• Code First Migrations: Walkthrough of August 2011 CTP (Rowan Miller)
• Another Helping of Mango for Devs (Cliff Simpkins)
• Node.js on Windows (or JavaScript for the backend) (Christopher Bennage)
• Request for Comments: Issues with .NET and Microsoft Product Versioning (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Speech Recognition (Richard Carr)
• Getting Started with igDataSource and WCF and Getting Started with igGrid, OData, and WCF Data Services (Aaron Marisi)
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Default Parameters are Compile-Time Substitutions (James Michael Hare)
• Interactive Extensions for LINQ to Objects (Jonathan Allen)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part V (Luca Bolognese)
• Entity Framework Code First Migrations: Alpha – NuGet Package of the Week #10 (Scott Hanselman)
• Start an application on boot with Mono for Android #Android #monodroid (Wally McClure)
• Stephen Toub says, "I’ve got your Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET… right here…" and Can the Kinect "know" what you are doing? and Media Player I NUI you well… (Greg Duncan)
• Working with the Master Category List–EWS edition (Henning Krause)
• Code First Migrations: August 2011 CTP Released (EF Team)
• Entity Framework v4.1 update 1, the Kill-The-Tool-Eco-system version (Frans Bouma)
• Preprocessor? .NET don’t need no stinkin’ preprocessor! [DebugEx.Assert provides meaningful assertion failure messages automagically!] (David Anson)
• Now Available: The June CTP of Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus REST API from Java, PHP (Alessandro Catorcini)
• Node.cs (Oren Eini)
• Do you know how to upgrade a process template but still keep your data intact? (Martin Hinshelwood)

Web Development

• Book Reivew: JavaScript Enlightenment (Elijah Manor)
• HTML5 Drag and Drop in IE10 PPB2 (Sharon Newman)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Inline Class (Giorgio Sironi)
• OOP JavaScript: Accessing Public Methods in Private Methods and PHP Strings: How to Get the Extension of a File (Stoimen Popov)
• HTML 5: Add an audio player to your webpage for Free! (Surf4Fun)
• ECMAScript.next: Array.from() and Array.of() (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Shortening URLs from PHP with Bit.ly (Lorna Wilson)
• YUI 3.4.0 Preview Release 3 Now Available on CDN (George Puckett)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP 4 released (Maarten Balliauw)
• Future Orchard Part 2: more Tokens (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: FrequencyReducesDifficulty (Martin Fowler)
• A Survival Guide for New Agile Coaches – Believe in It (Dave Rooney)
• How not to do TDD (Roy Osherove)
• How Rigid is Scrum? (Vikas Hazrati)
• How to fix Subversion merge (Jimmy Bogard)
• Architecture of Tankster– Scale (Part 2) (Nathan Totten)
• Macto: And it goes on your permanent record, too! (Oren Eini)
• Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster with Unified Text Fields (Anthony)
• Where the Focus Goes (JD Meier)
• Khan Exercise Rewrite (John Resig)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM in real life Windows Phone applications Part2 and Using Sockets in WP 7.1 (Mango Beta 2) (Windows Phone Geek)
• Creating an application like Google Desktop in WPF and C# (Chris P.)
• Announcing NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jason Beres)
• Custom accelerometer motions for the Windows Phone emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Hosting a Windows Forms control inside a WPF and Difference between a UserControl and a CustomControl and Accessing local assemblies in XAML (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Replaceable resources in Silverlight (John Rayner)
• My eBook and articles series on OData for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 is complete. (Michael Crump)
• Posting Twitter Status Update from Windows Phone (Nick)
• WP7Contrib – Bing Service Wrapper Part II – Route (Richard Griffin)
• LightSwitch Farm: A Story In The Not So Distant Future (Michael Washington)
• Page State–Step by Step (Jesse Liberty)
• Using XamTimeline and XamDataChart to build an annotated view of your time-series data (Kiril Matev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Pete Brown Has Fun With Silverlight and More! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 0: Help us fly this plane, Some modern C++, Meet Ale Contenti and Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis: Introducing Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Charles Torre)
• SE Podcast #13 (Alex Miller)
• Interview: Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Engadget Show – 023: We tour a headphone factory, talk record labels, and look at They Might Be Giants’ favorite gadgets (Brian Heater)
• ScriptTD: So You Want To Build a Tower Defense Game? and Defrag: 3TB limit, Forced Shutdowns, Optimizing Win7 for Netbooks (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Tentacles, Birds & Beaks, Who’s Near Me, Pin To Start, Executive Caddie (Laura Foy)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Eric Boyd Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Let’s Play TDD #127: Yearly Spending Field (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Andre Artis: Influencing the next generation of Black Technologists (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Speaking engagement: Progressive .NET, London, September 7th (Jon Skeet)
• Want to Improve/Change Your Career? Get Hooked up in the Community! (Jim Holmes)
• What’s in your laptop bag? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• What’s In Your Laptop Bag? and Progressive .NET Tutorials–London Sept 5-7 (Jesse Liberty)
• What’s restricting the expansion of telework? (Jessica Stillman)

Database

• SQL Server does not script indexes by default (James Serra)
• SQL Server: Top 10 Cached Queries and SQL Server: Behavioral Change in Union Operator (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Latest expressor Data Integration Platform Posts and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Guest Post by Nakul Vachhrajani – Day 28 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Guest Post by Feodor Georgiev – Day 29 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Injection Pocket Reference for MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle (Denis Gobo)
• Lookup functions in SSRS 2008 R2 – II (Vinay Pugalia)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – Analytic Functions – LAG() and LEAD() (Vishal)
• T-SQL refactoring (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

• My Experience Upgrading SharePoint with FAB 40 (Joel Oleson)
• WCF to the rescue: Fixing bad performing BDC connectors in SharePoint (Mark Kendall)

Miscellaneous

• The Technology Hype Cycle and why you should bet your Software Career on the Cloud (Frank Kelly)
• Mango Build 7712 for Developers: What’s New? (Antonio Hernandez)
• OneNote Spy (omspy) for OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
• Java SE Goes to 7 (Oracle Tech Net)
• How to connect to a Wireless WIFI Network from the Command line in Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Android: New Tools For Managing Screen Sizes (Tim Bray)
• Just Announced: Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS Now Supports Access Control Service, Includes Cloud Ready Packages (Windows Azure Team)
• Dilbert’s Scott Adams accepts the Windows Phone Challenge (Doug Holland)
• Updated build of Windows Phone “Mango” now supports music streaming from SkyDrive (damaster)
• Windows Phone: The one where sharing photos via SkyDrive…doesn’t (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone 7 Mango Build 7712 Observations (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: July 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – July 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily Links 28/07/2011 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #904 and The Morning Brew #905 (Chris Alcock)
• Link dump for July 28th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 07/28/2011 and Daily News Digest 07/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 26-Jul-2011 and 27-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Today’s Links (7/27/2011) and Today’s Links (7/28/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 27 July 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 28 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2011 — #1121 and Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2011 — #1122 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Head First Android Development by Jonathan Simon

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Top Links

• FubuMVC Conventions in ASP.NET MVC with MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano)
• Extending NServiceBus: Per Unit of Work IoC Container and Extending NServiceBus: Thread-Specific Message Modules and NServiceBus Message Modules (IMessageModule) (Jonathan Oliver)
• Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension v2 (Karl Shifflett)
• Integrating with Shell Libraries, Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Video: SketchFlow in 90 seconds, with Jon Harris (Christian Schormann)

.NET / Visual Studio

• "VisioAutomation" Office 2010 .NET Library Tools for Programmers (Blake Handler)
• Entity Framework Profiler is released! (Oren Eini)
• How to Migrate Your .NET 3.5 App to .NET 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Coding4Fun: XNA Effects – ASCII Art in 3D (Louis Ingenthron)
• Windows Ribbon for WinForms v2.1 – Now with Visual Basic samples and number of new series entries too (Greg Duncan)
• Smart vs. Block vs. None: The Indenting Smackdown and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using Generate from Usage (Zain Naboulsi)
• WCF Tutorial – Serializing and Transmitting Base Types (Charlie Key)
• PowerManager class in Windows API Code Pack (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows 7 Programming Guide – Libraries Update (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Cancelling Tasks in .NET 4.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• D3: 4 Years of DPMud and Still Going Strong (Dan Simmons)
• AsyncEnumerator Survey for Microsoft (Jeffrey Richter)
• Data Flow Analysis Rules in Visual Studio 2010 (Duke Kamstra)
• Yet Another Way to Determine the Sync Object for Which Your Thread Is Waiting (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• JSMag – Call For Authors (Michael Kimsal)
• Downloading Multiple Files as a Zip File Using GridView and SharpZipLib (Mohammad Azam)
• Same Markup: Writing Cross-Browser Code (Tony Ross)
• Printf(“HERE”) in the Cloud (Steve Marx)
• Tip #103: Adding the New Website and Open Website buttons to the VS2010 Start Page (Jimmy Lewis)
• Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta – Available Now (Visual Web Developer Team)
• Run Java with Jetty in Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• How to install Subtext (and Umbraco) using WebPI (Simone Chiaretta)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Aggregation Part 2 (Matthew Podwysocki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do You Need Iteration Zero? A Case Study. (James Shore)
• Help! I’m Terrible At Migrating/Restructuring Code In A Test-First Manner (Derick Bailey)
• Introduction to TestApi – Part 6: Text String Generation API and Part 7: Memory Leak Detection API (Ivo Manolov)
• Agile is Performance, Feedback, Revision (Jak Charlton)
• Do you have a contract between the Product Owner and the Team? and Do you know when to send a done email in Scrum? and Guidance: A Branching strategy for Scrum Teams (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Rally Acquires AgileZen Kanban Tooling (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Sapient Testing: The "Professionalism" meme. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Find Your Strengths Among Your Team (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF : TimeLine Control (Sacha Barber)
• Scanning an Image from Silverlight 4 using WIA Automation (Pete Brown)
• Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Explained (Jeremy Likness)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Daniel Egan talks Windows Phone 7 Live at Launch (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Hypershow Silverlight Enhanced Movie player (James Clarke)
• Visual Studio 2010: Undercover Series (Part 2) (jarsenau13)
• C# TDD Videos – You asked for them (Brett Schuchert)
• Bruce Johnson on Silverlight 4: New Desktop Features, Augmented Reality (Eric Hagan)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Flash (Jeff Brand)
• TechDays 2010: Software Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and TechDays 2010: Visual Studio 2010 IDE Tips (kreekman)
• Watch: MVPs help lauch Visual Studio 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)
• Visual Basic Masterclass by Lucian Wischik and Why REST? by Aaron Skonnard (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Pete at MIX10: Mime Cloud for Umbraco and More (Pete Brown)
• Visual Studio 2010 Code Visualization Tools (Robert Hess)
• Jon Takes Five with Brad Wilson on MVC 2 Templating & Validation (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• 18,230 miles, 8 events, 1 vacation and 25 pictures later… (Adam Kinney)

Database

• Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Devon Musgrave)
• A DMV a Day – Day 15 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Release Date: May 21 2010 (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint

• Measuring ASP.NET and SharePoint Output Cache (Gunnar Peipman)
• Configuring Read-Only Content Databases (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• WHS Add-in Poca Podcast Catcher (Ben Palmer)
• Quick Status of Your Windows Azure Apps with PowerShell (Steve Marx)
• Daily Dose – Is Adobe Ready to Sue the Ever-Living Crap Out of Apple? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Myths of Innovation – Only $9.99. Use code DDMNV (O’Reilly Media)
• JobsBlog Rewind: Five ways to fail my phone interview (Matt Aberham)
• New Apps and Dev Tools for Windows Media Center (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Flagged Links #73 (Jason Bock)
• Interesting Finds: April 14, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines 04.14.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #580 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on The Holistic Web, Incentive Planning, Marketing as Entertwainment (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 14-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• More VS 2010 Launch Links (Scott Wiltamuth)

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life!

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.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Language Details (Gotchas) (Chris Smith)
• Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework (MS Downloads)
• Query Editor: Writing Queries, Part 1 (Jason Haley)
• Über Prof goes live (Oren Eini)
• Using Windows Touch Gestures with .NET (Part 1: Configuration) (Jason Ipock)
• The Wisdom of Crowds: Implementing a Smart Ranking Algorithm (Lee Dumond)
• Populating a TreeView Control from a List (Deborah Kurata)
• Teamprise: Enabling TFS collaboration across heterogeneous platforms (Somasegar)
• Telerik “M” Compare and “Repository” Migration Tool November CTP (Stephen Forte)
• Announcing the new Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform (Silverlight Team)
• Three Umpires (Eric Lippert)
• JNBridgePro 5.0 Bridges Java and .NET (Mitch Pronschinske)
• On being Culture Aware (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• Preventing Security Development Errors: Lessons Learned at Windows Live by Using ASP.NET MVC (MS Downloads)
• zen-coding: turn those CSS selectors upside down (Leon Bambrick)
• ASP.NET Authentication – Multiple Domains w/ Same Application (Dave M. Bush)
• Server Side Validation With ASP.NET MVC And Data Annotations (Malcolm Sheridan)
• $.fadeTo/fadeOut() operations on Table Rows in IE fail (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft sees a silver lining in the cloud (Steve Clayton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Security Considerations for Client and Cloud Applications (MS Downloads)
• Dependency Injection 101 (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Fields and virtual members (Jimmy Bogard)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Processing Requests (Davy Brion)
• Electronic Kanban Tools and WIP Limits: LeanKitKanban and AgileZen Get It! (Derick Bailey)
• You say Tomato, I say Pomodoro (Joel Cochran)
• The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming and The Bridge Pattern – When a single class hierarchy is not enough (David Cooksey)
• Trying Out Personal Kanban (Or At Least My Interpretation Of It) (Joel Ross)
• Getting started with BDD (Behavior Driven Development) in .NET (Tom Janssens)
• Legacy Code: Sensing (Mark Needham)
• Reuse Creates Bottlenecks (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Can Agile Be Combined with Offshore? 12 Lessons Learned. (Peter DeYoe)
• 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design (Whitney Hess)

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services + Silverlight Behaviors Resources (Andy Beaulieu)
• XAML 2009 Features: Node Loop flexibility (Lester Lobo)
• Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released (Sunshine)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Live from DevReach, Sofia, Bulgaria (Carl Franklin)
• Pluralsight Training Videos on .Net Reflector (Jason Haley)
• Ping 37: SQL Server, Windows 7, Bing, Google, Bill Gates Birthday (Laura Foy)
• ASP.NET 4 / VS 2010 “Quick Hit” Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Talk: Stop Programming JavaScript by Luck (Sergio Pereira)
• SharePoint PodShow – A Conversation with Foxit Software Episode 37 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Thread Blocking Analysis in the VS2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – November 9th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Countdown to Microsoft PDC 2009 – part 2 (Lars Wilhemlsen)
• Party with Palermo: PDC ‘09 edition – 6 days and counting (Jeffrey Palermo)
• SQL Authority News – Training MS SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization And Performance Tuning (Pinal Dave)
• Next "Oslo" CTP to be released in conjunction with PDC (Sam Gentile)
• PDC and Python (in that order) (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• Does the S in SQL stand for Scary? (Coding4Fun)
• Fuzzy Logic and Regex come to T-SQL in SQL Server 2008 R2 – available now! (Jamie Thomson)
• Always include precision and scale with decimal and numeric (George Mastros)
• SQL Azure & SQL Server playing together (Steve Clayton)

SharePoint

• Determining if MOSS is Standard or Enterprise (Tom Hearn)
• StructureMap and SharePoint (Tony Rasa)

Miscellaneous

• What I Use and Kindle for PC Now Available (Paul Thurrott)
• A Good URL Regular Expression? (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Mark Russinovich on Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Devon Musgrave)
• PowerPack Creation Manual (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Tortoise more than just version control (Jimmy Bosse)
• Recent UI updates to GitHub (Kyle Neath)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Rocks! (Jeffrey Snover)
• Verizon – Google Droid Review (Tim Boland)
• Happy 5th Birthday, Firefox! (Simon Mackie)
• Download Podcasts with Powershell (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft’s Top 3 advances in Exchange Server 2010 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/10 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 7 Taskbar Tweaker Lets You Change Windows 7 Taskbar Functionality (Sarah Perez)
• Today in O’Reilly Answers – The Droid, Tip-of-the-Tongue Effect, Technology for Political Candidates, and more (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #474 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 09, 2009 — #727 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/9/2009 (Bill Zack)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Links and Azure Links and Workflow Links and New and Notable 388 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Posting on Sunday instead of Monday this week. I’m taking a day off with the family tomorrow. Back on Tuesday!

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.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate Perf Tricks and NHibernate Documentation (Oren Eini)
• Code Contracts CLR Inside Out Article (Melitta Andersen)
• WCF Extensibility part 4: Applying formatting to operations (Alex Thissen)
• BLinq – Linq to Bing Search APIs (Nikhil Kothari)

Web Development

• MyStream: Social Lifestreaming with ASP.NET 4.0 (Tanzim Saqib)
• Working with Themes in ASP.NET (Sheo Narayan)
• Tip #92: Did you know … How to select a master page using ‘Select a Master Page’ dialog? (Deepak Verma)
• Static Page Checking in ASP.NET MVC (Steve Andrews)
• Using Container-Level Access Policies in Windows Azure Storage (Steve Marx)
• jQuery SuperLoad and ASP.NET MVC with jQuery SuperLoad (Sergio Pereira)
• PHP toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services…And My XBox Demo (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ADO.NET Data Services and PHP (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Adding Google Gadgets to your web page in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• MvcContrib version control has moved to GitHub (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Important Updates to Live Services: Live Framework CTP Unavailable As of Sept 8 (Kevin Ledley)
• Microsoft Killed the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control (Chris Pietschmann)
• Last.fm tips and tricks (Donald Bell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Visitor Design Pattern and Gang of Four Design Patterns (Richard Carr)
• The Importance of Context (Aaron Lerch)
• Refactoring Day 22 : Break Method and Refactoring Day 23 : Introduce Parameter Object (Sean Chambers)
• Review of ANTS Memory Profiler (Scott Seely)
• RhinoMocks Exploration : RhinoMocks “Caching” Values? (Tim Barcz)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer Series and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Mapping Classes To Tables (Davy Brion)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 11. (Rajiv Popat)
• BOOK: Running an Agile Project (Brad Appleton)
• Using Unity to make Singleton-ness an implementation detail (Brian Button)
• Answer the User’s Questions (Christopher Bennage)

Silverlight / WPF

• Adding Behaviors Programmatically (Andy Beaulieu)
• Test driving a WPF App – Part 2: Adding some data (Brian Button)
• A Simple WPF Loading Animation (Brian Lagunas)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 23: Azure (Brad Abrams)
• How to install cool, custom fonts (like PDC09) into Windows and use it in your Silverlight application (or even Microsoft Word) (Dave Isbitski)
• How to Center a Silverlight App in HTML (Joel Cochran)
• Updates made to MVVM Foundation (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Kevin Hazzard on Dynamic Languages (MS Podcasts)

Community / Events

• Windows Azure World Tour 2009 (Steve Marx)
• Party with Palermo: PDC 2009 – save the date (Jeffrey Palermo)
• an update to the ch-ch-ch-changes and ASP Insiders (Chris Williams)
• Live Meeting with Phil Haack – MVC 2 – 08/26/2009 9am PST – 10 am PST ( 12pm-1pm EST) (Eric Hexter)
• Windows 7 Ship Party: Work hard and play hard (Ginny Cheng)
• New Question Asker Features (Jeff Atwood)
• DevHawk World Tour FY2010 (Harry Pierson)
• Giving up a year of my life (Wendy Friedlander)

Database

• SSMS Tip – Display Results in a Separate Tab (Rhonda Tipton)
• SQL Server StreamInsight CTP2 Available For Download and Scripting all jobs on SQL Server 2005/2008 into one file (Denis Gobo)
• SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online and SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 Migration White Papers (Pinal Dave)
• DAL: Save Data Using a SQL Statement (Deborah Kurata)
• How to fix Flash video performance in Firefox (Jason Clarke)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s PDC09 Releases Free "StarTrek-Like" Windows 7 Font (Blake Handler)
• Fun with PInvoke and Aero Peek (Joel Bennett) – Link of the Day
• 5 Awesome Firefox Add-ons for Windows or OS X (Garin Kilpatrick)
• What Everybody Should Know About Installing And Using Java On Ubuntu (Alan Skorkin)
• Your Blog is Your Mothership (Amber Riviere)
• Adobe adds video hosting to Photoshop.com (Brad Linder)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 3 (Martin Bell)
• Marketing Snake Oil (Rob Conery)
• Windows 7 and a Quick Launch Toolbar (Rick Strahl)

More Link Collections

• Linkblog, The Sequel (Pete Seale)
• More Consolidated Tech Tweets, It’s Been a Good Week (Angela Binkowski)
• Interesting Finds: August 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2009 — #670 and Silverlight Cream for August 22, 2009 — #671 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Post… 8/17/2009 through 8/22/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use of Predicate on a C# Generic List – or Not (Chris "Cruz" Taylor)
• How to Edit Your CSPROJ File from VS (Mike Snow)
• Data Generator for SQL Server Sparse Columns (Gert Drapers)
• Model Your Application, not Just Your Data, with Oslo and LINQ to Entities, Entity SQL, Parameterized Store Queries and SQL Injection (Julie Lerman)
• When Is a Type not a Type? (Brad Wilson)
• Fluent NHibernate and Collections Mapping (Marek Blotny)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #6 (Eric Gunnerson)
• Simple Class to Parse Twitter with LINQ (Tim Hibbard)
• EventHandler Extension Method (Nate Kohari)
• Immutable Data Structures in C# and F# (Tomas Petricek)
• CC.NET Community Plugins – Release v1.0.22534.2 Beta and NHibernate Mapping Generator – Release v0.4 (CodePlex)
• The Basic Syntax of F# – Keywords and Constructs (Brian McNamara)

Web Development

• Quick List of Some Blog Entries Comparing .NET WebForms to .NET MVC (Chris “Cruz” Taylor)
• IPrincipal (User) ModelBinder in ASP.NET MVC for Easier Testing (Scott Hanselman)
• Accessing the DropDownList Control’s SelectedIndex or SelectedValue Properties Selects the First ListItem (Scott Mitchell)
• Chapter 2 – Understanding Routing and Chapter 2 – Building a Simple ASP.NET MVC Application (Stephen Walther)
• VsDoc for jQuery 1.3.1 Now Available (Bertrand Le Roy)
• JavaScript for C# Programmers: Types (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Thoughts on AJAX Preview 4 and JSLINQ (K. Scott Allen)
• Take Charge of Your Security (Phil Haack)
• Cleaner Domain Objects with MVC RC DropDownList Improvement and Beware of ASP.NET MVC JavaScriptResult (Billy McCafferty)
• Sparklines for Your Favourite SVN Repos (Tobin Harris)
• HttpWebRequest, Its Request Stream, and Sending Data in Chunks (Jeffrey Richter)
• A Quicker Way to Create Custom SharePoint List Templates (Andrew Connell)
• How to Put a Background Image in a hr for IE with jQuery (Daniela Panfili)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Of Moles and Tainted Peanuts (James Whittaker)
• Part One – A Response to “Traps & Pitfalls of Agile Development – A Non-Contrarian View” and Part Two and Part Three and Part Four and Part Five and Conclusion (Chris “Cruz” Taylor)
• Writing Books on Time and on Budget (J.D. Meier)
• The Other Interface (Kenneth Roper)
• Professional Values (Jacob Proffitt)
• Refactoring: Rename Method (Gunnar Peipman)
• Elegant Code (Oren Eini)
• Some Questions for Technology Managers… How Healthy Are Your Teams? (Eric Hexter) – Link of the Day
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel, Unless You Plan on Learning More About Wheels (Jeff Atwood)
• 8 Ways to Be a Better Programmer in 6 Minutes (Leon Bambrick)
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Rebecca Parsons Explains Why It’s Never Too Early to Think About Performance (Sara Peyton)

Silverlight

• Screencast: Live Mesh Video Player (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Silverlight LOB Development Patterns (James Allderidge)
• Background: Extension Methods, Silverlight & LINQ (Jesse Liberty)

.NET Community / Events

• Microsoft Teams and Products on Twitter (Adam Kinney)
• A Little Love for NHForge.org (Tobin Harris)

PowerShell

• PowerShell, Processes, and Piping (James Kovacs)
• #requires Your Scripts (Marcel Ortiz Soto)

Miscellaneous

• A Microsoft Smartphone: No. A Microsoft Phone Chassis: Yes (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft My Phone Service Appears Briefly, Disappears (Paul Thurrott)
• An Open Letter to Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Microsoft "Fix It" Automatically Takes the Steps to Fix Problems for You (Adam Pash)
• How Well Does Windows 7 Handle 512MB? (Ed Bott)
• Clarius Labs – Release: WLW Cross-Post Plugin (CodePlex)
• Microsoft Blogger Releases "Windows Image to Virtual Hard Disk Converter" (WIM2VHD) for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Desktop Gadgets for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
• Tag You’re It! (A New App for Your Phone) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• IE8: Compatibility List FAQ (Scott Dickens)

More Link Collections

• Discoveries This Week 02/06/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• New and Notable 289 (Sam Gentile)
• Visual Studio Links #106 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for February 6, 2009 and LINKBLOG for February 7, 2009 and LINKBLOG for February 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for February 06, 2009 — #509 and Silverlight Cream for February 07, 2009 — #510 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for Feburary 6th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links 2009-02-07 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Learning Java from a .NET Developer’s Perspective (Chinh Do)
• Link Listing – February 6, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: February 7, 2009 and Interesting Finds: February 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.02.08 (yuanjian)
• Links (2/8/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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