• MonoDevelop 2.6 is out (Miguel de Icaza)
• What is this thing you call a "type"? Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Yes, Microsoft Did Change The World More Than Apple (Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry)
• Ten watchwords for Microsoft’s Windows 8 conference (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone 7: Honorable Mention or Eventual Winner? (Andrew J. Brust)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Exceptions and Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
• Save 50% on Mono for Android in September (Xamarin)
• How to enable code coverage in Visual Studio 2010 ? (Atul Verma)
• Entity Framework Tips and Tricks: Use GetObjectByKey When Querying a Single Entity (Chris Pietschmann)
• New book: Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• array and array_view from amp.h (Daniel Moth)
• Annual SQL Connectivity Customer Survey [Date extended] (Luiz Santos)
• A Quick Tip On How To Ignore Time When Querying From SqlServer (Peter Kellner)
• Why C++ matters? (Timo Heinäpurola)
• IronScheme – Release v1.0 RC5 (CodePlex)
• Second Level Caching with Entity Framework (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Don’t Use Workflow Bookmarks in Transaction Scopes (Sasha Goldshtein)
• "Hello, Skype? It’s me .Net… Can I record you?" (Greg Duncan)
• Database Support For Auditing CSLA Business Objects Property Changes (Jeff Ferguson)

Web Development

• Site Refresh With HTML5 and SASS – Part 1 (Paul Cowan)
• F#, RavenDB and PicoMvc – Creating an Autocomplete – The ETL (Robert Pickering)
• ASP.NET MVC dynamic view sections (Maarten Balliauw)
• Building forms for deep View Model graphs in ASP.NET MVC (Jimmy Bogard)
• Future JavaScript, today: Google’s Traceur (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript Development and Resources (Tatworth)
• JavaScript OMG #21 to #25 (Mike Taulty)
• Viewing Chrome’s paint cycle (Paul Irish)
• Google+ API Not Close …Unless You’re “Trusted”, Then It’s Ready (MG Siegler)
• What are All Those Rails Gems? (Mike Gunderloy)
• How to Install Drivers, Services, or Configure Windows on a Windows Azure Instance (Bruce Kyle)
• Stanford Web Application class available online free (and more in their OpenClassroom too) (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Concrete Practices for Agile Managers (Part 1) and 21 Concrete Practices for Agile Managers (Part 2) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Using Email Notification in TeamPulse (TeamPulse Team)
• Testing with Test Professional 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Enabling parameterized tests in MSTest using PostSharp (Dror Helper)
• Casing when coding (Mark Pearl)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Connection Strings and Windows Phone Toolkit ExpanderView in depth| Part2: Data Binding (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows phone 7 – Why does it not support unmanaged code? (Ankit Agrawal)
• 5 books for developing on Windows Phone 7 (Simone Chiaretta)
• WPF Tutorial Published [HEB] (Arik Poznanski)
• Silverlight 5 RC support for application-restricted media (Cheryl Simmons)
• Context switching in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The "Windows Phone 7 Quick Start Developer Guide" free PDF [reg-ware] (Greg Duncan)
• Document Toolkit for LightSwitch v1.2 (Koen Zwikstra)
• What’s New in Silverlight 5 RC – Invoking "Run" Dialog from In-Browser Silverlight Application (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #382 – Persisting RichTextBox Contents as XAML (Sean Sexton)
• Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – Sending your first tweet (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Microsoft Expression Encoder: A Very Underrated Tool (J. Salvador)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Billy Cravens Compares and Contrasts Cold Fusion and ASP.NET (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 9: Signature Summer Event (MS JobsBlog)
• "Building Applications for Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Jump Start" sessions are now available on-demand on Channel 9 (Greg Duncan)
• SE Podcast #17 (Alex Miller)
• A for Architecture: Oracle’s Fusion Middleware A-Team – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• AgileDC Conference – Organizer Podcast at Agile2011 (Agile Toolkit)
• Awesome Visual Studio Videos (Daniel Schroeder)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #60: Talkin Twilio and Telephony with Keith Casey and John Sheehan (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• “Kinecting” Health on Microsoft Health Tech Today (Bill Crounse)

Community / Events

• September 2011 Oracle Technology Network Member Discounts (OTN Team)
• The countdown to BUILD! (Vassil Terziev)
• 8 Amazing Student Apps (AKA Thank Goodness It Wasn’t Code Named ‘Delaware’) (Ben Lower)
• Microsoft to show off Windows 8 next week, what are you looking forward to? (Brad Sams)
• Exit Interview: Dave Mendlen, Senior Director of Visual Studio (Mike Desmond)
• Developers, students and enthusiasts: sign up for Windows Phone Camp today (Luke)
• A story about the Kinect’s recent SDK launch (Greg Duncan)

Database

• Microsoft to deliver next versions of SQL Server, System Center in 2012 (Mary Jo Foley)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Conversion Function – TRY_CONVERT() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
• Sharding Library for SQL Azure Data Federation (Herve Roggero)

SharePoint

• BCS filters and Oracle Stored Procedures with Parameters in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)
• SharePoint 2010 Admin Pack – PowerShell Scripts (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• G+7 Adds Google+ To Your Windows Desktop [Windows Downloads] (Alan Henry)
• Learning Regular Expressions: Non capturing match (Mark Needham)
• Let’s help Microsoft name Windows 8 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8” (Steven Sinofsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading September 7, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Link dump for September 6th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily Links 07/09/2011 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #933 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 09/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (9/7/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 7 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #704 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin

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Top Links

• Windows Phone 7: Saving Data when Keyboard is visible (Michael Washington)
• Communication when it’s not going your way (Mark Needham)
• JavaScript for C# developers: writing a library (part 4) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Extensionless URLs on IIS 6 (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MonoDevelop plugin for F# now available (Don Syme)
• Design objects first, then create the DB (Dennis Delimarsky)
• C# Closure Constructors (Mike Hadlow)
• Application and Page Level Tracing (Zain Naboulsi)
• A Text Parsing Helper Class (Jonathan Wood)
• DXCore Services – Project (Alex Skorkin)
• Talking Distinctions (Ariel Raunstien)

Web Development

• A Whistle-stop Tour of jQuery (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Resetting Form Field Values in an ASP.NET WebForm (Scott Mitchell)
• YUI 3.3.0 Preview Release 3 (Eric Miraglia)
• Happy Hardware Accelerated Holidays (Rob Mauceri)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using ProfileRequiredAttribute to restrict access to pages and ASP.NET and WIF: Showing custom profile username as User.Identity.Name (Gunnar Peipman)
• Setting up a CloudFront Mirroring CDN in 5 minutes (Nick Berardi)
• Twitter API Updates Mean an End to GeoAPI (Romin Irani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban and Systems Thinking (Karl Scotland)
• Article:Doing Kanban Wrong (Tim Wingfield)
• Duplicated Setup Code in Your Tests? Refactor to a Factory! (Jim Holmes)
• [Tool Review] – Pivotal Tracker – Build Better Software, Faster (Peter Saddington)
• The Designer’s Cross-Training Toolkit (Mark Cossey)
• Are You Coding on Thin Ice? (James Shore)
• Solving Problems, You Better Learn How (John Sonmez)
• Best Practices for Endless Scrolling (Anthony)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• My Month with Windows Phone 7 (Andrej Tozon)
• MVVM and focus ListView element with complex template (Al Kampfer)
• F#’ing SilverLight (F# SilverLight Template that is…) (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone From Scratch – Animation Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7 Useful Links for Tile Push Notifications (Jason Zander)
• New Book: Windows Phone 7 Game Development (Joey deVilla)
• Announcing New Exam Drills for Windows Phone 7 (Kim Spilker)
• Using Prism with Silverlight 4 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• The XML content importer and Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
• What I Learned in WP7 – Issue #9 (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Eric Falsken Builds Object Databases (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Silverlight vs XNA for Windows Phone 7 (Laura Foy)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 61: What should Developers know about SQL Server? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) – Welcome back boys!
• Hardware Accelerated Holidays (Larry Larsen)
• Distributed Systems Podcast Episode 1: Distributed Systems Host Introductions (Andreas Öhlund, Jonathan Matheus, Jonathan Oliver & Rinat Abdullin)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Research Part 3 – The Model Shop (Larry Larsen, Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
• Interview:Laurie Williams: Getting to Comparative Agility (Laurie Williams)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #21 with Guest Julie Lerman (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Download VTD Video Session on LightSwitch: 23rd November 2010 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WP7 Minute Episode IV–Search (Daniel Egan)
• Silverlight TV 51: Debugging and Deploying WCF RIA Services (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Silverlight Awesomeness In The East Coast (Dani Diaz)
• Windows Phone 7 Federal App Contest Winners (Richard Hay)
• Free Upcoming Event: jQuery Talk at Silicon Valley (Dr. Doris Chen)
• Special thanks to everyone that helped me in 2010. (Michael Crump)
• SQLBits 8 dates and venue announced (Martin Bell)

Database

• Modifying SSRS Rendering (David Dye)
• Santa, in the form of Red Gate, has brought us a present, SQL Scripts Manager, a free SQL Server script management and execution utility… (Greg Duncan)
• Filtered Index in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Observation of the View – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Storage Internals Part 4 – How to read a Heap page (Ramkumar)
• Interlude: SSMS tips (Don Halloran)
• Strange issue while using IDENTITY values in INSTEAD OF triggers (Sam Bendayan)

SharePoint

• *** NOW AVAILABLE *** Creating Custom SharePoint 2010 Service Applications and Consumers (Visual How To) (Andrew Connell)
• Providing Feedback about the SharePoint Developer Documentation (Uma Subramanian)
• SP2010 AJAX part 6: Debugging jQuery/JavaScript (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Survey Indicates Key API Trends (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Readers vote with their clicks: The 20 hottest Microsoft stories in 2010 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Kinect Coming To PCs, Says Game Developer (Matt Rosoff)
• Hyper-V Survival Guide (Bill Zack)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 22, 2010 and Interesting Finds: December 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 12.13 ~ 12.23 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 22 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 12/23/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #757 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework, Second Edition (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Steven Sanderson

Top Links

• 20 Interesting WPF Projects on CodePlex (Some for Silverlight too) (Pete Brown)
• MonoDevelop 2.4.1 is out (Miguel de Icaza)
• The Weekly Source Code 57 -Controlling an Eagletron TrackerPod with C# 4, ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Asynchronous C# and F# (III.): How does it work? (Tom)
• Source code for F# Depth Colorizer extension (Brian McNamara)
• Misusing mutable state with F# Asynchronous Workflows (Kean Walmsley)
• C# 5.0–Rise of the Task (Mike Taulty)
• Window Layouts: Design, Debug, and Full Screen (Zain Naboulsi)
• “Exploring Reactive Extensions” (Greg Duncan)
• The State of .Net Facebook Development (Nathan Totten)
• Using CSLA 4 series outline and Using CSLA 4: CSLA .NET Overview available (Rockford Lhotka)

Web Development

• Named Routes To The Rescue (Phil Haack)
• CSS Quick Tip: CSS Arrows and Shapes Without Markup (Nate Cavanaugh)
• Using IE 9 Developer Tools to Learn jQuery (Rachel Appel)
• HTML5 Recipes: Storage 101 (Romin Irani)
• 10 Essential Tools for building ASP.NET Websites (Stephen Walther)
• HTML5 Day 6: New Range Input Type (Chris Pietschmann)
• Creating Twitpic client using ASP.NET and OData (Gunnar Peipman)
• IE9 and SunSpider–the plot thickens (Kip Kniskern)
• Granting Access to Twitter applications (Martin Beeby)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Tdd for the iPhone: Continued (Brett Schuchert)
• Scrum Training Exercises (Dan Puckett)
• TDD in Xcode Suddenly Tons Better (Rob Williams)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Layer Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• Agile Estimating 2.0 – A Cheat Sheet (ScoutMaster)
• The smallest bugs, the biggest problems – Part I (Oren Eini)
• Bowling Kata (Ashley Nathan Feniello)
• Make it interesting for yourself (Mark Needham)
• Architecture Guide: Windows Forms, Generics, Auto-Mapper, Entity Framework, Framework Design and many more.. (Nirosh L.W.C.)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF = Silverlight+ (Christian Nagel)
• Part 1 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers. (Michael Crump)
• Get a Agent, a ServiceAgent (WP 007 Agent) (Rudi Grobler)
• Using the Pivot Control (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 126: Chris Woodruff on OData (David Giard)
• Windows Weekly 183: The Wil Wheaton Of Podcasts (Paul Thurrott)
• You’ve got questions; I’ve got dumb looks [PDC10's Channel 9 Live Windows Phone 7 Q&A session available online and offline] (David Anson)
• Ping 84: Visual Search WP7 apps, Kinect Art, Lync, Facebook & Office (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #53: Testing Styles (with Kim Gräsman) (James Shore)
• DDD Windows Phone 7 Event Videos (Mike Ormond)
• Yet Another Podcast #15 – Ian Griffiths (Jesse Liberty)
• Pluralcast 29 : ALM with Sam Guckenheimer (David Starr)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 36 – A Chat with Greg Low – Part 2 (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Web Camps (Scott Guthrie)
• Free Webinar: Be a legacy code unit test ninja with Typemock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
• Great opportunity for Windows Developers– your app featured on C-net’s download.com (Dave Isbitski)
• Imagine Cup "Solve This" (Somasegar)

Database

• SSIS Denali Data Flow Grouping (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Change Database Access to Single User Mode Using SSMS (Pinal Dave)
• PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services – CTP2 (MS Downloads)
• Do Foreign Key Constraints Help Performance? (Grant Fritchey)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Query and XQuery for the Non-Expert – Value (Jason Strate)
• WAITFOR what? (Martin Bell)
• The Productive DBA (Paul Theriault)

Miscellaneous

• New book from Pragmatic Works in the "works"… (Adam Jorgensen)
• Improving Your Developer Skills (Gil Fink)
• MSDN Library Home Mockup to Simplify Finding the Product Docs (J.D. Meier)
• is the iPhone Development Environment Superior to Android’s? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Got Hacked? How to Fix Hacked Facebook or Twitter Account and Prevent it (Joel Oleson)
• Robot framework revisited (Gojko Adzic)
• Should I get certifications before applying to Microsoft? (RJ Naugle)
• How do I print tags? (Luis Cabrera)
• Creating dynamic methods with closures in Ruby (Paul Cowan)
• Kodu Localization (Stephen Coy)
• RTM’d today: Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Resource Kit (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 171 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 11.15 ~ 2010 11.22 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #734 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/22/2010 and Weekly Article Digest 11/22/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for November 21, 2010 – 2 — #997 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 049 for 11/22/2010 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

C# in Depth by Jon Skeet

Top Links

• Windows Forms Developers: Tell me about your applications (Pete Brown)
• Basic to Basics: What is Dependency Inversion? Is it IoC? Part 2 (John Sonmez)
• F# MonoDevelop Add-In Available (Miguel de Icaza)
• Basic Windows Phone 7 Motion Design (Matthias Shapiro)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use LINQPad To Query Entity Framework (Deepak Kapoor)
• Function composition in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Are you using WCF within your organization? (Glenn Block)
• Parallel.For Method in .NET 4.0 vs the C# For Loop (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Thumbnail Previews in the IDE Navigator (Zain Naboulsi)
• Vault 5.1 (Eric Sink)
• Microsoft Lync Server 2010 SDK and Lync Server 2010 Group Chat SDK (MS Downloads)
• The Full Stack–Part 4: Back to the client (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Azure Learning Plan (Buck Woody)
• What Do You Think Of This Hack? (Davy Brion)
• Enhancing your Windows application experience with animation (Jerry Joyce)

Web Development

• Accessing Server-Side Data from Client Script: Using WCF Services with jQuery and the ASP.NET Ajax Library (Scott Mitchell)
• HTML5 Day 3: Detecting HTML5 Support via JavaScript (Chris Pietschmann)
• Article:Fulfilling the Promise of MVC (Richard Pawson)
• A Better ASP.NET MVC Mobile Device Capabilities ViewEngine (Scott Hanselman)
• Feature Detection (Martin Beeby)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Web 2.0 Architectures – $12.99 (Save 54%) Use code DDW2Z (O’Reilly Media)
• How Optimized Are High Traffic Websites? (Karl Seguin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Walk The Road With The Agile Samurai (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Evaluating Alternatives vs Reacting To Differences (Derick Bailey)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Back Door Manipulation (Giorgio Sironi)
• Key CQRS Ingredient and Lokad and Cloud CQRS Update and Plans (Rinat Abdullin)
• Agile is NOT a Methodology and [Infograph] – What Flavor of Agile Do You Use? (ScoutMaster)
• Game Theory and Agile Software Development (Vikas Hazrati)
• Getting Results Knowledge Base v2 (J.D. Meier)
• Should Story Points Be Assigned to A Bug-Fixing Story? (Mike Cohn)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a ASP.NET MVC HTML Helper for Silverlight (Bart Czernicki)
• Changing the viewport of a listbox in WPF (Charles Sterling)
• Missing ActiveSync? How To Sync and Import Contacts Into Windows Phone 7 From Outlook Using Windows Live Hotmail As A Bridge (Karsten Januszewski)
• Windows Phone 7 app development – 7 interesting points to know before you start (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MyPhotoApp: Sample project from my Windows Phone development series at Øredev and A quick look at the types of Windows Phone page transition animations (Jeff Wilcox)
• Vector Fonts (Dave)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #7–Element Binding (Jesse Liberty)
• Why don’t my application bar buttons show up? (Adam Nathan)
• New book: Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)
• Using ValueConverter to Show/Hide Element in Silverlight (MVVM) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Why was I decrying the evils of obfuscation earlier this year? Getting it now ?? Remember I am just a “designer” right ? ? (Don Burnett)
• Code Obfuscation and Windows Phone 7 Application Protection (Nick Randolph)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone 7 development for absolute beginners (Clint Rutkas)
• Re-Introducing a Podcast–Glenn Block on WCF and WCF Futures (Joe Stagner)
• Let’s Play TDD #49: The AlternatingRowTable (with Roy Osherove) (James Shore)
• Hot Apps: Thumba, Netflix, Sound Recorder, MusixMatch, Fake Caller (Laura Foy)
• Video – Inversion of Control with StructureMap (James R. Eggers)

Community / Events

• The future of Silverlight (Dave Isbitski)
• Silverlight –The Future Starts Now (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Firestarter Event on Dec 2nd (Scott Guthrie)
• My take on the Øredev 2010 conference (David Starr)
• Needed: Your Vote for 501K (Karl Shifflett)
• Supercomputing 2010 (Somasegar)

Database

• Dynamically Backing Up All User Databases in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Team-Based Development (Grant Fritchey)
• List all Default Values in a SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – History of SQL Server Database Encryption (Pinal Dave)
• Handling Type II Dimension with the MERGE Statement (Patrick LeBlanc)

Miscellaneous

• Shiny! Sysinternals Process Explorer v14 released… (Greg Duncan)
• If You Could Only Learn 3 Programming Languages… (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Searching for Apps on the Marketplace SUX (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• .Net Magazine awards 2010 – Ubelly’s winner predictions (Andrew Spooner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #731 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/17/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net by Roy Osherove

Top Links

• Using EF “Code First” with an Existing Database (Scott Guthrie)
• Prism 4.0 CTP Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch (Somasegar)
• MonoTools 2 for VisualStudio has been released (Miguel de Icaza)
• Introducing Microsoft Ribbon for WPF and Building a Simple Ribbon Application in WPF and Add more content to my Simple Ribbon Application (Varsha Mahadevan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft.Data and Positioning and NHibernate is lazy, just live with it (Oren Eini)
• Optimizing Regular Expression Performance, Part II: Taking Charge of Backtracking (Ron Petrusha)
• Sudoku Solver and Generator (Jörgen Pramberg)
• Better grilling with topological sorting (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Link an entity to a hierarchy with different Id type (Al Kampfer)
• Microsoft.Data – Let’s Inject Some Love Into the Conversation (Evan Nagle)
• Introducing Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ (Jason Zander)
• Quick Access Extension (Weston Hutchins)
• OData Synchronization with WCF Data Services (Nick)
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Creating New Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
• Defining Descriptive Text for Enumeration Members (Scott Mitchell)
• Parallel Tasks – .net 4.0 feature (Arun Mahendrakar)
• UIGlassButton Generator in MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
• Using ILMerge Internalization with Caution (Abel Avram)
• Netduino – .NET Micro Framework, open source, electronics platform, free (software), code walk though, cool… (Greg Duncan)
• How to use the ArcGIS iPhone SDK with MonoTouch (Al Pascual)

Web Development

• Free ASP.NET Source Code – Tailspin Spyworks gets a new landing page. (Joe Stagner)
• Now Available: Azure Security Notes PDF (J.D. Meier)
• Is ASP.NET MVC A Gateway to Ruby on Rails? (Dane Morgridge)
• Tell Me the Development Problems that Script Junkie Can Try to Solve via Solutions-based Content (Rey Bango)
• Add-on Performance Part 1: Measuring Add-on Performance (Herman Ng)
• Orchard – Release v0.5 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Let’s change the tune (Gojko Adzic)
• Using Reactive Extensions (Rx) to Simplify Asynchronous Tests (Jeremy Likness)
• Day 3 – Daily Outcomes – Use Three Stories to Drive Your Day and CRUD for Content (J.D. Meier)
• What Enterrpise Architects can Learn from Designers (Mike Walker)
• Container-friendly domain events (Jimmy Bogard)
• Going Down the CQS Rabbit Hole (Russell Ball)
• Open Thread: Does Working from Home Make You More Productive? (Simon Mackie)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Visualizing Data – Only $9.99. Use code DDVDT. Slashdot rated 9/10 (O’Reilly Media)
• Crowdsourced Testing, Changing the Game (Vikas Hazrati)
• I Took A Shot At Object Calisthenics (Pete Seale)
• Building Touchable Interactivity (Andrew Trice)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• I Started a CodePlex Project: The Extended WPF Toolkit (Brian Lagunas)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: The Sample (Davy Brion)
• Today’s Adventure: Getting the FourSquare Codeplex Project working on the latest Windows Phone Tools Beta (Don Burnett)
• Make sure the web.config pages/namespace can be used together with ASP.NET MVC 3 P1 and Razor (Fredrik Normen)
• Windows Phone 7 Game: BulletAsylum (Joey deVilla)
• No accelerometer support in the Windows Phone 7 emulator? Not the end. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Document Toolkit 2.0.0.4 (Koen Zwikstra)
• WP7 + XNA Tips, part 1 – Running The Emulator From the Command Line (Chris Williams)
• Simple Page Navigation (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Some Best Practices for Silverlight Application Development (XAML) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Book Review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Step by Step (Michael Crump)
• MVVM, MVP, or code behind–all ok, as long as you build a great Ux (Rob Relyea)
• Cinch V2 Article 5 Is Out There (Sacha Barber)
• What Codecs are supported in Windows Phone 7? (Wes Yanaga)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Enterprise Social Networking with SharePoint-Episode 48 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Booking your travel in Outlook with the new Bing add-in (Tina Wood)
• Jay Schmelzer: Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch (Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone gets back in the game with “7” (Don Burnett)
• ASP.NET Membership Training – 3 new Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Technology & Friends Episode 107: Michael Kimsal on JavaScript (David Giard)
• Polymorphic Podcast – 2010.08.03 Software Craftsmanship with David Starr (Craig Shoemaker)
• Countdown to PDC: Developers, Developers, Developers (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• GitHub Jobs Pre-Launch (Kyle Neath)

Database

• Getting started with PIVOT Queries in SQL Server 2005/2008 and SQL Server FILESTREAM feature and Differential Backups (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Performance – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Sync Framework for SQL Azure (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server Backup File Confusion – Log Shipping (Steve Jones)
• Order of Nested SCOPE Statements (Chris Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8, a repeat of Windows 7′s success? (Brody McKee)
• Why The IDE Has Failed Us (John Sonmez)
• Objective C: Parsing an XML file (Mark Needham)
• The new Hotmail is now available to everyone! (Mike Schackwitz)
• Microsoft hardware teasing us (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #657 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 3, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for August 03, 2010 — #917 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher

Top Links

• Using rake under IronRuby (Joshua Flanagan)
• Take Control of Logging and Tracing in Windows Azure (Mike Kelly)
• Best Practices (Peter Ritchie)
• WP7 Back Button in Games (Andy Beaulieu)
• Visual Studio Language & IDE Resources from TechEd North America 2010 (C#, VB, F#, IronPython, IronRuby) (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Microsoft E3 Xbox 360 Press Conference Details (Richard Hay)

.NET / Visual Studio

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step – Only $9.99 use code MDMVB (O’Reilly Media)
• MongoDB and C# (Craig G. Wilson)
• Querying namespace-based XML data in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Managed Menu Extension (MME) makes adding right click menus to VS2010 simple and easy (via MEF) (Greg Duncan)
• Why you need to tag your build servers in TFS and Ghost team foundation build controllers (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Road to MonoDevelop 2.4: Navigation (Miguel de Icaza)
• Manipulate Docx with C# without Microsoft Word installed with Open XML SDK (Ric Rodrigues)
• MDA: Callback On Garbage Collected Delegate (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using Conditional Mapping in Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• Project Euler Problem 1 and 2 in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Using Quick Find (Zain Naboulsi)
• XmlDictionary and Binary Serialization (Scott Seely)
• Hide and seek (Eric Lippert)
• Team Build Service Is Ready But Not Working (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

• Creating Add-Ins for Expression Web 4 (Jonathan Allen)
• Visual Studio 2010 JavaScript Intellisense Behavior (K. Scott Allen)
• Four Twitter Mashups Available as One API (Adam DuVander)
• Custom web faults with System.ServiceModel.Web 3.x (Matt Milner)
• Drupal Cheat Sheet Desktop Wallpaper (Smashing Magazine)
• Rely on Declarative Security Features in the Browser (David Ross)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: TeamRoom (Martin Fowler)
• Work In Process (WIP) Limits, Policies, Etc. (Derick Bailey)
• TDD: Driving from the assertion up (Mark Needham)
• Release Management, Features or Time (John Sonmez)
• From KFC Development to PVC Systems (Karl Scotland)
• Code Like Kudzu! (Jared Richardson)
• Asymmetry and emptiness: lessons from the tearoom (Garr Reynolds)
• Free Stand Up report – the Simplest and Easiest way to manage a distributed team (Andy Singleton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Master-Detail UI in Blend (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Memory Leak Hotfixes for WPF 3.5 SP1 (Jossef Goldberg)
• How to Enable Using the Binding Builder in WPF and Silverlight Applications and Using WPF and Silverlight UserControls (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Tip: Using LINQ to Select the Largest Available Webcam Resolution (Pete Brown)
• Printing Tip – Handling User Initiated Dialogs Exceptions (John Papa)
• CinchV2 is out there (Sacha Barber)
• Display Google Maps Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Chris Pietschmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 2010 E3 Xbox 360 Media Briefing (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 115 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Sizemore on TechEd 2010 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Designing in Microsoft Office 2010 (Tina Wood)
• This Week in Silverlight – Teched and Quizes (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Visual Studio Test Professional 2010: The Tool for the Modern Tester (Brian Keller)
• Ping 61: Azure Apps, Windows Live Essentials, E3, Colbert & Bing (Laura Foy)
• Security Talk Series: Using the SDL in Office 2010 (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – June 14th, 2010 and Do You Attend User Groups? Run a User Group? We’d Like to Hear From You! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Kinect, Xbox 360 “Slim” and More: Early Highlights from E3 (Barb Dybwad)
• Kinect Introduced at E3 (Owen Linderholm)
• New Hires in New York (Joel Spolsky)
• MVPs Todd Klindt, Kyle Rosenthal, and Stuart Celarier discuss TechEd 2010 New Orleans (Joseph Mirabella)
• The Top 10 Developer Mistakes That Won’t Scale (Brent Ozar)

Database

• Introduction to SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Server Management (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Shrinking NDF and MDF Files – Readers’ Opinion (Pinal Dave)
• Maps in Reports! (Grant Fritchey)

Miscellaneous

• Kinect for Xbox 360 Sets the Future in Motion – No Controller Required (MS PressPass)
• Xbox Kinect—beyond playing games (Bill Crounse)
• Kinect and Windows Live Messenger: soon to be bff? (Kip Kniskern)
• Daily Dose – The Winds of Change Blow for the OSI (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Connecting Windows Live Messenger and Xbox Live (Piero Sierra)
• Windows Live Sync Beta Transition Guide (Richard Hay)
• New Xbox 360 Slim Unveiled ! Shipping Today for $299 (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• T-SQL Tuesday #007 – Roundup (Jorge Segarra)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 06/14/2010 – TechEd Edition (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 149 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #621 (Chris Alcock)
• Code Generation 2010, new Xbox 360 launched and Umbraco 4.1 is out (Sara Allison)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed by Chad Carter

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Top Links

Need test/sample/demo data that’s safe for public (and/or client) consumption? Then GenerateData.com! (Greg Duncan) – Great find…

C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 13 of 13 (Charles Torre) – A great series of videos comes to an end. If you haven’t watched any of them, and you’re interested in functional programming, go back and start at chapter 1.

.NET / Visual Studio

Thoughts on EF vs NHibernate (Rob Conery)

What can EF 4.0 do that NHibernate can’t? and Responding to how EF is better NH commentary… (Oren Eini)

More LINQ with System.Interactive – Getting Started and Reader Challenge – Fault Handlers in C# (Bart de Smet)

If (Successful) { throw new Exception(); } (Brian Lagunas)

Heard from someone about the just released VS2010 B2 VM’s? Would like to get them but hate downloading them via the web site? Brian Keller has a download solution for you (and 7 Hands-on Labs too!) (Greg Duncan)

LINQ to SQL and missing Many to Many EntityRefs (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

corMVC initial release and qooxdoo reaches 1.0 (Michael Kimsal)

Trace.Writing in your web applications (Coding4Fun)

A Popup Insert control for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

jQuery hoverImage plugin (Wesley Bakker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Tenet #5 – Motivated Individuals (Julie Stickler)

Customer Connected Engineering at patterns & practices (JD Meier)

Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: My first attempt (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Information for Silverlight HVP Developers… (Jesse Liberty)

Custom Content Loaders in Silverlight 4.0 (David Hill)

Day #24: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 2 of 3) (Jeff Blankenburg)

Novell and Microsoft cut out the GPL cancer from open-source Silverlight (Sebastian Anthony)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! (Carl Franklin)

Holiday Special – The office, Typemock-style (Gil Zilberfeld)

Community / Events

What is Community? (Steve Andrews)

Database

SQL SERVER – CDC and TRUNCATE – Cannot truncate table because it is published for replication or enabled for Change Data Capture (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Being a writer, and having an editor. A Short Rant. (Jesse Liberty)

Cygwin 1.7 Adds Windows 7 Support and Many Improvements (Kevin Purdy)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for December 24, 2009 — #762 and Silverlight Cream for December 25, 2009 — #763 (Dave Campbell)

MVVM Links\Info (Lester Lobo)

WWD’s Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2009 (Simon Mackie)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action