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Top Links

• New drop of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) available (Bart de Smet)
• Better Application Services and CQS using S#arp Architecture 1.0 Q3 2009 (Billy McCafferty)
• TWC9: 100th Episode! WPF, VS2010 RC tips, Bonus Footage (Brian Keller)
• NUnit vs. MsTest: NUnit wins for Unit Testing. (Roy Osherove)
• Pex and Moles become Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools (Nikolai Tillman)
• Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox (Paul Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Functional I/O (or at least “O”) (Ashley Nathan Feniello)
• Visual Studio Test Professional (VSTS) 2010: Organization of artifacts (Subodh Sohoni)
• MSBuild 4 Detailed Build Summary (Cliff Hudson)
• Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls” (Mayuri Diwan & Nichole Baker)
• Use F6 to Jump Between Split Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Functional C#: Using Join and GroupJoin (Mark Needham)
• Updated Data Model Designer Extension Starter Kit (Julia Kornich)
• XTrace.cs – C# trace with printf formatting (Hans Dietrich)
• Working with WCF: Part One: Introduction and Your First Service (James Bender)
• Why is CruiseControl.Net Hiding My Test Results? (Chris Missal)
• My Visual Studio Color Settings (Keith Elder)

Web Development

• When Session Objects Get Created With No Session Variables (Dave M. Bush)
• Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from ORCS Web (Ben Byrd)
• Use ASP.NET 4 Browser Definitions with ASP.NET 3.5 (Stephen Walther)
• Microsoft is “All In” the Cloud (Bill Zack)
• BSON Serialization (Karl Seguin)
• Passivity, or “How to help your views leave the nest” (Kyle Baley)
• Javascript: The ‘new’ keyword (Mark Needham)
• I am moving… to the cloud! (Rudi Grobler)
• Detecting Ajax Events on the Server (Doug Neiner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 22 minute meeting (Scott Berkun)
• The case against Rock Star developers (Stephen Forte)
• How Ruby Taught Me To DRY Up My Code With Lambda Blocks and Don’t Expose IList Just So You Can Assert Against Its Contents (Derick Bailey)
• Getting code ready for production (Oren Eini)
• A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, CQS, Repositories and Separation of Concerns (Billy McCafferty)

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows Phone 7 Series for Designers and Developers (Christian Schormann)
• Excited about Windows Phone Development! and WPF: Now with Less Fuzz (Pete Brown)
• Turn your head and check out this post [How to: Easily rotate the axis labels of a Silverlight/WPF Toolkit chart] (David Anson)
• MVVM for Dummies (Martin Hinshelwood)
• WPF4 RC has better text clarity. RTM will be even better. (Rob Relyea)
• Request for Feedback (WPF VNext) (Lester Lobo)
• Another review of Advanced MVVM (Josh Smith)
• Creating a Custom Silverlight Pre-Loader (Brian Lagunas)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 146: Google Fatigue (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Announces the Windows Home Server YouTube Channel (Blake Handler)
• Video Trip Report: If this is Tuesday, this must be Cairo (Scott Hanselman)
• Cloud Cover Episode 3 – Worker Role Endpoints (Ryan Dunn)
• Microsoft Research: Tools to Help Resolve Concurrency Problems (Robert Hess)
• jQuery Podcast 14 – Phil Haack (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• A Conversation with Bill Buxton and Albert Shum; Microsoft’s UX Gurus (Nic Fillingham)
• Herding Code 75: Barry Dorrans on Developer Security (Jon Galloway)
• Your Rx.NET Prescription Has Been Refilled (Jeffrey van Gogh)

Community / Events

• Join us at MIX, March 15-17th 2010! (Zhiming Xue)
• SharePoint and Office 2010 Keynotes (Mike Walker)
• Going to Vegas with my Phone… (Seema Ramchandani)
• PyCon 2010: Python in the browser (Jimmy Schementi)
• Headspring continues to hire: we will train contract-to-hire positions (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• Default value for OLE DB Destination FastLoadMaxInsertCommitSize in SQL Server 2008 (Jamie Thomson)
• How to archive data from a table to a local or remote database in SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

 patterns & practices – SharePoint Guidance: Drop 6 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• PsyMUD: a MUD for Linux (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft Announces May 12th Launch Date of Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• LEAKED: More Juicy Microsoft Courier Details and Pics (Barb Dybwad)
• Windows Phone 7 Series Themes for 6.5 Devices (Sarah Perez)
• Outlook Folder Macros for Getting Things Done (Jonathan Cogley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2010 — #807 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Gone With The Week (Mar 1 – 5, 2010) (MSDN Magazine)

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Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0

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Top Links

• JetBrains Web IDE (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Designing Maintainable Systems (Simon Brown)
• The Endowment Effect (Cognitive Bias) (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Improving perceived WPF app startup performance with MEF and a Splash Screen (Marc Schweigert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Configuring SmtpClient to Drop Emails in a Folder on Disk (Mike Hadlow)
• Visual Studio Font and Colour Schemes and Using the Console Speaker (Richard Carr)
• My Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is Crashing…Help! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Copy a file’s full path from the File Tab — vstipEdit0013 (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Google Apps Drops Support for IE6 (Adam Pash)
• New Web Client Guidance Drop Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Building a Url Shortener with the bit.ly API (Mike Ceranski)
• Shrink your Views with FubuMVC Html Conventions (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Obstacles to an enterprise DVCS (Eric Sink)
• Implementing Domain Queries (John Teague)
• Conducting Effective Meetings (Joe Webb)
• Pex v0.22.50128.1: Bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Programmer Tip: Consider Coding In Silence Or Switching To Pair Of Head Phones. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Aspen – part 7 of X – Entity Validations (Fredrik Normén)
• Bing Maps Developer Sheet (Frank La Vigne)
• XamlPadSample Step 1f-alternateViews, app.xaml & assembly loading (Rob Relyea)
• Implementing DependencyProperty with a single attribute (and CciSharp) (Jonathan de Halleux)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: httpHandlers and httpModules with Chris Love (MS Podcasts)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Embodied Social Proxies (and Remote Video Heads!) with Microsoft Research (Scott Hanselman)
• A Look at Seesmic Look (Larry Larsen)
• VS 2010 Quick Hit: Intellisense (Dariusz Parys)
• Linq to SQL Profiler Video (Oren Eini)
• endpoint.tv – How to secure a Workflow Service in WF4 (Ron Jacobs)
• SQLBits Videos available now available (Simon Sabin)
• jQuery Podcast #9 – David Artz, Aol. (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Nikolai Tillmann: Moles – Replace any .NET method with a delegate (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• A Microsoft employee who knows the true meaning of Disaster Response (Gretchen Ledgard)
• One Long Strange Trip: Visual Studio Magazine and Me (Bill Wagner)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Several Readers Questions and Readers Answers (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Kodu Tutorial #3 Load Level Menu (Stephen Coy)
• Daily Dose – Quest for the One True iPad (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Jan 29, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: January 29, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 30, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – JAN ‘10 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 01/29/2010 (Rick Minerich)

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The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting

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Top Links

• Publishing videos on Windows Azure end-to-end (James Clarke)
• The Binding you wanted from day one in WPF (Josh Twist)
• Call for FubuMVC Contributors (Jeremy D. Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F#: Refactoring to active patterns (Mark Needham)
• Advanced StructureMap: custom registration conventions for partially closed types (Jimmy Bogard)
• Unity 2.0 Automatic Factories (Chris Tavares)
• Visual Studio 2010 editions and “The Ultimate offer” – If you’re buying Visual Studio in the next three months, information you MUST know (Greg Duncan)
• Debugger Friend or Foe (Kevin Jones)
• C++ in Visual Studio 2010: Windows Platform Developers User Group (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The EF Fail Whale strikes again… (Scott Galloway)
• Tips and Tricks: Zooming in the VS 2010 Editor (Brittany Behrens)

Web Development

• JSMag January 2010 is now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Script to Enable HTTP Compression (Gzip/Deflate) in IIS 6 (Keith Dahlby)
• How SparkFun (and 800.com) and small commerce or startup websites can scale (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Writing Internal DSL’s in MSDN (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Process Safeguards and Ski Slopes (Karl Scotland)
• Advanced Castle Windsor: custom registration conventions for partially closed types (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Problem with Big (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Duck Typing (Mike Ceranski)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using RIA Services Programmatically (Andy Beaulieu)
• Using a ViewModel as a value converter (Josh Smith)
• Fluent Silverlight – Binding dependency properties to model properties (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• [Video] Spark View Engine Part 3 (Mike Ormond)
• Hanselminutes: Axum – A domain-specific concurrent programming language with Niklas Gustafsson (Scott Hanselman)
• Connected Show Podcast: PHP LINQ Fest (Brian Johnson)
• 10-4 Episode 37: Leveraging Model Metadata and Validation with ASP.NET MVC2 (Jonathan Carter)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #157: Working with Partials in Spark: Part 1 (Derik Whittaker)
• Video of the SLHVP First Release (Jesse Liberty)
• This Week in Testing – Episode 10 – Do Not Ship It, Part 1 (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

• Announcing PowerShellGroup.org – A home for PowerShell User Groups (Joel Bennett)
• Code Mastery Event – February 11th (Jim O’Neil)
• Vote for Chris Love in the MIX Open Call (Chris Love)
• Creators Club Communiqué 36 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Goals for 2010 (Scott Koon)
• Microsoft’s Grandmaster of Funk (MS JobsBloggers)
• 25 seats for SharePoint 2010 Virtual Ignite GMT+4 Time zone: Limited Availability till Jan 9, 2010 (SharePoint Team)

Database

• How to Read the Results of SELECT @@VERSION in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• Misconceptions around database snapshots and transaction rollbacks (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 has lots of ‘GodModes’ (Ina Fried)
• 768-bit RSA modulus factorized (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Will Future Mobile Apps “Bump”? (Adam DuVander)
• Microsoft Bing’s Big Plan For 2010: Refinement (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Automating Maven with PowerShell (Chinh Do)
• PowerShell-based download manager (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Is there such a thing as too much precision? (Eric Lippert)
• (MyPain) => Your.Gain: BitLocker and Bootable VHDs (Jim O’Neil)
• Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility (Larry Waldman)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Confessions of a Public Speaker — Only $9.99! Use discount code CPSE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• Adventures in Meta programming in Python: im_class, __import__, __getattribute__ (Ryan Svihla)
• How objects are sent to and from remote sessions (Lukasz Anforowicz)
• Predictions for 2010 Part II- BI For the Masses (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #513 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 07, 2010 — #771 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for January 7, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 7-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (1/7/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

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Model-Based Software Testing and Analysis with C#

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Top Links

• Resharper is amazing, take N (Oren Eini) – Oren illustrates ReSharper 5.0’s integration with MS Symbol Server & Source Server. This enables easy debugging into the .NET Framework.
• More On The Death of If-Else (K. Scott Allen) – Inspired by a recent post by Aaron Feng, Scott checks out some alternatives to the If-Else pattern in C#.
• Lessons in Software from Eric Brechner (J.D. Meier) – “I.M. Wright” discusses important traits of good software developers.
• FitNesse book now free online (Gojko Adzic) – Get the 2nd edition of the eBook on FitNesse, a .NET software acceptance testing tool.
• The Monthly Code Quality Report (Mike Hadlow) – Mike shares the metrics he tracks (and his CQL query) with NDepend.
• Continuous education, Hanselminutes show #187 (Peter Eysermans) – Peter shares his thoughts about software tester James Bach’s recent appearance on Hanselminutes.
• Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 – some notes on the "why" (Chris O’Brien) – The second part of Chris’ look at Managed Metadata and Enterprise Content Management enhancements in SharePoint 2010.

Tips & Tricks

• How to get access to WPF’s internal Direct3D guts (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Are you ready to learn F#? Concepts to be familiar with before learning the F# language (Bart Czernicki)
• Serialization Generics (Steve Andrews)
• Asynchronous messages in F# and AutoCAD (Kean Walmsley)
• Authenticated web services calls with Asp.Net MVC (Chris Brandsma)
• Resetting Focus After Selecting a Date with the JQuery UI DateSelector (Chris Love)
• Adding a Twitter Profile Widget in BlogEngine.NET and One-Click Page Creation with ScrewTurn Wiki (Dave Burke)
• Easy HTML Templating with JQuery (Sara J. Chipps)
• Create an ASP.NET TextBox Watermark Effect using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Blend 3 Tip: Filter resources by selected element (Rudi Grobler)
• Exporting a SQL Server table as CSV (Jeremy Jarrell)

New Releases

• Introducing the new Bing Maps beta (Greg Schechter)
• Document Toolkit 1.1.0.4 (Koen Zwikstra)

Code to Read

• D3: Rides Again – Now on VS2010 Beta 2 (Dan Simmons)
• BugCamSmash Dissected part 2 – Make the Bugs Crawl and BugCamSmash Dissected part 3 – Give the Bugs Brains (Adam Kinney)

Software Craftsmanship

• nunit to mstest for CSLA .NET 4 (Rockford Lhotka)
• What is the Definition of Elegant Code? (Christopher Diggins)
• Unit Testing An NHibernate Application and Testing CRUD Operations With NHibernate (Davy Brion)
• Our obsession with efficiency – Dan North (Mark Needham)
• Do you Encode your interface ? (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Leadership Tip: Start Noticing And Appreciating Your Silent Heroes. (Rajiv Popat)
• Bug Triage (Daniel Moth)

Podcasts, Videos & Events

• Windows Weekly 133: A Fish Called Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, on Cloud Architecture Patterns (Bob Familiar)
• Major Nelson Show 342: Video Game Awards, Dark Void and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 94 – PowerScripting Podcast – Carter Shanklin from VMware on PowerCLI and Onyx (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast #3: Silverlight is Real (David Starr)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dr Jeff Norris, NASA (Nic Fillingham)
• My Presentations in Europe (December 2009) (Scott Guthrie)
• Pluralsight On-Demand (Mark Nijhof)

Microsoft Software

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Startup Failures (Rick Strahl)
• F# on the Xbox 360 (Joh)
• SQL SERVER – White Papers – Consolidation Guidance for SQL Server – Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server – White Paper – An Introduction to Fast Track Data Warehouse Architectures by Erik Veerman (Pinal Dave)
• Add javascript files once to a page – SharePoint Sandbox Solutions (Nick Swan)
• Windows Azure – Scaling Out vs. Scaling Up (Jason Haley)
• Reader Challenge – Fault Handlers in C# (Bart de Smet)
• Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Event-based and Error-Handling INavigationContentLoaders (David Poll)

Other Platforms

• Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps (Ben Kepes)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/7 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Distributed Programming with Ruby Book Review (Mike Riley)

Gadgets, Tools & Games

• Flickr Drive Integrates Flickr into Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
• Google Officially Launching Chrome Extensions Next Week (MG Siegler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 6, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 05, 2009 — #749 and Silverlight Cream for December 06, 2009 — #750 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for December 6, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #492 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #100 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.12.01 ~ 12.07 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #82 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/7/2009 (Pete Brown)
• A Feed You Should Read #14 – WynAspe, Silverlight Cream (Greg Duncan)
• Interesting Post… 11/30/2009 through 12/6/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (12/6/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 122 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/06/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Resharper is amazing, take N (Oren Eini)
• Reader Challenge – Fault Handlers in C# (Bart de Smet)
• Are you ready to learn F#? Concepts to be familiar with before learning the F# language (Bart Czernicki)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Startup Failures (Rick Strahl)
• F# on the Xbox 360 (Joh)
• Serialization Generics (Steve Andrews)
• More On The Death of If-Else (K. Scott Allen)
• Asynchronous messages in F# and AutoCAD (Kean Walmsley)
• D3: Rides Again – Now on VS2010 Beta 2 (Dan Simmons)

Web Development

• Authenticated web services calls with Asp.Net MVC (Chris Brandsma)
• Resetting Focus After Selecting a Date with the JQuery UI DateSelector (Chris Love)
• Adding a Twitter Profile Widget in BlogEngine.NET and One-Click Page Creation with ScrewTurn Wiki (Dave Burke)
• Easy HTML Templating with JQuery (Sara J. Chipps)
• Create an ASP.NET TextBox Watermark Effect using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Introducing the new Bing Maps beta (Greg Schechter)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Leadership Tip: Start Noticing And Appreciating Your Silent Heroes. (Rajiv Popat)
• nunit to mstest for CSLA .NET 4 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Windows Azure – Scaling Out vs. Scaling Up (Jason Haley)
• What is the Definition of Elegant Code? (Christopher Diggins)
• Unit Testing An NHibernate Application and Testing CRUD Operations With NHibernate (Davy Brion)
• Lessons in Software from Eric Brechner (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• Our obsession with efficiency – Dan North (Mark Needham)
• Do you Encode your interface ? (Mehfuz Hossain)
• FitNesse book now free online (Gojko Adzic)
• The Monthly Code Quality Report (Mike Hadlow)
• Bug Triage (Daniel Moth)

Silverlight / WPF

• Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Event-based and Error-Handling INavigationContentLoaders (David Poll)
• How to get access to WPF’s internal Direct3D guts (Jeremiah Morrill)
• BugCamSmash Dissected part 2 – Make the Bugs Crawl and BugCamSmash Dissected part 3 – Give the Bugs Brains (Adam Kinney)
• Document Toolkit 1.1.0.4 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Blend 3 Tip: Filter resources by selected element (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 133: A Fish Called Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, on Cloud Architecture Patterns (Bob Familiar)
• Major Nelson Show 342: Video Game Awards, Dark Void and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Continuous education, Hanselminutes show #187 (Peter Eysermans)
• Episode 94 – PowerScripting Podcast – Carter Shanklin from VMware on PowerCLI and Onyx (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast #3: Silverlight is Real (David Starr)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dr Jeff Norris, NASA (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• My Presentations in Europe (December 2009) (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• SQL SERVER – White Papers – Consolidation Guidance for SQL Server – Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server – White Paper – An Introduction to Fast Track Data Warehouse Architectures by Erik Veerman (Pinal Dave)
• Exporting a SQL Server table as CSV (Jeremy Jarrell)

SharePoint

• Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 – some notes on the "why" (Chris O’Brien)
• Add javascript files once to a page – SharePoint Sandbox Solutions (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps (Ben Kepes)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/7 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Pluralsight On-Demand (Mark Nijhof)
• Flickr Drive Integrates Flickr into Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
• Google Officially Launching Chrome Extensions Next Week (MG Siegler)
• Distributed Programming with Ruby Book Review (Mike Riley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 6, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 05, 2009 — #749 and Silverlight Cream for December 06, 2009 — #750 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for December 6, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #492 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #100 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.12.01 ~ 12.07 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #82 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/7/2009 (Pete Brown)
• A Feed You Should Read #14 – WynAspe, Silverlight Cream (Greg Duncan)
• Interesting Post… 11/30/2009 through 12/6/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (12/6/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 122 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/06/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• The future of debugging is here! Visual Studio 2010 now supports stepping back in the debugger. (Habib Heydarian)
• IronPython and IronRuby CTPs for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 (Harry Pierson)
• Workflow Foundation Part III: Participating in persistence (Henning Krause)
• Visual Studio 2010 Training Course on Channel 9 (Jason Olson)
• Tutorial: Getting Started with TFS in VS2010 (Jason Zander)
• Force .NET application to run in 32bit process on 64bit OS (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – October Preview (G. Andrew Duthie)
• C# Static interfaces and Take 2 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 2 (Justin Van Patten)
• A tour of the new Channel 9 Learning Center and Download Visual Studio 2010 Express Editions (Dan Fernandez)
• Busting Visual Studio Myths – or How I learned to counter “that guy’s” anti-VS/.Net comments – or how I convinced my boss that Feature X doesn’t have Problem Y (Greg Duncan)
• New Visual Studio 2010 Built-in C# Snippets Cheat Sheet (John Sheehan)
• IronRuby and IronPython for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 (Jimmy Schementi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates (Karl Shifflett)
• Interesting findings in the diff between .NET Fx v4 Beta1 and Beta2 (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• Lambdas aren’t just for managed code (Scott Seely)

Web Development

• Facebook Churning Out API Updates (Adam DuVander)
• ASP.NET Substitution Control and DotNetNuke – Collecting Profile at Registration (Dave M. Bush)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Web Tools Overview (Mike Snow)
• The Microsoft Ajax Library and Visual Studio Beta 2 (Stephen Walther)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• All the wonderful colors of code coverage (Dennis "D.C." Dietrich)
• Being Business Focused: Risk (Dru Sellers)
• 31 Days of Refactoring eBook (Simone Chiaretta)
• Testing Time – The Best of Both Worlds (Jonathan Oliver)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part III: Agree on Action (Patrick Kua)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Custom Properties and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Mozilla and Microsoft work together on WPF\ClickOnce plugins (Brad Abrams)
• Two birds, one stone [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 2 and DataVisualizationDemos update] (David Anson)
• Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit October 2009 Release Update (Ning Zhang)
• Silverlight out-of-browser and initParams (Josh Twist)
• New WPF Features: TextFormattingMode for clear text (Lester Lobo)
• Uninstall Silverlight SDK RTM before installing VS 2010 Beta 2 (Mike Snow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aaron Skonnard Builds a Real Cloud App (Carl Franklin)
• Pat Brenner: Visual Studio 2010 – MFC and Windows 7 (Charles Torre)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET 4 and Scott Hunter on The Big Picture and new Templates and Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET 4 and Phil Haack (and son!) (Scott Hanselman)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #71 (Jeff Atwood)
• Channel 9 makes you smart(er) – Channel 9 Learning Center opens with VS2010/.Net 4 and Windows 7 courses (free of course) (Greg Duncan)
• New Parallel Capabilities of the Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)
• deCast – Patterns-Based Silverlight – Part II – The Repository Pattern (Rob Bagby)
• Functions and Classes in C# (Sam Stokes)
• Windows 7 and your Xbox 360 (Tina)
• Creating an External List in SharePoint by Using Business Data (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – October 21st, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 7 Launch Client Developer Track Content Available Here (Dave Bost)
• SharePoint Conference Notes on SharePoint 2010 – Day 3 (Greg Galipeau)
• PDC09: Application Deployment with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Robert Hess)
• Live Webcast of Windows 7 Launch Event in NYC 10/22/09 (Zhiming Xue)
• StackOverflow DevDays (Steve Rowe)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Difference Between Candidate Keys and Primary Key (Pinal Dave)
• Wildcard – Match One Character using Underscore (_) (Patrick LeBlanc)

SharePoint

• #spc09 ECM for the Masses: How SharePoint 2010 Delivers On The Promise (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Expands Office 2010 Web Apps Technical Preview (Blake Handler)
• Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You (Bing Team)
• RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my! (Marissa Mayer)
• Building an iPhone app (Aaron Jensen)
• FolderSize Displays What’s Eating Your Hard Drive Space (Adam Pash)
• Refactoring: Ruby Edition available. (Jay Fields)
• 7 Ways to Change the World (Jim O’Neil)
• Google Music Service: The Screenshots (Michael Arrington)
• Lightroom Beta 3 now available (Ryan Brenizer)
• How We Made GitHub Fast (Tom Preston-Werner)
• Burger King selling a Windows 7 Whopper in Japan (Vladislav Savov)
• SinkOverflow (Steve Tibbett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 21, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #460 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 21, 2009 — #713 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #566 and Double Shot #567 (Mike Gunderloy)
• XAML/WPF Web News (2009-10-20) (Rob Relyea)
• CloudNews for 21st October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Zune HD Level Program Written in XNA (John O’Donnell)
• Beware Uri.ToString and Did FxCop tell you to use System.Uri? (Keith Brown)
• Mono, open source and Azure (Louis Salin)
• T4 Toolbox: Support for Visual Studio 2010 (Oleg Sych)
• Debug without a Debugger and Extension Methods Coding Convention (Ariel Raunstien)

Web Development

• What REST APIs do you consume in your apps? (John Sheehan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Test Infrastructure (Sasha Goldshtein)
• UX ROI: User Experience Return on Investment (Vibor Cipan)
• Git renames (Oren Eini)
• DDD: Entity Injection and Mocking Time (Jonathan Oliver)
• Pair Programming: API exploration (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• AvalonEdit, a (the?) WPF code editor component from the SharpDevelop team (think WPF based, monster cool, code editing, IDE like, uber textbox +10) (Greg Duncan)
• MVVM for Tarded Folks Like Me *or* MVVM and What it Means to Me (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Build a Better Accordion (Someone? Please?) (Ariel Raunstien)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Live: Gadgets, Hi-Def, WebCams, 4G and More (Scott Hanselman)
• SQL Server Resource Governor (Mike Wilmot)

Community / Events

• Philadelphia’s code retreat (Sebastian Hermida)
• My 25th Birthday (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

• Things you might not know about Precedence Constraints : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Cast and Convert Functions (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – Accessing SQL Server Databases with PHP (Pinal Dave) – Link of the Day

Miscellaneous

• Installing Ubuntu on Hyper-V (Mike Hadlow)
• Creative Commons Data Dump Oct 09 (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for October 10, 2009 — #708 (Dave Campbell)
• Links for the Week of 2009.10.09 (Jeremiah Peschka)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• CSLA .NET updates: 3.7.1 Beta 3 and 3.8.0 Alpha 2 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 5 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• NH Prof: Post v1.0 Ideas (Oren Eini)
• Grotesque F# Code – I (Chris Smith)
• BOOK – ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework – AGAIN! (Joe Stagner)

Web / Cloud Development

• Building a class browser with Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 5 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Get Started with Windows Azure TODAY! (Windows Azure Team)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (4 in a series) (Sara J. Chipps)
• ServerControlWithSprinklesAndBacon Part 1. (Scott Galloway) – Anything with bacon gets… Link of the Day
• Setting Up You Forms Based Authentication Database (Dave M. Bush)
• Functional Construction for ASP.NET Web Forms (Keith Dahlby)
• Using the jQuery ProgressBar Widget in ASP.NET Applications (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Should APIs Always Be Backwards Compatible? (Adam DuVander)
• Easier Unit Testing of WCF Services with ServiceTestContext (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• The Secret Of Being A Great Apprentice (Alan Skorkin)
• TDD: Testing sub classes and TDD: Test Only Constructors (Mark Needham)
• Building NH Prof: The background story (Oren Eini)
• The Rake’s Progress – Part II (Michael Nichols)
• Coming to Consensus (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Top 10 Enterprise Architecture Mistakes (Mike Walker)
• Influence the future of NDepend (Patrick Smacchia)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Linking in Confluence, Gray Charts and more! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• The Power of Patterns and Practices (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• A preview of upcoming Charting changes [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 1] (David Anson)
• Silverlight Toolkit in the wild – Sunday Night Football player (Jeff Wilcox)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 122: Blowhard (Paul Thurrott)
• Major Nelson Show #332: NHL 2K10, Defense Grid and Scribblenauts (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 83 – PowerScripting Podcast – with Pragma Systems (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• In the Trenches: You’re Making Applications Backwards (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Hanselminutes Live: Open Source and the Codeplex Foundation (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• More On The CodePlex Foundation (Phil Haack)
• The first AltNetWorkshop with Roy Osherove on Intro to TDD (Sebastien Lambla)
• Alt.Net Evangelism And What We Could Do Better (Ryan Svihla)

Database

• SQL Pretty Printer Add-In for SSMS – Review (Rhonda Tipton)
• CTE and hierarchical queries (Naomi)
• SQL SERVER – Plan Caching and Schema Change – An Interesting Observation (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Important: Be careful when installing WSS August Cumulative Update (Stefan Gossner)

Miscellaneous

• A Feed You Should Read #3 – Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew (Greg Duncan) – Thanks, Greg, for the recommendation!
• Breaking News: Intuit To Acquire Mint (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Select –ExpandProperty (Jeffrey Snover) – More PowerShell goodness from Jeffrey.

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #432 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 09.06 ~ 09.14 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #70 (Grant Palin)
• Double Shot #539 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly Link Post 110 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Post… 9/6/2009 through 9/12/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• The difference between Infrastructure & Application (Oren Eini)
• Practical Example of YAGNI: Good Intentions Gone Horribly Wrong and How To Be Awesome: Enforcing ToDos with Specification Tests (Bobby Johnson)
• The Scatology of Agile Architecture (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Pimp my architecture – Dan North and OO with a bit of functional mixed in and Writing unit tests can be fun (Mark Needham)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 1 (Rajiv Popat)
• Help Us Name This Method (Davy Brion)
• A Language for Architecture (J.D. Meier)

.NET / Visual Studio

• My Oslo “M” end-to-end demo (Brian Loesgen)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Adding CLR Properties and __clrtype__ Metaclasses Demo: Silverlight Databinding (Harry Pierson)
• Automating Visual Studio Solution Builds (Srinath M.)
• Fluent NHibernate Automapping (Peter Bromberg)
• F#: Not equal/Not operator (Mark Needham)
• 5 things you’d be willing to chop off System.Byte for (Sergio Pereira)
• No bandwidth MSDN: Reflector (James Newton-King) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• Is ASP.NET MVC a half-baked solution? (Karl Seguin)
• Logging modules for ASP.NET (MVC) and also for Windows Azure (Tom)
• New Processing.js and Sizzle.js Sites (John Resig)
• JSON Serialization is not just for Web Services (Jason Grundy)
• My Quick Oversimplified ASP.Net MVC Pros and Cons (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Tip #54: Did you know…How you can turn off intellisense for HTML/ CSS editors (Ranjini Mathrubootham)
• Tip #55: Did you know…How to change Start-Up Options and Instances of ASP.Net Development Server in a Multi-project Solution (WebDevTools Team)
• Tip#56: Did you know… How to update JScript Intellisense manually (Masako Omoto)
• JSON Serialization of a DataReader (Rick Strahl)
• …In Which We Discuss Writing a Book on MVC (Rob Conery)
• Little hack: CSS Combiner / Minifier ASP.NET Control (Scott Galloway)
• Syntax Highligher (Kevin Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

• Easing is… Easier (Jesse Liberty)
• Databinding the videogame, part 3: actual databinding (Joe White)
• WPF TestApi v0.2 has released! (Vincent Sibal)
• What is Silverlight? (Part 1 of many) and Getting Started with Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode (Corey Schuman)
• Read and Display ASP.NET Query Strings using Silverlight (Malcolm Sheridan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Show #159 – IronPython with Michael Foord (Scott Hanselman)
• Sod This 3: On Dynamic Languages, The Irish and Giving Away your Daughter (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
• WebDevRadio Episode 63: Talking YUI3 with Satyen Desai from Yahoo! (Michael Kimsal)
• This Week on C9: New Downloads, Design for Devs, TFS 2010, and underground Script Clubs (Dan Fernandez)
• Free Azure Services Platform “How Do I” Videos (Bill Zack)
• Dominick Baier on DevWeek and WCF and Dominick Baier on Identity, Geneva and OpenID (Mike Ormond)
• Podcast: Best Practices in Silverlight – MVVM (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• New Video — New CodeRush Features for ASP.net Development (Mark Miller)

Community / Events

• JSMag @ JSConf (Michael Kimsal)
• Silverlight – 7 Twitter Accounts I Follow (and have found valuable) (Chad Campbell)
• How “Being Lazy” is a Good Thing: Daniel Nerenberg (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Arizona: Silverlight, MVC, MEF, WPF (Tim Heuer)

Database

• Blocking due to fragmented HEAP Tables (Ted Krueger)
• How to pad positive and negative number with zeroes in SQL Server? (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server UNION Operations (Richard Carr)

Windows 7

• Windows 7 RC Build 7100: Leaked (Stephen Chapman)
• Windows XP Mode Internals – Part 1 (Overview) (Rafael Rivera Jr.)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate Screens and Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 Screenshots and Secret No More: Revealing Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 and Revealed: More Windows 7 RC details (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate Update (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance (Ameet Chitre)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate 1′s Best Surprise New Features (Matt Buchanan)

Miscellaneous

• Foundations of a Good Programming Language (Michael Ceranski)
• Work from home, save the world (Mike Walker)
• The Twitter Book, by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Get free invites to Microsoft DreamSpark (Taimur Asad)
• May’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• SQLAuthority News – Interview of Author on 60 Seconds with Pinal Dave (Pinal Dave)
• Wolfram Alpha Getting A Public Preview On Tuesday (MG Siegler)
• Paint.NET Plugin Lets You Open Photoshop Files (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Tricky Question (Greg Young)
• Re-review of Kinesis (Kyle Baley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for April 24, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #113 (Darren Stokes)
• CloudNews for April 24th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Nice collection of .NET 4 links (Daniel Moth)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2009 — #578 (Dave Campbell)

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Silverlight / WPF

• Deep Zoom Composer (MS Downloads)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #107 – Animation Easing Demo (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight 3 and GPU Acceleration (Mike Taulty)
• The State of the ViKi (Jesse Liberty)
• How to show a Silverlight app on your wiki homepage – #017 (Sara Ford)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate Mapping – Named queries <query/> and <sql-query/> (Oren Eini)
• Light Up with Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Type Theory Essentials in Pictures – Part 1 – Answers (Bart de Smet)
• Creating a Select Count(*) with NHibernate using Criteria (Derik Whittaker)
• NHibernate 2nd level cache and multiple databases (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Coding Dojo #12: F# (Mark Needham)
• Notifications and Subscriptions (Kevin Ledley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kobe – In the nuts & bolts and don’t really liking it and Kobe – Data Access done wrong and Kobe – When the documentation is the only delivery that matters and Kobe – an example of exception handling done wrong and Kobe – Architectural Overview (Oren Eini)
• Kobe – Oh Dear Lord Why?! (Karl Seguin)
• Code Sample Taxonomy (Phil Haack)
• Just say “No!” to C# Regions? Really?! (Dave M. Bush)
• A lovely couple (of architecture books) (Dino Esposito)
• Qualifying Architecture with Quality Attributes and Architecture Journal 19: TechEd 2009 Special Edition (Mike Walker)
• Exception Driven Development (Jeff Atwood)

Web Development

• Friday Books – ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Dave M. Bush)
• Sueetie Data Core: The Unification (Dave Burke)
• Custom Route Constraint in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Sequentially download multiple files (with jQuery) (Peter Eysermans) – Link of the Day
• Mapping a Generic List to a List of SelectListItems (Erik Peterson)
• Visual Studio 2010 Enhancements for ASP.NET (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Pat Hynds on why projects fail (Carl Franklin)
• Deep Agile Conference 2009 – Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, Jack Ganssle (Bob Payne)
• The History of Microsoft – 1985 (Tina)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Tour of Fog Creek Software with Joel Spolsky (Scott Hanselman)
• 10-4 Episode 16: Windows Workflow 4 (Ron Jacobs)
• Welcome to “The Id Element” Show and Stuart Kwan – On Identity and Microsoft code name “Geneva” (Donovan F.)

Community / Events

• MSDN Events Presents: The Best Of MIX (Dave Campbell)
• Learning WPF at the WPF LOB tour and XAMLFest events (Tim Heuer)
• Comments: Now with Flags and Votes and The Stack Overflow Question Lifecycle (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• sharepoint guidance v2 – drop 7 (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• SharePoint: Customizing standard forms (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Office 2010 FAQ (Paul Thurrott)
• How to upgrade two out of four of your hard drives in Windows Home Server (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Live Labs goes through re-org – new projects coming soon (damaster)
• Recession Proof Your Programming Skills (Nick Berardi)
• Is Open Source Experience Overrated? (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #329 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 16, 2009 — #572 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-04-16 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Tech Twitterings #24 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (4/16/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for April 16th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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