• Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Release Candidate on Microsoft Downloads (Greg Duncan)
• Optimization and generics, part 1: the new() constraint and Optimization and generics, part 2: lambda expressions and reference types (Jon Skeet)
• Quick Update on Mango App Submissions (Todd Brix)
• Visual Studio Extensions worth checking out… (Jax)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introduction to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Static Code Analysis (aka FxCop) – Simple Code Analysis (Zain Naboulsi)
• EF 4.2 Beta 1 Available (EF Team)
• Interface Attributes != Class Attributes (Brad Wilson)
• Introducing ORM Profiler. Beta-testers wanted! (Frans Bouma)
• An Object Lesson in Binary Compatibility (Sharon Cichelli)
• Tasks vs ThreadPool (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• News roundup: vintageJS, accounting.js, spin.js (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating a Podcast Player with HTML5 for a IE9 Pinned Site on Windows 7 and SlowCheetah – Web.config Transformation Syntax now generalized for any XML configuration file (Scott Hanselman)
• MVC Scaffolding Course on Pluralsight–Free for the Next 24 Hours! (Steve Michelotti)
• Stack Exchange API: the Good and the Bad (Romin Irani)
• Minimalistic CouchDB Client for node.js (Alex Popescu)
• A Simple 2-Column Layout in Razor (K. Scott Allen)
• ASP.NET MVC Plus – KnockoutJS Demo (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is it really agile? (Paul Stack)
• How to engage the next generation (Bill Wagner)
• Challenge: Recent Comments with Future Posts (Oren Eini)
• Managenerds! Hire smart people and let them be smart! (David Lemphers)
• The Cowboy Coder (Chris Eargle)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 3: From UX to UI (Evan Hutnick)
• Behind the Scenes with the TeamPulse Team – Part 1 (Joel Semeniuk)
• Delight Your Stakeholders (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Blend Drawing Tips (John Papa)
• Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part1: key concepts and API (Windows Phone Geek)
• I thought I knew you WP7 TextBlock and Button… But maybe not well enough… Let’s review… (Greg Duncan)
• Resharper-style Error Template for WPF (LearnWPF)
• Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.4.6 (CodePlex) – This will be the last 7.0 release, all future releases will target 7.1
• Windows Phone 7 Settings & The ToggleSwitch Control of Toolkit (Parvez Ansari)
• WP7Contrib – Tombstoning Part I The View (Richard Griffin)
• Maintaining a Project with Two Windows Phone Versions (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Visual State Manager (VSM) (part 1) (Alex Mukora)
• 2000 WPF Things #370 – Binding a Label’s Content to the Current Date and Time, part II (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Loren Goodman Programs By the Rules! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 67 – Sam Saffron and Performance Optimization at StackOverflow (Richard Banks)
• Coding Naked (err… I mean live video/screen casting of you coding) with CastingCode.tv (Coming soon…) (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• SharePint @ the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA (Andrew Connell)
• Speaking at the Philly Day of Agile (Jim Holmes)
• The Philadelphia Day of Agile Conference (Stephen Forte)
• Saying thanks to OSS maintainers (Gregory Brown)
• Upcoming Events for August 22nd, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New England Mobile .NET Developers’ Meetup (Jim O’Neil)
• CodeMash Call for Submissions Opening 15 September (Jim Holmes)
• PyCodeConf Ticket Give-away (Kami Lott)
• Xbox 360 at PAX Prime 2011 (Larry Hryb)
• Philly Geek Awards: Recap and Thank You’s (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
• Official site of AutoMapper launched at AutoMapper.org (Jimmy Bogard)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 CTP and Microsoft SQL Server code name ‘Denali’, Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP 3) (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server: Limit Millisecond Part in DateTime2 Datatype (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Introduction to Views – Day 23 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Book Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook (Thomas LaRock)
• T-SQL to find Fragmented Indexes (Vinay Pugalia)
• Autogrow bug – fixed with Denali (Henrik Sjang Davidse)

SharePoint

• SharePoint in a SQL Server environment (Paul S. Randal)
• SharePoint Online Development Options (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• What to do when you aren’t getting promoted (Chris Smith)
• Remote Desktop Administration Options (Chris Love)
• Compile PowerShell scripts to exe (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Careers 2.0: Export And Apply With Your Profile (Nick Larsen)
• Building robust USB 3.0 support (Steven Sinofsky)
• Preview of Google TV Add-on for the Android SDK (Tim Bray)
• Microsoft should still be a platform company (Todd McKinney)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 08.17 ~ 08.22 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading August 22, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Salmagundi for Monday, August 22, 2011 (Joey deVilla)
• Daily Links 22/08/2011 (Jax)
• Link dump for August 22nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Today’s Links (8/22/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #922 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/22/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 08/22/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for August 15-21, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 22-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for August 22, 2011 — #1135 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 22 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Brian Knight

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.NET / Visual Studio

• It’s time for you to consider replacing SourceSafe (Anthony Borton)
• How the TFS team is listening (Ben Scheirman)
• Get ready to “go live” with Team Foundation Server 2010 beta 2! (Brian Keller)
• Switch Connection String Being Used Based on Constructor Flag (Dave Schinkel)
• Team Build without Tests Lists (David Starr)
• Why NHibernate Entities Need A Public Or Protected Parameterless Constructor (Davy Brion)
• SourceSafe Still? TFS2010 may be the TFS tipping point for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Create Breakpoints With Hit Count In Visual Studio 2008 (Deepak Kapoor)
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)
• Fun with Func<T,TResult> Delegates, Events and Async Operations (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• How To Speed Up Your Website By 80% Or More (Alan Skorkin)
• Programming ASP.NET 3.5 (Dave M. Bush)
• thinking out loud: asp.net mvc & nhaml (Christopher Bennage)
• Efficient Server Side Paging With ASP.NET And jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Mobile Website Development With Netbiscuits (Robert Birkenheuer)
• Tip#98: Did you know… The default Application Pool Identity in IIS 7.5 (Windows 7) changed from NetworkService to AppPoolIdentity? (Katerina Rohonyan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strive for Functional Cohesion (Chris Eargle)
• xProfiler – A generic OR/M Profiler (Oren Eini)
• Please pass the duct tape (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Thoughts On Intellectual Honesty And Personal Ambitions (Davy Brion)
• Choosing a career path; which way do I go? (Joe Webb)
• Test Plan Template (Josh Poley)
• Lean and Kanban Collection (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Healthy Team Habits with Team System (David Starr)
• Announcing the guide for claims based identity and access control (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Delegate Mapper (Greg Young)
• Learn one thing a day and QTB: Agile Governance – Managing the Enterprise Issues (Mark Needham)
• Just some thoughts on the term ‘Pragmatic’ (Corey Haines)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 11. and Dissecting Remarkable Code And Design – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Quit Living in the Past – Practices Evolve and How we do things – Preamble and Contents and How We Do Things – Who we are, Where we were, Where we stand (Scott C. Reynolds)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor) (Daniel Grunwald)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V2: What’s new? (Laurent Bugnion) – Link of the Day
• My Favorite Silverlight Extensions APIs – Part 1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Mouse Over ComboBox Open (Behavior) (Jacek Ciereszko)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Re-architecting Applications for Internationalization (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: SQL Azure, MVC 2, New Channel 9 Content (Dan Fernandez)
• Connected Show Podcast: Paul Thurrott on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Brian Johnson)
• A Great Screencast on Skinning for WPF and Silverlight (Frank La Vigne)
• Engadget Podcast 165 – 10.02.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 86 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• PDC 2009: Patterns of Parallel Programming Survey (Ade Miller)
• Hello, authors! (Devon Musgrave)
• Jon Skeet, you will always be an MVP (Ted Neward)
• 10 Years at patterns & practices (J.D. Meier)
• My Software Development journey: Year 3-4 (Mark Needham)
• Concept Camp 2009 Review (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• Did you know you can use Amazon’s SimpleDB for free? (Just keep the data and transfer below 1GB per month, and keep the queries limited) (Greg Duncan)
• The problem with len()? (Martin Bell)
• SQLAuthority News – Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition and SQL SERVER – Choose Right Edition of SQL Server Express for Your Application (Pinal Dave)
• Calculating The Percentage Of Null Values In A Column With Transact SQL (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Install SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Jie Li)

Miscellaneous

• This Week in Search 10/2/09 (Marissa Mayer)
• Do you sign the default contract? (Oren Eini)
• Nerd Gear – What to wear? (Sara J. Chipps)
• Marketplace is live on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones (Thomas Ricker)
• October’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Google Wave’s unproductive email metaphors (Robert Scoble)
• Lookbehind in Regex searches (Rick Strahl)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #447 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 2, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2009 — #703 and Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2009 — #704 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for October 2, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #92 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #73 (Grant Palin)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (Kirill Osenkov)
• CloudNews for 2nd October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (10/4/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #554 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links for the week – 2009.10.02 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• A Feed You Should Read #6 – Bite my bytes, Links of the week (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 113 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 376 (Sam Gentile)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/04/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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