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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)

The Geek Shelf

Head First iPhone Development: A Learner’s Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Lambda Expressions: An Introduction and Lambda Expressions: Finding an Item in a Generic List and Delegates and Lambda Expressions: Syntax and Lambda Expressions: Predicate Delegates and Lambda Expressions: Action Delegates and Lambda Expressions: Func Delegates (Deborah Kurata)
• "M" Language Type Definitions for 280 Popular (and not so popular) Data Models (Chris Sells)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Enabling Bulk Inserts (Davy Brion)
• Team Build Property Reference Guide (Steve Andrews)
• LINQ to SQL, Lazy Loading and Prefetching (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• Model View Presenter via ASP .NET (Steven James Gray)
• Prevent Cut, Copy and Paste Operations in an ASP.NET TextBox using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NHProf in the real world: NHibernate Search integration (Oren Eini)
• Slutty Types (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
• Non-Technical Factors that Lead to Poor Architectures (Mike Walker)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part I: Ask for It (Patrick Kua)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 14. (Rajiv Popat)
• 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control, Part 2 (Rob Conery)
• How We Do Things – Testing Part 2 (Scott C Reynolds)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight DataForm for WPF? (Rudi Grobler)
• Manipulating Character Outlines in Silverlight (Charles Petzold)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video Posted for Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines (Brad Abrams)
• Episode 87 – PowerScripting Podcast – Sergei Antonov from the IIS team (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Herding Code 62: MonoTouch with Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton (Jon Galloway)
• Road2SPC Interview with Tom Rizzo (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Query Optimization – Remove Bookmark Lookup – Remove RID Lookup – Remove Key Lookup – Part 3 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Engineering SharePoint (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• My Tools of the Trade – 2009 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Lifehacker Readers’ Biggest Google Annoyances (Kevin Purdy)
• Installing Ubuntu on Hyper-V (Mike Hadlow)
• Intellects Don’t Appreciate Intelligence (Max Pool)
• Five Best Windows Task Manager Alternatives (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Find users in too many groups (Dmitry Sotnikov) – A PowerShell tip.
• Zoho Meeting: Instant PC Diagnostics with Remote Support (Hari)
• TIP: How to Run Programs as a Domain User from a Non-domain Computer (James Kovacs)
• Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication (MG Siegler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #452 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 11, 2009 — #709 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #93 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #74 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #7 – A Continuous Learner’s Weblog, Links (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 114 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/11/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• New and Notable 380 (Sam Gentile)
• Links (10/11/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day