Design / Methodology / Testing

• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.6 (Jeff Brown) – Link of the Day
• Event: Version 1.1.0 of DDDSample Application released (Eric, Jimmy, Ying & Vlad)
• AntiPaste, because Pasting Code Is Harmful (Tony Rasa)
• Dramatically leverage your Code Reviews (Patrick Smacchia)
• Pair Programming: From a Lean angle (Mark Needham)
• Game Development going Agile (Michael C. Neel)
• Experimenting With Fluent Interfaces in the Domain (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 3: Triggers, Actions, Behaviors (Christian Schormann)
• Folding animation in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• Interested in Silverlight 3? (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Silverlight for WordPress (Tim Heuer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ExceLINQ – Not Your Typical LINQ Provider (Bart de Smet)
• ADO.NET Data Services Friendly Feeds , Mapping EDM Types – I (Phani Raj)
• Inserting Many to Many Relationships in EF with or without a Join Entity (Julie Lerman)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Product Backlog Prioritization Survey (J.D. Meier)

Web Development

• What happened to MicrosoftAjaxDataService.js? (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Getting an ASP.NET Application Relative Path from a Logical Path (Rick Strahl)
• Prototype of VEToolkit + ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Component Checked In (Chris Pietschmann)

Community / Events

• Contest to thank all who have played and purchased Dr. Popper on Xbox Live Community Games (Bill Reiss)
• Silverlight team and Twitter (Corey Schuman)

Miscellaneous

• New Crop of Job Hunters (With Microsoft Résumés) (Julie Bick)
• Job Satisfaction, And Making The World A Better Place (Casey Charlton)
• Support Of Commercial Software vs Open Source Software (Davy Brion)
• Win7 and IE8 Beta Issues (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Laziness in Scala (Ted Neward)
• Determining Browser Market Share (John Resig)
• Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Jan Van Ryswyck)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2009 – 2 — #556 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: March 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
• The role of the software architect (video, part 1) (Simon Brown)
• SOA Doesn’t Change Toxic Human Behaviors, And Their Consequences (Bob McIlree)
• Book Review: The Art of Lean Software Development (Derick Bailey)
• Suck At Estimation? Use The 2 Day Crutch Method. (Max Pool)
• Why I’m not signing the Software Craftsmanship manifesto… Yet. (Sebastien Lambla)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Dealing with Confused Installations (Gert Drapers)
• Some Visual Studio Tips (Patrick Smacchia)
• Silverlight Dependency Property Snippet (Shawn Wildermuth)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: the arguments array and JavaScript for C# programmers: refactoring the expression evaluator (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Using JsonResult with jQuery in ASP.NET MVC (Shashank Shetty)
• Screencast: Dive Into ASP.NET MVC RC2 (Elijah Manor)
• Why I Prefer the MVC/Model 2 Style over WebForms (Jeremy D. Miller)
• But don’t worry, WebForms is not going away… (Joshua Flanagan)
• Health Monitoring in ASP.NET 3.5 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Multiple Form Configurations with ASP.NET Dynamic Data and Dynamic Data: Partial/Scaffolding Class Generator (Ingo Rammer)
• Invalid postback or callback argument (David Fowler)

Community / Events

• Meet the Xbox MVPs! (Al Pascual)
• SharePoint MVPs having fun playing paintball (Ton Stegeman)
• ASPInsiders, now with more me! (Bil Simser)
• RockNUG – 3/11/2009 – Functional Programming in .NET (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Announcing the new "Silverlight" Expertise for the MVP Program (Kathy Kam)

Database

• Designing a document database (Ayende Rahien)

Miscellaneous

• Why are we so cheap with software? (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• I can’t believe I… (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong (Jeff Atwood)
• Look Ma, No Hands! (Davy Brion)
• Application Compatibility Testing — International (Win7 Test Team)
• Free PowerShell EBook (Jeffrey Snover)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for March 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #302 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 03.04~03.09 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #43 (Grant Palin)
• Link Listing – March 8, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Links of the week #74 (David Vidmar)
• Links (3/7/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 84 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 302 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Git’s lack of respect for immutability and the Best Practices for a DVCS (Eric Sink)
• Testing ASP.NET MVC with QUnit – Part 1 (Brady Gaster)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Factored Types (Brad Abrams)
• Decade of Agile, Dawn of Lean (Scott Bellware) – Link of the Day
• Test types and Continous Integration (Laila Bougria)
• Ninject.FilterInjector v1.5: now injecting inside all kind of filters (Simone Chiaretta)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Preview of Code Contract Tools Now Available (Melitta Andersen)
• SharePoint Developers Get Big Boost in Visual Studio 2010 (Bruce Kyle)
• Talking Points: ADO.NET Entity Framework (Joel Reyes)
• Closures in C#: Variable Scoping and Value Types vs Reference Types (Derick Bailey)
• Book review: LINQ in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Thoughts on the Code Contracts Preview for .NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• Declaration of Awesomeness for the Mono Compiler (Scott Koon)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #27: Present and Future of the C# Language and Demystifying WCF on DNRTV (Keith Elder)
• Tips & Tricks for the Visual C# Integrated Development Environment (Lindsay Rutter)
• Use IDispatchMessageFormatter and IClientMessageFormatter to Customize Messages in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Custom Destinations (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Nintender – Open Source Nintendo Emulator in C# – Release: v.001 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: prototypes, the basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• IE6 Warning – Stop Living In The Past – Get off of IE6 (Scott Hanselman)
• Creating and Consuming Syndication Feeds in ASP.NET 3.5 (Scott Mitchell)
• JavaScript Function Call Profiling (John Resig)
• Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign (Simone Chiaretta)
• SharePoint Online and jQuery (Stephen Cummins)
• JavaScript, time to grok closures (Sergio Pereira)

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Create a Drag & Drop / Move, Zoom In & Out Content Control (Amit Raz)
• New Preloader for Silverlight (Corey Schuman)
• Excellent Tool For Silverlight Developers (Davy Brion)
• Drawing with Ink in ASP.NET using Silverlight (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Announcing Family.Show v3 – Our WPF Reference Application (Tim Sneath)

Community / Events

• The official unofficial MIX09 Tweetup (Adam Kinney)
• Events This Week – February 23rd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MIX09 ticket winners (Tim Heuer)
• Heading to MIX 09 and Presenting Too (John Papa)
• The Importance of Code Camp in a recession (Stephen Forte)

Database

• Advanaced TSQL and performance tuning (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server 2008 – CTE’s (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 3.1 installed on Nokia N95 (Tim Conneally)
• Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec) Will Sync Tabs with Firefox on Your Desktop [Fennec] (Adam Pash)
• Social Desktop extends REST to your desktop (Jamie Thomson)
• Twitter PowerShell Script (Sarah Perez)
• Commodore 128 (Pete Brown)
• Web Work 101: Telecommuting – Out of Sight Doesn’t Have to Mean Out of Mind (Judi Sohn)
• (Officially) Announcing the Resident Evil Limited Edition Console (Larry Hyrb)
• Now, Discover Your Strengths (Steve Rowe)
• HowTo: Hello "Cloud-Computing" (Robert Muehsig)
• Why Do Enterprise Applications Suck? (Michael Nygard)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #293 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: February 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Link Listing – February 23, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2009 — #526 (Dave Campbell)
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Resources (Rachel Appel)
• CloudNews for February 23rd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Rich Interactive Learning Materials Using Microsoft Semblio (Zhiming Xue)
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 – Episode 1: A Focus on Testing (Clemens Reijnen) – Link of the Day
• Fluent NHibernate – The Official Website (James Gregory)
• Infinite Lists with C# Yield (Justin Etheredge)
• Take Advantage of Multiple Cores with PLINQ (Michael Ceranski)

Web Development

• STARTER #1: Using the DataList Control in ASP.NET (Jeff Blankenburg)
• ASP.NET CheckBox and jQuery (Chris Brandsma)
• ASP.NET Model View Controller (Dave M. Bush)
• 15 jQuery Plugins to Fix and Beautify Browser Issues (Noura Yehia)
• Managed Mashup Framework (Brendon Schwartz)
• You’re Doing It Wrong (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Do We Measure Maturity in Software? (Justin Etheredge)
• DSL Migration (Martin Fowler)
• Leanroom! (Corey Ladas)
• Leadership 101: Wrapping Up (Jim Holmes)
• Domain Driven Design & Test Driven Design with Entity Framework, Part 1 Building Domain Object Model (Muhammad Mosa)
• DDD Aggregate Component Pattern in Action (Jimmy Bogard)
• Thoughts on Developer Testing (Jay Fields)
• We Don’t Have Requirements Yet, but How Long Will This Take You? (Robert McIlree)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and VOIP (Corey Schuman)
• Book Review: Silverlight in Action (John Papa)
• Video: Silverlight 2 Data Form – Episode 8: Client Storage (Ilia Iordanov)
• XBAPs Part 1: An Introduction to This Gem (Marlon Grech)
• BOOK – Manning WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008 (Joe Stagner)

.NET Community / Events

• Events This Week – February 4th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL Server Observation – Effect of Clustered Index Over Nonclustered Index (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Covering Indexes (George Mastros)

SharePoint

• To Use the SharePoint Blog or Not? (Bob Mixon)

PowerShell

• Diff Between Windows PowerShell Versions (Osama Sajid)

Miscellaneous

• Does Unrelated Experience Look Bad on My Resume? (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Beginning Objective-C for the C# Guy (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Help Us Improve Live Mesh! (Live Mesh Team)
• Offline Google Calendar (Mark Mathson & Tom Rodman)
• Update on UAC (Jon DeVaan)
• Microsoft.com Moves to Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta and Scott Guthrie: Currently No Plans for a 64-bit Silverlight (Emil Protalinski)
• Microsoft Shifts Execs to Windows Mobile, Gears Up for… Something (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

• Tech Twitterings #14 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 04, 2009 — #507 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for February 4th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for February 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #280 (Chris Alcock)
• Roundup of 11 Recent Microsoft Technology Releases (Chris Bowen)
• New and Notable 288 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: February 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day