• Welcome to Building Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• NHibernate Work-Around is not really a Work-Around… (Phillip Haydon)
• Book Reviews: CoffeeScript and JavaScript Web Applications (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Silverlight 5 Incompatibility: Play by the Rules (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some special monads in F# – Part 1 of n – InfinityMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 2 of n – UndoMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 3 of n – DistributionMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 4 of n – Application: The Monty Hall problem (Steffen Forkmann)
• Parallel For Loop (Richard Carr)
• Downloading file as byte array from AZURE BLOB storage in WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Code Metrics – Creating Work Items from Code Metrics Results (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tip #109 Did you know … How to speed up build time by *only* building the currently selected project in a multi-project solution? (Mark Berryman)
• Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 6, Hiding Processes (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Answer: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)
• DXCore standard string providers list and How to specify the CodeRush user information and use it inside text expansions (Alex Skorkin)
• Code Kata Answers to Calculating averages (Mal)
• Photo Mosaics Part 4: Tables (Jim O’Neil)
• What’s Wrong With This Code? (#28) (K. Scott Allen)
• Lego my Robotics Developer Studio… "Robot Development Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio" book now available for purchase and Along came a spider… a .NET Gadgeteer FEZ Spider! and NUI Racing – Using Kinect (and C++) to drive TrackMaina (Greg Duncan)
• Annual SQL Connectivity Survey (Raghu Ram)
• Interactive IdP With SAML-P WIF Extension (Jimmy Larkin)

Web Development

• Building the Account at a Glance HTML5/jQuery Application (Dan Wahlin)
• What is the correct media type for JavaScript source code? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Running ClamAV (Antivirus Software) in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Rails 3 – Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD271 (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• IT projects; if you can’t beat them, change the game (Simon Brown)
• Think of Yourself as a Thinker (J.D. Meier)
• Creatively Thrashing With TDD (Rob Conery)
• Inversion of Control Course Published on Pluralsight (John Sonmez)
• Monsters Built Using Kanban (Peter Saddington)
• Rails Misapprehensions: The Dependency Injection Pattern (Nick Sutterer)
• How Microsoft Is Changing Version Control for Images (Rowan Puttergill)
• Thoughts on Mocking (Part 1 of 2) and (Part 2 of 2) (Gregory Brown)
• New book: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft, Second Edition (Valerie Woolley)
• Technical Debt and Open Source (Joe Mayo)
• One Year since TeamPulse V1 (Joel Semeniuk)
• Planning for a new level of verifications in automation (John Guin)
• Use, Reuse, and Architectures (Kyle Szklenski)
• Microsoft Visio 2010 Template: Application Architecture Pivot Diagrams (MS Downloads)
• Advantages Of Being A Polyglot Programmer (Davy Brion)
• Lessons in Software Reliability (Jim Bird)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Custom application Theme Step by Step (Windows Phone Geek)
• Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
• Fetching Picasa Images through RSS in WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• HTML 5 or Silverlight 5, which will Microsoft choose for the next O/S (Surf4Fun)
• What happens when I publish a Windows Phone ‘Mango’ application update? (Todd Brix)
• Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – OAuth client & basic infrastructure (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 2000 WPF Things #365 – SelectedDate and SelectedDates Properties of Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
• System.Threading.Tasks and updating the UI thread (Geoff Hudik)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Shaun Walker Talks A Little DNN 6 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Building Web Parts-Episode 65 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Surface 2.0 Stress Test Robot – PaTTY (Nic Fillingham)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 66 – A Chat About ALM (Richard Banks)
• Ping 113: 3D Human face, Windows 7, Microsoft Fashion, Excel Challenge (Laura Foy)
• New Async Programming Videos (Spotty)

Community / Events

• Coffee Talk: Introduction to Scrum – webcast event this Friday! (Martin Hinshelwood)
• SQLAuthority News – Pluralsight Giving Away Free Subscription to Quiz Participants (Pinal Dave)
• GirlDevelopIt Brings Affordable Programming Classes to Philly (Nicole Kline)
• Cricket brought me back to Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• Major update to SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 available (Erik EJ)
• Using SSIS lookup transformation editor with millions of rows (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – System and Time Data Types – Day 16 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• How I Scrapped MySQL for MongoDB in Three Hours (Mike Borozdin)

Miscellaneous

• Gorilla vs. Shark (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 08.08 ~ 08.16 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading August 15, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (8/15/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #917 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 078 for 8/15/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily News Digest 08/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Link dump for August 15th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Links of the week #158 (David Vidmar)
• Daily WP7 Development News 15 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life! by Chris Bernard

• Creating your own private NuGet feed: MyGet (Maarten Balliauw)
• MVVM T4 Now Available via NuGet (Rick Ratayczak) – Rick’s T4 templates on CodePlex generate “view models and views for WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone using T4 Toolbox and MVVM Light.”
• “Mango” from the trenches part 2: Starting a Bing Maps navigation #wp7dev (Laurent Bugnion)
• Eduasync part 9: generated code for multiple awaits (Jon Skeet)
• What ASP.NET MVC Could Learn From Rails (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Nice F# Syntax for Rx (Reactive Extensions) (Don Syme)
• Into and let in LINQ ( Let vs Into) and Enable Scroll Override in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Kinect drivers can be inter-changed for experimentation purposes and Want to develop for Kinect (before the SDK) with .NET – what are the options? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• LINQ: Join Between a Collection and XML Data (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Code Issues configuration and options (Alex Skorkin)
• Creating a Code First Database Initializer Strategy (Gil Fink)
• C++ Productivity: Memory Management 101 for the .NET Guy (Jeremiah Morrill)
• On partitionning .NET code (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• Referencing Routes in ASP.NET MVC The Rails Way (Rob Conery)
• HTML5 Reaches ‘Last Call’ at W3C (Bruce Kyle)
• Scaffolding and packaging a Windows Azure project in PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 1: Cache and Cool Stuff in FubuCore and FubuMVC Series (Chad Myers)
• Filter and Display Data with ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) (Christian Nagel)
• Prop function in jQuery 1.6 (Hajan Selmani)
• Working with jQuery Selectors – Events . (Hima)
• Jquery tips – Tip 1 – How to display nice popup information messages (Nilos Printezis)
• Object Oriented JavaScript: Inheritance (Stoimen Popov)
• Get list of all active session variables in ASP.NET (Abhijit Jana)
• Pleasant Surprises: the Razor view Engine (Russell Ball)
• Blogging Facebook Social Comments Integration (Joel Oleson)
• New Release: SassAndCoffee 0.8 (Paul Betts)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Can Scrum work for the DBA? (Adam Mikolaj)
• Dealing with Critics and Criticism and Performance Review Template (JD Meier)
• Testing Pattern: Exploratory API via the Web (Patrick Kua)
• Essential ScrumMaster Interview Questions (Peter Saddington)
• NUnit Timed Tests (Richard Carr)
• Dependency Injection Haskell Style (Mike Hadlow)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Literal Value (Giorgio Sironi)
• 5 Things “House” Can Teach You about Fixing Bugs (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Triple-Loop Learning (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Settings in Silverlight (Daniel Fisher)
• Switching between Windows Phone 7.1 Mango and 7.0 RTW developer tools and vice versa and How to Navigate to an external URL in WP7 and Windows Phone 7 Mango: First look at RichTextBox control (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPFSpark: 1 of n: SprocketControl (Ratish Philip)
• Workaround for WP7 Mango Unit Testing Framework "Cannot find a Resource with the Name/Key typeNameConverter" (Daniel Vaughan)
• New OData Tombstoning Behavior in Mango (Glenn Gailey)
• Modifying the Silverlight Toolkit’s DateTimePicker for WP7 and Modifying the Silverlight Toolkit’s DateTimePicker for WP7–part 2 (John Baird)
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start with Mango – 1 – Creating a Hello World Application and Windows Phone 7 Jump Start with Mango – 2 – Know more about Page (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Completing the Pin code list screen for the PinCodeKeeper WP7 app (Per Ola Sæther)
• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 8–The EventAggregator (Rob Eisenberg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Michele Leroux Bustamante Still Focused on Identity (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• How Do I: Display Virtual Earth Maps inside a PictureBox Control? and How Do I: Use the MapPoint Web Service on Windows Mobile Devices? (MS Podcasts)
• Technology & Friends Episode 158: Dixit, Martin and Hoover on Apprenticeships (David Giard)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 007: Interview with Ayende Rahien (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 18 (Richard Hay)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 57 – Chris Walsh on Mango for WP7 (Richard Banks)
• Yet Another Podcast #37 Silverlight HTML5 & Developers Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Recording of Telerik’s webinar ‘Crash Course in Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7′ (Evan Hutnick)

Database

• DDL Triggers in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – SELECT * vs SELECT COUNT(*) (Pinal Dave)
• Optimizer Timeouts with XQuery (Grant Fritchey)
• Using Built-in system functions – LEN() and DATALENGTH() (Vishal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Foundation 2010 Events Pipeline (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Awesome embeddable, deployable web browser that’s free for independents… Awesomium! (Greg Duncan)
• Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 1, Install the Tools and Configure Kernel Debugging (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Mac and iOS Development Toolbox (Scott Densmore)
• Windows Phone’s follow-up to Mango is called Apollo (Steven Hodson)
• WP7 Mango: Multiplayer Confirmed For Windows Phone? (WP7GIRL)
• Attachmate response for Mono, Monotouch, and Mono for Android is PR Spin at its worst – What they are telling the community (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 05.22 ~ 05.31 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Link Post 195 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #862 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/30/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 05/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for May 29, 2011 — #1096 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 30th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• T-SQL, SQL Administration and SQL Server BI Articles Link List – May 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Best SQLAuthority Posts of May (Pinal Dave)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development by Jayaram Krishnaswamy

• *Free to Choose* Deal/Day to Support #Japan Disaster Relief – Save 50% – Ebooks & Videos (O’Reilly Media)
• MEFing up John Papa’s MVVM code from Firestarter (Colin Blair)
• Using EntityFramework with ASP.NET MVC 3 (Rob Conery)
• Effective Tests: Test First (Derek Greer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A C# Command-Line Parser (Jonathan Wood)
• A Guide to Sandcastle – Part 1 – Introduction (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using WCF Data Services with Entity Framework 4.1 and Code First (Jeff Derstadt)
• Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Book Review: C# in Depth–2nd Edition (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Setup Switches (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Azure and scaling: how? (.NET) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows Restart and Recovery Recipe (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Entity Framework 4.1 gets DbContext API – but no Database Evolution, SPs or Cached queries (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Code contracts – Is it only about argument validation? (Peter Gfader)
• Monad tutorial, Part 4 (Brian Marick)
• Profile a profiler using a profiler (Feng Yuan)

Web Development

• Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 1: Creating a Common Service Layer (Chris Love)
• In JavaScript, curly brace placement matters: An example (Dave Ward)
• Quick tip: Microsoft Expression Web 4 SP1 available, new SuperPreview online service for Safari (Katrien de Graeve)
• Facebook C# SDK Tutorial–ASP.NET MVC3 Website with Facebook Authentication (Nathan Totten)
• Bring your web sites to the desktop with IE 9 Pinned Sites (Rachel Appel)
• JSConsole Remote Debugging and JSBin Live Preview (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The wages of sin: Proper and improper usage of abstracting an OR/M (Oren Eini)
• Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone? (Vitaly Friedman)
• Lighthouse – Silverlight Unit Test Runner Project released (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Meet Microsoft’s Guru of ‘Design Matters’ (Sharon Pian Chan)
• User Experiences: An Insight into Our Design Process (Mirko Mandic)
• IQ Isnt Enough. Enterprise Architects Must Balance with EQ Driven Approaches (Mike Walker)
• Designing a Short Course on IoC: Day 2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Issue with RadioButtons and Binding for MVVM (Abhishek Sur)
• Creating “Cool” Buttons with Expression Blend (Alex Mukora)
• Windows Phone 7 – Part #8: Using Sensors (Andrea Boschin)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #8 (Jeff Prosise)
• NuGet Package of the Week #3 – PhoneyTools for Windows Phone 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Jeremy Likness on Unit Testing XAML Data-Bindings in Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• WP7Contrib – Page Transitions and Navigation Service (Richard Griffin)
• I was joking about the penny, but how about some tombstoning sample code? (Peter Torr)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save Text files and Customizing WP7 Slider in different ways (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 Common Image Templates (as Paint.Net/PDN files) (Greg Duncan)
• Adding an Application Bar (Jesse Liberty)
• ApplicationIcon must be in root directory (Mike Ormond)
• Metro In Motion – Fluid List Animation (Colin Eberhardt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Adam Driscoll Does PowerShell with TFS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 142 – PowerScripting Podcast – Richard Giles from Idera on PowerShell Plus (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast 38 : Liam McLennan on JavaScript (David Starr)
• TWC9: Expression Web SP1 adds HTML5 support, New Events section, Task.Show (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Yet Another Podcast #29 Jon Galloway on MVC 3 (Jesse Liberty)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 48 – Tatham Oddie on What IE9 Means for Developers (Richard Banks)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 5 – Secure Networking using Windows Azure Connect (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Burn It All, Lunchbox, Urban Dictionary, Simon, Apict (Laura Foy)
• WP7′s IE9 implementation shown off on video (Brody McKee)

Community / Events

• Just Announced: First Set of Windows Azure Sessions at MIX11 (Windows Azure Team)
• Joel Oleson in Ireland for the 1st time with Microsoft and SharePoint User Group in Dublin (Joel Oleson)
• Events This Week – March 21st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Giveaway (Brendan Tompkins)
• Deeper in .NET 2011 in Review with Pictures (Chris Pietschmann)
• Windows Phone 7 Workshops–Register Now! (Mike Ormond)
• Xbox LIVE community patrolled by Enforcement Unicorn Ninja (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.1–Visual Guide of new features (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• SSRS Red-Yellow-Green Indicators: An Alternative Approach? (Jen Stirrup)
• SSIS Foreach File Enumerator returns more files than expected by appending a wildcard (*) to the file mask (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQL Server: Move Table to a new File Group (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – Solid Quality Journal – Importance of Statistics (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DENALI: Service Broker Troubleshooting made easy (Sankar Reddy)

Miscellaneous

• Review of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (Brian Bondy)
• Kindle info, links, blogs, tools, and more… (Think “One Boat Load of Kindle Links”) (Greg Duncan)
• Certification: Why Exam Development Is Separate from Training Development (Kim Spilker)
• Microsoft “Video Kinect” Chat Review – Video Chat on the Big Screen, The Good and The Bad (Scott Hanselman)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Syncing Outlook 2010 and Window Phone (Lonnie Webb)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 21, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #817 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 21th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Client Developer roundup 064 for 3/21/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily News Digest 03/21/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 03/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly Link Post 186 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

Top Links

• ILSpy – decompiler architecture (Daniel Grunwald)
• Registry Editor for Windows Phone 7 Beta (Senthil Kumar)
• Validation Application Block ported to Silverlight (Grigori Melnik)
• WebMatrix refresh released. (Lawrence Moroney)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Generic Predicate Delegate (Richard Carr)
• Extract WCF identity into a WorkflowServiceHost activity (Rory Primrose)
• Code Metrics, Reporting, and XSLT Debugging (Cameron Skinner)
• Lab Management Deploy TFS Build Process Process Template for Physical Environments (Ed Blankenship)
• CodedUI Test Builder – Crosshair highlights UI Control wrong … and Running Automated Tests on Physical Environments, the different flavors… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Massive Update Number 1 and Massive Update Number 2 (Rob Conery)
• Zentity 2.0 Source Code (MS Research)
• Extensibility Hands-on Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (MS Downloads)
• Changing the Border Color of Windows Form Controls (Abhijit Jana)
• Using Open XML SDK v2.0 on Windows Azure (Sudheer Kovalam)

Web Development

• Loading a Random HTML Page Inline (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Routing Regression With Two Consecutive Optional Url Parameters (Phil Haack)
• Understanding Request Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Imran Baloch)
• Calculate Sum of ASP.NET CheckBox Values using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• The Essential Guide to HTML5 – Using Games to Learn HTML5 and JavaScript Book Review (David Hayden)
• WSDL-world vs CLR-world – some differences (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Really Simple AJAX Calls with Microsoft WebMatrix (Joe Stagner)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Implementing Events (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Handling errors in datajs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Sueetie Theme Changer Now Supports Multiple Blogs (Dave Burke)
• Stack Apps and Scripts (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Use Patterns and Prior Code and Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (K. Brian Kelley)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Automated Teardown (Giorgio Sironi)
• Thinking about the user, or “How to consider the experience” (Kyle Baley)
• Communication: Listening and Pomodoro: Observations from giving it a go (Mark Needham)
• Change is Good (JD Meier)
• What Can Stephen Seagal Teach Us About Building Line of Business Apps? (Frank La Vigne)
• There’s Only One Valid Metric For Developer Productivity And Quality (Davy Brion)
• Inversion of Control : Practical usage of Interface, Delegate or Events (Abhishek Sur)
• AoP with castle part 4–Adding AoP to service oriented App (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Azure Page Blobs vs. Liskov Substitution Principle (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage Explorer and WP7 working with XML: reading, filtering and databinding (Windows Phone Geek)
• Prism for Silverlight/MEF in Easy Samples. Part 3 – Communication between the Modules (Nick Polyak)
• Windows Phone 7 Status Indicator Control (Nigel Sampson)
• Dynamic Forms Redux 2: Windows Phone 7 (Andrej Tozon)
• Windows Phone 7: Working With the Application Bar and Accent Colors (Alex)
• Must Have Windows Phone 7 Toolkits (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight Spy 4 February 2011 update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Reactive Drag and Drop Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• How to use One Note on Windows Phone 7 (Luke)
• Microsoft mulls changing Windows Phone Marketplace terms to add more open-source licenses (Mary Jo Foley)
• Task Parallel Library 2 of n (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight Simple MVVM Printing and Silverlight Charting: Setting Colors and Silverlight Charting: Setting the Tooltip and Silverlight Charting: Displaying Data Above the Column (Deborah Kurata)
• Using the TriggerAction control (Rockford Lhotka)
• Catel – WPF and Silverlight MVVM library – Release v1.2 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 388: Dragon Age 2 & Marvel vs Capcom 3 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 140 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scripting Guy Ed Wilson on the 2011 Scripting Games (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Cloud Cover Episode 37 – Multiple Websites in a Web Role (Wade Wegner)
• Windows Phone Radio 18 – available now (Brian Seitz)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 172: Feature-Oriented Software Development with Sven Apel – Pt 1 (SE-Radio Team)
• Windows Weekly 196: The Zune Identity (Paul Thurrott)
• ASP.NET & Visual Studio 2010 What’s New Quick Videos (35) and ASP.NET Data Access Tutorials & Videos (114) and ASP.NET AJAX Videos & Tutorials (155) and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Add Search to your Site with Bing (Joe Stagner)
• TWC9: WP7 gets multi-tasking,NuGet 1.1, MJPEG Decoder, Reflector (Dan Fernandez & Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 004–“Game On!” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Engadget Show – 018: GM’s Micky Bly, Watson researcher David Gondek, EN-V demo, Atrix 4G (Chad Mumm)
• Technology & Friends Episode 137: Carl Franklin on Interviewing (David Giard)
• Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber (Neil Versel)
• 2 Videos: SteveB and SteveJ (Mike Taulty)
• ASP.NET Tips and Tricks on dnrTV (Steve Smith)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 46 – Castle Windsor with Krzysztof Kozmic (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• The Experts Conference: SharePoint Keynotes Announced! (Joel Oleson)
• Windows Azure Boot Camp Thoughts (Bill Wagner)
• Lightning tools–exclusive sponsor of Best Practice conference la jolla CA (Brett Lonsdale)
• MIX11 Silverlight Bootcamp Workshop, April 11, Las Vegas (Mike Taulty)
• Win Telerik Premium Collection for .NET – by @telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Codestock and Knoxville, Tennessee: Are You Coming in 2011? (Jeremy Likness)

Database

• The Importance Of Managing Expectations (Joe Webb)
• SQL Server: Highest and Lowest Values in a Row (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – PREEMPTIVE and Non-PREEMPTIVE – Wait Type – Day 19 of 28 and SQL SERVER – MSQL_XP – Wait Type – Day 20 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Guest Posts – Feodor Georgiev – The Context of Our Database Environment – Going Beyond the Internal SQL Server Waits – Wait Type – Day 21 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Renumbering Rows in a Table Variable (or Table/Temp Table) (sognibene)

SharePoint

• Designing Dashboards and Scorecards using SharePoint PerformancePoint Services 2010 and SSAS – Part 3 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Origami Tablet UI and Win 7 Slate PCs (Don Burnett)
• Open Clip Art Library v2.9 (Think "40K open, as in freely used, vector based clip art images") (Greg Duncan)
• More IE mystery! What’s Dev:unplugged? (Kip Kniskern)
• How we connect customers with our latest technology incubations (Anne Cheng)
• Find Your “Worth As a Developer Score” (WDS) – A Self Rating Map for .NET Developers (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Cocoa & Objective-C: Up&Running-$13.99 (Save 50%) Code DDCRN (O’Reilly Media)
• Paint.NET v3.5.7 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• CryoDefense reviewed by WP7 Lab (Tree)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 19, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 18th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• This Week’s Link List (February 18, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #796 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #142 (David Vidmar)
• Week Retrospective 20 – Selling Agile, Scrum Pocket Guide Winners, and #StartupRiot (Peter Saddington)
• WebDev Tweets 18-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily News Digest 02/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices (Best Practices (Microsoft)) by Ed Wilson

Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Network Awareness (Rob Tiffany)
• Windows Phone 7 Page Orientation Change Animations (Andy Wigley)
• Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Eight: More Exceptions (Eric Lippert)
• Prism 4 in Silverlight with MEF CompositionInitializer (Bob Brumfield)
• Back to Basics: Understanding IoC (John Sonmez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Project Euler Problem 14 in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Window Layouts: File View (Zain Naboulsi)
• CodeRush – Common TextCommands (Rory Becker)
• Debugging in MonoDroid (Wally McClure)

Web Development

• Paging in ASP.NET using jTemplate, jQuery & JSON (Aamir Hasan)
• jQuery UI Accordion in ASP.NET – Client side implementation (Part 1) and jQuery UI Accordion in ASP.NET WebForms – feed with data from database (Part 2) and jQuery UI Accordion in ASP.NET MVC – feed with data from database (Part 3) (Hajan Selmani)
• HTML5 Recipes: Storage 101 (Romin Irani)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Updating controller factories to RC (Gunnar Peipman)
• BIN Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 with Razor to a Windows Server without MVC installed (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Electronic copies of the DSL book (Martin Fowler)
• Secrets of Handling Support In An Agile Team (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Lists on Sources of Insight (J.D. Meier)
• Reflection loops of Agile Practices (Joachim Nilsson)
• Agile Adoption Challenges in the Enterprise Applications (Rajesh Raheja)
• The End of Scrum and Scrum Teams? (ScoutMaster)
• Documenting Requirements For Software Development Projects (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Systems Thinking: Individuals and the environment (Mark Needham)
• Contributing To Open Source Is So Much Better Than Taking A Class (Rinat Abdullin)
• Online Git Training Series (Scott Chacon)
• Using a Command Execution Style Architecture with a Domain Model (John Teague)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Catel – Part 3 of n: The MVVM Framework (Geert van Horrik)
• Working with GIF images in Windows Phone (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Ten Tips To Make Your Windows Phone 7 More User Friendly (Karsten Januszewski)
• Serial Communication using WPF, RS232 and PIC Communication (C. Johnson)
• Windows Phone 7 UX – One Size Does Not Fit All (Matthias Shapiro)
• Hidden tricks of Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
• The PDC/MIX Conference Trivia Application is now on CodePlex (Pete Brown)
• Top picks from a honkin’ big list of Windows Phone 7 tips (Steven Hodson)
• 5 New Ways We’re Promoting Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games this Holiday Season (Todd Brix)
• ClientUI Sample: MVVM for WPF & Silverlight (Ward Bell)
• Silverlight and WP7 Exception Handling and Logging building block – Release: first version (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Bart De Smet: LINQ to Z3 (Charles Torre)
• The SharePoint 2010 Certification Exams-Episode 53 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Sparkling Client Podcast Show 111: Silverlight Redemption (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Let’s Play TDD #54: Prognosticating (with Kim Gräsman) (James Shore)
• Pluralcast 29 : ALM with Sam Guckenheimer (David Starr)
• The Thirsty Developer 98: Stop Talking Get Building (Dave Bost)
• Hot Apps: TED, SqueakBox, PolyGlot, Cocktail Flow, IloMilo (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Want to Attend MSFT #SharePoint Conference 2011 for FREE? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SQLAuthority News – SQLPASS Nov 8-11, 2010-Seattle – An Alternative Look at Experience (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Saturday 61 Coming to DC (Joel Cochran)
• Paul’s Python Pearls – A Free Live Webcast – Dec 1 @ 1pm PT (O’Reilly Media)
• YOU ARE INVITED – Random Hacks of Kindness – Hacking for Humanity – Global events – December 4-5, 2010 (Nandita)

Database

• The Red Gate Guide to SQL Server Team based Development Free e-book (Mladen Prajdić)
• The Productive DBA: Part 2 Document the Database (Paul Theriault)
• Windows Azure Learning Plan – Storage (Buck Woody)
• Do Foreign Key Constraints Help Performance? (Grant Fritchey)

SharePoint

• Getting started with BI in SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint: Setting master page for publishing sites (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Prepping For Mouse Freedom (Rob Conery)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #735 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/23/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010 (Books for Professionals by Professionals) by Sahil Malik

Top Links

• ASP.NET dynamic language support is open source (Jimmy Schementi)
• MVVM and DialogResult with no code-behind (Joe White)
• Dynamically Changing Resources in a ListBox using Binding and Converters (Derik Whittaker)
• ‘The Way of MEF’ – UK Sessions with Glenn Block (Mike Taulty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A series of posts about NHibernate tooling and Find the bug: Accidental code reviews (Oren Eini)
• Using Hints for Generic MEF Exports (Jeremy Likness)
• The LightCore IoC container 1.4 (Anthony Steele)
• Profiling an application with Visual Studio – Instrumentation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Entity Framework 4 – POCO Code Only (André Passos)
• Programmatically Update a ClickOnce Distributed Office Add-in (Eric Quist)
• VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts for C#, VB, C++, F# Now Available in Letter (8.5x11in) and A4 (210×297mm) Print-Ready Sizes (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Creating New Overloaded Methods in Visual Studio C# is Really Easy with CodeRush (Peter Kellner)
• Rearrange Your Toolbars and Hide or Show Default Buttons on a Toolbar (Zain Naboulsi)
• Loading Strategy for Entity Framework 4.0 (Fredrik Normen)

Web Development

• Prototypal C#: Making C# Look and Work Like JavaScript (Evan Nagle)
• More Ext JS with ASP.NET MVC Goodies: Populating a GridPanel (Jorge Ramon)
• How to make AJAX-requests to ASP.NET MVC application using jQuery (Gunnar Peipman)
• Notes on Templates and Data Annotations in MVC 2 (K. Scott Allen)
• Using ASP.NET MVC’s AntiForgeryToken in HTML Templates (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Review: HTML5 for Web Designers (Grant Palin)
• Cross-domain file for self-hosted TCP services (Carlos Figueira)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Debugging Unit Tests for the iPhone/iPad (Scott Densmore)
• Work In Progress Version Of The Book On Builder At Work – Part 3. and Work In Progress Version Of The Book On Builder At Work – Links To All The Chapters. (Rajiv Popat)
• Scrat – Quality Center To TFS 2010 In Hours Instead Of Months and TFS API Part 28 – Test Suite Hierarchy Builder and Test Scribe – Automatic Document Generating For Test Manager 2010 (Shai Raiten)
• The Value of Diversity (Shane Hastie)
• Bundler: Don’t forget to call ‘source’ and Technical Debt around release time (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 and Windows Live Connectivity and Cool PriceCheck Application for Windows Phone 7 and FourSquare Application for Windows Phone 7 and Showing battery life and status messages in Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• New Directional Rainbow Brush; Smear Effect; EasyPainter Out of Beta and Becomes Fantasia! (Nikola)
• Data Validation And Templating in Silverlight 4 (Jesse Liberty)
• To XAML, with love (an experiment with XAML Serialization in Silverlight) (David Poll)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 104: Panel Discussion: Putting on a great conference (David Giard)
• Presentation: TMap for VS2010, Testing Practices with ALM tools (Clemens Reijnen)
• MSDN Webcast: Fuelling productivity and innovation with integration between SharePoint and Windows HPC Server (Wenming Ye)

Community / Events

• My favourite MGX demo (Steve Clayton)
• Talking about Windows Phone 7 at Atlanta .NET User Group (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Integrate your blog or sites with ForkCan.com (Fredrik Normen)

Database

• Find the Most Time Consuming Code in your SQL Server Database (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – FIX: ERROR: 8170 Insufficient result space to convert uniqueidentifier value to char (Pinal Dave)
• Removing Partitioning on tables (Martin Bell)
• RavenDB Index Management (Oren Eini)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: SQL and Relational Theory – Only $9.99. Use code DDSQR (O’Reilly Media)

Miscellaneous

• Mystery HTC Windows Phone 7 device: in the wild and lacking any Sense (Ross Miller)
• Daily Dose – GitHub Hits 1 Million Projects (Mitch Pronschinske)
• The New Hotmail.com Rollout Continues (Richard Hay)
• Skype SDK Now Available for Windows (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 25, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #650 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 034 for 7/26/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 24, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 25, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Weekly Links #115 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 154 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Silverlight Cream for July 25, 2010 — #910 and Silverlight Cream for July 25, 2010 – 2 — #911 (Dave Campbell)
• A Feed You Should Read #32–Visual Studio ALM User Group (Greg Duncan)

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Learning Windows Phone Programming by Yochay Kiriaty

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Top Links

• Sigh: a tale of relationship (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 2 for Developers (Uzair)
• Enterprise Library 5.0/Unity 2.0 – second batch of deliverables (Grigori Melnik)
• I like strong typing and compilation errors (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone 7 development: Using isolated storage (Gunnar Peipman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Workflow Services – Visual Design of Workflows with WCF and WF 4 (Leon Welicki)
• MSBuild Property Functions (2) (Dan Moseley)
• Setting a Breakpoint Filter (Zain Naboulsi)
• .NET Memory Leak: XslCompiledTransform and “leaked” dynamic assemblies (Tess Ferrandez)
• Purging all headers & footers in PowerPoint presentations with the OpenXML SDK 2.0 (Andrew Connell)
• AutoMapper 1.1 released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Entity Framework 4, WCF & Lazy Loading Tip (Dane Morgridge)
• Avoiding Leaking Connections With NHibernate And TransactionScope (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Character Count with jQuery and ASP.NET Web Forms (Deran Schilling)
• JSMag May 2010 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• YUI 3.1.1 and YUI 2.8.1 Released (Eric Miraglia)
• Port of “Out of this World” to JavaScript (Andre Vrignaud)
• ASP.NET MVC Tabular Display Template (Phil Haack)
• HTML5 and Same Markup: Second IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Zencoder Wants To Be The Amazon Web Services Of Video Encoding (Leena Rao)
• Multi-Tenancy in ASP.NET MVC with IoC (Louis DeJardin)
• Eloquent JavaScript is an interactive, free JavaScript book (Erez Zukerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Consistency in the code base and incremental refactoring (Mark Needham)
• Notes From A Project Applying Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing and CQRS : Part 1 and Part 2 (Michael Nichols)
• Using FitNesse to test web services (Gojko Adzic)
• The Agile Way and Motivation, Skills, and Feedback (J.D. Meier)
• Managers As Cheerleaders, or Why Charts Matter and Agile Techniques For Risk Management (Jared Richardson)
• Developer Growth Spurts (Joel Cochran)
• Code Contracts: Unit testing contracted code (Gunnar Peipman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Spy: A must have tool for any Silverlight Developer (Aashish Gupta)
• “Programming Windows Phone 7” — Updated Source Code (Charles Petzold)
• The joys of being an early adopter… [Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example to go with the April Developer Tools Refresh] (David Anson)
• Handy Tools Complimentary to Deep Zoom Composer (Zhiming Xue)
• Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (2 – Services) and KoodibooK Book Publishing – WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC2, Azure (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #13 – Silverlight Mobile Development (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight XAP Signing Certificate promotion from Thawte (Tim Heuer)
• Digitally Signing a XAP Silverlight (John Papa)
• Use the Camera in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator? Yes, you can… kind of and Windows Phone Developer Training Kit, now April and VS2010 RTM Fresh… (Greg Duncan)
• Text Trimming in Silverlight 4 (Dan Wahlin)
• Windows Phone 7 development: Using WebBrowser control (Gunnar Peipman)
• XML Photo Album In Silverlight (John)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ivar Jacobson Live in New York City (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• IE9 and same markup: A look at DOM events in IE9 and IE9 and same markup: A look at CSS3 borders and corners in IE9 and IE9 and same markup: A look at SVG in IE9 (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #173: Creating and using the Application Bar w/ Windows Phone 7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone Push Notification (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Video Interviews Part 1 – Steve Souders, Google’s Performance Evangelist Talks Performance and Mobile & Yahoo!’s Gonzalo Cordero Discusses BayJax (Rey Bango)
• IE9 HTML5 Demo (Nic Fillingham)
• Manual Deskterity : An Exploration of Simultaneous Pen + Touch Direct Input (TechFest)
• Francisco Tolmasky talks about Atlas, Cappuccino and 280 slides (Ryan Taylor)
• SlickEdit: More Than Just An Editor (Eric Hagan)
• Screencast – Git Part 2 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• MSDN Radio: Chatting with Scott Guthrie (Emily Gibson)

Community / Events

• See Critical Path Training at TechEd and get a free SharePoint 2010 book! (Andrew Connell)
• Open Space facilitation (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Enabling Innovation Through Research (Steve Clayton)
• Win a free ticket + hotel for the umbraco Codegarden ‘10 (Simone Chiaretta)
• At Last – Test-Driven Academy, Guest Post by Vagif Abilov (Tal Townsend)
• Web API Roadshow (Jonathan Carter)

Database

• SQL Server PowerShell Provider follows the Version of PowerShell on the Host and other errata (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• BCS Meta Man – Adding and Removing Methods (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Happy half-birthday Google Dashboard! Six months in and 100,000 users a day (Yariv Adan)
• The Secret To Getting More Ideas (And Better Ones Too) (Alan Skorkin)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Facebook: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDFBM (O’Reilly Media)
• The 5 Steps to Secure Collaboration (JG Chirapurath)
• Booking Review: Ruby For Rails (Russell Ball)
• Health IT Future is in the Cloud (Bill Crounse)
• Printing multiple PowerPoint presentations with Windows PowerShell (Andrew Connell)
• Trying To Get Vim Intellisense Working. Help?! (Derick Bailey)

More Link Collections

• Flagged Links #74 (Jason Bock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2010 — #856 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #594 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 5-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: May 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

Professional WCF 4: Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4

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Top Links

• Microsoft StyleCop going open! (Greg Duncan)
• Pex 0.91 is out! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Using Vim search/replace commands (Louis Salin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating your First Crystal Report for Use in a .NET Application (Jeff McWherter)
• Using Vim As Your C# Code Editor From Visual Studio (Derick Bailey)
• Don’t overlook Enterprise Library 5.0 Migration Guide (Grigori Melnik)
• It’s TFS Tool Time! TFS 2010 RTM compatibility Power Tools, MSSCCI and new Build Extension releases (Greg Duncan)
• Working with WCF: Part Three – Connecting To Your Service With A Client pt. 2 (James Bender)
• 6 Cool #VS2010 Quick Tips you should know when working with Visual Studio 2010 (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• How Do I Use Xbox LIVE APIs on Windows Phone? (Andre Vrignaud)
• CSLA 4 Authorization Rules (Rockford Lhotka)
• Sign a .NET Assembly with a Strong Name Without Recompiling (Ryan Farley)
• Moving from Visual Studio 2010 RC to RTM (Mike Ormond)
• Show CodeRush Xpress 10.1 Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Debugging with the Right Tools (Maoni Stephens)
• DataServiceProviderMethods – the least implemented class you’ll ever see (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Create New Code Snippets from Existing Ones (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• RTM’d today: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)
• Accessible Showing and Hiding (Filament Group)
• Tip #103 revisited (Jimmy Lewis)
• Meet WOFF, The Standard Web Font Format (Sylvain Galineau)
• First 3 ASP.NET MVC for the Rest of Us Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Going Parallel with ForkJoin (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Is Apple Doing a Favor to HTML5? (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Version 3.4 in a little more than 48 hours (Daniel Waldschmidt)
• How to Stay Productive in Tough Situations as a Remote Employee (Dawn Foster)
• The Agile Visitor (Derek Greer)
• Raven performance testing (Oren Eini)
• NDepend 3.0 – Completely Integrated with Visual Studio (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Visualize IoC Container and Domain Dependencies – Part 2 (Rinat Abdullin)
• Think: Free Mind Maps for Newbies (Simon Mackie)

Silverlight / WPF

• Game programming in F# (with Silverlight and WPF) (Brian McNamara)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #3 – Mouse Right Clicks (Mike Snow)
• Prism Source Updated for Unity 2.0 and Silverlight 4 (Bob Brumfield)
• Yet Another MVVM Locator Pattern (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight 4 enables Authorization header modification (Tim Heuer)
• Custom Attached Properties in Silverlight (Umair Saeed)
• WPF : Using PRISM Regions Outside Of PRISM (Sacha Barber)
• The SpiderWebControl for Silverlight (Pavan Podila)
• Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Cormac Herley – Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users (Charles Torre)
• Updated Windows Phone 7 videos show Office doing awesome things (Chris Ziegler)
• Screencast – Git Part 2 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Which is your favorite Nick Swan? (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• jQuery Podcast 21 – Rey Bomb 2 (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)

Community / Events

• Win a free pass to the Web Optimization Summit! (Michael Kimsal)
• I’ll be presenting [virtually] at the Philly SharePoint Saturday, May 8, 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• TEC SharePoint Conference Agenda for Speakers and Attendees (Joel Oleson)
• Cavalcade of Camps: Launch and Learn – May 15th (Jim O’Neil)
• Nothin But .Net – San Diego,CA (July 26-30, 2010) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• First Typemock Academy – 4 days from now (Roy Osherove)
• SharePoint MVP Chats Coming Soon (Paul Andrew)
• MMS Partner Presentation: Windows Management Framework (Jeffrey Snover)
• Your Story: Interviewing at Microsoft by new hire Thom Mitchell – Part II (Thom Mitchell)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 24 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script to Take Database Offline – Take Database Online (Pinal Dave)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (23/30) lock escalation (Paul S. Randal)
• Using Table Value Constructors aka Row Constructors in SQL Server 2008 to insert multiple rows using a single statement (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Visio Stencils! and Creating Custom Error Pages in SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• What’s New in SharePoint 2010 Capacity Planning (Joel Oleson)
• SharePoint 2010 RTM and BCS Permissions (Jon Flanders)
• Temporarily disabling List View Threshold on a large list (Dina Ayoub)

Miscellaneous

• Office Hub on Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Uzair Ghani)
• Thoughts on Microsoft History and OSS (Udi Dahan)
• Microsoft Surface Week in Review (Eric Havir)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2010 — #845 (Dave Campbell)
• Distributed Weekly 47 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

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Top Links

• C# Language Specification 4.0 (MS Downloads)
• An Overview of Objective-C – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Team Hanselman and Diabetes Walk 2010 (Scott Hanselman)
• Thoughts on “Thoughts on TDD”… (Eric Gunnerson)
• patterns & practices Catalog at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Navigate To (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 Vertical Line Guides (Ben March)
• Requiem to the VS 2003/2005/2008 Database Project (Deborah Kurata)
• Code Contracts fails to find CodeContracts.targets after install and Validating Collections with Code Contracts (Derik Whittaker)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• Spec Explorer 2010, Release 3.2 Now Available! (Robert DuWors)
• Upgrade or Uninstall of Office 2007 might cause VS 2008 Web designer to hang (Alison Lu)
• Parallelism in .NET – Part 17, Think Continuations, not Callbacks (Reed Copsey)
• My Visual Studio 2010 Dark Theme (John Papa)
• Immutable instances with circular references (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Solution Guidance Packager for Visual Studio – Feature Builder Power Tool (Mike Walker)
• Functional C#: An imperative to declarative example (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – New Release and Joins (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Authorize.Net, Silent Posts, and URL Rewriting Don’t Mix (Scott Mitchell)
• Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension (Scott Guthrie)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mantis is an agile, simple bugtracker (Erez Zukerman)
• Code Review Tools and Techniques (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Is It Time For You to Telecommute? (Karen Leland)
• Asserting with JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Interview: James Bach – The role of the tester (Roy Osherove)
• Lightweight Adaptation – Coming Soon (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Silverlight / WPF

• Everything you need to know about Silverlight 4 (Al Pascual)
• Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 7 Minutes Each (Bruce Kyle)
• Transitions, Animations, and Effects with Blend – Part One (Corrina Barber)
• Developer test case, customer win! [Using ContextMenu to implement SplitButton and MenuButton for Silverlight (or WPF)] (David Anson)
• Tip of the Day #110 – Using Static Resources in Class Libraries (Mike Snow)
• Understanding WPF popups (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Recapping Sunday Night Football powered by Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight and Xml Binding (Mike Taulty)
• XamlPadSample Step 1g-Silverlight support (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• RES Software Lights Up Personal Desktops on Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• Sketchflow in 90 seconds (Laura Foy)
• Jon Takes Five with Louis DeJardin on Spark View Engine (Jon Galloway)
• Anders Hejlsberg Trends and Future Directions in Programming Languages (DevDays 2010 Keynote) and ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninja Black Belt Tips by Scott Hanselman (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• endpoint.tv – Developing Web Services with IIS/AppFabric (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Cavalcade of Camps: New Hampshire Code Camp, June 5th (Jim O’Neil)
• Want to Learn about Windows Azure? Attend an Azure Boot Camp in a City Near You – DC (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Party with a Purpose – MongoDB WAN Party (Sara J. Chipps)
• Monospace: .NET Open Source Social at the Norwegian Developers Conference (Scott Bellware)

Database

• That No SQL Thing: Document Databases – usages and That No SQL Thing: The relational modeling anti pattern in document databases (Oren Eini)
• Powershell Script for Verifying Space (Grant Fritchey)
• A DMV a Day – Day 19 and A DMV a Day – Day 20 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (19/30) TRUNCATE TABLE is non-logged (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Find Max Worker Count using DMV – 32 Bit and 64 Bit (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with SQL Azure Data Sync (Bruce Kyle)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "XP-More" Windows 7 Virtual PC Managment Tool (Blake Handler)
• New Windows Phone 7 details; Live ID integration and OEM restrictions (Benjamin Rubenstein)
• Microsoft launches free Fix it Center (Joseph Mirabella)
• Cloning A VMWare Base VMDK As Pre-Allocated (Michael Nichols)
• Google Cloud Print: The Future of Printing? (Matthew Casperson)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Windows 7: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDW7M (O’Reilly Media)
• Daily Dose – iPhone 4G: Leaked on Purpose? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows PowerShell in Bing Visual Search (June Blender)
• MonoTouch and iPhone OS 4 Update (MonoTouch Team)
• Palm’s browser-based webOS development tool leaves beta (Tim Conneally)
• Sorting Visualization in Small Basic (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #583 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 19, 2010 — #841 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #101 (Grant Palin)

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by Roy Osherove (Author)The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

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Top Links

• Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Series Development and Design (Dave Bost)
• How to (and not to) give a talk on F# (Ted Neward)
• My top 5 free VS 2010 extension picks (Damien Guard)
• Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET4 (Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Troubleshooting pkgdef Files (Bill Weinberger)
• Using Older Frameworks with Multi-Targeting (Zain Naboulsi)
• A simple WCF service with username password authentication: the things they don’t tell you (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Work Item Visualization CodePlex Project (Cameron Skinner)
• Managing NHibernate Sessions with IoC (Erik Peterson)
• OData does not support Select Many Queries (Chris Woodruff)
• What’s new in Code Analysis for Visual Studio 2010 (Duke Kamstra)
• TMap for VS2010 Flyer and Architecture Analysis Practices with VS2010 Direct Graphs and Layer Diagrams (Clemens Reijnen)

Web Development

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform – Only $9.99! Use code DDDSA (O’Reilly Media)
• Skipfish: Google’s New Tool to Harden Web App Security (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Azure – ASP.NET to Forms Auth with Roles in Azure Tables (J.D. Meier)
• Azure Targets Facebook Developers (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 (Brian Mains)
• Will WCSF VS 2010 version support Unity 2.0 and ASP.NET MVC? (Blaine Wastell)
• Background Tasks in Purr Mode at Sueetie.com (Dave Burke)
• Dynamic User Specific CSS Selection at Run Time (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Injecting Those Dependencies (Brett Schuchert)
• Slides of My Presentation on Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection Pattern (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Defensive Programming and the UI (Mark Needham)
• Swashbuckling Tentacles (Derick Bailey)
• Is Unstructured Collaboration the Key to Business Agility? (Jacob Morgan)
• Include Method Extension for IObjectSet – What about the mocks? (Julie Lerman)

Silverlight / WPF

• Prism will support Unity 2.0 (Blaine Wastell)
• Silverlighting Your PHP: Adding Silverlight With Nothing But Notepad (Justin Whitney)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application (Brad Abrams)
• Free Silverlight, Expression Blend Training (Bruce Kyle)
• Silverlight Printing (Scott Seely)
• Simulate Geo Location in Silverlight Windows Phone 7 emulatorand Make your Silverlight applications Speak to you with Microsoft Translator and Silverlight Client for Facebook updated for Silverlight 4 RC (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mark Brown Introduces Us to the Web Platform Installer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Mohawk in HD (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MSDN Simulcast: Cloud Computing & Windows Azure Platform (Part 1 of 3): Overview and (Part 2 of 3): Storage Options and (Part 3 of 3): Solutions (Emily Gibson)
• Episode 106- PowerScripting Podcast – SQL PSX with Chad Miller (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Cloud Cover Episode 5 – MIX Edition (Ryan Dunn)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 158: Rich Hickey on Clojure (SE-Radio Team)
• 2 New WPF Videos (Jay Esguerra)
• After-Mix Silverlight and the Phone in the Pub (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• New England Code Camp 13 – The Schedule! (Bob Familiar)
• Free Events – It’s All About Expectations (Andy Warren)
• What’s going on with INETA and the Regional Speakers Bureau? (Chris G. Williams)
• Events this Week – March 22nd, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 15 New SharePoint 2010 Launch Community Parties To Be Announced (Joel Oleson)
• Good Times and Vibes at Mix 10 (Phil Haack)

Database

• First look at Raven DB (Oren Eini)
• Why UniqueIdentifier is a Bad Choice for a Clustered Index in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Newsletters and Magazines (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Start Button "Orb" Changer 2.0 (Blake Handler)
• Windows Live Messenger 2010 beta preview (Andrew Lyle)
• IE9 Tech Preview beats latest Firefox alpha, as Chrome 5 clobbers King Opera (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Kodu: New Xbox build! (Stephen Coy)
• Windows Phone 7 desktop wallpapers (Steve Clayton)
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