• MonoDevelop on Lion (Miguel de Icaza)
• Machine.Specifications for ReSharper 6 now available (Hadi Hariri)
• Build Your Next Game with the Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games (Windows Azure Team)
• The Current State of Parallel Computing (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows Phone Developers Get New App Hub Features: Mango app submission just one month away (Todd Brix)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a simple bootstrapper – Project template (Rory Primrose)
• C# Conditional Preprocessor Directives (Richard Carr)
• Rx, TPL, Async CTP–Oh My (Mike Taulty)
• Revisiting ‘There be Dragons’, with reader suggestions (Bill Wagner)
• Manual Stack Walking (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Kinecting the Dots: Adding Buttons to your Kinect Application (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• The Good Parts, Patterns, and a Cookbook of Javascript (Adron Hall)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Class and Phantom JS: an alternative to Selenium (Giorgio Sironi)
• Tankster, a Social Game Built for Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Building a tree diagram in D3.js (Pavan Podila)
• How to highlight current page’s top/main navigation link (Svetoslav Marinov)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• tSQLt Unit Testing (George Mastros)
• Stop Blaming Waterfall (David J. Bland)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part X–Architecture for the Space Age (Oren Eini)
• Mockups 2.1 is coming soon: a new font, a new era! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Fake a member without worrying about passing the dependency (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 App Price Changes with new App Hub and MVVM in real life Windows Phone applications Part1 (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPF Application Framework (WAF) – Release: v2.0.0.390 (CodePlex)
• NotSupportedException w/ Sql CE on WP7 Mango (Derik Whittaker)
• WPF Toolkit ported to .Net 4.0 and VS 2010 (John Rayner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 117: Llewellyn Falcon on Approval Tests (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• The GeekDads Episode #96: A Gushing Flow of Plot Points (Ken Denmead)
• Defrag: SSD Questions, Tagging Files, Mirroring Drives, Hardware Hacks (Larry Larsen)
• SE Podcast #12 (Alex Miller)
• BTC: Henry Sanders – More than an Engineer (Charles Torre & Robert Hess)
• Interview: IASA CEO Paul Preiss – Part 2 of 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 2 (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Microsoft talks more about Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango” (damaster)

Community / Events

• MADExpo Keynote Videos (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming Agile Coach Camps (David Bulkin)

Database

• SQL Server “Denali”: New Certifications (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Data Warehouseing Concepts – Day 21 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – String Formatting using FORMAT() (Vishal)

SharePoint

• Introduction to the Sharepoint Integration with Azure (chilakapati)
• The question of Sharepoint and the Microsoft BI Strategy (Chris Webb)
• Deleting SharePoint Orphans – Missing in SiteMap (Joel Oleson)
• Project Crecent demo (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

Miscellaneous

• Music Subscription Faceoff: How Does Spotify Measure Up? [INFOGRAPHIC] (Brenna Ehrlich)
• Developers – Learn how to bring data from Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive to your mobile apps (Dare Obasanjo)
• InfoPath Upgrade: How do I export an Admin InfoPath Form? (Joel Oleson)
• Photo Mosaics Part 1: Application Workflow (Jim O’Neil)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide – Only $5.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDXNG (O’Reilly Media)
• 36 Resources To Help You Teach Kids Programming (Rob Diana)
• Display Plus Sign in Excel if Value is Positive (Steve Smith)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – July 20 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 202 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily WP7 Development News 20 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2011 — #1119 (Dave Campbell)
• Today’s Links (7/20/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #899 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 07/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Twets 19-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn

Top Links

• Installing, Configuring and Using Windows Server AppFabric and the "Velocity" Memory Cache in 10 minutes (Scott Hanselman)
• WeakReference Event Handlers (Paul Stovell)
• Decoupling the Presentation Layer & the Joy of Interfaces (Simon Gladman)
• Using LINQ Distinct: With an Example on ASP.NET MVC SelectListItem (Joe Mayo)
• Walkthrough: Extending VS 2010 to Support Additional Programming Languages (Weston Hutchins)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# int |> bigint (Mark Pearl)
• IntelliTrace – what and how? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Customize the Output Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• Deleting Windows Azure Queue Messages: Handling Exceptions (Steve Marx)

Web Development

• News Roundup: Boomerang, IE9, Bespin Updates (Michael Kimsal)
• MVC Turbine Resources (Javier G. Lozano)
• Internet Explorer Develop Tools: CSS (Pete LePage)
• Canvas Baby Steps: An Introduction to the HTML 5 Canvas Element (Rey Bango)
• Mapping Your Data with Bing Maps and SQL Server 2008 (Jonas Stawski)
• ActionFilter Overkill (K. Scott Allen)
• IE9 Includes Hardware Accelerated Canvas (Paul Cutsinger & Jatinder Mann)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "The Planning Game" Now Online (James Shore)
• Software Craftsmanship and Giving Back (Andrew)
• Delegating (Andy Warren)
• Automated UI Testing with Guia (Guia Project)
• Azure Canonical Application Architecture (J.D. Meier)
• Abstraction levels and dependencies (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Test-Driven-Development with SharePoint 2010 By Andreas Rudolf Aschauer, BSc (Tal Druyan)
• CI, Testing, and Build Management in the Cloud (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Share more puzzles on www.pexforfun.com (Nikolai Tillman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Config-free IHttpModule Registration (Nikhil Kothari)
• Uploading multiple files with Silverlight 4.0 (Andrea Boschin)
• Customer IApplicationService for Silverlight Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Word to XAML Converter Updated (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Lazy loading children in CSLA 4 and Silverlight (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Connected Show Podcast: CoApp: Do EPIC Schtuff! (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Yuri Gurevich – Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity, 1 of n (Charles Torre)
• Video: The Unique Development Processes of Relevance (Eric Hagan)
• Using Relative URLs with the ServerInfo Class in InfoPath 2010 (Laura Harrington)
• Interview with Victor Gaudioso on Silverlight (Silverlight Show)
• Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Listen to MVP Joe Shurman on KPRC Radio this Saturday Morning (Joseph Mirabella)
• Agile Atlanta in July… Dennis Stevens and Kanban! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• July 2010 Silverlight MVP Awards (Tim Heuer)

Database

• SSAS Cache Warming with an SSIS package (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread (Pinal Dave)
• Mythbusting – How many instances can you install on your server? (Simon Sabin)
• MySQL 5 Performance Tuning Toolkit (Ryan Svihla)
• My Performance Tuning Methodology (Buck Woody)
• Indexes are best utilized in WHERE, not JOIN (Ben Vegiard)
• XQuery Lab 62 – Revisiting simple TSQL SELECT operations using XQuery (Jacob Sebastian)
• Using Indexed Views to Replace Triggers (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Renaming Web Parts for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010: Not a safe control? (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Commands quick reference (Greg Galipeau)
• What’s Next in SharePoint Land and Project Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Coexistence (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• TweetStation: Elevating the Discourse (Miguel de Icaza)
• Kodu PC Build 1.0.64.0 is now live! and Kodu Tutorial Videos (Stephen Coy)
• ClearContext Evolves, Adds Project Management Tools to Outlook (Simon Mackie)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft Access 2010 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #634 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 1, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 55 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for July 01, 2010 — #894 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC by Jonathan McCracken

Jump to: .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 3.0 QueryOver (Jason Grundy)
• Using Windows Touch Gestures with .NET (Part 2: Retrieving Gestures) (Jason Ipock)
• InfoPath 2010 Reference: InfoPath 2010 Developer Reference for Managed Code Form Templates and Office 2010: Developer References (MS Downloads)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Testing Synchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
• Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework (EF Team)
• Closing over the loop variable considered harmful (Eric Lippert)
• Databinding 3.0 (David Fowler)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Parallel Debugging (Daniel Moth)
• F# – Designing Functional Interfaces for Pipelining (Rick Minerich)
• Can I host a VSIX on my own server? (Quan To)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC in Action (Dave M. Bush)
• S#arp Architecture 1.0 2009 Q3 with NHibernate 2.1.1 GA Released (Billy McCafferty)
• Test-Driving a new feature for JavaScript (Sergio Pereira)
• A Tale of 2 Web UIs (Mike Taulty)
• Create an attractive loading panel in jQuery (Nick Berardi)
• Web 2.0 – What’s it all about? (Lawrence Moroney)
• Crushed by complexity—me too, and for a long time (Dino Esposito)
• Improving ASP.NET: Finding controls and Part 2 (Peter Blum)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• My pomodoro experience (Sebastian Hermida)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Export to PDF, a fresh coat of paint! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Programmer Tip: Stop Those CYA Emails And Engage In Meaningful Discussions. (Rajiv Popat)
• Test driven design – Willed vs. Forced Designs (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
• How We Do Things – Evolving our Specification Practice (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Adapting our approach for the context (Mark Needham)
• Pex 0.19.41110.1: Better Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2 Support, Smoother Moles (Jonathan de Halleux)
• CQRS: Reporting Database Access Strategies and The Software Simplist (Jonathan Oliver)
• Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – On BDD and MSpec (Howard Dierking)
• Lazy Loading is… well… lazy and Tips for ORM Data Access (Jarod Ferguson)
• Willed and forced design (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF

• New themes now available (Dax Pandhi)
• Displaying Text at Angles and Text Morphing but with Decomposed Outlines (Charles Petzold)
• Display OpenStreetMap Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Mix and Blend: Surfing + Silverlight = Design (Arturo Toledo)
• Magellan and the MVVM Light Toolkit (Paul Stovell)
• New WPF Features: Updated File Dialogs (Lester Lobo)
• On Our Cross Plat Commitment (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 7 of 13 and Windows Embedded: Past, Present and Future and MFC: Integrating your application with the Windows Restart Manager and MFC: Implementing handlers for preview, thumbnail and search filtering (Charles Torre)
• Parallel Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 – MSDN mag companion (Daniel Moth)
• TaskCompletionSource (Phil Pennington)
• The MNR Show without Major Nelson (Larry Hyrb)
• Countdown to PDC09: Steve Marx on Cloud Development (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• IndyHall Member Profiles: Johnny Bilotta (Alex Hillman)
• Sacramento .NET Users Group – Microsoft PDC 2009 (Doug Holland)
• Our little team is growing – Welcome to Jon Galloway and Pete Brown (Scott Hanselman)
• Why conferences must talk about failure (Scott Berkun)
• Back to business for the SQL Server community (Ted Krueger)
• Free Balsamiq Mockups for UX Training (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Course: Leading Software Teams – Essential Practices for team leads (Roy Osherove)

Database

• SQL Server Logarithmic Functions (Richard Carr)
• OUTER JOIN order (Howard)
• Sort transform arbitration [SSIS] and MDS is x64 only (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS 05 Passing Multi-Value Parameters Between Reports. (thirster42)
• Best Practice: Coding SQL Server triggers for multi-row operations (Denis Gobo)
• From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling (Sam Gentile)
• SQL SERVER – Policy Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies (Pinal Dave)
• Automatic Generation of Stored Procedure Return Types (Noam Ben-Ami)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases More Free Visio 2007 Add-ins for I.T. Professionals (Blake Handler)
• “Look kids! Big Ben…House of Parliament…”and Bing in the UK! (Kristin Meldahl)
• RUMOR: Google’s Chrome OS arriving next week (Jay Hathaway)
• Your top Windows 7 questions, answered (Ed Bott)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/13 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A Tentative Content Plan for 2010 (MSDN Magazine)
• Xbox LIVE Update coming Nov. 17th (Larry Hyrb)
• How to avoid typos on your resume (Anne Cheng)
• Windows Azure Platform TCO/ROI Comparison Tool (Bill Zack)
• Discover Bing (Steve Clayton)
• The Most Intriguing Concept In Google’s Go Language (Justin Etheredge)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #476 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (11/12/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day