – My new favorite Pomodoro timer (Peter Provost)
• Perceived Response Time from a Developer’s Perspective (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Why Selenium and Rspec? (Scott Gillenwater)
• On Design for Testability (Udi Dahan)
• Late integration: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• 3 Ways to Get Unstuck (J.D. Meier)
• Getting Started Unit Testing with nUnit (Peter Ritchie)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "RSS Reader" Project for Windows Phone 7 (Blake Handler)
• Obfuscating Silverlight (for free) (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlighting Your PHP, Part 2: Hijacking XAML From Expression Blend (Justin Whitney)
• Some Notes on DRM in Silverlight 4 (Brian)
• A few cool new features added in Expression Blend 4 RC (Adam Kinney)
• Alive and kickin’ [New Silverlight 4 Toolkit released with today's Silverlight 4 RTW!] and The one with all the goofy heading names [Detailed information about the Silverlight Toolkit's new stacked series support] (David Anson)
• Small change in MVVM Light Toolkit templates for Blend 4 RC (Laurent Bugnion)
• Loading animation in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Can you access a loose XAML file from LoadComponent? and Of Crashing and Sometimes Burning (Ashish Shetty)
• Silverlight 4 Up and Running (Rene Schulte)
• Making printing easier in Silverlight 4 (David Poll)
• Silverlight 4 released. Availability of tools announcement and Silverlight Client for Facebook updated for Silverlight 4 release and Backward Compatibility with Silverlight 4 applications and Seesmic and Silverlight Provide an Extensible Social Platform (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 4 Released (Scott Guthrie)
• Silverlight 4 Release: Happy Third Birthday, Silverlight! (Pete Brown)
• My Article on SketchFlow is Up and Updated RIA Services + MVVM Example (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Dependency Properties in Silverlight (Umair Saeed)
• Silverlight 4 Documentation on MSDN, and Favorites/bookmarks (Wolf Schmidt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – John Lam and the Science of Fitness (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Weekly 152: Tool-Free Zone (Paul Thurrott)
• jQuery Podcast 20 – Barcamp Rochester (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Pete at MIX10: David Kelley on the Prototype WPF and Silverlight Retail Experience (Pete Brown)
• ALMday session 1 – New Application Lifecycle Management features of Visual Studio 2010 and Session 2 – Software Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: Part 1, an Introduction and Session 3 – Using TMAP with TFS 2010 in software development projects and Session 4 – Software Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: Part 2, Making It Real and Session 5 – Opsummering (Martin Esmann)
• LINQ – Beyond Queries by Scott Allen and Silverlight 4 – A Guided Tour of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) (Matthijs Hoekstra)

Community / Events

• MySQL conference 2010: thriving as one of many (Andy Oram)
• F# Code Retreat (Chris Canal)
• Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4 are here! Check out a local launch event near you. (Dave Isbitski)
• SQLAuthority News – Best Complements – DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Star DBA (Pinal Dave)
• Crowdsourcing MVVM Light Toolkit support (Laurent Bugnion)
• Indy Hall Member Profiles – Steve Winkler (Parker Whitney)

Database

• FOR XML Workshop – Understanding FOR XML RAW (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Release Date: May 21 2010 (Brent Ozar)
• A DMV a Day – Day 16 and A DMV a Day – Day 17 and A DMV a Day – Day 18 (Glenn Berry)
• A few of my favorite… Windows Azure Storage Explorers… (doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, but you get the idea) (Greg Duncan)
• Book Review – SQL Server Integration Services: Problem – Design – Solution (Tim Mitchell)
• Do you use Column=@Param OR @Param IS NULL in your WHERE clause? Don’t, it doesn’t perform (Denis Gobo)
• Testing Existence of a Windows Azure Blob (Steve Marx)
• SELECT TOP Shortcut in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) (Pinal Dave)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (15/30) checkpoint only writes pages from committed transactions and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (16/30) corruptions and repairs and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (17/30) page checksums and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (18/30) FILESTREAM storage, garbage collection, and more (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM! (Jeff Teper)

Miscellaneous

• Free "Visual Studio Theme" for Windows 7: Widescreen Edition and Microsoft Releases "Silverlight 4 Client for Facebook" (Blake Handler)
• Create and Track Your Own License Keys with PowerShell (Buck Woody)
• Recursion redefined (Dror Helper)
• Microsoft Office 2010 RTMs. MSDN and TechNet Availability on 22nd April (Uzair)
• Zune HD Hacked – OpenZDK released for development (Tauqeer Ahmed)
• Daily Dose – Scala 2.8 RC1 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Launches Fix it Center Beta (Paul Thurrott)
• KIN, Silverlight, Cloud Services and the Summer of Football: Weekend Reading for April 17/18 (Dominic Carr)
• Windows 7 Federated Search (Yochay Kiriaty)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 17, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #581 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 15, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 16, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 17, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 16, 2010 — #838 and Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2010 — #839 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman on Bill Knew Better, Transmedia Storytelling, Freelancers for the Win (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #116 (David Vidmar)
• Tech Tweets for 15-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 50 (Kathleen Sanders)
• A Feed You Should Read #28 – Scott Hanselman’s ComputerZen.com (Greg Duncan)
• Distributed Weekly 46 (Scott Banwart)
• New and Notable 413 (Sam Gentile)
• F# Discoveries This Week 04/16/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Thursday Linkfest (Scott Berkun)

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The Art of Agile Development

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Top Links

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Code – Only $9.99! Use code DDBCD (O’Reilly Media)
• Effective Model-Based Testing with Spec Explorer Full Class (Nico Kicillof)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 3 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Of Tailors and Tooling (rant) (Ward Bell)
• Effective Prototyping with Expression Blend and Visual Studio 2010 (Eric Hagan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Nine reasons to use F# (Brian McNamara)
• Testing the Lock-Free Queue (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Close All But This on the File Tab Channel (Zain Naboulsi)
• The Problem with Immutability (Kathleen Dollard)
• Your feedback about our Developer Training Kits told us to do this (Devon Musgrave)
• Moving XML nodes from one document to another (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

• PHP on Windows Training Kit Updated (Bruce Kyle)
• Stack Overflow API Private Beta Starts (Jeff Atwood)
• Hosting WCF 4.0 Service on IIS 7.5 with SSL (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Google’s Gmail is Now an App Platform (Matthew Casperson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Usability On The Cheap and Easy (Jeff Atwood)
• Strengthening your domain: Avoiding setters (Jimmy Bogard)
• How Agile is Agile? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: More Bug Fixes and a Company Update (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• TDD with complex infrastructures (Gojko Adzic)
• How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF : Design Time Data (Sacha Barber)
• Designing a Microsoft Silverlight Powered Cannon for Windows Phone 7 Series (Peter VanRysdam)
• Demo Apps from MIX10 on Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Lino Tadros goes Old School on us. (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• DIY Media Centers with Ceton Tuners (Larry Larsen)
• Discussion around Sandbox Solutions and SharePoint 2010-Episode 45 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Bill Buxton & Microsoft Student Insiders at MIX10 (Laura Foy)
• Comment Driven Development – the art of removal (Swedish MSDN Team)
• Bruno Sonnino on DiskPie Pro in WPF (Pete Brown)

Community / Events

• The Channel 9 Live GeekLympics at MIX10 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SharePoint 2010 Launch Community Parties – How do I do one? (Joel Oleson)
• Get ready for the Stack Overflow party (Joel Spolsky)
• USA Imagine Cup 2010: Vote For The Top Student Tech Innovation Now Thru April 23rd! (Hong Choing)
• Scottish Visual Studio 2010 Launch event with Jason Zander (Martin Hinshelwood)

Database

• List SQL Server Instances using the Registry (Buck Woody)
• Internet Facing Reporting Services Instance (thirster42)
• Index DMV usage considerations (Ted Krueger)
• FileNameColumnName property, Flat File Source Adapter : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• OData Query Option top Forces Data To Be Sorted By Primary Key (Peter Kellner)

Miscellaneous

• Ford, Microsoft Team Up to Help Electric Vehicle Owners Recharge More Effectively, Affordably (MS PressPass)
• Designing tools you’ll use (Dick Craddock)
• Re-evaluating Open Source for Sustaining Competitive Advantage for Hosted Applications (Daniel Crenna)
• The default experience for MSDN Library is now Lightweight (Kimberly Wolk)
• That Moment Where the World Stops (J.D. Meier)
• The new guy (Eric Brechner)

More Link Collections

• Flagged Links #72 (Jason Bock)
• Interesting Finds: April 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #572 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2010 — #826 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 31-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

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Top Links

• Simple ViewModel Locator for MVVM: The Patients Have Left the Asylum (John Papa)
• 5 Steps Toward jQuery Mastery (Dave Ward)
• DZone Refcardz: Getting Started with Silverlight and Expression Blend (Lyndsey Clevesy)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The black arts of custom Type conversion in c# (Doug Rathbone)
• Nasty ABA problem in array-based lock-free stack and Testing the Lock-Free Stack (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Developing Usable (.NET) Components (Jeremy McPeak)
• New debugger extension for .NET, Psscor2, released (Tom)
• Putting a base in the middle (Eric Lippert)
• Using the Miscellaneous Files Project (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Launches in Less than 2 Weeks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Implementing Transport Message Security with WCF 4.0 and VS 2010 RC (Mahesh Sabnis)
• ESB Differences Between Java and .NET (Udi Dahan)
• Tips and Tricks: Visual Studio 2010 Image Library (Weston Hutchins)

Web Development

• ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 is available for Visual Studio 2010 (Mikhail Arkhipov)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why I Write Automated Tests For My Code (Derick Bailey)
• Book Review – Clean Code (Russell Ball)
• Who broke the build? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Using HtmlUnit on .NET for Headless Browser Automation (Steve Sanderson)

Silverlight / WPF

• Great Blog Post from Singapore: Panoramic Navigation on Windows Phone 7 with No Code! (Christian Schormann)
• A Collection of Resources to Kick-Start Your Expression Blend Design & Development (Me)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Exposing WCF (SOAP\WSDL) Services (Brad Abrams)
• d:DesignInstance in Blend 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• That’s why it’s called the default *value* instead of default *values* [Tip: The default value of a DependencyProperty is shared by all instances of the class that registers it] (David Anson)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 2 (Rob Eisenberg)
• More Weak Help (Sacha Barber)
• Looking for a little help moving from WinForms to WPF? How about a “toolbox-centric” Quick Reference Guide? (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight 4: New parser implementation. New parser features. (Jeff Wilcox)
• New York Times Silverlight Kit Updated for Windows Phone 7 Series and PreEmptive Solutions Runtime Intelligence for the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework (Michael S. Scherotter)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 3, Third Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDMS3 (O’Reilly Media)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• endpoint.tv – Pro Windows Server AppFabric (Ron Jacobs)
• Typemock TV – Sony’s turn (Doron Peretz & Dror Helper)
• Pete at MIX10: Robert Kihm on Aptify RAD (Pete Brown)
• MSDN Interview (Stephen Forte)
• The Verification Corner – Loop Termination (Jonathan de Halleux)
• FXG Import into Expression Blend 4 (Don Burnett)

Community / Events

• Geek Dinner with Glenn Block! (Ben Scheirman)
• My trip to Microsoft’s MIX10 Conference (Dave Isbitski)
• Toby Richards talks about MVPS and online community support (Deborah Sorenson)
• Events This Week – March 29th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• NINE Questions with Michelle Juett (Chris G. Williams)
• Scott Guthrie in Glasgow (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The why of writing, or “How to acknowledge your betters” (Kyle Baley)

Database

• Open the SQL Server Error Log with PowerShell (Buck Woody)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• NoSQL For The Rest Of Us (Karl Seguin)
• NoSQL is not about object databases (Bertrand Le Roy)
• SQL SERVER – World Shapefile Download and Upload to Database – Spatial Database (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• How to Synchronize Excel 2010 + SharePoint 2010 List with Excel 2007 Add-In (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Business Connectivity Services Search Results Title (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• Wave 4 Essentials to require Vista or Windows 7 (no XP) (Kip Kniskern)
• Small Basic: Optical Illusions (Vijaye)
• The Ultimate Guide To Cloning In Photoshop (Tommy Saylor)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 29, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 30, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.30.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #570 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #98 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for March 29, 2010 — #824 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life!

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Top Links

• Creating an OData API for StackOverflow including XML and JSON in 30 minutes (Scott Hanselman)
• NoSQL is not about object databases (Bertrand Le Roy)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# async on the server side (Brian McNamara)
• Testing the lock-free stack and Testing the lock-free queue (Julian M. Bucknall)
• 4 Steps to Enable Instrumentation in WCF (Shivprasad Koirala & Anup Hosur)
• No mapping specified for the following EntitySet/AssociationSet (Chris Love)
• Dynamic Casting with .NET (Mike Ceranski)
• Creating Temporary Projects and Track Active Item in Solution Explorer (Zain Naboulsi)
• FavIcons, Internet Zones and Projects from a Trustworthy Source (Scott Hanselman)
• SPUR: A Trace-Based JIT Compiler for CIL (Nikolai Tillman)
• Time Flies Like An Arrow in F# and the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Open Source ERP for .NET (Rinat Abdullin)

Web Development

• Consuming an RSS Feed with ASP.NET MVC (Hattan)
• Reading Code: underscore.js (Mark Needham)
• Javascript Tetris part III – an update (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Html Encoded Code Expressions in ASP.NET 4 (David Hayden)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual, Second Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDCWS (O’Reilly Media)
• Building a Rails Server (Rod Paddock)
• .NET 4 Web Application Startup Time (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Solving The Towers Of Hanoi Mathematically And Programmatically – The Value Of Recursion (Alan Skorkin)
• How to Build a Large Agile Organization (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Test Manager 2010 Test Plans (Clemens Reijnen)
• Programmer Tip: Wearing What Make Your Comfortable And Happy. (Rajiv Popat)
• Functional Dependency Injection == Currying (Mike Hadlow)
• Windows Azure Design Patterns (Bill Zack)

Silverlight / WPF

• Exploring Design-Time Data in Blend 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• Windows Phone 7 Series development: reading RSS feeds (Gunnar Peipman)
• Silverlight 4, Blend 4, MVVM, Binding, DependencyObject (Mike Taulty)
• My First WP7 Application (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Weather Application for Windows Phone 7 (Shoban Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• PAX East Panel: Enforcement on Xbox LIVE: Tales from the Din Part 2 (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 189 – 03.27.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows 7 How-To Videos: Introduction to the Windows 7 Taskbar and Windows 7 How-To Videos: Windows 7 Taskbar (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 7 – Rob Farley on SQL 2008 R2 and more (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Come and join me for an Rx talk at VISUG on April 6th in Zaventem, Belgium (Bart de Smet)
• Try Azure, Win a Laptop (Thru Wednesday) (Jim O’Neil)
• Free Open Space Conferences (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Extended Events – Finding Long Running Queries (Pinal Dave)
• That No SQL Thing – Key/Value stores (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• 5 Key Steps to Managing SharePoint Users (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Some new concepts in Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 (damaster)
• posh-git Release v0.1 (Keith Dahlby)
• To Get Certified or Not Get Certified (Glenn Berry)
• My Top Ten Lessons In Life (Ali Hale)
• Wave 4 Essentials to require Vista or Windows 7 (no XP) (Kip Kniskern)
• Yoga Natal game appears on GAME retailer’s Xbox 360 release schedule (update: Amazon UK too!) (Vladislav Savov)
• How I use Twitter in my Job at Microsoft (Pete Brown)

More Link Collections

• Windows Phone: Silverlight for Casual Games (Andy Beaulieu)
• Interesting Finds: March 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #569 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #113 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2010 — #823 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.22 ~ 03.28 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #98 (Grant Palin)
• Links (3/28/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 138 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/29/2010 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition (2nd Edition) (Effective Software Development Series)

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