Top Links

• Visual Basic Comes to Windows Phone 7 (Brandon Watson)
• BizTalk 2010 RTM’d (Jon Fancey)
• Your Software Can Learn A Lot From ATMs (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using MemBus for messaging between application components (Gunnar Peipman)
• Non Deadlocking Read/Write Locker and Thread-Safe Collections (Tamus)
• Windows Server AppFabric How-To: Adding multiple persistence stores to an AppFabric installation (Emil Velinov)
• Entity Framework Extensions (Multiple entity updates) – Release: v1.0.0.4 and LinkedIn Developer Toolkit – Release: v1.0 Beta (CodePlex)
• Calculate Business Days using LINQ (Hajan Selmani)
• Show All Settings with Visual Basic Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.0 – September Update (MS Downloads)
• Using Google Docs as an Online Database (Ryan Farley)
• Using NHibernate To Persist And Query Ruby Objects (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Nested jTemplate, jQuery and JSON in ASP.NET (Aamir Hasan)
• How to remove Hyperlink from ASP.NET TreeView Control Nodes ? (Abhijit Jana)
• I Am Not A Fan Of Flash HTML5 Comparisons (Ben Forta) – or Silverlight v. HTML5?
• Developing a REST Web Service using C# – A walkthrough (Anshu Dutta)
• Windows Azure Diagnostics in PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Web Page Image Capture in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Agile vs. Waterfall the Wrong Fight? (Wille Faler)
• Github: A little help for merging pull requests (Kyle Neath)
• Zombie (Stakeholder) Management Strategy (Derek Huether)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Differences between WPF and *Silverlight Rendering Stacks (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Windows Phone 7 has tethering support, up to carriers whether to enable it (Chris Ziegler)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 – An Introduction and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 2 – The Core – Signature (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools Tutorial (Jason Zander)
• iPhone to Windows Phone 7: Launchers and Choosers (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone + VB developers = Great Mobile Apps (Somasegar)
• Handling picture orientation in CameraCaptureTask in Windows Phone 7 (Tim Heuer)
• Hosting a Silverlight application in a custom website (Unni Ravindranathan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV 46: What’s Wrong with my WCF Service? (John Papa)
• Updates to Office Web Apps (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Join the Microsoft Talent Network (Anne Cheng)
• Talking Is Good, Where Can I Do More? (Jeremiah Peschka)

Database

• SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 4 (MS Downloads)
• Check if Database Exists In SQL Server – Different ways (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Outer Join Not Allowed in Indexed Views – Limitation of the View 8 (Pinal Dave)
• Common SQL Server Mistakes – Multi Row DML Triggers (Steve Jones)
• Things good to know about SQL State Server (Jef Claes)

Miscellaneous

• Current Vim Plugin Set (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 Poster (MS Downloads)
• Hundreds of Microsoft Press ebooks now available in the Kindle Store (Devon Musgrave)
• The Complete Guide to Setting up Python Development Environment on Windows (Eran Kampf)
• The Presentation Zen Bento Box (Garr Reynolds)
• How to make OneNote 2010 speak to you (John Guin)
• Microsoft’s NGO Software License (Brad Smith)
• #MakerFaire #Ebook Deal of the Day – Only $9.99ea. Use code: DDMFB (O’Reilly Media)
• Using a 4×20 HD44780-controlled LCD Display with the Netduino (Pete Brown)
• Internet Explorer 9 System Requirements Clarification (Richard Hay)
• Office Web Apps Gets an Update, Now Has PowerPoint and Excel Embedding (Simon Mackie)
• Another nasty Zune gotcha coming your way and it’s gonna hurt (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #693 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Linq Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O’Reilly)) by Joseph Albahari

Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• What Happens When You Reach 200k Reputation? (Jeff Atwood)
• Developer’s Guide to Enterprise Library released! (Grigori Melnik)
• HTML5, XAML and Declarative User Interfaces (Shawn Wildermuth)
• An Introduction to the HTML 5 Canvas Element (Rey Bango)
• Windows Phone’s Real Secret Weapon: Developers, Developers, Developers (Paul Thurrott)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting CUDA 3.1 Working with Visual Studio 2010 (Ade Miller)
• Don’t TOUCH that debugger, you moron, READ the exception stack (Oren Eini)
• XML Literals: Reading an XML File II and XML Literals: Reading an XML File with a Namespace and XML Literals: Reading an XML File with a Variable Namespace (Deborah Kurata)
• Reactive Extensions for .NET – Event-based Async Operations (Matthew Podwysocki)
• The Object Browser: Members Pane (Zain Naboulsi)
• .NET 4.0 MEF FAQ (Socket, Plug and extension) (Shivprasad Koirala)
• NHibernate Query Analyzer (Al Kampfer)
• Enterprise Library 5 developer guide (Pieter de Bruin)
• NHibernate Mapping Generator – Release: v2.0 Beta 2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Displaying Files and Folders in a GridView (Scott Mitchell)
• HTML5, Up and Running (Tom Brander)
• OAuth-only Twitter: What it Means for JavaScript Apps (Justin Houk)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: High Performance Web Sites – Only $9.99. Use code DDHPW (O’Reilly Media)
• Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Enterprise-level IP Geolocation Made Available Via API (Justin Houk)
• Creating a Poor Man’s Distributed Cache in Azure (Brian Hitney)
• Add-on Performance part 2: Helping consumers make informed decisions (Herman Ng)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Let’s Play: Test-Driven Development (James Shore)
• Applying Interface Segregation to Configuration Files (Steve Smith)
• Making the big time (Eric Brechner)
• The Design of the MSDN Hub Pages (J.D. Meier)
• When to Build the Sawhorse (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7: Windows Phone 7 Application Platform (Anton Polimenov)
• Managing Trial Applications for Windows Phone 7 (Jeff Brand)
• myChannel9 Application for Windows Phone 7 (Sigurd Snørteland)
• So what do we get: developer enthusiasm for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Rect and Point Extension Methods (Rene Schulte)
• Changing the Background and Foreground Colors for an Application Bar on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• My Windows Phone 7 Apps (Jeff Blankenburg)
• WPF Game of Life (Ron de Jong)
• Pretty Cool Graphs In WPF (Sacha Barber)
• Windows Phone 7 is pulling in to the platform (Steve Clayton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Ralf Lämmel – Advanced Functional Programming – Evolution of an Interpreter (Charles Torre)
• Screencast: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating to SharePoint 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Bytes by MSDN: Burley Kawasaki and Billy Hollis discuss features & benefits of VS2010 & .NET 4 (Bytes by MSDN)
• Interesting Presentation on Creating a Mobile Application (Frank La Vigne)

Community / Events

• A PASSionate Community (Joe Webb)
• Microsoft doesn’t create bad developers, developers do (Andreas Håkansson)
• Interview with SQL Server MVP Glenn Berry (Brad M. McGehee)
• What’s Happening–September 2010.1 (Dani Diaz)
• NHibernate Quick-start Workshop – November 1th (Oren Eini)
• First Impressions Of The Ruby Community (Davy Brion)

Database

• Don’t turn the dataflow into a cursor [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• Determining the no of processor cores in your SQL Server (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
• SQL Server to SQL Azure Synchronization using Sync Framework 2.1 (Liam Cavanagh)
• Why GUIDs aren’t so Good as SQL Server Primary Key (Peter Bromberg)
• Building a Data Warehouse Part III: Location of your data warehouse (Stephen Forte)
• Comma-delimited Column with SQL 2005 (Deran Schilling)
• SELECT, Deconstructed (Jen McCown)
• Replication Gotcha – Including An Article In Multiple Publications (Kendal Van Dyke)
• Return top 20 queries by Average CPU (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

Miscellaneous

• Help Viewer 1.0 SDK (MS Downloads)
• Book Review: The Ruby Way, Second Edition (Davy Brion)
• Windows 7 Family Pack discounts return (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft Research: Buttons Beat Multitouch Mouse [Microsoft] (Gary Cutlack)
• webOS 2.0 features emerge — your Palm device just whizzed a little. (Lee Mathews)
• Google Docs begins integrating Etherpad’s collaboration kung fu (Lee Mathews)
• Objective C: Observations (Mark Needham)
• Recent Highlights – Kinect, Office Mac, Bing, Hotmail, NCME (Microsoft Blog Admin)
• Internet Explorer Usage Share in August (Ryan Gavin)
• Why Microsoft Is Being Nicer To Open Source (Brian Proffitt)
• iPhone Tip: Record Demos With ScreenFlow (Tobin Harris)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #676 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 31, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2010 — #937 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB by Bill Evjen

Top Links

• IronRuby and the Reactive Extensions for .NET Together at Last (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Coding4Fun: Jeopardy! (Brian Peek)
• ZoomableCanvas: Preface (Kael Rowan)
• HTML5, Modernized: Fourth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Adding more goodies in MEFedMVVM (Marlon Grech)
• Games: Silverlight 4 XNA Platform Game Level Editor for Windows Phone 7 (Wes Yanaga)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Signed Assemblies Using ILMerge (Richard Carr)
• LightSwitch Arrives (William Vaughn)
• LightSwitch: The Return Of The Secretary (Oren Eini)
• Some nice code editor features provided by the VS 2010 Power Tool Extensions (Scott Guthrie)
• Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Release Version (Shai Raiten)
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Reset All Your Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
• Microsoft Aims Its Latest Tool, LightSwitch, at Professionals. Is it a Tool for Pros? (Abel Avram)
• Intellisense Enhancements I want (Deepak Kapoor)
• Microsoft.Data, LightSwitch and WebMatrix are the Next Step of Evolution (Rinat Abdullin)

Web Development

• Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery (Andy Croxall)
• Tips and Tricks for Error Handling in ASP.NET Web Applications (Jacob Sebastian)
• Final Internet Explorer 9 preview released — tons of fixes, speed-ups, and only 8 weeks until the beta (Sebastian Anthony)
• IE9 Train Reaches Platform Preview 4 (James Pratt)
• JSON Query Languages: 5 special purpose editors (Leon Bambrick)
• oData call debugging. (Mike Hole)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Studies that Validate Agile and Lean Methodologies (Dan Puckett)
• Day 4 – Let Things Slough Off (J.D. Meier)
• Evolving Architectures – Part V – Leaps (Mitch Pronschinske)
• How Do You Estimate Your Project? (Stoimen Popov)
• Coding Standards and Best Practices : Avoid using strings in CODE PLEASE! (Peter Bahaa)
• Learn Decorator Design Pattern in Easy Steps (Ananth.tm)
• Tech Lead Checklist to Kick your Team into Gear (Andy Singleton)
• Technical Debt in Medical Software (Bob Nadler)
• The 3 Questions (Ivo Manolov)
• Defect Driven Testing: Your Ticket Out the Door at Five O’Clock (Jared Richardson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Tutorials : Apps Amuck (Nigel Sampson)
• How design time data will save you time designing Silverlight and WPF applications and How to use a DesignInstance to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight and WPF and How to use DesignData to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight and WPF and How to use the DesignerProperties.IsInDesignTool property to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight and WPF (Jag Reehal)
• Data-Centric WPF Applications with Visual Studio 2010 and Data-Centric Silverlight Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch (Christian Nagel)
• Experimenting with PRISM 4, Silverlight, MEF (Mike Taulty)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Implementing The Overview UserControl (Davy Brion)
• Why didn’t I think of that in the first place? [Windows Phone 7 Charting example updated to include reusable, platform-consistent Style and Templates] (David Anson)
• New book: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• Great Article on Writing a Bing Maps Location-Aware App for Windows Phone 7 (Frank La Vigne)
• Windows Phone 7 Programming For Silverlight Developers – Reloaded (Jesse Liberty)
• Using RichTextBox in Silverlight 4 (Mamta)
• Windows Phone 7 Beta: My Application Won’t Start After Renaming Project (Nick)
• Silverlight Blackjack for Windows Phone 7 (Rob Miles)
• Bring on Bing for Windows Phone 7 (My Kind of Phone)
• Windows Phone 7 App Development (Richard Hay)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 89: Vaidy Gopalakrishnan on IIS Developer Express (Jon Galloway)
• Nikolai Tillmann and Aaron Shaver – Coding Duels at pexforfun.com (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: A Look at SVG in IE9 and Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: A Look at the New IE Test Drive Samples and Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: A Look at Hamster Dance in IE9 and Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: The IE9 Rocks HTML5 Audio Support (Larry Larsen)
• VSLive 2010 Day 2 Keynote: An Insider’s Perspective of Visual Studio 2010 and Application Lifecycle Management and Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management announce and VSLive 2010 Day 1 Keynote: Visual Studio 2010 and a Glimpse of the Future (Brian Keller)
• geekSpeak Recording – Business Intelligence for the .NET Framework Developer with Andrew Brust (Emily Gibson)

Community / Events

• Typemock Sponsors #devLink2010, August 5 – 7th (Britt King)
• Chat Now In Public Beta (Jeff Atwood)

Database

• Testing Native Backup Compression in Combination with SQL Server 2008 R2 Data Compression (Glenn Berry)
• PowerShell for the DBA: Search the Windows Event Logs for Errors (Buck Woody)
• PostgreSQL Tutorial – Referring to Other Tables (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Configure hMailServer for SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

• Aurora Monitoring with PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
• Google Wave dies of acute unpopularity at age 1 (Jay Hathaway)
• YouTrack Adds Importing from Trac and CSV Files (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Masterminds of Programming – Only $9.99. Use code DDMMP. 2010 Jolt Award Winner (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft’s Live Labs launches zoom.it (Steve Clayton)
• Jive Software takes the first step towards a social enterprise app market (Steven Walling)
• Microsoft’s mystery hardware? Arc Touch Mouse, launching in September (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 4, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #658 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 4, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Visual Studio 2010, TFS 2010, VSTS Articles Link List (.NET Curry)
• Flagged Links #77 (Double Issue) (Jason Bock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 04, 2010 — #918 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours by Rob Eisenberg

Bloated Dew Drop today since I was unable to get one out on Friday. Tomorrow morning should be a light one.

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Top Links

• The MVVM Twilight Zone (Josh Smith)
• Code Contracts Part 2 – Preconditions (Kevin Hazzard)
• Stack Exchange API Public Beta Starts (Jeff Atwood)
• Essential Tools for the WPF Novice (Michael Sorens)
• How about a Zune-style ChildWindow? (Jeff Wilcox)
• MEFedMVVM v1.0 Explained (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Binary Serialization (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1 (MS Downloads)
• Presentation:The State of the Art on .NET (Amanda Laucher & Josh Graham)
• Updated PowerCommands for Reflector (Jason Haley)
• Convert a Generic List to a Datatable (Abhijeet Singhai)
• C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series:Dynamic Primitive Type Part 2 and C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series:SortedSet in Framework 4 (Sam Gentile)
• Include for LINQ to SQL (and maybe other providers) (Damien Guard)
• Creating an F# Solution Template for Visual Studio 2010 (Daniel Mohl)
• NHibernate Workbench (Felice Pollano)
• Using Sandcastle to build code contracts documentation and Code Contracts: How they look after compiling? (Gunnar Peipman)
• Windows Azure Most Wanted – MSMQ Azure and MSMQ Azure vs. Scalable Queue with Concurrency Locks (Rinat Abdullin)
• Building a Simple Logging Http Module with Logging Application Block (Gil Fink)
• VSGesture v2 for VS 2010 – Adding mouse gesture support to VS 2010 (No, not those “hand gestures” I see you doing at your screen… (Greg Duncan)
• Interview:Don Syme Talks About F# 2.0, a First Class Citizen in Visual Studio 2010 (Don Syme)
• C# 4.0 AccessPrivateWrapper – Instantiate and Access Private/Internal Classes and Members via dynamic + reflection (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Drowning one’s sorrows in the ThreadPool (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Transaction Flows Across Reentrant AppDomain Calls and Transactional Workflows: Suspend-Enqueue-Unload-Resume Done Correctly on Second-Phase Commit (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Talking Reactive Extensions (Matthew Podwysocki)
• C# & SqlDependency – Monitoring your database for data changes (Richard McCutchen)
• How To Enable Visual Studio 2010 Log (Shai Raiten)
• Dynamic Type to do away with Reflection (Rick Strahl)
• Querying a Hierarchical Parent-Child Structure in LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• cleartextonfoo and Visual Studio SWAG!! and Hide the Status Bar and Hide the Vertical and/or Horizontal Scroll Bars (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 2 Wrox Blox available for purchase (Simone Chiaretta)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using jQuery context menu with tables (Gunnar Peipman)
• How to programmatically change the physical directory for a web app in IIS 7.x (Keith Brown)
• Using the Power of the Sueetie API for Good (Fighting Blog Spam) (Dave Burke)
• Create a Twitter API proxy for your own! (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Porting the HomeController, the map/reduce way and Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Porting the HomeController, the Right Way and Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Migrations (Oren Eini)
• EmailTheInternet.com: Sending and Receiving Email in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Sean Nolan, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and New Plugin Enables WordPress To Use Windows Azure Storage Services (Windows Azure Team)
• Google + Pac Man = Statement? (Frank La Vigne)
• 4 Steps to Consume Web Services Using Ajax (includes video tutorial) (Shivprasad Koirala)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Collective Code Ownership" Now Online (James Shore)
• Code Kata Setup (Louis Salin)
• Trustworthiness… Then Trust (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Ninject.RhinoMocks: Auto Mocking Container For .NET 3.5 and Compact Framework 3.5 and Albacore: Should We Continue To Support Ruby v1.8.6? (Derick Bailey)
• Whole Agile (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Presentation:Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams (Roy Osherove)
• NCover 3.4.6: Bug Fixes (Stephen Ward)
• Is your test method self-validating ? (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Programmer Tip: True Alpha Geeks Breed Alpha Geeks. (Rajiv Popat)
• PowerShell for acceptance testing (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• "Intuitive" in one language may (at best) be "understandable" in another. Please plan accordingly…. (Michael S. Kaplan)
• The Unit Testing Lounge (Tal Townsend)
• Review: Designing with Web Standards (Grant Palin)
• Project Greenfield: Implementing Source Version Control (Joel Cochran)
• SketchFlow with a splash of balsamic (Rudi Grobler)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• F# PowerPack May 2010 – now for Silverlight (Dmitry Lomov)
• Using Windows 7 taskbar features in WPF [pure XAML] (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Navigating Microsoft content on Silverlight and Expression Blend (Adam Kinney)
• SpinPaint for Windows Phone 7 (with a Rant about Touch) (Charles Petzold)
• While should I need to waste so many resources and 1-3 minutes to get started? (Fredrik Normen)
• Using DynamicObject to intercept and marshal property changes (Josh Smith)
• Silverlight – DataBind to an Anonymous type (Who knew?) (Jason Jarrett)
• Windows Phone 7 April CTP and TransitioningContentControl (Jeff Brand)
• Windows Phone? Sounds exciting! (Jeff Wilcox)
• You Already Are A Windows Phone 7 Programmer (Jesse Liberty)
• WPFPerf Performance Profiling Tools for WPF 4 is now available! (Jossef Goldberg)
• Dotfuscator 4.7.1000 with WPF obfuscation support (Joe Kuemerle)
• Create Silverlight Master – Detail UI Using Data Sources Window Object DataSource (Karl Shifflett)
• Document Toolkit 2 Beta 1 available (Koen Zwikstra)
• Seesmic Releases Microsoft Silverlight Based Desktop 2 Preview (Richard Hay)
• Evolution of input and "255 depth levels ought to be enough for anybody." – Bill Gates, 2010 (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #23 – Working with Strokes and Shapes (Mike Snow)
• Right Click a TextBox and Display a ContextMenu using Silverlight 4 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services – Part 3 (Weidong Shen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 04 of 18): Hello World (MS Podcasts)
• TWC9: Silverlight Tools for VS, Azure Guidance, Rx, and Home Server (Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Home Server Vail (Larry Larsen)
• The Thirsty Developer 93: Talking Visual Studio with Jay Schmelzer (Dave Bost)
• Video discussion about Visualization and Modeling Tools in VS2010 (Cameron Skinner)
• Cloud Cover Episode 12 – Hosting WCF and Inter-Role Communication (Ryan Dunn)
• Windows Weekly 157: Next of KIN (Paul Thurrott)
• Boagworld 212. More skills to learn (Paul Boag)
• Toby Richards and Mike Hickman Discuss MVP Engagement with Office 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)
• StartUp Podcast Show #68 David Schenberg and BusyEvent.com (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

• Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint (Melissa Travers)
• A Week in the Life of a Community PM at Microsoft (Pete Brown)
• SQL Immersion Event in Bellevue, WA in August! (Paul S. Randal)
• Microsoft voted best workplace in Europe (Anne Cheng)
• New England GiveCamp – Come Code for Charity (Jim O’Neil)
• 10 Ways to Maximize Your Conference Experience (Dan Wilson)
• Shame on you for stealing (Buck Woody)

Database

• Auto Generate AlphaNumeric ID’s in a SQL Server Table (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Snapshot Isolation – Reduce the Blocking Transactions and SQLAuthority News – Downloads Available for Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 (Pinal Dave)
• Virtual Lab: Creating the Basic SQL 2008 R2 Virtual Machine (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
• Delete all data in database (when you have FKs) (Niikola)
• Geek City: Clearing Plans for a Single Database (Kalen Delaney)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 – Top 10 Resources to get you started… (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• A Book Review of Tribes by Seth Godin (Joe Webb)
• Android 2.2: Froyo Is a Major Update (Alex Chitu)
• 13,000+ Free Icons for Web and Desktop Development (David Vidmar)
• J Allard leaving Microsoft over Courier axing? (Donald Melanson)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: Reviewing the Dow Jones Industrial with Excel 2010 (Nate Oliver)
• 24 things to do, and 100 things *not* to do (yet) for building a MicroISV (Leon Bambrick)
• Accelerating change – we can’t do it alone (Pamela Passman)
• 6 Git Commands To Get You Started (Nick Berardi)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 21, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 22, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 20, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – May 21, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – May 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 21, 2010 — #866 and Silverlight Cream for May 22, 2010 — #867 (Dave Campbell)
• Distributed Weekly 51 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #605 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #106 (Grant Palin)
• Links of the Week #120 (David Vidmar)

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Beautiful Code

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Top Links

• Deq: Extend your favorite Mock framework with Moles (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Windows Phone 7 – Emulator Automation (Justin Angel)
• Getting Lazy with System.Lazy (Derik Whittaker)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Setting up the application (Oren Eini)
• Expression Blend 4 Sketch Mockups Library (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Got Workloads? Git-R-Done faster with the new Parallel Processing capabilities in NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 (Jeff Barnes)
• C# 4.0 – Beginners look into parallel programming (Richard McCutchen)
• Format the Current Document or Selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to live forever (if you’re a CLR object) (Kirill Osenkov)
• LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.11 and patterns & practices – GAX Extensions Library for gax2010 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API (Part 1) (Scott Mitchell)
• Opinionated ASP.NET MVC 2 Template Helpers (Elijah Manor)
• Exception Handling Best Practices in ASP.NET Web Applications (Janko Jovanovic)
• Caveats of C# 4.0 optional parameters (Jimmy Bogard)
• 5 Tools For Integrating HTML5 Video in Your Website (Christina Warren)
• MVC Turbine v2.1 RTM (Javier G. Lozano)
• Can not Load Type – Starting the ASP.NET Web Site Admin Tool (Joe Stagner)
• HTML5 And Flash: Why It’s Not A War, And Why Flash Won’t Die (Luke Reimer)
• Most Common ASP.NET Support issues – Reporting from deep inside Microsoft Developer Support (Scott Hanselman)
• Web Hosting That Makes a Difference (Microsoft Web Platform Team)
• jPageFlipper – Release v0.9 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Finally an authoritative source on the Kanban method and Agile in a Start-up Games Development Studio (Gojko Adzic)
• NCover 3.4.4: Updates and Improvements (Stephen Ward)
• On Shifting Perspectives and Changing Responsibilities Part 3 (Tom Barker)
• Leadership and the mature team (Roy Osherove)
• patterns & practices – Windows Azure Guidance – Part 1 (RC) and StyleCop+ – Release v0.7 (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Making the ScrollViewer Talk in Silverlight 4 (Jeremy Likness)
• TreeView Drag Drop in Silverlight (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Customizing the ProgressBar control in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 80: RxJS with Jeffrey van Gogh and Matt Podwysocki (Jon Galloway)
• Office Casual: How to work from home with confidence (Tina Wood)
• Bart De Smet: Observations on IQbservable – The Dual of IQueryable (Charles Torre)
• MSDN Radio: A Dive into Windows 7 with Mark Russinovich (Emily Gibson)

Community / Events

• Embracing Community (Chris Williams)
• Windows Server and Azure AppFabric virtual launch May 20th (Scott Hanselman)
• Silverlight 4 Business Application Development for Beginners at NWA TechFest (Eve Turzillo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 8 Released and SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 1 (Build 1702) Released (Glenn Berry)
• How to use T-SQL to get the command line startup parameters that were used to start SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Report Builder 3.0 – Using Report Parts (Patrick LeBlanc)
• RavenDB goes live! (Oren Eini)
• List of Database Engine Error Messages (Suprotim Agarwal)
• RavenDB – How stale do you want it? (Rob Ashton)
• Why Use Schemas? (Brent Ozar)
• ReportViewer Projects Don’t Transmogrify (William Vaughn)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Search – Experiences with SearchBeta – Hardware (Dan Blood)

Miscellaneous

• 7 Windows 7 Registry Hacks (Matthew Murray)
• More Google Chrome OS Screenshots (Alex Chitu)
• There’s a Reason It’s Free – Get Over It… (Ben Kepes)
• It’s official: Microsoft is out of the Vista doghouse (Ed Bott)
• WIX and Custom Actions (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Mapping a SkyDrive Folder in Windows Explorer II (an even easier way than before) (Greg Duncan)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: Be More Productive with Office and Project 2010 (Bill Raymond)
• Microsoft Reinvents Hotmail with Tons of Features to Seriously Take on Gmail (Uzair Ghani)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 18, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 18-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 05.18.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for May 18, 2010 — #864 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #603 (Chris Alcock)

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Kanban

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Top Links

• HTML5 Video (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Scrum and the C-Word (David Starr)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools April 2010 Refresh (Tim Heuer)
• Adding an Application bar to your Windows Phone (both globally and locally) in XAML (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows phone capabilities security model (Jaime Rodriguez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Collection Initializers and ToString and the Visual Studio Debugger (Deborah Kurata)
• Twitter lists in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Every Program There Is, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Remove Projects from the Recent Projects List and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Free your Document Windows and What’s new in Code Analysis for Visual Studio 2010 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Add Service Reference – How to Avoid Generating Already Existing Classes (Gil Fink)
• LINQ to GPU (with Brahma) (Greg Duncan)
• Pure Virtual Function Call: Repro Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
• ReSharper Settings Manager – Release v2.1 (CodePlex)
• More with Discovery, Day 3 (Scott Seely)

Web Development

• E-commerce APIs: Store Site in a Box (Adam DuVander)
• Asynchronous TreeView in ASP.NET MVC (Tomasz Pęczek)
• More on Custom Page Styling in ScrewTurn Wiki (Dave Burke)
• Tip: Replacing Html.Encode Calls With New Html Encoding Syntax (Phil Haack)
• VWD Available on Web Platform Installer (Now in Four Languages) (Van)
• Tip #105: Did you know … How to include empty directory when package a web application? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Update Your Windows Azure Website in Just Seconds by Syncing with Blob Storage (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Incremental Design and Architecture" Now Online (James Shore)
• SOA Anti-pattern: Nanoservices (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Why Software Sucks…and What You Can Do About It – book review (Gunnar Peipman)
• Do You Like Pain? (Jared Richardson)
• A Lean Way of Life (J.D. Meier)
• Get Moles for free on Visual Studio Gallery (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Coding: Generalising too early (Mark Needham)
• Mocking HttpContext with JustMock and Playing with aspx page cycle using JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Unit Test Runs Stale Code Because Code Coverage Is Enabled in Visual Studio (Sasha Goldshtein)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend for Windows Phone: Update Available (Christian Schormann)
• Creating WPF UIs for PowerShell with PowerBoots and Visual Studio WPF Designer (Joel Bennett)
• Don’t Wanna Know Plugin for Seesmic Desktop Platform (Adam Kinney)
• IContextAware services to bridge the gap between the View and the ViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 3 (Marlon Grech)
• Be careful when installing the Blend Windows Phone 7 Add-In (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #8 – Detecting Alt, Shift, Control, Window & Apple Keys Combinations (Mike Snow)
• Consuming REST/POX and REST/JSON services in Silverlight 4 (Carlos Figueira)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kate Gregory Live in St. Louis, MO (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Startup Podcast Show #66 Tom Foremski, SiliconValleyWatcher.com (Bob Walsh)
• WebDevRadio Episode 76: Lithium Framework for PHP (Michael Kimsal)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #172: Code Contracts: Validating state with Assert, Assume, ForAll, Exists (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight TV 22: Tim Heuer on Extending the Silverlight Media Framework (John Papa)
• Paul and Kimberly interview from MVP Summit (Paul S. Randal)
• Debugging Sandboxed Code in InfoPath 2010 Forms (Laura Harring)

Community / Events

• Wrox Sponsoring Hello World Mobile App Dev Conference at AppCon Las Vegas Aug 24 (Jim Minatel)
• Typemock Academy – The Event (Gil Zilberfeld)
• MSDN Meeting recording & links – MIX 2010 update (Silverlight 4, IE9, Windows Phone 7 dev) (Katrien De Graeve)
• pluralsight joins the .net rocks road trip tour with on-demand! (Meagon Marshall)

Database

• A DMV A Day – Day 30 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (29/30) fixing heap fragmentation (Paul S. Randal)
• Writing A Transact SQL (TSQL) Procedure For SQL Server 2008 To Delete Rows From Table Safely (Peter Kellner)
• MongoDB vs. SQL Server 2008 Performance Showdown (Michael Kennedy)
• Ensure your view and function meta data is up to date. (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Deployment guide for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 and the Lightning conductor web part (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Office Ribbon in OneNote 2010 (Jeff Cardon)
• Speculation About the "Courier" Project (Frank Shaw)
• Introducing Microsoft® Surface® Design and Development Training (Luis Cabrera)
• An immersive experience for homebuilders on Surface (Eric Havir)
• Developing Docs and Docs.com and Facebook User Content (Pat Kinsel)
• “Halo” Studio to Release New Game on Multiple Consoles (Samuel Axon)
• IMDb app for Windows Mobile released (Uzair Ghani)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 29, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 29, 2010 — #851 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #591 (Chris Alcock)
• Creators Club Communiqué 52 (Kathleen Sanders)
• The Big List of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML Development Tools, Libraries, Projects, and Books (Rey Bango)
• Netcast List April 2010 (Steve Rowe)
• Interesting Finds: April 30, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• April 30th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2010 (Scott Guthrie)

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Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

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Top Links

• Portable Area excerpt from MVC2 in Action (Eric Hexter)
• Rant: HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Display Market: Or, I want my pixels and DPI now! (Pete Brown)
• Expressive Code: Good Variable Names Instead Of Magic Values And Calculations (Derick Bailey)
• Finding Your Strengths (J.D. Meier)
• Digging into the NET Parallel Framework (Kevin Jones)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ReportViewer Projects in Visual Studio 2010—Missed the Mark (Again) (William Vaughn)
• Using the Code Snippets Manager and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Adding comments to a DataTip (Zain Naboulsi)
• NDepend 3.0 – Completely Integrated with Visual Studio (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Using TortoiseSVN From the Command Line (Jim Holmes)
• Every Tree There Is (Eric Lippert)
• Enterprise Library 5 Fluent Configuration API (Gil Fink)
• Buying a Visual Studio 2010 product key or extending the Visual Studio 2010 Trial Edition (Charles Sterling)
• Build Customization using Visual Studio 2010 – Part II (Gouri Sohoni)
• Generating Business Logic “Hooks” for EF4 Entities (Dan Simmons)
• Git, Gitosis, Putty and Windows (Dave M. Bush)
• New Psscor2 commands – Dealing with Dates and Times (Tom)

Web Development

• Amethyst Marries Flash Platform and Visual Studio and Daily Dose – App Engine 1.3.3 Released (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Is Apple doing a favor to HTML5? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Running Rails in IIS7 with IronRuby Rack (Bobby Johnson)
• Client Script Patterns: Predictive Fetch (Simon Ince)
• Queryable OData Metadata (Alex James)
• Editing a Variable Length List, ASP.NET MVC 2-Style (Steve Sanderson)
• IIS Compression in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Web Deployment: Excluding Files and Folders via the Web Application’s Project File (Nichole Baker)
• IE9 Developer Tools: Network Tab (Andy Sterland)
• WhiteHouse.Gov gives Drupal an open source stimulus – Three WhiteHouse.Gov projects released to Drupal as Open Source (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Estimating" Now Online (James Shore)
• #Nose 1.1 Released (Dror Helper)
• Study on the State of Code Review (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Granularity: Architecture’s Nemesis (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Lured in by the complexity (Mark Needham)
• Reworking It. (Rob Bazinet)
• Messaging: At-Least-Once Delivery and Message Idempotency Patterns and Disk Usage (Jonathan Oliver)
• Change is Hard Because Self-Control Wears You Out (J.D. Meier)
• Standards: Grow Them, Don’t Make Them (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF

• Upgrade to Expression Studio v4 for free – now in writing! (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #2– Attach to Process Debugging and Silverlight: Unable to start Debugging. The Silverlight managed debugging package isn’t installed. (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight 4 Training Kit (Scott Guthrie)
• Resolution of Dependency Properties (Umair Saeed)
• Transactions with MVVM (Jeremy Likness)
• WCF RIA Services – Hands On Lab (John Papa)
• Nobody likes a show-off [Today's DataVisualizationDemos release includes new demos showing off stacked series behavior] (David Anson)
• Using a webcam in a WPF application (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DZone Interview – MVVM and Prism (Brian Noyes)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield Live in Redlands, CA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Thirsty Developer 90: Silverlight 3 in the Enterprise (Dave Bost)
• Pete at MIX10: Josh Blake on Natural User Interface and WPF Multi-touch (Pete Brown)
• Interactive Storytelling on Microsoft Surface (Eric Havir)
• Using the new sensor and location API from Silverlight 4 (Martin Esmann)
• Silverlight TV 21: Silverlight 4 – Customer Perspectives (John Papa)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #171: Exploring how to use List Binding in MVC2 (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• SQL Server and Reporting Services Foundations (William Vaughn)
• A Diabetic Product Review for Non-Diabetics – The Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm "Revel" Insulin Pump and CGM (Scott Hanselman)
• Horror stories from the trenches: My very first project (Oren Eini)
• Contributing to OSS, a Git Bootcamp (Karl Seguin)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Update Statistics are Sampled By Default (Pinal Dave)
• Stripping rows out of file imports (Ted Krueger)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (22/30) resource governor allows IO governing (Paul S. Randal)
• The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB – Oh My! (Michael Kennedy)

SharePoint

• I call him Mini-SharePoint! – SharePoint Foundation 2010 (i.e. new version of WSS/Windows SharePoint Services with a new name) (Greg Duncan)
• 5 Tips on Effectively Planning for SharePoint 2010 Migration (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• IntelliJ and TeamCity Load Up on New Features (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Apple seeking to acquire ARM? (Sadat Karim)
• eBay Simple Lister Beta Now Available (John Papa)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #586 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 22, 2010 — #844 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 51 (Kathleen Sanders)
• New and Notable 414 (Sam Gentile)
• Four Great Online Resources for Learning Silverlight (Michael S. Scherotter)

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Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

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Top Links

• Mix10 Session Downloader (Frank La Vigne)
• HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating (Stephen Walther)
• Prism 4.0 Plans (Blaine Wastell)
• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton Tells UI Developers to ‘Do It Naturally’ (Joe Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Review of RedGate .NET Reflector Pro (Scott Seely)
• Cleaning up a folder structure from Visual Studio artifacts from the shell (Simone Chiaretta)
• Collapsing or Expanding All Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
• Working with WCF: Part Two – Your First Host and A Bit About Configuration (James Bender)
• TMap for VS2010 Process Template Explained… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Protecting PowerShell Scripts with Team Foundation Server (TFS) (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Coding4Fun Cannon – Project Overview (Clint Rutkas)
• XNA Tutorial Gets Game Developers Ready for Windows phone 7 (Bruce Kyle)

Web Development

• Take Control Of Web Control ClientID Values in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Building Social Web Applications – Only $9.99! Use code DDBSW (O’Reilly Media)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing deeper (Matthew Podwysocki)
• IE9 Finally Ready to Join the HTML5 Party (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Translator v2 widget and APIs (Kip Kniskern)
• Announcing the OData Explorer (Phani Raj)
• OData.org updated, gives clues about future SQL Azure enhancements (Jamie Thomson)
• Windows Phone 7 user agent (Mads Kristensen)
• OData rocking at MIX10 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Microsoft <3 jQuery (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton on Design (Ina Fried)
• Take a look at the Windows Phone 7 Series “Metro” book (Devon Musgrave)
• Parallel Pair Programming (Mark Needham)
• Measuring Technical Debt (Mitch Ruebush)
• The Complexity Hammer (Steve Rowe)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part I (Christian Schormann)
• Silverlight 4: GPU Accelerated PlaneProjection (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 is NOT the same full Silverlight 3 RTM (Bart Czernicki)
• Testing a WPF UI using Ruby, Cucumber and WiPFlash.dll (Ben Hall)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services and Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight for Symbian Beta available now (Sunshine)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 4 : Direct Hosting of WPF content (Paul Harrington)
• Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application (Pete Brown)
• Control input focus from ViewModel objects (Josh Smith)
• MVVM Light V3 released at #MIX10 and What’s new in MVVM Light V3 and Sample code for my #mix10 talk online (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight 4 RC News (Don Burnett)
• Some steps for moving WCF RIA Services Preview to the RC version. (Fredrik Normen)
• Windows Phone 7 Series will have themes… sort of (Nilay Patel)
• WPF : Re-usable MVVM Ready Breadcrumb control (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• In your hands: IE 9 – Surfing on Metal with GPU Powered HTML5 and In your hands: IE9 and SVG – Past, Present and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web and In your hands: IE 9 Performance – From JS to COM to DOM to HTML5 on GPU and In your hands: Introducing the IE9 Developer Platform Preview (Charles Torre)
• “Build Your Own MVVM Framework” is Online (Rob Eisenberg)
• J.B. Rainsberger – Value Objects (Corey Haines)
• Covariance and Contravariance in .NET 4.0 (Martin Esmann)
• Silverlight TV 16: Top Features in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight (John Papa)

Community / Events

• MIX10 Day 2 Keynote – IE9, OData and Azure (Me)
• MIX10 – Day 1 and MIX10 – Day 2 – First IE9 Platform Preview, OData SDKs, “Dallas” CTP2 (Sunshine)
• Getting Started With nServiceBus on VAN Mar 31 (Zachariah Young)
• Philly.Net Code Camp 2010.1 is Coming… (Mitch Ruebush)
• IE9 Platform Preview Feedback (Justin Saint Clair)
• Side Projects, Community Involvement, Etc. (Derick Bailey)
• What’s Up at Mix: IE9, JQuery and Open Data (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• Using linked servers, OPENROWSET and OPENQUERY (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and WITH NO_WAIT during ALTER DATABASE (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Chat Web Part for SP 2010 – Sandbox Solution (Lightning Tools)
• Advanced donut caching: using dynamically loaded controls (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Zune 4.2 (MS Downloads)
• An Interview Question That Prints Out It’s Own Source Code (In Ruby) (Alan Skorkin)
• Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office Released – Automate Office documents without Office (Greg Duncan)
• Daily Dose – IBM Stops Disclosing Number of U.S. Employees (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Office 2010 Assessment & Planning (Brian Shiers)
• About the Platform Preview (Justin Saint Clair)
• Microsoft Bing: Behind the Scenes of the Decision Engine (Stefan Weitz)

More Link Collections

• Great Blog Posts on Expression Blend 4 for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #561 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 408 (Sam Gentile)
• Mix 10 Rollup Post (Scott Hanselman)

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Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

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Top Links

• Windows 7 Post-RTM Build 7700 Screen Shots Leak: First Build of Windows 8? (Stephen Chapman)
• Developing for the Apple iPad in .NET (Wally McClure)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Testing — Only $9.99! Use discount code BT999 (O’Reilly Media)
• How to customize test initialization and logging (Wolfgang Grieskamp)
• Welcome to the DMV Goldmine (Green Paper – PDF) (Ian Stirk)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reset Visual Studio Settings (Richard Carr)
• Linq to SQL Profiler Video (Oren Eini)
• Deleting Foreign-Key Relationships in EF4 (Dan Simmons)
• Open a file’s location from the File Tab — vstipEdit0014 (Zain Naboulsi)
• “Hello Glade#” from F# (Steve Gilham)
• Optimizing build times (Morten Lyhr)

Web Development

• HTML5 Canvas demo – cloth simulation in JavaScript (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating configuration reader for web and cloud environments and ASP.NET 4.0: How to use application warm-up class (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Review: Designing the Moment (Grant Palin)
• Explaining Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 4 Inside Infrastructure (Muhammad Mosa)
• “The purpose of kanban is to eliminate the kanban” (Derick Bailey)
• NDbUnit v1.6 (and Proteus Unit Test libraries) with Oracle Support Released! (Stephen Bohlen)
• Programmer Tip: No One Really Cares About Your Failures. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• 3 new websites for Silverlight Community (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight 3 – Populate a ListBox and AutoScroll to an Item (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Rounder, Faster, Better – WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.0.0 (Rene Schulte)
• Reading MP3 metadata with Silverlight and drag-drop (Tim Heuer)
• XamlDesigner – View Only/View or XAML/SplitView/XAML with Preview/XAML Only (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 141: iPaul (Paul Thurrott)
• Advanced Web Part Development in SharePoint 2010 (Matthijs Hoekstra)

Community / Events

• TDD master class – Vienna Feb 15-19 (Roy Osherove)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 64-Bit vs 32-Bit Performance (Peter Bromberg)
• Geek City: More About Row Overflow Columns (Kalen Delaney)
• SQL SERVER – Location of Resource Database in SQL Server Editions (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• From Hyper-V back (?) to Virtual PC (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Show Your Papers! (Chinh Do)
• Building Windows Machines in Amazon EC2 (Michael Kennedy)
• A face-melting DSL that allows programming ON the iPhone (and iPad) (Leon Bambrick)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links #90 (Grant Palin)

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Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software (Theory in Practice)