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Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta (MS Downloads)
• 31 Days of Silverlight | Day #5: System Theming (Jeff Blankenburg)
• What is Functional Programming? Part 5, Bindings (Christopher Bennage)
• Prism v4 Beta 1 Drop 9 Released (Karl Shifflett)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Range Variable Problem (Steve Smith)
• Writing a Compiler in C#: Lexical Analysis (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Change Values from the Locals Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (VII) – User Registration (Rob Ashton)

 

Web Development

• Bulletproof Cross-Browser CSS Techniques (Klemen Slavič)
• Five rules for writing effective UI tests (Jimmy Bogard)
• Using external templates with jQuery Templates (Dave Ward)
• Using MEF in Asp.Net WebForms applications (Max Paulousky)
• jQuery Templates on Microsoft Ajax CDN (Stephen Walther)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Editor Andy Oram’s Top 5 Picks for Web Performance. Use code DDEP3 (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Azure Application Monitoring Management Pack Released and Updated Windows Azure Training Kit (Wes Yanaga)
• Building TipTheWeb with YUI 3 (Eric Ferraiuolo)
• Experimental ASP.NET MVC Add-ins (Mike Hadlow)
• Salesforce.com Finally Adding REST API (Jeremy Glassenberg)
• WebMatrix: Website Development made easier? (Jinath Premaratne)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to raise event for a mocked call. (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Constraints are Advantages in Disguise (Vikas Hazrati)
• What you need to know about your version control system (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using Stories on my Personal Kanban (Derek Huether)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Google Voice app coming to Windows Phone 7 (Alan Cone)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 8 – Contacts and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 9 – Favorites (Dennis Delimarsky)
• A Night with Music apps and Windows Phone 7 (Brian Seitz)
• Questions for my friend Scott Barnes on html 5 and Silverlight an Open Letter (Don Burnett)
• Silverlight Layout States with Reactive Extensions (Andrej Tozon)
• Windows Phone 7 – Top 10 Tips for a Successful Marketplace Certification (John O’Donnell)
• Will you buy Windows Phone 7? (Joe Wilcox)
• Prism v4 – Drop 9 Coming Wednesday Morning (Pete Brown)
• One application in both WPF and Silverlight (Khawar Yunus)
• A Look Inside Windows Phone 7 Developer Toolkit (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Windows Phone 7 (WP 7) – Download, Store and Play Media files from Isolated Storage (Mahesh Sabnis)
• New Windows Phone 7 images, videos and impressions (Michael Gillett)
• On Design Paradigms for Windows Phone 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 127 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Royer from Intel on vPro (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Gadget Basement with Ward Cunningham (Scott Hanselman)
• Let’s Play TDD #30: Introducing Dollars.percentage() (Unknown Author)
• PDC10 and the new Online Experience (Robert Hess)

 

Community / Events

• The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2010 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Questions for Microsoft Community Readers about the future of this blog (Don Burnett)

 

Database

• Duplicate a Column in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How much memory is each database using (Jeremy Carter)
• SSIS and SSRS – QA from the BI class (Peter Gfader)
• SQL SERVER – Quickest Way to Identify Blocking Query and Resolution – Dirty Solution (Pinal Dave)
• Enforcing naming conventions using database unit testing (Jamie Thomson)
• Return of Index Analysis Part 2 (Jason Strate)
• Tip: OVER and PARTITION BY (Jen McCown)
• Which Azure Cloud Storage Model Should I Choose for my Application? (Buck Woody)
• Do Database Backups Cause Problems? (Thomas LaRock)

 

Miscellaneous

• Git-Achievements in PowerShell (Keith Dahlby)
• Check Out this Windows 7 Media Center Guide (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft LightSpace…and my new gig (Steve Clayton)
• Windows Slates coming at Christmas, unveiled on October 11 (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• October 5, 2010: Interesting Finds (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #701 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net by Roy Osherove

 

 

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Top Links

• Hello MEF in Silverlight 4 and VB! (with an MVVM Light cameo) (Glenn Block)
• 30 Tips for Successful Communication as a Remote Worker (Scott Hanselman)
• Class Definitions: Binding Contracts And Agreements To Get Things Done (Derick Bailey)
• A really simple ViewModel base class with strongly-typed INotifyPropertyChanged (Daniel Cazzulino)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series:Dynamic Primitive Type Part 1 (Sam Gentile)
• Free ebook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (DRAFT Preview II) (Devon Musgrave)
• Entity Framework 4 New Operations (Jason Short)
• How to create a great online project template (or how to make applications that speak) (Michael Leonard)
• Announcing: Collapse Selection in Solution Explorer extension (Richa Prasad)
• Visual Studio 2010: How to understand the domain using UML designers (Jennifer Marsman)
• Show Error Help from Error List Window (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

• The CSS Corner: CSS3 Selectors (Sharon Newman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Rails – Only $9.99 use code DDHFR (O’Reilly Media)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Ubiquitous Language" Now Online (James Shore)
• Principles Of Minimalist Web Design, With Examples (Cameron Chapman)
• WCF Security Scenarios on Azure (J.D. Meier)
• Mocking property sets (Mehfuz Hossain)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using FluidMoveBehavior to animate grid coordinates in Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Gettin’ blobby with it [Sharing the code for a simple Silverlight 4 REST-based cloud-oriented file management app for Azure and S3] (David Anson)
• Augmented Reality Domino Knock-Down Game (Ohan Oda)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #20 – Using Tooltips in Silverlight (Mike Snow)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• An Interview with Robert Bowling on the MW 2 Resurgence Package (Larry Hyrb)
• Visual Studio 2010 Simulcast (Part 1 of 6): Keynote and (Part 2 of 6): ALM and (Part 3 of 6): SharePoint and Office Development and (Part 4 of 6): Windows Development and (Part 5 of 6): Web and Cloud Development and (Part 6 of 6): Windows Phone 7 Development (Emily Gibson)
• Silverlight TV 26: Exposing SOAP, OData, and JSON Endpoints for RIA Services (John Papa)
• Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone in 90 seconds! (Laura Foy)
• Video: Excuse Me While I Pinch the Sky (CNN on MS Research)
• First 3 Videos – Building Tailspin Spyworks (Joe Stagner)

 

Community / Events

• Interview with Charles Petzold on WP7 development and more (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Join in Microsoft Web Camps Worldwide (Bruce Kyle)
• What Would You Ask the IE9 Team if you had the Chance? (Rey Bango)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Review (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Find Most Expensive Queries Using DMV (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Injection prevention (Simon Sabin)
• That No SQL Thing: Column (Family) Databases (Oren Eini)
• db4o 8 Looks Great (Mitch Pronschinske)
• SQL Azure and T-SQL (Dukagjin Maloku)

 

SharePoint

• Tips for building SharePoint 2010 base VM images (Chris O’Brien)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: Visio SharePoint Workflow (Brian Farnell)
• Upgrade Business Data Catalog files for using with Business Connectivity Services (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• WorldWide Telescope Turns 2 (Marius Oiaga)
• Real World Functional Programming – Book Review (Andrzej Grzesik)
• Pluralsight On-Demand Update – The Online .NET Training Resource (Bob Familiar)
• It’s Official: Office Live Workspace is upgrading to Windows Live SkyDrive (damaster)
• Automating Merges w/ TortoiseSVN (Derik Whittaker)
• Every Program There Is, Part Six (Eric Lippert)
• Health IT Future is in the Cloud—Part 2 (Bill Crounse)
• Why the world is a mess: a theory (Scott Berkun)
• Emotional commitment colors everything (Ted Neward)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 14, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #600 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 13-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2010 — #861 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 54 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Links (5/13/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Real World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#

 

 

 

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Top Links

• C# Language Specification 4.0 (MS Downloads)
• An Overview of Objective-C – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Team Hanselman and Diabetes Walk 2010 (Scott Hanselman)
• Thoughts on “Thoughts on TDD”… (Eric Gunnerson)
• patterns & practices Catalog at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Navigate To (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 Vertical Line Guides (Ben March)
• Requiem to the VS 2003/2005/2008 Database Project (Deborah Kurata)
• Code Contracts fails to find CodeContracts.targets after install and Validating Collections with Code Contracts (Derik Whittaker)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• Spec Explorer 2010, Release 3.2 Now Available! (Robert DuWors)
• Upgrade or Uninstall of Office 2007 might cause VS 2008 Web designer to hang (Alison Lu)
• Parallelism in .NET – Part 17, Think Continuations, not Callbacks (Reed Copsey)
• My Visual Studio 2010 Dark Theme (John Papa)
• Immutable instances with circular references (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Solution Guidance Packager for Visual Studio – Feature Builder Power Tool (Mike Walker)
• Functional C#: An imperative to declarative example (Mark Needham)

 

Web Development

• SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – New Release and Joins (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Authorize.Net, Silent Posts, and URL Rewriting Don’t Mix (Scott Mitchell)
• Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension (Scott Guthrie)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mantis is an agile, simple bugtracker (Erez Zukerman)
• Code Review Tools and Techniques (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Is It Time For You to Telecommute? (Karen Leland)
• Asserting with JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Interview: James Bach – The role of the tester (Roy Osherove)
• Lightweight Adaptation – Coming Soon (Nicholas Blumhardt)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Everything you need to know about Silverlight 4 (Al Pascual)
• Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 7 Minutes Each (Bruce Kyle)
• Transitions, Animations, and Effects with Blend – Part One (Corrina Barber)
• Developer test case, customer win! [Using ContextMenu to implement SplitButton and MenuButton for Silverlight (or WPF)] (David Anson)
• Tip of the Day #110 – Using Static Resources in Class Libraries (Mike Snow)
• Understanding WPF popups (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Recapping Sunday Night Football powered by Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight and Xml Binding (Mike Taulty)
• XamlPadSample Step 1g-Silverlight support (Rob Relyea)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• RES Software Lights Up Personal Desktops on Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• Sketchflow in 90 seconds (Laura Foy)
• Jon Takes Five with Louis DeJardin on Spark View Engine (Jon Galloway)
• Anders Hejlsberg Trends and Future Directions in Programming Languages (DevDays 2010 Keynote) and ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninja Black Belt Tips by Scott Hanselman (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• endpoint.tv – Developing Web Services with IIS/AppFabric (Ron Jacobs)

 

Community / Events

• Cavalcade of Camps: New Hampshire Code Camp, June 5th (Jim O’Neil)
• Want to Learn about Windows Azure? Attend an Azure Boot Camp in a City Near You – DC (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Party with a Purpose – MongoDB WAN Party (Sara J. Chipps)
• Monospace: .NET Open Source Social at the Norwegian Developers Conference (Scott Bellware)

 

Database

• That No SQL Thing: Document Databases – usages and That No SQL Thing: The relational modeling anti pattern in document databases (Oren Eini)
• Powershell Script for Verifying Space (Grant Fritchey)
• A DMV a Day – Day 19 and A DMV a Day – Day 20 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (19/30) TRUNCATE TABLE is non-logged (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Find Max Worker Count using DMV – 32 Bit and 64 Bit (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with SQL Azure Data Sync (Bruce Kyle)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "XP-More" Windows 7 Virtual PC Managment Tool (Blake Handler)
• New Windows Phone 7 details; Live ID integration and OEM restrictions (Benjamin Rubenstein)
• Microsoft launches free Fix it Center (Joseph Mirabella)
• Cloning A VMWare Base VMDK As Pre-Allocated (Michael Nichols)
• Google Cloud Print: The Future of Printing? (Matthew Casperson)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Windows 7: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDW7M (O’Reilly Media)
• Daily Dose – iPhone 4G: Leaked on Purpose? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows PowerShell in Bing Visual Search (June Blender)
• MonoTouch and iPhone OS 4 Update (MonoTouch Team)
• Palm’s browser-based webOS development tool leaves beta (Tim Conneally)
• Sorting Visualization in Small Basic (Vijaye)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #583 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 19, 2010 — #841 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #101 (Grant Palin)

 

The Geek Shelf

by Roy Osherove (Author)The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net