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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)

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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)

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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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