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.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Updates Windows API Code Pack for Windows 7 for Developers (Blake Handler)
• Excel 2010 SDK: Excel 2010 XLL Software Development Kit (MS Downloads)
• Solution for reading your VS Solutions – “LINQ to Visual Studio Solution” and TPL (That is, Task Parallel Library) Article of the Day: “Parent-Child Task Relationships in the .Net Framework 4” (Greg Duncan)
• Adding a Console to Your IronRuby Application (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Zune HD Level Program Written in XNA (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• MSMQ Studio 0.9.0 is released!! (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
• Using PLINQ for Managing Multiple Threads (Peter Kellner)
• Really useful Software – ABCpdf .Net 7.0 (Steve Naughton)
• Developing with the Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework (Yochay Kiriaty)

Web Development

• Working With Client ID In ASP.NET 4 (Deepak Kapoor)
• T4CSS: A T4 Template for .Less CSS With Compression (Phil Haack)
• Your Abomination Is My Clever Hack (K. Scott Allen)
• Announcing Planet ASP.NET MVC (Scott Koon)
• AJAX Emacs. If this doesn’t excite you, nothing will. (Sebastian Anthony)
• JScript location bar silliness (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• How to Run Ruby on Rails on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Preparing for Agile – Modular Writing (Julie Stickler)
• In praise of spiffy GUIs (Brian Marick)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 11 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• Adopting Agile Isn’t the Point (Mike Cottmeyer) – Link of the Day
• Castle Dynamic Proxy FAQ: why there’s no “class proxy with target” (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Defining the Anatomy of a Architecture Review Board (Mike Walker)
• The Template Method is a lie (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.6 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Have you checked out the new RichTextArea control? (Nitya)
• MEF Refresh of Preview 8 for Silverlight and MEF and Prism, to be or not to be. (Glenn Block)
• The Future of Client App Dev : WPF and Silverlight Convergence (Pete Brown)
• Using OpenAccess and Telerik Reporting with SQL Azure Part II-Silverlight (Stephen Forte)
• Silverlight use, power and deployment keeps growing; so does WPF (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Codeplex Foundation (Carl Franklin)
• The Pluralcast – The PDC Show (David Starr)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “Hire’s remorse” (Devon Musgrave)
• Nick Baker: Xbox Architecture (Charles Torre)
• First Look: Streetside in Bing Maps (Laura Foy)
• 10 Must-See PDC 09 Sessions (Pete Brown)
• PDC Review and Hello Devlicious!!! (Sara J. Chipps)

Community / Events

• 6 Simple Questions for Lisa Crispin (Jurgen Appelo)
• Careers: Now Open for Business(es) (Jeff Atwood)
• NINE Questions with Robin Edwards (Chris G. Williams)
• Q&A from webcast on public speaking (Scott Berkun)
• Join in December Webcast on Securing REST Services in Azure (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• SQL Server Miscellaneous String Functions (Richard Carr)
• How Do You Use SQL Server (Jeremiah Peschka)
• 2005 corruption bug with XML index rebuild fixed in latest CU (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Use the tokens in Visual Studio 2010! (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Resources (Mike Walker)
• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 1 – Introduction to the new List View (Greg Chan)
• Beta Language Packs for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta and SharePoint Server 2010 Beta are now available for download (Jie Li)

Miscellaneous

• Bing Maps Rolls Out Enhanced Aerial and Street-Level Views (Microsoft)
• Microsoft’s Updated List of FREE Windows Holiday Software (Blake Handler)
• Bing: Connecting People, Places and Things (Satya Nadella)
• Why you shouldn’t open .csv files in Excel (Jamie Thomson)
• Outlets of the Future aka in-wall USB Charger (Hextor)
• Free Google Analytics Dashboard Built With Google’s APIs (Matthew Casperson)
• Having trouble deleting files? Try this (Ricky Tan) – Windows 7 tip.

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Dec 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: December 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #490 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 02, 2009 — #746 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for December 2, 2009 (Dave Burke)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft names Visual Studio 2010 dates (Gavin Clarke) – Link of the Day
• NHibernate Shards: Progress Report (Oren Eini)
• Getting Started with Query Editor (Jason Haley)
• HealthVault 0908 SDK Highlights… (Eric Gunnerson)
• Visual Studio 2008 "DataDude" Duplicate Menu Items and SQL Server 2008 – SQLCLR .NET Framework Version (Doug Holland)
• XNA and textures (Coding4Fun)
• Lambda Expressions: Execution (Deborah Kurata)
• A fan-dev Team Build Property Reference Guide (Greg Duncan)
• Using ReSharper, I’ve Always Wondered Why They Had the “Invert if” refactor (Peter Kellner)
• Mapping From IDataReader/IDataRecord with AutoMapper (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Dynamic lookup operator, aka duck typing in F# (Laurent Le Brun)

Web Development

• Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library Preview 6 (James Senior)
• Using the New Microsoft Ajax Minifier (Stephen Walther)
• How to render the same template on the server and client with minimal redundancy (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Add temporary bookmarks in Code View in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• How To Optimize the Speed of Your Website (Michael Ceranski)
• Treating Javascript as an integration point (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Quick reference poster–the VSTS Rangers “scrumified“ process (Clemens Reijnen)
• LinqToSql Profiler & NHibernate Profiler – What is happening? (Oren Eini)
• Message Granularity (Dru Sellers)
• Is Functional Abstraction Too Clever? (Keith Dahlby)
• Dissecting Remarkable Code And Design – Part 2. and Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• Efficient Development, Deployment and Customer Feedback at Lokad (Rinat Abdullin)
• A Possible Job Description: Team Leader and Introducing Typemock IntelliTest (Roy Osherove)
• Coding: Role based interfaces (Mark Needham)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part II: Observe First, Judge Later (Patrick Kua)
• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Dependency Injection Mess With Mocks (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming (David Cooksey)

Silverlight / WPF

• More on AERO Shake and WPF (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Silverlight Streaming to be discontinued: new Azure service coming (Kip Kniskern)
• MVVM Light Toolkit on Codeplex and Clean shutdown in Silverlight and WPF applications (Laurent Bugnion)
• Creating Killer Animations in Code (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Cinch : Some code changes (Sacha Barber)
• Big Spaceship delivers a beautiful Silverlight experience for Victoria’s Secret (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 126: Danger Paul Danger (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Matt Hessinger on How Business Drives Architecture and Migrating Legacy Applications to .NET – Webcast by Magenic (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: Virtual PC tools, .NET 4.0 FAQ, MVC in Azure (Dan Fernandez)
• Major Nelson Show #335: Forza Motorsport 3 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Video: Influence Strategies and Test Review: MEF (Roy Osherove)
• Engadget Podcast 167 – 10.16.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hanselminutes on Channel 9 – Inside CodePlex.com (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Goodbye, Twitter (Leon Gersing)
• Stack Overflow: Programmers working for Free?! (Christopher Diggins)
• Clearing the ***Sparks (Dani Diaz)
• Mads Kristensen in Iran (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Philly Code Camp 2009.2 (Nick Berardi)
• TrackAbout Is Hiring! (Joel Ross)
• Windows 7 Labs @ PDC (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Discount extended: Register for PDC by Oct 30 and save $300 (Sandra Haynes)

Database

• Collecting information about your SSIS packages [SSIS Nugget] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – Auditing in SQL Server 2008 and SQL SERVER – Change Collation of Database Column – T-SQL Script – Consolidating Collations – Extention Script (Pinal Dave)
• Best Practices for Applications Login to SQL Server? (R. Barry Young)
• Series of "Bad habits to kick" by Aaron Bertrand (Ted Krueger)
• What to do till the SQL Azure management tools come? (Bill Zack)

SharePoint

• Upgrade approaches poster and Upgrading services poster and Upgrade testing poster and Upgrade planning poster (MS Downloads) – Some SharePoint 2010 posters from Microsoft.

PowerShell

• The release of Microsoft’s PowerShellPack (Joel Bennett)
• Announcing: Open Source PowerShell Cmdlet and Help Designer (Lee Holmes)
• PowerShell V2 Virtual Launch Party (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Flight Simulator Team Finds New Home at Cascade Game Foundry (Blake Handler)
• What I Use: October 2009 Update (Paul Thurrott)
• What am I missing? MSMQ Perf Issue (Oren Eini)
• A Feed You Should Read #8 – msdev (Greg Duncan)
• Free e-book: Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance (Devon Musgrave)
• Why Professionals Still Need Their Own Web Sites (Charles Hamilton)
• The Interview With The Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Announcing Let Me Bing That For You (Phil Haack)
• Zoho Projects Now Integrated With Google Apps (Leena Rao)
• 77 Windows 7 Tips on Technet (Steven Bink)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 Build 14.0.4514.1009 (Taimur Asad)
• Introducing the Documentation tab for CodePlex projects (Sara Ford)
• Identifying The Technologies That Will Matter (Mike Walker)
• LiveLessons Programming in Objective-C 2.0 Review (Mike Riley)
• A Sneak Peek at D&D on Microsoft Surface (Larry Larsen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2009 — #710 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 16-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links #75 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #457 (Chris Alcock)
• My Top 20 Most Popular Posts (So Far) (Davy Brion)
• Links for the Week of 2009.10.16 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 16th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 115 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Double Shot #563 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links (10/18/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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Silverlight / WPF

• Quick and Dirty (but nice!) ToolTips via Markup Extensions (Philipp Sumi)
• IIS Media Services 2.0 – 32-bit and Smooth Streaming Samples (MS Downloads)
• SilverArcade Opens its Doors! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Grouping in Silverlight 3 DataGrid (Harsh Bardhan)
• Databinding the videogame, part 1 (Joe White)
• MVP Delivers World’s First Silverlight Ribbon Control! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Improving Performance of images used with 3D (Josh Twist)
• Silverlight 3 – FlickR Client (Mike Taulty)
• WPF : Blend 3 Interactions / Behaviours (Sacha Barber)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF: Champ vs. the Contender (Aaron Skonnard)
• NHibernate Mapping – <any/> (Oren Eini)
• Introducing __clrtype__ Metaclasses (Harry Pierson)
• How To Run a ClickOnce Application on Startup (Keith Elder)
• How Your WCF Service Can Use MSMQ as a Durable Message Store (Steve Stefanovich)
• New IDE feature in VS 2008: Tracepoints (Srinath M.)

Web Development

• UrlRewrite – Virtual Directories and the Tilde (Dave M. Bush)
• New series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008 (Web Dev Tools Team)
• WebControls in ASP.NET MVC (Radim Köhler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Intentional Software (Martin Fowler)
• A horrible, HORRIBLE, horrible test and Test refactoring (Oren Eini)
• Is the Supremacy of Object-Oriented Programming Over? (Dean Wampler) – Link of the Day
• Should We Solve Institutional Problems In Our Code? (Justin Etheredge)
• Development Project Archetypes, or “How to pigeon-hole” (Kyle Baley)
• Learning through teaching (Mark Needham)
• Introduction to TestApi – Part 3: Visual Verification APIs (Ivo Manolov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Enabling Web Slices on Your Web Site (Bob Familiar)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #103: Learning how to harness the power of NUnit RowTest (Derik Whittaker)
• Videos from DevWeek: Catching up with Aaron Skonnard and Silverlight 3 – Running Out Of Browser Apps on the Macintosh (Mike Taulty)
• Episode 67 – PowerScripting Podcast – Bob Bobel from Quest Software (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• INETA Live Webcasts: Round One (Steve Andrews)
• Richmond Code Camp 2009.1 This Saturday (Justin Etheredge)
• Events This Week – April 20th, 2009 and Upcoming geekSpeaks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming Free Live Webcast on XBRL: The what, why and who… Wed., April 22, 2009 at 10am PT (Charlie Hoffman & Steve Levine)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Audio Sequencer (Lee Holmes)
• Adding your own help links to ISE (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 with WCF and Silverlight (Sahil Malik)

Database

• Distance Calculation Showdown (Alex Ullrich)
• What makes a successful SQL Server Reporting Services implementation? (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Stephen Nelson on The Five Small Business Success Formulas (J.D. Meier)
• Introduction to Cloud Computing (Pinal Dave)
• Highlighting the woman behind the Windows 7 user experience (Paul Thurrott)
• Functional Solution for the Shortest Path Problem (Matt Podwysocki)
• A Few of My Favorite Things (Chris Missal)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #331 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 20, 2009 — #575 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 20th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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