Web Development

• Editing in jqGrid with asp.net mvc (Eric Schoneveld)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip: Turn on compile-time View Checking (Adrian Grigore)
• Community Server and JavaScript (Agnes Molnar)
• GitHub’s New API Lets You Mashup Git Repositories (Andres Ferrate)
• JQuery Ajax with Class Arrays (Chris Brandsma)
• Creating jQuery plug-ins from MicrosoftAjax components (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Sorting ASP.NET DropDownList Using LINQ (Malcolm Sheridan)
• My article on client-side data binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 is now live (Fritz Onion)
• Adding Default Assemblies, Namespaces and Control Prefixes in Web.Config (Rick Strahl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Castle Windsor 2.0 RTM Released (Oren Eini)
• I need some peer review on this (Chad Myers)
• Debugging NHibernate Exceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• The Stack Is An Implementation Detail, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Getting a Recursive FTP File List in .Net (Michael C. Neel)
• Unit testing WCF data contract serialization. (Peter Ritchie)
• Thoughts on M/Oslo DSL/metadata requirements (Rockford Lhotka)
• Programming Twittering with Visual Basic (Rod Paddock)

Silverlight / WPF

• 4 Great Tips for Custom WPF Controls Developers (Amit Raz)
• “View Model” – the movie, cast your vote. (Glenn Block)
• Measuring the x,y distance between two elements in Silverlight (Josh Twist)
• Moonlight 2.0 Preview Released (Silverlight Team)
• Did you know? – Silverlight Class Library can’t be named with “.Resources” (Michael Sync)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video segment 4 (N-tier) online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Notifying the UI when Entity References Change in Lookup Comboboxes (Beth Massi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making the Business Case for Agility (Lee Cunningham)
• The buddy classes are drowning DRY (Oren Eini)
• Adding humour to Tester/Developer collaboration (Mark Needham)
• A Touch Of Polish for yUML (Tobin Harris)
• Implementing TeamCity for .NET Projects: Evolving Your Build Automation Solution and Implementing TeamCity for .NET projects, Part 1: Just Build It! (A Simple Build Configuration) (Richard Cirerol)
• On Measuring Agility, Craftsmanship, and Everything Else (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• PTOM – Brownfield development – Making your dependencies explicit (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• NDepend – Code Metrics at Your Fingertips (Michael Ceranski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kate Gregory Still Programs in C++! (Carl Franklin)
• Executive Strategies for Agile Transition – Charlie Kennedy and Tom Paider (Bob Payne)
• Philip Wadler and Erik Meijer: On Programming Language Theory and Practice (Charles Torre)
• MS Virtual Labs: Microsoft Open XML and LINQ to XML (Joel Reyes)
• The Thirsty Developer 61: I got nothing! (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

• Foundation Series, Session 3, Wed May 13th (Brian Donahue)
• NINE Questions with Steve Andrews (Chris Williams)
• I’m now a Silverlight MVP! (Dave Campbell) – Congrats, Dave!
• Events This Week – May 4th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 11 TechEd Sessions next week-hope to see you there (Stephen Forte)
• SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – TechEd India 2009 – Hyderabad (Pinal Dave)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Bill Evjen on Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (Me)

SharePoint

• MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 2) and MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 3) (Liam Cleary)
• Introducing ComponentOne SharePoint Web Parts (Joe Stagner)

PowerShell

• PowerShellToys – WOW! (Jeffrey Snover)
• Top 10 Windows 7 Features #9: Native PowerShell 2.0 (Scott M. Fulton, III)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 RC users get new IE 8 ‘tab responsiveness’ feature (Mary Jo Foley)
• Top 10 Open Source Projects for .NET Developers (Me)
• I Just Logged In As You (Jeff Atwood)
• 2009 – A Year of Learning (so far) (Karl Seguin)
• IE8 in Windows 7 RC: Reliability and Telemetry (IE Team)
• NewCloudApp() Azure Developer Contest: Win $5000 (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows PHP Virtual Labs and Designing Generation 4.0 Data Centers (Hanu Kommalapati)
• How to story your TFS password – #027 (Sara Ford)
• 8 Disastrous Product Names (Ransom Riggs)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #340 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 — #585 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 92 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for May 4th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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Long list today because I skipped the weekend post. I was busy at Philly.NET Code Camp 2009.1 on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came out to my S#arp Architecture talk, especially Nick and Sara.

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# String.Empty Example and Issues (Sam Allen)
• C# “” better than string.Empty? (Dave M. Bush)
• NHibernate Mapping – <one-to-one/> and NHibernate Mapping – <join/> (Oren Eini)
• More on the lock-free stack/queue: memory fences (Julian M. Bucknall)
• LINQ to Z3 – Theorem Solving on Steroids – Part 0 (Bart de Smet)
• Extension Methods in C#: cool but at what cost? (Christopher Diggins)
• Introduction to HealthvaultDevelopment #11: Data filtering (Eric Gunnerson)
• C# Regions are not Useful? Give me a Break (Dave Schinkel)
• F# Basics – Infix Operators (Jason Olson)
• How does C# Lambda expressions work? (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Keep Your IQueryable In Check (Justin Etheredge)
• The sorry tale of the Visual Studio Web Site (Mike Hadlow)
• Developing Surface Applications (Luis Cabrera)
• How Relationships are Modeled in "MSchema" (Shawn Wildermuth)

Silverlight / WPF

• .Net RIA Services and Multi-table Joins (Bob Baker)
• View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)
• A WPF Countdown Timer in PowerShell 2.0 (Joel Bennett)
• Some facts about Silverlight 3 and where it’s going (Peter Bromberg)
• Navigation system in WPF (Lester Lobo)
• Silverlight Layouts Part 1 (Charlie Calvert)
• Silverlight 3 Out of Browser – Quick Rant and It took me under 5 minutes to realize the power of behaviors… (Jose Fajardo)
• Cracking an XPS in WPF and WPF Quick Tip: Converters as MarkupExtensions (Josh Twist)
• Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Support Publishing To DeepZoomPix! (Sunshine)
• WPF : Dynamic Search Driven List Results (Now uses AppDomain) and WPF : Blend 3 Interactions / Behaviours (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight 3 – Out of Browser Applications with Cached Extensions (Mike Taulty)
• SuperPreview with Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)

Web Development

• Just Noticed some Great Tutorials by the Author of Learning ExtJS (Peter Kellner)
• ASP.NET Session State shared between IE Tabs and IE8 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Minimize Code by Using jQuery and Data Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Unit Testing Part 2: JSSpec (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC Free eBooks (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• The performance implications of the expression tree-based ActionLink helper and How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications (Simone Chiaretta)
• Native JSON Parsing: What does it mean? (Rick Strahl) – Link of the Day
• OpenRasta, or “How to speak REST” (Kyle Baley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• "Don’t be a plumber" is horrible advice. (Leon Gersing)
• What do I expect from guidance? and Repository is the new Singleton and Where is the ROI? (Oren Eini)
• The Agility Cycle – Part 1 (Brad Appleton)
• Put Performance Concerns Into Perspective and Gotta Love Refactoring (Davy Brion)
• Decoupling Workflow And Forms With An Application Controller (Derick Bailey)
• First Order Agile Scaling and The Software Requirements Balancing Act (Mike Cottmeyer)
• AJAX Architectures Condensed (Dino Esposito)
• Leader vs. Ruler: Which One Are You? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Ditching the Micro-Optimization Fetish (Justin Etheredge)
• Half-a-Book Review: SOA Patterns (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• F#: Refactoring that little twitter application into objects and I don’t have time not to test! and Coding: Applying levels of abstraction (Mark Needham)
• 10 ways to reduce cost of software testing (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Saga Persistence and Event-Driven Architectures (Udi Dahan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week on C9: Office 2010, PowerShell for OpenXML, and would you help a robot (Brian Keller)
• Another Video Blog (Sara Chipps)
• ViewModel (MVVM) in Raw Silverlight 2 (Erik Mork)
• CodeCast: Oslo and M with Paul Vick (Chris Sells)
• Herding Code 43: Javier Lozano on the "M" in MVC (Jon Galloway)
• deCast – Building an Azure App Part III: Hosting Web Services and Silverlight (Rob Bagby)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video series pre-purchase offer (Rockford Lhotka)
• Major Nelson Show #316 : Lode Runner and photo editing laptops (Larry Hryb)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Announces "OfficePalooza" Two Week Contest Event for VBA Office Programmers (Blake Handler)
• Virtual ALT.NET Meeting about S#arp Architecture (Chad Myers)
• Philly .NET Code Camp Notes (Erik Peterson)
• Code Camp 2009.1 – Gooey GUI… Programming in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)

Database

• C Style operators in SQL Server 2008 (Darrel Carver)
• The Relational Model (Ken Downs)
• SQLAuthority News – Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 and SQLAuthority Book Review – Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide by Michael Coles (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Mobile 6.5 coming May 11, WM 6.5 phones not so much (Brad Linder)
• SharePoint sheds the “Office” label with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Google Pushing Chrome to Internet Explorer Users (Keith Elder)
• There is a “Are you sure you want to navigate away?” alert when editing your wiki? – #018 and You can enlarge the wiki text area – #019 (Sara Ford)
• New Windows Live Mobile Client and FeedMe: An RSS/Podcast Client for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
• Low Bandwidth View and other Hidden (and Future) Features of MSDN (Scott Hanselman)
• Evernote’s New Twitter Functionality (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows 7 RC to be released publicly on May 5 (Lee Mathews)
• Microsoft Technology Roadmap Links and Resources (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Five: Reification (Eric Lippert)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 17, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 19, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #330 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2009 — #573 and Silverlight Cream for April 19, 2009 — #574 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #49 (Grant Palin)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 18 (Denis Gobo)
• Squeezed Links: April 2009 (Max Pool)
• New and Notable 313 (Sam Gentile)
• Weekly Link Post 90 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for April 17th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio April 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Evening with Fluent NHibernate (Howard Dierking) – Link of the Day
• Introduction to NHibernate, pt.5 (Ian Cooper)
• Live fx Helper Class – extra methods : Live Framework (Jamie Thomson)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 Release Candidate available (Rockford Lhotka)
• T4 Toolbox – Release: 9.3.21.1 (CodePlex)
• M is to DSL as Drag & Drop is to programming (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Media 2 SP2 (MS Downloads)
• Silverlight 3 Release Date (RTW) Surprise (Bart Czernicki)
• New official Silverlight Blog (Brian Goldfarb)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video training series (Rockford Lhotka)
• Dragging has NEVER been so easy (Rudi Grobler)
• Silverlight 3 Sample Application: Slidentity and Silverlight 3: Navigation URI Routing (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3: Array Helper (Michael Sync)
• Using the new Silverlight 3 Perspective tools to emulate 3D (Jeff)
• WPF Toolkit – March 2009 Release (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Patterns and Origins: Sueetie User Avatars (Dave Burke)
• Internet Explorer Global Variable Blow ups (Rick Strahl)
• Json.NET 3.5 Beta 3 (CodePlex)
• Why I don’t use OpenWeb() (Gary Lapointe)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Great Managers Have No Secrets (Jurgen Appelo)
• Test Review #3 – Unity (Roy Osherove)
• To Inject Or Not To Inject (Justin Etheredge)
• The Successor Value Pattern (Michael Feathers)
• Coding: Making the debugger redundant (Mark Needham)

Community / Events

• Sexiest Bachelor Developer Results!!! (Sara J. Chipps)
• MIX Slides, Code, and Session Recording (Stephen Walther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Bonus Episode – PowerScripting Podcast – The Missing Interviews (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Thirsty Developer 56: Quick Basic Gorillas (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• The History of Microsoft – 1981 (Tina)

Database

• Differentiating between environments within SQL Server Management Studio (Leon Bambrick)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #312 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2009 — #545 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #76 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: March 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Discoveries This Week 03/20/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 86 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (3/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) – Very slick, but is it just me? (Andrew Connell)
• The M Programming Language – Part 2 – Collections and Extents (Bart de Smet)
• References are not addresses (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Easy embed workflow in your application (Juliën Hanssens)
• Implement LINQ to Objects in C# 2.0 (Jérémie)
• Modeling an Application in Oslo Part III: Transforming MGraph to TSQL (Stephen Forte)

Silverlight / WPF

• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight – February 2009 (MS Downloads)
• Prism v2 now supports WPF and Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Porting WPF Applications to the Microsoft Surface (Scott Hanselman)
• WPF Line-Of-Business labs and Silverlight vs. Flash (Tamir Khason)
• NEWS: Prism 2.0 is Live (Joel Reyes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A response to Validation in a DDD world (Billy McCafferty)
• DDD: Services (Casey Charlton)
• Adapting to the situation (Larry Clarkin)
• Great User Interfaces, Clarity, and Information in Parallel (Mark Miller)

Web Development

• Installing the ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant on Windows Vista (ranganh)
• Subtext 2.1 – A great .NET Open Source Blogging Platform (Dave Schinkel)
• jQuery UI – Resizable w/ ASP.NET Themes (Dave M. Bush)
• Contextual Sessions with NHibernate – Part 1 (Javier G. Lozano)
• Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Maarten Balliauw)
• Calling JavaScript from ASP.NET Master Page and Content Pages – Part II (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Polymorphism with JavaScript (John Teague)
• IronRuby ASP.NET MVC With Filters (Phil Haack)
• JetBrains RubyMine provides navigation and refactoring for Javascript (Jeffrey Palermo)
• IIS7 Load Balancing & Routing Module Now Available! (Omar Khan)

Community / Events

• Slide Decks from the Harrisburg, PA MSDN Freedom Roadshow (David Solivan)
• Pex Europe Tour March’09 (Jonathan de Halleux)
• TechEd North America 2009 (Eric Shupps)
• Events This Week – February 17th, 2009 and Community Megaphone and UGSS (G. Andrew Duthie)

PowerShell

• Scriptable SSH from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

SQL Server

• SQL Server Distance Calculation Option 3 – Using the CLR (Alex Ullrich)

Miscellaneous

• Does Microsoft already have a Windows 7 release candidate? (Lee Mathews)
• Nerds Show Us How to Count Binary on Our Fingers (John Baichtal)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: The New Influencers (Dave Burke)
• Change Your Windows 7 Media Center Background (Sarah Perez)
• Windows Fader 2 released (David Vidmar)
• Books I Think Everyone Should Read (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: February 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for February 17, 2009 — #520 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Twitterings #16 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #289 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for February 17th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introducing "Mockups To Go" (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Qualities That Undergird Agile/XP Development (Chris Taylor)
• Buzzword Driven Development Isn’t Gonna Help You (Davy Brion)
• Domain Driven Design: Learning (Artur Trosin)
• When Do I Unit Test? (Leon Gersing)
• Why Is Great UI So Hard to Achieve? (Mark Miller)
• Agile: Re-Estimating Cards (Mark Needham)
• Due Diligence and Code Comments (K. Scott Allen) – Link of the Day
• Domain Driven Design & Test Driven Development\Design with Entity Framework, Part 1.a Refactoring & Unit Testing (Mohammad Mosa)
• Entropy in Software (Jimmy Bogard)
• DDD: Bounded Contexts (Casey Charlton)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Lazy Load and Persistence Ignorance (Jérémie)
• One of These Languages Is Not Like the Others – Part 1 (Rick Minerich)
• LINQ and The Matrix – Introducing MLinq (Bart de Smet)
• BizTalk Server and WCF Support in Visual Studio 2008 (MS Downloads) – A MS whitepaper.
• .NET Serialization Wrappers (Rocky Lhotka)
• Fluent NHibernate: Auto Mapping, Overrides and Alterations (James Gregory)
• Talking Points: ADO.NET Dynamic Data (Joel Reyes)
• NServiceBus 1.9 (Udi Dahan)
• Back to Basics: 32-bit and 64-bit Confusion Around x86 and x64 and the .NET Framework and CLR (Scott Hanselman)
• C# 3.5 Starting to Gel (Jason Haley)
• Writing Your First Visual Studio Language Service (Ben Morrison)
• Hosting a WF 4.0 Workflow Service in "Dublin" (Brian Loesgen)

Web Development

• If You Are Developing on ASP.NET MVC and You Are Not Using MvcContrib… What Is Wrong With You? (Eric Hexter)
• JavaScript for C# Programmers: Arrays (Julian M. Bucknall)
• MSDN Webcast: Overview of ASP.NET MVC (Lindsay Rutter)
• ASP.NET MVC – Model != BLL or DAL (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• Extension Methods Part 2 – Lambda Expressions in LINQ (Jesse Liberty)
• Descry, Data and Information Visualization Using Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• XAML Power Toys 4.0 Released – Code Name MVVM (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #93 – Reading XML with Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Using Ninject with Silverlight to Make Your Code More Testable (Maurice de Beijer)
• Adobe: Microsoft’s Silverlight ‘has really fizzled’ (Angela Gunn)
• Playing Subtitles with Video in Silverlight (Anil Gupta)

Community / Events

• Hey Jason, You Can’t Keep Rachel Appel to Yourself Any More (Julie Lerman) – Rachel rocks!
• A New Microsoft Site Devoted to IT Pros (Zhiming Xue) – The site doesn’t render very well for me in Firefox.

Miscellaneous

• Stream Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and More to Your Xbox 360 (Sarah Perez) – I love PlayOn. It’s worth the $30 to me.
• Web Hosting to Cloud Hosting – A Case Study (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Do You Know What Time It Is? and 10 Things I Want from the Next Windows Phone OS (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Resolved Language Debates? (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Microsoft Small Basic v0.3 Is Here (Vijay)
• Photosynth Update: New Features & Improvements (Sunshine)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 290 and Windows Azure Links (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for February 10th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for February 10, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• My Projects on MSDN (J.D. Meier)
• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 11 (Mike Snow)
• Creators Club Communiqué 17 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for February 10, 2009 — #513 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – February 10, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #284 (Chris Alcock)

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.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

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