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Top Links

• The paradox of choice: best of breed or cheapest of the bunch (Oren Eini)
• Inversion Of Control Containers And Factories Aren’t Mutually Exclusive (Davy Brion)
• Mocking Mocking and Testing Outcomes. (Uncle Bob Martin)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Framework Inheritance Types (Gil Fink)
• Drag and drop code onto the Toolbox — vstipTool0007 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Quick Tip: Parse String to Nullable Value (Keith Dahlby)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API: Introduction to Working with Location in .NET 4 Beta 2 (Pete Brown)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• D.C. and the Wrapper Factory (Dennis Dietric)
• Coding: The collecting parameter pattern and TDD: Removing the clutter (Mark Needham)
• Being provoked by your uncle (Mark Nijhof)
• Understanding And Avoiding The Serious Perils Of F-You-Code. (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• XamlPadSample-Step 1d-Window (Rob Relyea)
• Pants on the Ground: The Silverlight Application (Charles Petzold)
• Configuration & Decoupled Modules (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 140: It’s Finger Friendly (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9 – Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more (Dan Fernandez)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Talks and WebCast (Cameron Skinner)
• Why we all need celebrity programmers (Roy Osherove)
• As A Movement, ALT.NET Has Been Dead For A While (Davy Brion)

 

Database

• SQL Server Cursors (Richard Carr)
• Time is no use for recording Time (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Sample Databases for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (December 2009) Samples Refresh 4 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Theme Builder" Beta for Office 2007 (Blake Handler)
• Windows 3.11 in-a-browser is retrocomputing awesome (Lee Mathews)
• It’s an awesome time to be a Developer (Pete Brown)
• Steam shows massive adoption of Windows 7 by gamers (Sebastian Anthony)
• Dynamic Blog Posts DynaPosts (Jesse Liberty)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 23, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 – 2 — #785 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link #89 (Grant Palin)

 

The Geek Shelf

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

 

 

Misc

• Are Twitter Clients the New Hello World App? (Aaron Lerch)
• This Is Why You Need TeamCity Build Server (Sammy Larbi)
• Observations (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Using YAGNI Responsibly (James Kovacs)
• Saying YAGNI to YAGNI? (Rob Teixeira)
• FiOS Users Speak (John Czwartacki)
• Free Download: Keyboard Jedi (Learn all of your applications’ keyboard shortcuts) (Robert Shelton)
• New Version of the Book Out! (Oren Eini)
• Clearing Up the Mock Confusion (Jimmy Bogard)
• 9 of the Best Rich Text Editors Reviewed (Paul Anthony)

Silverlight/WPF

• There’s Some Darkness in Your Silver Light (Rob Eisenberg)
• DeepZoom in C# – Not Just Possible, but Easy (Laurence Moroney)
• Animation Engine for Silverlight and Animate Silverlight 2 Object From 1 Line of Code (Corey Schuman)
• Skinning a Button – 4 Different Ways and Counting (Jose Fajardo)

.NET

• The Zen of GUI Programming (Mike Gold)
• Complex Searching/Querying with NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• The Weekly Source Code 19 – LINQ and More What, Less How and List of .NET Dependency Injection Containers (IoC) (Scott Hanselman)
• Framework Design Guidelines: LINQ (Brad Abrams)
• DLRScript… Now With Added Ruby! (Jay Kimble) – I still think David Lee Roth every time I see DLR.
• Creating Screenshots With C# (typeof.net)
• Float, Double and Decimal: Do You Know the Differences? (pheaven)
• Convert Generic ICollection<T> (Timm)

Web Development

• I’m Just a Caveman – The Hanselman Corollary to the Clarke/Wheeler Laws (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC: Securing Your Controller Actions and SubSonic: New Project Site Online (Rob Conery)
• HTML Reference (beta) (sitepoint)
• Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 1 (Hackersoft)
• Google Releases Book Search API (gcode) – How long until we see a Google BookSearch .NET library on CodePlex?
• JScript Debugger in IE8 (Deepak Jain)

PowerShell

• Dev Environment for PowerShell (Tomas Restrepo) – Script to config your .NET dev environment.
• PowerShell Plus Is Now Official! (Jeffrey Snover)

Visual Studio

• The Command Window (nillfm)
• How to Get Enterprise Library 3.1 Working in VS 2008 (Scott Densmore)
• VSX Community Letter for March 2008 (Ken Levy)
• Restarting VisualStudioHacks.com (James Avery)

Career

• 5 Ways to Engage Employees (Michael Specht)
• Steve Yegge on Interviewing (John Lam)

Blogging

• Tags vs. Categories (J.D. Meier)
• Post to Your Blog Directly From Google Docs (Jason Harris)
• FriendFeed Is This Year’s Twitter, but Why? (Duncan Riley)
• MyBlogLog Founder to Launch New Startup Gnip With $1 Million in Funding (Michael Arrington)

SharePoint

• Migrate WSS 2.0 Web Sites to WSS 3.0 (Some Tips About SharePoint) (Luis Du Solier G.)

Link Collections

• March 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and .NET (Scott Guthrie)
• Interesting Finds: March 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 226 (Sam Gentile)
• Links Today (2008-03-13) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for March 13, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Our Daily Link (2008-03-13) (Trevor Green)
• Links (3/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #53 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Joe Celko’s Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems): Joe Celko: Books