• Become a Good Programmer in Six Really Hard Steps (Mike Lewis)
• Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 (Mike Taulty)
• NerdDinner 3.0 released (John Petersen)
• Autoscaling Application Block – reactive rule semantics (Grigori Melnik)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Setting up Policies for Extensible Parts in MEF (Abhishek Sur)
• Exceptions and Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
• Getting Started with the F# PowerPack – Part 4 (Daniel Mohl)
• New book: Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• A Review of Beginning C# Object-oriented Programming (srpsco)
• First Look at the New C++ IDE Productivity Features in the Next Version of Visual Studio (Cont’d…) (vcblog)
• Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio — Getting the Appendix (Zain Naboulsi)
• Using BugAid to flatten class hierarchies while debugging (Omer Raviv)
• Why MyGet uses Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Dynamics CRM 2011 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• parallel_for_each from amp.h – part 1 (Daniel Moth)
• From Normal Collections to Generic Collections (Paul Sheriff)
• Managing Concurrency in Windows Azure with Leases and Building a Task Scheduler in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

Web Development

• Test-Driving Backbone Views With JQuery Templates, The Jasmine Gem, and Jasmine-JQuery (Derick Bailey)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Magic Number with Symbolic Constant (Giorgio Sironi)
• APress Deal of the Day – 7/Sept/2011 – jQuery Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach (Tatworth)
• JavaScript OMG! #1 to #5 and JavaScript OMG! #6 to #10 and JavaScript OMG! #11 to #15 and JavaScript OMG!: #16 to #20 (Mike Taulty)
• Overview of Command Line Deployment and Management with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Reasons Why Unit Testing is fun–and Important (J. Boyer)
• Agile software development recommendations for users and new adopters (Andrea Salvadore)
• Building Better Software Through Collaboration: Whose Job Is It, Anyway? (Rian van der Merwe)
• Shiny new commit styles (Kyle Neath)
• Pair Programming: The disadvantages of 100% pairing (Mark Needham)
• Leveraging MSBuild for Ruthless Productivity (Michael B. McLaughlin)
• Why Some Companies Execute Better (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Statistics (Justin Angel)
• Windows Phone Toolkit ExpanderView in depth| Part1: key concepts and API and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Connection Strings (Windows Phone Geek)
• Book Review: 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps (taabello)
• MoXAML goes MefXAML (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Nvidia: Windows Phone 7 Apps Will Run On Windows 8 (Ron Fosner)
• Periodic Agents on Windows Phone 7.1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 2000 WPF Things #381 – Loading .rtf Files Into a RichTextBox (Sean Sexton)
• Telerik RadChartControl for LightSwitch Application – Day 3 – Giveaway Contest (Kunal Chowdhury)
• DataBinding to Custom Properties (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget HD Podcast 264 – 09.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Let’s Play TDD #137: How Many Frames? (James Shore)
• Video: Kirk Munro – Defining domain-specific vocabularies using Windows PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• CodeBetter.Com wants to send you to Redmond! (Brendan Tompkins)
• RavenDB Webinar (Oren Eini)
• Reminder–Speaking at the NYC and Boston SharePoint User Groups this week (Andrew Connell)
• WindowsPhoneGeek Forums are LIVE! (Windows Phone Geek)

Database

• New LOGICAL functions in SQL Server Denali (Martin Schmidt)
• Using the SSIS Merge Join (Mike Davis)
• SQL SERVER – A Guide to Integrating SQL Server with XML, C#, and PowerShell – Book Available for SQL Server Certification and SQL SERVER – Denali – Conversion Function – TRY_PARSE() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
• Parallelizing Slow Parts of the Data Flow – Part 1 – Preparation (Todd McDermid)
• Red Gate Schema Compare For Oracle (Geoff Hudik)

SharePoint

• Business Connectivity Service Associations using Oracle Stored Procedures in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

• The Python Standard Library By Example (Tom Brander)
• Kinect Quiz, one teacher’s story… (Greg Duncan)
• Twitter and Bing renew their relationship… via Twitter (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft’s Mediaroom 2.0 IPTV platform: A codename update (Mary Jo Foley)
• Learning Unix (Miguel de Icaza)
• The Software IP Detective’s Handbook (Mylene Reiners)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 081 for 9/6/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #932 (Chris Alcock)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 09.01 ~ 09.06 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 7 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading September 6, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily News Digest 09/06/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/07/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 6-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Today’s Links (9/6/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Acceleration Links #1 (Adam Feber)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 6 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week Aug 29 – Sept 4 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #703 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Becoming Agile: …in an imperfect world by Greg Smith

• Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.10425 and Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.1.10425 (Experimental Release) (MS Downloads)
• Signature Series 40% off until May 15 (Martin Fowler)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 6: How to implement Overlay Icons (Jennifer Marsman)
• Dynamic Types to Simplify Property Change Notification in Silverlight 4 and 5 (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF Extensibility – IParameterInspector (Carlos Figueira)
• WCF 4.0 Features: Part #1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: ElementAt() and Last() (James Michael Hare)
• TFS – Fail a build when the warning count increases (Peter Gfader)
• Calling Roles.GetRolesForUser in a WCF service (Rockford Lhotka)
• Planning Mogade v2 (Karl Seguin)
• Table Compares Windows Azure Developer Offerings (Bruce Kyle)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – April Update (Windows Azure Team)

Web Development

• Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 3 (ambilykk)
• Getting Started with Script# (Nikhil Kothari)
• Single Action Controllers with ASP.Net MVC (Derek Greer)
• How To Scroll To Validation Summary ? (Abhijit Jana)
• All you want to know about Web Storage (Giorgio Sironi)
• Modules and namespaces in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Fun With WebMatrix Helpers in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Steve Lydford)
• Walking Through the Orchard Part 2 – Conversion from Graffiti (John Papa)
• Recovering the admin password in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• JavaScript Events (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Long Feedback Loops (Patrick Kua)
• Reactive Extensibility of Lokad.CQRS App Engine (Rinat Abdullin)
• When to Use White Text on a Dark Background (Anthony T.)
• Performance from Day 1 (Paul Stovell)
• Agile or Scrum? (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Comparing the MVC and MVVM patterns along with their respective ViewModels. (Rachel Appel)
• Using Perspective Transforms inside ListBox ItemTemplate and WP7 Master – Detail Navigation with Repository Pattern (Windows Phone Geek)
• Loading data during WP7 Page navigation – the slow, the fast and the incremental (Andreas Hammar)
• Tooling in Mango and What’s Coming In Mango–Reminders (Jesse Liberty)
• XNA for Windows Phone 7: a 3-day Online Training Course (Svetla Stoycheva)
• The Case of the Confused ComboBox – A WPF/MVVM Bedtime Story (James Kovacs)
• The science behind the Windows Phone keyboard (Michael Stroh)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• End User Adoption of SharePoint 2010-Episode 59 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• jQuery Podcast 42 – jQuery Mobile Keynote (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Silverlight TV 70: Sockets Unplugged (John Papa)
• Windows Phone Radio 25 (Brian Seitz)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Rasesh Shah Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• Free “State of .NET” Events! (Chris Koenig)
• Dream.Build.Play Developer Twitter Chat on May 11 (XNA Team)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Feature Pack CTP Bring New Features and Tools (Abel Avram)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets (Pinal Dave)
• How to determine the current SSIS runtime environment (sognibene)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 3 – Server Configuration – Model Database (Ted Krueger)
• SQL University: SQL Azure & PowerShell (Grant Fritchey)
• Better Living Through Caching (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Daily Denali Delight – Day 6 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

SharePoint

• Incrementing the feature version through MSBuild (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Bliki: CrossPlatformMobile (Martin Fowler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 04.20 ~ 04.29 (yuanjian)
• Daily News Digest 04/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 27-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 28th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server DMVs in Action: Better Queries with Dynamic Management Views by Ian W. Stirk

• Spec Explorer 2010 Release 3.5 now available! (Xiang Li)
• async 11: Control Flow and await (Bill Wagner)
• New April 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
• Office 365 Marketplace and the Open Beta (Joel Oleson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Default Extension methods and Dynamic query with Linq (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio 2010 and UML(Unified Modeling Language) Part-I (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Accessing ObjectContext Features from EF 4.1 DbContext (Julie Lerman)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)
• MSBuild Extension Pack April 2011 Release (Mike Fourie)
• Closures in CSharp (Abhishek Sur)
• Coding Helpers – Smart Parentheses and Smart Brackets (Alex Skorkin)
• ReSharper 6 Enhances Razor Support (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• Create user friendly date fields with ASP.NET MVC EditorTemplates & jQueryUI (Rachel Appel)
• Presentation Tips Learned From My (Many) Mistakes (Phil Haack)
• Get your FREE ASP.NET Razor Templates (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET MVC: Defining short URL-s for root level pages and ASP.NET MVC 3: Using controllers scaffolding (Gunnar Peipman)
• MVC Extension Method for Hosting Static Content on a CDN (Nathan Totten)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Class per Feature (Giorgio Sironi)
• Creating a Bot for the Rock Paper Azure Contest (Steve Smith)
• HTTP is great (Rob Ashton)
• Exploring ECMAScript 5 with a Simple Game of Poker (ieblog)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NUnit Type Assertions (Richard Carr)
• Developer Chronicle: Lasagna is not a good role model (Jimmy Nilsson)
• .gitconfig (Nick Berardi)
• "I’ll Whack Your Fingers"-Oriented Programming (Joh)
• Refactoring is Not About Reducing Code (Krishna)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What the new App Hub in Windows Phone Mango means for the Enterprise (Rob Tiffany)
• WriteableBitmapEx goes NuGet (Rene Schulte)
• New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.3.2 officially released and Coding4Fun WP7 Message Prompt in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• A Fast Loading Windows Phone 7 NavigationList Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• The WPF Renaissance (James Ashley)
• ReactiveUI posts now in PDF format (Paul Betts)
• Family.Show [Insert a Sixth Sense quote here] (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7 Mango: My feedback as I peel it apart (Kelly Sommers)
• Working with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta and Issues with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Out of Box Experience – Windows Live ID and the Benefits to Having One For Your Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Multiple Window Support and LightTouch–Silverlight Touch Library from Wintellect (Mike Taulty)
• Social Viewer Template for Windows Phone 7 Published (Nick Randolph)
• Awesome Windows Phone Resource (PubSec)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio: Coding4Fun with Clint Rutkas (MS Podcasts)
• Technoloby & Friends Episode 152: Randy Pagels on Visual Studio Test Professional (David Giard)
• XNA: Game Development – The Game Loop (Tina Wood)
• Windows Weekly 204: I’m In A Cab (Paul Thurrott)
• Podcast- Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi- ASP.NET Tools Integration (Joe Stagner)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 51 – Xerxes Battiwalla talks Shouldly (Richard Banks)
• Deploying PHP Applications to Windows Azure without Visual Studio (Karsten Januszewski)
• Yet Another Podcast #31–Laurent Bugnion Live at Mix (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 6 – Windows Azure Role Security (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 012 – “MIX’n It Up” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #89: Awesomest of Awesome Events Ever Awesomely Possible (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 18th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Mix 11 Videos – Download them all with RSS (Scott Hanselman)
• My Annual Arizona .NET Speaking Event this Friday (Scott Guthrie)
• Vote for your favorite love song playlist and win a fab Windows Phone and music package (Luke)
• MIX11 for the Silverlight Guy (Mike Taulty)
• MIX11 Session feedback: WCF Web APis: "There’s a URI for That" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Thoughts on the MIX 11 announcements (Nigel Parker)
• Seacoast .NET Inaugural Meeting–Apr. 20th (Jim O’Neil)
• INETA Community Leadership Summit at TechEd 2011 and Help me go to Tech Ed 2011 (Chris Williams)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Making Database to Read Only – Changing Database to Read/Write and SQL SERVER – Appling NOLOCK Hint at Query Level – NOLOCK for whole Transaction (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS Tips & Tricks – Registered Server Groups (Seth Phelabaum)
• Why do we need error handling? (Kim Tessereau)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Health Score – Something to add to your SharePoint-based applications and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Customization Deep Dive (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Office 365 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Windows PowerShell Language Specification Version 2.0 (MS Downloads)
• Office 365 Public Beta: Available Now! (Joey deVilla)
• Coding While You Commute (Leon Bambrick)
• Balancing work and kids: real advice for real life (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• PowerShell Language now licensed under the Community Promise (PowerShell Team)
• Paint.NET in 24 more languages?! tl;dr … Yes (Rick Brewster)
• My Top 10 Programming Quotes (Senthil Kumar)
• Photosynth Team releases iPhone App (Joe Stagner)
• Update progress for AT&T Windows Phones (Eric Hautala)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 — #1073 and SilverlightShow for April 4 – 10, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 – 2 — #1074 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 190 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links– 2010_15 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• The Morning Brew #836 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 18th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 04/18/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 04/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

LINQ Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O’Reilly)) by Joseph Albahari

• NuGet Package of the Week #4 – Deserializing JSON with Json.NET (Scott Hanselman)
• Rails 3 Baby Steps – Part 3 (Justin Etheredge)
• The importance of performance testing in a Windows Phone 7 application (Simone Chiaretta)
• Hosting a Simple “Read-Only” NuGet Package Feed on the Web (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Create a tree flatten function to support LINQ queries (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Uber Prof & NuGet (Oren Eini)
• C#/.NET Toolbox: Adding a ToHashSet() Extension Method (James Michael Hare)
• Working with DataTips in Visual Studio 2010 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Hardening Server Applications (Immo)
• Compound Assignment, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• MSBuild Extension Pack Update and MSBuild Explorer v2 Update (Mike Fourie)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# developers: callbacks (part III) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• PowerShell and HTML5 Prototype (Lee Holmes)
• XPath, CSS, DOM and Selenium; The Rosetta Stone (Michael Sorens)
• Tip #108 Did you know … How to improve reference efficiency in JavaScript files inside a web project? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Capturing Code First Fluent API ValidationResults to Display in MVC 3 (Julie Lerman)
• YUI Test waitFor function (Kris Gray)
• How to strip away the super powers of borders in IE (Kyle Baley)
• Displaying JSON in your Browser (Rick Strahl)
• A Recipe for a YUI 3 Application (Satyam)
• Windows PowerShell & ColdFusion Setup (Steve Good)
• Gargantuan SQL injection infects 3.8 million URLs, installs rogue antivirus (Sebastian Anthony)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Gee Scrum Method Owners! (Brad Appleton)
• Not Just Another Kanban Board (Michael)
• The Agile Doctor? (Peter Saddington)
• Writing with Agile Style (Rob Bazinet)
• Code Review: SharpArchitecture.MultiTenant (Oren Eini)
• Limiting Work in Process… Are There Any Other Options? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Panorama Tombstone Caveat (Rudi Grobler)
• Adding WP7 Toolkit Controls to the Visual Studio Toolbox (Windows Phone Geek)
• Changing CSS Using JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• New Docs for Windows Phone 7 Development (Cameron Skinner)
• LowProfileImageLoader with GIF support for WP7 (Andreas Hammar)
• Analytics and automatic app feedback: A slippery but interesting slope for Windows Phone apps (Jeff Wilcox)
• App Rating for Windows Phone 7 Source Code Released (Nokola)
• Using Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern in Windows Phone 7 projects (Per Ola Sæther)
• How Copy/Paste Works on WP7-Nodo (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #99: Valid Range (James Shore)
• Monads! European Virtual ALT.NET. Video is now available (Mike Hadlow)
• Cloud Plumbing: Jonas Stawski Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Rock! Events in SoCal (Cigdem Patlak)
• Attend One of Stack Overflow’s 250+ World-Wide MeetUps (Rebecca Chernoff)
• Are you going to MIX11? (Mike Ormond)
• Learn how a career at Microsoft can impact others (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Take the Rock, Paper, Azure Challenge and You Could Win a Free Kinect and Xbox 360! (Windows Azure Team)

SharePoint

• Deliverpoint 12.4.0.1 and 14.4.0.1 released (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Hotmail on the Taskbar (IE Team)
• Why I’d Never Charge For A Tech Book (Karl Seguin)
• Bing Maps Android SDK (Sunshine)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 03.19 ~ 03.31 (yuanjian)
• Monthly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 31st March 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 31th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #825 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 04/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2011 — #1069 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• Prism 4 Gems: Rendering Heterogeneous Collections with DataTemplateSelector (Brian Noyes)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 – Extensibility Labs and Fluent Validation 2.0 (CodePlex)
• A Look At Fluent APIs (Sacha Barber)
• TWC9: WebMatrix, MVC, Orchard, NuGet Gallery (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing SL#: C# to GLSL Translator (Zor)
• Uber Prof New Features: A better query plan (Oren Eini)
• Google Shortener API For .NET Written In C# (Deepak Kapoor)
• Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 1 (Shai Raiten)
• Tape: Dependency management for .NET (Paul Stovell)
• CLR Version issues with CorBindRuntimeEx (Rick Strahl)
• A tip for using InstallShield and TeamBuild 2010 while living in a x86/x64 world and Writing a MMC Plugin, with MVP and Unity (Greg Duncan)
• Bundle identifier on iOS with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)
• New book: Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Second Edition (Kim Spilker)
• DXCore Services – TextExpansions and IDE tools terminology/key concepts (Alex Skorkin)
• Help NHibernate to better understand what U want (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Customize the Debugging Windows : Change Debugging Window View as per your requirements (Abhijit Jana)
• Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ (Ade Miller)

Web Development

• Programmatically Changing Session State Behavior in ASP.NET 4.0 and How to pass external values with GridView HyperLinkField which are not part of your Gridview DataSource member ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Semantic HTML5 Page Layout (Modesty Zhang)
• A Comparison of Three jQuery Modal Dialogs for ASP.NET MVC (Rob Regan)
• Sueetie Version 3.0 Now Available (Dave Burke)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Debugging with node-inspector (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Google Releases the High Replication Datastore for App Engine (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Windows Identity Foundation + OATH = Win for Users (Don Burnett)
• The Facebook Windows Azure Cloud Toolkit (Don Burnett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Two Dimensions of Agile Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• [Updated] Top Agile Tools (Peter Saddington)
• On craftsmanship (Dan North)
• Are you Mocking Me? (Gregory Long)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Sterling Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Database Triggers and Auto-Identity (Jeremy Likness)
• MVVM Project Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Jonathan Cardy)
• Windows Push Notification Server Side Helper Library (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part 1 and Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part 2 (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 Unleashed Session I–Hands on Labs and WP7 Saving to Media Library (Daniel Egan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 101: Kelly Sommers on Mobile Development and User Interface design (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Windows Weekly 191: Angry Ballmer (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 3 – Storage Access (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone 7 Videos (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone Radio 13 is Live! (Brian Seitz)
• YUI Theater — Luke Smith: “YUI 3: Below the Surface” (48 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Let’s Play TDD #77: Buy Versus Build (James Shore)

Community / Events

• CES 2011: Using a browser to demonstrate the power of hardware (Scott Armstrong)
• CodeMash: Day 1: Mostly .NET (for me) (Bill Wagner)
• Silverlight LOB Firestarters NEXT WEEK (NYC 1/18 & NJ 1/19) (Stephen Forte)
• CSLA .NET training in Feb 2011 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Silverlight is hiring – Do you love data controls & LOB? (Steve Lasker)
• Do you want to be an ALM Consultant? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• One Million Developers, Designers on Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)
• 2011 SharePoint Solutions Roadshow–US (Wes Yanaga)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Every Which Way Outputs (15/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL Server Schema Comparison Tool in Visual Studio 2010 (Karthik Anbarasan)
• SQLAuthority News – Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• The PowerShell Survival Guide (Brought to you by the Microsoft TechNet wiki) (Greg Duncan)
• Driver user experience (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Pinworthy: Uncovering the best of Marketplace (Michael Stroh)
• How would you change Windows Phone 7? (Darren Murph)
• When does Windows Phone 7 get its grand opening? (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• This Week’s Link List (January 14, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Link Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools (Scott Hanselman)
• January 14th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• Week Retrospective 15 – Ty Pennington and the Agile Methodology Hater (Peter Saddington)
• Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2011 — #1027 and Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2011 — #1028 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code" (Best Practices) by Eric Brechner

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)

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iPhone and iPad in Action by Brandon Trebitowski

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Top Links

• A sneak peek at IE9 UI: What do you think? (Kip Kniskern)
• Fluent Validation with MEF and PRISM (Jeremy Likness)
• First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–III) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• TWC9: LightSwitch available, Windows Phone, OData, HTML 5 File API (Dan Fernandez)
• Script Junkie (Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Public Application Settings (Richard Carr)
• F# for puzzles (Morse code decoder) (Brian McNamara)
• How to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• The Profiler New Features: Starring & Renaming (Oren Eini)
• MSDN Keeps getting better (Cameron Skinner)
• Managing business object locks on application level (Gunnar Peipman)
• VS2010 Parallel Stacks – Debugging enhancement in VS2010 (Hima)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-In-One book is close to the finish (András Velvárt)
• Big Enhancements to our documentation: Now with a Version Selector! (Charles Sterling)
• Coding4Fun: Feeling the Earth Move (Arian T. Kulp)
• 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 Minutes (Wes Yanaga)
• Enumerable.Skip vs Seq.skip (Mauricio Scheffer)
• The Misnamed and Misunderstood Object Browser and The Object Browser: Browsing Scope and The Object Browser: Navigation and References (Zain Naboulsi)
• CSLA 4 version 4.0.1 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• Lazy(Of T) class in .Net Framework4.0 (Venu Gopal)
• ANTS Performance Profiler 6 (Ryan O’Neill)
• Microsoft won’t stop .Net on Android (Rodney Gedda)
• PSSCor2: GC Heap Analysis Commands and Demonstrating CLR Side-by-Side Execution (Sasha Goldshtein)
• MSBuild Extension Pack August 2010 Release (Mike Fourie)
• Know Your Debugger Part 2: Ok, I’m Broken. Now What? (Dane Morgridge)
• Must I release everything when using Windsor? (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Strong naming an assembly without having the actual source code (Marlon Grech)
• Windsor 2.0 and Log4Net (Jonathan McCracken)
• Behaviour – Lesson 7 (Simon Jackson)
• Microsoft Surface and Magical Object Interaction (Josh Blake)
• Introducing CountdownEvent (Dror Helper)
• What’s New for Office 2010 Developers white paper is live (Frank Rice)
• Debugging the Undebuggable (Gil Zilberfeld)
• NHibernate – prepare_sql and some considerations on mapping very long string fields (Giorgetti Alessandro)

Web Development

• File uploads and MVC Controllers (Jason Grundy)
• jQuery Plugin Checklist: Should You Use That jQuery Plug-In? (Jon Raasch)
• ASP.NET MVC HTML Helpers (Dane Morgridge)
• A quick primer on .NET web frameworks (Chad Myers)
• Great Twitter Accounts to keep up to date on jQuery news (Matthew David)
• Elegant MVC with Spark – The way views were meant to be (Robert Greyling)
• Enhancing the Store Locator ASP.NET MVC Application to Include Directions (Scott Mitchell)
• New DevNugget: Installing Microsoft WebMatrix (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Chakra: Interoperability Means More Than Just Standards (Allen Wirfs-Brock)
• More on SVG (Jennifer Yu)
• Extending the SiteMap (Rudi Grobler)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Buffering (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Empathy and web design (Janko Jovanovic)
• PHP: What is More Powerful Than list() (Stoimen Popov)
• NetBeans vs. Vim for PHP development (Giorgio Sironi)
• Get File Length over http before you download it (Peter Bromberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 4: Adopting XP (James Shore)
• First Experiences With RSpec/BDD (Davy Brion)
• I am an Exception Extremist (John Sonmez)
• We’re Not Paid To Write Code (Phil Haack)
• The Downside Of Providing An API Through Extension Methods and Compiler|Interpreter Warnings Are Important Learning Opportunities (Davy Brion)
• Day 26 – Solve Problems with Skill and Day 27 – Do Something Great and Day 28 – Find Your One Thing (J.D. Meier)
• Design Patterns by Metaphors – Part I (Creational Patterns) (Kiran Kumar G)
• The Case of the Unit Test and the Native DLL (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Why Hg branches are broken (or at least less useful) (Jimmy Bogard)
• Prototyping NUI on paper (Steve Clayton)
• The Open Source Project Spec: With Reference To Me (Jesse Liberty)
• Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources (Aquil Akhter)
• Programmer Tip: The Meaning Of Mentorship And How You Grow As A Person (Rajiv Popat)
• Introducing Yeti: The YUI Easy Testing Interface (Reid Burke)
• A Case for Feature Branches (Matt Stine)
• Multitouch on Windows book update (Josh Blake)
• posh-git Release v0.2 (Keith Dahlby)
• Coding: Mutating parameters (Mark Needham)
• Test Behavior, Not State (Jared Richardson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Deep Linking Into A SketchFlow Prototype (Christian Schormann)
• DroppyPop for WP7 Update (Andy Beaulieu)
• Think twice before putting another grid inside a WPF window (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WCF RIA Services Part 6 – Validating Data (Brian Noyes)
• WP7 Tip: tombstoning simplified (James Ashley)
• On Socks and Windows Phone 7 and Calling JavaScript Functions in Windows Phone 7 and XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – The Microphone (Mike Ormond)
• Eeny, meeny, miny, moe and TimeslotPanel (Rudi Grobler)
• Creating a Toast Like Notification Popup on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• My favorite feature of the WPF and Silverlight Tools update (Carole Snyder)
• Loading a static XML file to your Windows Phone/Silverlight App (Cheryl Simmons)
• My “Hello World” Windows Phone 7 Application (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Forms and WPF Interop: Sharing WPF Resources (Christian Nagel)
• Your phone can turn into a robot [LayoutTransformer works great on the Windows Phone platform] (David Anson)
• Saving State: Execution Model Best Practices for Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• i2W: An iPhone Developer’s First Windows Phone 7 Application (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF DataGrid Control – Performing Update and Delete Operations (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Flashing Text (using behavior/storyboard) in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 4 Application Template Themes by Microsoft (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7 and Compression using Accept-Encoding Header (Nick Randolph)
• Dual Targeting WPF and Silverlight (and Windows Phone 7) and 10 things Beginning Silverlight and WPF Developers Need to Know (Pete Brown)
• Windows Phone 7 security for developers (Steven Hodson)
• Introducing the concept of “Places” and Redirecting an initial navigation (Peter Torr)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ethan Winer, Very Old School (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Silverlight TV 42: Apply and Customize the New Silverlight Themes (John Papa)
• Steve Anonsen and John Rivard: Inside LightSwitch and Wes Dyer and Jeffrey Van Gogh: Rx Virtual Time (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 92: Dru Sellers and Rob Reynolds on Nu (Jon Galloway)
• geekSpeak Recording – WCF Extensibility with Scott Reed and MSDN Radio: Shazzam and Windows Phone 7 with Walt Ritscher and MSDN Radio: Game Building for Windows Phone 7 using XNA/Game Studio with Dan Waters (Emily Gibson)
• New Show on Channel 9: Web Camps TV (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Phone Design Days Presentations (Don Burnett)
• Web Camps TV #1 – ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and Razor Tips with Phil Haack and New: Windows Azure Storage Helper for WebMatrix (James Senior)
• Bytes by MSDN: Brandon Watson and Tim Huckaby discuss Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Rockford Lhotka and Tim Huckaby discuss Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Tim Huckaby and Mike Benkovich discuss Developing Apps for Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams and Billy Hollis discuss Silverlight 4 and Bytes by MSDN: Richard Campbell and Mike Benkovich and Bytes by MSDN: Bill Lodin and Mickey Williams discuss Windows Azure Resources and Bytes by MSDN: Brian Noyes and Rob Bagby discuss Service Bus and Windows Azure and Bytes by MSDN: Clemens Vasters and Rob Bagby discuss "Project Sydney" and Hybrid Apps (Bytes by MSDN)
• MSDEV Video Series Highlights Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) (Bruce Kyle)
• Video of Windows Phone 7 in action and a true image of the LG E900 surface (Phone Arena)
• Free Webcast: Get to SharePoint 2010 – Strategies for Effective Upgrades and Migrations (Joel Oleson)
• BPC10 Screencast: How to Best Gather Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Community Megaphone Show #16 with guest John Blumenauer (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• jQuery Podcast 32 – Dave Ward (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Cloud Cover Episode 23 – AppFabric Service Bus (Ryan Dunn)
• Countdown to PDC10: And the winner is . . . (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• The Programmer’s Body (Scott Hanselman)
• Ever thought of being a writer? (Ted Neward)
• The patterns & practices symposium Redmond 2010 (Grigori Melnik)
• 20 MVPs and 4 former MVPs at SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Keep the Fire(starters) Burning: Web Platform Edition! (Jim O’Neil)
• DreamSpark provides Free Windows Marketplace for Mobile (Chris Koenig)
• Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins) (Jeff Atwood)
• Imagine Cup 2011 to be hosted in New York City (Bob Familiar)
• Typemock Sponsors See# Party 2010 (#ssp2010) (Britt King)
• Interview with Ken Schwaber, Part1 (Dan Mezick)

Database

• Display DDL Triggers in your SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Adding Column is Expensive by Joining Table Outside View – Limitation of the Views Part 2 and SQL SERVER – Plan Cache – Retrieve and Remove – A Simple Script (Pinal Dave)
• Don’t index on dates (Simon Sabin)
• Database indexes are your friend (Jimmy Bogard)
• Generate Insert Query in SQL (Abhijit Desai)
• The Lazy DBA Series: Wizards! (Ted Krueger)
• Ten Things I Hate to See in T-SQL (Michael Swart)

SharePoint

• Tips and Tricks for setting up a SharePoint 2010 development environment (Greg Galipeau)
• SharePoint 2010 and SQL Hotfix Dependencies (Joel Oleson)
• I’m Done with SharePoint (William Vaughn)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server Update Rollup 1 Released (Nigel Wilks)
• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Update to Increase Video Performance and "Sort Sections" OneNote PowerToy Upgraded for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Windows Live Sync to be named Windows Live Mesh (Allison Omahony)
• Microsoft Offers New Certification Exam Discount (Brad M. McGehee)
• Become a Better Mindmapper: Chuck Frey Shows You How (Chance Brown)
• PowerShell, GAC, and build servers (Christopher Bennage)
• Docs.com Update adds tags support, search, sort and filter, and new Social Doc Templates (damaster)
• Auto-Wiring Ruby Events (Davy Brion)
• Page Tab Floatie (Jeff Cardon)
• Programmer Superstitions (Jesse Liberty)
• How to prepare questions for your interview (Angela McLaughlin)
• Installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS on Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 and Two Must-Have Tools for a More Readable Web (Scott Hanselman)
• Our Product Strategy: How Zoho Services Fit Together (Sridhar Vembu)
• Startup Business Checklist 2010 (Steve Smith)
• Microsoft’s FUSE Labs releases teamcrossword beta (Steve Clayton)
• Call phones from Gmail (The Gmail Team)
• My new Kindle 3 review–comparing against Kindle 2 (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 25, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 27, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #673 and The Morning Brew #674 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Aug-2010 and Tech Tweets for 26-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/27/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 65 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 25, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 26, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 27, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2010 – 2 — #933 and Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2010 — #934 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Archives 14th Aug 2010 – 28th Aug 2010 (Abhijit Jana)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET MVC 2 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jon Galloway

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Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Anders Hejlsberg blows our minds! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• And Now We Know……… (Wally McClure)
• JSON Hijacking in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Matt Hinze)
• Video: Expression Encoder 4 sneak peek (James Clarke)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Basic Language Specification 10.0 (MS Downloads)
• My Favorite New Features in Visual Studio 2010 (Scott Mitchell)
• F#: Putting the ‘Fun’ into ‘Functional’ (Rob Knies)
• Free VS2010 Training (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Subscriptions installs the trial version? (directions on Activating Visual Studio 2010 Trial) (Charles Sterling)
• Compact Framework: Global Hotkeys (Derick Bailey)
• Thumbnail toolbars in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Caveats about DeploymentCatalog (Glenn Block)
• Help ‘Generate from usage’ help you (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• CodeRush Xpress & CodeRush Ready for Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Miller)
• Track Changes in the Editor and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: How to use Reference Highlighting and Congratulations to Catto for winning today’s $100 ThinkGeek gift certificate! (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio Face-to-Face battle (Tamir Khason)
• C# Permutations (using Rx System.Interactive) (Edmondo Pentangelo)
• Implementing IObservable and extending Observable (Phil Trelford)
• Anonymous Types in C# Are a Crippled Hack (Derick Bailey)

Web Development

• RTM’d today: Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• Azure: Staging and Compute-Hour Metering (David Makogon)
• OData weekly roundup #2 (Alex James)
• Visual Studio 2010 MVC 2 Upgrade Wizard (Joe Cartano)
• Explaining the difference between OData & RDF by way of analogy (Jamie Thomson)
• Daily Dose – Will Google’s VP8 Video Codec Solve HTML5 Video Dilemma? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Google’s Page Speed and invalid HTML (Mads Kristensen)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Aggregation Part 1 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Building an RSS Feed in ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ceranski)
• Running today’s different markup (Marc Silbey)
• Checklist: Discussing an Azure Migration (Simon Ince)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Build processes as architectural health indicators (Simon Brown)
• Why support more? The story of MSTest… (Dror Helper)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Art of Agile Development – Only $9.99 Use code DDAAD (O’Reilly Media)
• Parallel programming Patterns & Practices in C++ (MS Downloads)
• Gallio and VS2010 (Andrew Stopford)
• April 14 Repo Blitz: Free unlimited SVN and GIT, and much more (Andy Singleton)
• Overview of Some Readings on Events (Dru Sellers)
• Doing your first mock with JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Measuring an Interesting Fact (Patrick Smacchia)
• Quick Thoughts on Eventual Consistency (Greg Young)
• CQRS – Validation and Business Rules (Rinat Abdullin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft Silverlight 4 set to be released April 15 (Brad Sams)
• Facebook Developer Toolkit and Windows Phone 7? Yep, with just dash of code hacking… (Greg Duncan)
• Tip: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” Error in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 (Michael Sync)
• Pivot from Microsoft for Silverlight (Mitch Ruebush)
• Uploading Windows Azure Blobs from Silverlight – Part 3: Handling Big Files by Using the Block APIs (Steve Marx)
• Poll, Don’t Wait for you Silverlight Applications, part II (Louis Salin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2010: Undercover Series (Part 1) (jarsenau13)
• Agile 2009 – Olav Massen – Real options (Bob Payne)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #170: Moles: Mocking the Un-Mockable (Derik Whittaker)
• TechDays 2010: XNAsteroids: How to develop the asteroids game in 30 minutes with the XNA framework and TechDays 2010: ORM with ADO.NET Entity Framework in .NET 4.0 (kreekman)
• TechDays 2010 : A day in the life of a Silverlight/WPF Integrator (Liese Jespers)
• Pete at MIX10: Cory Plotts on Snoop for WPF (Pete Brown)
• jQuery for the ASP.NET Developer by Scott Allen (Matthijs Hoekstra)

Community / Events

• First jQuery DC Meetup – What’s New in jQuery UI 1.8 – 4/28/10 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• NBDN Remote Course – Now $2000 Per Attendee (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip (Kevin Hazzard)
• Learn How to Design an Internet Business Solution with SharePoint 2010: Free 2-Day Training for SharePoint Partners (SharePoint Team)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 14 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – What is Spatial Database? – Developing with SQL Server Spatial and Deep Dive into Spatial Indexing (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tuesday #5: My First Cube (Kalen Delaney)
• A DBA myth a day: (13/30) you cannot run DMVs when in the 80 compat mode (T-SQL Tuesday #005) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Making Your SharePoint 2010 Customizations Visual Upgrade Aware (Jonathan Kern)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Office 2010 Menu to Ribbon Reference Workbooks" (Blake Handler)
• Communicator 2010 Attendee (Beta) (MS Downloads)
• NASA, the Spitzer Space Telescope and your Windows 7 desktop. Like chocolate chocolate chip cookies! (Greg Duncan)
• The iPad isn’t a computer, it’s a distribution channel (Jim Stogdill)
• Apple’s New iPhone SDK Licensing Changes are a Potential Win for Microsoft. (Peter Ritchie)
• Hear In Your Language in Office 2010 (Kate Kelly)
• Why Apple Fears Mono, Java, and Flash (Michael C. Neel)
• Interviewing with code (JP Hamilton)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #579 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• A Few Good Posts on WPF 4 (Ivo Manolov)
• New and Notable 412 (Sam Gentile)

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Pro Entity Framework 4.0

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Top Links

• Visual Studio 2010 RTM and the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP (Charlie Kindel)
• Visual Studio 2010 Released (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released (Scott Guthrie)
• WPF 4 Release: A guide to the new features (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Sync Framework and Microsoft InteropForms Toolkit 2.1 (MS Downloads)
• Comment and Uncomment Code and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Pasting a single selection into a box selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• “FAKE – F# Make” and NaturalSpec released (Steffen Forkmann)
• New Psscor2 commands – ClrStack showing source and line numbers (Tom)
• Upgrade tool and VSVMSDK Available now! (Cameron Skinner)
• Optional Parameters and Delegates (Deborah Kurata)
• What’s happening? Loosely coupled events (Phillip Trelford)
• Using Windows 7 libraries in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Announcing the release of Entity Framework 4 (EF Team)
• Build Customization using Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Visual Basic 2010 Samples Updated for RTM (Greg Duncan)
• psake v4.00 (James Kovacs)
• F#: The ‘defaultArg’ function (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• Top 10 Things Every Twitter Developer Should Know (Adam DuVander)
• Beware of Using Memory Storage With The ASP.NET Chart Control In Windows Azure With Multiple Instances of Your WebRole (Karsten Januszewski)
• ASP.NET 4 – Breaking Changes and Stuff to be Aware of (Scott Hanselman)
• HTML5 Geolocation with Fallback to Google Ajax API (Marc Grabanski)
• AspNetCompatibility in WCF Services – easy to trip up (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile isn’t always Agile (Buck Woody)
• We’ve Been Hard at Work…. Reinventing. (Daniel Waldschmidt)
• Coupling Is Your Friend (Derick Bailey)
• How to implement UI testing without shooting yourself in the foot (Gojko Adzic)
• Best Practices on the patterns & practices Team (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Ajax Endpoint (Brad Abrams)
• Uploading Windows Azure Blobs From Silverlight – Part 2: Enabling Cross-Domain Access to Blobs (Steve Marx)
• Your First Windows Phone 7 Application (Dave Campbell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Whirlwind 12: What’s new in C# 4 – More COM Love and Whirlwind 13: What’s new in C# 4 – Covariance & Contravariance and Whirlwind 14: What’s new in C# 4 – Events (Bruce Kyle)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 51: Exploring Workflow Foundation 4.0 with Matt Winkler (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Doug Seven: Code Understanding and Systems Design with Visual Studio 2010 and Paul Yuknewicz: Windows Development with Visual Studio 2010 and Sam Gazitt: SharePoint and Office Development with Visual Studio 2010 and Doug Seven: Improving Developer-Tester Collaboration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Dan Fernandez)
• geekSpeak Recording – Windows Azure AppFabric with Jon Flanders (Emily Gibson)
• Visual Studio 2010 Parody (John Papa)
• TechDays 2010: Building the next generation of applications using SQL Server 2008 R2 (kreekman)
• Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch (Larry Larsen)
• Microsoft announces Kin! The next Windows Phone (Formerly code named Pink): Full Demo (Laura Foy)
• TechDays 2010 : Introducing the Windows Phone 7 Series developer experience (Liese Jespers)
• Why Everyone Should Learn WF4 by Matt Milner and WCF Data Services Beyond the Basics by Gert Drapers and Lap Around .NET 4 with Scott Hanselman and Client Side Technologies in SharePoint 2010 by Jan Tielens and Silverlight 4 for Desktop Developers by Ingo Rammer (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• This Week in Silverlight 4.9.2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• Virginia User Group Tour (Alan Stevens)
• Events This Week – April 12th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Get Connected: Microsoft Connected Health Conference–May 19 & 20 (Bill Crounse)
• Make: Philly meeting is April 18th (Matt Mets)
• Surface at Interactive Displays 2010 Conference (Luis Cabrera)
• My First 6 months Working for The Man (Pete Brown)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 13 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (12/30) tempdb should always have one data file per processor core and Important things for DBAs to consider (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Configure Management Data Collection in Quick Steps – T-SQL Tuesday #005 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• PowerPack for VHD/VDI/VMDK Inventory (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Book Review: Crush It! (Joe Webb)
• Microsoft’s next of KIN isn’t iPhone (Joe Wilcox)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day – Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 – Only $9.99. Use code DDBBP (O’Reilly Media)
• Introducing KIN, the Next Generation of Social Phone (Dominic Carr)
• Adobe Launches Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended (PSN Editorial Staff)
• Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 packs in tons of new features (Tim Conneally)
• Add an App Store to Windows Media Center (Sarah Perez)
• Daily Dose – How iAds Help Google (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #578 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 12, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2010 — #837 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• SQLAuthority News – Three Posts on Reporting – T-SQL Tuesday #005 (Pinal Dave)
• Links (4/12/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: April 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)

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Professional C# 4.0 and .NET 4 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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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)