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)

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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)

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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)

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

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Top Links

• Code excavations, wishful invocations, perimeters and domain specific unit test frameworks (Roy Osherove)
• Unlock Windows Phone 7 Series Emulator for Full Experience (Taimur Asad)
• Preview of Charles Petzold’s Programming for Windows Phone Book Here for download.. (Don Burnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Lambda Expressions (Richard Carr)
• Turn Off or On Outlining and Turn Off the Selection Margin (Zain Naboulsi)
• Functional C#: Continuation Passing Style (Mark Needham)
• The Add Reference Dialog is the Wrong Scenario (Peter Ritchie)
• Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL: Additional programming patterns in EF4 (EF Team)
• Teaching AutoMapper about our conventions (Joshua Flanagan)
• Sneak peek at the first “Feature Pack” for VS2010 Visualization and Modeling Tools (Cameron Skinner)
• .NET Stack Traces And Anonymous Methods (Derick Bailey)

Web Development

• Make IE8 the best dev browser (Mike Ormond)
• Creating scrollable content area using CSS overflow property in Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• The Internet Explorer Testcenter welcome page: Clarification & Corrections (Jason Upton)
• The CSS Corner: About CSS corners (Sylvain Galineau)
• ASP.NET Performance Framework (Karl Seguin)
• ' is in XML, in HTML use ‘ (Kirill Osenkov)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD: Expressive test names (Mark Needham)
• Don’t Give Up on the State Pattern Just Yet (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Getting Started with Agile… Two of ‘Who Knows’ (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Results-Based Testing (Erik Peterson)
• A Response Concerning Semantics And Intention Revealing Code (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using SketchFlow to Prototype for Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Install checklist for Silverlight 4 RC, Blend 4 Beta and Windows Phone Developer tools from MIX10 (Adam Kinney)
• MVVM, Josh Smith’s Way (Ward Bell)
• Working with the On-Screen Keyboard with Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Media Codec Support and Creating an Application Bar in Windows Phone 7 in Silverlight XAML and Differences in the Silverlight Web Browser control in a desktop versus the Windows Phone 7 and Setting up a Push Notification Channel on the Windows Phone 7 series and Accessing the Location Service on a Windows Phone (Preliminary CTP info) and Instead of using WCF you can use the Open Data Library for Windows Phone 7 and Using the Media Element Control with Windows Phone Series 7 (Don Burnett)
• Updated security overview for Silverlight 4 RC (Nick Kramer)
• Multithreading in Windows Phone 7 emulator: A bug (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• jQuery Podcast 16 – jQuery Meetups (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• endpoint.tv – WF4 in the Real World – Microsoft Dynamics AX (Ron Jacobs)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 48: Web Development with ASP.NET MVC In Action Authors (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• This Week in Testing – Guys, Girl and a Bunny (TypeMock)

Community / Events

• SxSW 2010 – Sessions (pt 1) and SxSW 2010 – Sessions (pt 2) and SxSW 2010 – The Experience (Rhonda Tipton)
• MIX10 Wrap Up (Mike Swanson)
• Rob E’s Mini-MVVM Framework @ MIX10 (Ward Bell)
• MIX10: Day#3 Mini-Notes (Cigdem Patlak)
• Call for book proposals on topics for developers (Kimberly Kim)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation Download (Pinal Dave)
• How to Backup a SQL Express Database (Mike Ceranski)
• Licensing SQL Server Reporting Services (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Open PowerShell Cookbook Beta Available Online (Lee Holmes)
• The Meaning And Significance Of Eleventh Hour In Your Work Life – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Living Green: The Missing Manual — Only $9.99! Use code DDLGM (O’Reilly Media)
• Getting Started with Xcode IDE for iPhone Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows Live Wave 4: Messenger Companion and Windows Live Wave 4: Photo Gallery with Facial Recognition and Photo Fuse! and Windows Live Wave 4: Web Messenger (damaster)
• The Best Funny And Educational Geek Songs and Faster List Intersection Using Skip Pointers (Alan Skorkin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)

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Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse

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Top Links

• New drop of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) available (Bart de Smet)
• Better Application Services and CQS using S#arp Architecture 1.0 Q3 2009 (Billy McCafferty)
• TWC9: 100th Episode! WPF, VS2010 RC tips, Bonus Footage (Brian Keller)
• NUnit vs. MsTest: NUnit wins for Unit Testing. (Roy Osherove)
• Pex and Moles become Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools (Nikolai Tillman)
• Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox (Paul Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Functional I/O (or at least “O”) (Ashley Nathan Feniello)
• Visual Studio Test Professional (VSTS) 2010: Organization of artifacts (Subodh Sohoni)
• MSBuild 4 Detailed Build Summary (Cliff Hudson)
• Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls” (Mayuri Diwan & Nichole Baker)
• Use F6 to Jump Between Split Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Functional C#: Using Join and GroupJoin (Mark Needham)
• Updated Data Model Designer Extension Starter Kit (Julia Kornich)
• XTrace.cs – C# trace with printf formatting (Hans Dietrich)
• Working with WCF: Part One: Introduction and Your First Service (James Bender)
• Why is CruiseControl.Net Hiding My Test Results? (Chris Missal)
• My Visual Studio Color Settings (Keith Elder)

Web Development

• When Session Objects Get Created With No Session Variables (Dave M. Bush)
• Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from ORCS Web (Ben Byrd)
• Use ASP.NET 4 Browser Definitions with ASP.NET 3.5 (Stephen Walther)
• Microsoft is “All In” the Cloud (Bill Zack)
• BSON Serialization (Karl Seguin)
• Passivity, or “How to help your views leave the nest” (Kyle Baley)
• Javascript: The ‘new’ keyword (Mark Needham)
• I am moving… to the cloud! (Rudi Grobler)
• Detecting Ajax Events on the Server (Doug Neiner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 22 minute meeting (Scott Berkun)
• The case against Rock Star developers (Stephen Forte)
• How Ruby Taught Me To DRY Up My Code With Lambda Blocks and Don’t Expose IList Just So You Can Assert Against Its Contents (Derick Bailey)
• Getting code ready for production (Oren Eini)
• A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, CQS, Repositories and Separation of Concerns (Billy McCafferty)

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows Phone 7 Series for Designers and Developers (Christian Schormann)
• Excited about Windows Phone Development! and WPF: Now with Less Fuzz (Pete Brown)
• Turn your head and check out this post [How to: Easily rotate the axis labels of a Silverlight/WPF Toolkit chart] (David Anson)
• MVVM for Dummies (Martin Hinshelwood)
• WPF4 RC has better text clarity. RTM will be even better. (Rob Relyea)
• Request for Feedback (WPF VNext) (Lester Lobo)
• Another review of Advanced MVVM (Josh Smith)
• Creating a Custom Silverlight Pre-Loader (Brian Lagunas)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 146: Google Fatigue (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Announces the Windows Home Server YouTube Channel (Blake Handler)
• Video Trip Report: If this is Tuesday, this must be Cairo (Scott Hanselman)
• Cloud Cover Episode 3 – Worker Role Endpoints (Ryan Dunn)
• Microsoft Research: Tools to Help Resolve Concurrency Problems (Robert Hess)
• jQuery Podcast 14 – Phil Haack (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• A Conversation with Bill Buxton and Albert Shum; Microsoft’s UX Gurus (Nic Fillingham)
• Herding Code 75: Barry Dorrans on Developer Security (Jon Galloway)
• Your Rx.NET Prescription Has Been Refilled (Jeffrey van Gogh)

Community / Events

• Join us at MIX, March 15-17th 2010! (Zhiming Xue)
• SharePoint and Office 2010 Keynotes (Mike Walker)
• Going to Vegas with my Phone… (Seema Ramchandani)
• PyCon 2010: Python in the browser (Jimmy Schementi)
• Headspring continues to hire: we will train contract-to-hire positions (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• Default value for OLE DB Destination FastLoadMaxInsertCommitSize in SQL Server 2008 (Jamie Thomson)
• How to archive data from a table to a local or remote database in SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

 patterns & practices – SharePoint Guidance: Drop 6 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• PsyMUD: a MUD for Linux (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft Announces May 12th Launch Date of Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• LEAKED: More Juicy Microsoft Courier Details and Pics (Barb Dybwad)
• Windows Phone 7 Series Themes for 6.5 Devices (Sarah Perez)
• Outlook Folder Macros for Getting Things Done (Jonathan Cogley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2010 — #807 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Gone With The Week (Mar 1 – 5, 2010) (MSDN Magazine)

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Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0

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Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Series for Designers and Developers (Christian Schormann)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Details Announced (Frank La Vigne)
• Soft Skills are Actual Skills (David Starr)
• Erik Meijer: Rebel with a Cause (Charles Torre)
• Pex 2010 (aka Pex 0.90.50303.0) now available on MSDN Subscribers Downloads (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• My First Windows C++ Application in Ages: Hello World in Win32 with Visual C++ 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Using Mongo With LINQ (Rob Conery)
• DiffPlex 1.0 Released!! (Matt Manela)
• Creating and Sharing Project & Item Templates (Aaron Marten)
• Is select (System.Uri) broken? (Oren Eini)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part I: Locks (Chris Burrows)
• Combining Higher Order Functions in C# (Mike Hadlow)
• Split Your Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Poll: IoC Containers for .NET (Oliver Sturm)
• Empty Nothings (Dustin Campbell)
• Mercurial Is Getting Better for .NET Projects (Rinat Abdullin)
• Beta of VS Team Explorer with Cross Platform Support (Somasegar)
• Maximum number static fields allowed in mscorlib? (David Kean)
• How to set the startup program for debugging a project for the entire team (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Functional C#: Using Join and GroupJoin (Mark Needham)
• Too much reuse (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• HTML Agility Pack Rocks Your Screen Scraping World (Lee Holmes)
• JavaScript Magazine March 2010 Now Available (Michael Kimsal)
• Introducing oEmbed (Cory Isakson)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – jQuery Integration (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Tab Isolation (Andy Zeigler)
• Using Other Web Servers on Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Using Delegate and Undelegate in jQuery 1.4.2 (Jordan Boesch)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Sit Together" Now Online (James Shore)
• Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria Overview (MS Downloads)
• Refining My TDD Strategy (Russell Ball)
• The 22 minute meeting (Scott Berkun)
• Architecture Lives Here (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Solution: Testing Web Services with MSTest on Team Build (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Getting Started with Agile Results (J.D. Meier)
• Field Vs. Property: Does It Really Matter? and When Do You Specify Expected Parameters In Stub Methods? (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• 1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight (Christopher Bennage)
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 2) – Silverlight/WPF Project Frameworks (Me)
• Favorite Tool and Library Downloads for Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Learning the M-V-VM pattern for XAML development (Tim Heuer)
• Persisting the Configuration (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• endpoint.tv – Announcing Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 (Ron Jacobs)
• This Week in Silverlight – March 4 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• MSDN Live Meeting: SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform (Katrien De Graeve)

Community / Events

• SharePoint MVP Chat brought to you by MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• NYC .NET Developer’s User Group->Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
• Steve Ballmer on Cloud Computing: We are all in! (Sunshine)
• Schedule for my session at MIX10 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Spring 2010 jQuery Talks (John Resig)

Database

• ROI and the DBA (Buck Woody)
• Exploring SQL Server Modeling through MCsla (Rockford Lhotka)
• More SQL Azure Samples (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009 Release 2) (Chris Sells)
• Something for the weekend – Whats the most complex query? (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Order of Columns in Update Statement Does not Matter (Pinal Dave)
• NoSQL DB, Objectivity/DB 10 Beefs Up Java and Adds C# .NET support (Mitch Pronschinske)

SharePoint

• How to connect SharePoint BDC to Oracle through TNS (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to Spend $9.5 Billion on Research in 2010 (Jeremy Kirk)
• Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales (Cory Doctorow)
• A Preview of Windows Phone 7 Series Capabilities (Zhiming Xue)
• Apple Tops Google and Microsoft as the World’s Most Admired Company for 2010 (Skipper)
• Run XP Mode in VirtualBox Instead of Virtual PC (The How-To Geek)
• Did a Microsoft VP really suggest an Internet tax for cybersecurity? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Daily Dose – Facebook Going Public, But Not For a While and Kiln: A DVCS for Fog Bugz (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Offers Free Guides to a 21st-Century Education (Rob Bayuk)
• Tip of the Day: Online Career Events (Anne Cheng)
• Surface and Healthcare at HIMMS (Eric Havir)
• Free Risk (like game) – TurboRisk v2 (Now includes IDE to edit/compile/test your own AI players) (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #553 (Chris Alcock)
• Creators Club Communiqué 44 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Links (3/4/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: March 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

Top Links

Need test/sample/demo data that’s safe for public (and/or client) consumption? Then GenerateData.com! (Greg Duncan) – Great find…

C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 13 of 13 (Charles Torre) – A great series of videos comes to an end. If you haven’t watched any of them, and you’re interested in functional programming, go back and start at chapter 1.

.NET / Visual Studio

Thoughts on EF vs NHibernate (Rob Conery)

What can EF 4.0 do that NHibernate can’t? and Responding to how EF is better NH commentary… (Oren Eini)

More LINQ with System.Interactive – Getting Started and Reader Challenge – Fault Handlers in C# (Bart de Smet)

If (Successful) { throw new Exception(); } (Brian Lagunas)

Heard from someone about the just released VS2010 B2 VM’s? Would like to get them but hate downloading them via the web site? Brian Keller has a download solution for you (and 7 Hands-on Labs too!) (Greg Duncan)

LINQ to SQL and missing Many to Many EntityRefs (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

corMVC initial release and qooxdoo reaches 1.0 (Michael Kimsal)

Trace.Writing in your web applications (Coding4Fun)

A Popup Insert control for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

jQuery hoverImage plugin (Wesley Bakker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Tenet #5 – Motivated Individuals (Julie Stickler)

Customer Connected Engineering at patterns & practices (JD Meier)

Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: My first attempt (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Information for Silverlight HVP Developers… (Jesse Liberty)

Custom Content Loaders in Silverlight 4.0 (David Hill)

Day #24: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 2 of 3) (Jeff Blankenburg)

Novell and Microsoft cut out the GPL cancer from open-source Silverlight (Sebastian Anthony)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! (Carl Franklin)

Holiday Special – The office, Typemock-style (Gil Zilberfeld)

Community / Events

What is Community? (Steve Andrews)

Database

SQL SERVER – CDC and TRUNCATE – Cannot truncate table because it is published for replication or enabled for Change Data Capture (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Being a writer, and having an editor. A Short Rant. (Jesse Liberty)

Cygwin 1.7 Adds Windows 7 Support and Many Improvements (Kevin Purdy)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for December 24, 2009 — #762 and Silverlight Cream for December 25, 2009 — #763 (Dave Campbell)

MVVM Links\Info (Lester Lobo)

WWD’s Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2009 (Simon Mackie)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action

I’m catching up a bit after the birth of our third daughter, Rubina Mae Ashcraft, on Tuesday afternoon. My sincere thanks to everyone who sent their congratulations on Twitter and Facebook. Apologies to the many great blog posts that have not been included.

Congrats to all the new and renewed Microsoft MVPs this week too!

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Create Reflection Effect on Images Using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask in WPF (Anum Lodhi)
• WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI. (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Coding Contest (Dino Esposito)
• Handling Events within Silverlight Control Templates – AutoCompleteBox Example (Dan Wahlin)
• Choosing Colors to Complement Your User Interface with Expression Design and Experimenting with User Interface Colors with Expression Design and Creating a Sample Icon using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Application – Animal Testing Breaks Hearts (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TweetCraft – A World of Warcraft Twitter client (Dan Fernandez)
• Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper (Eric Hexter)
• "XNAVATARS" – PART 1 (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Meffifying Windows Azure (Glenn Block)
• VSTS 2010 TMap Process Template 1,2 and 3 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 3 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• MCsla on the Olso May CTP (Rockford Lhotka)
• Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems (K. Scott Allen)
• IronRuby 0.6 Released! (Jimmy Schementi)
• Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 Post Beta 1 (Muhammad Mosa)
• Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 4 ) (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner (Jimmy Bogard)
• “Controllerless” MVC: A high-level overview of my attempt (Erik)
• Which Unit Testing Framework? (John Resig)
• Agile Is NOT a Risk Management Strategy (Jurgen Appelo)
• Domain Driven Design: Conformist (Mark Needham)
• Is your Organization out of Alignment? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

• XHTML 2 Cancelled (Timothy)
• Restricting BlogEngine.NET Comments to Sueetie Registered Users Only (Dave Burke)
• SubSonic 3.0 is Released (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Successful Cross Platform .NET Development – Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover and The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove (Scott Hanselman)
• Whirlwind Around .NET 4 (Eric Mork)
• Scott Ambler on the Agile Process Maturity Model (Carl Franklin)
• This Week C9: Speech Recognition, Army of 1, TweetCraft and more (Dan Fernandez)
• Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo) (Jose Fajardo)
• What’s New in Software Development: NeverFail Software Adopts Hyper-V (Bruce Kyle)
• Downloading Prism and 10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Episode #123: Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Object Invariant Conditions (Derik Whittaker)
• Herding Code 52: The Alan Stevens and G. Andrew Duthie Debate Continues! (Jon Galloway)
• Conversation with Stuart Halloway (Corey Haines)
• Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing (Jeff Wilcox)
• Using WPF in Office Add-Ins (John Wiese)

Community / Events

• AgiliTrain and Rachel Appel Announce New Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Automatically create a SQL Server table in a new database. (George Mastros)
• DRY SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room and DELETE Documents from CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• SQL SERVER – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Free Windows 7 Training Resources (Blake Handler)
• Bringing a Bit of Twitter to Bing (Sean Suchter)
• The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
• MSDN / Technet Subscribers Get Windows 7 July 13th (Keith Elder)
• An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two (Ken Sipe)
• Who is developing the software profession? (Maggie Longshore)
• Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2 available as a free download (Jose Barreto)
• The fallacy of the standardized developer machine/image (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Announcing The Social Way To Get Things Done: Zoho Projects 2.0 (Rodrigo Vaca)
• How to display ads on your project from The Lounge – #045 (Sara Ford)
• Kodu Nears Xbox Launch and Want to Compare Search Engines? and Follow @Microsoft on Twitter (…and All the Rest!) (Sarah Perez)
• Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress” (Jason N. Gaylord)
• All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions (Jeff Atwood)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #382 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 3rd July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing console output from a Windows form in C# (Tom Hearn)
• Treating Warnings as Errors in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Mmm, Curry (Eric Lippert)
• Walkthrough: Adding an existing Visual Studio solution to another solution (Habib Heydarian)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Generating Microsoft Office Documents with the Open XML SDK (Vikas Goyal)
• CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic inside Visual Studio 2008 (Mark Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

• F# in Silverlight (Luke Hoban)
• WPF 2D Physics Plus (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight Canvas Panel (Deepak Kapoor)
• Expression Design Resources (Mike Ormond)
• WPF Chart Controls!!! (Marc Schweigert)
• Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000! (Tim Heuer)
• My Sillveright-Prism Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Validation and ViewModel (Josh Twist)
• Creating NikeClone with Silverlight, Part 1 (Faisal Hossian Khan)

Web Development

• The Weekly Source Code 43 – ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinner (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• OSX MonoDevelop MVC? (Tobin Harris)
• A Better SMTP Development Server (Lee Dumond)
• ASP.NET GridView with Custom Paging UI (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET – Creating a Custom Tag Cloud (Michael Ceranski)
• The “Anti-For” Campaign (Matthew Podwysocki)
• jQuery Dialog – With Validation Controls and Does jQuery Make Us Lazy? (Dave M. Bush)
• JSON Hijacking (Phil Haack)
• Declaring Security (Eric Lawrence)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 13 (Rajiv Popat)
• Safe refactoring: Removing object initializer, introducing builder (Mark Needham)
• How Wise Are You Being With Your Work Time? (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Becoming a better developer, or “How to sidestep a question” (Kyle Baley)
• Pair Programming and Pandemics (Pouya Yousefi)
• Programmer Confidence and Arrogance (Jay Fields)
• How To? Highly Complex Query Generating Based On Security Needs (Derick Bailey)
• Making Blenders for the Blind is Like Making Software for Normal People (Chris Love)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• AgileToolkit Podcast – Nationwide – Kevin Fisher – AVP of Product Management – Value of Alignment (Bob Payne)
• Margaret Burnett: Gender and Software (Charles Torre)
• Video: Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session (Brian Peek)
• The NY Times/Silverlight Open API toolkit (Jit Ghosh)
• Commanding in Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Demo of SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Features – Configure DW Storage and Demo of SQL Server 2008 DW features: Configuring tempdb for Data Warehouse (Joe Longtin)

Community / Events

• Free Microsoft Hyper-V Training Course 6319 (Blake Handler)
• ScrumMaster Certification Course in Waltham, MA (Bob Familiar)
• Pragmatic Patterns for Architects: Recordings Available (David Makogon)
• Enthusiast and Fanatic Badges (Jeff Atwood)
• Principles of Design Series: Learning about Unity using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• MSDN Webcast: Enterprise Library 4.1 (Lindsay Rutter)

SharePoint

• Belgian MVP Releases SharePoint Tool Basket on CodePlex! (Lorna Williamson)
• SharePoint SP2 Update (Bob Fox)
• SharePoint BDC Part 1: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog (Tobias Zimmergren)

Database

• Live Meeting: Creating a Star Schema and OLAP Cubes (Trevor Dwyer)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of Logon Trigger On All Servers – Solution (Pinal Dave)
• Not a fan of the Report Manager in SSRS? Using SSRS procedures to get the job done (Ted Krueger)
• How to Avoid Database Restore Issues by a Simple Script Edit – A DB Restore Work-around (Hugo Shebbeare)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Upgrade, Retail & Special 50% Off Pre-Order Pricing! (Blake Handler)
• Running localized versions of Small Basic (Vijaye)
• PowerPoint—Customizing the Ribbon (William Vaughn)
• Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do those upgrades really cost? (Ed Bott)
• Is programming a generic skill? (Eric Gunnerson)
• 200 Twitter Mashups (John Musser)
• Which Windows 7 version is best for you? Pre-order your copy today! (Taimur Asad)
• Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest (Rafe Needleman)
• Coding Dojo #18: Groovy Bowling Game (Mark Needham)
• An Introduction to Functional Languages (Ken Sipe)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 25, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #376 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2009 — #622 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 25th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Links (6/25/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 25th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading a Microsoft Project file (mpp) in C# (Tom Hearn)
• Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines (Aaron Marten)
• Expressions Cheat Sheet (Jimmy Bogard)
• Client-side properties and any remote LINQ provider (Damien Guard)
• Adding and removing websites to/from security zones programmatically (C#) (Dennis Dietrich)
• It Already Is A Scripting Language (Eric Lippert)
• Correlating Downloads to Usage With Visual Studio 2010 (Joe Kuemerle)
• Using SqlHelper in a .Net application (Sam Tyson)
• iTextSharp – The easy way (Dave M. Bush)
• Providing Safe Alternatives (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• Google Releases Virtual Keyboard AJAX API (Andres Ferrate)
• Mind if my MVC T4 template changes your code a bit? (David Ebbo) – Link of the Day
• JavaScript implementation of "M" (Chris Sells)
• Developer Tools for Google Chrome (Ian Fette)
• Two frameworks are better than one (Simone Chiaretta)
• Better JavaScript class generation (Jay Kimble)
• Share Your Work in the Wave Samples Gallery (Pamela Fox)
• Learning to Create Icons using Expression Design (Arturo Toledo)
• Testing MVC Elements and Interactions with Mock Container (Rinat Abdullin)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 2 Controllers, Views and Testing (Ryan Svihla)
• Debugging with Different Browsers in Visual Studio 2008 (Michael Ceranski)
• .NETOOP high level configuration storage decision. (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Where are my Entities and my Repositories? and Which model is best? That’s not the question. (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Ubiquitous Language in Product Development (Dave Laribee)
• Avoid Using NHibernate With NUnit 2.4.6 (Davy Brion)
• Using Typemock Isolator for Integration Tests (Francis K. Cheung)
• Security Design Reviews (Jossie Tirado)
• QTB: Agile Adoption – How to stuff it up (Mark Needham)
• Just Be Honest and Tell the Truth (Jeff Perrin)

Silverlight / WPF

• ToggleButton Command for Prism (Corey Schuman)
• Giving WPF Some Love (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• From Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition: UI Element Binding (Pete Brown)
• Expression Design for Developers part 4 – Using Layers and Exporting to XAML (Joel Cochran)
• Using Binding to position a Collection of elements – Take 2 (Josh Twist)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! #458 – Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack at NDC! (Carl Franklin)
• WebDevRadio Episode 67: MySQL with Keith Murphy (Michael Kimsal)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #121: Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark (Donn Felker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #59 (Jeff Atwood)
• How to use a delegate (Jennifer Marsman)
• Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session Posted (Brian Peek)
• ThirstyDeveloper #66 – HAML with a side of SASS (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

• Spark v1.0 and presentation for MPLS ALT.NET (Louis DeJardin)
• TDD Master Class almost full (Roy Osherove)
• Silverlight Ads on Xbox LIVE Announced at Cannes (Silverlight Team)
• VAN: Doing 2 Part Series on Castle development July 1st and 8th at 8pm (Ryan Svihla)
• Looking for a charity for CodePlex project owners to donate advertisement revenue (Sara Ford)

PowerShell

• Control your PC with your voice … and PowerShell (Joel Bennett)
• New Powershell Survey on Connect (Osama Sajid)

Database

• Repost: Watch out for SQL Server Parameter Sniffing (Chris Brandsma)
• Better Know A SSIS Transform – The Sort Transform (Devin Knight)

Miscellaneous

• PM Tip #10: Interview Tips for Landing a Great Program Management Job (Brad Abrams)
• Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs and The iPhone Software Revolution (Jeff Atwood)
• Audio files from Ghostbusters (Larry Hyrb)
• Become a Gmail ninja with tips from Googlers (Jason Clarke)
• XBOX 360 & ZUNE BUZZ (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Birdies: Cute Free Twitter Icons For Your Blog (Smashing Magazine)
• Zune HD video hands-on quickie (Paul Miller)
• Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest (Rafe Needleman)
• Introducing Microsoft Hohm – Save Energy & Money and Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) in Windows 7 (Nic Fillingham)
• FriendFeed Adds File Sharing. No Movies, But MP3s Are Fine. (MG Siegler)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 24, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #376 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2009 — #621 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 24th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• New and Notable 334 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 24th June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day