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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)

The Geek Shelf

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

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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)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Lanuage Envy – String Interpolation (Sergio Pereira)
• Why Oslo Is Important (Dan Vanderboom) – Link of the Day
• Building WCF Services with F#, Part 1 (Ted Neward)
• I Don’t Really See the Problem with NHibernate’s XML Mapping Files (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• DevEvents – LINQ to SQL Model Binding in .NET MVC (Steve Andrews)
• Hyper-Video Videos Posted and The Header Content Control (Jesse Liberty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Estimating and Planning (Jeff McWherter)
• How to Unit Test This Code? (Scott Dorman)
• Significant Advances in Unit Testing Windows Workflow (Michael Kennedy)
• Design Principles (Laila Bougria)

Database

• SQL Server – Difference Between Index Scan and Index Seek and CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors (Pinal Dave)
• Converting Dates in SQL Server (Rhonda Tipton)
• Too Many Indexes! (Kalen Delaney)

Miscellaneous

• Hyper-V and Windows 2008 Workstation and Hyper-V – Enable Sleep / Hibernate and Hyper-V and Wireless Networks and Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar and Hyper-V and Sound and Hyper-V and Virtualization Support for SharePoint Products and Technologies (Mark Harrison)
• Technical Books to Read in 2009 (Grant Palin)
• PowerShell P/Invoke Walkthrough (Lee Holmes)

More Link Collections

• Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #14 – January 18, 2009 (Bob McIlree)
• Interesting Finds: January 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (1/18/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Links of the Week #68 (David Vidmar)

Book of the Day