Top Links

• The Weekly Source Code 55 – NotABlog: A Local XML-RPC MetaWebLog Endpoint That Lies To Windows Live Writer (Scott Hanselman)
• Abstracting the persistence medium isn’t going to let you switch persistence abstractions (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer Values (Rob Miles)

.NET / Visual Studio

• StickyNotes VS2010 TRIAL now available (Pablo Galiano)
• Cancellation with .NET 4 (Part 2) (Christian Nagel)
• Cleaning a VS2010 solution with a sledgehammer (Rory Primrose)
• Find Keyboard Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
• The initial OpenWrap installation and Adding OpenWrap to an existing project (Part 1) and OpenWrap’s view on versioning (Sebastien Lambla)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Razor View Best Practices – Keep logic out of your Razor views (Jag Reehal)
• Finally Gave my Sueetie Wiki Some Good Luvin’ (Dave Burke)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Day 2 – Monday Vision – Use Three Stories to Drive Your Week (J.D. Meier)
• Principles 3: Principles of Software Development (aka Principles of Shipping) (Ivo Manolov)
• Done Criteria (Paul Stovell)
• Project Plans in a Nutshell (J.D. Meier)
• You Don’t Need an Application Server (Mike Hadlow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 4 Code Demos from the Microsoft TechReady Workshop (Dan Wahlin)
• Exiting a Windows Phone Application (Peter Torr)
• Bubble Breaker in Windows Phone 7 using XNA (Dimitrios Ilias Gkanatsios)
• Silverlight On Mobile : Windows Phone 7 Splash Screen and Customization (Vikram Pendse)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 App – Sudoku (Part 2) (John Baird)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 363: Kinect Pricing, Bundles, MOH Beta and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 120 – PowerScripting Podcast – Alex Riedel on PrimalScript and Visual PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Technology & Friends Episode 106: J Wynia on Spark View Engine (David Giard)
• Pluralcast 21 – Extending Visual Studio 2010 with Kate Gregory (David Starr)

Community / Events

• Briefly: Significant Personnel Moves Inside of Microsoft Azure (Kevin Kline)
• Speaking at DevLink! (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – T-SQL Challenges and Hints and Suggestions (Pinal Dave)
• Implicit Transactions and the performance issue (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• Online privacy, Tracking, and IE8’s InPrivate Filtering (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Lesson for Microsoft: Advertising works (Joe Wilcox)
• A Touchy Subject (Joey deVilla)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming Interactivity – Only $9.99. Use code DDPTY (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #655 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #126 (David Vidmar)
• Everyman on Startup Failure Simply Stated, Insider as Fan, iPhone and its Surroundings (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #116 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 035 for 8/2/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for August 01, 2010 — #916 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 155 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble

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Top Links

• Favor – Help Us Test .NET 4 Beta 2 on Windows Update (WU) (Scott Hanselman)
• The Illusion of Performance (John Stockton)
• Introducing the Portable Extensible Metadata (Irinel Crivat)
• Visual Studio 2010 Ranger News (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit updated (Pieter de Bruin)
• Creating Ribbon Applications on Windows 7 (Zhiming Xue)
• Visual Studio Myth Buster (Innovation Showcase)
• The Project Location is not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 3. How to resolve arrays (Mike Hadlow)
• Searching and Navigating Code in Visual Studio 2010 (Brittany Behrens)
• The RDLc Disconnect – they’ve done it again (William Vaughn)
• Pasting a single selection into a box selection and Zero-length box selection (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• IE8 Accelerator Creation Guide (Innovation Showcase)
• SEO Tips for Developers : Page Speed (Chris Missal)
• Of Web Browsers and Humanity (K. Scott Allen)
• Awesomium v1.5 (Chris Cavanagh)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 5 – Nginx (Karl Seguin)
• Search Engine Optimization got a lot easier (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mocks, the removal of test detail, and dynamically-typed languages (Brian Marick)
• Know Your Product Specifications (Buck Woody)
• Designing the Entity Framework 2nd level cache (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned from Tony Robbins and 10 Ways to Improve How You Manage Information (JD Meier)
• Separating Passion & Common Sense from Bad Decisions (Dave Schinkel)
• I. M. Wright: “One to one and many to many” (Eric Brechner)
• All about the “M” (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to create great work environments (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 – How to Capture Audio and Video from a Web Cam (Innovation Showcase)
• Free Developer Training for WPF 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Silverlight, Bing Maps, Vectors and “Did I blog this or did I just dream it?” (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight: Tooltip for each ListBox item (Steve Pietrek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ivar Jacobson on the Unified Process (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Community Megaphone Podcast – Show #1 with guest Kevin Griffin (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• SilverlightShow Eco Contest – win a trip to MIX10 (Adam Kinney)
• The Software Craftsman Cooperative (David Starr)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 1/27/2010 – Clojure (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Announcing the Microsoft Azure Application Development contest for U.S. state and local government partners! (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Looking back at 2009, and looking forward at 2010 (Simone Chiaretta)

Database

• Find Out What Percent Of The Log Is Being Used For Each Database In SQL Server 2005 and 2008 and Interview with Brent Ozar about the book Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Find Busiest Database (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• How To Install SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (Standalone) on VMWare (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint 2010 List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 published (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• How to not suck at a techincal interview (Brad Cunningham)
• Where is Rename-Computer? (Lee Holmes)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Apprenticeship Patterns — Only $9.99! Use discount code AP999 (O’Reilly Media)
• Intellisense in MobileShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• ZScreen is now a more kick-ass screenshot tool, especially on Windows 7 (Lee Mathews)
• The science behind Project Natal (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #517 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2010 — #777 (Dave Campbell)
• F# Discoveries This Week 01/13/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• What You Wanted to Know: Top “How to” Posts of 2009 (Silverlight Team)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

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Top Links

• An IoC-Agnostic Prism Bootstrapper (Ward Bell)
• Hello from 2020 (Rob Conery)
• Powershell and SQL Authentication (Martin Bell)
• Leveraging Windows 7 Boot to VHD to Test Visual Studio 2010 (Chris Patterson)
• DZone 2009: How many links promoted, buried, etc? (Rick Ross) – DZone has been hard at work keeping spam and other irrelevant content out of your way.

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Essence of LINQ – MinLINQ (Bart de Smet)
• CciSharp, a post-compiler for .NET based on CCI (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Review: C# in Depth (Grant Palin)
• Language Envy – C# needs Ranges (Sergio Pereira)
• Sprache C# (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Show CodeRush Xpress 9.3 Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Two Major Milestones for RoundhousE and UppercuT (Rob Reynolds)
• With the new year we get a loved series sequel, Visual Studio Tips and Tricks v2 – Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks (Greg Duncan)
• It’s Easy to Forget (Christopher Bennage)

Web Development

• Death to confirmation dialogs with jquery.undoable (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC – Do I Really Need It? (Peter Bromberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Dunbar’s Number, Monkeyspheres and how to design for social (Ron George)
• Brown, Green, Refactor and RTM ready tests (Roy Osherove)
• Micro optimization decision process and Patterns for reducing memory usage (Oren Eini)
• One to one and many to many (Eric Brechner)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber, Cuke4Nuke and TeamCity (Gojko Adzic)
• Recovering from the depths of developer burn out – Some tips from the field (Greg Duncan)
• How To Change a Habit and Make It Stick (JD Meier)
• The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch and OOP: Behavioural and Structural Constraints (Mark Needham)
• Lazing Around with Autofac2 and Declarative Context Adapters in Autofac 2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Entrepreneurship Tip: Shipping Mediocre Products Is Not An Option. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Magellan Diagnostics and Magellan Shared Layouts and Extending the WPF XML namespaces (Paul Stovell)
• Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Authentication/Authorization in an INavigationContentLoader (David Poll)
• Day #31: Geocoding and More Fun In Bing Maps for Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Polling Video – A Viable sub-second alternative? (Jesse Liberty)
• Saving Snapshots to PNG in Silverlight 4 and the WebCam (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Huey and Wegner Migrate Us to SQL Azure (Carl Franklin)
• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 1 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 71: Frank Zammetti on webOS (Michael Kimsal)
• This Week in Testing – New Year Resolutions (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Nikolaj Bjørner and Leonardo de Moura: The Z3 Constraint Solver (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• Agile 2010, Nashville August 9-13 (Ade Miller)
• The Morning Brew – Review of the Year 2009 (Chris Alcock)
• Looking Ahead to 2010 – New Year’s Resolutions (Andrew Connell)
• Trends for 2010 (J.D. Meier)
• Goals for 2010 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Yet Another 2009 Year In Review (John Sheehan)
• It’s time to look ahead to 2010 (Bill Wagner)
• 2009 Blogged – Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
• 2009 Year in Review (Rob Bazinet)
• 2010 and Forevah (Rob Reynolds)
• Where Do You Want to Be In a Year? (Tim Barcz)
• Looking back at 2009, and forward to 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Click The Button – The Contest (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Best of "The Moth" 2009 (Daniel Moth)

Database

• SQL Server IF Conditions (Richard Carr)
• “SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide” – 486 pages of SQL Server 2008 upgrade guidance (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Find Location of Data File Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Using Variables in SSIS: Purpose review and functional examples (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Debugging Silverlight Client OM Apps in SharePoint and SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Trouble finding the CAML reference in the 2010 SDKs? (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Read and Recommended: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Brian Noyes)
• New Subversion Reference Site (Alex Coisman)
• IE8 64-bit Windows 7 and the Mobile Code Bug (Part 2) (William Stanek)
• Install OS X Snow Leopard in VMware Windows 7 (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft Talked About Windows Mobile 7 And We All Missed It (Paul Thurrott)
• Fairness is Highly Overrated (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Dec 31, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #508 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 1, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2009 — #767 and Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2009 – 2 — #768 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.21 ~ 12.31, bye 2009 (yuanjian)
• Everyman Links for January 1, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 31-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library (Expert’s Voice in .Net)

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Top Links

• Tips for Releasing Sample Code (Steve Andrews) – Some nice tips from Steve.
• My Life is a Project? (Mike Cottmeyer) – Mike responds to Scott Berkund’s Everything Is a Project article.

.NET / Visual Studio

• What can EF 4.0 do that NHibernate can’t? (Oren Eini)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Scaffolding attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

Web Development

• Accelerator Creation Guide (Jon Seitel)
• Supporting OpenId in an asp.net MVC site (Joe Kaiser)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Typed Factory Facility reborn (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Debug It: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Comparing Resource Dictionaries in Unit Tests (Christopher Bennage)
• Comments on Corey Haines’ String Calculator TDD Kata Implementation (Roy Osherove)
• Lessons from Uncle Bob (Leon Gersing)
• Testing Agatha’s Caching Functionality With QuickNet (Davy Brion)
• Added support for Unity, Autofac to Siege.ServiceLocation (Marcus Bratton)

Silverlight / WPF

• A Silverlight HVP Update (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 4 – Grabbing Emails from the Outlook Inbox (Mike Taulty)
• Make a Silverlight TextBox update its binding on every character with a Behavior (András  Velvárt)
• Friction Scrolling Now An WPF Attached Behaviour Too and Cinch : More good news (again sorry) (Sacha Barber)
• Case Study – TwittZure Silverlight Twitter Client on Azure (Silverlight Team)
• Day #23: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 1 of 3) and Day #24: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 2 of 3) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Transforming grouped elements in Expression Blend (Adam Kinney)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! (Carl Franklin)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #78 (Jeff Atwood)
• Jafar Husain: Silverlight Toolkit and Rx, Part 2 (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Loic Le Meur and Channel 9 Live at PDC09: This Week on Channel 9 – PDC09 Daily Show Edition Day 1 (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Traveling to Technical Events (Chris Patterson)

Database

• 12-23-2009 – SetFocus BI/SQL Master’s Program Tip: Resolving the issue of multiple JOIN statements and multiple aggregations (Kevin Goff)
• Backing up Azure Table Storage (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShellPack Reaches 10,000 Downloads in 3 Months (Jeffrey Snover)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #505 (Chris Alcock)
• 20 Must Read LINQ, WCF, Expression Web, VSTS and Windows Forms articles on DotNetCurry – 2009 (Minal Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream for December 23, 2009 — #761 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linfest (Scott Berkun)

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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Top Links

• 10 AppFabric/.Net 4 Virtual Labs now available (Greg Duncan) – Greg points out a recent post from Nicholas Allen about new Virtual Labs.
• A VS 2010 Beta3 would be welcomed (Patrick Smacchia) – Count Patrick among the .NET community members with concerns about the stability and performance of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.
• Silverlight 4 COM Support and 32/64 bit machines – the C64 Emulator (Pete Brown) - Pete works around a 32bit/64bit issue by going out-of-process with COM.
• Behind PaulStovell.com (Paul Stovell) – Get the inside scoop on Pauls home-grown blog engine / web site.
• Which Code Metrics Do You Consider Important? (Davy Brion) – Get some discussion going in the comments.
• Getting Started with the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin) – A great intro to MVVM with Silverlight. New to the pattern? Start here.
• The CodeBetter.Com/Devlicio.Us Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science (Brendan Tompkins) – Fantastic initiative!
• Microsoft Gets Serious About Its Cloud Business (Krishnan Subramanian) - Krishnan’s take on Microsoft Azure/WinServer re-org.
• Chrome Extensions beta launched, with over 300 extensions! (Erik Kay & Aaron Boodman) – Is FireBug there yet?    Make sure you use LastPass so you don’t have to risk Chrome displaying your saved passwords as plain text.

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ query operators and null lists (Jimmy Bogard)
• SidePOP XMLConfigurator (Rob Reynolds)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 2 – Contextual Registration and Resolution (Marcus Bratton)
• Feedback Wanted: Links to C# Tech Info (Charlie Calvert)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository Part 5: IObjectSet and Include (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• Organizing ASP.NET MVC solutions (Jimmy Bogard)
• Adding a Color Picker Control To Your ASP.NET Application (Scott Mitchell)
• Featured Open Source Project: the ColdBox ColdFusion Platform (Alex Coisman)
• Creating a Twitter Like TextBox Character Warning Using JQuery (Chris Love)
• Guided Tour: jQuery – guard and default operators (Sergio Pereira)
• Easy HTML Templating with jQuery (Sara Chipps)
• SOLUTION: Outlook Is Stripping Line Breaks From Plain-Text Emails Auto-Generated From My ASP.NET Application! (Scott Mitchell)
• Building Twitter Search using the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta – Part II (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Efficient vs. Effective (Christophe Louvion)
• CQRS – Domain state (Mark Nijhof)
• Simple Prototyping: PowerPoint and SketchFlow (James Chittenden)
• Software process improvements with Lean and Kanban at BNP Paribas and Shock therapy agile adoption at 7Digital (Gojko Adzic)
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

• Field Level Access with RIA Services (Brad Abrams)
• WCF RIA Services Exception Handling (Fredrik Normén)
• Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications – Part 2 (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• That’s a WrapPanel and I am outta here… [A balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
• Careful using Mouse.OverrideCursor (Corey Miller)
• Windows 7 & WPF 4.0 Beta – Taskbar programming of jumplists and thumbnail previews (Mike Taulty)
• MEF, Silverlight and the HVP (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E2E: Meijer, Rys and Vick – Programming Data and Building on Azure: Persistent Systems (Charles Torre)
• Webcast: Lighting Up the New Visual Studio 2010 Editor with Rich Extensions (Level 200) (Charlie Calvert)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Zip (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Hanselminutes – Solver Foundation and Optimization with Nathan Brixius (Scott Hanselman)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #154: How to host a WCF Service inside your Windows Service (Derik Whittaker)
• CSLA .NET, MVVM AND DNR TV (Rockford Lhotka)
• Major Nelson Show 343: Interviews with members of the 343 Team about Halo and more (Larry Hyrb)
• William Stanek: Fun with Windows Media Player 12 and Windows 7 (Devon Musgrave)

Community / Events

• Coding4Fun Show in Orlando (Brian Peek)
• We’re Hiring! (Eran Kampf)
• Events This Week – December 8th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• IronRuby @ RubyConf 2009 – Part 1: Summary and IronRuby @ RubyConf 2009 – Part 2: What sets IronRuby apart? (Jimmy Schementi)
• Streaming Media Webinar with Microsoft and Internap on Enterprise Video (Silverlight Team)
• 4th NYC Girl Geek Dinner & 1 Year Anniversary (Stephen Forte)
• Guest Post: The Product Group (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• What Does Clam Chowder & the Google Wave API Have in Common? Boston! (Pamela Fox)

Database

• Age calculation with SQL Server (Dave Ballantyne)
• Unambiguous date formats : T-SQL Tuesday #001 (Jamie Thomson)
• Locking & Blocking (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Business Intelligence – Aligning Business Metrics (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tuesday #001: My Datetime FAQ (Kalen Delaney)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Find the PowerShell cmdlet you’re looking for and SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Want to create your own dialog? (Andrew Connell)
• Common compilation error for SharePoint 2010 VS projects (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Nice IE8 add-ons from Play.com (Mike Ormond)
• Stack Overflow Trilogy Lego Minifigs (Jeff Atwood)
• Digital Signatures in Office 2010 (Shelley Gu)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/9 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Bing and MSN Messenger apps coming to the iPhone (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows Azure Joins Windows Server in a New Organization: Server & Cloud Division (Windows Azure Team)
• Why you need a public speaking book (Scott Berkun)
• EntityCube Ready to Define and Connect Entities (Larry Larsen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 8, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #494 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 08, 2009 — #752 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development

• RESTful ASP.NET MVC (Garry Shutler)
• Extending SubText to report Future Posts (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Fizzler (Colin Ramsay)
• Session State Not Working? Check Your Web Garden! (Scott Mitchell)
• More Fun With LINQ – Perform Common Tasks in ASP.NET (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Check Out the New IE8 Developer Tools Tutorials (Duc (Cash) Vo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MVC vs. MVP vs. MVVM (Niraj Bhatt)
• Composed Regex (Martin Fowler)
• NHibernate and NDepend – skimming the surface (Oren Eini)
• 10 Rules for writing Good SDKs (Christopher Diggins)
• Zen: Does This Project Management Tool Live Up to its Name? (Darrell Etherington)
• Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (Gunnar Peipman)
• Wrapping collections: Inheritance vs Composition (Mark Needham) – Link of the Day
• Iterator Blocks, Part Five: Push vs Pull (Eric Lippert)
• Behavior and Data Centricity (Jonathan Oliver)
• TestApi v0.3 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• How I’m using the Event Aggregator Pattern in StoryTeller (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Who’s payin’ the bills?, or “How to drive a stake in the ground” (Kyle Baley)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Book Review: The Art of Unit Testing (Tim Barcz)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using a Border for a Glow Effect in Silverlight 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Changing Brush Brightness in WPF/Silverlight (ailon)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 10: LinqToSql (Brad Abrams)
• Using the Matrix3DProjection Class in Silverlight 3 and Animated “3D” Text in Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• XAML Playground: A XAML Designer Built In Silverlight For Gestalt (Karsten Januszewski)
• .NET RIA Services Twitter Pitch (Nikhil Kothari)
• Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RTW (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing Data from a DataTable to Excel and Linq: Sorting a DataTable (Deborah Kurata)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Generating SQL script from model (Gunnar Peipman)
• Microsoft Tag API Released (Jim O’Neil)
• Building Declarative WCF Services in .NET 4.0 (Thiru Thangarathinam)
• The anatomy of the Historical Debugger Navigation Bar (Navbar) (Habib Heydarian)
• Code Providers 101 — Implementing Unimplemented Properties (Mark Miller)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: Windows 7 RTM Sign-Off (Roger)
• Tips and Advice – Continuous Integration (Bob Payne)
• Code Cast 28 – Jim Wierich (Chris Brandsma)
• The History of Microsoft – 1998 (Tina)

Community / Events

• Announcing the Microsoft PowerShell User Group of Upstate New York (Joel Bennett)
• Windows 7 Incubation Week in Reston, VA (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Keep up with DevelopMentor on Twitter (Michael Kennedy)

SharePoint

• SharePoint: Creating HttpHandler for user profile images (Gunnar Peipman)

Database

• Maximizing View of SQL Server Management Studio – Full Screen – New Screen (Pinal Dave)
• Speeding up SQL Server Management Studio Startup (Martin Bell)

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell 2.0 RTM (Osama Sajid)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Office Partner Releases Free Word 2007 Sample Design Templates and Microsoft Releases Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Google Helps You Understand Recursion (Alex Chitu)
• Watching Trends = Job Security (Dave M. Bush)
• The Ultimate Windows 7 Upgrade FAQ (Ed Bott)
• Windows 7 RTMs: Where’s Windows Live? (Kip Kniskern)
• Put Your Microsoft Office Data Into the Cloud Now (Will Kelly)
• Scripting WMI Namespace Security (part 2 of 3) (Steve Lee)
• A Developer’s Look at Xobni (Ryan Farley)
• How to pass technical interview in Better Place (Tamir Khason)
• More questions on Professional Development Reading Habits (Joe Stagner)
• Why Fundamentals are Important to Microsoft’s Bottom-line (Peter Ritchie)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #397 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 23, 2009 — #653 (Dave Campbell)
• Rants and Raves #5 (Joel Cochran)
• CloudNews for 23rd July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (7/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Just an FYI for readers, the Dew Drop posts are going to be interrupted for a day or two sometime in the next couple of weeks. We’re expecting our third girl on July 8th, but it could be as soon as today.

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Domain Driven Design Quickly (Ade Miller)
• Self-Organization and Complexity (Brad Appleton)
• The “collaboration” piller (version 1) (Brian Marick)
• Hungarian Notation – Use What Works Spit Out The Bones (Dave M. Bush)
• D3: Building Great Software is a Battle, Don’t Leave Any Assets on the Sidelines (Dan Simmons)
• UX Team of One (Frank La Vigne)
• Are You in a Claustrophobic Team? (Max Pool)
• Lessons in Software from Alok Srivastava (J.D. Meier)
• New DDDD Content (Jonathan Oliver)
• Threat Analysis & Modeling Tool – TAM 3.0 (Jossie Tirado)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MGraph Visualizer Plug-in for Intellipad! (Chris Sells)
• The void is invariant (Eric Lippert)
• Sticky DataTips: A new way to view variables in the Visual Studio 2010 debugger (Habib Heydarian)
• Explore C# 4′s New Dynamic Types and Named/Optional Parameters (Joydip Kanjilal)
• New CodePlex project: a simple Undo/Redo framework (Kirill Osenkov)
• How to execute a special build on TFS using Team Foundation Object Model (TFS APIs) – Part 1 (Subodh Sohoni)

Web Development

• AJAX Features in ASP.NET MVC (Dino Esposito)
• How we do MVC – View models (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET WebForms vs. MVC (Michael Ceranski)
• Displaying SQL Server Messages using ASP.NET and ADO.NET (Malcolm Sheridan)

Silverlight / WPF

• Fun With Speech Recognition in WPF (Frank La Vigne)
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-4 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• WPF Toolkit: Charting release (Jeff Wilcox)
• WPF3D Lighting and Shading (Jordan)
• Game Programming with Silverlight. (Mike Snow)
• Principles of Design Series: Learning about Points, Lines, and Form using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Prism Eventing (Eric Mork)
• Google I/O 2009 – AJAX APIs to Navigate User-Generated Content (Me)
• ARCast.TV – Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell (Bob Familiar)
• New Screencast: Working with Property Grids (Dan Rigsby)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #122: Creating Custom Functions w/ NAnt (Derik Whittaker)
• Tales from the Toolshed (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Demo of SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Features – Configure DW Storage and Demo of SQL Server 2008 DW features: Configuring tempdb for Data Warehouse (Joe Longtin)
• The History of Microsoft – 1995 (Tina)
• Netcast #14 – Not Dead Yet (Todd O. Klindt)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 139: Fearless Change with Linda Rising (SE-Radio Team)
• Toolshed Tooltip #15 – Intro from Episode 3, meet MVP’s Stan Schultes, Don Demsak and Jessica Moss. and Toolshed Tooltip #16 – Expression Blend 2 Video, Animation and VS Integration Intro (Russell Fustino)
• Prism’s Event Aggregator (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Yochay Kiriaty – Windows 7 Developer Training Kit (Robert Hess)
• Ping 18: Ballmer apologizes, Paul Allens latest move, Surface fun, Security Beta (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• July Community Events (Eric Shupps)
• Events This Week – June 29th, 2009 and Microsoft Local Impact (G. Andrew Duthie)

SharePoint

• Want A Job? Learn SharePoint, Says Gary Blatt – 100% of the Federal Government has licenses, but they can’t find developers to implement their sites. (James Turner)
• Visio design templates for SharePoint 2007 (Joris Poelmans)

Database

• Approaches to "UPSERT" (Ken Downs)
• After disabling TDE you still requires the certificate to restore the database (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Policy-Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium? (Ed Bott)
• Musings About Project Natal (Frank La Vigne)
• AutoSave Adds Reassurance to Notepad++ Editing (Kevin Purdy)
• Get Firefox’s Ctrl+K Shortcut in Internet Explorer (The How-To Geek)
• The "Risk" of Open Source Software Support (Tim Barcz)
• Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You (Scott Hanselman)
• Oracle Woos Microsoft OracleClient users (Julie Lerman)
• How to Contribute to Open Source (When You’re Not Exactly Scott Hanselman) (Sara Chipps)
• How to stop that annoying beep on your server (Simon Sabin)
• Survey of Surveys on IT Spend for 2009 (Mike Walker)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LI (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #379 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 29, 2009 — #624 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 29th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• SharePoint: Recommended links June 2009 (Tobias Zimmergren)
• Daily Find #122 (Tim Boland)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Creating Your First MVC ViewEngine (Nick Berardi)
• Integrating ActiveReports into ASP.NET MVC (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• An annoying IE position: Relative and OverFlow-Y Bug (Rick Strahl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• "Geneva" Beta 2 (MS Downloads)
• VB.Net and the Case of the Iffy Ifs (Anne Epstein)
• NH Prof New Feature: Queries by Url and Review: C# in Depth (Oren Eini)
• Reserved and Contextual Keywords (Eric Lippert)
• CSLA: Make GUIDs required with a custom validation rule (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows 7 Taskbar in 10 Minutes – Part II: Icon Overlay (Gunther Lenz)
• Axum – Introduction and Ping Pong Example (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Sneek Peek at StoryTeller (i.e. my FitNesse killer for .Net) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Update on the Entity Framework in .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 (EF Team)
• Sneak Preview: Persistence Ignorance and POCO in Entity Framework 4.0 (Faisal Mohamood)
• Microsoft .NET Services – New White Papers Released (Jeff Barnes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• AutoMapper and IoC (Jimmy Bogard)
• Agility Is Not Just About Software Development (Pamela Poole)
• Debugging: Get to a stage where it works (Mark Needham)
• XYZ Is Bad For Performance (Sasha Goldshtein)

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview (Brad Abrams)
• Multicast Comes to Silverlight! (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guidance (Tim Heuer)
• Source Code and Live Demo of Frogger Clone Now Available (Michael Ceranski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Kevin Hazzard on Dynamic Languages (Bob Familiar)
• Expert to Expert: Martin Fowler and Chris Sells – Perspectives on Domain Specific Languages and Chris Sells: On the History of DevCon, DSLs and Oslo (Charles Torre)
• Sesha Mani on what’s new with Geneva Framework beta 2 and Chuck Reeves deep diving into the structure and design of Geneva Framework beta 2 and Matt Steele on what’s new with Geneva Server beta 2 and Jan Alexander on the claims transformation language in Geneva Server beta 2 (Donovan Follette)
• Table-valued parameters in SQL Server 2008 (Part 2) (Martin Bell)
• The Thirsty Developer 62: Website Scalability (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• At TechEd 2009 – SharePoint Overview and Roadmap (Tom Rizzo)
• Spaghetti Code Talks UI Patters with Adam Grocholski (Jeff Brand)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – Tech-Ed 2009 Edition (May 11th, 2009) (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Why can’t developers just get along………………… (Wally McClure)
• Episode 69 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jason Gallaugher joins us from Rove (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• FREE .NET / C# Tutorial from pluralsight (Marc Schneider)
• TechEd 2009 – Day 1 (Todd O. Klindt)

Database

• Using one Parameter for Multiple Datasets in Reporting Services (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – How to Drop Primary Key Contraint and SQLAuthority News – Release of SQL Server 2008 R2 Announced (Pinal Dave)
• Creating A XSD Schema From A Table In SQL Server With FOR XML Syntax (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Writing IE8 Accelerators once to save me from typing again and again (Adam Kinney)
• 8 Essential Applications (Corey Schuman)
• RTM’d today: Windows Internals, Fifth Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows 7 to be ready for holiday shopping season (Ed Bott)
• How to hyperlink an image on a wiki page – #032 (Sara Ford)
• Windows 7 Boxshots (Steven Bink)
• Learning Sinatra from a New Found Source (Rob Bazinet)
• Microsoft: ‘June 2009 will be an important month for Zune lovers… hold off from buying an iPhone/Pre’ (Thomas Ricker)
• The Web Browser Address Bar is the New Command Line (Jeff Atwood)
• My first blog post on Windows Surface (Marlon Grech)
• A Developer and Her Netbook: Cheap .NET Coding (Sara Chipps)
• Windows 7 Ship Date and Office 2010 Tech Preview (Steve Clayton)
• Windows 7: Our Next Engineering Milestone (Steven and Jon)
• Media Streaming with Windows 7 (Scott, Tim and the Devices & Media team)
• IE8 on Windows 7: The New Taskbar (Helen Drislane)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #344 and The Morning Brew #345 (Chris Alcock)
• LINKBLOG for May 11, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2009 — #590 (Dave Campbell)
• Technology Related Links for May 11th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Weekly Link Post 93 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for May 11th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Glass Behavior for WPF (Jeremiah Morrill)
• For Now, Don’t Use SynchronizationContext in Silverlight 2 or 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight out-of-browser apps: The Install (Ashish Shetty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XNA Game Examples (Coding4Fun)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #2 (Damien Guard)
• MEF Preview 5, changes and enhancements (Glenn Block)

Web Development

• Add support for iPhone in ASP.NET (Mads Kristensen)
• Sueetie – BlogEngine.NET Data Co-Existence Model (Dave Burke)
• Selecting Parent Nodes using jQuery (Dan Wahlin)
• Add a new Site to SharePoint Toplevel site using a Webservice (Harsh Bardhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Architects and Standup Meetings (Bob McIlree) – Link of the Day
• Performance Hot Spots (J.D. Meier)
• C# Design Patterns – The Visitor Pattern (Justin)
• TDD: Balancing DRYness and Readability (Mark Needham)
• Profiler Part II: Poor Man’s Code Coverage (Curt Hagenlocher)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 102: Now With Unicorn Tears (Paul Thurrott)
• New ASP.NET Intro Videos Posted (Rhonda Tipton)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Best Practice Conference Roundup (Nick)
• ASP.NET MVC in Action talks this week (Texas, Wisconsin) (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 – Summary of Training Sessions (Jose Barreto)
• Companion content for Chapter 6 (Index Internals) of SQL Server 2008 Internals (Kimberly L. Tripp)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to JOINs – Basic of JOINs (Pinal Dave)
• Data Protection with Azure and SDS (Chris)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Codeplex Releases "AdBlockIE" Ad-Blocker for Internet Explorer 8 (Blake Handler)
• Alpha Version of Windows Logo Testing Kit Ready April 14 (Bruce Kyle)
• What are the tech bloggers missing? Your business! (Robert Scoble)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2009 — #569 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #78 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #48 (Grant Palin)
• Links (4/12/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 89 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why I Don’t Provide Agile Certification (James Shore)
• DDDD: Didn’t You Get The Message? and DDDD: Producers and Consumers (Jonathan Oliver)
• Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 4 (Justin Etheredge)
• How To Correctly Sandbag Your Estimates (Max Pool)
• Code Coverage – 100% Coverage and Still Failing (Tim Barcz)
• Getting Back in the Game (Mike Cottmeyer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• 10 Best Libraries for generating PDF Files (AjaxLine)
• The basic syntax of F# – types (Brian McNamara)
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: The Standard Query Operators (Scott Mitchell)
• The C# Programming Language 4.0 (Doug Holland)
• Syntax Highlighting with MGrammar (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Soma Provides Catalog of Development Tools (Bruce Kyle)
• Function to Extract a Regular Expression Pattern From a String (Cindy Rodriguez)
• Transparent Query Batching Through Your Repository (Davy Brion)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Displaying Values (Harry Pierson)
• Using Pre-Compiled LINQ to Entities Queries in Web Apps and Services (Julie Lerman)
• Euphemized Exceptions for .NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• What are your Visual Studio tips? (Nick Berardi)
• Windows Azure: .NET Services March CTP Update (Zhiming Xue)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 is now available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Window Switchers and Previews In Depth (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Revisiting “DSLs are a bad idea”… (Paul Vick)

Web Development

• Announcement of S#arp Architecture Community Site (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Putting the “M” Back in MVC (Rob Conery)
• The Four Pillars of ASP.NET (Stephen Walther)
• JavaScript: Avoid the Evil eval (Sergio Pereira)
• Help Shape the Future of ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Tip #50: Did you know…How to absolute position the controls in Visual Studio Designer? (Vinayabhushana GattamReddy)
• Tip #51 Did you know… how to use VS2005 to debug with IE8? (Xinyang Qiu)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 Photo Gallery Wall Application (Jeff Paries)
• Efficient Paging In Silverlight 2.0 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Preparing for a Side-by-Side Silverlight Machine (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Resources for Surface WPF Development (Mark Hopkins)
• Announcement: Document Toolkit for Silverlight (Koen Zwikstra)

Community / Events

• Foundation Series, Session 2 – April 8th (Brian Donahue)
• CMAP Main Meeting – Tomorrow, April 1st, 6:30pm – Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service (Christopher Steen)
• Wrox Authors at TechEd North America 2009 (Jim Minatel)
• Microsoft tech·days virtual conference->April 1st 2009 (Rachel Appel)
• MIX 09 (Scott Guthrie)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Phil Haack on ASP.NET MVC RTM!! (Carl Franklin)
• Fireworks to XAML Panel (Adam Kinney)
• DevHawk on CodeCast (Harry Pierson)
• Herding Code Episode 40: Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight 3 and RIA Services (Jon Galloway)
• Open Source software at Microsoft – Justin Angel and Shawn Burke (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• 10-4 Episode 14: Sentient DSLs (Jonathan Carter)
• Don Syme: F# and functional programming in . NET (martinesmann)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Reseed Identity of Table – Table Missing Identity Values – Gap in Identity Column (Pinal Dave)
• Should the developer divsion develop the tools for SQL Server (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 (Microsoft XML Core Services) (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft previews Windows Mobile App store, alters developer fees and Mozilla Weave 0.3 syncs Firefox bookmarks, passords, history (Brad Linder)
• New Poll: What’s The Worst Part About Software Development As A Career? (Davy Brion)
• Iran Means History (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• "Multi-core Mania": A Rebuttal (Ted Neward)
• Review: Peopleware (Steve Rowe)
• Yahoo Launches Slick Desktop AIR App For Monitoring Twitter (Robin Wauters)
• The Open Cloud Manifesto – what I think… (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• How to enable / disable the discussion tab – #005 (Sara Ford)
• IE 8.1 Supports Firefox Plugins, Rendering Engine (K. Dawson)
• Functional Programming and Collective Intelligence – II (Matthew Podwysocki)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 31, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #319 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2009 — #559 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Twitterings #22 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 22 (Kathleen Sanders)
• CloudNews for March 31st, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day