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Top Links

• Microsoft Job Posting Confirms Xbox LIVE Windows Mobile Phones (Kat Hannaford) – Where’s my ZuneHD/WinMo/XboxLive device??? 
• Software Patents: Our Industry’s Nuclear Weapon (Davy Brion) – Davy’s argument against patents.
• Still waiting for a 64-bit Flash Player (Ed Bott) – Me too!
• Magellan Asynchronous Controllers (Paul Stovell) – Paul updates his WPF MVC framework to v1.1.
• 4th Web Client Guidance Drop Available on Codeplex and Proposed UX Design (Blaine Wastell) – p&p goodies… get ‘em while they’re hot.
• Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor) – Cool tip from Elijah.

.NET / Visual Studio

• More LINQ with System.Interactive – More combinators for your Swiss Army Knife (Bart de Smet)
• No more magic strings with VisualStateManager.GoToState (András Velvárt)
• Update on using MSDeploy for remote deployments. (Eric Hexter)
• Dealing with Nullable Types and IIf in VBNET (Kevin Jones)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Other attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

Web Development

• Gummy Bear 1.1 Is In The Can (Dave Burke)
• 4 JavaScript frameworks you may never have heard of (Michael Kimsal)
• Converting an RGB Color To Hex With JavaScript (Phil Haack)
• Using BindAttribute In ASP.NET MVC To Exclude Bindable Data (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Guidelines for consistent exception handling (Samir Bellouti)
• When mini benchmarks are important (Oren Eini)
• Recommended Book: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Davy Brion)
• Runtime Fault Injection using TestAPI (Lester Lobo)

Silverlight / WPF

• Getting the Absolute Position (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• WCF RIA Services DomainService life-cycle and adding Transactions (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight HVP Design – Configuration & Scenarios (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF : New Threading Component (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Jeffrey Van Gogh and Bart De Smet: Inside System.Interactive (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #156: Learning how to use Named Content Areas w/ Spark (Derik Whittaker)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: TWoC9 Day 3 (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Origins of a love affair (Damien Guard)
• Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

• Getting the ISO Week and Year (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• BCS Multiple Finder Methods for External Content Types (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Presenting Lessons I’ve Learned (Jay Fields)
• 10 Things to Do Before the New Year (Meryl Evans)
• Windows 7 Tip: Creating A Help Toolbar (Michael S. Scherotter)
• 50 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks (Steve Clayton)
• Stephen King’s On Writing… A Memoir Of The Craft (Mike Cottmeyer)
• DZone Daily Dose – 12/30 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 3 Microsoft Project 2010 Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Stormy weather? Who is monitoring the cloud? (Andy Singleton)
• Conversation Piece: Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
• How to pass arguments for remote commands and Bringing remote commands to your local session and Saving remote session to your local disk (Lukasz Anforowicz)

More Link Collections

• 2009′s Most Popular Articles (Scott Mitchell)
• The Morning Brew #507 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2009 — #766 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/29/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts (Simone Chiaretta)

The Geek Shelf

Windows 7 Inside Out

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Web Deployment Painkillers: VS 2010 & MS Deploy (Vishal Joshi)
• Search For This Line In IntelliTrace (Habib Heydarian)
• Dynamic objects and ReSharper (Hadi Hariri)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Primitives (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Some Love for VB.NET 10 Too (Kevin Jones)
• EF POCOs and GetObjectStateEntry (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• Emulate ASP.NET validation groups with jQuery validation (Dave Ward)
• New Endpoint Options Enable Additional Application Patterns (Mohit Srivastava)
• .nodeName Case Sensitivity (John Resig)
• Where does this go? Applying SoC to dynamic data – Part 2 (Peter Blum)
• T4MVC now has a real home and a dedicated forum! (David Ebbo)
• GraffitiCMS to be released as open source (Julian M. Bucknall)
• MSDN – Converting an existing ASP.NET application to Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• 2010: The Year of Microsoft on the Web? (Stephen Chapman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Now Available: Final PDF of the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, Second Edition (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• Using the exploration result object model: Basics (Wolfgang Grieskamp)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 10 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• The joy of MSpec (Mike Hadlow)
• Kanban Trail Markers (Karl Scotland)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Beta – Using Silverlight as Drop Target (Brian Lagunas)
• EdgeCam Shots – Saving Silverlight 4 Webcam Snapshots to JPEG (Rene Schulte)
• State, Element, and Storyboard Pickers (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Handling Network Outage in Silverlight with Caliburn (Rob Eisenberg)
• New WPF Features: MultiTouch (Lester Lobo)
• Refresh the cached EntitySet after a SubmitChanges – WCF RIA Services (Fredrik Normén)
• What’s New in Silverlight 4 – Download and Run! (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks – Bowen and Cummings on XNA (Carl Franklin)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #75 (Jeff Atwood)
• The Visual Studio Documentary – Alan Cooper, the Father of Visual Basic (Tina Wood)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Guided Tour inside the Windows Azure Cloud with Patrick Yantz (Scott Hanselman)
• Our Picks for Must See PDC Videos (Bruce Kyle)

Community / Events

• Central Jersey .NET Agile Firestarter – Saturday December 12, 2009 (Stephen Forte)
• PDC 2009 review (Steve Clayton)
• New Event Series! Meet the… (Alex Hillman)
• Albacore: Come join the discussion! (Derick Bailey)

Database

• SQL Server Single Character Functions (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column (Pinal Dave)
• How to Get Table Sizes in SQL Server (Keith Elder)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 (Gert Drapers)
• The Observer Effect In Action (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

• 5 Reasons Why Executive SharePoint Ignorance is Not Bliss (Part 1) (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s TechNet Releases "Explore as Administrator" PowerToy for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Windows 7’s solution to beta software (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Land the Tech Job You Love (Matt Stine)
• How Big is Your Processor Cache? Find out with Coreinfo (Ade Miller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #484 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 — #742 and Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 – 2 — #743 – updated (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 24, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 24-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)

Book of the Day

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