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)

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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)

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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)
• Free Bing T-Shirt for your avatar (Larry Hyrb)
• Mouse Gestures for IE – 64-bit gotcha (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Getting the most speed out of Verizon FIOS (Pete Brown)
• Test if AD object/path exists (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• Flagged Links #71 (Jason Bock)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 3.22.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #565 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 409 (Sam Gentile)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2010 — #817 (Dave Campbell)

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Programming Windows Workflow Foundation: Practical WF Techniques and Examples using XAML and C#: A C# developer’s guide to the features and programming interfaces of Windows Workflow Foundation

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Top Links

• Expression Blend: Designer Tool or Tool for Design (John Stockton)
• TechNet 2.0 – Episode 6 – Wiki (Keith Combs)
• Live Mesh: It’s Alive! (Paul Thurrott)
• Can the Reporting Services BI Tools be More Like Report Builder 2.0? (William Vaughn)
• Timeline integrates Photoshop with Subversion (SVN) for full version control (Sebastian Anthony)
• Put Missing Kids on your 404 Page – Entirely Client-Side Solution with YQL, jQuery, and MSAjax (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Is CAS dead in .NET 4? (Shawn Farkas)
• Robocode – robot warfare (Coding4Fun)
• Excerpt #3 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Jeffrey Richter)
• Visual Studio 2010 background flickering and customization (visualstudioblog)
• Code Definition Window — vstipTool0012 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Small LINQ Trick for Converting List to String Text List (Peter Kellner)
• MEF is not An IoC container; but MEF uses IoC (Peter Ritchie)
• C#: Overcomplicating with LINQ (Mark Needham)
• Introduction into ADO .NET Data Services/RIA Services (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• Creating Multiple Choice Exam Application Using ASP.NET MVC Framework (Mohammad Azam)
• Unique Keys versus IDs in Web Applications (Chris Missal)
• Documenting Standards in IE (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Client Side Validation with jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
• Daily Dose – Zend Server 5.0 GA Boasts Code Tracing (Mitch Pronschinske)
• jQuery 1.4 breaks ASP.Net MVC actions with array parameters (Kevin Miller)
• Introducing RealDolmenBlogs.com (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is the big picture? (Simon Brown)
• Mercurial Tutorial (Joel Spolsky)
• Did Your Boss Thank You For Coding Yourself to Death? (Alan Skorkin)
• Repository Shootout: distributed vs centralized, hosted vs installed … You be the judge – Take our 2 Minute Survey. (Alex Coisman)
• Code Kata (Julian M. Bucknall)
• On the Utility of TestPropertyAttribute (Craig Andera)
• Branching Strategies: When To Branch And Merge and Branching Strategies: The Cost Of Branching And Merging (Derick Bailey)
• Agile Tenet #12 – Reflect on Improvement (Julie Stickler)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Snapshots ! (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Pair Programming: In interviews (Mark Needham)
• How to Get Started With Agile? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Announcing the February 2010 Release of Microsoft Health CUI (MS Health CUI Team)
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 1) – Controls for Silverlight Developers (Me)
• Article Published: Context Sensitive History. Part 1 of 2 (Daniel Vaughan)
• XAML Attributes on Separate Lines (Christopher Bennage)
• Moonlight Feels Right for Mono 2.6 (Tapas Pal)
• MEF, Silverlight and the DeploymentCatalog (Mike Taulty)
• SLARToolkit – Silverlight Augmented Reality Toolkit (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Steven Cloherty: Microsoft Online Services Risk Management (Charles Torre)
• Community Megaphone Show #4 with guest JP Toto (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Looping over SQL scripts and executing them : SSIS video nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• BCS Discussion with Brad Stevenson-Episode 42 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 11 – WCF and TCP (Mike Taulty)
• Using the Code Analysis Tool (CAT.NET 2.0) to Identify Security Vulnerabilities (Jossie Tirado)
• VISUG Recording: F# Introduction (Katrien De Graeve)

Community / Events

• Are you interested in a virtual PowerShell brown-bag event? (Joel Bennett)
• Learn how to customize SP2010 sites with SharePoint Designer 2010 by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• Like jQuery? Live in the DC Area? Have I got a Group for you! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Take a look at MVPs on MS News Center (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• Rhino Divan DB reboot idea (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server Proper Case Function (George Mastros)
• The fast, yet as complete as, possible SQL Azure Start to Finish Guide – aka What is a “DB as a SQL Azure/web service” demo without Northwind? (Greg Duncan)
• Rounding to the Nearest X Minutes, the Lazy Way (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Accessing system views in global stored procedures (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Designer’s new workflow editor: introduction (SharePoint Designer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Eclipsys and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance to Make Enterprise Health IT More Open and Powerful (MS News Center)
• Looking for Reviewers for PowerShell Cookbook v2 (Lee Holmes)
• Macmillan’s DynamicBooks offers editable digital textbooks (Jay Hathaway)
• More Wrox Books in Mobi and ePub Formats (Jim Minatel)
• Microsoft launches Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 (Ray Comvalius)
• U.S. Surgeon General Announces Connection with Microsoft HealthVault (David Cerino)
• Cracking Down on Botnets (Tim Cranton)
• Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone development: integrate, prioritize, focus (Kip Kniskern)
• The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook Review (Mike Riley)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Perl, Fifth Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDPER (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 24, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #547 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 24-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• XAML UI News – 2010/02/24 (Rob Relyea)

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• 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)

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• ASP.NET MVC 2 RC Released (Phil Haack) – Phil announces what looks to be the last release of v2 before it ships with VS2010.
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update (Scott Guthrie) – VS2010 to be delayed a few weeks so MS can release an RC build in February to address performance concerns.
• World# – Real Time 3D Augmented Reality with Silverlight (Rene Schulte) – Rene is doing some really amazing 3D stuff with Silverlight, A must-read!
• Moonlight 2 is now available (Silverlight Team) – V2 offers SL2 features and some bits of SL3.
• The Law of Unintended Consequences (Justin Etheredge) – Nice post from Justin that reminds us to be conscious of possible side-effects when we make decisions in software development.

.NET / Visual Studio

• VS2010 Modeling; Create Lifeline from Component (Clemens Reijnen)
• Developing an installer for your Surface application (Eric St. John)
• F#: Word Count – A somewhat failed attempt (Mark Needham)
• Lessons In Building An Email Parser (Rob Reynolds)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta period extended (Somasegar)
• Changed and rewritten items: Effective C# 2nd edition (Bill Wagner)
• Using LINQPad with NHibernate (Alan Northam)
• Astoria Data Services V2 Support in Telerik Data Services Wizard (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

• A Bit About Spark and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine and Adding a bit of Spark to Nerd Dinner (Mike Ormond)
• Understanding Partial Views in ASP.NET MVC Application (Mohammad Azam)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta – Strongly Typed UI Helpers (Malcolm Sheridan)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 4 – Integrating Siege.ServiceLocation with ASP.NET MVC and The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation Part 5 – A guide to getting started with Siege.ServiceLocation (Marcus Bratton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Balsamiq Mid-Week Release: finishing up Zoom (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• How to write MEF in 2 hours or less (Oren Eini)
• Advanced StructureMap: connecting implementations to open generic types (Jimmy Bogard)
• Leadership Tip: Leaders Who Are Always Busy Often Make Really Bad Leaders. (Rajiv Popat)
• What Is The Difference Between an IoC Container and MEF? (Jak Charlton)

Silverlight / WPF

• Flash to Silverlight Guide – MovieClip to UserControl (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight 4: Drag&drop with EventToCommand (Laurent Bugnion)
• Extending the SMF for the HVP (Jesse Liberty)
• Open-Source WPF Reporting Engine (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 12 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 70: Brian Hitney of Microsoft (Michael Kimsal)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #155: Exploring .Net 4 Features – Tuples (Derik Whittaker)
• New PowerGUI Overview Video (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Pete at PDC09: Jon Galloway on Witty Twitter and Pete at PDC09: The Sobees Social Client, WPF, Silverlight and Yahoo! (Pete Brown)
• The Thirsty Developer 80: Meeting the New Guy, Clark Sell (Dave Bost)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Erik Meijer and Thomas Lewis (Nic Fillingham)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 016 – Real Time Web and Silverlight (Eric Nelson)

Community / Events

• Looking for last-minute gift idea? Buy The Art of Community book by Jono Bacon (Sara Ford)
• CodePaste is the bee’s knees, my new favorite way to share code. (Glenn Block)

Database

• The Top 20 Questions in Database Design (Buck Woody)
• Reporting Services Licensing (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Differences in Vulnerability between Oracle and SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Transaction Log Fragmentation??? (Lawrence Overbey)

Miscellaneous

• Tools of the Tech Tweet Trade (Elijah Manor)
• C# 4, ASP.NET 4, WPF 4, and VB 2010 Sample Preview Chapters (Jim Minatel)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/18 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Building a PC, Part VI: Rebuilding (Jeff Atwood)
• Palm unveils "Project Ares" webOS developer tool (Nik Fletcher)
• Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 GM Versions (PSN Editorial Staff)
• Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Digging A Bit More (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Using PowerShell to clean and zip a Solution folder (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #501 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 17, 2009 — #758 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Top 5 Essays You Should Read (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Links (12/17/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Creators Club Communiqué 35 (Kathleen Sanders)

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•  use Less to reduce CSS clutter! (Coding4Fun) – Info on .Less, a .NET port of a Ruby Gem.
• Mary Poppendieck on “The Tyranny of The Plan” (Christophe Louvion) – A video from the 2009 UK Lean Conference
• ASP.beer Seattle (Javier G. Lozano) – A meetup during the MVP Summit in February. I’ll be there!
• So Long Tehran and Thanks for All the Fish (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Keyvan has made his way to the U.S. to continue his studies. Join me in welcoming him!
• Confessions of a First Time Manager (Tim Barcz) – Some lessons learned from Tim.
• Creating Team Trust (Johanna Rothman) – Some team leadership tips from Johanna on Roy Osherove’s “Five Whys” blog.
• ViewModel Pattern for Silverlight – Options for Hooking a View to its Model (Nikhil Kothari) – Nikhil looks at some MVVM options with Silverlight.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Passing JavaScript Objects to the CLR World (Mohammad Azam)
• Two reasons that Assembla is the best way to deliver or get code (Andy Singleton)
• Garbage Collection in .NET – How it really works (Techie Mate)
• Compiling F# code for the XBox 360 (Don Syme)
• Visual Studio Project Sample Loading Error: Assembly could not be loaded and will be ignored. Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80131515) (Brad Abrams)
• Remote Command Service for Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• Agatha Feature Suggestion: Caching and Agatha’s Caching Layer Implementation: First Draft and Using NHibernate In Your Service Layer (Davy Brion)
• Killer Feature for VNext – Language Embedded DSL (Kathleen Dollard)
• Programmatically Increase, Decrease and Mute the Volume (Suprotim Agarwal)

Web Development

• Code for My Blog is On Github (Rob Conery)
• Using Fiddler to Capture RIA Services (Andy Beaulieu)
• Roll your own AJAX Extender for JQuery Calendar (Brendan Kowitz)
• ASP.NET: Gradients and ASP.NET: Buttons (Deborah Kurata)
• Enabling IoC in ASP.NET ActionResults (or, a better ActionResult) (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC ControllerFactory for Unity and the reasoning behind it (Simone Chiaretta)
• Generating Dynamic HTML Tables with jQuery From an In-Memory DataTable (Michael Ceranski)
• A free standing ASP.NET Pager Web Control (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile is Not Scrum, Part 2 (David Starr)
• 5 Simple Steps to Execute Unit Testing Using NUnit (Shivprasad Koirala)
• Name that refactoring: 1 and Name that refactoring: 2 (Brett Schuchert)
• NDepend And Lack Of Cohesion Of Methods… Not to be trusted (Davy Brion)
• Keeping Close to Users – Everyone Should be Tech Support for Someone (Julie Stickler)
• The Art of Subliminal Productivity (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Understanding Perceived Performance and More on Perceived Performance (Howard Dierking)
• TDD: Only mock types you own (Mark Needham)
• Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns (Mike Hadlow)
• Entity Framework Profiler is now in public beta and ÜberProf new feature: Programmatic Integration (Oren Eini)
• Picking Between Your Official Designation And Your Secret Titles. and Programmer Tip: Look Out For The Best Alpha Geeks And Learn From Them. (Rajiv Popat)
• Four Kinds of Trust (4): Trust Yourself! (Jurgen Appelo)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 3 – Extending the container with custom use cases (Marcus Bratton)
• The Art of Color (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Wish List (Deborah Kurata)
• Magellan Transitions and Magellan Action Results and Magellan Exceptions (Paul Stovell)
• Wrap music [A more flexible balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
• My XAP file is 5 Mb size, is that bad? (Braulio Diez)
• Make Your WPF Applications Adapt to the Host Machine (Srinath MS)
• Using a different mscorlib for F# in Visual Studio (Silverlight and probably XNA too) (Steve Gilham)
• 12 Days of RIA – Day 5 – Read Only Data (John Pelak)
• Working with Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Buttons with WPF 4 and Overlaying Icons on the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• Exchanging Data between Silverlight 3.0 User Controls using Dependency Properties and Events (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – The Spark View Engine for ASP.NET MVC with Louis DeJardin (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Weekly 134: Prestige Mode (Paul Thurrott)
• Hidden Gem from PDC Videos (Jason Haley)
• ARCast.TV – Rocky Lhotka on Development Frameworks (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: Silverlight Web cam apps, VS extensibility, Explorer shell extensions (Dan Fernandez)
• Enterprise Library 5 Video from PnPSummit (David Hayden)
• Rx API in depth: Concat, Catch and OnErrorResumeNext (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Herding Code 65: Scott Hanselman on His Secret Ninja Squad and Jon’s new job (bonus: netbook operating system install clinic!) (Jon Galloway)
• Peer to Peer Series Part 7: PeerChannel Basics (Jeff Brand)
• Technical Preview for CAT.NET 2.0 (Jossie Tirado)

Community / Events

• IronRuby @ RubyConf – Part 3: Sneaking Ruby to the top (Jimmy Schementi)
• French MVP Launches Windows 7 Tutorials Site! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• SQL Server Query Plan cache – what is it and why should you care? (Damien Guard)
• Introducing SQL Server to Oracle and Dynamic SQL Server connections in Reporting Services (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Query Commenting/Uncommenting Quick Tip (Erik)
• SQL SERVER – White Paper – Partitioned Table and Index Strategies Using SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: Designing and Developing High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 vs. MindTouch the Battle of the Platforms (Mark Fidelman)
• BCS Webinar Slides (Nick Swan)
• Video Blogging with Javascript and the Media Web Part (Mihai Coman)

Miscellaneous

• Mark Anderson to Microsoft: Your consumer business is dead (Todd Bishop)
• Google Apps highlights – 12/11/2009 (Jeremy Milo)
• P80 Windows Home Server add-in update (Ben Palmer)
• Stack Overflow Rack Glamour Shots (Jeff Atwood)
• Jive Software vs. MindTouch – a Guide for Decision Makers (Mark Fidelman)
• WordPress Makes Blogging On The Fly Easier, Integrates With Twitter API (Leena Rao)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 12, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #497 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 12, 2009 — #755 (Dave Campbell)
• AppFabric a.ka. "Dublin" Links (Sam Gentile)
• Links of the week #101 (David Vidmar)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.08 ~ 12.14 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #83 (Grant Palin)
• Links (12/13/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 123 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/14/2009 (Pete Brown)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating GUIDs in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Pasting code from VS into WLW, part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• C# Snooker (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• C++ vs C# vs F# vs Haskell (Phillip Trelford)
• Working on F# with NDepend (Steve Gilham)

Web Development

• Microsoft AJAX CDN – Now with SSL Support (Scott Guthrie)
• T4MVC 2.6: MVC 2 Areas support (David Ebbo) – Link of the Day
• Get Your App in the Cloud with Front Runner for Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Script# Update – v0.5.5.0 (Nikhil Kothari)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Shotokan Development (Steve Andrews)
• CQRS – Trying to make it re-usable and Convention over Configuration (Mark Nijhof)
• Architecture Review Boards (Mike Walker)
• Review: The Passionate Programmer (Sean Timm)
• Programmer Tip: Get Rid Of Those Systems First. (Rajiv Popat)
• Wrapping up the StructureMap Automocking Container (Richard Cirerol)
• Integrating Your IOC Container With Agatha and Agatha 1.0 Beta 2 Is Out (Davy Brion)
• Can a Fish Use a Bicycle? (Rod Paddock)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF : Some Good Cinch News (Sacha Barber)
• WCF RIA Services and a guide to use DTO/”Presentation Model” and WCF RIA Services Unity DomainServiceFactory (Fredrik Normen)
• MEF has landed in Silverlight 4. We come in the name of extensibility. and Building the Hello MEF dashboard in Silverlight 4 – Part I (Glenn Block)
• Silverlight 4: Sum is Greater than the Parts (John Papa)
• Adding Images on Silverlight 4 using drag and drop and the web camera. (Al Pascual)
• Document Toolkit Roadmap (Koen Zwikstra)
• Data Driven Application Development using WCF and Silverlight 3.0 User Controls (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Text Deformation Based on Bézier Splines (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight Game: Froggy Math (Andy Beaulieu)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 132: Google Bing (Paul Thurrott)
• Major Nelson Show 341: The one with e & Stepto discussing how they got into the industry (Larry Hyrb)
• ARCast.TV – Albert Pascual on how he built GeoTwitter (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: XAML tools, Silverlight for Live Writer, Surface SDK, (Dan Fernandez)
• Core CSLA .NET 3.8 Video Series pre-release sale! (Rockford Lhotka)

Community / Events

• UX Fail (Steve Andrews)
• Free Silverlight 4 Event in Tampa – Monday Dec 7th @ 6:15pm (John Papa)
• The Experts Conference 2010 (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Azure Start Guide – Step by Step Installation Guide and SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table for Each Index – Solution (Pinal Dave)
• StreamInsight WILL be in SKUs other than Data Centre Edition and Debunking Kimball Effective Dates (Jamie Thomson)
• "Quadrant": Three Features in Two Minutes (Chris Sells)

SharePoint

• Create your own SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine – The Complete Guide (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 Offers More for Developers (Mitch Pronschinske)

Miscellaneous

• Top Bing Searches in 2009 (Danielle Tiedt)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Ignore Everybody (Dave Burke)
• Office 2010 scheduled for June release (Steven Bink)
• I Just Cloned, Why Did Git Change My Files? (Tim Barcz)
• Counting in Hexadecimal (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/30 (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 29, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 29, 2009 — #744 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 29, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.23 ~ 11.30 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #81 (Grant Palin)
• Links (11/29/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 121 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #487 (Chris Alcock)

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