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Top Links

• pluralsight announces free on-demand! training for all microsoft mvps (Meagon Marshall)
• DZone Tutorial – Microsoft Expression Blend Essentials (7 Part Series) (Nitin Bharti)
• QA Missed Something (Scott Bellware)
• Life outside .NET, or “How to check out your neighbours” (Kyle Baley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use the Visual Studio Data Connection Dialog? Wish you could use it in your app? Maybe even tweak its source a little to better fit your project? The Visual Studio Data team has granted your wish… (Greg Duncan)
• Performance: Using dynamic code to copy property values of two objects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Favorite VS2010 Features: Dependency Graphs and DGML (Jason Zander)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF Endpoint (Stephen Forte)
• Pin a DataTip to source — vstipDebug0005 (Zain Naboulsi)
• “What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 – More Than You May Realise” (Mike Taulty)
• Using Windows Azure Drive (aka X-Drive) (Maarten Balliauw)

Web Development

• HTML5 Sublime Video Player (Michael Kimsal)
• A Look at the GridView’s New Sorting Styles in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• Linking jQueryUI DatePicker and FullCalendar (Gunnar Peipman)
• Daily Dose – Facebook Open Sources PHP Innovations (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: CSS Cookbook, Third Edition — Only $9.99! Use discount code CCTE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• FubuMVC Learns to Speak Spark (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The 3rd of Diduary: Did you know you can debug ASP.NET in any browser? (Jeff Blankenburg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture: where do you start? (Simon Brown)
• Learning in the Open: II – first relation and more ActiveRecord (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Balsamiq New Release: a Mockups Viewer and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Thoughts on an MVVM Rant (K. Scott Allen)
• Coding: Wrapping/not wrapping 3rd party libraries and DSLs (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Getting Started with SketchFlow in Expression Blend 3 (Me)
• Adventures with Silverlight and WCF – The remote server returned an error: NotFound (Doug Holland)
• Silverlight 4 How to Command Control (Joel Neubeck)
• My WPF 5.0 Wishlist (Paul Stovell)
• Silverlight Quick Tip: Controlling the Out-of-Browser Window and Moving a WPF Window with Custom Chrome (Pete Brown)
• Known Issue: Controls and GAC, Toolbox and TCI (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight 4 Shows Value for Business Development (Michael Desmond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 43: Talking OData and SQL Modeling Services with Douglas Purdy (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #161: A deeper look into AutoMapper: Custom Type Resolvers (Derik Whittaker)
• Rocky’s video series on SQL Server Modeling and CSLA (Chris Sells)
• Multi-Core and Parallel Programming Practices (Robert Hess)
• Episode 100- PowerScripting Podcast – MobileShell, PowerGUI Pro and Your Tips (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Shawn Wildermuth – Portland Silverlight User Group (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• PASS Acquires SQLSaturday (Andy Warren)
• Events This Week – February 2nd, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• When is a Lookup not a Lookup? (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• First Version of SharePoint Validator now available on CodePlex (Tom Hearn)
• Test Drive the C1 Web Parts (Eve Turzillo)
• SharePoint 2010 Better Together with SQL 2008 R2 Database Enhancements Top 10 (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• We need cloud apps to use cloud drives (Chris Sells)
• Google discontinuing FTP support for Blogger blogs (Jason Clarke)
• A very nice, and new/non-tech user safe, 48 page Windows 7 Shortcut eBook – “The Complete Windows 7 Shortcuts” (Greg Duncan)
• Free Windows Azure Training! (Hong Choing)
• Getting Those Old Firefox Add-ons to Work (Elijah Manor)
• IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera – what browser does a .Net developer choose? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Kodu for the Xbox (Stephen Coy)
• Microsoft Looking Into Windows 7 Battery Issues (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Random Reading On The Train (Matt Davey)
• The Morning Brew #531 (Chris Alcock)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02/02/2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Interesting Finds: February 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for February 2, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 399 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

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