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Top Links

• Visual Studio 2010 RTM and the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP (Charlie Kindel)
• Visual Studio 2010 Released (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released (Scott Guthrie)
• WPF 4 Release: A guide to the new features (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Sync Framework and Microsoft InteropForms Toolkit 2.1 (MS Downloads)
• Comment and Uncomment Code and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Pasting a single selection into a box selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• “FAKE – F# Make” and NaturalSpec released (Steffen Forkmann)
• New Psscor2 commands – ClrStack showing source and line numbers (Tom)
• Upgrade tool and VSVMSDK Available now! (Cameron Skinner)
• Optional Parameters and Delegates (Deborah Kurata)
• What’s happening? Loosely coupled events (Phillip Trelford)
• Using Windows 7 libraries in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Announcing the release of Entity Framework 4 (EF Team)
• Build Customization using Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Visual Basic 2010 Samples Updated for RTM (Greg Duncan)
• psake v4.00 (James Kovacs)
• F#: The ‘defaultArg’ function (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• Top 10 Things Every Twitter Developer Should Know (Adam DuVander)
• Beware of Using Memory Storage With The ASP.NET Chart Control In Windows Azure With Multiple Instances of Your WebRole (Karsten Januszewski)
• ASP.NET 4 – Breaking Changes and Stuff to be Aware of (Scott Hanselman)
• HTML5 Geolocation with Fallback to Google Ajax API (Marc Grabanski)
• AspNetCompatibility in WCF Services – easy to trip up (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile isn’t always Agile (Buck Woody)
• We’ve Been Hard at Work…. Reinventing. (Daniel Waldschmidt)
• Coupling Is Your Friend (Derick Bailey)
• How to implement UI testing without shooting yourself in the foot (Gojko Adzic)
• Best Practices on the patterns & practices Team (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Ajax Endpoint (Brad Abrams)
• Uploading Windows Azure Blobs From Silverlight – Part 2: Enabling Cross-Domain Access to Blobs (Steve Marx)
• Your First Windows Phone 7 Application (Dave Campbell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Whirlwind 12: What’s new in C# 4 – More COM Love and Whirlwind 13: What’s new in C# 4 – Covariance & Contravariance and Whirlwind 14: What’s new in C# 4 – Events (Bruce Kyle)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 51: Exploring Workflow Foundation 4.0 with Matt Winkler (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Doug Seven: Code Understanding and Systems Design with Visual Studio 2010 and Paul Yuknewicz: Windows Development with Visual Studio 2010 and Sam Gazitt: SharePoint and Office Development with Visual Studio 2010 and Doug Seven: Improving Developer-Tester Collaboration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Dan Fernandez)
• geekSpeak Recording – Windows Azure AppFabric with Jon Flanders (Emily Gibson)
• Visual Studio 2010 Parody (John Papa)
• TechDays 2010: Building the next generation of applications using SQL Server 2008 R2 (kreekman)
• Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch (Larry Larsen)
• Microsoft announces Kin! The next Windows Phone (Formerly code named Pink): Full Demo (Laura Foy)
• TechDays 2010 : Introducing the Windows Phone 7 Series developer experience (Liese Jespers)
• Why Everyone Should Learn WF4 by Matt Milner and WCF Data Services Beyond the Basics by Gert Drapers and Lap Around .NET 4 with Scott Hanselman and Client Side Technologies in SharePoint 2010 by Jan Tielens and Silverlight 4 for Desktop Developers by Ingo Rammer (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• This Week in Silverlight 4.9.2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• Virginia User Group Tour (Alan Stevens)
• Events This Week – April 12th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Get Connected: Microsoft Connected Health Conference–May 19 & 20 (Bill Crounse)
• Make: Philly meeting is April 18th (Matt Mets)
• Surface at Interactive Displays 2010 Conference (Luis Cabrera)
• My First 6 months Working for The Man (Pete Brown)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 13 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (12/30) tempdb should always have one data file per processor core and Important things for DBAs to consider (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Configure Management Data Collection in Quick Steps – T-SQL Tuesday #005 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• PowerPack for VHD/VDI/VMDK Inventory (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Book Review: Crush It! (Joe Webb)
• Microsoft’s next of KIN isn’t iPhone (Joe Wilcox)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day – Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 – Only $9.99. Use code DDBBP (O’Reilly Media)
• Introducing KIN, the Next Generation of Social Phone (Dominic Carr)
• Adobe Launches Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended (PSN Editorial Staff)
• Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 packs in tons of new features (Tim Conneally)
• Add an App Store to Windows Media Center (Sarah Perez)
• Daily Dose – How iAds Help Google (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #578 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 12, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2010 — #837 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• SQLAuthority News – Three Posts on Reporting – T-SQL Tuesday #005 (Pinal Dave)
• Links (4/12/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: April 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

Professional C# 4.0 and .NET 4 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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Top Links

• New Offers for Visual Studio 2010 (Somasegar)
• Call for Speakers for Philly.NET Code Camp 2010.1 (Nick Berardi)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 : Performance tuning (Paul Harrington)
• Location sensor for Windows 7 – It’s about time! (Arian T. Kulp)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Rhino DivanDB – A full coding sample – Embedded (Oren Eini)
• Release Candidate of Database Projects available and GDR Power Tools update (Barclay Hill)
• NServiceBus 2.0 RTM (Udi Dahan)
• Making VS2010 and/or your WPF applications happy in Remote Desktop/RDP Land (Greg Duncan)
• Marshal.ReleaseComObject Considered Dangerous (Paul Harrington)
• Import and Export DataTips — vstipDebug0013 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Consuming WCF 3.5 REST Service in Windows Mobile 6 Emulator and Windows Mobile Device (Mahesh Sabnis)

Web Development

• Difference between ASP.NET Sessions, Application variables and Cache objects. (Al Pascual)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Rails: Live Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDRAS (O’Reilly Media)
• Building a Star Rating System with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
• Sharing ObjectDataSource From Codebehind (Dave M. Bush)
• Discover which Control Raised a PostBack (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Evaluating enhancements (Simon Brown)
• User Stories and TFS2010 – Like Carmel and apples and Visual Studio 2010 makes Testing/QA professionals officially happy (it’s true!) – Test Professional and Test Case WorkItem Type (Greg Duncan)
• Getting Results the Agile Way – The Book on Getting Results (J.D. Meier)
• The Problems With Acceptance Testing (James Shore)
• Thought experiment: The Curry Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Agile lets people be people (Patrick Kua)
• An Evolution of Test-Specification Styles – My Journey to MSpec (Richard Cirerol)
• Intro To Git (Jesse Freeman)
• New Site for Agile Managers and Team Leaders (Jurgen Appelo)
• A reminder about context switching (Mark Needham)
• MSpec Live Templates (Hadi Hariri)
• Book Review – Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (Russell Ball)

Silverlight / WPF

• LocBaml for .NET 4.0 (Michael Sync)
• Using the RawImage in a WPF application. (Luis Cabrera)
• WPF : A Fun Little Boids Type Thing (Sacha Barber)
• Running CSLA .NET 3.8.2 under .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Live Geometry (Kirill Osenkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Oren Eini on Creating DSLs in Boo (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Connected Show Podcast – Is That A Phone In Your Pocket?! (Brian Johnson)
• The Engadget Show – 006: Avner Ronen, the first Windows Phone 7 Series device, Dell Mini 5, and more! (Chad Mumm)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #165: Introduction to Nhibernate.Burrow (Derik Whittaker)
• Destination Adapter Comparison : SSIS Video Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 50: Multi-Point Server, IE6 Funeral, 3 Designs for Windows Phone (Laura Foy)
• Silverlight TV 11: Dynamically Loading XAPs with MEF (John Papa)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Iron with Jimmy Schementi (Jeff Brand)
• Pluralcast #10 : Reading Code with Alan Stevens (David Starr)
• The Verification Corner – Specifications in Action with Spec# (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• SMX West 2010, Steve Ballmer Edition (Aya Zook)
• Silverlight Design Day Registration Open for Boston (Adam Kinney)
• Events This Week – March 1st, 2010 and Post-MSDN Roadshow Geek Dinner in Richmond This Wednesday! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Headspring Agile Boot Camp, March 24-26 – sign up now – Austin, TX (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Microsoft Shows off Mobile Surface at TechFest 2010 (Hammad)
• March Community Calendar (Joel Cochran)
• Announcing New England GiveCamp (Jim O’Neil)
• The 1st of March: Did you know Stir Trek: Iron Man Edition is on May 7, 2010? (Jeff Blankenburg)

Database

• How Do You Drive Your DBA Mad? (Andy Warren)
• Powershell for Batch Operations (Grant Fritchey)
• Have you backed up your keys lately? (Buck Woody)
• Ten years of SQL Server (Jamie Thomson)
• Getting SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express installed on Windows 7 (Matt Milner)
• Execute Package Task Packages fail for no apparent reason (Simon Sabin)
• Why do you need a primary and a secondary access key for Windows Azure storage? (Jennifer Marsman)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Site Definition Upgrade Discussion with Microsoft’s Sean Livingston (Joel Oleson)
• Walkthrough of enabling CRUD for SharePoint 2010 external lists using Visual Studio 2010 (SharePoint Team)
• Lightning Conductor Calendar View (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Google welcomes Picnik (Brian Axe)
• WHS Add-in WHS Mobile version 1.5.4.0 available (Ben Palmer)
• Bing Autosuggest – History Repeats Itself – and That is a Good Thing (Robert Williams & Todd Schwartz)
• Attracting Talent (Eric Lippert)
• Introducing Robots API v2: The Rise of Active Robots (Dan Peterson)
• Play Guitar By Flexing Alone: Microsoft Research’s Muscle-Computer Interface (Wilson Rothman)
• Zune (phone) news (Kip Kniskern)
• My MacGyver Moment (Jeremiah Peschka)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.02.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #550 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #109 (David Vidmar)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

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Top Links

• Countdown to MIX10: The Gu (Larry Larsen)
• .NET 4.0 And Our Parallel Future (Justin Etheredge)
• A Vision for FubuMVC’s Component Model (gems, Nu, engines, slices, oh my…) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Introducing Sharpy (Jaco Pretorius)

.NET / Visual Studio

• One team’s journey in their upgrading of their TFS from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 (i.e. Something you may have to think about in your move to TFS2010) (Greg Duncan)
• Quirks in .NET – Part 2 (Kevin Jones)
• Code Definition Window — vstipTool0012 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 background flickering and customization (Alin Constantin)
• Getting Started with MSBuild (Chuck England)
• How to: Retarget a project using DTE (Ion Todirel)
• .NET OSS dependency hell (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Creating Routing Service using WCF 4.0, .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 RC (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Careful with that axe, part two: What about exceptions? (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Using Ruby On Rails With Oracle And Deploying It All To Tomcat (Alan Skorkin)
• Cures for the Common Ailments – Getting a Random Item in JavaScript (Chris Love)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Did Your Boss Thank You For Coding Yourself to Death? (Alan Skorkin)
• Large-Scale Agile (James Shore)
• Changing basic assumptions in apps (Brian Marick)
• Noisy code does not equal clean code (Derik Whittaker)
• Pair Programming: In interviews and Coding: Shared libraries (Mark Needham)
• Castle Project code organization (Patrick Smacchia)
• Systems Thinking, The Vanguard Method and Software Development (Karl Scotland)
• How To Use a Coach Effectively (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML Attributes on Separate Lines (Christopher Bennage)
• Highlighting a "weak" contribution [Enhancements make preventing memory leaks with WeakEventListener even easier!] (David Anson)
• AutoCompleteBox: Now with 100% more WPF (Jeff Wilcox)
• BubbleBurst v1.1 release (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – It’s the Visual Studio 2010 Launch Show! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Create Code-Free Mashups with InfoPath and SharePoint Web Parts (LaurHar)
• This Week in Silverlight – February 25 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• This Week in Testing Episode 14 – Google Buzz FAIL (Gil Zilberfeld, Doron Peretz & Dror Helper)
• Using the Code Analysis Tool (CAT.NET 2.0) to Identify Security Vulnerabilities (Jossie Tirado)

Community / Events

• Growing the Pool of SQL Speakers – Part 2 (Andy Warren)
• I’ll be speaking at TechEd 2010 North America on SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Children and Internet safety top priority for Microsoft and MVPs (Joseph Mirabella)
• IndyHall Member Profiles: Megan Canney (Parker Whitney)

Database

• Fun with a non relational databases (Oren Eini)
• Versant ODB as Easy as ORM (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Calculating number of workdays between 2 dates (Ramireddy)
• Generating surrogate keys with xquery (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 3 – List View Architecture (Eric Andeen)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Research Releases "Collage" Presentation Tool for Teachers (Blake Handler)
• PowerShell Version Two – Get Continuous Perf Counters (Buck Woody)
• Does that new Windows Activation update really ‘phone home’? and Windows 7 memory usage: What’s the best way to measure? (Ed Bott)
• Energy efficiency and sustainability: Johnson Controls using Surface (Eric Havir)
• What Developers Can Expect from Microsoft and Daily Dose – US Lobbyists Blacklist Open Source Promoting Counties (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Cleaning Out Old Calendar Entries in Outlook (Keith Elder)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Python, 4th Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDPYT (O’Reilly Media)
• Bitter Version 2.4 (Mike Hall)
• Engineering Messenger for real relationships (Piero Sierra)
• The Exec Problem (James Kovacs)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #548 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 25, 2010 — #803 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 02/25/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Creators Club Communiqué 43 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

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Top Links

• New Article – Getting Started with WCF RIA Services (Dan Wahlin)
• Coding is not Kata (Sara Ford)
• UML Modeling and Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010 (Oleg Sych)
• VS2010 Architecture Explorer Analyzers (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Updates "MultiPoint Mouse SDK" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Getting the System Up Time (Richard Carr)
• Book Review: F# for Technical Computing (Granville Barnett)
• Skipping the SMTP line with Postmark (Daniel Crenna)
• Repeat your last search (Zain Naboulsi)
• Coding: Missing abstractions and LINQ (Mark Needham)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 6. The Event Wiring Facility (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• Editable Routes (Phil Haack)
• Populating Hierarchical Data Using Model Binders in ASP.NET MVC Application (Mohammad Azam)
• Creating an external facing Azure Worker Role endpoint (Maarten Balliauw)
• Why choose between Ajax or MVC ? Together they KISS so sweet… (Peter Van Ooijen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Building software that matters: two books you absolutely have to read (Gojko Adzic)
• Is There A Good Reason To Hide Inherited Members? (Davy Brion)
• DVCS (Distributed Version Control System): support for agile? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Interface-Oriented Design – Book Review (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Dependency Injection Inversion (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Avoiding The Typical Software Development World Stereotypes – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Breakpoints Not Being Hit (Christopher Bennage)
• Restricted Pan and Zoom in WPF (Tony Rasa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• PM Podcast 138: Delivering SharePoint Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Get Your Questions Answered on Silverlight TV (John Papa)
• Major Nelson Show 347: Welcome to 2010 (Larry Hyrb)
• This Week in Testing – Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 1) (Dror Helper)
• Episode 98- PowerScripting Podcast – Steven Murawski from PowerShellCommunity.org (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• The CodeMash Precompiler Part 0 (Leon Gersing)
• Free Developer Training for Windows Mobile 6.5 (Bruce Kyle)
• What Is Wrong With My Blog? (Justin Etheredge)
• Happy 4th Birthday jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
• Microsoft MVPs for Charity (Stephen Forte)
• Contribute to Assembla development to earn money, glory, and get the feature you want (Andy Singleton)

Database

• Hey Microsoft, Our Databases Aren’t Services! (Davy Brion)
• SQL Server PowerShell Extensions – Release: v2.0.1 Production (CodePlex)

SharePoint

• Free Download: SharePoint eMagazine (1st Issue) (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Module Manifests Tip: allowed cmdlets and variables (Joel Bennett)
• Microsoft Surface Rocks the Red Carpet at the Golden Globes (Steve Seow)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #519 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 17, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2010 — #781 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #88 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/18/2010 (Pete Brown)
• A Feed You Should Read #20 – blogs.msdn.com (Greg Duncan)
• Links (1/17/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Some Azure Links (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft names Visual Studio 2010 dates (Gavin Clarke) – Link of the Day
• NHibernate Shards: Progress Report (Oren Eini)
• Getting Started with Query Editor (Jason Haley)
• HealthVault 0908 SDK Highlights… (Eric Gunnerson)
• Visual Studio 2008 "DataDude" Duplicate Menu Items and SQL Server 2008 – SQLCLR .NET Framework Version (Doug Holland)
• XNA and textures (Coding4Fun)
• Lambda Expressions: Execution (Deborah Kurata)
• A fan-dev Team Build Property Reference Guide (Greg Duncan)
• Using ReSharper, I’ve Always Wondered Why They Had the “Invert if” refactor (Peter Kellner)
• Mapping From IDataReader/IDataRecord with AutoMapper (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Dynamic lookup operator, aka duck typing in F# (Laurent Le Brun)

Web Development

• Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library Preview 6 (James Senior)
• Using the New Microsoft Ajax Minifier (Stephen Walther)
• How to render the same template on the server and client with minimal redundancy (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Add temporary bookmarks in Code View in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• How To Optimize the Speed of Your Website (Michael Ceranski)
• Treating Javascript as an integration point (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Quick reference poster–the VSTS Rangers “scrumified“ process (Clemens Reijnen)
• LinqToSql Profiler & NHibernate Profiler – What is happening? (Oren Eini)
• Message Granularity (Dru Sellers)
• Is Functional Abstraction Too Clever? (Keith Dahlby)
• Dissecting Remarkable Code And Design – Part 2. and Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• Efficient Development, Deployment and Customer Feedback at Lokad (Rinat Abdullin)
• A Possible Job Description: Team Leader and Introducing Typemock IntelliTest (Roy Osherove)
• Coding: Role based interfaces (Mark Needham)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part II: Observe First, Judge Later (Patrick Kua)
• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Dependency Injection Mess With Mocks (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming (David Cooksey)

Silverlight / WPF

• More on AERO Shake and WPF (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Silverlight Streaming to be discontinued: new Azure service coming (Kip Kniskern)
• MVVM Light Toolkit on Codeplex and Clean shutdown in Silverlight and WPF applications (Laurent Bugnion)
• Creating Killer Animations in Code (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Cinch : Some code changes (Sacha Barber)
• Big Spaceship delivers a beautiful Silverlight experience for Victoria’s Secret (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 126: Danger Paul Danger (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Matt Hessinger on How Business Drives Architecture and Migrating Legacy Applications to .NET – Webcast by Magenic (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: Virtual PC tools, .NET 4.0 FAQ, MVC in Azure (Dan Fernandez)
• Major Nelson Show #335: Forza Motorsport 3 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Video: Influence Strategies and Test Review: MEF (Roy Osherove)
• Engadget Podcast 167 – 10.16.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hanselminutes on Channel 9 – Inside CodePlex.com (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Goodbye, Twitter (Leon Gersing)
• Stack Overflow: Programmers working for Free?! (Christopher Diggins)
• Clearing the ***Sparks (Dani Diaz)
• Mads Kristensen in Iran (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Philly Code Camp 2009.2 (Nick Berardi)
• TrackAbout Is Hiring! (Joel Ross)
• Windows 7 Labs @ PDC (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Discount extended: Register for PDC by Oct 30 and save $300 (Sandra Haynes)

Database

• Collecting information about your SSIS packages [SSIS Nugget] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – Auditing in SQL Server 2008 and SQL SERVER – Change Collation of Database Column – T-SQL Script – Consolidating Collations – Extention Script (Pinal Dave)
• Best Practices for Applications Login to SQL Server? (R. Barry Young)
• Series of "Bad habits to kick" by Aaron Bertrand (Ted Krueger)
• What to do till the SQL Azure management tools come? (Bill Zack)

SharePoint

• Upgrade approaches poster and Upgrading services poster and Upgrade testing poster and Upgrade planning poster (MS Downloads) – Some SharePoint 2010 posters from Microsoft.

PowerShell

• The release of Microsoft’s PowerShellPack (Joel Bennett)
• Announcing: Open Source PowerShell Cmdlet and Help Designer (Lee Holmes)
• PowerShell V2 Virtual Launch Party (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Flight Simulator Team Finds New Home at Cascade Game Foundry (Blake Handler)
• What I Use: October 2009 Update (Paul Thurrott)
• What am I missing? MSMQ Perf Issue (Oren Eini)
• A Feed You Should Read #8 – msdev (Greg Duncan)
• Free e-book: Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance (Devon Musgrave)
• Why Professionals Still Need Their Own Web Sites (Charles Hamilton)
• The Interview With The Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Announcing Let Me Bing That For You (Phil Haack)
• Zoho Projects Now Integrated With Google Apps (Leena Rao)
• 77 Windows 7 Tips on Technet (Steven Bink)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 Build 14.0.4514.1009 (Taimur Asad)
• Introducing the Documentation tab for CodePlex projects (Sara Ford)
• Identifying The Technologies That Will Matter (Mike Walker)
• LiveLessons Programming in Objective-C 2.0 Review (Mike Riley)
• A Sneak Peek at D&D on Microsoft Surface (Larry Larsen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2009 — #710 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 16-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links #75 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #457 (Chris Alcock)
• My Top 20 Most Popular Posts (So Far) (Davy Brion)
• Links for the Week of 2009.10.16 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 16th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 115 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Double Shot #563 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links (10/18/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day