• RIA Services Contrib – Release 0.51 (CodePlex)
• Silverlight Animation Tip (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Star Wars Scroller in Silverlight 3 and A Quick Note on XAML Namespaces in Silverlight/WPF (Frank La Vigne)
• Validation. Hey! You’re Done! (Jesse Liberty)
• Download M-V-VM Project Template/Toolkit (Lester Lobo)
• WPF design flaw of the day: no initial focus (Joe White)
• Playing around with Syntax Highlighter (Pete Brown)
• WPF : Attached Commands (Sacha Barber)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – Demos of new features (Velvárt András)
• More Validation Fun – But Not Done Yet (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Did You Know? Silverlight Class Library Can’t Be Named with “.Resources” (Michael Sync)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Wanted: A kickass .NET API for CouchDB (Richard Dingwall)
• NHibernate Validator and NHibernate, the database query cache and parameter sizes and NHibernate Search and NHibernate Filters (Oren Eini)
• Chess Program in C# (Jacques Fournier)
• Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer (Justin Etheredge)
• F#: Erlang style messaging passing and F#: Entry point of an application and F#: Stuff I get confused about (Mark Needham)
• Using IronRuby with RubyMine (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Projects, Assemblies, and Namespaces – oh my (Udi Dahan)
• A simple sample for C# 4.0 ‘dynamic’ feature (Kirill Osenkov)
• Functional Composition and Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• JavaScript book excerpt, discount and free shipping offer (Michael Kimsal)
• How to Set JavaScript Programmatically on a Page in ASP.NET with Parameters (Peter Kellner)
• jQuery Tabs Plugin with Images (Dave Schinkel)
• Using jQuery with Client-Side Data Binding Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Gotcha in IE7 (Christopher Bennage)
• yUML and jQuery for Large Diagrams (Tobin Harris)
• Swap images with user interaction in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical .NET Unit Testing – Free paper released (Jason Young)
• Agile Meets The Recession and The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part II (Bob McIlree)
• Artisanal Retro-Futurism ⊗ Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism (Brian Marick)
• How Many Bedrooms Did You Say? (Max Pool) - Link of the Day
• On Getting Rid Of Common Libraries… What About Don’t Repeat Yourself? (Davy Brion)
• A Culture of Microcomponents (Ben Scheirman)
• Pex 0.12.40430.3 : Exploration Tree View, Partial Stubs… and Stubs as Parameterized Models with Contracts (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Pair Programming: When your pair steps away (Mark Needham)
• The Hunt For Simplicity (Justin Etheredge)
• Mocking for IronRuby (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Remote Retrospectives with Twiddla (Jim Holmes)
• Your Application is a Rotting Old Shack, Now What? (Michael Janke)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 3 (Rajiv Popat)
• Can we avoid tooling to prevent spaghetti code? (Patrick Smacchia)
• Metadata Belongs With The Class, Not With Another Class (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Metadata Classes – A Force for Good or Evil? (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #178 – JavaFX and the Web’s Four Virtual Machines (Scott Hanselman)
• Jason Olson: Composing Programming Languages, F# and OO (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 64: CouchDB with Jan Lenhardt and Chris Anderson (Michael Kimsal)
• This week on C9: Windows 7 RC, Glimmer for jQuery, and ZOMG Ponies (Dan Fernandez)
• Recent Pluralsight On-Demand! library updates (Aaron Skonnard)
• 10-4 Episode 17: F# Intro (Jason Olson)
• Screencast: Windows Workflow Foundation workflow service context basics and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Creating Custom Context Bindings and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in .NET client applications and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in WF client applications (Matt Milner)
• Behaviors in Blend 3 – Podcast (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• FitNesse with Bob Martin – Part 2 (Stephen Wright)

Community / Events

• IT Samurai School coming soon… (Billy McCafferty)
• Best Practices Conference (William Vaughn)
• Devlicio.us Motto Contest Finals – Put your voice (Tuna Toksoz)
• Secure a Speaking Slot for Tech Ed North America 2010 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• On speaking, trolling, inciting and growing (Ted Neward)
• INETA Live – Call for Speakers (Steve Andrews)
• Axum, Reactive Framework and other Lang.net items (Matthew Podwysocki)
• What Should Microsoft Do For .NET Open Source? (Rob Conery)

Database

• Geek City: Controlling Lock Granularity (Kalen Delaney)
• Real World Perspectives on the Pros and Cons of Stored Procedures (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Doing my SQL myths session on Live meeting (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Example of DDL, DML, DCL and TCL Commands and SQL SERVER – Add or Remove Identity Property on Column and SQL SERVER – Roadmap of Microsoft Certifications – SQL Server Certifications (Pinal Dave)
• Create a new embedded Firebird database (DotNetFacts)

SharePoint

• Search and Natural User Interfaces – Part 2 (Nathan Treloar)
• SharePoint SDK 1.5 (April 2009) Released! (Randall Isenhour)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases “Sneak-Peek” Images of Upcoming Office 2010 and MSDN Blogger Recommends Free Windows 7 Federated Search Providers (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on devices, startups, IP and open source (Todd Bishop)
• Book: Growing Software (David Starr)
• Network Monitor (Netmon) 3.3 Overview (Will Gregg)
• Windows Virtual PC and the Microsoft Device Emulator (Brian Peek)
• Windows 7 setup secrets (Ed Bott)
• XP Mode in Windows 7 is no cop out (Lee Mathews)
• Top 10 Scenarios; ISVs Add Customer Value with Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• Glimmering with effects (Coding4Fun)
• Interviewing the Interviewee (Dave Schinkel)
• Pablo’s Topic of the Month – May 2009 Edition (Gregory Long)
• A Little Bit of Personality (Denise Trabona & Samuel Moreau)
• Wolfram Alpha Search Engine On Video (Jesus Diaz)
• Windows 7 Blame Feature (Nick Berardi)
• Codesqueeze Charity Kickin – Room To Read (Max Pool)
• Tips for CodePlex Projects hosting multiple applications – #026 (Sara Ford)
• iBrowz: A New RSS Reader for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
• Test driving Windows 7 RC and PowerShellPlus 3.0 on Virtual PC (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #339 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 01, 2009 — #584 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 — #585 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #51 (Grant Palin)
• New and Notable 317 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for May 1st, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (5/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Discoveries This Week 05/01/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory: Books ISBN: 0321534468 ISBN-13: 9780321534460

Happy π Day!

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 is on CodePlex and Consuming the Twitter REST API with HttpClient (WCF REST Starter Kit) and Screencast: HttpClient + Twitter REST API in under 3 minutes (Aaron Skonnard)
• Solving Azure configuration problems (Gunnar Peipman)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #10: Adding additional data to healthvault (Eric Gunnerson)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Stepping Thru Code and Writing an IronPython Debugger: Debugging Just My Code (Harry Pierson)
• Visual Studio 2010 Screencast: C# 4.0 Language + IDE + WPF Shell + Editor (Kirill Osenkov)
• Deploying .NET Applications – Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce (Mo Khan)
• F# game running on the console (Joh)
• REST Starter Kit++ (Sam Gentile)
• LL vs. LR vs. GLR (Paul Vick)
• Functional Programming in .NET – Adding Extensibility (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Custom Domain Names in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Debugging .NET Applications – Podcast Alert (Tim Barcz)
• Azure Services White Papers (Wriju Ghosh)

Web Development

• S#arp Architecture 1.0 RC 2 Released! (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed (Jason Haley)
• Rant: IE and local JavaScript and Watir: opening/reopening specific page in IE (Joe White)
• Accessing Windows Azure Blob Storage from PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Create Interactive Buttons in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• SharpArchitecture_1.0.48.410_RC2.zip (10.1 MB) (Billy McCafferty)

Silverlight / WPF

• Port your XNA Game to Silverlight (Andy Beaulieu)
• Displaying Today’s Date with XAML (Christopher Bennage)
• Visibility pattern in Silverlight (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight for PHP Developers (Mike Ormond)
• Flexible layout on steroids (Rudi Grobler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• p&p Guidance as Actual Books (David Starr)
• It’s All About The Benjamins, Baby. (Derick Bailey)
• If you cannot do a source pull and compile you are doing it wrong! (Derik Whittaker)
• Unit Testing File I/O Operations (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 3 (Justin Etheredge)
• Test First Development and Making a Cake (Leon Bambrick)
• Dime Casts.Net # 92 – Creating SOLID Code: Liskov Substitution Principle (Stephen Bohlen)

Community / Events

• INETA Board of Directors (Chris G. Williams)
• INETA Board of Directors (Steve Andrews)
• Free Microsoft Robotic Studio Training (Frank La Vigne)
• Starting a User Group, Entry #4 (Jason Haley)

Database

• Designing a document database: Aggregation and Designing a document database: Aggregation Recalculating (Oren Eini)
• Using SqlDependency and ServiceBroker With Sql Server Express (Keith Elder)

Miscellaneous

• Is a Yahoo! search deal the reason for Kumo? (Kip Kniskern)
• Announcing Botomatic.com – Build Your Own Twitter Bot (Steve Marx)
• Sample of the week: Super Pong (Vijay)
• Happy Pi Day (Scott Mitchell)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links 2009-03-13: Article series special (Gunnar Peipman)
• Silverlight Cream for March 13, 2009 — #540 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: March 13, 2009 and Interesting Finds: March 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for March 13th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 14 (Denis Gobo)
• Discoveries This Week 03/13/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• WiimoteLib v1.7 Released (Brian Peek)
• C# to JavaScript, ActionScript (Jason Haley)
• Fluent NHibernate: Auto Mapping Components (James Gregory)
• Visual Studio Tricks in Video Form (Tim Heuer)
• Know Your Frameworks (Michael Ceranski)
• LINQ to SQL Templates Updated, Now on CodePlex (Damien Guard)
• Writing Attributes and Extension Methods for Dynamic Data (Stephen Naughton)

Silverlight / WPF

• An Introduction to MVVM in WPF with Karl Shifflett (Adam Kinney)
• The Culture of Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Prism v2 – Drop 9 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) (Erwin van der Valk)
• Useful WPF Threading Extension Method (Sacha Barber)
• UI Patterns for WPF (Christopher Bennage) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• jQuery VS2008 IntelliSense Update (James Hart)
• S#arp Architecture Beta 1.0 Now Available! (Billy McCafferty)
• Visual Studio Add-In for Web Parts Generation (Sasa Popovic)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Enterprise Services Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption – Part 3 (Sam Gentile)
• How Code Generation Breaks YAGNI (Laila Bougria)
• Sometimes Typemock Isolator Can Be Too Powerful (Francis K. Cheung)
• Mentoring Other Developers (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Which Path to Follow (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft patterns & practices Agile Workspace Tour (J.D. Meier)
• Overwhelmed Developers Need a Training Plan (JP Hamilton)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Sealed Classes (Brad Abrams)

.NET Community / Events

• Events This Week – January 19th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Introducing DotNetShoutout.com (Kazi Manzur Rashid)
• XamlFest NYC Event Open – February 9th and 10th (Dave Isbitski)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET Meeting 1/28/2009 – Selenium + FitNesse (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Entity Framework at Philly.NET Tomorrow Night (Jan 21) – Thanks INETA (Julie Lerman)

Database

• SQLServerVideos.com: A Great Resource for Devs Who Work with SQL Server (Julie Lerman)
• Book: Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers (Joe Stagner)
• SQL Server – Rules for Optimizing Any Query – Best Practices for Query Optimization (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• PowerScripting Podcast Online and Why Should I Test with PowerShell? (James Brundage)
• Debugging PowerShell Script Using the ISE Editor (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

Miscellaneous

• Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper (James Kovacs)
• People + Media + Messages = Social (Daniel Crenna)
• Fix Windows 7 Sidebar with UAC Off (Chris)
• The New Generation of Dirty Business on the Web (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The Top Ten Leadership Lessons (Jim Kouzes)
• Goals for 2009 (Keith Elder)
• It’s 2009 Already — Where’s My Damn Internet-Based IDE?? (Leon Bambrick)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 19, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• CloudNews for January 19th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links for 19-Jan (Steve Gilham)
• Visual Studio Links #101 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for January 19, 2009 — #491 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #268 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day