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Top Links

• When will WebForm vs MVC become like ListView vs Repeater? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using xUnit.Net with .Net 4.0 (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC Don’t Serve the Same Master (K. Scott Allen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A new and *good* "VB" (Jimmy Nilsson)
• New Book Project – Learning WCF 2nd Edition (Brian Noyes)
• Hidden Gems: Why .NET Developers Need to Take a 2nd Look at Project Rosetta (John Papa)
• Leveraging VS2010’s Entity Data Model Designer for .NET 3.5 Projects and Some Visual Studio tips I picked up recently (Julie Lerman)
• How many PCs in the world have the .NET Framework installed? (Scott Hanselman)
• Using the VSIX Manifest Editor (Lance Collins)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 7. How to Write a Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Reading ID3 Tags from MP3 Files (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• .NET Framework 4.0 Poster (Prashant Khandelwal)

Web Development

• JavaScript version of Flash (Michael Kimsal)
• Are Enterprise AJAX Applications Doomed…Or Are We? (Roy Goffey)
• FastCGI for IIS6 and IIS5.1 has been released. (Lawrence Moroney)
• Book Review: 51 Tips, Tricks, and Recipes with jQuery & ASP.NET Controls (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Constructor over-injection anti-pattern (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Do You Know What’s Really Going On? (Davy Brion)
• Value Driven… The Book’s Layout (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The limits of innovation (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• Cutting Edge Silverlight4 COM+ Features (Justin Angel)
• FlexibleBehavior class: More on reuse and Behaviors (Bob Bartholomay)
• Exploring: XamlPad to XamlDesigner (Rob Relyea)
• Sometimes it takes a village to solve a problem [Workaround for a Visual Studio 2008 design-time issue with the WPF Toolkit when Blend 3 is installed] (David Anson)
• Extract styles in Expression Blend (András Velvárt)
• Avoiding issues when typing text in Bindings (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 42: How to Get More Business from Microsoft Pinpoint (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #159: Working with Partials in Spark: Part 2 (Derik Whittaker)
• Office Casual: Ribbon Hero (Tina Wood)
• The Dev Behind Ribbon Hero and Build a CableCard MCE PC with Ceton TV Tuner (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Whither Alt.Net? (Ian Cooper)
• Active vs. Activist (Derick Bailey)
• Your story: the Microsoft interview (Microsoft JobsBloggers)
• On ALT.NET and patience (Sergio Pereira)
• Talking in Las Vegas: MIX2010 and MVVM (Laurent Bugnion)

Database

• .NET Culture and SQL Server (Steve Burch)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 to be released in May and Use alter table alter column to change datatypes for a column in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Remote DB maintenance auditing promotion (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Upgrades HealthVault Connection Software for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• MSDN Flash Editorial for January 18th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Bing Maps out of beta (Kip Kniskern)
• Apple’s Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is Critical (Michael Robertson)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Your Body: The Missing Manual — Only $9.99! Use discount code YBMM9 (O’Reilly Media)
• 3 Microsoft Visio 2010 Beta Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• Console Battle Heats Up Between Wii and XBox: Netflix, ESPN Rumors Up the Stakes (Natania Barron)
• Daily Dose – IBM has the Most Patents, but Microsoft’s Could be Worth More (Mitch Pronschinske)
• “Everything I need to know [about developing software] I learned from Dungeons and Dragons.” (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 19, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2010 and Independent Consultant Notes: January 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #520 and The Morning Brew #521 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 19-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

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