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Top Links

• Teaching Kids to Code – FREE classes in Jan 2010 (Vijaye)
• Scanning images in WPF via WIA (Pete Brown)
• TekPub’s Mastering LINQ Challenge (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• UML Profiles and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate: Part One (Cameron Skinner)
• Validate a Windows Username and Password against Active Directory (Tom Hearn)
• How to get out of the GAC all the registered assemblies (Daniel Cazzulino)

Web Development

• "Hello, World" in FubuMVC (Jeremy D. Miller)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 2 – YSlow (Karl Seguin)
• A Popup Insert control for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Open and publish a live website in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NHibernate, polymorphic associations and ghost objects (Oren Eini)
• Some preliminary thoughts on end-to-end testing in Growing Object-Oriented Software (Brian Marick)
• Avoiding The Typical Software Development World Stereotypes – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Promoting reuse using Behaviors: RotateRefreshBehavior (Bob Bartholomay)
• Fluent Silverlight – static reflection and Fluent Silverlight – Table of content (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How to Live to be 100: A Mindmap and Video (Chance Brown)
• Video ambient lighting effects (Coding4Fun)
• geekSpeak Recording – The Dynamic Language Runtime in .NET 4 and geekSpeak Recording – Windows Workflow Services and the .NET Framework 4 and geekSpeak Recording – Generics and Collections and geekSpeak Recording – Refactoring Tips and Tricks with Llewellyn Falco and geekSpeak Recording – Rich Internet Applications with Windows Azure (Emily Gibson)
• A Deeper Look at Speech NUI (Larry Larsen)
• This Week in Testing Episode 10 – Do Not Ship It, Part 2 (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

• Vote for the UberProf case study in Mix 2010 (Oren Eini)
• Boston Geek Dinner – January 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Things I’d Like To Present (Christopher Bennage)
• Codemash 2.0.1.0 – Speaking, MCing and Podcasting (Keith Elder)

Database

• How to Read the Results of SELECT @@VERSION in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Reporting Services Reading linebreak in textbox (Steve Simon)
• Turning off the ghost cleanup task for a performance gain (Paul S. Randal)
• SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 2 – Using the New SharePoint Lists (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Set your hotkeys in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• The ultimate ‘God Mode’ list: 39 secret Windows 7 shortcuts (Ed Bott)
• Creative Commons Data Dump Jan 10 (Jeff Atwood)
• Three post-CES goals for Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• January’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Windows 8 Server: The First Version of Server to Contain System Restore? (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft at CES: Finally, what to expect from Windows Mobile 7 and Windows Phone (Tim Conneally)
• Bing deconstructed! (Microsoft JobsBlog)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for January 08, 2010 — #772 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Jan-2009 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Ironpython in Action

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Updates Windows API Code Pack for Windows 7 for Developers (Blake Handler)
• Windows Azure – Using DataSet with cloud storage (Gunnar Peipman)
• Go to Definition Tip with the C# ‘var’ keyword (Jason Jarrett)
• An Overview of C# 4.0 (Kevin Jones)
• Running Visual Studio 2010 on Win 7 inside XP Mode (Jeffrey Palermo)
• One bug, two developers: Collaborative debugging is now a reality in Visual Studio 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• Migrating to Fluent NHibernate (Jimmy Bogard)
• .NET 4.0 – Start Reading Between the Lines – Learn Silverlight and Entity Framework (Keith Elder)
• Using OpenAccess and Telerik Reporting with SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

• Removing Unnecessary HTTP Headers in IIS and ASP.NET (Scott Mitchell)
• jQuery, Each() and Async Gets (Dave M. Bush)
• PHP Managed Extensibility Framework – PHPMEF (Maarten Balliauw)
• Extending jQuery and Writing Custom Logging for Your Application in JavaScript (Malcolm Sheridan)
• XslCompiledTransform and large template elements (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• MVC Turbine v2.0 RTM (Javier G. Lozano)
• Google Android ("Droid") and iPhone Web Development Compatability (Jim Wilson)
• Simple Tooltip for Huge Number of Elements (Karl Swedberg)
• Introducing Windows Azure Diagnostics (Windows Azure Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture is a platform for conversation (Simon Brown)
• The power of "no"… (Eric Gunnerson)
• Parallel Execution of Visual Studio 2010 Unit Tests (Doug Holland)
• How to be a great client (Seth Godin)
• Why SketchFlow Is not a Mockup Software (Simone Chiaretta)
• Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Is Software Craftsmanship too gender specific? (Mark Nijhof)
• Microsoft Steps Up Architecture Modeling and Relating Architecture Review Boards to Other Architecture Governance Bodies (Mike Walker)

Silverlight / WPF

• Animating Clipping Paths using Perspective (Alex Knight)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight – Part Two (Corrina Barber)
• Coding for Multi-Touch for Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• The Future of Client App Dev : WPF and Silverlight Convergence (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• My Take on Brad Abrams’ PDC RIA Services Talk. (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Create a Silverlight Europe weather map (Andrej Tozon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Weyer and Baier on WIF (Carl Franklin)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 012 – Pex automated testing at TechEd Europe and MSDN Flash Podcast 013 – Code Contracts at TechEd Europe and MSDN Flash Podcast 014 – Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services at TechEd Europe and MSDN Flash Podcast 015 – SQL Azure at TechEd Europe (Eric Nelson)
• Show Us Your Tech – Mark Pendergrast Edition (Larry Larsen)
• PDC09 GeekFest Party (Laura Foy)
• Polymorphic Podcast – 2009.12.01 nBuilder, Ugly Outfitters and VM Workshop (Craig Shoemaker)
• Visual Studio Extensibility Videos (Quan To)
• The Access Show: Managing Access Databases with SharePoint (Tina Wood)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 189: 2009 Holiday Geek Gift Guide with Richard Campbell and PDC09: ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninjas Still on Fire Black Belt Tips (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Join in December Webcast on Securing REST Services in Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Silverlight Team Twitter List (John Papa)
• Thank You Mass Transit Team (Kevin Miller)
• Upcoming VS Platform MSDN Webcasts (VS Blog)

Database

• Microsoft StreamInsight November Preview Refreshed (Bruce Kyle)
• SQL Azure Feature Voting (Gunther Lenz)
• After the Upgrade, it runs differently… (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Validate an XML document in TSQL using XSD by Jacob Sebastian (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• The User Code Execution Request was refused because the User Code Execution Host Service was too busy to handle the request. (Nick Swan)
• 5 Reasons Why Executive SharePoint Ignorance is Not Bliss (Part 2) (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Using Notepad++ For PowerShell Editing (Joel Bennett)
• William Stanek: We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast again (Part Deux, Step 2) (Devon Musgrave)
• Hard drive is officially the bottleneck on the development laptop (Jeffrey Palermo)
• She Sells PowerShell on The Sea Shore (James Howard)
• Over 600 Microsoft Press Titles Now Available on oreilly.com – New Ebook Initiatives Launched Today (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft MultiPoint Server 2010 (Zhiming Xue)
• December’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Windows Mobile 7: Silverlight Applications, IE Mobile 7, and More! (Stephen Chapman)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #489 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: December 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Other blogs on management and leadership (Roy Osherove)
• New and Notable 394 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Use Extension Methods to Phase Out a Bad API (Brian Noyes)
• .NET Services SDK (MS Downloads)
• Observing global hotkeys in C# / F# (Steffen Forkmann)
• Entity Framework Profiler (Oren Eini)
• What’s new in VB 2010 (Chris Williams)
• Multiple outputs from T4 made easy – revisited (Damien Guard)
• Creating something from nothing, asynchronously [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET improved!] (David Anson)
• Visual Studio 2010: UML modeling projects and Visual Studio 2010: Visualizing dependencies (Gunnar Peipman)
• ADO.Net Entity Framework Community Technology Preview Released! (EF Team)
• .NET Collection Enumeration Performance, part 1 (Matthew Wilson)
• New Entity Framework Feature CTP for VS2010 Beta 2 (Julie Lerman)
• Model First with the Entity Framework 4 (Noam Ben-Ami)
• It’s time to rip up EntityBag and throw it away (Dan Simmons)
• Classic Rock evolved into Heavy Metal (Rene Schulte) – Rock Scroll for VS on steroids.
• Automapper Auto Profile Registration. (Eric Hexter)
• On Your Mark… Get Set… Go! It’s Time to Get Ready for the Windows Azure Platform (Gunther Lenz)
• Visual Studio 2010 Power +25 with PowerCommands 10.0 (Greg Duncan)
• F# 1.9.7 Language Specification Now Available (Don Syme)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 1: Introduction and Freescale Board Setup and Testing (Pete Brown)
• New .NET Features from Telerik (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Improvements to VS 2010 Text Selection (Brittany Behrens)
• Accessing Windows Azure Blobs Using Custom Storage Domain Names and Introducing the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (Brad Calder)
• Visual Studio 2010 should be free….. (Stephen Forte)
• Using the New Windows Azure CDN with a Custom Domain (Steve Marx)
• It is only 8, how can it be legacy??? and CSLA .NET 3.8.0 released and available! (Rockford Lhotka)

Web Development

• Using CSS Selectors (Chris Love)
• Embedding Google Search Appliance Results in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Adding uberVU badge to your blog (Gunnar Peipman)
• A RouteHandler for IHttpHandlers (Phil Haack)
• Solving Confusing Browser Security Prompts with Protocol-Relative Hyperlinks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Localize ASP.NET MVC 2 DataAnnotations validation messages (Maarten Balliauw)
• Developing for the web using VS 2010 and .NET 4 (Somasegar)
• Google offers JavaScript programming tools (Stephen Shankland)
• Sort the Items of an ASP.NET DropDownList using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Note to self on HTTP namespace reservations (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Analysis Paralysis : Getting Carried Away With UML (Charles Chen)
• Design software as a long running process (Simon Brown)
• Re: "It’s OK not to unit test" or what you do on your time is your business. (Leon Gersing) – Link of the Day
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Dave M. Bush)
• Simple names are not so simple, Part Two, plus, volcanoes and fried foods (Eric Lippert)
• Now Available: patterns & practices Application Architecture Book (J.D. Meier)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Serialization (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Recursive Common Table Expressions (Kevin Jones)
• TestDriven.Net 2.24: XCopy Deployable Test Runners (Jamie Cansdale)
• It’s Okay To Write Unit Tests (Justin Etheredge)
• Outcomes and Sync Steps (Karl Scotland)
• Agile Architecture Deck & Code (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Consistency in the code base and TDD: Useful when new on a project (Mark Needham)
• Organizational Myopia? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Debugging: It’s all about finding Albuquerque. (Leon Bambrick)
• Excuse me sir, What Planet is this? (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Selective Unit Testing – Costs and Benefits (Steve Sanderson)
• The code is the truth, but it is not the whole truth (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight, RIA Services, and Your Business Objects (Deborah Kurata)
• Introduction to WPF 4 Multitouch (Jaime Rodriguez)
• The Silverlight Toolkit – now in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Jeff Wilcox)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 2: EventToCommand behavior (Laurent Bugnion)
• New WPF Features: Bindable Run and Xaml 2009 Features: Built in Types (Lester Lobo)
• Drawing Shapes – Silverlight WriteableBitmap Extensions III (Rene Schulte)
• SVG to XAML or Canvas (from SixPairs.com) and WPF4 Summary, Features, & Forums (Rob Relyea)
• WPF : Callout Popup (Sacha Barber)
• The XXI Olympic Winter Games on NBCOlympics.com: Brought to you in Full HD With Silverlight and Smooth Streaming (Silverlight Team)
• Grouping data in a Silverlight DataGrid (Tim Heuer)
• Creating Custom Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks – Dean Guo Takes Us Into Project Trident (Carl Franklin)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 6 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• Noah Coad: An Overview of Visual Studio Express 2010 (Dan Fernandez)
• 10-4 Episode 35: PreEmptive Solutions Runtime Intelligence (Drew Robbins)
• Microsoft MVPs Attend Windows 7 Launch Party in NYC! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Countdown to PDC09: Big Brains Descend Upon PDC and Teach Us How to Dream (Larry Larsen)
• TDD Space Invaders Video and Downloads and Webcast: Building Modern Apps in ASP.NET WebForms (Michael Kennedy)
• Recommended books part III (Roy Osherove)
• Toolshed: Episode 5 – Its All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Office Casual – How to Twitter in Outlook with TwInbox and Life at Microsoft: The truth revealed…again! (Tina Wood)
• Thirsty Developer 77: Sku’s a Changing with Visual Studio 2010 (Dave Bost)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Debugging Crash Dumps with Tess Ferrandez and VS2010 (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• "I am sure a lot of you are frustrated at your colleagues, not being here at this conference. Not…" (Sebastian Hermida)
• Announcing O’Reilly Answers – Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions. (Allen Noren)
• Conferences and the Twitter Phenomenon #SPCONN09 (Andrew Connell)
• Announcing Channel 9’s first live broadcast – This Week on C9 this Friday! (Dan Fernandez)
• Quick note: PDC attendees save 25% on certification exams (Devon Musgrave)
• DevExpress CodeRush with Refactor Pro Giveaway and Whiskerino 2009: A Beard Growing Contest (Elijah Manor)
• Day 1 of PASS (Joe Webb)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL PASS Summit, Seattle 2009 – Day 3 (Pinal Dave)
• The Underground at PDC (Tim Heuer)
• Upcoming US Events with Google Wave Presentations (Pamela Fox)

Database

• Don’t start your procedures with SP_ and Don’t prefix your table names with tbl (George Mastros)
• SQL 2008 – The Power of the MERGE Command (Michael Ceranski)
• Shocking news for SQL 2008 R2 (Simon Sabin)
• Test your Full Recovery model by restoring backups (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Upgrading a SharePoint 2007 Publishing Site Master Page to SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Changes in Rendering (Andrew Connell)
• Pre-register for SharePoint 2010 Beta (Vasudev)

Miscellaneous

• Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac Upgraded to Support Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Google Chrome Converts User Scripts into Extensions (Alex Chitu)
• PayPal Releases PayPal X and Launches $50,000 Developer Challenge (Andres Ferrate)
• LiveLabs Thumbtack back from the dead (Dave Campbell)
• It takes real balls to do it right (Derik Whittaker) – Well-deserved kudos to JetBrains.
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• How to Make Zune-Compatible Movies with Movie Maker and Re-Install All Your Apps with One Click (Sarah Perez)
• November’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Gmail: Choose which messages get downloaded for offline use (Maria Khomenko)
• New Enterprise PKI Management Console (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #470 and The Morning Brew #471 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2009 — #725 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Nov-2009 and Tech Tweets for 5-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #577 and Double Shot #578 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links (11/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• SharePoint 2010 Development Resources (Mike Walker)
• Arturo’s Top 20 Resources for Learning Silverlight/Blend (Mike Taulty)

Book of the Day

I want to send out a thank you to Scott Mitchell for including The Morning Dew in the Blogs of Note section of his Toolbox column. I was surprised to see my name when I opened the June 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine last night. The section highlighted two link blogs, this one and Chris Alcock’s The Morning Brew. Chris does a great job on his daily posts, including a nice summary of each link as well.

Thanks to all my readers/subscribers too!