I’ll be having surgery on my torn achilles tendon in a few hours. There may or may not be a Dew Drop post tomorrow, depending on how I am feeling.

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Top Links

• Creating a Fluent Interface with C# (Deran Schilling)
• OData Basics – At the AZGroups "Day of .NET" with ScottGu (Scott Hanselman)
• Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Released (Grigori Melnik)
• 10%, Take Two (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Simplify Your Unit Tests With Auto Mocking: Part 1 – Helper Methods (Derick Bailey)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Code Contracts Survey (BCL Team)
• Exception Handling in the .NET Framework Data Provider for ODBC, OLE DB, and for SQL Server (ADO.NET Team)
• Fluent NHibernate 1.1 released (John V. Petersen)
• Want to write Managed IE/Shell Extensions, but thought that was “bad”? That was the past… With .Net 4 the world of Managed Extensions is now open to you. (Greg Duncan)
• Template Driven Assembly References (Rory Becker)
• Use the Microsoft Addin Framework, MAF to Create Highly Scalable Classes in Any .Net Application (Jeff)

Web Development

• Book Review: JavaScript – The Good Parts (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• The jQuery Course Prerelease – Learn More (Marc Grabanski)
• Catching clicks with clickCatcher before your JavaScript files have loaded/events been applied (Robert Nyman)
• jQuery.validate and Html.ValidationSummary playing nice together (Simon Ince)
• Sort Items of a BulletedList Control using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Advanced Migrations (Oren Eini)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Patterns In C# – Singleton Design Pattern (Richard McCutchen)
• Great new intro article on SOA in Plain English (Sam Gentile)
• 7 Tips for Managing a Remote Work Force (Mitchell Harper)
• Docx 2 UnitTest – an interesting tool for VS2010 (Dror Helper)
• Introduction to unit testing in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MSF-A+SDL Process Template for VS 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Project Greenfield: Testing the TDD Waters (Joel Cochran)
• Exclude a team member – and you’re an idiot (Roy Osherove)
• An Overview of Lean Software Practices (Jared Richardson)
• Exploring Selenium 2: Introduction & Lessons Learned in Selenium 1 (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 and Adding Project References (Derik Whittaker)
• Perf Tools for WPF (.NET 4) (Lester Lobo)
• A Distributable (.exe) Silverlight OOB Application (Alnur Ismail)
• 20 Silverlight 4 demos in one zip file (András Velvárt)
• Building OpenPOS: Part 9 – Settings and Notifications (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 81: Simplicity, balance, and focus in teaching software development (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 113 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brandon Shell Talks Citrix and Other PowerShell Goodness (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Making of Office 2010 – Abigail Welborn, Software Development Engineer – Microsoft Access (Tina Wood)
• Video – Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams (Roy Osherove)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 14 – Build Mastery with Jason Stangroome (Richard Banks)
• New open source projects to facilitate interoperability with Outlook .pst data files (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere)
• endpoint.tv – Activities and Designers with Matt Winkler (Part 2) (Ron Jacobs)
• The Engadget Show – 009: Kevin Lynch, editor Q&A, AT&T GNOC tour, Sprint EVO 4G (Chad Mumm)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #176: Going Lazy with System.Lazy (Derik Whittaker)
• Ping 59: Private Cloud strategy, Gadget predictions, Microsoft is the most social company, Free Robotics (Laura Foy)
• My "Git Branching and Workflows" presentation at Austin Code Camp 2010 (Jason Meridth)

Community / Events

• East Coast PASS Event Options (Jack Corbett)
• Google Summer of Code 2010: Let the Coding Begin! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• What’s it like to work for Bing? (Eugenia Sawa)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – SQL Azure vs. SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamically Pass a Table Name to TRUNCATE TABLE (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• New Book: SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating (Joel Oleson)
• Check out Social Squared (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Who’s afraid from C++ (Dror Helper)
• Every Program There Is, Part Nine (Eric Lippert)
• PSAM (PowerShell Admin Module) = PowerShell Share Fun (Greg Duncan)
• Gitosis and Gitweb – Part 1 – Setup and Part 2 – Add Projects and Contributors (Jason Meridth)
• Apple’s five stages of Google grieving (Joe Wilcox)
• The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 1 (Joey Beninghove)
• 100 DZone Refcardz And Counting… and DZone Refcardz: There Will Be An App For That (James Sugrue)
• The results are in: Google’s Pac-Man homage cost the world $120,483,800 in just one day (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/24/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 24, 2010 — #868 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 146 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #607 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Android Application Development: Programming with the Google SDK

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Self-Contained Entity Framework Models and ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Julie Lerman)
• Multi-Threaded K-Means Clustering in .NET 4.0 (Justin Etheredge)
• Fun with Linq Aggregate (Mike Hadlow)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part IV (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Asynchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
• Enabling Recomposition in MEF (Preview (Derik Whittaker)
• Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for the Entity Framework (EF Team)
• Partitioning Data Using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Windsor lazy loading (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Passionate Programmer Book Review (Louis Salin)
• A Gentle Nudge: Too Much Inspiration Is Highly Overrated. (Rajiv Popat)
• The Open/Closed Principle – A real world example (Joel Abrahamsson)
• "Mark my words, if you want to stay relevant and competitive in the coming years — I…" (Sebastian Hermida)
• Revisiting NAnt for Builds (Grant Palin)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF graph that detects circular dependencies (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 130: Trapped, Like Carrots (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com (Bob Familiar)
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio Beta 2, Part II (Charlie Calvert)
• Major Nelson Show #339: Getting Ready for Holiday 2009 (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• SketchFlow and Blend at PDC ‘09 (Christian Schormann)
• NotAtPDC is back! (Steve Andrews) – Link of the Day
• SQLAuthority News – Notes of Excellent Experience at SQL PASS 2009 Summit, Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 Atlanta (Karl Scotland)

Database

• SQL Server Random Number Generation (Richard Carr)
• RoundhousE: Configuration (Rob Reynolds)

Miscellaneous

• I Can Do That With 1 Line of PowerShell: Installed Software (Jeffrey Snover)
• Signing PowerShell Scripts – Automatically (Joel Bennett)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/16 (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #477 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 15, 2009 — #732 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #97 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.09 ~ 11.16 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #79 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Finds: November 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (11/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 119 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Getting Started (Scott Mitchell)
• Posting Twitter Tweets from ASP.NET using the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Parse JSON with jQuery and JavaScript redux using the Flickr Services API (Brian Reindel)
• jHtmlArea – The all NEW HTML WYSIWYG Editor for jQuery (Chris Pietschmann)
• jQuery Splitter (Dave M. Bush)
• Simplify calling ASP.NET AJAX services from jQuery (Dave Ward)
• Reordering invoice lines using jqGrid and TableDND extension (Gunnar Peipman)
• Running a WCF Service on IIS 7 (Dan Wahlin)
• Computing with JavaScript Web Workers (John Resig)
• Gestalt: Ruby and Python in the browser, again (Jimmy Schementi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mercurial vs. SVN (Charles Chen)
• Git-TFS Integration – Background (James Deville)
• Bottlenecks (Anne Epstein)
• The Tale of the Lazy Architect (Oren Eini)
• Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Part 2: How (Theory) (Derick Bailey)
• The Project Date – Kill It! (Kirk Knoernschild) – Link of the Day
• What is Cadence? (Karl Scotland)
• Use Code Analysis to measure the quality of sample code (Habib Heydarian)
• Braindump on the Event Aggregator Pattern (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Good Lazy and Bad Lazy and Coding: Quick feedback (Mark Needham)
• Planning for Feature-Complete Deadlines (Jurgen Appelo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Catching the .NET Service Bus part 1: Exposing a service on the bus (Alex Thissen)
• Oracle provider Beta Available! (Cameron Skinner)
• VB.NET Nullable Value Types (Dave M. Bush)
• Building a Business Object Base Class and Formatting Text Files and Populating a TreeView Control from XML (Deborah Kurata)
• R# Refactoring Steps For Introducing a Const (Howard Dierking)
• The Most Amazing Visual Studio Add-In Ever (JP Hamilton)
• Instantiating types with no public constructors (Kirill Osenkov)
• Bing Desktop Translator using C# and VB.NET (Shoban Kumar)
• NHibernate Trick (Tobin Harris)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #108 – How to Create an Out of Browser Application. (Mike Snow)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store (Brad Abrams)
• New controls in Silverlight 3 (Cheryl Simmons)
• Creating Games with Silverlight: A Simple Shooter (Coding4Fun)
• Silverlight 3 Offline CHM released! (Sam)
• Download Expression Studio 3 (Taimur Asad)
• Silverlight 3 Bouncing plane gratuitous demo and FloatableWindow source on CodePlex (Tim Heuer)
• CSLA .NET 3.7 released with Silverlight 3 support (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 3’ on Blend 3: Videos on Blend and SketchFlow… in Dutch, French and English (Christian Schormann)
• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Michael Isard – Inside Dryad (Charles Torre)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “Opportunity in a gorilla suit” (Devon Musgrave)
• Education Labs release Windows Live Moodle Plug-in and Introducing the Education Labs group (Nic Fillingham)
• Radio TFS 24: Team Build with William Bartholomew (Radio TFS)
• Gestalt – Nishant Kothary and Joshua Allen (Robert Hess)
• Lean and Kanban Videos (Roy Osherove)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 21st, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Singapore’s 50 Successful Developers (Kit Kai)
• Take the survey and help shape the next wave of Web Guidance from Microsoft’s P&P team. (Joe Stagner)
• Meetup in Philadelphia with Jon Kern! (Corey Haines)

PowerShell

• URLs for PowerShell Core Help Topics (June Blender)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Value Calculator (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Google Docs, Slowly Morphing into Google Drive (Alex Chitu)
• Getting Ready for Windows 7 Part 1: Why Be Ready for Windows 7? and Part 2: Microsoft Programs to Help Get Apps Compatible and Blogs to Watch for Office 2010 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• It’s official, Windows 7 will RTM on August 6 – family pack confirmed (Lee Mathews)
• Outlook 2010 jumplist in Windows 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft’s fiscal 2010 game plan: Seven must-see slides (Sumeeth Evans)
• Virtual Camaraderie – A Persistent Video "Portal" for the Remote Worker (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #395 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2009 — #649 and Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2009 – 2 — #650 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 21st July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 32 (Kathleen Sanders)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Resharper Tip : To-do Explorer (Brett Veenstra)
• Create NHibernate classes using T4 (Brendan Kowitz)
• WiimoteLib 1.8 Beta 1 Posted (Brian Peek)
• Office 2010 gotcha 2: Visual Studio 2008 Locks (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Introducing LINQ to M (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Design Documents in CouchDB and Validation and NHibernate 2.1 and Collection Event Listeners (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• .NET Binding Redirects – Updating Referenced Assemblies Without Recompiling Code (Rob Reynolds)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• JEDI Programming – Just Enough Design Initially (Brad Appleton)
• Demeter Helps You Fend Off the One True Constant: Change (JC Teague)
• Software Engineering: Dead? (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day
• Introducing the Common Service Factory — IoC and WCF living in harmony (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Will you thrive, or be left behind? (Bill Wagner)
• Do Agilists Understand Lean? (Scott Bellware)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and WCF Deployment Gotcha (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Day #19: Silverlight Pixel Shader Effects (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Silverlight Synthesizer Source Code – MediaStreamSource Raw Sound (Pete Brown)
• My MVVM Framework : AKA Cinch (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design (Cameron Chapman)
• Save Your Word Docs to Windows Azure Blobs! (David Lemphers)
• Tip #89: Did you know…You could customize Toolbars in Visual Web Developer? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• Url.Action() and RouteValue Encoding (Rick Strahl)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Girl Developer the News Episode 2 (Sara Chipps)
• Major Nelson Show #326: Gaming in Germany, Gears of War and ‘Splosion Man (Larry Hryb)
• Episode 77 – PowerScripting Podcast – Edward Haletky (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation (Brad Abrams)
• Save the Date for Professional Developers Conference (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Get Last Running Query Based on SPID (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2" for Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 (Blake Handler)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – July ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #393 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 18, 2009 — #645 and Silverlight Cream for July 19, 2009 — #646 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for July 19, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• My new home page, enhanced [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!] (David Anson)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 07.13 ~ 07.20 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #62 (Grant Palin)
• Links (7/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Discoveries This Week 07/19/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• New and Notable 344 (Sam Gentile)
• Weekly Link Post 102 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day