Design / Methodology / Testing

• Separating Configuration from Data Lowers Total Cost of Ownership (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Injecting Fakes/Stubs into StructureMap When Using Profiles (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Integrating Fluent NHibernate and Windsor NHibernate Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Oslo Tool: SQL Schema –> MSchema (Chris Sells)
• Working with IDs in the Entity Framework (Josh Twist)
• Asynchronous Fire and Forget with Lambdas (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• The Problems with NHibernate (Buddy Lindsey)
• Microsoft Windows 7 SDK: Beta and Microsoft .NET Services White Paper (Dec 2008 CTP) (MS Downloads)

Web Development

• JavaScript Tools (Mike Hadlow)
• An Argument for Moving ASP.NET MVC Controllers to a Separate Assembly (Billy McCafferty)
• The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String (Updated Edition) (Eric Lawrence)
• Enumeration-Based Dropdowns in .NET MVC (Steve Andrews)
• xVal – A Validation Framework for ASP.NET MVC (Steve Sanderson)

Silverlight / WPF

• The WPF Mindset (Ryan Cromwell)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #80 – How to Crop an Object (Mike Snow)
• Creating a Silverlight Control That Stays Square and Dazzling Silverlight Toolkit Pie Charts with Overlays (Pete Brown)
• Using Encoder 2 Templates for Existing Media (Tim Heuer)
• Fun with List Bindings in Silverlight 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)

PowerShell

• Managing Remote Desktop Services (aka Terminal Services) Using Windows PowerShell (Shanmugam Kulandaivel)
• Should I Refinance? PowerShell the Financial Advisor (Lee Holmes)
• Get-USB – Using WMI Association Classes in PowerShell (James Brundage)
• Develop a Complete WMI Inventory Tool in Windows PowerShell (Don Jones)

.NET Community / Events

• MDC Giveaways (Frank La Vigne)
• James Whittaker Netcast (Steve Rowe)
• ALT.NET Podcast Episode 14: Object Databases (Mike Moore)

Miscellaneous

• The Office 14 Wave: What to Expect and Office 14 and Windows Mobil 7: Another Day, Another Roadmap… and First Office 14 Screenshot? (Stephen Chapman)
• SOA Still Alive and Well–Sell It to the Business (David A. Chappell)
• Visualization – The Browser Wars (Max Pool)
• A Year in the Life of Caffeinated Coder: Part Deux (Russell Ball)
• Google’s New Favicon (Marissa Mayer)
• Getting Windows 7 Up and Running in VPC 2007 (Kirstin Juhl)
• Building a Hackintosh (Ben Scheirman)
• Windows 7 in 2010? Ha! Try July 2009 (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Discoveries This Week 01/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for January 9th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for January 09, 2009 — #480 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight News for January 10, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Link Listing – January 10, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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