• Now Available: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – September 2011 Update and New Training Kit Web Installer Preview (James Conard)
• First look at Windows Simulator (Navneet Gupta)
• New Debugging Book – Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential User Space WinDbg Commands (Roberto Alexis Farah)
• Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap (Colin Eberhardt)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First jQuery – $15.99(Save 50%) and FINAL DAY: Back to School Special – *Free to Choose* – Save 50% All Ebooks & Videos – Use code: B2SDEAL (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers (Abhishek Lohani)
• Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro – Some fundamentals (Nishant Sivakumar)
• AutoMapper 2.0 – Nested/Child Containers (Jimmy Bogard)
• Local workspaces (Gian Maria Ricci)
• A Simple AppSettings Type Provider (Daniel Mohl)
• Microsoft HealthVault SDK v2 released (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Metro-style application manifest (Andrej Tozon)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3 for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (MS Downloads)
• VisualStudio 2010 JavaScript & CSS Outlining – Release: v2.0 (CodePlex)
• Getting Touch Support in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps Now (Carl Bergenhem)
• CSS3 text-shadow in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
• Tips for Speeding Up Octopress Site Generation (Pavan Podila)
• A convention for using CoffeeScript in Rails (Marko Anastasov)
• Stack Exchange API Usage Stats and API 2.0 Plans (Jeff Atwood)
• How to prevent the user to post page twice, by using refresh (Jeroen Bourdeaud’hui)
• A PHP on Windows Azure Learning Plan (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pretotyping: a complete example (Giorgio Sironi)
• Document based modeling: Auctions & Bids (Oren Eini)
• Model-View-What? (Stacy Vicknair)
• Delegation Poker (Free Exercise) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Future mocking revisited (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: Updated all "Mango" posts (Peter Kuhn)
• Pinworthy: 5 apps to try with Windows Phone 7.5 (Andy Colley)
• New SilverlightShow Ebook: "Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies" (Silverlight Show)
• Why the Frame Rate Counter is not Available in my WP7 Emulator? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Behind the XAML of the Windows Phone Silverlight Game – Numbertap (Luke Lowrey)
• A word on WPF4 manipulations. (Luis Cabrera)
• 2000 WPF Things #398 – WrapPanel Element (Sean Sexton)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 5 – Getting email addresses for Beta testers and SurfCube on Mango Part 6 – Join SurfCube V4 Beta! Here’s what’s coming (András Velvárt)
• Taking a Tougher Stance on Bulk App Publishing (Todd Brix)
• New Extension Introduces Microsoft Office to LightSwitch (Jenni Ripley)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 8: Solving a MEF Dilemma (Evan Hutnick)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 019: Mail Order Mysteries (Mark Frauenfelder)
• How Do I: Internet Explorer 8 – Selectors API (MS Podcasts)
• GoingNative Live at BUILD: Herb Sutter, Joanna Mason, Tony Goodhew and GoingNative 2: C++ at BUILD, Windows Runtime Library(WRL), Meet Tarek and Sridhar (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #144: Cost vs. Benefit (James Shore)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.7 beta 1, Toggler, Face Detection (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• What The Tech 86: Topical Paul (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast: SendGrid Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• "Kinecting The Dots – Developing with the Kinect SDK" TechEd Session (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Announcing the Revival of the Blenders SIG (Don Burnett)
• FREE Software Process & Scrum On-line Event Series by Northwest Cadence in October and November! (Angela Dugan)
• MVP in Residence Helps with BUILD Demo (MVP Award Program)
• Meet Up With DZone @ JavaOne 2011 and Oracle Open World In San Francisco!! (Jim Moscater)

Database

• SQL Server: Removing Deprecated Code and Future Proofing your Queries (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_volume_stats – Information about operating system volume and SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_windows_info – Information about Operating System (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with SQL Azure Development (Zhiming Xue)

SharePoint

• SharePoint is NOT Dropbox: But User Beware! (Joel Oleson)
• New book: Deploying Cloud-Based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• Threading in PowerShell (Oliver Mantl)

Miscellaneous

• Code your own Mult-User Private Git Server (with ruby) (Richard Taylor)
• Time Off, Vacations and Sabbaticals for Programmers (Krishna Kumar)
• Zune expands to Canada, drops Zune Pass price in US (Michael Stroh)
• Android’s HTTP Clients (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 29, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 09.26 ~ 09.30 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 30 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #720 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 29th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• The Morning Brew #949 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 09/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 28-Sep-2011 and 29-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/29/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow for Sept 19 – 25, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2011 — #1152 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links– 2010_33 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential User Space WinDbg Commands by Roberto Alexis Farah

• EF Power Tools CTP1 Released (Andrew Peters & Rowan Miller)
• dotPeek–JetBrains replaces .NET Reflector (Gunnar Peipman)
• Quick Look at Reverse Engineer DB into Code First Classes (Julie Lerman)
• Mango Rumours (Full list by WinRumors) (Rudi Grobler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• What Happens during a PLINQ Query? (logicchild)
• .NET library for Google Data APIs announced (Senthil Kumar)
• A LINQ Style Mode Operator (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 (MS Downloads) – Hotfix available for users experiencing a beta expired notice.
• Microsoft Bringing "Ops" into Visual Studio (vNext) (Jim Moscater)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Productivity Power Tools Part 2 (Robert Green)
• Spring.NET Gets Visual Studio Add-in, CodeConfig, NuGet Packages (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Querying the Xbox Live Game Marketplace – from anywhere (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Code Metrics – Depth of Inheritance (DIT) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1 KB2478063 Service Pack 5 Feature Set 3.1 R2 November Edition RTW (Maarten Balliauw)
• Async 14: Working with APIs (Bill Wagner)
• A Tweeting .NET Micro Framework breathalyzer (Matt Isenhower)
• Refactorings for simplifying of .NET 4.0 parallel computing development (Alex Skorkin)
• "Sort" of a follow-up post [IListExtensions class enables easy sorting of .NET list types; today's updates make some scenarios faster or more convenient] (David Anson)
• Two for one day – A cool Kinect hack and open source 3D development platform for interactive real time 3D projects (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Understanding Mask Options in jQuery Mask Editor (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Filter and display data with ASP.NET Web Forms (Part 2) (Christian Nagel)
• Web Application Configuration Analyzer 2.0 and Refactoring the Contoso Karate MVC LogOn Widget. (Joe Stagner)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Ed – $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDJS6 (O’Reilly Media)
• Adding Touch to A Web Site Using the jQuery SwipeTouch Plugin (Chris Love)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Michael Sahota)
• Stop Having Scrum Meetings? (Peter Saddington)
• Using Mocks (Richard Carr)
• Code is Liability, the Less the Better (Vikas Hazrati)
• Balsamiq New Release: Rename, Icons on the Right, Break Apart… (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• 7 Tenets Of Framework Selection (Rob Diana)
• Infographic: how Microsoft Research and product teams collaborate (Steve Clayton)
• New Book: Microsoft Project 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• dotCover 1.1, dotTrace 4.5 Performance RC builds + known issue with MSTest (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Don’t Worry About Where To Start. Just Start. (Derick Bailey)
• "Design for Software: a playbook for developers" (Greg Duncan)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Simulating tombstone (suspended state) on Windows Phone 7 emulator (David Amador)
• Making your own WP7 Angry Birds (Jo de Greef)
• Update to Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 includes ACS and Storage Queues (Katrien de Graeve)
• Announcing Document Toolkit for LightSwitch (Koen Zwikstra)
• Text Searching in Silverlight 5 ComboBox and ListBox (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building applications with HTML 5 using F#? Silverlight Game design with F#! OMG# (Surf4Fun)
• Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 4 (xpert360)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Radio Astronomy on DotNetRocks – ICRAR and SKA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SharePoint 2010 Performance and Optimization–Episode 60 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• SE Podcast #05 (Alex Miller)
• I/O Boot Camp – Getting Started With HTML5 (Pete LePage)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 87: Chronon for Java (Michael Kimsal)
• Benko and Daniel Wigdor on Rock & Rails and A Look at the SoundLab (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• PASS Summit 2013 Location: Charlotte, NC! (Brent Ozar)
• Azure Tech Jam (Brian Hitney)
• Mono Founder Miguel De Icaza Forges Ahead After Novell Dismissal (Jim Moscater)
• Vote for Your Favorite Google Science Fair Project! (Kathy Ceceri)

Database

• Troubleshoot Deadlocks using SQL Server Profiler 2005/2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQL SERVER – Connecting to Server Using Windows Authentication by SQLCMD (Pinal Dave)
• How To: Use the Same Data Flow Column Twice As a Parameter in SSIS (Todd McDermid)

SharePoint

• Speaking at SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast Conference 2011 in San Antonio, TX – May 23-25 (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• 10 Reasons SharePoint 2010 SP1 Will Rock Your World! (Joel Oleson)
• Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 2 of 5 (Vivek Soni) (SharePoint Developer Team)
• Creating a SharePoint 2010 Workflow using SPD 2010 and Visio 2010: How-To & FAQ (SharePoint Designer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Lync Training Download Package (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft’s Lync Online: What’s coming when (Mary Jo Foley)
• Must Have Games kicks off May 25; Angry Birds arrives June 29 (Michael Stroh)
• Video conferencing is a preferred method to phone interviews (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• DIY Hardware at Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
• Giant infographic showing Microsoft acquisitions (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 05/18/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 18th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for May 09-15 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #855 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB by Bill Evjen

• ASP.NET MVC 3 and the @helper syntax within Razor (Scott Guthrie)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 for Silverlight and Unity 2.1 for Silverlight (MS Downloads)
• Why Windows Phone Will Beat Android (Doug Holland)
• Resources for Windows Phone 7 Development (Kim Spilker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: 5 Easy Ways to Combine Sequences (James Michael Hare)
• CodeRush Resources (Rory Becker)
• New version of the Inmeta Build Folder Extension (Terje Sandstrom)
• Dapper.Net – A Micro ORM that puts you back in control (Mike Ceranski)
• Mono Development 101: Build Linux Desktop Apps with .NET (Jason Gilmore)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Optional Update 1 and Unity 2.1 (MS Downloads)
• Spatial Types in the Entity Designer (Sarah McDevitt)
• Optional argument corner cases, part two (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Drawing Infragistics’ New Logo with the HTML5 Canvas (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Releasing Single / Multiple Files To Pre Compiled ASP.net Web Site (Abhijit Jana)
• Implementing MarkDown for comments (Julian M. Bucknall)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Canvas Pocket Reference – Only $5.49 (Save 50%) w/code DDCNV #HTML5 (O’Reilly Media)
• How to add Tweets to your blog and debugging basic JavaScript: Why did Twitter.com/JavaScript/Blogger JSONP Widget stop working? (Scott Hanselman)
• How to eliminate tempuri.org from your service WSDL (Ron Jacobs)
• Google Storage Open to All and Free Trial Use (David Hayden)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 10: Pinned Site Resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• More On PHP Deployment To Windows Azure (Karsten Januszewski)
• Windows Azure-Hosted Services: What to expect of latency and response times from services deployed to the Windows Azure platform (Emil Velinov)
• Book Review: Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Productivity Blogs (J.D. Meier)
• Using the Security Development Lifecycle Best Practices at Microsoft (MS Downloads)
• Visualizing the entire flow (Jimmy Bogard)
• Project Management: Dedicated vs. Shared Resources (K. Brian Kelley)
• Solo: Beautiful Project Management for Freelancers (Simon Mackie)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft Project 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Article:Are You a Whole Team? (Matthew Philip)
• Effective Tests: A Test-First Example – Part 6 (Derek Greer)
• Mocking MsCorlib members (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Adding Buy Now Functionality (Windows Phone Geek)
• A Letter to Some Listing to Silverlight Haters… (David Kelley)
• Active Federation using RIA Services and WIF (Yavor Georgiev)
• Adventures with PivotViewer Part 10: Let’s do the Timelapse Warp (xpert360)
• Coming In Mango–Local DB Part 2: Relationships (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV 72: Windows Phone Tips for Optimizing Image Quality (John Papa)
• A New NUI – Tobii Eyetracking Hardware (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• XAPfest LA 2011–June 4, 2011 (Wes Yanaga)
• Registration Open for Prism, Unity, WPF, MVVM Boise Training Event (Karl Shifflett)
• Full Day ASP.NET MVC 3 Training Event in Los Angeles on May 21st, 2011 (Scott Mitchell)
• Missed the #LifeatMS Twitter chat? Read the full transcript now (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• NYC .NET Developers User Group-> Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
• Dev Unplugged Contest Finalists (Carter Rabasa)
• Lindsay Lindstrom Chats About the Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition (Daniel Olivieri)
• From Zero to Silverlight in 1 Day! (Paul Sheriff)
• SQL SERVER – Vote for My Session in SQL PASS (Pinal Dave)

Database

• Integration of SSRS and .net using Iframe and URL Command Approach (Santosh Poojari)
• Sharding in SQL Azure (Simon Sabin)
• Stored procedures to retrieve directory listing – Undocumented XPs (Vishal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Foundation 2010 design samples (MS Downloads)
• Connecting to SharePoint Online Web Services (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Windows PowerShell 2.0 Core Help – May 2011 Update (MS Downloads)
• DoJ oversight of Microsoft ends (Evan Senter)
• Staying in Control of Your Default Search Provider (Herman Ng)
• Windows Azure Appliances are still in Microsoft’s plans (Mary Jo Foley)
• Office Web Apps on SkyDrive get a Spring update (Omar Shahine)
• Making Let Me Bing That For You Open Source (Phil Haack)
• Inspired by “Code” (Charles Petzold)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 12th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• 11-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #851 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design by Brett D. McLaughlin

• All Updated Windows Phones Are Not Alike (Brandon Watson)
• Should I use HTML5 or Silverlight? One man’s opinion. (Scott Hanselman)
• Spatial Types in the Entity Framework (Pedro Ardila)
• LightSwitch: 10 Times As Many Silverlight Developers As Today (Michael Washington)

.NET / Visual Studio

• DLR in C# using Scripting Language (Abhishek Sur)
• WCF scales up slowly with bursts of work (Dustin Metzgar)
• EasyNetQ, a simple .NET API for RabbitMQ (Mike Hadlow)
• Blog Post: PLINQO for NHibernate, Beta 1 Released! (T. DuPont)
• Using CSLA 4: Data Portal Configuration draft online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Meet the new Microsoft® Surface® Input Simulator (Luis Cabrera)
• Top Failed Bots (Brian Hitney)
• MEFing up RIA Services Part 2: Kyle’s Turn (Colin Blair)
• Something "sort" of handy… [IListExtensions adds easy sorting to .NET list types - enabling faster search and removal, too!] (David Anson)
• dotCover 1.1, dotTrace 4.5 Performance Beta 2 (Jura Gorohovsky)

Web Development

• Updating JavaScript Benchmarks for Modern Browsers (Mike Belshe)
• CSS3 Gradients in IE10 Platform Preview 1 (Jennifer Yu)
• Built-in GZip/Deflate Compression on IIS 7.x (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET MVC: Implementing CheckBoxList (Gunnar Peipman)
• Continuous Integration In PHP w/Jenkins (Eric Hogue)
• Best Windows Hosting Offers (including plenty of free stuff) (Andy Robb)
• How to get a source code enlistment set-up for Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Anecdotally, datajs delivers quiet success (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10 Tips for Agile Adoption in the Enterprise (Peter Saddington)
• A Mockery review (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using Fakes (Richard Carr)
• A minimal actor framework, part 2 (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Uploading Data back to Azure (Rob Tiffany)
• Working with WP7 ListPicker SelectedItem and New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.4.0 officially released and Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Implementation and Best Practices (Windows Phone Geek)
• 20 useful Expression Blend tips & tricks (Alex Knight)
• Event to Command in WPF MVVM application (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–The Third Dimension (Mike Taulty)
• Step-by-Step Using ImplicitDataTemplate in Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Games: Add Images and use the mouse to move images (Sam)
• Housebuilding with John Papa and Sliverlight 5 at MIX11 (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Conversation with Herb Sutter: Perspectives on Modern C++(0x/11) (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 111: John Papa on the Open Source Fest at MIX11 (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 146 – PowerScripting Podcast – Directors from PowerShellCommunity.org (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SE Podcast #03 (Alex Miller)
• MAUI: Mobile Assistance Using Infrastructure and Microsoft Private Cloud Security Overview (Larry Larsen)
• Web Camps TV #11 – MVC Turbine with Javier Lozano (Drew Robbins)
• Hot Apps: Max & The Magic Marker, Gadget Watch, 4th & Mayor, Shuriken Ninja, Back Track (Laura Foy)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Hardware Model Shop (Clint Rutkas & Nic Fillingham)
• Get Your CodeRush Training Here (Mark Miller)

Community / Events

• Developing SharePoint 2010 Solutions Using External Data and Services – May 25, 2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• Author news: Azure deep dives with Jeffrey Richter (Devon Musgrave)
• SilverlightShow, CodeStock and Devlink lined up for the next couple of month. (Michael Crump)
• What do you ask when interviewing a company? (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• Working with large XML files in Management Studio (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 7 – Server Security and grouping – Schema Control (Ted Krueger)
• How do you create or update stored procedures. (Martin Catherall)
• Policy-Based Management and Local Password Policy (Jorge Segarra)

Miscellaneous

• Bing Maps Control for iOS (MS Downloads)
• Code-Named “Dryad” Ships in Beta! (Ade Miller)
• "Climbing Mt PowerShell" comic now available (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft announces OAuth 2.0 support for Messenger Connect (Kip Kniskern)
• Oracle Plans to Transfer Hudson IP to Eclipse (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ‘Walshied’ Windows Phone 7 that won’t update? There’s a fix for that (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 05/04/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 4-May-2011 and 3-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #845 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 04, 2011 — #1084 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 4th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed by Stephen Walther

• My Visual Studio 2010 HTML5 Templates are Updated for jQuery 1.5.1 and Modernizr 1.7 (Rey Bango)
• ReSharper 6 Enhances Suggestions with Explanations (Hadi Hariri)
• Finding Code Smell Comments with PowerShell (Jim Holmes)
• async Samples 5: Exceptions and async methods (Bill Wagner)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Server AppFabric and WCF monitoring (Rockford Lhotka)
• Visual Studio 2010 Unlimited Load Test Virtual Users (Steve Smith)
• Published Applications AKA _PublishedApplications (Rob Reynolds)
• Memory Access Breakpoint for Large Ranges using VirtualProtect (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Loading Assemblies off Network Drives (Rick Strahl)
• Creating CodeRush Plug-ins: Actions and Tool Windows (Mark Miller)
• An ADO.NET SQL Helper Class (Jonathan Wood)
• Improving CLRProfiler 2: 19.7% in TryGetValue (Feng Yuan)

Web Development

• Using ActionFilters with ASP.NET MVC and NHibernate (Rob Conery)
• Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 2: Creating The Core Mobile Layout (Chris Love)
• New DevNugget: Get to Know Action Filters in ASP.NET MVC 3 with HandleError (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Developer Resources: HTML5 / IE9 Tutorials and Sample Code and Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility Cookbook (Doris Chen)
• Using HTML5 Local Storage and What JavaScript Library or Framework do you use ? (Joe Stagner)
• Revised JavaScript Dictionary Search (John Resig)
• JavaScript: How it all Began (Axel Rauschmayer)
• How to Add MVC 3 Project Types to the Azure Cloud Service Wizard (Jason Haley)
• NEW Eclipse Plugin CTP Eases Windows Azure Development for Java Developers (Windows Azure Team)
• Guest Post: The Cross-Browser Compatibility Myth (Heather Sonmez)
• SmartScreen® Application Reputation – Building Reputation (Ryan Colvin)
• Rails 3 Baby Steps – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Are You Ready for IE9 and Firefox 4? (Charles Hamilton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Design Patterns – $17.99 (Save 50%) Code DDHZP (O’Reilly Media)
• Stop Using Mocks (Karl Seguin)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Hard-Coded Test Double (Giorgio Sironi)
• Reviewing Data Analysis With Open Source Tools (Rob Diana)
• Mocking constructor (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Designing a Short Course on IoC: Day 3 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Configure properties of Test Plan in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) (Abhijit Zanak)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Custom Gauge Controls for Windows Phone 7: Part III (Badea Florin)
• 7Metro: Silverlight Theme (Alex Knight)
• “Cool” button creation in Expression Blend Tutorial (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7 “NoDo” Update Is Now Available For Download! (Dr. Usman)
• Revealing the “101 Apps” (Vol I) Table of Contents (Adam Nathan)
• WPF on Mono? It is a matter of funding. (Jonathan Allen)
• Adding Analytics to your Windows Phone 7 App with Preemptive Solutions (Michael Crump)
• Customizing WP7 Slider in different ways and WP7 TextBox Light theme problems – the solution and How to access a Control placed inside ListBox ItemTemplate in WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Linq: SelectMany (Jesse Liberty)
• Targeting mobile-optimized CSS at Windows Phone 7 (Mike O’Malley)
• New Release: ReactiveUI 2.2.1 (Paul Betts)
• A Smarter TextBlock Control for WP7 (Michael Wolf)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Access Show – Making Beautiful Access Web Applications (Tina Wood)
• Let’s Play TDD #96: Resources (James Shore)
• Countdown to MIX11: All Things Digital (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 95: Microsoft Atlanta, Kodu, Kinect HACK, KEXP to the Cloud (Laura Foy)
• Technology & Friends Episode 146: Heather Kostes and Nicole Moser on the MVP Program (David Giard)
• This Developer’s Life 1.1.5 Revolt (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Google’s Marissa Mayer Interviews Lady Gaga (GOOG) (Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry)
• AuthorsCast: Mark Russinovich on Zero Day: A Novel (Lee Dumond)

Community / Events

• Wanna Attend TEC2011 SharePoint #in Vegas for FREE? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone? (Vitaly Friedman)
• MobiZA – Android platform for the .NET developer (Rudi Grobler)
• Over 70 MVPs pack Bellevue Microsoft Retail Store (Lonnie Webb)
• Interview with SilverlightShow Eco Contest First Runner-up Peter Kuhn (Silverlight Show)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 3 (Glenn Berry)
• Dynamic Management Quickie: Exploring SQL Server’s system views and functions as you work (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – ObjectID in Negative – Local TempTable has Negative ObjectID (Pinal Dave)
• What Are Your Indexing Strategies? (Jason Strate)
• SQL Azure Use Case: Department Application Data Store (Buck Woody)

Miscellaneous

• OData for iOS resources (Glen Gordon)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• SilverlightShow for March 14-20, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2011 — #1063 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 22th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #818 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 03/22/2011 and Daily News Digest 03/23/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 21-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure Platform (Patterns & Practices)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Eclipse and VSTS (Pieter de Bruin)
• Lightweight Linq Parser (Brad Abrams)
• Building A Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 1 (Chris Patterson)
• Windows 7 Runtime Libraries Available for Vista and Windows Server 2008 (Zhiming Xue)
• Attach a Debugger When a Process Starts (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• 7 on 7: Sensor and Location API (Jim O’Neil)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 1: Introduction and Freescale Board Setup and Testing (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• WOHOO!!!, Debug Diag 64bit is finally released (Tess Ferrandez)

Web Development

• Don’t Look Now, But MapQuest Might Be Great (Adam DuVander)
• MVC Best Practices (Jimmy Bogard)
• Announcing the Zoho Projects API (Celina Balasingh)
• 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Simone Chiaretta)
• Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP developers (Maarten Balliauw)
• Verify JavaScript syntax using C# (Mads Kristensen)
• DotNetNuke 5.x Can’t Move Module On A Page (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD Invades Space Invaders (Michael Kennedy)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 6 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 18. (Rajiv Popat)
• Manual Mocking: Resisting the Invasion of Dots and Parentheses (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Cost Oriented Architecture of Cloud Applications (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Coding: Connascence – Some examples (Mark Needham)
• Uniqueness validation in CQRS Architecture (Jérémie Chassaing)

Silverlight / WPF

• Video Player Expression Blend 3 Behavior Library (MS Downloads)
• New WPF Features: ClearTypeHint (Lester Lobo)
• You ask: Should Silverlight use BAML? (Rob Relyea)
• WPF and databinding to dynamic properties (Torkel Ödegaard)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video on creating a PowerPack (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• 10-4 Episode 34: Debugger Enhancements and Improvements (Jason Olson)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Don Box – Perspectives on SOAP, Programming Data and M (Charles Torre)
• Screencast: SharePoint 2010 for Project Management Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Tekpub Production Calendar (Rob Conery)
• Developing Windows Azure applications for PHP, Ruby, and Java, using Eclipse (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Growing the next generation of computer scientists and business leaders (Kyle Ewing)
• Expression Blend Feedback Forum (Adam Kinney)
• "Oslo" at the 2009 PDC (Chris Sells)
• PDC2009: XAML Futures Talk (Rob Relyea)

Database

• Disable SQL Azure Firewall (Jason De Lorme)
• Windows Azure Tables: Expect Continuation Tokens, Seriously! (Steve Marx)
• Another Great SQL Azure Query Tool (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• Free Download: SharePoint Assessment WBS & Project Schedule (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Short Overview of SharePoint Features in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Jausovec)

Miscellaneous

• Set Up Windows Home Server to Automate Your Backups and Corral Your Media (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/10/29 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Dr. Explain Gives Your Software a Brain (Lee Dumond)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #465 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 – 2 — #718 and Silverlight Cream for October 28, 2009 — #719 (Dave Campbell)
• My Top 10 Personal Favorite And Overlooked Posts (Davy Brion)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #572 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 28th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 385 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Get Time Zone Information (Richard Carr)
• Code Only – Further Enhancements (Alex James)
• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence (Eric Lippert)
• LINQ Programming (Jim Kohli)
• How to edit code when debugging a 64-bit application (Habib Heydarian)
• VSTS 2010 TMap process templates infographic (Clemens Reijnen)
• Learning Scala via C# Part 1 – What Is Scala? (Justin Etheredge)
• Targeting earlier .NET frameworks 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 using Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Bala Chirtsabesan)
• URL Routing with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Using .NET 4.0 Tasks with the AsyncEnumerator (Jeffrey Richter) – Link of the Day
• Export to CSV using Reflection and IQueryable (Michael Ceranski)
• Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – ThumbnailToolbarButton and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Overlays (Rudi Grobler)

Web Development

• Expression Encoder 3 – Free and on Web Platform Installer (Mike Ormond)
• HttpContext.Items[] vs Session[] (Dave M. Bush)
• Do you know about this undocumented Google CDN feature? (Dave Ward)
• Server specific Web.config sections replacement with WDP (Vishal Joshi)
• Dead Simple Geolocation… (Scott Galloway)
• BOOK: Murach’s JavaScript and DOM Scripting Training and Reference (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• We can’t all use duct tape (Steve Jones)
• "Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease" (Ted Neward)
• I use Balsamiq Mockups and So Should You (Rob Bazinet)
• Architecture Journal – Service Orientation Today and Tomorrow (Mike Walker)
• What does the M in MVC actually mean? (Michael Wagg)
• DSLs: Violating the builder pattern (Mark Needham)
• Mocks versus stubs and fakes (Scott Koon)

Silverlight / WPF

• CoreMVVM – A Simple MVVM Framework on CodePlex (Mike Ormond)
• how to work with animations in Silverlight in the mvvm pattern (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Five minute recipe for a decent BoolToVisibilityConverter (Josh Twist)
• Saving images (.bmp, .png, etc) in WPF/Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)
• Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (sourcecode) (Koen Zwikstra)
• Adding Silverlight Video to Websites with Expression Web 3 (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Shawn Wildermuth on Declarative UI (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – How to Improve Testability with a Modular Architecture and Architect Innovation Cafe – Perspectives on Silverlight 3 and Architect Innovation Cafe – Deploying Windows 7 (Bob Familiar)
• Ping 33: Windows Phones are here, Windows 7 party kit, hacking & phishing (Laura Foy)
• Thirsty Developer 75 – Sparking a Business into Divot Dog (Dave Bost)
• The SharePoint Ecosystem Part 1 Episode 34 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)
• Microsoft Network Monitor Experts Day: Part 5 – Advanced API (Michael Hawker)

Community / Events

• Save the date: Google I/O 2010 (Joyce Sohn)
• Events This Week – October 12th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• Generate Lots of Test Data with CROSS JOIN (Joe Webb)
• Interview With Rod Colledge About The Book SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Engineering SharePoint (Jeff Teper)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell RPN Calculator (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 90-Day Eval VHD (Blake Handler)
• Adobe Photo Uploader for Facebook is a full-blown Facebook app (Jason Clarke)
• Scala: Code Kata #2 – Karate Chop – Array Slicing Attempt (Mark Needham)
• Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication (MG Siegler)
• Microsoft’s Windows 7, as viewed by the Mac faithful (Todd Bishop)
• Sneak preview of my new book (Scott Berkun)
• FTW IE6, IE7, IE8, Chrome & Firefox running together on Windows 7 (Nigel Parker)
• No, Windows 7 isn’t slower than Vista, even at booting up (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Functions and Solver Improvements in Excel 2010 (Office Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #453 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 10.09 ~10.13 (yuanjian)
• CloudNews for 12th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #559 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Big congrats to all the new and renewed Microsoft MVPs for October!

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing TFS Basic! (Jason Zander) – Link of the Day
• MSXML4 SP3, now with a CAB (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Great Windows Azure projects on CodePlex (Murray Gordon)
• Generically Constraining F# – Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Parsing Capital Letters (Chris Love)
• Create Breakpoints With Hit Count In Visual Studio 2008 (Deepak Kapoor)
• Why does char convert implicitly to ushort but not vice versa? (Eric Lippert)
• C# Singleton Pattern Code Snippet (Peter Bahaa)
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)

Web Development

• Special Folders You Won’t See in ASP.NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• New AJAX Control Toolkit Release (Stephen Walther)
• Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype (Robert Scoble)
• Dynamically Generate META tags in ASP.NET Pages with LINQ to SQL (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Creating Smart Stubs with a Mock Framework (Roy Osherove)
• Hey you, developer! Learn a bit of business speak! (Oren Eini)
• Writing meaningful, self-documenting, behavior-oriented tests (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Hire’s remorse (Eric Brechner)
• How to Excel as a Programmer (or anything else) (Dave M. Bush)
• On Crimes Against Duct-Tape, Mental Masturbation, and Pretty Boy Disclaimers (Russell Ball)
• Learning from Feedback as a Public Speaker (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Automatically stop the build for a solution when a project has failed to build (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

Silverlight / WPF

• Trigonometric Animations (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• DelayBinding: a custom WPF Binding and Editable Collection Adapter for WPF (Paul Stovell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Connected Show Podcast: Jon Skeet on C# 4.0 (Brian Johnson)
• Hanselminutes #200 – The History and Future of Web Standards with Molly Holzschlag from molly.com (Scott Hanselman)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals, Chapter 1 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #145: Getting started with Lucene.Net Search Library (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight Screencast – How to create a Resource Dictionary (Murray Gordon)
• Great Screencast on Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight (Frank La Vigne)

Community / Events

• MVP No More (Jon Skeet) – BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-GLE
• One Year Later – What I’ve Learned About Blogging (Lee Dumond)
• Congratulations to Q3 NEW Silverlight MVPs (Tim Heuer)

Database

• Deleting All Records In a Table EXCEPT For the N Most Recently Added Records (Scott Mitchell)
• PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Creating PowerShell Scripts (Josh Jones)

SharePoint

• Reduce development costs by platforming on SharePoint (Murray Gordon)

Miscellaneous

• Coming Soon – Final Release of Windows XP Mode (Brandon LeBlanc)
• MSDN Blogger Releases "IE Zone Compare" for Viewing and Comparing IE Security Zone Settings (Blake Handler)
• Staying Healthy With MSN and Bing (Kristin Meldahl) – An MSN view of your HealthVault data.
• Using Windows 7 for Music Production (David Battino)
• Introducing Visio 2010 (Office Team) – I like the new Shapes Windows collapsed view… looks kinda like the toolbox in Expression Blend.
• Sample of the Week – SOko (Vijaye) – A cool Small Basic sample app.
• Get Quick Access to Windows 7′s Jump Lists From the Keyboard (The How-To Geek)
• Session 0 Isolation (Yochay Kiriaty) – App compat, services, Windows 7, and you.

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 1, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #446 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 01, 2009 — #702 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #553 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 1st October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating High Quality Images with C# and GDI (Tom Hearn)
• LINQ to SQL cheat sheet (Damien Guard)
• Painting on the DataGridView and Converting Month Abbreviations to Month Numbers (Deborah Kurata)
• Nhibernate Unit of Work & multiple requests (Oren Eini)
• Four switch oddities (Eric Lippert)
• Linq to Mocks is finally born (Daniel Cazzulino) – Link of the Day
• Testing with NHibernate and SQLite (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.3 for .NET 2.0 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Six things that will happen when you uninstall your MSDN documentation (Roy Osherove)

Web Development

• Twitter Announces Retweet API (Andres Ferrate)
• A Simple ScriptManager for ASP.NET MVC (Chris Pietschmann)
• 3 New APIs for Gamers: World of Warcraft in 3D, LEGO and GamePro (John Musser)
• What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 (Harish Ranganathan)
• JavaScript: Not for the faint at heart? (Scott Koon)
• PHP Linux Windows ASP.NET Performance – Redux ! (Joe Stagner)
• Fun With Wacky JavaScript Type Comparison (Nick Berardi)
• Windows Azure Reference Application released to MSDN Code Gallery (Lamont Harrington)
• All Programming Is Web Programming (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Will Microsoft support distributed teams and cloud deployments? (Andy Singleton)
• To Test The Untestable Bug. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• “Hero Mode Refactoring” AKA Enemy Of Brown Field Development (Ryan Svihla)
• Refactoring Day 13 : Extract Method Object (Sean Chambers)
• DDD is a dense book (Greg Young)
• Modularity by Example (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 4. (Rajiv Popat)
• Singletons Are Evil Part 2 (Scott Densmore)
• TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster! (Jamie Cansdale)

Silverlight / WPF

• Triggers in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• Linq For Silverlight Developers (Jesse Liberty)
• More Silverlight application themes and fixes (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #135: Exploring StructureMap: Learning how to setup profiles (Derik Whittaker)
• SharePoint MVP Debuts on The Water Cooler Show (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Easing in Silverlight Animations (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Behind the Scenes: Office Labs (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Virtual Architect Council Events in August (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight 3 FireStarter Will Be Streamed Online (Frank La Vigne)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET 8/26/2009 – jQuery UI with Richard Worth (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Session Sneak Peek for the SharePoint Conference 2009 (SharePoint Team)
• Friending and Reputation (Chris Brogan)

Database

• Recover a database without the ldf file (Ted Krueger)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 1 (Martin Bell)

PowerShell

• Growl for Windows – From PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Exchange 2010 buzz grows louder (Mary-Jo Foley)
• How to "Send To" DZone from Google Reader (Me)
• Convert Google Reader Items to PDFs (Kevin Purdy)
• Microsoft NERD gets a logo (Steve Clayton)
• Powershell 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Release Candidate (Osama Sajid)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #412 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (8/13/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 355 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 13th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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