• Did you just take a dump on standard versioning practices? (Hadi Hariri)
• Message Handlers vs Operation Handlers which one to use? (Glenn Block)
• Eduasync part 5: making Task awaitable (Jon Skeet)
• Using Google Prediction API in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing LINQ to HPC (MS Downloads)
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Of Lambdas and LINQ (James Michael Hare)
• TFS API Part 37 – Create Builds and TFS API Index Parts 1 To 37 (Shai Raiten)
• Sequential GUID are Unique (Gian Maria Ricci)
• JSON and .NET Nirvana Hath Arrived (Karsten Januszewski)
• Memory Corruption, GC, and Overlapping Objects (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• F# and HTML5: WebSharper Professional 2.2 Released (Don Syme)
• Understanding the Publish/Subscribe Pattern for Greater JavaScript Scalability (Addy Osmani)
• Filter and display data with ASP.NET Web Forms (Part 1) and Filter and display data with ASP.NET Web Pages, Web Forms, and MVC (Christian Nagel)
• How to Deploy a Hadoop Cluster on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• Quick Tip – Including Empty Directory While Deploying a Web Application (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Code Templates – NUnit testing (Alex Skorkin)
• Great Expectations of Success and Visualizing Roadmaps for Execution Excellence (JD Meier)
• Estimation in consulting (Jimmy Bogard)
• Book Review: Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking (Patrick Kua)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Dependency Lookup (Giorgio Sironi)
• Diffing Files to Avoid Easy Goofs (Sharon Cichelli)
• Its all about communication, not processes….! (Derik Whittaker)
• Development Practice: Design Ideas Board (Michael)
• How and why I changed my coworker’s code (Zubair Ahmed)
• Cloud Computing and the Code-Based Infrastructure (Buck Woody)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Advanced Buy Now Implementation (Windows Phone Geek)
• Expression Blend: Introduction to the Layout System (Alex)
• How to trick Windows Phone OS Part II – Adobe Reader’s turn and a general conclusion (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone Stopwatch 4.4 RTM and Using the Windows Phone 7 Advertising SDK (Doug Holland)
• TouchStudio – Plotting Math Functions (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Using ICustomTypeProvider in Silverlight 5 to Display JSON Data (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight 5 Beta–Combining Implicit Data Templates & Multiple Windows (Mike Taulty)
• Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight 5 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Xpert360 PivotViewer Blog Article Index and PivotViewer Shorts Part 3: Hide Collection path (xpert360)
• Reactive Extensions–FromAsync (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Use Reflection to Access Private Members in .NET Compact Framework Types? and How Do I: Create And Use an Azure Service Bus Message Buffer? (MS Podcasts)
• Silverlight Show Webinar: ‘Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 Beta’ (Michael Crump)
• Let’s Play TDD #106: Back from the Dead (James Shore)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 55 – Erlang with OJ Reeves (Richard Banks)
• Hot Apps: Glider; Adventure Worlds, Wordrix, Rowi, Training Buddy, Text Text Revolution (Laura Foy)
• Using Taxonomies in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)

Community / Events

• CMAP GiveCamp (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Are you interested in speaking at usergroups or conferences, how about some free training (Simon Sabin)
• Join the SQL Server Developer Tools Advisory Program! (Tiffena Kou)
• MVPs Chat It Up on Twitter (Lonnie Webb)
• Win .NET EBooks, Training and Products in our GiveAway – 5 days left! (.NET Curry)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU14 and SQL Server 2008 SP2 CU4 Released (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant v5.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR – Service Logon Failure (ObjectExplorer) (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 16 – Working with Files and Folders (Ted Krueger)
• On Transactions, errors and rollbacks (GilaMonster)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Lifecycle Management Solution with Project Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 1 of 5 (Vivek Soni)
• The LDS Church and the Strong Embrace of Social Media (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 Moorea app reveals a sliver of its tablet-friendly interface (Phone Arena)
• Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets (Alex Chitu)
• SmartScreen® Application Reputation in IE9 (Jeb Haber)
• Chrome OS is only a failure to people living in the past (Joe Wilcox)
• VMware Horizon App Manager – A Quick Analysis (Krishnan Subramanian)
• More good times for app developers? (Mike Hole)
• Microsoft’s Bill Gates gave big thumbs up on the Skype deal (Steven Hodson)
• VMware unveils Web app management service for Google apps, Salesforce, more (Tim Conneally)
• What do we do now? "It’s over man, Wormer dropped the big one" – #MonoTouch and #MonoDroid (Wally McClure)
• Are you REALLY leveraging your MSDN benefits? If not, let me help you! (Angela Binkowski)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – May 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 194 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #854 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 17, 2011 — #1090 and Silverlight Cream for May 17, 2011 – 2 — #1091 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 17th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook by Jason Dentler

Top Links

• Have You Been to MSDN Lately? (Joey deVilla)
• A quick and easy extension to HyperlinkButton for Windows Phone 7 (Jeff Wilcox)
• Color Printing Extension Now Available! (Brittany Behrens)
• Basics on how to setup an App Fabric Cache server and API usage (Jaime Alva Bravo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Add-in for testing regular expressions (Andreas Andersen)
• HowTo: AssemblyInfos – Keep it DRY! (Code Inside Team)
• Using ConvertAll to Convert a Set of Values (Deborah Kurata)
• Regions are like knives (Daniel Fisher)
• BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010: SQL Adapter Samples (MS Downloads)
• Windows Azure – new portal, new services, new tools (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Exceptions Dialog (Zain Naboulsi)
• Why the Windows Azure Nov 2010 SDK Rocks!! (David Lemphers)
• Introduction to Parallelism in .NET 4.0 (Jonathan Cardy)
• How to have NHibernate use a SQL MERGE INTO statement (Merrick Chaffer)
• Windows Azure: Shiny and New (Jim O’Neil)
• CryptoLicensing Tips and Tricks To Eliminate Piracy And Cracking Of Your Software (G. Himangi)

Web Development

• Use jQuery and ASP.NET to Build a News Ticker (Scott Mitchell)
• Protip: Viewing large XML files (Jimmy Bogard)
• Building a One-Level CPU Cache Simulator with C (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Upgrading Subtext 2.5 and Publishing with VS 2010 (Dave Schinkel)
• jQuery Date Plugin (Marc Grabanski)
• Review: jQuery in Action (Ryan Lanciaux)
• HTML5 aside: Defining relations (Niels Matthijs)
• Draft: ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor Syntax (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Introduction to jQuery Templates (Stephen Walther)
• Bing Maps Ajax 7: Adding InfoBox Support via Extension to Microsoft.Maps and Bing Maps Ajax 7: Simple Pushpin Animation via Extension to Microsoft.Maps (Chris Pietschmann)
• The Decline of Internet Explorer 6 and the Rise of Internet Explorer 9 (Roger Capriotti)
• Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers (Eric Lawrence)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t Make Me Choose To Follow The Standards (Derick Bailey)
• There’s no place like production (Eric Brechner)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Assertion Method (piccoloprincipe)
• [Agile Guide] – UX and Agile Development (ScoutMaster)
• Leadership Books A-Z (J.D. Meier)
• Taking a Second Look at Collective Code Ownership (Jay Fields)
• Basic to Basics: Understanding IoC Part 2 (Creation) (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft reiterates copy and paste is Windows Phone 7′s first update, ‘additional updates delivered in the future’ (Chris Ziegler)
• Coding4Fun: Currency Converter for Windows Phone 7 (Pedro Lamas)
• SystemColors Reference (Patrick Finnigan)
• Blend Bits 19–Transformations (Mike Taulty)
• Opening Lightboxes without Thumbnails (Anthony)
• Tip of the day: Processing touch input on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Controlling a R2D2 (Lego MindStorms NXT) robot with Windows Phone 7 (Dimitris-Ilias Gkanatsios)
• The right choice for the main window of your WPF project (Jeremy Alles)
• WPF Grand Prix (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Windows Phone 7 Motion Design Videos and Fixing the ListPicker / ScrollViewer Problem in Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
• ChevronWP7, the Windows Phone 7 unlocking tool, has been axed (Sebastian Anthony)
• My first WP7 application released: Omoplata is live (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #58: Violating Encapsulation (James Shore)
• YUI Theater — Mirek Grymuza and Josh Gordineer: “YQL: An Introduction” (45 min.) and YUI Theater — Ryan Dahl: “Node.js Roadmap” (48 min.) (Eric Miraglia)

Community / Events

• PASS 2010 Summit Review (Thomas LaRock)
• INETA Community Speakers Stats for November (Chris Williams)
• Plan Your Cloudstock Hackathon App, Registration Opening Soon (Adam DuVander)
• Microsoft Research Asia’s Philosopher of Online Search: Ji-Rong Wen (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• My own iOS and OSX centric blog (Miguel de Icaza)

Database

• Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server (MS Downloads)
• Debugging SSIS Variables—and a Happy Announcement from the Datachix. (Juliie Smith)
• When Were The Statistics In SQL Server Last Updated? (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – 3 Simple Puzzles – Need Your Suggestions (Pinal Dave)
• A first look at the new RavenDB UI (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server Denali – Serverless SQL Server (Simon Sabin)
• Mirroring and Transactional Replication setup – Auto Failover (Ted Krueger)
• The Really Cool NTILE() Window Function (Ken Downs)
• SQL Indexing and Performance Part 2: Clustered and Non-Clustered (Lefteris Karafilis)
• Querying Hive with Toad for Cloud Databases (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• need to retire an account – not sure what permissions people have? (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• The Top-Five Most Valuable Development Team Positions (Buck Woody)
• Timeline of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation (Cory Doctorow)
• How Microsoft can clean up the mess in its home and small business server business (Ed Bott)
• A start in understanding the MS-PST Node Database Layer, your first step toward PST binary enlightenment… (Greg Duncan)
• Reviewing "Hello, Android" (Jo Giles)

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2010 11.23 ~ 11.30 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #741 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/01/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Silverlight 4 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jason Beres

This hopefully goes without saying (Yes, I am saying it), but these licenses are not for resale. They have unique, traceable keys. Please enter the contests only if you really need the software and plan to give back to the community in some way as a result of winning.

Here are some things not included in these licenses, which would be available with a paid MSDN Ultimate subscription: MSDN Magazine, support calls, Office 2010 licenses.

Update: Office 2010 licenses are included for development and test purposes only.

Contest number one is simple. Send me an email at alashcraft [at] gmail [dot] com and explain (honestly) why you need the subscription and what you plan to do with the tools. Keep in mind that this is all about community. I will choose the winner based on need and community influence. I must receive your entry by Friday, July 9 at 8:00am EDT (UTC – 4) and will announce the winner at 12pm that same day.

For the second contest, I want to make things a little more challenging. Email me a .NET-related technical article to be published on alvinashcraft.com as a guest post. The content must be original, written by the submitter, and not available on any other web sites or blogs. Please include a short bio for yourself as well. All must should be emailed to alashcraft [at] gmail [dot] com, and they must be received no later than Friday, July 16 at 8:00am EDT (UTC – 4). I will select the winner that weekend and announce the winner on Monday, July 19th. If I receive an overwhelming number of great articles, I may dig up some smaller prizes for 2nd and 3rd place (probably books). The winning post will be published the week of the 19th.

I will do my best to scan my spam folder for entries, but please try not to mention Viagra, cheap meds, free Photoshop software or foreign bank accounts in your emails to me.

Any attempts to shamelessly promote my blog or Twitter account will have no effect on the outcome of the contests but are welcome nonetheless. 

If you have any questions, leave a comment, email me, or send me a reply on Twitter.

Top Links

• Stack Overflow Releases API Into Public Beta (Vineel Shah)
• PowerShell Integration Into Visual Studio (Jeffrey Snover)
• FXCop 10 was Shipped with Windows 7.1 SDK (Jonathan Allen)
• Application extensibility model – working with MEF and Importing multiple extension assemblies in C# with MEF (Dennis Delimarsky)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Generic Type Generator (Alexander Van Berg)
• Now our Visual Studio is cooking with Power! The PowerGUI Visual Studio PowerShell extension that is… (Greg Duncan)
• Write Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Kate Gregory)
• Use Preprocessor Directives for better debugging (Tim Hibbard)
• Great Uses of Using Statement in C# (Steve Smith)
• Document Well 2010 Plus: Hidden Options (Radames Cruz Moreno)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part III: Adding a Metadata Class (Stephen Forte)
• Showing Hidden Tool Windows with the Auto Hide Channel (Zain Naboulsi)
• Update to "Creating Custom FieldData Classes in CSLA" (Jason Bock)
• Use Dovetail SDK in .Net (Sam Tyson)

Web Development

• Multi-Select List Box in ASP.NET MVC (Gary Pretty)
• Interested in web services interoperability with WCF? (Matt Milner)
• Internet Explorer Developer Tools: HTML (Pete LePage)
• Of .prototype and function() (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Story Sizing, Elephants and Mice (John Sonmez)
• Aspects of Kanban in Methods and Tools (Karl Scotland)
• Lokad.CQRS – Intro into App Engine Architecture, Multiple Message Subscribers (Rinat Abdullin)
• BDD-Style QUnit Testing ASP.NET MVC’s jQuery Validation (Elijah Manor)
• indentation of trailing lines of code (Anthony Steele)
• Widen People’s Job Titles (Jurgen Appelo)
• Coding: Controlled Technical Debt (Mark Needham)
• Top 10 Design Mistakes: #9 (Pete LePage)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 multitouch behavior: beta testers needed (#wp7dev)! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Readying myself for Windows Phone 7 "Hello, Operator?" (Mike Ormond)
• Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite (Rudi Grobler)
• I want more shell applications, especially for mobile (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pluralcast 18 : BDD in .NET with StoryQ (David Starr)
• This Week in Silverlight – Windows Phone 7 and Bus Tracking (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 17 – Silverlight with Miguel Madero (Richard Banks)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 11 (Richard Hay)
• Radio TFS 29: Getting the Band Back Together (Martin Woodward)
• Windows Weekly 161: Paul’s Perihelion (Paul Thurrott)
• Technology & Friends Episode 95: Jay Wren on Mono (David Giard)
• ARCast.TV – UI of the New Era, Designing for Multiple Devices (Denny Boynton)

Community / Events

• New England GiveCamp: "Awesome, simply awesome" (Jim O’Neil)
• Tech●Ed 2010 Shows the Value of Microsoft MVPs (Toby Richards)

Database

• SQL SERVER – TRANSACTION, DML and Schema Locks (Pinal Dave)
• GROUP_CONCAT in SQL Server (Alex Bolenok)

SharePoint

• A short, sweet and concise four step guide for installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 (x64) (Greg Duncan)
• SharePoint Vulnerability and Hotfix Recommendations (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Save Even More Money with a TechNet Standard Subscription (Paul Thurrott)
• I Smell Smoke (Rob Conery)
• Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition? (Jeff Atwood)
• Dealing with Dates & Time Zones in Objective-C (Ben Scheirman)
• Setting the Arrow on Lines in Adobe PhotoShop or Elements (Dave Schinkel)
• Getting Started with iPhone and iOS Development (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Specifying a View in TechNet and MSDN URIs (June Blender)
• Programmer Tip: The Virtues Of A Little Bit Of ‘Boredom Time’ In Your Life. (Rajiv Popat)
• Teaching programming to kids (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 6/21/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Links #110 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #625 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 150 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Post… 6/14/2010 through 6/20/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis

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.NET / Visual Studio

• An RSS Dashboard in F#, part one (Brian McNamara)
• New Article on Detecting Memory Leaks . NET Applications and CSharp “How Do I Videos (Podcasts)” for the Zune Software (Charlie Calvert)
• Questionnaire DSL with Microsoft "Oslo" (Chris Sells)
• Awesome F# – Decision Trees – Part II (Chris Smith)
• IronRuby 0.9.2 (Jim Deville)
• When NHibernate Won’t Do What You Think It Should (Jak Charlton)
• Touch and Gestures (Jason Ipock) – Link of the Day
• T4 Template Goodness (Sacha Barber)
• Result of my survey on the usage of ORM Frameworks in .NET (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• I Love FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies! (Peter Kellner)
• Concurrent Visualization Techniques in the VS2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)
• Prioritizing CSLA .NET work items (Rockford Lhotka)
• Encrypting and Decrypting Data Using X.509 Certificates (Joel Ross)
• Simple names are not so simple (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• November 2009 JavaScript Magazine is now available! (Michael Kimsal)
• Walking through a new Web Application in Visual Studio 2010 (.NET 4.0) (Jef Claes)
• Ambiguous References in DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas – Part 2 (Eric Hexter)
• Using ASP.NET and Jcrop to crop images online (Gunnar Peipman)
• MvcMaps Preview 1 – A Unified Bing/Google Maps API for ASP.NET MVC (Chris Pietschmann)
• Implementing KeyBoard Shortcuts on an ASP.NET Hyperlink Control using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Access a Control by ID From Within a Databound Control (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The bouncer pattern (Sebastian Hermida)
• Form – Storm – Norm – Perform (Jason Grundy)
• The 7 signs your UI was created by a programmer (Ian Voyce)
• Book Review: “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know” (Will Kelly)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 7 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: a nice basket of low-hanging fruit (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Emergence in Development Teams (Jurgen Appelo)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Let’s use it. (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 8 (Michael Feathers) (Mark H. Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Building a Zune Website with Expression Blend 3 StarterKit (MS Downloads)
• Customers using Prism and Prism release for Silverlight 3.0 (Blaine Wastell)
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and SL 3.0 (Bob Brumfield)
• As the platform evolves, so do the workarounds [Better SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better-er!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight From Zero (Jesse Liberty)
• New WPF Feature: Binding to Dynamic Objects (Lester Lobo)
• LINQ shortcut when using Silverlight and ADO .NET Data Services (Stephen Forte)
• Frame Rates (Kirupa Chinnathambiis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Vittorio Bertocci authenticates us with WIF (Carl Franklin)
• Channel 9 Learning Centers Offer Developers Free Training (Bruce Kyle)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 008 – Gary Short on using XAF to build WebForm and WinForm apps (Eric Nelson)
• First Look: Microsoft “Health Tech Today” (Bill Crounse, MD)
• Ping 36: Zune, Seth MacFarlane, voice recognition, Impatient Optimists (Laura Foy)
• Talking Architects – Neil Ward-Dutton (Matt Deacon)
• endpoint.tv – High Performance WCF .NET Stock Trader with Greg Leake (Ron Jacobs)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #150: Adding IoC Support to your WCF Services (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Stack Overflow Careers: Amplifying Your Awesome (Jeff Atwood)
• More Twitter List goodies: official list widgets! (Jay Hathaway)
• Events This Week – November 2nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A week of Monospace and Innotech (Gary Sherman)
• November Conferences (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft December Developer Dinner for Partners – Parallel Computing for Managed Developers (Joel Reyes)
• CodeMash 2010 Registration Open! (Jim Holmes)

Database

• How to get the most out of 96 cores (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation / Resources (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour (Kolby Hoover)

Miscellaneous

• The Complete Guide to Google Wave Is a Comprehensive Book on Wave (Adam Pash)
• Clicky is Google Analytics all grown up (Jason Clarke)
• WaveSandbox.com: Federate This (Pamela Fox)
• UI Extensibility in Office 2010 (Mirko Mandic)
• Windows 7 SP1 details begin to surface (Steven Bink)
• Google opens up Wave federation (Tom Krazit)
• 10 Things I am Loving About Windows 7 (Chris Lentz)
• Microsoft, what is the meaning of this? (Rob Eisenberg) – A curious email from MS about Azure.
• Lightweight (Kimberly Wolk) – A new look for MSDN.
• HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists (Josh Catone)
• PowerPack Challenge: The Winning Strategy (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Download ten free Windows 7 chapters (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #468 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: November 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/2/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 02, 2009 — #722 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #96 (David Vidmar)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/02/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Double Shot #575 and Double Shot #574 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 387 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• The HornGet Project: Bringing "apt-get install" to .NET Projects (Billy McCafferty)
• Transitioning from VSTS2008 to Visual Studio 2010 and Where has “Team System” gone? (Anthony Borton)
• Visual Studio: Clipboard Ring (Deborah Kurata)
• VS2010 Beta 2 Feedback Survey (Jason Zander)
• ReSharper 5.0 – Now with VS 2010 Beta 2 (JP Hamilton)
• Designer Support for One-Way navigations in Entity Framework 4 (Julie Lerman)
• Starting to Use the Windows 7 Touch API in .NET (Jason Ipock)
• Performance (Cameron Skinner)
• Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 2 (Chris Patterson)
• The Weekly Source Code 46 – Jeff Key rocks Taskbar Meters that Monitor your Windows 7 CPU and Memory and Disk in the Taskbar (Scott Hanselman)
• The Best Way to Hide a Column in a DataGrid (Srinath MS)
• How to Fix “The application cannot start” Error (Weston Hutchins)
• Compiling Mapping using Fluent NHibernate (Michael Nichols)
• Instructions for collecting dumps in VS2010 (Daniel Moth)

Web Development

• Integration between Zoho & External Apps – Part II (Raju Vegesna)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (5 in a series) – What the Frig Is a View Model? (Sara J. Chipps)
• HTML5, a 3 minute guide (Leon Bambrick)
• Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project (Nichole Baker)
• eBook 51 Tips, Tricks and Recipes with jQuery and ASP.NET Controls (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Software, Sewing, and the Craftsman (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• Unit Testing: Testing Properties and Unit Testing: Exposing Internal/Friend Members and Unit Testing: Exposing Private Members (Deborah Kurata)
• Why We Delegate: The Darkness Principle (Jurgen Appelo)
• Agile practices do not address technical complexity (Scott Koon)
• DDDD: Why I Love CQRS (Jonathan Oliver)
• Software Architecture for Developers (Simon Brown)
• Low-Technology (Dave Laribee)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part V: Thank Them For Their Feedback (Patrick Kua)
• It’s all about the delivery (Hadi Hariri)
• Coding: Consistency when invariant checking (Mark H. Needham)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XV: Patterns and Antipatterns (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Silverlight / WPF

• Real-time list filtering with Silverlight, MVVM, and PagedCollectionView (Avi Pilosof)
• Countdown to Visual Studio 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• wpf text blurry blues? (Coding4Fun)
• NEW series on Patterns-Based Development with Silverlight (Murray Gordon)
• Drawing Lines – Silverlight WriteableBitmap Extensions II (Rene Schulte)
• Showing Progress in the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4 (and a short romp through Windows 7 cleartype settings) (Pete Brown)
• New WPF features: Key\Gesture Binding (Lester Lobo)
• Essential Silverlight 3 (Dave M. Bush)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Chris Sells in on DataDude (Carl Franklin)
• Code Cast 33 – Jimmy Bogard on AutoMapper (Chris Brandsma)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 007 – Mike Ormond discusses ASP.NET 4.0 and MSDN Flash Podcast 010 – Paul Jackson on Memory Mapped Files in .NET 4, Oslo and more (Eric Nelson)
• Connected Show Podcast: User Experience: It ain’t Lipstick baby (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 5 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• New WPF Video: How Do I: Use CollectionViews to Sort and Filter Data (Todd Miranda)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #72 (Jeff Atwood)
• Bug Killer – A Channel 9 Halloween special (Laura Foy)
• Vacation of Fluent NHibernate: Tuesday Conventions (Bobby Johnson)
• Creating a Web Part for SharePoint by Using a Designer (Kathleen McGrath)
• Recommended Books – part 1 (Roy Osherove)
• New Official jQuery Podcast Announced (Elijah Manor)
• How to Effectively Utilize Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 – A Free, Live Webcast – Nov 3rd @ 10am PT (Dux Raymond Sy)
• BlockingCollection Demonstration in Producer-Consumer Scenarios (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Mark Your Calendars: Dec 5, 2009 – SharePoint Saturday DC is Back! (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SOA Manifesto (Rockford Lhotka)
• Where to engage with questions about WPF4 Beta2 (Rob Relyea)
• PDC 2009 – What’s Happening at the Patterns Workshop (Ade Miller)
• Windows Azure Platform Launch Update (Windows Azure Team)
• Windows Azure at PDC 2009 (Steve Marx)

Database

• You see that database? OFF WITH HIS HEAD! (Oren Eini)
• Another T-SQL Challenge (Dave Ballantyne)
• Manipulating Blob Data in MSSQL with C# (Michael Ceranski)
• Eschewing Date Types in our Database (Karl Seguin)
• Connecting to SQL Azure with Telerik OpenAccess (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• Configuring ASP.NET (And SharePoint) to use SQL-based Sessions (Tom Hearn)
• October 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Jie Li)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Your Groove Off (Howard Dierking)
• Computer Forensics in a Windows 7 (and Vista) world and Seen all the PowerShell goodness in Win7? Want to use the same tool Microsoft did to create much of it? Here you go! “PowerShell Cmdlet and Help Designer” (free and source available BTW) (Greg Duncan)
• Enough, Microsoft. No One Is Endorsing Piracy. Obviously. (Paul Thurrott)
• Are You Classic or Lightweight? The MSDN Redesign (Wolf Schmidt)
• Building an iPhone Application (Eran Kampf)
• Connectify creates and shares Virtual WiFi Hotspots with Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #466 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 29, 2009 — #720 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 386 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 29th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – OCT ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Finds: October 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (10/29/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• 14 Silverlight Articles You Must Read on DotNetCurry (Minal Agarwal)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• A Developer’s Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit (Aaron Skonnard)
• .NET University is Live (Charlie Calvert)
• Splitting Text into Words and Randomly Pick Items From a List and Passing Data Between Forms: Constructor and Write a Memorization Helper Application (Deborah Kurata)
• Why do ref and out parameters not allow type variation? (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Communication With a Background Thread in ASP.NET (Chris Love)
• Google Wave Extension Updates (Dan Peterson)
• DotNetNuke – Retrieving Host Access (Dave M. Bush)
• Developing Guidelines For Cloud Usage, Lessons From Social Media Gaffes (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Simple API for Cloud Application Services (Maarten Balliauw)
• Scale in the browser (Mads Kristensen)
• Expression SuperPreview – No VPCs required !!! (Joe Stagner)
• Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Using JqGrid with ASP.NET MVC (Michael Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pulled in Too Many Directions? Get Focused (Amber Riviere)
• Wa: The key to clear, harmonious design (Garr Reynolds)
• Make It Easy To Refactor (Jak Charlton)
• Concurrency Programming is Like Thinking in 5 Dimensions (Rinat Abdullin)
• 10 Reasons You Might Be Writing Coyote Code and Make BDD Your BFF (Rob Conery)
• Be More Efficient And Don’t Read This (Max Pool)
• Leading from the Front (Jim Holmes)
• The Agile Mindset (Patrick Kua)
• Continuous Integration, Plugins and Going Too Far (Leon Bambrick)
• TDD: Tests that give us a false confidence of coverage (Mark Needham)
• Mind Maps: Get Blog Ideas Fast (Meryl Evans)

Silverlight / WPF

• Colorful Explosion (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• I get by with a little help from my friends [PieSeries annotations trilogy complete!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 3 SketchFlow DataBinding (Malcolm Sheridan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kent Tegels on SQL Server Integration Services (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Using LAAAM to Make Good Architectural Decisions, Fast! (Bob Familiar)
• WebDevRadio Episode 69: Curtis Mitchell on Spark with ASP.NET MVC (Michael Kimsal)
• Screencast: Understanding Task Dependencies, Lead and Lag (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Ping 30: Bing Images, Xbox anywhere, Browsers & Battery life (Laura Foy)
• SharePoint Forum Knowledge Base Feature released (Lightning Tools)
• Spring in 2009 with Eberhard Wolff (SE-Radio Team)
• Thirsty Developer 73 – Building a Bridge to PHP (Dave Bost)
• SQL Server Express: Overview (Zach Skyles Owens)

Community / Events

• Innovation Showcase Web Site Launched (Bob Familiar)
• Session Voting Open for SQLBits V (Simon Sabin)

Database

• Free eBook: “Protecting SQL Server Data” (Brad M. McGehee)

Miscellaneous

• Yet Another .NET Interview Questions List (Charles Chen)
• XPS Essentials Pack Version 1.1 (MS Downloads)
• A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (Jeff Moser)
• Output Redirection With Bash (Alan Skorkin)
• "Programming Scala" Is Now Available (Dean Wampler)
• There More Like Guidelines, Not Rules – Some Insight on How I Use Twitter (John Papa)
• That Posh is Delicious… Posh-Delicious that is (Greg Duncan)
• Two Different Ways of Running Virtual Machines on Windows 7 (Zhiming Xue)
• Windows Workstation 2008 R2: An even better OS for a laptop (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Programming for Absolute Beginners (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Create Your Own Forum With Zoho Discussions (Stan Schroeder)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #438 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 21, 2009 — #696 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 09.15 ~ 09.20 (yuanjian)
• New and Notable 372 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 21st September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (9/21/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #545 (Mike Gunderloy)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• 12 Tips To Speed-up Your Windows Forms Applications (Denis Basaric)
• Microsoft Windows 7 SDK (ISO) and Windows Media Center SDK (MS Downloads)
• Instantiating interfaces (Oren Eini)
• (Mis)using C# 4.0 Dynamic – Type-Free Lambda Calculus, Church Numerals, and more (Bart de Smet)
• ExpressionVisitor shipping in .NET 4.0 (David Kean)
• DAL: Save Data Using a Stored Procedure and Using Linq with Microsoft Word and Excel (Deborah Kurata)
• Wow, the hatred for ‘var’ lives on (Derik Whittaker)
• Displaying custom HTML in WebBrowser control and Developing Delicious applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• Observations on the ‘if’ statement (Chris Brandsma)
• A GC API that would be convenient (Patrick Smacchia)
• A Look At Tasks In The System.Threading.Tasks VS2010 Namespace (Sacha Barber)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #13: More more than one person (Eric Gunnerson)
• Fluent NHibernate 1.0RC (James Gregory) – Link of the Day
• TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster! and TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Cleaner Stack Traces (Jamie Cansdale)
• LinqToSQL A Detailed Review (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Tabbed Thumbnails and Previews in Native Code (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• NPR Opens 80,000 Transcripts via New Transcript API (Andres Ferrate)
• Windows Azure Sample Application Riviera (Deepak Kapoor)
• Announcing Sueetie Themes (Dave Burke)
• DinnerNow.net 3.1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 released (Habib Heydarian)
• Dysfunctional JavaScript (James Hart)
• ASP.NET MVC – Some Frequently Asked Questions (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Book Review: Web Design for ROI (Tim Barcz)
• Signed Access Signatures and PHP SDK for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Snapshot Panel in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• Prototyping a Drupal Module for Google Wave (Pamela Fox)
• The Design and Development Benefits of CSS (Tom Lerchenfeld & Josh Frankel)
• ASP.NET disk-based caching (Karl Seguin)
• How to use Ninject 2 with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
• Range-Specific Requests in ASP.NET (Scott Mitchell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft Updated (Ade Miller)
• Benchmarks are useless, yes, again and Taking advantage on the Data Transfer Tier (Oren Eini)
• Kanban In Time-Boxes: The Cadence of WIP and Sprints (Derick Bailey)
• Continuous learning and getting left behind (Jimmy Bogard)
• Thoughts on agile design and platforms (Eric Gunnerson)
• the difference between model-view-viewmodel and other separated presentation patterns (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Should I use MEF for my general IoC needs? (Glenn Block)
• My favorite form of a “TODO” in code (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Spearmen, Javelin Throwers, and the State Pattern. Oh My! (Troy Goode)
• Convention over Configuration – The Next Generation? (Udi Dahan)
• Adjusting NHibernate mapping for tests (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Builders hanging off class vs Builders in same namespace and Impersonators: Why do we need them? (Mark Needham)
• Does A Kanban System Eschew Iteration (Karl Scotland)
• Brian Harry on Agile delivery of VSTS (Keith Pleas)
• Refactoring Day 15 : Remove Duplication and Refactoring Day 16 : Encapsulate Conditional (Sean Chambers)
• What a difference a framework can make… (Sebastien Lambla)
• Circular Refactoring (Sergio Pereira)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 5. (Rajiv Popat)
• Why the Re-Think? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• So What’s a Silverlight Value Converter Anyway? (Dan Wahlin)
• SilverX converts Flash video to Silverlight (Jay Hathaway)
• Adding a Rotating Button to the Swivel Behavior Demo and Silverlight 2 Animation – Book Review (John Papa)
• WPF: Dynamic Search UI (JP Hamilton)
• Silverlight triggers (Rockford Lhotka)
• Wpf Drag & Drop behaviour (Martin Hinshelwood)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 118: Microsoft Gets Its Mojo Back (Paul Thurrott)
• Great VSTS 2010, Agile, and Scrum Webcasts Available Soon! (Angela Binkowski)
• This Week C9: Win7 API’s, Spec# and Boogie, Expression 3 Starter Kits (Brian Keller)
• Team System Videos Online! (David Starr)
• Major Nelson Show #328: Xbox 360 System update, BIGS 2 and Trials HD (Larry Hyrb)
• Ping 25: Comedians, SQL server, Photosynth, Facebook, Zune, Bingle (Laura Foy)
• Video: Smart & Lean Organizations (Max Pool)
• Episode 80 – PowerScripting Podcast – Klaus Graefensteiner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• CodePlex Editor Role (Harry Pierson)
• Microsoft Technology Roadmap at PDC in LA (Michele Leroux Bustamante)

Database

• Data Mining – Handling Missing Values the Database (Eran Kampf)
• Scripting Objects with Magic (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Introduction to Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server 2008 and Evaluate the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) (Pinal Dave)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 2 (Martin Bell)
• Keeping Your Code in Sync With Your Database (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Free Copy of Windows 7 and Free Windows 7 Training for I.T. Professionals & Developers from Microsoft (Blake Handler)
• More Growl for Windows from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)
• Rate Your Employer Sites – It’s About Damn Time (Dave Schinkel)
• Windows 8: Next-Generation GUI Confirmed and Windows 8 to Include Data Center Automation (Stephen Chapman)
• Writing PowerShell cmdlets in F# — May CTP (Steve Gilham)
• Wave 2 of Windows 7 Client and Windows Server 2008 R2 – NOW LIVE ON MSDN SUBSCRIBER DOWNLOADS! (MSDN Subscriptions Blog)
• Latest Article About Nerding it Up (Sara J. Chipps)
• Presenting using Windows 7 (Rudi Grobler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 15, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for August 14, 2009 and LINKBLOG for August 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Everyman Links for August 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Community Convergence LIII (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #413 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #87 – “Snow Patrol” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #66 (Grant Palin)
• Links (8/16/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Post… 8/10/2009 through 8/16/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Weekly Link Post 106 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/16/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• New and Notable 356 and New and Notable 357 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 14th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating High Quality Images with C# and GDI (Tom Hearn)
• LINQ to SQL cheat sheet (Damien Guard)
• Painting on the DataGridView and Converting Month Abbreviations to Month Numbers (Deborah Kurata)
• Nhibernate Unit of Work & multiple requests (Oren Eini)
• Four switch oddities (Eric Lippert)
• Linq to Mocks is finally born (Daniel Cazzulino) – Link of the Day
• Testing with NHibernate and SQLite (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.3 for .NET 2.0 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Six things that will happen when you uninstall your MSDN documentation (Roy Osherove)

Web Development

• Twitter Announces Retweet API (Andres Ferrate)
• A Simple ScriptManager for ASP.NET MVC (Chris Pietschmann)
• 3 New APIs for Gamers: World of Warcraft in 3D, LEGO and GamePro (John Musser)
• What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 (Harish Ranganathan)
• JavaScript: Not for the faint at heart? (Scott Koon)
• PHP Linux Windows ASP.NET Performance – Redux ! (Joe Stagner)
• Fun With Wacky JavaScript Type Comparison (Nick Berardi)
• Windows Azure Reference Application released to MSDN Code Gallery (Lamont Harrington)
• All Programming Is Web Programming (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Will Microsoft support distributed teams and cloud deployments? (Andy Singleton)
• To Test The Untestable Bug. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• “Hero Mode Refactoring” AKA Enemy Of Brown Field Development (Ryan Svihla)
• Refactoring Day 13 : Extract Method Object (Sean Chambers)
• DDD is a dense book (Greg Young)
• Modularity by Example (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 4. (Rajiv Popat)
• Singletons Are Evil Part 2 (Scott Densmore)
• TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster! (Jamie Cansdale)

Silverlight / WPF

• Triggers in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• Linq For Silverlight Developers (Jesse Liberty)
• More Silverlight application themes and fixes (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #135: Exploring StructureMap: Learning how to setup profiles (Derik Whittaker)
• SharePoint MVP Debuts on The Water Cooler Show (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Easing in Silverlight Animations (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Behind the Scenes: Office Labs (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Virtual Architect Council Events in August (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight 3 FireStarter Will Be Streamed Online (Frank La Vigne)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET 8/26/2009 – jQuery UI with Richard Worth (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Session Sneak Peek for the SharePoint Conference 2009 (SharePoint Team)
• Friending and Reputation (Chris Brogan)

Database

• Recover a database without the ldf file (Ted Krueger)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 1 (Martin Bell)

PowerShell

• Growl for Windows – From PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Exchange 2010 buzz grows louder (Mary-Jo Foley)
• How to "Send To" DZone from Google Reader (Me)
• Convert Google Reader Items to PDFs (Kevin Purdy)
• Microsoft NERD gets a logo (Steve Clayton)
• Powershell 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Release Candidate (Osama Sajid)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #412 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (8/13/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 355 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 13th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Non-Book of the Day

The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) just hit my MSDN Subscriber Downloads RSS feed. Go forth and download!

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