• Windows Phone Native Series – Enumerating drivers (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Tech Predictions, 2012 Edition (Ted Neward)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone Metro Design | #1 Metro Design Principles and Metro Design Language (Arturo Toledo)
• Structuring Unit Tests (Phil Haack)
• Structuring your Unit Tests, why? (Oren Eini)
• New MVVM Light templates with bug fixes (Laurent Bugnion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• AggregateException.WithoutCancellations Method and Attaching Continuation Tasks to the UI Thread (Richard Carr)
• Regions and navigation bar for F# in Visual Studio (Tomas P.)
• Be Hip in 2012 with Sublime Theme/Colors for Visual Studio (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• A lazy evaluation of F# Seq.groupBy for sorted sequences and Hadoop Binary Streaming and PDF File Inclusion (Carl Nolan)
• Moving UIElements around in Metro (Dave Campbell)
• ESE C#/C++ Toolkit v1.2 for Microsoft Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) (ESE is the database engine that’s been in the box since Windows 2000) (Greg Duncan)
• Start Here!™ Learn Microsoft® Visual C#® 2010 by John Paul Mueller; O’Reilly Media (Mark Pearl)
• Your First Metro style App in JavaScript (Chris Sells)
• XmlWriter and lower ASCII characters (Rick Strahl)
• Implementing Custom TPL Dataflow Blocks (Jonathan Allen)
• A generic repository (Nathan Gloyn)

Web Development

• Why Use jQuery for Simple JavaScript Tutorials? (Louis Lazaris)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Constructor Body (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML 5 Geo-Location in ASP.NET MVC Web Apps (Part 1) (Sumit Maitra)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 7 – Writing your very own WordCount Hadoop Job in Java and deploying to Windows Azure Cluster and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 8 – Hadoop Map/Reduce Administration from command line in Cluster (Avkash Chauhan)
• Using the Geolocation API (Rob Larsen)
• Day 8 – Photo fun with CamanJS (Paul Neave)
• Reducing Backbone Routers To Nothing More Than Configuration (Derick Bailey)
• Create Hosted Service using Windows Azure Management API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile’s Coming of Age (David Starr)
• Best Time To Write Code – Not the Holidays (Peter Saddington)
• Microsoft Test Manager stuck in "waiting for test controller" state (Gautam Goenka)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.5.1 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone’s Achilles’ Heel (Peter Kuhn)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 App with Phone Gap (Don Burnett)
• Microsoft to quash homebrew on Windows Phone? Not so fast (Mary Jo Foley)
• WPF Language Translator (Meshack Musundi)
• Windows Phone Developers: Get Your Metro Design Hats On (Paul Thurrott)
• WP7 updates are cumulative, really? (Rohit Sharma)
• 2000 WPF Things #463 – Multiple Parallel GridSplitters (Sean Sexton)
• 2011 in review for Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• StatLight v1.6 is Out (Jason Jarrett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 130: Dave Weaver on Loggr – a realtime analytics service built with MVC MongoDB and SignalR (Jon Galloway)
• YOW! 2011: Aslak Hellesøy – Web Sockets and Webbit and YOW! 2011: Bjorn Freeman-Benson – Software Psychology (Charles Torre)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 80: Learn What You Need to Know about WinRT (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 048 – “Crystal Balls” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Geekadelphia_ The Podcast Episode 1 – Eric Smith Interview.mp3 (Dan & Jo)
• The Tablet Show – Ronan Cremin Detects Mobile Devices (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Gillmor Gang 12.31.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)

Community / Events

• Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Congratulations to the First New and Re-Awarded MVP Awardees of 2012! (MVP Award Program)

Database

• Implementing SQL Server solutions using Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects – a compendium of project experiences (Jamie Thomson)
• January 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist (Jason Strate)
• A Better Way to Work with SSIS Variable Expressions (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Perspectives of an Author and SQL SERVER – Importance of ANSI ISOLATION Levels in SQL Server Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 1 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Significance of Various Kinds of Triggers- Quiz – Puzzle – 2 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Auditing: Managing Your Audits (SQLArcher)
• Scripting data in SQL Server 2012 (Denis Gobo)
• Do You Make These 5 Database Design Mistakes? (Thomas LaRock)
• Creating dynamic pivot reports on SQL Server (Gunnar Peipman)
• Survey results: How cluster key size can lead to GBs of wasted space (Paul S. Randal)
• Displaying and Saving Unicode data in Visual FoxPro desktop application (Naomi Nosonovsky)
• SQL Index Fragmentation and sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (Jack Vamvas)

SharePoint

• Product Review: harmon.ie for SharePoint – Increase Adoption and Simplify User Experience (Joel Oleson)
• HTML 5: Predictions for the Future of Silverlight in SharePoint (Becky Isserman)

Miscellaneous

• Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators and A magic means to exit Windows Explorer without using Task Manager (or command line) (Greg Duncan)
• MAME ported to Google Chrome (Jamie Keene)
• Building the same app for iOS and Android (Billy Coover)
• Learning Android: ‘Unable to start service Intent not found’ and Learning Android: Authenticating with Twitter using OAuth (Mark Needham)
• Rise of the Popped Collar Programmer (Aaron Stannard)
• Why Should You Become A Software Engineer (Rob Diana)
• 30 Free Programming Books (Tatworth)
• Windows Phone Running on a 10 Inch Tablet (Antonio Hernandez)
• Rails Has Turned Me Into a Cannibalizing Idiot (Rob Conery)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 1, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.29 ~ 12.31 (yuanjian)
• Double Shot #786 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Catch Up on a Full Year of MVP Mondays (MVP Award Program)
• Daily News Digest 01/02/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #27 (Franky)
• Windows Dev News for December 29, 2011 – #0019 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 19-25 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 25-December-2011 to 31-December-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework by Steven Sanderson

• Windsor 3 beta 1 is released (along with other goodies) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Profiling JavaScript 101 Using IE9 Developer Tools (Gil Fink)
• Making Switch Refactorings Better – Defaultable Dictionary (John Sonmez)
• Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 2: Everything starts with data (Gill Cleeren)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using ReaderWriterLock over Monitor for Thread Locking (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio Toolbars & Context-Menu cleanup / adjust (Code Inside Team)
• Windbg: Finding a specific instance of a managed object in a windows process (Henning Krause)
• A .gitignore File for .NET Developers (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Rangers Build Customization Guide v2 — we need your feedback (Mike Fourie)
• Google Music Player 1.0.1 Stable (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Another CoffeeScript and jQuery UI Example (Daniel Mohl)
• A dev delving intro into HTML 5 + some HTML 5 cheat sheets (Greg Duncan)
• How to create a quick jump menu with jQuery (Svetoslav Marinov)
• Razor template and Razor Engine (A Mahesh)
• Enabling And Disabling A Button With Backbone.ModelBinding (Derick Bailey)
• Uploading management certificate in Windows Azure subscription and Fetching Hosting Services Name using Windows Azure Management API and Creating X.509 certificate from Windows Azure BLOB (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Backbone Event Aggregator extended (Michael Nichols)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Data Value with Object (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Macto: Talking to nasty people (Oren Eini)
• Solving A Problem By Avoiding It (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Simple CSS Animation (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Using Windows Phone As Windows 7 Accelerometer Sensor (Arik Poznanski)
• A Windows Phone 7 development tutorial round-up (Greg Duncan)
• Change Tracking with SQL Server Compact (LINQ to SQL) on Windows Phone (Nick)
• 2000 WPF Things #364 – Allowing a User to Select Multiple Dates in a Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
• 2 Good Reasons to update to the latest Mango Beta 2 Refresh Update (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 169: Steve Bodnar on Conference Setup (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 407: Halo Fest and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 221: Take Me To Grumpy Street (Paul Thurrott)
• Coding QA Episode 61 – Accessibility Testing (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 89: MVC directory madness, day camp for developers (Michael Kimsal)

Community / Events

• FubuMVC Webinar: F101 – Behaviors, Configuration, and Runtime (Josh Arnold)
• Courses, Conferences and Events (Jurgen Appelo)
• What Microsoft may announce at BUILD, its new developer conference. (Alex Wilhelm)

Database

• Book Review–Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook (Adam Haines)
• Gradually Deleting Data in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• Counting code lines in SPs with Powershell (Jeffrey Yao)
• SQL Server Denali CTP 3 Goodies (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Output Clause in Simple Examples – Day 14 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Data Row Space Usage and NULL Storage – Day 15 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• First look at ColumnStore Indexes in SQL Server DENALI (Sankar Reddy)

SharePoint

• Learning Windows Phone 7 and SharePoint 2010 (Chris Eargle)
• Book Review: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7 (David Kelley)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Codermetrics – $16.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD272 (O’Reilly Media)
• Change User Desktop Folder Path by Using PowerShell (Sedat Salman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – August 14 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading August 14, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Link dump for August 13th and Link dump for August 14th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• The Morning Brew #916 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 14, 2011 — #1131 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 07-August-2011 to 13-August-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• .NET Tips : List of my short tips (Abhishek Sur)

The Geek Shelf

LINQ to Objects Using C# 4.0: Using and Extending LINQ to Objects and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) by Troy Magennis

• MyGet now supports pushing from the command line (Maarten Balliauw)
• Atomicity, volatility and immutability are different, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Quality is in the eye of the customer (Eric Brechner)
• The mystery of Windows 8′s new ‘Protogon’ file system and Could E3 be Microsoft’s launch pad for Project ‘Orapa’? (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• “Not able to view the solution file in Visual Studio” – Hide and Show solution file in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• A Simple Windows Service Template for F# (Don Syme)
• Coded UI Test (CUIT) – Variations and Editing with Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
• What is the Tfs Automation Platform and What about hosting the Tfs Automation Platform and How might we implement the Change Iteration Automation for the Tfs Automation Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Change Visual Studio Compare Tool To WinMerge (Shai Raiten)
• Virtual properties – they’re just dumb (Kyle Szklenski)
• A Broker Pipeline Component for End-To-End Ordered Delivery (Paolo Salvatori)
• Performance of Non-Zero lower bound Single Dimensional Array (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3 + Entity Framework + Infragistics jQuery Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Using the jQuery Template Plugin for Consistant User Notifications (Bobby Johnson)
• The Orchard CMS Gazette (Jason Gaylord)
• jQuery ASP.NET MVC Controls – Release: v1.4.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Content Update: New Guidance Available on Using SSL Certificates with Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP features Open Source Libraries (Bruce Kyle)
• Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 2: Extension Methods (Chad Myers)
• Record Visual Studio Web Test Using Fiddler (Steve Smith)
• Which .Net Web Framework? Let’s at least ask the question. (Jeremy Miller)
• Build Canvas-based Heatmaps with Heatmap.js (Rey Bango)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Derived Value (Giorgio Sironi)
• Start All Your Meetings in Pole Position (John Sansom)
• Mindmapping Today is About More Than a Visual Diagram (Chance Brown)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using Microsoft Expression Blend 4.0 to implement MVVM (Gildon Opao)
• IE9 for Windows Phone Mango in the Spotlight (Joe Marini)
• Where is RichTextBox in the Mango beta? (Jaime Rodriguez)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Create .NET Compact Framework controls with a Gradient Background? (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Stories from Tech Ed US! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 148 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Hester and Sarah Dutkiewicz (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint Implementation at United Airlines-Episode 61 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Let’s Play TDD #110: Create a Beautiful, Simple Result (James Shore)
• Hot Apps: Hydro Thunder GO, DNA Roulette, Easy Animator, Apple Bin, Grandma’s Secrets (Laura Foy)
• Podcast- Don Smith on Project Silk (Joe Stagner)
• The Thirsty Developer 101: Oh JavaScript, My JavaScript (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Three-time intern Tessa Palmer on how to rock your Microsoft internship (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Announcing – CodeRush Feature Workshop (Rory Becker)

Database

• Top 10 Keys to Deploying SQL Server on VMware (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Creating All New Database with Full Recovery Model (Pinal Dave)
• Generate a GUID/newid() in SSIS 2008 (Scott Herbert)
• My head hurts from hitting it against a wall–SSMS log viewer and Do you use schemas? would you like keyboard shortcuts in SSMS to work with them (Simon Sabin)
• Data Quality and Master Data Management with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 book available as a free download (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server Quiz June 2011 (William Vaughn)
• Identity Reseeding (Steve Jones)
• SQL Exercise During Candidate Interview Process (aszwickart)

SharePoint

• Creating client applications with Microsoft.SharePoint libraries (Arian Kulp)
• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Debugging Techniques for SharePoint Online Applications (Lonnie Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Xbox: Now That’s Entertainment (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Microsoft Teases New Device — Could It Be A TV Box? (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• Windows Phone "Mango" concepts that never made the cut (damaster)
• The Kindle is ready for programmers (Giorgio Sironi)
• My First Experience with Windows Azure Support (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• On the road again… with TFS On the Road. A free WP7 TFS App (using the TFS OData Services) (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #863 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/31/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 31 , 2011 (admin)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 31st 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for May 23-29, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for May 31, 2011 — #1097 (Dave Campbell)
• Monthly News Digest @SilverlightZone – May 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• .NET Tips – Links on ASP.NET C# MVC Visual Studio Tips – May 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
• Weekly Links– 2010_19 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Top 9 posts from 6 months of microsoft.com/next (Steve Clayton)

The Geek Shelf

Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider

• Announcing Xamarin (Miguel de Icaza)
• Announcing ALM Roadmap in Visual Studio vNext at Teched (Jason Zander)
• Making your own WP7 Angry Birds – Part 6 – Impact! (Jo de Greef)
• FubuMVC Beta (0.9) is Released! (Jeremy Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Linq: Relationship Code Sample (sabindas k s)
• Visual Studio ALM and TFS vNext Announcements at TechEd 2011 (Ed Blankenship)
• Code Metrics – Cyclomatic Complexity (Zain Naboulsi)
• RTM’d Today: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-516): Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
• CodeRush Coding Helpers and Code Providers list (Alex Skorkin)
• Using guid id in nhibernate, index fragmentation (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Workaround for: Cannot assign lambda expression to a range variable (Patrick Smacchia)
• Optional argument corner cases, part three (Eric Lippert)
• Spec Explorer 2010 Version 3.5 Adds Improved Change Detection, Batch Processing (Jenni Ripley)
• The Death and Rebirth of Mono (Jonathan Allen)

Web Development

• Tekpub’s ASP.NET MVC 3 – Suggested Outline (Rob Conery)
• Code Templates – ASP.NET MVC development (Alex Skorkin)
• What are jQuery Class Selectors and ID selectors Explain them? (Hima)
• Update to the WebSockets prototype on HTML5 Labs site and Adding a site wide Log In Features to an ASP.NET MVC Web Site. (Joe Stagner)
• Web dev that’s as smooth as Silk… Project Silk (Greg Duncan)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming #HTML5 Applications – Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM96 (O’Reilly Media)
• The Browser Touch Events API (Chris Love)
• Don’t Kid Yourself, Size Does Matter…Least when talking about Web Service Messages (Derik Whittaker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Impact of Screen Clutter on the User Experience (Tobias Komischke)
• 5 Benefits of Sponsoring Employee Coworking (Darrell Etherington)
• Focus on the Why, not the How (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Mango Rumours (2011/05/17) (Rudi Grobler)
• LINQ Deferred Execution–Oops! (Jesse Liberty)
• Dis-(and re-)assembling the default Windows Phone YouTube library. Official YouTube in a third-party app. and How to trick Windows Phone OS into believing your app is the YouTube app and Integrating Pandora API with MediaLibrary on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New Windows Phone 7 Control – TileSlider (Think “Tile++” or “Tile that has much more text and can ‘slide’ that into view”) and Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2.0 released – Apple Push, Azure Storage Queue, ACS2 and more… (Greg Duncan)
• Load Data on Demand with TabControl and TabItems in WPF (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Choosers (Paul Sheriff)
• Free and excellent learning courses on how to use Expression and Silverlight (Sam)
• JUST ANNOUNCED: Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2 (Windows Azure Team)
• Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow (Colin Eberhardt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• First Look: New ALM Tools for VC++ Developers (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 156: Jon Galloway and Jesse Liberty on Remote Pairing (David Giard)
• Windows Weekly 208: Fake Hustle (Paul Thurrott)
• Clint Rutkas and "Where’s My Car" on Windows Phone 7 (Robert Hess)
• Ping 101: The Skype deal, Bill Gates & Fashion, Phishing on Facebook, Microsft Research (Laura Foy)
• Yet Another Podcast #35–Silverlight, HTML5 and Developers (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – May 16th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming Conference talks in Norway, Germany and the UK (Scott Guthrie)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Offer (Dani Diaz)
• Outercurve Foundation: Partnering with the open source community (Somasegar)

Database

• SQL Server DBA Tip 15 – SQL Server Agent – Job ownership (Ted Krueger)
• Exciting Features in CouchDB (Marc Grabanski)
• Scripting image column data for INSERT statements (Erik EJ)
• Usage of “Unknown Member” Rows in a Data Warehouse (Melissa Coates)

SharePoint

• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Modifying Ribbon Fonts and Styles for Publishing Page HTML Field Controls (Lonnie Webb)
• SharePoint 2010 Development Platform Stack (SharePoint Developer Team)
• Site Provisioning – Is SSC good enough and Site Provisioning – Should I go Self Service? (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Office Web Apps to officially support Chrome with Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Productivity takes a big step forward in Mango (Paul Bryan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 16th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #853 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Article Digest 05/16/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Unleashed by Mike Snell

Top Links

• Sketchflow To Final (Michael Washington)
• ConcurrentDictionary used with Lazy (Reed Copsey)
• CLR 4 Does Not Use LoadLibrary to Load Assemblies (Sasha Goldshtein)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learn WCF RIA Service Part #1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Monads in C#-5. Maybe (Mike Hadlow)
• Internals of Extension Methods (Abhishek Sur)
• Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 2 (Shai Raiten)
• Developing Snowfight – Basic particle engine (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Code Providers – Seal Class (Alex Skorkin)
• The Basics of EF Validation: IDataErrorInfo (Chris Sells)
• Asynchronous Programming Now and in the Future (Jason Rainwater)
• EasyHttp (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• EF Concurrency Mode Fixed + MVC (Chris Sells)
• Building a Self Updating Site Using NuGet (Phil Haack)
• Expression Web 4 SuperPreview – A closer look (Minal Agarwal)
• How to update controls which are outside of updatepanel during partial page rendering? (Abhijit Jana)
• Setting the Initial Sort Order – Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The art of Unit Testing with Examples in .NET (Denis Gladkikh)
• The passionate programmer (Code Inside Team)
• Testing: Behaviour-Driven Development with F# (Flying Frog)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Automapper and Silverlight 4? Yes Please! (Dave Swersky)
• Building a Silverlight LOB Application and Building a Multi-Page Silverlight LOB Application and Theming a Silverlight Application using Existing Themes and Theming a Silverlight Application using Custom Themes (Deborah Kurata)
• WP7 Saving to Media Library (Daniel Egan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 136 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim Christopher on StudioShell and a Goodbye to Andy (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget Podcast 229 – 01.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• CodeMash v2.0.1.1 (Chris Smith)
• Alt.Next (Ian Cooper)
• CodeMash Day 2 (Bill Wagner)
• A Train of Thought – Wrapping up CodeMash 2011 (Jeremy Miller)
• One Million Developers, Designers on Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• Using SQL Server Profiler with EF (Chris Sells)
• Data Compression in SQL Server 2008 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Every Which Way Outputs (15/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper Download – Using Star Join and Few-Outer-Row Optimizations to Improve Data Warehousing Queries (Pinal Dave)
• Adventures in query tuning: non-seekable WHERE clause expressions (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Creative Commons Data Dump Jan ’11 (Jeff Atwood)
• My bookkeeping post for 2011 (Jeremy Miller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the week #137 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2011 — #1028 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed

Top Links

• .Net Reflector 7 Beta released, with added Jason Haley Power Commands goodness right in the box! (Greg Duncan)
• Unit Test Naming Convention (Steve Smith)
• Exploring Ribbon Control for Silverlight (Part – 1) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Server and Tools chief Muglia to leave Microsoft in summer 2011 (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# agents with timeouts (Gordon Hogenson)
• Cannot obtain Metadata from https using WCF (Derik Whittaker)
• Video on Default EndPoint in WCF 4.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using F# 2.0 Powerpack ArgParser from C# (Steve Gilham)
• Allowing Access to HttpContext in WCF REST Services (Rick Strahl)
• Accessing the Menu Bar (Zain Naboulsi)
• Programmatically Reading Work Item Comments (Aaron Bjork)
• EF Feature CTP5: Pluggable Conventions (Rowan Miller)
• TFS API Part 33– Get Build Definitions and Build Details (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

• Namespacing in JavaScript (Angus Croll)
• Find odd and even rows using $.inArray() function when using jQuery Templates (Hajan)
• FubuMVC, Routing, and the Front Controller Pattern and FubuMVC’s Configuration Strategy (Jeremy Miller)
• HTML5 & CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Joey deVilla)
• Sueetie .NET 4.0 Upgrade Pack Available. Sueetie v3.0 Coming Soon. (Dave Burke)
• Bogus Windows Phone 7 User Agent String (Nick Randolph)
• goo.gl gets an official API (You hear that rapid typing? That’s a ton of dev’s already pounding out the code to use it…) (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Azure and the PaaS Context (Adron Hall)
• Adding Your Application To The Graph (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 12 Keys to Success with Agile and Blending Scrum and Kanban to Create an End-to-End Agile Enterprise and Tools for Disciplined Thinking (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Why use Test Driven Development (Amy Blankenship)
• How Discipline Can Save You! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Stardate 2011.10.1: Revenge of the Commons (Kyle Szklenski)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 comes to Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” and Media Center set-top boxes (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 Design Tips: Navigation, Tombstoning, and Data Loading (Karl Erickson)
• Integrating IE9 Pinning with Microsoft Silverlight (Leon Braginski)
• Embedding a Sound File in Windows Phone 7 app (Silverlight) (Matthias Shapiro)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 0 – Why should I care? (Peter Kuhn)
• WP7: Background execution – really? (Håkan Reis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Boris Scheiman Waves His Hands at nKinect! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Office 2010 & Windows Phone at CES 2011 (Laura Foy)
• CES 2011: Kinect and Live Mesh (Tina)
• The Engadget Podcast Show 005: CES 2011 Part 5 – 01.10.2011 (video) (Trent Wolbe)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #185: WP7: Learning how to handle Tombstoning (Derik Whittaker)
• Pluralcast 33 : Catching up with Ken Schwaber (David Starr)
• A Look at Microsoft’s Surface Computer V.2 (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Register Now for a Free Day of Silverlight from the Experts! (John Papa)
• DevTeach/SQLTeach Montreal 2011 Registration is Now Open (Brad M. McGehee)
• Microsoft is Launching WebMatrix, Thursday, January 13th, 2011 (Public Sector DPE Team)
• WebMatrix will Release Thursday, Jan 13th (Doris Chen)

Database

• Reducing SQL Server Sync I/O Contention :: Tip 3 (Rob Tiffany)
• Fun with Extended Properties in SQL Server 2008 (Glenn Berry)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Pivot Transformation (10/31) (Jason Strate)
• Rollback Transaction in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Performance Tuning Resolution (Pinal Dave)
• SSAS – Hiding Unknown Member (Devin Knight)
• How to Identify Bad Queries in MySQL (Baron Schwartz)

Miscellaneous

• 12 MORE Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers (Jesse Liberty)
• Powertoys from the OneNote Test Team for 2010 (John Guin)
• Microsoft releases Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 (Microsoft Blog Admin)
• Is Avatar Kinect the Star Trek Holodeck in beta? (Steve Clayton)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Jan-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #767 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #136 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Link Post 177 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 01/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)

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IronPython in Action by Michael J. Foord

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Top Links

• Looking ahead: Panorama and Pivot controls for Windows Phone developers (Jeff Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to call CryptEncodeObject in .NET (C#) and P/Invoking CryptoAPI in .NET. Part 2 (C#) (alejacma)
• Moving to a deploy system based on Tfs Build (alkampfer)
• Playing with Entity Framework Code Only (Oren Eini)
• Getting started with the TFS and Project Server Integration CTP (briankel)
• IronRuby (Mike Ormond)
• This Week in Fail (Rod Paddock)
• Query Zune Music Collection with F# (Cameron Taggart)
• Understanding Commands: Arguments and Switches and Understanding Commands: Running Commands (Zain Naboulsi)
• Nhibernate query only properties and many-to-one (Al Kampfer)
• Chris Woodruff of Deep Fried Bytes Explores OData (Don Burnett)

Web Development

• Filtering Data Using ASP.NET 4′s QueryExtender Control (Scott Mitchell)
• Versioning Issues With Optional Arguments (Phil Haack)
• Book Review: Object-Oriented JavaScript (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Media Gallery as Document Management System : New Sueetie Expanded View (Dave Burke)
• Bing Maps WordPress Plugin (Sarah Perez)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD is more than just writing unit tests (Dror Helper)
• Day 10 – Feel Strong All Week Long (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• More Windows Phone 7 Tutorials (Unknown Author)
• Blogs to follow – WPF Disciples (Rudi Grobler)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Tip: Discovering and Using Default Styles (Karsten Januszewski)
• Sharing Silverlight Commands with the Managed Extensibility Framework (Jeremy Likness)
• Today Only: 50% off Manning’s Silverlight Books (Joey deVilla)
• Tips & Tricks: How to change the output location of the Silverlight XAP? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Xaml Toolkit: Manipulation of Xaml (Lester Lobo)
• WP7 Mini-Tutorial Lists & Master/Detail (Jesse Liberty)
• Implementing Video Brush and Transparent Brush in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Mixing WPF and WinForms (Michael Sorens)
• Windows Phone 7 Wheel Control and Windows Phone 7 MVVM Template for Visual Studio (Nick)
• Getting Diagnostic Output from your Windows Phone programs (Rob Miles)
• Unit testing for Windows Phone 7 and CSLA 4 WP7 progress update 2 (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jay Schmelzer unveils Microsoft LightSwitch (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 121 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jay Dave from Microsoft on UAC and AppLocker (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Ralf Lämmel – Advanced Functional Programming – The Expression Problem (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 109: Layla Driscoll on Being a PM (David Giard)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: Don’t Let August Pass You By! (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone 7 Coffee and Code: Downtown Toronto, Thursday, August 12th (Joey deVilla)
• SQLAuthority News – MSDN Subscription Giveaway Announced (Pinal Dave)
• How I Feel About The .NET World Lately (Davy Brion)
• “PowerShell for .NET Developers with Doug Finke (Level 200)” Webcast (Greg Duncan)

Database

• Deadlocking in SSIS – yes you can get deadlocks with variables (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit is Available for Download (Wes Yanaga)
• Houston there is a database (Stephen Forte)
• Creating a Conceptual Data Model (tarwn)
• PostgreSQL Tutorial – Inserting Data (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL Sever Installer does not like my Server Name (Pradeep Adiga)

SharePoint

• Lightning conductor 2010 web part – additional features (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• August 2010 Security Release ISO Image (MS Downloads)
• 7 Discipline-builders for Remote Workers (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Exploring FubuCore: Convert a string value to any type of .Net class with the ObjectConverter (Jeremy D. Miller)
• 10 Programming Books You Absolutely Want Within Easy Reach (Jesse Liberty)
• Learning Microsoft WebMatrix – Chapter 3 Video Live. (Joe Stagner)
• Getting Send to OneNote working with Chrome (John Guin)
• Presentation:Demystifying Monads (Josh Graham)
• Book Review: The Pragmatic Programmer (John Sonmez)
• Bing Maps user contributed content, on the way? (Kip Kniskern)
• Bing Dynamic–RSS updated Bing Windows 7 Wallpaper (Kip Kniskern)
• NoSQL At A Glance And Poll Results (Dane Morgridge)
• 3 Top Tips for Database Naming (lornajane)
• Coding: Using a library/rolling your own (Mark Needham)
• #Best of #Ebook Deal of the Day. Top 10 Titles – Only $9.99 each. Use code DDBST (O’Reilly Media)
• SQL Reporting Services – Line Graph with a Vertical Bar (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Better ways to work with clients video (Paul Boag)
• Release: Bullets, SHIFT+Drag, l0rem and Bug Fixes (Peldi)
• Adventures with Water Cooling the Ultimate Dev PC 2.0: the Equipment (Pete Brown)
• Windows Live Writer Plug-In Submission Process Changes (Richard Hay)
• Book Review: Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Russell Ball)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Excel 2010 Inside Out (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #662 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

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Advanced MVVM by Josh Smith

Top Links

Extension Methods and "yield return" (Jason Bock)

On exception handling and state management (Jeffrey Richter)

Parr’s Rules for MVC Views (K. Scott Allen)

IE9 Platform Preview 3 with HTML5 video support due today (Tom Warren)

Now Available: Layered Architecture Sample for .NET 4.0 (J.D. Meier)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Nullable>T< Structure (Richard Carr)
• Book review – C# 4.0 How-To by Ben Watson (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Opening OpenXML, the Open XML Package Editor Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 (Greg Duncan)
• C#: StackTrace (Mark Needham)
• Data Services Expressions – Part 7 – Navigation (Vitek Karas)
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Querying and Searching XML Documents Using LINQ to XML (Scott Mitchell)
• Simply Using Matrixes in your projects (Sam Stokes)
• My First Request For The Next .NET Version (Davy Brion)
• Topshelf Update (Dru Sellers)
• Atomize your strings to improve memory usage (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

• Uploading and Displaying Files Using ASP.NET MVC Framework (Mohammad Azam)
• HTML5 Rocks!: A resource for open web developers (Paul Irish)
• Tools For Web Designers and Web Developers (Pete LePage)
• Web Application Extensibility with FubuMVC (Part 1) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Hands on mocking of ASPNETMVC controller action (Mehfuz Hossain)
• jQuery Fundamentals Training Material Available as Open Source (Rey Bango)
• Open Government Data and Bing Map Apps (Marc Schweigert)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Key Questions for a PM at patterns & practices (J.D. Meier)
• Lokad.CQRS – Plugging NHibernate and Relational Databases into Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• On Leadership… (Chad Myers)
• The Rugged Software Manifesto (Vikas Hazrati)
• Using Mercurial as a local repository for Team Foundation Server / Start Front’N (Eric Hexter)
• A Lap Around TestApi v0.5 (Ivo Manolov)
• Rietveld update, or “How to make code reviews fun (without canceling them)” (Kyle Baley)
• Don’t Sweep Feedback Under the Rug (Mark Suster)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• EasyPainter and other WPF/Silverlight goodies from http://nokola.com (Kirill Osenkov)
• Review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook (Michael S. Scherotter)
• How do You Sign In with Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone 7? (Andre Vrignaud)
• Get Started with Silverlight (New QuickStart Articles) (Sam Landstrom)
• WPF and convention based binding (Torkel Ödegaard)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Wizards of Smart #9 – 25 Zeros + IDEs + SOLID (Jonathan Birkholz)
• Choice (Roy Osherove)
• Episode 96: Chet Kloss on Microsoft CRM (David Giard)
• Ping 62: Azure Tools, Kinect, Xbox, Visual Studio 1.2 (Laura Foy)
• Multi-Targeting Deep Dive with Visual Basic 2010 (Beth Massi)
• eCSStender: the ‘jQuery of CSS’ (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• I’ll be speaking at the SoCal Code Camp this Weekend (Scott Mitchell)
• Join these 3 FREE Microsoft Project + SharePoint 2010 Events (Dux Raymond Sy)
• First Ever Meeting of the Washington, DC .NET User Group (Pete Brown)
• Upcoming John Robbins .NET Debugging 2 day course (Glen Gordon)
• CodeStock 2010: The Year We Connect (Alan Stevens)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Guest Post – SELECT * FROM XML – Jacob Sebastian (Pinal Dave)
• Benchmarking: do multiple data files make a difference? (Paul S. Randal)
• XQuery Lab 59 – OPENXML() and XML Namespace Declarations and Using the XMLTable() Function (Jacob Sebastian)
• Modeling hierarchical structures in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools and Chapter 1 of upcoming Inside Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 on MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• Need to roll up SharePoint content and display multiple columns easily? (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• What to Know BEFORE Upgrading to Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) (Blake Handler)
• Bing’s Summer Update (Satya Nadella)
• Xbox LIVE Family Pack coming this November (Larry Hyrb)
• New in PowerGUI 2.1 – Custom welcome pages (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• What are your 10 essentials? Here are mine… (John V. Petersen)
• Xbox Live family subscription plan available starting in November for $99 (Laura June)
• There are only three types of programmers in the world… (Paul Vick)
• DreamSpark Program Adds Free Expression Studio 4 Software (Richard Hay)
• Windows 7 SP1 beta now available for testers (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 22, 2010 — #887 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #627 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

CLR via C# (Dev-Pro) by Jeffrey Richter

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Top Links

• RavenDB & CouchDB – Basic Queries (Rob Ashton)
• Basic Manipulation Event Handling in Windows Phone 7 (Charles Petzold)
• New Protocol Attempts to Standardize Sharing (Jolie O’Dell)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Final Look (Jimmy Bogard)
• WPF – I’m Not Dead Yet! (Brian Noyes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Albacore Feature Preview: Building C# Code With CSC.exe (Derick Bailey)
• Conventions for Code First (Rowan Miller)
• Team Explorer Everywhere – A Plug-in to access TFS from Eclipse (Subodh Sohoni)
• VS 2010 productivity improvements, Part II (Somasegar)
• Prototype Tip for the New Book and Go To a Line Without Using the Go To Line Dialog (Zain Naboulsi)
• New book: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• EAV and the .NET Framework (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Tips & Tricks – Working with Event Handler (Kunal Chowdhury)

Web Development

• Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API (Part 3) (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Using Multiple Actions (Brian Mains)
• Why ASP.NET Changes Don’t Change Anything (Dave M. Bush)
• FubuMVC Guides and StructureMap 3.0 Plans (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Walkthrough– Publishing an Extensibility Web Control Project Template (Part 2 of 2) (Martin Tracy)
• Google Offers Cloud Storage to Developers (Abel Avram)
• Computing the Total Size of Your Blobs (Steve Marx)
• Zappos to Launch API For Shoes (Adam DuVander)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Final Draft of DSL book on RoughCut (Martin Fowler)
• Working with Legacy code #4 : Remove the hard dependencies and Working with Legacy code #5: The blackhole. (Andy Stopford)
• A few weeks of Kanban (Christophe Louvion)
• Cucumber, A Brief Overview (Joey Beninghove)
• Wireframes or No Wireframes (Vikas Hazrati)
• Rietveld, or “How to revamp your code review process” (Kyle Baley)
• “Why” documentation – in code? in tests? (Brian Marick)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (3 – Client) (Mike Taulty)
• Stream the BP Live Feed via Silverlight (Frank La Vigne)
• WCF RIA Services Speculation: EntityCollectionView (Colin Blair)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #26 – Changing the Startup Class (Mike Snow)
• Filled To The Bursting Point – WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.5.0 (Rene Schulte)
• Microsoft Translator client library for Silverlight and SNEAK PEEK: Another Silverlight theme pack preview (Tim Heuer)
• Working with JSON in .NET – a Silverlight example (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using Behaviors in Blend 4 (Silverlight TV 30) (John Papa)
• Spaghetti Code Talks XNA with Chris Williams and Spaghetti Code Talks Entrepeneurship (Jeff Brand)

Community / Events

• TechEd North America Announcement Speculation (Stephen Forte)
• Upcoming SharePoint Conferences in 2010 (Paul J. Swider)
• OData Workshops in Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Chicago and NYC (Alex James)
• IASA NE June 17th, Cloud Computing Open Fishbowl (Bob Familiar)
• California Launches Mashup Contest: the Data Gold Rush is On (John Musser)
• Tipping against Time – Sara’s Visual Studio Tip Challenge (Sara Ford)
• CodePlex: Multiple Project Downloads, Wiki Enhancements and more (Matt Hawley)
• Is Google getting ready to drop a Chrome OS bomb on WWDC 2010? (Lee Mathews)

Database

• Find Rules and Defaults using the PowerShell for SQL Server 2008 Provider (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure and Transactions (Pinal Dave)
• Table Variables (Steve Jones)
• Clearing a SQL Server Database, Take 2 (Joel Cochran)
• Push Ups and String Concatenation (Jeremiah Peschka)

Miscellaneous

• The Vast and Endless Sea (Jeff Atwood)
• A COM and Registry review staring CLSID, TypeLib, Interface and AppID. (Greg Duncan)
• MetroTwit Launches with Windows 7 Integration (Sarah Perez)
• Google outlaws Windows, but what if Microsoft outlaws Google…? and Steve Jobs speaks candidly about Adobe, Google, the iPhone, iPad and more! (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2010 — #874 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 1, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #612 (Chris Alcock)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines 06.01.2010 (Bob Familiar)

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The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting

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Top Links

• Getting a Jump-Start on Windows Phone 7 App Development (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Why TDD is good for testers (Dror Helper)
• Starting and using Git successfully (Jimmy Bogard)
• Comments on the MVC Music Store (Oren Eini)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010: How to maintain control of your code using Layer Diagrams, custom MSBuild tasks, and work item integration (Jennifer Marsman)
• Fun Visual Studio 2010 Wallpapers (Scott Guthrie)
• View the Error List Window and Navigate Errors in the Error List (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to Retrieve Stored Procedure Output Parameters in Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• .Net 4 Client Profile/Full silent install/repair/uninstall command line options (Greg Duncan)
• Creating Professional Installers with Wix# and Getting Your Installer to Register a Service with Wix# (Bobby Johnson)

Web Development

• jQuery Tutorial: Validation with the jQuery UI Tabs Widget (Chris Love)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Custom Schedulers (Matthew Podwysocki)
• “Introduction to ASP.NET MVC by Coding a Cool App” (aka the MVC Music Store Application and Tutorial) (Greg Duncan)
• Localization, FubuMVC Style Part 2 of 2 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Localize the jQuery DatePicker Control in an ASP.NET Page (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Google Moderator Gets API and Example Apps (Adam DuVander)
• Google Wave – New features for Robots: Bundled Annotations, Inline Blips, Read-Only Roles (Pamela Fox)
• Bundler Is Now SquishIt (Justin Etheredge)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Principles Of Minimalist Web Design, With Examples (Cameron Chapman)
• Being Business Focused: Flexibility (Dru Sellers)
• Debug It! (Chris Missal)
• Who Deserves The Credit For Software Craftsmanship and Great Design? (Alan Skorkin)
• Balsamiq Quick Release: Text Orientation, Colors Back to Normal (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Evolving a design: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• The Secret of Results (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to create an Offline installer (no browser) to deploy your Silverlight applications directly (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #19 – Using Bing Maps in Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• What is a ContentPresenter? (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Thirsty Developer 91: “Squirrel!” (Dave Bost)
• Interview with Roy Osherove about Test Lint (Typemock)
• Continuous Deployment & meeting David Anderson @Typemock (Typemock)
• Startup Podcast Show #67 StoragePipe Solutions and SocialGrow.com (Bob Walsh)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #174: Understanding Navigation on Windows Phone 7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Agile Toolkit – Tips and Advice – The three basic things – Simple but not easy (Bob Payne)
• Behind Windows Phone Tools for Developers – The Emulator (Yochay Kiriaty)
• The GeekDads Episode #67: Can We Do That in LEGO? (Ken Denmead)
• New Video – John Wiese talks with Jon Hardenbrook of API Healthcare about Powershell (John Wiese)
• A sneak peek at the Chromium Native Client SDK (David Springer)
• Azure Miniseries #5: Scaling Down (Brian Hitney)

Community / Events

• Upcoming SQL Server Training Events (Brent Ozar)
• permission management for Site Collection Administrators in SharePoint 2007 using deliverpoint webinar (Brett Lonsdale)
• Introduction to Mock objects session coming up (Dror Helper)
• PowerPivot Developer’s Career Is Full of Twists and Turns (MS PressPass)
• A Very Special Episode of the WAN Party (Sara J. Chipps)
• NYC .NET User Group-> Meeting next week (Stephen Forte)
• Our Brick in the Computer History Museum Wall (Jeff Atwood)
• Enterprise Library talks around the world (Grigori Melnik)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Review (Brent Ozar)
• What 5 things should SQL Server get rid of? (Buck Woody)
• Select the Latest Record based on a Condition in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Why Raven DB? (Oren Eini)
• SQL SERVER – Four Posts on Removing the Bookmark Lookup – Key Lookup (Pinal Dave)
• How to get the processid that SQL Server is using if you have multiple instances of SQL Server running (Denis Gobo)
• FOR XML Workshop – FOR XML EXPLICIT and CDATA, XML and XMLTEXT attributes (Jacob Sebastian)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** Create your own SharePoint Server 2010 RTM Virtual Machine – The Complete Guide (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 Developer Virtual Labs Online and Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 Development (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Mobile 6.5 may suck, but Microsoft is hoping free Office Mobile will stop users from switching phones before Windows Phone 7 is ready (Tim Conneally)
• Office Mobile 2010 released, free upgrade for WinMo 6.5 users (update) (Chris Ziegler)
• Superquick poll: What do you use when preparing for a Microsoft certification? (Devon Musgrave)
• Why Co-Working Makes Sense for Small Businesses (Joe Raby)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: 10 Visio 2010 Tips and Tricks (Dave J. Parker)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: iPhone 3D Programming – Only $9.99 use code DDP3D (O’Reilly Media)
• PowerShell Resource Page at Windows IT Pro (Jeffrey Snover)
• Windows 7 SP1 Build 7601.16556 Leaks in the Wild (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Academic TDD links (Greg Young)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 12, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 12-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2010 — #860 (Dave Campbell)
• In the Wild for May 12, 2010 (Eric Miraglia)
• The Morning Brew #599 (Chris Alcock)
• Microsoft Innovations You Can Use (Hong Choing)

The Geek Shelf

Dependency Injection