Silverlight / WPF

• SketchFlow: A Bit of History (Christian Schormann)
• Expression Blend 3 SDK (MS Downloads)
• Bye Bye Popfly (Ben Anderson)
• SketchFlow Control Explorer (Corey Schuman)
• Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 is available for download (James Clarke)
• Deep Zoom Composer Released! (Sunshine)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Element Binding and What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Multi-Select List Box (Jesse Liberty)
• SilverBullet Part 8 – Accessing local files (Timmy Kokke)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Implementing Plug-Ins with a DI Container (Brian Noyes)
• Bottlenecks (Anne Epstein)
• Feature by feature (Oren Eini)
• Refactoring Challenge Part 3 – Pattern Implementation (Jimmy Bogard)
• Remember to not dive too deep too soon (Derik Whittaker)
• We Remembered Not to Dive Too Deep Too Soon (Chris Missal)
• The Template Pattern A Benevolent Dictator (Ben Yoder)
• DDD, TDD, BDD, and CQS and TDD: Isn’t It About Time? (Jonathan Oliver)
• Convert Mockups to HTML+Image Maps Prototypes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Refactor Your Way To Success (Justin Etheredge) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• Why ASP.NET (webforms) Sucks. (Charles Chen)
• The Ultimate List Of JQuery Plugins And Examples (Deepak Kapoor)
• Tip #90: Did you know … How to rearrange menu items in Visual Web Developer? (Reshmi Mangalore)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A First Look:Visual Studio Team System 2010-Architecture Edition (Angela Binkowski)
• LINQ Language Deep Dive with Visual Studio 2008 (Beth Massi)
• IronPython – Release: 2.0.2 (CodePlex)
• When Cast doesn’t Cast to T (Bill Wagner)
• Windows 7 is final and includes .NET 3.5sp1 (Rob Relyea)
• My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts and Snippets (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Life without EF or any ORM (Julie Lerman)
• Improve Your Code Golf Game with LINQ and Using IDisposables with LINQ (Keith Dahlby)
• Converting Text to Proper Case (Deborah Kurata)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 28: An Introduction to the Historical Debugger (Brian Keller)
• Michael Fortin: Windows 7 Efficiency (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #62 (Jeff Atwood)
• ThirstyDeveloper #69 – Web Services with Scott Seely (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• ToolShed Tooltip #20 – SSIS Data Profiling saves your eyeballs (Russell Fustino)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #129: How to read from Performance Counters (Derik Whittaker)
• Video: Windows 7 RTM Sign-Off (Roger)

Database

• Partitioning Existing Tables (Martin Bell)
• Restoring multiple transaction log backups (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Write Script to Generate Primary Key and Foreign Key (Pinal Dave)
• Sync is the word (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Using Workflow in SharePoint? (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

Miscellaneous

• Fill a Backpack with Bing cashback (Anne Taylor Hartzell)
• Bing Home Page Photo Contest Finals! GO VOTE!! (Elif Ertem)
• Getting Ready for Windows 7 Part 3: Three Must Do Features For Your Users and Part 4: Gain Strategic Advantage Using Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• Is Your Application Ready for Windows 7 RTM? (Yochay Kiriaty)
• My Virtual Lab setup Hyper-V 2008 and Virtual Server 2005 R2 (Wesley Brown)
• Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle (Sarah Perez)
• Improving Cold Startup Performance (Prefetch) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Finding Work as a Freelance Software Developer (Rob Bazinet)
• Weird things said in job interviews (Gretchen Ledgard)
• When will Subscribers get Windows 7 RTM? August 6th. (Mike Kinsman)
• Our Next Engineering Milestone: RTM (Win 7 Team)
• 10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• Exciting new downloads (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #396 (Chris Alcock)
• Cloudy Links July 23, 2009 (Deepak Kapoor)
• Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2009 — #651 and Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2009 -2 — #652 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 345 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 22nd July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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Happy Silverlight 3 RTW Day!

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Blend 3 with SketchFlow Available for Download and SketchFlow Concepts: An Overview (Christian Schormann)
• Improved HitTest Method for Silverlight 3 and "Printing" in Silverlight 3 with WriteableBitmap (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight 3 Relase Download Links and Installation Instructions (Bart Czernicki) – Link of the Day
• Get Browser Information In Silverlight (Deepak Kapoor)
• Silverlight 3 + ClearType (Chris Cavanagh)
• Syntax Highlighting TextBoxes in WPF – A Sad Story (Harry Pierson)
• http://silverlight.live.com (Kirill Osenkov)
• Silverlight Spy and Silverlight 3 RTW (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes! (Tim Heuer)
• Day #10: Styling Silverlight Controls (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Announcing Expression Encoder 3 (Silverlight Team)
• Asynchronous Execution, Animation and more in MVVM with Caliburn (Rob Eisenberg)
• Expression Blend 3 and the New ‘Make Into Control’ Feature (Malcolm Sheridan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft MSDN Blogger Recommends ".NET Version Detector 2009" (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2 Available (Zhiming Xue)
• Task Parallel Library: Parallel Invoke (Dariusz Parys)
• Querying on Child Count With NHibernate (Tuna Toksoz)
• Modeling DSLs with F# and Units of Measure (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Use the "Oslo" Repository to Store Service Config (Chris Sells)
• Adding Attachments to a Document in CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ICustomQueryInterface and CLR V4 (Mike Stall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learn The Art of Unit Testing (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Behind Every Failed Project Are Reasons That Are Simple And Straight Forward. (Rajiv Popat)
• Preventing fragile tests – how can isolation frameworks help or hinder your goal? and Minimizing unit Test Fragility – 8 features in Typemock Isolator to help (Roy Osherove)
• It’s all in the details (Steve Jones)
• Is that a Property or a Method? (Derik Whittaker)
• Code Quality (Peter Waldschmidt)
• Avoid the trap of perfectionism (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Does Kanban Respect People, Self Organisation and Continuous Improvement and Kanban Is My First Language (Karl Scotland)

Web Development

• Easy Retweet Button (John Resig)
• Tip #87: Did you know… How to reuse a web page by converting into an ASP.NET User Control? (Web Dev Tools Team)
• Invoke JavaScript using the ASP.NET Wizard Control (Malcolm Sheridan)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.2 Is Released (Rob Conery)
• Preview of Windows Azure SDK for PHP Submitted for Zend Framework (Bruce Kyle)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #188 – Kanban Boards for Agile Project Management with Zen Author Nate Kohari (Scott Hanselman)
• Agile 2009 – Conference preview with Johanna Rothman (Bob Payne)
• MVC Public Service Announcement Video Series (Bobby Johnson)
• Expert to Expert: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Inside the .NET Reactive Framework (Rx) (Charles Torre)
• ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Session Video Available Now (Mike Ormond)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Services Is Now Microsoft SQL Azure, More Software + Services News Next Week At WPC09 (Sunshine)
• How to get data out of Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains (thirster42)
• Push your DBA skills over the edge by becoming a better developer and Go ahead and click it! I triple dog dare you!!! (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Request SQLAuthority.com Stickers and SQL Server Cheat Sheet (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Detecting a tap on a UITextView (Ben Scheirman)
• Launch a Process as Standard User from an Elevated Process (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Favorite Windows 7 Feature #1: Download status in the task bar (Scott Lock)
• Windows Azure Project Attire! (David Lemphers)
• Waegis After a Year (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd (Larry Hyrb)
• Telerik Ships Alpha "M"-Based Comparison Tool (Chris Sells)
• Azure Explanation for the Code Phobic (Matthew McDermott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #387 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2009 — #633 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for July 9, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links for the Week of 2009.07.10 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 9th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (7/9/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are garbage collectors slow? (Granville Barnett) – Link of the Day
• Doing Agile in a Team of One – Day 2 and the End of Sprint 1 (Andrew Woodward)
• Agile Self-Organization versus Lean Leadership (Brad Appleton)
• Best Practices in Gathering Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint and TDD (Sahil Malik)
• Inconvenient Accessibility Makes Self-Documenting Code (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Seams: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• A small web design rant: beware of the RADical designer (Peter Van Ooijen)
• What’s in a controller? That which we call an action… (Javier G. Lozano)
• Agile Behavior: Nurture Knowledge Database (Patrick Smacchia)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Box Selections and Multi-Edit in Visual Studio 2010 (Coding4Fun)
• .Net Framework 4.0: Using memory mapped files (Gunnar Peipman)
• Assigning MSBuild Properties to SQLCMD Variables (Gert Drapers)
• Fantastic on-going Entity Framework Tips Series from EF’s Alex James and Visual Studio’s Database Publishing Wizard and the new 1-Click Web Deployment and EF4: Model-Defined Functions Level 1 & 2 (Julie Lerman)
• TFS 2010 – WorkItems Linking and Automation Workflow implementation for Closing Linked Workitems (Subodh Sohoni)

Web Development

• Recent Member Activity now in Sueetie User Profiles and Three Wolves Howling at the JSON Date Moon (Dave Burke)
• Using claims for driving web sites… without writing any code (Vittorio Bertocci)
• 50 Fresh JavaScript Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow (Smashing Magazine)
• Finally found what I have been looking for: JavaScriptMVC (Peter Eysermans)

Silverlight / WPF

• Control-Oriented Vs. Data-Oriented Programming in Silverlight (Dan Wahlin)
• Microsoft Expression 1..2..3 (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 24: Monitoring Workflow Services (Ron Jacobs)
• Toolshed Tooltip #9 – VSTS DB Pro from Episode 2 and Toolshed Tooltip #10 – SQL Reporting Services from Episode 2 (Russell Fustino)
• Major Nelson Show #323: E3 2009 and Iraq (Larry Hryb)
• Windows 7 Application Compatibility (Matthijs Hoekstra)

Community / Events

Announcing "Agile Database Techniques" Workshop (Shawn Wildermuth)

SharePoint

• My checklist for optimizing SharePoint sites (Chris O’Brien)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool v1.1 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• A Man Who Goes Against His Instincts… (Max Pool)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 21, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #373 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 06.15 ~ 06.21 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #58 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2009 — #619 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 99 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Discoveries This Week 06/21/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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Web Development

• SOA Is Dead; Long Live… Well, Services    (Gunther Lenz)
• Working with ASP.NET MVC Part 3 – URL Routing (Justin)
• Javascript: Add a Month to a Date and Javascript Dates – Be Aware of Mutability (Mark Needham)
• Live Framework SDK – Inviting Others (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Azure – Sending SMTP Emails! (David L.)
• DimeCasts.NET #75 – Introduction to S#arp Architecture (Kyle Baley) – Link of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Parallelising Loops in .NET 4 (Daniel Moth)
• The DLR Is the Language of Languages (Kevin Hazzard)
• Setting Up Profiles in StructureMap 2.5 (Derik Whittaker)
• Auto-Wiring in StructureMap 2.5+ and A Challenge to the VB.NET Community at Large on OSS (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Processes in .NET Part 3 – Interfacing with Simple Console Programs by Example, Tesseract OCR (Rick Minerich)
• The Visual Studio 10 CTP VPC Expired! What Should I Do? (VSX Team)
• New Black Book (Josh Poley)
• IoC Libraries Compared (Chris Brandsma)
• IronPython Nightly Builds and Nightly Builds Technical Info (Harry Pierson)
• The Most Important Feature of .NET 4.0 (Kathleen Dollard)
• You Don’t Have to Use Query Expressions to Use LINQ (Jon Skeet)

Silverlight / WPF

• Live Framework SDK – Adding a Silverlight MEWA (Mike Taulty)
• Tip: Getting Hierarchical Entities via ADO.NET Data Services from Silverlight (John Papa)
• PhotoSuru, An Innovative Photo-Viewing WPF Application (Adam Kinney)
• Subscribe to the Expression Newsletter (Pete Brown)
• Published the Source Code for Silverlight 2 Runtime & SDK Controls (Seema, Andre Michaud, & Jon Sheller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Rules Engine (Martin Fowler)
• Architecture by Baseball: Moneyball (Larry Clarkin)
• Pex – Software Cracker? (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Karvonite – Agile Persistence Framework – Release: January (CTP 2009) (MSDN Code Gallery)

.NET Community / Events

• New York Microsoft Cloud Computing User Group Meeting (William Zack)
• Developer Dinner: Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services WebCast (1/8/2009) (John Papa) – Buy John’s book!
• MSDN Developer Conference Is Coming to DC/Reston, VA (Zhiming Xue)
• CLR Team Blog Now Live (Justin Van Patten)
• Recap of Microsoft CES Announcements (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• The SQL Server Memory Leak Confusion (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Predictions for 2009 (Stephen Forte)
• Your Products Aren’t "I"s (Thomas Williams)
• R.I.P. Dr. Dobb’s (Eric Sink)
• 10 Killer WordPress Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• Windows 7 Beta – Go Get It! (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Microsoft Research Songsmith (MS Research)
• New Program Allows Everyone to Design Video Games (Mike Snider)
• Six Vista Annoyances Fixed in Windows 7 (Ed Bott)
• Xbox: The Next Phase Begins (Stephen Chapman)
• Halo Wars Coming Febrary 28th (Larry Hyrb)
• Device Stage in Windows 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Dictionary Attacks 101 (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Visual Studio Links #96 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: January 7, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for January 7th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for January 07, 2009 — #478 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for January 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #260 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for January 08, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Link Listing – January 8, 2009 (Christopher Steen)

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