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.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate and Composite Keys (Anne Epstein)
• PDC09 Downloader Source Code (Frank La Vigne)
• Visual Studio 2010: Generating sequence diagrams on the fly (Gunnar Peipman)
• IntelliTrace: A graphical comparison (Habib Heydarian)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 2- The Repository (Julie Lerman)
• NHibernate Event Listener Registration With Fluent NHibernate (Rob Reynolds)
• Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all (Vladislav Savov)

Web Development

• T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action (David Ebbo)
• ASP.NET MVC: Creating reports using Chart control (Gunnar Peipman)
• Lot’s of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week (Bill Staples)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kitchen Agile (Leon Bambrick)
• CQRS – The Domain Events (Mark Nijhof)
• Managing to the Constraint (Mike Cottmeyer)
• User Interface Design Is Not About Lorem Ipsum And Pretty Boxes. (Rajiv Popat)
• Take 3: Python, ISP, IoC, and OCP need a fundamental rethink. (Ryan Svihla)
• What’s all this nonsense about Katas? (Uncle Bob Martin) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• SketchFlow: Including Multiple Tab Content In Word Export (Christian Schormann)
• WCF RIA Services – What you need to know when creating DTO/Presentation Model (Fredrik Normén)
• Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight 4 Fluid UI (Jesse Liberty)
• Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML 2009 Features: FactoryMethod\Arguments (Lester Lobo)
• Debugging Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Applications (Mike Taulty)
• The big Silverlight 4 Question (Peter Bromberg)
• EdgeCam – Silverlight 4 Webcam & Edge Detection Shader (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA) (Jossie Tirado)
• Life at Microsoft: The truth revealed…again! (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 – Out of Browser Evolves (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• PDC09 Session Downloader (Frank La Vigne)
• PDC09 RSS feed file for your podcast catcher of choice (i.e. Grab all the PDC sessions for your Zune, Reader, FeedDemon, etc) (Greg Duncan)
• PDC ‘09: Three Screens and a Cloud, Pt. 1 – Azure (David Makogon)
• Why I like Steven Sinofsky (Stephen Forte)
• Shut Up and Build Something (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• SQL Server String Index Functions (Richard Carr)
• Procedures with cursors and Missing foreign key constraints (George Mastros)
• First sighting of SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) (Jamie Thomson)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 for Oracle DBA (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 – Query Interfaces (Arnt Schøning)
• BCS Meta Man Alpha Release (BCS Meta Man Team)

Miscellaneous

• Testing for PowerShell Remoting: Test-PsRemoting (Lee Holmes)
• Fixing Search Results: PowerShell 2.0 is RTM (Joel Bennett)
• Azure and Hardware (Bill Evjen)
• Systems Management with NetPoint and PowerGUI (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Why Chrome OS Will Succeed (in a limited market) (Eric Anderson)
• MVPs Release Windows 7 Resource Kit (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Twitter in a Dead End (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why Google Chrome OS has already won (Robert Scoble)
• Foobar2000 v1.0 Beta — holy crap, it’s finally here! (Sebastian Anthony)
• BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Announced (Sam Gentile)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 20, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2009 — #737 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for the Week 2009.11.20 (Jeremiah Peschka)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Projects: Packaging Your Build (Grant Palin)
• Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) (Somasegar)
• Data Dude moving into lower priced VS Editions in VS 2010 – excellent! (Kimberly Tripp)
• Diagnosing Toolbox Filtering Errors (Josh)
• Give us more control of Intellisense (Peter Blum)
• MPI Cluster debugger plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 (Joe Hummel)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Programming (Ferdinando Santacroce)
• Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit and Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 Samples (codename "Dublin" and codename "Velocity") (MS Downloads)
• Feature Request For Visual Studio 2010: Local Revision History (Tuna Toksoz)
• New Windows API Code Pack Version (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part V (Matthew Podwysocki)
• NHibernate Event Listener Registration With Fluent NHibernate (Rob Reynolds)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Adding Statistical Formulas (Scott Mitchell)
• Html.RenderAction and Html.Action (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET 4.0: Writing custom output cache providers (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Early Look At IE9 for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Azure to Feature App Marketplace (Mitch Pronschinske)
• HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Translating your content title using Google Translate API to use in a URL (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Is Windows Azure the Right Technology for the Future? (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• There’s Lazy Loading, And Then There’s Lazy Coding (Davy Brion)
• Two controllers, type conformance and the Liskov Substitution Principle (Mark Needham)
• Call for help with MSpec and MSpec v0.3 (Aaron Jensen)
• Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Class Design and Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Projecting Projections (Howard Dierking)
• The Demise of the Test Lab – An Ode to when Testers worked in test labs (Ken Johnston)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Trusted Applications and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Camera and Microphone Support and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: HTML Hosting in the WebBrowser Control and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: RichTextArea and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Clipboard Access and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Silverlight as a Drop Target and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Managed Extensibility Framework (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight 4 Debuts with Killer Demos at PDC09 and RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development (Nikhil Kothari)
• I Think Silverlight just ate WPF from the inside (Bill Wagner)
• Rundown of Silverlight 4 Beta Features and 6 Hands on Labs (Adam Kinney) – Link of the Day
• Silverlight 4 all about Media, Business Applications and calling your COM objects as trusted application! (Al Pascual)
• WPF: Still Alive and Kicking (Frank La Vigne)
• New WPF Features: SynchronizedInputPattern (Lester Lobo)
• Is WCF RIA Services ready for the Enterprise? and Silverlight 4 Commanding enables ViewModels (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.5 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight 4 Gets Top Requested Features (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Fishbowl – THE Windows FaceBook client? (Greg Duncan)
• Data Binding Changes in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 4 Beta Announced! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 4 Beta, RIA Services… and Beer! and Silverlight 4 Beta: Implicit Styles (Andy Beaulieu)
• Welcome to WCF RIA Services Beta! (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight 4 Beta is out – and the Toolkit has it covered! [Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 release now available for Silverlight 3 and 4!] (David Anson)
• Enabling Validation in Silverlight 4 with IDataErrorInfo (John Papa)
• WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4 Beta (Tomasz Janczuk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta with Phil Haack (Scott Hanselman)
• IE 9: First look at the new JS Engine and IE 9: Standards and Interoperability and IE 9: Surfing on the GPU with D2D and GalaxyZoo: Citizen Science for Classifying Galaxies (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #74 (Jeff Atwood)
• Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Silverlight 4 Podcast Pack with Tim Heuer (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• This Week in Test Episode 4 – Animals that Talk Back (Dror Helper & Gil Zilberfeld)
• Introducing the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta (James Senior)
• Internet Explorer 9 Screenshots and Video Demo (Taimur Asad)

Community / Events

• MSDN Radio 18 Nov – PDC09, samtal runt tunnan (Dag König)
• PDC 2009 – Day 2, Keynote (Dave Bost)
• PDC09 Keynote Day 2 – Silverlight 4.0 and Free Laptops?! (Rick Minerich)
• PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Steven Sinofsky and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Kurt DellBene and PDC 2009 Day 2: Microsoft Perspectives on the Future of Programming and PDC 2009 Day 2: Future of Garbage Collection and PDC 2009 Day 2: The State of Parallel Programming and PDC 2009 Day 2: Developing with the Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework and PDC 2009 Day 1: Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Silverlight Tour Now Includes Silverlight 4! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• My Introduction to Castle Winsor for IoC Session Scheduled for NotAtPDC (Steve Bohlen)
• Shut up and build something (Sara J. Chipps)
• Silverlight 4 beta released at #PDC09 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Microsoft PDC09 day 2 keynote highlights (Maarten Balliauw)
• PDC 2009: Recap Day 1, what’s on the menu for Day 2? (Sunshine)
• PDC Day One, working the halls (Kip Kniskern)
• Live from LA: Day One with the Surface Team at PDC (Kyle R. Warnick)
• Pablo’s Fiesta Open Space Conference (Chad Myers)
• December Headspring workshop: Decoupling Layers using Inversion of Control (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Understanding Table Hints with Examples (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server collation conflicts (George Mastros)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Public Beta is now available for download and Path to User Profile Synchronization success in SharePoint 2010 Beta (SharePoint Team)
• FYI – Interesting Little Bug in VS 2010 Beta 2 when working with the SharePoint 2010 Silverlight Client Object Model (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates Office Filter Packs for Windows 7 & Office 2010 Beta and Advantages & Disadvantages of Microsoft Office 2010 64-Bit Version (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/19 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Pivot: The latest technology from Live Labs (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Enters Beta (Will Kelly)
• Office Mobile 7 UI Prototype Image on Microsoft.com (Stephen Chapman)
• Office Mobile 2010 – BETA (Steven Bink)
• Is IIS 7 Console Based on PowerShell? (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Careers Employer Beta Underway (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 18, 2009, Part 2 and Interesting Finds: November 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for Nov 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #480 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets from 18-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 392 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2009 — #734 (Dave Campbell)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Application Settings (Richard Carr)
• .NET 4.0 is so Lazy (Fredrik Normén)
• Lists in F# (Kathleen McGrath)
• Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010 (Daniel Moth)
• Gabriel Schenker introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate. (Zachariah Young)

Web Development

• Upload a File via WebRequest Using CSharp (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC is MUCH better than MS seems to think (Dino Esposito) – Link of the Day
• Fluent-API to add ActionFilters to Controllers – ASP.NET MVC Part 3 (Fredrik Normén)
• Unrecognized attribute ‘targetFramework’ – Asp.Net 4.0 (Jarod Ferguson)
• Configuring the PasswordRecovery To Send Email to an SSL-Enabled SMTP Client (Scott Mitchell)
• Free ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Beta Hosting to help you get up to FOUR ! (Joe Stagner)
• Combining JavaScript and CSS to Make Pages Load Faster (Peter Kellner)
• Calling the Google Closure Javascript Compiler – Code (Kim Major)
• Optimize your web site for search engines using the SEO Toolkit [UPDATED] (Lawrence Moroney)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework (MS Downloads)
• Easy Mockups with Balsamiq (Grant Palin)
• In response to "The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming" (Doug Rohrer)
• Interface Inheritance Esoterica (Phil Haack)
• Coding: Pushing the logic back (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and RIA: Ignoring a Property in Your Business Object and Silverlight and RIA: Sharing Your Business Object Files and Silverlight and RIA: Enum Properties (Deborah Kurata)
• Embedding IronPython in Silverlight – Importing (Jimmy Schementi)
• New WPF Features: Cached Composition (Lester Lobo)
• Announcing the Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Silverlight Team)
• Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released (Sunshine)
• Design feedback for Silverlight needed and Two Silverlight SDKs released – Bing and Facebook (Tim Heuer)
• Creating Custom Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
• Magellan and Composite WPF and Magellan and the Microsoft MVVM Toolkit (Paul Stovell)
• Paper 2010 First Preview + New Releases Imminent (Dax Pandhi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Videos on Channel9 (Andrew Connell)
• C9 Conversations: Yousef Khalidi on Cloud Computing (Charles Torre)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 39: Building Composite WPF Applications with Claudio Lassala (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Anders Hejlsberg full length interview (Tina Wood)
• This Week in Testing: Episode 3 – Magic Numbers (Roy Osherove & Gil Zilberfeld)
• PDC09: John Durant on newly announced SharePoint features (Robert Hess)
• How to Cancel Work using .NET4 CancellationToken (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Get Your BI Project Started with Free Developer Training on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
• Asp.Net Mvc 2 (Chris Canal) – Upcoming ScotALT.NET Meeting
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 11/24/2009 “Stop Talking, Start Teaching” with Jeff Casimir (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Travelogue: Oredev 2009 Wrap-Up (Stephen Bohlen)
• Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day One (Jimmy Bosse)
• My Twitter Notes from Scott Guthrie Keynote at DevConnections (Julie Lerman)

Database

• Using Transactions with SqlBulkCopy (Scott Mitchell)
• From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling (Chris Sells)
• Do not use spaces or other invalid characters in your column names (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Sharepoint Resource Available for SQL Server (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates "SyncToy" File Synchronization Program for Windows 7 and Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Virtual Router" Wifi Hotspot for Windows 7 and Microsoft’s Research Labs Releases "Social Web Experience Toolbar" for Internet Explorer (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft buys Teamprise: so what? (Joel Bennett)
• Google unveils the ‘Go’ programming language (Cristian)
• Microsoft to Release Vista Ultimate Extras on Windows 7 (Muhammad Ali)
• PowerPack Creation Manual (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Ditch these 6 words (Anne Cheng) – Resume tips.
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/11 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Wanted: Microsoft seeks Midori OS UI Architect (Stephen Chapman)
• Rejoice, surfers! Bing it up with free WiFi access across the US (Sebastian Anthony)
• A Discussion on Imperative vs. Declarative Programming (Bill Wagner)
• PowerShell your PDC (Greg Duncan)
• A Move Into The Cloud Is Inevitable (Justin Etheredge)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #474 (the real 474) (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 10, 2009 — #728 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 389 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• The HornGet Project: Bringing "apt-get install" to .NET Projects (Billy McCafferty)
• Transitioning from VSTS2008 to Visual Studio 2010 and Where has “Team System” gone? (Anthony Borton)
• Visual Studio: Clipboard Ring (Deborah Kurata)
• VS2010 Beta 2 Feedback Survey (Jason Zander)
• ReSharper 5.0 – Now with VS 2010 Beta 2 (JP Hamilton)
• Designer Support for One-Way navigations in Entity Framework 4 (Julie Lerman)
• Starting to Use the Windows 7 Touch API in .NET (Jason Ipock)
• Performance (Cameron Skinner)
• Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 2 (Chris Patterson)
• The Weekly Source Code 46 – Jeff Key rocks Taskbar Meters that Monitor your Windows 7 CPU and Memory and Disk in the Taskbar (Scott Hanselman)
• The Best Way to Hide a Column in a DataGrid (Srinath MS)
• How to Fix “The application cannot start” Error (Weston Hutchins)
• Compiling Mapping using Fluent NHibernate (Michael Nichols)
• Instructions for collecting dumps in VS2010 (Daniel Moth)

Web Development

• Integration between Zoho & External Apps – Part II (Raju Vegesna)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (5 in a series) – What the Frig Is a View Model? (Sara J. Chipps)
• HTML5, a 3 minute guide (Leon Bambrick)
• Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project (Nichole Baker)
• eBook 51 Tips, Tricks and Recipes with jQuery and ASP.NET Controls (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Software, Sewing, and the Craftsman (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• Unit Testing: Testing Properties and Unit Testing: Exposing Internal/Friend Members and Unit Testing: Exposing Private Members (Deborah Kurata)
• Why We Delegate: The Darkness Principle (Jurgen Appelo)
• Agile practices do not address technical complexity (Scott Koon)
• DDDD: Why I Love CQRS (Jonathan Oliver)
• Software Architecture for Developers (Simon Brown)
• Low-Technology (Dave Laribee)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part V: Thank Them For Their Feedback (Patrick Kua)
• It’s all about the delivery (Hadi Hariri)
• Coding: Consistency when invariant checking (Mark H. Needham)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XV: Patterns and Antipatterns (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Silverlight / WPF

• Real-time list filtering with Silverlight, MVVM, and PagedCollectionView (Avi Pilosof)
• Countdown to Visual Studio 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• wpf text blurry blues? (Coding4Fun)
• NEW series on Patterns-Based Development with Silverlight (Murray Gordon)
• Drawing Lines – Silverlight WriteableBitmap Extensions II (Rene Schulte)
• Showing Progress in the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4 (and a short romp through Windows 7 cleartype settings) (Pete Brown)
• New WPF features: Key\Gesture Binding (Lester Lobo)
• Essential Silverlight 3 (Dave M. Bush)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Chris Sells in on DataDude (Carl Franklin)
• Code Cast 33 – Jimmy Bogard on AutoMapper (Chris Brandsma)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 007 – Mike Ormond discusses ASP.NET 4.0 and MSDN Flash Podcast 010 – Paul Jackson on Memory Mapped Files in .NET 4, Oslo and more (Eric Nelson)
• Connected Show Podcast: User Experience: It ain’t Lipstick baby (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 5 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• New WPF Video: How Do I: Use CollectionViews to Sort and Filter Data (Todd Miranda)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #72 (Jeff Atwood)
• Bug Killer – A Channel 9 Halloween special (Laura Foy)
• Vacation of Fluent NHibernate: Tuesday Conventions (Bobby Johnson)
• Creating a Web Part for SharePoint by Using a Designer (Kathleen McGrath)
• Recommended Books – part 1 (Roy Osherove)
• New Official jQuery Podcast Announced (Elijah Manor)
• How to Effectively Utilize Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 – A Free, Live Webcast – Nov 3rd @ 10am PT (Dux Raymond Sy)
• BlockingCollection Demonstration in Producer-Consumer Scenarios (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Mark Your Calendars: Dec 5, 2009 – SharePoint Saturday DC is Back! (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SOA Manifesto (Rockford Lhotka)
• Where to engage with questions about WPF4 Beta2 (Rob Relyea)
• PDC 2009 – What’s Happening at the Patterns Workshop (Ade Miller)
• Windows Azure Platform Launch Update (Windows Azure Team)
• Windows Azure at PDC 2009 (Steve Marx)

Database

• You see that database? OFF WITH HIS HEAD! (Oren Eini)
• Another T-SQL Challenge (Dave Ballantyne)
• Manipulating Blob Data in MSSQL with C# (Michael Ceranski)
• Eschewing Date Types in our Database (Karl Seguin)
• Connecting to SQL Azure with Telerik OpenAccess (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• Configuring ASP.NET (And SharePoint) to use SQL-based Sessions (Tom Hearn)
• October 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Jie Li)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Your Groove Off (Howard Dierking)
• Computer Forensics in a Windows 7 (and Vista) world and Seen all the PowerShell goodness in Win7? Want to use the same tool Microsoft did to create much of it? Here you go! “PowerShell Cmdlet and Help Designer” (free and source available BTW) (Greg Duncan)
• Enough, Microsoft. No One Is Endorsing Piracy. Obviously. (Paul Thurrott)
• Are You Classic or Lightweight? The MSDN Redesign (Wolf Schmidt)
• Building an iPhone Application (Eran Kampf)
• Connectify creates and shares Virtual WiFi Hotspots with Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #466 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 29, 2009 — #720 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 386 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 29th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – OCT ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Finds: October 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (10/29/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• 14 Silverlight Articles You Must Read on DotNetCurry (Minal Agarwal)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• 12 Tips To Speed-up Your Windows Forms Applications (Denis Basaric)
• Microsoft Windows 7 SDK (ISO) and Windows Media Center SDK (MS Downloads)
• Instantiating interfaces (Oren Eini)
• (Mis)using C# 4.0 Dynamic – Type-Free Lambda Calculus, Church Numerals, and more (Bart de Smet)
• ExpressionVisitor shipping in .NET 4.0 (David Kean)
• DAL: Save Data Using a Stored Procedure and Using Linq with Microsoft Word and Excel (Deborah Kurata)
• Wow, the hatred for ‘var’ lives on (Derik Whittaker)
• Displaying custom HTML in WebBrowser control and Developing Delicious applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• Observations on the ‘if’ statement (Chris Brandsma)
• A GC API that would be convenient (Patrick Smacchia)
• A Look At Tasks In The System.Threading.Tasks VS2010 Namespace (Sacha Barber)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #13: More more than one person (Eric Gunnerson)
• Fluent NHibernate 1.0RC (James Gregory) – Link of the Day
• TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster! and TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Cleaner Stack Traces (Jamie Cansdale)
• LinqToSQL A Detailed Review (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Tabbed Thumbnails and Previews in Native Code (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• NPR Opens 80,000 Transcripts via New Transcript API (Andres Ferrate)
• Windows Azure Sample Application Riviera (Deepak Kapoor)
• Announcing Sueetie Themes (Dave Burke)
• DinnerNow.net 3.1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 released (Habib Heydarian)
• Dysfunctional JavaScript (James Hart)
• ASP.NET MVC – Some Frequently Asked Questions (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Book Review: Web Design for ROI (Tim Barcz)
• Signed Access Signatures and PHP SDK for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Snapshot Panel in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• Prototyping a Drupal Module for Google Wave (Pamela Fox)
• The Design and Development Benefits of CSS (Tom Lerchenfeld & Josh Frankel)
• ASP.NET disk-based caching (Karl Seguin)
• How to use Ninject 2 with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
• Range-Specific Requests in ASP.NET (Scott Mitchell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft Updated (Ade Miller)
• Benchmarks are useless, yes, again and Taking advantage on the Data Transfer Tier (Oren Eini)
• Kanban In Time-Boxes: The Cadence of WIP and Sprints (Derick Bailey)
• Continuous learning and getting left behind (Jimmy Bogard)
• Thoughts on agile design and platforms (Eric Gunnerson)
• the difference between model-view-viewmodel and other separated presentation patterns (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Should I use MEF for my general IoC needs? (Glenn Block)
• My favorite form of a “TODO” in code (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Spearmen, Javelin Throwers, and the State Pattern. Oh My! (Troy Goode)
• Convention over Configuration – The Next Generation? (Udi Dahan)
• Adjusting NHibernate mapping for tests (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Builders hanging off class vs Builders in same namespace and Impersonators: Why do we need them? (Mark Needham)
• Does A Kanban System Eschew Iteration (Karl Scotland)
• Brian Harry on Agile delivery of VSTS (Keith Pleas)
• Refactoring Day 15 : Remove Duplication and Refactoring Day 16 : Encapsulate Conditional (Sean Chambers)
• What a difference a framework can make… (Sebastien Lambla)
• Circular Refactoring (Sergio Pereira)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 5. (Rajiv Popat)
• Why the Re-Think? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• So What’s a Silverlight Value Converter Anyway? (Dan Wahlin)
• SilverX converts Flash video to Silverlight (Jay Hathaway)
• Adding a Rotating Button to the Swivel Behavior Demo and Silverlight 2 Animation – Book Review (John Papa)
• WPF: Dynamic Search UI (JP Hamilton)
• Silverlight triggers (Rockford Lhotka)
• Wpf Drag & Drop behaviour (Martin Hinshelwood)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 118: Microsoft Gets Its Mojo Back (Paul Thurrott)
• Great VSTS 2010, Agile, and Scrum Webcasts Available Soon! (Angela Binkowski)
• This Week C9: Win7 API’s, Spec# and Boogie, Expression 3 Starter Kits (Brian Keller)
• Team System Videos Online! (David Starr)
• Major Nelson Show #328: Xbox 360 System update, BIGS 2 and Trials HD (Larry Hyrb)
• Ping 25: Comedians, SQL server, Photosynth, Facebook, Zune, Bingle (Laura Foy)
• Video: Smart & Lean Organizations (Max Pool)
• Episode 80 – PowerScripting Podcast – Klaus Graefensteiner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• CodePlex Editor Role (Harry Pierson)
• Microsoft Technology Roadmap at PDC in LA (Michele Leroux Bustamante)

Database

• Data Mining – Handling Missing Values the Database (Eran Kampf)
• Scripting Objects with Magic (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Introduction to Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server 2008 and Evaluate the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) (Pinal Dave)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 2 (Martin Bell)
• Keeping Your Code in Sync With Your Database (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Free Copy of Windows 7 and Free Windows 7 Training for I.T. Professionals & Developers from Microsoft (Blake Handler)
• More Growl for Windows from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)
• Rate Your Employer Sites – It’s About Damn Time (Dave Schinkel)
• Windows 8: Next-Generation GUI Confirmed and Windows 8 to Include Data Center Automation (Stephen Chapman)
• Writing PowerShell cmdlets in F# — May CTP (Steve Gilham)
• Wave 2 of Windows 7 Client and Windows Server 2008 R2 – NOW LIVE ON MSDN SUBSCRIBER DOWNLOADS! (MSDN Subscriptions Blog)
• Latest Article About Nerding it Up (Sara J. Chipps)
• Presenting using Windows 7 (Rudi Grobler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 15, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for August 14, 2009 and LINKBLOG for August 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Everyman Links for August 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Community Convergence LIII (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #413 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #87 – “Snow Patrol” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #66 (Grant Palin)
• Links (8/16/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Post… 8/10/2009 through 8/16/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Weekly Link Post 106 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/16/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• New and Notable 356 and New and Notable 357 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 14th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating a Custom Observable Collection in WPF (Pedro Sampaio)
• ViewModel + .NET RIA Services Part 2: Testability, Server Mocking and Dependencies (Nikhil Kothari)
• .NET RIA Services Simplifies Web Development Efforts (Bruce Kyle)
• Transforming Bounds (WPF3D Team)
• New York Times Silverlight Kit Now Open Source (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Have you seen Microsoft Interactive Canvas (MIC) in action? See why it won the Design Week award (Silverlight Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 expected as soon as next week (Mary Jo Foley)
• FluentNHibernate Contrib (FNH.Contrib) Is Alive! (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day
• string.Repeat() – smaller and faster version (Gunnar Peipman)
• EF4: What is and is not supported (Julie Lerman)
• Talking Points: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus (Part I) (Joel Reyes)

Web Development

• Essential tools for web developers (Jimmy Bogard)
• Twitter from ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• What ASP.NET developers should know about jQuery (Dave Ward)
• Selenium: Waiting for jQuery AJAX calls (Mark Needham)
• Retaining Pager Size in Dynamic Data GridViewPager (Steve Naughton)
• New release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Stripper Pattern (Oren Eini)
• Customizing container behavior part 2 of N – Defaults (Glenn Block)
• Commercial Suicide – Integration at the Database Level (Jak Charlton)
• NCover v3.1 unveiled! Bad code flees! (Joe Feser)
• Anxiety or Boredom Driven Process Improvement? (Karl Scotland)
• The fallacy of the always-valid entity (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Using code analysis again… (Marc Schneider)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 6 (Rajiv Popat)
• 10 ways to make automation difficult or ineffective (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Quicker Frameworks (Vladimir Gitlevich)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• AgileToolkit – Moving into the role of Scrum Master (Jill Tubaugh)
• Luca Bolognese: C# and VB.NET Co-Evolution – The Twain Shall Meet (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #53 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code 47: Joe Brinkman on Webforms vs ASP.NET MVC (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• TechEd 2009 SharePoint Developer Panel (Eric Shupps)
• Microsoft MVP Award Program Recognizes Top-Tier Technology Influencers! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• TeamCity.CodeBetter Project List (Kyle Baley)
• Upcoming Testing Conferences (2nd half of 2009) (Josh Poley)
• 100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter (Ken Denmead)
• SQLAuthority News – TechEd India 2009 – Day 1 – Authors Tech Session – SQL Server Cheat Sheet – Meeting Great People (Pinal Dave)
• TechEd 2009 – Day 2 (Todd O. Klindt)
• TechEd Day 2 (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• Requirements for SharePoint 2010 (Stephen Cummins)

Database

• Filtered Indexes v Indexed Views (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• Start Today Testing Compatibility with Windows Logo Toolkit RTM (Bruce Kyle)
• Why Do Computers Suck at Math? (Jeff Atwood)
• Strengths and weaknesses revisited (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• GBridge gets better with Google Apps support in v2.0 (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #347 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #118 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for May 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2009 — #592 (Dave Campbell)
• Technology Related Links for May 13th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 13th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# developers: date basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• To MVC or to WebForms? (Chad Myers)
• CMS vs Code It Yourself (Dave M. Bush)
• How I handle JSON dates returned by ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward)
• Tip#57: Did you know… How to manage web site configuration through a web interface (Deepak Verma)
• ASP.NET MVC brings FUN back inside web development, on .NET (Simone Chiaretta)
• The strange case of the disappearing Feature: AdapterGroup (Scott Galloway)
• Creating Visual Studio Templates from your Web Projects (Rick Strahl)
• PHPPowerPoint 0.1.0 (CTP1) released! and Book review: Learning Ext JS (Maarten Balliauw)
• Move Over ASP.NET WebForms and MVC! (Jonathan Oliver)
• ASP.NET 400 Bad Request with restricted characters (Joshua Flanagan)
• How to Create A JQuery Plugin (Justin)
• IRouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Cross browsing experience with Expression Web and IE8 (Giorgio Sardo)
• Windows Live Web Toolbar – How to integrate into your site (Hackersoft)
• Develop Provider-Based Features for Your Applications (Miguel A. Castro)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tally Rows in a DataSet that Match a Condition (Beth Massi)
• Why I love ReSharper, Part X of N (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Dovetail DataMap (Kevin Miller)
• What’s Been Happening in Fluent NHibernate Land? (James Gregory)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NHibernate Unit Testing (Oren Eini)
• Why Messaging #1 – Intro (Dru Sellers)
• Don’t Worship at the Altar of Accuracy (Steve Rowe)
• Weak/Strong APIs (Mark Needham)
• All Your Repositories Are Belong To Us (Jonathan Oliver)
• Why agile transitions initiatives might fail (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Validation – Part 2 – Client-Side and The 7 Phases of Unit Testing (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft Previews Great WPF and Silverlight Apps with Facebook OpenStreams API (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 3 – Simple Control for Online/Offline and Silverlight 3 – Simple “Flip Control” built on PlaneProjection (Mike Taulty)
• TestAPI v0.2 Released (Lester Lobo)
• Round Gel-like button template for WPF (LearnWPF)
• Databinding the videogame, part 6: logical coordinates (Joe White)
• Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Local Data Store (Ashish Shetty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #105: Getting your Func along with your Action on (Derik Whittaker)
• The Future of SQL Data Services with Nigel Ellis (Zach Skyles Owens)
• The Thirsty Developer 60: SQL Server 2008 for developers (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Taking PeepCode for a spin (Sergio Pereira)

Community / Events

• Distributed Development at Agile 2009 (Ade Miller)
• Top 10 .NET Twitterers (Me)
• NINE Questions with Shawn Weisfeld (Chris Williams)
• My upcoming speaking/teaching schedule (Derik Whittaker)
• Events This Week – April 27th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL2005 and SQL2008 should not be installed side by side (Simon Sabin)
• Quick Data Model creation off SSAS Data Source in SSRS (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server Encryption and Symmetric Key Encryption Tutorial with Script (Pinal Dave) – Link of the Day

SharePoint

• sharepoint guidance v2 – drop 8 (Erwin Van Der Valk)

Miscellaneous

• Call for JavaScript authors (Michael Kimsal)
• More Office 2010 screenshots surface and Microsoft said to reveal "Kumo" in June (Ben)
• NH Prof feedback (Oren Eini)
• Windows Live Profile (April) update is here! (damaster)
• At This Point, I’d Prefer Java Developers Over .NET Developers (Davy Brion)
• Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Vine to alert you in the time of crisis (Taimur Asad)
• Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 Available for Download (Kevin Purdy)
• 40% off IronPython In Action Book (Michael Ceranski)
• Five Windows 7 chapters free to all (Devon Musgrave)
• Improvements to AutoPlay (Arik Cohen)
• Is Google trying to out-Digg Digg? (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #336 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #114 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for April 27, 2009 — #581 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 91 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 315 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio April 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Evening with Fluent NHibernate (Howard Dierking) – Link of the Day
• Introduction to NHibernate, pt.5 (Ian Cooper)
• Live fx Helper Class – extra methods : Live Framework (Jamie Thomson)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 Release Candidate available (Rockford Lhotka)
• T4 Toolbox – Release: 9.3.21.1 (CodePlex)
• M is to DSL as Drag & Drop is to programming (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Media 2 SP2 (MS Downloads)
• Silverlight 3 Release Date (RTW) Surprise (Bart Czernicki)
• New official Silverlight Blog (Brian Goldfarb)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video training series (Rockford Lhotka)
• Dragging has NEVER been so easy (Rudi Grobler)
• Silverlight 3 Sample Application: Slidentity and Silverlight 3: Navigation URI Routing (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3: Array Helper (Michael Sync)
• Using the new Silverlight 3 Perspective tools to emulate 3D (Jeff)
• WPF Toolkit – March 2009 Release (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Patterns and Origins: Sueetie User Avatars (Dave Burke)
• Internet Explorer Global Variable Blow ups (Rick Strahl)
• Json.NET 3.5 Beta 3 (CodePlex)
• Why I don’t use OpenWeb() (Gary Lapointe)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Great Managers Have No Secrets (Jurgen Appelo)
• Test Review #3 – Unity (Roy Osherove)
• To Inject Or Not To Inject (Justin Etheredge)
• The Successor Value Pattern (Michael Feathers)
• Coding: Making the debugger redundant (Mark Needham)

Community / Events

• Sexiest Bachelor Developer Results!!! (Sara J. Chipps)
• MIX Slides, Code, and Session Recording (Stephen Walther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Bonus Episode – PowerScripting Podcast – The Missing Interviews (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Thirsty Developer 56: Quick Basic Gorillas (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• The History of Microsoft – 1981 (Tina)

Database

• Differentiating between environments within SQL Server Management Studio (Leon Bambrick)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #312 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2009 — #545 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #76 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: March 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Discoveries This Week 03/20/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 86 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (3/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing a WCF service firewall part I of N (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Silverlight Contrib 2009.1.0 Released! (Ilia Iordanov)
• Using SliM in FitNess with .Net (Brett Schuchert)
• DGML, Containers, and VSTS 2010 Architecture Rendering (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Basic 10 on the 10-4 Channel9 Series! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• SP1 for Crystal Reports 2008: fixes reports not opening up in VS2008 and "entry point not found" in stand-alone version (Julie Lerman)
• Troubleshooting common mapping bugs with NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
• Adding Parallel Extensions to F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• C#: Implicit Operator and C#: Wrapping collections vs Extension methods (Mark Needham)
• Event Aggregation with MEF (with and without EventAggregator) (Glenn Block)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: User Tasks (Sasha Goldshtein)
• CSharper: C# Metaprogramming – Release: 3.0 Feb CTP (CodePlex)
• Love and Fluent NHibernate (Chris Brandsma)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• OO is Irrelevant! (Brett Schuchert)
• Messaging ROI (Udi Dahan)
• As for Peer Review, Code Review? (Ted Neward)
• How Scrum is Like Marijuana (David Starr)
• The Tests For The Readable Code Challenge (Davy Brion)
• Who Knew Domain Validation Was So Hard? (Justin Etheredge) – Link of the Day
• Domain Driven Design & Test Driven Design\Development with Entity Framework Part 1.b Integration Testing for ObjectContext (Muhammad Mosa)
• Evolutionary Design and Acyclic componentization (Patrick Smacchia)
• Fluent Interfaces: What Am I Missing? (David Starr)

Web Development

• Release: jQuery 1.3.2 (jQuery Team)
• JavaScript for C# programmers: closure basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• JavaScript Arrays via JQuery Ajax to an Asp.Net WebMethod and JQuery 1.3.2: Performance and IE8 (Chris Brandsma)
• Chapter 4 – Understanding Views (Stephen Walther)
• Creating an ASP.NET MVC application with Google Gears (Maarten Balliauw)
• Creating Hyperlinks and applying Styles to them in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• Show your Twitter log in SharePoint (Gunnar Peipman)

PowerShell

• PowerShell needs Shift operators … (Joel Bennett)

Community / Events

• IndyHall Resume Night on February 26th (Alex Hillman)
• NINE Questions with Kent Tegels (Chris G. Williams)
• This Week on C9: jQuery, Win Mobile, Warcraft AddOn Tools, and an Automated Bartender (Dan Fernandez)
• Elegant Code Cast 23 – Jeremy Miller on StructureMap and Call for Code Cast Feedback (David Starr)

Miscellaneous

• Setting Up a Virtual Lab with Hyper-V (Bob Fox)
• Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 beta for Windows 7 (damaster)
• 10 Greasemonkey scripts you shouldn’t browse without (Jay Hathaway)
• So You Like To Use ANSI SQL… (Denis Gobo)
• How I Learn (David Starr)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #292 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 21, 2009 — #524 and Silverlight Cream for February 22, 2009 — #525 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #72 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 02.16~02.22 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #41 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Finds: February 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 82 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (2/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 294 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introducing "Mockups To Go" (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Qualities That Undergird Agile/XP Development (Chris Taylor)
• Buzzword Driven Development Isn’t Gonna Help You (Davy Brion)
• Domain Driven Design: Learning (Artur Trosin)
• When Do I Unit Test? (Leon Gersing)
• Why Is Great UI So Hard to Achieve? (Mark Miller)
• Agile: Re-Estimating Cards (Mark Needham)
• Due Diligence and Code Comments (K. Scott Allen) – Link of the Day
• Domain Driven Design & Test Driven Development\Design with Entity Framework, Part 1.a Refactoring & Unit Testing (Mohammad Mosa)
• Entropy in Software (Jimmy Bogard)
• DDD: Bounded Contexts (Casey Charlton)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Lazy Load and Persistence Ignorance (Jérémie)
• One of These Languages Is Not Like the Others – Part 1 (Rick Minerich)
• LINQ and The Matrix – Introducing MLinq (Bart de Smet)
• BizTalk Server and WCF Support in Visual Studio 2008 (MS Downloads) – A MS whitepaper.
• .NET Serialization Wrappers (Rocky Lhotka)
• Fluent NHibernate: Auto Mapping, Overrides and Alterations (James Gregory)
• Talking Points: ADO.NET Dynamic Data (Joel Reyes)
• NServiceBus 1.9 (Udi Dahan)
• Back to Basics: 32-bit and 64-bit Confusion Around x86 and x64 and the .NET Framework and CLR (Scott Hanselman)
• C# 3.5 Starting to Gel (Jason Haley)
• Writing Your First Visual Studio Language Service (Ben Morrison)
• Hosting a WF 4.0 Workflow Service in "Dublin" (Brian Loesgen)

Web Development

• If You Are Developing on ASP.NET MVC and You Are Not Using MvcContrib… What Is Wrong With You? (Eric Hexter)
• JavaScript for C# Programmers: Arrays (Julian M. Bucknall)
• MSDN Webcast: Overview of ASP.NET MVC (Lindsay Rutter)
• ASP.NET MVC – Model != BLL or DAL (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• Extension Methods Part 2 – Lambda Expressions in LINQ (Jesse Liberty)
• Descry, Data and Information Visualization Using Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• XAML Power Toys 4.0 Released – Code Name MVVM (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #93 – Reading XML with Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Using Ninject with Silverlight to Make Your Code More Testable (Maurice de Beijer)
• Adobe: Microsoft’s Silverlight ‘has really fizzled’ (Angela Gunn)
• Playing Subtitles with Video in Silverlight (Anil Gupta)

Community / Events

• Hey Jason, You Can’t Keep Rachel Appel to Yourself Any More (Julie Lerman) – Rachel rocks!
• A New Microsoft Site Devoted to IT Pros (Zhiming Xue) – The site doesn’t render very well for me in Firefox.

Miscellaneous

• Stream Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and More to Your Xbox 360 (Sarah Perez) – I love PlayOn. It’s worth the $30 to me.
• Web Hosting to Cloud Hosting – A Case Study (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Do You Know What Time It Is? and 10 Things I Want from the Next Windows Phone OS (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Resolved Language Debates? (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Microsoft Small Basic v0.3 Is Here (Vijay)
• Photosynth Update: New Features & Improvements (Sunshine)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 290 and Windows Azure Links (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for February 10th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for February 10, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• My Projects on MSDN (J.D. Meier)
• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 11 (Mike Snow)
• Creators Club Communiqué 17 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for February 10, 2009 — #513 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – February 10, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #284 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day