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Top Links

• Big update for the Project Rosetta site today (Adam Kinney)
• ASMX and JSON – Common mistakes and misconceptions (Dave Ward)
• Help Me Connect the Southern Community (Keith Elder)
• MEF will not get easier, it’s cool as ICE (Maarten Balliauw)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Team Explorer codename "Eaglestone" (MS Downloads)
• Lambda Expressions: Join (Deborah Kurata)
• Clearing Your DataTips — vstipDebug0014 and Using Incremental Search and Make Object ID — vstipDebug0015 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tool for generating DGML graphs showing why your object can’t be collected (VisualGCRoot) (Tess Ferrandez)
• String.Empty vs “” vs String. IsNullOrEmpty (Peter Bromberg)
• Windows Server AppFabric (formerly Dublin) Beta 2 is Available! (Sam Gentile)

 

Web Development

• jQuery to the Rescue: Changing style and target for all external links on my site (Pete Brown)
• Changing an Existing DNN Module and Sharing ObjectDataSource From Codebehind (Dave M. Bush)
• How to package and deploy COM component (Xinyang Qiu)
• Asynchronous DataContext (Wesley Bakker)
• Return Multiple Objects Using ASP.NET MVC’S JsonResult Class (Malcolm Sheridan)
• CSS Crunch: new IE Extension for developers (Giorgio Sardo)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is MSpec an Internal DSL?…And is that okay? (Richard Cirerol)
• What is Projection? (Chris Missal)
• Acceptance testing best practices (Gojko Adzic)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• 1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight (Christopher Bennage)
• New WPF Showcase Submission: LAN Bridger (Jay Esguerra)
• Where the Wild Things Are: an Adventure in Silverlight (Act I) (Justin J. Moses)
• Solution: Getting Silverlight to build on Team Build 2010 RC (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 12 – WCF and Polling HTTP (Mike Taulty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Brad Frazer on Copyright, SLAs and more (Carl Franklin)
• p&p Claims Identity and Access Control Guide – A look into the Single Sign On scenario and p&p Claims Identity and Access Control Guide is now available (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• StoryTeller Video from Pablo’s Fiesta (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Silverlight TV 12: The Best Blend 3 Video Ever! (John Papa)
• TechFest 2010 Keynote (TechFest)
• Introduction to Creating Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 2010 (Kathleen McGrath)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming events (Simon Brown)
• Windows Phone is Sponsoring Microsoft’s Mix 10 Conference this year.. (Don Burnett)
• The Explore Microsoft internship – a Gateway to Redmond (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Agile Coach Camp, North Carolina, March 19-21 (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Database

• Output = MAXDOP 1 (Dave Ballantyne)
• The March 2010 “SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit” update now includes VS2010 goodness (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Rollback TRUNCATE Command in Transaction (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS – Access Denied with UNC paths – The file name is a device or contains invalid characters and SQL Server service accounts and SPNs (Simon Sabin)

 

SharePoint

• Lightning Conductor Calendar View (Brett Lonsdale)

 

Miscellaneous

• Free ebook: Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows Activation Technologies: an unauthorized inside look (Ed Bott)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First iPhone Development – Only $9.99! Use code DDHFP (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 4, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #552 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2010 — #806 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

 

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Top Links

• Any() versus Count() (Chris Eargle) – A great tip to save some CPU cycles.
• IronPython gets a long overdue website! (Jimmy Schementi) – A nice step for the IronPython team. Now if only we could get IPy shipped with Visual Studio.
• Localizing ASP.NET MVC Validation (Phil Haack) – More MVC v2 goodness from Phil.
• ASP.NET MVC Embedded Views with MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano) – Javier the mad scientist shows how you can have load views from embedded resources in your MVC app.
• Writing Maintainable Automated Acceptance Tests. (Uncle Bob Martin) – A nice demo video using FitNesse.
• We need your feedback on Web Client Guidance (Blaine Wastell) – Download the second drop of the Web Client Guidance project from the p&p team and tell them what you think.
• Fun with Channel 9 Videos – Live at PDC and Live to Tape (Scott Hanselman) – ScottHa + PDC + A Video Camera = Pure Geek Entertainment
• How To Check Email Programmatically – SidePOP (Rob Reynolds) – Check out Rob’s cool little email library. Cool stuff.
• Thoughts on Learning New Programming Languages (Jeremy Jarrell) – Jeremy adds his own thoughts on the practice of learning new languages to improve your skills.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Convert a List<> Into XML using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How To User StreamReader to Open A File ReadOnly in C# (.NET) (Peter Kellner)
• New Telerik OpenAccess Data Services Wizard CTP (Stephen Forte)
• Running An Agatha Service Layer In-Process (Without WCF) (Davy Brion)
• Rx Madness (Matt Davey)
• Targeting VS 2008 with the Visual Studio 2010 SDK (Aaron Marten)
• Building a recommendation engine in NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• Bootstrapping of VS packages and VSIX extensions in VS2010 (Dmitry Goncharenko)
• Query transformations are syntactic (Eric Lippert)
• What training doesn’t teach you about reading from .Net configuration (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Debugging Crash Dumps with Visual Studio 2010 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• A Helpful Formatter for TimeSpan (Ben Scheirman)

 

Web Development

• JSMag December 2009 available (Michael Kimsal)
• Globally Register User and Custom Controls in ASP.NET (Deepak Choudhari)
• ASP.NET: Creating a UserControl with Child Content (Michael C. Neel)
• Magellan and View Reuse and Magellan Action Filters (Paul Stovell)
• The CustomValidationAttribute (Peter Blum)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Time transitions should be explicit (Oren Eini)
• Who Cares About Value? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Monthly Code Quality Report (Mike Hadlow)
• Setting up Hudson to use a common workspace (Derik Whittaker)
• Overriding generic component’s resolution in Castle Windsor (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Refactor Your Build Scripts and Which One Do You Prefer? (Davy Brion)
• Lessons in Software from Eric Brechner (JD Meier)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Detecting the Active View in a Prism App (Brian Noyes)
• Getting started with the charting controls (Cheryl Simmons)
• Creating an Image from PixelShaders in Silverlight and WPF (Corey Miller)
• Silverlight 4 Notification Window Class (Corrina Barber)
• WriteableBitmapEx – WriteableBitmap extensions now on CodePlex (Rene Schulte)
• WPF Touch Basics (Lester Lobo)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Paul Litwin on SQL Reporting Services (Carl Franklin)
• Leverage Microsoft .Net and WCF for Your Enterprise SOA – WebCast (Bob Familiar)
• Engadget Podcast 173 – 12.07.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Ping 40: Black screen claims- retracted, Windows 7, Bing Maps, Office 2010 (Laura Foy)
• Spaghetti Code Talks WCF RIA Services with Adam Grocholski (Jeff Brand)
• Bharat Shah: Microsoft Online Services Overview (Charles Torre)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Merge (Jeffrey van Gogh)

 

Community / Events

• Wanna Help Me Write a Book? (Lee Dumond)
• 6 Simple Questions for Andy Hunt (Jurgen Appelo)
• Join Me for a SharePoint Monday, Wednesday & Thursday (Dux Raymond Sy)
• MVP Talks Community on Tech Talk Radio (Jas Dhaliwal)

 

Database

• SQL Server Best Practices: Use Roles When You Can (Buck Woody)
• Introducing Microsoft Pivot (Michael Ceranski)
• Age calculation with SQL Server (Dave Ballantyne)
• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : Invalid object name ’sys.configurations’. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 208) (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Host Headers, SharePoint (2010), and Access Denied (401) (Charles Chen)
• 10 Tips Troubleshooting Installations for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• JSON from PowerShell (but why?) (Joel Bennett)
• Outlook 2010 Beta 2 and Add-Ins: Dynamics CRM, Team Companion, LinkedIn and Plaxo (Martin Hinshelwood)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/8 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Free (reg-ware) PowerShell v1 eBook (593 pages) – “SAPIEN’s Windows Powershell V1.0: TFM” (Greg Duncan)

 

More Link Collections

• RIA Services Link Listing #1 (Nikhil Kothari)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 12/07/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• New and Notable 395 (Sam Gentile)
• The Morning Brew #493 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 07, 2009 — #751 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 7-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Calculate the Seconds, Milliseconds and Microseconds using C# VB.NET (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Visual Studio Task List Shortcuts (Richard Carr)
• CodeRush Xpress 9.2 Ships (Charlie Calvert)
• Copy-Past Modeling Diagrams and Modeling Elements within VSTS 2010 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Fluent NHibernate 1.0 RTM (James Gregory)
• Type-Free Lambda Calculus in C#, Pre-4.0 – Defining the Lambda Language Runtime (LLR) (Bart de Smet)
• My favorite NHibernate exception (Jimmy Bogard)
• CodeRush plugin "Navigate to Implementation" – binaries for CodeRush 9.2.4 (Kim)
• All for that small Drop Down Box – Part 3 (Vishal Joshi)
• Architecture Tools in VSTS 2010 (Somasegar) – Link of the Day
• Build a Custom WCF Encoder (Srinath MS)
• How to install and configure Visual Studio Team Explorer (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Deploying a Web Application Project Still looks for Code-behind during Runtime (Dave Schinkel)
• Sample: Parsing Content in C# Using IFilter (Jason Zander)
• Understanding TransactionScope Procedural Activities in WF 4.0 – An Application Development Approach. (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Analyze MEF Assemblies from the Command Line and Parameterised Triggers and Re-Entrant States in Stateless v2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Static Constructors in .NET 3.5, still a bad thing? (Nick Berardi)
• Reveal hidden API usage tricks from any .NET application (Patrick Smacchia)
• MSMQ Studio: Subqueues and outgoing queues (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

 

Web Development

• Enabling Windsor Integration in MonoRail (Patrick Steele)
• Book Review of Object Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov (Peter Kellner)
• Azure Reference Architecture Explored with Project Riviera (Bruce Kyle)
• jQuery and MVC: JSON and Favorite Image Icons with jQuery and MVC (Steve Andrews)
• Your First ASP.NET MVC Application (Maarten Balliauw)
• Getting and setting max zIndex with jQuery (Rick Strahl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Most Important Agile Practice Of All and On Teaching And Learning And Knowledge Trans … fening and All Developers Should Know How They Learn Best (Alan Skorkin)
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Custom Queries and The complexity of unity and On PSake and Avoid Soft Deletes and How I found a memory leak and Your queries are going to fail in production (Oren Eini)
• Code Reviews (Deborah Kurata)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Executing Custom Queries and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Bringing It All Together and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Conclusions and There Is No Excuse For Failing Queries In Production (Davy Brion)
• DDD Step by Step (Greg Young)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part14. (Rajiv Popat)
• Book Club: Unshackle your domain (Greg Young) and Coding: Group the duplication, then remove it and Coding: The guilty bystander (Mark Needham)
• The Capability Conversation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Refactoring Day 29 : Remove Middle Man and Refactoring Day 30 : Return ASAP (Sean Chambers)
• Cooking Up a Good Template Method (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Code coverage measure for F# unit tests (Steve Gilham)
• Accountants Don’t Use Erasers (Jonathan Oliver)
• Big Visible TeamCity (Joshua Flanagan)
• Book review – Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Piquing curiosity, or “How to scratch the surface” (Kyle Baley)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Behaviors (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Silverlight 3 Navigation Application: New Themes and Tweaks (Brad Abrams)
• Bing SDK Available for Silverlight, iPhone, Mac (Bruce Kyle)
• Silverlight 3 Application Themes (Corrina Barber)
• SketchFlow Feedback File Format (Frank La Vigne)
• Innovation/Showcase on Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 3 (Jeff Barnes)
• Conways Life in WPF (Steven Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutiae-seven with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
• SDU Show 44 with guest Simon Sabin (SQL Down Under)
• Windows Weekly 120: Bing Is My Back-End (Paul Thurrott)
• CNET Video: Scott Guthrie on Silverlight 3 (Ina Fried)
• Show #330: Madden NFL 10, Beatles Rock Band and Felicia Day (Larry Hyrb)
• This Week on C9: .NET Micro Framework, Azure, and PHP (Jason Olson)
• My Videos (Roy Osherove)
• Episode 82 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Russ Kaufmann on PowerShell and Clustering (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Chat room questions from the EF Tips & Tricks webcast (Julie Lerman)

 

Community / Events

• DevLink 2009 (Sara Ford)
• Microsoft Has Newly Updated Public MVP Website (Brad M. McGehee)
• Have you registered for the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas (Daniel Brown)
• Updated Community Schedule (Joel Cochran)
• Conclusion of the Stars (Kirk Knoernschild)
• MICROSOFT ACTIVE PROFESSIONAL 2009 (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Thoughts on #Agile2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Database

• SQL Server Arithmetic Operators (Richard Carr)
• Extracting insert, update, delete rowcounts from T-SQL MERGE and Exploring Composable DML (Jamie Thomson)
• Scripting Server Side Traces (Joe Webb)
• Quick 2005/2008 Script to Export Permissions (K. Brian Kelley)
• SSMS Tools PACK, Something Every SQL Server Developer That Uses SSMS Should Have Installed (Denis Gobo)
• Decompressing on Compression in SQL Server 2008…. (Robert Pearl)
• Plan Caching in SQL Server 2008 by Greg Low and Mirrored Backup and Restore and Split File Backup and Application and Multi-Server Management and Effect of Oracle acquiring MySQL – A Delayed Analysis (Pinal Dave)
• INSERT and UPDATE loading practice – The impact of forwarding pointers. (Simon Sabin)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Design Patterns: Entry 2 (Charles Chen)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• No Microsoft Office Web Apps test build in August, after all (Mary Jo Foley)
• 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Photography Skills (Andrew Gibson)
• Lessons learned from Windows Live ID’s foray into Open ID (Kevin)
• Live Mesh incompatible with Apple Snow Leopard 10.6 (Kip Kniskern)
• Test-Driving Remoting In Windows 7 (Tobias Weltner)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23037 for a Windows Phone Near You (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Build 14.0.4417.1000 Beta 1 (Taimur Asad)
• ‘Macs don’t get viruses’ myth dissolves before public’s eyes (Tim Conneally)
• Amazon Kindle vs. Amazon Kindle DX – The Final Word (Scott Hanselman)
• PowerShell Interview and Exploring WMI with PowerShell V2 (Jeffrey Snover)
• Zoho: Thriving Amid the Giants (Raju Vegesna)
• Weekly Release: More OS-Native Menus! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Weird things said in job interviews Part 3 (Lisa Olson)
• You really ought to check out Boot from VHD in Win7 (Mike Ormond)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 29, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 30, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for August 28, 2009 — #677 and Silverlight Cream for August 29, 2009 — #678 and Silverlight Cream for August 30, 2009 — #679 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #89 – “Late summer” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #68 (Grant Palin)
• What’s New Resources for VS2010 and .NET 4 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• CloudNews for 28th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 108 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are garbage collectors slow? (Granville Barnett) – Link of the Day
• Doing Agile in a Team of One – Day 2 and the End of Sprint 1 (Andrew Woodward)
• Agile Self-Organization versus Lean Leadership (Brad Appleton)
• Best Practices in Gathering Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint and TDD (Sahil Malik)
• Inconvenient Accessibility Makes Self-Documenting Code (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Seams: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• A small web design rant: beware of the RADical designer (Peter Van Ooijen)
• What’s in a controller? That which we call an action… (Javier G. Lozano)
• Agile Behavior: Nurture Knowledge Database (Patrick Smacchia)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Box Selections and Multi-Edit in Visual Studio 2010 (Coding4Fun)
• .Net Framework 4.0: Using memory mapped files (Gunnar Peipman)
• Assigning MSBuild Properties to SQLCMD Variables (Gert Drapers)
• Fantastic on-going Entity Framework Tips Series from EF’s Alex James and Visual Studio’s Database Publishing Wizard and the new 1-Click Web Deployment and EF4: Model-Defined Functions Level 1 & 2 (Julie Lerman)
• TFS 2010 – WorkItems Linking and Automation Workflow implementation for Closing Linked Workitems (Subodh Sohoni)

 

Web Development

• Recent Member Activity now in Sueetie User Profiles and Three Wolves Howling at the JSON Date Moon (Dave Burke)
• Using claims for driving web sites… without writing any code (Vittorio Bertocci)
• 50 Fresh JavaScript Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow (Smashing Magazine)
• Finally found what I have been looking for: JavaScriptMVC (Peter Eysermans)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Control-Oriented Vs. Data-Oriented Programming in Silverlight (Dan Wahlin)
• Microsoft Expression 1..2..3 (Mike Ormond)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 24: Monitoring Workflow Services (Ron Jacobs)
• Toolshed Tooltip #9 – VSTS DB Pro from Episode 2 and Toolshed Tooltip #10 – SQL Reporting Services from Episode 2 (Russell Fustino)
• Major Nelson Show #323: E3 2009 and Iraq (Larry Hryb)
• Windows 7 Application Compatibility (Matthijs Hoekstra)

 

Community / Events

Announcing "Agile Database Techniques" Workshop (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

SharePoint

• My checklist for optimizing SharePoint sites (Chris O’Brien)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool v1.1 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Man Who Goes Against His Instincts… (Max Pool)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 21, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #373 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 06.15 ~ 06.21 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #58 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2009 — #619 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 99 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Discoveries This Week 06/21/2009 (Rick Minerich)

 

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Long list today because I skipped the weekend post. I was busy at Philly.NET Code Camp 2009.1 on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came out to my S#arp Architecture talk, especially Nick and Sara.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# String.Empty Example and Issues (Sam Allen)
• C# “” better than string.Empty? (Dave M. Bush)
• NHibernate Mapping – <one-to-one/> and NHibernate Mapping – <join/> (Oren Eini)
• More on the lock-free stack/queue: memory fences (Julian M. Bucknall)
• LINQ to Z3 – Theorem Solving on Steroids – Part 0 (Bart de Smet)
• Extension Methods in C#: cool but at what cost? (Christopher Diggins)
• Introduction to HealthvaultDevelopment #11: Data filtering (Eric Gunnerson)
• C# Regions are not Useful? Give me a Break (Dave Schinkel)
• F# Basics – Infix Operators (Jason Olson)
• How does C# Lambda expressions work? (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Keep Your IQueryable In Check (Justin Etheredge)
• The sorry tale of the Visual Studio Web Site (Mike Hadlow)
• Developing Surface Applications (Luis Cabrera)
• How Relationships are Modeled in "MSchema" (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• .Net RIA Services and Multi-table Joins (Bob Baker)
• View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)
• A WPF Countdown Timer in PowerShell 2.0 (Joel Bennett)
• Some facts about Silverlight 3 and where it’s going (Peter Bromberg)
• Navigation system in WPF (Lester Lobo)
• Silverlight Layouts Part 1 (Charlie Calvert)
• Silverlight 3 Out of Browser – Quick Rant and It took me under 5 minutes to realize the power of behaviors… (Jose Fajardo)
• Cracking an XPS in WPF and WPF Quick Tip: Converters as MarkupExtensions (Josh Twist)
• Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Support Publishing To DeepZoomPix! (Sunshine)
• WPF : Dynamic Search Driven List Results (Now uses AppDomain) and WPF : Blend 3 Interactions / Behaviours (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight 3 – Out of Browser Applications with Cached Extensions (Mike Taulty)
• SuperPreview with Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)

 

Web Development

• Just Noticed some Great Tutorials by the Author of Learning ExtJS (Peter Kellner)
• ASP.NET Session State shared between IE Tabs and IE8 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Minimize Code by Using jQuery and Data Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Unit Testing Part 2: JSSpec (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC Free eBooks (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• The performance implications of the expression tree-based ActionLink helper and How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications (Simone Chiaretta)
• Native JSON Parsing: What does it mean? (Rick Strahl) – Link of the Day
• OpenRasta, or “How to speak REST” (Kyle Baley)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• "Don’t be a plumber" is horrible advice. (Leon Gersing)
• What do I expect from guidance? and Repository is the new Singleton and Where is the ROI? (Oren Eini)
• The Agility Cycle – Part 1 (Brad Appleton)
• Put Performance Concerns Into Perspective and Gotta Love Refactoring (Davy Brion)
• Decoupling Workflow And Forms With An Application Controller (Derick Bailey)
• First Order Agile Scaling and The Software Requirements Balancing Act (Mike Cottmeyer)
• AJAX Architectures Condensed (Dino Esposito)
• Leader vs. Ruler: Which One Are You? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Ditching the Micro-Optimization Fetish (Justin Etheredge)
• Half-a-Book Review: SOA Patterns (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• F#: Refactoring that little twitter application into objects and I don’t have time not to test! and Coding: Applying levels of abstraction (Mark Needham)
• 10 ways to reduce cost of software testing (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Saga Persistence and Event-Driven Architectures (Udi Dahan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week on C9: Office 2010, PowerShell for OpenXML, and would you help a robot (Brian Keller)
• Another Video Blog (Sara Chipps)
• ViewModel (MVVM) in Raw Silverlight 2 (Erik Mork)
• CodeCast: Oslo and M with Paul Vick (Chris Sells)
• Herding Code 43: Javier Lozano on the "M" in MVC (Jon Galloway)
• deCast – Building an Azure App Part III: Hosting Web Services and Silverlight (Rob Bagby)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video series pre-purchase offer (Rockford Lhotka)
• Major Nelson Show #316 : Lode Runner and photo editing laptops (Larry Hryb)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Announces "OfficePalooza" Two Week Contest Event for VBA Office Programmers (Blake Handler)
• Virtual ALT.NET Meeting about S#arp Architecture (Chad Myers)
• Philly .NET Code Camp Notes (Erik Peterson)
• Code Camp 2009.1 – Gooey GUI… Programming in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)

 

Database

• C Style operators in SQL Server 2008 (Darrel Carver)
• The Relational Model (Ken Downs)
• SQLAuthority News – Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 and SQLAuthority Book Review – Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide by Michael Coles (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Mobile 6.5 coming May 11, WM 6.5 phones not so much (Brad Linder)
• SharePoint sheds the “Office” label with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Google Pushing Chrome to Internet Explorer Users (Keith Elder)
• There is a “Are you sure you want to navigate away?” alert when editing your wiki? – #018 and You can enlarge the wiki text area – #019 (Sara Ford)
• New Windows Live Mobile Client and FeedMe: An RSS/Podcast Client for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
• Low Bandwidth View and other Hidden (and Future) Features of MSDN (Scott Hanselman)
• Evernote’s New Twitter Functionality (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows 7 RC to be released publicly on May 5 (Lee Mathews)
• Microsoft Technology Roadmap Links and Resources (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Five: Reification (Eric Lippert)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 17, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 19, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #330 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2009 — #573 and Silverlight Cream for April 19, 2009 — #574 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #49 (Grant Palin)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 18 (Denis Gobo)
• Squeezed Links: April 2009 (Max Pool)
• New and Notable 313 (Sam Gentile)
• Weekly Link Post 90 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for April 17th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

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