Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 (MS Downloads)
• Explaining Refactoring to Management (Mark Levison)
• Frame rate counters in Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Windows Phone 7 – The First Fart Application (Shai Raiten)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Game of Clue (C#2010) (Christ Kennedy)
• The Future of .NET Open Source Software Delivery (Rob Reynolds)
• The DXCore Visualize Toolbar (Rory Becker)
• Profiling an application with Visual Studio – Memory allocation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Graph Colouring, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Introduction to Project Hilo (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools Walkthrough (Pete Brown)
• F# asyncronous programming (Wiston Gubantes)
• Reset Toolbars (Zain Naboulsi)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release v5.1.14810.002 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• YUI 3.2.0 Preview Release 1: Touch Event Support, Gestures, Transitions, CSS Grids, ScrollView, Uploader, and More (Eric Miraglia)
• Fluent Validation – Release: v1.3 (CodePlex)
• YouTube’s shiny new HTML5 embed code is now live (Jay Hathaway)
• ASP.NET MVC Routing Basics (Dane Morgridge)
• LINQ to JS (Arun Mahendrakar)
• IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality (Mike Swanson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do architects define the software development process? (Simon Brown)
• How To Build Custom Rake Tasks; The Right Way (Derick Bailey)
• A Pattern for Using Scrum and Kanban (Karl Scotland)
• Mono & OpenStack on GitHub (Kyle Neath)
• The State of Enterprise Architecture (Mike Walker)
• NCover 3.4.12: Memory Improvements and Bugfixes (Alan Johnson)
• Article:Skills for Scrum Agile Teams (Prasad Prabhakaran)
• RavenDB Authorization Bundle Design (Oren Eini)
• Code Contracts and Automated Testing are pretty much the same thing (Patrick Smacchia)
• Is That How You Talk To People? (Davy Brion)
• YouTrack for OSS Projects (Hadi Hariri)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 User Interface Guide Includes Templates, Behaviors (Bruce Kyle)
• Work-around for VS 2010 & Silverlight Add Reference Hint Path Bug (Andy Schwam)
• Connected Experiences: Out of Brower- Article Viewer in Silverlight Part 1: and Connected Experiences: Silverlight to Win Phone 7 and Connected Experiences: Silverlight to Windows Phone 7 Part Two (Don Burnett)
• Silverlight UI Automation Testing using Prism 4.0 (Jeremy Likness)
• Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control (Part–I) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Expression Encoder Screen Capture codec now available (Jamie Lang)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 119 – PowerScripting Podcast – Adam Driscoll on the PowerGUI Visual Studio Extensions (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Visual Studio 2010 – Database Projects (MSpl)
• Ping 67: Visual Studio Power Tools, Facebook on Its Way to a Billion, Kinect, and More (Laura Foy)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 22 – Troy Hunt on Developers and Security (Richard Banks)
• UML with VS 2010 Part 1: Brainstorming a Project and Part 2: Organizing Features Into Use Cases and Part 3: Modeling the Business Domain (Clint Edmonson)
• This Week In Silverlight 7.23.2010 – Early Windows Phone 7 Reviews (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 26th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Agile: Developer attendance at showcases (Mark Needham)
• Blend-O-Rama Redux (Joel Cochran)
• Employee Developer Program (Brandon Watson)
• MSDN Flash Poll #4 – Job Profiling (Mike Ormond)
• Turkish MVPs Help Translate Visual Studio 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – Perisisted and Storage (Pinal Dave)
• Defensive Db Programming Chapter 03 (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

• Feature upgrade (part 3) – introducing SPFeatureUpgrade kit (Chris O’Brien)
• Social Squared July Release (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Steering Cutting Edge Research, the Microsoft Way (Jose Hector)
• Microsoft Releases "Word 2010: Interactive Menu to Ribbon Guide" (Blake Handler)
• Rubik’s Cube iPhone app (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Street-Fighting Math: down and dirty guide to approximation and problem-solving (Cory Doctorow)
• PureText lets you copy formatted text and paste it back as plain text and What the Zuk: an ode to Total Commander (Erez Zukerman)
• How is opportunity like lightning? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Loose lips sink ships (Kip Kniskern)
• 5 Key Events in the history of Cloud Computing (Kaushik Raghupathi)
• Windows 7 SP1 beta download goes public (Lee Matthews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Links (7/26/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #651 (Chris Alcock)
• Listiki Releases Crowdsourcing Widget, 3 Weeks Left to Switch to OAuth and Lemmings on Windows Phone 7 (Sara Allison)

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User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn

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• OData Client for Objective-C (Claudio Caldato)
• CinchV2 :Version2 of my Cinch MVVM framework part 3 of n (Sacha Barber)
• Prototypes and Inheritance in JavaScript (K. Scott Allen)
• Windows Phone 7 UI Design and Interaction Guide Updated (Andre Vrignaud)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Real world authorization implementation considerations (Oren Eini)
• D3: Implementing the WCF Service and EF Query Tuning (Danny Simmons)
• MSDN: Double the Azure (Somasegar)
• Taking JetBrains Resharper 5 for a spin. (Joe Stagner)
• General usage of ThreadPool (Dennis Delimarsky)
• OData and optimistic concurrency (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Settings Automatically Saved On Exit — vstipEnv0026 (Zain Naboulsi)
• NHibernate Mapping Generator 2.0 Beta 1 (CodePlex)
• Caching workflow activities to increase performance (Rory Primrose)
• Debugging Distributed Transactions: Transactional Deadlocks, Part 2 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• .NET and Azure Samples Showcase .NET Technologies Used in a Layered Architecture (Abel Avram)
• How do you use the following SDK tools… (Luis E. Cabrera)

Web Development

• Website Performance : Crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s (Karl Seguin)
• Dissecting the IE9 Fish Tank demo: PNG based sprite sheet animation with Canvas (Adam Kinney)
• I just wanted a bunch of Buttons with a Mouse-Over / Hover behavior. (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How do you introduce software architecture? (Simon Brown)
• Agile Friday: "The XP Team" Now Online (James Shore)
• SRP: Single Responsibility Principle (Andy Stopford)
• Agile Beyond Software (Dan Mezick)
• I have been outed! Sorta. (Chris Smith)
• Improving testability with the Castle Dictionary Adapter (Ben Hall)
• Application Performance Tuning Philosophy (Danny Simmons)
• The Five Levels of Incompetence (Paul Vick)
• Code ownership in Agile teams (Dror Helper)
• TDD, small steps and no need for comments (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Chromium WebBrowser updates (Chris Cavanagh)
• Creating a Connected Experience (Don Burnett)
• Does Microsoft have a secret weapon for Windows Phone 7? (Ed Bott)
• MVVM Light Hotfix for Windows Phone 7 developer tools beta (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Phone 7 database – Upgrade to Beta Release of Phone Tools (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• New Videos and Tutorials for this Week. (Joe Stagner)
• Mike Francis’ walkthrough of the Windows Phone 7 “app store” Marketplace and Chris K’s posted presentations on Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• Building a Dynamic Collection Solution for PivotViewer (Larry Larsen)
• Start-Up Podcast Show #76 Shawna Pandya, Co-Founder of CiviGuard (Bob Walsh)
• YUI Theater Comes to Boxee, Courtesy of Chad Auld and the Brilaps Team (Eric Miraglia)
• Understanding the Value of Prism (Silverlight TV #37) (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Creators Club Communiqué 57 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Devopalooza at VS Live! Redmond (Stephen Forte)

Database

• News Flash: SQL Server Paging Still Sucks! (John Sonmez)
• SQLAuthority News – Guest Post – Walkthrough on Creating WCF Data Service (ODATA) and Consuming in Windows 7 Mobile application (Pinal Dave)
• Changing a data source isn’t saved and Report Builder 3.0 (Simon Sabin)
• T-SQL tip: Use a role for EXECUTE permissions (Stuart Ainsworth)
• What happened to my memory? Part 2 (Jeremy Carter)
• SQL University: Introduction to Indexes, Part the Third (Grant Fritchey)

SharePoint

• Lightning conductor 2010 web part– improved treeview and XSL view (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Instant Replay (Stephanie Horstmanshof)
• Microsoft Employees to get a Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)
• Creating your first PowerGUI Script Editor Add-On (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• PowerShell Cookbook (site, not book)–Short, simple yet still sweet… (Greg Duncan)
• A behind-the-scenes look at designing the new Hotmail: part one (Michael Kopcsak)
• “Be What’s Next”, Microsoft’s new motto (Michael Gillett)
• 5 Questions to Ask Before Taking that Telecommuting Job (Simon Mackie)
• Poem to MonoTouch (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2010 — #908 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #649 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• 7 hand-picked posts from CodeClimber (aka the 7 Link Challenge) (Simone Chiaretta)

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

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Top Links

• Writing plug-ins for ReSharper: Part 2 of N (Hadi Hariri)
• Announcing the Solution Navigator (Adrian Collier)
• Recreating the PhoneListBoxItemLayout (and why we cut it) (Peter Torr)
• The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 25, Going Postal: ActionFilters, Moq, ModelState, Oh My! (Evan Nagle)
• Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and more… – Part 3. (Yochay Kiriaty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• SL/RIA/POCO: Generated Code and SL/RIA/POCO: No Generated Code? (Deborah Kurata)
• Avoid UI freezes at all costs, if possible (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using Entity Framework Code First (CTP4) in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• T4 Code Generation with Visual Studio 2010 (Dane Morgridge)
• C# Yellow Book Training Course (Rob Miles)
• Building and testing WCF web service using workflow foundation 4.0 (M. Muazzam Ali)
• How To – UppercuT and Gems (Rob Reynolds)
• Command Prompt Tab Completion and Copy and Paste with the Command Prompt (Zain Naboulsi)
• Transaction Tracking Typed Datasets Using SqlTransaction (Dave M. Bush)
• The Ultimate Lib Folder (Paul Stovell)
• Fresh Mono Baked and Building apps for the Retina Display (Miguel de Icaza)
• CodePlex Publishing Plugin – Preview Release (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Maximize Your Website’s Search Engine Placement Using Microsoft’s Free SEO Toolkit (Scott Mitchell)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Error Handling Part I (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Rethinking form validation (Janko Jovanovic)
• Get ASP.NET C# 2.0 Website Thumbnail Screenshot (gafrancisco)
• The Essential List of JavaScript, jQuery, HTML & CSS Books to Make You a Better Web Developer (Rey Bango)
• Author Notes: Writing YUI 2.8: Learning the Library, the New YUI 2 Book from Packt (Daniel Barreiro)
• HTTP and optimistic concurrency (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit testing LINQ to SQL (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Re-Engineering In Agile Development Can Just Be Refactoring (Rob Diana)
• Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 (Somasegar)
• Managing the Agile Team Environment (Vikas Hazrati)
• The Hardest Thing I Struggle With (John Sonmez)
• Enjoy The Doing (Dave Laribee)
• Feedback, the environment and other people (Mark Needham)
• Mono’s Git Migration (Miguel de Icaza)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Strikes an Emotional Chord (Paul Thurrott)
• WPF 4 Unleashed! (Adam Nathan)
• Hopping outside the box [How to: Leapfrog Bindings (bridge DataContexts) in Silverlight and WPF] (David Anson)
• Windows Phone 7 Panorama Controls and Clarity Consulting’s Comic Book reader for Win Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• The duplex story: looking at duplex communication in Silverlight 4 – Part 2: Using Sockets (Gill Cleeren)
• Semi final release – Windsor 2.5 beta 2 (now with Silverlight support) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Unveiling Reuxables 4.0 + New Subscriptions (Dax Pandhi)
• Localization and Complex Validation in MVVM (Martin Joel)
• Loading, iterating, and saving photos with WP7 (Coding4Fun)
• Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Updated (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Stringing Along to Disappointment in Silverlight (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 88: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4 (Jon Galloway)
• PivotViewer Silverlight Control API Overview (Larry Larsen)
• Technology & Friends Episode 103: Steve Andrews on GeekGive (David Giard)
• This Week In Silverlight – Windows Phone tools in Beta (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Developing Access 2010 Hybrid Apps with Dick Moffat (Tina Wood)
• Pluralcast 20 : Technical Community and Geek Give with Steve Andrews (David Starr)
• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: The Overview Video (Rob Tiffany)
• Presentation:Kanban and Accelerated Emergence of High Maturity (David Anderson)

Community / Events

• A Very Interesting “Community-Focused” Project. (Ted Malone)
• How to Get Value From StackOverflow (Dave Swersky)
• 4 Reasons Why You Should Attend Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 #WPC11 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• The Windows Phone 7 Training Continues! Get Ready for Sessions 3 & 4 (Bob Caswell)

Database

• Calculate Age from Date Of Birth using SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Win USD 11,899 worth MSDN Subscription 5 Days to go (Pinal Dave)
• Transitioning to SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting (William Vaughn)
• Hi, my name is SA (Jen McCown)
• SQL University: Introduction to Indexes, Part the Second (Grant Fritchey)
• Easy SQL Script for handling SQL Image Data (Michael Sync)
• PowerShell and Extended Properties (Buck Woody)

Miscellaneous

• noobgaming : my rails and gaming passions combined (Karl Seguin)
• PowerGUI Editor 2.1.1 and AD cmdlets 1.4 compatibility issue (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• When CONSTants Vary (James Iry)
• Does the Cloud Need Server Virtualization? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• MVP Guest Post: The No-confusion Time line Report (Joseph Mirabella)
• Microsoft Security Essentials 2 beta now available for download (Lee Mathews)
• Intel vPro PowerShell Module (Jeffrey Snover)
• Kodu PC build 1.0.70.0 is live! (Stephen Coy)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2010 — #907 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Community Engagement, Location Layers, Paying for Everything, Designing for Touch (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #647 (Chris Alcock)

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More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice by Karl E. Wiegers

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• Gems – Package Management For .NET and How To – Gems And .NET (Rob Reynolds)
• Recursive Model Binding (K. Scott Allen)
• Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and Choosers, and Few More Things That Are on the Way – Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Sharing binaries between Surface and Windows 7 (Josh Blake)
• Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4 (Scott Guthrie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ One-to-Many Projection (Richard Carr)
• Graph Colouring With Simple Backtracking, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• NHProf new feature: Expensive queries report (Oren Eini)
• Code Contracts – Invariants (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Policy Injection: WCF Instance Provider (Kiran Kumar G)
• Authenticating Against Multiple Domains with C# & StructureMap (Deran Schilling)
• EF CTP 4 Brings Code First Updates and Productivity Improvements (Abel Avram)
• Building a component that works with different versions of a library–STATIC METHODS (Jeffrey Richter)
• Exploring Amazon S3 with F# (Vagif Abilov)
• SmartAssembly: Eating Our Own Dogfood (Andrew Clarke)
• Reset All Your Development Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• New goodies in the Q2 Release of Telerik OpenAccess : Part II (Stephen Forte)
• MSBuild Known Issues (VS Team)

Web Development

• Sueetie Going Mobile Series: Gallery Server Pro and Sueetie Going Mobile Series: YetAnotherForum.NET and Sueetie Going Mobile Series: ScrewTurn Wiki (Dave Burke)
• Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (and .NET) Hands on Labs Now Available (Matthew Podwysocki)
• The CSS Corner: Better Web Typography For Better Design (Sylvain Galineau)
• Object oriented Javascript (Kiran Kumar G)
• Evernote to Promote Platform with App Store (Adam DuVander)
• Building Wave Gadgets with GWT (Pamela Fox)
• Using ASP.NET MVC and JavaScript to Query Twitter’s Public API (Malcolm Sheridan)
• OData Decimal and JSON (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 4 Adding A Master Page (Chris Love)
• Building Better MVC Code with T4MVC (Mike Ceranski)
• Friday Algorithms: A Data Structure: JavaScript Stack (Stoimen Popov)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Full Coverage by Tests Driven Development (bis) (Patrick Smacchia)
• Agile Friday: "Informative Workspace" Now Online (James Shore)
• Effective Specifications for Agile Teams: Slides and Links (Gojko Adzic)
• GitHub: Cross-Repository Compare View (Ryan Tomayko)
• How do you test asynchronous code? Part I (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Buy vs. Build & YAGNI (Oren Eini)
• A Different Frame of Reference and Challenge: Breaking Your Brain About Storage (Greg Young)
• McClelland’s Motivational Model (J.D. Meier)
• Anti-Pattern: Too much of your application is about interacting with external resources (Ryan Svihla)
• TDD: I hate deleting unit tests (Mark Needham)
• CQRS Event Store (Jonathan Oliver)
• The Flow Experiment (Karl Scotland)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using INotifyDataErrorInfo for validation in MVVM with Silverlight and WPF and Using INotifyDataErrorInfo for validation in MVVM with Silverlight (Jag Reehal)
• Building an Airport Status Mashup with Silverlight and Bing Maps (Djonatas Tenfen)
• Telerik Releases RichTextBox for Silverlight, Assembly Minifier and 6 New Controls (Ina Tontcheva)
• Making an Offline RSS Reader for Windows Phone 7 and Getting Started with WPF 4 (Frank La Vigne)
• Templates, Visual State and Fun With Controls (Jesse Liberty)
• Optimizing the On-Screen Keyboard (Kirupa)
• How to Create a Silverlight OOB Installer Wrapper UI Library? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight in Action: Chapters are Complete! (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Converting from webforms to MVC presentation? (Eric Hexter)
• Show #75 Phil Libin and Andrew Sinkov of Evernote (Bob Walsh)
• Scott Guthrie on creating the .NET Framework (DotNetKicks)
• Where do you start? (video) (Simon Brown)
• Digital Lens – Seeing Through Other Eyes (Larry Larsen)
• Andrew Nurse: Inside "Razor" (Charles Torre)
• Templating Controls with Silverlight (Silverlight TV #36) (John Papa)

Community / Events

• How you can see Kinect BEFORE it goes on sale (Larry Hyrb)
• Tagged, I’m It: My Reading List (Dave Swersky)

Database

• GROUPBY, HAVING and ORDER BY Usage in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Datetime Function TODATETIMEOFFSET Example (Pinal Dave)
• Data mart or data warehouse? (Justin Swanhart)

SharePoint

• Announcing the release of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit V1 (Jie Li)

Miscellaneous

• Top 7 Script Editor Add-Ons (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #644 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2010 — #904 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 15, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 15-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 56 (Kathleen Sanders)

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Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Imar Spaanjaars

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Top Links

• Introducing Knockout, a UI library for JavaScript (Steve Sanderson)
• MVVM Study – Segue – Introducing Caliburn.Micro (Rob Eisenberg)
• Code Contracts Part 8 – An Interview with the Microsoft Code Contracts Team (Kevin Hazzard)
• Layout Designer prototype is now open-source on CodePlex (Kirill Osenkov)
• StoryTeller One Point Oh! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Hands-On Lab: "Building an RSS Newsreader for Windows Phone 7” (Blake Handler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TFS Project Server integration CTP (Pieter de Bruin)
• LINQ Projection (Richard Carr)
• OData Explorer (Gil Fink)
• Application Settings – make sure you know what to save and where (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Architecture Journal Article: Models and Application Life-Cycle Management (Clemens Reijnen)
• Abusing PrintfFormat in F# (Mauricio Scheffer)
• Whitepapers on the Parallel Computing Developer Centre (Mike Taulty)
• Removing Dead Tracks (Duplicates that don’t exist) from iTunes using C# (Scott Hanselman)
• Read and Recommended: Essential C# 4.0 (Stephen Forte)
• Longest and Shortest Type Name in .NET 4.0 using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Output vs Immediate Window and Setting Bookmarks and Organizing Bookmarks (Zain Naboulsi)
• Enumerator Structs: Optimizing for the Common Case (Sasha Goldshtein)
• ConnectionStringSettings parameter injection in Unity (Rory Primrose)
• Changing the Team Project Collection of the Team Build Controller (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Hobby Programming – Creating your first robotic simulation using Microsoft Robotic Dev Studio and Visual Programming Language (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• What a Difference 8 Years Makes (In Code) and Are Code Generated POCOs Really POCO? (K. Scott Allen)
• Another Nice DevExpress CodeRush Refactoring (Peter Kellner)

Web Development

• Asp.Net MVC: My Personal View Rules (Chris Brandsma)
• Sharpening Your Markup with "Razor" (Jonathan McCracken)
• Paging on a Datalist (Dave M. Bush)
• Expression Web 4 Add-Ins (Minal Agarwal)
• Stepping into ASP.NET MVC source code with Visual Studio debugger (Gunnar Peipman)
• “Razor” the new ASP.NET View Engine (Fredrik Normen)
• Is Razor just a wolf in Spark’s clothing? (Robert Greyling)
• Developers Wanted: Help create an open source Wave-based forum (Pamela Fox)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design-Build-Run (Simon Brown)
• How to do agile when we only have 50 crap developers? (Gojko Adzic)
• SCRUM, SCRUM… SCRUM..! (Clemens Reijnen)
• When the going gets tough – automate it! (Dror Helper)
• How to annoy your customer with usability problems and new Test Lint Beta – with command line runner (Roy Osherove)
• Four Things to Know when Writing Comments (Stoimen Popov)
• What is a PM? and Types of Scenario Tools (J.D. Meier)
• Castle Windsor 2.5… the final countdown – beta 1 released (and Core, DynamicProxy, Dictionary Adapter) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Developing Application-Wide (Patrick Smacchia)
• 3 Aspects of Team Boundaries (Jurgen Appelo)
• Programmer Tip: Don’t Be The Ego Centric Veteran Who Knows It All. (Rajiv Popat)
• TFS API Part 27 – Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases Mapping (Shai Raiten)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WCF RIA Services Part 3 – Updating Data (Brian Noyes)
• Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon (Rudi Grobler)
• MVVM Light Messaging (Chris Koenig)
• Great Features for MVVM Friendly Objects Part 2 – Change/Dirty Tracking (Damon Payne)
• A Sliver of Silverlight on ActiveTuts (Mike Taulty)
• Fixing Data Binding Problems in WPF/Silverlight (Jonathan Allen)
• Silverlight PivotViewer – The Full Guide and Silverlight PivotViewer – Add Collection To Your Silverlight Application (Shai Raiten)
• How to Convert a SketchFlow Prototype into a Production Application… And why you shouldn’t! (Jag Reehal)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 361: Crackdown 2 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• MultiTouch Behavior for Windows Phone 7: Videos #wp7dev (Laurent Bugnion)
• Pluralcast 19 : OData with Matt Milner (David Starr)
• Windows Weekly 163: The Legacy Problem (Paul Thurrott)
• Video: Embracing Your Failures (CodeStock 2010) (Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: IIS Express & SQL Compact, .NET on a bike, Zip support coming to System.IO (Dan Fernandez)
• Technology & Friends Episode 99: Mike Amundsen on Hypermedia (David Giard)
• DirectCompute Lecture Series 250: Integration with the Graphics Pipeline (Gus Class)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 19 – NoSQL and RavenDB with Rhys Campbell (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• I’m joining Pixel Lab! (Adam Kinney)
• Upcoming Community Events (Chris Koenig)

Database

• SSIS gotcha: Beware of multiple outputs from a synchronous script component and Why a SQL or BI developer should learn .Net (Jamie Thomson)
• Count Occurrences of Characters in a String – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Index Levels, Page Count, Record Count and DMV – sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats and SQL SERVER – PowerShell Version Info (Pinal Dave)
• Log file configuration metrics for 17000 databases (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Azure Partitioning Pattern (J.D. Meier)

SharePoint

• Deleter Methods – Business Connectivity Services (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• Intellectual property and the independent worker (Simon Sabin)
• Workshop Planning Framework – The Six P’s (J.D. Meier)
• Microsoft Presentation for Game Developers to Extend PC Games Lifecycles (Richard Hay)
• Install Consolas Font for Use in Xcode (Rob Bazinet)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 4, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 5, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #635 and The Morning Brew #636 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 3, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 4, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Your Own Race, Tell Me A Story, Content Anticipation, MenuPad (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #112 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 7/5/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2010 — #896 and Silverlight Cream for July 05, 2010 — #897 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #124 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Post… 6/25/2010 through 7/4/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

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Top Links

• Advanced Silverlight Applications using the Managed Extensibility Framework (Jeremy Likness)
• JavaScript: Same Code, and a Standardized Test Suite (Shanku Niyogi)
• Stack Exchange Data Explorer Open Sourced (Jeff Atwood)
• MonoTouch 3.0.8 – iOS 4 Support (MonoTouch Team)
• Discoverable and non-discoverable parts in MEF (Dennis Delimarsky)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Reports in BIDS and Visual Studio 2010 and add them as a Web Part to Project Portal of TFS 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Architecture Guidance gets “thumbs up” (Clemens Reijnen)
• Windows Live SDK (MS Downloads)
• Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0: And Much, Much More… (Jennifer Marsman)
• A .NET Encryption Library (Song Li)
• Patch Available for Cut or Copy displaying “insufficient memory” error in VS 2010 (Brittany Behrens)
• CSLA 3.8.4 beta release and CSLA 4 beta 3 release (Rockford Lhotka)
• PropertyGrid in WinForms and elsewhere (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Enter a Parallel Universe Using IKVM.NET (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Web Development

• Learning JavaScript – Checking The Declaration of a Variable (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Web Application Extensibility with FubuMVC (Part 2) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• A practical example of using web application deployment package with IIS7 (Xinyang Qiu)
• The Weekly Source Code 53 – "Get’er Done" Edition – XML in the left hand becomes HTTP POSTs in the right hand (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure Storage is a RESTful service (Scott Seely)
• JSON definition for your yUML Diagrams (Tobin Harris)
• Bing Maps Binding XML Data Source (Dinesh Sodani)
• Enhanced Scripting in IE9: ECMAScript 5 Support and More (Allen Wirfs-Brock)
• Netflix OData Service Updates (Jonathan Carter)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What does it mean to be Agile – survey results (Shane Hastie)
• Architecture Guidance now available (Cameron Skinner)
• Chuck Frey on the Iterative Process of Mindmapping (Chance Brown)
• Announcing www.pexforfun.com (Nikolai Tillman)
• An Awesome Article On Passion (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Don’t Chain Failure States in Returns (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Programming the Task Bar in Windows 7 with WPF 4 Article Series (Beth Massi)
• Sungard Light Up Gas-Trading Application with Silverlight 4 (Hong Choing)
• Bing Maps in Silverlight 4 (Nereo Lopez)
• HTTP duplex messaging improvements in Silverlight 4 (The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site)
• Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (4 – RIA Services Libraries) (Mike Taulty)
• BeeEye (Bing Image Viewer) (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 360: E3 2010 and Battlefield Bad Company 2 (Larry Hyrb)
• jQuery Podcast 28 – Remy Sharp pt. 3 (jQuery for Designers) (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• MSDN Radio: Exploring the Visual Studio Designer for WPF and Silverlight with Mark Wilson-Thomas (Emily Gibson)
• TWC9: IE 9 PP3, Windows Live Essentials Beta, God’s Own Machine (Dan Fernandez)
• Video: Building an Ad Network on Mono, MySQL, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ (Eric Hagan)
• MSDN Radio: Coding4Fun with Clint Rutkas (Emily Gibson)

Community / Events

• 06/25/2010 – Upcoming Speaking events on SQL/BI/SharePoint topics (Kevin Goff)
• #DevCon 2010 by K-MUG : Agenda, VS2010 Launch, Location, Speakers, And Places To See (Anoop Madhusudanan)

Database

• Find the Closest Number using SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL 101 : Without “ORDER BY”, order is not guaranteed. (Dave Ballantyne)
• SQL SERVER – Fast Track Data Warehouse for SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure 50GB Databases Now Available (David Makogon)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 External List Paging – Server Side (Lightning Tools)
• Upgrading Custom Field Types and Visual Upgrade Drill Down (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• FourSquare Mashup Lets You Find Popular Places (Adam DuVander)
• Messenger Connect – Making your data more portable while retaining control over its use (Angus Logan)
• Hot on the heels of Essentials, the new dev.live.com goes live (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft by the numbers (Frank X. Shaw)
• An Introduction to Windows Live Sync and How to Migrate from Live Mesh (Nic Fillingham)
• Improving Parameter Set Design (June Blender)
• Small Basic Overhauled, Now Stable and Fast (Sarah Perez)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft Outlook 2010 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2010 — #890 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 25, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 06/25/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 56 (Scott Banwart)

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ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action by Jeffrey Palermo

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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

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Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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NHibernate in Action by Pierre Henri Kuaté

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• Infragistics Announces Support for Mono (Miguel de Icaza)
• Incremental Refactoring: Create factory method (Mark Needham)
• Check Out The New Pattern (XAML+CS) Library! (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Microsoft High School’s First Graduating Class Has a Bright Future (Alissa Walker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Building a managed persistent, transactional, queue (Oren Eini)
• Karl Shifflett Shows How to make VS 2010’s Binding Builder Actually Work (Jonathan Allen)
• Windows Phone 7 Resources (Mike Taulty)
• Visual Studio Modeling Feature Pack Available! (Shai Raiten)
• Using the Go To Find Combo Box (Zain Naboulsi)
• Dynamic interfaces in any .NET language (Qwertie)

Web Development

• common css mistakes/putting a stop to them (Niels Matthijs)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action has Arrived (Ben Scheirman)
• Null Or Empty Coalescing (Phil Haack)
• Perhaps the best jQuery overview out there – compliments of Marc Grabanski (John V. Petersen)
• How To Enable SSL on Windows Azure (J.D. Meier)
• Integrating TinyMCE editor with ASP.net (Manjunath S.)
• Shrinking Your JavaScript Files for Improved Page Performance (Rey Bango)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Conditionals (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Data Services Expressions – Part 6 – Key lookup (Vitek Karas)
• IE’s Compatibility Features for Site Developers (Marc Silbey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Testing is Different (John Sonmez)
• Kanban and Scrum – Intention and Implementation (Karl Scotland)
• Software Architecture – 5 years later (Arnon Rotem Gal-Oz)
• And suddenly, there was IDD. and When should I use IDD? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Architectural Katas (Ted Neward)
• Design Better And Faster With Rapid Prototyping (Lyndon Cerejo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Yippy – the F# MVVM Pattern (Mark Pearl)
• Debugging the TranslateZoomRotate WPF Behavior in Blend (Adam Kinney)
• Writing Games for the Windows Phone 7 (Al Pascual)
• Flip-Number Clock in Silverlight and Orientation Strategies for Windows Phone 7 (Charles Petzold)
• One man’s introduction to MVVM with Visual Basic story OR zomg a MVVM article that’s not in C#! and Making your WPF app look like the Zune client? Yes, you can (and here’s a tip how) (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight UI Automation and Full VS 2010 Integration (Jeremy Likness)
• Three New WPF and Silverlight Designer Videos Posted (Karl Shifflett)
• SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 CTP2 is now released (Lawrence Moroney)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Expression Studio 4 Launch keynote videos are available (Adam Kinney)
• MVPs discuss GeekGive, Windows 7, the Get on the Bus Tour, and More at TechEd 2010 New Orleans (Joseph Mirabella)

Community / Events

• Speaking about ASP.NET MVC Extensibility at the Umbraco CodeGarden10 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Codestock is Next Week! (James Bender)
• DirectCompute lecture series kickoff! (Aseem Datar)
• Area 51: We Come in Peace (Robert Cartaino)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Data Pages in Buffer Pool – Data Stored in Memory Cache (Pinal Dave)
• Checking for NULL values in all columns that allow NULLS in all the tables (Denis Gobo)
• Shrink, Damn’d Log! Shrink, I Say! (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• VSeWSS Import Tool – Think “VS2008/SharePoint 2007 to VS2010/SharePoint 2010 Upgrade/Migration” Tool (Greg Duncan)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant (Valerie Woolley)

Miscellaneous

• The One Minute Commute (Ade Miller)
• Adobe Interview (part 4) (Joe Smith)
• Extracting files from an MSI package (Alex Thissen)
• The iPad Works, Thanks to These Apps (Darrell Etherington)
• The Ground is Shaking Again. Get Mobile. (Sergio Pereira)
• Initial Screening Questionnaire (Jim Holmes)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Bash Cookbook – Only $9.99. Use code DDBCB (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 16, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 16-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #623 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 16, 2010 — #884 (Dave Campbell)

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ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action by Jeffrey Palermo

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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)

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Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed by Chad Carter

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