, but please do not. 

Top Links

• Updating live tiles without draining your battery (Steven Sinofsky)
• Photoshop in METRO style (Antoni Dol)
• Media on the Windows Phone Platform (Nick Lecrenski)
• Working with LiveTiles in Metro Applications (Abhishek Sur)
• Really silly things to do with C# expression trees (Ryan Rauh)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting started with the Azure Hosted TFS (aka TFSPreview): Creating a New Team Project (Enrique Lima)
• Don’t be difficult, DiffMerge! Using the free DiffMerge with SourceSafe, TFS & SVN (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Debugging and Remote Debugging (Maria Marcano)
• New Pluralsight Course: Introduction to Building Windows 8 Metro Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – October 2011 Update (Himanshu Singh)
• Review – InRule: A Business Rules Management System for .NET (James Michael Hare)
• Windows Azure SDK Error when launching compute emulator – Encountered an unexpected error Illegal characters in path (Avkash Chauhan)
• This Is Not How You Port Java Code To .NET (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Using FluentValidation with FubuMvc (Jon Canning)
• Using JsViews + MVCHaack Prototype to update multiple records in ASP.NET MVC (Per Ökvist)
• Uncurrying ‘this’ in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• APress Deal of the Day – 3/Nov/2011 – Pro ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010 (Tatworth)
• Running Scripts at the "Right" Time (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Working with Wijmo expanders and jQuery (Joel Cochran)
• Introduction To URL Rewriting (Paul Tero)
• Using the West Wind Web Toolkit to set up AJAX and REST Services (Rick Strahl)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.293 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• DotNetNuke Community Edition 05.06.04 (CodePlex)
• Making HTML5 Video work with IIS Express (Harish Ranganathan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD – Static Methods (Mark Pearl)
• The CQRS dilemma and related random thoughts (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• In Retrospect: About Bugs (Dennis Doomen)
• EventStore v3.0 Release (Jonathan Oliver)
• Remote pair-programming with Screen (Dalibor Nasevic)
• Estimating the Unknown: Projects or Budgets, Part 2 (Johanna Rothman)
• The best way to research your next web project (Paul Boag)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 Marketplace Beta – new app downloadable delay (Andreas Hammar)
• How to bind Data to ListBox in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• 2000 WPF Things #422 – Setting Minimum Height and Width on Rows and Columns in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• Getting bytes from continuous streams on Windows Phone 7 and Pandora – hidden endpoints (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Full Stack, Phase 2–Overview (Jesse Liberty)
• Author news: Andrew Whitechapel article on “Mango” apps (Devon Musgrave)
• Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone Toolkit MultiselectList in depth| Part2: Data Binding (WindowsPhoneGeek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: WCF Extensibility with Scott Reed and Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes: Using Isolated Storage and Visual Studio 2010 Ecosystem Series: Telerik Toolbox for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010 (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Allen Builds Web Pages With Modernizr (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Phone 7 Coding Dojo video… A 66 minute journey to a LOB WP7 app (Greg Duncan)
• What The Tech 91: Future Of Computing (Paul Thurrott)
• Bing for Mobile Goes HTML5 (Santanu Basu)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Analyzing Your Code (Robert Green)
• Start Up Success Postcast Show #124: Corey Maass, theBirdy.com (Bob Walsh)
• Information Integration – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• SE Podcast #25 – Mark Russinovich (Alex Miller)

Community / Events

• Web Camps Belgium: Hands-on HTML5 and Web Apps announced and Register now for TechDays 2012 and benefit from 15% Early Bird discount (Katrien de Graeve)
• Viral video lands Brandon Foy at Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
• Inside Microsoft Research: Students Get Creative with Touch Mouse (Rob Knies)

Database

• How do I remove a named instance of sql server 2008 on the same mssql server? (Paula DiTallo)
• SQLAuthority News – New Book Released – SQL Server Interview Questions And Answers (Pinal Dave)
• Code to list index counts per table (Paul S. Randal)
• Data Explorer Team’s Vision for Data Discovery (Data Explorer Team)
• Using Table Valued Parameters (Bunch)

SharePoint

• Block Application pages and Form Pages in Sharepoint 2010 (Gino Abraham)

PowerShell

• Local Account Management PowerShell Module (with C# Source) (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Google Graveyard? Microsoft throws stones from its glass house (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Server "8" Preview (Unedited, Complete Version) (Paul Thurrott)
• The miracles that brought Kinect to life (Steve Clayton)
• WP7 Xbox Live Game of the Week: Kinectimals (officially) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows Phone App Flow: Blogging on The Go (Travis Pope)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #973 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/02/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 3 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading November 2, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #744 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/2/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for November 01, 2011 — #1160 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jon Galloway

• appendTo Launches Free Developer Learning Center (appendTo Team)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part II (Luca Bolognese)
• DropKick – a jQuery plugin for beautiful dropdowns (Jamie Lottering)
• The New and Improved Silverlight.net Site (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Parallel Processing and the Command Pattern (Carl Nolan)
• Object hierarchy of NULL (Abhijit Jana)
• LINQ to HPC (formally DryadLINQ) Ships Beta 2 (Ade Miller)
• Portable Libraries for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Alex Thissen)
• FluentValidation and PostSharp for RESTful WCF parameter validation – Part 3 (Naeem Khedarun)
• Web Test Manager For TFS 2010 (Shai Raiten)
• A first look at Windows Azure AppFabric Applications (Maarten Balliauw)
• Next week: The Microsoft Surface SDK and other Tools and Resources will be available to you! (Luis Cabrera)
• Solution Wide Dependency Management for .NET (Vinayak Palankar)
• Yayyyyy Cloud, iPhone, and Android with Monotouch and Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
• Now Available: Building blocks to help ISVs develop Multi-Tenant SaaS solutions on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)

Web Development

• Building a Star Rating System with Rails and jQuery (Charles Max Wood)
• JavaScript for C# programmers: wrapping an existing function to add extra functionality (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Simple sorting in JavaScript (Jef Claes)
• HTML 5: Hot Stuff! (Surf4Fun)
• Behind the scenes at xbox.com – RSS enabling web marketplace (Damien Guard)
• WebCL Brings Parallelism to the Browser (Abel Avram)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Pair Programming (Peter Saddington)
• Distributed Bug Tracking Avoids Out-of-Sync Bugs and Code (Eric Sink)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part VI–Single responsibility principle is for idiots and morons (Oren Eini)
• StartMenu / Candescent NUI (Greg Duncan)
• The Visual Weight of Primary and Secondary Action Buttons (Anthony)
• Maven Release Plugin and Continuous Delivery (James Betteley)
• Innovation management with Intuit Brainstorm (Terri Griffith)
• Software Craftsmanship: The Art of the Performance (Rachel Hawley)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 DrawingBoard sample: Drawing (Ink) made easy and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Linq to SQL (Windows Phone Geek)
• Optimizing Infragistics WPF Controls Startup Time (Kiril Matev)
• Using Ninject (with CommonServiceLocator) with Caliburn.Micro on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Creating a global ProgressIndicator experience using the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Beta 2 and Building a detailed About page for your Windows Phone application (Jeff Wilcox)
• How to Categorize Control Properties for XAML View inside Blend and Visual Studio? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Creating a Horizontally Scrolling List in WP7 (Matt Lacey)
• Free: Silverlight Game Specification, Angry Dolphins, learning how to program (Surf4Fun)
• Inside the Info Icons in Expression Encoder (Elliot Meacham)
• New Games Developer Education on App Hub (XNA Game Studio Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Uncle Bob Looks For Clojure at NDC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ICSE 2011: Conversation with Baris Aktemur (Charles Torre)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 72: Windows Phone 7 Mango and What’s In It For Developers with Nikita Polyakov (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 152 – PowerScripting Podcast – PrimalForms 2011 with David and Alex from Sapien (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Let’s Play TDD #121: Back to the UI Vision (James Shore)
• Coding QA Episode 58 – Improving Test Team Morale (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Lee Murphy Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• Q&A with Jennifer Chayes (Anita Borg Institute)
• Microsoft Research New England Turns 3: Jennifer Chayes Reveals Its First Product—and Collaborations with Bing, Facebook, and Twitter (Gregory T. Huang)
• Bloggers, Klout, Influence, and the power of Networks (Joel Oleson)
• Let ComponentOne Sponsor Your User Group! (Kevin Griffin)

Database

• SQL Server Denali Sequence Object Overview (Greg Duncan)
• Less code with rethrowing “exception” in SQL Server 2011 (Jakub Dvorak)
• Why is there no CROSS JOIN component in SSIS? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server: DateTime vs DateTime2 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to expressor Datascript Modules and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 8 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP (Vishal)
• SQLDIY: Index Fragmentation Levels (Wesley Brown)
• The IF Statement in a T-SQL Query (Steve Jones)
• Wife and kids are leaving for holiday (it’s not off-topic) (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

• Multiple DataContext Objects for the Same SharePoint Website (Ricky Kirkham)

Miscellaneous

• Token Replacement in PowerShell (James Kovacs)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Migrating Applications to IPv6 – Only $9.99 w/code DD6JN (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 7 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for June 27 – July 03, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 07/07/2011 and Daily News Digest 07/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #890 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 200 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight 4 in Action by Pete Brown

Top Links

• Spark View Engine – Release v1.5 (CodePlex) – With MVC3 support.
• jQuery 1.5 Released (John Resig)
• Beware “the Meeting Guy” (Jim Holmes)
• Easier Debugging with ReSharper and the Clipboard (James Kovacs)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to RSS (Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya)
• Controlling XML Serialization of Attributes (Richard Carr)
• Customizable Output Directories for TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
• New book: Programming Microsoft LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• Reactive FlickR Searching… (Mike Taulty)
• Incorrect C++ compiler behavior in Visual Studio (Umair Saeed)
• Accessing the Toolbars Using the Keyboard (Zain Naboulsi)
• Hide Methods from debugger Using DebuggerHidden attribute (Abhijit Jana)
• Now Available: January Update for The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (Windows Azure Team)
• 7 Days Left to Submit XNA GS 3.1 Games on App Hub (XNA Game Studio Team)
• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 6: Loading Related Entities (Arthur Vickers)
• Looking at the code for the sort pages powertoy (John Guin)

Web Development

• Elegant Image Mouse-Overs with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
• HTML5 and CSS3 for Web Designers (Joey deVilla)
• Where has XHTML gone? (Giorgio Sironi)
• Select a textbox’s text on focus using jQuery (Scott Mitchell)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit – Release v0.8 (CodePlex)
• ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framewok on NuGet (Maarten Balliauw)
• Simple Offline Application (Remy Sharp)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Three simple Mercurial rules (Jimmy Bogard)
• Should the Product Owner Also Be the ScrumMaster? (Dan Puckett)
• Agile Chronicles #1: Stressful (Jesse Warden)
• [Tool Review] – Scrumy – Lightweight Scrum and Kanban (Peter Saddington)
• xUnit.net – Release v1.7 (CodePlex)
• Tales from QA: The “Re-Design” of the Dialog Box (Hadi Hariri)
• Cycle time—the soothsayer of productivity (Eric Brechner)
• HowTo: TeamCity & CodeCoverage with dotCover (Code Inside Team)
• Book review: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Gunnar Peipman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Image Button and All about Dependency Properties in Silverlight for WP7 and WP7 Dynamically Generating DataTemplate in code (Windows Phone Geek)
• 8 of 10 – Understanding Pivots and Panoramic view controls (Alfred Astort)
• Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight + WPF) (Colin Eberhardt)
• Silverlight Tutorials: Silverlight Basic – SpinningCube (Einar Ingebrigtsen)
• Silverlight and Prism: Communication between two Views of the same Module using IEventAggregator (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Review of ComponentOne Silverlight Controls (Free License Giveaway). (Michael Crump)
• Expression Encoder 4 with GPU acceleration (Silverlight Team)
• OData and Windows Phone 7 Part 2 (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Grant Skinner Develops Apps in HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 138 – PowerScripting Podcast – Parind Shah from EqualLogic (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Spaghetti Code Podcast – January 2011 (Jeff Brand)
• Ping 90: Microsoft Flash Mob, Swag for Jailbreaker, Quarterback Histories on Bing, Karaoke! (Laura Foy)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 43 – Cows in the Dark, Functional Programming and MMO design (Richard Banks)
• Pluralcast 35 : Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4 (David Starr)
• Windows Phone 7 – Episode 3 – The Emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)

Community / Events

• 24 Hours of PASS Sessions Announced (Jason Strate)
• East coast MVPs, we need your help at the west coast SQL Saturday’s. (Denny Cherry)
• People of Egypt We Hear You (Joel Oleson)
• Microsoft Partners in Learning 2011 Innovative Education Forum (Don Burnett)
• Art of Agile Training Returns February 28th (James Shore)
• Announcing UI-Binders (Ariel Ben Horesh)

Database

• Merge Join component sorted outputs [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• 31 Days of SSIS – SSIS Naming Conventions (31/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Wait Stats and Wait Types – Wait Type – Day 1 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Scaling MongoDB – $8.49 (Save 50%) Code DDMNG (O’Reilly Media)
• Importance of monitoring a database mirroring session (Paul S. Randal)
• Amazon Will Offer Oracle Database 11g on RDS (Abel Avram)

SharePoint

• RTM’d Today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Step by Step (rcaper1)
• Applying Quotas Across all My Sites (Bil Simser)

Miscellaneous

• VDI and PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Powershell to Automate SQL Compare (Grant Fritchey)
• Free Kindle Book of the Day “Beer is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing” (limited time offer) (Greg Duncan)
• Google Docs update brings Collections, Priority Sort, and file previews (Lee Mathews)
• MVPs for Office 365: Getting Ready for Office 365 (Lonnie Webb)
• Windows Home Server Update Released (KB981089) (Richard Hay)
• Internet Explorer 9 Reaches 23 Million Downloads and 1.82% Share on Windows 7 (Roger Capriotti)
• Confessions now in Paperback (Scott Berkun)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 31, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 180 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 057 for 1/31/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily News Digest 02/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #782 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Jan 31th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 31 January 2011 – #16 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (Expert’s Voice in SQL Server) by Grant Fritchey & Sajal Dam

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Get Time Zone Information (Richard Carr)
• Code Only – Further Enhancements (Alex James)
• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence (Eric Lippert)
• LINQ Programming (Jim Kohli)
• How to edit code when debugging a 64-bit application (Habib Heydarian)
• VSTS 2010 TMap process templates infographic (Clemens Reijnen)
• Learning Scala via C# Part 1 – What Is Scala? (Justin Etheredge)
• Targeting earlier .NET frameworks 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 using Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Bala Chirtsabesan)
• URL Routing with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Using .NET 4.0 Tasks with the AsyncEnumerator (Jeffrey Richter) – Link of the Day
• Export to CSV using Reflection and IQueryable (Michael Ceranski)
• Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – ThumbnailToolbarButton and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Overlays (Rudi Grobler)

Web Development

• Expression Encoder 3 – Free and on Web Platform Installer (Mike Ormond)
• HttpContext.Items[] vs Session[] (Dave M. Bush)
• Do you know about this undocumented Google CDN feature? (Dave Ward)
• Server specific Web.config sections replacement with WDP (Vishal Joshi)
• Dead Simple Geolocation… (Scott Galloway)
• BOOK: Murach’s JavaScript and DOM Scripting Training and Reference (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• We can’t all use duct tape (Steve Jones)
• "Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease" (Ted Neward)
• I use Balsamiq Mockups and So Should You (Rob Bazinet)
• Architecture Journal – Service Orientation Today and Tomorrow (Mike Walker)
• What does the M in MVC actually mean? (Michael Wagg)
• DSLs: Violating the builder pattern (Mark Needham)
• Mocks versus stubs and fakes (Scott Koon)

Silverlight / WPF

• CoreMVVM – A Simple MVVM Framework on CodePlex (Mike Ormond)
• how to work with animations in Silverlight in the mvvm pattern (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Five minute recipe for a decent BoolToVisibilityConverter (Josh Twist)
• Saving images (.bmp, .png, etc) in WPF/Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)
• Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (sourcecode) (Koen Zwikstra)
• Adding Silverlight Video to Websites with Expression Web 3 (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Shawn Wildermuth on Declarative UI (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – How to Improve Testability with a Modular Architecture and Architect Innovation Cafe – Perspectives on Silverlight 3 and Architect Innovation Cafe – Deploying Windows 7 (Bob Familiar)
• Ping 33: Windows Phones are here, Windows 7 party kit, hacking & phishing (Laura Foy)
• Thirsty Developer 75 – Sparking a Business into Divot Dog (Dave Bost)
• The SharePoint Ecosystem Part 1 Episode 34 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)
• Microsoft Network Monitor Experts Day: Part 5 – Advanced API (Michael Hawker)

Community / Events

• Save the date: Google I/O 2010 (Joyce Sohn)
• Events This Week – October 12th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• Generate Lots of Test Data with CROSS JOIN (Joe Webb)
• Interview With Rod Colledge About The Book SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Engineering SharePoint (Jeff Teper)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell RPN Calculator (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 90-Day Eval VHD (Blake Handler)
• Adobe Photo Uploader for Facebook is a full-blown Facebook app (Jason Clarke)
• Scala: Code Kata #2 – Karate Chop – Array Slicing Attempt (Mark Needham)
• Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication (MG Siegler)
• Microsoft’s Windows 7, as viewed by the Mac faithful (Todd Bishop)
• Sneak preview of my new book (Scott Berkun)
• FTW IE6, IE7, IE8, Chrome & Firefox running together on Windows 7 (Nigel Parker)
• No, Windows 7 isn’t slower than Vista, even at booting up (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Functions and Solver Improvements in Excel 2010 (Office Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #453 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 10.09 ~10.13 (yuanjian)
• CloudNews for 12th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #559 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading from Text Files with StreamReader (Richard Carr)
• Chocolate Salty Bools (Lee Dumond) – Title of the day. Well done, Lee…
• How to keep you fingers on the keyboard within VSTS 2010 Architecture Edition (Clemens Reijnen) – Link of the Day
• When an object-relational mapper is too much, DataReader too little (Damien Guard)
• Must Everything Be Virtual With NHibernate, Part II (Davy Brion)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 – Code Coverage Settings Window Closes Unexpectedly (Doug Holland)
• Debugging a COM object (Runtime Callable Wrapper) with Visual Studio 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• .NET Access Control Service takes a REST (Keith Brown)
• BizTalk Project Creation Fails – or, Why did BizTalk in VS 2008 break? (Matt Milner)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Sorting and Filtering Chart Data (Scott Mitchell)
• DotNetNuke – Retrieving Host Access (Dave M. Bush)
• Working with Events, Part 3: More Event Delegation with jQuery (Louis-Rémi Babé)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD: Copying and pasting tests (Mark Needham)
• Agile Architecture, Lean Principles (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Do you plan your work? (Louis Salin)
• A Mess is not a Technical Debt. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 17. (Rajiv Popat)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Change is Good (Rob Reynolds)
• Best Time-Tracking Application: Klok (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• MultiBrowser or CrossBrowser Testing and deconstructing Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview (Scott Hanselman)

Silverlight / WPF

• A new way to get the full version of Expression Encoder 3 (James Clarke)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kent Tegels on SQL Server Integration Services (Carl Franklin)
• C# 4.0 Dynamic with Chris Burrows and Sam Ng (Charlie Calvert)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #142: Isolation Frameworks: Learning to use Partial Mocks (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Working from home & commuting via float plane (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Steal My Book (Roy Osherove) – I’ve almost finished ‘The Art of Unit Testing’ and it’s worth every penny. Do yourself a favor and go buy a copy.
• Chance to win a free HD Zune and free VSTS 2010 Training in a Northwest City near you! (Charles Sterling)
• Events this week – September 22nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Goodbye MSDN Magazine (Howard Dierking) – Good luck, Howard. Thanks for everything you have done for msdnmag!
• MVP Profile of the Week….. (Robert Pearl) – Greg Larsen, SQL MVP, is featured this week.

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight CTP2 (Sumeeth Evans)
• SQL SERVER – Insert Values of Stored Procedure in Table – Use Table Valued Function (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Google Wave in Internet Explorer (Lars Rasmussen)
• Introducing Google Chrome Frame (Ian Fette)
• XPS Essentials Pack Version 1.1 (MS Downloads)
• Setting up TortoiseSVN to use WinMerge (Derik Whittaker)
• Getting More Performance out of Windows Live Meeting (William Vaughn)
• Create Your Own Forum With Zoho Discussions (Stan Schroeder)
• Windows 8 Special: Features and Considerations (Stephen Chapman)
• Office Web Apps (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft Courier Multitouch Tablet Unveiled (Taimur Asad)
• Helping You Recover Your Work in Office 2010 (Nitie)
• Paint.NET 3.5 Beta 1 released – now with added shiny (Paul O’Brien)
• U need some .Net training and/or course materials? Then .Net U is for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 1: The Bing Translator (Runar Olsen)
• Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials (Melissa Scroggins)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #439 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 22, 2009 — #697 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for September 22, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 373 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 22nd September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #546 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a PDF with C# and iTextSharp (Tom Hearn)
• C# Event Accessors (Richard Carr)
• Popfly Parting Present (Ben Anderson) – Link of the Day
• Fun With Method Missing and C# 4 (Phil Haack)
• The TryThis method (John Teague)
• QuickGraph 3.3: Easy interop with Delegate Graphs (Jonathan de Halleux)
• COM Interop Gets Much Better in C# 4.0 (Joydip Kanjilal)
• ADO.NET Data Services Logical Operators (Deepak Kapoor)
• LINQ: Porting jQuery’s Each (Steve Andrews)
• Starter Project Templates (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Plus (+) in .NET Class Names (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

Web Development

• Google Releases New Static Maps API (Andres Ferrate)
• Simplovation Web.Maps.VE v3.0 Now With FREE Edition! (Chris Pietschmann)
• Test Swarm Alpha Open (John Resig)
• How to deal with invalid characters in SOAP responses from ASP.NET web services (Stefan Gossner)
• Testing URL Generation on Routes in MVC Framework (Tim Barcz)
• Following up on some of the attention [Live sample posted and a *very* small tweak to the Html5Canvas source code!] (David Anson)
• LINQ and the ASP.NET Repeater control (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET MVC – Is WebForms the VisiCalc of Web Development? (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Before There Was Lean, Agile Or Waterfall There Was Theory X, Y And Z (Alan Skorkin)
• Agile in the Very Large – Sam Guckenheimer (David Starr)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Session Level Cache (Davy Brion)
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: The Session Level Cache (Oren Eini)
• Introduction to TestApi – Part 4: Combinatorial Variation Generation APIs (Ivo Manolov)
• Pop Quiz: .NET Integers, Unit Testing, and Boundary Checking (Steve Andrews)
• Zero Defects In Software, Setting a Higher Bar (Tim Barcz)
• Pair Programming: Observations on anti-patterns and Coupling and Expressiveness (Mark Needham)
• TDD Master Class Day # 3 – “What I learned today” (Roy Osherove)
• Refactoring Day 26 : Remove Double Negative (Sean Chambers)

Silverlight / WPF

• LINQ to Bing, Silverlight and .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)
• Showcase Silverlight Apps for Talks and Demos (Adam Kinney)
• WPF 3D Chromium Browser (Chris Cavanagh)
• Creating a highlighting text block for Silverlight 3, revisited and A Silverlight HighlightingTextBlock implemented in Visual Basic and Custom Control Development: Simple code guidelines (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight and localizing string data (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Panel: Is Software Development Too Complex? (Carl Franklin)
• Code Cast 30 – Story Teller with Jeremy Miller (David Starr)
• Dan Pink: Rethinking the ideology of carrots and sticks (Garr Reynolds)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #2- Astoria (Stephen Forte)
• Validation in Silverlight 3 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Async Messaging and the Barbarian Hordes (Harry Pierson)

Community / Events

• Understanding the MVP Program – Part 1 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Author news: Interview with CodePlex’s Sara Ford (Devon Musgrave)
• Silverlight 3 Firestarter Event Streamed Live (Mike Ormond)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Azure (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx – Part XI (Dave Campbell)
• The Remote Desktop Experience on Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
• What’s in a Word? From Science to Software (Jurgen Appelo)
• Using the XBox360 Preset to Encode HD Content (Eric Juteau)
• RTM’d today: Windows 7 Inside Out (Sandra Haynes)
• Bing Translation Plugin for Windows Live Writer (Sarah Perez)
• Apple’s culture of lies, Part 2: A different way of looking at it (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 26, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #421 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 26, 2009 — #675 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 26th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• New and Notable 363 (Sam Gentile)

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Web Development

• ASP.NET Podcast on Windows Azure (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• ASP.NET MVC – Think Before You Bind (Justin Etheredge)
• Xbox Gamer Tag Reader (Craig Wright)
• Friday Books – CSS: The Missing Manual (Dave M. Bush)
• US Congress Gets an API (Kevin Farnham)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption Part 2 (Sam Gentile)
• How I Do Continuous Integration with My C#/F# Projects – Part II: Setting Up a Continuous Integration Server and Part III: Running Automated Unit Tests (Steffen Forkmann)
• Getting Started with Xbox 360 Game Development with XNA – Release: Tutorials (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #1: Introduction and #2: Hello World (Eric Gunnerson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ux Tip 2 – UX Review (Corey Miller) – Link of the Day
• xUnitForms – Release: v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Impact (J.D. Meier)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 145 – SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob – Robert C. Martin (Scott Hanselman)
• Explaining Exploratory Testing (James Whittaker)
• TDD in SharePoint – Introduction to Common Vocabulary (Andrew Woodward)

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Build an Asteroids Inspired Silverlight Game (Michael Ceranski)
• Nifty Time Savers for WPF Development and Building FM Radio with RDS Support (Tamir Khason)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #79 – How to Disable HTML DOM Access from Your Silverlight Application (Mike Snow)
• Expression Encoder SL 2 MediaPlayer Templates and SL Streaming (Mike Ormond)
• WPF Toolkit Is Not Ready for Production Applications (Brent)

Database

• SQL Server – sqlcmd – Using a Dedicated Administrator Connection to Kill Currently Running Query (Pinal Dave)

Windows 7

• Six New Annoyances Introduced in Windows 7 (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
• What You Should Expect from the Windows 7 Beta (The Geek)
• Windows 7 Videos on Channel 9 (Adam Kinney)
• Windows 7 Taskbar – Part 1, The Basics (Yochay Kiriaty)

Miscellaneous

• Whiteboard Wednesday – "Dipping" Into New Year’s Resolutions (Max Pool)
• Kid Programming with Kodu Coming to Xbox 360 (Harry Pierson)
• Google Chrome Release Channels (Mark Larson)
• It’s Official: Office 14 RTM Scheduled for a 2010 Release (Stephen Chapman)
• Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta (Alex Chitu)
• Overnight Success: It Takes Years (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Tech Twitterings #10: 2008.12.29 – 2009.01.06 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for January 08, 2009 — #479 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for January 8th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (1/8/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• LINKBLOG for January 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #261 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 10 (Mike Snow)
• Link Listing – January 9, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight News for January 09, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Visual Studio Links #97 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: January 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 6 (Denis Gobo)

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