Top Links

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer (MS Downloads)
• Prototype Process and Tools (Gary Sherman)
• Lambda Function Factory (Brendan Kowitz)
• Moonlight 3.0, Preview 7 (Miguel de Icaza)
• Creating WPF Prototypes with SketchFlow (Michael Sorens)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Layer Diagram Extension using the Feature Pack (Cameron Skinner)
• Using Paging in WCF Data Services (Gil Fink)
• A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service (Peter Kellner)
• The Power of Func<> (John Sonmez)
• ResGen.exe error: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format (Sara Joiner)
• What’s New in Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0 – Part I (Matteo Slaviero)

Web Development

• Check for Existing Values with ASP.NET CustomValidator + jQuery $.ajax() (Brian Dobberteen)
• Back to Basics: Wiring up a Web Application (Nick Harrison)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Conditionals (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Internet Explorer: Understanding Compat Features For Developers (Pete LePage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mutation Testing (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Slack time (Mark Needham)
• Git and our friction points and beginners mistakes (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Top 10 Design Mistakes: #10 (Pete LePage)
• Leadership Tip: Understanding Human Polymorphism In Teams And Organizations. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Boss Launch 2: Zombie Attack for WP7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• XBox Live on Windows Phone 7 (Brandon Watson)
• Known Issue: Control Design-Time Assemblies File Locking When Using WPF and Silverlight Designer (Karl Shifflett)
• Time categories with WPF and Exchange – Part II (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• A Collection Of Windows Phone 7 Motion Videos (Matthias Shapiro)
• WPF Application Framework – Release: v1.0.0.350 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 56: What is new in SQL Server 2008 R2? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: Kinect, OData, Cassandra library, & TechEd Sessions now available (Dan Fernandez)
• Pete at Microsoft: WCF RIA Services Team Interview (Pete Brown)
• Updated Windows Home Server SDK Available (Larry Larsen)
• C-Language Programming with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Pro or VC++ Express (Sam Stokes)
• jQuery Podcast 27 – Remy Sharp pt. 2 (HTML5) (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp – Part 2 (Muhammad Mosa)

Community / Events

• I’m Keynoting at CodeStock 2010! (Rachel Appel)
• First Ever Blend-O-Rama (Kevin Hazzard)
• New Zealand Windows Phone 7 Dev Training Events (Nigel Parker)
• Learn SQL Server 2008 R2 with 24-HOP (Joe Webb)
• Why I’m a programmer (Anne Epstein)
• David Ramel Asks About Interviewing at Microsoft (Chris Sells)

Database

• TempDB Size and Monitoring (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Disaster recovery 101: backing up the tail of the log and Disaster recovery 101: hack-attach a damaged database (Paul S. Randal)
• Building data stores – Transaction log and Building data stores – Append Only and Building data store – indexing data structure and Table scans, index scans and index seeks, on my! (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• How Microsoft Research Banished the BSOD (Dan Grabham)
• PowerBoots 0.3 – The Faster Edition (Joel Bennett)
• Use Google Services from the Command Line (Alex Chitu)
• Audiobook player for iPhone (brochpirate)
• Get your Windows Live Calendar on the go (David Dennis)
• 14 application to install on a new development machine (Dror Helper)
• Making my blog suck less (Jef Claes)
• Improvements to Bounty System (Jeff Atwood)
• Weekend Reading: Kinect, Office 2010 Highlight Big Week (Owen Linderholm)
• So How Much Will Kinect for Xbox 360 Cost? (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 18, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Simple to Share, Free Shipping, Pleasing the Wrong Person (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate in Action by Pierre Henri Kuaté

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Top Links

• Moonlight 3.0 Preview 1 (Miguel di Icaza)
• To Control and Observe – Productive Software Development and Mistaking Efficiency for Productivity and Controlled Productivity (Scott Bellware)
• Read from your mirror in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• Real World S#arp Architecture (Billy McCafferty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Playing WAV Files (Richard Carr)
• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• .NET Reflector Pro in Final Stages (Mitch Pronschinske)
• What happens behind the scenes: NHibernate, Linq to SQL, Entity Framework scenario analysis (Oren Eini)
• Telerik LINQ to M Refresh (Stephen Forte)
• Race Condition When Modifying the HttpRequestMessageProperty in an Outgoing WCF Message (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Announcement: Unpublishing Extensions from Beta 2 to RC (Weston Hutchins)
• Using Sensors in You Application – Managed Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 8. Dependency graph visualization (Mike Hadlow)
• Create a floating DataTip — vstipDebug0006 and Adding comments to a DataTip — vstipDebug0007 (Zain Naboulsi)
• The Surface Monster Returns! Nom Nom Nom (Eric Havir)
• VS 2010 Quick Hit: Multi-Targeting (Dariusz Parys)
• Functional C#: Writing a ‘Partition’ Function (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• US Government Launches Business.gov API – Gives Free Access to Small Business Resources (Andres Ferrate)
• Debugging ASP.NET generated code (David Ebbo)
• Using FullCalendar jQuery component with ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Putting Files at the Root of Blog Storage in Windows Azure (Karsten Januszewski)
• Making Your JavaScript Unobtrusive (Mike Ceranski)
• Love jQuery = Love ASP.NET Ajax Library (Marc Schweigert)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Small Things Matter (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Branch-Per-Feature: How I Manage Subversion With Git Branches and Can PDCA Help Us Improve Our Test-First Development Efforts? (Derick Bailey)
• The Difference between an Anti-Pattern and a Code Smell (Peter Ritchie)
• Solving Complexity with Message Based Architectures (Jak Charlton)
• Strengthening your domain: a primer (Jimmy Bogard)
• Business Primitives (2/2) (Dru Sellers)

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows 7 Sensor Trigger for WPF Applications (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Rules of MVVM?? (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight Splash Page (John Stockton)
• Taming the WPF Expander Control (Karl Shifflett)
• Loading Projects in Visual Studio not Located on Local Machine (Karl Shifflett)
• WPF : How To Create Your Own Threaded DataSourceProvider (Sacha Barber)
• Adventures with Silverlight and WCF – The remote server returned an error: NotFound (Doug Holland)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Walling and Taber on Micropreneur Academy. (Carl Franklin)
• UX + AGILE + BLEND +.NET= Efficient Design Practices (Don Burnett)
• The GeekDads Episode #60: iPadCast (Ken Denmead)
• Binding Silverlight Controls to a Data Service in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight Object Binding in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Kathleen McGrath)
• Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK 1.5 Exposed (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Simplifying how to share content on Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez)
• CES reflections (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Announcing the “20 days to OpenRasta” project (Sebastien Lambla)
• At Balsamiq, Everyone Blogs. Join Us. (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Get the List of Object Dependencies – sp_depends and information_schema.routines and sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft, OData and RDF and Visio stencils for SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• ROWCOUNT when setting variables (Martin Bell)
• Report Builder <Next> Wish List – V1.0 (William Vaughn)

SharePoint

• The Great Virtualization Debate: What to do? SharePoint 2010 for Laptops (Joel Oleson)
• Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint – Feb 2010 release (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Can You Really Measure Customer Satisfaction? (Phil Haack)
• Will your new Windows 7 PC support XP Mode? (Ed Bott)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Search Patterns. Only $9.99! Use code SPDFD (O’Reilly Media)
• Kodu Tutorial #4 Main Menu->Options (Stephen Coy)
• How Does Microsoft Do IT? (Buck Woody)

More Link Collections

• Community Convergence LXI and New Articles on MSDN: ClickOnce, Office 2007 Business Applications (Charlie Calvert)
• Interesting Finds: February 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #532 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 03, 2010 — #791 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 400 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate in Action

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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

Web Development

• Editing in jqGrid with asp.net mvc (Eric Schoneveld)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip: Turn on compile-time View Checking (Adrian Grigore)
• Community Server and JavaScript (Agnes Molnar)
• GitHub’s New API Lets You Mashup Git Repositories (Andres Ferrate)
• JQuery Ajax with Class Arrays (Chris Brandsma)
• Creating jQuery plug-ins from MicrosoftAjax components (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Sorting ASP.NET DropDownList Using LINQ (Malcolm Sheridan)
• My article on client-side data binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 is now live (Fritz Onion)
• Adding Default Assemblies, Namespaces and Control Prefixes in Web.Config (Rick Strahl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Castle Windsor 2.0 RTM Released (Oren Eini)
• I need some peer review on this (Chad Myers)
• Debugging NHibernate Exceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• The Stack Is An Implementation Detail, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Getting a Recursive FTP File List in .Net (Michael C. Neel)
• Unit testing WCF data contract serialization. (Peter Ritchie)
• Thoughts on M/Oslo DSL/metadata requirements (Rockford Lhotka)
• Programming Twittering with Visual Basic (Rod Paddock)

Silverlight / WPF

• 4 Great Tips for Custom WPF Controls Developers (Amit Raz)
• “View Model” – the movie, cast your vote. (Glenn Block)
• Measuring the x,y distance between two elements in Silverlight (Josh Twist)
• Moonlight 2.0 Preview Released (Silverlight Team)
• Did you know? – Silverlight Class Library can’t be named with “.Resources” (Michael Sync)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video segment 4 (N-tier) online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Notifying the UI when Entity References Change in Lookup Comboboxes (Beth Massi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making the Business Case for Agility (Lee Cunningham)
• The buddy classes are drowning DRY (Oren Eini)
• Adding humour to Tester/Developer collaboration (Mark Needham)
• A Touch Of Polish for yUML (Tobin Harris)
• Implementing TeamCity for .NET Projects: Evolving Your Build Automation Solution and Implementing TeamCity for .NET projects, Part 1: Just Build It! (A Simple Build Configuration) (Richard Cirerol)
• On Measuring Agility, Craftsmanship, and Everything Else (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• PTOM – Brownfield development – Making your dependencies explicit (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• NDepend – Code Metrics at Your Fingertips (Michael Ceranski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kate Gregory Still Programs in C++! (Carl Franklin)
• Executive Strategies for Agile Transition – Charlie Kennedy and Tom Paider (Bob Payne)
• Philip Wadler and Erik Meijer: On Programming Language Theory and Practice (Charles Torre)
• MS Virtual Labs: Microsoft Open XML and LINQ to XML (Joel Reyes)
• The Thirsty Developer 61: I got nothing! (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

• Foundation Series, Session 3, Wed May 13th (Brian Donahue)
• NINE Questions with Steve Andrews (Chris Williams)
• I’m now a Silverlight MVP! (Dave Campbell) – Congrats, Dave!
• Events This Week – May 4th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 11 TechEd Sessions next week-hope to see you there (Stephen Forte)
• SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – TechEd India 2009 – Hyderabad (Pinal Dave)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Bill Evjen on Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (Me)

SharePoint

• MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 2) and MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 3) (Liam Cleary)
• Introducing ComponentOne SharePoint Web Parts (Joe Stagner)

PowerShell

• PowerShellToys – WOW! (Jeffrey Snover)
• Top 10 Windows 7 Features #9: Native PowerShell 2.0 (Scott M. Fulton, III)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 RC users get new IE 8 ‘tab responsiveness’ feature (Mary Jo Foley)
• Top 10 Open Source Projects for .NET Developers (Me)
• I Just Logged In As You (Jeff Atwood)
• 2009 – A Year of Learning (so far) (Karl Seguin)
• IE8 in Windows 7 RC: Reliability and Telemetry (IE Team)
• NewCloudApp() Azure Developer Contest: Win $5000 (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows PHP Virtual Labs and Designing Generation 4.0 Data Centers (Hanu Kommalapati)
• How to story your TFS password – #027 (Sara Ford)
• 8 Disastrous Product Names (Ransom Riggs)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #340 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 — #585 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 92 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for May 4th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why OO May Not Suck, or, Take a Ride on the Falsus Omnibus (Rick Minerich)
• The Ferengi Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Thoughts on the Future of Desktop Clients for Line of Business Applications (Jeremy Jarrell)
• A Scrum and Kanban Comparison (Karl Scotland)
• Why You Should Always Validate your Input (Jim Holmes)
• Great UI, Clarity, and Information Relevance (Mark Miller) – Link of the Day
• Patterns, Purists, and Sinkholes (Rob Conery)
• Today I’ve Realized How Far We Have to Go (Justin Etheredge)
• DDD: There Is No Database (Casey Charlton)
• Laws, Rules, Principles, Patterns, and Practices (Chad Myers)
• Ferengi Programmer and the Dreyfus Model (Mark Needham)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows 7 Taskbar: APIs (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Modeling an Application in Oslo Part I: Discovery (Stephen Forte)
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: An Introduction to LINQ (Scott Mitchell)
• MathML Visualizer in C# on Windows 7 and Help! Drowning in Expression Trees, What Now? (Bart de Smet)
• IDisposable and WCF (Steve Smith)
• SharpDevelop – Release: v3.0 (CodePlex)
• Azure Services Training Kit – Febuary Update (Zhiming Xue)
• Automapper 0.2 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
• More LINQ Optimizations (K. Scott Allen)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF, CheckBoxes, Design (Mike Taulty)
• Three Essential Expression Blend Add-Ins (Josh Holmes)
• Moonlight 1.0 Release (Scott Guthrie)
• Nice Video on MVC in WPF (David Solivan)
• Silverlight Is FIZZING, Not Fizzling (Tim Sneath)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #94 – Reading XML Through LINQ with Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Moonlight 1.0 Release – Open Source Silverlight 1.0 Implementation on Linux (Scott Hanselman)
• Moonlight 1.0 Released, Silverlight Script Updated – and a Chrome Hack (Tim Heuer)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# Programmers: Function Basics and Scope (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Dynamic Data: Putting a New Dress on an Old Model (Jonathan Carter)
• jQuery – Drop (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC: Preventing XSS Attacks (Mark Needham)

Community / Events

• In Jersey? MSDN Suburban Roadshow Is Tomorrow 2/12! (Lindsay Rutter) – Today!

Miscellaneous

• Update Twitter from Any Browser with a Bookmarklet (Lee Matthews)
• Former Softies Aim to Make Office Work Like Google Docs (Mary Jo Foley)
• Top Ten Reasons Why the Most Important Machine Is Unlabeled (Brad Abrams)
• How to Annoy Your Boss (14 Real-Life Tips) (Jurgen Appelo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for February 11th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for February 11, 2009 — #514 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for February 11, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – February 11, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Tech Twitterings #15 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #285 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day