• Review: Microsoft Touch Mouse for Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft to focus on HTML5 and JavaScript for Office 15 development (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google’s “What’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander” patent whining (Steven Hodson)
• Microsoft Tweets Out An Email Showing It Tried To Work With Google On Buying Patents (MSFT, GOOG, AAPL) (Jay Yarow)
• Microsoft Research’s .NET Gadgeteer steps out into the light, shoots daggers at Arduino (video) (Joseph Volpe)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio QuickWatch (Richard Carr)
• C#: DateTime to Midnight datetime (Raghav Khunger)
• Announcing the August 2011 Release of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and NOW AVAILABLE: August 2011 Update of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (Windows Azure Team)
• The Time is Now to Try JustTrace (Chris Eargle)
• A .NET generic limitation (Patrick Smacchia)
• RavenDB Session Management with NServiceBus (Oren Eini)
• Visual Basic Sudoku Solver and Generator (ZiggyG)

Web Development

• Building Mobile JavaScript WebApps With Backbone.js & jQuery: Part I (Addy Osmani)
• Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–Revealing Prototype Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
• HTML5 Part 3: Audio and Video (Jennifer Marsman)
• PHP Static Analysis Tool Usage (Lorna Wilson)
• Dive into the summer with MSDN: HTML5 (Katrien de Graeve)
• Assetic: JavaScript and CSS files management (Giorgio Sironi)
• You can’t build a quality website in a factory (Paul Boag)
• Announcing Windows Azure Storage Analytics (Windows Azure Storage Team)
• Backbone: Don’t Route What Should Be A Command Or Event and Stop Using Backbone As If It Were A Stateless Web Server (Derick Bailey)
• Google App Engine Builds Steam, Updates Datastores and Task Queues (Romin Irani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Take Advantage Of Your BDD Framework (Davy Brion)
• Tim Kropp on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• Algorithmically Estimating Developer Time (Peter Saddington)
• Building Android projects with Jenkins, Ant and Mercurial (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Message-Oriented Architecture is a Misleading Term (Peter Ritchie)
• Getting version numbers and names right is hard (Matt Lacey)
• The forgotten control flow construct (Joh)
• Where is the greatest friction? (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• The War Between Developers, Designers and Project Managers (Joey deVilla)
• Choosing the Correct CI Tool (Paul Stack)
• New Manager, New Product Owner, Too Much Work (Johanna Rothman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): [Column] attribute and 7 Mistakes Developers make when implementing Windows Phone Custom Controls (Windows Phone Geek)
• Understanding NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch – Dealing with Charts (Part 1) (Mihail Mateev)
• Know your cookies (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 Feature Requests (Daniel Egan)
• Adding a system-wide keyboard hook to your WPF Application (LearnWPF)
• Using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to create HTML5 SVG Path Data. (Michael Crump)
• Working with animations on the Windows Phone (Surf4Fun)
• 2000 WPF Things #357 – RadioButton is a ContentControl (Sean Sexton)
• Summer Fun in the Mango Sun… Sample Data, Locations and Accelerometer (Greg Duncan)
• Simple Tips: Application Image Processing (Deborah Hanamura)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cristian Libardo Builds a CMS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SE Podcast #14 (Alex Miller)
• Interview: Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Hot Apps: Words By Post, Fractal Graphics, ScriptTD, Drynks, Penguin (Laura Foy)
• MVP Talks Hyper-V in Taiwan (Lonnie Webb)
• The GeekDads Episode #97: A Whole New World Behind the Grotto (Ken Denmead)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #55: Kinecting with the Cosmos with Jonathan Fay, Dr. Mark SubbaRao & Michelle Yehling (Part 2) (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Coding4Fun Kinect Turret (Greg Duncan)
• Rob Relyea: Kinect SDK Beta 1 Refresh is live (Dan Fernandez)
• Look who’s talking: Speech in Mango (Bill Pardi)

Community / Events

• Upcoming FubuMVC Webinar Series and FubuMVC Webinar: F101 – Behaviors, Configuration, and Runtime (Josh Arnold)
• HTML5 and IE workshop by the water, powered by Microsoft Webcafe – 25th August 2011 in Brussels (Katrien de Graeve)
• August Silverlight Giveaway by Telerik and First Floor Software! (Michael Crump)
• The First Day of School (Mike Desmond)

Database

• SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: Get T-SQL query metadata without executing it (Jakub Dvorak)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Efficient Query Writing Strategy – Day 4 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – T-SQL – Comparing table data/structure using UNION, EXCEPT and INTERSECT (Vishal)
• SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY function (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Managing Large Lists in SharePoint for Users and Site Admins (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Two New Free Xbox Live Games Next Week (August 10th) – Sudoku & Minesweeper (Hyde13)
• Developer interest in Android increases, approaches iOS (Joe Wilcox)
• Powershell to HTML (Jack Vamvas)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 3, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading August 3, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (8/3/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #909 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure Platform (Patterns & Practices) by Eugenio Pace

• Xamarin Joy Factory (Miguel de Icaza)
• Google+ invite received, we go hands-on (Brian Heater)
• I Don’t Have Time for Unit Tests (Mike Hadlow)
• Reflector v7 Add-Ins (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Working with Co-Variance and Contra-Variance in .NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine Speed up (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Executing SQL Query using LINQ to SQL (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Code refactoring with Visual Studio 2010-Part 3 and Code refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 Part-4 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• "Continuously" testing with Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Gfader)
• AppHarbor Announces Add-On API For .NET Developers (Roopesh Shenoy)
• One step closer still (Sebastien Lambla)
• Autocomplete ForeignKey Field Template Now on NuGet (Steve Naughton)
• RTFM–the tale of ReaderWriterLockSlim (Dror Helper)
• Delegate feed privileges to other users on MyGet (Maarten Balliauw)
• Book Review – Programming Windows Azure by Siriram Krishnan (Buck Woody)
• ReSharper 6 RC2; EAPs for dotCover, dotTrace Performance (Jura Gorohovsky)
• No more regions on implementing interface (Jef Claes)

Web Development

• Using jQuery to auto add image captions (John Whish)
• jQuery SearchBox AutoComplete Widget (Slavko Parezanin)
• Html5 Snooker Club (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• CSS 2.1 Complete: Unblocking Faster Web Standards Progress (Adrian Bateman)
• Leave the Past Behind: Switch to CSS3 (Nick Baker)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Mobile – Only $6.49 w/code DD3JN (O’Reilly Media)
• Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5 (Scott Knaster)
• Announcing Four New F# Projects For Creating Web Apps (Robert Pickering)
• A Better Razor IsNullOrEmpty Statement (K. Scott Allen)
• Pass cookie from Web Request to WebBrowser (Gian Maria Ricci)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Easy Unit Testing in C++ for Linux (Avi Kaye)
• Article: Agile Schools: How Technology Saves Education (Just Not the Way We Thought it Would) (Steve Peha)
• Git: Deleting a remote branch on a gitolite configured repository (Mark Needham)
• Study: Dads turning to web work to relieve work-life conflict (Jessica Stillman)
• Why Teams Fail (JD Meier)
• Introducing the Expected Objects Library (Derek Greer)
• Git for Personal Projects (Ashod Nakashian)
• Book Review: Uncle Bob’s "The Clean Coder" (Ben Linders)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.3 officially released with an important appbar fix (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone codenamed "Tango" coming after Mango? (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 23 – Local Database Support, Configuring Project (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 7 Push Notification For Beginners–The Device (Matthias Shapiro)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ICSE 2011: Danny Dig – Retrofitting Parallelism into a Sequential World (Charles Torre)
• The Engadget Show – 022: Gadgets get smashed, Rick Karr talks broadband, Peter Rojas and Ryan Block tell us what moved them (Tim Stevens)
• Let’s Play TDD #118: Coupling vs. Complexity (James Shore)
• Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Lambda (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Sonic 4, Robozzle, Career Tips, Chicken Implosion, TatZooom (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for June 28th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Develop Awards 2011: The Finalists for Technical Innovation (Develop Staff)

Database

• SQL Server: Grouping ID Example (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Find Details for Statistics of Whole Database – DMV – T-SQL Script (Pinal Dave)
• My Favourite SQL Server Myths and Realities (Ramkumar)
• HASHBYTES – A T-SQL Function (Steve Jones)
• SQL Functions – ORIGINAL_LOGIN(), SUSER_SNAME() & SESSION_USER (Vishal)
• Instead Of Trigger and OUTPUT clause headache (Jakub Dvorak)
• Pain of the Week: Understanding Your Indexes (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 Now Available–What’s New? (Andrew Connell)
• Top Software for SharePoint Development (Avi Kaye)

Miscellaneous

• Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web (Vic Gundotra)
• Google Takeout Liberates Your Google Data in One Click [Video] (Adam Pash)
• Ringing in Mango (Alice Luu)
• 4th & Mayor v2 is now released (Jeff Wilcox)
• Uh-oh, Google Apps, Office 365 launches in 40 countries (Joe Wilcox)
• Windows Gets an App Store of Its Own: Avenue (Jolie O’Dell)
• Tibbr, the new OS. Integrating is the new Operating. (Martijn Linssen)
• Microsoft launches Office 365: Here’s what you need to know (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good — Now For The Hard Part (MG Siegler)
• Deal/Day: Save 50% on all #Perl Ebooks & Videos – Celebrate #OSCON (O’Reilly Media)
• Google+ is much more than a Facebook killer (Tim Conneally)
• Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social (Steven Levy)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 199 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Today’s Links (6/28/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #883 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 06/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• June 28th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for June 28, 2011 — #1112 (Dave Campbell)
• Link dump for June 28th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox Beginning Guides) by Steve Fox

Top Links

• Using the Location Service in Silverlight for Windows Phone (Jeff Prosise)
• Creating HTML5 Offline Web Applications with ASP.NET (Stephen Walther)
• Mixing Razor Views and WebForms Master Pages with ASP.NET MVC 3 (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide from Microsoft Patterns and Practices (Joey deVilla)
• Using the Camera in Windows Phone 7 (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Adding and Resolving Namespaces using Shortcut key in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Controlling Serialization of XML Elements (Richard Carr)
• Replacing Text with a Box Selection vstipEdit0006 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Call a Method Asynchronously in .NET using Polling Pattern and Callback Pattern (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Bootstrapping The .NET Framework Without An MSI Installer (Derick Bailey)
• Git tooling for .NET developers (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• How to make all non-virtual members virtual (Daniel Cazzulino)
• .NET/Mono: IArithmetic on Primitives (Zor)
• Office 2010: Developer Map Poster (MS Downloads)
• Adding SortedMerge to Elevate (Bill Wagner)
• Tagging assemblies with Mercurial changeset hash (Jimmy Bogard)
• Devart Releases New Entity Framework Provider (EF Team)
• Book Review – Entity Framework 4 In Action (Gil Fink)

Web Development

• jQuery DateRange Picker (Karl Seguin)
• A New Web for .NET: WCF Web APIs (Ryan Riley)
• How to make ViewState secure in ASP.NET ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Basic JavaScript Part 8: Namespaces (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• jQuery ASP.Net MVC Controls – Release: v1.2.0.0 (CodePlex)
• 10 things you should think about with HTML 5 (Joe Stagner)
• Recommended: “Introducing HTML5” (Joey deVilla)
• ASP.NET MVC Unit Testing with UpdateModel and TryUpdateModel (Mike Ceranski)
• BlueGriffon: a cross-platform WYSIWYG HTML5 and CSS3 editor based on Firefox 4 (Sebastian Anthony)
• Optimising ASP.NET Performance (Simon Ince)
• Windows Azure Use Case: Agility (Buck Woody)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum + Technical practices = XP ? (Allan Kelly)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: State Verification (Giorgio Sironi)
• Microsoft is Imagining a NUI future (Steve Clayton)
• Project Managers are Killing the Profession – What to do? (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM Frameworks with WP7 support and Reading barcodes from your WP7 device and Taking Sterling for a Test-Drive and Mahhala – FluidKit and Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite and Mahhala – Bag o’ Tricks and Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon (Rudi Grobler)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 – Text rendering (Peter Kuhn)
• WP7 Tip: How to correctly handle smart quotes in WebBrowser control (Simone Chiaretta)
• Launchers & Choosers–Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Update VisualState From ViewModel (Gagan Kapoor)
• A Navigator Control For Visiblox Time Series Charts (Colin Eberhardt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stephen Toub is more Parallel than Ever (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 103: Seb Lambla on OpenEverything (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Project Emporia on Windows Phone (Laura Foy)
• My interview on .NET Mania (Stephen Forte)
• Let’s Play TDD #80: Focus Lost (James Shore)
• Free Windows Azure Training on Zune & iTunes (Wes Yanaga)
• VIDEO – Microsoft WebMatrix – Razor Syntax and VIDEO – Microsoft WebMatrix – Templating Features (Joe Stagner)
• Coding4Fun On Channel9! (Clint Rutkas)
• “Azure for CS101” videos and course material from the Microsoft Faculty Connection (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Join Online for SharePoint 2010 FireStarter Developer Event Jan 27 (Bruce Kyle)
• HTML5, Silverlight, Windows Phone – MIX 2011 Registration Open (Doug Holland)
• HTML5, Silverlight sessions face off at Microsoft Mix ’11 conference (Mary Jo Foley)
• Mix Open Call Submission (Rob Eisenberg)
• Chapters and Seasons (Steve Andrews)
• South Florida Code Camp. Feb 12th 2011 (Jason Rainwater)
• TechDays 2011: Early bird extended and first confirmed speakers (Katrien de Graeve)
• Save on MIX11 – Register by Feb 11 (Silverlight Show)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – One Package, Unlimited Tables (25/31) (Jason Strate)
• Getting Started With Consulting Webcast Recording Now Available (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Reducing Page Contention on TempDB (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Cluster resource doesn’t come online | Service control: stop before startup (Pradeep Adiga)
• Awesome line up for SQLBits 8 (Simon Sabin)
• DENALI: Server Memory Change event class bug fix (Sankar Reddy)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** Creating Custom SharePoint Server 2010 Document Sets with Visual Studio 2010 and ***NOW AVAILABLE*** Customizing and Extending the SharePoint 2010 Server Ribbon (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011 (Alan Eustace)
• Windows 7 and SSDs: Setup secrets and tune-up tweaks (Ed Bott)
• Update: Effectively Protecting Consumers from Online Tracking (Dean Hachamovitch)
• History of Microsoft [Inforgraphic] (Imran Hussain)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #778 (Chris Alcock)
• Recent SharePoint Developer Content (Mary Lee)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 25 January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for January 25, 2011 — #1035 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

I’ll be having surgery on my torn achilles tendon in a few hours. There may or may not be a Dew Drop post tomorrow, depending on how I am feeling.

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Top Links

• Creating a Fluent Interface with C# (Deran Schilling)
• OData Basics – At the AZGroups "Day of .NET" with ScottGu (Scott Hanselman)
• Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Released (Grigori Melnik)
• 10%, Take Two (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Simplify Your Unit Tests With Auto Mocking: Part 1 – Helper Methods (Derick Bailey)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Code Contracts Survey (BCL Team)
• Exception Handling in the .NET Framework Data Provider for ODBC, OLE DB, and for SQL Server (ADO.NET Team)
• Fluent NHibernate 1.1 released (John V. Petersen)
• Want to write Managed IE/Shell Extensions, but thought that was “bad”? That was the past… With .Net 4 the world of Managed Extensions is now open to you. (Greg Duncan)
• Template Driven Assembly References (Rory Becker)
• Use the Microsoft Addin Framework, MAF to Create Highly Scalable Classes in Any .Net Application (Jeff)

Web Development

• Book Review: JavaScript – The Good Parts (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• The jQuery Course Prerelease – Learn More (Marc Grabanski)
• Catching clicks with clickCatcher before your JavaScript files have loaded/events been applied (Robert Nyman)
• jQuery.validate and Html.ValidationSummary playing nice together (Simon Ince)
• Sort Items of a BulletedList Control using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Advanced Migrations (Oren Eini)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Patterns In C# – Singleton Design Pattern (Richard McCutchen)
• Great new intro article on SOA in Plain English (Sam Gentile)
• 7 Tips for Managing a Remote Work Force (Mitchell Harper)
• Docx 2 UnitTest – an interesting tool for VS2010 (Dror Helper)
• Introduction to unit testing in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MSF-A+SDL Process Template for VS 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Project Greenfield: Testing the TDD Waters (Joel Cochran)
• Exclude a team member – and you’re an idiot (Roy Osherove)
• An Overview of Lean Software Practices (Jared Richardson)
• Exploring Selenium 2: Introduction & Lessons Learned in Selenium 1 (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 and Adding Project References (Derik Whittaker)
• Perf Tools for WPF (.NET 4) (Lester Lobo)
• A Distributable (.exe) Silverlight OOB Application (Alnur Ismail)
• 20 Silverlight 4 demos in one zip file (András Velvárt)
• Building OpenPOS: Part 9 – Settings and Notifications (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 81: Simplicity, balance, and focus in teaching software development (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 113 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brandon Shell Talks Citrix and Other PowerShell Goodness (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Making of Office 2010 – Abigail Welborn, Software Development Engineer – Microsoft Access (Tina Wood)
• Video – Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams (Roy Osherove)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 14 – Build Mastery with Jason Stangroome (Richard Banks)
• New open source projects to facilitate interoperability with Outlook .pst data files (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere)
• endpoint.tv – Activities and Designers with Matt Winkler (Part 2) (Ron Jacobs)
• The Engadget Show – 009: Kevin Lynch, editor Q&A, AT&T GNOC tour, Sprint EVO 4G (Chad Mumm)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #176: Going Lazy with System.Lazy (Derik Whittaker)
• Ping 59: Private Cloud strategy, Gadget predictions, Microsoft is the most social company, Free Robotics (Laura Foy)
• My "Git Branching and Workflows" presentation at Austin Code Camp 2010 (Jason Meridth)

Community / Events

• East Coast PASS Event Options (Jack Corbett)
• Google Summer of Code 2010: Let the Coding Begin! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• What’s it like to work for Bing? (Eugenia Sawa)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – SQL Azure vs. SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamically Pass a Table Name to TRUNCATE TABLE (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• New Book: SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating (Joel Oleson)
• Check out Social Squared (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Who’s afraid from C++ (Dror Helper)
• Every Program There Is, Part Nine (Eric Lippert)
• PSAM (PowerShell Admin Module) = PowerShell Share Fun (Greg Duncan)
• Gitosis and Gitweb – Part 1 – Setup and Part 2 – Add Projects and Contributors (Jason Meridth)
• Apple’s five stages of Google grieving (Joe Wilcox)
• The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 1 (Joey Beninghove)
• 100 DZone Refcardz And Counting… and DZone Refcardz: There Will Be An App For That (James Sugrue)
• The results are in: Google’s Pac-Man homage cost the world $120,483,800 in just one day (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/24/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 24, 2010 — #868 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 146 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #607 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Android Application Development: Programming with the Google SDK

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Top Links

•  MonoDroid – Mono for Android Beta Program (Miguel de Icaza)
• Entity Framework Repository T4 Template v1.0 (CodePlex)
• CodeRush 10.1 Hits RTM (Rory Becker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing map-reduce in F# (James)
• Binary Serialization (Richard Carr)
• Plugins for DXCore/CodeRushXpress/CodeRush/Refactor! Pro 2010.1.4 RTM Available (Steve Bohlen)
• Programming Data: .NET, SQL Server and You (Chris Sells)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC2 Client Validation (Venkata Subbarao)
• Spurious MachineToApplication Error With VS2010 Deployment (Chris Sells)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Advanced Migrations (Oren Eini)
• Why and how to create Microsoft Office Minibar with jQuery and CSS3 (Janko Jovanovic)
• Catching clicks with clickCatcher before your JavaScript files have loaded/events been applied (Robert Nyman)
• Make Your Own Bookmarklets With jQuery (Tommy Saylor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MIT researchers develop the most fabulous gesture control technique yet (Joseph L. Flatley)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What I’m Reading – Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginner’s Guide (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Phone 7 and Adding Project References (Derik Whittaker)
• Creating a Custom Out-of-Browser Window in Silverlight 4 (Karl Erickson)
• Silverlight Gantt Chart – Release v1.3 (SL4) (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 04 of 18): Hello World (MS Podcasts)
• Major Nelson Show 358.99: E32010, Ninja Bee, Blur, UFC 2010, Alan Wake & more (Larry Hyrb)
• Video – Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams (Roy Osherove)
• Pluralcast 16 : A Software Journeyman’s Journey (David Starr)

Community / Events

• Stack Exchange API Contest (Jeff Atwood)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Check the Isolation Level with DBCC useroptions and SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamically Pass a Table Name to TRUNCATE TABLE (Suprotim Agarwal)

Miscellaneous

• PAC-MAN rules! (Marissa Mayer)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: My Favorite Feature: Quick Steps (Diane Poremsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 05.18 ~ 05.24 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #606 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Implementation Patterns

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Top Links

• JavaScript Intellisense Improvements with VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• "Dogfooding" VS 2010 and .NET 4 (Somasegar)
• Apple to developers: don’t even think in Flash, bucko (Rob Beschizza)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – A Separation of Concerns (Matthew Podwysocki)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using GroupBy in LINQDatasource Control for Grouping Data (Satheesh Babu)
• Windows Azure AppFabric Goes Live (Bruce Kyle)
• Parallel Tasks in .NET 4.0 (Part II) – Methods that Return value (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Transpose Lines, Words, and Characters — vstipEdit0042 and View White Space (Zain Naboulsi)
• Precision and accuracy of DateTime (Eric Lippert)
• Working with obscure arguments without C# 4 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Coding: FindOrCreateUser and similar methods (Mark Needham)
• A simple WCF service with username password authentication: the things you told me (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Telerik Releases the Data Service Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• Leasing Windows Azure Blobs Using the Storage Client Library (Steve Marx)

Web Development

• 5 Years Ago Today the Web Mashup Was Born (Adam DuVander)
• Inside IE 9’s High Performance JavaScript Engine (Charles Torre)
• How to parse JSON (Daniel Crenna)
• Simple Pager for ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Scaling Web Sites with Azure and Local Cache (Jared Bienz)
• jQuery, ASP.NET, and Browser History (Stephen Walther)
• Running PHP on Windows Azure and Using Windows Azure Drive in PHP (or Ruby) (Maarten Balliauw)
• How to use Cross-Site Scripting to Rickroll your Co-Workers (Russell Ball)
• An ASP.NET MVC Portable Area for OpenId (John Nelson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Trust" Now Online (James Shore)
• Debugging a production problem (Oren Eini)
• Strengthening your domain: Domain Events (Jimmy Bogard)
• What Makes Peer Code Review an Agile Process? (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Test-Driven Development in Windows Phone7 – Part 1: Unit Testing with Silverlight for Phone7 (Michael Sync)
• Question to Software Designers: IUser (Keith Brown)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 6: Mocks & Unit Tests (Julie Lerman)
• Build your conventions (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Guidance – Branching for each Sprint and Scrum for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)

Silverlight / WPF

• DoodlePad – A fun, free, sketching application for Windows Phone 7 (Dave Isbitski)
• Omniture AppMeasurement will be in the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #109 – Attach to Process Debugging (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight Voice Video Chat Modules – Beta Release (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pete at MIX10: Dave Campbell on Silverlight Cream (Pete Brown)
• The History of Microsoft – The Jeff Raikes Story: Part Two (Tina Wood)
• Channel 9 Live at MIX10: SVG Web Panel (Nic Fillingham)
• What’s new in Silverlight 4 Part 1 by Mike Taulty and Windows Azure Applications: Running Applications in the Cloud by Aaron Skonnard and ASP.NET MVC 2: Basics, Introduction by Scott Hanselman (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Silverlight TV 20: Community Driven Development with WCF RIA Services (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Looking forward to the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference in London, just over a week away! (Andrew Connell)
• Save May 12 for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 Launch (Bruce Kyle)
• Preparing Yourself for the Windows Phone 7 DevCamp (Dave Bost)
• Why Aren’t You Awesome Yet? (Learning Via The World-Wide Community) (Alan Skorkin)
• Join me for some exciting sessions at Devlink 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Free training on Microsoft Web Platform in Web Camps (Lawrence Moroney)
• MVPs to help launch Visual Studio 2010 around the World (PJ  Forgione)
• Poll: What Are Your Favorite Silverlight TV Episodes? (John Papa)

Database

• Obfuscating SQL Server Code (Richard Carr)
• A DMV a Day – Day 9 (Glenn Berry)
• Encrypted Stored Procedures and Their Effect on my Rug (Jeremiah Peschka)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (8/30) unicorns, rainbows, and online index operations (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Manage Risk and Configure Best Practices with New Server Administrator for SharePoint 2007/2010 (Joel Oleson)
• Deploying an External Content Type, Error: The default web application could not be determined (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Technical Book Sales Insight Through Real-Time Amazon Rankings Analytics (Bart Czernicki)
• Subversion (SVN) Source-Control for PowerShell Scripts (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Getting Started With Cgywin (Derek Greer)
• Clash of the titans: Apple, Google battle for the mobile Web (Joe Wilcox)
• iPhone OS 4 vs Android 2.1 vs Windows Phone 7 (Taimur Asad)
• New in Labs: Nested Labels and Message Sneak Peek (Manu Cornet)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Geek Atlas – Only $9.99 Use code DDGAP (O’Reilly Media)
• Hump-Jumping: How the Education of Computer Science can be Saved, err, maybe. (Leon Bambrick)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #576 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 08, 2010 — #834 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman on Defining Community, Blog Site Pet Peeves, Preserving the Problem (Dave Burke)
• Creators Club Communiqué 49 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

Photoshop CS4 Bible

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Top Links

• Strengthening your domain: Aggregate Construction (Jimmy Bogard)
• All About MIX10 (Mike Swanson)
• The game is over, people! (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Key Software Development Trends (Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Free Entity Framework v1 eBook – 514 pages of barebones, yet still good foundational, EF’ness (Greg Duncan)
• Working With Messages (Me)
• Profiler new feature: Too many joins detection (Oren Eini)
• New in .NET 4: Don’t Forget to Dispose() your SmtpClient Instances (Lee Dumond)
• Undo and Redo Global Actions — vstipEdit0020 and Insert File As Text — vstipEdit0021 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Daily Dose – Mono Supports MeeGo Apps – Android Support Coming (Mitch Pronschinske)
• RoundhousE – ADO.NET over SMO (Rob Reynolds)
• Solution: Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 extension does not load in vs 2010 RC (Roy Osherove)
• The Case of 64-Bit .NET Upgrade Bug (Russell Ball)

Web Development

• A Testable PayPal IPN with Rails 2.3 (Rob Conery)
• Comparing the Performance of Visual Studio’s Web Reference to a Custom Class (Sam Menard, John Jakovich & Jamie Davis)
• Note to self: Asp.Net MVC Controllers are not Code Behind (Chris Brandsma)
• Internet Explorer gains modicum of HTML5 (Seth Rosenblatt)
• WCF Data Services and jQuery (Shawn Wildermuth)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Would You Do? Management Scenario #1 (Andy Warren)
• Wanna Review My Code? (Davy Brion)
• Links to Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) Pattern Code and Discussions (Mike Glenn)
• MSpec and Auto Mocking (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Lessons Learned from Dr. Seuss (J.D. Meier)
• Refactoring: Small steps to pull out responsibilities (Mark Needham)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Updated Certificate, Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Finding an Object TreeViewItem (Carole Snyder)
• Performing DML Operations using WCF REST Service and Silverlight (Mahesh Sabnis)
• MEF, Silverlight and the DeploymentCatalog (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Joel Semeniuk on using TFS with small teams (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Silverlight TV 10: Jesse Liberty Explains the Hyper Video Project (John Papa)
• Running Reporting Services Reports in Windows Azure (Marc Schweigert)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 10 – WCF and HTTP (Mike Taulty)

Community / Events

• Free Event! Next Generation Testing with Visual Studio 2010 (Angela Binkowski)
• DevTeach Toronto 2010 Ultimate Edition (James Kovacs)
• Nerd Dinner in Portland February 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Preparing for the 2010 Scripting Games (Ed Wilson)
• Virtual Alt.NET – UppercuT Automated Builds (Rob Reynolds)
• Featured Woman in Technology: Lisa S. Jones (Jennifer Marsman)

Database

• Viewing Missing Indexes in Management Studio 2005 (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Rollup Clause (Pinal Dave)
• Script to get indexes and their included columns (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Upgrade SharePoint 2003 to 2010 – Free Tech Preview (Joel Oleson)
• RootFinder Property – BCS Search (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 1.0 SP1 Release Candidate Available for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Google is a dangerous monopoly — more than Microsoft ever was (Joe Wilcox)
• Bing – It Does Way More Than You Think (Keith Elder)
• The 24th of Diduary: Did you know what you can do with a Home Server? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Understanding 64-Bit Office (Ted Way)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Programming – Only $9.99! Use code DDAGP (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft boosts college grad hires (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• Sam Ramji Joins Mindtouch Board (Krishnan Subramanian)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02.23.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #546 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2010 — #802 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing W/CD

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.NET / Visual Studio

• PowerCommands for Reflector 1.1 (Jason Haley)
• Extension Methods I Use A Lot (Kevin Miller)
• IronPython 2.6 Release Candidate (Harry Pierson)
• The Case Against Location: File System (Dave M. Bush)
• Math Without a Floating Point Unit (Joel Ivory Johnson)

Web Development

• How To Secure APIs and Mashups (Adam DuVander)
• Reimagining www.asp.net, Part One: The Home Page Experience and Part Two: The Support Experience (John Sheehan)
• A First Look at ASP.NET MVC 2 (Ben Scheirman) – Link of the Day
• Sorting Data in ASP.NET MVC (Michael Ceranski)
• MvcContrib 1.0.0.987 released (Jeffrey Palermo)
• jQuery Tabs and Lazy Loading (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Microsoft, Zend and others announce Simple API for Cloud Application Services (Joe Stagner)
• Debugger Visualizers not working in ASP.NET Medium Trust (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Documentation Driven Development! (David Lemphers)
• Albacore: A Suite Of Rake Build Tasks For .NET Solutions (Derick Bailey)
• 5 Focus Killers … and How to Beat Them (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Coding Priorities (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Share Workspaces in Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Microsoft Silverlight comes to Linux, First stop: Moblin (Brad Linder)
• If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a … TreeGrid! [A simple, XAML-only TreeGrid UI for WPF] (David Anson)
• MultiBinding for Silverlight 3 (Josh Twist)
• WCF and Silverlight Walk Through (Stephen Forte)
• System.Xaml: IAmbientPropertyProvider Sample (Lester Lobo)
• Adding ToArgb() to the Silverlight Color class (Jeff Wilcox)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Giving the Gift of Technology (Carl Franklin)
• Getting Started with SQL Azure (David Gristwood)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #143: Performing Static Page Checking in MVC (Steven Andrews)
• A User Experience Overhaul with Silverlight and MVVM (Mike Ormond)
• Herding Code 60: Spark View Engine with Louis DeJardin (Jon Galloway)
• Anti-XSS Library v3.1: Find, Fix, and Verify Errors (Jossie Tirado)
• Juval Lowy – The EnergyNet and the next Killer App (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Live from LA, It’s the FREE Windows 7 Developer Bootcamp! (Tim Sneath)
• Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program (Scott Guthrie)
• Orlando .NET User Group Talk – 12 Practices to be a Better Developer (Scott Densmore)
• Competing on the unpopular (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Will Git Drive Open Source Contribution (Chris Missal)
• TeamCity and CodeBetter update, or “How to move past the honeymoon phase” (Kyle Baley)

Database

• Free SQL Server Dashboard (Brad M. McGehee)
• New book: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Programming (Devon Musgrave)
• Use INDEXKEY_PROPERTY in SQL Server to determine if columns in indexes are sorted ascending or descending (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Index on Index View Used in Similar Query (Pinal Dave)
• Book Club: Versioning your database (K. Scott Allen) (Mark Needham)

SharePoint

• Low impact text changing in SharePoint with jQuery (Bil Simser)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Help and learn from others as you browse the web: Google Sidewiki (Sundar Pichai)
• Powershell and Passionate Evangelism (Andy Warren)
• SkyDrive to become the center stage of Windows Live? (damaster)
• Using Log4Net in PowerShell (Gary Sherman)
• Top 5 Outlook 2010 Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• The simple stuff of great presentations (Steve Clayton)
• Windows Live Included With Windows 7? (Sunshine)
• Can a Windows geek learn to love Snow Leopard? (Ed Bott)
• Empowering your My Computer Context Menu – Make some commonly used applications and features just a right click away (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft should dig into the WebKit to stop Google from framing IE (Joe Wilcox)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 23, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #440 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 23, 2009 — #698 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 23rd September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing to Text Files with StreamWriter (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 10.0 (MS Downloads)
• Integrating SDL best practices in your Team Foundation Server Process Template (Charles Sterling)
• Interface Subscriptions Now Supported by MassTransit (Chris Patterson)
• Binding Control Properties to Business Object Properties and Using the Code Snippet Editor (Deborah Kurata)
• Fun with C# 4.0’s dynamic (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Coding: Watch out for mutable code (Mark Needham)
• Generically Constraining F# – Part I (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Creating squared avatar images (Gunnar Peipman)

Web Development

• Drawing the Line Between MVC Controllers and Application Services (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Microsoft Ajax CDN and the jQuery Validation Library (Stephen Walther)
• Security Mental Model for Azure (J.D. Meier)
• Making JavaScript APIs Easier to Use (John Teague)
• Web Sandbox from Live Labs (Jim O’Neil)
• Search functionality: heavy on the research, light on the development (Kyle Baley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pex 0.16.40915.5: Moles, a lightweight Detour Framework, and better support for Test Frameworks (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Actually Querying with the Specification Pattern (Chris Missal)
• Balanced Software Development (Karl Scotland)
• Modularity & Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)
• About stubs, fakes and mocks (Serge Desmedt)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Designer sample code is posted (Jim Galasyn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Leon Gersing is Having a Love Affair with Ruby! (Carl Franklin)
• Video of the David Ebbo presenting T4MVC to the Community For MVC virtual user group (Eric Hexter)
• John Durant – Developing Managed Applications for Office 2010 in Visual Studio 2010 (Robert Hess)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #6-Auto detection of OpenAccess Version (Stephen Forte)

Community / Events

• Are you a developer or designer in the NJ/PA/VA area? I’m hitting the road and would love to meet you! (Dave Isbitski)
• Workshop on Continuous Integration this Saturday (Ben Scheirman)
• Building 42 (Louis DeJardin) – Congrats, Louis!
• MVP Profile of the Week…..Jacob Sebastian (Robert Pearl)
• Announcing the Team Leadership Google Group (Roy Osherove)
• What Developer Tweeps are Using for Their App Dev (Pete Brown)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Converting Stored Procedure into Table Valued Function (Pinal Dave)
• Targeted Index Performance Improvements (Ian Stirk)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Project 2010 (MS PressPass)
• Google Acquires reCAPTCHA (Adam Ostrow)
• DreamScreen: HP Beats Apple to the Punch With Sleek Tablet (Ben Parr)
• Certifications (Wesley Bakker)
• Windows 8 Internal Presentation Template and More? (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft Project 2010 Promises Significant Improvement (Simon Mackie)
• Wave 4: Live Writer To Get The Ribbon Interface? (Scott Lovegrove)
• AppleInsider jumps the shark, declares Zune HD ‘failed’ (Paul Thurrott)
• NCover and NUnit Can Play Nicely on x64 (Justin Etheredge)
• Why I chose Windows 7 over Snow Leopard (and you should, too) (Joe Wilcox)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #435 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: September 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 16, 2009 — #693 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for September 16, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• CloudNews for 16th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #542 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 371 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Trying MonoDevelop On OS X (Davy Brion)
• monoTouch .net development kit now available for iPhone (Paul O’Brien)
• Lucene.net: Your First Application (Simone Chiaretta)
• Gain more control over your ATOMPub feeds with the Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• .NET Performance: Tales from the Field (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Pre-Deployment Scripts (Gert Drapers)
• Append Only Models with NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• AutoMapper 1.0 RC1 released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Using LINQ to query object hierarchies (Gunnar Peipman)
• System.IO Improvements in the .NET 4.0 Framework (Michael Ceranski)
• Writing an SVN PreCommit Hook in .NET that integrates with Jira (Russell Ball)
• What’s the difference between a partial method and a partial class? (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Have VS 2008 SP1 and a Data Dude/WiX/SilverLight Project and the right-click Create Unit Tests wizard is “borked?” There’s a hotfix for that… (Greg Duncan)
• Hacking LINQ Expressions: Select With Index (Keith Dahlby)

Web Development

• Doloto: Accelerating Web 2.0 Applications (Rob Knies)
• What Language Are You Speaking? There’s an API for That (Adam DuVander)
• S#arp Architecture has Moved to GitHub (this ain’t yo momma’s SCM) (Billy McCafferty)
• Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• JQuery Does Not Like QuirksMode (John Teague)
• ASP.NET MVC in Action arrived at my doorstep today (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Engineering the Windows Live / MySpace integration and Leveraging Activity Streams (Rob Dolin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Document Your Air, Food, and Water and How to say NO by saying YES (Roy Osherove)
• Experience-Driven Development (J.D. Meier)
• Your Own Personal Development Plan (Jeremiah Peschka)

Silverlight / WPF

• Reuxables Themes for Silverlight 3.0 (Dax Pandhi)
• Bing Visual Search powered by Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight tip – Dynamic TextBlock (Corey Schuman)
• Is Silverlight the new WebForms? (Dave Ward)
• How to set WPF ScrollViewer VerticalOffset and Horizontal offset (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Sketchflow Screens (CodeFest)
• ARCast.TV – Caleb Jenkins On Dependency Injection (Bob Familiar)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #140: Using Reflection to Invoke members (Derik Whittaker)
• Office Casual – The basics of Visio (Tina)
• Tool Shed Tooltip #25 – Live Writer … more than a blogging tool (Russell Fustino)
• My CodePlex Jump from tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere – The Full Video (Sara Ford)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #5- ATOMPub Property Selector (Stephen Forte)
• What is Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6 Support Strategy? (Beth Massi)
• Ping 29: Silverlight & Movies, Company meeting, Tweets, Win7, Viral Vids (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Silverlight Firestarter this Thursday – Don’t Forget!! (Dave Campbell)
• Community For MVC – Virtual Meeting – Wednesday 9/16/2009 12:00 – 1:00 PM CST ; T4MVC presented by David Ebbo (Eric Hexter)
• Events this Week – September 14th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Codeplex.org: A confusing name for a confusing mission (Scott Koon)
• Free Webcast: 8 Steps to Microsoft Project Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• What developer tweeps are using for their app dev (Pete Brown)

Database

• The Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Introduction (Wesley Brown)
• Top 10 reasons for coming to SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Blobs and Filestreams (Andy Warren)
• Cryptography in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• 6 ways to import data into SQL Server (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Updated Version of SharePoint List Viewer Utility (Eric Shupps)

Miscellaneous

• WordPress 2.9 to get a built-in image editor (Brad Linder)
• PowerShell equivalent of NET HELPMSG (Lee Holmes)
• Zune HD gaming and app downloads confirmed: Twitter, Facebook, and 3D games on the way (updated) (Thomas Ricker)
• Google Fast Flip Gives a Print Look and Feel to Google News (Adam Pash)
• The Windows 7 upgrade survival guide (Ed Bott)
• ‘Twas the night before Zune HD… (Paul Thurrott)
• RTM’d today: Windows 7 Resource Kit (Devon Musgrave)
• On translating VBScript to Windows PowerShell (Ed Wilson)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #433 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 14, 2009 — #691 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (9/14/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #540 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 14th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day