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.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate and Composite Keys (Anne Epstein)
• PDC09 Downloader Source Code (Frank La Vigne)
• Visual Studio 2010: Generating sequence diagrams on the fly (Gunnar Peipman)
• IntelliTrace: A graphical comparison (Habib Heydarian)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 2- The Repository (Julie Lerman)
• NHibernate Event Listener Registration With Fluent NHibernate (Rob Reynolds)
• Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all (Vladislav Savov)

Web Development

• T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action (David Ebbo)
• ASP.NET MVC: Creating reports using Chart control (Gunnar Peipman)
• Lot’s of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week (Bill Staples)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kitchen Agile (Leon Bambrick)
• CQRS – The Domain Events (Mark Nijhof)
• Managing to the Constraint (Mike Cottmeyer)
• User Interface Design Is Not About Lorem Ipsum And Pretty Boxes. (Rajiv Popat)
• Take 3: Python, ISP, IoC, and OCP need a fundamental rethink. (Ryan Svihla)
• What’s all this nonsense about Katas? (Uncle Bob Martin) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• SketchFlow: Including Multiple Tab Content In Word Export (Christian Schormann)
• WCF RIA Services – What you need to know when creating DTO/Presentation Model (Fredrik Normén)
• Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight 4 Fluid UI (Jesse Liberty)
• Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML 2009 Features: FactoryMethod\Arguments (Lester Lobo)
• Debugging Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Applications (Mike Taulty)
• The big Silverlight 4 Question (Peter Bromberg)
• EdgeCam – Silverlight 4 Webcam & Edge Detection Shader (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA) (Jossie Tirado)
• Life at Microsoft: The truth revealed…again! (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 – Out of Browser Evolves (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• PDC09 Session Downloader (Frank La Vigne)
• PDC09 RSS feed file for your podcast catcher of choice (i.e. Grab all the PDC sessions for your Zune, Reader, FeedDemon, etc) (Greg Duncan)
• PDC ‘09: Three Screens and a Cloud, Pt. 1 – Azure (David Makogon)
• Why I like Steven Sinofsky (Stephen Forte)
• Shut Up and Build Something (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• SQL Server String Index Functions (Richard Carr)
• Procedures with cursors and Missing foreign key constraints (George Mastros)
• First sighting of SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) (Jamie Thomson)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 for Oracle DBA (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 – Query Interfaces (Arnt Schøning)
• BCS Meta Man Alpha Release (BCS Meta Man Team)

Miscellaneous

• Testing for PowerShell Remoting: Test-PsRemoting (Lee Holmes)
• Fixing Search Results: PowerShell 2.0 is RTM (Joel Bennett)
• Azure and Hardware (Bill Evjen)
• Systems Management with NetPoint and PowerGUI (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Why Chrome OS Will Succeed (in a limited market) (Eric Anderson)
• MVPs Release Windows 7 Resource Kit (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Twitter in a Dead End (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why Google Chrome OS has already won (Robert Scoble)
• Foobar2000 v1.0 Beta — holy crap, it’s finally here! (Sebastian Anthony)
• BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Announced (Sam Gentile)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 20, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2009 — #737 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for the Week 2009.11.20 (Jeremiah Peschka)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 3.0 QueryOver (Jason Grundy)
• Using Windows Touch Gestures with .NET (Part 2: Retrieving Gestures) (Jason Ipock)
• InfoPath 2010 Reference: InfoPath 2010 Developer Reference for Managed Code Form Templates and Office 2010: Developer References (MS Downloads)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Testing Synchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
• Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework (EF Team)
• Closing over the loop variable considered harmful (Eric Lippert)
• Databinding 3.0 (David Fowler)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Parallel Debugging (Daniel Moth)
• F# – Designing Functional Interfaces for Pipelining (Rick Minerich)
• Can I host a VSIX on my own server? (Quan To)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC in Action (Dave M. Bush)
• S#arp Architecture 1.0 2009 Q3 with NHibernate 2.1.1 GA Released (Billy McCafferty)
• Test-Driving a new feature for JavaScript (Sergio Pereira)
• A Tale of 2 Web UIs (Mike Taulty)
• Create an attractive loading panel in jQuery (Nick Berardi)
• Web 2.0 – What’s it all about? (Lawrence Moroney)
• Crushed by complexity—me too, and for a long time (Dino Esposito)
• Improving ASP.NET: Finding controls and Part 2 (Peter Blum)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• My pomodoro experience (Sebastian Hermida)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Export to PDF, a fresh coat of paint! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Programmer Tip: Stop Those CYA Emails And Engage In Meaningful Discussions. (Rajiv Popat)
• Test driven design – Willed vs. Forced Designs (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
• How We Do Things – Evolving our Specification Practice (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Adapting our approach for the context (Mark Needham)
• Pex 0.19.41110.1: Better Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2 Support, Smoother Moles (Jonathan de Halleux)
• CQRS: Reporting Database Access Strategies and The Software Simplist (Jonathan Oliver)
• Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – On BDD and MSpec (Howard Dierking)
• Lazy Loading is… well… lazy and Tips for ORM Data Access (Jarod Ferguson)
• Willed and forced design (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF

• New themes now available (Dax Pandhi)
• Displaying Text at Angles and Text Morphing but with Decomposed Outlines (Charles Petzold)
• Display OpenStreetMap Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Mix and Blend: Surfing + Silverlight = Design (Arturo Toledo)
• Magellan and the MVVM Light Toolkit (Paul Stovell)
• New WPF Features: Updated File Dialogs (Lester Lobo)
• On Our Cross Plat Commitment (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 7 of 13 and Windows Embedded: Past, Present and Future and MFC: Integrating your application with the Windows Restart Manager and MFC: Implementing handlers for preview, thumbnail and search filtering (Charles Torre)
• Parallel Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 – MSDN mag companion (Daniel Moth)
• TaskCompletionSource (Phil Pennington)
• The MNR Show without Major Nelson (Larry Hyrb)
• Countdown to PDC09: Steve Marx on Cloud Development (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• IndyHall Member Profiles: Johnny Bilotta (Alex Hillman)
• Sacramento .NET Users Group – Microsoft PDC 2009 (Doug Holland)
• Our little team is growing – Welcome to Jon Galloway and Pete Brown (Scott Hanselman)
• Why conferences must talk about failure (Scott Berkun)
• Back to business for the SQL Server community (Ted Krueger)
• Free Balsamiq Mockups for UX Training (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Course: Leading Software Teams – Essential Practices for team leads (Roy Osherove)

Database

• SQL Server Logarithmic Functions (Richard Carr)
• OUTER JOIN order (Howard)
• Sort transform arbitration [SSIS] and MDS is x64 only (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS 05 Passing Multi-Value Parameters Between Reports. (thirster42)
• Best Practice: Coding SQL Server triggers for multi-row operations (Denis Gobo)
• From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling (Sam Gentile)
• SQL SERVER – Policy Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies (Pinal Dave)
• Automatic Generation of Stored Procedure Return Types (Noam Ben-Ami)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases More Free Visio 2007 Add-ins for I.T. Professionals (Blake Handler)
• “Look kids! Big Ben…House of Parliament…”and Bing in the UK! (Kristin Meldahl)
• RUMOR: Google’s Chrome OS arriving next week (Jay Hathaway)
• Your top Windows 7 questions, answered (Ed Bott)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/13 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A Tentative Content Plan for 2010 (MSDN Magazine)
• Xbox LIVE Update coming Nov. 17th (Larry Hyrb)
• How to avoid typos on your resume (Anne Cheng)
• Windows Azure Platform TCO/ROI Comparison Tool (Bill Zack)
• Discover Bing (Steve Clayton)
• The Most Intriguing Concept In Google’s Go Language (Justin Etheredge)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #476 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (11/12/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Leveraging The Windows Forms WebBrowser Control (For The Win) (Charles Chen)
• Dispose, Finalize and SuppressFinalize (Dave M. Bush)
• Telerik Does LINQ to "M" (Chris Sells)
• Microsoft.Scripting.Debugging (Harry Pierson)
• Dotfuscator 4.5.1200 (Joe Kuemerle)
• F#: Convert sequence to comma separated string (Mark Needham)
• LINQ to M is available (Stephen Forte)
• Domain driven reports: adding custom code (Peter Van Ooijen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile in 500 words… and An Updated p&p Agile Showcase (Ade Miller)
• Refactoring challenge Part 2 – Preparation (Jimmy Bogard)
• Dynamic Languages: A Separation of Concerns (Chris Sells) – Link of the Day
• The essence of Lean software development (Corey Ladas)
• ‘Make it Happen / Whatever it Takes Attitude’ (Dave Schinkel)
• Testing With "The Force" (Jeff Atwood)
• Python and Ruby, Silverlight, and testing (Jeff Wilcox)
• Reuse: Is the Dream Dead? (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Error Handling – an Anecdote (Michael Janke)
• I’d Rather Be Wrong! (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Get Browser Information In Silverlight (Deepak Kapoor)
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-7 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Day #9: Using Keystrokes in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Silverlight FloatableWindow update: start position and resizable (Tim Heuer)
• Deep Zoom Composer – June Preview Features Explained (Sunshine)

Web Development

• Kapow – ETL for HTML (Jamie Thomson)
• Retrofit ASP.NET Aspx Urls with System.Web.Routing (Louis DeJardin)
• Preserving Existing Events in JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
• Dynamic Data Custom Field Template – Values List (Stephen Naughton)
• Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database (Raju Vegesna)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• IE 8 Firestarter: Developing for IE8 (MS Events)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #125: Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to Stub & Fake Data (Derik Whittaker)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “The VP-geebees” (Devon Musgrave)
• Downloadable Videos from NDC (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Herding Code 53: SubSonic 3.0 Release Party with Rob Conery (Jon Galloway)
• ToolShed Tooltip #18 – Using Live ID in your Application (Russell Fustino)
• Conversation with Muness Alrubaie (Corey Haines)
• Applying Effects to Bitmap Images using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)

Community / Events

• The Lounge Survey Pt. 1 (James Avery)
• Web Rumble ’09 (Karl Seguin)

Database

• SQL Server Decode/Encode unicode data (George Mastros)
• Agile Database Techniques (Gert Drapers)
• How to search for all words inclusive without using Full Text search (Naomi)
• A couple of ways of getting the top 2 distinct values from a set in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Microsoft SQL Services Is Now Microsoft SQL Azure, More Software + Services News Next Week At WPC09 (Sunshine)

SharePoint

• A Primer to SharePoint Security (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s MSDN Releases "VHD Tool" to Create & Modify VHD Properties for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• The 9 Books That Helped My Career and I Recommend (Chris Woodruff)
• Windows 7 Family Pack, Anytime Upgrade prices leak (Ed Bott)
• Sinofsky promotion to Windows president much deserved, but Ballmer should have done it sooner (Joe Wilcox)
• File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) Release Candidate available for download (Jose Barreto)
• Why Chrome OS Now? Because Microsoft Office In The Cloud Comes Monday. (MG Siegler)
• OS evolution (Rockford Lhotka)
• Features Aren’t Magically Born (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #386 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 08, 2009 — #632 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 339 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 8th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Zen is Live! (Nate Kohari) – Link of the Day
• Refactoring challenge (Jimmy Bogard)
• Refactoring challenge Part 1 – Examination (Jimmy Bogard)
• Fluent Context Builders (Chris Bilson)
• Lower the Cost of Knowing (Gabriel Torok)
• Embrace Pain (Ian Cooper)
• Code: It’s Trivial (Jeff Atwood)
• Micro-rant: Ninject and IKernel (Joe White)
• Serializing (Queuing) Messages To Aggregates (Jonathan Oliver)
• Relearning: The Productivity Problem that We’re Not Supposed To Talk About (Scott Bellware)
• Kicking Your Coding into High Gear (Rob Bazinet)

Web Development

• Examining ASP.NET’s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 16 (Scott Mitchell)
• Building ASP.NET Applications with Delphi and Advantage Database Server (Cary Jensen)
• Making a jQuery JSON Request to an ASP.NET Handler And Back (Dave Schinkel)
• Improving jQuery’s JSON performance and security (Dave Ward)
• ASP.NET MVC & jQuery Part 3: MvcContrib Grid & jQuery Plugins (Elijah Manor)
• HTML 5 Parsing (John Resig)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.1 Released and SubSonic: Working With Git (Rob Conery)
• Event Aggregation with jQuery (K. Scott Allen)
• Sneak Peek at our book Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Simone Chiaretta)
• PHP SDK for Windows Azure – Milestone 2 release (Maarten Balliauw)
• KiGG support for Entity Framework and MySQL (Muhammad Mosa)
• Rounded Corner Rendering in newer Browsers (Rick Strahl)
• Video: Google’s HTML 5 Work: What’s Next? (Matthew Papakipos)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Building Tuple (Matt Ellis)
• Part 3 of Dana’s End-to-End "Oslo" Series: Quadrant (Chris Sells)
• iTextSharp – HTML to PDF – Positioning Text (Dave M. Bush)
• New Visual Studio Debugger 2010 feature for C/C++ Developers: Using string functions in conditional breakpoints (Habib Heydarian)
• How to copy an entire folder tree with Nant (Derik Whittaker)
• Azure .NET Services – July CTP SDK Released (Jeff Barnes)
• F#: Parsing Cruise build data and C#: Removing duplication in mapping code with partial classes (Mark Needham)
• .NET – Write Once, Run Anywhere? (Michael Ceranski)
• Managing Application Configuration (Mitchell Hashimoto)
• RegEx.Split vs. String.Split (Srinath MS)
• VSTS 2010: Overview of Team System 2010 for Architects (Subodh Sohoni)
• Deployment and Updates of Desktop Applications: WiX, ClickOnce and Other Scenarios (Rinat Abdullin)
• LINQ is not LINQ To SQL (Justin Etheredge)
• Patterns and Match Expressions in F# (Kathleen McGrath)
• Insert Master Detail Data with LINQ to SQL and Select Max Value with LINQ to SQL (Deepak Kapoor)

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-6 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Day #7: Using WCF Web Services With Silverlight (and LINQ) and Day #8: Custom Fonts in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Installing the MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.0.0 (Laurent Bugnion)
• MVVM – Philosophy and Case Studies – Introduction (Rob Eisenberg)
• Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• Style Silverlight ScrollViewer with a New ControlTemplate and Scrolling in Silverlight Panels (Deepak Kapoor)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stephen Forte on Data Access Options (Carl Franklin)
• Task Parallel Library: Task Results (Dariusz Parys)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #124: Learning the Mediator Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Inside Secret Microsoft Meeting Rooms – What Laptop do Alpha Geeks Use? (Scott Hanselman)
• Webcast on ASP.NET MVC (in Italian) (Simone Chiaretta) – Anyone know a good streaming video translator? 
• The History of Microsoft – 1996 (Tina)
• Yavor Georgiev – Using WCF with Silverlight 3.0 (Robert Hess)
• Episode 75 – PowerScripting Podcast – Oisin Grehan and Joel Bennett talk Poshcode (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• CodePlex Turns 3 years old; Breaks the 10,000 project mark (Sara Ford)
• return thoughts.Where(x => x.IsCaffeineInspired) (Russell Ball)
• Top 200 Development and Social Media Blogs (OPML) (Jurgen Appelo)

SharePoint

• How We Did It: BDC Meta Man Web Edition (Nick Swan & Phill Duffy)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Gazelle browser takes a radical path (Ina Fried)
• Introducing the Google Chrome OS (Sundar Pichai)
• Thrive for Developers (Michael S. Scherotter)
• 7 Tips to Get Started Blog Writing (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Is your career THRIVING – Microsoft has a new portal to help. (Joe Stagner)
• How to insert Superscript, Subscript, and Strikethrough in your wiki pages – #048 (Sara Ford)
• Zoho Plug-ins for Microsoft Apps (Raju Vegesna)
• Game Programming Made Easy (Winda Benedetti)
• New Halo 3 Maps Coming This Fall (Larry Hyrb)
• Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs Come Out of Beta (Alex Chitu)
• Engineering Windows 7 for a Global Market (Julie Bennett & John McConnell)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #385 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2009 — #631 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 7th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day