• Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture (Steven Sinofsky)
• EF 4.3 Released (EF Team)
• EF 4.3 Automatic Migrations Walkthrough and EF 4.3 Code-Based Migrations Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
• Windows 8: The Facts about ARM, Metro, and the Blue Stack (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Find/Replace in Visual Studio using Regular Expressions (David Amador)
• Microsoft Deprecates Legacy Workflow Foundation Libraries in New Beta Release (Richard Seroter)
• What is the effect of memory-mapped file access on GetLastError()? (Raymond Chen)
• Entity Framework 4.3 Released (Migrations) (Jarod Ferguson)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: StudioShell (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Google web fonts (Julian M. Bucknall)
• A Beginner’s Guide To jQuery-Based JSON API Clients (Ben Howdle)
• Asynchronously Load HTML Templates For Backbone Views (Derick Bailey)
• Using JavaScript’s Prototype with MVC (James Baker)
• Referencing JavaScript files from a CDN in a CRM 2011 form (Marc Schweigert)
• How many copies of your blob is stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Mobile Boilerplate v3.0 Released! (Shi Chuan)
• Vendor Prefixes – about to go south (Remy Sharp)
• CORS for XHR in IE10 (Tony Ross)
• Getting Started with KendoUI and OpenAccess ORM (Joshua Holt)
• Developing Mobile Dashboards for ComponentArt Dashboard Server (Milos Glisic)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Development Pendulum (John Sonmez)
• [Email] – Short Projects and Estimating Velocity (Peter Saddington)
• Moq Partial Mocks (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Design Resources (Dani Diaz)
• Developping an app for the Windows Phone platform (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #492 – Layout Can Change at Runtime (Sean Sexton)
• LightSwitch Screen Tips: Scrollbars and Splitters (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen is Back on His SOPA Box (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #163: Combinatorial Explosion (James Shore)
• RadioTFS – Yes We Kanban (Martin Woodward)
• Security, Security, Security! Helping the LIDNUG community build safer software (Troy Hunt)
• Peter Heldens – Creating Scripts with TouchDevelop (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 11: SignalR (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Free "Introduction to Reactive Extensions" on-demand video training available, with 8 sessions and growing (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Join the Belgian Experts and Microsoft Corp Product team for 12 hours of SQL Server 2012 (Katrien de Graeve)
• Learn About Windows Azure for Technical Decision Makers, Developers, Architects (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft Student Developers Showcase Their Work at the White House Science Fair (Chuck Lawton)
• Upcoming Webinar – The iPad Invasion: Leveraging SharePoint for Mobile Enterprise Security (Joel Oleson)
• ExpressionBlend.com is Live! (Daniel Vaughan)
• C# for Gaming: AltDevConf This Weekend (Miguel de Icaza)
• 2012 MVP Global Summit- Tour of the Neighborhood (MVP Award Program)

Database

• An open letter to anyone with “SQL Server” on their resume (Jen McCown)
• PBM for SSIS? What policies would you want? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Puzzle on JOIN and NULL – SQL Brain Teaser (Pinal Dave)
• Executing scripts with sp_addscriptexec (Brandon Williams)
• When you pit RavenDB & SQL Server against one another… (Oren Eini)
• Three Consulting Tools to Make You a Better DBA (Kendra Little)

SharePoint

• How to Programmatically Update an ODC File (Shubh Raj Singh)
• Social Squared version 6.1 release (Phill Duffy)

PowerShell

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.2.1 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Kids are the future. Teach ‘em to code. (Cameron McEfee)
• Reinstaller: Install All Your Previously Downloaded Apps Automatically (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows 8 ARM edition will include built-in Office apps and access to the traditional desktop mode and Microsoft unveils Office 15 Metro design look and feel (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – February 9 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #815 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 2/9/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1041 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-09 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 9 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Shawn Wildermuth

• So many interfaces! (Eric Lippert)
• How Can You Load Test WCF Services? (Chris Love)
• Extending Mole 2010’s Reach – Mole Type Loader (Karl Shifflett)
• F# Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4.1 (Visual Studio Blog)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Internals of LINQ (Abhishek Sur)
• Debugging Series: Symbol Server (Cameron Skinner)
• Dynamic query with Linq (Pranay Rana)
• Build folders for Team Explorer (Shai Raiten)
• Visual Studio–Build Folders extension for Team Explorer (terje)
• async samples 9: Migration from Existing APIs (Bill Wagner)
• Differences between CodeRush Pro and CodeRush Xpress (Alex Skorkin)
• New Game Development Page and Tutorials on App Hub (XNA Team)
• Optimization Note (C++) 1: push, pop, call _chkstk (Feng Yuan)
• Going from Fugly to Fabulous by giving your objects their own debugging visualizer and Connecting to Kinect (Greg Duncan)
• FluentMigrator getting started (Sean Chambers)
• ILMerge Gotcha (Jonathan Oliver)
• ISNULL or COALESCE? Sometimes it Really Does Matter (Larry Leonard)
• Open your solution files as admin (David Ebbo)
• Dynamically load embedded assemblies – because ILMerge appeared to be out. (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• 10 ASP.NET Tips and Tricks (Abhijit Jana)
• Generic Way to Bind Enum With Different ASP.NET List Controls (Abhijit Jana)
• Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 5: The Shopping Cart and Google Page Speed Online Tool (Chris Love)
• Customizing ASP.NET MVC’s Required Property Validation Messages (Davy Brion)
• Expression Web Super Preview Spring 2011 Demo (Don Burnett)
• Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.5 released. (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET MVC: Create a Custom ActionResult to return XML (Malcolm Sheridan)
• JavaScript numbers, bits and strings (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Lightweight PHP application deployment to Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Getting fancy with Nancy – Introduction (Andreas Håkansson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Deliberate practice, effective sketches (Simon Brown)
• Effective Tests: A Test-First Example – Part 2 (Derek Greer)
• Can You Apply Agile for Long Processes? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• My first Scrum team in the wild (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Data on Estimation vs Number of Stories (Patrick Kua)
• NUnit Equality Assertions (Richard Carr)
• MOQ and C# (inc. synchronized and asynchronized Wcf Service calls) (Bert O’Neill)
• Elastic Leadership (Roy Osherove)
• Testing right by testing the right thing (Dror Helper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• TextBox.TextChanged event fire twice on the Phone (Rudi Grobler)
• Creating WP7 Custom Theme – Best Practices (Windows Phone Geek)
• Unable to start Debugging. The Silverlight Developer Run time is not installed. Please install a matching version (Aashish Gupta)
• WPF databinding trick (part 2) (Jeremy Alles)
• Visual Studio Item Template for Silverlight Interface (Jason Haley)
• Canvas Animations in HTML5 (Jeff Prosise)
• Metro In Motion #3 – Flying Titles! (Colin Eberhardt)
• Procedural Animations in Silverlight (Mike Taulty)
• A Complete Guide to Expression Blend 4 Shortcut Keys and How to create a Custom Control in Silverlight? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Building Location Service Applications in Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
• Fiddler and Windows Phone 7 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• New version of Mole 2010 available (Josh Smith)
• Using ReactiveUI with MVVM Light (or any other framework!) (Paul Betts)
• WPF Dynamically Generated DataGrid and WPF TemplateParts (Paul Stovell)
• Find out if you are using the Windows Phone Emulator (Rob Miles)
• How to create a Windows Phone 7 app from scratch (Update 2: Playing around) (Andrew Spooner)
• Apply a tile brush to an object’s fill or stroke (Pam)
• Keeping it regular (Pete O’Hanlon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 149: Pickering, Marinos, and Minerich on F# (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podast Show 393: Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do & C-3PO (Larry Hyrb)
• Clean Code Episode III – Contents and Release Notes. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Windows Weekly 202: Opera Not Oprah (Paul Thurrott)
• Defrag 003 – Win7 Shutdown Slowdowns, Prob Step Recorder, MSI Failures (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 010 – “Next Stop, Hungary!” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 4th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft adds 11 Windows Phone mystery sessions to its Mix conference lineup (Mary Jo Foley)
• Azure Camp Kolkata on 10th April 2010 (Abhishek Sur)
• Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, Check Out What Students are Creating (The Bing Team)
• Chasing inspiration: from Imagine Cup to Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Jeffrey Richter speaks about Windows Azure and Asynchronous Programming (Jeffrey Richter)
• Robert Greyling on Spark View Engine on 12 April 2011 (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• We’re Ready to Rock… (Brian Hitney)

Database

• Useful new topics in SQL Server Compact 4.0 Books Online (Erik EJ)
• Developing with SQL Server: Three ways to get at data (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
• Isolating SQL Server from other systems (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL Server: Disable Table Constraints (all or some) (Madhivanan)
• Static analysis of Simple.Data code to generate databases (Rob Ashton)
• Listing Firewall rules in SQL Azure and Fetching SQL Azure firewall rules programmatically and Adding and Deleting SQL Azure firewall rules programmatically (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Leaving the relational mindset – RavenDB’s trees (Oren Eini)
• SSMS Tips & Tricks – Scripting Multiple Objects (Seth Phelabaum)
• Varying Results with Subquery, ORDER BY, MAXDOP (Jen McCown)
• Using STOPAT in the RESTORE DATABASE Statement (grrlgeek)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010: Connect InfoPath Form Web part with Excel Web Part (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• So what was I thinking anyway? (Chris Brandsma)
• Windows Installer XML (WiX) 3.5 Makes Component Authoring Easier (Jenni Ripley)
• Scaling and Queuing PowerShell Background Jobs (PowerShell Team)
• Microsoft Customers Abandoned Again: SharedView No Longer Supported (William Vaughn)
• How to sniff web traffic from Marketplace-based Android applications (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #826 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 4th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 065 for 4/4/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 2, 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – April 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 188 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Week Retrospective 26 – Product Owner Essentials and AOL (Peter Saddington)
• Daily News Digest 04/04/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 04/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Links of the week #147 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links– 2010_13 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• SQL Server Denali Resources (Suprotim Agarwal)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning F# by Robert Pickering

Top Links

• Streaming over HTTP with WCF (Glenn Block)
• A Microsoftie builds a better browser for Windows Phone 7 (Todd Bishop)
• Bart De Smet: LINQ to Z3 (Charles Torre)
• Fun with .NET 4 expressions (Henning Krause)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Sharing Files Between Projects (Richard Carr)
• WCF by Example – Chapter XII – WCF Implementation (Enrique Albert)
• Efficiently Generating SHA256 Checksum For Files Using C# (Peter Kellner)
• TFS API Part 32 – Add and Remove Users From Application Groups (Shai Raiten)
• HowTo: Open MSTest with MSBuild (Code Inside Team)
• Placing the Call Stack and Call Hierarchy Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Debugging: Failed to Enable Constraints (Rhonda Tipton)
• RavenDB – The Image Gallery Project (XVI) – Adding Edit Functionality (I) (Rob Ashton)
• Distributed Cache in Azure: Part III (Brian Hitney)

Web Development

• Updating My Online Boggle Solver Using jQuery Templates and WCF (Scott Mitchell)
• The Small Things: Converting a Existing Web Application to a MVC Web Application (Eric Quist)
• Moq Sequences Revisited (Phil Haack)
• Case-insensitive XPath query search on XML Document in ASP.NET (Hajan Selmani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Enjoy the Struggle (J.D. Meier)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• How Would You Name CQRS + DDDD + Cloud Architecture? (Rinat Abdullin)
• Being a Change Agent (Bill Wagner)
• Be The Headlights Not The Handbrake (Malcolm)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Commercial Grade Code Obfuscation? Really Microsoft ?? Really ? (Don Burnett)
• Unlocking a Windows Phone 7 device for development (Peter Kuhn)
• Moonlight Leaps Ahead of Silverlight with Hardware Accelerated Pixel Shaders (Jonathan Allen)
• Deep Zoom for WPF (Roberto Sonnino)
• Best of breed Page rotation animations (Andy Wigley)
• Not every library will work on Windows Phone 7 and Just for fun: your PC webcam showing images on your Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Hidden tricks of Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Cropping in Expression Design, Part II (Elliot Meacham)
• Top picks from a honkin’ big list of Windows Phone 7 tips (Steven Hodson)
• WP7 UX Introduction: Part 6 (Jesse Freeman)
• Coded UI testing for Silverlight 4 now available (Tim Heuer)
• Blend Bits 17–Coding in Blend (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The Keynoters at Øredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Setting Up a SharePoint Developer Virtual Machine (Donovan Follette & Paul Stubbs)
• Let’s Play TDD #55: The Color of Failure (with Kim Gräsman) (James Shore)

Database

• How Do I Change SSRS Report Credentials with Powershell? (David Levy)
• Dynamic Management Views (DMV) for SQL Server Performance and Tuning (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Is NoSQL for me? I’m just a small fish (Hadi Hariri)
• Column Based Indexing in Denali (Brian K. McDonald)
• Windows Azure Learning Plan – Storage (Buck Woody)
• SQLAuthority News – What’s New in SQL Server “Denali” (Pinal Dave)
• Using SSIS to import a directory of images (Ted Krueger)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Exist and XQuery for the Non-Expert – Resources (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

• Getting started with BI in SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint and Azure? (Bill Zack)

Miscellaneous

• Your Internet Driver’s License (Jeff Atwood)
• Choose your Cloud on Capability, Not Cost! (David Lemphers)
• The Vail debacle: Why Microsoft still doesn’t get the consumer (Kip Kniskern)
• Cloud computing talent: Where do I grow from here? (Part 5 of 5) (Sandeep Sood)
• Google Wave looks set to be rescued by Apache (Sebastian Anthony)
• Aviary Adds an HTML5 Photo Editor to Its Suite of Online Tools (Simon Mackie)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2010 — #998 (Dave Campbell)
• Blogs to follow – WPF Disciples (Rudi Grobler)
• The Morning Brew #736 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/24/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

iPhone and iPad in Action by Brandon Trebitowski

Top Links

• What is Functional Programming? Part 4, Linq (Christopher Bennage)
• Transition guide from phone.codeplex.com to the official Panorama & Pivot controls (Jeff Wilcox)
• Microsoft® Visual Basic® CTP for Windows® Phone Developer Tools (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone 7 Gestures Cheat Sheet (Adam Kinney)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Manipulating an Image Data in Visual F# (Rey Dacoco)
• New Project Dialog Preferred Language (Zain Naboulsi)
• The “SQL Server Compact Edition Toolbox” VS2010 extension adds some very nice tasting frosting to your SQL CE Dev experience (Greg Duncan)
• How to remove all useless new lines in automatic properties in an entire solution (Daniel Cazzulino)
• What’s faster: string.Equals or string.Compare? (Kirill Osenkov)
• Integrating your Application’s Threading Model with the Asynchronous Programming Model (Jeffrey Richter)
• Tips on Debugging : Using DebuggerStepThrough attribute (Abhijit Jana)
• Data as a Service! DaaS Hot! (David Lemphers)

Web Development

• Sinatra and Heroku: the elevator pitch (Jimmy Bogard)
• Creating a website with HTML5. A developer’s view (Andrew Spooner)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Registry (Giorgio Sironi)
• Adding A Dynamic JumpList to My Site’s Pinned Application in IE9 (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Simple Semantics With Microformats, Part 2 (Emily P. Lewis)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MbUnit\Gallio 3.2 (Andy Stopford)
• Domain Models, Dependencies And Fighting Anemia (Derick Bailey)
• Process, Agile, and Projecting: Your Way Isn’t the Only Way (Jared Richardson)
• Two Worlds Collide: PMI and Agile (Vikas Hazrati)
• Software Development Testing – An Important Step in Assuring the Quality of Software Products (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Making code reviews not suck (Israel Gat)
• Command Handlers without 2PC and with Various Levels of Reliability (Rinat Abdullin)
• Old style imperative mocks vs moq functional specifications (Daniel Cazzulino)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Early Windows Phone media with the Silverlight Mobile team (Jeff Wilcox)
• Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Developers: Life Cycle (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7 GPS Simulator (Jim Wilson)
• Thinking in Mobile versus Desktop/Web (Don Burnett)
• WP7 Stock Quoting Demo Series Part 3 (John McFetridge)
• WP7 looping selector (Peter Daukintis)
• How to detect installed Silverlight version? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Choices, choices… Windows Phone 7 and Twitter (Luke)
• Customizing the Silverlight Listbox during runtime using Blend 4 (Michael B. Crump)
• Silverlight Enables Massively Multiplayer Gaming (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Billy Hollis Still Builds Apps (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Ralf Lämmel – The Quick Essence of Functional Programming (Charles Torre)
• Make Windows Load Your Desktop Before You Log In (Whitson Gordon)
• Let’s Play TDD Recap: Episodes 11-20 and Let’s Play TDD #21: Column Headers and Let’s Play TDD #22: Hooking Up the Domain Model (James Shore)
• endpoint.tv – Windows Azure AppFabric (Ron Jacobs)
• Yet Another Podcast Show #2 – Erik Mork Discussing Windows Phone 7 (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint with the MVP Experts (Paul Andrew)
• Windows Phone 7 Comes to Portland (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Join the “Ignite Your Coding” LinkedIn Group! (Joey deVilla)
• The Great Southern WP7/XNA Tour (Chris G. Williams)

Database

• Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 10 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Cross Database Queries Not Allowed in Indexed View – Limitation of the View 7 (Pinal Dave)
• Index Black Ops Part 3 – Index Usage (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

• Bookmarklet to find OData service for SharePoint site (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• ARCast.TV – SharePoint Server 2010 Improved User Interface and Branding (Public Sector DPE Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft "Security Essentials" Available FREE to Small Businesses (up to 10 PCs) (Blake Handler)
• Xbox LIVE Update Preview Program (Larry Hyrb)
• Nearly 1,000 additional O’Reilly and Microsoft Press ebooks now available in Kindle Store (Andrew Savikas)
• Earn rewards for searching and exploring with Bing! (Danielle Tiedt)
• Kindle Programming Book Layouts (Jim Minatel)
• Poll: How Satisfied Are You with Microsoft? (Nitin Bharti)
• The Future of Zune: Reading Between the Lines (Paul Thurrott)
• Zoho Creator: User Interface Reworked! (Raagavan Sivaraja)
• Windows Small Business Server 7 Public Preview Released (Richard Hay)
• How Do I Save Performance Counters in Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 (Steve Smith)
• Zoho Wiki Goes Social (Susan)
• Windows Phone 7 leaked devices roundup (Rudi Grobler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #692 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

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Top Links

• Rex integrates Pex (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Three Hidden Extensibility Gems in ASP.NET 4 (Phil Haack)
• WP7 Part 3: Navigation (Chris Koenig)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Generic Methods (Richard Carr)
• Analyzing the MVC Music Store: Data Access (Oren Eini)
• Three New Managed Package Framework features for Visual Studio 2010 (Paul Harrington)
• Hide or Show Error List When the Build Finishes with Errors and Using the IDE Navigator (Zain Naboulsi)
• TimeUUID only makes sense with version 1 UUIDs (Nick Berardi)
• Window Hooks – Summary (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

• Golf Tracker MVC App Overview (kahanu)
• Using jQuery to Open External Links in a New Window – Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• Testing MVC 2.0 Controllers with Moq & NUnit (Deran Schilling)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning JavaScript, 2nd Ed – Only $9.99 use code DDJSS (O’Reilly Media)
• jQuery.validate, and Html.ValidationSummary playing nice together (Simon Ince)
• NPR API Goes Read-Write (Michael Manoochehri)
• How to Build a Custom View Engine with Theme Support (Mike Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Lessons Learned from Mike Kropp (J.D. Meier)
• Subordinating the Scrum Team (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Resurrecting User Interface Prototypes (Without Creating Zombies) (Thomas Immich)
• The Bus Factor – Why your ‘best’ developer is your biggest problem (Roy Osherove)
• Programmer Tip: Measuring Your Organization’s Ability To Get Things Done (Rajiv Popat)
• Guidance: How to layout your files for an Ideal Solution (Martin Hinshelwood)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 3D Calculator (Source Code) for Windows Phone 7 (Blake Handler)
• Windows Phone 7 gets it right! (Arian T. Kulp)
• Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Programmers (Jesse Liberty)
• F# operator overloads for WPF dependency properties (Phillip Trelford)
• The WPF Storyboard – what it is and how to use it? (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ramp Up Web Development with ASP.NET: Programming Web Forms VB.NET (MS Podcasts)
• Episode 112 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scripting Games Roundup with Ed Wilson and Joel Bennett (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 13 – Optimizing Search with Craig Bailey (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• I’m giving away 10 free months of TekPub this week (Dave Ward)
• Hard Core EF4 Full-Day Workshop, June 23rd, Stockholm (Julie Lerman)

Database

• Group and Count Records in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL Server Reporting Services R2 – Publishing Report Parts (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQLAuthority News – Bookmark – Deprecated Database Engine Features in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• 10 Days for Office 2010: Save Time and Create Incredible Content with Word 2010 (Stephanie Kreiger)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 05.11 ~ 05.17 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Link Post 145 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #601 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/17/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Post… 5/10/2010 through 5/16/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links of the week #119 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Axiom, XNA and RenderToTexture (Michael Cummings)
• VS2010 Beta 2 : Pin to Source for debugging – COOL! But with a caveat (Julie Lerman)
• Long Live the Semicolon and Why I Love it! (Peter Kellner)
• How to Automate a Simple Deploy Using DataDude (Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition) (Peter Kellner)
• Extension Methods Ain’t Trojan Horses – A Tale on a Covariant City Built in and Protected By C# 4.0 (Bart de Smet)
• .Net Framework 4.0: Complex numbers (Gunnar Peipman)
• Machine.Migrations Changes (Aaron Jensen)

Web Development

• ASP.Net MVC in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Joe Cartano)
• Designing a High Performance Windows Azure Service! (David Lemphers)
• Rich Tooltips With jQuery (Scott Mitchell)
• Easily Convert Between HTML and RGB Colors using JavaScript (Chris Pietschmann)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Programmer Tip: Learn Like A Teacher. Teach Like A Learner. (Rajiv Popat)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 5 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• 10 resources to learn Moq (Simone Chiaretta) – Link of the Day
• How far behind are Microsoft developer frameworks in terms of design? (Scott Koon)
• Testing End Points: Integration tests vs Contract tests (Mark Needham)
• Agile for one: The Personal Story ‘Wall’ In Action (Leon Bambrick)
• Spec Explorer 1.0 – A “Visual tool for modeling software behavior and generating test suites from those models” (Greg Duncan)
• Dev Anti Pattern: Unworkable Machine (Roy Osherove)
• TypeMOQ API (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML Tip: DataContext Comment (Josh Smith)
• New Tutorial: Import an Adobe Photoshop File into Expression Blend (Adam Kinney)
• 10 shortcuts worth discovering in Expression Blend 3 (Silverlight Team)
• New WPF Features: Jumplists (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Spolsky, Atwood, Blyth, Hanselman = Crazy-Delicious || Content-Free? (Scott Hanselman)
• ARCast.TV: Ward Bell and John Stame on using Silverlight on the UFC Project and MSDN geekSpeak: Windows Mobile 6 with Jim Wilson (MS Podcasts)
• TWC9: Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 Blowout! (Dan Fernandez)
• Silverlight FireStarter (Part 1 of 9): Event Kick Off and (Part 2 of 9): Keynote and (Part 3 of 9): Key Silverlight Scenarios and (Part 4 of 9): Expression 3 Overview and (Part 5 of 9): Sketch Flow and (Part 6 of 9): Toolkit & Controls and (Part 7 of 9): RIA Services and (Part 8 of 9): Building Silverlight UIs with XAML Power toys and (Part 9 of 9): Q&A Panel (Emily Gibson)
• What’s new in the WPF and Silverlight "Cider" Designer in VS2010 beta2 and Graphics improvements in WPF 4 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Herding Code 63: Victory in Software Development with K Scott Allen (Jon Galloway)
• Screencast – What’s new in the Entity Data Model Designer in VS2010 (Julie Lerman)
• Do Not Fear Confrontation (Roy Osherove)

Community / Events

• Northeast Roadshow: Taskbar Deep-dive (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Link to SQL Server Book Online – BOL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Organizing Your PowerShell Scripts and Functions (Joel Bennett)
• Happy Birthday Small Basic (Vijaye)
• Wait Chain Traversal Debugging Extension for WinDbg (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Read Between The Pixels – HLSL Kill Pixel Shader (Rene Schulte)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 23, 2009 and Interesting Find: October 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #461 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2009 — #716 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for the Week of 2009.10.23 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 23rd October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #568 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 383 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• IntelliSense Driven API Design (Kendall Miller & Jay Cincotta)
• Unit Testing/Mocking on .net cf (Chris Brandsma)
• Fundamentals – Introduction (Juliën Hanssens)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 2 (Rajiv Popat)
• A Shack in the Woods, Crumbling at the Core (Michael Janke)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate – The difference between Get, Load and querying by id (Oren Eini)
• Odd StreamReader/StringBuilder behavior… (Chris Williams)
• Initializing An Array inline (Dave M. Bush)
• WCF tracing FAQ (Shivprasad Koirala)
• Screenshot in 2 Clicks using .NET – Now with More Options (Shoban Kumar)

Web Development

• Win Your Copy: Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Edition in C# and VB and Video: In the Brain of Abid Quereshi – Introduction to Moq (Me)
• S#arp Scaffolding with Ext JS (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC NerdDinner Walkthrough (Phil Haack)
• Visual Studio 2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions Power Tool (Chris Schmich)
• Yahoo’s YQL Makes the Internet Your Database (John Musser)
• Tip #59: Did you know…How you can automatically format unformatted HTML on paste in VS? (Ranjini Mathrubootham)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Sample Chapter Available (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Free Chapter of Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Testing ASP.NET MVC Applications (Simone Chiaretta)
• Adding jQuery to your site with Glimmer (Tim Heuer)
• Better, Stronger, Safer jQuerify Bookmarklet (Karl Swedberg)
• ASP.NET for Web Designers: Introduction (Janko Jovanovic)
• The Four Pillars of ASP.NET (Paul Litwin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Keeping the WPF Tab Control from destroying its children (Eric Burke)
• how to build an outlook style application with prism v2 – Part 2 (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• First Experience With Behaviors In Silverlight 3 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Animated Visual State Transitions with the Transitioning Content Control (Jesse Liberty)
• Paste your REST API definition as strong types (Tim Heuer)
• WPF Wonders: An Alphabetical Compendium of WPF Controls (Rod Stephens)
• DeepZoomPix: Experience Your Photos Like Never Before (Silverlight Team)

Community / Events

• Philly ALT.NET Meeting: Mobile "i" for the .NET Guy (Brian Donahue)
• Brian Harry on Visual Studio 2010 at the linked User Group April 30th (Charles Sterling)
• NINE Questions with Julie Lerman (Chris Williams)
• The Good, The Bad And The Ugly In The .NET World (Davy Brion)
• Enterprise Developer Conference – Streaming Live Sessions (Jeff Barnes)
• Congratulations to the First Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters! (Dave Pae)
• C’mon, You Guys, We Can Do Better Than This (Sara Chipps)
• Challenge to MS Evangelists: Real Examples. Tests, Even (Jim Holmes)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Expert to Expert – Erik Meijer and Lars Bak: Inside V8 – A Javascript Virtual Machine and Emmanuel Stapf: Eiffel and Contract Oriented Programming (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #51 (Jeff Atwood)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #106: Learning the Adapter Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• Vijay Gajjala on the Geneva Server (Donovan Follette)
• 3 Men and a Whiteboard on ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ormond)
• Silverlight 3 – System Colours and Silverlight 3 Beta – Cached Platform Extensions and Silverlight 3 Beta – Writeable Bitmaps and Silverlight 3 Beta – GPU Acceleration and Silverlight 3 Beta – Validation and Silverlight 3 Beta – Extensible Application Services and Silverlight 3 Beta – Network Status Detection (Mike Taulty)
• BizTalk Server – Development Best Practices (1/2) (Johan Lindfors)
• Herding Code 45: Larry O’Brien on Domain Specific Languages (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 68 – PowerScripting Podcast – James Brundage from the PowerShell team (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint for Developers Part 6 – Custom web services (Kirk Evans)
• Tim Aidlin – Glimmer, a JQuery Interactive Design Tool (Robert Hess)
• What’s New In SQL Server Integration Services 2008 (Carla Sabotta)
• Test Driven Development Part Deux–The Rest Of The Story-Episode 23 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Office Casual – How to get your resume noticed (Tina)

Database

• Using SQL Functions in Criteria Restrictions (Davy Brion)
• How to Use The SQL 2008 Resource Governor (Michael Ceranski)

PowerShell

• Updated Powershell Scripts (Harry Pierson)

Miscellaneous

• Things more likely to kill you than Swine Flu (Lee Holmes)
• Some Thoughts on Cablevision’s 101 Mbps Speed (Eric Rabe)
• 13 BlackBerry apps for the social networker (Don Reisinger)
• How to be a great speaker (Simon Sabin)
• How to tag a project – #024 (Sara Ford)
• Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 Will Release in 2009 (Ray Comvalius)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #338 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 29, 2009 — #583 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 04.23~04.30 (yuanjian)
• Visual Studio Links #115 (Darren Stokes)
• CloudNews for April 29th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit is now available (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight 3: Navigation Application Template Extra themes posted! (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight – RESX Files and Internationalization (Dave M. Bush)
• Creating applications with .NET RIA Services Part 4 – Adding a DomainDataSource (Martin Mihaylov)
• Enable multiple selection in Silverlight ListBox and Using Blur and DropShadow effects in Silverlight 3 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight out-of-browser support: What kind of apps can you build? (Ashish Shetty)
• Scripting C# Silverlight apps with IronPython (Jimmy Schementi)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #103 – Cool Silverlight Tutorial Blogs and #104 – How to Enable GPU Acceleration (Mike Snow)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Oslo Is Running My House and X10 Grammar (Kris Horrocks via Chris Sells)
• A Real World Application of MGrammar (Oslo) (hexadecimal)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Command Routing (Harry Pierson)
• An FAQ about EF/Astoria/LINQ to SQL: Is the data filtered on the server or on the client? (Julie Lerman)
• Ten C# Keywords That You Shouldn’t Be Using (Justin Etheredge)
• What’s New in CodeRush & Refactor! Pro 9.1 (Mark Miller)
• Visual Studio Team Test Quick Reference Guide 1.0 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Getting Started with the Live Framework (Mike Ormond)

Web Development

• Rolling a Bubble – ASP.NET MVC is Ms-PL (Rob Conery)
• Putting the M in MVC – Part II (K. Scott Allen)
• Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Open Source MS-PL (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Scott Guthrie)
• Open Source License For System.Web.Mvc (Phil Haack)
• Back to the future! Exploring ASP.NET MVC Futures (Maarten Balliauw)
• Binding Links with ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX (Wallace B. McClure)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Enterprise adoption of Agile? What should you have been told/taught? (Brian Marick)
• DDDD: Double Dispatch (Jonathan Oliver)
• Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 3 (Justin Etheredge)
• Don’t be afraid of complex constraints (Karl Seguin)
• Master Craftsman Teams. (Uncle Bob Martin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Softies pranking Softies: A step-by-step video for pranking co-workers (Dan Fernandez)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 139 – David Penton with Pat Helland on Cloud Computing – MP3 Audio (Wallace B. McClure)
• MIX09 Video Outtakes with Scott Guthrie (Tina)

Community / Events

• Announcing the "WPF for LOB" Training Tour.. (Jaime Rodriguez)
• CodeClimber Q1 report (Simone Chiaretta)
• The "Jan Tielens" SharePoint Challenge by Christophe (Jan Tielens)

SharePoint

• Video: SharePoint Designer 2007 (April 2009 Announcement) (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Designer 2007 now Free! (Stephen Cummins)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Very Powerful and Feature-Rich Backup, Zip and FTP Utility SQLBackupAndFTP (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• After a 12-year downhill slide, SGI is no more (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Microsoft Blogger Releases "Change Windows 7 Login Screen" PowerToy (Blake Handler)
• Book giveaway (Michael Kimsal) – JavaScript for Programmers
• I Am Not A Helpdesk (Davy Brion)
• Resizing images without loss of quality (Gunnar Peipman)
• Should Competent Programmers be "Mathematically Inclined"? (Jeff Atwood)
• Wubbzy to Promote World Autism Day (Jenny Williams)
• Microsoft Office on iPhone? (Raju Vegesna)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #320 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 01, 2009 — #560 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 1st, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Size Matters (Leon Gersing)
• Idealistic vs. Practical (Christopher Bennage)
• Entities: Required Properties And Properties That Shouldn’t Be Modified (Davy Brion)
• Why “No Issues” Is Not An Acceptable Answer (Derick Bailey)
• Architecture By Baseball: The Presentation (Larry Clarkin)
• Simple Usability (Phil Haack)
• QTB: Lean Times Require Lean Thinking (Mark Needham)
• Persistence Patterns in MSDN Magazine (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Domain Driven Design & Test Driven Development\Design using Entity Framework, Part 2.A Unit Testing Entities With Moq 3 (Muhammad Mosa)
• My 100th blog post: Top 5 development practices you should care for (Patrick Smacchia)
• Comparing Moq to Rhino Mocks (Tim Van Wassenhove)
• Scrum Gathering Agile Architecture Talk (Mike Cottmeyer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: The Ins and Outs of Query Operators (Scott Mitchell)
• C# Optimization Revisited Part 2: Concurrency (Ade Miller)
• AgDLR 0.5 (Harry Pierson)
• Overview of Windows Azure (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

• What’s new in JScript for IE8 (Shreesh Dubey)
• Fiddler Plugin: Casaba Security’s Watcher tool (Marwan Tarek)
• Opening a WAP IIS Project when IIS Virtual doesn’t exist (Rick Strahl)
• Setting up your Dynamic Data Site with a Domain Service Layer (Steve Naughton)
• 10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 3 Behaviors: Interactivity Without Code (Christian Schormann)
• Behaviors in Expression Blend 3 (Andy Beaulieu)
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight, now in VB Flavor (Bob Brumfeld)
• Silverlight Contrib 2009.1.0 Released! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New goodies coming out with WPF 4 (Marlon Grech)
• Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Silverlight Application (Tim Sneath)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – The Star Wars Scroller (Velvart Andras) – Link of the Day
• A MUST READ: Microsoft .NET RIA Services Overview (Joel Reyes)
• Versioning note , writing SL 3.0 applications with Astoria v1.5 Sl 2.0 SDK Library (Phani Raj)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Krzysztof Cwalina on Creating Reusable Frameworks (David Solivan)
• ScottGu’s Mix09 Silverlight for Business Applications Demo (Brad Abrams)
• Erik Meijer and Matthew Podwysocki – Perspectives on Functional Programming (Charles Torre)
• Talking Functional Programming with Erik Meijer (Matthew Podwysocki)
• ASP.NET MVC Sessions At Mix (Phil Haack)
• WPF Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for Building Business Apps (Beth Massi)
• SharePoint for Developers Part 2: Working with Features (Kirk Allen Evans)
• 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 2 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• RESTful Web Services with WCF Screencast (Michael Kennedy)
• Review: Coding in Objective-C 2.0 screencasts (Victor Agreda, Jr.)

Events / Community

• NINE Questions with Donn Felker (Chris G. Williams)
• LOLGeeks (Frank La Vigne)
• Mix 09 Trip Report (Jesse Liberty)
• 1st Annual Silverlight MIXer (John Papa)
• Recognizing Women in Technology for Ada Lovelace Day (Maggie Longshore)
• Dream Build Play 2009 and XNA Game Studio 3.1 Announced at GDC! (Kathleen Sanders)
• Nothin’ but .NET – Reaching out (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Happy Ada Lovelace Day!! – Video Blog (Sara J. Chipps)
• Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference – Albany, NY April 15, 2009 (Nandita)

Database

• Implementing a document database: simple queries (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Application Lifecycle Management for SharePoint (Clemens Reijnen)

Miscellaneous

• Notepad++ version 5.3 software update (Ben)
• Plan Your Web Working Career Path (Darrell Etherington)
• Is Software Engineering The Most Important Profession in the World? (Steve Clayton)
• Windows Home Server PP2 recognizes Windows 7 (Taimur Asad)
• Extending Your Brand to the Desktop with Windows 7 (Tim Sneath)
• Geeky T-Shirt ideas (Roy Osherove)
• Syntax Highlighting for PHP and CSS files (Sara Ford)
• Blogalogue: What makes a developer “senior”? (Trevor Green)
• Overcoming Fear of Clouding (Bill Zack)
• Making Web Applications Look Like Desktop Applications Using Chrome (Rhonda Tipton)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: “Snap on Center” and other little things (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Gephardt jumps on the PHR bandwagon (Neil Versel)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 24, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #314 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2009 — #549 and Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2009 – 2 — #550 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for March 24, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Twitterings #21 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: March 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for March 24th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

• “Maximizing Value with Agile Release Planning” Recording (James Shore)
• Aspect Oriented Programming in C#.NET: Part I (Shivprasad Koirala)
• Beginning Mocking with Moq 3 – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Aluminum Wiring in Your Software (K. Scott Allen)
• How I Learned to Program Manage an Agile Team after 6 years of Waterfall (Sara Ford)
• Agile Methods – Delivering Software Faster (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Introduction to test-doubles (Laila Bougria)
• Why Don’t We Learn? (Davy Brion)
• Ken Sylvester on Top 5 Characteristics of Leaders (J.D. Meier)
• DDD and Repositories. Without NHibernate but with Lazy Loading (Peter Van Ooijen)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: getting caught out with closures (Julian M. Bucknall)
• JavaScript: The Good Parts (Chris Brandsma)
• Introducing Sueetie Patterns and Origins (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC TIP – Keep your controllers and actions thin (Scott Koon)
• ASP.NET AJAX SlideShow Extender – Some Common Tips and Tricks (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Talking Points: WCF and RESTful Services (Part II) (Joel Reyes)
• External ITemplates and Hierarchical Databinding (David Fowler)
• Web Packaging: Installing Web Packages using Command Line (Vishal R. Joshi)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Rounded Corners – and holes! (Chris Cavanagh)
• MVVM Mediator Pattern (Sacha Barber)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #28: Networking Silverlight (Keith Elder)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ADO.NET Data Services V1.5 CTP1 (MS Downloads)
• Setting Automatic Property Values in a Struct’s Constructor (Black Wasp)
• Unicode in regular expressions (Jimmy Bogard)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #1 (Damien Guard)
• linq and the dry principle (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Programming Entity Framework (Jarod Ferguson)
• Mapping Stored Procedure Results to a Custom Entity in Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• MSBuild Extension Pack – Release: 3.5.2.0 (CodePlex)

Database

• Designing a document database: Remote API & Public API and Designing a document database: What next? (Oren Eini)

Community / Events

• Social Networking not a replacement for In Person Networking (Brendon Schwartz)
• Join In with MIX09 Live Content Online (Bruce Kyle)
• XBOX LIVE Community Games Best Practices talk with Andy (The Zman) Dunn (Chris G. Williams)
• MIX09 Minus 1 (Dave Campbell)
• Events This Week – March 16th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Local Boy Makes Good (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 build 7057 – Performance that blasts past XP, Vista and previous builds (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
• Why Service Virtualization Matters (Aaron Skonnard)
• Cloud Computing hits the mainstream press (Andy Singleton)
• Small Basic on Facebook (Vijaye R.)
• FizzBin – The Technical Support Secret Handshake (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Getting Things Done with Gmail Tasks (Simon Mackie)
• Azure joins the “crash club”: down for 22 hours (Kip Kniskern)
• Open Source Maturity Model Explored (Tim Barcz)
• Things you know now (Joe Webb)
• 2nd Annual RossCode.com March Madness Pool Contest (Joel Ross)
• Weekly release: A Proper Certificate! (Marco Botton)
• Focus on fun and step into freedom in your career!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• How to Embed Your Windows Live Calendar on Your Website (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #308 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 16, 2009 — #543 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 85 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for March 16th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Programming Entity Framework: Julia Lerman: Books ISBN: 059652028X ISBN-13: 9780596520281