Top Links

• Dear Silver Bullet Seeker (David Starr)
• Deploying Silverlight assemblies via NuPack (Tim Heuer)
• Choosing between ASP.NET–WebForms, MVC, WebMatrix – Choice is a GOOD thing. (Joe Stagner)
• CodeRush Plugins – What are they good for?… Absolutely everything! and Starting a CodeRush Plugin Project (Rory Becker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Directory icons (Oren Eini)
• Using Solution Factory + NuPack to create Opinionated Visual Studio Solutions. (Eric Hexter)
• Visual Studio 2010 Survey (Jason Zander)
• At The End of the IO Road With C#? Pave New Road! (Wesley Brown)
• The Watch Window: Watching and Changing Values (Zain Naboulsi)
• Cost Architecting for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• CSLA 4 Executive Overview slides (Rockford Lhotka)
• No Backtracking, Part Two (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Using JavaScript to Measure Web Page Performance with IE9 (Gil Fink)
• Conflicts between ASP.NET AJAX Update Panels & jQuery functions (Hajan Selmani)
• Starting with WebSharper Interface Generator (Diego Echeverri)
• Improved JavaScript Model Binding in ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• This operation requires IIS integrated pipeline mode (Steve Andrews)
• What is jQuery? (Matthew David)
• Building, Running, and Packaging Windows Azure Applications From the Command Line and Deploying WebMatrix Applications to Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• LinkedIn’s JavaScript API Aims to Spread Platform Adoption (Romin Irani)
• Using MvcSiteMapProvider through NuPack (Maarten Balliauw)
• Orchard? No harvest quite yet. (Laila Lotfi)
• Building Your Dynamic Router on AppFabric Cache (Christian Martinez)
• Add-ons: Feedback on Add-on Performance Advisor (Paul Cutsinger)
• Add-on Performance Part 3: Optimizing Add-on Startup Performance (Herman Ng)
• Azure@home Part 8: Worker Role and Azure Diagnostics (Jim O’Neil)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Go!" Now Online (James Shore)
• Three New Books from patterns & practices (Ade Miller)
• Sociology and Scrum (Dan Mezick)
• Driven by Desire (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• How-to: Changing Behavior of Static Methods with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Testing the Untestable with Delegate Injection (Harry Pierson)
• A Less Ugly Switch Statement For C# (Derick Bailey)
• 3 Simple But Critical Steps For Project Management (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• We’re entering a new era of “natural user interfaces” (Steve Clayton)
• My heart is yours; all I ask for is freedom (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• On Windows Phone 7 (Raju Vegesna)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: ListBox Scroll Performance (Mike Ormond)
• Flicks photos to TVs from Windows Phone (Steve Clayton)
• Touch Support in Silverlight (Ning Zhang)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Making a hobby a job – Talking with Eric Herbrandson about his Silverlight-based MicroISV (Scott Hanselman)
• Introducing the all new SharePoint Sideshow (Donovan Follette & Paul Stubbs)
• Let’s Play TDD #31: Eliminating Dollars.toInt() (James Shore)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: Let’s talk about Identity and Azure (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Design Events (James Chittenden)
• Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Craig Osborne, Principal Program Manager on the Windows Gaming Experience team at Microsoft (Windows Azure Team)
• .NET Reference source planned downtime for Monday October 11th, 2010 10-11am PST. (Chris D)
• Microsoft Certified Career Conference (Anne Cheng)
• Azure Firestarter Events (Jim O’Neil)
• Membership Has Its Privileges (Jeff Atwood)
• YUIConf 2010: Early-bird registration ends this week (Jenny Han Donnelly)

Database

• SSRS axe work: How to use fields from different Datasets in the same field Expression and Grouping in Report Builder 2.0? (Aedna)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Explanation of Data Type Precedence (Pinal Dave)
• A lesson to everyone on capacity planning – comical failings of foursquare and MongoDB (Simon Sabin)
• Case Studies in Database Fail: A Review of SQL Antipatterns, by Bill Karwin (Tim Berglund)
• Programmatically picking apart foreign-key constraints (Paul S. Randal)
• Creative Commons Data Dump Oct 10 (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Product Idea? Win an iPad! (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Sal’s Amazing Global Academy (The Gates Notes)
• Q&A: Microsoft LightSpace, one step closer to Star Trek holodeck (Todd Bishop)
• The XPS printer is needed by the Send to OneNote Printer (John Guin)
• AIR For Android Released! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• My First Couple Weeks with the Amazon Kindle 3 (Pete Brown)
• Halo Reach Windows 7 Theme and Windows Live OneCare Online Security Scans (Richard Hay)
• [Acquisition Rumors] Microsoft meeting with Adobe, acquisition one of the topics (Steven Hodson) – Probably not true, but an interesting rumor.

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 07, 2010 — #962 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 7, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 7-Oct-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 7 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #703 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed by Ray Rankins

Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 buzz heats up: US launch Nov. 8? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Developer Guidance Maps (J.D. Meier)
• MEF in the Wild: A Retrospective (Jeremy Likness)
• Don’t be lazy. Avoid the type "Tuple" (Peter Gfader)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Polymorphic Extension Visitor with C# (Andreas Gieriet)
• Profiler new features: Data binding alerts (Oren Eini)
• F#, Caliburn.Micro, and a New WP7 Template (Daniel Mohl)
• Improving the Visual Studio 2010 UI Menu System – Part 2 (Mike Fourie)
• Dynamic Filtering and Querying in Your .NET applications – Using Mono’s C# Compiler As Service (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• F# Computation Expressions, a Simple Bind/Return Mnemonic and F# Computation Expression Bind/Return Mechanics Continued. (Neil)
• The Immediate Window: Simple Printing and Changing Values (Zain Naboulsi)
• Book review: DSLs in Boo: Domain-Specific Languages in .NET (Dror Helper)
• How To Host Mono’s CSharp Compiler as a Service in .NET – For Runtime Code Evaluation/REPL (Anoop Madhusudanan)

Web Development

• Creating a simple jQuery plugin (Dnana)
• UrlScan Broke My Blog (And How I Fixed It) (Phil Haack)
• HowTo: Time-controlled & recurrent functions in .NET & ASP.NET (Oliver Guhr)
• ##Ebook Deal of the Day: Build Android Apps with HTML, CSS, & JavaScript – Only $9.99. Use code DDBAJ (O’Reilly Media)
• Don’t you tell me where to put my damn views – I’ll tell you! (Robert Greyling)
• ASP.NET Programming Tips – Tip #1: Google Cannot Solve your Coding Problems (Anthony Grace)
• Know when to delegate to a web service (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Why not to use HttpResponse.Close and HttpResponse.End (Hajan Selmani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When To Use Task-Oriented vs. Relationship-Oriented Leadership Styles and Code Sample Types (J.D. Meier)
• PHPUnit 3.5: easier asserting and mocking (Giorgio Sironi)
• DZone’s Top 10 Agile and Lean Development Books (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Theory of CQRS Command Handlers: Sagas, ARs and Event Subscriptions (Rinat Abdullin)
• Article:What Agile Developers Can Learn from Cavemen (Steve Newman)
• Understanding Genuine Geeks And Nerds – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Tutorial : Styles, Triggers and Animations : 7 (Abhishek Sur)
• Windows Phone 7 has put the .NET Language Coevolution Promise in Doubt (Jonathan Allen)
• Porting WPF apps to Silverlight (Lester Lobo)
• Another great example of how WP7 helps Silverlight/WPF (Rob Relyea)
• Creating a Custom Application Bar Icon (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• WP7 Stock Quote Demo Part 4 : Push Server side (John McFetridge)
• After C# , now its Visual Basic’s turn for Windows Phone 7 (Senthil Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 372: DeathSpank ToV, NBA 2K11 and Dead Rising 2 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 126 – PowerScripting Podcast – Just Hal and Jon (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 167: The History of JUnit and the Future of Testing with Kent Beck (SE-Radio Team)
• This Developer’s Life – 1.0.4 Being Mean (Rob Conery)
• Technology & Friends Episode 117: John Petersen on Software and the Law (David Giard)
• An Introduction to F# with Don Syme (#1 of 4) and An F# Tutorial with Don Syme (#2 of 4) and F# and Windows Azure with Don Syme (#3 of 4) (David Gristwood)
• Let’s Play TDD #24: Finishing Up StockMarketTableModel (James Shore)

Community / Events

• How to become an MVP. (Joe Stagner)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Keywords View Definition Must Not Contain for Indexed View – Limitation of the View 10 (Pinal Dave)
• Index Black Ops Part 4 – Index Overhead and Maintenance (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

• Lightning conductor 2010 web part improvements (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• The one tweak you should never use on Windows 7 (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Weekly Link Post 163 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 043 for 9/27/2010 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #694 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #130 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for September 26, 2010 — #955 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Mark Collins

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Top Links

• What’s the difference between a destructor and a finalizer? (Eric Lippert)
• New SL4 Feature: Commanding (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Server-side resizing with WPF: now with JPG (Bertrand Le Roy)
• 18 Questions to ask yourself when choosing continuous integration and build automation tools (Roy Osherove)

.NET / Visual Studio

• RTM’d today: CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Using Repository Pattern with Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• Tips and Tricks: Ctrl+E to Search in New Project Dialog and Extension Manager (Weston Hutchins)
• IntelliSense Suggestion Mode — vstipEdit0012 (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

ASP.NET: Aligning Text (Deborah Kurata)

Unwinding the page lifecycle events (Joe Stagner)

Using jQuery to check all CheckBoxes in an iframe (Sam Tyson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Good Programming Practices And New Year’s Resolutions (Justin Etheredge)
• Flag Parameters are Evil! (Or at least unclear) (Jim Holmes)
• My 3 part series on Agile Program Management on Port 25 (Sara Ford)
• Rejecting Dependency Injection Inversion (Oren Eini)
• Advanced StructureMap: Diagnosing problems (Jimmy Bogard)
• Constructor over-injection smell – follow up (Jeffrey Palermo)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and Drupal and Open Source Silverlight video players (Corey Schuman)
• PDF for Silverlight Preview (Koen Zwikstra)
• Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 5 of X – New Repository implementation (Fredrik Normen)
• Silverlight 4 – Writing a Windows-Only Application via COM Interop? (Mike Taulty)
• XamlPadSample Step 1b-fullscreen and XamlNodeLoop Sample – changing Name to x:Name during Save (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – My .NET Story (Carl Franklin)
• Misfit Geek Podcast Episode #4 – Scott Hunter on Web Forms in ASP.NET 4 (Joe Stagner)
• Expert to Expert: Inside LINQ-to-SharePoint (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 69: Scott Bellware on HTML Specialists (Jon Galloway)
• Introduction to Test Case Management in Visual Studio 2010 with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Kathleen McGrath)
• Dec MSDN Unplugged – Get ready for Visual Studio 2010 (Nigel Parker)
• Office Casual at CES: How to see important stuff in Outlook 2010 (Tina Wood)
• endpoint.tv Screencast – Lab: Introduction to Workflow in .NET 4 (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Roanoke Code Camp Call for Speakers (Frank La Vigne)
• Careers Success Stories (Jeff Atwood)
• The Current State of the Web: Why It’s Pointless to Debate Which Language, Framework or Architecture is the Best (Jonathan Carter)
• The MVVM landscape at MIX10 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Applications and Other Things I’ve Written Professionally over the Years (Pete Brown)

Database

• Transact-SQL Delayed Execution (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Execution Plan – Estimated I/O Cost – Estimated CPU Cost – No Unit (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft – Follow best practices! (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

• Free SharePoint Reports with No Server Install (Joel Oleson)
• BCS Meta Man Alpha 2 released (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Fixing Powershell’s Busted Resolve-Path Cmdlet (Harry Pierson)
• Bing Adds Impressive, Advanced Recipe Search Results (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Masterminds of Programming — Only $9.99! Use discount code MMPE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• Kodu Tutorial #2 Edit Mode Tools (Stephen Coy)
• Azure platform CTP accounts are about to expire‏ (Dukagjin Maloku)
• Beta of Amazon Kindle SDK presents unique problems to software makers (Tim Conneally)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 21-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #523 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LIX (Charlie Calvert)
• Links (1/21/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server MVP Deep Dives

• The Influence of MVC on My WPF (Christopher Bennage) – Link of the Day
• More on Moonlight 2.0 Preview 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight – Navigating Data (Dave M. Bush)
• Recreating Frogger in Silverlight – Part 2 and Part 3 (Michael Ceranski)
• The New York Times Silverlight Kit (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Creating a MVVM “Hello World” Application in 30 seconds (Rudi Grobler)
• Document Toolkit: Customizing the document viewer (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft to turn .Net Micro Framework code, support over to the community (Mary Jo Foley)
• LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery) (Peter Kellner)
• Pay attention to the difference between Expression.Lt & Expression.LtProperty (Derik Whittaker)
• Introduction to MapReduce for .NET Developers (Eran Kampf)
• A Developer’s Guide to Preparing for Windows 7 (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

• Google’s Latitude Apps Give a Glimpse of New Latitude API (Andres Ferrate)
• Tweetpoll – My first Windows Azure application is live (Jamie Thomson)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements (Mike Ormond)
• Querying SharePoint List Items using jQuery (Jan Tielens)
• GridView Plugin For JQuery (Justin)
• Dynamic Data Preview 4 Released (Scott Hunter)
• Smooth Cascading Effect with ASP.NET Panels using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Dynamic Data in Regular Websites/Web Applications (David Fowler)
• Cleaner, Faster Ajax in ASP.NET (Gil Shabat)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing “Where’s The Dollar?” and Understanding the Problem (Chris Missal)
• Yet another reason to love TestDriven.net (Sebastien Lambla)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 4 (Rajiv Popat)
• Who’s In Charge Of The Time? (Davy Brion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ted Neward on Oracle buying Sun (Carl Franklin)
• 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing (Brian Keller)
• E-VAN Videos Reminder (Colin Jack)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #52 (Jeff Atwood)
• Cannon PI Title Sequence (Frank La Vigne)
• Podcast: Meg Edwards – My Journey with GTD Lists (Meg Edwards)
• Andy Lester: Land the Tech Job you Love (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Incorporating Your Beta Feedback into RC and Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features (Yochay Kiriaty)

Community / Events

• .NET’s Most Influential People in 2009 (Jay Kimble)
• See and Be Seen Among the Stars at the INETA Booth at Tech·Ed and 9Q w/ Kathleen Sanders (Chris G. Williams)
• Announcing Silverlight FireStarter DC: June 6 (Frank La Vigne)
• Announcing the Formation of the Lean Software & Systems Consortium (Karl Scotland)

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Step by Step: What’s new for 2008? (Ken Jones)

PowerShell

• Fun with Alerts (“‘a”) (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Tools and Programs I use in my everyday work (Agnes Molnar)
• It’s Not About the Tools, It’s About the Strategy (Celine Roque)
• 8 Essential Applications (Corey Schuman)
• Are You an Information Junkie? (Dawn Foster)
• 4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks (Samuel Dean)
• Interesting and Ignored Tags Now Support Wildcards (Jeff Atwood)
• Clearing The Confusion On Security And Clouds (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Recipe for Spark build/dev machine on Virtual PC (Louis DeJardin)
• Guess Who Owns Kindledx.com? Amazon. Guess Who Forgot To Set It Up? Amazon. (MG Siegler)
• Live Search PR push in anticipation of “Kumo” (Kip Kniskern)
• Marketing Ideas to Help Sell Your Ideas (Sam’s Club Cup Pt. 2) (Max Pool)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #342 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2009 — #588 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for May 6th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours): Rob Eisenberg, Christopher Bennage: Books ISBN: 0672329859 ISBN-13: 9780672329852