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Top Links

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

 

.NET / Visual Studio

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

 

Web Development

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

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

 

Silverlight / WPF

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

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

 

Community / Events

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

 

Database

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

 

SharePoint

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

 

Miscellaneous

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

 

More Link Collections

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

 

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

 

 

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Top Links

• Web Forms Routing in ASP.NET 4 (David Hayden)
• The 28th of Diduary: Did you know how "libraries" work in Windows 7? (Jeff Blankenburg) – Jeff wraps up his month-long series of tips & tricks.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Track Active Item in Visual Studio Solution Explorer (Richard Carr)
• LINQ to SQL with Stored Procedures (Part 2) (Arian T. Kulp)
• Understanding Virtual Space — vstipEdit0023 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Build a DataTable in Code and Binding to a ComboBox using a DataTable and Linq (Deborah Kurata)
• Getting started with code signing for under $100 (Jeff Wilcox)
• TwilioApi: .NET wrapper for the Twilio REST API now available (John Sheehan)
• Creating a basic proxy for intercepting [quick update]. (Mehfuz Hossain)

 

Web Development

• The Kayak Framework: An easy way to speak HTTP with .NET (Benjamin van der Veen)
• ASP.NET Lessons (Arian T. Kulp)
• Javascript: Isolating browser specific code and Javascript: Confusing ‘call’ and ‘apply’ (Mark Needham)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Visual Studio Test Professional 2010: Test Case WorkItem Type (Subodh Sohoni)
• Working Towards Self-Acceptance (Rita Grohowski)
• Getting Started With Agile… One of Five (Mike Cottmeyer)
• A Community of Thinking Practitioners (Patrick Kua)
• Productivity Tip: Avoiding The Zone Of Nothingness In Your Work Life. (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Precision Matters (Dave Brown)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 145: The Browser Ballot (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• Tally Table – Delimited list to Table (Seth Phelabaum)
• Using diskpart to check disk partition alignment (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Office Timeline 1983 – 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Using Orca to manage MSI packages (Gunnar Peipman)
• Exclusive: First Windows Phone 7 Series partner device unveiled (with video!) (Nilay Patel)
• End of first month for Azure billing – are you watching your accounts? (Dan Kasun)
• Black box reverse engineering speculation (Oren Eini)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for February 27, 2010 — #804 (Dave Campbell)
• What Is Hot In Open Source? (weekly) (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 02.21 ~ 02.28 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #94 (Grant Palin)

 

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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

 

 

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Top Links

• Countdown to MIX10: The Gu (Larry Larsen)
• .NET 4.0 And Our Parallel Future (Justin Etheredge)
• A Vision for FubuMVC’s Component Model (gems, Nu, engines, slices, oh my…) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Introducing Sharpy (Jaco Pretorius)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• One team’s journey in their upgrading of their TFS from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 (i.e. Something you may have to think about in your move to TFS2010) (Greg Duncan)
• Quirks in .NET – Part 2 (Kevin Jones)
• Code Definition Window — vstipTool0012 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 background flickering and customization (Alin Constantin)
• Getting Started with MSBuild (Chuck England)
• How to: Retarget a project using DTE (Ion Todirel)
• .NET OSS dependency hell (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Creating Routing Service using WCF 4.0, .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 RC (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Careful with that axe, part two: What about exceptions? (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Using Ruby On Rails With Oracle And Deploying It All To Tomcat (Alan Skorkin)
• Cures for the Common Ailments – Getting a Random Item in JavaScript (Chris Love)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Did Your Boss Thank You For Coding Yourself to Death? (Alan Skorkin)
• Large-Scale Agile (James Shore)
• Changing basic assumptions in apps (Brian Marick)
• Noisy code does not equal clean code (Derik Whittaker)
• Pair Programming: In interviews and Coding: Shared libraries (Mark Needham)
• Castle Project code organization (Patrick Smacchia)
• Systems Thinking, The Vanguard Method and Software Development (Karl Scotland)
• How To Use a Coach Effectively (J.D. Meier)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML Attributes on Separate Lines (Christopher Bennage)
• Highlighting a "weak" contribution [Enhancements make preventing memory leaks with WeakEventListener even easier!] (David Anson)
• AutoCompleteBox: Now with 100% more WPF (Jeff Wilcox)
• BubbleBurst v1.1 release (Josh Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – It’s the Visual Studio 2010 Launch Show! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Create Code-Free Mashups with InfoPath and SharePoint Web Parts (LaurHar)
• This Week in Silverlight – February 25 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• This Week in Testing Episode 14 – Google Buzz FAIL (Gil Zilberfeld, Doron Peretz & Dror Helper)
• Using the Code Analysis Tool (CAT.NET 2.0) to Identify Security Vulnerabilities (Jossie Tirado)

 

Community / Events

• Growing the Pool of SQL Speakers – Part 2 (Andy Warren)
• I’ll be speaking at TechEd 2010 North America on SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Children and Internet safety top priority for Microsoft and MVPs (Joseph Mirabella)
• IndyHall Member Profiles: Megan Canney (Parker Whitney)

 

Database

• Fun with a non relational databases (Oren Eini)
• Versant ODB as Easy as ORM (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Calculating number of workdays between 2 dates (Ramireddy)
• Generating surrogate keys with xquery (Simon Sabin)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 3 – List View Architecture (Eric Andeen)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Research Releases "Collage" Presentation Tool for Teachers (Blake Handler)
• PowerShell Version Two – Get Continuous Perf Counters (Buck Woody)
• Does that new Windows Activation update really ‘phone home’? and Windows 7 memory usage: What’s the best way to measure? (Ed Bott)
• Energy efficiency and sustainability: Johnson Controls using Surface (Eric Havir)
• What Developers Can Expect from Microsoft and Daily Dose – US Lobbyists Blacklist Open Source Promoting Counties (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Cleaning Out Old Calendar Entries in Outlook (Keith Elder)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Python, 4th Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDPYT (O’Reilly Media)
• Bitter Version 2.4 (Mike Hall)
• Engineering Messenger for real relationships (Piero Sierra)
• The Exec Problem (James Kovacs)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #548 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 25, 2010 — #803 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 02/25/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Creators Club Communiqué 43 (Kathleen Sanders)

 

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

 

 

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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)

 

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

 

 

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Top Links

• Visual Studio First Launch Sequence (Sasha Siddhartha)
• Cause and Effect and Developer Productivity and Denying Productivity and How the Mainstream Lost Software Development Productivity (Scott Bellware)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Detecting User Inactivity (Richard Carr)
• Say hello to Uber Prof (Oren Eini)
• Writing object to object mapper: first implementations (Gunnar Peipman)
• WCF Data Services and EF POCOs that are in their own Assembly (Julie Lerman)
• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 (Kirill Osenkov)
• Generating Structured Text with StringTemplate (Mike Ceranski)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 10. Configuration with type converters (Mike Hadlow)
• Built-in Charting Controls (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series) (Scott Guthrie)

 

Web Development

• More amazing JavaScript demos (Michael Kimsal)
• Adding variable output behavior to your FubuMVC actions (Joshua Flanagan)
• Behind the Curtain (Jesse Liberty)
• AutoScroll an ASP.NET Multiline TextBox using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Understanding The Significance Of Weak Ties In Your Professional Life. (Rajiv Popat)
• BDD with SpecFlow and MSpec Boo DSL (Andrew Stopford)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight for Developers (Part I) and (Part II) and (Part III) (Arian T. Kulp)
• Data Binding, Currency and the WPF TreeView (Chris Sells)
• Background Stars (Dave Brown)
• BBQ Shack ? Ocean v2 for Visual Studio 2008 (Karl Shifflett)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 101- PowerScripting Podcast – Matthew Giles from Connect-SMART (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

 

Community / Events

•  Headed To Austin and Speaking at the .NET User’s Group (Phil Haack)
• A TED responsibility (Robert Scoble)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Find the Size of Database File – Find the Size of Log File (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Use a Zune Remote Control with Windows Media Center (Henry Juliao)
• Mapping Out the Microsoft Application Platform at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
• The 8th of Diduary: Did you know how many things the Windows key can do? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: R in a Nutshell – Only $9.99! Use discount code DDRNT (O’Reilly Media)
• Innovators Use Bing (Steve Clayton)
• Generating Getters and Setters in Eclipse (Rhonda Tipton)

 

More Link Collections

•  The Morning Brew #534 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #107 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #91 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #23 – The Code Project (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/8/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 131 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (2/7/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 3 (Expert’s Voice in Silverlight)

 

 

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