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Top Links

• 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

 

 

Top Links

• 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