Top Links

• Way of MEF slides and Code (Glenn Block)
• Introducing Stack Exchange Data Explorer (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Language-Integrated Query (Richard Carr)
• How to Install Bing Maps App SDK with Visual Studio 2010 (Derek Chan)
• Using a Simple Quick Find (Zain Naboulsi)
• Conditional Attribute (Miguel de Icaza)
• How To Reference A Property By Name Without Using String Constants (Jon Davis)
• Cache Retrieval Pattern (Gil Fink)

Web Development

• How to Execute SSIS Packages in C# ASP.NET Part II (Vuyiswa Maseko)
• jQuery: Storing and retrieving data related to elements (Rebecca Murphey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Kanban just Waterfall with Small Batches? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Refactoring: Convert static into instance (Patrick Kua)
• Scrum vs. Kanban attitudes (Roy Osherove)
• The Funq IoC Container (Anthony Steele)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WCF RIA Services Part 1 published (Brian Noyes)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 83: Ayende Rahien on RavenDB (Jon Galloway)
• The Thirsty Developer 95: DBPro with Barclay Hill (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Web Directions @media 2010 (Rachel Andrew)

Database

• Calculate Average Time Interval in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL Server and the Auto Close Setting (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – What is Denali? (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Two Incredible, Indispensable, Free Utilities (Jesse Liberty)
• Live Sync: life after Live Mesh (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone 7 to add Flash 10.1 support? (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 12, 2010 — #880 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services: From Vision to Architecture (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 3: Activity Control (Brad Abrams)
• Getting Started with Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control SDK CTP and Virtual Earth Silverlight: Basics of Adding Polygons and Polylines using XAML and Code and Virtual Earth Silverlight: Adding Media (Images, Video, etc.) to the Map and Virtual Earth Silverlight: Using Tile Layers to Overlay Custom Map Imagery and Virtual Earth Silverlight: Overlay OpenStreetMap, OpenAerialMap and Yahoo Map Imagery using Custom Tile Layers! (Chris Pietschmann)
• Silverlight 3 Sample Application: Slidentity (Tim Heuer)
• WPFToolkit March 2009 Release and new WPF Themes! (Vincent Sibal)
• Concerns about RIA Services Squashed (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Virtual Earth Silverlight Control – Register Now (Simon Sabin)
• ICommand is like a chocolate cake (Mike Hillberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Delay All Your Decisions (Casey Charlton)
• Friday Books – Architecting Applications… (Dave M. Bush)
• Recomposition and constructors (Glenn Block)
• Progressive Interfaces (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Architecture By Baseball: Spring Training (Larry Clarkin)
• Lean Thinking: Book Review and Reassessing What the Debugger Is For (Mark Needham)
• When "Process" stops working for you …. (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Test Review #2 – ASP.NET MVC Unit Tests (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Essential LINQ Published (Charlie Calvert)
• Why doesn’t MEF support open-generics for exports? Because MEF is not type based. (Glenn Block)
• ReSharper 4.5 – Red Bull for VS (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• IronRuby 0.3 Released (Jimmy Schementi)
• Twitter API – Submit a post in C# (Wally McClure)
• Book review: C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming (Tamir Khason)
• Be Careful With the var Keyword and Expression Builders (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: A Little Hack…err…Cleanup (Harry Pierson)
• ADO.NET Data Services Friendly Feeds , Mapping CLR Types (Phani Raj)
• Talking Point: to ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 (CTP1) (Joel Reyes)

Web Development

• jQuery Link Repository (Dave Schinkel)
• Sueetie Week in Review for March 21, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• JavaScript Testing Does Not Scale and More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries (John Resig)
• New Live Framework Samples (Kevin Ledley)
• MSDN Magazine Series: From Web Dev to RIA Dev (James Kovacs)
• MUrl – a DSL and runtime for exercising HTTP (Jon Flanders)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (2 in a series) (Sara J. Chipps)
• It used to be “write once – deploy anywhere” (Yochay Kiriaty)

Community / Events

• Mix09: Silverlight for Business Apps and .NET RIA Services talks posted (Brad Abrams)
• MIX09 Day 4 and MIX09 Last Day and redux (Dave Campbell)
• MiX09 personal note.. (Jay Kimble)
• Speaking at ASP.NET Connections Next Week (Stephen Walther)
• Mix: Mobile Web Sites with ASP.NET MVC and the Mobile Browser Definition File (Scott Hanselman)
• My Mini-Session at MIX09 (Eclipse and Silverlight) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• UK MVPs Present at the UK’s Biggest Event For Software Developers! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Photo Essay of Mix09 (Jesse Liberty)
• My MIX09 Silverlight 3 ShowOff Video – Commodore 64 Emulator (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week on C9: Live from MIX09 – Silverlight 3, IE 8, SuperPreview and SketchFlow (Dan Fernandez)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #46 (Jeff Atwood)
• Using the Touchless SDK with Visual Basic (Beth Massi)

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Optimize for Ad hoc Workloads – Advance Performance Optimization (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 Fragmentation (Jose Barreto)
• SQL Mesh March 09 update (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Cleaning up your WebPart Gallery (Greg Galipeau)
• IE 8.0 Quick Observation for SharePoint (Reza Alirezaei)
• 10 New SharePoint Themes. (Stephen Cummins)
• Why I don’t use OpenWeb() (Gary Lapointe)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Software & Resources (Blake Handler)
• Google Tests Enhanced Suggestions for IE8 (Alex Chitu)
• Next Office version to ship in 32-bit and 64-bit versions (Ed Bott)
• Two more Microsoft Press books RTM’d today (Devon Musgrave)
• My First IE8 Encounter (Keith Elder)
• Git/Github survival guide (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Live Writer Backup Released (Scott)
• Specialization in Recruiting in Hard Times (Scott Bellware)
• Yet another Scam: Blog Ripping (Rick Strahl)
• Survey for Canvas for OneNote (Nathan)
• Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) (Matt Uyttendaele)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Window Switchers and Previews In Depth (Sasha Goldshtein)
• RTM Platform Changes (Kris Krueger)
• Top 10 Tiny & Awesome Windows Utilities [Lifehacker Top 10] (Kevin Purdy)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 20, 2009 and Interesting Finds: March 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for March 20th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 15 (Denis Gobo)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 03.20~03.22 (yuanjian)
• Some great DSL reading (Jeremy D. Miller)
• New and Notable 306 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: The Ubiquitous Language (Casey Charlton)
• The Other Kind of Exception Handling (Davy Brion)
• The Only Japanese You Need as a Software Developer. Ever. (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Code Review with NDepend (Laila Bougria)
• Cost? (Greg Young)
• TestDriven.Net 2.19: Release Notes (Jamie Cansdale)
• Eager Read Derivation (Martin Fowler)
• The Cost of Messaging (Oren Eini)
• Mocks vs. Stubs (James Kovacs)
• Framework Design Guidelines: System.DBNull (Brad Abrams)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Is the Future, but the Future Isn’t Silverlight (Scott Koon)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #91 – How to Apply Themes from the Silverlight Toolkit and Silverlight Tip of the Day #92 – How to Load Images from a Stream (Mike Snow)
• Integrating Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC (Tim Heuer) – Link of the Day
• Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF, Part 2 (Walt Ritscher)
• XAML Guidelines and Best Practices (Corey Schuman)
• Eclipse and Silverlight, Another Interoperability Journey Has Begun (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Add-In: CopySourceAsHTML (Gunnar Peipman)
• Quickly Setting Up and Using NHibernate’s Second Level Cache (Davy Brion)
• UrlScan and ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) (Scott Hanselman)
• Tour de BCL and An Intro to Barrier (Jason Olson)

Web Development

• How AJAX Is Included as a First Class Concept in Both ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (Anil)
• Validator Toolkit for ASP.NET MVC – Release v1.3 (20090208) (CodePlex)
• Looking at the Past of Community Server (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• WebForms or MVC? What About the Third Option? (Mads Kristensen)
• JavaScript for C# Programmers: Object Basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• It’s Not Just About the Code & Product; Your Website’s "Experience" Is What Matters (Dave Schinkel)
• Another Way to Test Ajax Methods (John Teague)
• How to Use Ninject to Inject Dependencies Into ASP.NET MVC ActionFilters (Simone Chiaretta)
• A Breaking Change Between Versions of ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward)
• S#arp Architecture Trunk Is Compatible with MVC RC (Billy McCafferty)
• JavaScript vs Silverlight vs … (Dave M. Bush)

.NET Community / Events

• Events This Week – February 9th, 2009 and MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow – Correction (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Developer Dinner: What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 (WebForms, AJAX and jQuery)? (Marc Schweigert)
• Announcing – Government Software Developers Group on Facebook (Nandita)
• Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development in .NET Workshop in Austin, Tuesday, March 24th (Scott Bellware)
• New Visual Studio Team System Web Site: http://www.tfsexamples.com/ (Charles Sterling)
• My First Video Blog (Sara J. Chipps)
• Hanselman’s List of Podcasts for .NET Programmers (Scott Hanselman)
• Register Now for Lang.NET Symposium 2009 (Harry Pierson)
• You’re Invited: "7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint for Project Management Success" Webcast (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SQL Server MVPs Provide a Helping Hand (Jas Dhaliwal)

Miscellaneous

• The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture (Jeff Atwood)
• On the Origin of Darwin by Means of Extreme Summary, or the Abbreviation of a Voluminous Life in the Struggle for Brevity (Dave Banks)
• How Important Is the Job Title to You? (Angela McLaughlin)
• Living in the Clouds – OpenDNS (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Early Peek Offered for Microsoft My Phone (Bruce Kyle)
• Google Sync (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Live Mesh Video Player Available (Sarah Perez)
• My Blogging Toolbox (Tim Heuer)
• Free eBook on Microsoft Virtualization Solutions (Jose Barreto)
• Keyboard Thoughts (Scott Mitchell)
• Recognizing Improvements in Windows 7 Handwriting (Yvonne)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links #39 (Grant Palin)
• LINKBLOG for February 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for February 09, 2009 — #512 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.02.10 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #283 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – February 9, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• CloudNews for February 9th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Leadership 101: Open That Door! (Jim Holmes)
• Programming By Numbers (Justin Etheredge)
• My 2 Most Cherished Mistakes (Davy Brion)
• True Swiss Don’t Like Mocks! (Gabriel Schenker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #23: Functional Programming in C# with Oliver Sturm and #24: Chatting About F# with Chris Smith and Dustin Campbell (Keith Elder)
• Anonymous Methods, Lambdas, Confusion (Mike Taulty)
• Much Ado About Monads – Maybe Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Long Division (Eric Lippert)
• Installing Oslo SDK and Creating an Oslo Repository from Scratch (Alex Thissen)
• Using Fluent-NHibernate and Traditional .hbm.xml Files in the Same Project (Derik Whittaker)
• Managed Extensibility Framework Preview 4, a Grab Bag of Goodies (Glenn Block)
• LiveFX: Mesh and Live Framework Clients Can Now Run Side-by-Side (Jamie Thomson)

Silverlight / WPF

• A Comprehensive List to Silverlight Controls for Developers (Tim Heuer) – Link of the Day
• Interesting Silverlight Data Binding "Feature" (Rocky Lhotka)
• Life Changer XAML Tip for Visual Studio (Fabrice Marguerie)
• Live Framework SDK – Revised WPF Photo Sharing Application (Mike Taulty)
• Display Images from a Database in a Silverlight DataGrid Control (Suprotim Agarwal)

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.0: ViewStateMode… Giving You More Control Over ViewState! and ASP.NET 4.0: Page.Keywords and Page.Description Simple, but Useful! (Scott Galloway)
• 15+ Tips to Speed Up Your Website, and Optimize Your Code! (nettuts via G. Andrew Duthie)
• Azure Issue Tracker Available for Download! Learn Cloud Programming the Dev Way – Through Code. (Dave Isbitski)
• Building AgiliTrain: Part 1 – Why ASP.NET MVC (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC 1 and T4 Templates – Add Controller… (David Hayden)
• PHPLinq 0.4.0 Released on CodePlex! (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

• How to Make Sure That the View Will Have the Underlying Table Changes by Using sp_refreshview (Denis Gobo)
• Using Ruby with SQL Server (Michael Ceranski)

PowerShell

• PowerShell LINQ: Skip-While and PowerShell LINQ: Take-Count and Take-While (Jared Parsons)

.NET Community / Events

• CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, February 3rd, 6:30pm – Building Data Centric Web Applications Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Christopher Steen)

Miscellaneous

• The Ultimate Dogfooding Story (Jeff Atwood)
• Introducing Measurement Lab (Vint Cerf & Stephen Stuart)
• IE8 Accelerator for FriendFeed (Adam Kinney)
• How to Make Your Own Theme Pack for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Link Listing – January 27, 2009 and Link Listing – January 28, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: January 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for January 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for January 28, 2009 — #500 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #275 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for January 28th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

• jQuery, JSON, and ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 4 and Part 4a and Part 4b (Julian M. Bucknall)
• DomainDataSource Server Control: LINQ + Code Generation (Nikhil Kothari)
• SYTYAWD #4 Using Regular Expressions in JavaScript (Jeff McWherter)
• Abstracting Request State (Davy Brion)
• Use an Envelope Element in RESTful WCF Service Response (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The Yield Statement in C# (Michael Ceranski)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using LINQ with Unfriendly Collections (Simon Sabin)
• January CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released (Steve Marx)
• Real World Apps in Days not Weeks (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Azure SDK on Windows 7 Beta (David L.)
• How to Convert PDF to Image Using Ghostscript API (Lord TaGoH)
• Hard Lessons Learned from ClickOnce (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Deep Fried F# (Chris Smith)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #3: Configuring Our Application (Eric Gunnerson)
• C#, Lambdas, Closures, Value Types (Mike Taulty)
• Named Format Strings (James Hart)
• First Experience with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition, I Love It!!! (Peter Kellner)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Popup Menu (Philip Kin)
• Updated SLS Plugin for Encoder Available (Tim Heuer)
• CodePlex, Now with Silverlight (John Stockton)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #82 – How to Implement Double Click (Mike Snow)
• Command Helper Classes for Silverlight & WPF (Nick Kramer)
• Perenthia, a Silverlight-Based RPG in Beta (Adam Kinney)
• Prism V2 – Drop 9 Now Available (Bob Brumfield)
• Friday Books – Silverlight 2 in Action (Dave M. Bush)
• Tutorial #11: Creating a Navigation in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ux Tip 2 – UX Review (Corey Miller)
• Named Formats Pex Testimonium (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Getting Results From Software Development Teams (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Big Redesign in the Sky (Uncle Bob Martin)
• 12 Useful Web Tools for Designers (Jacob Gube)
• The Danger of Commenting Out Code and YAGNI: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)
• DDD: The Generic Repository (Greg Young)
• Future-Proofing a Design (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Test Case Reuse (in the Future) (James Whittaker)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 146 – Test Driven Development Is Design – The Last Word on TDD (Scott Hanselman)
• The Aggressive Class vs The Laid Back Class (Chris Missal)
• Eric Evans on Repositories (Mike Hadlow)
• Code Refactoring – Freaking Awesome (Mike Bernat)

SharePoint

• SPSiteBuilder 3.0 Re-released with Source (Keith Richie)
• Five Steps to More Successful SharePoint Solutions (Gunnar Peipman)

Database

• Using Fluent NHibernate to Map Composite Keys for a Table (Derik Whittaker)
• How to Implement a TypeOf Operator in SQL by Using sql_variant_property (Denis Gobo)

.NET Community / Events

• TCSWeekly, A New Client-Focused Show on Channel 9 (Adam Kinney)
• A New Side Project – Geeks Without Borders (James Johnson)
• Follow Up: Developer Dinner on Silverlight Business Applications (Marc Schweigert)
• MSDN Developer Conference – WOW! (G. Andrew Duthie) – It was a really great event. My full wrap-up post is coming soon!
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #83 – Go to MIX09 (Mike Snow)

PowerShell

• How to Make Your Own Module Repository and Using PowerShell to Protect Against Conficker (Enabling and Disabling AutoRun.inf) (James Brundage)
• Introduction to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets in Windows 7 (Lilia Gutnik)
• XML Part 1: Playing wit RSS Feeds and XML Content (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

• Search Twitter with Windows 7′s Federated Search (Lee Matthews)
• User Account Control (UAC) – Quick Update (Windows Team)
• Video Demonstration: The Best New Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts (Adam Pash)
• My 2009 Top 10 Technology Hit List (Russell Ball)
• What I Use (January 2009 Update) (Paul Thurrott)
• Planet of the Apes Font (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Hire the Best: Architecture (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Top 10 Things to Learn – 2009 Edition (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Live Mesh Team Joins Windows/Windows Live Org (Kip Kniskern)
• Google Chrome Installation and Updates (Ian Fette)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 15, 2009 and LINKBLOG for January 16, 2009 and LINKBLOG for January 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #117 (Tim Boland)
• CloudNews for January 15th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Visual Studio Links #100 (Darren Stokes)
• Links (1/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2009 — #487 and Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 — #488 and Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 – 2 — #489 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – January 15, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #266 (Chris Alcock)
• Discoveries This Week 01/16/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight News for January 16, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.15 ~ 01.17 (yuanjian)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 7 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day

Silverlight 2 in Action: Chad Campbell, John Stockton: Books

.NET / Visual Studio

• Advanced C# – Unsafe Mode (Dave M. Bush)
• Learn a New Language Every Year? (Julie Lerman)
• Debugging UI (Aaron Lerch)
• Launched My Personal CodePlex Project: http://www.codeplex.com/mostlylucid (Scott Galloway)
• Windsor WCF Integration (Mike Hadlow)
• Using Classifications in MGrammar’s Intellipad and ADO.NET Data Services for Multiple Databases? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Dynamic Data: Annotating Your Data-Driven World (Jonathan Carter)
• SonicFileFinder 2.1 Released (Jens Schaller via Roland Weigelt)
• Query Data with Parallel LINQ (Charlie Calvert)

Web Development

• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) – The Model-View-Controller Pattern (Nick Berardi)
• Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML (Brian Reindel)
• Redirect Routes and Other Fun with Routing and Lambdas (Phil Haack)
• New ASP.NET MVC Sample – Oxite – Needs Some TLC (Scott Koon)
• IE8 Readiness and IETester (Sergio Pereira)
• Removing the .SVC Extension from WCF REST URLs (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET Development: MVC vs. Web Forms (Rachel Appel)
• XSS Follow Up: Search Suck (Rob Conery)
• Oxite – Oh Dear Lord Why?! (Karl Seguin)
• Oxite (Javier G. Lozano)
• CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 2 – Cloud-Enabling CarTrackr (Maarten Balliauw)
• A Tale of WebTests, IIS Application Pools and Assembly Load Exceptions (Josh Twist)
• My Quick Take on Oxite (Chad Myers)
• MVC/jQuery Meets Xmas Music Project (Josh Schwartzberg)
• jQuery – Calling Your Own Functions (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban in Software Development. Part 2.5: A Variation on Queues – Pipelines for WIP and Done (Derick Bailey)
• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 3 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Business Readable DSL (Martin Fowler)
• How My Team Does Agile (Tom Hollander)
• UML Request for Information (Cameron Skinner)
• Framework Design Guidelines: An Appeal for Consistency (Brad Abrams)
• Introduction to TestAPI – Part 1: Input Injection APIs (Ivo Manolov)
• Domain Models in Presentation Frameworks (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• Model Driven Development with “Oslo” (Gunther Lenz)
• SOA Anti-Pattern: The Knot (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF

• Unity for Silverlight from patterns & practices (Ade Miller)
• Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF (Walt Ritscher)
• What Can You Make with 10k of Silverlight or WPF? (Adam Kinney)
• My WPF Bookshelf (Roland Weigelt)
• Silverlight SEO (Boyan Mihaylov)

Database

• Generating XML Schema Documents Using SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server 2005 SP3 (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server – Find Collation of Database and Table Column Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 Has Been Released (Denis Gobo)
• Database Normalization (Richard Carr)

SharePoint

• SQL Server Reporting Services Add-In for SharePoint Technologies (MS Downloads)
• Announcing the WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint (Ryan Duguid)
• Microsoft Releases a WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint and SharePoint Workflow Forms Development with ASP.NET 2.0 Pages… Without the Pain! (Andrew Connell)

Events / Community

• Video NINE Questions with Jennifer Marsman (Chris G. Williams)
• Events This Week – December 15th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 2008: A Developer’s Retrospective (Meera Subbarao)

Miscellaneous

• Second Birthday for CodeClimber and Windows Live Writer 2009 RC Released (Simone Chiaretta)
• Photosynth Experimental Silverlight Viewer, View Synths on Any Computer and Windows Live Essentials Beta Released (Sunshine)
• Zapproved Opens Doors to Help You with Approvals (Aliza Sherman)
• Two Resources for Web Workers: Finding Jobs and Professional Development (Darrell Etherington)
• Mooncake Brings DeepZoom to Flickr and SmugMug (Sarah Perez)
• Why Isn’t a Good Team Player Good for a Team? (Andy Singleton)
• Windows 7: Continuing Our Discussion on Performance (Michael Fortin & Steven Sinofsky)
• Easy, Efficient Hi-Def Video Playback (Jeff Atwood)
• Is Programming Really Appropriate for a Seven Year Old? (Brian Reindel)
• Info: What I’m Running (Eric Charran)
• Live Mesh: The Killer App for Netbooks (Steve Clayton)
• Gingerbread Architecture for All (Aidan Chopra)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 15, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 15, 2008 — #456 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for December 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• CloudNews for December 15th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links of the Week #64 (David Vidmar)
• New and Notable 281 (Sam Gentile)
• The Morning Brew #245 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 16, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day

Microsoft® .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (PRO-Developer): Dino Esposito, Andrea Saltarello: Books ISBN: 073562609X ISBN-13: 9780735626096