Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide Drop 2 is now out! (Don Burnett)
• Keep a low profile [LowProfileImageLoader helps the Windows Phone 7 UI thread stay responsive by loading images in the background] (David Anson)
• First Experiences with Netduino and the .NET Micro Framework (Pete Brown)
• EF Feature CTP4: DbContext & Databases (Rowan Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Grouped Joins (Richard Carr)
• Turn on WCF Tracing for WCF Troubleshooting (Chris Love)
• Visual Studio Extension: Save UML diagram as image (Gunnar Peipman)
• Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – WP7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Getting Started with NDepend – A Visual Studio AddIn (Part–1) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Can we get a little service here? (Simon Jackson)
• New WCF RIA Services QuickStart (Sam Landstrom)
• File Transfer with WCF: Part III (Stefano Ricciardi)
• The Object Browser: Creating a Keyboard Shortcut for Add to References (Zain Naboulsi)
• What Did My Manifest Do: A Referral Was Returned from the Server (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Getting Drive Info Part 3, CLR (Norman Kelm)
• Visual C++ 2010: What’s new for MFC library? (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• How to Easily Inject jQuery into any Web Page (Rey Bango)
• Tags Everywhere! Sueetie Wiki Page Tagging Now Online (Dave Burke)
• Exploring IE9′s Enhanced DOM Capabilities (Travis Leithead)
• Azure@home Part 6: Synchronous Table Storage Pagination (Jim O’Neil)
• Talking about REST (Scott Seely)
• Wave open source next steps: "Wave in a Box" (Alex North)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Let’s Play TDD #3: Cleaning Up My Mess and Agile Friday: "Coding Standards" Now Online (James Shore)
• Black Jack Using Scrum – Winner Winner Chicken Dinner (Shai Raiten)
• The Law of Conservation of Tradeoffs (Oren Eini)
• Team and pair games for building collaboration (Michael Sahota)
• Ask Satyam: Writing Clean, Debuggable Code (Daniel Barreiro)
• Re-estimate Completed User Stories for a More Accurate Velocity? (Dan Puckett)
• Creative Analogs (Dave Laribee)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 4 Service Release 4.0.50826.0 and Extended WPF Toolkit – Release 1.1.0 (Brian Lagunas)
• [WP7] Do you need to cache data ? (Nicolas Humann)
• Best Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games in Development (Aside from Mine, of course) (Frank La Vigne)
• What’s new for Performance in Silverlight 4 GDR1 (Silverlight Performance Team)
• Windows Phone 7 Released to Manufacturing (OEM) (Zhiming Xue)
• Catching the Back Button action on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Encoding MP4 Problem in Expression Encoder 4 Pro (Michael Sync)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Inside Windows Phone #01: Introducing the show (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Silverlight TV 43: Applying Animations and States to Your Application (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 Videos (Sunshine)
• Connected Show Podcast – Steve Marx on Azure (Brian Johnson)
• Tailspin Spyworks videos 13 and 14 are now live and ASP.NET – WebMatrix chapters 4-6 videos are now live (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Richmond Code Camp Call for Speakers Closes Soon! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Leaders in Silverlight (John Papa)
• Interview with Ken Schwaber, Part 2 (Dan Mezick)
• MSDN Flash Poll #7 – Visual Studio Add-Ins (Mike Ormond)
• Closer to Launch: Healthcare IT Q&A (Bob Nadler)
• Interview with the Intrepid Buck Woody (Brad M. McGehee)
• Don’t miss Devscovery 2010 (Laila Lotfi)
• Charlotte Presentation: Creating M-V-VM Applications that are Tool-able (Karl Shifflett)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Soft Delete – IsDelete Column – Your Opinion (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Types – Numeric vs Int (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: SQL Cookbook – Only $9.99. Use code DDSCB (O’Reilly Media)
• Building a Data Warehouse Part V: Application Development Options (Stephen Forte)
• Dealing with Microsoft.Ace and OPENROWSET Errors (Remou)
• Reporting Services – Team Development (William Vaughn)

SharePoint

• Guide to Migrating from WSS 3.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows SBS 2008 (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Skype Releases Skype 5.0 Beta 2 – Now Suports 10 People! (Blake Handler)
• Launchpad–Good Idea (Daniel Fisher)
• Skywriter: The Project Formerly Known as Bespin and Daily Dose – Android Doesn’t Count Upgrades as Activations Either (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Gov 2.0 = Open Source? Not really, IMO… (Dan Kasun)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 02, 2010 — #939 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #678 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Parallel Programming with C#: Master Parallel Extensions with .NET 4 by Gaston Hillar

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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)

The Geek Shelf

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

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Top Links

• RSS feeds in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• MvcContrib – Portable Area – Visual Studio project template (Eric Hexter)
• Entity Framework Profiler goes out out beta (Oren Eini)
• Mapping Conceptual Model Function to Complex Type in Entity Framework 4.0 (Muhammad Mosa)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Quick Tip #1 – Generate From Usage (Me)
• Cassia – A .NET Windows Terminal Services Library (Think “Including the Terminal Services Manager MMC Snap-in functionality in your app’s” library) (Greg Duncan)
• Click and Drag Text to a New Location and Transpose Lines, Words, and Characters — vstipEdit0042 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Increased readability with C# 4 named arguments (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• First Encounters of the MEF Kind (Mike Ceranski)
• Adding git commit information to your assemblies (Joshua Flanagan)
• Telerik OpenAccess DSW 1st official release (Peter Bahaa)

Web Development

• Google Wave Federation Protocol: More Docs, More Code (Dan Peterson)
• Multi-Step Processing in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Building ASP.NET Validator Using Data Annotations (Gil Fink)
• So how do I get from here to OpenXML? Got a map for you, an Open XML SDK Blog Map… (Greg Duncan)
• A Closer Look at Internet Explorer 9 Hardware Acceleration Through Flying Images (Jason Weber)
• Javascript Tetris update (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Encoding/Decoding URIs and HTML in the .NET 4 Client Profile (Pete Brown)
• Open Data Protocol AKA OData (Mike Ceranski)
• Running PHP on Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Velocity as a goal (Mark Needham)
• Creating Awesome Applications When You’re Clueless (Pete Brown)
• Book Review: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF

• New Silverlight Book (Joel Cochran)
• Daily Dose – Microsoft Turns on Silverlight 4 April 13 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Customizing the Caret and Selection Styles in WPF 4 and Layout Rounding (Pete Brown)
• @mstrobel: System.Xaml.dll available on Mono? More XAML support on Silverlight? (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jim Zimmerman combines Facebook and Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Business Opportunity Behind Azure (Brian Johnson)
• Eron Kelly: Moving Microsoft to the Cloud – Past, Present and Future (Charles Torre)
• Community Megaphone Show #7 with guest Kevin Hazzard (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• How Silverlight Powered CTVOlympics.ca – A Case Study (Eric Hagan)
• Nice video: The Rise And Fall Of Waterfall (Clemens Reijnen)
• The History of Microsoft – The Jeff Raikes Story: Part One (Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• The one about joining Windows (James Clarke) – Good luck, James!
• The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Joins Twitter (Blake Handler)
• Google Code Jam 2010 registration now open (Igor Naverniouk)
• Open Spaces at conferences, what’s your take? (Brett Schuchert)
• Events This Week – April 7th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Watch the Silverlight 4 Launch event and LIVE QA with ScottGu and others (Tim Heuer)

Database

• That No SQL Thing – Key / Value stores – Usages (Oren Eini)
• A DMV a Day – Day 8 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (7/30) multiple mirrors and log shipping load delays (Paul S. Randal)
• CouchDB – Document Persistence Powered by CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)

SharePoint

• SP2010 support and fixes for SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard (Chris O’Brien)
• Last night’s SharePoint 2010 install troubleshooting – User cannot be found (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Google Releases "7plus" Auto-Hotkey Windows 7 Add-on (Blake Handler)
• PowerShell PowerPack Download (Buck Woody)
• New Favorite Tool: Windows Live Writer Backup (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 7 deals: harder to find, but still there if you look (Ed Bott)
• Resume and social media tips for developers (Amanda Matthews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #575 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 7, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 7-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2010 — #833 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript for Programmers

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Agile EF 4 Repositories Part 4: Compiled LINQ Queries (Julie Lerman)
• .Net 4.0 – Start Reading Between the Lines – Learn Silverlight and Entity Framework (Keith Elder) – Link of the Day
• What’s the difference between covariance and assignment compatibility? (Eric Lippert)
• DefaultDataPath (Gert Drapers)
• Plug into MEF in 10 minutes or less (Greg Duncan)
• Adding a console to your IronRuby application (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• The Halting Problem and the Church-Turing Thesis (Chris Smith)

Web Development

• Displaying Google Analytics Data in ASP.NET (Mike Brind)
• Flash to jQuery and JQuery, CuFon, and Dynamic Content (Dave M. Bush)
• jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 (John Sheehan)
• Discovering "Dallas" (Jim O’Neil)
• MSXML XHTML DTDs – making the web better (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Building Twitter Search using the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta – Part 1 (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t panic (Eric Brechner)
• Applied Modularity – Part 4 (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Establishing an Architecture Review Board (Mike Walker)
• The Joy of MSpec (Mike Hadlow)
• NDepending Resharper (Patrick Smacchia)
• The Open Data Protocol (OData) (Stephen Forte)
• The promise of Natural User Interface – NUI (Steve Clayton)
• How to influence others (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating a Pinball Game in Silverlight: Using the Physics Helper Library + Farseer Physics and There’s an App for THAT?! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Microsoft® Expression® Encoder 3 QFE Released (Allan P.)
• Two birds, squared! [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 3 and a DataVisualizationDemos update] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 4 – MVVM with Commanding and WCF RIA Services and WCF RIA Services – StructureMap – DomainServiceFactory (Fredrik Normén)
• Using Azure as a Silverlight Streaming replacement (Tim Heuer)
• Convert, Encode And Decode Silverlight WriteableBitmap Data (Rene Schulte)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 3 for WPF4/SL4 (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows PowerShell and Microsoft Management Console (MS Podcasts)
• Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures (Charles Torre)
• Official Publication of Creating Windows Azure Applications with Visual Studio Videos (Charlie Calvert)
• Debugging Silverlight 4 Out Of Browser applications in Visual Studio 2010 (Fredrik Normén)
• Episode 150: Software Craftsmanship with Bob Martin (SE-Radio Team)
• Ping 39: Chrome is here, Dancing in MS Stores, Iphone & Bing (Laura Foy)
• TechNet WebCast: SQL Server Locking & Blocking (Joe Webb)
• Water Cooler Interview With SharePoint MVP (Jas Dhaliwal)
• A Feed You Should Read – The Blogcast Repository (Greg Duncan)
• The Changelog (Chris Wanstrath)

Community / Events

• My time at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2009 (Dave Isbitski)
• Events This Week – November 30th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Experts Conference 2010 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Call for Papers – The Architecture Journal (Peter Provost)
• GitHub Meetup Philadelphia (Tom Preston-Werner)
• SQLAuthority News – A Daily Doze of Technology – Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew (Pinal Dave) – Thanks for the endorsement!

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 PowerPivot for Microsoft® Excel – NOV CTP (MS Downloads)
• Converting GraffitiCMS from VistaDB to SQL Server on GoDaddy (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Aren’t DBA’s Just System Admins for Databases? (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• BCS External Content Type Associations in SPD (Nick Swan)
• Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 preserve use of Relational Databases (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft updates its enterprise roadmaps (Mary-Jo Foley)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/1 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• My first useful powershell script – capturing performance counters (Dave Ballantyne)
• And we’re live with O’Reilly Media (Devon Musgrave)
• Confirmed: Office 2010 to ship in June (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• The Ultimate List of Google Wave Robots (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows 8 Jobs Abound, More Details Emerge (Stephen Chapman)
• She Sells PowerShell on The Sea Shore (James Howard)
• Photosynth: New release and new UI (Sunshine)
• More About Background Removal in Office 2010 (Tucker Hatfield)
• An Update for Google Chrome’s Developer Tools (Ian Fette)
• Insight: Hiring Programmers (Eran Kampf)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/30/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #488 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #99 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 30, 2009 — #745 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 30-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight 4 Links (Karen Corby)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/30/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Source Code for Programming F# (Chris Smith)
• Windows 7 Ribbon for WinForms – Yes you can… (Greg Duncan)
• Surface SDK 1.0 SP1 supports XNA Game Studio 3.0 and later (Eric St. John)
• Sample: Get Calendar Data Using Exchange Web Services (C#) (Jason Zander)
• What’s new for editor extenders in Beta 2? (Noah Richards)
• Hello World With Agatha (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Deploying A Web Application with Git and FTP (Rob Conery)
• LinkedIn API Platform Goes Live: Your Resume and Business Network Now Have an API (Adam DuVander)
• Developers Get a Sneak Peek at Internet Explorer 9 (Bruce Kyle)
• JQuery Validator plus Element IDs, and Names (Chris Brandsma)
• ASP.NET 4.0 ScriptManager Improvements (Dave Reed)
• Visual WebGui: Cloud Optimization and the Application Layer (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Accelerate PHP Applications on Windows with the new Cache Extension (Lawrence Moroney)
• Renaming jQuery UI Tabs (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Serialize Any .NET Object to a JSON String (Deepak Choudhari)
• Where does this go? Applying SoC to dynamic data – Part 1 (Peter Blum)
• Enabling the ASP.NET Ajax script loader for your own scripts (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Offsetting Your Bad Code Footprint (Billy McCafferty)
• Always write a spec, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Book Review: Debug It! (Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Bookshelf) (Ted Neward)
• Pros don’t make do (Scott Koon)
• TestAPI 0.4 Released (Lester Lobo)
• Connecting Your Tests to an Implementation and Static vs. Instance-Based Models (Nico Kicillof)
• Mindscape LightSpeed an O/R Mapper Done Right (Rob Bazinet)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Beta – Accessing a users webcam and microphone and Silverlight 4 Beta – Text Trimming and Silverlight 4 Beta – Using Silverlight as Drop Target (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight (Corrina Barber)
• What’s New in Silverlight 4 (John Papa) – Link of the Day
• Sharing isn’t easy for anyone [Tricks for sharing the same XAML files across Silverlight and WPF] (David Anson)
• Using the WebBrowser control and debug a Silverlight Out-of-browser (OOB) application in VS 2010 (Fredrik Normén)
• Free Embeddable Fonts for your WPF Applications (Learn WPF)
• New WPF Features: DatePicker\Calendar\VSM\Datagrid (Lester Lobo)
• Running FxCop rules against Silverlight or WPF XAML and XAML Toolkit CTP – November 2009 is now live! (Michael Shim)
• Microsoft’s Bob Muglia and Ray Ozzie on Silverlight vs. standards (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Taking a WebCam Photo with Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• EdgeCam Shots – Saving Silverlight 4 Webcam Snapshots to JPEG (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010 (Beth Massi)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 40: Silverlight 4 and Behind the Scenes at PDC 2009 with Scott Guthrie (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Øredev chit-chat: Dag König and Scott Hanselman and Øredev chit-chat: Dag König and Julia Lerman and Øredev chit-chat: Johan Lindfors and Alan Smith and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Shawn Wildermuth and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Scott Bellware and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Ayende Rahien (Dag König)
• 10-4 Episode 36: Windows Server AppFabric and Workflow Services Lab (Ron Jacobs)
• Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3 (Silverlight Team)
• Videos of C# Authors at PDC (Charlie Calvert)

Community / Events

• PDC2009, Coding4Fun, and Mind Blaster (Brian Peek)
• SharePoint 2010 Experience: Dec 2nd and 3rd (Jim O’Neil)
• Oredev Keynote – Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• Hitting the upper limit of foreign key constraints (Jimmy Bogard)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Hex Dumper in PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft’s TechNet Releases "Explore as Administrator" PowerToy for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/24 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Collaboration Without Compromise (Ayca)
• I Don’t Get The Hype – Google Wave is Discussion Forums Web 2.0 (Keith Elder)
• Windows Azure vs. Windows 8 Server? (Stephen Chapman)
• Orchard team looking for a new developer (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Extensions: One Step Closer to the Finish Line (Ian Fette)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/23/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2009 — #741 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #483 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 393 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Depends vs Call, Do you know and understand the difference in NAnt? (Derik Whittaker)
• IntelliTrace: A graphical comparison (Habib Heydarian)
• Introducing: The Agatha Project (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all (Vladislav Savov)
• Integrating Traditional .NET MSMQ Application with Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 using MsmqIntegrationBinding (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 1- Model and POCO Classes (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation (Phil Haack)
• Visualize your Twitter Timeline with jQuery and SIMILE (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A better Model Binder addendum (Jimmy Bogard)
• There’s Lazy Loading, And Then There’s Lazy Coding (Davy Brion)
• Always write a spec, part one (Eric Lippert)
• Buy Bad Code Offsets Today! (Jeff Atwood)
• MSpec latest build download now available (Aaron Jensen)
• The Danger of Single Responsibility in Programming Continued (David Cooksey)
• Programmer Tip: A ‘Large’ Project Means Nothing. (Rajiv Popat)
• Take 2: Why we use SOLID in static languages and how we get the same functionality for cheap in dynamic languages (Ryan Svihla)
• NDepend — a belated "kicking the tyres" review (Steve Gilham)
• Design Patterns Are Not Outdated (Steve Rowe)

Silverlight / WPF

• Application Library Caching – November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit and BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Release and Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser … plus a tutorial (Jeff Wilcox)
• MVVM and Prism Demo for PDC09 Silverlight Session (John Papa)
• WCF RIA Services and DTO with association (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight 4 WebCam – at a glance (Corey Schuman) – Link of the Day
• Sharing Blend Workspace Settings (Andy Beaulieu)
• Wrox Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference Book Review (Joel Cochran)
• Fishbowl for Facebook Using the Windows 7 Taskbar for Extra Spice (Yochay Kiriaty)
• RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 3 & 4 Library Sharing with .NET 4.0 Library or WPF (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML 2009 Features: Generics Support (Lester Lobo)
• The big Silverlight 4 Question (Peter Bromberg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Connected Show Podcast: Who’s Exception is it? (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 8 of 13 and Wes Dyer and Stephen Toub: Rx and Px – Working Together and Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 – Out of Browser Evolves (Charles Torre)
• Video of my Prism and MVVM at PDC (John Papa)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09 Mike Anguilo (Nic Fillingham)
• ThirstyDeveloper Podcast – John Bristowe on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Stackoverflow Overflow (Bob Nadler)
• PDC 2009 Day 3: Lighting Up Windows Server 2008 R2 Using the ConcRT on UMS and PDC 2009 Day 3: Developing Applications for Scale-Up Servers Running Windows Server 2008 R2 and PDC 2009 Day 3: DirectCompute: Capturing the Teraflop and PDC 2009 Day 3: Power Tools for Debugging and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie (Sasha Goldshtein)
• XAML UI (WPF + Silverlight) Momentum shown at PDC09! (Rob Relyea)

Database

• Get 25% Off SQL Server E-Learning from Microsoft (Brad M. McGehee)
• Where is the next Access? (Ian Cooper)
• Collation conflicts with temp tables and table variables. (George Mastros)
• Geek City: Intent to Update (Kalen Delaney)
• RoundhousE: Version Your Database (Rob Reynolds)
• To BUILTIN\Admin or not to BUILTIN\Admin (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption by Michael Coles (Pinal Dave)
• Code Name Houston: New SQL Azure Developer Tool (Stephen Forte)
• GUIDs: Not Necessarily Unique (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – It finally has an official name! (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Releasing the Chromium OS open source project (Caesar Sengupta)
• Hello, open source developers. Would you like to help build an operating system for web users? (Ian Fette)
• No Telecommuting Allowed! (Jim Lynch)
• Windows PowerShell and the Windows Management Framework (Lee Holmes)
• Open XML: One Year In (Shawn Villaron)
• My Google Wave Wish List: The Document Collaboration Edition (Will Kelly)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #481 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 — #735 and Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 – 2 — #736 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 19-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (11/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Use Extension Methods to Phase Out a Bad API (Brian Noyes)
• .NET Services SDK (MS Downloads)
• Observing global hotkeys in C# / F# (Steffen Forkmann)
• Entity Framework Profiler (Oren Eini)
• What’s new in VB 2010 (Chris Williams)
• Multiple outputs from T4 made easy – revisited (Damien Guard)
• Creating something from nothing, asynchronously [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET improved!] (David Anson)
• Visual Studio 2010: UML modeling projects and Visual Studio 2010: Visualizing dependencies (Gunnar Peipman)
• ADO.Net Entity Framework Community Technology Preview Released! (EF Team)
• .NET Collection Enumeration Performance, part 1 (Matthew Wilson)
• New Entity Framework Feature CTP for VS2010 Beta 2 (Julie Lerman)
• Model First with the Entity Framework 4 (Noam Ben-Ami)
• It’s time to rip up EntityBag and throw it away (Dan Simmons)
• Classic Rock evolved into Heavy Metal (Rene Schulte) – Rock Scroll for VS on steroids.
• Automapper Auto Profile Registration. (Eric Hexter)
• On Your Mark… Get Set… Go! It’s Time to Get Ready for the Windows Azure Platform (Gunther Lenz)
• Visual Studio 2010 Power +25 with PowerCommands 10.0 (Greg Duncan)
• F# 1.9.7 Language Specification Now Available (Don Syme)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 1: Introduction and Freescale Board Setup and Testing (Pete Brown)
• New .NET Features from Telerik (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Improvements to VS 2010 Text Selection (Brittany Behrens)
• Accessing Windows Azure Blobs Using Custom Storage Domain Names and Introducing the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (Brad Calder)
• Visual Studio 2010 should be free….. (Stephen Forte)
• Using the New Windows Azure CDN with a Custom Domain (Steve Marx)
• It is only 8, how can it be legacy??? and CSLA .NET 3.8.0 released and available! (Rockford Lhotka)

Web Development

• Using CSS Selectors (Chris Love)
• Embedding Google Search Appliance Results in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Adding uberVU badge to your blog (Gunnar Peipman)
• A RouteHandler for IHttpHandlers (Phil Haack)
• Solving Confusing Browser Security Prompts with Protocol-Relative Hyperlinks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Localize ASP.NET MVC 2 DataAnnotations validation messages (Maarten Balliauw)
• Developing for the web using VS 2010 and .NET 4 (Somasegar)
• Google offers JavaScript programming tools (Stephen Shankland)
• Sort the Items of an ASP.NET DropDownList using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Note to self on HTTP namespace reservations (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Analysis Paralysis : Getting Carried Away With UML (Charles Chen)
• Design software as a long running process (Simon Brown)
• Re: "It’s OK not to unit test" or what you do on your time is your business. (Leon Gersing) – Link of the Day
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Dave M. Bush)
• Simple names are not so simple, Part Two, plus, volcanoes and fried foods (Eric Lippert)
• Now Available: patterns & practices Application Architecture Book (J.D. Meier)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Serialization (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Recursive Common Table Expressions (Kevin Jones)
• TestDriven.Net 2.24: XCopy Deployable Test Runners (Jamie Cansdale)
• It’s Okay To Write Unit Tests (Justin Etheredge)
• Outcomes and Sync Steps (Karl Scotland)
• Agile Architecture Deck & Code (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Consistency in the code base and TDD: Useful when new on a project (Mark Needham)
• Organizational Myopia? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Debugging: It’s all about finding Albuquerque. (Leon Bambrick)
• Excuse me sir, What Planet is this? (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Selective Unit Testing – Costs and Benefits (Steve Sanderson)
• The code is the truth, but it is not the whole truth (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight, RIA Services, and Your Business Objects (Deborah Kurata)
• Introduction to WPF 4 Multitouch (Jaime Rodriguez)
• The Silverlight Toolkit – now in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Jeff Wilcox)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 2: EventToCommand behavior (Laurent Bugnion)
• New WPF Features: Bindable Run and Xaml 2009 Features: Built in Types (Lester Lobo)
• Drawing Shapes – Silverlight WriteableBitmap Extensions III (Rene Schulte)
• SVG to XAML or Canvas (from SixPairs.com) and WPF4 Summary, Features, & Forums (Rob Relyea)
• WPF : Callout Popup (Sacha Barber)
• The XXI Olympic Winter Games on NBCOlympics.com: Brought to you in Full HD With Silverlight and Smooth Streaming (Silverlight Team)
• Grouping data in a Silverlight DataGrid (Tim Heuer)
• Creating Custom Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks – Dean Guo Takes Us Into Project Trident (Carl Franklin)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 6 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• Noah Coad: An Overview of Visual Studio Express 2010 (Dan Fernandez)
• 10-4 Episode 35: PreEmptive Solutions Runtime Intelligence (Drew Robbins)
• Microsoft MVPs Attend Windows 7 Launch Party in NYC! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Countdown to PDC09: Big Brains Descend Upon PDC and Teach Us How to Dream (Larry Larsen)
• TDD Space Invaders Video and Downloads and Webcast: Building Modern Apps in ASP.NET WebForms (Michael Kennedy)
• Recommended books part III (Roy Osherove)
• Toolshed: Episode 5 – Its All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Office Casual – How to Twitter in Outlook with TwInbox and Life at Microsoft: The truth revealed…again! (Tina Wood)
• Thirsty Developer 77: Sku’s a Changing with Visual Studio 2010 (Dave Bost)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Debugging Crash Dumps with Tess Ferrandez and VS2010 (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• "I am sure a lot of you are frustrated at your colleagues, not being here at this conference. Not…" (Sebastian Hermida)
• Announcing O’Reilly Answers – Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions. (Allen Noren)
• Conferences and the Twitter Phenomenon #SPCONN09 (Andrew Connell)
• Announcing Channel 9’s first live broadcast – This Week on C9 this Friday! (Dan Fernandez)
• Quick note: PDC attendees save 25% on certification exams (Devon Musgrave)
• DevExpress CodeRush with Refactor Pro Giveaway and Whiskerino 2009: A Beard Growing Contest (Elijah Manor)
• Day 1 of PASS (Joe Webb)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL PASS Summit, Seattle 2009 – Day 3 (Pinal Dave)
• The Underground at PDC (Tim Heuer)
• Upcoming US Events with Google Wave Presentations (Pamela Fox)

Database

• Don’t start your procedures with SP_ and Don’t prefix your table names with tbl (George Mastros)
• SQL 2008 – The Power of the MERGE Command (Michael Ceranski)
• Shocking news for SQL 2008 R2 (Simon Sabin)
• Test your Full Recovery model by restoring backups (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Upgrading a SharePoint 2007 Publishing Site Master Page to SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Changes in Rendering (Andrew Connell)
• Pre-register for SharePoint 2010 Beta (Vasudev)

Miscellaneous

• Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac Upgraded to Support Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Google Chrome Converts User Scripts into Extensions (Alex Chitu)
• PayPal Releases PayPal X and Launches $50,000 Developer Challenge (Andres Ferrate)
• LiveLabs Thumbtack back from the dead (Dave Campbell)
• It takes real balls to do it right (Derik Whittaker) – Well-deserved kudos to JetBrains.
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• How to Make Zune-Compatible Movies with Movie Maker and Re-Install All Your Apps with One Click (Sarah Perez)
• November’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Gmail: Choose which messages get downloaded for offline use (Maria Khomenko)
• New Enterprise PKI Management Console (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #470 and The Morning Brew #471 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2009 — #725 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Nov-2009 and Tech Tweets for 5-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #577 and Double Shot #578 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links (11/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• SharePoint 2010 Development Resources (Mike Walker)
• Arturo’s Top 20 Resources for Learning Silverlight/Blend (Mike Taulty)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• An RSS Dashboard in F#, part one (Brian McNamara)
• New Article on Detecting Memory Leaks . NET Applications and CSharp “How Do I Videos (Podcasts)” for the Zune Software (Charlie Calvert)
• Questionnaire DSL with Microsoft "Oslo" (Chris Sells)
• Awesome F# – Decision Trees – Part II (Chris Smith)
• IronRuby 0.9.2 (Jim Deville)
• When NHibernate Won’t Do What You Think It Should (Jak Charlton)
• Touch and Gestures (Jason Ipock) – Link of the Day
• T4 Template Goodness (Sacha Barber)
• Result of my survey on the usage of ORM Frameworks in .NET (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• I Love FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies! (Peter Kellner)
• Concurrent Visualization Techniques in the VS2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)
• Prioritizing CSLA .NET work items (Rockford Lhotka)
• Encrypting and Decrypting Data Using X.509 Certificates (Joel Ross)
• Simple names are not so simple (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• November 2009 JavaScript Magazine is now available! (Michael Kimsal)
• Walking through a new Web Application in Visual Studio 2010 (.NET 4.0) (Jef Claes)
• Ambiguous References in DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas – Part 2 (Eric Hexter)
• Using ASP.NET and Jcrop to crop images online (Gunnar Peipman)
• MvcMaps Preview 1 – A Unified Bing/Google Maps API for ASP.NET MVC (Chris Pietschmann)
• Implementing KeyBoard Shortcuts on an ASP.NET Hyperlink Control using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Access a Control by ID From Within a Databound Control (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The bouncer pattern (Sebastian Hermida)
• Form – Storm – Norm – Perform (Jason Grundy)
• The 7 signs your UI was created by a programmer (Ian Voyce)
• Book Review: “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know” (Will Kelly)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 7 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: a nice basket of low-hanging fruit (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Emergence in Development Teams (Jurgen Appelo)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Let’s use it. (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 8 (Michael Feathers) (Mark H. Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Building a Zune Website with Expression Blend 3 StarterKit (MS Downloads)
• Customers using Prism and Prism release for Silverlight 3.0 (Blaine Wastell)
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and SL 3.0 (Bob Brumfield)
• As the platform evolves, so do the workarounds [Better SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better-er!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight From Zero (Jesse Liberty)
• New WPF Feature: Binding to Dynamic Objects (Lester Lobo)
• LINQ shortcut when using Silverlight and ADO .NET Data Services (Stephen Forte)
• Frame Rates (Kirupa Chinnathambiis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Vittorio Bertocci authenticates us with WIF (Carl Franklin)
• Channel 9 Learning Centers Offer Developers Free Training (Bruce Kyle)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 008 – Gary Short on using XAF to build WebForm and WinForm apps (Eric Nelson)
• First Look: Microsoft “Health Tech Today” (Bill Crounse, MD)
• Ping 36: Zune, Seth MacFarlane, voice recognition, Impatient Optimists (Laura Foy)
• Talking Architects – Neil Ward-Dutton (Matt Deacon)
• endpoint.tv – High Performance WCF .NET Stock Trader with Greg Leake (Ron Jacobs)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #150: Adding IoC Support to your WCF Services (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Stack Overflow Careers: Amplifying Your Awesome (Jeff Atwood)
• More Twitter List goodies: official list widgets! (Jay Hathaway)
• Events This Week – November 2nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A week of Monospace and Innotech (Gary Sherman)
• November Conferences (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft December Developer Dinner for Partners – Parallel Computing for Managed Developers (Joel Reyes)
• CodeMash 2010 Registration Open! (Jim Holmes)

Database

• How to get the most out of 96 cores (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation / Resources (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour (Kolby Hoover)

Miscellaneous

• The Complete Guide to Google Wave Is a Comprehensive Book on Wave (Adam Pash)
• Clicky is Google Analytics all grown up (Jason Clarke)
• WaveSandbox.com: Federate This (Pamela Fox)
• UI Extensibility in Office 2010 (Mirko Mandic)
• Windows 7 SP1 details begin to surface (Steven Bink)
• Google opens up Wave federation (Tom Krazit)
• 10 Things I am Loving About Windows 7 (Chris Lentz)
• Microsoft, what is the meaning of this? (Rob Eisenberg) – A curious email from MS about Azure.
• Lightweight (Kimberly Wolk) – A new look for MSDN.
• HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists (Josh Catone)
• PowerPack Challenge: The Winning Strategy (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Download ten free Windows 7 chapters (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #468 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: November 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/2/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 02, 2009 — #722 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #96 (David Vidmar)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/02/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Double Shot #575 and Double Shot #574 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 387 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Some quick F# notes… (Brian McNamara)
• .Net Framework 4.0: VB.NET supports automatic properties (Gunnar Peipman)
• The ADO.NET Providers team wants to hear your opinion (Luiz Santos)
• Interesting .Net 4 thing of the day: String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() (Greg Duncan)
• VS2010 Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Collaboration… MyFavoriteNamspace (Clemens Reijnen)
• What’s new in CLR via C#, 3rd Edition as compared to the 2nd Edition (Jeffrey Richter)
• Dynamic Help Removed From Visual Studio 2010 (Lee Dumond) – Link of the Day
• Learning Scala via C# Part 3 – Getting Loopy (Justin Etheredge)
• C# can now consume indexed properties (Bill Wagner)
• Using WCF with SQL Azure and Telerik OpenAccess (Stephen Forte)
• NHibernate feature: SaveOrUpdateCopy & Merge (Torkel Ödegaard)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 2: Accelerometer as a Joystick (Pete Brown)

Web Development

• A Sign Of The Times: The First Foreclosure API (Adam DuVander)
• ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas via MvcContrib (Eric Hexter)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture manifesto (Simon Brown)
• What kind of logging should you do in production? (Oren Eini)
• How to create, edit and playback CodedUI Tests in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Charles Sterling)
• Constructor Injection vs Setter Injection (Davy Brion)
• Using Kuler to create color themes (Garr Reynolds)
• 5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization (Mark Suster)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part VI: It’s Okay To Disagree (Patrick Kua)
• Should I use MEF with an IoC container? – Part 1 (Glenn Block)
• Random Thoughts On Truly Remarkable Story Telling – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Business Data Connectivity Model – Finder Method (Nick Swan)
• State Pattern, Enumeration Class and Fluent NHibernate (Oh my!) (Richard Cirerol)
• Search and Messaging (Udi Dahan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 128: The Upgrade Conundrum (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Mark Pollack on Architecture Refactoring (Bob Familiar)
• Major Nelson Show #337: DJ Hero, MUA2, Lego Rock Band and MW2 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 90 – PowerScripting Podcast – SCOM with Jeremy Pavleck and Scott Moss with guest host Jonathan Medd (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Recommended books – part II (Roy Osherove)

Community / Events

• Countdown to Microsoft PDC 2009 – part 1 (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Evan Light’s Road Trip (Corey Haines)

Database

• Installing sql server express 2008 is easier than it used to be and Installing SQL server Express 2008 Management Studio (Christiaan Baes)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Brings Windows 7′s DirectX 11 to Windows Vista (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/2 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Google Wave Guide: User Manual Released for Wave (Pete Cashmore)
• 15+ great Google Chrome extensions (Lee Matthews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #467 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #77 (Grant Palin)
• Links (11/1/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 117 (Rhonda Tipton)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Using F# Discriminated Unions in C# (Beta2) (Jared Parsons)
• Simple Linq to Sql Enhancements with T4 Templating (Nathan Bridgewater)
• IronPython 2.0.3 and 2.6 RC2 (Harry Pierson)
• TFB210602: Failed to copy. (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• A Chance to Influence the MSDN Visual Studio Documentation (Help System) (Charlie Calvert)
• VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue (Brittany Behrens)
• Windows7 Trigger Start Services – Part 2: Building a Trigger Start Optimized Service (Yochay Kiriaty)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Creating Drill Down Reports (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET 4 Web Server Here Shell Extension (Phil Haack)
• Optimize your web site for search engines using the SEO Toolkit (MS Web Platform Team)
• Using PHP within the Expression Development Server (Chris Leeds)
• Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP developers (Maarten Balliauw)
• 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Simone Chiaretta)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (5 in a series) – What the Frig is a View Model (Sara J. Chipps) – Link of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An epic bug story (Oren Eini)
• MVC Web Testing Strategies – verifying content (Jimmy Bogard)
• TestDriven.Net 3.0 Alpha – Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Jamie Cansdale)
• Stop Exposing Collections Already! (Davy Brion)
• The SOA Manifesto – Pointlessness Manifested (Harry Pierson)
• Developer Codpieces (Leon Bambrick)
• The Most Productive Programming Language (Dave Laribee)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF is the future, get over it, post of the day – “Are desktop developers ignoring WPF at their peril?” (Greg Duncan)
• New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects and d:DesignInstance, d:DesignData in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Karl Shifflett)
• 10 Expression Blend 3 Tutorials for Silverlight available for download (Adam Kinney)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 1 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight Live Streaming being discontinued. What now? (Rene Schulte)
• New Silverlight Tooling Support in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Visual Web Developer Team)
• Inserting a Silverlight Navigation and Slideshow into Your Web Page (Silverlight Team)
• Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
• Obfuscation of WPF applications (status update) (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: Windows Presentation Foundation with Todd Fine (MS Screencasts)
• Vacation of Fluent NHibernate: Monday ClassMaps (Bobby Johnson)
• Dave Thompson: Turning Software into Services (Charles Torre)
• Recorded PowerShell Introductory Session from Quest Connect (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Part 1 – Taking Sketched Code Towards Unity and Part 2 – Dependency Injection with Unity and Part 3 – Modularity with Prism and Part 4 – The Unity Bootstrapper and Part 5 – Moving to a Modular Silverlight Project and Part 7 – Commands and Part 8 – Loosely Coupled Events and Part 9 – Sharing Data with Region Contexts and Part 10 – A Larger Example – "Email Client" (Mike Taulty)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Tim Huckaby Full Length Interview (Tina)
• Access Web Databases and The Access Show (Office Team)

Community / Events

• Office and SharePoint Sessions at PDC (Ahmed El-Ramly)
• SharePoint Live Virtual Conference & Expo – November 5, 2009 (Andrew Connell)
• Google Groups is Dead (John Resig)
• Getting Geeky with Windows 7! My house party and visiting Best Buy on launch day. (Dave Isbitski)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Tuning the Performance of Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• FAST meets SharePoint – What’s Coming in Search for SharePoint 2010 (Nate Treloar)

Miscellaneous

• Google launches Android 2.0 SDK (Brad Linder)
• Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars [Gaming] (Adam Frucci)
• 7 on 7: Direct2D and DirectWrite (Jim O’Neil)
• Dear Microsoft: What’s the deal with Windows 7 upgrades? (Ed Bott)
• Google Wave will have an App Store too! (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows Management Framework is here! (Nathan Burkhart)

More Link Collections

• SharePoint 2007 Posts: Recap (Pete Seale)
• LINKBLOG for Oct 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #464 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 — #717 and Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 – 2 — #718 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 27-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update (Brad Abrams)
• CloudNews for 27th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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