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Top Links

• Four types of developers you might be doing pair programming with (Dror Helper)
• Microsoft Surface: Announcing Online Design and Development Training (Pete Brown)
• Sufficient Design means Damned Good Design. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Download and Share Visual Studio Color Schemes (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft interview study guide: Part I of II (Joe Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Objects – Integrating with the other .Net Languages – Part 1 (Mark Pearl)
• Unbounded concurrency (Oren Eini)
• Constructors and Value Types (Ron Petrusha)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 on XP: additional test pass, no issues (Grigori Melnik)
• Breakpoint Hit Count and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Pin a project to the Recent Projects list (Zain Naboulsi)
• Fix SQL Server Express User Instance Connection Error in Visual Studio Projects (Zhiming Xue)
• Using the new TaskDialog via WinAPI (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 debugging content (Tess Ferrandez)
• Layering XML readers (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Framework 4.0: StructuralComparisons Type (Sam Gentile)
• Pure Virtual Function Call (Destructor Madness) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• DevForce Or RIA Services? (Ward Bell)

Web Development

• Microsoft Web N-gram Services Now in Public Beta Worldwide (Evelyne Viegas)
• Duplicating Custom Page Styling in ScrewTurn Wiki Namespaces (Dave Burke)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Contextual controller injection (Jimmy Bogard)
• Tips using Firebug Lite and Full Screen with jsFiddle (Elijah Manor)
• Web Platform Installer 2.0 and Visual Studio Web Developer 2010 Express (Scott Hanselman)
• Design View Performance Improvements (Dan Chartier)
• First Experiences with WS-Discovery (Scott Seely)
• CSS3 Solutions for Internet Explorer (Louis Lazaris)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Specification-Context (Dave Laribee)
• DRY Violations May Indicate A Missed Modeling Opportunity (Derick Bailey)
• Combining Scrum, TFS2010 and Email to keep everyone in the loop (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Acceptance tests are not a by-product of development (Gojko Adzic)
• Better Code on a Budget and Training for Free (Jared Richardson)
• Developers, UX is not UI, learn that and stop trivializing! (Vibor Cipan)

Silverlight / WPF

• WTF Step by Step guide to installing Silverlight Tools (Adam Kinney)
• If found, please return to… [Using XAML to create a custom wallpaper image for your mobile device] (David Anson)
• Leveraging MEFedMVVM ExportViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 2 (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight Book Sample Chapter (Joel Cochran)
• Consuming WCF 4.0 REST Service in Windows Phone 7 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Silverlight and Dynamic Languages (Scott Wiltamuth)
• Instructions for profiling Silverlight (Desktop) with VS2010 RTM (Seema Ramchandani)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #7 – Localized Resources (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight 4 Getting Started (Corey Miller)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Michelle Leroux Bustamante Live in Dallas (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Listen Up! I’m on the Virtumania Podcast (Brent Ozar)
• Connected Show Podcast – All Mixed Up (Brian Johnson)
• Beth Massi on Visual Studio 2010; New Features in VB, C# (Eric Hagan)
• The Zen of Scrum (video) (Jurgen Appelo)
• The GeekDads Episode #66: It’s a Trap! (Ken Denmead)

Database

• SQL Server for the Oracle DBA Links (Buck Woody)
• A DMV a Day – Day 29 (Glenn Berry)
• How to Tell When SQL Server Started? (Joe Webb)
• Using SqlServer 2008 and TSQL Subtract 1 Hour From All Values In a DateTime Column (Peter Kellner)
• SQL SERVER – Disable Clustered Index and Data Insert (Pinal Dave)
• Count Rows in all the Tables of a SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (28/30) BULK_LOGGED recovery model (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Lightning Storm Forum Alerts (Nick Swan)
• Announcing Launch – May 12, 2010 (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Building your own game controller! (Coding4Fun)
• Over 325 DRM-free Microsoft Press ebooks now available (Devon Musgrave)
• PowerGUI Pro Technical Brief (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Windows Live Writer Facebook “Like” Plug-in (Greg Duncan)
• Product Feedback Systems (Jason Upton)
• Microsoft Signs Joomla Contributor Agreement (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Microsoft releases 3 new apps for the Zune HD (Uzair Ghani)
• A handy workflow image for newbie mercurial users (Leon Bambrick)
• No, Microsoft did not say Android steps on its IP (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Major LLVM Release! and Kohsuke Kawaguchi Talks Hudson and Daily Dose – HP to Buy Palm (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 29, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #590 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 28, 2010 — #850 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 28, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Tip/Trick: Increase your VS screen real estate by disabling HTML Navigation Bar (Scott Guthrie)
• F# under the covers IV — FxCop noise (Steve Gilham)

Web Development

• Dynamically Setting a Style at Run-Time in ASP.NET (Chris Love)
• Forms Authentication – Creating Users (Dave M. Bush)
• Updated: See how I used Firebug to learn jQuery (Dave Ward)
• Using StructureMap with ASP.NET MVC & MVC Contrib and Unit Testing with jQuery using FireUnit & QUnit (Elijah Manor)
• Tip #95: Did you know… That Web Application Projects and Class libraries are now available in Express edition? (Reshmi Mangalore)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Universal NAnt Script for Gallio (Rob Reynolds)
• Reporting Progress though a Circle Diagram (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Relative hyperlinks with Silverlight navigation (David Eitan Poll)
• Fluent API for .NET RIA Services Metadata (Nikhil Kothari) – Link of the Day
• Announcing Next Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight (Bart Czernicki)
• How can I port the WPF labeled pie chart to Silverlight? (Bea Stollnitz)
• XAML Power Toys v5 Published (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 123: There Might Be Shrimp (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 163 – 09.20.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 84 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell with Hal and Jonathan (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• A Feed You Should Read #4 – This Week on Channel 9 (Greg Duncan)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Service Broker and Sample Script (Pinal Dave)
• Could not connect to computer ‘.’ – Debugging requires you to connect by name on windows 7 (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Best Practices For Developing on SharePoint Shared (Bruce Kyle)
• Setting Back Connection Host Names for SharePoint 2007 Using STSADM (Gary Lapointe)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft lets shareholders vote on executive salaries (Ben)
• A close-up look at the new Office Web Apps (Ed Bott)
• What’s Up With Command Prefixes? (Jeffrey Snover)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #437 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 20, 2009 — #695 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #71 (Grant Palin)
• Double Shot #544 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly Link Post 111 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Code from Persistence.NET NHibernate Workshops and NHibernate Queries – Examples and NHibernate – Mapping a single domain model to multiple physical data models (Oren Eini)
• Incrementing a C# Variable Efficiently (Bashir Nabeel)
• More Extension Methods (Chris Cavanagh)
• Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey) (Chris Williams)
• A .NET (C#) Developer’s .gitignore File (Derick Bailey)
• Sneak Preview: Entity Framework 4.0 Testability Improvements (Diego Vega)
• “foreach” vs “ForEach” (Eric Lippert)
• Windows 7 Managed Code APIs (Yochay Kiriaty) – Link of the Day
• Id Generation for db4o (Tuna Toksoz)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 on msdn downloads (Wally McClure)
• .NET Framework 4 and VS Beta1 docs are posted (Jim Galasyn)
• Preview of Resharper for Visual Studio 2010 Coming Soon (JetBrains)
• Connecting VS2010 to TFS 2008 and Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Supports UML (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why Isn’t My Encryption.. Encrypting? (Jeff Atwood)
• Half-a-Book Review: IronRuby in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Web Development

• FireFox+Firebug vs IE8 Developer Toolbar (Chris Brandsma)
• New book: Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications (Devon Musgrave)
• ASP.NET MVC For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Phil Haack) – Coming in June.
• Book – ASP.NET MVC QUICKLY from Packt Publishing! (Joe Stagner)
• Dynamically Generate Meta Tags for ASP.NET Pages using LINQ To XML (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Free Typemock licenses – Welcome the ASP.NET Unit Testing Bundle (Roy Osherove)
• Unit Testing JavaScript with FireUnit (Stephen Walther)

Silverlight / WPF

• Realizing a Fisheye Effect in Silverlight (Charles Petzold)
• 3D Hit Testing (Jordan)
• MVVM and The Origins of Caliburn (Rob Eisenberg)
• New York Times WPF Kit (Michael S. Scherotter)
• How to customize holiday appearance in the Silverlight Calendar [Jason Cooke] (Kathy Kam)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• “Code Leader” book – what’s the missing piece? (Roy Osherove)
• Programming magic: Rituals and habits of effective programmers (Amy Bennett)
• The Flat Tire Principle for Source Control (Eric Hexter)
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Role and perception of Enterprise Architects needs to align better with business goals (Mike Walker)
• Unit Testing in EF v1 – the database conundrum and And now…Unit Testing in EF4 (Julie Lerman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Peter DaBetta and Adam Machanic on creating good SQL databases (Carl Franklin)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 31: Being Dynamic about IronPython with Harry Pierson – Part 1 and Episode 32: Being Dynamic about IronPython with Harry Pierson – Part 2 (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Code Cast 27 – Ade Miller (David Starr)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Silverlight 3 with Adam Grocholski (Jeff Brand)
• InfoStrat.VE: Integrating Virtual Earth 3D into WPF and Surface Applications for Mere Mortals (Marc Schweigert)
• Ping 12: Mac vs Microsoft, Ipod vs Zune: The Ad Campaign War (Laura Foy)
• Episode 70 – PowerScripting Podcast – Practical PowerShell: Best Practices from the Field (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• David Giard interviews Jamie Wright on CSLA .NET (Rockford Lhotka)
• Surface Development Part 1: What is the Microsoft Surface? (Jennifer Marsman)

Community / Events

• The dojo is open… www.ITSamuraiSchool.com (Billy McCafferty)
• .NET RIA Services at TechEd 2009 (Brad Abrams)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta1 Forums –Now Live (Charles Sterling)
• Speaking at CodeStock 2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Events This Week – May 18th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Energy Event – Mark Your Calendar – May 20, 2009 (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamic Languages at TechEd 2009 (John Lam)

Database

• SMO Script Index and FK’s on a database (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Increase Your Windows 7′s Portable’s Battery Life with "Power Management Reports" (Blake Handler)
• Flock 2.5 launches with support for Twitter, more services (Rafe Needleman)
• My Phone Beta Opened To All Users! (Sunshine)
• WMI Feature Announcement (Nandan Bhat)
• MAKE magazine projects as free PDFs (Mark Frauenfelder)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 1 – Know Your Audience (Justin Etheredge)
• Microsoft and Open Source (Harry Pierson)
• Eduify Launches Educational Tool for Students on Windows Azure (Sarah Perez)
• Windows 7 Learning Site Launched (Scott Lock)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #350 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for May 18th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Silverlight Cream for May 18, 2009 — #595 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for May 18, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #80 (David Vidmar)
• CloudNews for May 18th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day