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Top Links

• Moonlight 3.0 Preview 1 (Miguel di Icaza)
• To Control and Observe – Productive Software Development and Mistaking Efficiency for Productivity and Controlled Productivity (Scott Bellware)
• Read from your mirror in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• Real World S#arp Architecture (Billy McCafferty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Playing WAV Files (Richard Carr)
• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• .NET Reflector Pro in Final Stages (Mitch Pronschinske)
• What happens behind the scenes: NHibernate, Linq to SQL, Entity Framework scenario analysis (Oren Eini)
• Telerik LINQ to M Refresh (Stephen Forte)
• Race Condition When Modifying the HttpRequestMessageProperty in an Outgoing WCF Message (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Announcement: Unpublishing Extensions from Beta 2 to RC (Weston Hutchins)
• Using Sensors in You Application – Managed Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 8. Dependency graph visualization (Mike Hadlow)
• Create a floating DataTip — vstipDebug0006 and Adding comments to a DataTip — vstipDebug0007 (Zain Naboulsi)
• The Surface Monster Returns! Nom Nom Nom (Eric Havir)
• VS 2010 Quick Hit: Multi-Targeting (Dariusz Parys)
• Functional C#: Writing a ‘Partition’ Function (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• US Government Launches Business.gov API – Gives Free Access to Small Business Resources (Andres Ferrate)
• Debugging ASP.NET generated code (David Ebbo)
• Using FullCalendar jQuery component with ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Putting Files at the Root of Blog Storage in Windows Azure (Karsten Januszewski)
• Making Your JavaScript Unobtrusive (Mike Ceranski)
• Love jQuery = Love ASP.NET Ajax Library (Marc Schweigert)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Small Things Matter (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Branch-Per-Feature: How I Manage Subversion With Git Branches and Can PDCA Help Us Improve Our Test-First Development Efforts? (Derick Bailey)
• The Difference between an Anti-Pattern and a Code Smell (Peter Ritchie)
• Solving Complexity with Message Based Architectures (Jak Charlton)
• Strengthening your domain: a primer (Jimmy Bogard)
• Business Primitives (2/2) (Dru Sellers)

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows 7 Sensor Trigger for WPF Applications (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Rules of MVVM?? (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight Splash Page (John Stockton)
• Taming the WPF Expander Control (Karl Shifflett)
• Loading Projects in Visual Studio not Located on Local Machine (Karl Shifflett)
• WPF : How To Create Your Own Threaded DataSourceProvider (Sacha Barber)
• Adventures with Silverlight and WCF – The remote server returned an error: NotFound (Doug Holland)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Walling and Taber on Micropreneur Academy. (Carl Franklin)
• UX + AGILE + BLEND +.NET= Efficient Design Practices (Don Burnett)
• The GeekDads Episode #60: iPadCast (Ken Denmead)
• Binding Silverlight Controls to a Data Service in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight Object Binding in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Kathleen McGrath)
• Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK 1.5 Exposed (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Simplifying how to share content on Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez)
• CES reflections (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Announcing the “20 days to OpenRasta” project (Sebastien Lambla)
• At Balsamiq, Everyone Blogs. Join Us. (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Get the List of Object Dependencies – sp_depends and information_schema.routines and sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft, OData and RDF and Visio stencils for SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• ROWCOUNT when setting variables (Martin Bell)
• Report Builder <Next> Wish List – V1.0 (William Vaughn)

SharePoint

• The Great Virtualization Debate: What to do? SharePoint 2010 for Laptops (Joel Oleson)
• Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint – Feb 2010 release (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Can You Really Measure Customer Satisfaction? (Phil Haack)
• Will your new Windows 7 PC support XP Mode? (Ed Bott)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Search Patterns. Only $9.99! Use code SPDFD (O’Reilly Media)
• Kodu Tutorial #4 Main Menu->Options (Stephen Coy)
• How Does Microsoft Do IT? (Buck Woody)

More Link Collections

• Community Convergence LXI and New Articles on MSDN: ClickOnce, Office 2007 Business Applications (Charlie Calvert)
• Interesting Finds: February 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #532 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 03, 2010 — #791 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 400 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate in Action

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Top Links

• pluralsight announces free on-demand! training for all microsoft mvps (Meagon Marshall)
• DZone Tutorial – Microsoft Expression Blend Essentials (7 Part Series) (Nitin Bharti)
• QA Missed Something (Scott Bellware)
• Life outside .NET, or “How to check out your neighbours” (Kyle Baley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use the Visual Studio Data Connection Dialog? Wish you could use it in your app? Maybe even tweak its source a little to better fit your project? The Visual Studio Data team has granted your wish… (Greg Duncan)
• Performance: Using dynamic code to copy property values of two objects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Favorite VS2010 Features: Dependency Graphs and DGML (Jason Zander)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF Endpoint (Stephen Forte)
• Pin a DataTip to source — vstipDebug0005 (Zain Naboulsi)
• “What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 – More Than You May Realise” (Mike Taulty)
• Using Windows Azure Drive (aka X-Drive) (Maarten Balliauw)

Web Development

• HTML5 Sublime Video Player (Michael Kimsal)
• A Look at the GridView’s New Sorting Styles in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• Linking jQueryUI DatePicker and FullCalendar (Gunnar Peipman)
• Daily Dose – Facebook Open Sources PHP Innovations (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: CSS Cookbook, Third Edition — Only $9.99! Use discount code CCTE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• FubuMVC Learns to Speak Spark (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The 3rd of Diduary: Did you know you can debug ASP.NET in any browser? (Jeff Blankenburg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture: where do you start? (Simon Brown)
• Learning in the Open: II – first relation and more ActiveRecord (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Balsamiq New Release: a Mockups Viewer and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Thoughts on an MVVM Rant (K. Scott Allen)
• Coding: Wrapping/not wrapping 3rd party libraries and DSLs (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Getting Started with SketchFlow in Expression Blend 3 (Me)
• Adventures with Silverlight and WCF – The remote server returned an error: NotFound (Doug Holland)
• Silverlight 4 How to Command Control (Joel Neubeck)
• My WPF 5.0 Wishlist (Paul Stovell)
• Silverlight Quick Tip: Controlling the Out-of-Browser Window and Moving a WPF Window with Custom Chrome (Pete Brown)
• Known Issue: Controls and GAC, Toolbox and TCI (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight 4 Shows Value for Business Development (Michael Desmond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 43: Talking OData and SQL Modeling Services with Douglas Purdy (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #161: A deeper look into AutoMapper: Custom Type Resolvers (Derik Whittaker)
• Rocky’s video series on SQL Server Modeling and CSLA (Chris Sells)
• Multi-Core and Parallel Programming Practices (Robert Hess)
• Episode 100- PowerScripting Podcast – MobileShell, PowerGUI Pro and Your Tips (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Shawn Wildermuth – Portland Silverlight User Group (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• PASS Acquires SQLSaturday (Andy Warren)
• Events This Week – February 2nd, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• When is a Lookup not a Lookup? (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• First Version of SharePoint Validator now available on CodePlex (Tom Hearn)
• Test Drive the C1 Web Parts (Eve Turzillo)
• SharePoint 2010 Better Together with SQL 2008 R2 Database Enhancements Top 10 (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• We need cloud apps to use cloud drives (Chris Sells)
• Google discontinuing FTP support for Blogger blogs (Jason Clarke)
• A very nice, and new/non-tech user safe, 48 page Windows 7 Shortcut eBook – “The Complete Windows 7 Shortcuts” (Greg Duncan)
• Free Windows Azure Training! (Hong Choing)
• Getting Those Old Firefox Add-ons to Work (Elijah Manor)
• IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera – what browser does a .Net developer choose? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Kodu for the Xbox (Stephen Coy)
• Microsoft Looking Into Windows 7 Battery Issues (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Random Reading On The Train (Matt Davey)
• The Morning Brew #531 (Chris Alcock)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02/02/2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Interesting Finds: February 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for February 2, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 399 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

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Top Links

• JetBrains Web IDE (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Designing Maintainable Systems (Simon Brown)
• The Endowment Effect (Cognitive Bias) (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Improving perceived WPF app startup performance with MEF and a Splash Screen (Marc Schweigert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Configuring SmtpClient to Drop Emails in a Folder on Disk (Mike Hadlow)
• Visual Studio Font and Colour Schemes and Using the Console Speaker (Richard Carr)
• My Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is Crashing…Help! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Copy a file’s full path from the File Tab — vstipEdit0013 (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Google Apps Drops Support for IE6 (Adam Pash)
• New Web Client Guidance Drop Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Building a Url Shortener with the bit.ly API (Mike Ceranski)
• Shrink your Views with FubuMVC Html Conventions (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Obstacles to an enterprise DVCS (Eric Sink)
• Implementing Domain Queries (John Teague)
• Conducting Effective Meetings (Joe Webb)
• Pex v0.22.50128.1: Bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Programmer Tip: Consider Coding In Silence Or Switching To Pair Of Head Phones. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Aspen – part 7 of X – Entity Validations (Fredrik Normén)
• Bing Maps Developer Sheet (Frank La Vigne)
• XamlPadSample Step 1f-alternateViews, app.xaml & assembly loading (Rob Relyea)
• Implementing DependencyProperty with a single attribute (and CciSharp) (Jonathan de Halleux)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: httpHandlers and httpModules with Chris Love (MS Podcasts)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Embodied Social Proxies (and Remote Video Heads!) with Microsoft Research (Scott Hanselman)
• A Look at Seesmic Look (Larry Larsen)
• VS 2010 Quick Hit: Intellisense (Dariusz Parys)
• Linq to SQL Profiler Video (Oren Eini)
• endpoint.tv – How to secure a Workflow Service in WF4 (Ron Jacobs)
• SQLBits Videos available now available (Simon Sabin)
• jQuery Podcast #9 – David Artz, Aol. (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Nikolai Tillmann: Moles – Replace any .NET method with a delegate (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• A Microsoft employee who knows the true meaning of Disaster Response (Gretchen Ledgard)
• One Long Strange Trip: Visual Studio Magazine and Me (Bill Wagner)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Several Readers Questions and Readers Answers (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Kodu Tutorial #3 Load Level Menu (Stephen Coy)
• Daily Dose – Quest for the One True iPad (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Jan 29, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: January 29, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 30, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – JAN ‘10 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 01/29/2010 (Rick Minerich)

The Geek Shelf

The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting

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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

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Top Links

• Writing plug-ins for ReSharper: Part 1 of Undefined (Hadi Hariri)
• Castle Windsor 2.1, Dynamic Proxy 2.2 and more released! (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Weekly Source Code 47 – ASP.NET 3.5 Dynamic Data: FilterRepeaters and Dynamic Linq Query Generation (Scott Hanselman)
• Don’t Let Your Code Marry An Axe Murderer (K. Scott Allen)
• A Ruby on Rails Tutorial for .NET Developers (Mike Ceranski)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The TekPub LINQ Challenge And The Sieve Of Eratosthenes (Justin Etheredge)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 2 – Simple Optimizations (Sasha Goldshtein)
• How to transform old properties to automatic properties with a simple search and replace (Daniel Cazzulino)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 1A. A Delegate Factory Facility (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• Running FubuMVC on Mono (OSX) (Tobin Harris)
• Using ASP.NET 3.5′s ListView and DataPager Controls: The Ultimate DataPager Interface (Scott Mitchell)
• Take your MVC User Controls to the next level (David Ebbo)
• Ambiguous Controller Names With Areas (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 4 – CDN (Karl Seguin)
• Building A Color Picker Using ASP.NET MVC And jQuery – Update (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Determining A Significant Change In A Web Page (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Non-functional Architectural Woes (Udi Dahan)
• Unit Testing Biztalk : Two possible frameworks (Roy Osherove)
• C# Test Builder Pattern: My current thinking (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and Desktop .NET Integration (Jeremiah Morrill)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Tutorial: Publish a Access 2007 database to the web and The Visual Studio Documentary: Tony Goodhew full length interview (Tina Wood)
• Hello Windows Azure! (Ryan Dunn)

Community / Events

• Pluralsight On-Demand! New Releases: Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, BizTalk and more! (Bob Familiar)
• Free Developer Training for WPF 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Upcoming Silverlight 4 talk: January 19 (David Makogon)
• OMG! Someone Stole My Code (Davy Brion)
• Wrox on the Road – Wrox authors coming to a conference near you (Jim Minatel)
• “Zero to XAML in 4 hours” – Free in person training from Microsoft and Paul Sheriff and Free in person day long Silverlight/Blend Training – “Silverlight Design Days – Free Blend Training on Tour” (Greg Duncan)
• Looking Back at my 2009 Technology Predictions (Stephen Forte)

Database

• The SQL developer gap (Warning: rant coming up) (Jamie Thomson)
• IN vs INNER JOIN (Gail Shaw)
• Mirroring SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 (part 2) (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Migration QuickStart (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Announces SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade: Test-SPContentDatabase – Key to Successful Upgrade (Joel Oleson)
• Business Connectivity Services PassThrough & RevertToSelf (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Android 2.1 SDK released for developers (PhoneArena Team)
• Coming Soon: Stack Overflow T-Shirts (Jeff Atwood)
• 4 Web Tools You May Have Missed (Darrell Etherington)
• 94 more secret Windows shortcuts (Ed Bott)
• Kodu for PC Technical Preview Available RIGHT NOW (Matthew MacLaurin)
• VUE Turns Your Mind-Mapped Ideas Into Presentations (Lisa Hoover)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: iPod: The Missing Manual, Eighth Edition — Only $9.99! Use discount code PTM89 (O’Reilly Media)
• Using Kolb’s Model to learn about iPhone Development (Patrick Kua)
• The New Slide Show in PowerPoint 2010 (Office Team)
• Coder’s Game: The Queue ICPC Challenge Problem (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #516 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2010 — #776 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: January 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Code Metrics: An Introduction to Visual NDepend (Jose R. Guay Paz)
• Embracing Change – quotable quotes on change and uncertainty and Technical Debt – Definition and Resources (Brad Appleton)
• Protecting Your Application From Remote Problems (Davy Brion)
• Lessons in Software from James Waletzky (J.D. Meier)
• Join the CLUB (Coding Like Uncle Bob) (Jurgen Appelo) – Link of the Day
• Sometimes Hardware is Cheaper than Programmers (Michael Janke)
• Form over function often fails (Nick Berardi)
• Where do developers care for Software Quality? (Patrick Smacchia)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A Simple .NET Profanity Filter (James Newton-King)
• MSpec – Take 2 (Chris Bilson)
• Looking Inside Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• What is a build script? Writing MsBuild Scripts – Part I (Tuna Toksoz)
• WSDL/Schema First – WSCF.blue for WCF goes Beta 1 (Sam Gentile)
• Day #6: Silverlight and the Twitter "Hello, World" (Jeff Blankenburg)

Web Development

• HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF) (Smashing Magazine)
• jLinq 2.2.0 Released! (webdev_hb)
• miniurl – ASP.NET MVC URL Redirection Sample Application (Javier G. Lozano)
• CSS Tips and Tricks (Michael Ceranski)
• AutoMapper in NerdDinner (Matt Hinze)
• Five Questions with Eric Hexter and Jeffrey Palermo (Jonathan Allen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 114: Rob Greenlee (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• SQL Server Subqueries (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Languages for BI – MDX, DMX, XMLA (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Building WCM Sites on SharePoint? – Get the Adventureworks demo modules and site installer (Chandima Kulathilake)

Community / Events

• July 7th – Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Nerd Dinner (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• Players Become Gamers with Kodu (Bruce Kyle)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 5, 2009 and LINKBLOG for July 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #383 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 05, 2009 — #629 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #83 – “Not much to bookmark” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #60 (Grant Palin)
• Links (7/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Discoveries This Week 07/05/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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