• Modern Web Development – Part 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Acting on file management feedback (Steven Sinofsky)
• Anonymous Types Unify Within An Assembly, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Currying vs partial function application (Jon Skeet)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a Useful Task List in Visual Studio (Peter Vogel)
• Ask Ayende: What about the QA env? (Oren Eini)
• Roslyn CTP Introduces Interactive Code for C# (Visual C# Team)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Code Management & Build and Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Microsoft Test Manager (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Building a Windows 8 Metro App, Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 7 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Entity Framework Membership Provider 2.0 (CodePlex)
• Metro Snack #2: What is WinRT? (Brent Schooley)
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 3, C++/CLI and Other Options and Analysis of a Mobile Redirection Framework and Obfuscated Regular Expressions (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Installing Mono on Windows (Paul Stack)
• What Code Comments are Not For. (Peter Ritchie)
• Entity Framework vs. LightSpeed (John-Daniel Trask)
• How to force Nuget not to update log4net to 1.2.11 (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The .NET Gadgeteer Diaper Alarm Part 1 (Moisture Sensor) (Pete Brown)
• More on the New OData T4 Template: Service Operations (Glenn Gailey)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: VerifyArgs (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• How to Access jQuery’s Internal Data (Elijah Manor)
• Translating JavaScript to Dart (Aaron Wheeler & Marcin Wichary)
• ASP.NET MVC DropDownList, MultiSelect and jQuery (Rick Anderson)
• Tag Cloud in ASP.NET MVC using Clickable HTML 5 Canvas Elements (Sumit Maitra)
• Trying out Underscore on Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
• jsfiddle Keyboard Shortcuts (Ryan Sukale)
• Scalable web apps: the complexity issue (Ariya Hidayat)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – People (Karl Scotland)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing Mobile Interfaces – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Code reviews in the 21st Century (Alex Staveley)
• QA: A Hillbilly Love Story (Kyle Baley)
• Getting started with a Mocking Framework (Filip Ekberg)
• Finding Files by Name With Git (Christopher Bennage)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Getting latest Tweets in Windows Phone apps using Twitter REST API and JSON.NET (Windows Phone Geek)
• MarketPlaceSearchTask in Windows Phone and WebBrowserTask and MediaPlayerLauncher in Windows Phone and Code to search location on Bing Map and Launchers related to MarketPlace in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 2: The Windows Runtime (WinRT) (Gill Cleeren)
• Refactoring Windows 8 Code-Behind to MVVM (Joe Mayo)
• Microsoft delivers developer kit for linking Amazon web services to Windows Phone (Mary Jo Foley)
• Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications (Michael Crump)
• HTML5 on Windows Phone: A Simple Boilerplate (Rob Tiffany)
• 2000 WPF Things #484 – InkCanvas Contains a Collection of Strokes (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jeremy Likness is all Silverlight 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ping 130: Xbox LIVE for Droids and iPhones, Where’s MIX, Microsoft points, SQL Server Party (Laura Foy)
• Boagworld: Tips for getting design signoff (Paul Boag)
• Quick news: Free Step by Step videos (Kim Spilker)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 30th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Part 2 of the Webinar ‘Metro and WinRT for Silverlight/WPF’ scheduled for Feb 9th (Silverlight Show)
• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16, 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows 8 Metro style app recap (Tony Verguldi Jr.)
• Android Developers on Google+ (Tim Bray)
• NYC’s Own Chevon Christie Named ‘Microsoft Tech Student of the Month’ (Peter Laudati)
• 3 Reasons to Attend Prairie Dev Con–West (D’Arcy Lussier)

Database

• SQL server – ISNUMERIC and checking for valid numeric tyopes (Jack Vamvas)
• Complex reporting off a SSAS cube (James Serra)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Merge Replication hotfixes (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Advantages of Partitioning – Quiz – Puzzle – 30 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Compact data and schema script utility – Version 3.5.2 (CodePlex)
• Crunching Big Data with “Data Explorer” and “Social Analytics” (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model Software Development Kit and Upgrade worksheet for SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)

PowerShell

• Invalid JSON results via Powershell 3 (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)

Miscellaneous

• Looking ahead to Windows 8: five big questions for Microsoft (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft Office 15 technical preview kicks off (Mary Jo Foley)
• Keeping Your Documents Safe (Debra Littlejohn Shinder)
• MIT brings Google App Inventor Back As Open-Source Project (Phillip Torrone)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #807 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 30 Jan 2012 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1033 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-30 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 30 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #4) (Himanshu Singh)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 23-29, 2012 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s Hard Code (Best Practices) by Eric Brechner

• Apps are too much like 1990′s CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web (Scott Hanselman)
• Apps Are Like the Web, When They Want to Be and More on Apps and Links (John Sheehan)
• Mozilla Labs Apps Developer Preview and documentation are here! (Ragavan Srinivasan)
• What’s new in CSS 4 selectors (Axel Rauschmayer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Formatting Enumeration Constants (Richard Carr)
• Cleaning Up Your Git Repository For NuGet 1.6 (Nick Berardi)
• Surround with a Code Snippet (C# Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
• C.B.R.: Comic Book Reader 0.4 (CodePlex)
• [Cool Tool] Checking Out VsVim (Roy Osherove)
• I Love the Validation Error Messages I Get From EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.1! (Peter Kellner)
• VMware Cloud Foundry cloud platform now supports .Net (Mary Jo Foley)
• ReSharper 6.1: The Finish Line (Jura Gorohovsky)
• The absolutely most important thing developers need to know about Windows 8 (Matt Lacey)
• Entity Framework Error–New Transaction is not allowed because there are other threads running in the session (Derik Whittaker)
• Where to get the latest news on ALM topics? (Charles Sterling)
• Possible pitfall when using EF Migrations (Per Ökvist)

Web Development

• Android – Ice Cream Sandwich: The HTML5 Developer Scorecard (Aditya Bansod)
• Some HTML5 Resources Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• WebDriver: Getting it to play nicely with jQuery ColorBox (Mark Needham)
• Rails from the point of view of a PHP developer (Giorgio Sironi)
• Plugins Site Update: The Old Is New Again (Adam J. Sontag)
• Windows Azure SDK for Node.js Installation Walkthrough and MATLAB and Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• If and Else Statements in JS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Adding Tweet Buttons to a FunnelWeb Post (Michael Crump)
• One API for the Web, Oh the Possibilities (Shion Deysarkar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Leadership, Management, Transitioning to Agile (Johanna Rothmann)
• Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
• New programmer’s survival manual (John D. Cook)
• Performance Profiling your application is FTW (Derik Whittaker)
• Agile Process Reality Check (Ralf Westphal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Encrypting your Credentials on Windows Phone 7.5 (Rob Tiffany)
• Why do we have circles around icons in the Windows Phone app bar? (Arturo Toledo)
• Just Published on Codeplex SDNavigation WP7 + MVVM + Navigation Framework (Braulio Díez Botella)
• How to work with ToggleSwitch in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Getting started with the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 and WPF (Greg Duncan)
• FREE: 5 Professional WPF Themes (John-Daniel Trask)
• Mango’s live tiles get footloose and fancy free with Themes for Windows Phone 7 (video) (Joseph Volpe)
• 2000 WPF Things #450 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, part III (Sean Sexton)
• Using JSON.NET To Load Twitter Search Results In WP7 (Tim Murphy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Damian Edwards and David Fowler Persist Connections with SignalR (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Building on Azure: GigaSpaces – Cloudify Java Application Platform and Building on Azure: Sneaky Games (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 187: Charles Stacy Harris III the Microsoft Technology Center (part 2 of 2) (David Giard)
• Herding Code 129: Rob Reynolds on Chocolatey and the Chuck Norris Frameworks (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 168 – PowerScripting Podcast – Randy Roffey on MP Studio and a Bonus Interview (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget HD Podcast 278 – 12.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Learn About the Windows Azure Access Control Service from Vittorio Bertocci (Vittorio Bertocci & Charles Torre)
• ALM Summit 2011 Content Now Live and available (Charles Sterling)
• Let’s Play TDD #150: Mulling Over the Persistence Design (James Shore)
• Learn About the Windows Azure Service Bus from Clemens Vasters (Clemens Vasters & Charles Torre)
• Interview with Glenn Block Talking About Node.js on Windows Azure (Glenn Block & Charles Torre)
• Video: Effectively Manage Enterprise Projects w/ #MSProject Server 2010 #in #pmot (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Learn About SQL Azure Federations from Cihan Biyikoglu (Cihan Biyikoglu & Scott Klein)

Community / Events

• OTN Architect Day Presentations – Phoenix, AZ – December 14, 2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Tom Warren moves to the Verge (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Announces 15 Imagine Cup Grants Finalists and Judging Panel (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Telerik! (Chris Sells)

Database

• My Thoughts on SQL Server 2012′s Licensing Changes (Brent Ozar)
• Codeplex: SSIS Community Tasks and Components (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQL SERVER – Explain Error:166 : does not allow specifying the database name as a prefix to the object name – Puzzle to Win SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers Book (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 13: DDL Triggers (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server FineBuild Version 3.0.1 (CodePlex)
• Fixing orphaned database users in 2005 to 2012 – T-SQL Tuesday #025 (Ted Krueger)
• Deleting Leading Zeros in a String (SQL) (Madhivanan)
• T-SQL Tuesday #25 – The Best Tool You’ve Never Used (Mark Broadbent)
• T-SQL Tuesday: What’s Currently Running? (John Sterrett)
• Zero-One-Some Testing (George Mastros)

PowerShell

• Better Git with PowerShell (Phil Haack)
• How to Generate an Exchange 2010 Room List Report with PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

Miscellaneous

• Scheduling TeamCity backups in Windows (Doug Rathbone)
• Searching for an answer has become clear with http://www.pluralsight-training.net (Allan Gagnon)
• New Apps now available for your Xbox 360 (Larry Hryb)
• Windows 8 Store and Music Beta App Screenshots Leaked! (Sagar Sawant)
• Portable tools rock–my current favorites and a great tool (Tim Heuer)
• Introducing SkyDrive for iPhone and Windows Phone (Mike Torres)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #772 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1002 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/13/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/14/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 5-11, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 12-Dec-2011 and 13-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Dev News for December 13, 2011 – #0011 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/13/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Head First jQuery by Ryan Benedetti

• MVVM Light V4 beta1 (Laurent Bugnion)
• jQuery 1.6.4 Released (John Resig)
• Project Silk – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
• Windows 8 to be Unveiled Tuesday 13th Sept, Watch it Live (Mike Halsey)
• Google & the Future of JavaScript (Alex Russell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• My favorite tools to optimize Visual Studio for webdev (Katrien de Graeve)
• Restarting RabbitMQ With Running EasyNetQ Clients and Why Write a .NET API For RabbitMQ? (Mike Hadlow)
• Lambda Expression Parser – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• TFS API: Using LINQpad to query TFS (Tarun Arora)
• The Windows Native Ribbon Part 3: Buttons and Menus (Michael Dunn)
• Maps Keys to a Collection of Values using Lookup Collection (Abhijit Jana)
• PInvoke Performance (Dave Kerr)
• Fundamentals of the Managed Extensibility Framework (Jeremy Likness)
• Announcing Windows Azure Autoscaling Block preview (Grigori Melnik)

Web Development

• Offline Web Apps – AppCaching and HTML5 (Luke)
• Using MVC as a REST Service that is Accessed by jQuery/JavaScript (John Petersen)
• Web Forms Model Binding Part 2: Filtering Data (ASP.NET vNext Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Trying out OpenWrap 2.0 (Sebastien Lambla)
• 7 Best Practices for Improving Your Website’s Usability (Jacob Gube)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The LOB Chronicles Episode 6 – Development Best Practices (Evan Hutnick)
• Achieve Cost-Effective Business Continuity (JD Meier)
• Article: Controlling and Steering Open Source Projects (Dirk Riehle)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to use PInvoke in Silverlight 5 (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Toolkit DateTime Converters (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight 5 Multi Column and Linked Text (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
• Create your first Windows Phone app in Expression Blend (Part III) (Pam Keesey)
• 2000 WPF Things #385 – You Can Nest Panel Controls (Sean Sexton)
• Improvements in Music & Video hub integration (Matt Lacey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 120: Ryan Stewart on RIAs and All Things Adobe (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• MSNBC and Bill Buxton on making computers invisible (Steve Clayton)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 4: Economic Crisis and Software Industry (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Community / Events

• BUILD, publication schedules, and request for feedback (Larry Franks)
• Going to the //Build Conference in Anaheim this week? Me Neither. Join me in Chicago for a Live //Build Event Instead (Angela Binkowski)
• Speaking at HTML5 Dev Conference (Doris Chen)
• My Windows 8 Build Predictions (Jeremy Likness)
• Upcoming Web Design and Development Conferences in 2011-12 (Louis Lazaris)
• What Comes Next (Evan Hutnick)
• Telerik: Delivering More than Expected at //build/….in a Lamborghini Gallardo (Telerik Dev Community)
• Submit a Talk for YUIConf 2011 (Jenny Donnelly)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Denali – New Functions and Shorthand for CASE Statement (Pinal Dave)
• PostgreSQL 9.1 Released (PostgreSQL)

SharePoint

• RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Claims Architecture for SharePoint 2010 Developers (Siew Moi Khor)

Miscellaneous

• Five unanswered Windows 8 questions (Ed Bott)
• Kinecting your Reception room with Kinect Reception (Greg Duncan)
• Some Basic Bash Commands I found useful for Git Bash (Mark Pearl)
• Xbox 360 won’t Auto Login to Live – Fixed due to RSTP and Spanning Tree setting in a NetGear Managed GS724TP Switch (Scott Hanselman)
• AT&T announces new Windows Phone lineup (Brian Seitz)
• Windows Phone “Tango1”, “Tango2”, and “Apollo” confirmed (damaster)
• If you don’t have pet projects, I don’t think I want you (Oren Eini)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 12, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #706 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly Article Digest 09/12/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (9/12/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #935 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 12 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky

• Balsamiq Mockups 2.1! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• 7 Chrome Tips Developers & Designers May Not Know (Elijah Manor)
• Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–The Prototype Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
• Text templating using Razor the easy way (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 1 and Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 2 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Surround with feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• How to initialize the initial state from an external source (Xiang Li)
• Creating a Many To Many Mapping Using Code First (Gil Fink)
• Can we get a little Unity? and Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Preview 2 Released and Baby NUI… Using the Kinect as a Baby Monitor (Greg Duncan)
• Custom Mail headers and EWS (Henning Krause)

Web Development

• Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1 Released – What’s New? (Peter Cooper)
• Introduction to HTML5 : Part 1 (Samaj Shekhar)
• JavaScript: handy hint for jQuery document ready handlers (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Build Accessible web sites with Visual Studio – WCAG reporting (Doug Rathbone)
• Developers – introducing our GitHub code sample library with samples for iOS, PHP, ASP.NET and more (Dare Obasanjo)
• HTML5 Part 1: Semantic Markup and Page Layout (Jennifer Marsman)
• PHP 5.4 features poll: the results (Giorgio Sironi)
• Ajax Control Toolkit July 2011 Release and the New HTML Editor Extender (Stephen Walther)
• Streaming your music at home on the cheap… Using IIS to stream your music to your Windows Phone 7 (or iPhone/Android) (Greg Duncan)
• How to Deploy Web Roles Quick & Easy (Maor David-Pur)
• Welcome to Adobe Edge (Michael Chaize)
• New WebSocket Protocol: Secure and Extensible (Ian Fette)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 5 – Ranges, Loops and Comprehensions (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Sad Truth About Agile Planning (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Praveen on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• What is a Team? (John Sonmez)
• No Organizational Charts in Agile? (Peter Saddington)
• Standup isn’t about what you say, it’s about what you hear (Bill Wagner)
• Why Another DVCS? (Eric Sink)
• Supercharge Isolate.Verify (Dror Helper)
• Disruptive versus iterative change (Jimmy Bogard)
• Challenge: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building a Simple Windows Phone Dialer App (Mike Gold)
• Windows Phone 7 Serialization: DataContract Serialization (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• There’s a new Windows Phone 7 project place in town… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Logo Refresh Fits A Square Peg In A Round Hole (Jordan Crook)
• Animating ViewBox for WPF (LearnWPF)
• Creating a Silverlight 5 Helper for ASP.NET MVC3 Razor (Pete Brown)
• Hosting a WPF control inside a Windows Form and Dealing with HWND in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
• 2000 WPF Things #355 – Implementing Three-State CheckBox Dependent Behavior (Sean Sexton)
• Be careful with phone navigation! (Arian Kulp)
• Location Services–Using the Emulator (Jesse Liberty)
• How to Prepare Your Class Library to Support Application Library Caching? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman Frames Our Entities (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 156 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brandon Shell on The Coud, Bunnies and VDI (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• New Windows Phone “How Do I” Video Series (Adam Kinney)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 4 (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Ping 111: Mango Refresh, Could Server Heat, Avatar Kinect, Microsoft donations (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Android Developer Labs 2011 (Tim Bray)
• Upcoming Events for August 1st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Agile 2011 Conference – Salt Lake City (Hadi Hariri)
• Microsoft Build conference for Windows 8 sells out (in spite of a dearth of details) (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone ads land Brandon Foy a job at Microsoft (Kip Kniskern)
• Paul Betts is a GitHubber (Chris Wanstrath)

Database

• SQL Server “Denali”: Project Apollo (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Wildcard – Querying Special Characters – Day 2 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Find Table/Column Usages Searches Database Schema (Alexey Korsun)
• Rolling your own index lookups (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

• New SharePoint 2010 Implementers Courseware, Two Courses: Internet Sites Implementers and Enterprise Content Management Implementers (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Author news: Mark & Aaron discuss their just-published Sysinternals book (Devon Musgrave)
• August Oracle Technology Network Member Discounts (Oracle TechBlog)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 1, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 077 for 8/1/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Today’s Links (8/1/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #907 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #157 (David Vidmar)
• Daily News Digest 08/01/2011 and Daily News Digest 08/02/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Secure Code, Second Edition by Michael Howard

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Top Links

• FsUnit Now On NuGet Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• Binary Drop For the Task Parallel Library for Silverlight (Damon Payne)
• An Ultra Light Windows Phone 7 MVVM Framework (Jeremy Likness)
• Code Contracts in .NET 4.0 & its Internals (Abhishek Sur)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF Data Service with SQL Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)
• NuGet 1.1 Released (Scott Guthrie)
• Running .NET applications in-process using AppDomains (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

• Best Practice: from Design to HTML Template or at least an MVC Application (Code Inside Team)
• Register your HTTP modules at runtime without config and Build your Web Application at runtime (David Ebbo)
• Sharp Architecture 1.9.6 Released (Alec Whittington)
• 12 things web developers should know about Firebug (Brian Bondy)
• Authenticate Orchard users with AppFabric Access Control Service (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Unfinished Test Assertion (Giorgio Sironi)
• Create Test Plan using Microsoft Test Manager (Abhijit Zanak)
• WebTestPlugins – Why? and How (Shai Raiten)
• Mockingbird is a fantastic in-browser tool for creating website wireframes (Erez Zukerman)
• Using Git alongside other version control systems (Mike Hadlow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight MVVM Commanding II (Deborah Kurata)
• Push: The history, experience, cost and future (Kelly Sommers)
• Pet Peeves with the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (Bil Simser)
• What I learned about being a Windows Phone 7 Developer – Issue 2– Application Manifest (Dave Isbitski)
• A Critical Deep Dive into the WPF Rendering System (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Referencing a picture in another DLL in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Having Fun with Coding4Fun’s Windows Phone 7 Controls (Michael Crump)
• WP7: Navigating to a page in different assembly (Windows Phone Geek)
• Connecting to a Workflow Service from LightSwitch Part 2 and Connecting to a Workflow Service from LightSwitch Part 3 (Dan L. Moyer)
• Blend Bits 25 – Templating Part 3 (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 64: Where is my SQL?!! Going NoSQL with Peter Ritchie (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 387: Super Bowl, Body and Brain Connection and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 232 – 02.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 45 – Ryan Bigg talks Ruby on Rails 3 (Richard Banks)
• Windows Weekly 195: Zune Dominates iTunes (Paul Thurrott)
• Dream.in.Code Podcast Episode #14 – Caleb Jonasson (Den Delimarsky)
• Yet Another Podcast #24–Reactive Extensions (Jesse Liberty)
• VIDEO – WebMatrix – Working with Files and File IO (JoeStagner)
• Episode IV: A New Hope…and NoSQL (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Technology & Friends Episode 136: Carl Franklin on Audio Recording and Production (David Giard)
• WebDev Radio Episode 84: Travis Swicegood (Michael Kimsal)

Community / Events

• Blogging locally and globally–my experience (Gunnar Peipman)

Database

• SQL Server Compact 4.0 Books Online (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – FT_IFTS_SCHEDULER_IDLE_WAIT – Full Text – Wait Type – Day 13 of 28 and SQL SERVER – BACKUPIO, BACKUPBUFFER – Wait Type – Day 14 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• CouchDB: Join like behaviour with link functions (Mark Needham)

SharePoint

• Business connectivity services introduction at the Sharepoint usergroup uk (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• IE9 and Tracking Protection: Microsoft disrupts the online ad business (Ed Bott)
• Nokia / Microsoft: Where’s Zune? (Kip Kniskern)
• Vim: Copying to and retrieving from the clipboard (Mark Needham)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 13, 2011 and Interesting Finds: Febuary 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 02.10 ~ 02.13 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for February 13, 2011 — #1046 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #791 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 02/14/2011 (Svetla Stoycheva)
• Links of the week #141 (David Vidmar)
• WP7 Dev guide – weekly update 13th Feb 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Week Retrospective 19 – Personal Kanban and Agileurls.com (Peter Saddington)
• Windows Phone 7 From Around The Web 12.02 (Steven Hodson)
• Weekly Article Digest 02/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life! by Chris Bernard

Top Links

How I use Inversion of Control containers (Krzysztof Koźmic)

A Feed You Should Read #31 – Pete Brown’s (POKE 53280,0) (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

Changing Auto-Hide Behavior for Tool Windows and Dock a Tool Window Back To Its Previous Location (Zain Naboulsi)

.NET API for PasteHTML (Jef Claes)

Web Development

HttpClient and HttpResponseMessage Unhappy in Medium Trust (Karsten Januszewski)

Moving a Certificate Between Web Servers (Steve Smith)

Using Agatha’s Server-Side Caching (Davy Brion)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Prefer Additional Methods Over Additional Overloads (John Sonmez)

Git/Mercurial: Pushing regularly (Mark Needham)

ReSharper Shortcut for Context-Sensitive Unit-Test Running (Sharon J. Cichelli)

Murder, Blood and Thread Safe Singletons (Ade Miller)

Tame Your Software Dependencies with Dependency Injection & Common Service Locator Library (Kitchai Yong)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Silverlight 4.0 – Using Commanding Feature to Fetch data from a WCF 4.0 service (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 11 (Richard Hay)

ADP West 2010 – Dale Emery – Resistance as a Resource (Agile Toolkit)

Database

SQL SERVER – Free Download – SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (Pinal Dave)

SQL Server Error User Group or Role Already Exists in the Current Database (Steve Smith)

SharePoint

A short, sweet and concise four step guide for installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 (x64) (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: June 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)

Silverlight Cream for June 19, 2010 — #886 (Dave Campbell)

Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

Weekly Links #110 (Grant Palin)

The Geek Shelf

Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond by Cheryl D. Wise

Top Links

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer (MS Downloads)
• Prototype Process and Tools (Gary Sherman)
• Lambda Function Factory (Brendan Kowitz)
• Moonlight 3.0, Preview 7 (Miguel de Icaza)
• Creating WPF Prototypes with SketchFlow (Michael Sorens)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Layer Diagram Extension using the Feature Pack (Cameron Skinner)
• Using Paging in WCF Data Services (Gil Fink)
• A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service (Peter Kellner)
• The Power of Func<> (John Sonmez)
• ResGen.exe error: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format (Sara Joiner)
• What’s New in Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0 – Part I (Matteo Slaviero)

Web Development

• Check for Existing Values with ASP.NET CustomValidator + jQuery $.ajax() (Brian Dobberteen)
• Back to Basics: Wiring up a Web Application (Nick Harrison)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Conditionals (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Internet Explorer: Understanding Compat Features For Developers (Pete LePage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mutation Testing (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Slack time (Mark Needham)
• Git and our friction points and beginners mistakes (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Top 10 Design Mistakes: #10 (Pete LePage)
• Leadership Tip: Understanding Human Polymorphism In Teams And Organizations. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Boss Launch 2: Zombie Attack for WP7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• XBox Live on Windows Phone 7 (Brandon Watson)
• Known Issue: Control Design-Time Assemblies File Locking When Using WPF and Silverlight Designer (Karl Shifflett)
• Time categories with WPF and Exchange – Part II (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• A Collection Of Windows Phone 7 Motion Videos (Matthias Shapiro)
• WPF Application Framework – Release: v1.0.0.350 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 56: What is new in SQL Server 2008 R2? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: Kinect, OData, Cassandra library, & TechEd Sessions now available (Dan Fernandez)
• Pete at Microsoft: WCF RIA Services Team Interview (Pete Brown)
• Updated Windows Home Server SDK Available (Larry Larsen)
• C-Language Programming with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Pro or VC++ Express (Sam Stokes)
• jQuery Podcast 27 – Remy Sharp pt. 2 (HTML5) (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp – Part 2 (Muhammad Mosa)

Community / Events

• I’m Keynoting at CodeStock 2010! (Rachel Appel)
• First Ever Blend-O-Rama (Kevin Hazzard)
• New Zealand Windows Phone 7 Dev Training Events (Nigel Parker)
• Learn SQL Server 2008 R2 with 24-HOP (Joe Webb)
• Why I’m a programmer (Anne Epstein)
• David Ramel Asks About Interviewing at Microsoft (Chris Sells)

Database

• TempDB Size and Monitoring (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Disaster recovery 101: backing up the tail of the log and Disaster recovery 101: hack-attach a damaged database (Paul S. Randal)
• Building data stores – Transaction log and Building data stores – Append Only and Building data store – indexing data structure and Table scans, index scans and index seeks, on my! (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• How Microsoft Research Banished the BSOD (Dan Grabham)
• PowerBoots 0.3 – The Faster Edition (Joel Bennett)
• Use Google Services from the Command Line (Alex Chitu)
• Audiobook player for iPhone (brochpirate)
• Get your Windows Live Calendar on the go (David Dennis)
• 14 application to install on a new development machine (Dror Helper)
• Making my blog suck less (Jef Claes)
• Improvements to Bounty System (Jeff Atwood)
• Weekend Reading: Kinect, Office 2010 Highlight Big Week (Owen Linderholm)
• So How Much Will Kinect for Xbox 360 Cost? (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 18, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Simple to Share, Free Shipping, Pleasing the Wrong Person (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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NHibernate in Action by Pierre Henri Kuaté

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Top Links

• Template/View selection with MEF in Silverlight (Josh Twist)
• Extending NerdDinner: Adding MEF and plugins to ASP.NET MVC (Scott Hanselman)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Views (Jimmy Bogard)
• 12 ways to break your database server before the first transaction (Ted Krueger)
• Simple Silverlight 4 Example Using oData and RX Extensions (Michael Washington)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TFS2010 WP7 Continuous Integration (Justin Angel)
• Enabling XML-documentation for code contracts (Gunnar Peipman)
• C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: C# 4 Named Parameters (Sam Gentile)
• Incorporating transaction into your C# data applications (Richard McCutchen)
• Visual Studio Managed Multi-Targeting: Part 1: Concepts: Target Framework Moniker, Target Framework (Binu N. Chacko)
• Multiple Views of the Same Document Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• .gitignore Config File For .NET Projects (Nick Berardi)
• Add Service Reference – How to Avoid Generating Already Existing Classes (Gil Fink)

Web Development

• Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Using Multiple Actions (Brian Mains)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Info Architecture for the WWW, 3rd Ed. – Only $9.99 use code DDAWW (O’Reilly Media)
• JavaScript The Good Parts – Book Review (Chris Love)
• Extending NerdDinner: Exploring Different Database Options (Scott Hanselman)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Data migration (Oren Eini)
• Google Follows MapQuest With Driving Directions Web Service and Google Announces “Places” to Search Businesses and More (Adam DuVander)
• Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory (Mike Marchak)
• Another Follow-up on HTML5 Video in IE9 (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Internet Explorer 9 Will Support the Open Source VP8 Video Codec (Rey Bango)
• The WebM video format – the saviour of open video on the web? (Robert Nyman)
• InfoQ: Architecting TekPub – Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails (Rob Bazinet)
• Adobe hastens release of HTML5 developer tool (Stephen Shankland)
• CSS 101: Block Formatting Contexts (Thierry Koblentz)
• Google Wave platform updates at I/O: See what you can build now! (Pamela Fox)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Test-Driven Javascript (James Shore)
• Code Metrics: Number of IL Instructions (Gunnar Peipman)
• What Does It Take to Run a Virtual Team? (Redux) (Aliza Sherman)
• The Three Manifestos (Jurgen Appelo)
• Data Security Scenarios on Azure (J.D. Meier)
• Technology Adoption and the "No"-gates (Steven Lott)
• Learning the Pomodoro technique (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Drag and Drop Operation in Silverlight ListBox (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WPF Goodies in the Silverlight 4 Tools (Brian Lagunas)
• Introduction to binding in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Handling DataGrid.SelectedItems in an MVVM-friendly manner (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight Enables Choice Today for Third-Party Codecs (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #22 – Data Validation (Mike Snow)
• XAML Resources (Umair Saeed)
• A Matter of Controls (Dave)
• Top 10 WPF Performance Tips (Christian Moser)
• Silverlight Metro Theme Alpha 1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – F# Panel Live from NERD Center, Cambridge, MA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• A Conversation with Jaron Lanier (Charles Torre)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #175: Code Contracts: Learning to use Interface Contracts (Derik Whittaker)
• Brilliant! The Rise And Fall Of Waterfall (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Introduction into Raven DB (Oren Eini)

Database

• Three different ways of populating variables with configuration values in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Report Builder 3.0 – Using Report Parts (Patrick LeBlanc)
• More Tables or More Databases? (Buck Woody)
• Raven, a Document Database for .NET (Abel Avram)
• TableSpace Update (Jason Brimhall)
• Things SQL needs: determining range cardinality (Quassnoi)

SharePoint

• Using BCS Meta Man and SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Why I Love Reading Other People’s Code And You Should Too (Alan Skorkin)
• More Google Chrome OS Screenshots (Alex Chitu)
• There’s a Reason It’s Free – Get Over It… (Ben Kepes)
• Turn On MSDTC Windows 7 (Deepak Kapoor)
• It’s a new Sysinternals Tool Day! RAMMap v1.0 released (Greg Duncan)
• Software is Like Pornography (Jared Richardson)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: Word 2010 and Accessibility (Karen McCall)
• Jumplist Extender adds Windows 7 jumplists to programs which don’t have ‘em (Lee Mathews)
• Usenet services have been made unnecessary… (Michael Janke)
• Education Technology – Changing the Nature of Education, and Building a Bridge to Tomorrow (Kelly Walsh)
• MonoTouch 3.0.6 – iPhone OS 4, beta 4 (MonoTouch Team)
• Paint.NET Bulk Image Processor v1.0 (CodePlex)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2010 — #865 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #604 (Chris Alcock)

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jQuery Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for jQuery Developers (Animal Guide)

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Top Links

• Portable Area excerpt from MVC2 in Action (Eric Hexter)
• Rant: HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Display Market: Or, I want my pixels and DPI now! (Pete Brown)
• Expressive Code: Good Variable Names Instead Of Magic Values And Calculations (Derick Bailey)
• Finding Your Strengths (J.D. Meier)
• Digging into the NET Parallel Framework (Kevin Jones)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ReportViewer Projects in Visual Studio 2010&mdash;Missed the Mark (Again) (William Vaughn)
• Using the Code Snippets Manager and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Adding comments to a DataTip (Zain Naboulsi)
• NDepend 3.0 – Completely Integrated with Visual Studio (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Using TortoiseSVN From the Command Line (Jim Holmes)
• Every Tree There Is (Eric Lippert)
• Enterprise Library 5 Fluent Configuration API (Gil Fink)
• Buying a Visual Studio 2010 product key or extending the Visual Studio 2010 Trial Edition (Charles Sterling)
• Build Customization using Visual Studio 2010 – Part II (Gouri Sohoni)
• Generating Business Logic “Hooks” for EF4 Entities (Dan Simmons)
• Git, Gitosis, Putty and Windows (Dave M. Bush)
• New Psscor2 commands – Dealing with Dates and Times (Tom)

Web Development

• Amethyst Marries Flash Platform and Visual Studio and Daily Dose – App Engine 1.3.3 Released (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Is Apple doing a favor to HTML5? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Running Rails in IIS7 with IronRuby Rack (Bobby Johnson)
• Client Script Patterns: Predictive Fetch (Simon Ince)
• Queryable OData Metadata (Alex James)
• Editing a Variable Length List, ASP.NET MVC 2-Style (Steve Sanderson)
• IIS Compression in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Web Deployment: Excluding Files and Folders via the Web Application’s Project File (Nichole Baker)
• IE9 Developer Tools: Network Tab (Andy Sterland)
• WhiteHouse.Gov gives Drupal an open source stimulus – Three WhiteHouse.Gov projects released to Drupal as Open Source (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Estimating" Now Online (James Shore)
• #Nose 1.1 Released (Dror Helper)
• Study on the State of Code Review (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Granularity: Architecture’s Nemesis (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Lured in by the complexity (Mark Needham)
• Reworking It. (Rob Bazinet)
• Messaging: At-Least-Once Delivery and Message Idempotency Patterns and Disk Usage (Jonathan Oliver)
• Change is Hard Because Self-Control Wears You Out (J.D. Meier)
• Standards: Grow Them, Don’t Make Them (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF

• Upgrade to Expression Studio v4 for free – now in writing! (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #2– Attach to Process Debugging and Silverlight: Unable to start Debugging. The Silverlight managed debugging package isn’t installed. (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight 4 Training Kit (Scott Guthrie)
• Resolution of Dependency Properties (Umair Saeed)
• Transactions with MVVM (Jeremy Likness)
• WCF RIA Services – Hands On Lab (John Papa)
• Nobody likes a show-off [Today's DataVisualizationDemos release includes new demos showing off stacked series behavior] (David Anson)
• Using a webcam in a WPF application (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DZone Interview &ndash; MVVM and Prism (Brian Noyes)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield Live in Redlands, CA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Thirsty Developer 90: Silverlight 3 in the Enterprise (Dave Bost)
• Pete at MIX10: Josh Blake on Natural User Interface and WPF Multi-touch (Pete Brown)
• Interactive Storytelling on Microsoft Surface (Eric Havir)
• Using the new sensor and location API from Silverlight 4 (Martin Esmann)
• Silverlight TV 21: Silverlight 4 – Customer Perspectives (John Papa)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #171: Exploring how to use List Binding in MVC2 (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• SQL Server and Reporting Services Foundations (William Vaughn)
• A Diabetic Product Review for Non-Diabetics – The Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm "Revel" Insulin Pump and CGM (Scott Hanselman)
• Horror stories from the trenches: My very first project (Oren Eini)
• Contributing to OSS, a Git Bootcamp (Karl Seguin)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Update Statistics are Sampled By Default (Pinal Dave)
• Stripping rows out of file imports (Ted Krueger)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (22/30) resource governor allows IO governing (Paul S. Randal)
• The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB – Oh My! (Michael Kennedy)

SharePoint

• I call him Mini-SharePoint! – SharePoint Foundation 2010 (i.e. new version of WSS/Windows SharePoint Services with a new name) (Greg Duncan)
• 5 Tips on Effectively Planning for SharePoint 2010 Migration (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• IntelliJ and TeamCity Load Up on New Features (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Apple seeking to acquire ARM? (Sadat Karim)
• eBay Simple Lister Beta Now Available (John Papa)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #586 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 22, 2010 — #844 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 51 (Kathleen Sanders)
• New and Notable 414 (Sam Gentile)
• Four Great Online Resources for Learning Silverlight (Michael S. Scherotter)

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Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

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Top Links

• T4MVC 2.6.13: now officially in MvcContrib, with a few new features (David Ebbo)
• A Vision of the Future for Home and Work Experiences by Microsoft Surface (Arturo Toledo)
• Game Developers Have a Great Opportunity with Windows Phone 7 Series (Ron Pessner)
• pluralsight and InnerWorkings (Meagon Marshall)
• 10 things Microsoft did right in 2010 (so far) (Joe Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Go To a Line Number and Print with Line Numbers / Summary Info Poll and Reuse the Same Editor Window When Opening Files (Zain Naboulsi)
• Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive) (Scott Mitchell)
• Tuning C++ build parallelism in VS2010 (Dan (VS Team))
• ThinkGearNET Library (Brian Peek)
• VB and C# coevolution (Scott Wiltamuth)
• Slicing and Dicing Strings with CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
• When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Combining Higher Order Functions in C# and How to tell if a type is a delegate (Mike Hadlow)
• The yield statement cannot be used inside an anonymous method or lambda expression and Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in F# (Oliver Sturm)
• IronRuby Unleashed Is Out Now (Justin Etheredge)
• WCF Service Cannot Be Activated Because of ASP.NET Compatibility and WCF Data Service Error – Request Error (Keith Elder)
• .Net, Native, P/Invoke marshaling just like magic… “Marshaling with C# Pocket Reference” (Think “Marshalling Guide for the Busy Dev Guy”) (Greg Duncan)
• XNA Game Studio 4 News (GDC 2010) (Greg Duncan)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• TMap for VS2010 Testing Process Template RC published on Codeplex. and VS2010 TMap Testing Template | Initial Work Items #1 (Clemens Reijnen)
• MindBlaster Article Posted (Brian Peek)
• Save a diagram to Image File (Cameron Skinner)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part II: Semantic Changes and +=/-= (Chris Burrows)
• Michael Klucher on XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in C# (Chris Sells)
• Using Copy-On-Write In Multithreaded Code To Reduce Locking Overhead (Davy Brion)
• FluentPath: a fluent wrapper around System.IO (Bertrand Le Roy)

Web Development

• Deleporter: Cross-Process Code Injection for ASP.NET (Steve Sanderson)
• Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Profiling Apps 1 of N: The MVC ActionLink (Hadi Hariri)
• Working with the HTML5 Community (Adrian Bateman)
• ASMX ScriptService mistakes: Installation and configuration (Dave Ward)
• Displaying Multimedia Content In A Floating Window Using FancyBox (Scott Mitchell)
• Using Lucene – External Indexes (Oren Eini)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• VCS Survey (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Animations – Big Teams (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Git/Branch-Per-Feature – Composable Deployments/Releases? (Joey Beninghove)
• Some Day Kanban Will Fail 75% of the Time (Jurgen Appelo)
• The 8th Phase (Karl Seguin)
• Getting real: Book review and Pair Programming: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Review: The Productive Programmer (Grant Palin)
• CQRS Performance Engineering: Read vs Read/Write Models (Derick Bailey)
• State Pattern Misuse (Greg Young)
• The Dissatisfied Designer (Dave Laribee)
• Cut the abstractions by putting test hooks (Oren Eini)
• Work is a Rubber Ball that Bounces Back (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF / Silverlight Quick Tip: INotifyPropertyChanged for indexer and Binding to a Dictionary in WPF and Silverlight and Tracing WPF in Visual Studio 2010 (Pete Brown)
• WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity (Scott Hanselman)
• Small Basic – Now with SilverLight (Vijaye)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 : Focus and Activation (Paul Harrington)
• Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog ( again ) (Mike Taulty)
• A syntax highlighting TextBlock for Silverlight 3 (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Catastrophic Failure Message (Kathleen Dollard)
• Silverlight Challenge: Creating a DependencyProperty (Christopher Bennage)
• Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel (Glenn Block)
• Pixel Perfect Development (Dave Schinkel)
• Simplified INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation with WeakReference Support and Typed Property Access API (Daniel Cazzulino)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Toad + ,NET = Datadude for Oracle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 157: Hadoop with Philip Zeyliger (SE-Radio Team)
• endpoint.tv – Install/Uninstall AppFabric & Referencing Caching Libraries (Ron Jacobs)
• Video of My Last Iteration Planning Meeting with CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast – MDT 2010 with Keith Garner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Conversation with Gary Bernhardt (Corey Haines)
• Ping 51: TechFest, Ballmer, Xbox, Android & Tina Wood! and What is the Cloud? (Laura Foy)
• Videos of developer sessions at Oredev (including mine on .net debugging) (Tess Ferrandez)
• David Anderson on kanban – radio interview (Christophe Louvion)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport – Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night – SharePoint 2010 Pro Summit Edition (Andrew Connell)
• I love Codeplex! (Arian T. Kulp)
• Silverlight @ #MIX10 – The Next Web Now (Silverlight Team)
• You Can Sponsor Philly Code Camp (Nick Berardi)
• Microsoft at SXSW 2010 (Dominic Carr)
• Windows Live Wave 4 at Mix? Follow our liveblog and find out (Kip Kniskern)
• Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10 (John Papa)
• 2010 Summit – in a word, “more!” (Joseph Mirabella)
• Speaking on “Ignite your coding” (Glenn Block)
• Getting ready for MIX10 (Ed Bott)
• Events This Week – March 8th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Looking for more SharePoint 2010 Info? Check out these Free Webcasts by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• MIX10, Coding4Fun Show, and You! (Brian Peek)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Improve Performance by Reducing IO – Creating Covered Index and SQLAuthority Book Review – Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Pinal Dave)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 4: network optimization) (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Server Locking & Block Scripts (Joe Webb)
• Why abbreviate schema names? (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Readying SharePoint For Teleworking (Will Kelly)
• Accessibility and SharePoint 2010 (Tim McConnell)
• Configure SharePoint Server 2010 for Mobile Device Access (Office Team)
• Training from Microsoft on SharePoint 2010 (Paul Andrew)
• Beyond F5 deployment – my top 5 benefits of Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Kodu (MS Downloads)
• A Trip Down Memory Lane – Presentations over 10 years old (Scott Hanselman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDNUT (O’Reilly Media)
• Remote File Explorer in PowerGUI and PowerShell in the Enterprise (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Office Web Apps to graduate with Windows Live Wave 4: gives clue to final release date? (damaster)
• The incomplete list of impolite WP7 user feature requests (Chris Sells)
• UITableView Example Code (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/9/2010 – Special Edition (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: March 8, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 9, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #555 and The Morning Brew #556 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2010 — #809 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Mar-2010 and Tech Tweets for 9-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• My new home page, refreshed [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!] (David Anson)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.9.2010 (Bob Familiar)

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Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET