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Top Links

• Linq to SQL Profiler 1.0 Released! (Oren Eini)
• .NET coming to Android in the form of MonoDroid (Imran Hussain)
• Getting Started With Machine.Specifications (MSpec) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Inversion of Control (IOC) with XAML (Rob Relyea)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSBuild Task Factories: guest starring Windows Powershell (Andrew Arnott)
• Using CTRL + ALT + B to Open the Breakpoints Window — vstipDebug0011 and Using CTRL + ALT + Down Arrow to Open the File Menu Dropdown List — vstipEnv0003 (Zain Naboulsi)
• XML Literals: Escaping Characters (Deborah Kurata)
• Code Metrics: Measuring LoC in .NET applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• How to package COM component (Xinyang Qiu)
• How VSIX extensions are discovered and loaded in VS 2010 (Mariano Blanco)
• TweeVo (Brian Peek)
• FluentNHibernate And NHibernate.Linq (Charles Chen)
• Will the real data object stand up? (Rockford Lhotka)
• Avoiding Memory Leaks With NServiceBus And Your Own Castle Windsor Instance (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft Semblio – A set of tools for educators to create rich interactive content/training, with extensibility via SDK, .Net and WPF (SDK free available today, rest coming soon) (Greg Duncan)
• C#: A lack of covariance with generics example and C#: Overcomplicating with LINQ (Mark Needham)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part – 3) (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Crystal Reports and Visual Studio 2010 (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• Making your ASP.NET application work as a service. and The Orchard Project as my new blog engine. (Al Pascual)
• Gummy Bear 1.2 is Fully Baked! (Dave Burke)
• Simple pager for ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Intro to jQuery Materials (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Announcing WeBlog – A Next Generation Blogging Platform (Mike Ceranski)
• Creating x.509 certificates with Pluralsight self-cert (Mike Hadlow)
• jQuery Custom Element and Global Events (Sergio Pereira)
• Partial Validation in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Steve Sanderson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microsoft XNA Test Tools (February 2010) (MS Downloads)
• Ubiquitous language leaking in the wrong direction (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Leadership Tip: Avoiding Generic Whining Within Your Organization. and Soul Searching Question For Managers: Why Do You Want Manage Your Team? and Avoiding The Typical Software Development World Stereotypes – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)
• You’ll Never Get Sustainable Progress For Free (Davy Brion)
• Using an ORM is like kissing your sister part 2 and CQRS and CAP Theorem and Why use Event Sourcing? (Greg Young)
• BigTable concerns, or “How to put your trust in the cloud” (Kyle Baley)
• Event Sourcing and the Event Pipeline (Jonathan Oliver)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 – Accessing System Devices with Com Interop, such as a Scanner. (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Beta 4 Networking. Part 8 – TCP Sockets (Mike Taulty)
• Magellan Forms and Magellan Major Changes (Paul Stovell)
• Silverlight Lessons Learned Materials (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Exchanging Data between XAP files using Local Collection API in Silverlight 3 (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Podcast 201 – The Making of a Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy and Hanselminutes Podcast 202 – A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP (Scott Hanselman)
• Missing Screencasts (Rob Conery)
• geekSpeak: Advanced ASP.NET with Shaun Walker, founder of DotNetNuke and Lock Contention, Using Intel Parallel Studio to Improve Performance and geekSpeak: Advanced ASP.NET with Shaun Walker, founder of DotNetNuke (MS Podcasts)
• Windows Weekly 144: I Have Really Big Spreadsheet Needs (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: Windows Phone 7 Series, Hanselcart, MS Deploy (Dan Fernandez)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #84 (Jeff Atwood)
• Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Working with Application ID and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Using the Taskbar Button Overlay Icons and Progress Bars and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar –Jump Lists, Part 1 and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump Lists, Part 2 and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Tabbed Thumbnails and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Custom Previews and Thumbnail Clips (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Cloud Cover – Episode 1 (Ryan Dunn)
• Engadget Podcast 184: MWC 2010 Roundup – 02.19.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Visual Studio Tutorial – Part 2 – Our First Project (Keith Elder)

Community / Events

• CodeStock 2010 Keynote: Rachel Appel (Michael C. Neel)
• MVPs Give Microsoft Reason to Listen (Toby Richards)
• RSS feed for SQL Server Connect feedback (Jamie Thomson)
• Visual Studio 2010 to launch on April 12 at DevConnections 2010 in Las Vegas (Imran Hussain)
• The 2010 MVP Summit from the eyes of a rookie (Joseph Mirabella)
• SQL Social Update – Bill Vaughn will be at the meeting on the 16th March (Simon Sabin)

Database

• SQL Server User-Defined Functions (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Recompile Stored Procedure at Run Time and SQL SERVER- IF EXISTS(Select null from table) vs IF EXISTS(Select 1 from table) (Pinal Dave)
• Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions (Seth Phelabaum)
• Renaming a computer and maintenance plans (Martin Bell)
• SQL Server Implicit String Conversion/Concatenation (XML parsing: line , character , unexpected end of input) (Chinh Do)

Miscellaneous

• Luke Wroblewski on Windows Phone 7 Series UX (Christian Schormann)
• Microsoft Releases Documentation for "Outlook Personal Folders File (.pst) Format Structure Specification" and Microsoft Releases "Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)" for Windows7 and Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "SharePoint Outlook 2007/2010 Connector" and Microsoft Releases Free "Software & Database Shapes" for Visio 2003 & 2007 Standard Editions (Blake Handler)
• The 21st of Diduary: Did you know that you can stop your mouse from interrupting sleep mode? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Windows Live Meeting – Can’t it be Better? (William Vaughn)
• Top 10 Windows Media Center Plug-Ins and Boosters (Kevin Purdy)
• A Feed You Should Read #24 – CodePlex.com (Greg Duncan)
• Getting ‘hands-on’ with Microsoft’s vision (Ian Sands)
• Check out Mercurial version control with my CodePlex repository (Jeffrey Palermo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 20, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 02.20 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #93 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 133 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 404 and New and Notable 405 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 10.0 (MS Downloads)
• Impersonation, WCF, and making updates to a database (Tom)
• Reading IPhone Text Messages using C# and SQLite (Tom Hearn)
• Call PowerShell Cmdlets from C# (Cody Batt)
• Bringing The Heat With Dynamic (Justin Etheredge)
• Open XML Format SDK 2.0 Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 – 52 C#/VB Code Snippets to help ease your Open XML coding (Greg Duncan)
• Understanding LINQ and LINQ to SQL (and EF) (Jason Young)

Web Development

• Designating Content Type (Chris Love)
• Google praises Microsoft’s HTML 5 thoughts (Tom Krazit)
• xVal v1.0 Now Available (Steve Sanderson)
• Create a SQL Azure CRUD Application with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• Integrating OpenID in an ASP.NET MVC Application using DotNetOpenAuth (Rick Strahl)
• How to create a three state menu using Photoshop and Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• ASP.NET AJAX Add-ons (FireAtlas & FireCookie) for Firefox’s Firebug (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Who Owns Quality (Alan Page)
• SDL ‘Merged’ Process Template White Paper. (Clemens Reijnen)
• NCover and NUnit Can Play Nicely on x64 (Justin Etheredge)
• TDD: Testing with generic abstract classes (Mark Needham)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 9. (Rajiv Popat)
• Growing developers: Ask for solutions instead of giving them (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
• The case for two-way mapping in AutoMapper (Jimmy Bogard)
• How A .NET Developer Hacked Out A Rake Task and An Alternate Way To Handle Task Dependencies In Custom Rake Tasks and A Failed Opportunity To Coach, Teach, And Help Others Improve (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Data Binding with WPF: Binding to XML (Me)
• XAML Power Toys v5 Will Be Available Sunday at 7:00pm PST (Karl Shifflett)
• Tell the Debugger to Ignore Silverlight Validation Exceptions (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Mario Cardinal on Layer Module Injection (MS Podcasts)
• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Butler Lampson – Abstraction, Security and Embodiment (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #141: Learning Nant: Creating Token Driving Configuration Files (Derik Whittaker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #68 (Jeff Atwood)
• Pumping Iron: Dynamic Languages on .NET (Martin Esmann)
• Video of the Continuous Integration workshop (Eric Hexter)

Community / Events

• Take the ASP.NET Website Survey (ASP.NET News)
• Author news: Mark Russinovich virtual roundtable on September 24 (Devon Musgrave)
• The CodePlex Foundation: Cautiously Optimistic (Bill Wagner)
• To Take or Not To Take the Nothin’ But .Net Training…That is the Question (Russell Ball)

Database

• PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Querying Your Servers with PowerShell (Josh Jones)
• Interacticely sorting columns in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Office Web Applications Tech Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Zune dreams: Microsoft’s refusal to say die (Carmi Levy)
• A Closer Look at Office Web Apps in Windows Live (damaster)
• DreamScreen: HP Beats Apple to the Punch With Sleek Tablet (Ben Parr)
• Batch Converting a Directory Tree of Videos Recursively with Handbrake for Streaming to an Xbox360 (Scott Hanselman) – No need to convert anything if you’re using PlayOn, TVersity or Nero MediaHome.
• Office Web Apps to be offered free to all Windows Live users (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• How To Access And Try Microsoft Office Web Apps Tech Preview (Sunshine)
• Reasons Why .NET Developers Love Their MacBook Pros (Elijah Manor)
• Microsoft’s AD cmdlets available for Win 2003 and later (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Office Web Applications First Look (David Tesar)
• Microsoft delivers a partial preview of its Office Web Apps (Ed Bott)
• These aren’t your father’s regexes (Morgan Kleene)
• Web Sandbox from Live Labs (Jim O’Neil)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #436 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: September 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 17, 2009 — #694 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (9/17/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 17th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Leveraging The Windows Forms WebBrowser Control (For The Win) (Charles Chen)
• Dispose, Finalize and SuppressFinalize (Dave M. Bush)
• Telerik Does LINQ to "M" (Chris Sells)
• Microsoft.Scripting.Debugging (Harry Pierson)
• Dotfuscator 4.5.1200 (Joe Kuemerle)
• F#: Convert sequence to comma separated string (Mark Needham)
• LINQ to M is available (Stephen Forte)
• Domain driven reports: adding custom code (Peter Van Ooijen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile in 500 words… and An Updated p&p Agile Showcase (Ade Miller)
• Refactoring challenge Part 2 – Preparation (Jimmy Bogard)
• Dynamic Languages: A Separation of Concerns (Chris Sells) – Link of the Day
• The essence of Lean software development (Corey Ladas)
• ‘Make it Happen / Whatever it Takes Attitude’ (Dave Schinkel)
• Testing With "The Force" (Jeff Atwood)
• Python and Ruby, Silverlight, and testing (Jeff Wilcox)
• Reuse: Is the Dream Dead? (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Error Handling – an Anecdote (Michael Janke)
• I’d Rather Be Wrong! (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Get Browser Information In Silverlight (Deepak Kapoor)
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-7 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Day #9: Using Keystrokes in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Silverlight FloatableWindow update: start position and resizable (Tim Heuer)
• Deep Zoom Composer – June Preview Features Explained (Sunshine)

Web Development

• Kapow – ETL for HTML (Jamie Thomson)
• Retrofit ASP.NET Aspx Urls with System.Web.Routing (Louis DeJardin)
• Preserving Existing Events in JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
• Dynamic Data Custom Field Template – Values List (Stephen Naughton)
• Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database (Raju Vegesna)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• IE 8 Firestarter: Developing for IE8 (MS Events)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #125: Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to Stub & Fake Data (Derik Whittaker)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “The VP-geebees” (Devon Musgrave)
• Downloadable Videos from NDC (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Herding Code 53: SubSonic 3.0 Release Party with Rob Conery (Jon Galloway)
• ToolShed Tooltip #18 – Using Live ID in your Application (Russell Fustino)
• Conversation with Muness Alrubaie (Corey Haines)
• Applying Effects to Bitmap Images using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)

Community / Events

• The Lounge Survey Pt. 1 (James Avery)
• Web Rumble ’09 (Karl Seguin)

Database

• SQL Server Decode/Encode unicode data (George Mastros)
• Agile Database Techniques (Gert Drapers)
• How to search for all words inclusive without using Full Text search (Naomi)
• A couple of ways of getting the top 2 distinct values from a set in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Microsoft SQL Services Is Now Microsoft SQL Azure, More Software + Services News Next Week At WPC09 (Sunshine)

SharePoint

• A Primer to SharePoint Security (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s MSDN Releases "VHD Tool" to Create & Modify VHD Properties for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• The 9 Books That Helped My Career and I Recommend (Chris Woodruff)
• Windows 7 Family Pack, Anytime Upgrade prices leak (Ed Bott)
• Sinofsky promotion to Windows president much deserved, but Ballmer should have done it sooner (Joe Wilcox)
• File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) Release Candidate available for download (Jose Barreto)
• Why Chrome OS Now? Because Microsoft Office In The Cloud Comes Monday. (MG Siegler)
• OS evolution (Rockford Lhotka)
• Features Aren’t Magically Born (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #386 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 08, 2009 — #632 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 339 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 8th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day