• New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.8 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
• Launching PowerShell 2.0 into .net4 via F# Interactive or IronPython 2.7 (Steve Gilham)
• Dart: A language for structured web programming (Lars Bak)
• MetroGridHelper: A helpful debugging assistant for designers and developers alike (Jeff Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Inspecting Tier Interaction Profiling (TIP) results in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Abhijit Jana)
• .NET Math Library (Richard Carr)
• F# Parallel Array Sorting (Carl Nolan)
• Teams in Visual Studio 11, the basics. and Teams in Visual Studio 11, feature teams and backlogs. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Code smell – LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… – Look from a bird’s eye view (Peter Gfader)
• An easy way to create Side by Side registrationless COM Manifests with Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
• Using Service Bus Topics and Subscriptions with WCF (Tom Hollander)
• Actions in OData (Alex James)
• How to Resolve the ‘Manifest Reference file ‘XYZ’ is not part of the payload in Metro and How to setup a clean error message when your Metro Application does not support Data Sharing (Derik Whittaker)
• Reading EXCEL FILE in a collection using Open XML SDK 2.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• C#’s String.Format For JavaScript (Geek Daily)
• Cool stuff in FubuMVC No. 2: Action Conventions (Chad Myers)
• ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Mobile Template (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Consolidate Conditional Expression (Giorgio Sironi)
• Getting Your HTML5 Fix: HTML5 At DZone (Rob Diana)
• Viewport Meta Tag and Using HTML 5/CSS3/jQuery to Build Mobile Interfaces (Sam Gentile)
• 10 super useful PHP snippets (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Use Local Storage to Make Your Single Page Web Application Rock (Chris Love)
• DotNetNuke Community Edition 06.01.00 Beta (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Metrotastic– Palette Generator Preview. (Scott Barnes)
• Test Data Builder pattern with object initializers in .NET (Stacy Vicknair)
• Change the Environment, Not the People (Jurgen Appelo)
• How’s mentorship seen in Software Craftsmanship? (Sandro Mancuso)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Progress Bar using Threads (R. Carty)
• Extended WPF Toolkit–using the BusyIndicator (Brian Lagunas)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 1 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• Detecting System Information of WP7 Device (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Taking screenshots with Windows Phone 7 applications using a video feed (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #404 – A Grid Hosts Child Controls in Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Ringtones from existing content on WP7 – why can’t you do that? and Using system alerts with the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and Using Pandora’s Artist Explorer service to discover new music on Windows Phone 7 and Random Airplane Mode in Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using Visual States to Set Focus on a Control (Jeremy Likness)
• Isolated Storage for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 177: Jeremy Likness on Sterling database (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 414: Dragon Age II Mark Of The Assassin, Rocksmith, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster (Larry Hyrb)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 179: Cassandra with Jonathan Ellis (SE-Radio Team)
• Gillmor Gang 10.8.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Windows Weekly 229: What’s It Called And What’s It Cost? (Paul Thurrott)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 72 – CodeMania NZ and a Build Windows 8 Recap (Richard Banks)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 25 (Richard Hay)
• The GeekDads Episode #101: Han Shot First, Fahgettaboudit! (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• TWC9: C9 goes global, Fast App Switching, Geo AR Toolkit, MEF 2.0 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Radio – 45 (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

• Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools Live Roadshow Double Feature: Managing Your Software Lifecycle and Agile Management using Visual Studio Team Foundation in a town near you (US) (Charles Sterling)
• Welcome to our First MVP Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Upcoming MSDN Webcasts on Windows Phone 7.5, Windows Azure, Orchard and VS Team Build (Katrien de Graeve)
• Want to Learn iOS or Android? (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Book Review – MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services: Cookbook (Darren Gosbell)
• SQL Server Temp Tables (J. Verheul)
• SSIS: Word-wrapping Annotations (Using Only Notepad) (Larry Leonard)
• SQLAuthority News – System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance (Pinal Dave)
• DBCC checktable (Jack Vamvas)
• Review of Redgate SQL Prompt (Tatworth)
• Search and Replace in MySQL (Tom Hearn)
• MIT introduces Oracle for Object-Oriented Programmers (Michael Stal)

Miscellaneous

• Personal Development Hub on Sources of Insight (JD Meier)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Early Release Edition of #Android Cookbook – $21.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Paint.NET v3.5.10 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Negative hiring decisions, Part II (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight to power apps on the new Xbox 360 dashboard update (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Pie in the Sky (October 7, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #955 (Chris Alcock)
• Retrospective 53 – #Agile Tool Reviews and #Giveaway #Contest (Peter Saddington)
• Double Shot #726 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 7-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 02-October-2011 to 08-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.01 ~ 10.10 (gOODiDEA)

The Geek Shelf

Head First HTML5 Programming: Building Web Apps with JavaScript by Eric T Freeman

• Rise and Fall of Classic OOP (K. Scott Allen)
• Steve Jobs (Bill Gates)
• Silverlight 5 Toolkit – September 2011 Released (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Xbox 360 Teams Up With Entertainment Leaders to Transform TV (Larry Hryb)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Changing the Number of Functions in Profiler Summary View in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Demo Scripts from the F# 3.0 BUILD talk and F# presentation – F# Eye for the C# Guy (Don Syme)
• .Net Micro Framework v4.2 RTW’s (Think "VB.Net + lots of community development effort results" version) (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft’s Roslyn ‘compiler as a service’ support unlikely to be in Visual Studio 2012 (Mary Jo Foley)
• SortedDictionary and SortedList (Simon Cooper)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0: Go To Definition and View Code Support (Blake Niemyjski)
• Reverse a String with No Loops (Bobby Johnson)
• Using ObservableCollection with WinRT (via a little shim!) (Colin Eberhardt)
• Setting the Homepage of an Exchange folder using the EWS Managed API (Henning Krause)
• IronPython 2.7.1 Beta 3 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Need Accessibility in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps? You’re Already Covered (Carl Bergenhem)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Decompose Conditional (Giorgio Sironi)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.30 (CodePlex)
• Full-height app layouts: A CSS trick to make it easier (Steve Sanderson)
• Resolving an iisnode “The service is unavailable” 503 error (Dave Ward)
• Don’t make the audience sit through all your typo-ing [Overview of implementing an extension for WebMatrix - and the complete source code for the Snippets sample] (David Anson)
• An Auto-Scaling Module for PHP Applications in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Resizing images to square, aspect-ratio friendly bits with Node, Express, and ImageMagick (Jeff Wilcox)
• RIA/JS: The barebones demo (Josh Twist)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• One design fits all? – Usability check for Ribbon interface (Miao Wang)
• Spiking RavenDB Management Studio: Design decisions (Oren Eini)
• Avoid Testing Implementation Details, Test Behaviours (Ian Cooper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 10 : Live shaping (live filtering, grouping and sorting of collections) (Jonathan Antoine)
• WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 6 – Using Tasks and WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 7 – Making WebRequests (Morten Nielsen)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Database Queries with LINQ and Working with the Windows Phone HubTile Events (Windows Phone Geek)
• Control Your Xbox with your Windows Phone Using the Xbox Companion App (Ben Rudolph)
• WP7 Getting Unique Device and User (Daniel Egan)
• Cheating at Tiles…with the Windows Phone 7.1 Live Tile cheat sheet (Greg Duncan)
• Document Toolkit October 2011 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Know About WP7 Page Orientation and Supported Orientations (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #402 – Final Child of DockPanel Fills Remaining Space by Default (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone 7 and Making HTTPS REST API Calls with Basic Authentication (toetapz)
• Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 7: Building control extensions with the extensibility toolkit (Gill Cleeren)
• Background Agents (Jesse Liberty)
• Creating a Horizontal ListBox in Silverlight and Windows Phone (Jevgeni Tšaikin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Coding QA Episode 66 – Testing Strategies for a Toaster Pt.2 (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• .NET Rocks! – Philip Laureano Programs In Nemerle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• .NET 4.5: Oleg Lvovitch and Kevin Ransom – Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) 2.0 (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 037 – “It’s Staggeringly Incredible” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Using LINQ to XML to Write XML (Robert Green)
• SE Podcast #21 (Alex Miller)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 5th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Free event and 5 day TDD masterclass in Copenhagen this month (Roy Osherove)
• Webcast: Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio (Kim Spilker)
• CodeMastery This Weekend in Atlanta (Brian Hitney)
• A New Adventure: Tech On Tap (Jes Schultz Borland)

Database

• Guessing the SQL Server Denali Release Date (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise vs Standard, one Geek Girl’s view… (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Detecting Database Case Sensitive Property using fn_helpcollations() (Pinal Dave)
• Basic Inner Joins – Basic Skill #4 (Steve Jones)
• Microsoft’s Data Warehouse offerings (James Serra)
• Always pay attention to uniqueness to SQL Index (Gian Maria Ricci)

SharePoint

• SharePoint, Apple, Google and Governance (Mark Schneider)

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell Command Builder Getting Started Guide (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft employee photographers’ book now available (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Chocolatey – The free and open source windows app store. (Jason Jarrett)
• Surprise! More Consumers Want Windows on a Tablet Than iOS or Android (Paul Thurrott)
• Xbox Live TV: What’s inside? Silverlight (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 5, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #953 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #724 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/05/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/06/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 4-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News 5 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2011 — #1156 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming by Mark Lutz

Top Links

• Windows Phone Developer Tools October 2010 Update (MS Downloads)
• We’re Renaming NuPack (Phil Haack)
• Amazon Introduces New ‘Free Usage Tier’ For AWS (Jason Kincaid)
• New Components and Contributors for IronPython and IronRuby (Jason Zander)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F#: Choice .NET Language For Multi-Core Programming? (Matt Davey)
• A Basic IoC Container (Richard Carr)
• NDepend v3.2.0 available: Visual Studio Integration and Contextual-Sensitive help (Davide Zordan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: ToDictionary() and ToList() (James Michael Hare)
• Break All Processes When One Process Breaks (Zain Naboulsi)
• Exception Handling with the Task Parallel Library (Ade Miller)
• Get into Physics with your XNA games (Rob Miles)

Web Development

• Dolphin Deploy: Deploying ASP.net applications using IronRuby (Ben Hall)
• Hosting Your Own Local and Remote NuPack Feeds (Phil Haack)
• Using Web Helpers in Razor – ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta (Malcolm Sheridan)
• NServiceBus: ASP.NET Permissions for MSMQ (Jonathan Oliver)
• Introducing HTML5 Web Sockets – taking bidirectional communication on the web to the next level (Robert Nyman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Version Control" Now Online (James Shore)
• Big Changes at Scrum Alliance (Dan Mezick)
• Coming Around to Kanban-ilism (Rob Williams)
• Top 10 Reasons to do CQRS (in a PDF) (Rinat Abdullin)
• Urban Turtle 3.5 (Aaron Bjork)
• Is storyteller a job title? it is now (Steve Clayton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Small Business Mobility Kit (MS Downloads)
• Using the host keyboard with the Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Andreas Hammar)
• Physics Helper 4 Released (Andy Beaulieu)
• Worldwide Excitement for Windows Phone (Brian Seitz)
• Programmatic Silverlight Tree View Control Node Expansion using View Model (MVVM) (Michael Washington)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #22: Apps vs. Games (Jeff Blankenburg)
• WPF internals part 3 : how Z-Index works ? (Jeremy Alles)
• Test Run of 5 of Your Windows Phone 7 Apps (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 Review: Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have Ourselves a Race (MSFT, GOOG, AAPL) (Matt Buchanan)
• Debugging design time data with MefedMVVM (Naeem Khedarun)
• Are we human, or are we Windows Phone 7 Timedancers…? (Sara Allison)
• Checking Your WP7 Application Capabilities (Derek Lakin)
• WP7 Deactivated != Tombstone (James Ashley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Deeper into the Netduino with Chris Walker from Secret Labs (Scott Hanselman)
• Silverlight TV 50: The State of Silverlight with Scott Guthrie (John Papa)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #180: Handling System Errors in MVC (Derik Whittaker)
• RECAP: Let’s Play TDD, Episodes 31-40 (James Shore)
• Xbox Kinect ads break cover (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

• Join me at the official Kinect Launch in NYC (Larry Hyrb)
• Microsoft PDC 2010 (Christian Nagel)
• Starting a Unique Craftsman Journey (Bobby Johnson)
• Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners – November 10, 2010 (Zhiming Xue)

Database

• Execute SQL Server Agent Job Task runs asynchronously (Jeremy Carter)
• Calculate Running Total and Row Total in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How Often Do You Run CHECKDB Against Your Databases? (Brad M. McGehee)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Brings Games on Demand to the Web With New PC Game Store (MS PressPass)
• A look back at the year since Windows 7 released (Dharmesh Mehta)
• Formatted PowerShell everywhere (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• 40 Hour Work Week at Microsoft (J.D. Meier)
• Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today (MG Siegler)
• Getting the best RDP Experience from a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Guest (Michael Cummings)
• Who’s Next in Tech (Steve Clayton)
• Finding Related WMI Classes (and Drive Letters) (Tobias Weltner)
• Suggestion to Microsoft regarding Office for Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Links (10/21/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #713 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 21, 2010 — #974 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin

Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 3 – All About Actions (Rob Eisenberg)
• Microsoft Licensing Changes for IronRuby and IronPython (Miguel de Icaza)
• Sterling OODB v0.1 Alpha Released! (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• "Facebook C# SDK" Announced for Microsoft Visual Studio Developers (Blake Handler)
• Debugging Distributed Transactions: Fault Handling (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Code Contracts – Generating documentation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• IronRuby – Release v1.1 and IronPython – Release v2.7 Alpha 1 (CodePlex)
• Full Screen Mode (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• MVC IsAuthorized and AuthorizedActionLink (Chris Cavanagh)
• ASP.NET Output Cache Provider (Gil Fink)
• Chirpy Attains Godlike Bird-Power In Version 1.0.0.4 (Evan Nagle)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Writing off a badly executed practice (Mark Needham)
• The art of community leadership (Brian Ahier)
• Which Language Do You Code In? (Davy Brion)
• Windows Phone Test Framework (UnitTest, UITest, PerformanceTest) – Release v0.5.1.0 (CodePlex)
• Coded UI Test – Tip 2 – Assertions (Shai Raiten)
• Nu and the OSS dependency nightmare (Dru Sellers)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Tutorial: Updating your Windows Phone Splash Screen with Transparent Images (Jason Zander)
• Windows Phone 7 will not feature Windows Live Sync at launch (Michael Gillett)
• Teaching An Old Control New Tricks With Templates (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone–a 8.5 minute video (Rob Relyea)
• Real-world MVVM Presentation from DDDSydney (Paul Stovell)
• Seven Must-See Videos and Presentations for Web App Developers (Louis Lazaris)
• Windows Weekly 165: I’ve Said Too Much (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• What to do before OSCON (Kevin Shockey)
• The Great Much More Signal, Much Less Noise Challenge of 2010 (Jesse Liberty)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Quickstart Downloads from Microsoft (Pinal Dave)
• Order By Does Not Always Guarantee Sort Order (Adam Haines)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Get a Free Power Efficiency Report for Your PC (Paul Thurrott)
• What then, is b? (Leon Bambrick)
• Swype spotted swiftly slinging fingers across Windows 7 screens? (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Linkblogging: Object Calisthenics (Pete Seale)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 17, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Expression Web 3.0 and 4.0 Articles Link List (Minal Agarwal)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action, Second Edition by Bear Bibeault

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Top Links

• Portable Area excerpt from MVC2 in Action (Eric Hexter)
• Rant: HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Display Market: Or, I want my pixels and DPI now! (Pete Brown)
• Expressive Code: Good Variable Names Instead Of Magic Values And Calculations (Derick Bailey)
• Finding Your Strengths (J.D. Meier)
• Digging into the NET Parallel Framework (Kevin Jones)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ReportViewer Projects in Visual Studio 2010—Missed the Mark (Again) (William Vaughn)
• Using the Code Snippets Manager and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Adding comments to a DataTip (Zain Naboulsi)
• NDepend 3.0 – Completely Integrated with Visual Studio (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Using TortoiseSVN From the Command Line (Jim Holmes)
• Every Tree There Is (Eric Lippert)
• Enterprise Library 5 Fluent Configuration API (Gil Fink)
• Buying a Visual Studio 2010 product key or extending the Visual Studio 2010 Trial Edition (Charles Sterling)
• Build Customization using Visual Studio 2010 – Part II (Gouri Sohoni)
• Generating Business Logic “Hooks” for EF4 Entities (Dan Simmons)
• Git, Gitosis, Putty and Windows (Dave M. Bush)
• New Psscor2 commands – Dealing with Dates and Times (Tom)

Web Development

• Amethyst Marries Flash Platform and Visual Studio and Daily Dose – App Engine 1.3.3 Released (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Is Apple doing a favor to HTML5? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Running Rails in IIS7 with IronRuby Rack (Bobby Johnson)
• Client Script Patterns: Predictive Fetch (Simon Ince)
• Queryable OData Metadata (Alex James)
• Editing a Variable Length List, ASP.NET MVC 2-Style (Steve Sanderson)
• IIS Compression in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Web Deployment: Excluding Files and Folders via the Web Application’s Project File (Nichole Baker)
• IE9 Developer Tools: Network Tab (Andy Sterland)
• WhiteHouse.Gov gives Drupal an open source stimulus – Three WhiteHouse.Gov projects released to Drupal as Open Source (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Estimating" Now Online (James Shore)
• #Nose 1.1 Released (Dror Helper)
• Study on the State of Code Review (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Granularity: Architecture’s Nemesis (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Lured in by the complexity (Mark Needham)
• Reworking It. (Rob Bazinet)
• Messaging: At-Least-Once Delivery and Message Idempotency Patterns and Disk Usage (Jonathan Oliver)
• Change is Hard Because Self-Control Wears You Out (J.D. Meier)
• Standards: Grow Them, Don’t Make Them (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF

• Upgrade to Expression Studio v4 for free – now in writing! (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #2– Attach to Process Debugging and Silverlight: Unable to start Debugging. The Silverlight managed debugging package isn’t installed. (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight 4 Training Kit (Scott Guthrie)
• Resolution of Dependency Properties (Umair Saeed)
• Transactions with MVVM (Jeremy Likness)
• WCF RIA Services – Hands On Lab (John Papa)
• Nobody likes a show-off [Today's DataVisualizationDemos release includes new demos showing off stacked series behavior] (David Anson)
• Using a webcam in a WPF application (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DZone Interview – MVVM and Prism (Brian Noyes)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield Live in Redlands, CA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Thirsty Developer 90: Silverlight 3 in the Enterprise (Dave Bost)
• Pete at MIX10: Josh Blake on Natural User Interface and WPF Multi-touch (Pete Brown)
• Interactive Storytelling on Microsoft Surface (Eric Havir)
• Using the new sensor and location API from Silverlight 4 (Martin Esmann)
• Silverlight TV 21: Silverlight 4 – Customer Perspectives (John Papa)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #171: Exploring how to use List Binding in MVC2 (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• SQL Server and Reporting Services Foundations (William Vaughn)
• A Diabetic Product Review for Non-Diabetics – The Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm "Revel" Insulin Pump and CGM (Scott Hanselman)
• Horror stories from the trenches: My very first project (Oren Eini)
• Contributing to OSS, a Git Bootcamp (Karl Seguin)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Update Statistics are Sampled By Default (Pinal Dave)
• Stripping rows out of file imports (Ted Krueger)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (22/30) resource governor allows IO governing (Paul S. Randal)
• The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB – Oh My! (Michael Kennedy)

SharePoint

• I call him Mini-SharePoint! – SharePoint Foundation 2010 (i.e. new version of WSS/Windows SharePoint Services with a new name) (Greg Duncan)
• 5 Tips on Effectively Planning for SharePoint 2010 Migration (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• IntelliJ and TeamCity Load Up on New Features (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Apple seeking to acquire ARM? (Sadat Karim)
• eBay Simple Lister Beta Now Available (John Papa)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #586 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 22, 2010 — #844 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 51 (Kathleen Sanders)
• New and Notable 414 (Sam Gentile)
• Four Great Online Resources for Learning Silverlight (Michael S. Scherotter)

The Geek Shelf

Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

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Top Links

• SOLID: Software That Works (Caleb Jenkins)
• Windows 8 to be “Completely Different” and “Mind-Blowing” (Stephen Chapman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, Second Edition — Only $9.99! Use code DDMAA (O’Reilly Media)
• Installing ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 on Visual Studio 2010 RC (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling SDK RC (Cameron Skinner)
• F# and the Dynamic Lookup Operator ala C# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Iron Python 2.6.1 RC Now Available and IronRuby 1.0 Release Candidate 2 (Charlie Calvert)
• The WCF RIA Services Issue I am trying to solve currently: Entity Framework 4 with Composite Associations (Chris Woodruff)
• VS2010 RC: Much Faster than Beta 2 (Bill Wagner)
• Insert Documents to the Right of Existing Tabs — vstipEnv0001 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 RC Ready for General Download (Jason Zander)
• F#: Inline functions and statically resolved type parameters (Mark Needham)
• New beta exams for developers announced (Martijn Brant)
• Autofac 2.1 goes RC (the “me too!” release) (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Add References in VS 2010 (Oliver Sturm)
• Impact The Planning For EF/Astoria vNext (Jonathan Carter)
• Beware Self-Tracking Entities Conflict with Entity Framework CTP & VS2010 RC (Julie Lerman)
• Doc-To-Help 2010 Released (Eve Turzillo)
• Writing object to object mapper: moving to generics (Gunnar Peipman)

Web Development

• Trapping Intentional Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Attempts in ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Bundler Part 2 – ASP.NET Integration (Justin Etheredge)
• Compressing JavaScript and CSS on The Fly(Mike Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Working on a new product (Roy Osherove)
• Productive by Design (Scott Bellware)
• Book smarts vs. Street smarts (Scott Berkun)
• Testing in Production – It’s a living ecosystem, not a patient on a gurney (Ken Johnston)
• Agile: The New Era (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Introducing status.github.com (Kyle Neath)
• CodeBetter CI Server update, or “How to plead your case” (Kyle Baley)
• Professional Scrum Master Certification Disappears from Scrum.org (Patrick Kua)
• Cloud – what it means, and why it is important for software operations (Andy Singleton)
• “Survival Skills for Developers” (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Model of Cloud Computing and 10,000 Times the Productivity (J.D. Meier)
• Silverlight Test Driven Development – Part II (Jesse Liberty)
• Better User Experience With Storytelling, Part 2 (Francisco Inchauste)

Silverlight / WPF

• The Book of WPF (Pete Brown)
• Using Silverlight Media Framework for simple playback (Tim Heuer)
• Helpful Silverlight Snippets (Jeff Wilcox)
• What’s Wrong With This Code #24 (K. Scott Allen)
• The Ugly Duckling and Transforming an Ugly Duckling to a Graceful Swan with Expression Blend and Silverlight – Part I (András Velvárt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Bret Piatt and Josh Odom RackSpace Clouds (Carl Franklin)
• geekSpeak: BizTalk Server with SOA Architect and MVP Brian Loesgen (MS Podcasts)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 44: Soft Skills Every Developer Needs with Brian Prince (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #162: Learning how to use a Web Cam with Silverlight (Derik Whittaker)
• Agile 2009 – Aslak Hellesoy – Cucumber test framework (Bob Payne)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #83 (Jeff Atwood)
• 10-4 Episode 40: The New WCF Routing Service (Ron Jacobs)
• Anatomy of an Agile .NET project (Rune Grothaug)
• Pete at Reykjavik: Silverlight, Azure, RIA Services Event Site in 8 days (Pete Brown)
• Introducing the "Ignite Your Coding!" Podcast (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Misfit Geek Podcast on Zune Social (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 7: When and Where to use MEF (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Social Media Memes: The Benefits of Participation (Darrell Etherington)
• LIDNUG Online Chat with Me on Thursday Feb 11th (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft at TED2010 (Steve Clayton)
• Series of 8 SharePoint 2010 Developer Web Casts (Paul Andrew)
• 1,300+ Microsoft MVPs Make Their Mark at the 2010 MVP Global Summit in Bellevue and Redmond (Toby Richards)
• Lightning Tools Partner Program (Richard Young)

Database

• Start a SQL Server Agent Job using the SQL Server PowerShell Provider (Buck Woody)
• Using ROW_NUMBER in a where clause and Do you do backups? Do you test them? (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – ALTER DATABASE dbname SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Create Association Method for BCS Dot Net Assembly (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• Apple iPad Preview, Part 2: First Impressions (Paul Thurrott)
• TechNet 2.0 – Episode 3 – TechNet Search (Keith Combs)
• The 11th of Diduary: Did you know Windows 7 is network aware? (Jeff Blankenburg)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LXII (Charlie Calvert)
• New and Notable 402 (Sam Gentile)
• The Morning Brew #537 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 10, 2010 — #795 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Secure Code: Practical Strategies and Proven Techniques for Building Secure Applications in a Networked World

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Top Links

• How to keep yourself interested as a developer. (Al Pascual)
• Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PDF) (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Silverlight Test Driven Development – Part II (Jesse Liberty)
• 24 Hour 50% off Deal on my Upcoming Manning Book: Silverlight in Action, Revised Edition (Pete Brown)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Art of Concurrency — Only $9.99! Use code DDACF (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack (Chris Sells)
• Iron Python In Action (Tom Brander)
• Impact The Planning For EF/Astoria vNext (Jonathan Carter)
• Looking Ahead to 2010 (David Starr)
• Using the Beta 2 EF POCO Template with VS2010 RC (Julie Lerman)
• IntelliSense Crash in VS 2010 RC when using UI Automation (Brittany Behrens)
• Visual Studio 2010 RC Feedback Channel for Web Tools (Mike)
• “Nested Containers” in StructureMap 2.6.1 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Insert Documents to the Right of Existing Tabs — vstipEnv0001 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Help Viewer in Visual Studio 2010 RC (and beyond) (Kimberly Wolk)
• The 10th of Diduary: Did you know your application could use more than one mouse? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 11. Type forwarding (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Serializing Chart Data (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET: Styling a GridView and ASP.NET: UpdatePanel and Master Pages (Deborah Kurata)
• Sparse Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Controllers (Dino Esposito)
• How to extend target file to include registry settings for web project package (Xinyang Qiu)
• Javascript: File encoding when using string.replace (Mark Needham)
• Stack Overflow API Coming Soon: What Do You Want it to Do? and Google Wastes No Time in Launching Google Buzz API (Matthew Casperson)
• gwt-presenter, or “How to get excited about MVP” (Kyle Baley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• We don’t give 5’s… and other antiquated management techniques. (Caleb Jenkins)
• When I want your opinion, I’ll ask for it (Seth Godin)
• It had to happen (Patrick Kua)
• How does usage data improve the Office User Experience? (Tim Briggs)
• Book smarts vs. Street smarts (Scott Berkun)
• Code coverage reports with NCover and MSBuild (Sergio Pereira)
• CQRS – Scalability and CQRS – Event Versioning (Mark Nijhof)
• 10 Ways to Go from Good to Great (JD Meier)
• Collaboration – Writing is a Team Sport (Julie Stickler)

Silverlight / WPF

• Planetary Body Shader Part 2 and HDR Effects (Dave Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #3 with guest Dan Rigsby (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• C9 Conversations: Yuri Gurevich On Logic, Imperative, Abstraction and Algorithms (Charles Torre)
• CodeCast Episode 66: SOLID with Claudio Lassala (Zain Naboulsi)
• Major Nelson Podcast – e and stepto record a show (Larry Hyrb)
• PhizzPop Develop & Design Challenge (Laura Foy)
• Managing Browser History Using Client Script Without ScriptManager (Marc Schweigert)

Community / Events

• Nestor Portillo on the 2010 Summit: The importance of this event cannot be understated (Joe Mirabella)
• Have You Thanked Your Favorite Bloggers Today? (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• SharePoint 2010 Training, with Beta Pricing on both US coasts (Andrew Connell)
• Why former employees say Microsoft can’t innovate (Joe Wilcox)
• NYC Code Camp: Registration is now open! (Stephen Forte)
• Courses and Training (Udi Dahan)
• If you could go to one SharePoint Conference this year what would it be? (Joel Oleson)
• Party with Palermo: MVP Summit 2010 – Red Robin, Bellevue, Feb 15, 7pm (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Code Retreat Tour #1 – Seattle, WA (Corey Haines)

Database

• Help for SQL Server (Buck Woody)
• Using ROW_NUMBER in a where clause (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – Converting a Delimited String of Values into Columns (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 eclipses Vista on Steam, 64-bit dominating 32-bit (Emil Protalinski)
• Introducing Google Buzz (Todd Jackson)
• Google Buzz (Alex Chitu)
• Google Buzz in Gmail (Edward Ho)
• Hide/Remove Google Buzz Updates from Your Gmail Inbox (Adam Pash)
• iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 2 busts loose (Chris Ziegler)
• The Windows 7 battery life issue: What’s making notebook batteries die? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• The Weekly Source Code 49 – SmallBasic is Fun, Simple, Powerful Programming for Kids and Adults (Scott Hanselman)
• If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present (MG Siegler)
• The dreaded compensation question (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Creating a Weather Gadget for Windows 7 (Shoban Kumar)
• Microsoft ditches Unix in the search market (Simon Sabin)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #536 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

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.NET / Visual Studio

• First CTP of SQL Azure and Updated Training Kit Available! (Windows Azure Team)
• Metaprogramming (Me)
• Two Components for your Toolbox (Aaron Lerch)
• NHibernate DSL Built Using "Oslo" (Chris Sells)
• Why is covariance of value-typed arrays inconsistent? (Eric Lippert)
• Running Multiple Instances of a Windows Service Using TopShelf (Kevin Miller)
• Creating .Net Configuration Sections (Michael Cummings)
• Neat Visual Studio Test Options (Steve Andrews)
• Debug Composition from within Visual Studio (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Web Development

• New Features in Web Platform Installer v2 (Adam Kinney)
• Using JQuery to supplement CSS inadequacies (Dave Burke)
• Reimagining www.asp.net, Part Three: The Community Experience (John Sheehan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simplifying deployment (Simon Brown)
• Complex vs Complicated (Dru Sellers)
• Ship it, or Ship Out (Jak Charlton)
• CI Servers and Build Scripts and Continous Integration Workflow (Jonathan Oliver)
• XP As A Kanban System (Karl Scotland)
• TDD: Tests That Give Us a False Confidence of Coverage (Mark Needham)
• Being a Duct Tape Programmer (Michael C. Neel)
• BAM! Geometric Shapes, Multi-Line support, Oh my! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 18. (Rajiv Popat)
• Manifesto for Continuous Improvement and Why managing a software team can be more effective than "regular" management (Roy Osherove)
• The Duct Tape Programmer (Uncle Bob Martin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight VisualBrush and rounded corners (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight designer sample code is posted (Jim Galasyn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #199 – Monomania – Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware (Scott Hanselman)
• AgileToolkit Podcast – Jim Miller – The Product Owner Role and Business Alignmnet (Bob Payne)
• Scott Guthrie: Introducing WebsiteSpark and Web Platform Installer V2 RTM (Charles Torre)
• Web Application Toolkits and Web Application Toolkit: Template-Driven Emails and Web Application Toolkit: REST Services and Web Application Toolkit: Mobile Web Applications (Jonathan Carter)
• Xbox 360 Project Natal Creators panel from Tokyo Game Show 2009 (Larry Hyrb)
• Be Productive and Stop Using XML and Be Productive and Go Mouseless (Roy Osherove)
• Web Application Toolkits: FAQ (James Senior)
• InfoPath SharePoint integration videos now online (Kathy Hughes)
• Ade Miller on Developing for Multi-Core Computers (Keith Pleas)

Community / Events

• Announcing WebOSSFlame (Scott Koon) – Link of the Day
• Microsoft offers free software and support to small software companies (Justin Sargent)

Database

• Filtered indexes and filtered stats might become seriously out-of-date (Kimberly Tripp)
• SQL SERVER – Outer Join in Indexed View – Question to Readers (Pinal Dave)
• The last good date for your database (Steve Jones)

SharePoint

• Deploying Reporting Services WebParts to SharePoint WSS and MOSS (Tom Hearn)
• Planning for SharePoint 2010 – Upgrade Planning Part 2 Moving the Databases (Chandima Kulathilake)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge (Mary-Jo Foley)
• PowerShell Cookbook Now Available on iPhone (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft Releases Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit v3.5 (Blake Handler)
• Early debut for Windows 7 PCs (Todd Bishop)
• Ruby Exceptions And Exception Handling (Alan Skorkin)
• Good information is easy to find (Joe Webb)
• Kinda wishing I could keep using Delphi (Joe White)
• Microsoft Press Enters Strategic Alliance with O’Reilly (Tim O’Reilly)
• New Evernote beta brings face-lift, drawing tools (Josh Lowensohn)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #441 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (9/24/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Windows 7 and R2 Guides (Steven Bink)
• Weekly Bits #1 (Tim Boland)
• Tech Tweets for 24-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 24th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #548 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: September 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• PowerCommands for Reflector 1.1 (Jason Haley)
• Extension Methods I Use A Lot (Kevin Miller)
• IronPython 2.6 Release Candidate (Harry Pierson)
• The Case Against Location: File System (Dave M. Bush)
• Math Without a Floating Point Unit (Joel Ivory Johnson)

Web Development

• How To Secure APIs and Mashups (Adam DuVander)
• Reimagining www.asp.net, Part One: The Home Page Experience and Part Two: The Support Experience (John Sheehan)
• A First Look at ASP.NET MVC 2 (Ben Scheirman) – Link of the Day
• Sorting Data in ASP.NET MVC (Michael Ceranski)
• MvcContrib 1.0.0.987 released (Jeffrey Palermo)
• jQuery Tabs and Lazy Loading (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Microsoft, Zend and others announce Simple API for Cloud Application Services (Joe Stagner)
• Debugger Visualizers not working in ASP.NET Medium Trust (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Documentation Driven Development! (David Lemphers)
• Albacore: A Suite Of Rake Build Tasks For .NET Solutions (Derick Bailey)
• 5 Focus Killers … and How to Beat Them (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Coding Priorities (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Share Workspaces in Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Microsoft Silverlight comes to Linux, First stop: Moblin (Brad Linder)
• If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a … TreeGrid! [A simple, XAML-only TreeGrid UI for WPF] (David Anson)
• MultiBinding for Silverlight 3 (Josh Twist)
• WCF and Silverlight Walk Through (Stephen Forte)
• System.Xaml: IAmbientPropertyProvider Sample (Lester Lobo)
• Adding ToArgb() to the Silverlight Color class (Jeff Wilcox)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Giving the Gift of Technology (Carl Franklin)
• Getting Started with SQL Azure (David Gristwood)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #143: Performing Static Page Checking in MVC (Steven Andrews)
• A User Experience Overhaul with Silverlight and MVVM (Mike Ormond)
• Herding Code 60: Spark View Engine with Louis DeJardin (Jon Galloway)
• Anti-XSS Library v3.1: Find, Fix, and Verify Errors (Jossie Tirado)
• Juval Lowy – The EnergyNet and the next Killer App (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Live from LA, It’s the FREE Windows 7 Developer Bootcamp! (Tim Sneath)
• Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program (Scott Guthrie)
• Orlando .NET User Group Talk – 12 Practices to be a Better Developer (Scott Densmore)
• Competing on the unpopular (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Will Git Drive Open Source Contribution (Chris Missal)
• TeamCity and CodeBetter update, or “How to move past the honeymoon phase” (Kyle Baley)

Database

• Free SQL Server Dashboard (Brad M. McGehee)
• New book: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Programming (Devon Musgrave)
• Use INDEXKEY_PROPERTY in SQL Server to determine if columns in indexes are sorted ascending or descending (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Index on Index View Used in Similar Query (Pinal Dave)
• Book Club: Versioning your database (K. Scott Allen) (Mark Needham)

SharePoint

• Low impact text changing in SharePoint with jQuery (Bil Simser)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Help and learn from others as you browse the web: Google Sidewiki (Sundar Pichai)
• Powershell and Passionate Evangelism (Andy Warren)
• SkyDrive to become the center stage of Windows Live? (damaster)
• Using Log4Net in PowerShell (Gary Sherman)
• Top 5 Outlook 2010 Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• The simple stuff of great presentations (Steve Clayton)
• Windows Live Included With Windows 7? (Sunshine)
• Can a Windows geek learn to love Snow Leopard? (Ed Bott)
• Empowering your My Computer Context Menu – Make some commonly used applications and features just a right click away (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft should dig into the WebKit to stop Google from framing IE (Joe Wilcox)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 23, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #440 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 23, 2009 — #698 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 23rd September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Happy π Day!

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 is on CodePlex and Consuming the Twitter REST API with HttpClient (WCF REST Starter Kit) and Screencast: HttpClient + Twitter REST API in under 3 minutes (Aaron Skonnard)
• Solving Azure configuration problems (Gunnar Peipman)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #10: Adding additional data to healthvault (Eric Gunnerson)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Stepping Thru Code and Writing an IronPython Debugger: Debugging Just My Code (Harry Pierson)
• Visual Studio 2010 Screencast: C# 4.0 Language + IDE + WPF Shell + Editor (Kirill Osenkov)
• Deploying .NET Applications – Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce (Mo Khan)
• F# game running on the console (Joh)
• REST Starter Kit++ (Sam Gentile)
• LL vs. LR vs. GLR (Paul Vick)
• Functional Programming in .NET – Adding Extensibility (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Custom Domain Names in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Debugging .NET Applications – Podcast Alert (Tim Barcz)
• Azure Services White Papers (Wriju Ghosh)

Web Development

• S#arp Architecture 1.0 RC 2 Released! (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed (Jason Haley)
• Rant: IE and local JavaScript and Watir: opening/reopening specific page in IE (Joe White)
• Accessing Windows Azure Blob Storage from PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Create Interactive Buttons in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• SharpArchitecture_1.0.48.410_RC2.zip (10.1 MB) (Billy McCafferty)

Silverlight / WPF

• Port your XNA Game to Silverlight (Andy Beaulieu)
• Displaying Today’s Date with XAML (Christopher Bennage)
• Visibility pattern in Silverlight (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight for PHP Developers (Mike Ormond)
• Flexible layout on steroids (Rudi Grobler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• p&p Guidance as Actual Books (David Starr)
• It’s All About The Benjamins, Baby. (Derick Bailey)
• If you cannot do a source pull and compile you are doing it wrong! (Derik Whittaker)
• Unit Testing File I/O Operations (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 3 (Justin Etheredge)
• Test First Development and Making a Cake (Leon Bambrick)
• Dime Casts.Net # 92 – Creating SOLID Code: Liskov Substitution Principle (Stephen Bohlen)

Community / Events

• INETA Board of Directors (Chris G. Williams)
• INETA Board of Directors (Steve Andrews)
• Free Microsoft Robotic Studio Training (Frank La Vigne)
• Starting a User Group, Entry #4 (Jason Haley)

Database

• Designing a document database: Aggregation and Designing a document database: Aggregation Recalculating (Oren Eini)
• Using SqlDependency and ServiceBroker With Sql Server Express (Keith Elder)

Miscellaneous

• Is a Yahoo! search deal the reason for Kumo? (Kip Kniskern)
• Announcing Botomatic.com – Build Your Own Twitter Bot (Steve Marx)
• Sample of the week: Super Pong (Vijay)
• Happy Pi Day (Scott Mitchell)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links 2009-03-13: Article series special (Gunnar Peipman)
• Silverlight Cream for March 13, 2009 — #540 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: March 13, 2009 and Interesting Finds: March 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for March 13th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 14 (Denis Gobo)
• Discoveries This Week 03/13/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day