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.NET / Visual Studio

• Extracting the Icon for a File (Richard Carr)

 

Web Development

• Using AntiForgeryToken with other verbs than POST (and ActionLinks) (Tomasz Pęczek)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Validation is overrated (Seth Godin)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 84: Ex-Microsoft Developer Panel with Mike Moore, Jeff Cohen, and Scott Bellware and Herding Code 85: Clint Nelsen on Startup Weekend and Herding Code 86: Saqib Shaikh on Accessibility and Developing with Limited Sight (Jon Galloway)
• Recording and samples from my Reactive F# talk (Tomas Petricek)

 

Community / Events

• Live on .NET Rocks Today 6:00 EST (Keith Elder)

 

Database

• Remove and Replace Special Characters in a SQL Server Column (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL 101 : Without “ORDER BY”, order is not guaranteed. (Dave Ballantyne)

Miscellaneous

• OneNote Text Importer Powertoy Updated for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Is Microsoft the IBM of the 2010’s? (Mike Hadlow)
• Adobe Interview (part 6) (Joe Smith)
• 5 Awesome Arcade Games for the iPhone (Amy-Mae Elliott)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2010 — #891 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Asking Why Not, Sucky Content Club, a Manifesto, Worth Paying For (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #111 (Grant Palin)

 

The Geek Shelf

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell

 

 

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Top Links

• Stack Overflow Releases API Into Public Beta (Vineel Shah)
• PowerShell Integration Into Visual Studio (Jeffrey Snover)
• FXCop 10 was Shipped with Windows 7.1 SDK (Jonathan Allen)
• Application extensibility model – working with MEF and Importing multiple extension assemblies in C# with MEF (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Generic Type Generator (Alexander Van Berg)
• Now our Visual Studio is cooking with Power! The PowerGUI Visual Studio PowerShell extension that is… (Greg Duncan)
• Write Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Kate Gregory)
• Use Preprocessor Directives for better debugging (Tim Hibbard)
• Great Uses of Using Statement in C# (Steve Smith)
• Document Well 2010 Plus: Hidden Options (Radames Cruz Moreno)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part III: Adding a Metadata Class (Stephen Forte)
• Showing Hidden Tool Windows with the Auto Hide Channel (Zain Naboulsi)
• Update to "Creating Custom FieldData Classes in CSLA" (Jason Bock)
• Use Dovetail SDK in .Net (Sam Tyson)

 

Web Development

• Multi-Select List Box in ASP.NET MVC (Gary Pretty)
• Interested in web services interoperability with WCF? (Matt Milner)
• Internet Explorer Developer Tools: HTML (Pete LePage)
• Of .prototype and function() (K. Scott Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Story Sizing, Elephants and Mice (John Sonmez)
• Aspects of Kanban in Methods and Tools (Karl Scotland)
• Lokad.CQRS – Intro into App Engine Architecture, Multiple Message Subscribers (Rinat Abdullin)
• BDD-Style QUnit Testing ASP.NET MVC’s jQuery Validation (Elijah Manor)
• indentation of trailing lines of code (Anthony Steele)
• Widen People’s Job Titles (Jurgen Appelo)
• Coding: Controlled Technical Debt (Mark Needham)
• Top 10 Design Mistakes: #9 (Pete LePage)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 multitouch behavior: beta testers needed (#wp7dev)! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Readying myself for Windows Phone 7 "Hello, Operator?" (Mike Ormond)
• Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite (Rudi Grobler)
• I want more shell applications, especially for mobile (Tim Heuer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pluralcast 18 : BDD in .NET with StoryQ (David Starr)
• This Week in Silverlight – Windows Phone 7 and Bus Tracking (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 17 – Silverlight with Miguel Madero (Richard Banks)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 11 (Richard Hay)
• Radio TFS 29: Getting the Band Back Together (Martin Woodward)
• Windows Weekly 161: Paul’s Perihelion (Paul Thurrott)
• Technology & Friends Episode 95: Jay Wren on Mono (David Giard)
• ARCast.TV – UI of the New Era, Designing for Multiple Devices (Denny Boynton)

 

Community / Events

• New England GiveCamp: "Awesome, simply awesome" (Jim O’Neil)
• Tech●Ed 2010 Shows the Value of Microsoft MVPs (Toby Richards)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – TRANSACTION, DML and Schema Locks (Pinal Dave)
• GROUP_CONCAT in SQL Server (Alex Bolenok)

 

SharePoint

• A short, sweet and concise four step guide for installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 (x64) (Greg Duncan)
• SharePoint Vulnerability and Hotfix Recommendations (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Save Even More Money with a TechNet Standard Subscription (Paul Thurrott)
• I Smell Smoke (Rob Conery)
• Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition? (Jeff Atwood)
• Dealing with Dates & Time Zones in Objective-C (Ben Scheirman)
• Setting the Arrow on Lines in Adobe PhotoShop or Elements (Dave Schinkel)
• Getting Started with iPhone and iOS Development (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Specifying a View in TechNet and MSDN URIs (June Blender)
• Programmer Tip: The Virtues Of A Little Bit Of ‘Boredom Time’ In Your Life. (Rajiv Popat)
• Teaching programming to kids (Vijaye)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 6/21/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Links #110 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #625 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 150 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Post… 6/14/2010 through 6/20/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis

 

 

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Top Links

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer (MS Downloads)
• Prototype Process and Tools (Gary Sherman)
• Lambda Function Factory (Brendan Kowitz)
• Moonlight 3.0, Preview 7 (Miguel de Icaza)
• Creating WPF Prototypes with SketchFlow (Michael Sorens)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Layer Diagram Extension using the Feature Pack (Cameron Skinner)
• Using Paging in WCF Data Services (Gil Fink)
• A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service (Peter Kellner)
• The Power of Func<> (John Sonmez)
• ResGen.exe error: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format (Sara Joiner)
• What’s New in Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0 – Part I (Matteo Slaviero)

Web Development

• Check for Existing Values with ASP.NET CustomValidator + jQuery $.ajax() (Brian Dobberteen)
• Back to Basics: Wiring up a Web Application (Nick Harrison)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Conditionals (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Internet Explorer: Understanding Compat Features For Developers (Pete LePage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mutation Testing (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Slack time (Mark Needham)
• Git and our friction points and beginners mistakes (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Top 10 Design Mistakes: #10 (Pete LePage)
• Leadership Tip: Understanding Human Polymorphism In Teams And Organizations. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Boss Launch 2: Zombie Attack for WP7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• XBox Live on Windows Phone 7 (Brandon Watson)
• Known Issue: Control Design-Time Assemblies File Locking When Using WPF and Silverlight Designer (Karl Shifflett)
• Time categories with WPF and Exchange – Part II (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• A Collection Of Windows Phone 7 Motion Videos (Matthias Shapiro)
• WPF Application Framework – Release: v1.0.0.350 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 56: What is new in SQL Server 2008 R2? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: Kinect, OData, Cassandra library, & TechEd Sessions now available (Dan Fernandez)
• Pete at Microsoft: WCF RIA Services Team Interview (Pete Brown)
• Updated Windows Home Server SDK Available (Larry Larsen)
• C-Language Programming with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Pro or VC++ Express (Sam Stokes)
• jQuery Podcast 27 – Remy Sharp pt. 2 (HTML5) (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp – Part 2 (Muhammad Mosa)

Community / Events

• I’m Keynoting at CodeStock 2010! (Rachel Appel)
• First Ever Blend-O-Rama (Kevin Hazzard)
• New Zealand Windows Phone 7 Dev Training Events (Nigel Parker)
• Learn SQL Server 2008 R2 with 24-HOP (Joe Webb)
• Why I’m a programmer (Anne Epstein)
• David Ramel Asks About Interviewing at Microsoft (Chris Sells)

Database

• TempDB Size and Monitoring (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Disaster recovery 101: backing up the tail of the log and Disaster recovery 101: hack-attach a damaged database (Paul S. Randal)
• Building data stores – Transaction log and Building data stores – Append Only and Building data store – indexing data structure and Table scans, index scans and index seeks, on my! (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• How Microsoft Research Banished the BSOD (Dan Grabham)
• PowerBoots 0.3 – The Faster Edition (Joel Bennett)
• Use Google Services from the Command Line (Alex Chitu)
• Audiobook player for iPhone (brochpirate)
• Get your Windows Live Calendar on the go (David Dennis)
• 14 application to install on a new development machine (Dror Helper)
• Making my blog suck less (Jef Claes)
• Improvements to Bounty System (Jeff Atwood)
• Weekend Reading: Kinect, Office 2010 Highlight Big Week (Owen Linderholm)
• So How Much Will Kinect for Xbox 360 Cost? (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 18, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Simple to Share, Free Shipping, Pleasing the Wrong Person (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate in Action by Pierre Henri Kuaté