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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

• JavaScript Intellisense Improvements with VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• "Dogfooding" VS 2010 and .NET 4 (Somasegar)
• Apple to developers: don’t even think in Flash, bucko (Rob Beschizza)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – A Separation of Concerns (Matthew Podwysocki)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using GroupBy in LINQDatasource Control for Grouping Data (Satheesh Babu)
• Windows Azure AppFabric Goes Live (Bruce Kyle)
• Parallel Tasks in .NET 4.0 (Part II) – Methods that Return value (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Transpose Lines, Words, and Characters — vstipEdit0042 and View White Space (Zain Naboulsi)
• Precision and accuracy of DateTime (Eric Lippert)
• Working with obscure arguments without C# 4 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Coding: FindOrCreateUser and similar methods (Mark Needham)
• A simple WCF service with username password authentication: the things you told me (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Telerik Releases the Data Service Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• Leasing Windows Azure Blobs Using the Storage Client Library (Steve Marx)

Web Development

• 5 Years Ago Today the Web Mashup Was Born (Adam DuVander)
• Inside IE 9’s High Performance JavaScript Engine (Charles Torre)
• How to parse JSON (Daniel Crenna)
• Simple Pager for ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Scaling Web Sites with Azure and Local Cache (Jared Bienz)
• jQuery, ASP.NET, and Browser History (Stephen Walther)
• Running PHP on Windows Azure and Using Windows Azure Drive in PHP (or Ruby) (Maarten Balliauw)
• How to use Cross-Site Scripting to Rickroll your Co-Workers (Russell Ball)
• An ASP.NET MVC Portable Area for OpenId (John Nelson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Trust" Now Online (James Shore)
• Debugging a production problem (Oren Eini)
• Strengthening your domain: Domain Events (Jimmy Bogard)
• What Makes Peer Code Review an Agile Process? (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Test-Driven Development in Windows Phone7 – Part 1: Unit Testing with Silverlight for Phone7 (Michael Sync)
• Question to Software Designers: IUser (Keith Brown)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 6: Mocks & Unit Tests (Julie Lerman)
• Build your conventions (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Guidance – Branching for each Sprint and Scrum for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)

Silverlight / WPF

• DoodlePad – A fun, free, sketching application for Windows Phone 7 (Dave Isbitski)
• Omniture AppMeasurement will be in the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #109 – Attach to Process Debugging (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight Voice Video Chat Modules – Beta Release (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pete at MIX10: Dave Campbell on Silverlight Cream (Pete Brown)
• The History of Microsoft – The Jeff Raikes Story: Part Two (Tina Wood)
• Channel 9 Live at MIX10: SVG Web Panel (Nic Fillingham)
• What’s new in Silverlight 4 Part 1 by Mike Taulty and Windows Azure Applications: Running Applications in the Cloud by Aaron Skonnard and ASP.NET MVC 2: Basics, Introduction by Scott Hanselman (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Silverlight TV 20: Community Driven Development with WCF RIA Services (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Looking forward to the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference in London, just over a week away! (Andrew Connell)
• Save May 12 for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 Launch (Bruce Kyle)
• Preparing Yourself for the Windows Phone 7 DevCamp (Dave Bost)
• Why Aren’t You Awesome Yet? (Learning Via The World-Wide Community) (Alan Skorkin)
• Join me for some exciting sessions at Devlink 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Free training on Microsoft Web Platform in Web Camps (Lawrence Moroney)
• MVPs to help launch Visual Studio 2010 around the World (PJ  Forgione)
• Poll: What Are Your Favorite Silverlight TV Episodes? (John Papa)

Database

• Obfuscating SQL Server Code (Richard Carr)
• A DMV a Day – Day 9 (Glenn Berry)
• Encrypted Stored Procedures and Their Effect on my Rug (Jeremiah Peschka)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (8/30) unicorns, rainbows, and online index operations (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Manage Risk and Configure Best Practices with New Server Administrator for SharePoint 2007/2010 (Joel Oleson)
• Deploying an External Content Type, Error: The default web application could not be determined (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Technical Book Sales Insight Through Real-Time Amazon Rankings Analytics (Bart Czernicki)
• Subversion (SVN) Source-Control for PowerShell Scripts (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Getting Started With Cgywin (Derek Greer)
• Clash of the titans: Apple, Google battle for the mobile Web (Joe Wilcox)
• iPhone OS 4 vs Android 2.1 vs Windows Phone 7 (Taimur Asad)
• New in Labs: Nested Labels and Message Sneak Peek (Manu Cornet)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Geek Atlas – Only $9.99 Use code DDGAP (O’Reilly Media)
• Hump-Jumping: How the Education of Computer Science can be Saved, err, maybe. (Leon Bambrick)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #576 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 08, 2010 — #834 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman on Defining Community, Blog Site Pet Peeves, Preserving the Problem (Dave Burke)
• Creators Club Communiqué 49 (Kathleen Sanders)

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Photoshop CS4 Bible

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Top Links

• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 SP1 for Windows Phone 7 (Laurent Bugnion)
• On The Value Of Fundamentals In Software Development (Alan Skorkin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Testing NHibernate Mappings (Mike Hadlow)
• Fibonacci numbers in F# (Bob Palmer)
• Delete Horizontal White Space and Cut or Delete the Current Line (Zain Naboulsi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Staying Sane as a Technical Manager, Part 2 and Analyzing Code with NDepend (Aaron Lerch)
• Boundary Analysis (Simon Ince)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: Best of April Fools Day with Clint Rutkas and Christian Liensberger (Dan Fernandez)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Enable Identity Insert – Import Expert Wizard (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Picasa" Plug-in for Windows Live Writer (Blake Handler)
• Lazy PowerShell Coalesce-Args (Keith Dahlby)
• Microsoft offers Office 2010 free to MS Partner University "grads" (Lee Mathews)
• iPhone SDK 3.2 Now Available on iPhone Dev Center (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 4, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 3, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 03, 2010 — #829 (Dave Campbell)

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Software Requirements: Practical Techniques for Gathering and Managing Requirements Throughout the Product Development Cycle. (Pro-Best Practices)

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Top Links

• Test Lint: A Unit Testing Helper for VS 2010 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing Callbacks (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Practice Software Patterns – Component Patterns (Caleb Jenkins)
• Windows Azure platform AppFabric Labs SDK V1.0 (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft adds XNA Game Studio 4.0 to its Windows Phone 7 arsenal (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tips and Tricks: Clipboard Ring and Toolbox Snippets (Weston Hutchins)
• Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# – Pre Order now (Wally McClure)
• Printing in Different Fonts and Colors (Zain Naboulsi)
• Reducing overloading ceremony with C# 4.0 optional parameters (Russell Ball)
• Controlling the DGML Double-Click (Cameron Skinner)
• VS2010 TMap Testing Template | Initial Work Items #1 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Sharing Code Analysis files between projects in Visual Studio 2010 (Derik Whittaker)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• POCO Template Code Generation Options (Sheetal Gupta)

Web Development

• Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action (Me)
• One Year of Production ASP.NET MVC (Chris Missal)
• We moved your ASP.NET website cheese, in a good way (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC And Convention Based Forms – Part 1 (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Javascript: Function scoping (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• mnmal: designeriphone: “Good design means never having to say… (Leon Gersing)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Designing Social Interfaces – Only $9.99! Use code DDDST (O’Reilly Media)
• Does an organization need to be fully committed to agile/lean/scrum? (Mark Needham)
• Strengthening your domain: Encapsulated collections (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF

• Article: The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer Toolbox and Article: How to Get Started in WPF or Silverlight (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stories from the Dallas GiveCamp (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ARCast.TV: An Overview of MVC4WPF (Part 1 of 3) and ARCast.TV: An Overview of MVC4WPF (Part 2 of 3) (MS Podcasts)
• Brian Beckman: On Analog Computing, Some Beckman History, and Life in the Universe (Charles Torre)
• Video: Microsoft listens to the MVPs (Joseph Mirabella)
• Techfest 2010: Mobile Surface (Larry Larsen)
• Windows 7 Text-to-Speech from .NET 4 and WPF with Pete Brown (Don Burnett)
• TechFest 2010: Microsoft ICE – Image Composite Editor (Laura Foy)
• Don’t be original, just be good (Scott Berkun)

Community / Events

• Boston Geek Dinner – March 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Where to See Me At MIX10 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Chat with the SharePoint MVP Experts (Paul Andrew)
• NorCal Weekly .Net is Up Now! Catch All for the .Net Events in Northern California! (Peter Kellner)
• pluralsight office hours 3/11/2010 with dan sullivan (Meagon Marshall)
• The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework at Mix (Michael S. Scherotter)
• SXSW 2010: The Complete Social Media Guide (Matt Silverman)
• My program at #MIX10 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Spend a Day with Miller in Vegas! (Free CodeRush Training) (Mark Miller)
• Speaking at MIX! (Glenn Block)

Database

• ORMs – A Developer’s Dream, A DBA’s Nightmare? (Mike Ormond)
• SQL SERVER – Force Index Scan on Table – Use No Index to Retrieve the Data – Query Hint (Pinal Dave)
• New e learning course on Business Intelligence and Did you know you can shrink a transaction log even when log shipping? (Simon Sabin)
• How to script all stored procedures in a database (Naomi)
• Asp.Net Membership/Role/etc Provider scripts for SqlAzure (Jason Haley)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2 & RBS: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should (Andrew Connell)
• Lightning Storm Forums release 1.0.0.14 (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Adobe, Microsoft "working closely" on Flash for Win Phone 7 (Electronista Staff)
• New Kodu build! (Stephen Coy)
• Use Windows Live Writer with Posterous (Sarah Perez)
• Making your PowerShell ISE cool with SQL Ice – SQLIse now available as part of the SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) v2.1 release and Using PowerShell to demo PowerShell via PowerShellPoint! (aka “PowerPoint for PowerShell’ers…” or “We don’t need no stink’n PowerPoint to present PowerShell!”) (Greg Duncan)
• PowerShell in the Enterprise (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Insert Tag Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer (that works with Windows 7) (Jeff Wilcox)
• Finding awesome stuff online with Google Reader Play (Garrett Wu)
• Now playing: Apps Script for Google Docs (Evin Levey)
• Create Outlook Appointments from PowerShell (Buck Woody)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #557 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 — #810 and Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 – 2 — #811 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

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Top Links

• T4MVC 2.6.13: now officially in MvcContrib, with a few new features (David Ebbo)
• A Vision of the Future for Home and Work Experiences by Microsoft Surface (Arturo Toledo)
• Game Developers Have a Great Opportunity with Windows Phone 7 Series (Ron Pessner)
• pluralsight and InnerWorkings (Meagon Marshall)
• 10 things Microsoft did right in 2010 (so far) (Joe Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Go To a Line Number and Print with Line Numbers / Summary Info Poll and Reuse the Same Editor Window When Opening Files (Zain Naboulsi)
• Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive) (Scott Mitchell)
• Tuning C++ build parallelism in VS2010 (Dan (VS Team))
• ThinkGearNET Library (Brian Peek)
• VB and C# coevolution (Scott Wiltamuth)
• Slicing and Dicing Strings with CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
• When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Combining Higher Order Functions in C# and How to tell if a type is a delegate (Mike Hadlow)
• The yield statement cannot be used inside an anonymous method or lambda expression and Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in F# (Oliver Sturm)
• IronRuby Unleashed Is Out Now (Justin Etheredge)
• WCF Service Cannot Be Activated Because of ASP.NET Compatibility and WCF Data Service Error – Request Error (Keith Elder)
• .Net, Native, P/Invoke marshaling just like magic… “Marshaling with C# Pocket Reference” (Think “Marshalling Guide for the Busy Dev Guy”) (Greg Duncan)
• XNA Game Studio 4 News (GDC 2010) (Greg Duncan)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• TMap for VS2010 Testing Process Template RC published on Codeplex. and VS2010 TMap Testing Template | Initial Work Items #1 (Clemens Reijnen)
• MindBlaster Article Posted (Brian Peek)
• Save a diagram to Image File (Cameron Skinner)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part II: Semantic Changes and +=/-= (Chris Burrows)
• Michael Klucher on XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in C# (Chris Sells)
• Using Copy-On-Write In Multithreaded Code To Reduce Locking Overhead (Davy Brion)
• FluentPath: a fluent wrapper around System.IO (Bertrand Le Roy)

Web Development

• Deleporter: Cross-Process Code Injection for ASP.NET (Steve Sanderson)
• Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Profiling Apps 1 of N: The MVC ActionLink (Hadi Hariri)
• Working with the HTML5 Community (Adrian Bateman)
• ASMX ScriptService mistakes: Installation and configuration (Dave Ward)
• Displaying Multimedia Content In A Floating Window Using FancyBox (Scott Mitchell)
• Using Lucene – External Indexes (Oren Eini)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• VCS Survey (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Animations – Big Teams (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Git/Branch-Per-Feature – Composable Deployments/Releases? (Joey Beninghove)
• Some Day Kanban Will Fail 75% of the Time (Jurgen Appelo)
• The 8th Phase (Karl Seguin)
• Getting real: Book review and Pair Programming: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Review: The Productive Programmer (Grant Palin)
• CQRS Performance Engineering: Read vs Read/Write Models (Derick Bailey)
• State Pattern Misuse (Greg Young)
• The Dissatisfied Designer (Dave Laribee)
• Cut the abstractions by putting test hooks (Oren Eini)
• Work is a Rubber Ball that Bounces Back (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF / Silverlight Quick Tip: INotifyPropertyChanged for indexer and Binding to a Dictionary in WPF and Silverlight and Tracing WPF in Visual Studio 2010 (Pete Brown)
• WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity (Scott Hanselman)
• Small Basic – Now with SilverLight (Vijaye)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 : Focus and Activation (Paul Harrington)
• Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog ( again ) (Mike Taulty)
• A syntax highlighting TextBlock for Silverlight 3 (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Catastrophic Failure Message (Kathleen Dollard)
• Silverlight Challenge: Creating a DependencyProperty (Christopher Bennage)
• Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel (Glenn Block)
• Pixel Perfect Development (Dave Schinkel)
• Simplified INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation with WeakReference Support and Typed Property Access API (Daniel Cazzulino)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Toad + ,NET = Datadude for Oracle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 157: Hadoop with Philip Zeyliger (SE-Radio Team)
• endpoint.tv – Install/Uninstall AppFabric & Referencing Caching Libraries (Ron Jacobs)
• Video of My Last Iteration Planning Meeting with CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast – MDT 2010 with Keith Garner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Conversation with Gary Bernhardt (Corey Haines)
• Ping 51: TechFest, Ballmer, Xbox, Android & Tina Wood! and What is the Cloud? (Laura Foy)
• Videos of developer sessions at Oredev (including mine on .net debugging) (Tess Ferrandez)
• David Anderson on kanban – radio interview (Christophe Louvion)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport – Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night – SharePoint 2010 Pro Summit Edition (Andrew Connell)
• I love Codeplex! (Arian T. Kulp)
• Silverlight @ #MIX10 – The Next Web Now (Silverlight Team)
• You Can Sponsor Philly Code Camp (Nick Berardi)
• Microsoft at SXSW 2010 (Dominic Carr)
• Windows Live Wave 4 at Mix? Follow our liveblog and find out (Kip Kniskern)
• Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10 (John Papa)
• 2010 Summit – in a word, “more!” (Joseph Mirabella)
• Speaking on “Ignite your coding” (Glenn Block)
• Getting ready for MIX10 (Ed Bott)
• Events This Week – March 8th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Looking for more SharePoint 2010 Info? Check out these Free Webcasts by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• MIX10, Coding4Fun Show, and You! (Brian Peek)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Improve Performance by Reducing IO – Creating Covered Index and SQLAuthority Book Review – Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Pinal Dave)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 4: network optimization) (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Server Locking & Block Scripts (Joe Webb)
• Why abbreviate schema names? (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Readying SharePoint For Teleworking (Will Kelly)
• Accessibility and SharePoint 2010 (Tim McConnell)
• Configure SharePoint Server 2010 for Mobile Device Access (Office Team)
• Training from Microsoft on SharePoint 2010 (Paul Andrew)
• Beyond F5 deployment – my top 5 benefits of Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Kodu (MS Downloads)
• A Trip Down Memory Lane – Presentations over 10 years old (Scott Hanselman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDNUT (O’Reilly Media)
• Remote File Explorer in PowerGUI and PowerShell in the Enterprise (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Office Web Apps to graduate with Windows Live Wave 4: gives clue to final release date? (damaster)
• The incomplete list of impolite WP7 user feature requests (Chris Sells)
• UITableView Example Code (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/9/2010 – Special Edition (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: March 8, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 9, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #555 and The Morning Brew #556 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2010 — #809 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Mar-2010 and Tech Tweets for 9-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• My new home page, refreshed [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!] (David Anson)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.9.2010 (Bob Familiar)

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Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET

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Top Links

• Good beats innovative nearly every time (Scott Berkun)
• Sharpy – an ASP.NET MVC view engine based on Smarty (Maarten Balliauw)
• An Overview Of System.Collections.Generic (Justin Etheredge)
• Bing – It Does Way More Than You Think (Keith Elder)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Hey, NHibernate give me back my milliseconds (Derik Whittaker)
• Some e-books and .NET 4.0 beta exams (Gunnar Peipman)
• Roll Your Own Project or Item with the Export Template Wizard — vstipProj0004 and Undo and Redo Global Actions — vstipEdit0020 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Setting a Char Value and Setting a Char Value to a Symbol and Converting from String to Char or Visa Versa and Working with Char in a RichTextBox and Building a Set of Alphabetic Letters (Deborah Kurata)
• Telerik OpenAccess Data Services Wizard Beta 2-Now with Visual Studio 2010 Support (Stephen Forte)
• Announcing the YouTube SDK for .NET (Frank Mantek)
• Getting Started with LINQ to XML (Mike Ceranski)
• Book Review: the CLR via C# (Russell Ball)
• Careful with that axe, part one: Should I specify a timeout? (Eric Lippert)
• Visual Studio 2010 Tip: Scroll to Zoom (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Profiler Speculative Feature: Query plans (Oren Eini)
• Daily Dose – .NET Reflector Launches Commercial Upgrade (Mitch Pronschinske)

Web Development

• How to Make Sense of a User’s Geolocation (Adam DuVander)
• The 23rd of Diduary: Did you know that you can use SuperPreview to compare browser renderings? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part III – CSS tab) (Minal Agarwal)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observables (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Postback Text Processing with the AJAX Modal Dialog (Joe Stagner)
• “Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises” – The best of both, cloud and on-premise, worlds? [Coming later this year, free] (Greg Duncan)
• Manipulating Action Method Parameters (Phil Haack)
• New Web Application Toolkits (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Waking the dragon (Louis DeJardin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Non-Programming Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Designing enhancements (Simon Brown)
• "Debug It!" (Jason Bock)
• The One Skill You Need To Master To Succeed And Grow As A Developer (Alan Skorkin)
• Slaying relational dragons (Oren Eini)
• Man and the machine …. (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Gesturecons – icons for prototyping Multi-touch applications (Adam Kinney)
• Agile Security Engineering and Three D’s for Motivation – Direction, Decision, and Dedication (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight for Developers (Part II) (Arian Kulp)
• Getting started with XAML (Umair Saeed)
• The State of Data Access in Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight YouTube Jukebox (Daniel Vaughan)
• This is what happens when two Toolkits fall in love… [The February 2010 release of the WPF Toolkit is now available!] (David Anson)
• WPF Shell Integration Library for .NET 3.5 (jwalk)
• 5 Simple Steps to Commanding in Silverlight (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Miniseries #3: ServiceConfig vs web.config (Brian Hitney)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #164: Learning how to use Manual Mocks for Testing (Derik Whittaker)
• The Thirsty Developer 86: Talking SharePoint with Kirk Evans (Dave Bost)
• This Week in Silverlight – February 21 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 9 – UDP Multicasting (Mike Taulty)
• Ping 49: Live Labs Pivot, Win7 testers, Facebook wins, Search Assault (Laura Foy)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Android (Jeff Brand)
• ConnectedShow Podcast – Is That A Phone In Your Pocket?! (Dmitry Lyalin)

Community / Events

• Microsoft MVP Summit – 2010 (Caleb Jenkins)
• Post 2010 MVP Summit — Thanks! (Dave Campbell)
• Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-How To Architect Killer Apps with Windows 7 and Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-Visual Studio Tools For Architects (Bob Familiar)
• IEEE Student Members Get Microsoft Developer Tools (Bruce Kyle)
• How to get Microsoft to speak at your event (Buck Woody)
• A weekend with Ken Schwaber (Anthony Borton)
• Interested in Working on CodePlex? (Matt Hawley)
• MIX – Microsoft, W3C and SVG (Patrick Dengler)
• Events This Week – February 22nd, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL Server Triggers (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – Links to Book On Line – Data Mining Algorithms (Analysis Services – Data Mining) (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Connect to BdcService and GetEntities – BCS Object Model (Hrayr Diloyan)
• New SharePoint whitepaper published (Jon Fancey)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 1.0 SP1 Release Candidate Available for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft and Amazon.com Sign Patent Agreement (MS News Center)
• Small Basic: Sample of this week: Snake Bite (Vijaye)
• The 22nd of Diduary: Did you know what a Zune can really do? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Office 2010 and AppV 4.6 (Reed Shaffner)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The New Community Rules – Only $9.99! Use code DDNCR (O’Reilly Media)
• Deployment Process of an iPhone Application (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Coding: Effect sketches and the Mikado method (Mark Needham)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 22, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #544 and The Morning Brew #545 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 22, 2010 — #801 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (2/21/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers)

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Top Links

• Old DRM’d Wrox ebooks are "upgradable" to DRM-free (Jim Minatel)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit – February Release is LIVE! (Zain Naboulsi)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Don Syme – Introduction to F#, 2 of 3 (Charles Torre)
• More “Windows Phone 7″ Confirmation (Stephen Chapman)
• Sqlite on the iPhone – Retrieving the last inserted row id with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The F# PowerPack Released on CodePlex (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Writing Efficient String Functions in C# (Armando)
• Registration Error while Hosting WCF Services in a Windows Server (Derik Whittaker)
• Writing object to object mapper: my mapper vs AutoMapper (Gunnar Peipman)
• CLR via C#, 3rd Edition Available Today (Doug Holland)
• WCF RIA Services Preview and the Visual Studio 2010 RC (Harish Ranganathan)
• Intellisense Crashing fix for VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Chaining simple assignments is not so simple (Eric Lippert)
• Open Government Data and .NET (Dan Kasun)
• Announcing touch.codeplex.com (Marc Schweigert)
• Craig Sutherland: Considering XAML for Config for CruiseControl.NET (Rob Relyea)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem – Design – Solution (Me)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Culture of Heroism (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Know Your Rules to Be Successful (J.D. Meier)
• FsUnit – Test Fsharp with Fsharp (David Cooksey)
• Challenge: Efficient querying (Oren Eini)
• Removing Generated code from NCover Reports (Derik Whittaker)
• Case Studies on Benefits of TDD (Jim Holmes)
• Rationalizing Assembly Reference (Patrick Smacchia)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Fixed the “jump” bug, Improved Performance, Fancy Duplicate, 2 New Control Types (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Discipline * Skill = Craftsmanship (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF

• FFT and oscilloscopes in Silverlight (Coding4Fun)
• This one time, at band camp… [A banded StackPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
• Getting Started with WPF : Hello World in Multiple Flavors (Pete Brown)
• Design and XAML on Different Document Tabs — vstipTool0009 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Addressing the Pre-Loader Issue (John Stockton)
• VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly (Andy Beaulieu)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Miniseries #1: Migration (Brian Hitney)
• Connected Show Podcast: Addicted to Spring.NET (Brian Johnson)
• geekSpeak Recording – Persistence Ignorance and Entity Framework 4 with Dane Morgridge (Emily Gibson)
• Countdown to MIX10: Let’s do it Live (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 85: Open Source at Microsoft with Hank Janssen (Dave Bost)
• New Expression Blend screencast series (András Velvárt)
• This Week in Silverlight – February 11th 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• Growing the Pool of SQL Server Speakers (Andy Warren)
• Join MSDEV Fan Page on Facebook (Bruce Kyle)
• 2010 Summit: More MVPs to take on presenting roles than ever before (Joseph Mirabella)
• 10 Things you need to know from X10 (Larry Hyrb)
• Creators Club Communiqué 41 (Kathleen Sanders)

Database

• The SQL Server Health Check (Buck Woody)
• A Simple Refactoring (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Do you do backups? Do you test them? (Simon Sabin)
• Running sp_helpdb against a snapshot shows wrong files on SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
• How to connect SharePoint Business Data Catalog to PostgreSQL (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

CodeProject Releases Wiimote Hardware Driver for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)

• PowerGUI Pro vs PowerGUI and A PowerShell present for Valentine’s Day (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Adobe Flash Now Supports InPrivate Browsing (Andy Zeigler)
• Teach, Learn and Play with Small Basic from Microsoft DevLabs (Joe Stagner)
• Fix for Message Size Issue in Outlook 2010 Beta (Office Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments – Only $9.99! Use code DDGHC (O’Reilly Media)
• My Extension Wish: Workflow in Wave (Pamela Fox)
• The 12th of Diduary: Did you know you can drag Windows Explorer to the command line? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback (Todd Jackson)
• Workaround to Catch Exceptions from Import-CliXml (Francisco Gomez Gamino)
• Getting Started in Objective-C with XCode (Brett Schuchert)
• I don’t like MSDN (Karl Seguin)
• Mighty Box, an App Launcher for Windows (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #538 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 11, 2010 — #796 (Dave Campbell)
• Comprehensive list of Visual Studio 2010 RC links (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Interesting Finds: February 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem – Design – Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)