Top Links

• How to Interface LightSwitch to a Windows Workflow Part 1 (Dan Moyer)
• Nokia will be allowed to customize every part of Windows Phone 7 (Sebastian Anthony)
• Oracle’s Entity Framework Beta Released Today (Julie Lerman)
• Acting on Feedback: IE9 Release Candidate Available for Download (Dean Hachamovitch)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Concurrent Collections (1 of 3) (James Michael Hare)
• IronRuby – Release v1.1.2 and ReSharper Settings Manager – Release v4.o (for R# 5.1) and WCF Data Services Toolkit Beta (CodePlex)
• Building a database installer with WiX, datadude and Visual Studio 2010 (Jamie Thomson)
• How Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server enable Compliance (Martin Hinshelwood)
• TEE 2010 SP1 (MS Downloads) – TFS Eclipse plugin updated
• Trivia Friday (Jimmy Bogard)
• Reach out and… Windows 7 Touch Development Guidance in a 26 page XPS form (Greg Duncan)
• NOW Available: Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February Release (Windows Azure Team)
• Creating a Color Picker with an Owner Draw ComboBox (Jonathan Wood)
• Elevate added to the NuGet gallery (Bill Wagner)

Web Development

• A JavaScript tip that’s jarring: remove falsy elements from array (Julian M. Bucknall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Manifesto 10 Year Reunion (Chris Matts)
• What Is Agile Management? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Cool Printable Kanban Card (Peter Saddington)
• The Important User Experience (UX) You Can’t See (Rob Tiffany)
• Web Testing with Selenium Sushi: A Practical Guide and Toolset (Michael Sorens)
• Balsamiq Release: Select on Layers, Linux 32bit installer and bug fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Cucumber tests on iPhone/iPad (Davor Crnomat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Implementing Windows Phone 7 DataTemplateSelector and CustomDataTemplateSelector (Windows Phone Geek)
• [TUTORIAL + VIDEO] Creating an RSS reader for Windows Phone 7 in 5 minutes (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• Not able to bind to Uid or Name property in XAML (Merrick Chaffer)
• Windows Phone 7 Navigation Memory Usage and Windows Phone 7 Navigation Memory Usage Just Got Scary and Windows Phone 7: Translator Sample, an example in what not to do! (Nick Randolph)
• Some curious facts about the Windows Phone 7 OS – from the emulator console (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ClickOnce, TaskDialogs, Common Controls and WPF Applications and Blend Bits 22–Being Stylish and Blend Bits 23–Templating Part 1 (Mike Taulty)
• Multiple View Models implies multiple DataContexts (Bill Wagner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Organizing your own Virtual Technical Conference – MVCConf Post-Mortem (Scott Hanselman)
• ARCast.TV: SharePoint Deployment to Microsoft BPOS Cloud (MS Podcasts)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 1 of n (Charles Torre)
• VIDEO – WebMatrix – Charts and the Chart Helper and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Data Visualization with the Chart Helper (Joe Stagner)
• First look at 5 features of IE9 RC and A look at three performance demos for IE 9 Release Candidate (Larry Larsen)
• Silverlight TV 61: Expert Chat on Deep Zoom, Touch, and Windows Phone (John Papa)
• New Video: Interview with Windows Phone 7 Developer–Ash Morgan (Wes Yanaga)

Community / Events

• Last Chance to Save on MIX11 – Register by Feb 11 (Kim Spilker)
• London SharePoint Best Practices Conference – April 11-13, 2011 (Andrew Connell)
• PAX East 2011 Tweet-up (Larry Hyrb)
• Congratulations to MIX11 Open Call Winners (Silverlight Show)
• Web Camp Coming to Mid Atlantic (Dani Diaz)
• Best Practices Europe Conference Sessions Announced! (Joel Oleson)

Database

• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) – Part 1: Basics of SSIS and Creating Packages (Karthik Anbarasan)
• SQL Server MVP Daily Paper and 31 Days of SSIS Conclusion (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION – Wait Type – Day 11 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Do Relational Database Vendors Care About Developers? (Karl Seguin)

SharePoint

• ­A step by step guide in designing BCS entities by using a SQL stored procedure (Jyoti Saikia)

Miscellaneous

• Pull Request Changes, Multi-Selection in Advanced View, and Advertisement Changes (Matt Hawley)
• Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate Product Guide and Internet Explorer Administration Kit 9 Release Candidate (MS Downloads)
• IE9 Release Candidate review: will Microsoft’s big browser bet pay off? and IE9 FAQ: how to install, uninstall, and tweak the IE9 RC (Ed Bott)
• ADIAD (Rod Paddock)
• Open Letter from CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft (Stephen Elop & Steve Ballmer)
• Starting and Stopping Services on Remote Servers using PowerShell (Steve Smith)
• Bing: Making search yours (Aidan Crook & Sanaz Ahari)
• Here’s a look at the Microsoft Log Parser from a different point of view, from the Computer Forensics’ side of the house OR Check out a ‘Query Analyzer/SSMS’ for Log Parser called Log Parser Lizard (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 89 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily News Digest 02/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 9-Feb-2011 and 10-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links– 2010_06 (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 10th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for Jan 31- Feb 06, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #790 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

iPhone for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul J. Deitel

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

• Visual Basic Comes to Windows Phone 7 (Brandon Watson)
• BizTalk 2010 RTM’d (Jon Fancey)
• Your Software Can Learn A Lot From ATMs (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using MemBus for messaging between application components (Gunnar Peipman)
• Non Deadlocking Read/Write Locker and Thread-Safe Collections (Tamus)
• Windows Server AppFabric How-To: Adding multiple persistence stores to an AppFabric installation (Emil Velinov)
• Entity Framework Extensions (Multiple entity updates) – Release: v1.0.0.4 and LinkedIn Developer Toolkit – Release: v1.0 Beta (CodePlex)
• Calculate Business Days using LINQ (Hajan Selmani)
• Show All Settings with Visual Basic Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.0 – September Update (MS Downloads)
• Using Google Docs as an Online Database (Ryan Farley)
• Using NHibernate To Persist And Query Ruby Objects (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Nested jTemplate, jQuery and JSON in ASP.NET (Aamir Hasan)
• How to remove Hyperlink from ASP.NET TreeView Control Nodes ? (Abhijit Jana)
• I Am Not A Fan Of Flash HTML5 Comparisons (Ben Forta) – or Silverlight v. HTML5?
• Developing a REST Web Service using C# – A walkthrough (Anshu Dutta)
• Windows Azure Diagnostics in PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Web Page Image Capture in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Agile vs. Waterfall the Wrong Fight? (Wille Faler)
• Github: A little help for merging pull requests (Kyle Neath)
• Zombie (Stakeholder) Management Strategy (Derek Huether)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Differences between WPF and *Silverlight Rendering Stacks (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Windows Phone 7 has tethering support, up to carriers whether to enable it (Chris Ziegler)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 – An Introduction and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 2 – The Core – Signature (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools Tutorial (Jason Zander)
• iPhone to Windows Phone 7: Launchers and Choosers (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone + VB developers = Great Mobile Apps (Somasegar)
• Handling picture orientation in CameraCaptureTask in Windows Phone 7 (Tim Heuer)
• Hosting a Silverlight application in a custom website (Unni Ravindranathan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV 46: What’s Wrong with my WCF Service? (John Papa)
• Updates to Office Web Apps (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Join the Microsoft Talent Network (Anne Cheng)
• Talking Is Good, Where Can I Do More? (Jeremiah Peschka)

Database

• SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 4 (MS Downloads)
• Check if Database Exists In SQL Server – Different ways (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Outer Join Not Allowed in Indexed Views – Limitation of the View 8 (Pinal Dave)
• Common SQL Server Mistakes – Multi Row DML Triggers (Steve Jones)
• Things good to know about SQL State Server (Jef Claes)

Miscellaneous

• Current Vim Plugin Set (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 Poster (MS Downloads)
• Hundreds of Microsoft Press ebooks now available in the Kindle Store (Devon Musgrave)
• The Complete Guide to Setting up Python Development Environment on Windows (Eran Kampf)
• The Presentation Zen Bento Box (Garr Reynolds)
• How to make OneNote 2010 speak to you (John Guin)
• Microsoft’s NGO Software License (Brad Smith)
• #MakerFaire #Ebook Deal of the Day – Only $9.99ea. Use code: DDMFB (O’Reilly Media)
• Using a 4×20 HD44780-controlled LCD Display with the Netduino (Pete Brown)
• Internet Explorer 9 System Requirements Clarification (Richard Hay)
• Office Web Apps Gets an Update, Now Has PowerPoint and Excel Embedding (Simon Mackie)
• Another nasty Zune gotcha coming your way and it’s gonna hurt (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #693 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Linq Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O’Reilly)) by Joseph Albahari

Top Links

• Performing Back Navigation w/out adding a page to the Back Stack in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Magellan 2.0 is here! (Paul Stovell)
• Windows Phone 7: The Revolution… is coming(??) (Kip Kniskern)
• iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Diving Deeper (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7: Almost There! How To Get Ready (Bob Caswell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The XOR Swap Algorithm and LINQ Partitioning (Richard Carr)
• Parallel Programming in F# (I.): Introducing the samples and Parallel Programming in F# (II.): Using PLINQ and Tasks and Parallel Programming in F# (III.): Aggregating data and Parallel Programming in F# (IV.): Financial dashboard example (Tomas Petricek)
• Use “Obsolete” attributes to indicate Obsolete Methods (Abhijit Jana)
• Use of Expression Trees in .NET for Lambda Decomposition and Notion of System.Nullable – A Look (Abhishek Sur)
• The Tier Interaction Profiler ( TIP ) (Cameron Skinner)
• Coming in Autofac 2.3 – OnRelease() (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• IronRuby, Nu project and Launchy at your service (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Using Ruby Classes In C# With IronRuby (Davy Brion)
• Get logging in Windows Azure with Enterprise Library (Tom Hollander)
• Keep Track of your Tasks With the Task List (Deborah Kurata)
• Visual Studio Extension: Save UML diagram as image (Gunnar Peipman)
• Revisiting Few C# Concepts – Delegates, Anon Methods, Lambdas, Expression Trees (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• The Object Browser: Creating a Keyboard Shortcut for Add to References and The Object Browser: Type-Ahead Selection and The Object Browser: Exporting Your Settings and Mark Methods and Types as Hidden from IntelliSense and the Object Browser (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual C++ 2010: What’s new for MFC library? (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• CSS 3.0 Maker helps you visually create next-gen CSS (Erez Zukerman)
• Rotate Ads using jQuery and ASP.NET AdRotator Control (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Add-ons, Installation Experiences, and User Consent (Herman Ng)
• Same Markup: Using <canvas>, <audio>, and <video> (Tony Ross)
• Connecting to Sql Server from WebMatrix using LINQ and Entity Framework Version 4 (Wally McClure)
• A different (for me) way to page (Karl Seguin)
• Coming in YUI 3.2.0: SimpleYUI (Eric Miraglia & Adam Moore)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Lokad.CQRS – Keeping It Simple and Focused (Rinat Abdullin)
• It’s hard work to KISS (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• The Third Object (Paul Stovell)
• 10 Strategies for Improving Results and The Results Frame (J.D. Meier)
• Use gitk to understand git and Use gitk to understand git – merge and rebase (Joshua Flanagan)
• One Build to Rule Them All (John Sonmez)
• Unit Testing in C++ is harder than.. (Roy Osherove)
• The Law of Conservation of Tradeoffs and Security Models: On Behalf Of (Oren Eini)
• Getting Predictable (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Leadership Tip: Too Many Drivers Will Not Take Your Car Anywhere. (Rajiv Popat)
• Billy sez: Design, Don’t Decorate (Ward Bell)
• Launching beta, or “How to decide when and where to cut corners” (Kyle Baley)
• Design Simplicity: Partially updating an object and Flow in software teams (Mark Needham)
• Team and pair games for building collaboration (Michael Sahota)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Tutorials: Isolated Storage and User Controls (Nigel Sampson)
• Learn Silverlight to get access to the developer demand (Al Pascual)
• Silverlight and Security Documentation (Cheryl Simmons)
• Silverlight Futures… (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone 7 App Demos (Mike Ormond)
• WPF Photo Print updated (Chris Cavanagh)
• Who’s the Boss (Rudi Grobler)
• Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – WP7 and Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – Android (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide Drop 2 is now out! and Writing a Twitter Application for Windows Phone 7 with oAuth and Flickr Uploader for Windows Phone 7 at Sam Judson’s Blog (Don Burnett)
• Frogger game on Windows Phone 7 using XNA (Dimitris-Ilias Gkanatsios)
• How can we improve Silverlight Spy? (Koen Zwikstra)
• Ninject.Extensions.Conventions ported to work w/ WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• WPF Auto-Complete Control (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Easy way to generate sample data for your Silverlight 4 Applications and Book Review: Silverlight 4 in Action by Pete Brown (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7 Clears The Last Big Milestone (Andy Lees)
• Adding shapes to your Windows Phone using some simple XAML and C# code (Sam)
• Silverlight book: Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook (Vibor Cipan)
• DevForce Meets Mvvm Light and Is Mvvm Light Right For You? and DevForce and RIA Services Compared Part 1: Getting Started (Ward Bell)
• Simple Silverlight Configurator/Pivot (View Model/MVVM) (Michael Washington)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• PAX Prime 2010 LIVE Show and PAX Prime: Xbox LIVE Enforcement: Tales from the Din Part 3: The Conclusioning (Larry Hyrb)
• Let’s Play TDD #6: Capital Gains Tax–Almost and Let’s Play TDD #7: Tax Rage (James Shore)
• TWC9: WP7 RTMs, Future of Silverlight, Excel Importer, Robot Gun Turrets (Brian Keller)
• SharePoint 2010 Search Discussion-Episode 49 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Windows Phone 7 Videos (Sunshine)
• WinExtra on Windows Ep. 17: tripping down memory lane (Steven Hodson)
• Engadget Podcast 211 – 09.04.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 27 – Mahesh Krishnan at TechEd (Richard Banks)
• Cloud Cover Episode 24 – Routing in Windows Azure (Ryan Dunn)
• Behind The Curtain – Episode #4 (Michael Lehman)
• Windows Weekly 172: Board Up The Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone 7 ad promises ‘the revolution is coming’ (video) (Vlad Savov)
• Contributing to Open Source Projects On GitHub For .NET Developers Part 1 and Contributing to Open Source Projects On GitHub For .NET Developers Part 2 and Connected Show Podcast – Steve Marx on Azure (Bobby Johnson)
• Inside Windows Phone #02: The Beta Release and the Roadmap to RTM and Inside Windows Phone #03: Optimizing Windows Phone Silverlight Applications (Jaime Rodriguez)
• A New Podcast for Developers – This Developer’s Life (Scott Hanselman)
• The Rematch – Webcast of my 101 VS tips in 55 mins via O’Reilly is now available (Sara Ford)

Community / Events

• MVP Mark Dunn Highlights the MVP Award Program (Lonnie Webb)
• SPSBmore SharePoint 2010 Hands-On Lab Resources (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Moving on from Microsoft (Andre Vrignaud)
• SilverlightShow Interview with Webinar Presenter Chris Anderson and Win a Free Ebook in SilverlightShow Webinar on Running Silverlight OOB and with Elevated Trust (Svetla Stoycheva)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Events (Wes Yanaga)
• Nothin But .Net – London(November,2010) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• A Community Divided (Joe Webb)
• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of September 6, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Few Notes on Fast Track Data Warehouse and SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Limitation of the View 3 (Pinal Dave)
• Parallelism in SSIS – Multiple Lookups (Todd McDermid)
• Normalization is from the devil (Oren Eini)
• Why You Still Count as a Person if You Have Used Microsoft Access—(or How Old Are You, Julie? (or the overuse of parenthesis in early 21st century Bloggery)) (Julie Smith)
• Building a Data Warehouse Part V: Application Development Options (Stephen Forte)
• “select *, %%bmk%% from tablename” while rebuilding the index (Pradeep Adiga)
• Make a T-SQL Query Sleep for a certain amount of time (Suprotim Agarwal)
• New book: Microsoft Access 2010 Inside Out (Devon Musgrave)

SharePoint

• Guide to Migrating from WSS 3.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows SBS 2008 (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Writing A Simple DSL (Davy Brion)
• Project Sector 5 – Work In Progress – Teaser (Kevin Griffin)
• Halo Reach A Big Hit With Some Big Hitters (Microsoft Blog Admin)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Hacking: The Next Generation – Only $9.99. Use code DDHKG (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Home Server Vail Preview Part 1 (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft counting down the days until Kinect launches (Steven Hodson)
• MS Research Releases Kodu Language and Grammar Specification (Bruce Kyle)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 4, 2010 and Interesting Finds: September 5, 2010 and Interesting Finds: September 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 040 for 9/6/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 4, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 09/03/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 66 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2010 — #940 and Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2010 — #941 (Dave Campbell)
• Things I Read This Week – 2010.08.03 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Articles Archive (Silverlight): March 2010 to August 2010 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Morning Brew #679 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Silverlight Blogs (John Papa)
• Links of the week #128 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework, Second Edition (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Steven Sanderson

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Top Links

IronRuby, A Match Made In… (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

Setting the System Time (Richard Carr)

Adding Descriptive Text to Enumerations (Richard Carr)

Getting Started With cslim in Visual Studio 2010 Using the Command Line Tools (Brett Schuchert)

VS2010 Parallel Tasks – Debugging enhancement in VS2010 (Hima)

Giving away Programming C# 4 – one per week… (Jesse Liberty)

WCF Client Fault Size Limit (Sasha Goldshtein)

How To Change Visual Studio Default Editor (shair)

Create a Shortcut Key for a Macro (Zain Naboulsi)

Understanding Commands: Aliases (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

indieconf for freelance web professionals (Michael Kimsal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

“Bring out yer dead!” *clang* (Derick Bailey)

Success Patterns for Web Sites (J.D. Meier)

Day 8 – Dump Your Brain to Free Your Mind (J.D. Meier)

Day 9 – Prioritize Your Day with MUST, SHOULD, COULD (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

WP7 List Box Item Animation on bound data changes (MVVM) (Unknown Author)

Latest Book – Professional Silverlight 4 (Bill Evjen)

Windows Phone 7 launch events rumored for late August, ASUS device leak, and more (Brody McKee)

Silverlight Cream for August 08, 2010 — #921 (Dave Campbell)

MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Automated Tests (Davy Brion)

MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Conclusions (Davy Brion)

The New York Times Silverlight Kit Now on Windows Phone 7 on CodePlex (don)

Sample Update: Windows Phone 7 Example Application for Beta Tools (Jasonz)

Creating high performance Windows Phone apps – THE WHITEPAPER (Jeff Wilcox)

TiltContentControl for Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)

Windows Phone 7 App: Ave Comics (Joey deVilla)

Windows Phone 7 App: Deluxe Moon (Joey deVilla)

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 4 – Working with Windows Phone 7 (Rob Eisenberg)

WPF Class Library Reference Poster (Rob Relyea)

Software Should: “catch your eye and make you want to use it”. (Rob Relyea)

Cinch V2 Part 6 : Out Now (Also my 100th article at codeproject) (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Show 364: Madden NFL 11, online safety and more (Larry Hyrb)

TWC9: VS LightSwitch, Lab Management, IE9 PP4, VS Jeopardy (Dan Fernandez)

Episode 108: Mike Neel and Dylan Wolf on GameMarx (David Giard)

Community / Events

devLINK a Huge Success (Brad M. McGehee)

Firestarter Events Coming Your Way! (Jim O’Neil)

Database

SQL Server Object Dependency Viewer Revisited (Chad Miller)

Some T-SQL, XML, DGML and Visual Studio 2010 and you get a very cool SQL Server Dependency Graph (Greg Duncan)

SSRS Helper Code : Convert a multivalue parameter to a comma delimited string (Jamie Thomson)

SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 (Pinal Dave)

SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Monitoring Management Pack Download (Pinal Dave)

SQLAuthority News – Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool v1.2 (Pinal Dave)

Misconceptions about unicode in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

Free Webcast: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating to SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)

SharePoint Calculated Field from string to number (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

Launching the Browser (Kirupa)

A Snowball’s Chance In Hell : IronRuby (Karl Seguin)

Microsoft Research shows off a prototype ‘Menlo’ mobile phone (Mary Jo Foley)

Surface 3D Demo Part 2 (Dave)

Updates on DSLs In Action – Into Copy Editing (Debasish)

Apache Stonehenge M2 (Dmitry Lyalin)

Great article on Time to Market factors over at Vision Mobile (Don Burnett)

Monetize Your Windows 7 Phone Applications with AdMob (Don Burnett)

Calder Mobile Application X-Box Live Search View Preview (Don Burnett)

Web Platform Installer – Web Installation on Steroids (Gil Fink)

Typemock Summer Sale (Gil Zilberfeld)

How to verify a method call on a dependency (Gil Zilberfeld)

Information Architecture, Navigation Design, and Graphic Design (J.D. Meier)

Microsoft Drops Quadrant (Jean-Jacques Dubray)

More Tips for Writing A Technical Book (John Papa)

Don’t Parse That XML! (John Sonmez)

IronRuby and IronPython are NOT dead (John V. Petersen)

Scriplet: Display Connections Per User & Database (Larry Leonard)

Back to basics (Louis Salin)

Boiling the Ocean [Siege Update] (Marcus Bratton)

Software Craftsmanship Conference 2010 – Just Code (Michael Hunger)

Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp – Part 4 (mosessaur)

#Ebook Deal of the Day: Inside Cyber Warfare – Only $9.99. Use code DDWRF (O’Reilly Media)

Observal (Paul Stovell)

Simple TriggerAction for docking using GridSplitters (Pavan Podila)

How I conquered a corrupt database ! (Pradeep Adiga)

Windows Azure Storage Can Be Confusing (Rinat Abdullin)

12 Things A Programmer Really Needs To Know (Rob Diana)

Coded UI Test – Tip 4 – Add Unused Controls to UI Map (Shai Raiten)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: August 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)

Weekly Link Post 156 (Rhonda Tipton)

Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 8, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Morning Brew #660 (Chris Alcock)

F# Discoveries This Week 08/08/2010 (Rick Minerich)

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Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (2nd Edition) by Stephen G. Kochan

Top Links

• IronRuby and the Reactive Extensions for .NET Together at Last (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Coding4Fun: Jeopardy! (Brian Peek)
• ZoomableCanvas: Preface (Kael Rowan)
• HTML5, Modernized: Fourth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Adding more goodies in MEFedMVVM (Marlon Grech)
• Games: Silverlight 4 XNA Platform Game Level Editor for Windows Phone 7 (Wes Yanaga)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Signed Assemblies Using ILMerge (Richard Carr)
• LightSwitch Arrives (William Vaughn)
• LightSwitch: The Return Of The Secretary (Oren Eini)
• Some nice code editor features provided by the VS 2010 Power Tool Extensions (Scott Guthrie)
• Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Release Version (Shai Raiten)
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Reset All Your Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
• Microsoft Aims Its Latest Tool, LightSwitch, at Professionals. Is it a Tool for Pros? (Abel Avram)
• Intellisense Enhancements I want (Deepak Kapoor)
• Microsoft.Data, LightSwitch and WebMatrix are the Next Step of Evolution (Rinat Abdullin)

Web Development

• Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery (Andy Croxall)
• Tips and Tricks for Error Handling in ASP.NET Web Applications (Jacob Sebastian)
• Final Internet Explorer 9 preview released — tons of fixes, speed-ups, and only 8 weeks until the beta (Sebastian Anthony)
• IE9 Train Reaches Platform Preview 4 (James Pratt)
• JSON Query Languages: 5 special purpose editors (Leon Bambrick)
• oData call debugging. (Mike Hole)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Studies that Validate Agile and Lean Methodologies (Dan Puckett)
• Day 4 – Let Things Slough Off (J.D. Meier)
• Evolving Architectures – Part V – Leaps (Mitch Pronschinske)
• How Do You Estimate Your Project? (Stoimen Popov)
• Coding Standards and Best Practices : Avoid using strings in CODE PLEASE! (Peter Bahaa)
• Learn Decorator Design Pattern in Easy Steps (Ananth.tm)
• Tech Lead Checklist to Kick your Team into Gear (Andy Singleton)
• Technical Debt in Medical Software (Bob Nadler)
• The 3 Questions (Ivo Manolov)
• Defect Driven Testing: Your Ticket Out the Door at Five O’Clock (Jared Richardson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Tutorials : Apps Amuck (Nigel Sampson)
• How design time data will save you time designing Silverlight and WPF applications and How to use a DesignInstance to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight and WPF and How to use DesignData to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight and WPF and How to use the DesignerProperties.IsInDesignTool property to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight and WPF (Jag Reehal)
• Data-Centric WPF Applications with Visual Studio 2010 and Data-Centric Silverlight Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch (Christian Nagel)
• Experimenting with PRISM 4, Silverlight, MEF (Mike Taulty)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Implementing The Overview UserControl (Davy Brion)
• Why didn’t I think of that in the first place? [Windows Phone 7 Charting example updated to include reusable, platform-consistent Style and Templates] (David Anson)
• New book: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• Great Article on Writing a Bing Maps Location-Aware App for Windows Phone 7 (Frank La Vigne)
• Windows Phone 7 Programming For Silverlight Developers – Reloaded (Jesse Liberty)
• Using RichTextBox in Silverlight 4 (Mamta)
• Windows Phone 7 Beta: My Application Won’t Start After Renaming Project (Nick)
• Silverlight Blackjack for Windows Phone 7 (Rob Miles)
• Bring on Bing for Windows Phone 7 (My Kind of Phone)
• Windows Phone 7 App Development (Richard Hay)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 89: Vaidy Gopalakrishnan on IIS Developer Express (Jon Galloway)
• Nikolai Tillmann and Aaron Shaver – Coding Duels at pexforfun.com (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: A Look at SVG in IE9 and Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: A Look at the New IE Test Drive Samples and Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: A Look at Hamster Dance in IE9 and Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: The IE9 Rocks HTML5 Audio Support (Larry Larsen)
• VSLive 2010 Day 2 Keynote: An Insider’s Perspective of Visual Studio 2010 and Application Lifecycle Management and Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management announce and VSLive 2010 Day 1 Keynote: Visual Studio 2010 and a Glimpse of the Future (Brian Keller)
• geekSpeak Recording – Business Intelligence for the .NET Framework Developer with Andrew Brust (Emily Gibson)

Community / Events

• Typemock Sponsors #devLink2010, August 5 – 7th (Britt King)
• Chat Now In Public Beta (Jeff Atwood)

Database

• Testing Native Backup Compression in Combination with SQL Server 2008 R2 Data Compression (Glenn Berry)
• PowerShell for the DBA: Search the Windows Event Logs for Errors (Buck Woody)
• PostgreSQL Tutorial – Referring to Other Tables (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Configure hMailServer for SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

• Aurora Monitoring with PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
• Google Wave dies of acute unpopularity at age 1 (Jay Hathaway)
• YouTrack Adds Importing from Trac and CSV Files (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Masterminds of Programming – Only $9.99. Use code DDMMP. 2010 Jolt Award Winner (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft’s Live Labs launches zoom.it (Steve Clayton)
• Jive Software takes the first step towards a social enterprise app market (Steven Walling)
• Microsoft’s mystery hardware? Arc Touch Mouse, launching in September (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 4, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #658 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 4, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Visual Studio 2010, TFS 2010, VSTS Articles Link List (.NET Curry)
• Flagged Links #77 (Double Issue) (Jason Bock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 04, 2010 — #918 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours by Rob Eisenberg

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

Top Links

• Using rake under IronRuby (Joshua Flanagan)
• Take Control of Logging and Tracing in Windows Azure (Mike Kelly)
• Best Practices (Peter Ritchie)
• WP7 Back Button in Games (Andy Beaulieu)
• Visual Studio Language & IDE Resources from TechEd North America 2010 (C#, VB, F#, IronPython, IronRuby) (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Microsoft E3 Xbox 360 Press Conference Details (Richard Hay)

.NET / Visual Studio

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step – Only $9.99 use code MDMVB (O’Reilly Media)
• MongoDB and C# (Craig G. Wilson)
• Querying namespace-based XML data in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Managed Menu Extension (MME) makes adding right click menus to VS2010 simple and easy (via MEF) (Greg Duncan)
• Why you need to tag your build servers in TFS and Ghost team foundation build controllers (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Road to MonoDevelop 2.4: Navigation (Miguel de Icaza)
• Manipulate Docx with C# without Microsoft Word installed with Open XML SDK (Ric Rodrigues)
• MDA: Callback On Garbage Collected Delegate (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using Conditional Mapping in Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• Project Euler Problem 1 and 2 in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Using Quick Find (Zain Naboulsi)
• XmlDictionary and Binary Serialization (Scott Seely)
• Hide and seek (Eric Lippert)
• Team Build Service Is Ready But Not Working (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

• Creating Add-Ins for Expression Web 4 (Jonathan Allen)
• Visual Studio 2010 JavaScript Intellisense Behavior (K. Scott Allen)
• Four Twitter Mashups Available as One API (Adam DuVander)
• Custom web faults with System.ServiceModel.Web 3.x (Matt Milner)
• Drupal Cheat Sheet Desktop Wallpaper (Smashing Magazine)
• Rely on Declarative Security Features in the Browser (David Ross)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: TeamRoom (Martin Fowler)
• Work In Process (WIP) Limits, Policies, Etc. (Derick Bailey)
• TDD: Driving from the assertion up (Mark Needham)
• Release Management, Features or Time (John Sonmez)
• From KFC Development to PVC Systems (Karl Scotland)
• Code Like Kudzu! (Jared Richardson)
• Asymmetry and emptiness: lessons from the tearoom (Garr Reynolds)
• Free Stand Up report – the Simplest and Easiest way to manage a distributed team (Andy Singleton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Master-Detail UI in Blend (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Memory Leak Hotfixes for WPF 3.5 SP1 (Jossef Goldberg)
• How to Enable Using the Binding Builder in WPF and Silverlight Applications and Using WPF and Silverlight UserControls (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Tip: Using LINQ to Select the Largest Available Webcam Resolution (Pete Brown)
• Printing Tip – Handling User Initiated Dialogs Exceptions (John Papa)
• CinchV2 is out there (Sacha Barber)
• Display Google Maps Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Chris Pietschmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 2010 E3 Xbox 360 Media Briefing (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 115 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Sizemore on TechEd 2010 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Designing in Microsoft Office 2010 (Tina Wood)
• This Week in Silverlight – Teched and Quizes (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Visual Studio Test Professional 2010: The Tool for the Modern Tester (Brian Keller)
• Ping 61: Azure Apps, Windows Live Essentials, E3, Colbert & Bing (Laura Foy)
• Security Talk Series: Using the SDL in Office 2010 (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – June 14th, 2010 and Do You Attend User Groups? Run a User Group? We’d Like to Hear From You! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Kinect, Xbox 360 “Slim” and More: Early Highlights from E3 (Barb Dybwad)
• Kinect Introduced at E3 (Owen Linderholm)
• New Hires in New York (Joel Spolsky)
• MVPs Todd Klindt, Kyle Rosenthal, and Stuart Celarier discuss TechEd 2010 New Orleans (Joseph Mirabella)
• The Top 10 Developer Mistakes That Won’t Scale (Brent Ozar)

Database

• Introduction to SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Server Management (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Shrinking NDF and MDF Files – Readers’ Opinion (Pinal Dave)
• Maps in Reports! (Grant Fritchey)

Miscellaneous

• Kinect for Xbox 360 Sets the Future in Motion – No Controller Required (MS PressPass)
• Xbox Kinect—beyond playing games (Bill Crounse)
• Kinect and Windows Live Messenger: soon to be bff? (Kip Kniskern)
• Daily Dose – The Winds of Change Blow for the OSI (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Connecting Windows Live Messenger and Xbox Live (Piero Sierra)
• Windows Live Sync Beta Transition Guide (Richard Hay)
• New Xbox 360 Slim Unveiled ! Shipping Today for $299 (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• T-SQL Tuesday #007 – Roundup (Jorge Segarra)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 06/14/2010 – TechEd Edition (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 149 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #621 (Chris Alcock)
• Code Generation 2010, new Xbox 360 launched and Umbraco 4.1 is out (Sara Allison)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed by Chad Carter

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Top Links

• Pair Management (Michael Feathers)
• “Suggested Resources” Visual Studio Plug-In (Tom Hollander)
• SQL SERVER – Attach mdf file without ldf file in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Slim Xbox 360 and Natal bundle to debut at E3? (Vladislav Savov)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Enable or Disable a Breakpoint and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using Hide Selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Multi-Monitor Support (Richard Carr)
• Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh (MS Downloads)
• Writing basic information to Excel files from a .NET application (Dennis Delimarsky)

Web Development

• Server Driven Paging With WCF Data Services (Phani Raj)
• WCF, REST and URL Rewriting with Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• Twitter’s Many Geo APIs (Adam DuVander)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Small Step Refactoring: Overload Constructor (Mark Needham)
• RavenDB Performance Tweaks (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned from Seth Godin (J.D. Meier)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Events Deserialization (Jérémie Chassaing)
• If Self-Documenting Code is the What, Unit Tests are the Why (John Sonmez)
• Vanilla Scrum and Multi-Team Value Streams (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Elastic Collisions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• A ?refreshing? Authentication/Authorization experience with Silverlight 4 (David Poll)
• Expression Blend 4 SDK for Windows Phone Streamlines Development (Bruce Kyle)
• Unit Testing Modal Dialogs in MVVM and Silverlight 4 (Slobodan Pavkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 110 – PowerScripting Podcast – Andrew Mason from Microsoft on Server Core (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 10 – James Crisp live at the ALM Conference (Richard Banks)
• WSDAPI – Ralf Beckers about Web Services on Devices for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 (Jan Schenk)
• Major Nelson Show 358: Left4Dead’s The Passing, BioShock 2 MP DLC and Split/Second (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• Road Trip with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell (Al Pascual)
• Coders Go the (Long) Distance for Imagine Cup (Lukas Velush)
• Great Indian Developer Summit Wrap-Up (Stephen Forte)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Books OnLine – available now… (Dukagjin Maloku)
• A DMV a Day – Day 26 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (25/30) fill factor (Paul S. Randal)
• Debugging 64 bit SSIS packages (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Forums in SharePoint 2010 (Lightning Tools)
• SharePoint PowerShell Forum (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Miscellaneous

• The Plug Computer (Mike Ceranski)
• Daily Dose – Android Market Reaches 50k Apps; Development Accelerates (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Word 2010 Navigation Pane and more and Outlook 2010 – My Top 9 features (Daniel Moth)
• Human Computer Interaction, A Portal to the Future (Hui MA)
• Job Hoppers Redux: An Employee’s Perspective (Mark Suster)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/26/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: April 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #587 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 25, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2010 — #847 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 142 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Everyman on Putting Facebook Last, Next Killer Mobile App, Worker or Entrepreneur (Dave Burke)

The Geek Shelf

IronRuby in Action

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Top Links

• S#arp Architecture 1.5 released (Alec Whittington)
• Use Office 2010 to map a local drive letter to your free 25GB Live SkyDrive (Lee Mathews)
• An introduction to MEFedMVVM – PART 1 and Leveraging MEFedMVVM ExportViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 2 and IContextAware services to bridge the gap between the View and the ViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 3 (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Reference Highlighting (Richard Carr)
• How to get REALLY fast benchmarks (Oren Eini)
• Set or Remove a Breakpoint (Zain Naboulsi)
• Updated Blue and Dark Visual Studio 2010 Themes (John Papa)
• Iron Ruby: ‘unitialized constant…NameError’ (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• How to use Personal Web Packages in Microsoft Expression Web (.NET Curry)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Will Vanilla Scrum Work for You? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming (Pete Brown)
• When Implementing ICommand don’t forget to Hookup RequerySuggested (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 153: You’re Made of Corn (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: Silverlight 4, SQL Server R2 & Ent Library 5.0 all RTM, Why code comments aren’t bad (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Feeling @Home with Windows Azure, at Home (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 25 (Glenn Berry)
• Using Table Value Constructors aka Row Constructors in SQL Server 2008 to insert multiple rows using a single statement (Suprotim Agarwal)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (24/30) twenty six restore myths and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (25/30) fill factor (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Milestone 3 screenshots leaked (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 theme for iPhone released! (Imran Hussain)
• Attn: Google – Amount due: USD$307.50 (FOURTH AND FINAL NOTICE) (Michael S. Kaplan)
• How to Install Android on iPhone – Step by Step Guide [Video] (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 24, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 04.19 ~ 04.25 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #102 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2010 — #846 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master