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.NET / Visual Studio

• String interning and String.Empty (Eric Lippert)
• IronPython Post 2.6 Roadmap (Harry Pierson)
• ScottGu, DotNed, loads of new stuff and intellisense (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Dump Environment Folder Paths (Kirill Osenkov)
• Generically Constraining F# – Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• CSLA .NET version 3.7.1 available (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Web Development

• Playing with JQuery Validation library (Chris Brandsma)
• Forms Authentication – Managing Users (Dave M. Bush)
• PROBLEM: CSS Styles No Longer Apply For Anonymous Users (Scott Mitchell)
• Running Oxite blog engine on Windows Azure (Sergejus Barinovas)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• It’s Not About The Duct Tape It’s About The People (And More) (Alan Skorkin)
• Scenario Driven Tests (Oren Eini)
• Beating the duct programmer with generic domains, subdomains, and core domains (Ian Cooper)
• Ideas for Coding Kaizen (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Unit Test Definition 2.0 (Roy Osherove)
• How to keep your mouth shut (Scott Berkun)
• ANOTHER release! HUGE Performance boost, Smart Lorem Ipsum, z-Ordering shortcuts… (Peldi Guilizzoni)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Helpful extension methods for Show / Hide animations in Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
• An early look at the new Project Rosetta tutorial site (Adam Kinney)
• “Getting Started with Windows Presentation Foundation” (WPF) Cheatsheet/Refcard from DZone (Greg Duncan)
• Random Gradient Wallpaper Generator (Kirill Osenkov)
• Niagara’s Validation DSL – First Pass and Choosing a Data Access Layer for Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight is slowly becoming the real WPF/Everywhere (András Velvárt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steven Borg on All Things Team System (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Clemens Vasters on Architecture Implications of the Internet Service Bus (Bob Familiar)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Wes Dyer – Reactive Framework (Rx) Under the Hood 1 of 2 and E2E: Erik Meijer and Wes Dyer – Reactive Framework (Rx) Under the Hood 2 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 and Scott Guthrie: ASP.NET MVC 2 (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• UK Silverlight Apps: Trader Media Group & Autotrader (Mike Taulty)
• PDC09 Workshop: Getting the Most out of Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Robert Hess)
• Tool Shed Tooltip #27 – Expression Blend 3 – Behaviors (Russell Fustino)
• Windows 7 Sensor and Location – Developing Drivers Part 1 and Windows 7 Sensor and Location – Developing Drivers Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Thirsty Developer 74 – A Roundtable in the Cloud with David Chappell and Cumulux (Dave Bost)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Part One and The Visual Studio Documentary: Part Two (Tina)
• Episode 85 – PowerScripting Podcast – Lee Holmes on PowerShell v2 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

 

Community / Events

• Events this Week – September 28th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MVPs Headline At SQLBits! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• MassTransit at Skills Matter (Mike Hadlow)
• Looking for Seattle-area participants for CodePlex Usability Study (Sara Ford)
• Concept Camp 2009 Review (Sara J. Chipps)

 

Database

• SQL Server All, Some and Any Operators (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries (Pinal Dave)
• Review of SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action (Denis Gobo)
• LINQPad Help For Creating Nasty Group by Query in Native SQL (Peter Kellner)

Miscellaneous

• Helios: Another Microsoft operating system project to watch (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Releases Free "Security Essentials" AntiSpyware & AntiVirus Software Starting Tomorrow and Microsoft’s TechNet Release 77 Windows 7 Tips (Blake Handler)
• PowerShelling in your application (Coding4Fun)
• Windows 7 in action: A smarter way to manage windows (Ed Bott)
• Writing WMI providers FAQ series – 2 – When a provider doesn’t support enumeration what will be the impact for the WMI consumer? (Kapil Mathur)
• De-clutter Google Reader with Absolutely Customisable (Nik Fletcher)
• Trusted Documents (Maithili Dandige) – Info from the Office 2010 team.
• Orphans at the Bookstore (Lee Dumond)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #442 and The Morning Brew #443 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q3 2009) (Jurgen Appelo)
• CloudNews for 28th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #549 and Double Shot #550 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

Lifehacker has a couple of articles about adding “Send To” shortcuts to Google Reader:

• Convert Google Reader Items to PDFs
• More Google Reader “Send To” Tricks

Evernote also published a “how to” of their own today, and I showed DZone readers how to push items to DZone’s queue yesterday.

Here’s how you can send stories to DotNetKicks or DotNetShoutout…

Open Google Reader and click on Settings (upper right), select the ‘Send To’ tab. Then just click the ‘Create a Custom Link’ button and enter this info:

Name: DotNetKicks
Url: http://www.dotnetkicks.com/submit/?url=${url}&title=${title}
Icon: http://www.dotnetkicks.com/favicon.ico

Name: DotNetShoutout
Url: http://dotnetshoutout.com/Submit?url=${url}&title=${title}
Icon: http://dotnetshoutout.com/Assets/Images/fav.ico

Enjoy!

 

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating High Quality Images with C# and GDI (Tom Hearn)
• LINQ to SQL cheat sheet (Damien Guard)
• Painting on the DataGridView and Converting Month Abbreviations to Month Numbers (Deborah Kurata)
• Nhibernate Unit of Work & multiple requests (Oren Eini)
• Four switch oddities (Eric Lippert)
• Linq to Mocks is finally born (Daniel Cazzulino) – Link of the Day
• Testing with NHibernate and SQLite (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.3 for .NET 2.0 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Six things that will happen when you uninstall your MSDN documentation (Roy Osherove)

 

Web Development

• Twitter Announces Retweet API (Andres Ferrate)
• A Simple ScriptManager for ASP.NET MVC (Chris Pietschmann)
• 3 New APIs for Gamers: World of Warcraft in 3D, LEGO and GamePro (John Musser)
• What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 (Harish Ranganathan)
• JavaScript: Not for the faint at heart? (Scott Koon)
• PHP Linux Windows ASP.NET Performance – Redux ! (Joe Stagner)
• Fun With Wacky JavaScript Type Comparison (Nick Berardi)
• Windows Azure Reference Application released to MSDN Code Gallery (Lamont Harrington)
• All Programming Is Web Programming (Jeff Atwood)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Will Microsoft support distributed teams and cloud deployments? (Andy Singleton)
• To Test The Untestable Bug. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• “Hero Mode Refactoring” AKA Enemy Of Brown Field Development (Ryan Svihla)
• Refactoring Day 13 : Extract Method Object (Sean Chambers)
• DDD is a dense book (Greg Young)
• Modularity by Example (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 4. (Rajiv Popat)
• Singletons Are Evil Part 2 (Scott Densmore)
• TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster! (Jamie Cansdale)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Triggers in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• Linq For Silverlight Developers (Jesse Liberty)
• More Silverlight application themes and fixes (Tim Heuer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #135: Exploring StructureMap: Learning how to setup profiles (Derik Whittaker)
• SharePoint MVP Debuts on The Water Cooler Show (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Easing in Silverlight Animations (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Behind the Scenes: Office Labs (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Virtual Architect Council Events in August (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight 3 FireStarter Will Be Streamed Online (Frank La Vigne)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET 8/26/2009 – jQuery UI with Richard Worth (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Session Sneak Peek for the SharePoint Conference 2009 (SharePoint Team)
• Friending and Reputation (Chris Brogan)

 

Database

• Recover a database without the ldf file (Ted Krueger)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 1 (Martin Bell)

 

PowerShell

• Growl for Windows – From PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Exchange 2010 buzz grows louder (Mary-Jo Foley)
• How to "Send To" DZone from Google Reader (Me)
• Convert Google Reader Items to PDFs (Kevin Purdy)
• Microsoft NERD gets a logo (Steve Clayton)
• Powershell 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Release Candidate (Osama Sajid)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #412 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (8/13/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 355 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 13th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Non-Book of the Day