• Continuous Client: My first attempt at multi-device user experience transitions (Kelly Sommers)
• How to unsubscribe from an Event which is registered to an anonymous method (Derik Whittaker)
• Preventing Items from being analyzed in ReSharper and YouTrackSharp: A .NET Client for YouTrack (Hadi Hariri)
• SharpDevelop gets T4 support (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading and Writing CSV Files in C# (Jonathan Wood)
• Retrieve Drive, File and Folder Names (Richard Carr)
• Automatically Show the Output Window During Build in Visual Studio and Working with BigInteger in .NET 4.0 and Working with SortedSet in .NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• More Free TFS 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Webcasts available in June and July! (Angela Dugan)
• Inserting/Updating Record on related entities using LINQ and Logging in LINQ to SQL and Resolving Concurrency conflicts in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
• My Classic Cascading Filters and Field Templates on NuGet (Steve Naughton)
• Windows 8 will (probably) not deprecate C++ and .NET in favor of HTML5 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Some facts about Null in .NET (Abhishek Sur)
• Discover Amazing Open Source Code With the Freshmeat API (Allen Tipper)
• Refactoring to functional ActionResults in Figment (Mauricio Scheffer)
• Skeletal Tracking with the Kinect for Microsoft SDK (Don Burnett)
• "Hello World" in C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Internals : Visualizing ASP.NET Page Life Cycle using IntelliTrace (Abhijit Jana)
• Unit test your MVC views using Razor Generator (David Ebbo)
• Nancy 0.6.0 saw the light of day (Andreas Håkansson)
• Adding RSS to tags in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Tutorial: Making a Canvas Snake Game (Rey Bango)
• Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Michael Crump)
• Client Express (Mark Nijhof)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD for unbelievers (Evgeny Goldin)
• TDD adapted for mere mortals (Kent Tong)
• CQRS Analogy with Relenta – Scaling Email Management in Company (Rinat Abdullin)
• Your Detail Orientated Mode. (Rajiv Popat)
• It’s a little bit funny…The Clean Coder and my Septimana horribilis (Scott Galloway)
• The Template Method pattern gone wrong (or how to stop your overridden methods getting called) (John Rayner)
• Article:Dependency Injection with Mark Seemann (Jonathan Allen)
• Bounded Rationality (Mark Needham)
• Learning the Stance of Reaction, Part 1: Tango (Brian Marick)
• Process Isolation in PHPUnit (Matthew Turland)
• Keeping Things Interesting (Or: Avoiding .NET At Home) (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.4.2 officially released with Mango support and more and #7 How to use AddressChooserTask in a Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
• Version 1.3.0.1 of the F# and C# Win Phone App (Silverlight) Project Template Released (Daniel Mohl)
• Hosting an HTML App in Windows Phone 7 Mango (Don Burnett)
• Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 4) (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 20 – Know about the Accelerometer Tool and Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 21 – Small Demo of Accelerometer Application (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight 4.0: Duplex Communication over Http using PollingDuplexHttpBinding (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Displaying PDF Files in Windows Phone 7 Mango (Michael Crump)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Testing and improving app before submission (Per Ola)
• Dell Venue Pro – Working with the native layer – intro, registry and work modes and Dell Venue Pro – Working with the native layer – SIM, SD card (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Betting The House On LightSwitch (Michael Washington)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 162: Mike Amundsen on node.js (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 403: UFC Personal Trainer, F.E.A.R. 3, COD Black Ops Annihilation Game Add-on (Larry Hyrb)
• SharePoint MCM, Top 3 mistakes, and User Profile Sync discussion with Spencer Harbar-Episode 63 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Windows Weekly 214: You Say MeeGo, I Say Mango (Paul Thurrott)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #29 with Guest Ben Dewey (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Funnect (Larry Larsen)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 20 (Richard Hay)
• Cloud Cover Episode 48 – Node.js, Ruby, and Python in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• TWC9: Kinect SDK Beta, HTML5 for VS, MVC Mini Profiler, XNA Socket Demo (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone Radio – 33 (Brian Seitz)
• NServiceBus Videos Online (Udi Dahan)
• Yet Another Podcast #40–Chris Bowen, Microsoft Evangelist (Jesse Liberty)

Database

• SQL Server Tutorials on Date Time (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Operations Guide and SQL SERVER – T-SQL Scripts to Find Maximum between Two Numbers and SQL SERVER – Puzzle Involving NULL – Resolve – Error – Operand data type void type is invalid for sum operator (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB Aggressive Caching Mode (Oren Eini)
• Replacing Cursors with Set-Based SQL Queries – Part 1 (Andrew Zwicker)

Miscellaneous

• First take reviews of the Mango release (Brian Seitz)
• Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer (Jason Weber)
• The rumors were right: Google to phase out its Microsoft HealthVault competitor (Mary Jo Foley)
• Introducing the Consolidated Windows Azure Team Blog and Just Announced: June 2011 CTP of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java (Windows Azure Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 25, 2011 and Interesting Finds: June 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #881 (Chris Alcock)
• June 26th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET and NuGet (Scott Guthrie)
• Links of the week #154 (David Vidmar)
• Today’s Links (6/24/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily Links 24/06/2011 (Jax)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 19-June-2011 to 25-June-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Retrospective 38 – Agile, Scrum, Developers and Tutorials (Peter Saddington)
• Daily News Digest 06/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)

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ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed by Stephen Walther

Big congrats to all the new and renewed Microsoft MVPs for October!

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing TFS Basic! (Jason Zander) – Link of the Day
• MSXML4 SP3, now with a CAB (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Great Windows Azure projects on CodePlex (Murray Gordon)
• Generically Constraining F# – Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Parsing Capital Letters (Chris Love)
• Create Breakpoints With Hit Count In Visual Studio 2008 (Deepak Kapoor)
• Why does char convert implicitly to ushort but not vice versa? (Eric Lippert)
• C# Singleton Pattern Code Snippet (Peter Bahaa)
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)

Web Development

• Special Folders You Won’t See in ASP.NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• New AJAX Control Toolkit Release (Stephen Walther)
• Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype (Robert Scoble)
• Dynamically Generate META tags in ASP.NET Pages with LINQ to SQL (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Creating Smart Stubs with a Mock Framework (Roy Osherove)
• Hey you, developer! Learn a bit of business speak! (Oren Eini)
• Writing meaningful, self-documenting, behavior-oriented tests (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Hire’s remorse (Eric Brechner)
• How to Excel as a Programmer (or anything else) (Dave M. Bush)
• On Crimes Against Duct-Tape, Mental Masturbation, and Pretty Boy Disclaimers (Russell Ball)
• Learning from Feedback as a Public Speaker (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Automatically stop the build for a solution when a project has failed to build (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

Silverlight / WPF

• Trigonometric Animations (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• DelayBinding: a custom WPF Binding and Editable Collection Adapter for WPF (Paul Stovell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Connected Show Podcast: Jon Skeet on C# 4.0 (Brian Johnson)
• Hanselminutes #200 – The History and Future of Web Standards with Molly Holzschlag from molly.com (Scott Hanselman)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals, Chapter 1 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #145: Getting started with Lucene.Net Search Library (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight Screencast – How to create a Resource Dictionary (Murray Gordon)
• Great Screencast on Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight (Frank La Vigne)

Community / Events

• MVP No More (Jon Skeet) – BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-GLE
• One Year Later – What I’ve Learned About Blogging (Lee Dumond)
• Congratulations to Q3 NEW Silverlight MVPs (Tim Heuer)

Database

• Deleting All Records In a Table EXCEPT For the N Most Recently Added Records (Scott Mitchell)
• PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Creating PowerShell Scripts (Josh Jones)

SharePoint

• Reduce development costs by platforming on SharePoint (Murray Gordon)

Miscellaneous

• Coming Soon – Final Release of Windows XP Mode (Brandon LeBlanc)
• MSDN Blogger Releases "IE Zone Compare" for Viewing and Comparing IE Security Zone Settings (Blake Handler)
• Staying Healthy With MSN and Bing (Kristin Meldahl) – An MSN view of your HealthVault data.
• Using Windows 7 for Music Production (David Battino)
• Introducing Visio 2010 (Office Team) – I like the new Shapes Windows collapsed view… looks kinda like the toolbox in Expression Blend.
• Sample of the Week – SOko (Vijaye) – A cool Small Basic sample app.
• Get Quick Access to Windows 7′s Jump Lists From the Keyboard (The How-To Geek)
• Session 0 Isolation (Yochay Kiriaty) – App compat, services, Windows 7, and you.

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 1, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #446 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 01, 2009 — #702 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #553 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 1st October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• ASP.NET Podcast on Windows Azure (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• ASP.NET MVC – Think Before You Bind (Justin Etheredge)
• Xbox Gamer Tag Reader (Craig Wright)
• Friday Books – CSS: The Missing Manual (Dave M. Bush)
• US Congress Gets an API (Kevin Farnham)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption Part 2 (Sam Gentile)
• How I Do Continuous Integration with My C#/F# Projects – Part II: Setting Up a Continuous Integration Server and Part III: Running Automated Unit Tests (Steffen Forkmann)
• Getting Started with Xbox 360 Game Development with XNA – Release: Tutorials (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #1: Introduction and #2: Hello World (Eric Gunnerson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ux Tip 2 – UX Review (Corey Miller) – Link of the Day
• xUnitForms – Release: v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Impact (J.D. Meier)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 145 – SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob – Robert C. Martin (Scott Hanselman)
• Explaining Exploratory Testing (James Whittaker)
• TDD in SharePoint – Introduction to Common Vocabulary (Andrew Woodward)

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Build an Asteroids Inspired Silverlight Game (Michael Ceranski)
• Nifty Time Savers for WPF Development and Building FM Radio with RDS Support (Tamir Khason)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #79 – How to Disable HTML DOM Access from Your Silverlight Application (Mike Snow)
• Expression Encoder SL 2 MediaPlayer Templates and SL Streaming (Mike Ormond)
• WPF Toolkit Is Not Ready for Production Applications (Brent)

Database

• SQL Server – sqlcmd – Using a Dedicated Administrator Connection to Kill Currently Running Query (Pinal Dave)

Windows 7

• Six New Annoyances Introduced in Windows 7 (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
• What You Should Expect from the Windows 7 Beta (The Geek)
• Windows 7 Videos on Channel 9 (Adam Kinney)
• Windows 7 Taskbar – Part 1, The Basics (Yochay Kiriaty)

Miscellaneous

• Whiteboard Wednesday – "Dipping" Into New Year’s Resolutions (Max Pool)
• Kid Programming with Kodu Coming to Xbox 360 (Harry Pierson)
• Google Chrome Release Channels (Mark Larson)
• It’s Official: Office 14 RTM Scheduled for a 2010 Release (Stephen Chapman)
• Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta (Alex Chitu)
• Overnight Success: It Takes Years (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Tech Twitterings #10: 2008.12.29 – 2009.01.06 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for January 08, 2009 — #479 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for January 8th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (1/8/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• LINKBLOG for January 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #261 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 10 (Mike Snow)
• Link Listing – January 9, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight News for January 09, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Visual Studio Links #97 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: January 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 6 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day